People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 697: Chen Han wanted to cry when he thought about the old man getting old
Because many times when we finally discover how we are different from the whole world, it actually lies in many details.

After Chen Han came to the Ming Dynasty, he found that the TV dramas and novels he watched sometimes gave him the impression that the Ming Dynasty was a particularly open-minded place, but it was not actually the case.

The Ming Dynasty was like many feudal dynasties. It did not have so many enlightened aspects for you to discover.

There are not so many places that can make you feel comfortable. After Chen Han came here, he found that he could only enjoy this kind of enjoyment after he became a rich person.

It is precisely because of this that Chen Han has always faced the entire Ming Dynasty with an attitude of great respect and fear.

Even though he has always felt that he is a very capable person, he has never belittled himself. He has always believed that he actually showed different characteristics from the people of the Ming Dynasty in many aspects.

Precisely because of this, he now always feels that it was right for him to come to the Military Dynasty, because only such a place can allow him to give full play to his talents and live a more transparent life.

One thing I have been thinking about a lot of the time is why people in the Ming Dynasty thought this way and why their thinking was like this?
Because before, Chen Han always felt that he had read a lot of books, a lot of ideological things, a lot of history about the Ming Dynasty, the notes of many people in the Ming Dynasty, and many people's research on the Ming Dynasty.

He felt that after arriving in the Ming Dynasty, he might make some different discoveries, but these things should not leave his own framework, which should allow him to integrate into it more quickly. However, he later discovered that this was not the case at all.

Because only after coming to the Ming Dynasty can you truly understand how different the thoughts of the people here are, understand how these individuals think, and understand why these people think this way.

Only then can we understand how many things these people have that cannot be accepted by other people with different ideas.

It can even be said that even if the people of the Ming Dynasty wrote their own history, sometimes they couldn't write it clearly, sometimes they didn't know how to write it, and sometimes they didn't know where to start.

Even for those officials who wrote the records, are they all true? Not necessarily. Many of them were processed, many of them were heard, and they were not recorded on the spot.

Why is this so? Because history was actually a tool in ancient feudal dynasties.

Many people in modern society think that history is mixed with a lot of talk, a lot of subjectivity, political factors, and so on. So they always think that history is fake.

But after Chen Han came to the Ming Dynasty, he found that it was not the case. These histories were just records of facts. There were modifications mixed in with the truth.

But are these things fake? No, because their modifications were actually made to adapt to the rule of the entire Ming Dynasty.

Writing to record history is not a static process, it is a dynamic one. It can even be said to be a very boring job, and one in which one may risk losing his head.

Therefore, historians usually keep multiple notes when writing a history.

These notes are sometimes more real than what is written in the records. Chen Han was fortunate enough to have access to these things. It was not because his official position had reached this level that he could have access to these things, but because Lao Zhu wanted him to go and see in person what was written about these foods.

What I want to cultivate is the ability to truly see what is recorded in those history books.

Many times, the records that Chen Han and others saw were not true after a lot of subsequent changes. The reason why Lao Zhu wanted Chen Han to see these real historical records, and sometimes let him personally participate in the modification of these actual records, was to make Chen Han understand.

The history you see is sometimes mixed with a lot of subjective omens, and sometimes it also contains words that serve political purposes.

So there is a lot of contempt for historical truth and distortion of real politics here.

However, this kind of historical recording is not inappropriate. On the contrary, it is particularly necessary. It is to make everyone remember one fact, that is, history is only for the purpose of serving politics.

After Chen Han came to the Ming Dynasty, especially after receiving these things, he really understood what kind of history he was reading, and how he should face these things. He really understood what kind of attitude he should have towards them.

It is precisely because of these foundations that even now, even if he is so calm, sometimes he cannot imagine that he is seeing such an emperor who will be remembered throughout history. What Zhu Yuanzhang is seeing now is that he is slowly getting old.

In fact, Chen Han had seen the dejection of people as they grew old and slowly died. He had even seen several people die in front of him.

But he never felt that those people resented him. He never had any psychological fluctuations, because he didn't think he had any kind of relationship with those people, or how deep his connection with them was, they were just relatives and friends.

But when he was about to see Old Zhu slowly getting old in front of him and perhaps closing his eyes like those old men and never waking up again, Chen Han felt a sense of emptiness for some reason.

Perhaps it is because we have seen too many images of Lao Zhu in history books, film and television dramas, historical notes, unofficial histories, and novels.

So unknowingly I felt that this was a very familiar person, an old man who had already remained in my life. This old man might have more ideas that he wanted to express.

But because he cannot express it, because there are many things in his heart that are hidden deep in his heart, or hidden in the traces submerged by history, so we cannot understand this person very well.

However, when he traveled to the Ming Dynasty and had the opportunity to observe the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty up close, he felt an urge to burst into tears. He had seen a video before, in which a photographer suddenly found a fingerprint on the lip of a Terracotta Warrior from more than 2,000 years ago while taking pictures of the Terracotta Warriors.

At that moment, the photographer suddenly felt all the pores in his body open up, and then tears filled his eyes involuntarily, because it was a fingerprint from a craftsman who lived more than two thousand years ago.

This fingerprint has no trace of the craftsman, but it miraculously left his fingerprint, so that people in later generations can enjoy how he worked when they saw the fingerprint. He may have done it intentionally or unintentionally.

More than two thousand years have passed to freeze this fingerprint on the Terracotta Warrior, allowing future generations to understand the person's working status at the time through this Terracotta Warrior.

Chen Han had the same feeling when he saw Zhu Yuanzhang. When the image that could be summarized by just a few words in history books, novels, film and television dramas, and notes appeared vividly in front of him, Chen Han also felt like tears welling up in his eyes.

Because you clearly know that this person may not have a close relationship with you, and this person cannot be said to be an important passer-by in your life.

But when he appears so vividly in front of you, you will feel that the images recorded in history books and described in film and television dramas all overlap at this moment.

This feeling will make you think that this is someone you are very familiar with, but he is standing in front of you at this moment. You can reach him with just a light touch. Although he is the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, this emperor once used his methods to leave a strong mark in the entire history.

It is precisely because of this that when Chen Han saw the image of the emperor appear so vividly in front of him and had been with him day and night for four or five years, he felt that he was a closer relative than his own family.

So now when he saw that the old man was finally getting old and finally starting to think about how to rest and how to pave the way for his descendants, Chen Han realized that when a person is truly old, he is thinking about future generations.

The old man was the same. He was a living person, not an enemy, and he could not live to be a hundred years old. He was probably only in his seventies, which was considered a long life. But to Chen Han, he was like a monument that was about to collapse in front of him.

Many times, I have taken this monument as an example. Many times, I have wanted the old man to see a different side of me, to see how hard I have worked for the Ming Dynasty, and to know that I am not your grandson-in-law just to enjoy the meal.

So many times the reason why he works so hard, the reason why he works so hard to reform, the reason why he works so hard on ideological and political education is that he wants the old man to see that you are an emperor of all ages. But as your grandson-in-law, I will never smear your face.

And he did it. Sometimes the old man really felt that while Chen Han was making these efforts, there was actually a lot of unwillingness to admit defeat and a lot of his own emotions mixed in.

So the old man saw everything Chen Han was doing now.

It is precisely because of this that when Chen Han saw that the old man was really getting old, really starting to hunch over, and really starting to listen to the younger generation, he realized that when people get old, sometimes the so-called interpretation, the so-called prestige, and the so-called spirit are actually slowly diminishing.

The moment they finally listen to the younger generation, it actually means that we are old.

Maybe they themselves don’t even realize that they were once so high and mighty, and they thought that anything they did could not be wrong, and you youngsters could only listen and not refute.

But now when Chen Han said to Old Man, since you are idle every day, you should do something. Although you cannot participate in politics, and you cannot stay up late every day to review memorials, you can go to the backyard to open a piece of land and farm.

Unexpectedly, after hearing what he said, the old man not only did not criticize him or say that he was meddling, nor did he embarrass him. Instead, he seriously accepted Chen Han's suggestion, and then actually opened up a vegetable plot in the back garden and prepared to plant crops.

Even though the old man was born into a peasant family and had the thoughts of an old farmer, he had only farmed for the landlords. Perhaps after he became a monk at Huangjue Temple, the monks would ask him to do some hard labor, such as farming, carrying water, and applying fertilizer.

But those were not his disciples, and it was estimated that their work was not smooth, because if it was smooth, he would not be forced to beg outside. It was because he could not support so many people that he was forced to beg outside. It was also because of the rebellion that he had the opportunity to meet all kinds of talents, which laid the foundation for his later success.

But in short, for the old man, he actually rarely farmed in his life.

But even so, the old man still listened to advice. Chen Han himself found it a little unbelievable.

It was also when Chen Han heard that the old man did not refute his opinion at all that he finally understood.

The old man is really old now. Sometimes he wants to listen to the opinions of the younger generations. Sometimes he doesn't refute them, and sometimes he can only agree nodly.

When he thought of a founding emperor, a great iron-blooded emperor who could be ranked among the top ten emperors in history, and the old man could listen to him for just one or two words, he finally understood what it meant to be old.

In fact, to be honest, Chen Han has never felt that he could replace the old man, nor did he feel that what he has done could be compared with the old man, but now he doesn't know why he always has a strong feeling.

I must do more under this situation and let the old man see more, so that I can make him happy.

Even if I leave, I can feel at ease...

(End of this chapter)