Spoiling History: Starting from the Three Kingdoms

Hey, this is my first time seeing Taicang like this.

Zhang Fei is not very interested in this Tianshu, but he is very interested in the materials used to pour it:

A million catties of red gold! This old lady's descendants will not worry about money.

Liu Bei nodded for the first time and agreed with his third brother's words, and suddenly thought of the First Emperor's twelve golden men.

Legend has it that after the world was settled, the soldiers of the world were gathered and twelve golden figures weighing a thousand stones were cast and placed in the palace of the Qin Emperor.

However, there are different opinions on whether this legend is true or false, and the final whereabouts of the Jin people. Liu Bei has always regarded it as a story.

But now looking at the introduction of the light curtain, it doesn't matter whether the twelve golden figures in the pre-Qin Dynasty are real or fake. At least the Tianshu Pillar of the Tang Dynasty is indeed real.

This made Liu Bei extremely envious.

When I was in Jingnan, I was said to be very poor. It was not until later with the spread of sugar, paper and brocade that things got better step by step.

But behind the high-spirited shout of return to the Three Qins is Kong Ming's ruthless message:

With the current treasury used in Yongliang Pass to carry out various major plans, it is nothing more than a drop in the bucket.

Liu Bei also thought that he was already quite wealthy during the Zhenguan period of the early Tang Dynasty, but he did not expect that compared with the descendants of Your Majesty Erfeng, their wealth was only a drop in the bucket.

Gather tens of billions of wealth from the Hu people and give gold and copper to the people to make up for it...

Liu Bei shook his head and thought about it, it turned out that being the eldest brother also has this benefit! learned!

Ma Chao could clearly see the lord's expression in the previous scene. Thinking about himself as a newcomer, and then thinking about the lord's generous promise and the vaguely revealed ending before, blood rushed to his head in an instant:

Why do you need to covet, my lord? Qiang and Hu also have copper and iron! If it's not enough, I, Ma Chao, am willing to lead Jian'er to Hexi!

What is coveting! Moreover, it was originally planned to let Ma Chao lead the Qiang and Hu back to Xia, how could he conquer their copper and iron? So Liu Bei immediately scolded him with a straight face:

How can the Zaqiang not be Han? Moreover, gold and iron cannot be eaten or drank, so what is the use of them?

Meng Qixiu wants to say this again. If I hear it again, I won't let him go!

Ma Chao immediately complained.

Liu Bei waved his hand and said warmly:

However, Meng Qi's sincerity is commendable. When the sun rises from Tongguan, you will be sent to be the vanguard of the three armies.

So Ma Chao turned his fear into joy.

Zhang Fei was a little annoyed as soon as these words came out, and he immediately stood up and said:

Brother, I want to be a pioneer together.

Facing this third brother who was still talking indiscriminately just now, Liu Bei waved his hand:

This is not allowed.

A few days ago, Kong Ming said personally that both Yide, Mengqi, and Mengqi were both coarse and fine, but if they both came out at the same time, they would only be coarse.

After thinking about it carefully, Liu Bei felt that it made sense, so he refused without hesitation.

Zhang Fei sat down angrily, feeling that his brother was acting unreasonably:

Later generations have said that if you hit a stick, give a sweet date.

Didn’t I, Lao Zhang, get beaten much more than this Ma Mengqi?

Why was Ma Mengqi the only one eating dates at this time?

Kong Ming knocked on the table funnyly to attract Zhang Fei's attention and said:

If we leave Tongguan, there will be more than one army all the way?

Zhang Fei then changed his mind and said: It is better to be a military advisor.

Lu Su, who was next to Kong Ming, had already listened to Pang Tong's brief explanation. At this time, he also combined the map hanging behind that he had just understood, and gave his own judgment while being shocked and amazed:

If we want long-term peace and stability in the Western Regions, we must have military towns.

Relaxing orders in the morning and evening will damage the emperor's majesty and harm the Western Region's attachment to the Han Dynasty.

Seeing Pang Tong nodding in agreement, Lu Su pretended to be casual and asked in a low voice:

When will you attack Cao Cao?

Pang Tong glanced at Lu Su and then smiled:

Zijing also wants to seek career in the Central Plains for General Zuo?

Lu Su was speechless, and in the end he could only shake his head in sadness.

Pang Tong smiled and said nothing. At this time, what he and Lu Su were briefly describing was the history of the Sui and Tang Dynasties. When he turned back, he would look at the so-called crossing the river in white clothes, Zhang Liao's eight hundred tigers, and the cunning being repeatedly called the king...

Pang Tong had confidence in Lu Su, but he still did not forget to add:

The attack on Cao Cao will not start until next year at the latest.

This sentence made Lu Su feel even more itchy.

[When we look back at history now, we often talk about the meaning of some things.

For example, the Wanxiang Shrine built by Wu Zetian is a wooden building built strictly in accordance with Confucian etiquette. It is the largest in the history of the world from ancient times to the present, and has cultural research and architectural significance.

What is the function of Tianshu? This thing has neither the real center of the world nor the real power to overwhelm all the barbarians.

The only function is probably that when Li Longji took over this empire riddled with holes, he could melt this pillar as the first start-up capital for rebuilding the prosperous age.

Here we can talk about Mingtang by the way.

Mingtang is the name of the property, that is, the hall of Ming politics and religion. There was a plan to build it when the Sui Dynasty was founded, but in the end it was abandoned because Daxing (Chang'an) was the capital.

After Li Zhiga died and the old lady took over all the power, Mingtang's plan was really restarted, and it moved very quickly. It was officially completed five years after Li Zhi's death and was named Wanxiang Shrine. After Wu Zhou established it, he stayed here every day to watch The Great Music of the Shrine.

A big copper pillar like Tianshu could only please the old lady for a while, but the next year she felt that it was meaningless to look at it every day. This time, there was no need for the Wu family to come forward, and the old lady could have enough food and clothing by herself.

On the first day of the Lunar New Year this year, the old lady happily gave herself a title:

The Ci family, the ancient Golden Wheel Holy God emperor, gave the world a general amnesty.

Then the old lady went on to create the auspiciousness herself.

First, a Dharma conference was held behind closed doors at the Wanxiang Shrine. The attendants were secretly ordered to bring in a cow, kill it, and use the cow's blood to draw a 60-meter-long Buddha statue on the ground.

Then he ordered the guards to dig out the Buddha statues that had been buried here from the ground, and then once again issued an edict to the world:

I was so fascinated by Buddhism that I unknowingly stabbed my best friend Xue Huaiyi and drew his blood to draw a Buddha statue. Unexpectedly, the blood Buddha statue I drew moved the heavens and a Buddha statue emerged from the ground. Do you think it is magical or not?

Of course no one believed this, but it didn’t matter.

But one bad thing about this Dharma conference is that the old lady discovered that there was a very decent doctor named Shen Nan, and she was summoned every day to study medical theory regardless of whether the doctor Shen was willing or not.

Xue Huaiyi, who fell out of favor, was very angry: I worked hard to collect money for you to build heaven. Ladies, if you are unkind, don't blame me for being unjust. Watch me burn down heaven!

After the completion of the Wanxiang Shrine, Wu Zetian thought about proclaiming himself emperor through wonders. First, she built a huge Buddha statue in the north of the Mingtang that could hold dozens of people, and then built a paradise outside using this unprecedentedly large Buddha statue as the skeleton. , as the place where Wu Zetian herself meditated on Buddhism, it is also the tallest wooden building in the history of the world.

The cost of this can only be said to be huge. Therefore, when building Tianshu, on the one hand, money must be scraped from the barbarians, and on the other hand, bronzes must be collected from the people, because the treasury is really empty and can run away.

Xue Huaiyi relied on Wu Zetian's favor in the past and was very reckless. He just started burning it. Unfortunately, there was a strong wind that day, and the fire quickly spread to the old lady who was burned in the Mingtang.

Xue Huaiyi was frightened and went to plead guilty. What made him extremely happy was that the emperor really favored him. He not only comforted him kindly, but also gave Xue Huaiyi the task of restoring the second hall.

But in fact, the old lady was so angry that she just wanted to squeeze out the last bit of use value from Xue Huaiyi. After all, the empty treasury really needs treacherous people like Xue Huaiyi to make money.

In fact, it was true that after the funds for the reconstruction of Tiantang Mingtang were almost raised, the old lady simply summoned Xue Huaiyi into the palace and ordered the guards to beat him to death.

In addition, the old lady gave an additional order, saying that she was too old to see blood.

The person who did it asked what to do with it?

The old lady smiled and said: Burn his body and put it at the bottom of the White Horse Temple Tower.

After finishing this matter, Wu Zetian changed her title to avoid the bad luck:

The Jinlun Great Sage Emperor changed his reign to Long Live Tianzhu and once again granted amnesty to the world.

At the end of the year, in order to forget about the unlucky incident, Wu Zetian led a guard of honor on a trip to Mount Song. The purpose was simple: to confer Zen status!

This is also the only emperor in history who was granted Zen status twice, and it is also the only time that Songshan was used as a place of Zen status.

Now that she had been granted the title of Zen, with the criminals waiting eagerly, Wu Zetian unsurprisingly granted amnesty to the whole country again. To commemorate this event, she changed the reign title: Long live the title of Zen.

Three months later, the rebuilt Mingtang was officially completed. The old lady thought that the name of Wanxiang Shrine was unlucky, so she changed its name to Tongtian Palace.

To commemorate this event, Wu Zetian changed the reign name: Long Live Tongtian. And once again granted amnesty to the world.

Within half a year, there were three year changes and three lines of amnesty. This was Wu Zetian's Tongtian Empire. 】

Even after taking a bitter pill.

Even if you are mentally prepared.

Even with Empress Changsun taking care of her.

But Li Shimin was still so angry that his beard trembled, and he angrily shouted:

absurd!

With such an amnesty, how can the prison be peaceful for the people?

How can a country be called a country when criminals are so young that they run rampant in the countryside without being restrained?

Empress Changsun smiled bitterly. She could also imagine that the people in the village had nothing to rely on, and the only thing they could rely on was the law.

But if a thief who bullies a household keeps causing trouble and is pardoned three times, how will he feel?

She even remembered what her husband had said to her before when he praised Li Shimin for his carefulness in issuing the amnesty order:

The emperor wanted to show his kindness by granting a pardon, but to say this to the countryside in the capital of Guizhou is no different from a natural disaster.

The head of Guizhou does not know God's grace. He only knows that those who kill his relatives do not have to pay the penalty. The law is empty words.

The guilty know that they have heaven's grace, but if they are not punished, they will have nothing to fear. The emperor is acting as an assistant to the tiger.

With this comparison, and the fact that the empress was only one generation away from Zhenguan at this time, it is no wonder that her husband acted like this.

Why should everyone be angry? This girl can be taught, this law can be changed, and future troubles can be prevented.

After some consolation, Li Shimin slowly put away his anger and sat down. Then he stared at the scene of the Heavenly Hall marked as Special Effects Restoration Picture released on the light screen, shook his head and sighed:

There is no military force to intimidate, only superficial appearance.

Du Ruhui also sighed:

All the wealth and wealth in Zuozang's treasury are used here and then passed on to the people. Where can the expenses of the border troops come from?

Your Majesty has made hundreds of achievements in battle, and only one West Pole Monument has achieved merit.

This woman has only won one battle, and she boasts all over the world. How can the soldiers fight to the death?

Du Ruhui's words made others nod frequently. They all came from fighting in the late Sui Dynasty. They had gone through more than a hundred battles. Even Ru Fang, Du and others had to fight with His Majesty occasionally.

According to the history of later generations, in just twenty years, everyone worked together to build the foundation of the Tang Dynasty, making a contribution to the annals of history and having nothing to boast about.

Did the Empress Wu Zhou destroy Tubo or did she completely wipe out the Western Turks?

For a moment, everyone in the hall couldn't help but feel a sense of absurdity.

And God... the woman has such an effect, no wonder the Buddha can cause trouble in the future.

Fang Xuanling muttered.

Hearing this, he roughly understood what the empress had done...

It is equivalent to His Majesty suddenly going crazy and setting up a stage in the Tai Chi Hall, inviting actors to act, and then dragging an ox to draw blood to make a portrait of me, claiming that it was a miracle painted by his beloved concubine’s blood donation. There is also a statue of me underneath. Oh, what auspiciousness comes from heaven! Why don't we change the name of the year and grant amnesty to the world?

Just thinking about Fang Xuanling for a moment made me feel tired, and in the end I could only sigh silently:

Our old house has caught up with a good era... Oh, by the way, we must not forget to avoid getting married to His Majesty.

Sun Simiao next to Li Shimin shook his head in disdain. After all, he now knew that this Buddha, like those rebellious Taoist priests, had no magical powers and could not cure diseases and bring peace to the people, so they were useless.

Yan Lide, who was next to Sun Simiao, had a bright light in his eyes, and he couldn't wait to start copying. However, he soon realized the first difficulty of copying like this. It was difficult to be accurate without having anything to rely on.

Otherwise... use the method described by my brother?

According to his younger brother, under the supervision of Imperial Physician Sun, he painted not only the internal organs but also the bones of the corpse. Finally, he encountered difficulties when Imperial Physician Sun wanted to find out how the blood circulated throughout the body, and he gave Yan Liben a summary of the drawings. of leisure.

In the end, the core is one sentence: first paint the bones, then paint the skin, and you will get the spirit.

For Yan Liben, who is good at architecture, this problem is also easy to answer: rafters and beams are the bones of the palace and towers.

Although it is difficult to paint the rafters and beams of these two peerless palaces, it is much easier to imitate them.

While drawing, Yan Lide couldn't help but glance at his younger brother:

The skill of painting is really better than that of many brothers!

…

Wonder makes you emperor?

Kong Ming was dumbfounded, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that it still made some sense.

Just like the Xiping Stone Classic that haunted Kong Ming.

In the sixth year of Guanghe's reign, Emperor Ling adopted Cai Yong's advice and revised the Confucian classics. He cut the Seven Classics into stone and made forty-six steles, which were erected outside Taixue.

At that time, the world was in shock, and students from the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty were all unwilling to go to Luoyang to have a look at the copy. Moreover, because it was corrected by a great Confucian scholar from Taixue, and there were no mistakes in the writing, people at the time also called it the One-Character Stone Classic.

Now that he has been looking at the light curtain for a long time, Kong Ming has also learned to see things beyond the shackles. It is conceivable that if there are no troubled times, this stone scripture is enough to push the Han Dynasty scholarship to a new peak. It can be called a miracle, but...

I wonder how many of the forty-six steles in Luoyang are left today?

So Kong Ming also took notes and wrote down his thoughts:

Ruling the country with civil and military forces is the main task, and the wonders and achievements are supplementary. The majesty of the country can shine through the ages.

However, in Kong Ming's view, this wonder is not the paradise of the Empress Wu Zhou.

Qin built the Dujiangyan Irrigation System, bringing blessings to thousands of generations.

The Han Dynasty hangs its Chan on its head to intimidate the barbarians.

The champion Hou Changqi is a shining star in the history of Han Dynasty.

Yan Ranle's fame will be respected by future generations.

All of them can be called wonders that benefit the country.

It is really uncomfortable to be diagnosed with viral influenza A. Please take good care of your health and avoid falling ill.

I'm in a state of flux today, my throat is a little better, my nose is severely blocked, and my temperature was 38 in the afternoon, so I only have these 4K words left. I'll go to bed early, hoping to be better tomorrow.

In addition, we have seen that the Wu Zetian controversy is mainly a matter of perspective. There is a big difference between the merits and demerits of the empress Wu Zetian and the historical figure Wu Zetian.