Chapter 2555 Discovery
Bai Dalang received the appointment order to Tongbai County. Because it was the busy spring season, time was urgent. The order given to him by the court was very urgent, asking him to go to Tongbai County immediately and arrive within ten days.
Tangzhou is not far from the capital, and Tongbai County is a little further away. It takes five days to get there, so he still has four or five days to prepare.
However, he did not plan to go on time, so after receiving the appointment order, he spent a day saying goodbye to his classmates and friends, stayed at home with his family the next day, and left on the third day after explaining his work.
Cheng Linghui will take the child with him to take up his post, but they will not set out at the same time. He will go first and write to him after he settles down in Tongbai County. Then we will send the person over.
After dinner that evening, the group sat together in the open pavilion in the back garden and talked. Bai Dalang, holding a cup of tea, sighed, "I didn't expect to leave the capital at this moment. I've been reluctant to leave for so many years."
His life, well, although not long enough, but the place where he had stayed the longest, apart from Mianzhou City and Qili Village, was the capital.
It’s hard to bear to think about it.
Bai Dalang looked at Bai Erlang, "Your order hasn't come down yet?"
Bai Erlang shook his head and said, "No, but I already know that His Majesty has arranged for me to enter the Hanlin Academy."
The emperor temporarily suppressed the information and did not allow anyone to tell him or make it public, but someone secretly told him in order to sell him out.
Bai Dalang reached out and patted his shoulder, encouraging him: "Do a good job."
It's easier to get things done when you have someone in the court, and Bai Dalang finally felt it this time. If Zhou Man hadn't stopped Minister Li from recommending him, he would probably have had to wait a little longer.
He couldn't help but glance at Bai Jilang, so brother, you have to work harder.
Bai Erlang didn't understand the meaning of this look. When he saw his brother looking at him, he immediately nodded and said, "Don't worry, big brother, I will definitely not get into trouble."
Bai Dalang withdrew his gaze and decided to look for Bai Shan and Zhou Man.
Bai Shan was a little envious of Bai Dalang. The next day, after sending him out of the city, he said, "Brother, if you have time, please write more letters so that we can exchange experiences in managing the local area."
Bai Dalang: "...Do you have this experience?"
"So you have to study." Otherwise, why would I ask you to write letters so often?
Bai Dalang nodded helplessly, "Okay, I understand. I will write to you."
Bai Erlang's appointment order came down only after Bai Dalang left. This time, the Ministry of Personnel set a reporting time for him, which left him no chance to be lazy again.
He packed up his things and met up with Bai Shan at the gate of the imperial city every morning to go to the Hanlin Academy together.
He was a new Hanlin, and his main job was to do odd jobs, looking up information for everyone. The rest of the time he read books and wrote some unimportant articles.
After they got to know each other well and their superiors had a full understanding of their abilities, they decided which type of books they would be responsible for and which part of the book.
Bai Shan is currently involved in the compilation of a book about local customs, and is mainly responsible for collecting customs in the Jiannan Road area.
So the books he has been reading recently are all of this type.
Of course, this is only part of his job. His most important job is to organize memorials for the emperor, draft imperial edicts, answer the emperor's questions about politics, and accompany the emperor to read books.
Bai Erlang did not have this job, so he spent most of his time in the Hanlin Academy, which was much more relaxed than Bai Shan.
At first, his superiors didn't like assigning him tasks, and he was happy to relax and look for various small books in the Hanlin Academy.
The collection of books in the Hanlin Academy is much more diverse than that in the Chongwenguan. In addition to some precious books, it also includes many people's manuscripts and other things.
He didn't know what happened that day, but he walked into a room while strolling. The room was full of rolls of silk cloth, stacks of manuscript paper, and not-so-beautifully bound handwritten copies and manuscripts. It was obvious that they were not something that could be printed by a bookstore.
So he went in to look through it out of curiosity, and was amazed to see all kinds of things inside.
Bai Erlang also saw secrets of the previous dynasty written by people of the previous dynasty.
The previous dynasty didn't last very long. His father was born in the previous dynasty and studied in the previous dynasty, although not for a long time.
Regarding the previous dynasty, his father only had one impression, and that was chaos!
Therefore, the secret stories written by people of the previous dynasty are very likely to be true.
Bai Erlang took a book and looked around. He didn't find any place to read, so he simply sat down under the window where the sunlight shone, crossed his legs on the ground and started reading.
When Bai Shan came out of the palace and wanted to look for him, he asked around and no one had seen him.
A colleague laughed and said, "Maybe he left the imperial city?"
Everyone has left early. Most of the work in the Hanlin Academy is only about quantity. It is enough to complete the task within the specified time. The superiors generally do not make many requirements on attendance.
Bai Shan thought to himself: Everyone is going to the government office or to school now, there is no one outside, why is he going out?
Bai Shan thought he must still be in the Hanlin Academy, so he began to search every room.
When he pushed open the door, Bai Shan was almost convinced that he had left early, but as soon as he entered, he realized something was wrong. He looked around and saw Bai Erlang sitting under the window.
He looked up at the bookshelves, then stepped back to look around. He realized he had never found this corner before, so he came back in and asked, "What books are in there?"
Without even looking up, Bai Erlang said, "They're all miscellaneous books. Come take a look! This was written by a eunuch from the previous dynasty. It says that Emperor Ai of the previous dynasty loved beauty and issued a special order to select beauties from across the country. Many eunuchs fought tooth and nail to be in charge of this task, and it even resulted in a murder."
Bai Shan was not interested in this. He reached out and pulled out a roll of silk cloth. When he opened it, he found that it was a manifesto cursing the previous Emperor Ai. There was a piece of white silk inside. He opened it and saw brown-red words on it, which wrote the author's hometown and life story. Shortly after he finished writing this manifesto, he was sentenced to death by Emperor Ai.
Bai Shan closed the silk cloth and walked around the house curiously. He found several volumes of daily records of the previous dynasty on a bookshelf.
They were piled on the bookshelf and divided only by time.
He flipped through it, looked at the name of the attendant and the time of the record, and couldn't help but raise an eyebrow. This was not recorded by the attendant.
Bai Shan put the silk cloth on it and couldn't help but go to ask the senior in the Hanlin Academy.
"Oh, you mean that room? It's full of miscellaneous materials," he said. "One person's words shouldn't be disbelieved, but they shouldn't be completely trusted either. Most of them are personal records, and many of them contain highly emotional content. The adults believe that when compiling history, one must put aside emotions and treat everything as impartially as possible. Therefore, the items in that room are only for reference and are not included in official history."
When recording the words and deeds of the emperor and his ministers, the recorder generally did not mix in personal feelings, nor did he need to be literary. The most important thing was to be straightforward.
They even rarely evaluate a person's right and wrong, merits and demerits, but only narrate the story, waiting for a hundred years, or even longer, for future generations to look back on this history and make their own judgments.
But these unofficial histories are different. They have a strong sense of right and wrong, merits and demerits, and they wish that everyone in the world would agree with them, otherwise they would be accomplices of evil people. Therefore, these things can be read, but they cannot be used rashly in history books.
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(End of this chapter)
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