Chapter 1954 Burnt Books! 【4】

As a historian, the accuracy of records is extremely important, and once a memory error occurs, it will be absolutely devastating for the historian.

"Master Yan, you also know what happened in the court. The Holy Emperor now is very different from before. I know that the Yan family attaches great importance to historical materials, but the original intention of the Yan family not to allow them to be consulted is to prevent officials from being dissatisfied with the records about themselves. , thereby intervening and changing the history.”

"But what Wang Chong wants to check is only the information about the Holy Emperor's registration more than thirty years ago. It has nothing to do with the court or the officials. Moreover, decades later, these information will also be made public. Wang Chong will check these information. , it will not have any impact on the Yan family, officials and the court, I hope Lord Yan can be accommodating!"

Wang Chong said in a deep voice.

Yan Wenzhen was silent. Wang Chong was right. If he only wanted to check the early information of the Holy Emperor and did not get involved in his own records, then it would not have much impact on the Yan family, the imperial court, and the officials.

In Yan Wenzhen's expectation, this was the lightest situation, but the Yan family's rules...

"Master Yan, the historian is also an official. As long as it does not violate the principles or principles, some things may not necessarily be accommodating. You also know that the draft matter, although the Holy Emperor said earlier that it was temporarily put on hold, but putting it on hold means that it has not given up yet. It could be restarted at any time.”

"People are now uneasy in all parts of Kyushu. Once it reaches that point, all states and governments will begin to sacrifice women. Mothers and daughters, fathers and daughters, and brothers and sisters will be separated from each other. How can you bear it?"

"And the Taiping Tower thing is also a sign. It is only being built in the palace now. Once the Holy Emperor suddenly changes his mind and wants to follow the example of the previous Emperor Yang in building palaces in various parts of the Kyushu, building them on a large scale, wasting people and money, and the people will suffer..., Your Excellency Do you really want everything to come to that?”

Wang Chong said.

"this……"

When Yan Wenzhen heard this, hesitation suddenly appeared in his eyes.

Wang Chong was right. Historians are also officials. After all, the Yan family is also a literary people. The country is prosperous and the people live and work in peace and contentment. This is also what the Yan family's children want to see.

But……

"Master Yan, please!"

Wang Chong said solemnly again.

"well!"

Yan Wenzhen let out a long sigh in his heart and finally raised his head.

"My lord, can you promise that today's events will never be mentioned to outsiders?"

"Also, can this information really help solve the court's problems?"

Wang Chong was overjoyed when he heard this and knew that Yan Wenzhen had already relented.

"Wang Chong promises that today's events will never be mentioned to outsiders. In addition, the historical materials before the Holy Emperor boarded the plane are indeed very important to the current court!"

Wang Chong said solemnly.

"Okay! I believe the prince! Please wait a moment while Wen Zhen goes to check the information."

Yan Wenzhen said with emotion.

"Thank you, sir!"

The Yan family's mansions are densely packed, and many of them are uninhabitable.

There are rows and rows of bookcases made of wooden shelves inside, and every room is full of them. If you are not a member of the Yan family, you have to find the information you want from this huge collection of books. It takes a long time and is almost impossible.

Time passed slowly, Wang Chong waited slowly in the room,

No matter what, I was able to obtain this information from the Yan family, which was also the biggest gain of this trip.

About half an hour later, Yan Wenzhen finally left and returned. Wang Chong originally thought that he would come back with the books he wanted, but as soon as he walked in, Wang Chong immediately felt something was wrong.

Yan Wenzhen not only came in with empty hands, but also looked very strange.

"What's wrong?"

Wang Chong stood up from his seat and immediately felt something was wrong.

"Gone!"

Yan Wenzhen said, his eyes were dull, and he seemed to be still immersed in some kind of shock and astonishment.

"What's gone?"

Wang Chong's eyelids twitched and he asked.

"I followed the catalog of our Yan family and went to the 132nd room of Yizi Pavilion, but I searched the whole room and couldn't find any information about the Holy Emperor before he ascended the throne."

Yan Wenzhen said in a deep voice.

"How can it be?"

Wang Chong was shocked when he heard this, and his expression changed dramatically.

The Yan family's management of historical materials is extremely strict, to some extent even stricter than that in the palace, and the Yan family has never made any mistakes from generation to generation.

On the other hand, the Yan family's collection of books is so vast that even if outsiders want to do something, they have nowhere to start when faced with a collection as numerous as the sands of the Ganges River.

Theoretically, this is impossible to happen.

"After discovering this matter, I immediately mobilized our Yan family's descendants to search in all possible directions, and finally confirmed the loss of historical materials."

"I felt the seriousness of the matter, so I immediately summoned all the clan members. It turned out that more than thirty years ago, shortly after the Holy Emperor registered, a fire broke out in the Yan family, and many books were burned inside. .”

"At that time, according to family rules, I was still copying classics in the family's ancestral home, so I didn't know the specific plot at that time, but looking at it now, the books burned more than thirty years ago have what you want. Information about the Holy Emperor before he ascended the throne!"

Yan Wenzhen said, still immersed in an incredible state.

Everyone knows the rigor of the Yan family. The rigor, accuracy and subsequent proper keeping of records are life and everything to the Yan family.

But something went wrong in the Yan family. This is definitely not a trivial matter.

"impossible!"

Wang Chong said in shock.

"How could it be such a coincidence that the historical data in the palace were lost? There happened to be a fire in your Yan family thirty years ago, and that part of the data happened to be missing?"

The probability of this happening by chance is so low that even a fool knows there is something wrong with it.

As Yan Wenzhen said, without guidance, it is impossible for outsiders to go there.

"Also, who on earth would think of burning some information that is not of much use, and what kind of benefits can he get from it?"

Suddenly the whole thing became more confusing.

"Our Yan family is in charge of records. I want to know this matter more than you!"

Yan Wenzhen said in a deep voice.

"But if it was burned, wouldn't it be so clean that there wouldn't be any residue?"

Wang Chong said.

Regardless of everything, there are clues left behind. If it is burned down by fire, there will definitely be some classics left. In this way, we can also find some clues and even directly point out the mastermind behind the scenes.

"I thought so too, so later I carefully searched for any remaining classics, but there were no remaining classics at all, and all the information disappeared completely!"

Yan Wenzhen said.

Thinking of what he discovered later, his chest rose and fell and he could not calm down for a long time.

"But what shocked me the most was not this. Our Yan family has a strict set of rules. If a fire accidentally breaks out and the books are burned, there are ways to repair them and re-record them."

Yan Wenzhen said, the classics were burned, but the person who recorded the classics was still there, so the impact would not be too great.

Many children of the Yan family want to become Taishi Ling. As an observer and recorder of a dynasty, there is a hidden premise that they have amazing memory, otherwise they will not be able to become Taishi Ling at all.

"But then I checked carefully and found that all the remaining classics were burned, and there was no re-editing afterwards. This kind of thing is impossible to happen in our Yan family. Even if the remaining classics were burned very seriously, we want to destroy them completely. It must also go through a series of strict procedures and cannot be done casually.”

"I checked the records and found out that it was my father who ordered the destruction of these books more than thirty years ago!"

At the end of the sentence, Yan Wenzhang's face showed an unconcealable shock.

Mr. Yan's harshness and rigor are known to all the Yan family's children, and it is also the goal that Yan Wenzhen wants to catch up with and imitate throughout his life.

Every word he wrote was like a nail hammered into the ground and could never be easily modified.

Yan Wenzhen still remembers that when his father pointed out to him, because of a question about one word, he became furious and made him kneel in the ancestral hall. He did not see him for a whole six months.

But now, the person who destroyed those classics turned out to be his father who he thought was extremely strict. How could Yan Wenzhen dare to believe this?

In Yan Wenzhen's understanding, this kind of thing could happen to anyone, but it could not happen to his own father.

At this moment, Wang Chong was even more shocked than Yan Wenzhen.

"How is that possible? It's actually Mr. Yan!"

Wang Chong was shocked when he heard Yan Wenzhen's words. He thought a lot, but he didn't expect that this matter would be related to Mr. Yan Wen Zhangyan.

But after the initial shock, Wang Chong quickly calmed down. Eunuch Gao, Grandpa, Yao Chong, and now an old man from the Yan family... the whole thing is becoming more and more confusing.

"What are they hiding? What are they..., what are they hiding?!"

Wang Chong muttered to himself and said these words.

So far, Wang Chong's investigation has not made much progress, but one thing is beyond doubt.

Eunuch Gao, his father, Yao Chong, and the father of the Yan family are all hiding something, and this matter must be related to the Holy Emperor.

There's just one thing that Wang Chong still doesn't know, that is, what is the relationship between what happened more than thirty years ago and what is happening in the court now?

Wang Chong left the Yan family soon. The matter involved the Yan family's old man, and Yan Wenzhen could not find any information either.

"The clue is broken?"

In the carriage, Xu Qiqin looked at Wang Chong's distracted look and asked tentatively.

"Um!"

Wang Chong nodded and told what happened to the Yan family one by one.

"How can it be?"

Hearing Wang Chong's words and his conjecture, even Xu Qiqin was stunned.

No matter in her past life or now, this daughter of the Xu family is known for her intelligence and wisdom, but even Xu Qiqin never thought that after tracing all the way, this matter would be so involved.