Lu Yan did not keep Gao Jianli waiting for long. He spoke to Ju Shuang and Ji Yan and quickly came to the main hall.
"I'm Gao Jianli, I've met Mr. Lu Yan." He cupped his fists towards Lu Yan, his usually long brown hair falling neatly behind his back, and his usually cold face clearly showed respect.
"Mr. Gao Jianli, Nongyu told me during the day that there is a piano player who is indistinguishable from her in terms of music, and he stunned her with a song "Yangzhi Shui". I still don't believe it. When I see it's you,
Sure enough, he will be even more famous if we meet him."
Lu Yan had already sent someone to check Gao Jianli's information. It was remarkable that a person who had been wandering all year round could develop such a cold yet elegant demeanor for himself.
"Mrs. Nongyu is so humble. Her reputation is not worthy of praise from you."
"Haha~" Lu Yan laughed it off, stopped being polite to him, and went straight to the point, "According to my wife, she couldn't answer your question based on music, so she asked your husband to come to me."
"Yes." Gao Jianli nodded. He had read all of "A Study on the Origin of the Princely Kingdoms". Lu Yan respected the history and culture of the Seven Kingdoms and also respected the people on the Seven Kingdoms.
But Lu Yan chose to support the justice of the Qin invaders, which made him confused. Just like now, why can Lu Yan govern Zhao with peace of mind?
He was silent for a moment, seeming to think about his words.
"I have read almost all of the books that Mr. Sir has written so far that can be found on the market. It can be said that without Mr. Gao Jianli, there would be no Gao Jianli today."
Lu Yan was a little surprised. He didn't expect that although Gao Jianli was wandering, he never forgot to read the books he wrote. No wonder he was completely different from the brave and ruthless Jianghu wanderer, and his thoughts were completely different.
"I dare to ask, what kind of mentality does the gentleman have to destroy the Six Kingdoms with his own hands, regardless of the death of millions of people in the process? Is the universal love for all living beings that the gentleman reveals between the lines in the book false?
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Gao Jianli's question pierced Lu Yan's heart.
He is from the Yan State. He has seen the future that the Yan State will inevitably be destroyed by the Qin State, but he does not resent or attack Lu Yan from the position of a person who has subjugated the country.
He asked Lu Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei, Chu, Yan, Qi, what are the millions of people who died in the process of realizing your dream of unifying the Chinese nation?
Gao Jianli's narrow eyes stared hard, and his slender eyebrows seemed to be stained with frost when he was experiencing violent emotional fluctuations.
His attitude was fierce and cold.
Lu Yan smiled.
How many years have you been in this world? Fourteen or fifteen years, is this the first time someone asks you, what do the people who died during the unification process count?
Gao Jianli was very conflicted at the moment. The fact that he could ask such a question showed to some extent that he had a certain recognition of the unity. But his sense of justice made him unable to understand the justice of such an invader.
The only person in the world who can give him the answer is Lu Yan.
Lu Yan asked: "Gao Jianli, where do you think my insistence on the unification of the world comes from?"
"The Confucian Master Xun has the idea of a law for the world and a single system."
"Then where did my teacher Xunzi's thoughts come from?"
"This..." Gao Jianli didn't know anymore, frowned and shook his head, "I know very little about Confucianism."
"In fact, great unification does not originate from a certain person or a certain theory, but because the civilization growing on this land is destined to embark on this path."
Lu Yan closed his eyes and imitated Bei Mingzi's behavior in constructing the Chinese Kyushu with artistic conception when he was in Taiyi Mountain.
"Hmm~"
His inner strength and spiritual will have not yet set foot in heaven, so this attempt to build a spiritual world makes him unable to bear the pressure.
"Is this?" Gao Jianli keenly felt the changes happening around him. In a blink of an eye, he found that he was on the shore of the East China Sea, with waves dancing in front of him.
A person like Bei Mingzi, who can cover a mountain with just a single movement of his hand and his mental will. However, the artistic world created by Lu Yan now can only cover a room, and leaks from all directions.
Of course, it was more than enough to make a holographic projection for Gao Jianli at this moment, so Lu Yan did not force it.
"You must have never overlooked the land where we live. Take a look~"
Gao Jianli was shocked. He saw his feet leaving the ground, and the waves hitting the rocks became smaller and smaller. His ice-blue pupils revealed a panic, "Sir, what are we?"
Lu Yan reached out and grabbed his sleeve, "Don't panic, I'm not really flying. I'm just taking you to take a good look at the land that gave birth to our civilization from a high place."
Why does Eastern culture always advocate "great unification"? Even outside of China, many countries in Asia have cultural and ideological identification with "great unification".
In its long history, the West developed the use of military conquest and colonial rule to expand its territory. Why did those familiar names such as the Roman Empire not form a unified dynasty?
This is not as simple as saying that China has Qin Shihuang but the West does not.
The entire land of China is bounded by the sea to the east and the Himalayas to the west. Both of these have been insurmountable barriers for mankind for a long time. Geographically, this is a vast and closed land.
The Chinese civilization relied on the farming civilization in large river basins to cultivate land and plant grains. This is the most basic agricultural production.
Human beings themselves are fragile in the face of nature. Since ancient times, they have united the power of people in the form of tribes to ensure the production and survival of the ethnic group.
As the population multiplied, the cultivated land must be expanded, and the tribes grew stronger and stronger. They cultivated, multiplied, cultivated again, and multiplied again. The farming civilization with land as its lifeblood is so simple and unpretentious.
From ancient times to the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the people born of the river have spread all over this land. However, in the changes of history, from small private fights among the people to large wars between countries, the most fundamental thing has always remained unchanged.
, for the land.
Annexation wars involve annexing other countries' land and annexing other countries' populations for their own agricultural production.
This does not need to be taught, countries will naturally become like this in the battle. If you do not annex others, you will be annexed by others sooner or later. The Warring States Period has lasted for hundreds of years, and it must be a process of a strong country annexing a weak country.
This is the process of unification. Throw away Qin and the remaining six countries. If you really have the opportunity to destroy other countries and devour all their lands, they will definitely devour them in one go. They won’t care how many hundred years you have.
Guo Zuo.
Many people have noticed this trend and put forward the idea of great unification, such as Gong Yang and Xunzi of Confucianism.
It was not these thinkers who proposed a great unification, but they discovered a great unification from history and the current world, and expressed it. So later generations recorded this as, they proposed a great unification.
Stars from ancient times have shone brightly to this day. Under the bright starry sky, humans in this land have evolved from slash-and-burn farming. They have fought against nature to obtain the right to survive, and competed with their fellow tribesmen for resources for development.
Those deafening hunting cries
Those battlefield battles that shattered the sky
The ancient city that has undergone tremendous changes still stands today
Huang Zhong Da Lu’s rituals and music disappeared and were lost
This land was once a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, with no one to collect the bones.
This land should have clear seas and clear rivers, and all the people should be smiling
Gao Jianli completed the journey of human beings on this land from ancient times to the present in a short period of time. He felt his whole body trembling and his thin lips moving irregularly.
"This is...this is..."
Lu Yan took a deep breath and said softly: "Civilization."
"Yes! Civilization...civilization!"
Gao Jianli understood. All his doubts about the world and Lu Yan were answered in this process.
He looked at Lu Yan, those ice blue pupils contained indescribable heat.
"Mr. Lu Yan, are you really a born saint? From a civilized perspective, this is so..." He was so excited that he was completely unparalleled.
"What a saint, I'm just-"
Before Lu Yan could finish speaking, he fainted. Building such a spiritual world and showing the progress of human civilization was still too strenuous given his current state.