The broadcast of the fourth episode of "A Brief Discussion on Western History" gradually opened up a great discussion on the Axial Age in the historical circles, and also aroused the strong interest of many netizens in this for the first time.

Professor Diao then published an article "On the Causes of the Emergence of the Axial Age" on the "Sinology Times" APP, in which he proposed three possible reasons for the emergence of the Axial Age:

First, thanks to the obvious progress of human productivity, the separation of physical and mental labor has made it possible for a considerable number of them to detach themselves from labor and specialize in mental work. (And in the article, Confucius and other forces are listed)

To put it bluntly, when human beings can't afford to eat and wear, they still analyze what philosophy and what science, and how can they have spare money and idle heart.

Second, economic development and the use of iron weapons have expanded the scale of ancient warfare, expanded the area and scope of human activities, and further broadened mankind's vision of understanding, observing, and understanding the objective world, and improved mankind's ability to understand the world.

Third, it benefits from the development of human potential stimulated by the reality of social contradictions and struggles.

During the Axial Age, there was constant social turmoil between the East and the West: the Spring and Autumn Five Hegemons and the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period in China; India, Magadha, Chosaro and other states competed for hegemony for a long time; in Greece, Sparta, Athens and other states fought for hegemony on land and at sea, one after another, intermittently......

This point of view can be summed up in one sentence: heroes come out of troubled times!

At the end of Professor Diao's article, write a line: The views of this article are from the lecture of the famous scholar Mr. Li Fan.

Well, I still heard it from Li Fan's lecture. However, Li Fan only summarized a few sentences in the lecture, and Professor Diao extracted three of them for detailed analysis and research.

That is, in a few short sentences, Li Fan traveled Professor Diao's article of several thousand words.

On Thursday, clips of Lin Feng, a lecturer at Renmin University, in class were exposed to the Internet.

In the online video, Lin Feng analyzed the hot topic Axis Era, and believed that the main reasons are:

Every civilization produced an elite class, and the emergence of the elite class provided fertile ground for the advent of the Axial Age.

During this period, slavery was developed in ancient Greece, citizens were generally highly educated, and philosophers were highly regarded, while India gave rise to a Brahmin sacrifice class, which gave rise to anti-Brahmanism and Buddhism, and in China, a class of scholars.

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This point of view was also mentioned in Li Fan's lecture.

Ouyang Changqing, head of the Department of History at Beijing Normal University, published an article focusing on the relationship between the Great Migration and the Axial Age.

In an interview, Professor Su Wu discussed the main reasons for the emergence of the Axial Age in India and believed that there was an important connection with the socio-economic changes at that time.

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For a time, the historiographical community suddenly entered a great discussion about the Axial Age, and in this era of extremely developed networks, discussions about the Axial Age were all over the Internet.

However, no matter how the historiography discusses it, it is basically discussed within the theoretical framework provided by Li Fan.

In the lecture, Li Fan only talked about the Axial Era in general terms because of the length and content of the program, although each point of view may only be a few sentences, but it contains a lot of content worthy of extensive discussion and analysis.

This is also the reason why Li Fan decided to publish a book, the theory and research of the Axial Age cannot be finished in one or two sentences.

After a few days of fermentation, the discerning people have discovered that although some historians have published research on the Axial Age, they have not departed from the content of Li Fan's lectures, as if the discussions of historians are carried out under the framework given by Li Fan.

When Professor Diao read his peers' analysis of the Axial Age, he couldn't help but sigh with admiration, and wondered in his heart: Why is Li Fan so awesome?

There is no way, the height of Li Fan is too high.

In the past week, newspapers, magazines, the Internet, news, Weibo, etc., the discussion of the Axis Era has entered an explosive period, and it is during this period that Li Fan is ready to sign a sky-high contract.

Jingda Press, located in the northwest corner of Jingcheng University, directly belongs to Jingcheng University. Today, they are fortunate to have the signing rights to Li Fan's new book in the future.

The four major publishing houses in China are the People's Literature Publishing House, Zhonghua Book Company, the Commercial Press, and Sanlian, while the Beijing University Publishing House cannot be compared with the four major publishing houses in terms of fame and strength.

They negotiated a preliminary agreement with Sister Jiang, and today, the final details are about to be discussed, and they have come to the last step before signing the contract.

The reason why the Beijing University Publishing House won the victory was not because Li Fan was a student of Beijing University, but because they offered the highest royalty in the history of China, 25%.

This sky-high royalty has refreshed the highest royalty in history after the founding of the People's Republic of China by 21%!

Literati are not valuable, not to mention ordinary writers, even famous writers, the royalty is generally only about 10%, and 15% can be achieved only a handful in China.

This 25% royalty contract has basically squeezed the profits of Jingda Publishing House to the very thin.

Sister Jiang had just come downstairs to the Beijing University Publishing House with her assistant, and as soon as the president of the Beijing University Publishing House and others came down, her phone suddenly rang.

The People's Literature Publishing House suddenly threw out a 26% royalty, continuing to raise a new record of the highest royalty in history.

After putting down the phone, Sister Jiang's eyes were full of apologies, and the president of Jingda Publishing House was more than capable of doing so, and she was sad and regretful, and she fell short.

Two days later, the People's Literature Publishing House officially held the "New Book Signing Ceremony and Media Meeting".

Li Fan got up early that morning, washed his face and brushed his teeth, dressed neatly, and went to the cafeteria for breakfast.

Breakfast standard 4 buns and a bowl of porridge, plus a small plate of pickles, but today he had a big appetite and didn't eat enough, so he raised his chopsticks and stretched out to Gu Yating's plate.

"You cook by yourself, I'm a ration of beauty meals!" Gu Yating opened his chopsticks.

"Beauty meal? Your soy milk fritters are beauty meals?"

Li Fan went to the window of the cafeteria and sandwiched two buns, and when he sat back in his seat, but seeing Gu Yating looking at him with his eyebrows, Li Fan said suspiciously: "What's the matter?

Gu Yating curled her lips slightly, and then asked: "The 26% royalty given to you by the People's Literature Publishing House is before or after tax?"

"Before taxes, of course, before taxes. ”

"Oh!" Gu Yating began to calculate, "If the price of this book is 49 yuan and the total sales volume is 3 million copies, then the pre-tax income is 49x3 million x 0.26, which is 38.22 million."

According to the laws of China, 38.22 million x (1-0.2) = 30.576 million, 30.576 million is the taxable part, 3057.6 x 0.2 = 6.1152 million, and the tax amount paid is 6.1152 million, of which the tax reduction is 611.52 x 0.3 = 183.456, and your actual tax payment is 4.28 million 604. ”

Li Fan looked at her in astonishment, why are you so good at math? How can I deal with you in the future, my God!

Gu Yating continued: "In other words, your total income is 33,939,360!

Well, quite a bit!"

Li Fan sighed, "Tingting, women who are not good at math are very happy." Like my mother, she always thought that she was in control of the family's finances, but when I was a child, my father would always sneak behind my mother's back to buy me canned food and snacks to eat, and often helped Widow Zhang. ”

Gu Yating frowned: "Widow Zhang, Auntie knows about this?"

"Uh...... Not the point!"

Gu Yating continued to frown: "You mean, I'm not happy in the future?"

"How is it possible?!I will definitely raise you for nothing in the future, that's not the point. Li Fan said: "The point is, if you have a great cause, don't worry about my little money?"

"I didn't think about it, didn't you say that your property will be independent in the future, I just casually help you calculate it, and be happy for you, how can you think of me like that? How can I be called a housekeeper? Am I that kind of person?"

"You swear to God!"

Gu Yating raised her head, looked at the sky outside through the glass wall, and after a few seconds, said, "The weather is so good today, let's go on a spring outing in the afternoon? Where are we going?"

Li Fan glanced at her, continued to bow his head to eliminate the last bun, and said, "By the way, my mother will come after a while, I may not be in the capital that day, you accompany my mother." ”

"What is Auntie doing here?"

"Bring jelly and get ready for the show. ”

"Okay, no problem, I'll take my aunt and sister around the capital at that time. ”

After Li Fan ate the last bun, he took out a tissue to wipe his mouth, and left with a dinner plate, ready to go to the People's Literature Publishing House to sign a contract.

Gu Yating, who had just put down the chopsticks, suddenly covered her forehead in annoyance, it was a bad dish.

If the "elegant name" of "Xiao Fanfan" is heard by the future mother-in-law, wouldn't it be very bad?

Gu Yating thought of this, picked up her bag and hurriedly went home to "train the dog".

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Conference Room of People's Literature Publishing House.

Under the spotlight of countless media, Li Fan and the president sat next to each other, Li Fan raised the pen, left beautiful handwriting on the contract, and got up to shake hands with the president.

With the media flashing lights constantly flashing, everyone sat down and answered questions from reporters.

"Hello president, may I ask, what are the reasons for signing a contract with Li Fan's new book with a historical record-breaking royalty?"

"There are many reasons, but the most important thing is the quality of this new book, which will be the next "New Evidence Collection".

In the in-depth communication with Mr. Li, we even boldly predicted that this book has a certain chance of going abroad and going to the world, because this book is written from the perspective of the development of world history!

This book makes up for the shortcomings of Chinese historians and is written from the perspective of an objective and neutral compiler, which is rare in our Chinese historical circles. ”

A reporter half-jokingly said: "Isn't it because of Li Fan's huge popularity and super high sales?"

The president laughed heartily: "This is the icing on the cake, we People's Literature Publishing House, only pay attention to quality!"

Everyone in the publishing house bowed their heads slightly......

A female reporter asked: "Teacher Li, isn't it pure that scholars are linked to money? As a famous scholar, what do you think of the 26% sky-high royalties you have set a record?"

Li Fanming's eyes flashed, "Scholars are also people, if you don't make money, you will support me?"

The female reporter nodded, "I'll raise it!"

The scene burst into laughter.

The news that Li Fan signed a sky-high contract with a royalty of 26% was reported by major platforms as soon as possible. They have even appeared on the news programs of major TV stations across the country.

In the evening, in the "Evening News Network" of the province of Giessen:

Male host: "The latest news, today, Li Fan, a famous scholar and writer in our province, signed a new book contract with the People's Literature Publishing House with 26% royalty, 26% royalty, refreshing the highest domestic royalty record since the founding of the People's Republic of China. ”

Hostess: "The 26% royalty surpasses the Nobel Prize winner Mr. Zhao Jianmin, making Li Fan the most commercially valuable super writer in China. ”

Host: "Please!"

Li's mother watched the news on TV, and then began to count with her fingers: "26%, if a book is sold for 50 yuan, 26% is 20 yuan, and a book can earn 20 yuan, Lao Li, how much tax?"

Dad Li said: "50 yuan for a book, how much is 26%?"

Mama Li's head was running at high speed, and then said, "20!"

"Press the calculator!"

Dididi, after the calculator was pressed, Mama Li smiled ashamedly: "13, I'm right, I'm rounding up." ”

"Isn't rounding up 10 dollars?"

"Uh......"

Dad Li pouted, secretly touched his pocket, and then sneaked home to hide his private money.

When the "Evening News Network" in Jisen Province was broadcast, Li Fangang and Zhang Xiaofei opened Gu Yating's door, but saw that Gu Yating and her aunt were squatting on the ground to train the dog.

"Dollar, hear me, remember, it's your new name. ”

Gu Yating's lips were thin after repeating, and Erha finally reluctantly accepted the new name, which was the result of an entire afternoon of teaching by Gu Yating and Auntie.

Seeing Li Fan walk into the living room, the aunt raised her head and said, "Xiaofan, ask you a question." ”

"Auntie, you say. ”

"Why did you name Xiao Fanfan USD, how kind is it to name RMB!"

Li Fan was helpless: "Auntie, do I dare? If netizens know, they will definitely spray me for insulting RMB!"

Aunt sneered: "Yes, this can't be helped, who called us celebrities, we must pay attention to every bit of it, Xiao Fanfan finally succeeded in changing his name." ”

Erha heard his name again, and then suddenly jumped in front of his aunt, rubbed on his aunt affectionately, and raised his big paws to pick up his aunt.

Auntie and Gu Yating burst into tears together, it was over, and the whole afternoon's homework on the dog was done in vain.

Li Fan asked, "Are you finally willing to change Erha's name?"

Gu Yating said: "Of course, you think, once you call 'Xiao Fan', you and Xiao Fan run over at the same time, are you embarrassed or embarrassed by the dog?!"

Li Fan was speechless, "What did you think about earlier?!"

Gu Yating said: "The key is that Auntie is coming, if Auntie comes to the house and calls 'Xiaofan', I will be embarrassed when you run over with the dog." ”

Li Fan sweated profusely, and then joined the ranks of dog training.

Faced with the broken thoughts surrounded by four people, the dog collapsed and hummed.

At this time, Li Fan's mobile phone rang, and Li Fan didn't pay attention to pressing the hands-free button.

The call came from Li's mother, and Li's mother's happy voice came out: "Xiaofan, what are you doing?"

Everyone glanced at the mobile phone, and then looked at Erha again, only to see Erha's eyes brighten up and run to the mobile phone......