Lantai Old Slips

Before and after the unification of the Qin Dynasty, a Lantai official who repaired the old slips of the Six Kingdoms traced out an old case of the country's subjugation among several volumes of broken slips that had been transferred, and spent his life to save several names that had been erased from history books. After the Qin Dynasty merged with the world, Xianyang Lantai was ordered to collect and sort out the old slips from the six kingdoms' treasuries. The young scribe Shen Yan was transferred to the "Old Simple Room" because he was good at distinguishing between insect infestation, smoke, knife sharpening and ink color, specializing in Korean and Xinzheng old stalls. He originally thought that he was just filling in the documents for the empire, but he found traces of deletions in a batch of Korean and Korean love books: a certain city did not "surrender after accepting the seal" as written in the official documents. Instead, the military order was replaced, and the defenders, scribes and people in the city were forced to bear the charge of rebellion. Shen Yan traced the source of the old slips and found out the alliance letters preserved by the old knights of the Six Kingdoms, the old accounts of Qin court officials competing for fame, and the crisis of annihilation of local clans after their genealogies were changed. The court wants to stabilize the new world, the rivers and lakes want to restore old justice, and the people just want the dead to no longer bear a bad name. Shen Yan could not change the general trend of reunification, nor could he prevent the eve of book burning. He could only preserve partial truths in rolls of ashes, letting future generations know: outside of official history, there were many unknown people who sacrificed their lives for a sentence of innocence.