"Your Majesty, just now you asked me why you want to give this the same status as the Hongwen Pavilion, in fact, I have an idea. Your Majesty, since ancient times, my China has been constantly absorbing different cultures to make continuous progress, but why is it that my China has taken the initiative to absorb it, but not to take the initiative to publicize it? In the future, we will have more and more exchanges with foreign countries, so although they will also come to learn and bring their culture, why can't we take the initiative to go out and promote our culture? ”

"Your Majesty, you see that even that Roman person can think of publishing that Aristotle's instrumental theory in my Datang, and how many books can I Datang publish in foreign countries? Since ancient times, China has rarely been able to take the initiative to spread culture in foreign countries, and all foreigners have come to learn, so isn't the efficiency too slow? In this way, when will the light of our Chinese culture be able to cover the whole world? ”

"But foreigners are aware of this, and they can come to us on their own initiative to spread their culture and let us learn from them. So we will inevitably be influenced by them, and then our whole culture will move closer to them! ”

When Li Shimin heard this, he immediately said angrily: "How can this be done? If all of us Datang people have learned from foreign countries, is it still our Datang? ”

"The emperor is angry and wants to change customs, it's not so simple. But if they are willing to spend hundreds or thousands of years to change our customs, then aren't we influenced by them? You must know that the water drop stone wears, as long as the kung fu is deep, the iron pestle can also be sharpened into a needle! If they really influence us from generation to generation, then we will really be affected. Jingwen said.

"Then do you want to restrict foreigners from coming to my Datang? And then what about prohibiting the Tang people from reading foreign books? Li Shimin asked.

Jingwen immediately said: "Your Majesty, then this is overkill." As the saying goes, only state officials are allowed to set fires, but aren't people allowed to light lamps? Since they can take the initiative to spread their culture, why don't we want to go out and spread it? ”

"Going out? Let our Datang culture take the initiative to go out. And then affect them? Li Shimin asked.

"Of course! Of course, I, Datang, should also go out, since they can come over and think about influencing us, why don't we also go over and influence them? And if we can use our culture to influence them, then they can also have a large number of people who have their hearts towards our Central Plains. The emperor should know that the power of culture is infinite. If there can be a group of people who learn the same culture as our Datang Dynasty to serve as officials in foreign countries, then aren't they our natural allies? Jingwen asked.

"Uh-huh, that's interesting!" Li Shimin said.

Of course, Li Shimin knew what Jingwen meant, and what Jingwen meant was to let foreigners learn Chinese culture, and then when they returned to their home country to serve as officials and become the ruling class, this would be more and another country would have a great favor, and they would be deeply influenced by the culture.

This kind of gameplay has actually been around for a long time. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, weren't there many so-called "protons" studying as hostages in foreign countries? Moreover, the Central Plains Dynasty often required the heirs of those subject countries to come to the Central Plains to study before inheriting the throne of the subject countries. In fact, this is also a kind of cultural assimilation, so that their rulers have the same heart for the Central Plains Dynasty. This is actually an ancient practice, and they have long recognized the benefits of having a common culture.

And Jingwen's statement is actually to expand this scope. In the past, the Central Plains Dynasty only let the princes of those vassal countries learn, and then after becoming kings in the future, their hearts were directed to the Central Plains. Now, unlike Jingwen, he has expanded the scope to the entire ruling class in foreign countries. Let the entire ruling class yearn for the Central Plains in their hearts, and then it will become a natural ally. Once the war starts, they are natural traitors. Therefore, this is also the power of culture, and Jingwen also wants the entire ruling class of the other party to learn the culture of the Central Plains. Then you can definitely get a lot of benefits from them.

Even, Jingwen's ambition is not only that, he not only expands from the group of people who study, but also from the geography. Let Europe in the far west also begin to learn the culture of the Central Plains. In this way, they must also be proud to learn Chinese culture. In this way, Chinese culture is to spread to the world, so that everyone in the world can speak fluent Chinese.

"Hmph, then. You foreign devils, Chinese is less than level 4, don't think about graduating from college! Jing Wen thought sinisterly in his heart.

Jingwen has a deep grudge against the English of that year! Obviously, I can't use English in my life, but I can't graduate if I fail English. And Jingwen was tossed miserably by English back then, and he relied on blindfolding when answering questions in English. Anyway, his highest score in English is only more than 20 points, so it is extremely tragic. Now that he has a chance, he naturally wants to be a villain and take revenge on these foreign devils. Therefore, foreign devils do not have more than level 4 in Chinese, and they will not be able to graduate from school.

"Your Majesty, think about it, if one day the whole world can speak fluent Chinese, and then hold my Chinese classics in your hand, and the last one of them will be proud of our Chinese Datang, and they will sharpen their heads one by one and want to become my Datang citizens. In that case, do you think it is necessary for our Datang to send a large army to conquer the world? Therefore, the use of cultural conquest, although the speed is slower, is the most stable way to conquer. When the time comes, countless people will speak our Chinese, and then they will be proud to join our Datang, and then we will become a country without borders. Wherever we go, there are countless people who are interested in Datang to support us, so we are equivalent to surrendering without a fight, and directly conquering the whole world. So this is a long-term thing, and it has to be persistent. Jingwen said.

Li Shimin was also moved by Jingwen's blueprint, because if it was really Xiang Jingwen, the whole world admired Chinese culture, then the Tang Dynasty would conquer the world without a fight. At that time, the whole world can be pocketed, and then it will become an immortal inheritance. This is the role of culture, and the first step to do is to start exporting your own culture, so that your culture can spread to the world, so that the whole world knows that there is a country in the east of the world called China. (To be continued......)