For most people, the so-called liking history is more about liking those romance character biographies, or the secret history of the palace in the nature of wild history, rather than the official history.

Everyone can hold a copy of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in their sleep and can't sleep at night when they read the wonderful places, but they will inevitably be drowsy when they hold a heavy copy of "Zizhi Tongjian".

Lu Xuan admits that he is one of the majority, and he doesn't like boring official history very much, and it seems that few people can read that thing except for those who really study it.

After starting to pay for reading, Lu Xuan's head seemed to automatically isolate all kinds of sounds and smells on the train, and only the words on the mobile phone were left in his head.

[In history, the fifteenth year of Wanli is really an ordinary year......]

I don't know how many readers spewed out directly when they saw the first paragraph at the beginning, they thought that Zhang Chu had found something unknown about this year after flipping through various historical records, and it turned out to be such a sentence directly.

What do you look at if you don't look at big things in historical works?

Look at how the peasants farmed, how the craftsmen developed, how the officials fought among themselves, and how the emperor entertained?

Lu Xuan couldn't help but roll his eyes twice, seriously doubting that the eight yuan was going to be wasted!

Fortunately, after the second paragraph, Zhang Chu began to ask himself, why did he use such a dull year as the title of the book to write such a monograph"

[1587 was the year before the Spanish fleet was fully dispatched to England in the history of Western Europe. At that time, there were a number of events at the court of the Ming Dynasty that are easy for historians to ignore. These events, on the surface, seem to be a small section, but in essence, they are the crux of the major events that happened in the past, and they are also the opportunities that will make waves in the future. The relationship between cause and effect is precisely the focus of history. 】

The reader's questions are briefly answered here, and it is true that nothing major happened this year, but it is in this calm that the problem can be seen!

"Is it really good to complain about the title of your book like this?" Lu Xuan couldn't help laughing, and the purpose of writing was laid out at the beginning.

Yes, this year is not important at all, everyone must not dwell on this year.

The beginning of such a pure and unpretentious is really different from those bewitching and cheap people outside, and other works are repeatedly emphasizing how important this year or this event is to history!

However, Zhang Chu directly stated his point of view at the beginning, judging from the details, why the Ming Dynasty, which was peaceful on the surface, went into decline and demise step by step.

It is said that insiders look at the doorway, laymen look at the excitement, Lu Xuan is not a professional researcher, he is just a lover of history readings, and after praising the beginning, he began to read to the front.

However, this reading made him a little unaccustomed, and he came up to tell the Wanli Emperor a chaotic little story of the Wu Dynasty, and then began to talk about various rules.

"It turns out that the emperor doesn't just do whatever he wants!"

One of Lu Xuan's previous dreams was to be reborn to be the emperor, but it seemed that although the emperor at that time was a symbol of power, it did not mean that he could absolutely override his personal will and let himself do whatever he wanted.

Not to mention the canonization of the crown prince, the Wanli Emperor couldn't even canonize the imperial concubine, and the contradictions between the monarchs and ministers were quite prominent.

The sound in the entire carriage was getting weaker and weaker, and everyone almost closed their eyes and went to sleep, but Lu Xuan's head was extremely excited, and his eyes were staring at the screen and refused to take them off.

This is really a good book, and when he read this, he felt that all the history textbooks he had read in school had been in vain.

The so-called history and so-called historical figures in those textbooks are like third-rate TV series or third-rate cartoons, the characters are fixed and exaggerated, loyalty, treachery, good, evil, wisdom, foolishness, purity, and turbidity all have only one face!

But when Zhang Juzheng, Hai Rui, Qi Jiguang, and Emperor Wanli, these characters in history textbooks appeared one by one in "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli", Lu Xuan felt as if he was experiencing their situation, their distress, their dreams, their ambitions, and their helplessness.

No matter what you judge, you can use "morality" as a weapon, and if you can't get used to anyone and can't find the crime, then make a fuss about morality.

Just like Lu Xun said, if you open the history and check it, there is no age in these histories, and every page of the crooked and slanted has the words benevolence, righteousness and morality written on it, in fact, it is cannibalism!

Form is above all else, morality is above all else, and sanctimonious Confucianism has established a set of superficial worlds, while everyone continues to form parties for personal gain, corruption and bribery under the unspoken rules.

A set of Confucian systems, a set of unspoken rules, and the two do not interfere with each other to form this feudal dynasty.

The point of view in the book is very clear, the malaise of feudal imperialism is that morality replaces the legal system, and people often rely on personal relationships to make up for the shortcomings of the system.

In fact, this still exists in modern society, and the slogan of governing the country according to law is very loud, but the inheritance of paying attention to human feelings has never been broken, and many times the human system has replaced the legal system!

Lu Xuan, who has read many works, was surprised by Zhang Chu's way of writing history, and his ability to read history from an angle and to read historical materials is too strong.

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In the middle of the night, except for Zhang Chu's die-hard fans, not too many people stayed up late to read such an academic historical work.

So the book's sales in the first hour looked a bit bad, less than the number of buyers of Life of Pi at the time, let alone compared to "Ghost Blows the Lamp"!

However, there are still a few professionals who want to examine what is special about this work, which has been repeatedly praised by industry insiders.

Jiang Xiaoyuan is the author of "Imperial Hegemony", and his historical work tells the story of how Tang Gaozu Li Yuan opened up the Tang Dynasty, the most proud dynasty of contemporary people, at the turn of the Sui and Tang dynasties.

This time, he came to observe potential competitors, and selling one more e-book would not make "Wanli Fifteen Years" run to the top of the list anyway.

The two history books were released two days apart, and if nothing else, they would definitely be repeatedly compared, and even if no one took the initiative to compare, the publishing house would arrange for relevant news to be tied to Zhang Chu.

"Is this an academic work? Is this bullying me for not reading much?" Jiang Xiaoyuan sat in the study and wondered, this novel subject matter and writing method didn't look like an academic work!

But if you want to say that it is a popular work, it seems to be particularly far-fetched, and the whole article uses the experiences of those historical figures to tell various opinions.

Jiang Xiaoyuan was like an electric shock, although the name of his book was very domineering, but in fact, the content was still old-fashioned, he read a lot of things from his predecessors when he was writing, and unfortunately they often made him drowsy.

Am I going to write things like this for a living?

Jiang Xiaoyuan asked himself in his heart more than once, he felt a little frustrated, just when he was hesitating, "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" suddenly appeared!

This is like a guiding light, so that Jiang Xiaoyuan can clearly see that academic texts can still be written like this, and he is full of expectations for his next book.

Not only Jiang Xiaoyuan was shocked, but many other people in the industry were hit by this novel way of writing and unique historical views for the first time!

Liu Zhiqi, a professor of history at Fudan University, is also in a state of thought, not only having read many academic works, but also writing and correcting them himself, but none of them can give him a similar feeling.

History should be extremely rigorous, but why does Zhang Chu's writing style make him look relaxed and abnormal, as if he is reading some kind of easy reading, but there are a lot of thoughts and opinions that should be there!

Where is this clear stream, it is clearly a mudslide in historical academic works, "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" has swept through the historical academic community with the momentum of the flood gate, leaving its figure in the hearts of everyone who has seen it.

Even Yang Xuancong, who had read the original manuscript of the work for the first time, had to admire himself as a student, and it was very difficult to reveal an indisputable fact to people in such a short space!

Under the historical conditions at that time, the emperor's efforts or copyright belonged to the author, in any form

Neither the dictatorship or conciliation of the chief nor the reconciliation, nor the creativity of the senior generals, nor the corruption or irregularity of the civil servants, nor the extreme progress or absolute conservatism of the thinkers, can turn the tide around."

From the Son of Heaven to the common people, they all fell victim to that rotten system. The history of the Ming Dynasty has entered the Wanli period, even if there are virtuous generals such as "Chonghua Great Filial Piety, Wumu Jingzhong", it is difficult to reverse the wheel of history.

The name of the chapter in "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" is actually the positioning of everyone, the Wanli Emperor is the living ancestor, Zhang Ju is in the past tense, the first assistant Shen Shixing is the mediator, Hai Rui is the eccentric model official, and Qi Jiguang is the lonely general!

Many people agreed with Zhang Chu's positioning, they initially thought that this book was all nonsense, but they found it reasonable and convincing.

It's rare for an academic book to catch the eye at the beginning of its release, but "The Fifteenth Year of Wanli" does it easily!

Both insiders and laymen read it with relish, and many readers who are not very interested in history are also attracted by Zhang Chu's book, not because the history books are not good-looking, but because they want to limit people's horizons and consume the personality of historians.

Nowadays, the most innovative works are produced, and those who are shy away from history and insensitive to it have to indulge in it.

This book is like a dark horse that broke out, and people are not allowed to ignore it, how to evaluate this book instantly became a controversial topic in the Ming history circles!

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There was a power outage in the transformation of the rural network, but the witty author's notebook lasted for two hours, and he also used his mobile phone to open a hotspot to upload this chapter, which was really a toss-up.