The lights of Shibi Pavilion are always bright, and emperors and generals of two thousand years have been summoned here to accept the public evaluation and quantitative scoring of history.
Qin Shihuang Yingzheng was the first to appear - unifying the six kingdoms, burning books and humiliating Confucian scholars, and becoming an emperor through the ages with a score of 88. But his real test question is not about his merits and demerits, but about facing his eldest son Fusu, who was forced to death by the imperial edict, and the sinner Hu Hai, who died in his second generation. He sat in a high position and looked at every newcomer indifferently, but in the corner he noticed a person who had been standing for a long time - Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
Puyi stood for a hundred chapters before being called into the light. He ascended the throne at the age of three, abdicated at the age of six, worked as a puppet, a war criminal, and finally worked as a gardener in the Botanical Garden. The score was only thirty points, but among those thirty points, there were fifteen points for him learning to squeeze out toothpaste, and eighteen points for him learning to be scolded by his wife for being a picky eater. Ying Zheng, the first emperor of the ages, finally spoke: "I never learned to be a human being in my life. You learned it later. This is a score that I can't get."
From the marriage account between Liu Bang and Lu Pheasant, to the cross-time and space dialogue between Wu Zetian and Ying Zheng; from the ninety-three points gained in Yue Fei's "Man Jiang Hong", to Cixi's failure in the face of the silent gaze of three generations of emperors - this is not an imperial genealogy, but how every person who has been crushed by the times picks up his fragments and puts them together into a "human" character.
When the last emperor walked out of Shibi Pavilion, his teacher Johnston was waiting for him outside the door: "Have you learned to tie your own tie?"
"I learned it. I learned it in Fushun."
He goes home and eats the dumplings made by his wife. Stuffed with leeks. He hates leeks the most, but because his wife made them, he loves to eat them.
The lights went out. But it's daylight.
