On July 18, the sixth year of the Great Duke, the Ming Dynasty Jingshi responded to Tianfu New Town, and the Great Sect Uncle Shen Fu made a special trip to meet the emperor Zhu Jingyuan.

After meeting in the emperor's office, Shen Fu handed over a note written by himself:

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks it's time to revise a history of Rome and the Tessie Kingdoms."

Zhu Jingyuan was stunned when he heard this, mainly because he didn't realize the matter of repairing history.

Then he opened the song and looked at it, and Shen Fu wrote on it the significance of revising the history of Rome and the Taixi kingdoms.

First of all, Rome and the Taixi kingdoms are different from Dali and Japan.

Its territory is vast, the composition of the state is complex, and the remaining population is large.

The key is that there are relatively high characteristics of civilization, and there are a large number of remnants who can manage society and have the ability to compile documents.

These people will not all disappear anytime soon.

They will leave a lot of records, and there may even be a folk version of the General History of Tessie.

If the Ming court does not revise history, it is equivalent to giving the right to interpret the history of Rome and Taixi to these remnants of the Taixi countries.

Their attitude towards the revision of history may not be in line with the political stance of the Ming Dynasty.

Rather than this, it is better for the Ming court to officially compile a history of Rome and the Taixi states, which can be as brief as possible, but can indicate the position of the imperial court.

In the future, the Ministry of Rites will be able to have a basic position to refer to in terms of cultural publicity.

The Ministry of Arts and Culture can also have a standard when reviewing literary and artistic works.

The natural goal of the Ming court was to selectively incorporate other ethnic groups living in the world into the Ming Dynasty's Celestial Empire system.

The burning of books, the leveling of graves, and the demolition of temples can help to facilitate this process and cut off its roots as much as possible.

At the same time, the revision of the history of other ethnic groups can also help to facilitate this process, and the conclusion of the coffin can calm the emotions of the remaining people of other ethnic groups.

Acknowledging the fact that the other side has existed in the past while creating a common understanding of inclusion.

With the gradual gradual extinction of the de facto migration of other ethnic groups, the narrative of the fact that other ethnic groups existed in the past is gradually diminished in later generations.

The recital is not long, the content is very concise, and the views expressed are very clear.

Revising history is the responsibility and right of the imperial court.

There are too many remnants of Taixi, and the level of civilization is obviously relatively high, so it cannot be regarded as a pure barbarian.

Therefore, in this regard, Daming can't quickly deal with the people who have the ability to leave records like Dali and Japan.

More or less will leave some remnants and traces of civilization.

In this case, the imperial court should take the initiative to grasp the power of interpretation and turn these remnants to the side of the imperial court.

Eliminate other tendencies, so that the general perception of society is only the official voice.

And then the official no longer mentions these things.

This knowledge will not be in real demand in any real environment.

In the end, no one in the world knows about these things except for the most remote enthusiasts.

Zhu Jingyuan looked at the content of the song, and once again recalled the various views of his previous life, and there was a sentence in a certain school of Internet key politics:

"The code name given by history to Huangluo is Byzantium."

The person who first proposed this sentence had no way of knowing what he meant in his heart.

But there are a lot of emotions that can be experienced in alignment.

In the later period, the Eastern Romans opted for Hellenism, abandoning the concept of Rome, the absolute dominance of the entire civilization, and became an independent state called Rome alongside other surrounding countries.

So in the end, even the name Rome could not be kept, and after its destruction, it was called the Byzantine state by outsiders.

Byzantium was the original Greek name for the area where Constantinople was located.

Somewhat similar to the unrecognized regimes of later generations, it is common to refer to them as "so-and-so authorities" in terms of their location.

On the positive side, there is the fact that Eastern Rome, which is settled in Constantinople and cannot return to the old capital of Rome, does not deserve to be called Rome.

On the negative side, if you abandon Roman civilization, you are no longer a Roman, and you can only be called by the name of the place where the capital is located.

To be realistic, after one's own inheritance is severed, after one's death, one's own history can only be defined by others.

In the same case, there is also the name given to Ji Han by history as Shu Kingdom......

In Zhu Jingyuan's view, it is precisely to prevent "there is no China after Yashan, and there will be no China after the death of the Ming Dynasty" from becoming a fact, and not to let the Japanese define the Celestial Empire.

Leave behind the insulting pronoun that was deliberately transliterated.

Liu Futong, Zhu Yuanzhang, Hong Xiuquan, Sun Yat-sen...... They have passed down the ideal of rejuvenating Chinese China from generation to generation.

Only then can there be "mountains and rivers and Chinese land, and the sun and moon reopen the Great Song Dynasty".

It was time to define Rome and the Ctessi kingdoms for themselves.

What Shen Fu said makes sense, and this definition still needs to be given.

Otherwise, even if Taixi immigrates, Da Ming's own idle scholars may also go.

Zhu Jingyuan finally put pen to paper and approved the proposal.

At the same time, he began to discuss with Shen Fu on the spot to determine the attitude of Daming in this history.

First of all, of course, the narrative is centered on Shenzhou, and the Ming Dynasty is the only orthodox Celestial Dynasty in the same period in the world.

Then there is the definition of Rome:

"Overseas ethnic groups with relatively mature civilization systems."

The Ming recognized that Rome was "civilized", but they were not particularly civilized, and they were obviously not as civilized as Shenzhou.

As for the name of Rome, since it has been factually understood, there is no need to continue to force the name of Great Qin.

For opponents who have died completely, some of the most basic respects can be given.

Moreover, Rome is dead, and the Tessie barbarians are primarily responsible, and Rome itself is secondarily responsible for its own death and infighting.

But it has nothing to do with the successive dynasties of Shenzhou and the current Ming Dynasty.

When the Roman Taoist system was completely cut off, it was Jingtai for four years on the Ming side, and he was still an old peasant who didn't listen to anything outside the window.

So now it is called "Rome" directly, and its people are called "Romans".

Instead of calling it "country", it is directly called by Rome, which means that it has a similar status as the co-lord of the world on the Tessie continent.

After all, when he was a big man, he gave a very good comment to the other party:

"There is a kind of China, and all countries look up to it like Zhou Jing, and it is actually a great unification."

However, the Roman titles Augustus, Caesar, Imperator, and Basilius must not be directly translated as emperor or vice-emperor.

The titles of Augustus and Caesar in Rome are not of the same nature as the emperors of Shenzhou, and their status is also very different.

First of all, the two were created almost in diametrically opposed ways.

Octavian, as the first emperor of the so-called Roman Empire, remained in his official capacity and position as first citizen and consul.

Rome did not call itself an "empire" until its eventual demise.

Judging by the name of the country, Rome has always been a republic.

res publica Romana。

Because some of the bad memories in the royal era are the reason for the foundation of the republic.

The de facto supreme rulers of Rome deliberately avoided the title of monarch.

Caesar means that I am Caesar, I am not a monarch.

Octavian said that I don't want to be a monarch, I definitely don't want to be a monarch!

But the Senate gave me a sacred honorific title called Augustus, which symbolized that I was the religious leader of the republic.

I also have to lead an army against the barbarians, so I am the military commander of Rome, Anperador.

I am also the political leader of Caesar's family, so I inherit the name of Caesar.

In short, it is to add a bunch of titles corresponding to power to oneself and implement the actual monarchy.

But he is not called a monarch, let alone the king of kings.

So titles such as Augustus, Caesar, Imperator, etc., are only substitutes for and deconstructed of the actual monarchy.

It can even be suspected that the habit of the Tessie nobles to make a whole list of titles is a sin made by the Romans.

The emperor of Shenzhou is very simple, that is, "the king of kings and the king of gods".

The king of kings is the king who rules all the kings, and the king of the gods is because the three emperors and the five emperors were originally immortals, and now they have also been overshadowed by the first emperor.

Therefore, the emperor of Shenzhou summed up, I am the monarch of all monarchs, and I am the co-lord of the world.

All power and glory are subsumed under a title that is absolutely exclusive and exclusive to myself.

There is absolutely no room for a second person in a system to have the same and similar status.

The Roman ruler was analytically enumerated, because I had such a position, so I could have the corresponding power, and the corresponding status.

I have all the highest positions, so I am your supreme leader.

Some of my positions and titles can also be given to others, because they are not an identity, but a bunch of titles put together.

Before the Christian era, the Roman ruler and the emperor of China had some sort of similar authority.

But after the Christian era, the gap between the two sides widened again.

The most suitable titles for the supreme leaders of Rome should be "Grand Commander", "Minor Commander", "Deputy Commander", and "Commander-in-Chief".

This was in line with their actual status and the original meaning of their title, which was based on the military commander-in-chief.

The "vice emperor" is unacceptable to the Ming people, and the deputy commander is much easier to accept.

Their full names are also directly in the form of "Roman Grand Commander", "Roman Grand Commander", etc.

All the history of Rome in general is presented as a set of specialized history books.

It is recorded from the time of legends until the destruction of the Eastern Romans.

The content can be divided into three sections, the upper, middle and lower, which end with the Republic and the fall of Western Rome as the boundary.

Zhu Jingyuan's attitude towards the content narrative is: as fair and true as possible.

Because the Ming Dynasty has not yet reached adulthood, this traditional Rome has already died, and there is basically no interest involved between the two sides.

Here is the definition of the Tessie Kingdoms:

"Barbarians who were conquered and indoctrinated by Rome."

They were to Rome what the periphery of Shenzhou was satisfied with the Central Plains Dynasty.

The various ethnic groups are called: Slavs, Germans, French, Spaniards, Italians, etc.

In this narrative context, the heads of the Tessie kingdoms and their communities can no longer be called kings.

The king is a prince-level title in the Ming Dynasty, the title of the Son of Heaven in the Zhou Dynasty, an important part and foundation of civilization, and cannot be used by barbarians.

Those noble titles below the king cannot correspond to the titles of duke, marquis, earl, son, and man in Shenzhou.

In the past, it was translated as king, and later it was collectively referred to as the great chief.

Those who used to be translated as dukes and grand dukes were later collectively referred to as chiefs.

The marquis is the chieftain, the earl is the chief, the viscount is the chief, the baron is the warrior, and the knight is the warrior.

The sons and heirs of the Great Chief and the Chief can be collectively referred to as the Little Chief.

The sons and heirs of the big boss and the chief are collectively referred to as the minor chiefs.

Duke-chiefs were either close relatives of the Great Chieftain or semi-independent lords who had been co-opted and pacified, and it was very appropriate to call them chieftains.

The Marquis-Grand Chieftain is usually a high-ranking official under the Grand Chief, or a frontier lord who guards the Great Chief's direct domain, and is a close subordinate of the Grand Chief.

Earl-Chiefs are middle-level officials next to the Grand Chief, Chieftain, or Chieftain, or a middle-level lord similar to a state official.

Viscounts-Chiefs are usually the personal attendants and low-ranking officials of the Great Chiefs, Chiefs, and Chiefs.

Barons-warriors are low-level officials next to the chieftain, or the most basic feudal lords similar to the prefectural order.

Knights-Warriors are elite warriors around lords of all levels.

The Holy Roman Empire was renamed the United Emirate of Germania as a usurpation, and the corresponding head was also called the Great Chieftain.

The same was true of the Austrian Empire of the Habsburgs.

The Lucian Empire was also usurped, and has since been renamed the Rakshasa Kingdom, and the head is also called the Great Chieftain.

The House of Hanover was the Germanic chieftain of Hanover, who inherited the position of Great Chief of Britain.

After Zhu Diyu was crowned as a prince, he began to be called the "King of England in the Ming Dynasty".

In general, the narrative mode and idea are to narrate the past history of these barbarian countries from the perspective of the Ming Dynasty and the civilized world.

The chiefs were messy enough in themselves, and there was no need to add anything to the mix.

However, be careful to dissociate themselves from their relationship with Rome.

From the perspective of the Ming Dynasty, it describes the whole process of their conquest by Rome, then rebelling against Rome, destroying Rome, and claiming to be Rome.

In the course of the discussion, Shen Fu asked Zhu Jingyuan about some details.

For example, should we refer to the previous history books, give Rome and the Taixi Zhuan a special ancestor, and bring it together into the traditional Chinese system.

Zhu Jingyuan directly rejected this approach.

Then I specifically asked that I not describe all kinds of legendary things that cannot be verified like traditional official history books.

Even if there is a legend, it is directly listed as a legend, which cannot be verified and is brushed aside.

The text starts directly from where it can be traced.

Don't pursue brevity and literacy, and certainly don't need to continue to use traditional classical Chinese.

Classical Chinese is a style of writing, which was inherited from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and is specially used to write articles.

Ancient people did not use classical Chinese to speak.

This revision of history is also directly described in the vernacular of "plain", "detailed", and "serious".

It doesn't need to be too verbose.

The official history book is originally a book, not a special historical research material.

When Zhu Jingyuan and Shen Fu discussed Rome and the Tessie states, it was inevitable to discuss the Ottoman situation.

And then it further involves the situation in Persia, Dashi, and Tianzhu.

When discussing Persia, the Great Eclipse, Tianzhu, the Ottomans, and Lucia, it is also inevitable that the Mongol Empire will be mentioned.

Compared with Rome and the Taixi states, Mongolia had a closer relationship with the Ming Dynasty.

The nomads of the northern grasslands of Shenzhou can be said to have been with the Central Plains civilization since the beginning of their birth.

The Mongol Empire was the pinnacle of this steppe civilization.

This made Zhu Jingyuan suddenly realize that it was now possible to revise a history of Mongolia in a serious way.

The Yuan history compiled in the early Ming Dynasty can be said to be the most sketchy of the official history books of the past dynasties, and it is basically a book that directly compiles the Yuan history materials.

At that time, the Northern Yuan Emperor was still on the grassland.

The key is that the Mongol ethnic group to which the Yuan Dynasty belonged involved was too broad.

With the situation and ability in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, there is no way to figure out how huge the system to which the Yuan Dynasty belonged.

It is normal to repair the history books of a dynasty, and it is normal to understand the ancestors of the founding emperors.

At least from the generation with the title, that is, the so-called ancestors who started the foundation.

But Genghis Khan's ancestor is too powerful.

The history of repairing Temujin to Kublai Khan's family is almost equivalent to repairing the history of the world at that time.

At that time, the people of the Ming Dynasty obviously did not understand the extent of the Mongol Empire, and even the Northern Yuan themselves may not have figured it out.

I can't figure it out anyway, so I'll make do with it.

The purpose of the Ming court in compiling this history book was to announce the demise of the Yuan Dynasty.

Regardless of its own condition, it is enough to repair it in the end.

By now, the Ming Dynasty had mastered all the places the Mongols had visited, and also had detailed practical information.

It is already possible to revise a history of Mongolia from a broader and more comprehensive perspective.

Or it can be said to be a history of the steppe empire.

And this history is much more important than the history of Rome and the Ctesi kingdoms.

The former Ming people were the Ming people, and the current Mongolians are also the Ming people, which is the history of the Ming people themselves.

This is the history of the land of Shenzhou, and it is the other half of the civilization of Shenzhou.

Zhu Jingyuan and Shen Fu discussed for a long time, and finally decided to make Mongolian history a key task in the future.

However, the name of this set of history books is not suitable for the history of Mongolia, because Zhu Jingyuan and Shen Fu felt that it should be included in other steppe regimes.

In the end, it was decided to refer to the model of the name "History of the Taixi Kingdoms" and name it "History of the Mongolian Steppe" with the name of the region and the local situation.

The history of Egypt, Persia, Dashi, Tianzhu, and Ottoman is also known as the "History of the Heavenly Kingdoms" according to the region and culture.

The names of tribes, nobles, and officials in the Mongolian steppes adopted the ancient system, and the heavenly kingdoms used transliteration according to tradition, such as sultans, emirs, etc.

Within each history book, each country has a semi-independent history book according to the country or tribe.

These three regional and ethnic summary history books, together with Rome's exclusive History of Eastern and Western Rome, made a total of four sets of large-scale history books.

This is not a summary of a country or a dynasty, but a general history of the coffins of many ethnic groups in a region, and of the many groups that have existed.

Coupled with China's own history, it is the history of civilization in the entire Old World.

However, these four sets of history books are completely different in nature.

The history of the tribes of the Mongolian steppe is from the standpoint of repairing the history of their own families, and they try to find original archives as a reference as much as possible.

That is, to try to show the most authentic history.

As for the other three sets of history books, they are from the perspective of a bystander looking down on the excitement.

You don't need to care too much about the original archives, you don't need to care too much about the most primitive truth, the key is what the Ming people have of their impression.

The people of the past dynasties, the modern Ming people, what is their concept, then write according to this concept.

I feel that what kind of person you are, what kind of person you are.

In other words, you will be the kind of person I need you to become.

At the end of the discussion on the basic direction, Zhu Jingyuan had to confirm one more thing, namely, how big the scale of the current history revision should be.

In the matter of revision, if you look at the scale of the project and the time consumed, the distance between the upper and lower limits is huge.

The "History of the Yuan" was revised for one year, and the "History of the Ming Dynasty" was revised for ninety years.

The Book of Sui has only 110,000 words, the Book of the New Tang Dynasty has 3.7 million words, and the History of the Song Dynasty has 8.14 million words.

The number of words in modern history may exceed 35 million.

Zhu Jingyuan thought about it for a while, and finally handed over half of the problem to Shen Fu.

Let Shen Fu go back and organize the manpower, compile the basic framework of the four sets of history books, and evaluate the approximate number of words and the cost of the book.

If the number of words in any set of history books does not exceed 10 million words, then directly start to revise this set.

Of course, the outline of the revision of history still has to be handed over to Zhu Jingyuan to see, and Zhu Jingyuan will also give any possible opinions.

If any one is expected to cost more than 10 million, start with a more detailed plan of why you need so much.

Go through a specific instruction and application process for the relevant departments.

This is a matter of project coordination.

Shen Fu also responded directly, and then went back to make arrangements.

(End of chapter)