The meeting did not last long and it ended quickly, and the prime ministers of the Political Affairs Hall were very busy.

Only Prime Minister Zhao Cheng stayed.

Could it be that the emperor was afraid and was ready to quit his face?

Of course not-

It is the history of the chaos in the late Tang Dynasty written by Zhao Cheng as the chief editor, that is, the history of the Six Dynasties and the history of the Five Dynasties and the Ten Kingdoms in history.

After two years of rough editing, since it is a modern historical book, many old ministers and old books are there, so it is quite convenient to collect historical materials. Many old ministers even compile private history.

For example, Fan Zhi's "The General Record of the Five Dynasties" is a good background.

In this way, with the joint efforts of the Hanlin Bachelors, editing the history of 60 in two years is quite smooth.

The Five Dynasties history, headed by Xue Juzheng in history, also known as the Old Five Dynasties history, only took one and a half years.

Li Jia asked Hanlin bachelors to compile it, which was sufficient manpower and material resources. Without mentioning anything else, the daily life notes of various countries were clearly understood.

"Report to Your Majesty, the historical books are temporarily appointed as "Letters of Liang, Tang, Jin, Han, Zhou and Song". From Zhu Wen usurped the throne to the Tang Dynasty and destroyed the Song Dynasty again, it has been 60 years since the Tang Dynasty built up and destroyed the Song Dynasty, so the historical books have compiled a total of 180 volumes, including 68 records, 14 records, and 98 records. According to the dynasties, it is divided into Liang, Tang, Jin, Han, Zhou, and Song books, each ranging from ten to fifty volumes."

Zhao Cheng said with great honor, with a pride on his face.

For literati, it is indeed a supreme honor, and it is famous in history, such as Sima Qian, Ban Gu, etc., who can serve as editor-in-chief, even as prime ministers, Zhao Cheng still finds it difficult to hide his excitement.

"How many words?" After hearing so many books, signs, and divinations, the emperor frowned. This is the standard for record-keeping, which means that he had no intuitive understanding of it at all.

"This..." Zhao Cheng was asked by this abrupt question. This angle was too tricky and he couldn't answer for a while.

After thinking for a while, he whispered: "Because of the abundant historical materials, there are about 500,000 words!"

Upon hearing this, Li Jia's first reaction was that she felt very little. At the starting point, it was the appendix book, but when she thought of it in ancient times, she felt it was normal.

Because they are all used in classical Chinese, they are concise and concise. When translated into vernacular, they have to be translated at least two or three times, which makes it seem particularly large.

You should know that the Records of the Grand Historian can describe the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors to the beginning of the Han Dynasty, only 520,000 words in two or three thousand years. It is already considered too much if you use 500,000 words in sixty years.

"Five hundred thousand!" Li Jia murmured softly, then glanced at Zhao Cheng and said, "The name of the historical book is not good, it is too long, so it is called "The Biography of the Six Dynasties of the Last Tang Dynasty."

When Zhao Cheng heard this, he nodded and expressed his understanding.

"This is how Li Cunxu called Emperor Tang?"

Li Jia asked softly.

Li Cunxu's status was very embarrassing. He was from Shatuo and gave the surname Li, but he was overthrown and called the emperor. Moreover, the country was named Tang, which made Li Jia very embarrassed. Wouldn't it mean that his Tang Dynasty, inherited Li Cunxu's Tang Dynasty?

But if they do not admit it, they have indeed become emperor, which is indelible and they also respect the former Tang Dynasty clan.

Therefore, this is a great difficulty for those who compose history. One problem that cannot be handled well is the political legal system.

This is also why the national cultivation of historical books is written, and it is also why Zhao Cheng personally reported it to the emperor.

Without the emperor's approval, this book would not be able to be printed at all. If it were not done well, it would affect his political life.

Zhao Cheng's body bent slightly, his face was serious, and he bowed and said, "Your Majesty, Li Cunxu was granted the title of King of Jin, so he can write about the matter of the title of King of Jin and the name of the country is Tang."

"Oh?" Li Jia was intrigued. He stood up and said, "But I follow the example of "The Three Kingdoms" and consider Liu Bei as the first lord of Shu?"

As we all know, the legal system of the Western Jin Dynasty came from Cao Wei, and Cao Wei also came from the Eastern Han Dynasty. Therefore, Cao Wei must be orthodox in historical books. If a royal family like Shu Han is independent, it cannot be called emperor, and Liu Bei can only be called the first lord.

This is the so-called Spring and Autumn Brushwork. A mere title represents everything.

Li Jia was satisfied with this. After all, Li Cunxu was the King of Jin, so it would be okay to be named by Jin, but what about Shi Jingtang? Their country name is also Jin.

"Shi Jin can be called the Eastern Jin, and Li Jin can be called the Western Jin."

Hearing this, Li Jia was confused. The Eastern and Western Jins were named like this. What about the Jin of the Sima family?

Faced with the emperor's confusion, Zhao Cheng disagreed and said, "Since ancient times, the nickname of dynasty is just a common name for historians. To distinguish their names, Li Cunxu established the capital and Luoyang, which can be called the Western Jin Dynasty, and Shi Jingtang was Bianliang, which can be called the Eastern Jin Dynasty."

"As for the Sima family, it can be called the former Jin and the Later Jin, and it is called because of customs. Although Your Majesty is not used to it, he will get used to it after some time."

Hearing these words, Li Jia suddenly realized.

The so-called Eastern Han and Western Han Dynasty, Eastern Jin and Western Jin Dynasty in his memory are actually nicknames for historians, and are not official titles at all. The Eastern Han Dynasty and Western Han Dynasty were both Khan, and the Eastern Jin and Western Jin Dynasty were also Jin.

The Western Han Dynasty was also called the Former Han Dynasty, and the Eastern Han Dynasty was the Later Han Dynasty, so there were "Book of Han" and "Book of Later Han".

Nowadays, the Eastern Jin and Western Jin are also called by the front and rear Han dynasties in the titles of historians, so the Front and Later Jin dynasties are the Former and Later Jin.

This nickname is different in the eyes of different historians, and he made an empirical mistake.

"So, the beam is called the back beam?"

Li Jia asked like this.

"Should this be the case!" Zhao Cheng whispered: "The Liang Dynasty had long been in Southern Liang, the Han Dynasty had front and rear Han Dynasty, the Zhou Dynasty had two Zhou Dynastys, and the Song Dynasty had Liu Song, so it was natural to add the character "hou" before it."

"Otherwise, it will be difficult to distinguish."

This is the origin of the historical titles of the Five Dynasties such as the Later Liang and Later Zhou dynasties, and I actually forgot this.

However, this is understandable. I am not a historian after all.

"The six dynasties were not allowed to be called the emperor, and they were all called the king of the country."

Li Jia said solemnly: "None of them must be orthodox."

"No!" Zhao Cheng breathed a sigh of relief. The historical books had already arranged this way. It was indeed nothing wrong. The emperor did not need the legal system of these Central Plains dynasties at all, so he naturally disdained them.

"By the way, what do you call the Lord of Jiangnan?"

After all, Li Yu's branch was gathered into the royal family. Although it was just for better rule, it did not necessarily mean recognition in the royal family.

The title of Tang cannot be called just a cat or a dog.

"I have discussed several times that Jiangnan changed Yang and Wu. At the beginning, the country's name was Qi, which can be called Hou Qi."

Zhao Cheng glanced at the emperor's face and said cautiously.

"Hmm? Interesting!" Li Jia smiled immediately.
Chapter completed!