Chapter 470: The Importance of Confucianism Despair?
Some people may think, why advocate Confucianism? Wouldn't it be better to re-order a new scholarship, or simply establish a religion and start over?
yes, making one from scratch sounds like a good idea. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info However, a new theory, or religion, is not so easy to complete.
The religion or doctrine in the world was not established by later generations who have been constantly perfected. There's no such thing as a one-time thing.
Although we say, when we preach, we will think of Lao Tzu. Catholicism, you think of Jesus, Islam, you think of Muhammad, Buddhism, you think of Buddha. Confucianism, think of Confucius.
However, these religions have only been continuously improved by later generations to achieve the scale of modern times. Islam was developed on the basis of Muhammad's reference to Catholicism. Catholicism, based on Judaism. Taoism is also constantly improved by later generations, and after many reforms, it is not what Lao Tzu has passed on, Lao Tzu has passed on Taoist thought, not Taoist thought.
That's right, the Buddhist Buddha did it. However, it was also because the Buddha felt the local situation in India, and it took him a lifetime to gradually improve, and after preaching to China, it also went through many reforms before it spread in China. Confucianism was completed by Confucius, but he traveled to study in many ways and gradually formed his own thoughts.
Today, you asked Li Chen to think of a new idea out of thin air, how can there be a way. People who can think of these things can't be emperors. What is the difference between creating a religion of Scientology out of thin air and a religion that uses water charms or miracles to deceive people?
He wasn't a thinker, he didn't have that American time, he thought slowly, he pondered a new set of ideas. Anyway, he is most familiar with Confucianism, firstly, he has a foundation, secondly, he also has general ideas, and the most important thing is that a new religion and doctrine must be challenged by all sides, although he has advantages and can rely on the identity of the emperor to promote.
But it doesn't stand up to scrutiny. Why Taoism has never been able to win Buddhism in debate. Just because Buddhism has a backer behind it.
Tang Sanzang went to Tianzhu to learn scriptures and retrieved a bunch of Buddhist classics. It's not that one Tang Sanzang has to work hard to defeat all the Taoist priests in China, but a bunch of Indian monks. Their monks were rightfully of high status, and they didn't have to think about missionary issues, but they had a bunch of people of lower castes to feed them.
A bunch of slaves, tired to death and alive every day, for them to think nonsense. In addition, Indians are naturally very good at engaging in this kind of ideological stuff. With this backer, it is no wonder that Chinese Taoism always loses debates.
Therefore, he simply improved Confucianism to save trouble, and Confucianism is not impossible to reform. The transformation of Confucianism based on scientific development, in line with the increasingly developed business environment, does not believe that it is impossible to guide Confucianism on the right track.
Secondly, Is Confucianism bad? Confucianism advocates integrity, how many such figures appear when the country is in crisis, Wen Tianxiang is a Confucian, and Shi Kefa is also a Confucian.
In addition, there are many unknown Confucian scholars who uphold Confucianism and fight against evil spirits, such as Shi Kefa's teacher, Zuo Guangdou. Wang Yangming is also a Confucian. Not to mention, doesn't New China advocate integrity? How does Scientology teach integrity? Quantified gas savings?
More importantly, Confucianism has its own unity. When Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was founded, why did he choose Confucianism? Quite simply, Confucianism contributes to great unification. Theoretically, there is a saying that the king is supreme by the Son of Heaven, and it is born with the idea of establishing a major unified country.
Think about it, what doctrine today has a theory that contributes to unification like Confucianism? The purpose of establishing a science religion is to promote science, so what about Huayi and orthodox concepts? Is DNA identification necessary? Identification is it Chinese?
Throughout Chinese history, several eunuchs suffered the most drastic disasters, Han, Tang, Ming, these three dynasties, which dynasty Confucianism did not flourish? Tang dynasty. Which eunuch is the most troublesome? Tang dynasty. Even the life and death of the emperor and the abolition of the emperor were all in the thoughts of the eunuchs.
In Li Chen's view, the sluggish Confucianism in the Tang Dynasty was also the reason for the eunuchs' violent disasters. Compared with the Han and Ming dynasties, the emperors of the Tang Dynasty were held hostage by eunuchs. The other two dynasties were because the courtiers were too powerful, and the emperors of the two dynasties used eunuchs to contend with the courtiers. The nature is completely different.
A simple analogy, take fantasy as an example, this eunuch is like a magic sword, the emperors of the Han and Ming dynasties, holding a magic sword against the courtiers. As for the Tang Dynasty, it was completely demonic, and it was not right to say that it was completely held hostage by eunuchs, at least this magic sword was not effective from time to time, and sometimes it would backfire on the master.
Don't say that there was Wei Zhongxian in the Ming Dynasty, and he was in power for a while, and shrines were set up everywhere to curry favor with him and convince him. That's a tie in the imperial power. Later, Sizong came to the throne and said that he would take it, do you think Wuzong dared to take out Qiu Shiliang as soon as he ascended the throne?
It is not only the disaster of eunuchs, but also the poor congenital foundation of the Tang Dynasty, and the change of Li Shimin's Xuanwumen made a very bad demonstration, and then there was a Wu Zetian, and then it was the disaster of eunuchs, which made the Tang Dynasty inherit the throne, which was very uncertain.
Therefore, in order to reverse these problems, it is necessary to revitalize Confucianism. It is not relying on any religion or other ideas, which did not help the problems of the Tang Dynasty. When Li Chen was promoting Confucianism, considering all kinds of problems, he was not in a hurry and wanted to directly overturn and start over.
After thinking about something, Li Chen couldn't help but worry, didn't he know that the Shence Army had taken the enemy? How's it going? Victorious or defeated? Alas, the telegram under study, when will it be completed?
The Tang army is now in high spirits to chase and kill the remnants of the enemy. Although the whole plan was not set from the beginning, it is almost the same now.
The Tibetan soldiers were ambushed, first the attack was frustrated, and the losses were heavy, and then they were attacked by the Tang army from both sides, and the three thousand Tang troops on each side rushed down from the mountainside, cut into the Tibetan army, and directly beat the Tibetan soldiers into chaos.
On the fear of heat and confusion, Shang Xijie was stunned, and the Tubo generals were stunned, didn't the Tang army only have 5,000 people? They came all the way like this, and they didn't see the Tang army dividing their troops, and it was impossible to bypass them, and now the Tang army is all in front, how did the 6,000 people on the two wings come here?
It's no wonder that they will be tricked, the main thing is that they don't know how many troops the Tang Army has, and they have always thought that the Tang Army is a two-box, about 5,000 people.
As for the strength of the Tang army, of course, the Tubo people would not fully believe it, and the two captives confided, but they still used the traditional way of testing to test it. But it was about 5,000 people who lost their vigilance.
How do the Tibetans measure? As the saying goes, the number of people is tens of thousands, and there is no boundary. In ancient times, there was no special method to determine how many people there were, so there were all kinds of false claims about how many people there were. Cao Cao's army of 380,000 was inflated to 830,000, and it was impossible to confirm it anyway, or count them one by one.
Usually there are several methods, one is fraud. One is to count the flags, and the other is through the stove. A stove can cook as many people as it can, that's pretty much it. What is adding troops and reducing the stove, reducing the number of troops and adding the stove, all of them are taking advantage of this.
The second is the banner, the Tubo people and the Tang army have been fighting for many years, and the Tang army has to be formed, and it is clear. At the very basics, it is a brigade that will have a flag with a different color and pattern than the other teams.
Then, the general, the lieutenant general, and the chief and deputy commander, each with ten flags, marked their identities and easy to command. The commanders of the other armies also have four sides. When the march is right, lead the way. When you set up camp, put it next to the tent.
Through the flag, you can probably know how many people there are in the Tang Army. In the end, Shang Xi was tempted. Although the army was defeated, at least it was tested to a rough idea. After many judgments, it was confirmed that the Tang army had about 5,000 people.
It is not to blame that the Tibetans were kept in the dark, in fact, this method is not wrong, but they don't know that they were deceived from the beginning.
The Shence Army, at the beginning of the attack on Tibet, only had about 5,000 troops. To attack the Tibetan army, which only has a few hundred people, and it takes 20,000 people? In fact, one-on-one, even Tubo two, Tang Jun one, Tang Jun can abuse Tubo like a dog.
It's just that Xiaohu took this as a drill, so he dispatched about 5,000 people, and the result was a wonderful misunderstanding, showing that in front of the Tubo people, it was about 5,000 troops. Then they had a plan to show weakness and lure the serpent out of the hole.
With the training and equipment of the Shence Army, it should not be a problem to wipe out all 50,000 people in Tibet. The problem is that if you fight a snake, you will not die, but you will suffer from it. Coupled with the tragic situation they saw along the way, everyone held their breath and wanted to give the Tubo people a little color. We must educate them vigorously and become new people.
This is what the soldiers think, Xiaohu they think more, in this area, there are only a few people left in Tubo, Shang and the two of them, long-term fighting, the Tubo troops in this area, either dead, or taken to Central Asia by Shang Wanwen to eat, as long as the fear of heat is defeated, and the entire land of Hehuang is recovered, it is simply to explore the bag and take things.
Knowing that there were about 50,000 troops on Phobia, he planned to annihilate him completely. But what to do so that none of them can get out of the way is a problem.
So, Li Chengyi made a plan, taking advantage of the opportunity of only 5,000 people to be dispatched before, deliberately showing weakness, using equipment and food as bait to seduce the Tubo people to come over by themselves.
This place is sandwiched between two mountains and a valley, although it is not very narrow, but there are thousands of people, and it can be blocked. 15,000 soldiers who did not participate in the battle went first, and finally saved the people to retreat first, and 5,000 people played a trick to seduce the Tibetans.
Then, find a suitable place to set up an ambush, surrounded by 15,000 people. It is absolutely impossible for the Tubo people to come and go. And now, it's time to make it happen.
However, there is a key to this plan, which is to lure the enemy into the army, which will be very dangerous, so a thousand people were temporarily added.
In any case, there is not much difference between 5,000 and 6,000, and it is difficult to tell whether it is 5,000 or 6,000 when the number is verified by crude methods such as flags and stoves. Therefore, after calculation, the Tibetan people were tricked.
The six thousand people on these two wings have been ambushed here for a long time, and it is also very particular about choosing this location.
Why don't you pick the front to defend the edge, but surpass the past, in this relatively wide, not easy to defend, but conducive to the Tubo people to attack the local defense? It is because there are mountains on both flanks to ambush. In addition, the place where the Tang army is located seems to be wide, but it is a pass, and if it does not pass through here, Tubo cannot get around, of course, even if the Tang army on the opposite side has reinforcements, there is no need to worry about them bypassing, and can only strengthen the defense or offensive in the front. Coupled with the previous factors, the Tubo people did not expect that the Tang army could ambush so many soldiers and horses.
However, these are not important now, Shang Xijie was the first to react, to increase the troops to defend both sides, even if they were attacked by both wings, the advantage of the Tubo people was still obvious.
It's just, it's useless. It is useless to have a lot of people, the Tang army on both wings is like a tiger descending the mountain, not to mention well-equipped, and the coordination is also very smooth, I saw the Tang army of a team of three people, one person in front of him holding a shield to resist the attack first, a shield to separate the attack of Tubo, and then a knife down, the account, the efficiency is excellent.
If someone wants to besiege, not far away, the crossbowman uses a small crossbow, a version of the trigger, and it is wound, although the range is very close, but the winding is fast, and the penetration power in a short distance is enough, and one of the Tibetan soldiers will be shot down at once, and the other will be stabbed down in an instant by the spearman after the shield bearer.
After more than a year of hard practice, his gun was like lightning, and the Tubo man didn't even have time to react, and the gun pierced into his heart. Originally, he instinctively clamped his muscles and wanted to clamp the head of the gun, but as soon as the gunner's hand turned, the wound was expanded, and the Tubo soldiers could only cover the sore spot weakly and sit down directly.
The same scene continued to happen everywhere, the Tubo people were powerless to resist at all, and the frontal handover was short, and the Tubo soldiers were not the opponents of these Tang people at all. Not to mention that these Tang troops have excellent combat skills, their equipment is not on the same level as the Tubo people.
With their broken swords, it is extremely difficult to break through the defenses of the Tang army. Even if you rely on your bravery and kill the Tang army, it is often the same end, the Tang army is armed to the teeth, like a moving piece of iron, but it can still be flexible and free, so that the Tubo soldiers are simply hell.
In the end, the Tang army on the front launched another wave of desperate offensive, overwhelming the sky and thunder, thrown on the heads of the Tubo people, a huge roar, erupted iron filings everywhere, knocked down the crowd, and Bobo flowed blood, which stimulated the Tubo people, making them run around in a disorderly manner, and then finally collapsed.
In terms of fear and heat, he could no longer control the army, and there were Tubo soldiers who were constantly running around, and even two groups of Tubo soldiers collided together, but instead of continuing to flee, they took up arms and began to fight each other. It's strange that you don't have the courage to kill the enemy, and you cannibalism is not soft.
'General, run, get out first.' ', Shang Xijie pulled the horse frontier on the fear of heat, and now it is about the fear of heat to get the Chinese army, there is no disorder, but it is also fast, the defeated army in all directions is rushing here, and the fear of heat has to be ordered to rush to kill the concentrated army. As a result, the front of the Tibetan Chinese army also fell to the Tubo people.
But this is only a temporary gain, and it is not a way to go on for a long time, and the Tubo people have collapsed. Now the best way is to retreat, first to the big camp, and defend by the big camp. first block the offensive of the Tang army, and then collect the defeated troops one after another, and then make other plans.
Helpless, he could only talk about fear of heat, first took the Chinese army, and retreated backwards, but the next scene made him completely desperate. (To be continued.) )