In any case, among the countries directly bordering the Tang Dynasty, only the Bi Kingdom and Tubo can pose a certain threat to the Tang Dynasty, and Sun Xiangfu proposed to develop Yunnan because he wanted to use the land of Yunnan to gradually promote the culture of the Central Plains to Central and South Asia.

After all, the places further south of Yunnan are all Indian-speaking and advocate Buddhism, and if they want to let the people in this region not be eroded by the Buddhist culture that is more easily accepted by the people during this period, the Tang Dynasty must preemptively establish its own cultural beliefs in Yunnan, confront, and even gradually promote the Central Plains culture to this region.

Sun Xiangfu is a person from later generations, he knows that even in the era of advanced science and technology in later generations, Buddhism has a deep-rooted influence in this region, not that he hates Buddhism, but at the political level, this kind of Buddhist culture will hinder the spread of Central Plains culture, which is not in line with the interests of the Tang Dynasty, which must be shot.

"Your Majesty, come to think of it, Tubo does not want to admit defeat, and has pulled the ally of the country of Bi to strengthen his own strength, and in their trip, there must be someone who can represent the will of his lord, and the minister suggests that you compare the guests of other countries, receive them, and you can also give them some gifts."

"Gifts? What gift? ”

"Four books, five classics, 10,000 sets."

"Uh······"

Not only Li Shimin, but all the ministers present were also a little confused by Sun Xiangfu's proposal, and sent four books and five classics, what is the intention?

The Buddhist culture of the Bi Kingdom has already developed, but the Tubo of this period has not been influenced by much Buddhist culture, because Princess Wencheng has not yet entered Tibet.

In Sun Xiangfu's view, Princess Wencheng brought a large number of Buddhist scriptures into Tibet, which seemed to play a certain role, but in fact, it was a disaster for thousands of years, making it difficult for this region to integrate into the Central Plains in later generations, which was a major political failure for Li Shimin.

Buddhist scriptures, there are four books and five classics, so that they deeply believe in Buddhism, so that they can learn Confucianism and become moral gentlemen?

At this time, when Songtsen Gampo unified the plateau and the country had not yet formed a core political ideology, it was the right time for the Tang Dynasty to show him a strong posture and then teach him the foundation of its strength, that is, 'Confucianism'.

After receiving these Four Books and Five Classics, even if Songtsen Gampo does not regard it as a treasure book for governing the country, he will definitely organize the high-level Tubo to study it seriously and spread it within a certain range, the reason why Sun Xiangfu is so sure is because he does not believe that Songtsen Gampo will not covet the strength and wealth of the Tang Dynasty.

After Sun Xiangfu said his intentions, everyone looked at him a little strangely, if they knew the word 'brain circuit', they would definitely say that Sun Zhengming's brain circuit must be different from ordinary people.

In fact, when Sun Xiangfu and Kong Yingda were arguing about the education of the Tang Dynasty earlier, Li Shimin saw this sign, and he seemed to be happy to promote Confucianism to the surrounding neighbors, and even foreign students only suggested that they be allowed to go to Guozijian to study Confucianism.

However, he himself is not superstitious about Confucianism, at most he has learned a rough idea of what is going on.

Later, Li Shimin thought it through and knew why Sun Xiangfu had this kind of thinking, if the surrounding neighbors were all gentlemen who knew etiquette and shame, for Datang, it was a good thing that would benefit and do no harm!

Now, Datang's cultural and educational undertakings in its own country have been basically launched, and it only takes time to precipitate to obtain rich harvests.

However, after changing oneself, one must change others in order to reduce the occurrence of many senseless disputes in this world.

Presenting the Four Books and Five Classics to Tubo and Bi Guo seems to be a means of changing others, and Li Shimin not only wants to give them to Tubo and Pi Guo, but also to all the Fanbang countries that come to participate in the sports conference, and carry out the activities of passing on the scriptures and sending treasures to the end.

In terms of the financial resources of the Tang Dynasty today, as well as the development of the paper industry and the printing industry, tens of thousands of books are not worth mentioning at all, and naturally there is no opposition from the courtiers.

Moreover, Sun Xiangfu also wanted to add a fire to this matter, and said to Li Shimin, "Your Majesty, the minister suggests that I announce a new imperial examination system to all the guests of Fanbang, and I have a new imperial examination system in the Tang Dynasty." ”

"A new imperial examination system?"

"Yes, the minister suggested that people from any country are allowed to come to our country to participate in the scientific examination, and all talented people, once selected, may be intern officials in accordance with the procedures, and eventually become official officials of my Datang, among them, the first to open to foreign students is the liberal arts."

Hearing this, Li Shimin's eyes lit up, and he was once again impressed by Sun Xiangfu's brain, in this way, wouldn't those foreigners be crazy about learning the Four Books and Five Classics and Confucian culture?

You must know that in Datang, to be a state-level official, the management is equivalent to the population and territory managed by the lord of a country in the Western Regions, and its income has reached hundreds of guan per month, and the purchasing power of hundreds of guan money in the people is quite strong, you can buy a good house in Shanyang, save for two months, and you can buy a luxury villa and earn a luxury villa in two months, what kind of temptation is this?

Moreover, there are more talents, and the benefits to the country are of course innumerable, and it can further promote the pace of expansion of the Tang Dynasty, so Li Shimin didn't think much about it, and didn't even ask Fang Xuanling and others for their opinions, so he nodded and said, "I agreed to this matter, let Shanyang's printing workshop print more Four Books and Five Classics, and I will send them away."

In addition, in the city of Dingxiang and Shanyang, starting from the current imperial examination, the imperial court will open the liberal arts to foreigners, and after that, other subjects will be opened one after another. ”

"Your Majesty."

Many ministers who figured out the key to this matter praised in unison, which immediately made Li Shimin's mood very happy, this year's imperial examination will be held in mid-October, after the school is advanced to the county level, the number of scholars in Datang is increasing by a multiple, he is looking forward to the number of reference personnel in this session, and even more looking forward to the reference number of the next imperial examination, putting the world's talents into their own baskets, that is really called 'the world's heroes are all in my hand'.

"Come here, give a feast, I want to have fun with you."

Li Shimin is still the same Li Shimin, when he is in a good mood, he wants to drink and listen to music, and watch singing and dancing. As soon as Sun Xiangfu entered the city, he was invited to the palace, and after chatting for several hours, he was already hungry.

After a while, Yan Lide, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, came over with a wine glass.

"Yan Shangshu, don't blame, I just entered the city today, and I was summoned by His Majesty, I'm really hungry."

Yan Liben was very self-contained, and he waited for Sun Xiangfu to wipe his oily mouth clean before he said, "The old man is here, not for anything else, it is the sky lantern made by the Research Institute under the Ministry of Industry, I want to ask Zhengming to take the time to see if it is appropriate and how it can be used at the opening ceremony." ”

"I'd love to ask, who came up with this idea?"

"This, Masaaki, don't you know? On the battlefield of Yanjin, your family's guards, with the help of the upward power of the sky lantern, climbed the cliffs on both sides of Yanjin City, His Majesty attaches great importance to this matter, and ordered the Ministry of Industry Research Institute to study it, finally, in the first two months, the research institute, produced a large sky lantern, its upward force, can completely hang a few people into the air, however, because of the problem of wind, it is easy to float away in the air, therefore, we use a rope to tie it to the ground, We also designed a winch that could lower the basket from the sky, but how to make it move in the air according to the position we specified was not solved. ”

Sun Xiangfu couldn't imagine that his own guards would use sky lanterns on the battlefield, and the Ministry of Industry Research Institute has been studying it for more than a year, and now it seems that it should be able to solve the problem of ascent and descent after repeated trials, and then said, "Use paper paste, used for night liftoff lighting, or communication, we call it sky lanterns, like this big guy made by your Ministry of Industry, I think it is more appropriate to call it a hot air balloon, because its function is no longer lighting communication, but manning." ,How to make it move,And its safety problem,I need to look at it,Can I help you figure it out,Now,Where are those big things? ”

Yan Lide replied, "For the sake of secrecy, those things are temporarily stored in the barracks. ”

"Those? Did the institute do a lot? ”

"Yes! In order to ensure its safety, the research institute has made ten, which can be assembled and filled with hot gas at any time, as long as they are all connected in series with ropes at that time, even if one or two of them have problems, they will not suddenly fall to the ground and damage the people in the gondola. ”

Sun Xiangfu made up the picture a little, and said with a smile, "If there are ten, then the problem will be solved, we only need to lift them into the air at the same time, take a group of hot air balloons at the opening ceremony venue as the axis, fix them in the two diagonal diagonal positions of the upwind and downwind positions of the day, and equip the two hot air balloons with ropes that can be pulled by a winch, and then you can pull the hot air balloons that Your Majesty rides, and move slowly between these two points." ”

When Yan Lide heard this, his eyes lit up, and he immediately raised his glass to Sun Xiangfu and said, "Zhengming is really smart, so the problem can be solved." ”

"Whether it can be solved or not has to be tested to know, and what worries me the most is safety."

"Zhengming rest assured, the people of the research institute will not give unsafe things to His Majesty to use, this thing has been tested many times before, and it can almost completely prevent Mars from sputtering outward, igniting the big ball, and the amount of fuel used every time, lift-off, and descent, are all calculated very clearly, enough for it to continue to float in the sky for more than two hours, and even, it can reach an altitude of more than a thousand meters."

Hearing this, Sun Xiangfu was a little stunned, the science and technology tree of the Ministry of Industry Research Institute has grown a little beyond his expectations, and said, "Is it safe or not, let's talk about it after I see it!" Tomorrow, I will go to the barracks with Yan Shangshu to check it out. ”