Contrary to Xueshi yigui, the excerpts included in the bubian deal mostly with concrete aspects of administration. The entry format is the same as in Xueshi yigui. Each juan is devoted to excerpts taken from a particular anthology. In j. 1 it is Chuji yi 儲集議 by Cai Maode 蔡懋德 (z. Weili 維立, h. Yunyi 雲怡) (1586-1644), a 1619 jinshi who was Shanxi grand coordinator at the time of his death; the excerpts deal with grain storage, transportation, and sales, famine prevention and similar topics on “nourishing the people.” J. 2 quotes from the same author’s Yuebao fa 約保法 and deals with baojia, bandit control, pacification, and the like. J. 3 is based on Shixue yiguan luchao 仕學一貫錄鈔 by Chen Qingmen 陳慶門 (z. Rongsi 容駟), a 1723 jinshi who was department magistrate of Dazhou 達州 (Sichuan); it deals with the problems of litigation, trying cases, the use of torture, etc. J. 4 quotes from Celüe huichao 策略彙抄, a collection of texts by various authors, mostly early Qing, concerning military, ritual, civil, and legal aspects of local government and focusing on how Confucian values can be incorporated into practical administration.