Tiresome Taizong Tropes

Reading a lot of historical stories can be painful. Because with other fiction you can just chalk things up to the author's POV doesn't agree with you and forget about it. But with history there often is stuff you see which is objectively *wrong*, but the wrongness get percolated through pop culture, and it just makes me lose faith in humanity. Ugh.

Anyway, this isn't gonna be a full list of all the fake-history/洗脑包 related to 唐太宗 on the internet/pop consciousness these days, because I am not that much into masochism. But just some stuff I come across way too often in the historical fics I've read recently...

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There's probably more but these are all the ones to come to mind for now. Feels nice to get it all off my chest.

BTW, googling 网庙十哲 will finally yield some normal people. Though I am surprised/not surprised to see 秦始皇 also in some versions of this list.