Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

However, Li Shanchang was shocked and a little bit dumbfounded:

"Wonderful words are originally good words, but they have been used to ridicule by later generations."

Li Wenzhong patted his thigh and sighed:

"If you go by this, ordinary people in Meng Yuan are really no more than a palm."

"Then Tuotuo can be regarded as a good minister of the Yuan Dynasty, but in the end, he was demoted and killed by Emperor Yuan Shun?"

"Even so, this Emperor Yuan Shun is rare among the Hu and Yuan emperors who can see past him, but he is still not as good as our Majesty."

Li Shanchang couldn't help but curl his lips secretly, Li Wenzhong, who are you talking to in such a loud voice?

And sure enough, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was sitting on the chairman's chair over there, laughed and said from the distance:

"We accept Bao'er's good words, but we still need to come up with specific regulations for the naval affairs and the plan to quell the Japanese pirates."

Then Li Shanchang saw Li Wenzhong with a sad face and responded loudly:

"That's how it should be!"

Then he complained in a low voice:

"Hu Yuankong had a large army, but he didn't know how to check the weather when he went to sea. Hundreds of thousands of troops sent the Sea Dragon King away in vain."

"But it has caused us to suffer from this Japanese invasion, and made us suffer here to write the regulations."

But after all, the civil and military personnel present could still discern the importance in His Majesty's words.

The navy was very important when fighting for the world, but with the destruction of the Meng Yuan Dynasty, the navy's military exploits became less and less. At this time, General Xu Da only needed part of the navy to transport food and grass to guard Peiping, and it was not used at all at other times. .

After all, Can Yuan's center currently lives in Mobei Helin, which is thousands of miles away from the nearest coast.

And now His Majesty wants him to come up with a charter, and his intention to reorganize the navy is obvious.

"This is Li Bao'er." Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help laughing and cursing when he saw that his nephew was getting an advantage and acting like a good boy, and then he sighed:

"When we read about the history of the Yuan Dynasty, when we heard about such things, it was hard to believe them to be true."

"With such governance, the Yuan Dynasty can still survive for nearly a hundred years, which shows its rich heritage."

When Queen Ma heard this, she immediately lowered her head to hold back her smile.

She still remembers the anxious look of Chongba when the country was first founded, fearing that he would be ashamed of his Chinese ancestors.

At that time, the history of the Yuan Dynasty had not yet been completed, so after studying various records of the Yuan Dynasty, she broke it into pieces and crumbled it every night to explain the politics of the Yuan Dynasty to Chongba, which ultimately greatly increased the husband's confidence:

No matter how bad we do, we will never be worse than Hu Yuancai.

But now judging from the opinions of future generations, what my husband did has far exceeded what I originally expected.

[Tuotuo, who killed his relatives due to his righteousness, naturally became the prime minister.

However, there was the example of the old uncle, and Tuotuo was very familiar with Han culture, so after taking power, he promoted the three political affairs. After completing them, he declined and said that I was in poor health and needed to recuperate. Your Majesty, you should hire someone else.

The history of these three political affairs is called Tuotuogenghua, and the content is also quite down-to-earth.

The most important thing is to restore the imperial examination which was abolished by his old uncle. This is to tell the scholars to stop making trouble. Even if you are discriminated against, the channel for becoming an official is finally back, isn't it?

The next most important thing is to redress injustice and reduce taxes for the people. If you owe too much tax, it will be written off directly. As long as you can farm in peace and contentment, this is naturally to quell the peasant uprising.

The last one is compiling the history of Song, Liao and Jin Dynasties. It took two and a half years from compilation to completion, a magical time.

Now we always joke that the Yuan Dynasty was the only one who suddenly remembered that the history of the previous dynasty had not been revised when it saw that it was about to die, so it hurriedly revised the history books and scrawled in response.

This statement is actually not correct. After all, if the country is really going to subjugate, who will have the leisure to compile history books?

And for Tuotuo at that time, if you told him that Dayuan was about to be finished, he would just let you finish it on the spot.

Tuotuo's intention in revising history is very simple, because he was the emperor and prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty who had the highest degree of Sinicization. The essence of revising history is to complete the last piece of the puzzle of the legitimacy of the Yuan Dynasty. That's why he revised it so quickly, because Tuotuo What I value is the political significance of revising history, not its literary significance.

However, being able to cultivate so quickly is certainly not due to Tuotuo's high level of knowledge. It is purely because he is just a supervisor. But on the issue of who is Zhengshuo in the Song, Liao and Jin Dynasties, it is indeed Tuotuo who made the decision that both Song, Liao and Jin Dynasties will be Zhengshuo. , this is of great significance.

As for the consideration of compiling history, Lao Zhu later probably also referred to Tuo Tuo's approach, so "History of the Yuan Dynasty" was revised in such a hurry. Essentially, Lao Zhu wanted to use this "History of the Yuan Dynasty" as a coffin board for the Yuan Dynasty. The coffin is sealed.

Some people now believe that the true demise of the Yuan Dynasty should be in the 21st year of Hongwu. General Lan Yu led 150,000 Ming tigers to sweep the caves and completely annihilated the small imperial court of the Northern Yuan Dynasty in Yuerhai. According to this All in all, a history of the Yuan Dynasty directly pushed forward the demise of the Yuan Dynasty by twenty years, and its political significance is quite obvious.

However, although Zhu Yuanzhang and Tuotuo made similar choices and failed to study history books intensively, they were at completely different points in time.

When Tuotuo was compiling the Three Histories, the leaders of Liao and Jin Dynasties had long been buried in the yellow sand, and the Southern Song Dynasty had been subjugated for sixty years. The historians he summoned were all Yuan Dynasty literati who shouted "Great Qianyuan", so the historian Tuotuo could Feel free to choose whatever you want, but because the Song, Liao, and Jin Dynasties were subjugated for so long, a lot of historical data has been lost.

At the time of Lao Zhu, Bei Yuan still had the ability to bar his teeth at the Ming Dynasty. Some of his literati who had surrendered to the Ming Dynasty from the Yuan Dynasty might have privately scolded Lao Zhu as a "group of thieves" a few years ago, so it was naturally unreliable to use it. The only way to compile history is to abandon historians and choose literati like Song Lian and Wang Yi, and then let them find "reclusive people in the mountains and forests" - to put it bluntly, they are unsuccessful literati in the south of the Yangtze River.

Such a group of people had neither been in the officialdom of the Yuan Dynasty nor could they speak the various languages ​​​​used in the Yuan Dynasty, so they could only play the role of glue and paste, copying and pasting in various ways. A typical example is the biography of Tuotuo in the "History of Yuan Dynasty", which records that in the 14th year of Zhizheng, Tuotuo arrived in Gaoyou, surrounded Liuhe and won consecutive battles, which made the "bandit force greatly weakened."

Who is this bandit? The "Records of Ming Taizu" remembers it clearly. In October of that year, Zhu Yuanzhang was ordered by Guo Zixing to lead troops to rescue Liuhe, but in the end he did not defeat the Yuan army and played a strategic retreat.

This can be regarded as a strange comparison group with the three histories of Song, Liao and Jin.

But also because it was revised quickly and urgently, this group of glue and glue in the early Ming Dynasty was also very conscientious, so the historical value of "History of Yuan Dynasty" among the 24 histories is very high. After all, copying and pasting, basically all are first-hand historical materials, which is another rare advantage.

After doing three things, Tuotuo originally planned to retreat bravely and wait and see, so as not to follow in the footsteps of his uncle.

But five years later, Emperor Shundi of Yuan Dynasty changed three prime ministers. The government was not half-dead, but a mess. Moreover, the Yellow River also had a flood, cutting off the lifeline of the Grand Canal.

Emperor Shundi of Yuan Dynasty had no choice but to ask Tuotuo to come out of retirement:

If you don't think of a solution, our Yuan Dynasty will be finished. 】