When I was in Qin Dynasty, I lost contact with the wave

Chapter 695: Official History May Not Be Official, But Unofficial History Must Be Unofficial

The original plan that Yan Dan told Ju Wu was to use the excuse that an assassin had attempted to assassinate King Xi of Yan and seriously injured him, to place King Xi of Yan under house arrest in the Yan Palace, and to serve as regent in the capacity of the crown prince, completely taking over the military and political affairs of the Yan State.

When the monarch is unable to govern the country, it is only natural for the crown prince to act as regent.

With power, no one in Yan State could restrain him, not even his good uncle Yan Chunjun.

But the current situation is completely different. King Xi of Yan is dead!

Even if King Xi of Yan was seriously injured, it would not matter, as long as he did not die immediately, it would be fine if he was delayed for a few months, but he died today...

Yan Dan never thought that his schemes would be impossible to see through, but no one would be stupid enough to stand up and question him.

After all, it makes sense for the prince to rebel. The crown prince is the heir to the throne. Wouldn't it be laughable to say that the crown prince is rebelling?
But Prince Yan was very happy, so even if Yan Dan really did nothing, he was in trouble.

What's more, Wei Zhuang, Canglang King and Yinfu were invited by him. If someone really investigates carefully, they will be able to find some clues. By then, even if King Yan Xi was not killed by him, it would become his murder.

Thinking of this, Yan Dan couldn't help but look at his teacher Ju Wu again.

Ju Wu never told himself that he was Ji Sheng's grandson.

Although Yan Dan knew that Ju Wu was absolutely dedicated in assisting him, even though he was going to Handan as a hostage, the Yan State's Grand Tutor still performed his duties as a Grand Tutor and accompanied him to Handan.

Even though Ju Wu had different opinions from him on the issue of seizing power, Yan Dan believed that Ju Wu was also thinking about him, but they just had different styles of doing things.

But after Wen Zhi, the former chief medical officer, revealed Ju Wu's life experience, a seed of doubt was planted in Yan Dan's heart.

Loyalty is not absolute, it is absolutely disloyal.

He could accept that his teacher's lineage and his own lineage had once had a conflict over the throne, and he could also not care about it, but all this had to be based on the premise that the teacher was honest with him.

Just as Yan Dan was thinking, he glanced and noticed a figure standing behind the curtain, writing on a bamboo slip.

"who?"

Yan Dan, who was already worried about the aftermath, was suddenly shocked. Where did this person appear out of nowhere?
"There's an assassin! Protect the prince!"

The guard from the Prince's Mansion beside Yan Dan drew his sword and protected Yan Dan behind him. He looked at the scholar who was writing with vigilance, but saw the scholar gently blew on the ink that had not yet dried on the bamboo slips.

"Prince Dan plotted to usurp the throne, recruited assassins to kill his father and the emperor, and usurped the throne for himself."

"I am the historian, Taishi Heng."

The scholar waved the bamboo slips in his hand to greet Yan Dan, and read out what he had just written in front of Yan Dan, completely ignoring the danger of being surrounded by the guards of the Prince's Mansion.

"Please hand over the bamboo slips, sir. In this way, Dan will not only not embarrass you, but will also thank you."

Yan Dan's eyes widened, and then he took a deep breath, suppressing his anger and looking at Tai Shi Heng.

He knew the consequences of threatening the historians, but he knew that if he let Tai Shi Heng leave today, he would immediately be charged with regicide and patricide and be condemned by the whole world.

"Taishi Heng was tempted by Prince Dan with ten thousand gold coins, but he refused. He was also threatened with his life, but Heng refused it despite death!"

Tai Shi Heng seemed to have thought of something. He opened the bamboo slips and added a few strokes on them, muttering to himself as he wrote.

When Yan Dan heard what Tai Shi Heng was muttering, he was a little confused.

Who promised you millions of gold and asked you to change the history books?
No, why do you force yourself to add drama?
"Mr. Taishi Heng, it's over."

Tian Guang also knew that he couldn't afford to offend the historians, especially the Taishi clan.

These five words, "Cui Zhu murdered his king", are stained with the blood of the Taishi clan and also established the status of the Taishi clan among historians.

Are you really not afraid of being infamous for eternity by going against those who hold the power to write history?
But even if a historian wants to make someone infamous for eternity, he should come up with real evidence instead of making up stories. However, Tai Shi Heng said that Yan Dan offered him ten thousand gold coins to tempt him to change the history book, which is a fabrication.

"I almost forgot about you, Tian Guangcong, the hero of the Farmers' Clan, and the mastermind behind Prince Dan's assassination of the king."

Tai Shi Heng glanced at him and added another sentence, not caring about Tian Guang's identity at all.

"You said I made it up, but didn't His Royal Highness Prince Dan say he would thank me?"

"You are the crown prince, and you are about to usurp the throne as the King of Yan. Do you have the nerve not to reward me handsomely?"

"Ten thousand gold is just a figurative reference. Who says ten thousand gold must be ten thousand gold?"

"The courage that is invincible means that one can fight against ten thousand people alone?"

Tai Shi Heng raised his head and looked at Yan Dan and Tian Guang with disdain. These sharp words left the two speechless and they didn't know how to refute. Even they themselves felt that they made sense.

"Brother Tian Guang, it seems that what he said is not wrong?"

After all, revising history books is a huge undertaking. Even a reward of 10,000 gold coins would not be too much. Moreover, 10,000 gold coins can really be a figurative number.

Just when Yan Dan and Tian Guang's brains were a little confused, Taishi Heng showed ecstasy on his face and started writing again.

"Tai Shi Heng rebuked the two men to their faces. Prince Dan admitted to killing his father and his king. He was too ashamed to face the historian and was speechless."

"When did I admit to murdering my father?"

Yan Dan immediately flew into a rage and drew his sword to point at Taishi Heng. "I just said that you usurped the throne as King of Yan, and you said that I was right. Isn't this what you admitted yourself?"

Seeing Tai Shi Heng's rogue behavior, Yan Dan could no longer remain calm and immediately ordered the guards of the Prince's Mansion to surround and kill Tai Shi Heng.

Tian Guang held Yan Dan tightly, for he was really afraid that Yan Dan would kill Tai Shi Heng.

If Tai Shi Heng was killed, perhaps historians would not dare to kill Yan Dan, the soon-to-be-appointed King of Yan, but they would definitely dare to kill him, the leader of the farming family.

The number of old monsters living in seclusion in the mountains among the historians may not be less than that among the Taoists. This means that even if the elders from the farming family came out, they would not be able to stop them, nor would they dare to stop them.

"Prince Dan drew his sword and tried to kill Heng, but Heng did not want Yan Dan to deceive the world, so he fought desperately and broke through the siege, with dozens of wounds on his body. He finally wrote a book to tell the world!"

Tai Shi Heng held the wolf-hair brush between his lips and the tip of his nose, not worrying about his own safety at all.

The historians may not be a match for the disciples of other schools in terms of martial arts, but when it comes to escaping, even the disciples of the Confucianism, Taoism and Mohism at the same level cannot compare to the disciples of the historians.

"Your Highness Prince Dan, there is no need to be so hospitable. Heng plans to leave."

"Also, my brother Tai Shiqi is now the novelist's personal disciple. If Heng cannot return home safely today... it's a pity that I won't be able to see how my brother will record what happened today."

Yan Dan's pupils shrank slightly, and even Tian Guang felt the bone-chilling cold.

Novelists, a school of thought that is even more unacceptable than historians.

The earliest novelists wrote stories and added moral principles into them, like the short stories "The Man Carving a Boat to Look for the Sword" in "Lüshi Chunqiu" and "The Man from Zheng Buying Shoes" in "Han Feizi".

But for some reason, in the past hundred years, novelists have taken a different approach and started writing unofficial history!
That's just the title of a story at the beginning, and the main content is all made up.

Things like "Ru Ji, a woman who caused the conflict between Wei Wang Yu and Xinling Jun" and "In the Battle of Changping, Zhao Wang Dan actually replaced Lian Po for him" are all child's play.

Not to mention that the content is completely irrelevant, it can only be said that there is no connection other than the names of the people.

Even novelists might record what happened in the palace of King Yan today like this: "Prince Dan wanted to have sex with the king in the palace, but the king refused. Prince Dan forced him to do so, so the king collapsed and died in his bedroom, and Prince Dan left."

As for unofficial history, it’s okay as long as it’s unofficial enough!

That is the purpose of the novelist.

That is why kings, princes, generals, and various philosophers may not be afraid of historians, but they are definitely afraid of those beasts called novelists.

Yan Dan shut up without saying a word. He stretched out his right hand and pointed to the palace door, signaling Tai Shi Heng to leave quickly.

It's not that he was so angry that he didn't want to talk, but he didn't dare to say even half a word.

Even if it was just a sigh, that bastard Tai Shi Heng could probably expand it into dozens of words.

Tai Shi Heng narrowed his eyes, smiled, and walked through the encirclement of the group of soldiers guarding the Prince's Mansion. He appeared outside the palace gate in the blink of an eye, as if he could change his shape and shrink the distance.

"Thank you, His Royal Highness Prince Dan, for your hospitality today."

Before leaving, Tai Shi Heng did not forget to kill another group of people. He just did this twice. Although his father always said that he was too frivolous, he thought it was an opportunity to become famous.

If the ancestors of the Taishi family had not deliberately provoked Cui Zhu, Cui Zhu would not have actually killed the three main members of the Taishi family.

After all, Cui Zhu had his reasons for killing the king. The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were not the era of later generations where the subjects had to die if the king wanted them to. The main theme of this era was that the king treated his subjects like grass and the subjects treated the king like an enemy.

To put it simply, you do work according to how much money you are paid.

Duke Zhuang of Qi, as the king of a country, went to Cui Zhu's mansion many times and raped his wife, so being killed was not considered a heinous crime.

But the historian deliberately provoked Cui Zhu. What historian tells others what he has written while writing?
History books must be kept secret before they are completely completed. Even if the king wants to check the contents of the history books, he will be criticized to death by the historians. How can the historians directly tell others what they have written?

Although all the philosophers praised Taishi's family, Taishi Heng felt that his ancestor did the same thing as he did, and even did better.

You can not only save your life, but also become famous, unlike our ancestors, who became famous and also became famous.

"I'm so angry!"

Seeing Tai Shi Heng leave so arrogance and even provoking him before leaving, Yan Dan suddenly felt his blood rushing up, his throat felt sweet, and a mouthful of blood spurted out of his mouth.

Tian Guang sighed, and injected a stream of internal energy into Yan Dan's body, flowing through his limbs and bones to calm the blood in Yan Dan's body.

"Your Highness, historians and novelists... are really not to be trifled with. This matter... well, just treat it as a humiliation that must be endured in order to punish the tyrannical Qin."

Originally, Tian Guang wanted to persuade Yan Dan, but when he thought that Tai Shi Heng had even written about him and the Nong family, the more he thought about it, the angrier he became. He was afraid that Yan Dan would not be able to control himself and take action against Tai Shi Heng first, so he could only put the matter aside for the time being.

"Right now, Your Highness should immediately ask the Imperial Clan to announce that Your Highness will take over the throne, and then immediately take away the military power from Yan Chunjun and kill him to appease the public anger."

Ju Wu, who had been invisible, spoke up. He could not care whether Yan Dan really planned to kill King Xi of Yan behind his back, but since it had already happened, if he could not maximize the benefits, then it would be not worth doing.

Moreover, although Yan Chunjun had made great contributions to the country, he had also oppressed the people over the years. If Yan Chunjun was killed, Yan Dan's reputation would at least improve in Yan State.

"Good, what the teacher said makes sense."

Yan Dan was slightly stunned and nodded, but his suspicion towards Ju Wu became more serious.

You even said that you didn't plot to kill the king, and you were clearly just temporarily joining the rebellion, but it turns out that you had already thought of the next plan!
(End of this chapter)