NOVPUBThe "Yongle Encyclopedia" in the box completely astonished everyone present.
Everyone knows the preciousness of the "Yongle Encyclopedia".
It is a book that can be called the greatest oddity of all times.
Completed during the Yongle period of the Ming dynasty, the entire book contains 22,877 volumes, 11,095 books, approximately 370 million characters, compiling seven or eight thousand types of books from ancient to modern times.
The content includes classics, history, masters, and collections, covering astronomy, geography, Yin-Yang medicine, fortune-telling, Buddhist and Taoist scriptures, drama, crafts, and agriculture, encompassing the knowledge wealth of the Huaxia nationality over thousands of years.
It is equivalent to a modern encyclopedia.
And it is also the most comprehensive encyclopedia in the history of the world.
The "Yongle Encyclopedia" revised during the Yongle period originally had only one copy, and what exists today are all copies from the Emperor Jiajing’s period.
However, since the Ming dynasty, the book has already begun to have missing parts, and then after various turmoils, until today... only a little more than four hundred volumes remain.
Among them, our own National Library holds over two hundred volumes, the Eagle Country Congress Library has 40 volumes, the National Palace Museum in Taiwan holds 62 volumes, museums at Henry Niu’s area, Oxford University, the Eastern Language School at London University, and Cambridge University have 51 volumes, Chariot Country has 5 volumes, and there are quite a few more here in Little Sun Country...
Today, only a small portion of it remains.
It is imaginable how precious it is.
After seeing the contents of this box, everyone was incredibly shocked.
They were stunned for a long time before they came back to their senses.
"This..." Even Captain Yu was at a loss for words.
He was someone who had experienced various major scenes, but at this moment, he was still shocked.
The value of this book is immeasurable.
Fang Hao also took a deep breath, also stunned by the scene before him.
Not a single person wasn’t shocked.
"How do I feel this thing is extraordinary?"
The viewers in the live stream began to have a vague premonition after seeing the reaction of the people on the ship.
"What could this be?"
This made them even more curious.
"Host, what is this?"
"Abs Brother, what is this?"
The chat in the live stream started to flood.
While they were eager to know the answer, the answer was revealed.
"Hao brother, this is actually the Yongle Encyclopedia!"
As Xiao Pang’s words fell.
But what followed was an uproar in the live stream.
"Yongle Encyclopedia???"
"Did I... hear it wrong?"
"It’s actually... the Yongle Encyclopedia!"
"Oh my God!!!"
The live stream instantly exploded.
Everyone knows the rarity of the Yongle Encyclopedia, knowing that many parts of this book have already been lost, and only a small part remains today.
It’s known as the most precious book in the world.
Just take two years ago, two volumes were auctioned at Bossan Auction House in Gaul Chicken, starting at five thousand euros, but just within 11 minutes, the price soared to 6.4 million euros, and the final deal was 8.128 million euros, which at that time converted to about 64.9 million yuan.
Just two volumes commanding such a high price, one can imagine how precious this book is.
The reason for its preciousness is because it contains documents that might have been lost to history.
Another reason is that in the absence of the original copy, these incomplete copies that have been handed down are even more valuable.
It is the largest and most complete encyclopedia in the world, without a parallel!
It is the most impressive book in the five thousand years of Huaxia history, from ancient times to the present, without a parallel!
Even using adjectives like ’priceless treasure’, ’inestimable value’, they still can’t express one ten-thousandth of its value!
For example, if you own this book, and then came across an apocalypse, everything had to start from the primitive society, it would teach you how to collect materials, how to smelt tools, and its architectural craftsmanship could teach you how to build your own house from scratch.
If you desire to satisfy culinary cravings, the encyclopedia contains everything from crop cultivation to livestock breeding, to the fermentation brewing of alcoholic beverages.
If you fell ill, it contains various prescriptions; you can administer the right remedy for the diagnosis, and it also details what Chinese herbs look like and under what conditions they grow.
...
This is the value of this book.
After the compilation of the Yongle Encyclopedia, because of its massive size, even Zhu Di barely flipped through it a few times.
But later, Emperor Jiajing was extremely attached to this book.
However, in the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing, there was a fire in the palace, but fortunately, the rescue was timely, and the encyclopedia was not damaged.
It was precisely because of this fire that Emperor Jiajing realized the need to record a duplicate, so the fifth autumn after the fire, a massive re-recording project started, which was the duplicate. 𝔫𝖔𝖛𝖕𝔲𝔟.𝔠𝖔𝖒
This re-recorded duplicate, whether in content, format, or binding, was identical to the original.
However, when the re-recording work was completed, Emperor Jiajing had passed away three months earlier.
Later rumors sprouted that the original copy had become Emperor Jiajing’s burial objects, placed inside Yongling tomb.
As for the duplicate, it also underwent continuous controversies.
It was only during the Kangxi period that it was found, but it was only a duplicate, and the number of volumes did not match, missing more than a thousand volumes.
Then through the years, by the time of Qianlong preparing to compile the "Complete Library in Four Branches", there were more than a thousand volumes missing compared to the Kangxi period.
As time went on, due to lax supervision, these encyclopedias continued to be lost.
