Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Facing Zhang Fei's smiling question, Ma Di was speechless.

After being familiar with the art of war, Ma Su could deduce a result without even thinking about it:

Behead!

But what if the one being killed is myself?

For the first time, Ma Su felt that these two words weighed more than a thousand catties.

Even Zhang Fei's smile became terrifying in Ma Di's eyes.

Seeing that Ma Su remained silent in the end, Zhang Fei shook his head boredly.

At this time, Ma Su's name was mentioned again in the light curtain.

[The first three Northern Expeditions and the Battle of Shiting in Jiangdong, as well as Cao Wei's own Jiangdong strategy, were a war between the Three Kingdoms as a whole.

The most critical figure in this war is undoubtedly Ma Di.

From a macro perspective, there is nothing wrong with the Prime Minister's strategy.

Longyou is the starting point of the Hexi Corridor, with the Alxa Plateau to the north and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to the south.

As long as the Long Road can be cut off, as You Chu said, Longyou will surrender in less than a month.

In this way, Ji Han can send troops to attack Guanzhong at any time, and he will completely take the initiative in the war.

Why is it said that Ma Su violates the bright festival?

Because the purpose of sending Ma Di to Jieting was to interfere with Cao Wei's sending troops to Longyou.

Whether it is to hold on or to harass and block, even if the battle is fought to the last soldier, as long as the dragon can be cut off, strategically it will be a victory.

But although Ma Di, who was in charge of the army for the first time, did not say it, he once again explained that sentence in his actions:

Why can't I play the leading role?

The biggest problem for Ma Su is to concentrate his forces and change from a supporting role to a protagonist.

As a result, through a mental retardation operation, he successfully changed from a supporting role to a clown.

He wanted to concentrate his forces to annihilate Cao Wei's reinforcements, but was defeated by Zhang He's simple Jue Ji.

Generally speaking, tactics need to serve strategy, but the defeat of Ma Di's Jieting was both a strategic and tactical failure, which is unique.

Therefore, it is no wonder that Zhang He did not dare to pursue: after decades of fighting, he has never seen anything like this! 】

Everyone is too lazy to see Ma Di now.

If we can cut off the Long Road, we can defend Longxi.

Kong Ming also thought for a while:

Going west can take what later generations will call the Silk Road, in exchange for endless wealth for military supplies.

To the east is the Guanzhong Plain three hundred miles away. A wanton attack can force Cao's thieves to retreat to Tongguan.

As long as we can accumulate strength and capture Tongguan, the world will be settled.

Guan Yu chewed on the words strategy and tactics mentioned by Guangmu, and increasingly felt that later generations' description of the art of war hit the mark.

Liu Bei sighed:

It's not just money and silk that touches people's hearts. What touches people's hearts is fame and fortune.

Liu Bei felt numb when he read the word protagonist.

If Marquis Sun doesn't want to play the leading role and instead deploys troops north of the Yangtze River, then the Qishan Northern Expedition may really be able to defeat the Long Road.

If Sima Yi and Cao Xiu hadn't been competing to play the leading role, and they had worked together honestly, they might have destroyed Soochow long ago.

If Ma Su didn't want to play the leading role and stayed in the city honestly, the street pavilion wouldn't have been lost and Kong Ming wouldn't have had time to come back for reinforcements.

Everyone sighed a lot for a while, and Ma Su's face became more and more irritable.

[Single-handedly, Ji Han's several years of strength were wiped out, and he abandoned his army and fled, so he should be killed.

Has anyone interceded for Ma Di? Of course there were, but they were all deposed and punished by the prime minister.

One of them, named Chen, was punished by having his hair cut off when he joined the army. This soldier later had a son named Chen Shou.

Chen Shou was a student of Qiao Zhou, the number one surrender faction, and when he was an official, he was often looked down upon by Zhuge Zhan, the son of the prime minister.

So later there was a view that Chen Shou mixed his personal feelings when he compiled the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms.

Because the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms totals sixty-five volumes, Shu Shu has fifteen volumes, accounting for only one-fifth.

Chen Shou's explanation for this is that the country does not have history, and there are no officials to record it.

There are no historians in Shu who record history. Believe it or not, I wrote it like this anyway. 】

This... Kong Ming felt something was slightly wrong for a moment.

Zhang Fei spoke quickly:

If we are separated from future generations by more than a thousand years, doesn't it mean that future generations will have to believe whatever Chen Shou says?

The statue of Lao Zhang is so ugly. Was it written by Chen Shou?

The tiger-like eyes fell on Ma Su again, and Ma Su was terrified:

General Zhang knows clearly that he is just a soldier now.

Fortunately, Guan Yu also remembered:

Third brother, your ugly face is the work of those who advocate excellence in drama.

Zhang Fei had no choice but to let the matter go angrily, and decided to pass on a few more portraits of himself to future generations.

[The lack of history in Shu is a relatively complicated topic.

First of all, the role of historians in the Han Dynasty and what we think of as historians are not the same.

In fact, because the ancients were limited by the times, the work of Taishi Ling in the Han Dynasty was extremely complicated, involving:

Arithmetic, disaster recording, astronomy, calendar, etiquette, assessment, copying and other fields.

Sima Qian is an outlier among them. It is precisely because of the popularity of Shiji that everyone has the illusion that Taishi Ling is the compilation of history.

After Sima Qian, the work of compiling history has always been part-time.

Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty set up Lantai envoys, Emperor Zhang set up Dongguan school secretary, and Emperor Xian set up secretaries and supervisors.

The responsibilities of these positions are librarianship and text editing, and they basically revise history books when they have nothing to do.

However, Ji Han inherited the Han system and did not set up a special historian at the beginning. It was still a combination of historian and heavenly official.

But as the Three Kingdoms gradually stabilized, both Cao and Wu began to compile history.

Cao Rui set up a writer and allowed officials to participate in the compilation of history for the first time; Sun Quan followed suit and in his later years specially set up the History Officer Taishi Ling to compile history.

After the death of the prime minister, Jiang Wan and Fei Yi made a calculation: It would be difficult to regain the Central Plains in a short time. We, the Han Dynasty, should not practice orthodoxy.

As for the name, Ji Han refers to the two Han dynasties, taking the two positions of the Later Han dynasty and combining them into one, creating Dongguan Secretary Lang.

Regarding the people in this position, there are also records in Shu Shu: Que Zheng, Chen Shou, Wang Chong, Sima Shengzhi and Xi Long.

It can be seen from this that, at least in this matter, Chen Shou's statement that the country does not care about history is not reliable. 】

So complicated? Jiang Wan paused after copying his name.

But from this point of view, it is very necessary to set up historians. Kong Ming saw another direction from it:

The following generations are separated by nearly two thousand years, so we can only rely on this book to view the past.

Such a historian's distortion of writing is just a trivial matter. If a historian distorts his records due to his personal likes and dislikes, wouldn't this person be wiped out from history?

Jian Yong proposed another possibility:

If there was no help from Zhou Gongjin in Chibi, Cao Cao would have usurped the Han like this.

After that, I will follow the example of his grandson She Na Shu Lang and forcefully establish the history books.

Wouldn't we all be wiped out in the annals of history? We might even be recorded as rebels.

This result was so terrifying that everyone broke into a cold sweat.

Liu Bei and Kong Ming looked at each other and immediately reached a consensus:

The priority of compiling history can be moved from back to front.

[After one problem was solved, another problem popped up:

In the early days when there were no historians, Shu Shu had very detailed records of important figures, such as Liu Bei and Zhuge Liang.

But the records of other characters are very brief. For example, Jian Yong's biography has 276 words, of which telling jokes to Liu Bei takes up more than 100 words. In the end, Jian Yong's ending is not even explained.

However, with the advent of historians in the later period, the records became simpler.

For example, Wu Yi, as Liu Bei's uncle, can be regarded as a relative of the country;

He is regarded as a high-level general when he is appointed as a chariot general; he and Wei Yan defeated Guo Huai during the Northern Expedition, and is regarded as a famous general.

He has the triple identity of a high-level national relative and a famous general, but as a result, he does not even have a separate biography. 】

Jian Yong shook his head and smiled bitterly:

I was still speculating on how Yong died, but it ended like this.

Mi Zhu comforted:

At least Xianhe can pass down his name to future generations with his humorous name.

Where is Mi Zhu? What happened was that his younger brother fell ill due to shame and died at the age of three.

There is actually a sister-in-law!

Zhang Fei noticed this at a glance.

Then he looked at Jian Yong: Mr. Jian, does he know my sister-in-law?

Seeing that Liu Bei was also curious, Jian Yong nodded and said:

Zhonglang General Wu Yi has a sister named Wu Ran, who has a good reputation.

Just when Zhang Fei and Guan Yu opened their mouths to congratulate their brother, they heard Jian Yong faintly say:

Married to Liu Yan's third son, Liu Mao, who went crazy and died last year.

Ah this... Zhang Fei and Guan Yu looked at each other, and Liu Bei's expression became strange.

Zhang Fei thought for a while and congratulated:

Brother is really like the great ancestor!

Liu Bei didn't hesitate, grabbed the cup on the table and threw it towards Zhang Fei.

[These strange features of Shu Shu need to be viewed in relation to the historical background.

The fall of Ji Han was different from the fall of Soochow. When Ji Han fell, Jiang Wei triggered the Zhonghui Rebellion.

For this reason, the old man Ji Han was called a chaos-loving man and was moved to Hedong and Henan, where he was either a prisoner or a slave.

When Ji Han was an official, Chen Shou was happy as the secretary of Dongguan for only three or four years. Then he first offended Huang Hao and was despised by Zhuge Zhan.

Later, he became a man who subjugated his country and worked hard labor for about seven years. Five years after the death of Wei, the old officials of Ji and Han were allowed to surrender with their old official titles.

When Chen Shou wrote the Book of Shu, the impact of the Zhonghui Rebellion had not yet been completely eliminated, so he did not show his understanding of the later Northern Expedition generals to avoid trouble.

For comparison, Chen Shou's teacher Qiao Zhou wrote The Book of Shu, which has been lost.

Wang Chong, who was Dongguan's secretary-general with Chen Shou, authored Shu Shu, which has also been lost.

We now have a saying that whoever controls the past controls the future.

It’s perfect to put it on here. 】

To control the past is to control the future?

The monarchs and ministers of the Tang Dynasty couldn't help but have mixed feelings as they savored these words.

They are now following the established principle of revising the history of the previous dynasty and are already compiling the Book of Jin.

But I didn’t expect this history book to be so important?

Li Shimin even thought of the General History of China written by later generations and felt a little itchy.

I wonder how future generations will judge me?

Li Jing was also curious:

I wonder how many characters can I occupy in the history of the Tang Dynasty?

Li Shimin laughed:

If the pharmacist can avenge my humiliation by destroying the Turks, he should be the first to welcome him to the Martial Temple and set up a monument to commemorate him!

The anti-British monument in front of the light curtain gave Li Shimin new ideas:

Why seal the mountains and lay stones? Chiseling huge rocks, establishing Chang'an, and praising his merits and inscriptions will reveal himself as an emperor through the ages!

Fang Xuanling carefully copied the light screen, and then heard his name:

[As for the unreliability of history books.

The Magic Book Catalog supervised by Fang Xuanling is on the list! 】

Today's game was ridiculously busy, but luckily I got off work at 3:00.

The second one is more likely to be late, sorry.

This chapter is a bit dry, and the next chapter will try to be more interesting.