The Winners Write History

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Welcome to the hidden run of historical podcast. This is
a well that happened, quick fix, and it's to ancient
career we had this time. The keeping of records, both
as a tool for accountability in the historical records are important.
We would not know half of what we do about
history without the great scribes working away in the background
diorizing everything. And while in most lands this was overseen

(00:21):
by governments or monarchs, in ancient career that diarists and
record keepers were free to write history as it happens
without the interference from Dome, who the records would make
look bad. Well, that's sentence a bit to makes sense
at the time over The Emperor Tejong was one such leader.
He was keen as mostly desire to be seen as
a strong and noble man, to be faultless and the

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best in all the land at everything he tried, which
is not an unfamiliar delusion certain personality types have. One day,
whilst south leading a hunt, the Emperor fell off his horse.
This caused many hidden chuckles at his expense, though they
did try and help him remount, but it was duly
written down in the record. Enraged by this, the Emperor
demanded that it be removed, but the statute at that

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time stated he was unable to interfere directly in the accounts.
This didn't stop his fury, and he had the record
seized and burned by his soldiers. The scribes wrote it
again in another record that was destroyed by his soldiers.
On and on. This went for the pattern for the
rest of his reign. He'd do something new, the scribes
had write it down and include the fact that he'd
fallen off his horse. They would just write up his activities, victories, failures, proclamations,

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and always include that one event he didn't want noted down.
He'd later send his guards there again to seize the
records and destroy them. Consequently, six hundred years later, all
we know of him is his poor ability to stay
on a horse. This has been quick bits on the
Well that Happened podcast. My name said Parnell, See you
next time.