Chapter 776: The Bad Roots of the Nation
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Sriwijaya is a large country that has been inherited for five or six hundred years, covering the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, and part of Kalimantan.
The output of gold and silver in Srivijaya is not small, and most of the people's transactions are made of gold and silver.
In terms of culture, Sriwijaya has its own script.
The people mainly believe in Buddhism, and there are many temples and stupas in the city, and many Buddha statues are not gilded, but all made of gold. When each king ascended the throne, he would cast a life-size golden statue to replace him.
The circumference of the palace is about three miles, and it is also built in a good way, and the scale is quite large, and the utensils used in the palace are mostly gold, which are usually engraved with inscriptions or flower and bird patterns.
It can be said that although the productivity of Sriwijaya is not developed, it is definitely very rich, just like the Mayans in South America, science and technology are not developed, but they are full of gold.
Yang Yi has nothing to be polite about, after taking control of Bolin Bangcheng, he immediately ordered to "collect" gold, silver, copper and other metals, let's not burn or kill, just collect some metals, this is very civilized, isn't it?
Of course, if you are against civilized people, then you are a barbarian, and it is only natural that you will be shot and killed.
As for whether it will make the people of Srivijaya have a bitter hatred for Yang Jiajun, don't worry too much about this, just tell them after the metal is scavenged:
You are a barbarian nation, and your civilization will not work, nor will your faith work, nor will your anything work.
We are civilized, we are right, so we are strong. If you fall behind, you will be beaten. This is a matter of course.
You should not hate us, on the contrary. Reflect ye on yourselves, abandon your barbaric customs, abandon your crude history, and learn from us.
You just have to instill that in them, and they're probably fine.
In later generations, China was repeatedly ravaged by Western powers, from military invasion to economic invasion and then cultural invasion, inflicting heavy disasters on China. But how many Chinese do you see who hate the West?
On the contrary, most Chinese worship everything in the West very much, Western democracy is democracy, Western talents are civilized people, Western culture is the mainstream culture, people with white skin and blue eyes are uncles, and Chinese who hold this kind of heart are only afraid to account for more than sixty percent.
In turn, scholars such as Lu Xun and Hu Shih, who are held up as the banners of Chinese cultural circles, have launched a passionate national critique of Chinese culture.
In their pen. The Chinese are basically filthy and insensitive, like the walking dead, and people like Kong Yiji have become the representative image of Chinese literati. Even a leap earth, when I was a child, I had some spirituality, and when I grew up, I became wood. The history of China is a history of cannibalism. Chinese culture is inferior to Western culture.
In short, regardless of whether Lu Xun and others wanted to "wake up" the people at the beginning. But they did make a comprehensive denial of Chinese history and culture, and this negation was unusually thorough. In their writings, you can hardly find the highlights of Chinese history and culture.
Moreover, this kind of national criticism has never been interrupted from generation to generation, and in this heated criticism, over time, China has felt that its history is so bad, and its Chinese culture is so pedantic, and it has turned to worship Western culture;
Later, people didn't know about the Qingming Festival, but the Dragon Boat Festival, but the Western Valentine's Day and Christmas were lively, and if you are a star, you have to give an English name, otherwise you can't talk about international stars.
As soon as there are some problems in China, there must be a lot of scolding on the Internet, and things are infinitely amplified, and the more fiercely they scold, the more people applaud, as if it is not enough to prove that the Chinese are incurable and incorrigible.
On the other hand, if there are some good things in the West, it must be a voice of praise and admiration, and the people are honored, but they can't wait to be white skin and blue eyes.
Why is this so? Is China's history and culture really unbearable? Is it really necessary to deny it so thoroughly and discard it so thoroughly?
The reason is very simple, our national backbone has been broken by others, we have been prostrate on the ground for more than a hundred years, we can only look at others with looking up, and our inferiority complex has penetrated deep into our bones.
Lu Xun's generation was at the threshold of historical change, and it may be right to launch a national criticism, they were to wake up the Chinese with the strongest voice, but the subsequent self-criticism of the cultural circles from generation to generation made the Chinese inevitably produce a self-denial mentality, which is a fact.
The glory and glory of the Han and Tang dynasties are far away, and if you mention that glorious history again, you will be said to be a person who smells of corpses and is rotten. Because most people have accepted the Western set of ideas and look at everything with their eyes;
Westerners say that we are yellow-skinned monkeys, barbaric and backward, so we should be beaten, and we also feel that we are taken for granted, and in order to find the rationality of being beaten, we also continue to dig out our own bad roots, denying our past glory and the correctness of history.
In a word, human nature is so cheap, if you haven't beaten you, you don't say that he is good; If you are beaten down, you will not hate, but will worship others.
What Yang Yi has to do now is to show his ability, beat the Three Buddhas to the pain, beat him to death, and then let him accept his thoughts, let him self-deny, and dig out his own bad roots.
All the valuable things in Bolin Bangcheng, all the things that can be moved have been moved, those who dare to resist, do not kill, all of them are captured back to the Great Song Dynasty as free labor, the Great Song Dynasty is short of manpower, isn't it?
Yang Yi hung a crescent moon sword on his waist, dressed in a black collared Hanfu, and his big sleeves fluttered into the palace of the Three Buddhas, although this palace is not majestic, but it is also quite exquisitely built, very South Asian characteristics, and some Buddhist elements have been introduced, such as on the roof, not like China carved dragons and phoenixes, but carved with some Buddha statues, and some Sanskrit scriptures can be seen from time to time on the pillars.
Yang Yi sat on the king's chair in the center of the main hall, and commanded to the left and right: "Take Putuo and Puluo." ”
"Whoa!" The guards answered, and after a while they took two middle-aged men, one of whom was in his forties, with a pointed chin and a garlic nose, and his facial features looked very incongruous;
The other was nearly forty years old and of thin stature. Long waist and short legs.
They were wrapped in silk fabric. Seeing Yang Yi sitting on the king's chair, the two of them had complicated eyes. Silence.
"Do you speak Chinese?" Yang Yi asked Pu Tuo casually, Pu Tuo lowered his head and did not answer, Yang Yi continued: "If you will, this king chair is likely to be yours." ”
"What do you mean by that?" Pu Tuo raised his head and asked in stiff Chinese.
Yang Yi said lightly: "I don't like you to talk to me in this tone, you failed to face your situation, your qualification to inherit the throne was cancelled, come on, take him down, and put him in the water prison first." Allow it to fall. ”
"Whoa." The guards of the two immediately rushed up, put shackles on Pu Tuo, and added fists and kicks to the slightest resistance, and the garlic nose was beaten to blood.
Seeing that his eldest brother was treated like this, Pu Luo no longer dared to stand, and ran to His Highness with a thud. Yang Yi repeated with satisfaction: "Can you speak Chinese?" ”
"Yes." Puluo's voice trembled a little as he spoke.
"The reason why the Three Buddhas have come to an end today is because your younger brother Pu Ying is to blame, and he is not the eldest son and inherits the throne, which in itself is unreasonable. In spite of the warnings of our and other parties, they intend to annex Puluozhong, and send troops to cruise in the strait to intercept merchant ships of various countries. Merchants who did not trade in Bolin were punished with confiscation of goods or death. This is a barbaric act. Unseen and unheard of in other countries. Severe punishment should be given. As his elder brother, you know that he has made a great mistake and do not dissuade him. Deserve the same sin! ”
"No, no, no, these things you said were done by my third brother alone, and it has nothing to do with us, we persuaded him, but he was put under house arrest, these really have nothing to do with us"
Pu Luo was in a hurry, there were still some Tibetan dialects mixed in Chinese, and he kept talking, Yang Yi actually just wanted to see his attitude, as for what he said, it didn't matter, because the right to speak was not in his hands, but in our hands, what we said was important.
Yang Yi slowly guided Pu Luo, asking him to see clearly the bad roots of the people of Srivijaya and realize the reasonableness, inevitability and necessity of the beating of Srivijaya.
Let him understand that the Srivijaya who is not beaten is not a good Srivijaya, the Sriwijaya who is not a semi-colony is the Srivijaya who has no way out, and the Srivijaya who is not subservient and flattering is the Srivijaya who has no future
In a word, we beat you and ravaged you in order to make you sober up, in order to better teach you our civilization, we are not here to invade, we are here to save you, to educate you, you should thank us, worship us, get closer to us, and look up to us.
"Are you good with mancloth?"
"Not good."
"Yes, yes, the children can be taught, this is an act of ignorance and ignorance, how gorgeous our Hanfu is."
"I will definitely order the people to wear Hanfu in the future."
"Is it okay for you to use that script?"
"Not good."
"Yes, yes, there is still salvation, it is extremely ignorant to use the Tibetan language, look at my magnificent China, I have created countless masterpieces and classics, how can other countries have such a splendid culture, you have to learn."
"I will definitely let the people switch to Chinese characters in the future."
"That's not enough, you have to let your people deeply reflect on their own bad roots, look how dirty and numb you are, no wonder you have been living like barbarians for five or six hundred years, and if you don't completely abandon your past habits, you will always be a dead end."
"Yes, yes, I will definitely make the people reflect deeply."
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Hahaha, don't laugh, history has proven that this set is very effective, and it works for most nationalities, including China.
In ancient times, in a world dominated by China, backwardness did not necessarily mean that they would be beaten, and the small countries around them were all backward than China, but as long as they did not take the initiative to invade China, they would basically not be beaten, and everyone got along very well, which was the order of the East.
If China had defeated the Western powers and still dominated the world when the Western powers invaded China, when China was strong, then we must not think that the saying "if you are backward, you will be beaten" is correct, and we will still think that benevolence and righteousness are good.
By recognizing this sentence, we are precisely accepting Western ideas.
There are no assumptions in history, only a thousand days to be a thief, and there is no thousand days to prevent thieves, and people choose to fight China when China is weak. At the same time, we are instilled with a theory similar to that of bandits: if you fall behind, you will be beaten.
Therefore, we also think that the previous standard of benevolence and righteousness is wrong, and instead agree with the bandit criterion of "being beaten if you are backward".
This sentence has also become our self-healing medicine, and we feel that it is inevitable and justified that we will be beaten, who will let us fall behind? It's unreasonable for you not to be beaten.
As a result, instead of hating the people who beat us, the Chinese people are more looking for reasons from themselves, thinking that everything they used to pursue was wrong.
Including the reason why Yang Yi came to the Three Buddhas, he was also influenced by the set of ideas brought by later generations, which he also admitted.
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