Time flies like flowing water, and the situation in the world is also like flowing water.

Since the defeat of the Winter Turks, there has been no war in the Tang Dynasty, and the monarchs and ministers have once again begun to focus on the country, pay attention to the people's livelihood, and the country is once again high-spirited.

The rising morning sun shone in front of the open palace gate, staining the vermilion gate with a layer of color like the golden makeup of a Buddha statue.

This layer of golden light waves sprinkled into the Taiji Hall dottedly, and there were eunuchs and palace ladies standing on both sides of the hall, and Li Shimin was holding a pile of papers and looking through them, with a smile on his face involuntarily.

"Summons me."

Li Shimin raised his head from the pile of papers and commanded the eunuch.

……

Compiling the history of the country is a very long thing, especially now that you have to find mistakes, it is impossible to keep the artifact history open, so Luo's luck point can't be carried out, and you can only pick a critical time to open.

After Luo Xuanjing was ordered to come to Chang'an, the first thing he did was to give Li Shimin a recital, explaining in detail her next steps and general catalog.

Well-organized and detailed.

Li Shimin quickly approved it, just four words, "According to Qingyan." ”

Since then, Luo Xuanjing has been hung up on the position of walking in the Hongwen Pavilion, full-time editing of national history, and she has become one of the most valued magnates in the Tang Dynasty.

Because the revision of history is a glorious and noble position, especially Li Shimin values the Hongwen Pavilion, many talented and promising courtiers will go to the Hongwen Pavilion to take up temporary posts, and the revision of history is the most important thing to accumulate qualifications.

In other words, there is no doubt about the benefits of being able to see a lot of first-hand information here.

Luo Xuanjing attaches great importance to the revision of history, because after she entered Chang'an, she was called to Lingtian Pavilion by Luo Su, and then Luo Xuanjing wrote a letter to Luo Xuanxing, asking Luo Xuanxing to send her sisters to Chang'an to help her compile history books together.

In the sixth year of Zhenguan, Luo Xuanjing completed the draft of a part of the history books of the late Han Dynasty and submitted it to Li Shimin.

Because Li Shimin was very concerned about the emperors of the late Han Dynasty, after receiving this draft, Li Shimin convened his ministers and discussed in the Taiji Palace.

The history books presented by Luo Xuanjing were circulated in the hands of these prime ministers or knowledgeable scribes.

"The words are concise and precise."

"The language is magnificent, and even has a rhythm in it."

"It's just that if you don't see some of these words, I really don't know how to know them if you don't see them here."

Everyone commented one after another, no one dared to say anything about the history book compiled by Luo Xuanjing in terms of format, Luo Shi did this professionally, even Chu Suiliang didn't dare to say anything.

The only thing that made them feel a little uneasy was the content, many of which almost overturned the old history books and historical materials, and were more detailed than the historical books and historical materials.

Are these the things that come from "psychic"?

Everyone in the hall was beating drums in their hearts, but no one really gave an opinion in this regard, because this "psychic" was not the reason why His Majesty made the Luo family nuns to cultivate history?

As expected, Li Shimin saw that everyone had read it, so he said with emotion: "I asked Mrs. Chu to list the chapters about this chapter in the history book that I edited, so I have the current draft.

The original intention of cultivating history is to let the Ming monarch and the faint monarch manifest themselves in the world, and the second is to let the monarchs of later generations be vigilant.

Now that I see it myself, I have gained a lot, and I have made many mistakes in the past.

From this point of view, the compilation of this historical record is really beneficial and harmless. ”

For what Li Shimin said, the prime ministers and literati are no longer surprised, this is Li Shimin, who always has a humble heart, sometimes feels that he is very powerful, but will soon return to a humble state again.

"Do you know why I want Mrs. Chu to repair this book first?"

Yes?

Li Shimin's question made everyone confused, although the cultivation of one country and one country is more normal, but it is not a big deal to revise the book first, what is the deep meaning of this?

Seeing this, Li Shimin no longer sold Guanzi, so he said directly: "Once in Zhaocheng, there was a temple of all sons and hundreds of schools, which was dedicated to the sages of that glorious era.

Countless precious words have been circulated in the world, nourishing the spiritual world of the Han people.

Presumably all of you know it. ”

As soon as Li Shimin mentioned this, the atmosphere in the hall suddenly became visibly warm, and even Wei Zheng asked directly: "Your Majesty, are you going to rebuild the Temple of the Princes?" ”

The Temple of the Sons, even if no one in this era has ever seen it, but just from the words of the historical materials, people can feel the grandeur and magnificence.

The literati of the world, whether they are Confucianists, Taoists, witches, doctors, musicians, and craftsmen, and the saints they revere are all in the temple of the sons.

Wei Zheng's question made everyone quite excited, but it turned to be dim, where can it be rebuilt?

The most precious things in the temple of the sons, in addition to those words, are also statues, and according to legend, those statues completely record the true appearance of the saints.

Now, even if the temple of the sons is rebuilt, where will the voices and smiles of those sages be carved?

"I can't restore the temple of the sons that once was."

Li Shimin said, sighing: "That may be the fate of the Temple of the Sons, Zhaocheng was destroyed in that heavy rain that is rare in a thousand years.

The grass is sparse, the water is lingering, and in the ruins of the broken wall, the former glory and brightness can no longer be seen.

But the spirit of the Temple of the Sons lives on forever.

I wonder where the source of the thoughts of the sons comes from, that is, the Holy King.

The spirit of the Holy King must also be passed on forever.

With the grace of King Su, I won the hearts of all the people of Xia to have today.

To show the children and the children, to warn the children and grandchildren.

In order to make all the people in the world be able to go to the right path and know the right way, it was decided to build an imperial temple.

In the Imperial Temple, worship those holy kings who have great merits.

I will erect a tall stone monument and build this temple out of stone, and then decorate it with gold, jade, silver, preciousness, agate, and crystal.

All the objects in this world that are associated with beauty, I will be listed in it, and it is not magnificent and powerful, but the power of the holy king is in it. ”

Li Shimin said angrily, this matter is also something he has been thinking about for a long time, since Luo Su first mentioned it to him, many years have passed, and now it is time to complete this matter.

He built this imperial temple, not only to worship the ancient holy king, but also to enter it himself in the future.

He has this confidence!

"The holy king lives in the main hall, the rest of the emperors are divided into side halls, the holy kings are listed for their merits, and the rest of the emperors are listed later, and the orthodox order can be clarified."

The meaning of Li Shimin's words is very simple, this imperial temple should list most of the emperors who can represent the order, that is, the emperors who are in the same line, or branch in the middle, but finally merge in one place.

The most important of these were the holy kings, who had to set up their own temples later.

And the rest of the kings, who were not chosen to be holy kings, were numbered together in the rest of the temples.

Then there is a very critical question, "Your Majesty, what about this Holy King's Palace?" ”

Li Shimin said without hesitation: "Yellow Emperor Palace, Emperor Yao Palace, Emperor Shun Palace, Yuwang Palace, Shangtang Palace, Zhou Kang Palace, Zhou Zhao Palace, Han Wen Emperor Palace, Han Wu Emperor Palace, Han Xuan Emperor Palace.

These ten holy kings, the ten holy kings selected by me, what do you think? ”

Li Shimin chose this emperor, first of all, the Yellow Emperor and Yao Shunyu Tang must occupy five positions, because these five are the holy kings written by King Su himself.

Even if Li Shimin rebelled again, it would be impossible for him to kick out the holy king who was personally recognized by King Su, and these five people were precisely the order of Zhuxia, from the ancient mythological era to the Zhou Dynasty.

No one of these five is complete without any of them.

The five people after that are very debatable.

After the Shang Dynasty, there were the Zhou Dynasty, the Qin Dynasty, the Chu State Xiang Yu, the Han Dynasty, the Sui Dynasty, and the Holy King, who must be the Son of Heaven, so the late Han Dynasty and the Northern and Southern Dynasties will not be mentioned.

The end result was two for the Zhou dynasty and three for the Han dynasty.

The Qin Dynasty didn't mention it.

Xiang Yu gained the world quickly, and lost the world just as quickly, and he didn't mention it either.

Sui Dynasty, where is there any saint of heaven.

Even Emperor Wen, from Li Shimin's point of view now, thinks he can't do it, in the palace, there is another person who especially can't look down on Emperor Wen, that is Fang Xuanling, when Emperor Wen of Sui was the son of heaven, he said that the Sui Dynasty would not last long.

The end result confirmed his words.

In the end, only the Han Dynasty and the Zhou Dynasty remained, King Kang of Zhou was assisted by King Su, and King Zhao of Zhou was assisted by Duke Luowen, which was called the prosperous era of Kangzhao in the history books.

There is a sentence in the evaluation of Emperor Xiaowen of the Han Dynasty, saying that his rule is better than King Kang of Zhou and King Zhao of Zhou, which is the highest evaluation for ancient emperors.

Take these two people, there will be no resentment.

As for the Han Dynasty, there is no dispute about Han Wen and Han Wu, and the only missing ones may be Emperor Guangwu of Han and Emperor Xuan of Han.

In Li Shimin's opinion, these two people are about the same level,

But Emperor Guangwu of Han was dragged down by the descendants of later generations, Li Shimin thought about it for a long time, and still took Emperor Guangwu of Han out of it.

So there is the current list of ten.

For this list, Li Shimin's consideration was very thorough, and he was very clear about the ten holy kings, so the ministers didn't know how to add and subtract to it.

This is really the result that Li Shimin wants.

In the end, I could only look at this list and say, "Your Majesty!" ”

Your Majesty!

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In the sixth year of Shi Zhenguan, Taizong Guan Shi said: "I look at the three thousand years of the Xia Dynasty, the rise and fall of the Mandate of Heaven, although there are twists and turns, but there are endless such as the line, there is a holy king when the sky is tilted, and there is a new dynasty at the end of life, I want to build a temple to worship the holy kings, and place the emperors under the holy king, so as to unify the Ming Zhuxia and the order of the Qing annals." ”

The people of the time praised, then set up a temple to worship the emperors, built ten halls, and worshiped the ancient holy king, the people of the time said: "The emperor temple is erected, the order of Zhuxia is unified, the holy king of the ten halls, bless me Tang Emperor!" - "Book of Tang: Taizong Benji"

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