Because the compilation time is too hasty, the lack of information of the Shun Emperor era, the whole book is not completed, so Ouyang You and others were sent to all parts of the country to mobilize the Shun Emperor Dynasty materials, in the Hongwu three years of February 6 to reopen the history of the bureau, still ordered Song Lian, Wang Yi as the president, led Zhao Xun, Zhu You, Pei Qiong and other fifteen people to continue the compilation, after one hundred and forty-three days, the first day of the seventh month was completed, the addition of the Shun Emperor Ji ten volumes, the addition of the Yuan Dynasty after the "Five Elements", "River Canal", "Sacrifice", "Hundred Officials", "Food and Goods" each one volume, the three dukes and the prime minister's table of the next volume, Thirty-six volumes, a total of fifty-three volumes. Then the two books before and after were combined, and after being divided into two hundred and ten volumes, which are the current volumes, according to the book, the chronicles, the tables, and the biography. The two revisions lasted only 331 days.

Although the Yuan Dynasty is less than a hundred years, it is also a unified dynasty, and the territory is vast, if it is counted from Genghis Khan, in fact, the time is not too short, such a dynasty, the history book used less than a year, the record can be imagined, it is obviously too hasty, not to mention that this history book is compiled under the premise of catering to Zhu Yuanzhang's requirements, there are several waves of historians alone, Song Lian is just a man of letters, but Zhu Yuanzhang in order to show his thirst for talent, recruited Wang Kekuan, a man of seclusion in the mountains and forests, Hu Han, Zhao Xun and other sixteen people participated in the compilation, these talents are really suspicious, facts have proved that the "Yuan History" because of the rush of time, the number of compilers is too large, and there are many deficiencies, as far as the data is concerned, after the long-term war, the historical books are scattered, it is difficult to collect for a while, it is difficult to complete, and the materials that have been collected are limited to the translation conditions, and they have not been fully utilized. For example, "The Secret History of the Yuan Dynasty" and the Mongolian classics and archives of the Yuan Dynasty are all great shortcomings. The main problems pointed out are: copying as you go, repeating before and after, and losing tailoring; and not matching each other, examining similarities and differences, and sometimes seeing contradictions. For example, the book may be written again and again, or the biography may be passed on by one person or two. The same proper name, the translation is different. Historical translations and alterations sometimes completely reverse the original meaning. Following the text of the case, the official titles of Geng Shenzheng, Tian Situ, and Hao Shenzheng appeared in the "River Canal Chronicles" and "Sacrificial Records" without recording their names. According to the case, a chronology of the prime minister was compiled, and only his official title was deleted and not examined, so that he had no surname.

The "History of the Yuan" lists the biography of copying the stele and the family biography, and there are many improper trade-offs. The cadres who rewrote the chronology actually mistakenly pushed back 60 years, making the historical facts completely confused. There are many examples of emperors who do not have a specific temple number in historical materials, and there are many examples of mistakes when rewriting, such as mistaking Taizu for Taizong, Taizong for Taizu, Xianzong for Shizu, Shizu for Xianzong, etc. The compilers were also not familiar with the system of the Mongols in the previous dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, for example, the states of the Song Dynasty had other military names and county names, and the "Geographical Chronicles" described the evolution, but it was written that a certain state had been changed to a certain army and a certain county. Another example is the plucking of the ears of the Mongolian khans, the death of the Khan "his account is not empty", and the descendants of the concubines are kept to enjoy the gifts of their years, and the editor of the "Concubines Table" actually lists the wives and concubines of a certain emperor according to this list. And all that. Therefore, Qian Daxin, a Qing man, ridiculed "Those who revise the "History of the Yuan" are all rotten and rotten and do not know the reason", so the pen is "all wrong". Wang Huizu of the Qing Dynasty pointed out more than 3,700 errors in the Yuan History. For example, in the "History of the Yuan", there is a lack of one person and two transmissions, such as Subutai and Xuebutai are originally one person, the complete one and the complete one are both the same person, and Shi Mo is also the same person as Shi Mo Axin, and there are two transmissions listed in the "Yuan History". In addition, the translation names are different, such as Ba Si Pa, also translated as Ba Si Ba, Ba Si Ba, Ba He Si Pa, etc. The list goes on and on, and it can be daunting.

It is Xie Jin, who has the reputation of the first genius of the Ming Dynasty, in the case of the order of Emperor Chengzu, only revised the "History of the Yuan", and he wrote the book "The History of the Yuan Dynasty". Later, Zhu You, who participated in the compilation and revision of the "History of the Yuan Dynasty", wrote "The Collected Notes of the History of the Yuan Dynasty", and Xu Hao wrote "The Explanation of the History of the Yuan Dynasty", etc., all of which were revisions and supplements to the "History of the Yuan Dynasty", and there was no substantial progress.

As soon as these words came out, Hu Ying, who was drinking the soup, spewed out another mouthful ——?of fish soup: "Is there a problem with this person?"

Yu Qian also muttered secretly: "Others can't envy it, this Brother Yang is good, he doesn't want to go, isn't this person angry than others?"

Yang Shiqi glanced at Yang Zheng without hurry, and seemed to have expected this result, and said in his heart: "The emperor really knows Brother Yang best, and he is so careful that he let the old man say it in advance, if he is rejected like this in the court another day, the emperor should be so faceless, he smiled and asked, "What concerns does Little Brother Yang have?"

Yang Zheng smiled and said, "Brother Yang is a learned person, do you still use the younger brother to explain?"

Yang Shiqi nodded and said: "Due to the hasty compilation time of the "History of the Yuan" and the fact that it is out of many hands, it inevitably has many shortcomings, and it has always been criticized by scholars. But Brother Yang only saw the bad, but he didn't see the badness to the extreme, it's the good?"

Yang Zheng really couldn't think of any benefit from cultivating such a history book, so he said in a loud voice: "This little brother really doesn't know?"

Yang Shiqi laughed and said: "With the wisdom of Brother Yang, it's not that I don't know, but I don't want to know, although the "Yuan History" has many shortcomings, but compared with other official histories, because it copies more historical materials, it preserves a large number of original materials, so that it has a higher historical value than some other official histories, such as the Yuan Dynasty's Thirteen Dynasties Records and the "Jingshi Canon" have been lost, and part of its content has been preserved by relying on the "Yuan History". The Benji and Zhi of the "History of the Yuan" account for half of the whole book, and the Benji accounts for nearly a quarter of the whole book, and the "Wenzong Ji" has as many as one volume a year. Some people have criticized it for not being in accordance with the rules and not knowing how to exploit it. However, this practice has the effect of preserving the above-mentioned lost historical materials. In the biography part, because the information of the Yuan Dynasty History Museum is incomplete, the Han literati often have inscriptions for reference, and some Mongolian celebrities are often unable to search, so the biography is more detailed than the literati, and slightly more than the Mongolian generals. For example, there are fifty-nine people who have seen the prime minister, and less than half of them have been passed on. Only one of the brothers and sons of Taizu has a biography, and none of the princes after Taizong have passed on. However, as far as the Mongols and Semu people who are seen in the legends are concerned, a small half of them have no other historical materials to refer to, and these are valuable things, and furthermore, the compilers of the year violated the practice of historical revision and did not delete historical facts that Confucian scholars thought they disdained. If someone criticizes "doing Buddhist things, this book must be written, and the rites and pleasures of visiting the imperial city will be entered". He also criticized it for "listing the biography first and releasing the old, and then using the technique, all of which do not conform to the rules of prehistory". However, these retained or added contents reflect some historical facts of the Yuan Dynasty. In addition, such as the appendix of the "Geographical Chronicle" Heyuan, the Northwest Land, the county of Annan and other items, the "Sacrificial Chronicle" attached to the national customs and old rituals, and the "Food and Goods Chronicle" added a volume of New Year's gifts, which are all important historical materials preserved according to the actual situation of the Yuan Dynasty. These are not all his benefits, with Yang Xiaodi's ingenuity, as long as he starts from these aspects, it is not impossible to compile this history book!" Speaking of this, his face suddenly became solemn, staring at Yang Zheng and Yu Qian and said: " Brother Yang, although the two of you are talented, but you are still young, in my Ming Dynasty wants to be an official, young is not good, you need to boil, slowly boil, learn more and see more, in the torment of slowly boiling the qualifications, boiling out of the level, when the court needs you, you will find that the place you were unwilling to do and go to back then is your biggest capital, something that is beneficial to your life?"

Yang Zheng has never seen Yang Shiqi speak so seriously, he looks at this old man giggling on weekdays, quite a bit of the demeanor of an old naughty boy, and thinks that he has no serious word in his temperament, but he doesn't want to be serious, what he said, there is really some truth, in the officialdom of the Ming Dynasty, if you don't have some qualifications, you really can't make people look up to you, and doing editing work in the Hanlin Academy is undoubtedly the greatest qualification, because the reason why the history of the previous dynasty was valued by the rulers of the past dynasties was in addition to playing the role of historical warning. In addition to the need to find cardinals to control the rise and fall of chaos and consolidate the political needs of dynastic rule, the more important reason is that the revision of the history of the Yi Dynasty is also a necessary means to illustrate the legitimacy of the succession of the new dynasty. For this reason, successive rulers have taken the revision of the history of the former dynasty as a major matter of court politics. By the Tang Dynasty, the revision of the history of the Yi Dynasty had gradually developed into a practice followed by the feudal dynasties. In the third year of Tang Taizong's Zhenguan, the system of repairing history in the history museum was formally established. Since then, the feudal dynasty's history of the Yi Dynasty has been institutionally guaranteed, and whenever the dynasty is revolutionized, the emerging dynasty will often open a history museum, recruit historical talents, collect historical materials, and spend money to compile and repair the history books of the previous dynasties. Therefore, the history of the Tang Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty, the history of the Tang Dynasty in the Five Dynasties, the history of the Song Dynasty in the Yuan Dynasty, and the history of the Yuan Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty, all along the way, making the compilation of history books is also a meritorious achievement, which is of great benefit to both the emperor and the officials in the prosperous era, so it is not an exaggeration for Yang Shiqi to say that he is a seniority.

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ps: This is not the black "History of the Yuan", looking at the history of the twenty-four or fifth five, whether it is the history books of the troubled times, such as "The Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms" are all very well edited and extremely careful, but the Yuan history has too many mistakes and is the most hasty, so later generations of scholars do not evaluate the history of the Yuan, and the reason for this does not need me to say more!