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Wanjuanzhengshanhe
In the eleventh year of Shaoxing, the Song and Jin peace talks were about to be concluded, and Lin'an Mansion sentenced a book to "death". It does not remember emperors and generals, but only the depth of rivers, the profit and loss of warehouses, missing villages, and every person who should not be forgotten in troubled times. Some people were afraid that it would be alive, so they cut out the words, destroyed the editions, and boiled the paper into pulp; some people tried their best to hide a
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Letters from Ancient Books: Someone Asked for Help in the Seventh Year of Xuanhe
When Xi Yanqiu, an ancient book restorer, was restoring a Southern Song Dynasty edition, he uncovered a fragment of a page that did not belong to the book from the cover. There are no inscriptions by famous writers or lost secrets on the remaining pages, only a half-written confession. What's even weirder is that the ink stains from 890 years ago are still growing slowly between the paper fibers: "Moutuogang has 30,000 military horses. They are all in the accounts, but there is not a single one
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