The Tibetan script was strangled in the cradle by Li Hong, and the writing of the Anxi pastoral tribe became the only script in the more than ten years of Li Hong's reign, and if it continued to advance to the west, it was mandatory to let the side branches of the five surnames and seven wangs take root in Anxi, with Confucian culture as the main body, spreading the essence of the Central Plains culture and maintaining the essence of imperial power.

In this way, even if a hundred years later, the Central Plains is full of smoke and a group of heroes are competing for each other, but in terms of the same root and same species, isn't it more radiating and more extensive than the trajectory in history? Wouldn't it be more cohesive and centripetal?

Tradition is used to break, our traditional culture is rooted in the Central Plains, but never willing to go out to see, take a look, wishful thinking that they are the center of the world, Confucian sages do not know, in the absence of pioneering and innovative, anything in the face of the development of the times, will eventually be eliminated.

Li Zhe stood proudly, stunned by the ministers, between the stunned expressions of Li Zhi and Wu Mei, he said to Kong Zhiyue and Yan Weizhen again: "You only saw that the Great Food Prince came to worship in my Tang Dynasty, and you complacently thought that my Tang Dynasty was unmatched, and that our culture was the orthodoxy of the world!" But have you ever wondered why Big Food has grown so strong? Why are they strong? What do they use to sustain their strength? What will support their regime, and what will make their regime stable? The essence of the Buddhist scriptures was accepted and integrated by my Datang, making my Datang a pure land of foreign Buddhist scriptures, and making the monks from the Western Regions become the noble envoys of the Tang Dynasty, but why can Dashi adhere to its own culture, and let the essence of the Buddhist scriptures cannot penetrate into their traditional culture? Have we learned from this? Do you know all this? ”

In the face of Li Zhe's series of whys, Kong Zhiyue and Yan Weizhen began to look a little at a loss, and today they originally participated in the royal banquet, intending to start with Kong Zhiyue's high-minded talk in front of His Majesty and the queen, and then push Yan Weizhen to the stage again.

As a result, the Hongwen Pavilion, which is gradually moving away from tradition and approaching the Chongwen Pavilion of the East Palace, can be handed over to Yan Weizhen by His Majesty from Su Jing's hands.

But no, their purpose has not yet been implemented, and they have not yet communicated with the officials present to discuss the issue of Hongbunkan, so they have to face the questions and doubts of the royal prince first.

Li Zhe looked at Kong Zhiyue and Yan Weizhen, who had blank expressions and a trace of deep anger, and suddenly pulled out the horizontal knife in the waist of the guard at the gate of Hanyuan Palace, and then raised the horizontal knife and walked to the two, just when the ministers thought that Li Zhe was going to be rude, Li Zhi wanted to stop it but was secretly stopped by Wu Mei, only to hear Li Zhe say solemnly: "Since you don't know why, then let me Li Zhe tell you why!" ”

"All the why, it is because the Great Cannibals, with their swords in their right hand and a book of scriptures in their left hand, have conquered many kingdoms to the east and west that you have never heard of! Use the sword in the right hand to make the people of those countries submit to their strong force, and then use the scriptures in their left hand to make the people of those countries believe that this is the only code that can make their hearts full of strength, faith, and spiritual sustenance, and can save them from fire and water, and give them food, clothing, and well-being. As a result, the code has become their only belief and their totem!

Now, do you know why the imperial brother sent all the side branches of the five surnames and seven wangs to Anxi? Now you should know that the imperial brother is working thanklessly on your ancestors' shadow book, for your face, to teach your doctrine to the people of the Tang Dynasty, and you not only don't know gratitude, but also obstruct it, let me ask, do you do this, is it really for the benefit of my people in the Tang Dynasty? ”

Li Zhe's words not only made everyone in Hanyuan Hall begin to re-examine what Li Hong had done, but even Li Zhi and Wu Mei also had a new understanding of Li Hong's restless stay in Chang'an City and always wanted to run out to lead troops to fight.

As Li Zhe's words disappeared in the Hanyuan Palace, the entire Hanyuan Hall was silent, Kong Zhiyue and Yan Weizhen looked at each other with complicated expressions, what Li Zhe said in his mouth, even if it was strong words, but with their knowledge that they had never walked out of the Central Plains, there was no way to refute it.

"Bring it up." Just when everyone was still silent in Li Zhe's words just now, Li Dan, the king of Yin, suddenly shouted to his eunuch at the door.

Then, everyone's eyes all moved to the entrance of Hanyuan Palace, where Li Dan's two eunuchs were carefully moving the things in their hands.

The things in the hands of the two eunuchs, after being motioned by Li Dan for the two eunuchs to put down, waved their hands to let the two leave.

None of the people present had even the slightest sense of familiarity with the inexplicable ball in front of them, and they didn't even know what it was for.

Even Wu Mei and Li Zhi also felt incredible and full of curiosity about the round ball standing in front of Li Dan at this moment.

The ball was fixed on a base below, and when Li Dan's hand pressed slightly on the ball, most of it was covered with all kinds of dense lines and engraved with small handwriting, and the ball turned on the bracket at both ends.

"Before leaving, the imperial brother touched this thing made by me and Li Chunfeng and said, for a long, long, long time...... In the past, he made it up a long, long time ago, as long as there was something new, he would quote it like this, so please don't care about the unreliable details in the emperor's mouth, but Erchen thinks that what the emperor said next is definitely worth our thought, he once looked at the ball and said, it's not bad, but it still needs to improve the details and accuracy, and if you get it right, he will be the treasure of my Tang Dynasty. Li Dan touched the ball, just like Mr. Guozijian was teaching students, confident and calm.

"Erchen is also very curious, how can this thing become the treasure of my Tang Dynasty? To put it bluntly, it is a wooden ball, which was painted by Li Chunfeng and me with seemingly dense lines and engraved with very small handwriting. Therefore, Erchen thought that such a thing was estimated to be placed in the shops in the East Market for ten years, and I am afraid that no one would care about it. But the imperial brother told me, oh, just now, a long, long time ago, someone used him to show the greatness of the imperial power, and some people even crowned themselves with him, so the retainer was even more curious, and he cherished this treasure that I made with Li Chunfeng even more. Li Dan looked at everyone with a smile, although everyone was in a fog and couldn't understand what they were saying, but everyone was listening quietly.

In the end, Li Dan's gaze swept over Li Zhi and Wu Mei, and then stopped at Kong Zhiyue and Yan Weizhen, who were embarrassed, patted the round ball in front of him and said: "Mr. Kong, Mr. Yan, you stubbornly believe that the place we are in is the center of the world, so you disdain to give the subset of your ancestors' classics to the people of the Tang Dynasty outside the Central Plains, and you are not willing to continue to work hard to carry forward your cultural essence, and are only willing to attach themselves to the royal family and defend the imperial power, but do you know that you have such thoughts, It's not to help me defend the imperial power, but to make my Datang lose the motivation to move forward and the power to explore the precious wealth of this world! ”

"Do you know why the Great Eclipse that the King of England just mentioned only went east and west to fight, and why didn't they go south and not go north?" Li Dan's upper body was about to lie on the ball, which made Li Zhi a little worried, and his fat body collapsed the bracket under the ball.

Kong Zhiyue and Yan Weizhen's faces were cold, and they were silent with each other without speaking, obviously, they didn't know about this issue, they had never gone out of the Central Plains in their lives, how could they know why Da Shi only fought in the east and west, and gave up the north and the south.

But at this time, Wu Mei, listening to Li Dan's words, began to have a plan in her heart, and even Li Zhi vaguely understood the answer to Li Dan's question in her heart.

The so-called map drawn by Li Hong is hung in the Penglai Hall and the Zichen Palace, but it is incompatible with the traditional map of the Tang Dynasty, and even once attracted the advice of Kong Zhiyue and others, thinking that this map is different, it is an ominous thing, and it is not suitable for hanging in Li Zhi's dormitory.

But Li Zhi and Wu Mei knew the location of the Tang Dynasty from there, and even knew the location of Dashi, Anxi, Tibet, Tocharian and other countries in the west, including the location of the Wa Kingdom in the east, which was surrounded by the sea.

Seeing that the two were silent, Li Dan finally straightened up from the ball, stroked the map and sighed: "We can no longer rest on our laurels and deceive ourselves, my Datang only occupies a small area in this world, not in the center of the world we know, this world is much bigger than we imagined, and it is also a lot more magical." Therefore, we can't be satisfied with the prosperity and prosperity of our Datang today, we must always walk on the road of exploration, we must expand the influence of our Datang as much as possible, and consolidate the imperial power of our Datang, so that our Datang can continue to prosper and continue to create an illusion for you, that is, we are the center of the world, and you Kong Zhiyue and Yan Weizhen are the orthodox doctrines of the world. ”

"Although the minister does not understand what King Yin said, but the minister has been from the ancestors, traveled around the world, spread doctrines, ran for the food, clothing, and health of the people of the world, and tried his best to cultivate students, teach etiquette, learn law, and practice virtue for my Datang, so that my Datang can become a civilized state, not just like the barbarians, who do not understand etiquette and education, and do not know how to be grateful. Yan Weizhen didn't understand what Li Dan said at all, so she had to try to bring the topic back to her understanding of the classics again.