A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 412: History Book Making
As Wang Jing exiled a large number of nobles and officials, there were many vacancies in the court.Students who passed several exams after the Academy exams started did very well in the officialdom.

The assessment at this time is extremely difficult, and those who can pass are elites who have done very well over the years.

After Wang Jing saw this situation, he began to appoint and promote these scholars.

Most of the nobles have knowledge passed down from their families, and some of them have studied in academies, but overall, their levels vary.

After all, nobles can recommend each other, and although the children of the recommended nobles are also talented, their talents may be high or low, and they are far inferior to those selected by the academy.

Governing the country is not about killing. Compared with nobles, Wang Jing trusts those scholars who can govern the country more.Since the founding of Daqian, although the prime ministers have also come from noble families, these people are proficient in various schools of thought and are not simply noble people.

The subsequent prime ministers were all the most outstanding Confucian scholars.Even the internal minister, although he was a member of the royal family, was proficient in Confucian classics.

As the imperial court supported the study of Confucian classics and established the position of doctor of Confucian classics, celebrities from all over the world began to recruit disciples. There were more and more Confucian scholars and they occupied more and more positions in the court.

What Wang Jing has done over the years is not right. The royal family's actions in past generations have already shown their attitude.

Since the founding of the country, the Wang family has governed the country in accordance with the law. If the law is not clear, the power will be unpredictable. At the same time, it has never used conspiracy and trickery.

Those who can gain a foothold in the court are all smart people.Even if you win a game through conspiracy, the consequences will be very serious.

The most striking example is the Xianhuai period, when South Korea launched the Shen Bu Hui Reform.It overemphasized the role of magic, and as a result, the king and his ministers no longer had any love, and the court was full of flies and dogs, plotting against each other.

The king plotted against his ministers, and the ministers plotted against the king, and they stopped doing all the important affairs of the country.

The Wang family has never considered using this method to handle national affairs. They are the king, the emperor, and the emperor, so they naturally have the advantage and initiative.As long as the emperor does not act foolishly, the ministers cannot defeat them.

So what if those ministers win once?The emperor can win it back in other ways.Even if you don't like this minister, you can use upright means to suppress him.

The tactics played by South Korea will only lead to betrayal and alienation in the end.

It's like the Wang family doesn't like nobles, powerful officials and big families occupying land. There have always been clear laws in place. Those nobles and powerful officials who dare to seize land can just follow the laws.

As the imperial court supported scholars, schools in various places became more and more prosperous.Scholars from various schools of thought held lectures.Although Daqian has tried its best to open schools in various places, Daqian is too big. Even with the support of the royal family, the schools can only be opened in county towns.

Moreover, there are not many books in the academy in the county, there are only some common books, but they are enough for basic learning.

Although it is a bit crude, as long as you study hard, you still have a high chance of passing the examination and going to the County Academy.

Of course, in addition to the county academy, there is another kind of private academy.These private colleges are basically colleges run by each school in their respective hometowns.

Although these academies are not supported by the state, there are no simple ones who can be called 'celebrities'. Their knowledge is no worse than the teachers in the county academy, or even better.

Many people are not willing to study in academies in various counties, but instead come to study from 'celebrities' from various places.

To a certain extent, this is a disguised form of support for the Academy.The more disciples, the greater the power, it is obvious.Each school of thought is vigorously expanding its influence.

After being severely slapped several times by the imperial court, the original powerful men also understood the imperial court's bottom line.At the same time, it also lets them know the importance of rights.

So powerful people from all over the world began to send their descendants to become apprentices to those famous people, hoping to become officials through the academy.

The 'celebrities' everywhere also needed the money and efforts of these powerful people, so they easily accepted them.The combination of various schools of thought and powerful people from all over the world burst out with amazing energy, and academies sprung up in every county in the world.

In this environment, the nobility and military aristocracy gradually declined.

Nobles of honor and military merit prefer to receive rewards for their military exploits, but how can there be so many military exploits in the world?Without military exploits, it would be much more difficult to be promoted and obtain a title.

In comparison, the academy did not have this problem, and the nobles and military nobles gradually began to be replaced by the academy.

Time flies like water.

It has been nearly 80 years since the founding of the Daqian Dynasty. During most of this period, the world has been at peace, and Zhu Xia has enjoyed a rare period of peace.

Luoyang, the divine capital, Qianyuan Hall.

"Your Majesty, it has been 80 years since the founding of Da Qian. Under the protection of the destiny, all the saints ruled the world and prospered, and all the Xia prospered. However, many people did not remember their ancestors. During the Zhou Dynasty, Huai had the Spring and Autumn Period, Jin had Jin Cheng, and Chu had Ying. "Hey, all countries have history, but there are no court records of the thousand and five hundred years of Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasty, and there are many lies among the people. I sincerely request your majesty to issue an edict to compile the history to show the official history!" "Accurate!" Wang Jing nodded in agreement.

The purpose of compiling history books is to unify the history of the previous dynasties, so as to prevent some interested people from tampering with it because there is no official history, or even deliberately misinterpreting history for their own theories.

There are already some signs of this situation in the Academy. For example, a few years ago, someone presented the book "The Biography of the Zuo Family in the Spring and Autumn Period" to the court. This booklet actually has more than 20 words.It records a large amount of history from the Huai Dynasty.

It's just that although the history recorded in this book is generally consistent, many of the details are different, or even completely opposite.

The imperial court has always encouraged the donation of books. Wang Jing was very happy at first to present such a masterpiece.On the anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, war broke out all over the country, and most of "Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals" were lost, leaving only a few fragments.

Now that there is a complete "Chunqiu Zuo Shi Zhuan", it is natural to be happy, and unlike "Huai Gong Chun Qiu" which was written from a Legalist perspective, this "Chun Qiu Zuo Shi Zhuan" is written from a Confucian perspective, so many Confucianists Scholars highly praised him.

But after reading the letter, Wang Jing was furious and ordered the person who presented the letter to be imprisoned, saying that he had deceived the emperor with a forged letter.

In the academy, many scholars who had read "The Biography of the Zuo Family in the Spring and Autumn Period" were very dissatisfied and wrote letters to advise.For a time, there was a turmoil in the court.

Wang Jing did not get used to these people at all, and directly asked his family members to go to the collection room and take out historical books such as "Huaigong Spring and Autumn", "漼杌", "Lu Guo Chunqiu" and so on to debate with him.

After finding out all the errors and omissions in "The Biography of the Zuo Family in the Spring and Autumn Period", the Confucian scholars and "celebrities" became red-faced, and some of them were so angry that they fainted.

Those Confucian 'celebrities' wanted to debate the views presented by them. As a result, one of the Wang family's descendants directly took out the original book and told them: "When the sages were compiling the book, my ancestors were also there, so I specifically asked about it and recorded it. It is the original book and the dialogue between the sages and my ancestors, do you still want to argue?"

The 'celebrity' face turned red, but he couldn't say a word and could only admit defeat.

"This book is a forgery written by modern people, pretending to be written by the sages. Don't you know that the books of the Xianhuai Dynasty used bamboo slips, which are heavy and difficult to write. Therefore, most of the history books of the Xianhuai Dynasty are in concise language, and a history book can have as few as [-] or even several thousand words. Thousands, as many as [-] to [-] or [-] to [-] words.”

"This person, for the sake of pursuing a bigger picture, or to use the book to gain fame, forged classics, with a total of 18 words, and he deliberately wrote them in a Xianhuai tone. Unfortunately, the fake ones will be fake after all. It can be said to be superfluous!”

Such output almost caused many Confucian 'celebrities' to break their guard and hide their faces and walk away, not daring to argue again.

This suppressed this trend.

Although this incident has passed, Wang Jing was worried that some people would imitate him, so he immediately asked people to write a letter and compile a history book.

Although the Huai Kingdom also compiled history books at that time, the history books they compiled were only records and compilations, and they did not compile and complete all the history books.

Wang Jing immediately appointed Taishi to compile the history book.

The Taishi of Daqian also came from the Wang family, and was a branch specially created at that time to record history.

This time it fell to them to compile the history books.

The compilation of history books is of great significance. In addition to correcting the source, it also needs to show that one is Zhengshuo.

History books are not ordinary books, only the imperial court can edit them.

Because among the three dynasties of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasty, Xia Dynasty has the least records, and many of them are lost, followed by Shang Dynasty, and many of them contain contradictions. Although there are many records of Bang and Zhou Dynasty, most of them are scattered.

Wang Jing wants to write history books starting from Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors until now.Write down all the history books completely since the Yan and Huang Dynasties.

Wang Jing attaches great importance to the historical records of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, because their family originated from the royal family of the Yin and Shang Dynasties.The historical records of the Yin and Shang Dynasties should originally be from the Song Dynasty, but Bang Zhou received the mandate from heaven and destroyed many books, and Bang Zhou was the prevailing one.There are many contradictions with the Yin and Shang history recorded in the Huai Kingdom.

When the Yin and Shang Dynasties collapsed, Zi Jue rebuilt the Huai Kingdom on the Huai River. Not much of the history of the Yin Shang Dynasty is preserved, and much of it is written by the oral accounts of the Yin Shang nobles who narrowly escaped and Zi Jue's memories of that year.

Among them, there is not much difference in the history of the early Yin and Shang Dynasties, but for the late Yin and Shang Dynasties, especially the records of Emperor Xin and King Zhou of Bangzhou, there are many completely opposite records of this period of history.

For example, according to the records of Zhou Dynasty, King Zhou was arrogant and extravagant, indulged in wine and sex, engaged in military warfare, punished harshly and refused to remonstrate, and he was a typical tyrant named "Jie Zhou" together with Xia Jie. He eventually led to the betrayal of his relatives, his death and the destruction of the country. Related allusions There are wine ponds and meat forests, the punishment of roasting with firecrackers, and the morning of the hen and chicken, etc.

These records are found in Huaiguo history books, but many are not at all, so there is a lot of controversy.

(End of this chapter)