Hongwen Academy.
Hongwen Academy is an institution dedicated to literary and historical texts in the Tang Dynasty, managed by Hongwen Scholars, with subordinates such as proofreaders and Chiefs of the Imperial Academy.
Scholar Liu Yan led Song Lin to a library.
As the heavy doors creaked open, a damp and moldy scent greeted them.
Inside were dozens of rows of bookshelves, coated in dust. Due to years of neglect, many books had decayed.
"This Zhaowen Pavilion houses miscellaneous unofficial histories and books from the founding of the dynasty to the Kaiyuan era. No one has cared for it before. Now that you're here, you can take the chance to organize the texts. From now on, this will be your sole task—other odd jobs can be ignored,"
Liu Yan said.
After all, these were not mainstream texts. Following years of war and turmoil, the court could no longer spare the manpower to manage them.
