A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 414 Bangzhou and King Haotianwen

In Changyang Palace, Wang Jing was reviewing letters. Wang Hao, a member of the clan next to him, put down the book in his hand and asked with some confusion.

"Master, why did you agree to include the false history fabricated by those people?"

"Haha, isn't this good?" Wang Jing put down the slips he had just finished reviewing and said with a smile.

"Recording these deliberately fabricated histories, together with the debates between clan members, allows those people to compare the two and clearly recognize the hypocritical faces of these people."

"Write the ugly faces of these people into the history books, and they will be infamy for thousands of years." Wang Jing sneered.

After hearing this, everyone also reacted.This move is not only infamy for thousands of years, it can be said to kill people and kill their hearts, and also whips the corpse.

"Master, how do you record the history of Bangzhou?" asked another clan member.

Wang Jing has not been writing history books for a long time. Another reason is that there are many voices in the family who want to deny Bangzhou and change Bangzhou into the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods where princes fought.Hiding the history of the Western Zhou Dynasty and unwilling to admit it.

Eventually this voice was reviled by generations of family heads.

Wang Jingdao: "Follow the true records, don't belittle it, respect history."

"Just like us and our ancestor King Wen, we never refuted Emperor Xin as the king of subjugation, never refuted him as a tyrant, and never helped him whitewash his achievements. After all, what if you whitewash him into a saint? What if he really As those whitewashes say, can the Yin Shang Dynasty lose their country?"

"I ask the historian not to whitewash or slander, and to respect history. We have all read the classics left by our ancestors. The collapse of the Yin and Shang Dynasties was caused by many reasons. It is unfair to attribute all the blame to Emperor Xin."

"The collapse of the river embankment was accumulated bit by bit over a long period of time. The collapse of the Yin and Shang Dynasties was also due to the inability to resolve various accumulated conflicts over 500 years, internal and external difficulties, coupled with God Xin's inability to solve the internal problems of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, and the rise of the state and Zhou Dynasty. , which caused the collapse of the Yin and Shang Dynasties."

"The same is true for the history of Bangzhou. Bangzhou was able to end the Yin and Shang Dynasties. Naturally, it is the orthodoxy of the world. He has a destiny of 500 years. If Bangzhou is not recognized, what kind of destiny will we get?"

"What is destiny? Destiny is orthodoxy!"

"The mysterious bird descended from the sky and gave birth to Shang.
Emperor Xin does not worship, and the black bird falls into the wild.

Feng Ming Qishan, Zhou Dynasty flourished,
When the phoenix falls, the mourning king will die.

Huai received the destiny, and all the princes perished;
When the four seas are united, the country of Qian will be prosperous. "

This is destiny!
“If we belittle the Zhou Dynasty and slander it wantonly, this will not only be disrespectful to history, but also disrespectful to the Yin, Shang and Daqian Dynasties.

If the Zhou Dynasty was such a waste, how could it end the Yin and Shang dynasties and establish the 500-year destiny of the Zhou Dynasty? "

Finally, when the history books were compiled, the history of Bangzhou was recorded fairly and completely.At the same time, it was ordered that any interference with the fairness, integrity, and authenticity of historical records in any way is prohibited.

Historians should respect historical facts, record true and complete history, and express their own historical views instead of inserting their own personal preferences into it.

In real history, there are too many personal feelings mixed in the 24 official histories. Of course, overall the credibility is still relatively high.After discussing the compilation of the history books of Emperor Xin and Bang Zhou, the historian next encountered another problem in compiling the history books - Wen Zijue.

How to write Wen Zijue?In Daqian, Zijue was revered as King Haotianwen.Is the chronicle based on mythology or how it is written?
In the history of Bangzhou, he claimed to be the emperor, that is, the son of Haotian, but now Zijue is called King Haotianwen. Is it possible to say that Bangzhou is a descendant of Zijue?So what should we do? What should we do?
Wang Jing pondered for a moment, and then said: "King Wen and King Haotian Wen are still different. If we want to separate them, our Wang family will naturally worship King Haotian Wen, and when the country holds a big sacrifice, it will be King Wen, the sage. Just write it according to the sages."

"This, is this disrespectful to our ancestors?"

"My ancestors didn't want the world to worship him as a god, and preferred to let our descendants and grandchildren pioneer and forge ahead. Now when compiling history books, we issue edicts in the name of the imperial court. What's on earth will return to earth, and what's in heaven will return to heaven."

"King Wen wrote it based on the history books of the Huai Kingdom and the records left in the collection room."

"By the way, how do you write those magical things?"

"Just record it according to the facts!"

Several historians nodded and understood the way this history book was written.

"Tai Shi, the history compilation project is huge and requires many books. We need to go to the collection room to check. I will arrange for 30 disciples from the clan to help. They will follow your orders to compile the history books." Wang Jing said.

"Wei." Taishi cupped his hands and said.

Compiling history books is a huge project, which requires so many books and materials that it can be said to be vast. What's more, the history books to be compiled this time are not about one family or one country, but starting from the ancient times, the Five Emperors of Yan and Huang, and going through the Xia and Shang Dynasties. Wednesday Dynasty inherits the history from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the present.

"Everyone, the history book compiled this time will be the most extensive history book since the ancient Suiren clan. It will take at least several years, or even decades, to compile. This is a major event for the court and the family. I hope Please encourage me!" Wang Jing looked at everyone seriously and said.

In the main hall, everyone looked serious, and said to Wang Jing seriously: "Wei!"

Although it takes a lot of time to compile history books, as long as it can be completed, it will definitely be remembered in history, and it is very likely to become a figure of the level of the Xianhuai scholars, called a disciple.

With the support of the Daqian royal family, this history book will be more magnificent than the one in real history. The number of vassal states in it is estimated to be hundreds, and there will be more various biographies, making it richer and more authentic. history is revealed to future generations.

After deciding to compile the history books, Wang Jing ordered that a sum of money and grain be allocated from the Shaofu and Taifu each for the purpose of compiling the history books.At the same time, Wang Jing issued an edict, asking all states and counties in the world to submit books for the compilation of history books.

Although the Huai Kingdom collected a large number of historical books, there were still some historical books from the vassal states that had not been collected. Some of these historical books disappeared, and some fell into the hands of some people. The collection of these historical books was also to complete this historical book.

The emergence of "Historical Records" is the first general history in the history of our country. It records the history of about 40 years starting from the Suiren clan in the ancient legendary era, through the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, Xia, Shang and Zhou, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States, to the 500th year of Emperor Wu's destiny in the Great Qian Dynasty. .

This historical masterpiece was originally displayed in the Royal Museum. In ancient times when science and technology was underdeveloped, compiling such a masterpiece would take a huge amount of time and money, and only a nationwide effort could do it.

(It is said that the "Historical Records" currently circulated has been abridged, but the royal family has always denied this statement. The editor has applied to the Royal Museum several times to read the original version or rubbings of "Historical Records", but he has not received it until the time of publication. allow.)
It was also from this "Historical Records" that after the establishment of the new dynasty, the historical books of the previous dynasty would be compiled to show its orthodox position.At the same time, this also makes the Chinese civilization have an obvious difference from other ancient civilizations and lost civilizations in the world - only the Chinese civilization will completely inherit its history from generation to generation.

——"Global History·Ancient Chinese History"

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