Qiming 1158

Chapter 1120 Does it need to be taboo for His Holiness to record history?

Su Yonglin attaches great importance to this task of great significance to the whole of China.

He personally named this task as the restoration project of the three generations of ancient times, and it was listed as the two major tasks of the National History Department together with the formulation of the Huaxia chronology law. It does not need to be limited by time and age.

How did the ancestors of China step by step from ignorance to civilization, from the mountains to urban settlements, to develop a small tribe into a big empire, and to burn the cultural fire into a raging fire...

These are all things worth exploring.

And in Su Yonglin's view, this kind of exploration is too romantic.

In order to explore the restoration of what happened before the first year of the Republic, Su Yonglin also ordered the Department of National History to build a Daming Archaeological Corps. With the meaning of researching history and distinguishing between the past and the present, he granted the Daming Archaeological Corps to explore historical sites, collect ancient books, and rescue excavations in the entire Daming territory. The authority of the tomb.

On the issue of ancient tombs, Su Yonglin especially emphasized his views.

"As long as the tombs found are not damaged, it is best not to try to destroy them. Unless there is a complete assurance that the internal antiquities can be protected from damage, do not excavate. Forcibly excavating is equivalent to destroying, and it is meaningless.

Once a damaged ancient tomb is found, the soldiers and horses must be immediately mobilized to seal the area, and no idlers are allowed to enter. Except for the personnel of the archaeological corps, others, including local officials, are not allowed to enter. , must be delivered to all with proper maintenance. "

In addition to this principle, Su Yonglin also plans to establish the Daming National Museum.

In the future, he plans to put all the ancient cultural relics in his hands, stored in the palace and ancient cultural relics discovered by archaeology in the National Museum for storage, and open it to the people all over the world to watch and help them understand history.

In the National Museum, he will also carve the entire history of China in it, and match it with antiquities, so that all the people can experience the whole history of China and feel the depth, inheritance and existence of history.

After a series of work arrangements, the Ming Empire's historical research project began.

This is an unprecedented large-scale historical research project. The Ministry of Finance transfers funds and professionals gather to explore the dusty past of the three ancient generations.

And this is also the humanistic feeling in Su Yonglin's heart.

At the very least, he wants people all over the country to know what year they were born and how old they are, instead of relying on medical methods such as dental age to judge how old they are.

Living in this world as a person, you should know your age, know your birthday, and know that you are an individual. This is a very important personal right of a person.

If the feudal dynasties did not give them this right, the Ming Dynasty had to give it.

On this basis, let them know what kind of country they live in, what kind of land they live in, what happened to the land under their feet, and who are fighting for the continuation of the country and the nation. interest……

In this way, the heritage of a nation can be deeply engraved into the hearts, blood, and spinal cords of every descendant, and it will be passed down forever.

When they all consciously identify themselves as the heirs of this country and nation, then certain things cannot be easily transferred with the wishes of the rulers.

When the responsibility of the rise and fall of the country has truly become a matter of course in everyone's heart, they will also complete the consciousness above awakening.

In addition to this general context, Su Yonglin also asked the Department of National History to change the way in which the historical historians focus on the outcome of the event rather than the process of the event. Taboo for the sages] the principle of history revision.

At the internal meeting, Su Yonglin strongly criticized this principle of history revision.

"Because they are venerables, relatives, and sages, they don't even record the bad things they have done? How can there be a pure sage in the world? Confucius himself killed Shaozhengmao because of academic disputes, so he is really selfless. Heart?"

"Once you discover a great talent, you have to imagine him as a perfect person in the world, and don't allow him to have any flaws. Once you discover that someone has done bad things, you should consider him a heinous person and ignore his other achievements. This is the history of history. attitude?"

"People are complex and diverse. The same person may have completely different personalities when he is young, young and old. When he was young, he was very naughty, but when he grew up, he created a great cause. Evil people who do evil things, there are never many such things."

"There are no saints in the world, there is no pure virtuous person, as long as it is a human being, as long as he eats grains and miscellaneous grains, he will have emotions and desires, joys and sorrows, and will make mistakes. There is no one who cannot make mistakes, just like me. Is it still less?"

Su Yonglin held a meeting of all historians in the Department of National History, asking all the historians to conduct a comprehensive interpretation of ancient official history and unofficial history, and adopt an inclusive approach, not only to write down the achievements of historical figures, but also the evil deeds they have done. .

Not only that, but also the tragic and intrigue of the political struggle, and the power and tricks cannot be ignored.

It is necessary to uncover the figurines written by Confucian historians, tear off all the figurines that some people say [for the country and the people, for Confucian orthodoxy, and for the morality of the saints], and to open up politics for reasons such as power, money and wealth. Every scene of the struggle is written clearly.

In particular, it is necessary to write clearly about the causes and consequences of their political struggles, who sacrificed their interests, lives, etc., especially what harm such political struggles have caused to the people, and even more clearly written.

For example, the Sanyi Huihe River in the Northern Song Dynasty.

The reason is that Song Taizong failed in the Northern Expedition to Yanyun and could not recapture Yanyun to establish a defense line to protect Hebei, so it caused great unease in the Northern Song Dynasty's strategy.

The Sanyi Hui River was originally a project. In order to prevent the Yellow River from entering Yanyun so that the Liao army could flow down the river, the Northern Song Dynasty government tried to divert it.

However, given the size of the Yellow River, the diversion would cause unimaginable risks, which some places could not bear, so officials in these places jumped against it.

With the increasingly fierce party disputes in the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty, the Huihe Project finally could not get rid of the fate of being involved in political struggles, and thus transformed from a purely scientific water conservancy project into a political event.

For the sake of their own interests, the various forces in the imperial court disregarded the life and death of the common people. They played repeated games on the Huihe incident, sabotaging each other's plans, and even if they sacrificed the lives of the common people, they had to defeat the other party and succeed in taking power.

In the end, the failure of Sanyi Huihe resulted in the tragedy of millions of people who died tragically and tens of millions of people who were displaced tragically became victims of political struggles.

And they, no one cares.

The officials of the Northern Song Dynasty were extremely indifferent to them and paid no attention to them.

This made Su Yonglin deeply resentful, and this was one of the reasons why he had to destroy the Southern Song Dynasty anyway.

And in the history of history, can these things not be written down?

Of course, a Confucian historian who pays attention to the taboo of the venerable cannot write it. They will only use various spring and autumn brushstrokes to embellish and embellish it, trying to make people forget this history and millions of lives.

They think beautifully.

In the entire history of China compiled by the Ming Dynasty, these must be clearly recorded, and how the so-called "loyal and good people" who served the country and the people "served for the country and the people" were recorded.

Only in this way can the emperors, generals and prime ministers of the old feudal dynasties put the country and the people in the end for their own selfish desires.

Such history is the most real history, which will help Su Yonglin to completely tear apart the tender veil of feudal society, expose its ugly face to the world, and make everyone alert and alert.

With this relationship in it, Su Yonglin felt that even if he died, it would not be so easy for future generations to go back.

Most of the historians of the Department of State History grew up under feudal education, and most of them were retained by the original historians of Jin and Xixia.

So they were shocked by Su Yonglin's request, they never thought that an emperor would make such a request.

Is this really a good thing for him?

However, although these historians are more conservative in thought, they have a little advantage, they are obedient.

Since the famous His Majesty Li Shimin, whose name was inconvenient to disclose, wanted to watch his personal notes and succeeded, the last layer of figurines for Confucian historians was also torn off by the imperial power mercilessly.

So they gave full play to the spirit of their ancestors and became more and more obedient.

They will do whatever the emperor asks.

No matter what Su Yonglin wants to do, he is the emperor after all. The emperor made a request. Of course, they just follow the order. Anyway, the world is not theirs.

Therefore, this order has been implemented very smoothly in the Department of National History. These professional historians are naturally familiar with political struggles, and they are very good at embellishing, but if they do not embellish and write straight, it is not impossible.

But this is far from what Su Yonglin needs to do.

What he needs is to form a brand-new view of history, a view of history that is completely different from the Confucian view of history.

To this end, he found time to write articles.

After spending some spare time, Su Yonglin wrote "Does Recording History Need to Be Taboo to His Excellency?", "The Political Game Behind Historical Events - Starting from the Sanyi Huihe", "Our Concept of History Needs to be Reshaped", " The blood and tears of the people behind the family tree of emperors and generals" and other four articles.

In these four articles, Su Yonglin initially constructed a new historical concept.

Then, based on his own reading of history, he made a comprehensive criticism of the Confucian view of history, and described the so-called official history of all dynasties and dynasties as "the family tree of emperors and generals".

As the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he would make the most fierce and strong criticism of the past official revision history books.

(End of this chapter)