Confirmation of the author's death

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My dear child, whenever I lift a pen, I always think of your chubby little face. I don't know what age you will be when you read these words, whether you are a young man in your twenties, a middle-aged man like me now, or a person who has entered his old age. Maybe never seeing these words is a good thing for you.

Actually, I am very conflicted, I don't know whether to continue writing these diaries or not, and I have already said many times in my previous diaries. But I couldn't help but put pen to paper, it's not only my daily record of myself, it's the only way I can talk to you.

Chinese say "see words like faces", I can't grow up with you, I can only hide this love and thoughts in words, my dear child, I love you no less than anyone.

Seeing this, you may be disgusted with your father's hypocrisy again.

Let's get down to business, it's three o'clock in the afternoon, the weather is very clear, I'm sitting on the streets of Istanbul, Turkey, waiting for an important person, he was supposed to arrive yesterday, but he didn't make an appointment, I don't know if he will be today, maybe he's watching me?

When it comes to Turkey, I don't know if you've heard of this country. As far as I know, there are probably more people who know about turkey than Turkey. In my observation, there are many people in our country who have a very narrow international perspective, the United States, a little bit of Europe, and at most a little bit of Japan and South Korea, and this is their entire international world. Child, I don't want you to be like that, learn more about the world, although there are no immediate benefits, but you will definitely benefit a lot in the future.

Turkey is a country that has a lot of roots with ours. This land once held the supreme glory of the Ottoman Empire, and the French writer Flaubert lamented during his travels to Istanbul that "in the next 100 years, Istanbul will become the capital of the world". Unfortunately, contrary to this prophecy, the Ottoman Empire fell apart with the First World War, and our country suffered from the same disease, and it became the "sick man of West Asia".

Kang Nanhai's "Preface to the Weakening of the Turks" is regarded as the precursor of the Wuxu Reform, and he believes that "looking at all countries, it is similar to China's closest form, compared with the same kind, and the most relevant one is the Turkic." The Turks came from the Xiongnu, after the Chunwei of the Gaiyin people, and I am of the same species. "The Ottoman Empire was Turkic, after the Huns, and was of the same origin as China. If the Qing Dynasty did not want to follow in the footsteps of the Ottoman Empire, they had to change their laws in order to be reborn.

After that, I don't need to say much about the course of China's history. Turkey also retained its sovereignty under the leadership of Kemal, the founding father of the nation, and established the Republic of Turkey today. Kemal carried out radical secularization, the separation of church and state, the abolition of the status of the state religion of Islam, the complete study of the West, and even the change of script from the Arabic alphabet to the Latin alphabet.

Two countries, thousands of miles apart, have you ever wondered what someone who is thousands of miles away from me is doing right now?

If geography is the horizontal axis, time can be the vertical axis. At one time and one place, reminiscing about the past and the present, there is a kind of fatalistic tragedy.

From where I sit, I could see the central square of Istanbul, which is as bustling as some European cities. And one of the people who contributed a lot to this prosperity is now watching me drink coffee.

In a building in front of me, the entire wall along the street was painted with the face of Turkish President Erdogan. He was looking at me with a determined gaze, and I was looking at him.

Erdogan's more than a decade in power has left a deep mark on the country, driving economic development that has made Turkey one of the world's most important economies, and winning cheers from the Arab world when he spoke to the Israeli president at the Davos summit in Switzerland. And now, after years as prime minister, he is running for president and giving real power to this fictitious title that was supposed to be just an honor, using the vote to endorse autocracy.

For example, the giant propaganda poster in front of me is only a propaganda work with a strong political connotation, but if you look at it from the perspective of time, you can see many interesting things. Although Erdogan has always held high the banner of Kemal, his strong religious color and a series of religious reforms run counter to Kemal's secularization path.

Behind this is the trade-off between secular and religiotic. The military coup d'état on the night of July 15, 2016, was in fact a concentrated manifestation of this contradiction. However, it seems that many Malaysians are more concerned about the more dramatic aspect of Erdogan's use of Apple's Facetime service to address the nation than the coup itself.

Even after such a drastic process of secularization, the traditions of Islam are still alive and well in this land, and this vitality seems to have existed since ancient times and will continue into the eternal future.

However, if we go back in time, we can't help but sigh at the cruelty of time, which does have the infinite power to turn the sea into a mulberry field, just a few hundred years ago, this land was not Istanbul, this is Constantinople, the capital of the Eastern Roman Empire, and the center of Christianity. The patriarch of Constantinople had supreme authority in the Christian world second only to the pope.

At the beginning of the eighth century, the Arab Empire's bloody battle under the walls of Constantinople lasted for nearly a hundred years, devouring countless lives like a meat grinder.

At the same time, on the land of the East, Li Longji finally cleared the obstacles left by Wu Zetian, changed his name to Kaiyuan, worked hard, and ambitiously wanted to lead the Tang Dynasty to create a prosperous era.

At that time, there was already an unknown secret connection between Constantinople and the Tang Dynasty. This history, which has been dissipated under the yellow sand and submerged in the history books, may be of unimaginable importance.

I'm going to cross that red line when I'm about to say it, but it's been years since you saw these words, and I'm probably no longer there, so it doesn't hurt to say it.

After receiving the support of those people, I opened my eyes to a whole new world, and my past speculation was no longer the delusion of a madman, and that there were real supernatural powers in this world. I received several long-lost Taoist texts from them, and I got a glimpse of a great secret hidden in them. This secret started from Constantinople and crossed the yellow sands of the Hanhai Sea, stirring up the wind and rain of the Tang Dynasty. Can you imagine the infinite joy that comes from touching history?

And now I'm going to start from the source, and I'm here in search of one of the greatest and most important relics in the history of Christianity.