"System?"

"Yes, it's the system!"

On the top floor of the high-rise building in Miyagi, Lu Zhe and his descendants sat in a circle, most of their sitting postures were casual, how comfortable they were.

It's just that the male heirs are present, and the daughters are in the building below with the queen and the concubines, and they occasionally let out a crisp burst of laughter, and it seems that the atmosphere is quite good.

Compared with the relaxed atmosphere of many women, the atmosphere above the top floor, although the father and son sit casually, the atmosphere above the top floor is much more serious and silent.

"We need a system that can be passed down to the next generation, and this system should be deeply rooted in the marrow of the nation, at least so that the majority of people can accept and approve of it." Lu Zhe took a sip of wine and looked into the distance with a deep gaze, which was the boundary of the imperial capital Nanling. "The system is the foundation of a country, and it can also affect the future of a nation," he said. A good system will not only make a country strong, but also will affect a nation for thousands of years. ”

Most of Lu Zhe's heirs can't understand it, and those who can understand it are estimated that Lu Yi and Lu Qi are the ones who can't understand it, and more children have confused expressions and want to be distracted and don't dare to look, so they can only focus more attention on the food on the plate.

It's summer again, and there are many kinds of seasonal fruits, including local fruits and special fruits from all over the world.

The territory of the empire was always expanding, and the land was expanding to the northwest and north, because it was a land route, in fact, the land expansion rate was not too fast. It's really a little hard to get up quickly; The south of the empire is different, although the expansion on the sea surface is slightly twists and turns, but the expansion speed is really better than the land.

"So...... How do we come up with a system that is acceptable to the majority of the people? Lu Zhe said and stopped. Reaching out and picking up a bunch of lychees, he slowly peeled off the shell.

Lichee? That's right, this thing is a specialty of Lingnan, and the legend about it has a relatively fragrant one, that is, Yang Guifei in the Li Tang Dynasty liked to eat it very much, and the then emperor Li Longji specially selected riders who were good at riding horses in order to let his favorite women eat fresh lychees. A BMW was prepared to send lychees from Lingnan to Chang'an every day.

How far is Lingnan from Chang'an? The distance of the flat map should be more than 3,000 miles, but the length of the road is never calculated according to the distance of the plain map. In fact, it takes at least 10,000 miles to travel from Lingnan to Chang'an. According to the calculation that a rider can gallop 500 miles day and night by constantly changing good horses, it takes about 20 days to run day and night from Lingnan with a basket of lychees to Chang'an.

Ouch, the historian who records history. He may have seen the rider gallop day and night for twenty days before delivering the lychees to Chang'an. And then you can take a closer look at whether it's new?

Nonsense again, about Yang Guifei's love to eat lychees, and then Li Longji prepared so many things, but the historian once again used exaggerated techniques to write novels, using this kind of "story" that cannot stand scrutiny instead of real history to express Li Longji's absurd side.

"So...... Our system must first make sure that history is not a collection of stories, historical facts are historical facts, and there can be no person or collective that records history. Writing (tampering) because of one's own standards of good and evil and subjective consciousness? When Lu Yi spoke, he had been secretly kicking his brother Lu Qi.

Lu Qi kept shrinking to avoid Lu Yi's outstretched feet, he really didn't want to interject anything on such an occasion.

"Yes. Historical facts are historical facts, and our history is always tampered with at will because of personal joys, sorrows, and sorrows. Of course, Lu Zhe noticed Lu Yi's small movements, but he didn't see it. He glanced at Lu Qi, then refocused his gaze on the lychee that was being peeled in his hand, and said, "Whether or not you respect historical facts is related to whether a nation is really sure of itself." A nation that is not even sure of its own history, still has the courage to affirm what? ”

The affirmation here includes the rights and wrongs of the past, not only their own rights and wrongs, but also the rights and wrongs of competitors, but the history of the Chinese nation has never lacked this tolerance.

In the past, it was for His Holiness...... That is, any misconduct and mistakes of the superiors, the people who record history will help cover them up. There will even be things that make people laugh bitterly, such as pressing the great deeds done by the subordinates on the skull of the superior, making it more great, glorious, and upright.

Later, the Liu Han Empire pioneered all kinds of smears against the "former dynasty", which was considered a bad start, and any "imperial court" that overthrew the "former dynasty" after that would spare no effort to discredit the "former dynasty", such as Li Tang replaced Yang Sui, and Yang Jian and Yang Guang, who had only one queen, were written as emperors who were extravagant and extravagant.

Writing history at will out of the need for domination, or even beautifying oneself and deliberately smearing one's former competitors, it can be said that the misery of the Chinese nation has been doomed from the moment history was written by the victors.

"The first thing we have to do is to record history without any emotion, start with Qin Yitong, and then ......" Lu Zhe paused, he stood up and walked to the edge of the fence to look at the huge imperial capital of Nanling, looking at the buildings in the distance, looking at the small figures walking on the street, and said: "Then say that the current historical participants are still alive, and encourage them to write autobiographies!" ”

"Autobiography?" Lu Yi was stunned, flatteringly brought a glass of cold wine to his father, and asked, "Father will also write an autobiography, right?" ”

Lu Zhe has actually begun to write about his own experience, he started writing from the experience of entering the Qin army, as for where and what he was doing before entering the Qin army, not a word is mentioned in the whole memoir, so that after this memoir was printed and began to be sold, countless people who were curious about what Lu Zhe was doing before entering the army became more curious.

"Autobiography is not history." Lu Qi muttered secretly: "The next step is to corroborate and summarize from the autobiographies of countless people, and use statistical methods to form a book similar to the "Benji"?" ”

Not everyone has the qualifications to leave their own "Benji", according to the class regulations of Chinese civilization. Only those who are feudal marquis are qualified enough to have their own "Benji", and there are many people who have left "Benji" before, but quite a lot of "Benji" has become "Imperial History" because of the change of identity.

Zhou Tianzi is the co-ruler of the world. A large number of nobles have been divided, and after the passage of time, many nobles have perished one after another, and many nobles have changed from feudal princes to "kings", and the king's record is no longer at the level of the "Benji", so what ......

"It's an autobiography, not something like "Benji." Lu Zhe glanced back at the many heirs. After listening to the frolicking sound below, he paused before continuing: "It's a memoir. ”

Lu Yi laughed a few times and said innocently: "Then they will definitely brag about themselves in their memoirs?" ”

It's inevitable. Since it is a memoir written by themselves, it is inevitable to boast about it, and at the same time, in order to show respect for the emperor, they will definitely try their best to portray the emperor into an incomparably great figure in their memoirs.

Lu Zhe obviously thought of this. He said, "When it comes to induction." It's just a collection of what happened at what time and at that time, and multiple parties verify what happened at that time, and don't record what someone thought and did at that time. History is just a record of events, what the people in the event did, what they thought at the time, and if anyone is interested, then read the autobiography. ”

At this moment, a strange thought popped up in Lu Yi's mind: "This method of recording history is so familiar?" ”

It's right to feel familiar, this is another historical version of the West's historical record method. When they record history, they only record events, and record what happened at what time without any emotion. Regardless of the cause of the occurrence, only the process and results of the occurrence are recorded, and no superfluous description is made when it is mentioned by anyone.

Want to know who and why they made that choice in a particular event? As Lu Zhe said, if you are interested in knowing, you can read the autobiography, and if you feel that someone's autobiography is unreliable, then you can read the autobiography of another person in the same incident, as long as you have enough patience, you can always dig out the mentality and thoughts of historical figures at that time.

"Hmm!" Lu Zhe showed a playful smile: "In order to ensure that people who are curious in the future can trace what happened, they must be encouraged to write their own memoirs, one by one, preferably non-generals." ”

The history of China, no matter from what point of view, seems to be a history of emperors for three thousand years, that is, history is all about the emperor himself to record, and any person who appears is to support the existence of the emperor, which is very bad, very bad.

The historical record of "my Qing Dynasty" is even more speechless, just recording the "I Qing Dynasty" emperor every night to turn over which concubine's brand, become a living record to write "my Qing Dynasty" the first person's "stallion life", what kind of history is this!

"It's actually nice to use a 'catalogue' approach." Lu Yi expressed his opinion, he said: "History is divided into years to record the mode of provisions, a year is a catalogue, under the catalogue is to record what happened, each article is an independent format, and then use the way of notes to name people. If you want to know what role someone played in that incident, you can read separately. ”

Lu Zhe was a little stunned at this time, he remembered that this model seemed to be a "Wikipedia Chronicle" or something, using a catalog-style recording method, and then extending countless articles to record in detail the historical events that occurred in the same year.

"Good." Lu Zhe didn't break it, he said directly: "There is also a need for a model, the official history records the major events that have a huge impact, and the local should also record the local historical records, we call the local history 'local chronicles'." ”

The father and son chatted more and more happily at the fence, and there was no lack of a bad taste for finding a new toy, and some of the people who didn't make it up began to look at each other.

"If that's the case, how many versions of history should there be?" Lu Yang seemed to understand a little, and asked Lu Qi: "Brother, how can you determine which historical version is correct?" ”

Lu Qi slapped his forehead, he really didn't know how to answer.

Lu Zhe and Lu Yi, who were originally chatting happily, were also stuck when they heard it.

Yes, because it is different people who write, the words and even the writing techniques are different, and countless versions of the same thing may be derived, whose version should the official choose as the official version?

"It's not difficult to ......" Lu Yi hesitated: "We are only responsible for recording and not making any comments on any event, so there is no right or wrong in history, we only need to select the vast majority of historical events from most editions that are written consistently, so it should be enough?" ”

It seems to be a way, there is an official version, there will definitely be a version of the wild history, in addition, Lu Zhe seems to have thought of something, the record of history is for future generations to facilitate the reference of what happened before, he remembers that the "Western world" records history has never cared if there are too many versions, but welcomes the existence of different versions, and when teaching history, students will be asked to read different versions, in this way to cultivate students' curiosity ~ hope?

Lu Zhe couldn't say too much for a while, he nodded silently, pondered for a while, and said, "It can be listed as one of the reference options." ”

There was a sound of jumping and clicking at the stairs, and the sound had already arrived before the figure arrived, and it was Lu Ying.

The person who came was indeed Lu Ying, she was holding a chicken leg in her hand, walking and jumping, and after going up to the top floor, she made a grimace at everyone, and then ran straight over and hugged Lu Zhe with a greasy hand, and said coquettishly: "Dad, why have you been on it for so long?" ”

Needless to say, among all the heirs of Lu Zhe, Lu Ying dared to eat first when he didn't arrive, it is estimated that the female relatives below were a little hungry after waiting for a long time, and then Lu Ying volunteered to come up and urge.

Lu Zhe felt very helpless that his clothes were smeared with oil, he greeted a few sons who were slightly in a daze, picked up Lu Ying, and walked to the stairs. ”

Lu Qi replied: "The 'Teapot Type 1' has already achieved some results, but the casting method is still a little unstable. ”

Teapot type one? In fact, it is a steam engine. Lü Qi wanted to improve the transportation of the empire, and it was not his ability to explore the road sections, those were the tasks of the ruling government, and he was working on the invention of the first steam engine.

When it comes to casting, the smelting method of China has always been the casting method, if the history has not changed, the forging method will not be introduced to China through Central Asia until more than 70 BC, but the forging method has not been paid attention to in China.

The casting method and the forging method each have their own advantages, and it is a bit difficult to say which one is more important. (To be continued.) )