"Your Majesty, please give me your instructions." Lu Dongzan took a deep breath.
"If nothing else happens, the generals of the Tang Dynasty should already be near Lhasa." Songtsen Gampo thought for a while and then said, "Although we don't expect to take back Tibet, we must do what we need to do! Demand great The Tubo returned to us by the Tang Dynasty, and you are an envoy, so they will not make things difficult for you."
"If the Tang Dynasty will not return it, ask them to return some of the things in the Buddhist temple where we practice in Lhasa, as well as gold and silver and other items. But remember, these things are not important, but what we want is an attitude. In addition, in After the meeting with the other party's general, you go to Chang'an as quickly as possible to meet with His Majesty and tell the matter as much as you feel wronged. Do your best to get the benefits that are beneficial to us."
"Your Majesty, what are our demands?" Lu Dongzan asked seriously.
"If you want anything, whether it's food, steel, or other materials, ask the Tang Dynasty for everything, even books." Songtsen Gampo took a deep breath and said, "Since we want to learn from the Tang Dynasty in fighting against Tibet, Reform, then we in Tubo do not have enough writing, although we have captured many scholars in this field from Tianzhu, I once thought about using Tianzhu’s writing.”
"But time is not waiting for me. It will take a long time to change the Sanskrit script from Tianzhu script to the Tubo script. But if we want to strengthen management and learn the six-part system of the three provinces of the Tang Dynasty, we must use Tang script and Tang characters, so in the future We all have to learn Tangwen and Tangzi."
"Your Majesty, is there something wrong with this?" Lun Keer hesitated and asked.
"Why is it inappropriate?" Songtsen Gampo asked.
"This... if everyone learns from the Tang Dynasty, wouldn't we, Tubo, be deeply influenced by the Tang Dynasty?" Lun Keer said.
"What's your opinion?" Songtsen Gampo looked at Ludongzan and Shang Xiang (another mistake was discovered today. This person's name is actually Shang Nang, which means nang, but I checked the information and saw that it was Xiang... Full name: Niang Mangbujie Shangnang, forget it and leave it at that.) and Li Feng.
"I don't have any objections. It's okay to use Tangwen to learn Tang dialect, and it's okay to create our own characters. But what your Majesty said is right. If we create our own characters, it will take time." Lu Dongzan pondered for a while and said.
"We need to train a certain number of officials. The death of a large number of nobles has reduced the number of literate people in us. If we want to train officials, then the inherited knowledge is the most important, but we have no books in Tubo itself. We must either translate Sanskrit or Translate Tangwen, but in fact...Central Plains culture has a greater impact on us, and Tangwen can carry more knowledge. Even if we adapt the text, I feel that we should use Tangwen to adapt the text." Shang Xiang hesitated. He spoke.
"It carries more knowledge? Why did Dagong Lun say this?" Songtsen Gampo asked quickly.
Shang Xiang began to assist Songtsen Gampo when he was young, and even went to the Subi tribe alone to persuade them to surrender, so that Subi became part of Tubo. According to normal history, Shang Xiang would be framed by another Tibetan official later, and then forced to rebel by Songtsen Gampo and then killed.
However, due to the arrival of Li Ke, Tubo's strategy changed, and Shang Xiang's fate also changed. The important minister who originally had a conflict with Shang Xiang stayed in Lhasa and was directly sentenced to death by the serfs in a public trial.
As one of the most knowledgeable people in Tubo, Shang Xiang obviously has a strong say in this aspect.
"I have systematically studied the differences between Sanskrit, Tang, and Persian. I found that, except for Tang, other scripts have a common feature, that is, all their words are composed of a certain number of basic letters. Different words. But this will have a big problem, that is, every time a new word appears, you must use these letters to create a new word, and then record this new word in a dictionary or dictionary , and then the professor continues to learn.”
"And as time goes by, there will be more and more such words, and these brand-new words need to be learned again by everyone. If you don't come into contact with people who learn this word, when you see this word, even if you know the letters, But you don’t know the word, you don’t even know the pronunciation.”
"But the characters inherited from the Central Plains of China are different. Their most commonly used characters are only three or four thousand, and even the total number of all the characters is up to ten thousand. After learning these characters, even if there are new vocabulary, you don't have to go Studying alone, you can pronounce the word when you see it, and even if the word is new, you can roughly guess its meaning because you understand the meaning of the individual words."
"In other words, the spread of Chinese characters is much higher than that of other characters. The simplest way is to assume that the word "eat" is a newly coined word. I have learned Chinese characters. Although I don't understand the meaning of the word, I can understand it. , can also be read. When I pass it to another person, I can directly say the pronunciation and write the phrase. As long as the other person knows the meaning of the word, he can understand it."
"But all other words cannot be used. The person in the middle who is the transmitter must re-learn this vocabulary and write it down. Otherwise, if you write any basic letter incorrectly, you will make an error."
"In the short term, it is easier to learn, or to create a new script, such as this alphabetical script, but as time goes by, if over the past few hundred years, the lexicon carried by this script will require learning of vocabulary There will be more and more. This leads to the fact that even though many people can speak this language and learn this writing, they still cannot read all the classics! This is the key point." Shang Xiang said seriously.
This falls within the scope of his own research.
After listening to what Shang Xiang said, several people in the tent understood it. After all, Shang Xiang had already spoken in a very simple way. If you don't understand, you have a problem with your intelligence.
If Li Ke heard these words, he would give Shang Xiang a thumbs up. It has to be said that people who can stay in history in this era have something.
The advantages of Chinese characters are known to almost the whole world in later generations. Why have so many vassal countries and small countries around China from ancient times to the present chosen to create characters? This is because alphabetical characters are easy to create in the early stage, and vocabulary only needs to be continuously developed. of increase, the combination is enough.
But if you want to create characters like Chinese characters... it's not even remotely difficult. In other words, without a complete historical heritage, it's basically impossible to create such characters!
Think about it, Tibetan, Mongolian, Vietnamese, Khmer and later Cambodian, Lao, etc. are all phonetic scripts! The only widely used morpheme script in the world is Chinese characters! As for Korean and Japanese, what should I say... I can only say that I wanted to get rid of the influence of Chinese characters, but found that I couldn't do it after getting rid of it, so I wanted to combine the two and then complete it.
