Life of Chen Menglei: Chen Menglei and Li Guangdi are good friends of their fellow villagers. In the twelfth year of Kangxi (1673), he returned to his hometown to visit relatives, which coincided with the San Francisco rebellion and was trapped in the Geng rebels. Sui Chen and Li Guangdi's office together explained the situation to the court and expressed his loyalty. I didn't expect Li Guangdi to delete Chen's name and use Wax Pill to find a job alone. In September of the 15th year of Kangxi (1676), Qing soldiers were sent from Xianxia to Fujian, and Geng surrendered. Li Guangdi reached the summit, and in the seventeenth year of Kangxi (1678), he was falsely accused by Gengdang Xu, mistaking Chen for a thief and faking his life. He was accused of "disobedience" and was arrested and imprisoned. After Chen Menglei went to prison, he repeatedly asked Li Guangdi to testify for him, and Li Guangdi remained silent; It was not until the 19th year of Kangxi (1680) that Chen Menglei was "replaced", but he said nothing about Chen Menglei's enlistment in Fuzhou Mi Tu. Chen Menglei naturally hates Li Guangdi. In July, he wrote "Letter to the Capital City God", calling him "a deceiver and a negative friend", and also wrote "Break up with Li Guangdi". Later, with the assistance of Shang Xuxu, the minister of punishments, he was exiled to Fengtian Castle. In the thirty-seventh year of Kangxi (1698), Emperor Kangxi made an east tour and was released to serve the third prince who was studying and became a prince. Chen Menglei changed his study to "Songhe Mountain Room", calling himself "Songhe Old Man". After Chen repeatedly impeached Li Guangdi, but because of Li's high position, it went away.
During this excellent tour, Kangxi began to compile a Book Collection in October of forty years, and Chen Menglei classified and edited it according to the book collection of Jieyitang and more than 15,000 ancient books of his family. Five years later (170 1- 1705), it was endless until the forty-fourth year of Kangxi. The whole book 10000 volume, 40 volumes of catalogue, * *1.600 million words. The book is divided into six parts: Xiang, Ming, Natural History, Neo-Confucianism and Economics. Each part is divided into several codes, and each code is divided into cadres, totaling 6 109. The content is diverse and the classification is clear. The first draft was completed in April of forty-five years of Kangxi. After reading it, Kangxi changed the title to Integration of Ancient and Modern Books. Zhang commented: "At the beginning of the custom-made book contract, there was never a book that was all-encompassing and all-encompassing, and there was no so-called collection of ancient and modern books." Chen Menglei mentioned this magnum opus in Volume II "Preface" of "The Collection of Songhe Mountain". "Whoever is in Liuhe, whoever is in the Thirteen Classics and the Twenty-first History, does not leave a word; It is the largest encyclopedia in China, and only one or two items have been deleted from the historical collection.
In the sixty-first year of Kangxi (1722), after Kangxi's death, the prince fell out of power. Chen Yin once participated in the Yin Zhijun of the third prince, Aisin Gioro. In January of the first year of Yongzheng (1723), Chen Menglei and his two sons were sent to Heilongjiang by Yongzheng again. At this time, he was 72 years old. After six years of Qianlong (174 1), he died in the garrison at the age of 90.