On the way out of the palace, Zhu Ying simply lifted the curtains of the sedan chair high, not afraid of being seen by outsiders sitting in the same sedan chair with Zhang Shou. As a result, Zhang Shou was able to look out the window at the many buildings of the northern imperial city along the way.
Moreover, there was the best commentator, Zhu Ying, nearby. While he was listening to her explanation involving many anecdotes and characters, he took a quick look at the exterior of the Six Palaces and those inner court offices.
In this era, the female official system headed by the Shanggong Bureau and the eunuch system represented by the Silijian, at least in Zhu Ying's words, seem to be competing against each other. In terms of numbers, the number of palace maids and female officials is absolutely superior to that of eunuchs and eunuchs. And those female officials who have reached the age limit and are released from the palace are even good choices for the remarriage of officials and eunuchs.
It is said that the reason for this is that Taizu was disgusted with the fact that eunuchs were often used in successive dynasties, which led to countless people committing self-mutilation.
But in this case, Chu Kuan's claim that the inheritance of the torch depends on the eunuch party would be questioned.
Zhang Shou listened to Zhu Ying's introduction and gradually turned the topic to the Gujin Tongjiku that the emperor had mentioned before. Zhu Ying was not like Ge Yong who avoided the topic and immediately snorted and said, "So you mean the inner library, which is behind the inner library hall. I heard it was moved from the south of the palace! There are many manuscripts left by Emperor Taizu hidden there, but they are rarely shown to people."
Upon hearing what Zhu Ying said, Zhang Shou raised his eyebrows immediately: "So, the emperor told the Imperial College's Grand Secretary Zhou that if he begged, he would let people in to copy. This should be just to comfort the Grand Secretary Zhou for being wrongly accused?"
"Isn't it? Not to mention the Grand Secretary of Zhou, several university scholars had a hard time entering the Ancient and Modern Collection Library, and the people in the Imperial Household Department hated them. During the time of Grandfather Ruizong, there were also officials who were angry that a group of eunuchs controlled the relics of Emperor Taizu, and even Grandfather Ruizong ignored them. In fact, I am also very curious. I sneaked in when I was a child, but I was sent back in a daze."
After hearing this, Zhang Shou felt that the emperor's previous words to him, that only by performing some unquestionable great merit could he be admitted to the Gujin Tongjiku, were probably just a lie.
But the more he thought about it, the more he felt itchy, especially when he thought of the secret letters he had come across before, one of which used binary encoding and the other used shift cipher. He couldn't help but come up with a lot of ideas about the things in the Gujin Tongji Library.
Could it be that the Gujin Tongjiku is said to contain countless Taizu manuscripts, but in fact they are written in special languages such as English, French, or even Pinyin? Or... it simply uses a coded mechanism to keep most people who want to understand it out
Having said that, although the foreign friends who invented binary system think that the ancient Chinese Bagua is the prototype of binary system, from the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art to the other ten mathematical books, none of them involve the most basic and simple binary principle of adding one every two. He doesn't believe that the previous binary code has nothing to do with Taizu!
At this moment, a voice suddenly said "Stop, stop quickly", and the sedan chair stopped without any warning. Zhang Shou, who was lost in thought, suddenly leaned forward, and Zhu Ying, who was looking at him, was slightly stunned, and their foreheads bumped into each other.