Li Tai was beaten by Li Ke when he came back. Although Li Shimin wanted to speak, he hesitated but didn't speak. This boy really deserved a beating. He came back to see him and his mother after being away for more than half a year.
However, Li Shimin could see the change in Li Tai. He was completely the same as Li Tai before. The temperament on his body and the military style when he walked were so strong that he could tell at a glance.
This kid Li Ke has something and he’s done a good job!
In the next few days, Li Ke was quite busy. During the meeting with Lu Dongzan, Li Ke saw that he had met, but the conversation was not finished. He just told Lu Dongzan to wait until after the National Day to talk about it. However, some books, Li Ke He planned to give them first, mainly books on elementary school and other subjects. As for the others, Li Ke "didn't want to give them".
For this reason, because of this incident, an "academic" debate, or a big debate in the court, was triggered, and the main battlefield of the debate was in the "Datang Weekly".
It was the professors represented by Kong Yingda who had a fierce "debate" over the Tang Dynasty's arbitrary grant of "books" to other countries.
In "Datang Weekly", Kong Yingda and others wrote an article about Li Ke's theory about writing, which was about morpheme writing and phoneme writing. They first listed the advantages of phonetic writing and ideographic writing.
Then he linked the reasons why Chinese civilization has been inherited for more than three thousand years without being cut off, why Chinese civilization endures for a long time, and why many powerful ancient countries abroad continue to decline, but Chinese civilization will never be cut off no matter what, are linked to words.
"So, the Chinese characters that have been passed down since ancient times, the current Tang characters are the only excellent ideographic characters and morpheme characters in the world. Tang characters can carry more content and more theories. They are the only outstanding Chinese characters. The most important treasure of inheritance. The current imperial court spreads the writings of the Tang Dynasty to the world. This may lead to the emergence of many powerful empires in other places. Once these empires can have thousands of years of tradition like the Tang Dynasty, then our Tang Dynasty will surely have countless powerful empires in the future. enemy."
"So the Tang Dynasty should prohibit the Tang Dynasty's texts and books from being spread casually."
Kong Yingda's status in the Tang Dynasty was unquestionable. He could also influence a large number of people, but these people were unaware of it. Naturally, they immediately followed and began to support Kong Yingda.
In fact, strictly speaking, people of later generations are very familiar with the so-called political correctness and so-called racial discrimination in foreign countries.
But in fact, throughout the history of human civilization, well... the Chinese civilization has been the most serious discrimination since ancient times, and it is engraved in the bones and cannot be changed.
It’s just that China has been adhering to the golden mean since ancient times. When it comes to the outside world, it is rarely expressed, but many things have always been hidden in the heart. It is that sentence, no matter what, in fact, I just look down on you.
Many times, some people may not say anything, or even outwardly behave as if you can’t tell, and may even think that this person values foreigners more, but in fact, deep down, he has a completely different idea. The so-called importance is just that he thinks that I I don’t want you to think I’m rude, it’s my own influence as a starting point.
Of course, what I mean here is that most people think this way, and some people don’t even feel it themselves.
These are hidden in culture.
In this period of the Tang Dynasty, this kind of contempt was often expressed nakedly. Even if I am polite when facing you, I make no secret of my contempt for you.
It is precisely because of this that Kong Yingda's article aroused resonance and sensation among a large number of people as soon as it was published by Datang Weekly.
This article was also carefully discussed by Li Ke, Kong Yingda and others. In fact, Li Ke just told them what he wanted to achieve, and the content and way of speaking were researched by Kong Yingda and others themselves.
I have to say that this era may not have the so-called media studies and other summaries of later generations, but if you want to tell some big shots what you want to achieve and explain your purpose clearly to them, the public opinion methods these people have shown... are really A terrible move.
The best thing is that articles like this written by people like Kong Yingda are conclusive and have extensive archeology. All the examples will leave you speechless, especially regarding the advantages of cultural inheritance and other aspects. In fact, they also have own understanding.
In particular, Chinese characters have an unparalleled advantage in the archeology of some damaged characters. The character is gone, the word is gone, and you can roughly guess it based on the context.
But like Western phonetic writing, there are many words that were invented independently. If this word is completely extinct, and you want to do archaeology in future generations... you will never be able to guess what it means, and the academic ancient Even more so with words.
Envoys from various small countries, including Lu Dongzan, naturally saw this debate. After seeing it, they were a little worried, or some people had ulterior motives. The Tang Dynasty writing was so powerful, should they use the Tang Dynasty script? Tang’s writing?
Li Ke doesn’t say how many people have this idea, but it can affect a country.
Even if some countries do not change their written characters, they will probably send more people to learn Chinese characters, which is beneficial.
Amid such debates, the Persian mission and the Arab mission finally arrived near Chang'an. They came from the river in the east, because the speed they took from the sea to Datang by boat was only a little more than a month. If If we go by land, this time will probably take at least three months.
And land is even more dangerous!
The envoy of the Persian mission was Der Valle, a minister who had traded with Pei Xingjian, while the head of the Arab mission was an important Arab general, Said! It is conceivable that the two countries attach great importance to Datang's attitude this time.
Along the way, what they saw was enough to give them a full understanding of the Tang Dynasty, but when Chang'an City was so close, they still had an unprecedented expectation! I heard that this is a huge city with a population of more than one million people!
This is unimaginable in their eyes! Perhaps only Rome had such a population?
When they got off the boat and gradually began to take a carriage to Chang'an, the walls of Chang'an City were soon visible.
When the gray city wall on the horizon stretched for an unknown distance, Del Valle and Seld were completely shocked! The city wall is more than nine kilometers long. Looking from a distance, it is extremely shocking! Just like the Great Wall!
The first newly built small city in the west of Chang'an City also shocked them.
When they passed the huge city gate of Chang'an City and entered Chang'an City completely and stepped onto Zhuque Street, the 150-meter-wide road made them feel a little unacceptable. Such a road... the point is that it is so smooth! Almost as a whole, where did the Tang Dynasty get such a large piece of stone? ?
What shocked them even more was... it was clean! Extremely clean! There was no odor in the air, and there was no garbage on both sides of the streets in Chang'an City. Every place was as clean as dust. Such a clean, beautiful, and grand city... They all found it hard to imagine what this was all about. How did you do it?
Don’t people in Chang’an City poop?
Or is it that the main street of Chang'an City is so clean because it is the face of the Tang Dynasty?
When they stayed at Honglu Temple and had the opportunity to visit Chang'an City, they finally solved the answer. Is Chang'an City... really so clean? ! There is no garbage, no feces, no odor anywhere in the city!
The dense population, people from all over the world, travelers wearing all kinds of clothes, and businessmen make this city unimaginably prosperous.
Del Valle and Said were both dumbfounded. It turned out that this was Datang!
And this shock lasted until the day before they were invited to watch the ceremony!
