Chapter 081: Pragmatic Apprenticeship
Mongolia is the predecessor and remnant of the Great Yuan.
As the Kuritai Conference approached, one of the most important Mongolians in recent times quietly came to an end, and Dacheng Taiji married his widow, Chung Kim Hatun. The reason why it is "quietly" is because although this wedding has important political significance, the two sides are not married for the first time, and the woman is remarried, which is not in line with common sense.
In addition, it is necessary to take care of the face of Dacheng Biji and Erdemutu.
"Teacher, the messenger of the Warats has also arrived today." Erdemutu appeared in front of Gao Shishi with some excitement, and bowed his hand to Gao Shishi, who closed his eyes and recuperated, and said: "Father said that even if the old Khan had fought and moved several times during his reign, it was not as grand as it is today, and he asked me to come and thank the teacher again. ”
Gao Shishi did not open his eyes, he has been working hard lately, although he is young, he is also quite tired, he has been very tired these days, he has almost no participation in the operation of the Curritai Conference, and it is all handed over to the new pair of Hannaji and Jong Kim Hatun...... Uh, remarried couples dispose of it themselves.
"Great Qianyuan, congratulations to Mongolia for its prosperity again." Gao said in a calm tone, and then changed his words: "Erdemutu, have you ever thought that with the great power of the Yuan, why did it fall so quickly? ”
Isn't this a grading question? Erdemutu immediately said: "The Mongols don't know that they can win the world immediately, but they can't rule the world right away. ”
Unexpectedly, Gao Pragmatic shook his head and said: "In the Yuan Dynasty, culture was very prosperous. He slowly opened his eyes, looked at the half-grown Mongolian students in front of him, and smiled slightly: "Even, the Han people have a lot of places that benefit from this culture. ”
Erdemutu was stunned for a moment and hesitated: "Really? ”
"Don't you believe it?" Gao Shishi smiled slightly and said: "The culture of the Yuan Dynasty is a combination of Persian culture, Mongolian culture, and Han culture, and the more cultures are exchanged, the more prosperous they become...... I'll give you an example: blue and white are originally Persian culture, and blue is one of the main colors. Before the Yuan, there was no blue and white in China. In the Yuan period, this blue pattern was brought from Persia and could be painted on porcelain.
Before the blue and white porcelain, no matter how Chinese ceramics changed, they were all the leaders, but after the blue and white porcelain was born, it immediately became the mainstream, and no one shook its status for two or three hundred years. ”
There is indeed no problem with the example of high pragmatism, since the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming and Qing dynasties, the private kiln and the official kiln occupy the first place, all of which are blue and white porcelain. In the late Qing Dynasty, pastel challenged its status, but in the end it was also defeated.
But a single blue and white porcelain was not enough to convince Erdemutu, and his expression was obviously suspicious.
So Gao pragmatic said: "There is also cloisonne, the handicrafts that Yuan has a great impact on the Ming Dynasty, and there is cloisonne." It is based on blue tones, founded in the Yuan Dynasty, and has nothing to do with Jingtai. In fact, cloisonné is also a typical foreign culture, in the final analysis, it is the cloisonné enamel process, which is transmitted by the Arabs - that is, Huihui. In the early Ming Dynasty, the "Gegu Yao" said that it was a craft that came from the "big food". And the clever Chinese craftsmen learned this craft, and then put the Chinese ornaments into it, carried it forward, and turned it into a unique Chinese court culture."
Erdemutu hesitated for a moment and whispered, "But...... It's all a trail. ”
"So what is the Great Way? Does the study of celestial phenomena count? Gao pragmatic smiled, and said: "In the study of astronomical phenomena, the Yuan court presided over the translation of Ptolemy's "Astronomical Collection", Ibn Yunus's "Hakim Catalog" and other works, Hui astronomer Zamaruddin presided over the 'Hui Si Tianjian', and manufactured polycyclic instruments, azimuth instruments, inclinodolites, flat dolites, celestial globes, globes, planetariums and other instruments, and the Chinese local scientist Guo Shoujing absorbed the essence of them to improve and manufacture instruments such as the simple instrument, the elevation instrument, the Gui table, the polar meter, the armillary celestial phenomenon, the standing instrument, the Jingfu, the peep and other instruments. And together with Wang Sui, Xu Heng and others, he compiled the most advanced and longest-running calendar in China. The compilation of this calendar was made possible by the establishment of 27 astronomical observatories throughout the country.
At the same time, the compilation of the "Chronological Calendar" not only lists the three interpolation formulas, but also uses the "stacking barriers, strokes, Pythagorean, and arc sagittal methods" for careful calculation, in which the arc trigonometry method invented by Hui Hui is applied to the circumcision technique to obtain the "arc sagittal circumcision", and Zhu Shijie's "Quaternary Jade Jian" promotes the "Tianyuan technique" to the "quaternary technique", and proposes the solution of the "elimination of the yuan", which is ...... Well, that's still the pinnacle of numbers. ”
Gao Pragmatic almost blurted out a sentence just now: three hundred years ahead of Europe.
Erdemutu has always been taught that Hannaji is the strongest in culture, and although Gao Shishi said this, he still insisted: "But these studies are not practical." ”
Gao pragmatic thought for a moment and asked, "So, is medicine practical?" In medicine, there was the Yuan Four School of Medicine, which synthesized Chinese medicine and Arabic medicine, which is a comprehensive Hui medicine classic, with a total of 36 volumes, including internal medicine, surgery, gynecology, pediatrics, orthopedics and skin diseases, etc., there are about six or seven thousand prescriptions, and many prescriptions that we are familiar with now, such as aromatic volatile drugs, nasal drops, dew wine, oil, syrup, etc., are not from Bian Que and Hua Tuo, but from the 'sea medicine' brought by Arab medicine. ”
Medicine must be the most practical, Erdemutu couldn't argue, so he had to say: "But Dayuan is still dead." He paused for a moment, and said a little lonely: "Since the teacher said that Da Yuan did not die from culture, why did Da Yuan flourish and die suddenly?" ”
Gao pragmatic said: "There is a cloud in "Zuo Biography": 'If you prosper with this, you will die with this'. The Great Yuan Dynasty, which embodies its 'big' everywhere, only existed for a hundred years before it collapsed, but it also fell on the 'big'. ”
Erdemutu was surprised: "Big, can you also lose the country?" ”
Gao pragmatic said: "Nature can be said to be broad, broad, majestic, and strong, but on the other hand, it is also coarse, ugly, scattered, and longitudinal. The main ruling area of the Yuan Dynasty was the Han land, but it did not take the Confucian culture of the Han people as the ideology to rule the whole country, and it was a good thing for the ruler to exercise freedom of belief in the whole country, but the ruler himself was also wandering among various beliefs, and he could not establish the most fundamental concept of governing the country, so that the foundation of the country would be completely built on strong force, that is, what you just said, 'the world will be ruled immediately', and it will be easy to loosen. ”
In fact, the law of the Yuan Dynasty was made by mixing the Mongol Zasa and the Tang and Song Dynasty codes, and there were many contradictions in itself, and the successive emperors of the Yuan Dynasty also "only knew the light classics for the Shang", and the "Cao Muzi" written by Ye Ziqi at the end of the Yuan Dynasty mentioned that "the ancestors of the Yuan Dynasty set the punishment of the world, and the cane was hanged in vain." The sin of the cane is established, and it is said that the heavens will spare him, and the earth will spare him, and I will spare him. It is fifty and forty-seven. …… The trial of death row prisoners in the world has been decided, and the sentences will not be increased, and they will all die in prison. …… Therefore, in seventy or eighty years, the old man has never heard of slaughter. and when they saw a dead head, they were horrified. It can be said that the victory is to kill, and Li Yuan is in Haihan Chunyu."
When Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty who replaced the Yuan Dynasty, summed up the previous dynasty, he believed that "its loss lies in the longitudinal gallop". The use of light codes for the people can naturally win the hearts of the people, but the same is true for officials, which will inevitably lead to the prevalence of corruption and the disadvantage of corruption.
The Yuan Dynasty had no Juche ideology, and it was still a foreign race, and it used lenient methods, so it is conceivable that the spark of resistance could not be prevented, and once the central power weakened, it was a prairie fire.
In addition, the people of the Yuan Dynasty were divided into four classes, and the policy of national oppression was determined by law, and the Han and Nan, who accounted for the vast majority of the population, were naturally resentful, and the elite of the largest ethnic group must have a sense of belonging to the imperial court for this oppression.
On the other hand, because of the loose rule and the developed social economy, the hierarchical system did not guarantee the strong position of the Mongols and Semu people in the first and second ranks. In fact, in the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the ordinary people of the Mongols and Semu people were reduced to Han Chinese and Nanren slaves due to poverty, and as a foreign national regime, the people of their own nationality would inevitably weaken their centripetal force towards the imperial court because of these circumstances.
The Mongols are rough and bold, and they are happy to take revenge. Such a character can be regarded as an individual merit, but as the ruler of a large empire, it is bound to lack careful thinking and shrewd calculation.
The eleven emperors of the Yuan Dynasty, almost every change of throne, there were brutal killings and even large-scale wars. The strategist is designed in the secret room, and it is difficult to make it difficult in the court, and it is relatively rare for one or two people to set a big position, so it is a confrontation with a sword and a gun at every turn.
Internal friction between the royal family, nobles, and important ministers often leads to national restlessness and a great loss of national vitality. And such a blatant struggle for power will inevitably lead to a decline in the prestige of the royal family among the people.
In addition, the Yuan people claimed to be "the major events of the national dynasty, called the expedition, the search and hunting, and the feast". After Chengzong, foreign wars basically stopped, and the only three major events were hunting and banquets. From top to bottom, the court was full of pleasure, and there were many kinds of games, such as hunting, playing polo, pounding pills, juju, shooting willows, shooting gardens, horns, backgammon, chess, go, skimming, throwing pots, thimbles, continuing hemp, dismantling white, Taoist characters, and so on, and so on, even to the point that "there were many people in the Yuan Dynasty who danced and sang soundly, and did not produce".
The country's fundamental affairs have not yet been settled, and it is conceivable what kind of results will be produced by eliminating aspirations in this way. By the time of the last emperor Yuan Huizong, the super absurd game of "great joy" was prevalent in the palace, and he was helpless in the face of "thousands of red scarves", which can be said to have a long antecedent.
However, Gao Pragmatism is not really to teach Erdemutu to govern the country after all, he just told Erdemutu in this way: China's strength lies in the firm implementation of the Confucian system, so what about it...... You should do the same in the future!
Erdemutu understood, and nodded vigorously.
Gao pragmatic smiled, closed his eyes again and recuperated, but he couldn't help muttering in his heart: Confucianism...... It's good to promote it to you.
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