Nothing is impossible in this world. Many things seem difficult on the surface, but they are actually more difficult to do.

After closing the door, Mei Xiaohan had a long talk with Zhang Chuan, Mu Hao and Ye Zi in a relaxed tone.

There is not much age difference between the three people, and they are all contemporary, so there are many common topics.

Starting a business is always difficult, and what you can't get on the battlefield can't be obtained at the negotiating table. If a person wants to gain the respect of others, he must first become strong.

All people need to be experienced, nothing can be achieved overnight, since you can't openly break with the Great Song Dynasty, the best way is to develop south, expand your territory, and when you have enough chips in your hands, the enemy will respect you.

The closest regime to Meicheng, "Southern Tang", Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty, was not a good emperor, but a good person. But Li Yu's fate was not good, in fact, to some extent, it can only be regarded as his bad luck. Not only Li Yu, but the fate of the last emperor was not good, and he recently ended up as the king of the dead country.

History written by successful people, all those who write are successful people, because the cruel reality is that only living people can write history.

It is not easy for a person to be able to look at history without prejudice and to feel history with his own own person. Everything doesn't come to an end, and no one knows the outcome.

What is the truth of history?

What exactly is history?

There are different opinions, and there will even be hundreds of opinions. Mei Xiaohan has never been an orthodox, and the fall of the Great Song Dynasty has to be mentioned as the Battle of Yashan. The heroism of the Battle of Yashan is only recorded in the history books.

The History of the Song Dynasty was written in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, with 47 volumes of the Benji, 162 volumes of the Chronicles, 32 volumes of the Table, and 255 volumes of biography, totaling 496 volumes, about 5 million words, which is the largest official history book in the 24 histories.

As early as the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, had edicted the revision of the history of the Song Dynasty, but the book could not be completed because the style was undecided.

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Prime Minister Totoku advocated the revision of the three histories of Song, Liao and Jin respectively, each independent, and this opinion was agreed by Emperor Yuan Shun, and it started in March of the third year of Zhizheng (1343 AD), and the three histories were revised at the same time. After two and a half years, in October of the fifth year of Zheng (1345 AD), the "History of the Song Dynasty" was hastily written.

The History of the Song Dynasty was cut from the original Song Dynasty's National History. During the Song and Song dynasties, the historians were well organized, engraving and printing were widely used, and the circulation and preservation of books were relatively convenient, accumulating a large number of historical materials. This provided a good foundation for Yuan Xiu's "History of the Song Dynasty". However, due to the haste of the compilers of the "History of the Song Dynasty", there are many shortcomings in the cutting of historical materials, the examination and revision of historical facts, the decoration of the text, and the style of the whole book, such as one person and two transmissions, saying that there is a transmission without a biography, seeing a number of things, there are eyes and no texts, records and biography, biography and biography, table and biography, and mutual contradiction between biography and biography, etc., which makes it known as a complicated and chaotic history in the 25th history.

Although there are many shortcomings in the "History of the Song Dynasty", it is voluminous, and there are more than 2,000 people in the "Biography of the Lie" alone, which is twice as many as the "Old Tang Book: The Biography of the Lie"; The narrative is detailed, and in terms of the scholarly value of the historical materials, it is better to be more detailed than to omit. At the same time, the main materials of the "History of the Song Dynasty" are the national history, actual records, calendars and other books of the Song Dynasty, which are now almost all lost, and the "History of the Song Dynasty" is the most systematic book for preserving the official and private historical materials of the Song Dynasty.

Since ancient times, China has had a strong sense of history, not only has a perfect historical institution to record the history of its own dynasty, but also each dynasty has revised the history of its predecessors. Although the Yuan Dynasty was a dynasty founded by the relatively culturally backward Mongols, this tradition was also inherited under the influence of Han intellectuals.

Just as after the conquest of Lin'an in the thirteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1276), Dong Wenbing, who was in charge of the matters left behind, said to Li Pan and Wang Gou, who came to recruit Confucian scholars, "The country can be defeated, but history cannot be destroyed." ("History of the Yuan" volume 156) based on this spirit, Yuan Shizu to the early Yuan Dynasty (1264) to establish the Hanlin State History Academy, after the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, and on the basis of the edict to revise the two histories of Liao and Jin, ordered the compilation of the "History of the Song Dynasty".

However, due to the initial determination of the situation at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, there was no time to take care of the revision of history, and the "History of the Song Dynasty" did not actually start to be revised; In the following dynasties, Shizu also ordered the compilation of the three histories many times, but it was also postponed.

In the second year of Emperor Yuan Shun's reign (1342), Wei Su, the official of the review of the feast, said in a letter to the only one (Taiping) of the right Chenghe of the Zhongshu that the three histories were not revised for four main reasons: first, when the three histories were compiled, there was a long-term debate on which dynasty of Liao, Jin and Song was the orthodoxy; the second is that the Jin Dynasty and the Song Dynasty have avoided attacking the Jin Dynasty and the Song Dynasty; the third is the issue of funding; Fourth, there is a lack of good historical talents.

Judging from the actual situation at that time, the most important problem was that the ruling and opposition parties had been arguing for a long time on the issue of orthodoxy, resulting in a deadlock. The Yuan Dynasty was the first unified dynasty established by ethnic minorities, and if the Song Dynasty was orthodox, and the Song Dynasty was the main record and the Liaojin Dynasty was recorded in the history books, it lost the position of ethnic minorities; If Liaojin is used as the history of the north, and the Song Dynasty writes the history of the Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty, it will cause the Han civil officials and intellectuals with the traditional Huayi concept to protest.

When he arrived at Emperor Yuan Shun, under the repeated suggestions of He Weiyi, Xun Xun and others, he finally made up his mind to compile the three histories. In March of the third year of Zhengzheng (1343), Emperor Shun issued an edict to repair the three histories of Liao, Jin and Song, and took the right prime minister of Zhongshu to take off as the president of the capital, the Zhongshu Pingzhang political affairs Temur Tazhi, the right of Zhongshu Taiping, the imperial history of Zhang Qiyan, the Hanlin bachelor Lu Sicheng, and the Hanlin scholar Jiejie Si as the president, and selected a large number of historians to officially start. And the reason for the success of this time, in addition to the emperor's great attention, is also related to the decision to get rid of the Tak and finally solve the orthodox problem.

It is recorded in the volume of "Gengshen Foreign History": "First the Confucians discussed the orthodoxy of the Three Kingdoms, and finally broke off and said: 'The three histories are each orthodox and their own chronology. The speaker relented. Although this ruling was authoritarian, it not only created the conditions for the successful compilation and revision of the three histories, but also completely broke the traditional concept of historical revision with the Han regime as the orthodoxy. Therefore, it is of positive significance in the history of Chinese historiography.

Therefore, in April of the third year of Zhizheng (1343), the three histories were officially compiled, and in October of the fifth year (1345), the "History of the Song Dynasty" was undrafted, and it took two and a half years before and after. Because Tokhtar had resigned in May of the fourth year of Zhizheng (1344), the History of the Song Dynasty was presented to Emperor Shun by the successor Arutu, the right prime minister of Zhongshu.

Among those who participated in the revision of the "History of the Song Dynasty", although Arutu was named the president of the capital, he did not know Chinese characters, so he did not play a big role; In addition to the above-mentioned Jiejiesi and other presidents, there are also 23 historians, including Yu Luntu, Tai Buhua, Yu Wenchuan, Gongshidao, Yu Que, Jia Lu, and Wei Su.

Every dynasty and every generation attaches great importance to history, and because the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty were the only two ethnic minorities to complete the great unification, the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty did not have a high degree of credibility in the records of the history of the previous dynasties, so they caused immeasurable losses in Chinese culture.

Since the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, China has entered a long-term war, and the number and distribution of the population have undergone major changes. The Yellow River valley has been repeatedly warned, and the population has moved southward in large numbers.

There is no specific census figure for the Three Kingdoms period, but it is estimated that it should be around 30 million today.

According to the Book of Jin, there were only 2.46 million households and 16.16 million people in the country in the first year of Taikang.

The unification of the Western Jin Dynasty did not last, and the Yongjia Rebellion broke out across the country.

In 311 A.D., that is, the fifth year of Yongjia, the Xiongnu captured Luoyang and kidnapped Emperor Huai.

At the beginning of the Jin Dynasty, the re-establishment of the feudal system eventually led to the rebellion of the Eight Kings, and the natural disasters continued for many years, the society was unstable, and the Hu people took advantage of the time to invade.

In the first year of Yongxing (304), Liu Yuan, a Xiongnu nobleman, raised troops in Zuoguocheng (now Lishi, Shanxi), gradually controlled some areas of Bingzhou, and proclaimed himself King of Han.

In the first year of Guangxi (306), Emperor Hui of Jin died, and Sima Chi took the throne as Emperor Huai, changing the Yuan Yongjia. Liu Yuan sent Shile and others to invade the south, repeatedly breaking the Jin army, and their power became stronger and stronger.

In the second year of Yongjia, Liu Yuan was officially proclaimed emperor, and in the fourth year, Liu Yuan died, and his son Liu Cong succeeded him. In the following year, Liu Cong sent Shi Le, Wang Mi, Liu Yao and others to lead an army to attack Jin, annihilating 100,000 Jin troops in Pingcheng, and killing Wang Yan and the princes. He invaded Luoyang, captured Emperor Huai, burned and plundered, and killed more than 30,000 people of the princes.

The people of the Central Plains moved south one after another to escape the war, and a large number of overseas Chinese states were set up in the south.

The Book of Song recorded that the number of households in the eighth year of the Ming Dynasty was 901,769, with 5,174,074 households.

This figure is not true due to the high level of hidden population at the time. Today's research believes that the population of the Liu and Song dynasties was 18 million to 20 million at its peak, and that of the Northern Wei Dynasty was about 30 million.

During the Sui and Tang dynasties, in 589 AD, Sui Ping Chen, China was reunified.

According to the Book of Sui, the number of households in the country was 9.07 million in the five years of the Great Cause.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the population was recorded to be only two or three million households. After Zhenguan, the society was stable, and the population grew rapidly.

According to the "General Dictionary", the population of Tianbao in the thirteenth year of the country was 8,917,409 households, with 52,919,309 people. Today, if the hidden population is included, the peak population in the early Tang Dynasty was between 80 million and 90 million.

After the Anshi Rebellion, the population of the country underwent major changes. The population of the North again moved south in large numbers.

The population of Xiangzhou increased by 120%, Ezhou by 100%, Suzhou by 30%, Quanzhou by 50%, and Guangzhou by 75%. Among the nine southern kingdoms during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, only the monarchs of Wu and Wu Yue were natives of the south, the monarchs of the Southern Han Dynasty were descendants of early immigrants, and the monarchs of the other six countries were all immigrants from the north.

The Chinese nation has long allowed many ethnic minorities to do farm work in the midst of many wars. The dynasties in history are divided and combined, and it is difficult to calculate the number of times.

The so-called orthodoxy of the Great Song Dynasty, in a sense, does not stand up. And the powerful will always have the right to speak. Meicheng is like a small grass in the wind and rain at the moment, and it is not so easy to rise.

It doesn't matter what anyone says, whether he is a god or an immortal, whether he is a ghost or a demon, relying on heaven and earth and relying on ancestors, and ultimately relying on himself.

To become a strong leader and build an invincible team, it is necessary to exercise people's will, first of all, the will of the coach, and if you want the soldiers to strengthen their beliefs, those in power must have a clear direction.

In this land, in this land, the people who live, they want peace, they hate war, they don't care who is orthodox, they only care about whether life is peaceful or not. Everyone has had dreams, but first and foremost they have to be alive.

It is precisely because of the troubled times that so many heroes have been created, and it is precisely because of the troubled times that many people will rise up. They put their talents to the extreme, and they have the courage to sacrifice for the same goal and ideal.

Mei Xiaohan put his hands behind his head and leaned back on the bed, staring at the ceiling in a daze. His teenage years passed in such a hurry, and he couldn't struggle or make a choice. Time passes obsessively, and time is gone.

At this moment, he is no longer the carefree teenager he is, he has embarked on a path that he has never encountered before. This is an accident of life, and no one can predict what the outcome will be until the end.

History is not for viewing, history is not for analysis, the rights and wrongs of the ancestors do not need to be evaluated by future generations, and the later generations are not qualified to evaluate the rights and wrongs of the ancestors.

Right and wrong, right and wrong. Those pasts are all dimmed away in the shadow of swords and swords. A generation of heroes Cao Cao was finally submerged in the long river of history, and the singing and crying stories left behind finally turned into green smoke and dissipated with the wind.

Ye Zi, Mu Hao and Zhang Chuan chatted with Mei Xiaohan all night, and the three of them shed tears when they chatted, because they had never thought that life was so magical, and after a journey on the road of life, they wanted to look back and look at it from afar. only to find that today in the 21st century is far away from their formation.

The life of the ancients did seem boring, but the life of modern people is a little more anxious. Everyone's life is uneasy, for the sake of finding a job, for a career, for the future.

Traffic problems, food safety problems, medical education problems, and many other problems are bothered every day.

In the era of science and technology, the age of information, the era of fast-paced, the distance between people is not getting closer, but getting farther and farther. Separated by a screen, but as far away as a thousand miles.

Time and space are two unequal media, and no one knows what the exact concept of time and space is, whether time or space, they are all imagined and created by human beings.

This night, Mei Xiaohan couldn't sleep anymore, because he felt that everything was changing too quickly, and he couldn't adapt to it.

To be exact, he has long lost himself, but at this moment he must be firm in his belief that he is the ruler, he is the leader, he is the lord of a city, and he is the spiritual leader of Meicheng.

Mei Xiaohan felt that he couldn't collapse, let alone fall, and from this moment on, he had to shoulder the trust and hope of hundreds of thousands of fathers and villagers in Meicheng.

He wants to build Meicheng into an invincible city, and he will build Meicheng into an iron-clad city, where every common man living here is his people.

A person's strength is limited, so it is necessary to recruit talents, the way of employing people Mei Xiaohan is still very lacking, arranging troops is not the accumulation of strong generals, what is needed is strategy.

The next day, Meicheng.

After the caravan was stationed in Meicheng, it spread out in all directions, like seeds planted in the earth. The first modern salt farm, under the auspices of a number of experts, began to be built, salt and iron is the most important thing in the agrarian society, but also the most important thing in the feudal society, but also the main source of financial income of the ancient feudal dynasty.

Mei Xiaohan felt that he had to firmly grasp the salt and iron in his hands, salt was the life of the people, and iron was the life of the city.