dognovel Chapter 1117 If they try to revise or destroy the book again, they'll exhaust themselves to dea
Chapter 1117 If they try to revise or destroy the book again, they'll exhaust themselves to dea
Q: After the Qing army entered the pass, which army was the most active in fighting?
A: The Plain Blue Banner was busy fighting against the Qing and restoring the Ming in Yunnan. Most of the other banners were just getting by with the mentality of making a quick buck and running away. The ones who really fought hard were the Ming army after they surrendered.
Of course, it's important to emphasize here that the Ming army's enthusiasm for fighting wasn't simply due to the Manchu salary, but because the Qing army was still operating under the Ming banner.
The Kong brothers are now in a similar situation to the Ming soldiers who surrendered to the Qing.
It's just that Kong Xilu completely gave up after surrendering, while Kong Xixue still wanted to struggle a bit more.
Then, Yang Shaofeng and Zhu Biao truly witnessed what kind of shady things those so-called "erudite scholars" had done.
In the seventh chapter of the Analects, the original text reads, "The Master said: If I were given a few more years, and at fifty I studied, I could avoid making any major mistakes." It has been modified to read, "If I were given a few more years, and at fifty I studied the Book of Changes, I could avoid making any major mistakes."
The original text has two interpretations. One is that if I study until I am fifty, I will basically not make any major mistakes. The other is that even if I start studying when I am fifty, I will not make any major mistakes in the future. The first interpretation is to encourage learning, and the second interpretation is to encourage the elderly to learn more.
After being modified, it became "If you study the Book of Changes at the age of fifty, you will be able to avoid making any major mistakes."
There is also Chapter 50 of the Tao Te Ching: "Born into life and dying. Of those who follow life, three out of ten are destined for life; of those who follow death, three out of ten are destined for death. Yet, of those who live, three out of ten are destined for death. Why is this? Because they are constantly striving for life. It is said that those who are good at preserving life can walk on hills without splitting rhinoceroses or tigers, and enter an army without breaking armor and weapons. The rhinoceros has nowhere to thrust its horn, the tiger has nowhere to place its claws, and the weapons have nowhere to find their mark. Why is this? Because they have no place of death."
This passage has been altered to read: "Born into life and facing death. Of those who live, three out of ten are destined for life; of those who die, three out of ten are destined for death. And of those who live, three out of ten will find themselves in a deadly situation. Why is this? Because they are too attached to life. It is said that those who are good at preserving their lives will not encounter rhinoceroses or tigers on land, nor will they be harmed by armor or weapons in battle. Rhinoceroses have nowhere to thrust their horns, tigers have nowhere to place their claws, and weapons have nowhere to find their mark. Why is this? Because they have no place of death."
The former means "because people have to struggle against harsh living conditions to survive," while the latter becomes "because people's methods of maintaining their lives are too excessive and too fancy," turning the critical Tao Te Ching into a book on self-cultivation.
Other examples include "A small state with few people. Let the tools of ten or a hundred men be unused, let the people value death and migrate far away, let them have carriages and boats but no use for them, let them have armor and weapons but no place to display them. Let the people return to using knotted ropes for record-keeping..." which has also been altered to "A small state with few people. Let them have tools of ten or a hundred men but no use for them, let the people value death and migrate far away. Though they have boats and carriages, they use them where they are needed; though they have armor and weapons, they have no place to display them; let the people return to using knotted ropes for record-keeping..."
The original meaning is: due to war, the already small state had fewer and fewer people. The utensils that were originally intended for a hundred or so people could no longer be used. People faced numerous threats of death and had to leave their homes. The original vehicles, boats, weapons and other equipment were no longer useful, and people fell back into the backward era of using knotted ropes to record events.
The altered version reads: the country should be small, and the population should be few. Even if various tools and artifacts exist, they should not be used, so that the people value life and do not migrate to distant places. Although there are vehicles and boats, there is no need to ride them; although there are weapons and equipment, there is no need to use them. This returns the people to the simple era of recording events by tying knots.
Such alterations are countless in many classic texts; Kong Xilu and Kong Xixue alone confessed to more than a hundred such alterations.
After Kong Xilu and Kong Xixue left, Zhu Biao stared blankly at Yang Shaofeng and said, "These people really have no shame whatsoever."
Yang Shaofeng chuckled and took a sip of tea.
Where did this go?
Rumors circulated that your father was averse to words like "bald," "sunny," and "monk," and disliked hearing words like "thief" and "bandit," even going so far as to instigate a large-scale mosquito prison because of this. Rumors also circulated that your father poisoned Xu Da with roast goose. Rumors further circulated that you, the Black Sesame Dumpling, were not your mother's biological child. Rumors also circulated that the fourth prince had three thousand palace maids skinned alive and personally witnessed the executions. Rumors also circulated that Consort Wan forced all pregnant concubines to have abortions or poisoned all the children born to concubines. Some of these rumors were even included in the "History of Ming."
The story of Lao Deng's instigation of the "Mosquito Prison" was written by Xu Zhenqing, one of the four great talents of Jiangnan. The story of Lao Deng poisoning Xu Da with roast goose is even more ridiculous. First, Xu Zhenqing's "Jian Sheng Ye Wen" said that Lao Deng poisoned Xu Da, and then Wang Wenlu's "Long Xing Ci Ji" made it up that Lao Deng poisoned Xu Da with roast goose.
Furthermore, the story of Fang Xiaoru's execution of ten generations of his family and the fourth prince's brutal execution of three thousand palace women was written by Zhu Zhishan, one of the four great talents of Jiangnan. The story of the black sesame dumplings not being Empress Ma's biological child was written by the Nanjing Taichang Temple's Records. The story of Consort Wan was written by Yu Shenxing during the Wanli era in Gushan Notes, which was later included by Mao Qiling, one of the writers of the History of Ming, in his Records of the Ming Dynasty.
There are countless other anecdotes, such as Lao Deng firing at the celebration building.
Ironically, the archives of the Confucius Temple in Qufu, Shandong Province, contain an imperial edict from the Kangxi era revising the "Veritable Records of the Ming Dynasty," which explicitly stipulates that "all references to Manchuria must be changed to 'China' or 'Central Plains.'" The fragments of the "Veritable Records of the Ming Dynasty" held by Peking University Library contain numerous marginal notes from Qing Dynasty officials. Taiwanese scholars, using computer technology to compare the texts of the "Veritable Records of the Ming Dynasty," discovered at least 1200 instances of deletions and alterations.
As for the History of Yuan compiled during the Ming Dynasty... one can only say that the officials in charge of compiling history during the Ming Dynasty were too lazy. They directly copied a large number of original texts that referred to Lao Deng as a "bandit".
The key point is that starting with Emperor Deng, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty basically all acted like they were doing nothing and didn't care what kind of jokes the literati and scholars in the common people made up.
Yang Shaofeng smacked his lips, took another sip of tea, and said, "I do have a way to prevent them from ever tampering with the classics again."
Zhu Biao's eyes lit up immediately, and he looked at Yang Shaofeng expectantly, asking, "Brother-in-law, do you have any good ideas?"
Yang Shaofeng said with a smile, "The Kong brothers are still somewhat useful, including those poor, pedantic scholars who can be summoned to the capital by them."
"We should start by revising the translations of various classical texts, getting to the root of the matter and rewriting the punctuation."
"Then, schools were established in county schools, prefectural schools, and even in provincial administration offices, prefectures, and counties."
"Have the printing press print a large number of revised classics, including the court gazette and the 'Da Ming Newspaper,' and have each library keep one or even several copies."
“If they can fabricate one book, they can destroy another. I don’t believe they can alter or burn them all.”
"In addition, we can also bury an extra copy in places like Yizhou and Yingzhou for archiving."
"If they try to revise or destroy books again, they'll exhaust themselves to death!"