Epilogue: How can history books be taken seriously?
"I brought a new friend today, this Li Xiandi, he came back from his own path, and he is also a fellow historian."
In the private room of Huating's "Talking and Laughing Building", there were more than ten people gathered, and among the two who had just come in, the older one introduced to everyone.
The young man hugged the fist group: "Hello everyone, my surname is Li, my name is Xuan, and I have seen all the dukes." ”
The people in the house got up to greet each other, and their attitudes were very friendly, and they were all history lovers, and every once in a while, they would gather here to exchange some historians' secrets and discuss the gains and losses of history.
"I heard that you are going to discuss Ye Chang's affairs today, and I can't learn it later, and I have seen some historical materials in Liuqiu, and I have seen some secrets that people don't know today, and I am willing to share them with you." After everyone sat down and some waiters served tea and snacks, Li Kun couldn't wait to say.
Because of the geographical location, Huating is no longer the small county when it was first established, but the leading place of the entire Yangtze River Basin, Huating Port is also one of the most prosperous ports in the world today, its cargo throughput, as early as 20 years ago, it surpassed the first port in the north Lushun Port, 15 years ago, more than Guangzhou Port. Economic prosperity, but also brought cultural prosperity, Huating has 12 universities, before Li Kun inquired, these people who came here, are in Huating has a considerable influence on the figures, if they are recognized, recommended, he may be able to enter a certain university, the historical truth he obtained, spread in the classroom.
Everyone present looked at him with a smile. A slightly older person than Li Kun said: "I don't know what historical materials it is, and also, call Ye Gong, even if you don't call it a virtuous ancestor or a holy sect, you should call it King Wei...
"You have been brainwashed, that usurper, conspirator, what kind of virtuous ancestor saint sect, even King Wei, he is not worthy" Li Kun said fiercely.
Everyone exchanged glances with each other, but there was no sound.
At this time, sixty years have passed since Ye Chang's death, and the people are open, even those who are now in power still have people stabbing them in the face, not to mention those who have passed away for 60 years.
"I don't agree with what Brother Li said, Ye Gong has never been the emperor in his life, and when he died, the title was only King Wei. The Virtuous Ancestor and the Holy Ancestor are the posthumous conspiracies of two generations of kings, and it is too much to say that he is a usurper conspirator. Others were silent, and there was one person who couldn't look at him, he was about the same age as Li Kun, but his speech was not as fierce as Li Kun's, his voice was gentle, and his attitude was gentle.
"You are also brainwashed, his wife became the emperor, his son became the emperor, his grandson is still the emperor, and now the lord of the Tang Dynasty is still his bloodline, this is not a usurper, what is this Cao Cao has never lived to be the emperor, but who can deny that Cao Cao is a usurper?"
At this point, Li Kun is not wrong, Shou An abdicated in a conflict within the palace after being the empress for twenty-five years, and she and Ye Chang's eldest son succeeded to the throne.
The person who insisted on this was surnamed Li, and he came from Liuqiu...... You should be a descendant of the Li Tang clan. The person who refuted Li Kun seemed to be smiling.
"I ...... Although I am a descendant of the Li Tang clan, what does this have to do with my criticism that Ye Chang is a usurper? ”
"In the whole world, only the descendants of the Li Tang clan will say that Ye Gong is a usurper at this time." The man smiled: "It's just that now the three emperors of Gaozu, Taizong, and Xuanzong are still in the royal sacrifice, and the descendants of the Li family are also well-treated, and the country is also tolerant - I don't know if the Li family was the emperor, the first emperor of the Yang family, was still in the Taimiao, and the Yang clan people were still courteous?" ”
These words made Li Kun blush.
If Ye Chang usurped the throne, then Tang Gaozu's throne was also taken from the orphans of the Yang family of the Sui Dynasty, and that was the real usurpation. The Li family has always been suspicious of the Yang family, and even when it came to Li Longji, Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, he still killed many people surnamed Yang on this ground. Although the current emperor has the surname Ye, the country name is still Tang as the name, several outstanding emperors of the Li family still enjoy sacrifices in the Taimiao, and the descendants of the Li family, whether they are in business or out of office, are the same as the Ye family, and there are not too many constraints.
Even in the twenty-fifth year of the Qianyuan Dynasty, the unwilling descendants of the Li family tried to restore the throne under the secret planning of Li Yu, and made trouble to the point of the abdication of Empress Shou'an, Ye Chang did not kill them all, but dealt with them leniently on the grounds that no one was killed or injured, and exiled those who participated in the conspiracy in the Li family.
"The Li family was exiled and begged, Ye Gong was generous and benevolent, and he missed the old feelings, which can be seen." There is humanity.
"You are still brainwashed, what kind of place is Liuqiu, an overseas desert island, a miasma land, Ye Chang is like this, it is obviously ill-intentioned......" Li Kun tried to continue to attack Ye Chang on this issue.
"No, although it was a place of exile before, during the time of Ye Gong, there were four waves of population influx. The first was a gold hunt, when more than 10,000 people poured in to find gold; The second time was when the Liuqiu Mansion was established, about 30,000 people entered the Liuqiu; the third time was to build a rubber plantation in Liuqiu, and the influx of 80,000 people this time was enough; The fourth time was the most recent, and more than 40,000 people entered the stream. In addition to the prisoners who were bred and exiled by the natural population, in the 25th year of the Qianyuan Dynasty, there were more than 300,000 people registered in exile, which was more than the population of Qianzhong Province during the Kaiyuan period. The person who argued with Li Kun said: "When the Li family entered the stream, the streamer was no longer a wild place. Oh, the data I cited just now can be seen in the article "Demographic Change in the Tang Dynasty", the author is Liu Zongyuan. ”
Li Kun didn't expect that the other party would have detailed data at his fingertips, and for a while, he couldn't help but be silent.
Among those present, there were those who laughed good-naturedly, and there were those who showed unhappy expressions. After a pause, Li Kun remembered something and sneered: "No matter how many reasons there are, it can't change the fact that Ye Chang is a thief of the people."
"This is strange, Ye Gong was in power for 40 years, from the first year of the Qianyuan Dynasty to the 40th year of the Qianyuan Dynasty, he invited himself to go to the prime minister, in these 40 years, the population of the Tang Dynasty increased from 90 million to 210 million, the territory north to Beihainan and Champhara, Silla, Bohai and Tibet have donated land, the average life expectancy of the people has increased to 59 years, in the 30th year of the Qianyuan Dynasty, the popularization of five-year primary education, every population of 200,000 there is a hospital and a middle school......" and Li Kun debaters led out a series of data, and finally said: "If the thief for the people becomes like this, I really don't know what a saint would have been like in ancient times...... Oh, by the way, Gaozu, Taizong and Xuanzong, aren't they even as good as thieves? ”
"Hmph, you said it, you were just deceived by the figures made up by the imperial court, where is there so much growth, and even some growth, it is just an increase in wealth caused by the natural growth of the population, what does it have to do with Ye Chang? I only know that his own family is rich in the world, and half of the wealth in the world belongs to him. At the beginning, he clearly made glass, but he deceived himself into coming to the country, such a liar method, the official history books can't hide it, and you still wash the floor for him? Li Kun refuted: "This pit is abducted and deceived by the people, and what he does must be to deceive people."
"The glass thing you said is a fact, Ye Gongfu is a fact." This time, it was not the young man who came forward to argue with him, but another slightly older man, probably seeing that Li Kun's appearance was a little unpleasant, he said unhurriedly: "It's just that you forgot that Ye Gong did not hide these wealth, but took it from the people for the people." In addition, the six railways of Datang three vertical and three horizontal are mainly in the road, and their funds also come from this, and the rest of the bridges and paving roads, supporting the elderly and raising orphans, are many from here. Oh, I remember that fifteen years ago, Ye Gong formulated a 20-year literacy plan, and decided to use 20 years to make adult people, both men and women, literate and able to count, and this expenditure also came from this. In addition, since the second year of the Qianyuan Dynasty, Ye Gong has been constantly nationalizing his own industry, basically every industry he has made bigger, so he will dedicate it to the treasury, and now Anton Iron and Steel, Lushun Shipbuilding, Lingnan Sugar, Sihai Steamship, Beihai Machinery, Huaxia Weaving, and Anton Bank, these industries are all donated by Ye Gong to the country."
"These were originally considered to be countries, and Ye Chang stole their profits for decades......"
Li Kun still had to argue strongly, seeing the ridicule on everyone's faces, he knew that if he continued to argue on this issue, it would only be unreasonable and meaningless. Everyone here, including himself, actually knows very well that Ye Chang can donate the family property of the rich country, instead of leaving it all to his children and grandchildren.
He thought about it for a while, and he knew that he couldn't do it without coming up with some real content.
"What you see is all official propaganda, in fact, it is used for brainwashing, you want to know the truth, only by looking for those historians with a conscience, from them, can you know the depth of Ye Chang's thinking and far-sightedness. I have a book here, I suggest you take a look, "Note may not be like smoke - Memoirs of King Wei's Secret Spy", the author of this article is a secret spy planted by Ye Chang in Chang'an, he was under the jurisdiction of Ye Chang's eagle dog, Bian Ping, who caused tens of thousands of slaughters in Japan, and personally planned to provoke the rebellion of Li Heng and An Lushan, as well as the rebellion of the deposed emperor Li Yu - the perverse actions of these people are all planned behind Ye Chang, when he first entered Chang'an when he was only ten years old, he killed the steward of the princess's mansion at that time"
Li Kun spoke enthusiastically, got up and danced, and looked extremely excited, as if he had discovered some major historical truth. But he found that his enthusiasm was only exchanged for coldness, and he talked for a long time, but no one responded.
The friend he had brought with him pulled him by the hand and motioned for him to say no more.
Li Kun felt that he could finally shock everyone, so he was willing to stop. If he originally wanted to use these people to break into the Huating historiography, then now, he already feels that these people have been "brainwashed" too much, and he needs to be guided by a person who knows the truth well.
"Everyone, you must read more, don't just read the historical materials given to you by the official, those things are all fake, only by reading more can you expose these lies, discover the truth of history, and not be bewitched"
"Ahem, speaking of historical fraud, Emperor Taizong looked at the living note and made a very bad start, but it was Ye Gong, although he organized people to compile history, he never asked about the living note, right?" Confronting Li Kun, the man coughed lightly.
"You...... Don't turn in, what we are talking about is the historical truth revealed in this book, not Emperor Taizong, and it has nothing to do with Emperor Taizong" Li Kun said angrily.
"You mean that the book "Notes May Not Be Like Smoke - Memoirs of King Wei's Secret Spy" is written by Lu Qi, right?" The person who argued with him said with a smile: "I'm sorry, I have also read this book, and I have also read "From a Fisherman to a Secret Spy - The Biography of Bian Ping", "Du Honglu's Autobiography", "Chang'an Menghualu", oh, and the most important book "Singing in the Tang Dynasty" with a history of those decades, which has an explanation for Lu Qiqi's people. This person is not Ye Gong's secret spy at all, he is Ye Gong's political enemy, and the so-called secret spy is just the words he smeared on himself after Ye Gong took power. By the way, this person also has a book called "The Most Holy Sermon", but he is under the pseudonym Lu Muzi, and during this time, he touted Ye Gong as a numbness, even the official propaganda, which is not as good as ah.
The man even said a few books are relatively unpopular, but several characters Li Kun roughly know that Bian Ping is Ye Chang's early spy leader, and later sent to Japan, in the 18th year of the Qianyuan Dynasty, he led people to burn Pingjing, Japan, and slaughtered very much, more than 200,000 Pingjing people, more than 10,000 dead, and the rest of the people were also more than mine slaves. Nowadays, Japan has long disappeared and has become the four provinces of Haidong Province, and there are many words to cover up in the historical books when the war began.
As for Du Honglu's autobiography, it is Du Fu's personal memoirs in his later years, recording his interactions with Ye Chang, Li Bai, Gao Shi, Cen Shen and others, especially some major historical events during the period from Tianbao to Qianyuan, such as Ye Chang's rise in Liaodong, the civil unrest in Tianbao's 14th year, and the rebellion and defeat of Li Heng and An Lushan in the 15th year of Tianbao. Because of Du Fu's identity, many things are first-hand historical materials, and they are also considered by many historians to be the history of faith.
"Chang'an Menghualu", Li Kun has never seen it, but he has watched "Singing in the Night of the Tang Dynasty", but unfortunately he feels mediocre. When he saw that the historical truth he had exposed turned out to be something that the other party had known for a long time, he was embarrassed in his heart, and couldn't help but say: "You are just brainwashed, that's why you don't believe Lu Qi...... Not to mention anything else, Ye Chang's private life is very disorderly, in his early years, in order to seek wealth and nobility, he married the treacherous minister Li Linfu, and later became rich and changed his wife, and abandoned Li Linfu's daughter, his behavior is disgusting"
The expressions of the crowd couldn't help but be a little strange, and they always confronted Li Kun as a debater, and they couldn't say anything when they mentioned this matter. After a while, a person said slowly: "Everyone knows, Feng is from Lushun, my family has several generations in Lushun, there is one thing, I have not told everyone, my great-grandfather, once served under the Ye Gong account, and later because he married my great-grandmother, she was a Khitan noblewoman, so she went to the military." He once said that when King Wei was in his prime, he would return to Liaodong once or twice a year, not only to see the place where he had risen, but to see his divorced ex-wife to a large extent. I vaguely remember that my great-grandfather once said that the Liaodong Wei family, one of the ten richest families in the Tang Dynasty, is after King Wei and his ex-wife. ”
The news of "Liaodong Wei's" surprised everyone.
Li Kun's face turned red: "Nonsense, you are talking nonsense, Ye Chang and his ex-wife clearly have no descendants in the history books, they have no descendants and are separated."
Everyone looked at him and said in unison: "You have been brainwashed, how can you believe in the history books"
(End of book)