"This year is a new year, a new year and a new atmosphere. Come on, tell us what you have to do." Li Ke said helplessly.
Immediately, a minister came forward to report the matter.
"The memorial will be handed over to Liangyi Hall later." This is what Li Ke said the most today. About an hour or so, everything has been said, and after only fifteen days of rest, he came out So many things.
However, Li Ke somewhat expected it, and he was not surprised.
After the report was almost complete, Li Ke said: "Since you are all fine, let's discuss an issue next, which is the necessity of canceling the Zhenguan reign title."
As soon as Li Ke's words came out, all the ministers below were stunned.
Because Li Ke hasn't communicated with anyone about this matter, he just throws such a bomb... Who the hell can stand this?
"Um, your highness, did you hear me correctly?" Wei Zheng couldn't hold back and stood up and asked.
"No, it is necessary to cancel the Zhenguan reign name." Li Ke said.
"Your Highness, you are just a prisoner of the country." Wei Zheng couldn't help but say, this is too outrageous, your words... As long as you are not His Majesty's son, you probably have to go to the prison for a while.
"I know, supervising the country means that I now have full authority to handle state affairs on behalf of my father, so I want to cancel the Zhenguan reign." Li Ke said with a smile.
Everyone: "..."
Everyone looked at Li Ke as if they were looking at an animal. Everyone had the same expression at the moment. Did you do it on purpose?
"Your Highness, why don't you tell me the reason?" Li Jing hesitated and said. The main reason is that although he doesn't have much contact with Li Ke, he feels that he knows Li Ke relatively well, so he is not a targetless person. A person, or to put it another way, His Highness King Qin is not an unreasonable person.
"It's very simple. We, the Tang Dynasty, want to build a thousand-year foundation. The generals and civil servants want to achieve or even surpass the achievements of the champions. The civil servants want to surpass Li Si of Qin, Zhang Liang of Han, and maybe even surpass hundreds of schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period. , the only way is to cancel the Zhenguan reign." Li Ke said lightly.
As soon as Li Ke's words came out, everyone took a deep breath, good guy... Your Highness, your tone is so crazy and loud, you are talking about the ultimate achievements of civil servants and generals.
Who wouldn't want to be sealed as a wolf?
"Your Highness, please elaborate." Wei Zheng hesitated before speaking.
The reason why he spoke was because Wei Zheng was alone anyway, and the other civil servants were not very talkative, so Wei Zheng could only speak at this time, and he couldn't let the generals continue to ask, right?
"Before I do this, let me ask you a question. From ancient times, the two emperors of Yan and Huang to today's Tang Dynasty, the general trend of the world must be divided if it is united for a long time, and it must unite if it is divided for a long time. However, until now, the Central Plains has been invaded by many foreign races. There were even foreign races that once ruled the Central Plains."
"But so far, we still maintain the orthodoxy. Why?" Li Ke asked everyone a question.
The ministers below were stunned for a moment, and then began to think deeply. After a moment, Fang Xuanling said: "May I ask what His Highness said, but my Chinese culture?"
"Yes! What Wei Guogong said is true. No matter how foreigners invade, even if they become the ruling class, once they rule our Central Plains land, these foreigners will only have one fate in the end, and that is to be assimilated by our Chinese culture. This is the true meaning of culture. The strength!"
"Why since the Han Dynasty, we Chinese began to call ourselves Han people, and gradually began to accept the title of Han people? Even the Tang Dynasty has been called us like this so far?"
"It's because the Han Dynasty was the first unified dynasty after Qin unified the six kingdoms, and the Han Dynasty, which lasted for four hundred years, carried out unprecedented suppression of all the nomadic peoples and barbarians around it! And spread Han culture to small countries in all directions! This This is the reason why many people spontaneously call themselves Han people, and it is also the reason why so far, the people of the Tang Dynasty can call them barbarians when they see many small countries."
"But is this the limit?" Li Ke glanced at everyone.
Everyone looked at each other in confusion. Li Ke talked about a big topic and everyone understood it. The question is, what do you want to say, Your Highness?
"What I want to tell you today is cultural invasion!" Li Ke said lightly.
Everyone was stunned for a moment, this was another new word.
"Let's put it this way, after the Tang Dynasty eliminated Tuyuhun last year, it took me less than half a year to completely rule the entire Tuyuhun. And starting from this year, Tuyuhun gradually began to learn Tang dialect and write Tang characters. Why? So easy?"
"It's because they don't have their own culture and are deeply influenced by Chinese culture, so we can quickly absorb them."
"What about the other small countries in the surrounding area? For example, the current important enemy of the Tang Dynasty, Goguryeo."
"Goguryeo has a high degree of sinicization. I believe everyone has heard about it. Let me tell you straight away. If the Tang Dynasty destroyed Goguryeo, the entire Goguryeo dynasty might completely disappear from history and never appear again. They might as well Nomadic tribes on the grasslands are so difficult to eradicate."
"It's because they are too Chinese. When the Tang Dynasty completely wipes out Goguryeo, all the people of Goguryeo will easily integrate into the Tang Dynasty. But the tribes on the grassland are different. The Huns who once ruled the grassland were driven away by the champions. In the west, some of the remaining small tribes rose up and became today's Turks."
"If the Turks are wiped out by our Tang Dynasty, other small tribes will rise by then, such as Xianbei, Jurchen, Tiele, Mongolia, etc."
"Why are these nomads so difficult to eliminate? It's because although they are influenced by our culture, the influence is not deep! The degree of assimilation is not enough! This is the necessity of cultural invasion!"
"Think about it, Silla, Baekje, Goguryeo, Nanzhao, Tubo, etc. around the Tang Dynasty. If they all speak Tang dialect and write the characters of the Tang Dynasty, then if the Tang Dynasty annexes them in the future, Is it natural to take over the place?" Li Ke asked.
"We can all understand what His Highness said, but what does this have to do with changing the year name?"
"Don't you understand? All cultural invasions take shape in a subtle way, and for example, Zhenguan, which obviously keeps changing its reign name, has very low lasting impact, so I decided to change the Zhenguan reign name to Da In the Tang Dynasty, the first year of Wude was changed to the first year of Tang Dynasty. This year is the nineteenth year of Tang Dynasty. From now on, Datang Dynasty will no longer use the era name, but adopt the era name of Tang Dynasty."
