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A Brief Account of the Water West in the Ming Dynasty

(qing Dynasty) Written By Li Zhen, Edited By Chen Xunming And Edited By Chen Xiaojing

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One volume of "A Brief Story of Water West in the Ming Dynasty" was written by Li Zhen (Yufeng) in the ninth year of Qianlong's reign in the Qing Dynasty (AD 1744). This is based on the punctuation points on pages 763 to 780 of Volume 12 of the "Beijing Library Ancient Books and Rare Books Series". The author's life is yet to be examined. The original text is a photocopy of the transcript. "Shuixi Jiluo in the Ming Dynasty" systematically records the war between the She and An clans against the Ming Dynasty in Sichuan, Yunnan, and especially Guizhou from the first year of the Apocalypse to the tenth year of the Apocalypse. It vividly depicts major battles such as the ten-month-long, extremely tragic and wonderful Guiyang offensive and defensive battle, reveals the cause and effect of the war, and comments on the performance of the main parties. There is no description of this book, and it has not been cited in any historical records since the Qianlong reign. The manuscript in the Beijing Library is probably the only one in China. Its content shows that it has referred to historical books such as "History of Ming Dynasty" and Kangxi's "Guizhou General Chronicles" and made corrections to them; some of its finishing touches are also better than Qianlong's "Guizhou General Chronicles".