From tonight to tomorrow morning, I expect to read several or several more targeted documents and books.
In fact, more than half of the officialdom, political system, and grassroots social organizations of the Tang Dynasty during the Kaiyuan period were corrupted. Various contradictions are intertwined and influence each other, and there is no solution. It is far from what we see in junior high and high school textbooks.
Corruption and degradation is a continuous, irreversible, and long-term process.
At that time, many people who were highly praised by later generations of literati and officials were, to some extent, typical examples of corrupting social trends. These crooked "literati establishment", with serious and profound tinted glasses, conducted a very biased historical narrative after the Anshi Rebellion.
My book should strive to restore the original appearance of the time as much as possible, instead of just following the croaking of chickens and ducks. I still need to study the historical data on this topic. I hope that the current book will withstand the torture of subsequent readers in five or ten years. There is really no way to go slower.
Politics and power are intertwined. The operation of the court is not a black society, and the officials of the court are not Yakuza. The political operation and changes in the relevant historical periods are the connotation of history.
I don’t want to be like some books and treat readers like fools. I don’t want to feed words to readers like drugs. I just want to trick readers into getting subscriptions.
So I can only slow down a little bit. I have to verify the information before I can write the next chapter. If I can’t finish it, I might stop updating it tomorrow. I’ll try my best to keep updating.
