Your Majesty, the revision of history is a major event, and the minister is only afraid of lack of ability, and the minister is not a historian. ”

Wei Zheng was not surprised that the emperor proposed to revise history at this time.

All dynasties and dynasties will revise the history of the previous dynasties, except for the dynasties that are too short-lived to repair.

On the surface, an important reason for revising the history of the previous dynasty is that the revision of the history is based on the identification of later kings, which can play the role of historical warning, and find the cardinal who can control the rise and fall of chaos, so as to consolidate the political needs of the dynasty's rule.

Of course, there is a more important reason, which is generally not explicitly stated, but everyone will understand. That is the revision of the history of the Yi Dynasty, and it is also a necessary means to prove the legitimacy of the succession of the new dynasty.

This is like Luo Cheng, although he destroyed the Sui Dynasty and established the Qin, he also had to have a process of supporting the Sui Emperor first, and then the Sui Emperor Chan conceded was the same, all in order to prove the legitimacy of the succession of the new dynasty.

Of course, the later dynasties will inevitably make some revisions to the history of the previous dynasties when revising the history of the previous dynasties. Especially for the last emperor of the previous dynasty, there will definitely be no good words. Appropriate additions and deletions are considered normal, and some will even simply make up some content that was not originally there to discredit the previous dynasty.

After all, the new dynasty is the world that rebelled against the previous dynasty, and if the previous dynasty was so good everywhere, wouldn't the rebellion of the new dynasty be untenable?

And in prehistory, it was even more common to add some oil and vinegar to the founding emperor of this dynasty.

However, Wei Zheng refused, not because he was very upright, but because before the Tang Dynasty, the history books were actually privately cultivated, and there was no example of court official cultivation.

Generally, some famous historians collect and sort out materials, and then compile history books, and some even have several generations of a family father, son, protégé, etc., work together.

Wei Zheng was not a historian.

The Emperor shook his head.

"I also know that before this dynasty, most of the history books were private works, and even if some of the history books were revised by officials ordered by the imperial court, they were mainly based on the opinions of the people who revised history."

Wei Zheng was stunned for a moment, what does the emperor mean by this, and then history books should not be written by people who revise history?

"Revising history is a major event, and I think that the imperial court should preside over the revision of history, and the imperial court should set up a special museum to officially revise history books, recruit famous historians in the world, and then search for comprehensive data and archives to summarize and check, and the prime minister's scholars will personally supervise the revision."

Luo Cheng means that if three or two people study history, it is definitely difficult to have comprehensive information, and no matter who cultivates history, they must have their own subjective attitude, which inevitably comes with personal evaluation, which is sometimes not necessarily really fair and objective.

Even Ma Qian, who is known as the big man in the history world, has many unfair personal records and evaluations in his history books.

Therefore, Luo Cheng believes that the history books have to be repaired by officials, firstly, the official cultivators can collect more comprehensive information, secondly, they can find the most authoritative and famous history book experts to write the main writers, and secondly, the history books are not repaired by one person, but by a group of people, each with their own strengths, and at the same time supervise each other, and finally have to accept the supervision and revision of the Zaifu.

Of course, the emperor also reminded that before the completion of this history book, the emperor must make the final draft.

In such a history book, naturally there will be no situation where Cui Hao repaired the history of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and then there will be a situation where the background of the Northern Wei Dynasty people is worthless.

"Of course, the history of the country is not only to write a record for the emperors of the previous dynasty, nor to make a biography for the ministers of the previous dynasty, but also a very important thing, to record the system of the previous dynasty, as well as the clothing economy and culture, etc., and pass it on to future generations to watch, so that everyone knows that when this dynasty is in place, not only what kings and generals are there, but also the lives of the people of that era, which is called a chronicle in the history books. A history book is generally composed of the emperor's chronicles, the biographies of ministers, and various geography, customs, and uniforms. ”

Wei Zheng said, "Your Majesty, if you revise history according to this, I'm afraid that the project will be very huge." ”

"It doesn't matter, if you want to repair, you have to cultivate high-quality products, and you have to be praised by future generations, which is fair and just, and you have to point out the gains and losses."

The history of the Sui Dynasty is only more than 30 years, and it is not too difficult to repair, after all, many things, for Wei Zheng and others, are personally experienced, or heard of by their own ears, and Chang'an, Luoyang and other capitals, there are still a large number of important archives, in the local government, there are also many official documents, can be a good extraction of information.

"I asked you to cultivate Daqin's entrepreneurial life, also because I want to record the experience of our generation in our generation, and leave it to future generations to watch, and our own stories can be recorded more comprehensively and truly."

"After these two history books are repaired, I will continue to let the National History Museum repair the history of Liang, Chen, Northern Qi, Zhou, and even the history of the south and the north in the future."

Since the late Northern Wei Dynasty, wars have been frequent, and many imperial courts have been short-lived courts for decades, so Liang, Chen, Northern Qi, Zhou and Sui have not yet come to revise history.

Luo Cheng planned to establish a special national history museum by Daqin, first revise the history of Sui and Daqin's entrepreneurial life, and then repair the dynasties that did not repair the history of the first five dynasties, and even in the future, he will also revise two southern histories and this history that record the history of the Northern and Southern Dynasties.

"Your Majesty, the official revision of the history book by the imperial court, supervised by the prime minister, is unprecedented, what the minister is most worried about is that after the history book is repaired, it will be said that it is unfair!"

Luo Cheng laughed.

"Wei Laodao, do you think that I asked you to supervise the history of the country, just to let you black the former dynasty, and then brag about this dynasty? No, I am not that kind of person, and I hope that you can record history fairly and objectively, and treat it as a precious historical treasure for future generations, and nothing else. ”

The emperor smiled, "Old Dao, when you are cultivating the Great Qin Entrepreneurship and Living Note, when you write about me, don't write about what golden dragons and red suns I dreamed of when my mother was pregnant with me, and don't write about what I was born in, what houses were full of fire, and divine birds flew into these messy things, these rotten visions are just some lies, there is no need to write." ”

Wei Zheng smiled, these visions that the emperor said were just to set off the emperor's great identity, such as Liu Bang's killing of the White Snake, and the Red Emperor and the White Emperor. In the history books, almost every emperor had a vision before he was born.

What mother dreams of swallowing the red day and then getting pregnant, what dreams of having sex with gods and men and getting pregnant, Luo Cheng thinks that these are all nonsense, people are conceived after the union of men and women and are conceived and born in October, how can there be a dream and swallow some strange fruit to get pregnant.

"For Yang Guang, I also hope that you can be fair, objectively speaking, Yang Guang is an idealistic, ambitious, diligent and extremely talented emperor, but he also has a stubborn and self-righteous side, and later, he is also passive and neglectful, favoring traitorous ministers, these, I hope you can all write truthfully, such as Yang Guangkai's Grand Canal, which is a project that benefits the people and the country in the present era, as well as Yang Guang's conquest of Goguryeo, Tuyuhun, Yiwu, Linyi, etc., and it cannot all be attributed to personal good and great joy, We have to analyze his motives and goals from the perspective of the country, and in the end, he failed and lost the country, but he couldn't put the cart before the horse and attribute it all to good and great joy. ”

Wei Zheng stroked his beard, "Your Majesty's evaluation of Yang Guang is very high. ”

"Yang Guang himself was a king like Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, but Yang Guang did not have the accumulation of several generations of dynasties like Qin Shi Huang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and he did not have an excellent heir and a loyal royal clan guard. Although he failed and lost his country, he was not a faint king! ”

Wei Zheng nodded and wrote down the emperor's evaluation of Yang Guang, Emperor Sui Ming is not a faint monarch.

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