Chapter 711: 'Illustration of Ten Thousand Demons'; Zhou Gong executed Guan Cai
In fact, after the destruction of the ancient heaven, Bai Ze showed up in the Three Realms.
It is said that when the Yellow Emperor came to the east coast on his patrol, he encountered Bai Ze. There is a book record saying: The beast was patrolled by the Yellow Emperor. As for the east coast, the beast came out. It could speak and understand the essence of all things, so as to warn the people.
Get rid of harm in time.
The meaning is that once the Yellow Emperor went on a hunting tour to the coast of the East China Sea, and a wild beast appeared. It could speak human language, understand the emotions and principles of all things, and used it to warn the people and eliminate harm to the society at that time.
In addition, the last time Bai Ze appeared in the human world, he also told the emperor about the situation of monsters in the world, a total of 11,520 kinds. The Yellow Emperor ordered people to record it. This is the "Baize Picture".
It's just that this "Baize Picture" has been lost in the world.
The reason why the human kings back then were able to come to their door one by one and "discuss the Tao" with the great demons of the Three Realms was because of the existence of "Baize Picture"... Why did Baize keep hiding? In fact,
There is also a reason for this. After all, as soon as the "Baize Picture" came out, the demon clan of the three realms had no secrets in front of the human king.
But there was nothing Bai Ze could do...Although the human race's historical records stated that the Yellow Emperor encountered Bai Ze by chance during his eastward patrol...but only those involved knew that it was the Yellow Emperor who led the army specifically to capture him.
Bai Ze fled all the way from Beiju Luzhou to the coast of the East China Sea... but he still did not escape the Yellow Emperor's pursuit.
It's not that his magical powers don't work in front of the Yellow Emperor, it's just that his magical powers are no match for Heaven... When Emperor Xuanyuan controlled the fate of the human king and searched for Bai Ze's whereabouts in the Three Realms, it was difficult for him to hide.
After all, this Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor is not only one of the Three Holy Emperors of the human race, he is also the king of the human world, the true king of humans.
Even the gods in heaven must obey his orders when they come down to earth.
Even if God Haotian descends to the mortal world, the two parties are still brothers... At most, Huangdi Xuanyuan calls God Haotian brother, but in fact, their status is basically the same.
At that time, Heaven was in dire straits waiting to be renovated... Haotian also acted cautiously in the Three Realms and was about to work hard to rebuild Heaven.
In fact, today the Heavenly Court and the Human Race basically developed together at the same time... They are also considered natural allies. Therefore, the Heavenly Court and the Human Race signed a treaty of mutual offensive and defensive assistance... It's just that this treaty was made by the Great Master of Xuandu at that time.
In the name of the religion, it was signed on behalf of the human race.
Later, several human kings only knew about this matter, and still reached cooperation with the Heavenly Court... Until the end of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors period, Dayu established the Xia Dynasty, Yinglong and other gods either returned to the Heavenly Court or returned to West Kunlun
...The subsequent human kings could not reproduce the glory of their ancestors, and the cooperative relationship between the two parties gradually came to an end.
Of course, heaven's help to humans is not free.
During that period of time, many masters from the human race were recruited to heaven, and this was considered as reward.
Because of the past between Bai Ze and Huangdi, Bai Ze has become one of the auspicious beasts of the human race. Therefore, there are rumors that Bai Ze only appears when "the king is virtuous" and can ward off all evil spirits in the world.
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Now that Bai Ze has once again appeared in the human world...it is hard not to think that it is for Li Shimin.
Now that Bai Ze's identity has been deduced, everyone must report all the information about Bai Ze, sort it out, and conduct targeted analysis.
Moreover, Li Shimin also invited Yingzhao, who was also one of the top ten demon commanders in the ancient heaven, and was a colleague of Bai Ze.
Moreover, both parties are demon commanders who are close to the human race. Of course, the relationship between them must be closer. In fact, this is also the case... When Bai Ze, Yingzhao and Bi Fang were serving in Tianting, they were actually always together.
Emperor Fuxi works under the command of Emperor Fuxi, and Emperor Fuxi is the biological brother of Empress Nuwa, and the human race is controlled by Empress Nuwa... Of course Emperor Fuxi will be close to the human race. As the saying goes, Bai Ze, Yingzhao and Bi Fang are of course the same.
Standing on the side of Emperor Fuxi.
"If it's Bai Ze..." Yingzhao thought for a while, but said it bluntly to Li Shimin, "If it doesn't sincerely surrender, even if it's strong, it won't last long... Back then, Emperor Xuanyuan wanted to recruit Bai Ze
As a human priest, Bai Ze should not...Huang Di said, if you don't obey, you will be killed."
When everyone heard this, they could probably imagine the scene where Emperor Xuanyuan put the Xuanyuan Sword on Bai Ze's neck and asked him to choose between death and obedience.
He is worthy of being the Holy Emperor Xuanyuan, and he is indeed domineering.
Just thinking about this scene in his mind, Li Shimin was already feeling itchy. He wished he could lead the human army right now to conquer the three states and unify the world.
"and after?"
Fahai rarely encounters things that he has never understood before. Of course, he will be curious about the subsequent development. After all, as far as they know... Bai Zeke did not join the human race or work for the human race.
"Bai Ze still refused to obey. Faced with the tough attitude of Emperor Xuanyuan, it also showed its character - it would rather die." After all, Yingzhao was an insider and one of the witnesses. When Emperor Xuanyuan conquered Chiyou,
At that time, he also put in a lot of effort... Later, when he "recruited" Bai Ze, Yingzhao also put forward many constructive suggestions to Xuanyuan Huangdi, helping Huangdi successfully intercept Baize on the coast of the East China Sea.
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"But the result is obviously not like this." Li Chunfeng knew that there would be a sequel to this matter. If Bai Ze was killed by the Yellow Emperor, who would he be now? But it is also true that Bai Ze did not join the human race and become a human priest.
"Xuanyuan Huangdi still cherishes talents... Of course he did not kill Bai Ze because of this, but in exchange for letting Bai Ze save his life, Xuanyuan Huangdi made Bai Ze swear that when he meets the human king he thinks he can assist in the future
, you must go out of the mountain to worship under the command of the human king and serve the human race..."
"This..." Li Shimin said from the side, "Whether he agrees to it or not depends entirely on Bai Ze's own will... This condition has no binding force on Bai Ze at all."
Yingzhao smiled and said to Li Shimin: "Your Majesty, you don't know. Bai Ze has always refused to make promises easily. Once he makes a promise, he will definitely fulfill it."
Xue Rengui on the side said: "Whether he approves or not, doesn't it all depend on Bai Ze's mouth? Who knows what he is thinking in his heart?"
Yingzhao said to Xue Rengui again: "If you put it like this... I really can't explain it... But Bai Ze also thought that just such a promise was not very convincing, so he took the initiative to ask Xuanyuan Huangdi
I presented the "Ten Thousand Demons Illustration"... which is the "Baize Tu" helmed by kings of all ages."
As soon as this picture came out, the demons knew Bai Ze's position... It can be said that Bai Ze cut himself off from the demon clan and made it clear to Emperor Xuanyuan... Even if I can't meet a human king worthy of my assistance in the future, then I won't
A way to help the demon clan deal with the human clan.
Although Yingzhao's words are quite different from the historical records... But that's how the words are. Both Fa Hai and Li Shimin are very clear about this.
The former is because his third disciple, Sha Wujing, is a rare "novelist" in the Three Realms today, but as long as the articles and storybooks written by him are in short supply in the Three Realms.
Of course, Fa Hai has read those novels written by Wu Jing. After all, whenever Wu Jing's new works come out, they will be sent to the master as soon as possible... Fa Hai also admires Wu Jing's Spring and Autumn style of writing.
Endless.
Especially some of the things that happened on the westbound journey, obviously the beginning and the process are different, but the ending is always the same.
This kind of writing style that combines true and false, and combines false and true, is also the characteristic of Wu Jing's writing. It can be seen that... this seemingly dutiful monk with thick eyebrows and big eyes is actually not honest at all.
As for the latter, Li Shimin, because of the fact that he killed his brother and forced his father... he was very concerned about his image among historians. He was eager to know how those historians would record him in the history books.
Before the Tang Dynasty... no king would do such a thing.
Even the most stupid emperor did not interfere with the historians recording the facts, and the historians have always regarded "writing straight and straight" as their glorious tradition and paid attention to seeking truth from facts.
And before the Tang Dynasty, the emperors of all dynasties also recognized the ethics of historians and were willing to give them a certain special status for this purpose...not to interfere in the revision of national history, especially their daily records.
Don't even look at it.
Even the existence of daily living records would make emperors pay attention to their words to a certain extent...for fear that historians would record some of their bad words and deeds.
As for the historians of the past dynasties... they were usually taught by disciples.
As disciples of the Human Religion, they were able to withstand the pressure of the Emperor to a certain extent... Otherwise, they would just be ordinary historians, and they might not be able to ignore the Emperor's aura and write straightly.
Li Shimin... finally broke this unspoken rule.
Because he was too concerned about the "Xuanwu Gate" incident, his mind could never be at peace. He didn't know how the historians would record this day in the history books, and he didn't know how the historians would evaluate him...
And everything he has done since he ascended the throne is to eliminate the negative impact that day brought to him.
How could he not care about how it is recorded in history books?
It's just that Li Shimin underestimated the ethics of the historians. After repeated trials, Li Shimin knew that it would be difficult for him to read the records of the historians through conventional means.
But if you use something strong, I'm afraid it will arouse the rebellious psychology of the historians. By then... I'm afraid there will be one more piece of black information in the history books. This is definitely not something Li Shimin can tolerate.
But in the end he still saw the records of the historians. He first made the History Museum, which was originally under the Secretariat, independent, and replaced the original work bureau's responsibility for compiling history. He placed the History Museum's Yamen under the ban and became directly under the emperor.
One of the institutions also ordered Fang Xuanling to supervise the compilation of national history as Shangshu Zuopushe.
From this move, we can see that Li Shimin's scheduling method is extremely proficient.
Initially, the historians thought that this move was because Li Shimin attached great importance to the compilation of history books, but soon they found out... It turned out that the emperor's purpose was to read the history books.
This time, although the attitude of the historians was still firm, it was Fang Xuanling who was in charge of compiling the history... This was a die-hard confidant of Li Shimin.
When Li Shimin asked the historians why the emperor was not allowed to read the history of the country... Fang Xuanling, an old subordinate, had already guessed what his majesty was thinking.
It's just that some words are difficult to express openly. After all, this is a matter of convention, especially with the example of "Sima Qian" in front of him, and it has become a moral character and moral character that later generations of historians will compete to inherit.
History serves as a duty, Shen serves as an exhortation, and a tree hears the wind;
The so-called straight writer does not cover up evil and does not pretend to be beautiful. Writing is beneficial to praise and criticism, while not writing does not harm admonishment;
It would be better to be a orchid and destroy a jade, than to be a mistress and ai Rong...
These are the moral and professional ethics that historians believe in.
However, under the system of feudal autocratic monarchy, historians also suffered many disasters...but this did not make them succumb.
Of course, Fang Xuanling could not say these words in public. He only said: "I am afraid that some records in the history books will affect His Majesty's mood, so it is not convenient to take them out and read them."
Li Shimin was well prepared and said: "My intention is different from those of the past emperors. I am reading the history of the country now to have a certain understanding of some of my previous mistakes so as not to make them again... Ai Qing can arrange the history of the country according to time.
The order has been sorted and submitted."
I have to say that Li Shimin's character of "taking history as a mirror" is still here. What he said... there is really nothing wrong with it, and even the historians have no room for refutation.
Moreover, the "chief editor" was Fang Xuanling, and Li Shimin finally got his wish and saw the history of the country.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! However, the facts were not what he expected... The description of the day of the Xuanwumen Incident still made Li Shimin confused for a moment.
In fact, the historian's records of that day are basically facts... and there is no fabrication. But for Li Shimin, he actually wanted the historian to use the Spring and Autumn writing style to slightly beautify what happened on that day.
Fan.
For example, borrowing the allusion of "Zhou Gong punished Guan Cai"...
When these words reached the ears of Xu Jingzong, who was majoring in national history, it caused a big commotion.
When he took it upon himself to significantly delete the truth from that year, although he won Li Shimin's favor, he also attracted Li Chunfeng's attention.
Xu Jingzong is not a disciple of the Human Religion. The reason why he was able to become a major is actually because of his qualifications as the "Eighteen Bachelors of the Prince of Qin's Mansion". However, compared with the dozen or so bachelors, he is really not worthy of mention.
Reuse.
But it wasn't until this moment that he realized how big a role he could play.
Xu Jingzong was not a historian who was a disciple of the People's Education. Of course, he did not have the corresponding professional ethics of historians. However, because the disciples of the People's Education had no power, the compilation of Tang History was gradually marginalized... They even wanted to do it privately
I am secretly compiling a "History of the Tang Dynasty".
The truth must always be recorded, and cannot just be covered up and buried in history.
But the changes in things are always so unexpected... Because the Holy Buddha Tripitaka returned from studying for scriptures, the fortunes of the Tang Dynasty were at a peak... Li Chunfeng, the spokesperson of the Human Religion, took advantage of the situation and expressed the attitude of the Human Religion to Li Shimin.
"Even if His Majesty wants to use Xu Jingzong, our people's religion will have a history of the Tang Dynasty passed down to future generations."