In front of Li Yuzhen's eyes, on the map of the western hemisphere carved in white jade, Nanda Xizhou is like an inverted triangle inserted into the blue ocean, and the Nansang Governor's Mansion is the tip of this inverted triangle.

According to the measurement of the Ministry of Industry, there are 2.44 million square miles, which is equivalent to the area of the Tang Lingnan Road - Lingnan East Road and Lingnan West Road - three, but the paper is clear and prosperous, and it cannot be compared with Lingnan Road.

"This is the barren land".

This sentence was uttered by an official of the Civilization Department of the Ministry of Rites a hundred years ago when he set foot on this land.

A hundred years ago, it was the Zhaozong era, the first time that the naval fleet of the Tang Dynasty permanently docked on the coastline of the Mesofika continent, opened up a port to establish a base, instead of trading with the black kingdom here as before, the navy stopped near the coastline, but the four officials of the Civilization Division went deep into the jungle hinterland under the protection of the soldiers of the black kingdom, and then said: This is the barren land, the desert of civilization. The black tribal kingdom living in this area was rated by the Civilization Department as "a three-level civilization of iron smelting, a primitive civilization, with a king without a system, no city, no writing, and a primary agricultural civilization", which is actually a primitive civilization; And a hundred years later, these primitive tribal civilizations have evolved into "medium-sized cities, emirate system civilizations" - this is the work of the Ministry of Rites' Civilization Department.

The Department of Civilization of the Ministry of Rites is not the Department of Culture and Education.

The Department of Culture and Education is in charge of culture and education in the Tang Dynasty, but the responsibilities of the Department of Civilization and the Department of Culture and Education are very different.

What is civilization? This covers a wide range, and "cultural and educational prosperity" is also within the civilization, but the meaning of civilization is deeper and farther, and it has also experienced a process from narrow to wide, from the inside to the outside in the definition of the Tang Dynasty. If you ask Li Yuzhen what civilization is, she will answer very succinctly: inheritance, Taoism. The inheritance she said is the inheritance of the Great Dao, the Taoist system of ancient civilization.

Ancient civilization is the glorious era of human struggle from slaves to human beings and then to gods, until ancient times this civilization reached its peak, and then was destroyed by the catastrophe of heaven and earth, the inheritance that has been handed down is broken and broken, and this Taoist system is only mastered by a few people, it is a civilization of "clouds", not the Tao of the world.

The civilizations of the world were created by the people of ancient times.

And the essence of ancient civilization is in Middle-earth. The Yi of the Fuxi clan is the interpretation of the ancient Taoist system to the present and the ancient, but there are very few people who can read it, let alone comprehend it. Later generations of people are in the interpretation of the Yi, the Xia people have solved the performance of "Lianshan Yi", the businessman has solved the performance of "Returning to Tibet", the most profound influence is the king of Zhou Wen, who has to play "Zhou Yi" in detention, and then there are many scholars to interpret the still very obscure "Zhou Yi", so the sons of a hundred schools of thought have risen:

Lao Tzu explained, "Tao Te Ching", Taoism; Confucius explained, "Yi Chuan", Confucianism; Yin and Yang family, Mo family, Legalist, soldier, famous family, farmer, Ji Ran family...... They all were solved, and they opened up their own doctrines, and then the articles of the sons have been preached to this day. In "Yi Chuan", it is said: "Seeing the dragon in the field, the world is civilized." Kong Yingda, a famous minister and Confucian emperor of the Tang Dynasty, explained: "The civilized people in the world have yang energy in the field, and all things are born, so there are articles and bright things in the world." This is to say, the book is written, the article is preached, and the world is bright. "Shangshu" said: "Jun Zhe is civilized, gentle and respectful", Kong Yingda explained: "Through the heavens and latitudes, the text is said to be in the four directions", which is to say that the monarch and the minister govern the country with virtue and virtue; And Emperor Taizong said: "Rouyuan customs to civilization, deterrence of the Xiongnu with military strategy", this is to say the culture of education, and to be connected with the "military strategy".

Obviously, the foreign war of the Tang Empire pursued the meaning of Emperor Taizong's imperial interpretation - first to level the foreign country by force, and then to change the customs with civilization. By the time of Emperor Gaozong, it was even further.

Gaozong issued the theory of civilizational warfare:

"Civilized, as opposed to barbarism. Why should we exterminate barbarism? For we are men, not beasts. If you are a human being, you must have human dignity, human ethics, human morality, human law, human knowledge, human culture and education, and human intellectual treasures...... These are the civilizations of mankind. Barbarism, trampling on civilization, making people not become human beings......

"The significance of civilization lies in the fact that it is a river that flows forever to feed the earth and the people on both sides. If it stops flowing, then it will eventually dry up, or rot into stinking water, and those who live by the river will die spiritually if they do not open a new river, or leave in search of a new river, and the flesh. The body will also die, because of hunger, oppression, all kinds of reasons. ……

Therefore, civilization is divided into advanced and backward, progressive and decadent. Advanced civilization, the country is strong, the people are stable, the culture is prosperous, the education is prosperous, although the common people know the etiquette, all industries are prosperous, agriculture is progressing, industry and commerce are prosperous, the country is new day by day, and the vitality is vibrant, like the morning sun shining on all things and bright. A backward civilization is either tired or weak, or mired in ignorance, or mired in ignorance, or mired in ignorance, or in violence, with ignorant systems, unfair rewards and punishments, chaotic and disorderly, and the people without food and clothing, without stability, from above to violence, and from above to foolishness, and people's hearts are plunged into darkness. ……

"History is like a long river, it must be rolling eastward, and the progress of the world must be the elimination of barbarism by civilization, and the replacement of backwardness by the advanced. ……

"Our Tang Empire is a great dynasty, a great dynasty, we must shoulder the mission of civilization, eliminate barbarism, eliminate backwardness, promote the progress of civilization, the progress of history, let the glory of the avenue shine on the world, let the flame of the avenue illuminate the hearts of the people in the darkness, and light up the light for them - this is also the way. I am Chinese, Datang. What is China? Not only the country of the center, but also the country of the center, and the middle of the road. Scholars can't be without Hongyi, and China can't be without Hongdao. The road is far-reaching, this is the mission of our generation, can you dare to do it? Can't you do it? ……”

This is the imperial precept of Gaozong when he inspected the school in Guozijian and Taixue, and after the inspection, Gaozong published it in the palace newspaper and the official newspaper with the title "On the Great Dynasty". He also summoned the Hanlin scholars, wrote an edict in vernacular and distributed it, the central meaning of which was that "the foreign war of the Tang Dynasty was to rescue the suffering common people", which was posted in various prefectures and counties, preached by the proclamator, and went down to the countryside.

Gaozong said that the teacher should be famous when doing things, and this is the teacher being famous.

At that time, the Tang Dynasty had already destroyed the three kingdoms of Hui, Tiele, and Tuyuhun in Hexi, forced away the Turks, drove the Yan and Zhou people to the north of Yanran Mountain, and officially established Hexi Road; The Tang army has only been truce-fighting for five years, and Gaozong launched a war against the 36 countries of the Western Regions, and the countries of the Western Regions are all subservient to the Tang Dynasty and do not dare to have a heart of disobedience, so Gaozong's dispatch of troops to the Western Regions has aroused fierce opposition from both the government and the opposition, especially the Confucian and Mo families, and criticized Gaozong's dispatch of troops as an "unjust war".

It was in this context that Gaozong preached the "Theory of Civilized War" to the scholars; He preached the theory of benevolent war to the people: "A benevolent monarch must treat his people with kindness and not □□, protect his people with a strong army instead of killing, and give his people stability and order with strict laws instead of depriving them of the right to live...... A merciful monarch will show mercy with his soldiers, suppress cruelty with the weapon of war, and save the people in darkness...... The Tang Dynasty embraces the world, and the benevolent monarch will illuminate the dark world with light. ”

As a result, Gaozong put Datang's foreign wars on the commanding heights of justice and morality, laid a moral foundation for Datang's foreign wars, and effectively responded to the domestic anti-war voices.

Even though there are still officials and scholars of the Confucian and Mo families who criticize her for "embezzling in the name of justice and benevolence", the war launched by Gaozong was in line with the interests of various political groups in the upper echelons of the Tang Dynasty; the second stimulates the sense of mission of the scholar class and lights up a bright and concrete road to the road; third, in the name of mercy, rescued the suffering civilians of other countries and won the favor of the common people of the Tang Dynasty; After the four Gaozong, he issued war bonds, so that the people of the Tang Dynasty enjoyed the war dividends, and the opposition became smaller and smaller, until it was drowned in the wave of national support for the war.

- Gaozong said to his descendants in the Emperor's Palace: What is a wise sage? that is, to act in the name of righteousness, in the name of mercy, so that you will be wise in the eyes of your subjects; But: your heart must be right, your path and goal must be correct, otherwise, the Emperor's mind will only lead you further and further away from the right path.

And the evolution of civilization is the right path for Datang.

It is a river that must flow forward.

In order to promote the flow of this river, Gojong set up a civilization department in the Ministry of Rites, whose responsibility was to promote the transformation of backward civilizations into advanced civilizations. Rather than transforming, Gojong prefers the word evolution: advance, advance; Transformation, transformation, and change customs. This is an active, positive word, a spirit of courage and indomitable exploration; But it is a gradual process, not rough, simple, but flexible, drops of water through the change, according to Taizong's words, is "civilized and soft and vulgar", a "soft" word, the true meaning of the word. In terms of the understanding of the Civilization Division, it is Tangization, Tangization, and then Tangization...... Year after year, decade after decade, century after century......

Since the establishment of the Civilization Department of the Ministry of Rites, it has been two hundred and ten years since the Tang Dynasty opened up new territories, the Tang Dynasty of various vassal states, and the Tang Dynasty of overseas countries...... These are all great achievements of the Civilization Division.

Including, the Nansang Governor's Palace, a vast area of 2.44 million square miles.

A hundred years ago, it was still a tribal kingdom, although the leader was called the king, in fact, it was a tribal alliance, and the Civilization Department assessed it as "a royal city built of stones, and outside the royal city were all villages and professional cities that did not form a division of labor; The largest in the kingdom is more than 250,000 people, with a language but no written language, oral civilization, and communication through dance and percussion; There is no state system, no official system, and the tribal elders in case of trouble make a collegiate decision; There is no law, and offenders are dealt with according to tribal customs...... The three-level civilization of iron smelting can make preliminary steel; "In short, it is a primitive civilization, after a hundred years of advancement by the Civilization Division, it has grown into the current agricultural and commercial urban civilization, and of course, there is also a text - Tang Wen.......

Before the Nansang Governor's Palace, the three black chieftaincy kingdoms ruled this area, Khoisan, Sangda, and Bantu, after nearly a hundred years of Tang Dynastyization, in addition to their skin color, their clothing, language, living habits, etc., are no longer much different from the Tang people, and even ordinary black children can skillfully eat soup cakes with bamboo chopsticks. Of course, their non-Canadian civilization, in addition to those barbaric and bad ones that were abandoned, those unique cultures still exist, such as the very non-Canadian characteristics, fierce and bright rhythm dance and percussion, not only indispensable to the people here, but also introduced to the Tang Dynasty, called non-plus music, and the same as Guizi music, became a part of the Tang dance music.

And there are many aspects to this integration......

All this is infiltrated in the name of civilization, common progress, prosperity and prosperity, until it comes to fruition, and it has become the territory of Datang.

There was blood and dissent, but it was already buried in the dirt.

This is Datang's first territory on the Mesophika continent, not the former naval base, which means that Datang has officially inserted a knife into the southern continent. And this knife will stab the chrysanthemum of the Great Food Empire in the future.

So when the chrysanthemums bloomed in September last year, Li Yuzhen summoned Li Yihu, the king of Deng, and asked him: "Second uncle is interested in going to Feijia to see chrysanthemums?" ”

Now King Deng is standing on the Zhaoping Mountain in Kaixia Mansion, looking down at the scene of the mountain knocking on the stone and reclaiming the soil, and fighting the Ji, to be precise, it is the scene of manpower and mechanical animal power fighting together, the yellow-skinned race is mixed with the black-brown and swarthy black race, and the shouting is the same, "Hey, hey! Hey! "It's a hot job—he still remembers his answer.

"Minister, it will be for the Tang Dynasty, insert this knife well."

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The word "people" has been around for a long time, not in modern times. "Mencius: Wholeheartedly": "The three treasures of the princes: land, people, and political affairs. ”

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