Historical works were always interwoven with personal feelings.
But fairness meant that if a general killed ten thousand enemies, the record could not say nine thousand; if he lost his way upon encountering the enemy and suffered defeat, it could not be recorded as a victory. When tens of thousands or even a hundred thousand men fought for several days, yet the record claimed only a dozen or so enemies were killed, that was historical injustice, reduced to a joke.
Sima Qian's historical writing would naturally contain personal feelings and lean heavily toward the ideology represented by the Luo Clan, using excellent literary technique to elevate the image of certain people and events, but he could not fabricate things.
Even if something went unwritten, not a single lie should appear in a history!
This was Sima Qian's integrity as a Court Historian.
Luo Qing immediately said, "Just as the Sage King did, bury them in the dust of history. Let them appear separately in certain books, then shelve those books high away. Do not let them circulate among the most ordinary common people."
Sima Qian slowly nodded and asked, "Then when can they be unsealed?"
With his hands behind his back, Luo Qing gazed at the implements filling the room and said quietly, "When the people of All Under Heaven can accept them.
"When these horrors can never come sweeping back.
"When ghosts and gods have been utterly defeated by humanity.
"When All Under Heaven no longer believes in these things.
"That will be the time for the whole truth to emerge into the world again."
No one could guarantee whether these things would spread again once they appeared. Humanity's worship of sacrifice ran deep in its bones.
The Shang Dynasty's system of human sacrifice sounded utterly terrifying, but only