In ancient China, since there was such a thing as history books, whether it was an official revision of history or an unofficial history of cultivation, the compilers of history books were all social elites, and all of them used the pen as a whip and history as a mirror.

The historians are full of pride, so much so that there are people like Sima Qian's generation who repair history, and the books are not destroyed, and they fail and start from scratch.

People at that time may not have realized it, but thousands of years later, people knew how powerful these historians were.

The things of the previous dynasty are almost what they say! The emperor is in charge of the present, and they are in charge of the ages!

But now, times have changed.

A university professor of history who is rich in learning, the audience for his knowledge dissemination is far less than that of a slightly famous history online writer.

As for social influence, it's even worse.

Even if the online writer is talking nonsense and treating fabrication as official history, as long as the story is well written, someone will inevitably tout it.

The more people listen to it, the more people preach it, and the nonsense becomes the "official history", the real history, but no one cares what it should look like.

From this point of view, every author of historical online articles can be a hero or a traitor. It can be a messenger to promote the essence of history, or it can be an accomplice of historical nihilism. It can be vulgar fun or deep historical context.

I was terrified and uneasy.

I'm afraid that the writing will be too deep and no one will read it, and I'm afraid that the book will be too entertaining and written for fun.

The logic of historical fiction and the logic of history sometimes coincide, but many times, they are contradictory, even life-and-death.

The two are often irreconcilable, and one must be chosen.

Everyone is recognized as a bad person, but there are extenuating circumstances, so how can it be?

Everyone is recognized as a good person, but his private life is so erosive, so how can he do it?

In the Anshi Rebellion, the Hu people should be the villains, how can the hardcore of the rebellion be Han Chinese?

Anyway, in the end, the mistakes are all those bad people with faces, as if without An Lushan, the Tang Dynasty will be eternal, and there will never be the rise of Khitan Mongolia again.

Not too many people will ask: why is this happening.

It is the people who push history forward, a single traverser, who cannot change the general trend. Even if it gains momentum for a while, the strong inertia of history will bring it back to its original track.

What is needed in the novel is heroes and villains, but what you don't need to care about is what the historical facts are.

It is ironic to say that "talented and beautiful, emperors and generals", but in most of the books, there is everything, but there are no people.

So I got caught up in a conflict.

On the one hand, I want to live, and I can't generate electricity for love, and I simply write what I want to write.

On the other hand, I can't write an article that makes me feel disgusting even when I read it.

The routine of historical novels, if you don't write a cliché urban essay, if you don't lick the dog to the ruler, then you will inevitably rebel and fight for power and profit.

The Dragon Slayer becomes a dragon, or becomes a dragon and then kills another dragon.

A rotten apple in my left hand and a rotten apple in my right hand, what kind of worldview should I express?

Or is it that everyone laughs and it's over?

Travelers parachuted into ancient times, it is easy to change the political situation, but it is difficult to change the historical ecology.

When you think about it, your whole body shudders.

The family cannot be wiped out, the productive forces cannot be elevated, and the imperial power cannot go to the countryside. Nowadays, the vast majority of historical novels are all made up, and none of them can withstand the torture of historical facts! If you stand up and be beaten, you will all be bruised all over your body.

Being able to rest with the people and bring decades of peace has reached its limit. What's more, let's ask the system to help, mortals can't do it, even if you take Baidu to ancient times, even if it's omniscient and omnipotent.

When planning this book, several times, I wanted to kneel to make money, to write about how Li Yuan played at the end of the Sui Dynasty, and how the Li family laughed at his father's son. I know a lot of readers buy it, and a lot of readers like the tunes.

I pinched my nose and wrote, someone is willing to pay for it, my wallet will be moist, it will make me and my family live well, so ...... Actually, it's not bad.

But in the end, I chose a different path.

The Anshi Rebellion is the dividing line of ancient Chinese history, and even the dividing line of the history of Chinese civilization. The changes in its general trend have been affected to this day, and being able to dig out some deep content a little and publicize it is enough to make me smile at Jiuquan.

At that time, I did something that a lot of history professors didn't do, and I could really blow it up.

The money is gone, and you can make it again. If the ideal is gone, it will really become a salted fish.

A person's time and energy are limited, and the books that can be written are also limited. Maybe one day I will never be able to write words that satisfy me, and that will be the end of my career as a writer. Life is endless, but when it comes to each person, there is always a time when the song ends and people disperse.

This book will dedicate to you some things that dig deep in the Tang Dynasty.

Let everyone know:

In fact, Chang'an is the pearl of Datang, but Datang is not only Chang'an. Countless cities have no fangs or cities, let alone boxy, but they are still vibrant.

In fact, the decline and fall of the Tang Dynasty has long been doomed, whether there is An Lushan or not, or even a thunderstorm that takes away all those rebel generals, what should happen will still happen.

In fact, the prosperity of Tang poetry is all the children of the family, and ordinary people are still living worse and worse days, and there are already troubled times in the last years of the Kaiyuan Dynasty.

In fact, it was precisely the Anshi Rebellion that made China's core fundamentals stable, making all regions deeply integrated and inseparable from each other. Blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, and without this turmoil, it is difficult to predict how history will follow.

In fact, the division of Youzhou in Hebei in the late feudal era of China was a foregone conclusion, and the root of the bane was laid after the Eastern Han Dynasty.

In fact, Taizong was lackluster in system construction, leaving countless troubles to future generations, and many virtuous ministers in the Kaiyuan period were tinkering with the old book, and only Li Linfu, who was infamous, was the pillar of the country, and really had the ability to delay the collapse of the Tang Dynasty.

In fact, most of the envoys of the middle and late Tang Dynasty were loyal and patriotic, but the Li Tang royal family was inappropriate, and there were countless bridges that crossed the river and demolished them.

In fact, only the Tang Court was weakened after the Anshi Rebellion, and the real social change was in full swing, and the economy and culture went hand in hand.

In fact, it is not a pity that the Tang Dynasty perished, and it is not a pity that the prosperous era was shattered, there is nothing worth nostalgia, future generations have their own posterity, and people always have to look forward.

Is Datang what you think is true, or is it true that I told you? In fact, I am not sure, and I don't even rule out that this book is likely to hit the streets.

I just want to take a scoop of water from this huge wave of "unprecedented changes", see the water is clear and turbid, and smell the smell of water and perfume.

Please follow the tip of my pen to the apex of the Tang Dynasty:

Twenty-four years of Kaiyuan!