Emperor Hongzhi ordered the Ministry of War to print new maps of normal size based on the large map sent by Ryan Cui and send them to the nine border areas.
After Ryan Cui finished the work entrusted by Xie Ying, he also paid some attention to his disciples' journalism career and supervised their work on the book "Heroes of the Frontier" as it was completed.
This set of books should have been called Wen Zhengming's paintings. He also wanted to keep the original manuscripts secretly, hoping that when future archaeologists opened his coffin, they would find a high-end collection worth over 100 million yuan. However, the soldiers at the border strongly requested to use his painting style. Wen Zhengming, who was a master of poetry, calligraphy and painting, had to be abandoned like Tang Bohu.
In the end, he could only appoint Wen Zhengming to add words to the new painting album, which was considered to have saved his value as a calligrapher.
After the new books were printed, they were not sold in Beijing but donated free of charge to the border troops.
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