Cai Yong seemed very happy to learn that Mr. Guo was going to give him a team to lead him to study history together.

"Your Majesty really wants to gather so many people to study history? And he also needs to write the preface himself?"

"That's natural. Such major events cannot be careless. We, Wei, established in the Han Dynasty. We should respect the previous dynasty as orthodox and compile history for the previous dynasty, which is of course a state matter."

Guo Peng smiled and said, "And Mr. Cai, don't call me Your Majesty, call me the word "其". This is private. There is no one else, so Mr. Cai doesn't need to be polite."

Cai Yong looked around and looked at Su Yuan, who was smiling like a chrysanthemum, and then felt relieved.

"Okay, Zifeng, history books have always been the words of the historian family. The emperor made the decision to let many people participate in history writing together, and it has never happened. How did you think of doing this?"

Cai Yong was quite cautious when asking, as if he was worried that Guo Peng would get angry about something.

Guo Peng smiled.

"I can't say that it was a big deal, but Mr. Cai is old and worried that Mr. Cai is tired, so he arranges a group of assistants for Mr. Cai. Mr. Cai only needs to control the specific process. Mr. Cai is the main and auxiliary. Just let them do whatever they have."

Cai Yong was very happy about this.

"With Zifeng's help, this time, I will definitely be able to compile an unprecedentedly majestic work!"

Afterwards, Cai Yong and Guo Peng had a conversation on how to operate this book "Book of the Later Han Dynasty".

For example, what genre should be used? Should we imitate the records of the Grand Historian and the Book of Han, or create another way of writing?

What core content should be controlled when writing, mainly praise or criticism, and whether certain sensitive events should be written.

Mr. Guo gave more detailed guidance on this.

He believes that studying history is not only academic, but also political.

When Wei was established in the Han Dynasty, he should respect the Han Dynasty as orthodox. Of course, he should praise orthodoxy and should not be criticized casually. He should carry forward the glorious deeds of the Emperor of Han. For some things that should not be said, try to hide them and not write them down.

The only thing that is left for future generations is to be a glorious and majestic image.

If you want to use the genre, just write whatever you want, whether you learn from Sima Qian or Bangu brothers and sisters.

The writing is as detailed as possible, don’t worry about the pen and ink, and don’t care about the words as gold. He can provide Cai Yong with enough paper and ink, because Zuo Bo’s paper has been reduced in price recently.

Try to write about the process and results of sensitive events, write about what happened, and don’t make too many comments, just let future generations know what happened, and don’t be subjective in history.

This is what Guo asked Cai Yong to pay special attention to.

"This is not a essay on the essays, nor is it a private unofficial history. Since it is a collective compilation by the official organization of the state and the dynasty, we must naturally pay attention to seeking truth from facts and writing it in it, but we must pay attention to it, not having comments or obvious emotions. In this regard, Mr. Cai must grasp the standard."

Mr. Guo made such a specific request, and Cai Yong agreed with it.

"Since it is the first time in history that the emperor has recognized, it should naturally be detailed and complete, without adding personal opinions, only looking at the facts, and trying to be impartial."

Mr. Guo nodded.

Then another thing was mentioned.

"Duke Cai, from "The Book of Taishi Gong" to the later "The Book of Han", I found that historians always liked some auspiciousness and made some mysterious things when describing the birth of the emperor. In fact, we all know in our hearts that it was fictional. Since that is the case, should we also retain this part of the content in the history books we compiled?"

Guo Peng looked at Cai Yong: "For example, Liu Xiu should be the emperor or something..."

Mr. Guo’s strange eyes made Cai Yong feel uncomfortable.

This is one time, another time.

Mr. Guo has already firmly sat on the throne.

Having said that, there are some different ideas.

Cai Yong thought for a while and spoke carefully.

"This... the true emperor will certainly be different. Since the Baihuguan Conference, the previous dynasty had already agreed that the study of prophecies and divination was orthodox academic. Today, the study of prophecies and divination is also something that everyone agrees with. Zi Feng ascended the throne to the throne and became the emperor, which is even more desirable, just like Emperor Guangwu of the previous dynasty."

Mr. Guo is quite satisfied with Cai Yong's statement.

"So that's it, that's it..."

After a moment of silence, Guo smiled at Cai Yong.

"Mr. Cai, please give this matter to Mr. Cai. I will do my best to provide necessary help to Mr. Cai. If possible, I want to see Mr. Cai's works as soon as possible and hope Mr. Cai will do my best to do my best."

Cai Yong quickly expressed his understanding.

After seeing Cai Yong off, Guo Peng also ordered the matter.

Looking for reliable and literary people among the official group to send them to Cai Yong, working hard with Cai Yong, and starting the compilation of "Book of the Later Han Dynasty".

This matter will be almost done if it is arranged like this. If there are any problems in the future, it will be necessary to determine whether the historical book is completed through its own recognition. Therefore, Guo Peng is not worried about the troubles in the Book of Later Han.

No matter how it is, it is in your own control.

However, the Baihu View Conference mentioned by Cai Yong did make Mr. Guo care.

This is a conference that is not famous but has decisive significance for the entire Eastern Han academic and even later academics.

This meeting, which took place during the reign of Emperor Zhang of Han, was chaired by Emperor Zhang of Han, and convened all famous Confucian scholars from all over the world to Luoyang to coordinate and integrate various academic schools that have been chaotic since Xinmang.

Emperor Wu of Han abolished all schools of thought and respected Confucianism, established the Five Classics Doctors, determined the five Confucian classics as orthodox doctrines officially recognized, and allowed them to be spread within the empire.

During this process of dissemination, the five classics gradually diverged due to different understandings of the inheritors.

Since there is no punctuation mark, the breaking of sentences in articles has a very important significance for the interpretation of classics. In the process of teacher teaching disciples, the disciples have different understandings of breaking sentences.

Therefore, a classic often produces many ways to break sentences, and different ways to break sentences have also caused earth-shaking changes in the meaning of the classics they understand.

The same sentence has different meanings because of different pronunciations. This is the fundamental reason why the fourteen inheritances of the five classics appear.

In order to recognize their own sentence-breaking methods and exclude other sentence-breaking methods, readers have launched a protracted struggle for their respective interests.

In fact, there are far more than fourteen ways to explain sentences, and the Fourteen Laws of the Five Classics that were formed in the Eastern Han Dynasty are classic interpretation methods that are officially recognized by the Fourteen classics theory.

Before all this took shape, there were fierce debates on different understandings of various theories in the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty.

As early as the reign of Emperor Xuan of the Western Han Dynasty, in order to quell the increasingly fierce dispute over the power of classic interpretation at that time, Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty held a meeting in Shiqu Pavilion.

Emperor Xuan of Han affirmed some classic interpretation methods from an official perspective, allowing everyone to seek common ground while reserving differences, calm disputes, and stabilize the academic environment.

However, the Shiquge meeting did not completely resolve the dispute.

During the Xinmang period, disputes broke out again.

In the early Eastern Han Dynasty, in order to consolidate his position and establish his rule legitimacy, Liu Xiu issued an edict to include the study of prophecies and divination in the official orthodox doctrine, requiring all academic sects to agree with his approach.

And this caused even greater chaos.

In order to calm down such chaos and controversy, after Emperor Ming of Han passed away, Emperor Zhang of Han decided to hold a large-scale meeting in Baihuguan, Luoyang to completely solve this problem.

This is related to the unity of the imperial domination idea and is of great significance to the imperial governance.

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