Wentang

Chapter 160 The Era of the Yellow Emperor
In order to lure Pei Ju into teaching in the academy, Yue Shan has gone to great lengths.

It is difficult to persuade Pei Ju, not to mention that even if he is persuaded, Li Shimin must nod for this matter.

After all, his identity is too sensitive, and the confidant of Prince Yin Li Jiancheng is the prime minister of the court, so he can't go anywhere without the emperor's nod.

In other words, if you want Pei Ju to teach, you have to convince both of them at the same time.

Yue Shan had been thinking about how to persuade them early in the morning. Fortunately, he had knowledge beyond the age of thousands of years in his mind, so he really came up with a way.

A great way to convince two people at once.

Compile a big dictionary.

The ancients valued meritorious deeds. To Pei Ju, compiling a large dictionary is a form of speech. He is nearly [-] years old and he will definitely not refuse it;

Moreover, the big dictionary is also a great help for the popularization of knowledge to the whole people in the future. It can be said to kill three birds with one stone.

When he just came up with this method, he couldn't help but be surprised and admired by his IQ.

Sure enough, Pei Ju was successfully persuaded, and Li Shimin was no exception. He even wanted to force more people in.

After thinking about it, Yue Shan refused. His purpose of compiling the dictionary was impure. He wanted to recruit some well-educated people to teach in the academy through this matter.

Therefore, the speed of writing a large dictionary cannot be too fast, and it can even be said that the slower the better.The longer it takes, the more time he has to conquer those learned men.If the imperial court sends people directly, it will affect his plan.

Li Shimin was naturally not reconciled, but seeing Yue Shan's firm attitude, he had no choice but to give up.

The main reason is that he has more important things to do. Compared with the extermination of Turks, the promotion of the imperial examination system, the establishment of the academic and political system, and the co-lord of the world, the big dictionary is insignificant.

In his mind, maybe Yue Shan wanted to take the credit for compiling the dictionary, after all, it was a great opportunity to make a statement.If the imperial court participates, the credit will be divided.

If that's the case, let him be fulfilled, anyway, I don't lack that bit of credit.Besides, even if the imperial court does not participate, as long as this big dictionary appears in the Zhenguan Dynasty, his achievements will be indispensable.There is no need to fight over those three melons and two dates.

So Li Shimin gave up his plan to send someone from the imperial court.

Having said that, he was also very happy to see Yue Shan taking meritorious service. For the emperor, he was not afraid of the shortcomings and selfishness of his courtiers, but he was afraid of the kind of people who had no desires and no desires. Yue Shan had shown this tendency before.

Now that he thought he had found Yue Shan's selfishness, he felt more at ease towards Yue Shan.

Yue Shan still doesn't know that he has unintentionally solved a moderate crisis, and he is very happy that the scheme has succeeded.

But he did not forget his elation, and told Li Shimin the second purpose of coming here today.

After reading the history books he compiled, Li Shimin really showed deep thought. Yue Shan's perspective on issues does not conform to the moral standards of this era, and many of them can be called outrageous.

If he saw these things before today, he would definitely scold Yue Shan and tell him to leave.But now he knows how big the world is, and the secret that has the greatest influence on power throughout the ages...

His cognition and thinking have changed, and the remarks that seemed outrageous and outrageous before are no more than that now.

So he approved the history book compiled by Yue Shan after consideration.But he also warned Yue Shan that this is already the maximum he can tolerate, and future history books will definitely exceed the limit of this book.

What else could Yue Shan say, he naturally agreed happily, and he didn't intend to write anything profound in the history textbook.

Originally, the matter had ended here, but seeing that Li Shimin was in high spirits, he couldn't help but proposed another plan to be implemented later.

"Double chronology? Kaiyuan chronology? Starting from the day the Yellow Emperor ascended the throne...Why do you have such an idea?" Li Shimin asked with a frown.

"Does the sage know how many years have passed since the first year of Jingning?" Yue Shan asked after thinking about it.

"This..." Li Shimin was dumbfounded.He doesn't even know which emperor's reign name Ning is, so how to calculate it?

Moreover, the reign names of Chinese emperors are too complicated, some have been used for decades, and some have only been used for one or two years.Even a professional historian can only calculate it by comparing it with history books.

Yue Shan didn't expect him to answer this question. Seeing that he couldn't answer, he revealed the answer himself: "According to the Kaiyuan era, the first year of Jingning is Kaiyuan 2664, and the first year of Zhenguan is 3323 Kaiyuan this year. We can easily calculate 659 years ago."

"Now does the sage know why I want to use the Kaiyuan calendar?"

Li Shimin naturally understood his intention, but he felt very uncomfortable when he thought of writing the year of Kaiyuan in front of his year name, so he asked, "What should the Yellow Emperor do before he ascends the throne?"

"Use 'before Kaiyuan' to express it. For example, the year before the Yellow Emperor's accession to the throne is expressed as the year before Kaiyuan, and the two years before his enthronement are expressed as the year before Kaiyuan... The year of his birth is 20 years before Kaiyuan." Yue Shan Said.

"If that's the case, why not use the date of the founding of the Tang Dynasty as the starting point of the era?" Li Shimin asked with a gloomy face.

"Sage, your ambition is to become the lord of the world, not just the lord of the Tang Dynasty. Adopting the Yellow Emperor Era can not only tell the world about your aspirations, but also show your broad mind. Why not do it."

Li Shimin's face was uncertain, he wanted to use the date of the founding of the Tang Dynasty as the starting point of the era, but he also felt that what Yue Shan said was reasonable, so he was a little undecided for a while.

Yue Shan also looked at him nervously, waiting for his answer.

To be honest, the era is just for the convenience of calculating time, and it doesn't matter which day is used as the starting point of the era.But Yue Shan still hopes to use the Yellow Emperor Era.

Sooner or later, the Tang Dynasty will be replaced by other dynasties. If the Tang Dynasty is adopted as the starting point of the era, will the new dynasty continue to adopt this standard?Difficult, more likely to be abolished.

The new dynasty will use the day when its own dynasty was founded as the first year of the era.In this way, he lost his original intention of engaging in the era.

The Yellow Emperor's chronology is the most stable. The Tang Dynasty gave up using its own date of founding of the country as the chronology standard. Would the later dynasties have the nerve to do so?
If such a thick-skinned emperor really appeared, then he would recognize it too.

As for using the birthdays of saints such as Laozi and Confucius as the era standard... Yue Shan has never considered that too many Chinese saints use whoever is disrespectful to other saints.

Besides, with Lao Tzu, will Confucius disciples agree?With Confucius, is it true that the Li family is easy to bully?Therefore, using the Yellow Emperor to date the year is the least controversial, and no one dares to object.

The eldest grandson Wugou looked at the two of them worriedly, for fear that one bad situation would cause a misunderstanding between the two and affect the relationship between the two.

(End of this chapter)