Live streaming life: The ancients begged not to stop

Chapter 227

Qi Cheng was indeed a bit bored at home. After strolling around the house for a while, he decided to go to the library to borrow a book. He kept browsing Dongyin but couldn't find anything interesting.

He went downstairs and drove out.

When they came to the library again, although the people outside the canopy had already seen it, many of them were still amazed. This place was simply great.

If the imperial court wants to learn from future generations, why doesn’t it quickly build this library? It’s not difficult at all.

Following Qi Cheng's gaze as he searched back and forth on the bookshelf, they saw many books that interested them, such as books about generators and books about geographical knowledge from all over the country.

Need, all needs!

Qi Cheng walked and came to the bookshelf of classical literature, which contained many poetry selections, and of course some ancient novels.

I looked up and took a closer look. Not far away were several novels about public cases.

These novels are basically the same, all telling stories of officials solving cases. Qi Cheng picked up a copy of Shi Gong'an and started reading.

This book talks about Shi Shilun of the Qing Dynasty.

It is said that this man was very ugly. If he had not been admitted to the government through imperial favor, he would probably not have even passed the examination to become a scholar. However, he was also a famous honest official in the Qing Dynasty.

Even Emperor Kangxi criticized him for being too protective of ordinary people.

Qing Dynasty

Emperor Kangxi was very proud of having such a famous honest official. He said that although there were many corrupt officials on his side, he also saw some honest officials.

Later generations wrote books about him.

But when Qi Cheng opened the preface, Kangxi was a little dumbfounded. It clearly stated his words, saying that he did not agree with Shi Shilun's way of handling the case.

Nonsense! Later generations misinterpreted my meaning.

"Shi Shilun is definitely an honest official. We need to publicize his reputation vigorously. When you return, all of you should write to Shi Shilun and urge him to act boldly!"

Several Han officials nodded, but the rest of the Manchu nobles didn't think so. Many of these people came from their own palaces and were there to do things for them.

If I write a letter, I will be slapping myself in the face.

Someone with good connections reminded him, "These folk writers are quite ruthless. If anything happens to your subordinates, they will definitely write about you. Just imagine, in such a large library in the future, there will be negative information about you..."

That would be a disgrace to future generations.

……

After flipping through a few pages, Qi Cheng put the book back and picked up Hai Gong'an next to it. This book was about Hai Rui of the Ming Dynasty, and the story was similar to Shi Gong'an.

"This is an honest official from our Ming Dynasty. You should all take a good look at him," Zhu Yuanzhang said to all his ministers. "No one wants to leave a bad reputation in the future."

Several ministers looked at each other secretly. Perhaps after reading the preface, Zhu Yuanzhang would not say this anymore.

As expected, just as several ministers had guessed, Shanghai Rui was an honest official in the Jiajing Dynasty, and he left behind the famous saying, "Jiajing Jiajing, every family is clean."

At that time, the ministers did not want to cooperate with Hai Rui. Even when he was the Chief Censor, there were censors under him who impeached him.

However, Hai Rui, who always followed the ancestral rules, had no problems.

"What an unfilial son! How could he do such a thing?" Zhu Yuanzhang was so angry that he picked up a stick and wanted to beat the fourth son, "What a bastard you gave birth to!"

Zhu Di said that he knew this person just after Tianmu appeared, so why was he still angry?

……

Emperor Jiajing now doesn't even want to ring the chimes. Leaving a bad reputation in history is different from leaving a bad reputation in folk novels. How many ordinary people read history?

But these stories have the potential to be passed down from generation to generation. Well, they have been passed down now.

"Send an order to have Hai Rui in audience."

……

Qi Cheng flipped through the Di Gong An book next to him. This book was a little different from other public case novels because it was written by a Dutchman.

It was later translated into Chinese.

Moreover, this book is a bit suspenseful and focuses more on the description of cases. For example, Qi Cheng remembered reading about the case in which the rich man left a painting for his youngest son in a book called "Quick Turn" when he was a child.

Tang Dynasty

Li Shimin looked at the preface carefully and knew that this was an official from the early Tang Dynasty. He immediately became happy. The Ming and Qing dynasties had good officials, and his own Tang Dynasty also had good officials.

This is called not being outdone by others.

Officials of the same generation as Di Renjie were a little jealous. Di Renjie was a favorite of the emperor and could do whatever he wanted outside.

Some people in later generations wrote books to commemorate him.

How come he has such a good life?

I am also an official, not a corrupt official, so why doesn't anyone write about me? Well, if no one writes about me, then I will write about myself. There are many novels like this that don't even have the author's name.

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Song Dynasty

Zhao Kuangyin stared at the Bao Gong Case on the sky screen with burning eyes. He hoped that the host would pick up the book and take a look. Judging from the long hat wings on the cover, it must be about the Song Dynasty.

"Your Majesty, this Bao Gong should be from the Renzong period. He was mentioned on the sky curtain in front." Pan Mei said in a low voice.

Zhao Kuangyin slapped his head and remembered that when he said that a minister was slandered last time, he mentioned Bao Gong, so this book was also slandering Pang Ji.

I seem to want to watch it even more.

Daqin

Qin Shi Huang carefully read through the books on the bookshelf, but found nothing handed down from the Qin Dynasty, nor any books about Qin Dynasty ministers.

"Tell those novelists to come to Xianyang and write about some of the famous officials of the Qin Dynasty," Qin Shi Huang ordered. "Tell them to write quickly and not waste any time."

Fusu lowered his head and coughed.

There are still many remnants of the Six Kingdoms that have not been dealt with. If these novelists regard the officials of the Qin Dynasty as villains, it will not be good if it is passed down to future generations.

"Father, why don't we train some novelists here? We can have those petty officials in Xianyang write a story based on the books on the sky curtain, but we can just replace the protagonists with officials from the Great Qin."

"That's a good idea. Let's do it."

big man

Liu Che was also a little anxious. Why was there no story about his own dynasty? He had both brave generals and honest officials.

"Your Majesty, that Romance of the Three Kingdoms next to it is about our Han Dynasty. It is much better than these novels. The host said it is one of the Four Great Classics."

Liu Che looked at Li Guang who was speaking. That was about the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and had nothing to do with the present time.

Jin, Yuan.

We were a unified dynasty, so why weren't there any novels written about us? We also had honest officials at that time.

Southern Song Dynasty...Northern Wei Dynasty...Wuyue Dynasty

Do our dynasties have no sense of existence at all? There is not a single book about us on such a large bookshelf. Writers of later generations, please turn your attention to us.

We also have many strange cases at this time.