"Don't exaggerate the color, but leave it clean." Turning over the thick history, we can see that countless individual characters eventually withered into several pieces of text, and they all did not want to appear in the history books with high positive roles before they died, so as to make their colors through history and be admired.
Undoubtedly, Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty made the most comprehensive protection for the posthumous name, so like a superb time designer, he finally made his body covered with aura, and the incident happened in a certain layout of the three years of Zhenguan.
Li Shimin
In this year, according to Li Shimin's design, the chancellor was responsible for supervising the revision of the "National History", and this high level of institutional standards undoubtedly made the "National History" work an extremely important part of the empire. At this time, Fang Xuanling, the prime minister, just happened to supervise the revision of the "History of the State" as the prime minister, and it can be seen that Li Shimin had great trust in him. Between the conversations between the monarchs and the courtiers, Li Shimin set the tone for the style of the history of the Tang Dynasty: "Compared with the "Book of Han," it contains falsehood and Shanglin Fu, and it is useless to be flashy." Then the "History of the State" of the Tang Dynasty should "write a book to discuss things, the words are straight, and those who obey or disobey should be carried out." That is to say, no matter how pragmatic government criticisms officials express, whether Li Shimin himself agrees or not, it must be truthfully recorded, but then Li Shimin begins to worry about how history will define his past.
The change of Xuanwu Gate
The ascension to the throne of the Xuanwumen Incident, which had once made him crown prince and a throne overlooking the empire, also became a nightmare that he would never forget. In any case, Li Shimin's personal killing of his flesh and blood brothers was contrary to tradition in any case, and blood stains must be sprayed on various editions of books, so he was worried about how to dilute or smear the blood of his brothers who were red.
Six years later, when Li Yuan died, Li Shimin wanted to see what his "Living Up" really looked like, and zhu Zihao, the counselor at the time, came up with a large number of reasons to refuse, and comforted Li Shimin: "There is no fault in the holy bow, according to the historian, righteousness is perfect." Li Shimin listened and expressed his approval.
Thirteen years after Zhenguan, Chu Suiliang was responsible for compiling the "Notes on Living Quarters", and Li Shimin asked him without shyness: "Qing is responsible for the Notes on Living Quarters, what exactly is written?" Is it okay to show an emperor like me? And promised to see only because of the fear that they have been wronged, "will be to see what they have done to warn themselves." Chu Suiliang, rather ignorant of current affairs, replied passionately: "The current living notes are similar to the ancient history of the left and right, recording the emperor's words and deeds, good or bad, but I have never heard of a precedent for the emperor to look at his own living notes." Li Shimin, who was at the top, was quite embarrassed and dumbfounded, and finally had to ask sadly: "If there is something unkind, Qing Bijieye?" If I really have something bad, do you really dare to write it down? Chu Suiliang's answer is also relatively clean, I am doing this line of work, how can I not write it? The waiter next to him hit the round field and said, "Whether the emperor is at fault is like an eclipse of the sun and the moon, everyone can see it, even if Chu Suiliang does not remember it, everyone in the world will remember it."
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One day in the following year, Li Shimin once again discussed the issue of national history with Fang Xuanling, and once again raised doubts: "I don't know the history of the country since ancient times, why don't the emperors see it?" Fang Xuanling replied: "Since the history of the country is good and evil, it is not illegal for a few people to be the lord. He should be afraid of his intentions, so he should not see it. Li Shimin had to showdown and said: "I am completely different from what the ancients thought, today I want to see the history of the country, it is nothing more than writing good things and it does not matter, if I write badly, I will refer to it as a police training, so that I can correct it later." At this point, Fang Xuanling had to do so, so he and Xu Jingzong deleted the "History of the State" and changed it to "Records" and submitted it to Li Shimin for personal reading.
Sure enough, li Shimin's description of the Xuanwumen incident that Li Shimin was most worried about made him very dissatisfied, "Emperor Taizong saw the events of June 4, and he spoke a lot of words." What should I do if I am not satisfied? It is not okay to delete it, because this major event has long been known to the whole world, so Li Shimin has a different perspective to evaluate this matter, believing that this is the same as zhou gong who killed the traitor, "What is done is the same as this, so the peace of the society, the benefit of the people's ears." Therefore, the final tone was set: "Shi Guan wrote, why should there be concealment?" It is advisable to change the rhetoric and write the matter directly. ”
The rule of Kaiyuan
According to Li Shimin's logic, his change in Xuanwumen is of great historical and progressive significance, a just move of "Ansheji" and "benefiting the people", and a helpless choice for the great righteousness and annihilation of relatives. In the end, he demanded from Chu Suiliang that "I will not write evil."
After that, Li Shimin fully grasped the absolute right to speak in the compilation of national history, and Fang Xuanling, Xu Jingzong, and others who were responsible for these work were rewarded for this, and the things that had long made Li Shimin anxious could be solved.
What are the consequences of the "Record" that was personally "guarded" by Li Shimin? Nature is a layer of clouds and mist, so that the glory of the Tang Dynasty is shrouded in a mystery that will never dissipate.
According to Li Shimin's historical logic, only by completely denying Li Jiancheng's early role in the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, and then his back will be fully enlarged, which is obviously not in line with the real history.
Fighting brothers and sons and soldiers vividly reproduced the vivid picture of how Li Yuan led several sons of the dragon and the tiger to open up the foundation. Beginning in the thirteenth year of Daye, according to Li Yuan's distribution, several sons were responsible for different divisions of labor but coordinated and effectively promoted the plan of the entire battlefield. Later historical data show that although Li Shimin subverted the essence of the "Record", there are other works that give a comprehensive and clear description of Li Jiancheng's deeds, at least, the Li family's military merit medal is half of his Li Jiancheng. Especially in the decisive battle to capture Chang'an, Li Jiancheng was responsible for the east and south, Li Shimin was responsible for the west and north, and the first to break through the city was Li Jiancheng's department. However, for Li Shimin, who is well versed in historical tactics, to be able to easily rewrite this, these are not obstacles.
Chastity politicians
Like the superb calligraphers, how to make a work invisible better than the tangible is the highest wonderful state. As for the eldest son system, these are also covered up by his infinitely magnified battle achievements, abilities, and wisdom, and Li Tang's people should be glad that this man once saved the world from water and fire at a critical moment in the Tang Dynasty. The later Old Book of Tang also described the incident, arguing that Li Shimin "conspired with Prince Yuanji of Qi to kill himself and led his troops to punish him." ”
In addition, the descriptions of this history in other works at the same time add more convincing examples, arguing that "building cruelty" and not being able to preside over Li Tangjiangshan, Li Yuanji is even more "fierce", with "traces of overturning the nest". In the end, the conclusion was: "If it were not for Emperor Taizong's rebellion and obedience, and his accumulation of merit and merit, how could he have built up Li Tang's foundation for three hundred years?"
It is certain that Li Shimin is a first-class figure in Datang, in addition to hard power, the packaging of soft power cannot be ignored. Both the relevant historiography of Li Shimin before his death and the conclusion of the coffin after his death have been more standardized and highly evaluated the historical status of Li Shimin. The rule of Zhenguan is like a fierce wind that swept through the course of great history, and even Li Longji's period is still thinking about the past of his ancestors: "The wind of Zhenguan is revived." Rest with the people, than the house can be sealed. Regarding Li Shimin's posthumous evaluation, especially the "Zhenguan Zhijiao" is the most comprehensive and successful. At the beginning of his reign, his descendant Tang Xianzong said quite affectionately: "When you read the records of the Holy Records, you can see the stories of Zhenguan and Kaiyuan, and you can't release the scrolls." Coincidentally, Tang Wenzong "when he was in the domain, he liked to read the Zhenguan Politicians, and whenever he saw Emperor Taizong's diligent political path, he was interested in Yuzi. Li Tang's disciples' worship of Li Shimin set off several degrees of fanaticism in Li Tang, perhaps this is exactly what Li Shimin wanted at first.