Chapter 826 (1/2)
No matter it is small to a person, an individual, a nation or a country, respect never comes out of thin air, let alone by courtesy and virtue.
The most obvious example is that Silla, Baekje, especially the Japanese state, have always shown their respect for the powerful countries, and have always been barbaric acts of sticks, swords and guns for the weak.
However, among the virtues of the Chinese nation, it has always been stressed that virtue should be used to convince people and treat them with courtesy. However, among the so-called virtues, our nation has put a yoke on this kind of etiquette and virtue, that is, a drop of water's grace should be rewarded by a spring.
Therefore, whether it is a small person or a nation, when we help a person or a nation, when we show our strong cultural advantages and etiquette and morality, we always expect those who are helped by ourselves to stand on the same front with ourselves all the time.
Even sometimes, when the person you help disobeys your will and deviates from your established track, we will think that the person is ungrateful.
Rising to the height of a nation, whether it is the Tang Dynasty or the strong Han Dynasty, when we use force to drive off foreign invasion, when we think that good public opinion helps other nations, we often give the four words of gratitude and gratitude to others for free.
This kind of behavior, which fetters the original meaning of the nation and seeks only for return, has never been a diplomatic means for its own benefit, but it is a shackle imposed by the Chinese ancestors on the culture, putting our concept only within the scope of the Central Plains, but treating the conquered nation as a barbarian alien.
When people of different ethnic groups yearn for and even want to integrate into the big circle of the Chinese nation, they often need to bear the status of a beggar and a sad rescuer on their heads. However, we forget that no matter which nation he is, he has his most basic dignity.
For Li Hongtu and other people, it is difficult to solve this problem.
Even in the last generation, when a large number of preferential policies were presented, we could not wait for them to sing praises for us immediately and express their gratitude for giving us the same value immediately.
”So Tubo need antiques like Dai Zhide to help them learn our culture, but they also need people like me to be villains. After they adapt to the gratuitous dedication of the Tang Dynasty to them, they can give them a kind of deterrence and fear, so that they can remember our good past, that is, the kindness of imperial power? It's from the bottom of my heart, not because the old antiques are taught to them. It's the choice they make after comparison. ” His highness Lin, who thought that his highness was not good at understanding his Highness's plot in the world, did not think that his highness was more clever than his highness.
”It can be said that it was just gradual and orderly. At that time, the first emperor of Qin Dynasty swept the six countries, and then created the great unification of the Central Plains with the same cars, the same lines of conduct, and the same writings. Today, the people of Chu, Han, Yan, Qi, Zhao and Wei still live there. But after nearly a thousand years of running in and integration, who will remember that they are Chu people? Is it from Qi? Don't they all regard themselves as the people of Tang Dynasty and the people of China? Why is that? Why are they no longer fighting against the court and restoring the country? Those countries thousands of years ago have disappeared in the dust of history, but why do large areas of land merge into one in the silent river of time Li Hong stood at the pavilion and looked at the Erhai Lake in the distance. The calm surface of the lake looked comfortable and peaceful in the glittering gold.
”With the same roots and the same origin, we have the same culture and blood. Even in the five chaotic times of China, even if the Sui Dynasty unified the Central Plains, even if the Tang Dynasty is sitting on the prosperous land, we can use the Chinese culture to unite the national strength under the common premise, so no one can tear us apart?” Lin felt as if he had figured out the right direction, and said with some light in his eyes.
”Yes, but did the Central Plains circle imprison our Confucian sages? Is it that they began to become less enterprising, only to keep the fertile soil that made them rise, to hold the thighs of imperial power, to lie on the merit books of their ancestors and enjoy the praise of the people, but never know that they should hold their classics and history books and continue to expand this Chinese circle! So let me help them, all to the wild land, I would like to see if they were swallowed by barbarians, or barbarians by their integration! If there are no bones left for them to be devoured by the barbarians, then as the inheritance of the Chinese nation, it is better to commit suicide collectively. If the barbarians are integrated by them, why can't we continue to expand the scope and look for the ethnic groups and blood vessels of the same origin? ” Li Hong continued to look at Erhai with a smile. His voice sounded like thunder in his mind.
Lin Shiling also looks at Erhai Lake. The golden water and the words of his highness are like opening a picture of a prosperous age for Lin Shiling, which makes him involuntarily fall into the state of the Chinese ethnic circle.
”Yes, as long as we can do it, what's wrong with the change of dynasties? However, no matter how many blood vessels of the Chinese Empire have been established for a long time, no matter who they are, they will have the same origin I should die for my sins! Your highness, please Immersed in fantasy, Lin Shiling suddenly wakes up and looks at his prince with a smile. He instantly realizes what he has just said and realizes that his head landing is just a flash.”It's good to keep these words in my heart. It's still early for us to die in this situation. Let's talk about it in another 200 years.” Li Hong patted Lin Shiling's startled shoulder, then turned and prepared to go back.
”Your Highness, don't you want to build a century, a thousand years and a thousand years old empire? If, as your highness suggests... ”
”Don't dream, it's against the law of history. In the long river of history, only time is eternal. There's no need to think too much about other things. It's enough to do well in the present, and it's enough to be worthy of your nation. As for the future Why do we worry so much when we are all dead? If other people want to leave their names in history, they will let others do so, and then I will follow the example of the Empress Dowager... ” With that, Li Hong shook his head.