Chapter 736 Unearthed when it should be unearthed
The next day, in the south of Luoyang City, the Biguiyuan site, which is the Xingongyuan under construction.
Liu Bei looked at the carved Roman columns beside the fountain pool comfortably and curiously, and he also stroked the bronze lion head column that was spraying water in the pool from time to time. There was a beard rubbing his back and shoulders next to him, so he was too lazy to pay attention to it.
In the pool is a bronze column with water pipes inside. There is a lion's face around the top of the column, and hot water is sprayed out from the lion's mouth.
Li Su had already done the fountain water method, and it was also available during the period of Emperor Ling, so it was not unusual. However, when Emperor Ling, craftsmen did not know how to carve lions, and lions were not available in China since ancient times.
The first time the Han Dynasty introduced lions to the Western Region countries was a hundred years ago, when the Anxi merchants sold them during the reign of Emperor Zhang of Han.
Of course, Li Su's wife wrote about "tribute" in "Book of the Later Han Dynasty", but in fact everyone knows that foreign merchants have been asking about it since ancient times. They know that tribute will receive a lot of rewards, so it is equivalent to tribute trade.
The first resting merchant to give the emperor lion, but he got hundreds of kilograms of gold and thousands of pieces of silk.
Therefore, the lion pillars in Li Su's current bathroom were obviously Roman craftsmen who guided the Han people to cast copper smiths in art design or art.
"This is the Abhidharma, which is what you mentioned in the Western Regions Parthian Kingdom, the lions that came to pay tribute a hundred years ago. The craftsmanship was actually guided by the Roman Qin people. It seems that the Romans are more romantic than the Parthians.
The countries in the Western Regions are not all nomadic barbarians. I am relieved to use their people to design and supervise the elevated water diversion channel of Luoyang New City in the future. The craftsmen who can create such strict and exquisite buildings will not be lazy or slackened."
Liu Bei played with it for a while and praised it. Then, he seemed to remember something and subconsciously asked casually.
"The future tribute courts and bathing places will be like this? It's too extravagant. How can those students use such luxurious things!"
Li Su was next to him, and naturally hugged the two shoulder-pinching wives. Of course, he didn't look down on him, and he just wanted to enjoy the massage. He answered the emperor's questions in response:
"Your Majesty is too much to worry about. How can a large-scale venue be so luxurious? Just pour hot water outside and bubble the large pool. Not yet, the outside has not been covered yet. According to the etiquette, just build a few private rooms inside first.
The private room should be better. In the future, the main tester will have to stay in the venue for several days. Most of the main tester are senior literary and academic masters, and they always need to relax their muscles and relieve fatigue. This is for the main tester.
In addition, I wonder if I would add a 'palace examination' that Your Majesty personally asked about in the future. If so, of course, I would also prepare a more decent place for Your Majesty."
Li Su made it clear: Extraordinary things are not popular, so don’t worry about waste. It is the place where the examiner or even the emperor came to inspect and entertained in person during the palace examination.
Just like the Caracala Bathroom that Rome originally wanted to build twelve years later, there are also luxurious private rooms reserved for Emperor Caracala to enjoy the people from a high place.
Li Su also emphasized to Liu Bei that except for these copper parts, other wood and stone materials were not wasted. They were the best-sized wood and stone materials from the Bi Guiyuan site, and they were used to cover them. Other bad broken wood and stones were eliminated for civilian use.
Liu Bei didn't say much, but sighed casually: "But Boya, you are becoming more and more extravagant, it's fine to be extravagant, but you don't even do serious things!
Last night I wanted to talk about the things you said, "The Western Regions countries created gods and history to strengthen orthodoxism." I had to use the excuse to delay until today. Now that I have seen these, it's time to talk about the serious business."
Li Su smiled and said, "Your Majesty is wronged. I am not indulging in pleasure. I refuse to eat and eat overnight last night. It was because Your Majesty asked me suddenly. I am afraid that I have no basis for empty words and there are also some missing records, so I asked someone to go to Lantai to sort out the required Western Regions books and even Chinese translations.
Last night, I was not lazy and kept supervising Lantai officials to find books to write. Also, the manuscripts are afraid of the weather and are inconvenient to show them here. It’s better to go to the lounge outside."
After listening to Li Su's explanation, Liu Bei felt relieved. It turned out that Li Su would never delay her work, but she would prepare the information.
The two of them put on bathrobes and were led to the outer room, with stone tables and rattan rocking chairs, barbecued slices of meat, iced fruit trays and wine, just like the lounge in a Roman bath or a Turkish bath.
Li Su waved his hand and a maid next to him brought several sets of sheepskin scrolls and rice paper scrolls.
"The successful cases of the Western Regions countries whom Your Majesty asked yesterday were sorted out and selected. I will explain it to Your Majesty for a few.
This is the "Book of Job", which is the "classics and history" of Judah, an annexed tribe in the eastern part of Rome. This covenant is divided into old and old. Although the kingdom of Judah was destroyed by Rome, its theory of ghosts and gods has spread in Rome. Now Rome's own beliefs are declining and almost become smaller and bigger.
The new part is difficult to make history, so we cannot talk about it more, just the old part. It says that because the Romans did not allow the people of Judah to live in their homeland, they exiled their entire tribe to the eastern border of Rome and among the mountains of the Caucasus. Therefore, their tribes should maintain their faith for generations and return to the promised land..."
While listening to Li Su's explanation, Liu Bei looked at the scroll over and over again, but couldn't understand it. He was just curious. Then he threw it and asked: "Is there any doubt about this statement? What's the effect?"
Li Su smiled slightly: "The whole clan was exiled... Your Majesty thought, the Romans had the ability to verify their bloodlines and knew what kind of bloodline everyone on a piece of land was? So, of course, it was impossible.
The Romans could only share the beliefs that were visible at most, depending on whether you firmly believe in the old sayings, and if you firmly believe in them, you will be exiled. If you convert to the sect in order not to leave your hometown, the Romans would not recognize them at all and would not make things difficult for you anymore.
But it is precisely because their covenant said that hundreds of years have passed, even the Romans believed that the small clan was really exiled by the entire clan. And the people who changed the sect hundreds of years ago did not know that they lived here for generations, and they thought they were the original clan who moved here after being exiled. It can be seen that the power of creating a regional orthodox through classics and history!
In recent years, Rome has become increasingly declining. Maybe those who say they are driven away may come back to establish the country...
Similarly, the book says that Abraham's two sons became ancestors of two tribes in the Palestinian region. This is obviously the same as Wu Taibo's routine as the uncle of King Wen of Zhou. It's nothing more than that their "Wu Taibo" has not been swallowed up as their "Zhou Emperor", but he was still unwilling to merge, so he beat him to death from generation to generation."
Li Su's penultimate outlook is of course suspected of exaggeration, but in order to strengthen Liu Bei's confidence and know how powerful it is to "create regional orthodoxy with classics and history", he used exaggerated deductions, and Liu Bei could not prove it anyway.
In fact, although the Judahs did not restore their country when Rome was destroyed, they still succeeded two thousand years later. The key is that many people around the world believe it. This has to be said that they chose the media well. After all, people in the Western world have read the letter of appointment, so they instinctively will not doubt it.
It was not until 2008 that Professor Schromer of Tel Aviv University stood up and used detailed evidence to uncover the window paper.
In the previous year, Li Su happened to be in his junior year and encountered an economic crisis and was not easy to find a job. So when he was in the core class, he studied this extracurricular material very seriously. He still remembered it after twelve years.
If the regional core is well created, it can still be used as a basis for restoring the country in two thousand years.
This is what I do when I make a letter.
Moreover, do you think Herodotus, Levi and Tacitus did not do it?
Don't be curious about why Li Su is so skillful, "a historian who never fears the most despicable malicious intentions to speculate on all civilizations around the world."
This is the difference in learning methods of history between the quasi-ruling class and the ruling class.
When taking history classes in diplomacy, every allusion will be asked by the teacher about historian’s motivation to choose history. If you cannot see through the “suspects of nuclear creation” of historians, you will fail the exam directly.
Therefore, Li Su's vision of history is so sharp and unique, and he can see through the attempts to create nuclear power hidden under the subtext at first glance.
Studying history is just to "learn from history as a lesson"?
The pattern is small!
You also have to see through the enemy's core creation! Learn to core creation by yourself!
This is the true pattern.
...
Liu Bei was indeed very excited and his confidence in nuclear creation was completely firm. Moreover, he felt that his horizons were wide open. It turned out that the outside world really had the same soil as China for conspiracies and tricks.
Brother Boya is well-versed in learning the East and the West, and has completely integrated the East and the West... These books from the Western Regions cannot be read by the people and officials indiscriminately!
When Liu Bei thought of this, he couldn't help but remind him: "Wait, Boya, these books are placed in Lantai. Do you plan to check them all over the officials and the students in the future? It's not appropriate."
Li Su: "I will classify the grades and make a list at that time. Please ask Your Majesty to finally decide. A few books are not suitable for ordinary scholars, and there is no need to rush to promote them."
Liu Bei nodded: "Let's talk about something else. Are there any examples that really rely on classics and stories to succeed?"
Li Su put down the letter of appointment, picked up Titus Levi's "History of the Founding of the City of Rome" and pointed to one of the paragraphs:
"The example just now is already the most famous in the West. But those who want to find successful land development are not as "reminent and bright as the previous example," but are just icing on the cake and consolidating their rule.
For example, in this book by Li Wei, the part about the Roman abyss, mentions that the Roman ancestor Romulus had a brother Remus. Their mother was born as a virgin and pregnant god of war, but his younger brother and adoptive father were killed by Romulus because of differences during the process of Romulus' selection of the site to build the Roman city...
There are many details here. Your Majesty can read it slowly when he has time, but I will briefly point out the doubts: the Romans had to make this arrangement. In fact, it was entirely because the founders of the Roman city were foreign immigrants with Hellenistic backgrounds. They needed to turn the indigenous people in the Roman area on the peninsula into "the younger brother of the ancestor and the sinners left by the adopted father" so that they could rule the indigenous people.
It turns out that the old Roman natives on the peninsula gradually forgot the truth because they did not have their own words and believed Romulus.
And this is still "history". Looking back further, the Greeks often had new gods in myths after overthrowing the old gods, and naturally enslaved and exiled the old Titans with original sin. In short, I am interested in reading it slowly. First listen to the story, and then explain the subsequent metaphor...
After all, if all the "scriptures" and even myths involving ancient history are not circulated on a large scale, but are recorded and preached to believers and orally, there will be a lot of space for using ancient and fake works to create orthodox work.
The title of the covenant is that Moses received the heavenly teachings, but in fact, the priests have been optimized during the copying. Greek myths have been passed down from generation to generation, and this is also optimized.
In our China, are there few such things? How much did the original "Taiping Qing Lingdao" really deviate from "Laozi"? It's not that Yu Ji and Zhang Jiao tampered with the ancients. Oh, I have had a long talk with Miao Zhenren in Huashan a few years ago.
I don’t know much about these things that involve the origin of ghosts and gods. I am a Confucian scholar, but I don’t say that the strange powers are chaotic. In terms of gods and ghosts, your Majesty wants to know more, so he can summon Miao Zhenren. She has been in seclusion for practice in recent years and seems to have written a new debate exam.”
Li Su lays the groundwork for the successful case of Western nuclear creation, which finally made Liu Bei feel refreshed for the time being, and feels that this matter can be thrown aside.
Liu Bei thought to himself: If the court really needs all-round cultural management in the future, from historical books to folk ghosts and gods to rectify them, he would summon the nominal distant niece and ask about the ghosts and gods’ fabrications.
Liu Bei became more and more at ease with Liu Miao. He realized that this niece did not become a monk and practice immortality in order to avoid suspicion, but he really worked hard to practice immortality.
To be more precise, this kind of cultivation of immortality is not about seeking immortality, but about being a theologian and studying and exploring falsehoods.
After asking all aspects of cultural nuclear creation, Liu Bei felt much more at ease and finally began to involve deep water areas. I would like to hear what Li Su thinks about making up the source of evidence:
"Boya, I have no doubt about the implementation of this matter. However, where should we find the documents that the 'historical materials' that Taishi Gong had never obtained back then' required to do this? Or what kind of source can we find to convince the people of the world?"
The reason why Liu Bei asked this question was because Cai Yong had just told him in general that he needed "new evidence unearthed."
But Cai Yong is just a historian, not an archaeologist, so the specific operation must be implemented with the cooperation of historians and archaeologists.
Li Su is not an archaeologist, but he was a later generation, and he read a lot, and he still knew many archaeological allusions in history. So he almost immediately thought of solving it.
"This is easy to deal with. The original "Shangshu" that was first obtained in the Han Dynasty was originally recited by Dr. Qi Fu Sheng during the reign of Emperor Wen. Previous ancient books were destroyed by Qin Shihuang's burning books.
There were 400 years of Han Dynasty. When Liu Xin was the Grand Historian in the late Han Dynasty, there was an ancient book written by Kong Anguo. Later, during the reign of Emperor Guangwu, some people claimed to have excavated more than ten ancient books of the "Shangshu" collected by King Xian of Hejian, Liu De.
Since the ancient Chinese scriptures were unearthed every time they revived, it would be unearthed again. Moreover, when the time when the King of Xian of Hejian was discovered, someone found an additional chapter of "Zuo Zhuan". This time, let's find some lost chapters of "Mandarin". Before, Dong Zhuo burned Luoyang and destroyed a lot, and it was not uncommon for the Taifu to sort out the country's past and found something."
The reason why Li Su is so skillful in this regard is that he had read online novels after all in his previous life. The little things about the ancient Chinese Shangshu, the ancient Chinese Shangshu, were basically fed up by online novels, and it is impossible to not see them, so there is no need to elaborate on the details.
However, most online novels mention the affairs of the ancient and modern Shangshu, and emphasize the "rediscovery of Shangshu" after the Eastern Jin Dynasty's transit south in history, mainly because of the biggest changes and the most subversive ones.
But in fact, the Han Dynasty itself has been discovered twice by the "Shangshu". To be honest, every time the "Shangshu" is forced to be revised, it is actually the boundary between China and barbarians that needs to be adjusted.
Seeing that he was so unconcealed, Liu Bei was stunned for a while and sighed: "By Qin Shihuang burned books and buried scholars, all of them wanted to turn the "existing political policies of the former kings" into what the Qin people wanted the world to see.
Although our Han Dynasty also had to unify ancient knowledge, it also had to be upright. In today's world, it is not as good as the pre-Qin period. The barbarians thousands of miles away have culture, and the people have already had woodblocks and printed books to read. There are more people who know literacy and ancient knowledge than in the pre-Qin period. It is better for the king to be a bit respectful of the sky, and we should not imagine using blockage instead of losing.
Chapter completed!