Chapter 710 - 14: Illusory Dream
"Ridiculous... a warning."
On the throne, Emperor Shi put down the Jade Seal, his face still bearing a smile that was either self-mocking or sighing with emotion: "The Qin Dynasty has indeed reached this point, though throughout history, most descendants of tyrants are insignificant.
Yet I didn’t expect them to be so disgraceful: Huhai, Fusu, Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, Xiang Yu, Liu Bang..."
He shook his head and smiled again.
At the door.
Chen Lusi did not speak.
Historical figures, especially such important ones, to ordinary people like him, no matter how many historical records exist, are still ’people’ that straddle between fiction and reality.
Sometimes Chen Lusi doesn’t even know what the women beside him are thinking.
Most people don’t even know what their friends are truly like.
Let alone rely on obscure historical records to speculate what a historical figure who died over two thousand years ago was like.
In the end, the image of these figures in everyone’s mind changes as new historical records are discovered, but imagination still plays a dominant role.
Because no one truly knows what they were like when they were alive, or what they were thinking.
So actually, anyone can imagine these long-dead historical figures in any way they like.
The most famous example.
Is the inexplicable fondness the Japanese have for Lu Bu.
Mentioning the Three Kingdoms.
In some ways, the Japanese understand that period of history even better than many Chinese, and it’s not just limited to legends.
They can even include a character like Yu Ji, who really existed in history, into a game, adapting it cleverly, fitting perfectly into the timeline of Romance of the Three Kingdoms, with Yu Ji being eliminated only after Sun Ce’s death.
It can be called perfect.
But this game development team, who can skillfully utilize historical figures, greatly praises Lu Bu, holding a very high opinion of him.
It’s completely baffling.
After all, putting aside legends, speaking of mighty generals.
In history, how does the Chu Overlord not surpass Lu Bu?
In terms of personal valor, military ability, or even political strategy, the Chu Overlord could easily beat two Lu Bus.
Even if one limits the discussion to the Three Kingdoms period, or even just the legend, Lu Bu’s reputation is not particularly good.
But they just love him despite the facts.
Once Chen Lusi saw a post analyzing the reasons, saying that the Japanese think in reverse, believing that although Lu Bu was a traitor and ungrateful, he couldn’t be just one-dimensional.
... And thus, they developed a fondness.
Of course, Chen Lusi felt a bit emotional, thinking that perhaps historical figures appear differently in everyone’s eyes.
Often at this time.
Historical records lose their meaning.
What kind of person the real historical figures were doesn’t even matter anymore.
Liu Bang is just an opportunistic, incompetent man.
While Xiang Yu’s strength was unmatched, unparalleled through the ages.
Or conversely.
Liu Bang is a genius of extraordinary vision.
While Xiang Yu is brutally minded, brave but foolish.
It doesn’t really matter.
After all, we’re not historians; everyone can imagine historical figures based on the information they have, since the other party cannot jump out to argue, at most it’s just a debate with other ordinary people for a few sentences.
However, when a historical figure actually appears before one’s eyes... the situation is entirely different.
The original blurry boundary between fiction and reality is shattered, and the historical figure becomes a tangible existence, all uncertainties collapse into certainty.
The known and unknown overlap.
Pure imagination transforms into dealing with a real individual.
Chen Lusi really didn’t know how to face such a figure.
After all, knowing he unified the Six Kingdoms is far from being true understanding.
Others were much the same.
Just that each person expresses it differently.
Tang Language was one of the most excited.
After all, for this Emperor in front of them, most people only know about his achievements, his tyranny.
But more beyond that, like the twenty years before he unified the Six Kingdoms, before he officially ruled, is almost a complete blank.
Those most crucial twenty years that shaped him are mostly unknown, ordinary people don’t understand.
He is, one might say, full of mysteries.
This Emperor, born in Zhao Kingdom, who endured an embarrassing childhood there.
In the same year he officially came into power, he easily subdued the rebellious faction of Lao Ai, and the following year, he expelled the Qin Kingdom’s Prime Minister Lv Buwei, coldly casting out his own mother.
Thereafter, he began to emerge prominently.
In just a few years, he initiated the conquest of the Six Kingdoms.
His dormancy before he came into power.
The bloody political struggles after he took power.
May only be reflected in the historical records with a few obscure descriptions, or might not be recorded at all.
Faced with such an existence.
If you let any modern person stand there... it wouldn’t go well for them.
"I am very interested in your era."
On the other side.
Seemingly having finished his lament.
On the throne.
Emperor Shi glanced at the Jade Seal in his other hand, then sat back down, looking calmly at Chen Lusi and Si Yujie and others who had suddenly burst in.
Tang Language immediately shrank back again behind Chen Lusi, trying to ensure she wasn’t seen.
But it was no use.
"And the fox behind you."
"Qingqiu Nine-tailed from the Eastern Wilderness in the Classic of Mountains and Seas... Tushan Clan, don’t you practice seclusion? Why appear here?"