Chapter 1557 Who is more ruthless in history
"Bang bang!" There was sporadic applause in the classroom, and it seemed that there was really someone who was on par with this teacher.
Zhang Tianyuan smiled and asked, "May I ask this teacher, have you read the history of the world, the history of Europe and the history of the Americas?"
"It is enough for me to know the darkness of Chinese history. The teacher said.
"Hahaha, amazing, really amazing, I really didn't expect that Huaqing University would have a teacher like you, when you admired Western civilization from the heart, you didn't even take a good look at world history. But I've seen it, after graduating from high school and going to university, I know a lot and read a lot of books, I read the Bible, the Analects, the Zhuangzi, and I read some Buddhist scriptures roughly. Later, I began to look through it carefully. In particular, I studied archaeology and was interested in world history, so I read it carefully. ”
"At that time, I had some doubts about the views of Bai Yang and others, such as: The book once said: The Great Wall of China is a symbol of China's closed country, is this in line with historical facts? said that the Chinese discriminate and oppress women, but the Bible also clearly points out: women are dependent on men, to be at the mercy of men, Bai Yang said that after China established the dominance of Confucianism, there have never been philosophers with new ideas, but Fan Wei, Gu Yanwu, Dai Zhen are obviously thinkers with independent views... However, I still basically agree with their ideas. I just think that some of the so-called 'inferior roots' are not very accurate. But the day is not too far off, and as I read more and more books, these people turn black and white upside down. The so-called view of partial generalization is really rubbish!"
At this time, the class bell had already sounded, but the students in the classroom did not have the heart to listen to the lecture. And the teacher also seemed to want to refute Zhang Tianyuan's words, and did not plan to attend class. Or maybe he thinks it's a living debate class, and he wants his students to know that there are still many ignorant people like Zhang Tianyuan in China.
Zhang Tianyuan saw that none of them objected to him continuing to speak, so he said: "When I looked at world history, at first, I really didn't have any profound feelings, but I just felt that Westerners have many countries and nationalities, and it is difficult to remember people's names clearly. ”
"Of course, there's another feeling. I vaguely feel that there are many wars in Europe, and religious disputes are more frequent... But at this time, I still didn't have any bad impressions of Western culture. However, my doubts increased: Bai Yang repeatedly ridiculed the Chinese for having eunuchs, but there were also traditional eunuchs in Rome and Turkey, and there was also the phenomenon of castration of artists in European countries. Besides, Bai Yang repeatedly ridiculed China's court staff as 'taking off his pants and spanking him', but the Roman Empire also had a tradition of beating ministers to death with sticks, and even cut off their heads... I'm sure you've all heard of this. That is, the world-famous fascist torture, and if you look closely, I can't help but be at a loss... A civilized nation, an excellent nation. The conclusions that I had made about the Europeans in my mind could not help but be shaken one by one!"
Even if these are these, it can only be said that Bai Yang's words are not accurate enough. There is civilization in the Western world, so there is a certain amount of darkness, but it is only a small part. "The history teacher began to thin the mud. Make excuses for your idols.
"Really?" Zhang Tianyuan glanced at the teacher indifferently and continued: "When I saw the ancient civilization, I hated the Europeans for destroying culture. At the same time as the burning of the city also on Greece. The splendid culture of Rome is appreciated, and when I look at the history of the Middle Ages, which continues to the period before the English Parliamentary Wars, I can't bear to look at it anymore, for I feel sad: there has been such despicable deceit in the history of mankind, such a frenzied destruction of civilization, and such brutality and scandal that even the most barbaric and chaotic tyrants in the East could not do!!"
"What the hell is going on?" It seems that there are really many students in this class who don't know world history and European history at all, Zhang Tianyuan feels the need to explain it to them clearly, of course, what do they think Zhang Tianyuan is not interested in care, he just lists the facts.
"Why else can it happen, don't listen to his nonsense, the Chinese destroy culture, such as Qin Shihuang burning books and pit Confucianism, Xiang Yu burning Afang Palace, Dong Zhuo destroying Chang'an and Luoyang, foreign countries do not have such behavior!" said the history teacher loudly.
In ancient times, when Western Rome fell, the Goths, a branch of the Germanic people, burned buildings in Rome, destroying 45,000 houses, and 1,800 palaces were burned, treasures were looted, all the gold and silver treasures and prisoners of war became the burial goods of the Gothic leader Alaric, and books and artifacts were smashed and destroyed. Even if 100 palaces are worth the last Afang Palace, the amount of destruction by the Goths is 18 Afang Palaces, which is an astonishing astronomical number! Do you still want to hear it?"
Zhang Tianyuan looked at the students, but not at the teacher, he knew that the teacher was trembling, maybe even the teacher himself began to waver about what he had always believed.
"I want to hear it!"
Not only did they want to listen, but some students even took out their notebooks and began to take notes, and even simply looked up on the Internet, wanting to know if Zhang Tianyuan was talking nonsense.
In 1618, the Germans, still with the blood of the Mongols in their veins, but who were called by some as naturally excellent, pure-blooded people, shamelessly raised their butcher's knives against their own culture and people. In the past 30 years, the Germans have brought in Danes, Swedes, and later Spaniards and Russians, and almost all neighboring countries to open their borders for religious disputes. It was these good Germans who provoked the Second World War more than 300 years later. The destruction continues, and each time it becomes more severe, worse, and dehumanizing!"
"German fascists do not count. The history teacher protested in a very weak voice.
"Well, let me tell you, not only the Germans, but also the rest of Europe are interested in cultural destruction, and the scale and impact are so great that it is impressive! The Dutch hated the Spanish rulers, so they took out their anger at culture, and the church was dim, but the church as a building, a culture, seemed to be not very culpable. Even if it is right to destroy some churches, a revolutionary act of storming the nest of reactionary rulers, there should always be moderation. The great Dutch, who took out the means they would later use to destroy Indonesian civilization, burned and smashed more than 5,500 churches in one go, of which more than 300 were built in the early Roman era and have a history of nearly 1,000 years. ”
And the Alpha Duke of Spain did not show weakness, and used the means of their ancestors to exterminate the Inca culture before, and razed Antwerp, the largest city in the Netherlands, the center of Western European civilization. Antwerp was part of the Spanish colony at the time, and its revenues stood at half of the entire Spanish treasury. The Europeans are destroying their own economic lifeline in this way, hysterical at best, schizophrenia at worst - I thought that Europeans were just colonizers destroying the culture of other regions, but later I learned that they would not even let go of their own culture!"
"In 1687, the Venetians bombarded the Parthenon, which was known as the 'treasure of Greece,' with cannons, and after the 18th century, the great powers from Western Europe also came to loot it one after another, just like burning and looting the Old Summer Palace! What is puzzling is that when the Romans annexed Carthage, they clearly made Carthage one of their provinces and made it a part of the Roman Empire, and they set fire to it for six days and six nights. It's hard to explain how to destroy the culture of Carthage...!"
"That sounds terrible!" said some timid girls, their faces turned a little pale when they heard this.
Zhang Tianyuan sneered: "There is even more terrible, I originally knew that the Chinese were eating in the famine era, and it felt very barbaric, but later I learned that when the Russians were on the Eastern Crusade, the commander Boyakov led his subordinates to eat human flesh under the pretext of insufficient military food, and the living also ate and corpses, from Moscow to the Heilongjiang River, eating dark and white bones... Speaking of which, I feel very tired. Because the Europeans destroyed culture and destroyed humanity, only a small number of examples have been discussed. ”
"Teacher, oh no, this gentleman, you take a sip and go on, we want to hear it. "A female classmate held her own water cup and asked Zhang Tianyuan to drink water.
"Thank you, but I have this. Zhang Tianyuan really felt a little thirsty, but he had his own mineral water, and he generally wouldn't drink other people's water easily.
After taking a sip of water, Zhang Tianyuan continued: "In the history of Europe, it is rare to see them destroy a palace - this is not to praise them. Because the Europeans destroyed culture, the small-scale ones were usually the complete destruction of a city, and the large-scale ones were the destruction of a nation's civilization! A good Roman city, the Gauls came and burned, the Carthaginians came and burned, the Goths came and burned, the Romans governed themselves, and they were still burned! The Inca, the destruction of the Mayan civilization, the catastrophe brought about by the Crusades, the civil strife and destruction of the Huguenot Wars, the bloody slaughter of the Hussite Wars, the atrocities of France and Spain in Italy...... If you want to have a comprehensive understanding of the cultural achievements of Western civilized people praised by Bai Yang and others, then you can watch it slowly for yourself, and you may not be able to watch it for three days and three nights. I'm even more tired when I talk about it, and when you learn knowledge in the future, it's best to bring your own brains and have your own opinions, but don't follow the crowd. (To be continued......)