Chapter 741 (2/2)
Therefore, at the right time, there will be a king who is deeply proud of the nation, or is extremely infatuated with the exploration of territory.
Li Hong didn't want to be such a king. After all, the cost of opening up the territory was too high. The endless supply lines and the risk of multi line operations were too high. If the internal factors of turbulence were added, the national fortune would soon disappear.
Because of the oppression of war, the Empire will be deprived of its foundation layer by layer, and then the Empire will collapse.
However, when facing the fierce and ambitious Dashi, Li Hong had to make a tough response. Therefore, when Dashi began to covet Anxi, he had to suppress Dashi's ambition before he became the ghost of Dashi's iron horse.Once Dashi steps over tuhuolo and faces up to himself and the protruding Shi and big and small laws on both sides of the north and the south, Dashi's momentum is vigorous. However, the active defense of the Tang Dynasty, whether it's a strong city or a strong army, will more or less lose a lot of strategic advantages in the face of the mighty cannibals.
In the history of Tang Dynasty, there were many wars with Dashi, and the results of all wars were not unexpected. The victory of Tang Dynasty was less than that of defeat.
This was not only because of the invasion of Dashi, which led to the instability of the herdsmen in Anxi Dufu. They began to rebel one after another, dragging the military hindrance of the Tang Dynasty behind them.
It even led to a large number of Tang Dynasty craftsmen, women, rich merchants and so on, who were plundered by big cannibals and enslaved by big cannibals, squeezing their free value, which made Dashi get a lot of advanced technology.
Today's Tang Dynasty strictly controls the rare and precious commodity technology, which makes Dashi and other countries, including Japan, covetously want to steal, but fortunately, Taiyi city has always been heavily guarded and never gives any opportunities to others.
The finished products were traveling along the Silk Road, but the technology was always controlled in the hands of Tang Dynasty, which Li Hong always insisted on.
However, he never insisted on the cultural control that scholars of the Tang Dynasty, especially the five surnames and seven hopes, insisted on, and even created opportunities for cultural transmission and cultural inheritance in Tuvalu.
But he hoped that one day, culture, an invisible weapon, could take root in Anxi soil. No matter whether you are in Tuvalu, tougshi, or Persia, there will be Analects of Confucius and Mencius, and Chinese characters will become a kind of language of them. In Li Hong's opinion, this is more threatening than how many iron hoofs have flattened the city.
It is impossible to spread the influence of the Tang Dynasty in terms of military affairs and territory. However, the transportation of culture, a humble but powerful material, can achieve the most ideal effect.
The dynasties of cannibalism have changed, but their cultural heritage and will have never changed. One Scripture controls the world and people's beliefs. So, what weapon is more lethal than cultural inheritance?
Tuhuoluo can not be taken, tuohuoluo can not be taken, as long as the four towns in Anxi, the outside world, as long as he is exposed to the wind and rain. When I stand still, I use the powerful and powerless as the backing to carry out cultural erosion.
Finally, whether it is the territory of the Tang Dynasty or not, as long as the spread of Chinese culture is enough.
After all, who knows if there will be a more vigorous monarch who will step out of the four towns of Anxi and completely take the territory outside Anxi into his pocket!
After all, with the same culture, isn't belonging stronger?
Sowing down, waiting for a natural root germination, vigorous growth is enough, that day may not be too far away.
In the xuanzheng hall, Li Hong, like a lecturer of the last generation, wrote and painted on a blackboard that Li Lingyue used when she was in the Imperial Palace under the gaze of Li Zhi, Wu Mei, and officials above grade three.
In a short time, with his words and handwriting, the whole Anxi and surrounding forms became clear in everyone's mind.
Li Hong, who has some bruises in his right eye, puts down his stick in his hand. His expression is serious and deep. But in Wu Mei's eyes, he is completely funny and adds coke, just like the panda he renamed in Qinling Mountains.
”Therefore, no matter which small country's envoys have approached any of you, and no matter what methods they used, I want to warn you that you, as ministers of the Tang Dynasty, should put the interests of the Tang Dynasty first! It's not the sophistication of the world, nor is it that you refuse them and worry about their losing face! Face is earned by oneself, and is maintained by strong and powerless! Before the Wei River Alliance, did they give me the face of the Tang Dynasty, which just established the country? In the end, it was not the sword in the hand of the emperor that made the face and the reputation of the Khan! Why should we give them face when we are rich and strong? What is face? We are the strong soldiers and valiant generals in the border area of Datang! It's not etiquette The stick in Li Hong's hand fell to the ground with his voice and broke in the heart of his hand.
The clear sound sounded in the xuanzheng hall, but it made everyone's heart tremble involuntarily for several times, like breaking their hearts.