The Tibetan script was strangled in the cradle by Li Hong. During the more than ten years of Li Hong's rule, the script of the Anxi pastoral tribe was made in Chinese. The branch of Wang is rooted in Anxi, taking Confucian culture as the main body, spreading the essence of Central Plains culture and the essence of safeguarding imperial power.
Even if a hundred years later, the Central Plains is full of wars and heroes are vying for the throne, but the culture with the same roots and the same species will be more radiating and broader than the trajectory in history? Wouldn’t it be more cohesive and centripetal
Traditions are meant to be broken. Our traditional culture is rooted in the land of the Central Plains, but we are never willing to go out and take a look. We wishfully think that we are the center of the world. However, the Confucian sages do not know that in their youth, After pioneering and innovating, anything will eventually be eliminated in the face of the development of the times.
Li Zhe stood proudly, with the ministers stunned, and with Li Zhi and Wu Mei looking stunned, he said again to Kong Zhiyue and Yan Weizhen: "You only saw Prince Dashi coming to pay homage to me in the Tang Dynasty. They feel complacent that no one in the Tang Dynasty can match them, and that our culture is the orthodoxy of the world! But have you ever thought about why Dashi has become so powerful? Why are they so powerful? What supports their political power? What makes their political power stable? The essentials of Buddhist scriptures were accepted and integrated into the Tang Dynasty, making the Tang Dynasty a pure land of foreign Buddhist scriptures, and monks from the Western Regions became dignitaries of the Tang Dynasty. Messenger, but why can Dashi persist in its own culture, while the essence of Buddhist scriptures cannot penetrate into their traditional culture? Do you understand this? "
Faced with Li Zhe's series of questions, Kong Zhiyue and Yan Weizhen began to look a little confused. They originally attended the royal banquet today, intending to start with Kong Zhiyue's eloquent speech in front of His Majesty and the Queen, and then by extension, Yan Weizhen would be pushed to the stage. .
This allowed the Hongwen Pavilion, which was gradually moving away from tradition and moving closer to the Chongwen Pavilion in the East Palace, to be handed over to Yan Weizhen from the hands of Su Jing.
But they didn't expect that their purpose had not yet been implemented. Before they could communicate with the officials present and discuss the Hongwen Pavilion issues, they had to face questions and doubts from the royal prince.
Li Zhe looked at Kong Zhiyue and Yan Weizhen, who had blank expressions and deep anger. He suddenly pulled out the horizontal knife from the waist of the guard at the entrance of Hanyuan Palace, and then walked up to them with the horizontal knife raised high. Thinking that Li Zhe was going to use force, Li Zhi wanted to stop him, but when Wu Mei secretly stopped him, he only heard Li Zhe say solemnly: "Since you don't know why, then let me, Li Zhe, tell you why!"
"The reason why is because the Great Eaters relied on the swords in their right hands and a scripture in their left hands to conquer many countries that you have never heard of from east to west! With the swords in their right hands, they conquered those countries The people of those countries succumbed to their powerful force, and then used the scriptures in their left hands to convince the people of those countries that this was the only thing that could fill their hearts with strength, faith, and spiritual sustenance, save them from fire and water, and give them The only code for their food, clothing and health, so the country conquered by the cannibal was not so much conquered by the sword in his right hand as it was the code in the hand of the cannibal that conquered their hearts, making the code the only one for them! Their faith has become their totem!
Now, do you know why the emperor sent all the branches of the fifth surname Qiwang to Anxi? You should know by now that the emperor is doing thankless things for you while you rest on the merits of your ancestors, teaching your teachings to the people on the border of the Tang Dynasty. But you not only don’t know how to be grateful, but you also If you want to obstruct it, let me ask you, are you really benefiting the people of the Tang Dynasty by doing this? "
Li Zhe's words not only made everyone in Hanyuan Hall begin to re-examine Li Hong's actions, but even Li Zhi and Wu Mei were restless about Li Hong staying in Chang'an City, always wanting to I have a new understanding of the behavior of running out to lead troops to fight.
As Li Zhe's words disappeared in the Hanyuan Hall, the entire Hanyuan Hall fell silent. Kong Zhiyue and Yan Weizhen looked at each other with complicated expressions. What Li Zhe said, even if it was strong words, but according to them The knowledge that has never left the Central Plains is impossible to refute.
"Bring it up." Just when everyone was still silent as Li Zhe said what he just said, King Li Dan of Yin suddenly shouted to his eunuch at the door.
Then, everyone's eyes moved to the entrance of Hanyuan Hall, where Li Dan's two eunuchs were carefully carrying things in their hands.
After Li Dan motioned the two eunuchs to put down the things in their hands, he waved them away.
No one present felt even remotely familiar with the inexplicable ball in front of them, and they even had no idea what it was used for.
Even Wu Mei and Li Zhi felt incredible and full of curiosity about the ball standing in front of Li Dan at this moment.
The ball was fixed on a base below, and when Li Dan put his hand slightly on the ball, most of the ball was covered with various dense lines and engraved with small handwriting, at both ends. The stand spun.
"Before setting off, Brother Huang touched this thing that Li Chunfeng and I made and said that a long, long, long time ago, he made it up. Whenever something new appears, he will quote it like this. Yes, so please ask your father and mother not to pay attention to the unreliable details from the emperor's mouth, but I think what the emperor said next is definitely worthy of our deep thought. He once looked at the ball and said, It's good, but the details and precision still need to be improved. Once it is done, it will be the treasure of our country." Li Dan touched the ball as if he was a teacher from the Imperial College teaching students, confident and calm.
"My son is also very curious, how could this thing become the national treasure of the Tang Dynasty? To put it bluntly, it is a wooden ball, which was painted by Li Chunfeng and me with seemingly dense lines and engraved with tiny It's just handwriting. So Erchen thought that if something like this had been kept in a shop in Dongshi for ten years, no one would care about it. But the emperor told me, oh, it was the one that was taken a long, long, long time ago. He showed the greatness of the imperial power, and some people even crowned themselves with him, so I became more curious and cherished this treasure that Li Chunfeng and I made together." Li Dan looked at everyone with a smile, although everyone was like this. Falling in the clouds and fog, I couldn't understand what I was saying, but everyone was listening quietly.
Finally, after Li Dan's eyes swept over Li Zhi and Wu Mei, he then rested on Kong Zhiyue and Yan Weizhen, who looked embarrassed. He patted the ball in front of him and said, "Mr. Kong, Mr. Yan, you stubbornly think that we The place you are in is the center of the world, so you disdain to grant a subset of your ancestral classics to the people of the Tang Dynasty outside the Central Plains, and are not willing to continue to work hard to carry forward the essence of your culture. You are only willing to attach yourself to the royal family and defend the imperial power. But Do you know that your thoughts are not helping me, Datang, to defend the imperial power, but are causing me, Datang, to lose the motivation to move forward and explore the precious wealth of this world!"
"Do you know why the Great Eclipse that the King of England just mentioned only went east and west? Why didn't they go south or north?" Li Dan's upper body was almost lying on the ball. Li Zhi was a little worried because his fat body collapsed the bracket under the ball.
Kong Zhiyue and Yan Weizhen's expressions were cold and they were silent to each other. Obviously, they didn't know anything about this issue. They had never been to the Central Plains in their lives. How could they know why Dashi only fought in the east and west and abandoned the north and the south? .
But at this time, Wu Mei, listening to Li Dan's words, began to have concerns in her heart. Even Li Zhi vaguely understood the answer to Li Dan's question in his heart.
The so-called map drawn by Li Hong hangs in the Penglai Hall and Zichen Hall, but it is incompatible with the traditional maps of the Tang Dynasty. Kong Zhiyue and others were even criticized, saying that this map was different, unknown, and unsuitable. Hanging in Li Zhi's bedroom.
But Li Zhi and Wu Mei knew the location of the Tang Dynasty from there. They even knew the location of Dashi, Anxi, Tubo, Tochar and other countries to the west, including the location of the Japanese country to the east, which was surrounded by the sea. .
Seeing the two people being silent, Li Dan finally straightened up from the ball, touched the map and said with a sigh: "We can no longer stand on our own laurels and deceive ourselves. I, the Tang Dynasty, only occupy a small part of this world." It is just a small place, not in the center of the world we know. This world is much bigger and more magical than we imagined, so we cannot be satisfied with the current wealth and prosperity of our Tang Dynasty. We must always be there. On the road of exploration, we must expand the influence of the Tang Dynasty as much as possible and consolidate the imperial power of the Tang Dynasty. Only in this way can the Tang Dynasty continue to prosper and continue to give you the illusion that we are the world's leader. In the center, you Kong Zhiyue and Yan Weizhen are the orthodox doctrines of the world."
"Although I don't understand what King Yin said, I have traveled around the world and spread doctrines since my ancestors. I have worked hard for the food, clothing and well-being of the people in the world. I have devoted myself to cultivating students, teaching etiquette, learning Dharma, and practicing virtues for our great Tang Dynasty. , so that our Tang Dynasty can become a civilized country, instead of being like the barbarians who do not know etiquette and education, and are ungrateful. It is not that the ministers are unwilling to teach, but they never know how to respect teachers and teach, and do not know how to be grateful. "What's the point of me teaching them?" Yan Weizhen didn't understand what Li Dan said at all, so she had to try to bring the topic back to her own understanding of the classics.
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