Chapter 711: "Ten Thousand Demon Catalogue"; Zhou Gong punished Cai

In fact, after the fall of the Ancient Heavenly Court, Bai Ze did not fail to appear in the Three Realms.

It is said that when the Yellow Emperor went east to the seashore, he met Bai Ze, and there is a book record that says: Ze beast, the Yellow Emperor patrolled, as for the east coast, Ze beast out, can speak, reach the essence of all things, to precaution the people, for the time to eliminate harm.

It means that the Yellow Emperor once went on a hunting tour to the coast of the East China Sea, and the beast appeared, which could speak human language, and knew the reason of all things, so as to warn the people and eliminate harm to the society at that time.

In addition, the last time Bai Ze appeared in the world, he also told the emperor about the situation of monsters in the world, a total of 11,520 kinds, and the Yellow Emperor ordered someone to record it, this is "Bai Zetu".

It's just that this "Bai Zetu" has now been lost in the world.

The reason why the human kings of the year were able to come to the door one by one and "discuss" with the big demons of the Three Realms was because of the existence of this "Bai Zetu" Why Bai Ze has not been able to hide, in fact, there is also a reason for this, after all, as soon as this "Bai Zetu" came out, the demon clan of the Three Realms had no secrets in front of the human king.

But Bai Ze can't help it, although the historical records of the human race record that it was the Yellow Emperor who met Bai Ze by chance during his eastern tour. But only the person concerned knew that it was the Yellow Emperor who led the army to arrest him.

Bai Ze fled all the way, from Beiju Luzhou to the coast of the East China Sea, but he still did not escape the pursuit of the Yellow Emperor.

It's not that his supernatural powers don't work in front of the Yellow Emperor, it's really that his supernatural powers are invincible for days. When Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor harnessed the luck of the king of people and searched for Bai Ze's whereabouts in the Three Realms, it was difficult for him to hide.

After all, this Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor is not only one of the three holy emperors of the human race, he is also the king of the world, the real king of people.

Even the immortals of the heavenly court, when they descend to the human world, they must obey his dispatch.

Even if Haotian God descends to the mortal world, the two sides are brothers. At most, Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor called Haotian God an imperial brother, in fact, the identities and status of both of them are basically the same.

At that time, the heavenly court could also be said to be in ruins. Haotian was also cautious in the Three Realms, and was trying to rebuild Heavenly Court.

In fact, today's court and the human race are basically in the same period, developing together. It can be regarded as a natural ally, so Heavenly Court and the Terran signed an offensive and defensive mutual assistance treaty, but this treaty was signed by the Xuandu Archmage at that time, in the name of the Human Sect, instead of the Terran race.

Later, several people only knew about this matter, and still reached a cooperation with Heavenly Court. Until the end of the period of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, Dayu established the Xia Dynasty, Ying Long and other gods, or returned to Heaven, or returned to West Kunlun and then the king of the people, can not reproduce the glory of the ancestors, the cooperative relationship between the two sides, this is gradually coming to an end.

Of course, Heavenly Court's help to the Terrans is not gratuitous.

During that period of time, there were also many masters of the human race who were recruited to the heavenly court, which was regarded as a reward.

And because of this period of the past between Bai Ze and the Yellow Emperor, Bai Ze has also become one of the Rui beasts of the human race, so it is rumored that Bai Ze only appeared when "the king is virtuous", and he can get rid of all evil in the world.

Now that Bai Ze has once again appeared in the world, it is difficult not to think that it is aimed at Li Shimin.

Since Bai Ze's identity has been deduced, of course, everyone has to report all the information about Bai Ze, sort it out, and conduct a targeted analysis.

And Li Shimin also invited Ying Zhao, who was also one of the top ten demon commanders of the Ancient Heavenly Court back then, and was a colleague with Bai Zenai.

And both sides are close to the human race, and the relationship between them, of course, should be closer, in fact. When they were serving in the Heavenly Court, Bai Ze, Yingzhao and Bi Fang had actually been working under the command of Emperor Fuxi, and Emperor Fuxi was Nuwa Niangniang's brother, and the human race was Nuwa Niangniang, so of course Emperor Fuxi would be close to the human race.

"If it's Bai Ze's words," Ying Zhao thought about it, and said bluntly to Li Shimin, "If it doesn't really take refuge, even if it is strong, it can't last long When Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor wanted to recruit Bai Ze as a priest of the human race, Bai Ze should not say that the Yellow Emperor said, if he didn't obey, he would be killed." ”

When everyone heard this, they could probably already imagine the scene of Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor putting the Xuanyuan sword on Bai Ze's neck and letting him choose between death and obedience.

is worthy of the Xuanyuan Holy Emperor, and he is really domineering.

Li Shimin just thought about such a scene in his mind, and he was already itching, and he couldn't wait to lead the army of the human race now, conquer the three states, and unify the world.

"And then?"

Fahai also rarely encounters things that he has never understood, and of course there will be some curiosity about the subsequent developments, after all, as far as they know. Bai Zeke did not join the Terran and did things for the Terrans.

"Bai Ze still refused, in the face of the tough attitude of the Xuanyuan Holy Emperor, it also showed its backbone-rather death." After all, Ying Zhao is an insider, and he is also one of the witnesses, when Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor conquered Chiyou, he also made a lot of efforts. Later, when he was "recruiting" Bai Ze, Ying Zhao also put forward many constructive suggestions to Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, helping the Yellow Emperor to intercept Bai Ze smoothly on the coast of the East China Sea.

"But it clearly didn't turn out that way." Li Chunfeng knew that there was a follow-up to this matter, if Bai Ze was killed by the Yellow Emperor, who is this now? But it is also a fact that Bai Ze did not join the Terran and became a Terran priest.

"Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor still cherishes his talents, of course he didn't kill Bai Ze because of this, but in exchange for letting Bai Ze leave a life, Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor made Bai Ze swear that when he meets the human king who he thinks can assist in the future, he must go out of the mountain to worship under the command of the human king and serve the human race."

"This" Li Shimin said on the side, "Whether you recognize it or not depends on Bai Ze's own intentions. This condition is not binding on Bai Ze at all. ”

Ying Zhao smiled and said to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty doesn't know, Bai Ze has always been easy not to promise, and if you make a promise, you will definitely fulfill it." ”

And Xue Rengui on the side opened his mouth and said: "Whether you recognize it or not, isn't it all up to Bai Ze's mouth?" Who knows what's going on in his heart? ”

Ying Zhao said to Xue Rengui again: "If that's the case. I really can't explain it, but Bai Ze also thought that it was just such a promise, which was really not convincing, so he took the initiative to present the "Ten Thousand Demon Catalogue" to Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor. It is the "Bai Zetu" in charge of the kings of the past generations. ”

As soon as this picture came out, the demons knew that Bai Ze's position was sincere, and it could be said that Bai Ze was self-excluding from the demon clan, and showed it to Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor. Even if I can't meet a human king worthy of my assistance in the future, then I won't be able to help the demon clan deal with the human race.

Although the English words are not far from the records in the historical materials, there are many discrepancies. But the text is like this, which is very clear to both Fahai and Li Shimin.

The former is because his third disciple Sha Wujing is a rare "home" in the Three Realms today, but as long as it is his main article and script, it can be said that it is in short supply in the Three Realms.

Of course, Fahai has read the words written by Wujing, after all, whenever any new work comes out, it will be sent to the master as soon as possible.

Especially some of the things that happened on the westbound road, obviously the beginning and the process are different, but the ending can always be right.

This kind of brushwork, which combines truth and falsehood, and the combination of fiction and reality, is also the characteristic of Wujing's writing. Thus. This seemingly thick-eyed monk is actually not honest at all.

And the latter Li Shimin, because of the fact that he killed his brother and forced his father, he was very concerned about his image in the historians, and he was eager to know how those historians would record themselves in the history books.

Before the Tang Dynasty, no king had ever done such a thing.

Even the most mediocre emperors did not interfere with the historians' record of facts, and the historians have always regarded "writing straight" as their glorious tradition and paying attention to seeking truth from facts.

And before the Tang Dynasty, the emperors of all dynasties also recognized the ethics of the historians, and were willing to give them a certain special status for this reason, not to mention not to interfere in the revision of the national history, especially their living records.

Even because of the existence of the living record, it will make the emperors pay attention to their words to a certain extent. For fear of being recorded by the historians of some of their bad words and deeds.

The historians of all dynasties are usually taught by people.

As human disciples, to a certain extent, they can also resist the coercion of the Son of Heaven, otherwise, they are just ordinary historians, and they may not be able to ignore the aura of the Son of Heaven and write straight.

LI Shimin. After all, this unspoken rule was broken.

Because of his excessive concern about the changes in the "Xuanwu Gate", his mind was never at peace, and he didn't know how the historians would record this day in the history books, nor what kind of evaluation the historians would make for himself. And everything he has done since he ascended the throne is to eliminate the negative impact of that day on himself.

How could he not care about what was written in the history books?

It's just that Li Shimin underestimated the ethics of the historians, and after three or two temptations, Li Shimin knew that it was difficult for him to see the records of the historians through conventional means.

But if you want to use a strong one, I'm afraid it will arouse the rebellious psychology of the historians. I'm afraid there will be more black material in the history books. This is by no means something that Li Shimin can tolerate.

But in the end, he still saw the records of the historians, he first separated the history museum that was originally under the secretary province, and replaced the original work bureau of the history of the bureau, put the history museum yamen in the ban, and became one of the institutions directly under the emperor, and also ordered Fang Xuanling to supervise the revision of the national history as the left servant of the Shangshu.

With this hand, you can see Li Shimin's scheduling method, which can be described as perfect.

Originally, those historians thought that Li Shimin attached great importance to the revision of historical books, but they soon found out. It turns out that His Majesty the Emperor's purpose is to look through the history books.

This time, although the attitude of the historians is still resolute, it is Fang Xuanling who presides over the revision of history. This is Li Shimin's hardcore cronies.

When Li Shimin asked the historians why he didn't let the emperor watch the history of the country. Fang Xuanling, an old subordinate, had already guessed His Majesty's thoughts.

It's just that there are some words, it's not easy to put it on the surface, after all, this is a conventional thing, especially with the example of "Sima Qian" in front, and it has become the character and history of later generations of historians competing to inherit.

History is the business, the exhortation, the wind of the tree;

The so-called straight writer does not hide the evil, does not fake the beauty, the book is beneficial to praise and disadvantage, and the book is not harmful to the exhortation;

It is better to destroy the jade for Lan than to destroy Ai Rong for Xiao Fu.

These are the conduct and professional ethics that historians believe in.

However, under the system of feudal monarchy, historians also suffered repeated misfortunes. But that doesn't make them subservient either.

Of course, Fang Xuanling couldn't say these words in public, so he only said: "I'm afraid that some records in the history books will affect Your Majesty's mood, so it's inconvenient to take them out and read them." ”

Li Shimin had already prepared, so he said: "My intention is different from those emperors in the past, and now I look at the history of the country in order to have a certain understanding of some of my previous mistakes, so as not to make them again. Aiqing can sort out the national history in chronological order and submit it. ”

I have to say that Li Shimin's character of "using history as a mirror" is still here, and there is really nothing wrong with him saying this, even the historians have no room for refutation.

Moreover, the "editor-in-chief" is Fang Xuanling, and in the end, Li Shimin got his wish and saw the history of the country.

However, the truth is not what he expected. The description of the day of the Xuanwumen Revolution still made Li Shimin confused for a while.

In fact, the historian's record of that day is basically the truth. There is nothing apocryphal. But for Li Shimin, he actually wanted the historian to use the Spring and Autumn brushwork to beautify what happened that day.

For example, borrowing the allusion of "Zhou Gong punishes Cai".

And when these words reached the ears of Xu Jingzong, who was a major in national history, it caused a lot of turmoil.

When he personally handled the work and greatly deleted and modified the truth of the year, although he won the favor of Li Shimin, it also attracted Li Chunfeng's attention.

Xu Jingzong is not a disciple of the human sect, and the reason why he was able to become a major was actually because of the qualifications of the "Eighteen Bachelors of the Qin Palace" back then, but compared with the fact that he was more than a dozen bachelors, he really couldn't be reused.

But it was only then that he realized how much of a role he could play.

Xu Jingzong is not a historian who was born as a disciple of the people's religion, of course, he does not have the corresponding professional ethics of the historians, but because the disciples of the people's religion have no power in their hands, the revision of the history of the Tang Dynasty has gradually been marginalized, and they even want to secretly revise a "History of the Tang Dynasty" in private.

The truth must always be recorded, and it cannot be covered up and buried in history.

But things change so unexpectedly. Because the Sanzang Holy Buddha returned from learning scriptures, it led to the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty. Li Chunfeng, the spokesperson of the people's education, took advantage of the situation and showed Li Shimin's attitude towards the people's education.

"Even if Your Majesty wants to use Xu Jingzong, there will be a history of the Tang Dynasty that will be passed on to future generations." (End of chapter)