Ming Dynasty: Teaching The Prince Dragon-Slaying Skills At The Beginning

"Whether it is the saints of the Ming Dynasty, the scholars of the Pre-Qin Dynasty, or the ancient people of the Yin and Shang Dynasties, there are too many unsolved mysteries about them in the eyes of future generations.

"Among them, the Ming Saints are relatively easy to say. At least during the era of the Ming Saints and the era after the Ming Saints, there were no historical faults."

"So even if the true faces of the saints of the Ming Dynasty are buried under layers of historical fog, we can still trace and study the true faces of the saints of the Ming Dynasty through these layers of historical fog."

"But it is extremely difficult to trace and study the true faces of the pre-Qin scholars, and even the more ancient Yin and Shang people."

"The burning of books by Emperor Qin Yingzheng and the fire set by Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, in Xianyang City really burned Qin, as well as the Shang and Zhou Dynasties before Qin, to the end of the ages!"

Having said this, Teacher Nan couldn't help but sigh deeply.

If you look back at the history of China, you will find that the history of China after the Han Dynasty is very coherent.

First, the imperial court at that time had special historians who would record history for future generations to review.

The second reason is that after the subsequent court overthrew the new court, it would also specially compile the history of the previous court.

The third reason is that people in power generally do not do things like "destroy history", "change history" or "kill historians" for the sake of their own reputation for future generations.

After all, once there are no official history books recorded by historians, what will be passed down in the future will be unofficial history.

As we all know, official history may not be correct, but unofficial history must be wild enough!

Therefore, although the historical records after the Han Dynasty may have certain Spring and Autumn writing style, generally speaking, the history of China after the Han Dynasty is very coherent.

But the Qin Dynasty before the Han Dynasty was different. First, Emperor Qin Yingzheng "burned books".

Of course, "book burning" is actually quite normal.

Because Emperor Qin Yingzheng's "book burning" was essentially the same as the new dynasties in later generations revising the history of the previous dynasty, both for the unification of national thought.

It's just that the methods of later generations' history compilation were more gentle, while the method of "burning books" by Emperor Qin Yingzheng was more simple and crude.

Moreover, Emperor Qin Yingzheng's "book burning" did not directly burn all books. It only burned some private collections of books.

For example, the common people do not have to hand over books like "Qin Ji", medicine, divination, and tree planting, but can keep them themselves.

However, except for people like doctorate officials who can keep, talk about, and collect works such as "Poems", "Books", and "Books of Confucius", other civilians are not allowed to keep, talk about, or collect these works. Yes, it must be handed over and burned.

Secondly, all the books burned by the people have a copy in Xianyang Palace.

To put it bluntly, Emperor Qin's victory in power was just for the unification of his thoughts, thus cleaning up a wave of folk works on "Poems", "Books", and "The Hundred Schools of Thought". While cleaning up, he also There is a backup copy kept by the imperial court officials.

Therefore, even if Emperor Qin Yingzheng ordered "book burning", in essence, the various cultural heritage books of the Qin Dynasty and the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, and even the older Yin and Shang books, were still retained by the imperial court officials. very good.

The books that were "burned" are actually still there, but the people can't see them and can't read them.

Normally speaking, even if the Qin Dynasty is overthrown later, the various cultural heritage books preserved in the official backup of the Qin Dynasty should be inherited and passed on by the new dynasty that overthrew the Qin Dynasty later.

But who would have thought that between the Qin and Han dynasties, there would be Xiang Yu, the overlord of the Western Chu who was invincible, supreme in force, and ignorant of the value of cultural inheritance!

After Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, entered Xianyang City, a fire directly burned all the cultural inheritance books that the Qin Dynasty officially retained and backed up!

If Emperor Qin's victory in power only affected private collections of private books, then the Overlord of Western Chu directly burned the official collections of the imperial court.

The two were not considered coordinated, one was public and the other was private, and they directly burned down all the ancient books of the Qin Dynasty and those before the Qin Dynasty.

Let future generations want to have a deeper understanding of the Qin Dynasty and the dynasties before the Qin Dynasty.

Just like Xijiao, one of the hundreds of pre-Qin scholars, before the Sizi bronze plate was unearthed in archeology.

Later generations only knew that Shi Dian had written the book "Zi Zi", and thought that this was the extent of Shi's personal ideological achievements.

But who knew that three thousand years ago, the corpse had looked down on the hundreds of years of disputes between the Central Plains princes and barbarian foreigners, and then summarized and proposed the "Dark Forest Theory" that would shock future generations.

And he also looked up at the stars and the universe, raising the advanced question of whether there are people above the stars in the universe!

With such an ideological point of view, no one in the future generation would be able to call him a good guy!

There is also the oracle bone shell from the Yin and Shang Dynasty that depicts the eight major stars in the solar system and the simple patterns of the movement of the moon. This is an issue that many historians and scientists are studying to this day and are almost losing their hair and still cannot explain it. Unsolved mysteries.

And let alone the scholars before the Qin Dynasty, the Shang and Zhou dynasties, even the many records of the Qin Dynasty itself are unclear, and only a few words have been preserved for later generations.

For example, the initial motivation of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising was: "It will rain heavily, the roads are blocked, and the time for salvation has been lost. If the time is lost, all laws will be cut off."

"Waiting to die, what about the country of death?"

As a result, the vigorous Dazexiang Uprising was launched, and all the people in the world followed it.

And "If the time is missed, all laws will be lost" has also become a major reason for Confucian scholars in later dynasties to criticize the harsh punishments and laws of Emperor Qin's Yingzheng.

However, the "Bamboo Slips of Qin Tomb in Yunmengsuihudi" excavated by later generations through archaeological excavations recorded the Qin laws during the Qin Emperor Yingzheng period, which is not the case.

For example, in the excavated "Eighteen Types of Qin Laws·Corporate Laws", later generations found the following records:

"The emperor sent out a campaign, but there was no way to go, so he paid two armors. If he missed three to five days, he would be punished; if six days came to ten days, he would get one shield; after ten days, he would get one armor, and he would get it. Water and rain will get rid of it. prosper.

To translate, to put it simply, if you are three or five days late for the corvee service, you can just give him a verbal criticism.

If you are six or ten days late, you will be fined a shield.

If you are more than ten days late, you will be fined an armor's worth of money.

As for the previous saying, "The imperial army sent out a campaign, and it was too late to do it, I was punished by two armors." This sentence means that if you don't come at all, you will be fined two armors.

The most important sentence is the last four words "water and rain, except for happiness".

What do these four words mean?

This means that if it rains heavily, there will be no penalty.

In other words, if Chen Sheng, Wu Guang and others really miss their deadline, they will not be punished at all. Even if they are, it will not be the death penalty.

Therefore, at least the Qin laws during the Qin Emperor Yingzheng period were strict but not harsh.

As for why the era after the Qin Dynasty said that Qin's laws were harsh and Qin's Yingzheng was tyrannical, the reason was besides wantonly distorting Qin's laws and criticizing Qin's Yingzhi and tyranny, which can be regarded as political correctness in ancient times.

The more reason is that the fire of the Overlord of Western Chu burned all the records of Qin Law during the reign of Emperor Qin Yingzheng.

This caused later generations to confuse the Qin laws during Shang Yang's reform and the laws during the reign of Qin II with the Qin laws during the Qin Shihuang period.

If there hadn't been the fire of the Overlord of Western Chu, the Qin Laws during the Yingzheng period of Qin Emperor could have been clearly recorded and passed down.

Then at least when later generations study the Qin Law, they will not confuse the Qin Law during the period of Hu Hai, the second emperor of Qin, with the Qin Law during the period of Emperor Qin Yingzheng, thus placing a blame on Qin Emperor Yingzheng for the harshness of Qin law.

"Although the saints of the Ming Dynasty, the scholars of the Pre-Qin Dynasty, and the ancients of the Yin and Shang Dynasties all have problems in our opinion."

"But if there are questions, there are questions. The various thoughts, opinions, and speculations put forward by the sages of the Ming Dynasty, the scholars of the pre-Qin Dynasty, and the ancients of the Yin and Shang Dynasties are all of great reference value for us in future generations.

"If we don't talk about it far away, let's talk about the scientific saint Ban Heng among the saints of the Ming Dynasty. He wrote or proposed "Special Theory of Relativity", "General Theory of Relativity", "Light Quantum Hypothesis", "Three Laws of Mechanics" and other scientific ideas, The theories, opinions, and speculations are all very advanced.”

"It has played a huge role in guiding the progress of our scientific research."

"For example, our famous scientist Ai Newton said this: 'The wisdom of the scientific saint Ban Heng has saved us hundreds of thousands of years of detours in scientific research'!"

"Similarly, our famous scientist Gusila also said something similar: 'Thousands of years have passed, and thousands of years have passed, and we have not completely stepped out of the scope of the wisdom of the scientific saint Ban Heng'!"

"The equally famous scientist Li Stan once said something similar: 'Fortunately, we have such a Saint as Ben Heng; unfortunately, I seem to have always lived in his shadow.' !"

"And this is just the reference and inspirational value brought to us by the Kesheng Ban Heng family for future generations."

"If there had not been the burning of books by Qin Emperor Ying Zheng, or the fire set by Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, then maybe we would still be able to discover more about the incredible thoughts and views of the pre-Qin scholars and the ancients of the Yin and Shang Dynasties. Discovery Records.”

"And we can also draw more wisdom and nutrition, and get more inspiration and reference value from the great ideas, views and discoveries of the pre-Qin scholars and the ancients of the Yin and Shang Dynasties that were hundreds of thousands of years ahead of that era!"

"But it's a pity, there is no if."

The female teacher sighed again.

All the students present felt the same way and cursed angrily:

"."Damn Xiang Yu, if you overthrow the Qin Dynasty, overthrow the Qin Dynasty, what kind of books should you burn!"

"He is indeed a barbarian. How can he be called the Overlord of Western Chu? Bah, he is just a rubbish warrior!"

"He deserves to lose to Liu Bang! He deserves to have all the people from Jiangdong die after him! He deserves to kill himself in Wujiang!"

"Ah, ah, the pre-Qin bronzes and Yin Shang oracle bone shells that have been archaeologically discovered have such incredible records."

"If we can get the cultural inheritance classics preserved and backed up by the Qin Dynasty about the pre-Qin scholars and the Shang and Zhou dynasties, there may be even more significant discoveries!"

"I really want to travel through time and space and return to the Qin Dynasty, and then take away a copy of all the Qin Dynasty's official cultural inheritance classics preserved and backed up before Xiang Yu sets fire!"

"Or find Xiang Yu in advance and kill him with a gun if you have one. If you don't have a gun, make a bomb in advance and blow him up directly!"

"Save him from burning all the ancient books in Xianyang City."

Almost all the students are scolding Xiang Yu. After all, Qin Emperor Ying Zheng’s “book burning” and Western Chu Overlord Xiang Yu’s “book burning”

They can still tell who is more destructive, and who is the real culprit that caused the destruction of the pre-Qin scholars and the Yin Shang clan.

At least Qin Emperor Yingzheng's "book burning" was ordered for the purpose of ideological unification, and backup was also made before "book burning".

Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, ordered the "book burning" purely to vent his anger, and before "burning the books", he did not do any seniority preservation.

To put it bluntly, Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, was the leader

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a tribute to the hundreds of pre-Qin scholars, as well as the historical sinners of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and cultural dynasties!

Looking at the angry students, the female teacher stretched out her hand and pressed it to signal everyone to be quiet, and then said with a smile:

"Don't be so excited. Those hundreds of pre-Qin scholars and ancient books of Shang and Zhou Dynasties that were burned by Xiang Yu do not mean that we will never see them at all in the future."

"Don't even talk about these disappeared ancient books. Maybe we (the ones) will be able to see with our own eyes in the future how the corpses of the Pre-Qin Dynasty wrote his words on the bronze tablets."

Dark Forest Theory'. "

"Or you may have seen with your own eyes how the ancients of the Yin and Shang Dynasties carved the eight major stars in the solar system and the movement patterns of the moon on oracle shells."

Upon hearing this, all the students below opened their eyes wide, and an incredible suspicion flashed through their minds.

Then, one student tentatively said:

"Teacher, could it be that we have invented a time machine that can go back to the past?"

If a time machine had not been invented, how could one have seen with one's own eyes how a corpse from the Pre-Qin period wrote his "Dark Forest Theory" on a bronze plate?

Woolen cloth!

Similarly, if the time machine had not been invented, how could we have seen with our own eyes how the ancients of the Yin and Shang Dynasties carved the eight major stars of the solar system and the moon on oracle shells?

It's running regularly!

Facing the student's guess, the female teacher shook her head and said somewhat mysteriously:

"Our technological level has not yet developed to the level where we can invent a time machine that can go back to the past.

"However, according to the "Observation Theory of Time in the Past World" proposed by the former scientific saint Ben Heng, a group of scientists invented a time machine related to it.'

"The specifics are kept secret for the time being, but you can pay attention to the recent official news."

"It won't be long before the country will officially announce the news."

"If you are interested in this, you can also read the "Observation Theory of Time in the Past World" proposed by the scientific saint Ban Heng. Maybe you will know the answer yourself.

Having said this, the female teacher looked at the time and found that get out of class was almost over, so she said without further delay:

"Okay, that's it for this class. get out of class is over."