Although he was taken by the emperor last night, he walked around the ancient and modern Tongji library for most of the hour, and he also read a lot of Emperor Taizu's codex, but when he asked himself, the third prince found that there were only three places that he could barely remember clearly. And when he got up early to confirm with the four princes, the four princes swore that he remembered five places.

However, when he revisited this place at this time, he had only walked a few steps when he felt someone tugging on his sleeve, and when he turned his head, he saw that the fourth prince was looking at him with a dejected face. The man muttered in a very low voice: "Third brother, all the bookshelves in this ancient and modern Tongji library look the same, I thought I remembered the location and the serial number of the bookshelf, but now I guess I can't find it." ”

"I'm sorry for you, I probably don't remember anywhere now."

The third prince suddenly couldn't cry or laugh. He glanced at Liang Jiucheng, who was walking forward with Zhang Shou without realizing it, and then lowered his voice and said to his fourth brother: "Actually, after I came over, I found out that I followed my father and the emperor around in the black light last night, in fact, I didn't know much about many directions, so I probably didn't remember it." "It's better to remember and not remember!

The fourth prince was originally full of guilt, but at this time, when the third prince confessed like this, he suddenly burst into joy - of course, not because the third prince also forgot, but because his third brother did not hide it from him. He immediately followed behind the third prince with his head held high, and his heart was ruthless that he must remember a few places today, but then he thought of a big problem.

Father didn't come with me today, how can I find those Taizu Codex that are so deeply hidden?

But just when the four princes were full of entanglement, he saw Liang Jiucheng reach out and grab it on the bookshelf, just moved down a book that was the same as other book bindings, and then put it on the desk with a light weight: "Master Zhang, this is Emperor Taizu's codex." Don't look at the thick stacks, some pages have only one or two lines on them. ”

"But these papers are so old that they have to be read with silk gloves on. Although there have been predecessors who have copied them in the past dynasties, and I am the same, these originals, which have been treasured for many years, should be more able to see the essence. ”

Chinese English mixed with pinyin, but also the essence...... The real essence is the blueprints of those artillery muskets that Emperor Taizu left for you, but it is not this kind of diary that is very likely to be complained about by the traverser in private.

Zhang Shou thought so in his heart, but of course he would not take Liang Jiucheng's instructions as a deaf ear, so he immediately put on his gloves and opened the elegantly bound Taizu Codex with a solemn pilgrimage expression.

This codex is genuine, and every sentence is completely handwritten, and it can be seen that it is genuine, because people who can write English letters so ugly are quite common in later generations. These codexes do look like they are many years old, probably because they are afraid of being damaged by flipping, so they are pasted on special cardboard one by one, so they seem to be thick tomes, but in fact there are not many sheets.

And the content of the first page, Zhang Shou scolded in his stomach after reading it roughly-it hurts to be idle!

Because it was different from the diary of the time-traveler he had obtained from the Taizu Codex, which he had reported his origin and pursued in his later years, this thing was a complete travelogue. Saying that the travelogue is really giving Taizu face, because this is to say that today Cao Guogong invited me, the emperor's old boss, to dinner, and after the meal, everyone went to drink flower wine together, and then made a big fuss in a certain building, causing a huge commotion.

In order not to arouse suspicion, he quickly flipped to the second one, and found that it was still a diary of a day trip to the courtier's house...... At this moment, he turned it over with a number in his heart, which was naturally a dragonfly and a little bit of water, strolling leisurely, occasionally frowning and pointing at words such as a or an with his hand, which seemed to have appeared in arithmetic books, but in general, the front was slow and the back was fast.

It fully reflects the characteristics of a person who reads this kind of Tianshu Codex for the first time - the front is slow, that is to think about it carefully, and the back is fast, that is confused and can't see clearly, so it passes quickly.

And just like this, he was very sure that this neatly bound Taizu Codex, that is, the diary of the emperor and the old heroes of eating, drinking, and having fun, probably had corresponding value in the study of historical figures, and as for the current emperor's current troubles, it was not helpful at all.

However, at the end of this Taizu Codex, compared with the Taizu Codex he got from the secret box, Zhang Shou gradually found a difference, that is, the proportion of English is slightly larger, and the proportion of Chinese English and self-made grammar is smaller, of course, grammatical errors and sentence reversal are quite common.

A lot of words that I don't remember how to spell anymore, a certain Taizu didn't bother, and directly replaced them all with circles, unlike in that Taizu Codex, which often uses pinyin to refer to them, just like elementary school students writing essays. If he thinks correctly, the things in the secret box are the real secrets of Taizu, as for these ...... in the ancient and modern Tongji library It is estimated that most of them are these idle things.

But people don't want to think about it, once the things that hurt the eggs are deciphered, the secret box in the plaque of Jiuzhangtang will be successfully unveiled again, and people can at least understand more than half of the two, right?

Speaking of what papers and reference books that Taizu's codex kept mentioning before, he didn't find them in the secret box at all!

And Zhang Shou's apt expression of confusion and distress, Liang Jiucheng saw it in his eyes, but he remained silent, seeing that the fourth prince directly pounced on it and asked the teacher how he looked, Zhang Shou shook his head with a wry smile, and the third prince was full of disappointment, so he sighed softly, and then solemnly put the tome back away, climbed the ladder and swung it back into place.

Zhang Shou looked at the real pilgrimage-like movements, although he couldn't see clearly what the third layer of bookshelves was, but one thing he was sure of was that there was absolutely no trace of floating ash on it.

If the other bookshelves in this ancient and modern collection were also spotless, then he had nothing to say.

But if it is only the Taizu Codex that has such treatment, then even an outsider like him wants to find out the Taizu Codex here, it is not a needle in a haystack, it is only a matter of time.

And the fourth prince was not surprised that Zhang Shou "got nothing", as the codex in the first place was finished, he deliberately dragged the third prince behind, and muttered as he walked: "Father was so careless last night, but looking at the skillful appearance of Liang Gonggong, where these Taizu codex are placed, he must be clear." In that case, what do you want us to write down for? ”

Before the third prince could answer, Liang Jiucheng, who was more than a dozen steps away in front of him, seemed to be a thousand miles away, and said without looking back: "Fourth prince, the slave maid has been doing things in this ancient and modern collection library for decades, from the initial cleaning of the bookshelves to the later sorting of the collection. Although there are a vast number of books here, the location of each book is remembered in the slave's heart. ”

"After all, there are no four libraries of books here that are enough to fill a library, mainly rare and unique books from the Song Dynasty, as well as classics that survived before the Yuan Dynasty, that is, thousands of kinds."

The fourth prince almost didn't bare out of his eyes. Not only because he spoke in a very low voice because he was so far away, but also because Liang Jiucheng actually claimed to be able to remember the location of all the books clearly!

So, who has always been regarded by Zhang Shou as the No. 1 bear child, where can he still take care of this time is a serious matter, looking around, suddenly rushed to a bookshelf, pouted his ass and struggled to hold out a book at the bottom, and when he looked at the cover, he turned his eyes around and caught the details that he didn't notice last night because the lights were dim.

The corners of this bookshelf are engraved with the heavenly stems and the number of layers as a distinction!

He didn't think about such a large collection of ancient and modern books, and whether the bookshelf of the sixty combinations of the heavenly and earthly branches was enough, so he directly shouted loudly: "Father-in-law Liang, I am the third book from the left on the third floor of the Wumao bookshelf, do you know what kind of book it is?" ”

Liang Jiucheng didn't seem to expect the four princes to suddenly make trouble, and after being slightly stunned, he said lightly: "It's Pei Songzhi's "Notes on the Three Kingdoms", a total of sixty-five volumes, since the four princes said that it is the third book from the left, it should be the nineteenth to twenty-seventh volumes." ”

The fourth prince's eyes widened and he looked down, and flipped through it in disbelief, and when he was sure that it was correct, he couldn't help but quickly pick up the book and put it back in place, and he didn't care that the third prince was looking at him with reproachful eyes, and chased after Liang Jiucheng. And then...... Then Liang's father-in-law finally enjoyed the treatment of the 100,000 whys of the bear child.

Zhang Shou on the side saw that Liang Jiucheng was tired of it at first, and gradually became a little overwhelmed, and finally ran away, so he finally stood up unhurriedly: "Father-in-law Liang, Zheng Qiang has a temper that is what he thinks of, and it is very unbearable to entangle people. ”

Zhang Shou said while dragging the bear child over, and without waiting for anyone to argue, he said word by word: "If you really want to learn, it's very simple, starting tomorrow, you can memorize all the formulas in the current arithmetic textbook according to the alphabetical arrangement, I will keep you practicing like this for less than three years, and you can do this unforgettable ability." ”

Three-year ...... If I had to carry it for a year like this, I would probably have been tossed to death!

The fourth prince finally cried and pretended to be a good boy honestly - who made the operation of reciting the formula backwards a little too scary? Seeing that Zhang Shou continued to talk and laugh with Liang Jiucheng, he stepped forward and gently knocked on his fourth brother's head, with an expression that you can care about.

And after such a small episode, Zhang Shou then looked through four codexes, except for the first time that eat, drank and had fun, these codexes were, triumphantly accepted the righteous son, the hero released the military power with a cup of wine, the prince was not crowned the king without merit, and the demotion was beautiful...... The descriptions are all about the reactions of the government officials and the people.

Anyway, these codexes are useless, in fact, many of the contents are quite historical, but to say that they are useful, the dignified emperor is very good at selling himself and boasting about himself, which is really unspeakable!

Zhang Shou thought that when Liang Jiucheng observed himself from the side, he swept away the ten lines at such a glance, but obviously got nothing, and he should stop at this moment, but what he didn't expect was that the person was extremely persevering, and he had already read five copies of the codex, and he actually continued to lead the way in front of him, and continued to move out a codex as thick as a few bricks for him to see.

No one said anything, the third prince and the fourth prince are still honestly following behind, what else can he say? In desperation, he could only turn the page so quickly, in fact, it was so fast, he didn't have time to tell the truth. However, when he turned to the middle page of the map, he was stunned for a moment.

And the fourth prince, who was stretching his neck to watch, recklessly shouted: "Hey, and the map? Is this also painted by Emperor Taizu? ”

The third prince pulled the fourth prince behind him, and after giving him a warning look, he said softly: "The teacher is said to have been to the Ordnance Bureau and seen those balls and maps, do you have an impression of this map now?" ”

Zhang Shou just wanted to say that he was not impressed, it was impossible, after all, the shock to him at that time was quite huge, and even after returning home, he also wondered if he could draw a gourd and make such a ball, and finally dismissed this idea. So, at this moment, he stared at the map for a long time, and finally reached out and clicked on it.

"These are similar to the maps I saw at the Armory. This should be the Great Ming, and this ......" He glanced up at the three and fourth princes who were concentrating, and then smiled and poked at the huge continent in the east, "This is the Haidong Continent." ”

The third prince's expression was still relatively calm at this time, while the fourth prince's face was full of excitement, and he couldn't wait to lie on that map, almost starting his journey of 100,000 whys again.

Fortunately, Zhang Shou reacted very quickly, and carried the person back with one hand, and threw it to the third prince to take care of, and he looked at Liang Jiucheng: "Since there is a ball instrument and a map in the Ordnance Bureau, you should have interpreted this map Liang Gonggong very early, right?" Could it be that it still doesn't help to decipher the codex? ”

Seeing Liang Jiucheng shaking his head and sighing, but not speaking, Zhang Shou said very frankly: "Since this is the case, I will tell the truth, now that Liang Gonggong is teaching that blonde boy in my home, I suggest that the alphabet and the corresponding pronunciation be made into a tune, and then spread it out, to see if we can find some children who are suitable for learning Western characters and languages." ”

"Since I have been waiting for so many years, I might as well take this opportunity to train more translators who are proficient in various Chinese languages, so that they can go overseas for training, and in the future, the books borrowed overseas will not worry about translation." There are always some Taizu codexes in this area, and there will always be a day when they will be interpreted clearly. Although the Taizu Secret Box had a very complicated password at the beginning, I am more inclined to believe ......"

"These codexes were written by Emperor Taizu, a pedantic celestial, in a Western script, and the reason why they can't be deciphered is probably because Emperor Taizu's grasp is not very profound."

When this kind of words came out, Zhang Shou even expected that Liang Jiucheng might suddenly change color and turn his face in anger, after all, these inner servants were obviously the best supporters of Emperor Taizu. However, the result was that the other party's face nodded again and again with approval: "Mr. Zhang's words are very good, and the emperor and I also think that the kind of Western script used by Emperor Taizu probably didn't learn it well, so no one recognized it!" ”