Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Putting aside for the time being the fighting and killing of the rebellious armies of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms in their minds, the Zhenguan ministers only felt that the direction of the light curtain was making them more and more frightened.

So Li Shi𪟝 picked around and chose a question that didn't seem so dangerous:

"Did the famous people of the later Han Dynasty have real talent and learning?"

Li Shimin glanced sideways and said disdainfully:

"True talent and learning, so what if you have it, and what if you don't have it?"

"Just like the so-called Eight Chefs, isn't it just that as a scholar, he exchanges wealth for fame in a more ostentatious manner?"

As he spoke, Li Shimin shook his head and said to himself:

“It doesn’t matter how famous people are and what they have learned, but it is more important to firmly hold on to this power and benefit future generations.”

"If you hold power in your hands, the scholars who come here to admire the power should roll your name as a distinguished person."

The Zhenguan ministers couldn't help but straighten their backs slightly, feeling a vague cold air creeping up from their tailbones.

Changsun Wuji laughed again and said:

"Without His Majesty's heroic strategy, without the loyalty of Zhenguan's ministers."

"Where did the Tang Dynasty come from? Where did the prosperous Tang Dynasty come from? Where did the great Tang Dynasty come from?"

Li Shimin nodded slightly, then smiled and said:

"Why don't you say a word, dear friends?"

The atmosphere in Ganlu Hall relaxed. Du Ruhui had already thought about it and came out and said:

"Your Majesty, since it is said that this examination will have an impact for thousands of years, perhaps there is room for improvement in the current imperial examination policy."

Li Shimin nodded slowly, and he understood this. For example, last year, he ordered the imperial examination to be patched and added the examination content of "Reading the Classics and History Part 1".

These systems were tinkered with by Tang Cheng and Sui Dynasty, but as for where there were problems and where improvements were needed, they could basically only be tried slowly.

"You can't imitate the later Song Dynasty and include painting in the imperial examination, right?" Li Shimin said to himself unconsciously.

The ministers were curious, so Li Shimin simply said:

"Previously, when I was reading the light curtain alone, I saw that there was a brothel emperor in the Later Song Dynasty who included painting in the imperial examination."

The Brothel Emperor! The officials in Zhenguan were inexplicably shocked, they felt that this Song Dynasty could always surpass everyone's imagination.

"With such a name, he must be called the Hunjun." Wei Zheng commented simply, and the others nodded together.

Li Shimin complained in his heart, it's because you haven't heard of the name of the debauched king of the Mediterranean named Rome, otherwise wouldn't you be going crazy?

It's a pity that I didn't pay much attention to it at the time, and the name of the Roman king was too lengthy, so I didn't write it down, and I lost the opportunity to impress my officials.

After looking at the records copied by Fang and Du again, Li Shimin was not stupid when he saw the description of monopoly at the end:

"Since Wang Mang's expansion of the Imperial Academy will bring disaster to the family."

"Then I should first expand the imperial examinations to serve the people, so that we will not have the sorrow of Wei and Jin's treacherous filial piety."

Li Shimin's words were firmer than ever before, and all the ministers bowed to receive the edict.

[Regarding the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, there has been a related trend on the Internet in recent years. It is probably that some people are either more educated than the UP master, or they imagine that they are the grandson of the king, and they sighed:

"The Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, absurd and beautiful."

Let’s not talk about how the words “absurdity” and “beauty” are put together. Just speaking of absurdity, in this era of Chinese history, if you are ranked second, it should be rare to dare to be ranked first.

In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when Liu Xiuping faced Zhu Kun who was besieging the city of Luoyang, he swore to Luoshui that he would never be held accountable. Later, he named Zhu Kun the Marquis of Fugou, setting an example for the emperor's golden words.

During the Gaoping Ling Incident, Sima Yi faced Cao Shuang, who had a large number of soldiers, and swore to Luoshui that he would never pursue him to account. Then he killed Cao Shuang and the Yi tribe, leaving him with the reputation of "Luoshui fart".

Since then, the political struggle has been almost a matter of life and death. No one believes in their promises anymore, even if the other party is the emperor.

Later, Jia Chong ordered Cheng Ji to kill Cao Mao in the street. After Jia Chong died, the officials wanted to give him the posthumous title Huang, but Sima Yan refused and changed his posthumous title to Wu.

Since then, regicide has become commonplace. Therefore, when Liu Yu wiped out the Sima clan, the most common comment was: Well done!

Luo Shui's fart and Jia Chong's regicide basically set the tone for the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. The Jin Dynasty essentially became a collection of powerful families who were at odds with each other.

The dispersion of power and the bottomless nature of political struggle brought a long list of notes:

The Rebellion of the Eight Kings, the Rebellion of Yongjia, and the Wuhu Chaos in China, followed by the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, the common people and noble families moved southward, and the north entered the era of the Five Hus and Sixteen Kingdoms.

Then the south followed Wang Dun's Rebellion, Su Jun's Rebellion, Huan and Wen's dictatorship, Huan Xuan's Rebellion, Sun Enlu Xun's Rebellion, Qiao Zong Zili, Liu Yu's destruction of Sima, and Hou Jing's Rebellion.

If Cao's behavior is a bit hypocritical and tender, then Sima's usurpation of power and regicide is basically equivalent to rebelling against Confucianism. This kind of behavior is undoubtedly treason in Confucianism.

The biggest problem here arises: the Sima family still inherited the previous dynasty's desire to govern the country with Confucianism, but the method of winning the country essentially negated Confucianism.

The exclusive respect for Confucianism set by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was not only a means of governing the country, but also a universal social belief. After all, Confucianism respected etiquette and law, and this collapse brought about the collective degeneration of aristocratic families.

On the one hand, they regard money as the meaning of existence, and extravagance has become common; on the other hand, they view money as dirt and like to talk about nihilism. There are too many examples of this in history books.

Wang Chen of Wei Hejian was fond of famous horses, so he built a gorgeous stable, with a manger made of silver and decorated with jade, phoenixes, and gold pouring dragons.

Yu Hong, the general of the Southern Dynasties, boasted to others that he had four great powers under his rule! What's the meaning? All the fish and turtles in the water were caught, all the deer in the mountains were hunted, all the rice and grain in the fields were plundered, and all the common people in the villages were taken captive.

Even though he had wiped out an entire county, he still had a plausible argument: A man can only live for a hundred years, so if he doesn't enjoy himself now, when will he enjoy it?

So he married hundreds of concubines, decorated his carriages and horses with gold and jade, and used only Thuja cypress that grows on the cliffs for the entire bedroom and bed. Silver and golden flowers were used as the word longevity, which people at the time commented were "amazing."

Chen Sunjuan's family, the singing boy and dancer Lin Quan was said to be a rare person in the world. When he was ordered to leave Yingzhou, he didn't want to take a carriage, so he built a huge ship with more than ten large ships, built a rockery and lotus pond on it, and sailed down the river with him. Guests had a party on the river.

Wang Ji, who also came from the Wang family in Taiyuan, recorded a small incident: Sima Yan went to his house for dinner and felt that the pork tasted unusually rich. He asked how it was made.

Wang Ji answered easily: There is no secret method. The main thing is that pork is good. This little pig grew up eating human milk.

The record of this incident at that time was "Unknown to Wang and Shi", which means that this kind of behavior was not comparable to that of Shi Chong and Wang Kai.

These two people should not need any introduction. Their fight for wealth left behind the allusion of Shi Chong’s fight for wealth and was even included in history textbooks.

During this period, the powerful attributes of powerful families were also steadily displayed. For example, the manor of the Xie Lingyun family, who praised Cao Zhi for his talent, was a little larger than the current capital of Bangzi, Seoul, and was approximately equivalent to 1.4 million acres in the Han Dynasty.

This manor is closed to the mountains and covers a lake. In addition to needing to purchase iron ore and salt from outside, it can also handle papermaking, textiles, medical clinics, iron smelting, pottery making, wine making, etc. and is self-sufficient.

The Xie family has more than one such manor, and the Wang family has more than a dozen. 】

"Kong Ming, as Yide said, we have become bumpkins."

Pang Tong sighed to his side.

Zhang Fei's face became clouded after seeing Wang Ji's deeds:

"Babies in farm families can still die due to lack of milk. How is this behavior different from that of pigs and dogs?"

"On the surface, poems and books are handed down from generation to generation, but in fact, what they do is worse than bandits!"

Liu Bei also opened his mouth wide. This short record of deeds shocked his soul. The powerful family can do whatever they want.

And what about the people? Where are the people?

Looking down at the written records handed over to him, Liu Bei only saw the figures of the common people from the corners.

They were massacred during the Wuhu rebellion in China, and they were all captured in Yuhong's territory. They built huge ships for Chen Sunjuan, and their mother even had to feed pigs to Wang Ji...

The people are like rice and wheat in the fields, far inferior to the horses that can live in houses of gold and silver.

These people created a dynasty that was probably the most extravagant in Chinese history. However, this dynasty could neither defend against foreign enemies nor quell powerful powers.

"It is unreasonable for the Jin Dynasty not to fall." Liu Bei sighed.

His gaze continued to fall, and Liu Bei felt that his eyes almost bulged out:

"One hundred and forty thousand acres?"

"And there's more than one? Then there are more than a dozen in the Wang family?"

"How is this different from founding a country?"

Pang Tong explained: "Of course it's different."

"If the establishment of a country requires the establishment of a state minister and the need to amend the law, all actions and punishments must be carried out in accordance with the rules."

"However, in such a manor, the powerful owner can take whatever he wants, and it can be decided with a single word."

"That's really more comfortable than the emperor. No wonder..." Zhang Fei smacked his lips and felt that if he led the troops, it would be difficult to attack without three thousand soldiers.

"There are still people who think this and that future life is beautiful?"

Zhang Fei was surprised, and then said quite bluntly:

"You still want to be a member of a powerful family, why don't you see if you are worthy?"

Kong Ming remembered the words on the light screen before and chanted:

"In the old days, the king's swallows flew in front of the hall and flew into the homes of ordinary people."

"It seems that this Wang Xie could not escape the fate of death and the destruction of his clan, and was eventually cast aside by future generations."

After shaking his head and sighing, and looking back further, Kong Ming had time to curse:

"This Sima family is really evil!"

"He only pursues the throne but acts like this. How is he different from Yuan Shu?"

Liu Bei shook his head: "Yuan Jiujiu is just ignorant, and his actions are not so despicable."

Wei Yan asked curiously: "How can Cao Shuang, who has a large army, be deceived like this? Is this a fool?"

Pang Tong thought for a moment and guessed:

"Gaopingling Mausoleum sounds like the tomb of Emperor Cao's family?"

"Sima Yi took advantage of people visiting their graves and captured them all, so Cao Shuang threw a trap at him?"

Then Pang Tong shook his head in denial:

"Guangmu said before that Cao Shuang was the head of the clan and had conquered Shu. He should not be easy to deal with."

"And this Sima Yi can be named Kong Ming's old enemy, which shows that he is also a character."

"The internal situation between the two of them should be extremely complicated."

He knew a little about politics, so he naturally understood that the Gao Pingling incident should be just the result. The Cao family and the Sima family should have been fighting for who knows how long before this.

"It's just..." Pang Tong's eyes darkened when he thought of the trouble: "This Sima clan killed the king in the street, which is also regicide."

"It will eventually lead to disaster, and you are as short-sighted as a rat from the east of the Yangtze River!"

Wei Yan also boldly looked at Kong Ming at this time and said:

"If the military advisor is..."

What if? Wei Yan couldn't speak any more.

So what if Sima Yi is killed? The military advisor's days are also numbered.

I just hate that the Chinese New Year is not false!