xymnovel Chapter 90 is not the Yongle Encyclopedia.
Chapter 90 is not the Yongle Encyclopedia.
Chang Yuan remembered!
The familiarity emanating from that book was the same as the scent of his porcelain gourd!
In other words, this book is related to the Jiajing Emperor!
Chang Yuan felt a little disappointed, but also a strange excitement.
To his disappointment, from the moment he heard "that book," he subconsciously assumed it was the Yongle Encyclopedia, a classic text that had been completely lost in his previous life and was now being kept hidden away in the imperial palace.
As for why they hid it, you'd have to ask those despicable civil officials.
Even a military general like Chang Yuan wanted to see the Yongle Encyclopedia, so a learned civil official would certainly want to even more.
But these shameless literati, upon seeing the exquisite Yongle Encyclopedia, would start spouting nonsense:
"Borrowing books doesn't count as stealing...borrowing books!"
"How can something done by a scholar be called stealing?"
Then they start trying every means to "borrow," then they try every means to "default," and finally they "forget" as if nothing happened.
"Did I borrow a book?"
"No, I don't think so!"
How dare you slander someone's innocence out of thin air?
In conclusion, thanks to the "efforts" of civil officials throughout the ages, more than 4,000 of the 11095 volumes of the Yongle Encyclopedia were stolen, resulting in a loss of over 40%.
It wasn't until Emperor Jiajing intervened and used various means to recover the book, or ordered the book thief to make a copy himself, that the Yongle Encyclopedia was finally reassembled.
What's worse, the books they had painstakingly collected were stolen, with over 200 copies stolen in the blink of an eye.
Who did it?
The current Grand Secretary is Zhang Juzheng, and the Second Grand Secretary is Shen Shixing!
Two of the most powerful civil officials personally took charge!
The Jiajing Emperor was furious and simply made two copies of the Yongle Encyclopedia.
One copy was hidden in the Ming Changling Mausoleum of Emperor Yongle after the grand sacrificial ceremony.
A copy was stored in the newly built Imperial Archives, and no one was allowed to see it.
Originally hidden inside the Qianqing Palace, it could only be viewed and not taken out by anyone who came.
Because the complete version is no longer available outside, and many scattered copies are circulating, the Yongle Encyclopedia has become the most well-known and mysterious book in the Ming Dynasty.
Influenced by legends from his past life, Chang Yuan believed that "that book" was the lost copy of the Yongle Encyclopedia.
But now that he has seen the book with his own eyes, he knows it's not.
The cover colors are all different.
But Chang Yuan was not particularly disappointed by this.
Instead, he smiled and said, "Let's go steal the treasure!"
This is a treasure related to the Jiajing Emperor. When Chang Yuan thought of the porcelain gourd, his heart was filled with boundless anticipation!
Not to mention that this treasure is a book, and one that was specifically requested by the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
It must be very special!
Although this treasure was destined never to become his own, the most important thing about books is never the physical object, but the content carried by words and pictures.
If you "accidentally" see and remember something during the struggle, you can't just have it confiscated, right?
Chang Yuan rushed forward with great enthusiasm. His high spirits attracted Gao Su's attention, completely ignoring the strange phenomenon of spiritual flowers, immortal herbs, golden essence, jade marrow, and other things inexplicably disappearing wherever he went.
That was the powerful devouring force displayed by the porcelain gourd when its full power was unleashed.
Chang Yuan doesn't need to do anything himself to get the items around him into the gourd space.
At this time, the gourd space was already filled with a lot of things: hundreds of bullets, spare revolvers, a small mountain of short knives and daggers, gold nuggets from Master Zhang's house, and two silver winter melons.
Most of the items seized were gold ingots, silver coins, ancient paintings, rare books, and exquisite jewelry, which were secretly confiscated during the raid on homes in the capital last night.
But now, the spiritual flowers, immortal herbs, gold essence, and jade marrow from the secret realm are rapidly accumulating and will soon become the largest collection, with an immeasurable value.
Even though he knew these were treasures that could not be redeemed, Chang Yuan couldn't control himself and continued to rummage through the gourd space.
In his own secret space, every extra resource and treasure he acquired lifted his spirits, and his brain rewarded him with dopamine.
This damn collecting obsession!
That's cool!
Chang Yuan and Gao Su's successive annihilation of two waves of cult cultivators was not simply a matter of killing three hundred people.
These people were followers of the three major cults and the core group that issued orders to the three protectors. Their deaths meant that the cultists lost their unified command.
The remaining hundred or so cult members belonged to more than a dozen different sects. It was impossible for them to follow the orders of the three great protectors and risk their lives against the remaining forty Jinyiwei (Imperial Guards), let alone intercept the Jinyiwei or Ming army that would enter the secret realm next.
The plan to ambush the Imperial Guards in the secret realm has completely collapsed.
Just then, the treasures of the secret realm also appeared in the world. The evil cult cultivators no longer cared about the Imperial Guards and focused on seizing the treasures, materials and medicines that were constantly appearing in the world.
The protectors of the three major cults were even more straightforward; they disappeared without a trace at some point.
One second the Imperial Guards were being attacked from both inside and outside, and the next second they were left standing there ignored.
Everyone was in a daze for a while before they realized what was happening and started chasing after the cultists to kill them.
The Imperial Guards were enraged and acted ruthlessly, killing more than a dozen heretical cultivators in the blink of an eye.
The heretical cultivators had long been terrified by Chang Yuan's massacres, and now, being pursued by the Imperial Guards, they dared not resist and scattered in disarray.
Some were caught up by the Imperial Guards and brutally killed from behind, their heads becoming the enemy's achievements, and the treasures they had worked so hard to seize becoming the enemy's spoils of war.
Some, driven to desperation by the pursuit, remembered that they had already obtained a considerable amount of spiritual herbs and precious materials, and forcibly activated secret techniques to try their luck at spatial traversal without the support of an array.
Some people, while running around aimlessly, happened to stumble upon a precious second-tier treasure being born, and immediately acquired it.
According to the saying that obtaining a treasure is a sign of good fortune, he believed that he was currently blessed with good fortune, so he immediately risked casting a spell to escape the secret realm.
As the cultists scattered, the difficulty of the pursuit increased dramatically, and the Imperial Guards were thrown into disarray.
They kill enemies to gain merit. When the enemy is hard to kill and there are treasures everywhere, and you can gain merit just by bending down to pick them up, killing the enemy seems not worth it.
The Imperial Guards hesitated only slightly before abandoning their pursuit of the enemy and instead began vying for the treasures in the secret realm.
The Imperial Guards were demoralized and only cared about reaping their own treasures, while the remaining cultists were in no hurry to escape and instead focused on reaping and digging as much as possible.
Chang Yuan frowned as he observed the behavior of these Imperial Guards: "Are these really the Imperial Guards? How can they be so unruly?"
Gao Su scoffed, "Captain, you can't blame them for being unruly."
"They are all sentries and night watchmen of the Western Garrison, and their daily routine involves acting alone without support and solving all problems on their own."
Chang Yuan immediately understood: "It's not surprising that it's Sharp Whistle and Sharp Night. If they were disciplined and followed the rules, they wouldn't have survived this long."
Gao Su sighed, "Yes, the extraordinary individuals from the Northern Garrison Command and the imperial guards from our Eastern Garrison Command are all dead."
"Captain, should we pick up some things too...?"
Chang Yuan sneered, "They're stupid, but you're stupid too!"
"What kind of treasures are these flowers and plants?"
"Only things that fly in the sky and roll on the ground are valuable!"
As he spoke, his eyes remained fixed on the beam of light: "But the most valuable thing is still that book!"