In the second year of Yuanfu in the Northern Song Dynasty, there was continuous rain in Bianjing, and a newly built official warehouse collapsed in front of everyone. Li Heng, a craftsman from a poor family, saw something strange in the broken beam: the beam material was not rotten and the mortise and tenon joints were correct. What was really stolen was not a piece of wood, but the two-inch scale on the drawing.
At that time, the general supervisor was ordered to rewrite a Dharma book related to the creation of the world. The old text is difficult and difficult, and the rules and regulations of each state are different. Rich merchants profit from the ambiguity, subordinate officials change the materials with a pen, but thousands of servants and common people have to pay for the mistakes on the paper with their lives. Li Heng was called into the editorial bureau because of his knowledge of drawings, calculations, and ability to discern the nature of wood. He worked with the engraver's daughter Yu Zhuoyu, the general supervisor Li Jie, and others to review the drawings.
From a warehouse to the Bianhe River Floating Bridge, from the high platform of the palace to the state and county water conservancy, they found that every seemingly accidental collapse pointed to a set of "shadow patterns" that had been circulating for many years. Some people want the new law to stay on the page forever, but some people believe that rules and standards can not only straighten one beam and one pillar, but also protect countless unknown people in the mountains and rivers.
This is the story of a group of little people who wrote their skills into classics and returned the classics to the world.
