Qinghe University, History Research Course, School of History.

After spending two whole semesters studying the history of mythology, ancient history, and official history.

Finally, it’s the story that many people have been waiting for.

A non-serious and exciting piece of unofficial history research.

In class, the lecturer could clearly see that the students below were paying much more attention than before, and some of them were whispering and smiling ambiguously.

He really treats unofficial history as palace history.

"Ahem, just give me some peace.

Judging from the looks of you, you should all have previewed the upcoming unofficial history research class in advance. It would be great if you could pay as much attention to all your classes as you did on unofficial history research.

Forget it, no more nonsense, let’s start the class.”

After making a few casual remarks, the lecturer turned on the holographic projector. At the same time, the appearance of the entire classroom changed, taking on the appearance of a library. Behind the lecturer, there were bookcases.

It still looks quite atmospheric:

"Unofficial history, as the name suggests, is an unofficial and orthodox national history book that is different from official history. In a narrow sense, it includes other history books except the Twenty-Four Histories.

Basically it can be called unofficial history.

But I hope you will remember that the official history of the country does not mean that it is absolutely correct, and the miscellaneous history does not mean that it is absolutely wrong. The existing archaeological clues have fully proved that many official histories and national histories have been revised, and the content has errors. I can only say

The overall general trend is correct.

On the contrary, there are some contents in many unofficial histories.

Correct enough to make up for the shortcomings of the official history.

Of course, everyone should note that what I said is partially correct and partially wrong. There are contents worthy of attention and study in unofficial histories, but most unofficial histories are actually dross and cannot even be regarded as history books.

It is purely a fiction.

Therefore, when we are researching unofficial history, we must study whether the writers of unofficial history themselves may have been exposed to those things and whether they may have learned about those things. At the same time, we must also look at the content of unofficial history records and whether there is any supporting evidence from official history.

Or archaeological evidence.

For example, an unofficial history written by a scholar from a remote rural area contains a lot of palace insider information. Do you think it is credible? No, this is obviously not credible!

But what if it was written by the Queen Mother?”

Having said this, the lecturer smiled, raised his hand, and a very thick book flew out of the bookcase behind him, titled "Miscellaneous Notes of the Empress Dowager Taizong":

"Everyone should know as soon as they hear it, which queen mother I am talking about, and which unofficial history I am talking about!

That's right...

It is this "Miscellaneous Notes of the Empress Dowager Taizong".

This unofficial history, both in terms of the identity of the author and the content recorded in it, is quite distinctive and unique. At present, it can be said that it is unprecedented and unprecedented. I am not talking nonsense. After all, the emperors nowadays

No more, there will still be a Queen Mother wherever she goes, so it is no problem to say that there will be no one to come.

Let’s talk about her identity first. She is the longest-lived queen mother in history, the oldest queen mother to become a queen mother in history, the queen mother who took the longest time to become a queen mother after her husband’s death, and the queen mother who has made the greatest merits.

She is the only queen mother who became the queen mother because of her meritorious service.

That's right, other queen mothers relied on their sons and being queens to become queen mothers. She relied purely on her own merits. After her husband's death, it took her nearly eighty years to slowly and gradually be promoted to queen mother.

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I have to say, it’s quite inspiring.

Okay, this has nothing to do with our topic today, so I won’t say more. Next, let’s use this very special unofficial history as a research sample.

Let’s talk about unofficial history research in detail.

First of all, the most important thing in unofficial history research is to verify the author. "Miscellaneous Notes of the Empress Dowager Taizong" comes from the tomb of Emperor Jianwu. It is a funerary object in the coffin of Queen Shennong of Guangdong Haode. Coupled with the contents of the book, the author can do this

There is no doubt that she is my mother.

She was the Empress Dowager Taizong at that time.

After his death, he was posthumously named the Godly Empress of Jianwu's legacy, Guanghao Virtuous Shennong, and his immeasurable merits.

She has had too many titles. This is already considered simple. There will be posthumous awards in the future. Next, I will call her Queen Shennong uniformly, so that everyone can understand who she is.

Since this book was written by her, at least thirty points can be added to its authenticity and authority. At the same time, the content in the book is theoretically accessible to her and has the opportunity to know, so she can definitely add thirty points to it.

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Furthermore, the unofficial history recorded in her miscellaneous notes are all events that happened during her time, neither before her birth nor after her death, so the authenticity can be increased by thirty points.

This means that the content in this book is 90% credible. Therefore, currently, this unofficial history is the most recognized by the historians. Although it cannot be guaranteed to be 100% accurate, major historians are generally willing to admit that,

The content of this book is basically true.

This is a set of methods for calculating the authenticity of historical books.

Applicable to all privately compiled unofficial histories.

Scholars write about palace insider stories, officials write about conspiracies from three hundred and five hundred years ago, and they write history based on hearsay and rumors. All of these will greatly reduce the authenticity.

Cai Yure, the director of the National History Museum.

He once commented on "Miscellaneous Notes of the Empress Dowager Taizong":

'Even the official history of the country is usually tabooed by the venerable. It is even more difficult to guarantee absolute fairness when later dynasties compile the history of the previous dynasty. Since ancient times, there is only "Miscellaneous Notes of the Empress Dowager Taizong" because the compiler's status is high enough and he has no

The reason why I plan to print it for others to see and only make it as a funerary object is that every sentence is true and the content is unabashed.

It has not been tampered with or corrected by any later generations.

In addition, people of this dynasty wrote the affairs of this dynasty and this generation. Therefore, since ancient times, no history book has been as fair and true as "Miscellaneous Notes of the Empress Dowager Taizong".'

Why do I have to tell you so much? Because the current research on unofficial history is based on the unofficial history "Miscellaneous Notes of the Empress Dowager Taizong". If there is a certain aspect that can fit with this unofficial history, then extra points will be given.

If you don't fit in well, your points will be reduced. It's that simple.

Next, I will tell you more detailed standards for studying unofficial history. The content may be relatively boring, but you must remember it, because I will give you an assignment later, which is to give each person a copy of unofficial history.

Then according to the standards I taught you, calculate how authentic that unofficial history is.

Don't think about plagiarizing or borrowing from each other.

There are many unofficial histories, and each one will not repeat what I tell you, so you must analyze it on your own.

Without further ado, the holographic projection will place a copy of "Miscellaneous Notes of the Empress Dowager Taizong" in front of each of you.

I will give you analysis standards from beginning to end."

Good guy, the students who thought they could listen to some interesting unofficial history were completely depressed. Who would have thought that the unofficial history research class really only talks about research methods without giving a few examples of interesting unofficial history. It is really no fun at all.

But with such a teacher, they couldn't change them. They could only sigh and listen to the class carefully.

Until they read Ding Yun's history books carefully.

When I discovered that the various gossips recorded in it were no less than those in Gossip Weekly, and that the crimes committed by major forces or back houses were no less than those at the criminal investigation scene, I really concentrated on reading them carefully and listened to the lecture.

Occasionally, I still lament that there seems to be not much difference between human beings in ancient and modern times, and the bad roots of human nature are basically the same.

The difference is nothing more than laws, customs and technology...
Chapter completed!