The third emperor of the Sui Dynasty

Chapter 840 Descendants of Xu Fu Can Make Cement?
At dawn the next day, the sun rises in the east.Yang Tong received Jishi Changdan, the emissary of the Ainu people, in Wanchun Hall.Why not in Daxing Hall and Liangyi Hall?Not enough!Even receiving an audience at Wanchun Hall is considered a courtesy.

"Jishi Changdan, a native of the Sui Dynasty, kowtowed to the Emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty. We, the people of the Great Sui Dynasty, have been bullied by the Japanese slaves and lost [-]% to [-]% of our country. We came here this time, hoping to establish diplomatic relations with the Great Sui Dynasty and be a minister to the Great Sui Dynasty forever. And I beg the emperor of the Sui Dynasty to send a support army to help our Aizu people quell the Japanese slaves, and if your army suffers any losses, our Aizu people are willing to pay back a hundredfold.” Jishi Changdan knelt on the ground, his voice full of pleading meaning.

"No!" Li Jing stood up first, frowned and glanced at Ji Shi Changdan, then cupped his hands to Yang Tong and said, "My lord, the Japanese slaves are not only thousands of miles away from us in the Sui Dynasty, and sea battles are different from land battles. If we are not careful, the entire army may be wiped out. Now the world is delicate, the puppet Tang Dynasty is eyeing us and the Great Sui, and there are signs of revival in both the Eastern and Western Turks. If our Great Sui rashly sends troops to aid Ezo, not to mention the long distance and huge risks. How can our army defend against the enemy coming from all around us?"

Efforts and gains are not equal. Even if the Japanese slaves are defeated in the end, it will also be the achievement of the Ainu people. There is no benefit to the Sui Dynasty, but it consumes countless manpower and material resources, which is completely inconsistent with the interests of the Sui Dynasty.

Yang Tong nodded, and said to Jishi Changdan: "This matter concerns thousands of people in our Great Sui. We can support you in Great Sui, but we can't send troops."

The matter of the Ainu people has to start with Li Daozong and Xu Jingzong harming the Japanese country. These two guys, one capable of fighting and the other perineum, complement each other perfectly.

Although Li Daozong was a general on land, after becoming familiar with naval battles, his military talent was brought into play little by little.

Especially after the mass promotion and popularization of keel warships, the combat effectiveness of the navy has become even more powerful.Keel warships may not have an advantage over midship warships on the inland rivers, but when they are at sea, their safety, stability, and load capacity are doubled.

For more than a year, Li Daozong became the main commander of this sneak attack on the Japanese navy. He led the navy across the sea, and the Japanese slaves he beat did not dare to approach the beach. The [-] shallow sea navy was completely annihilated by Li Daozong.

Naval battles are different from land battles. It doesn’t mean that more people means greater strength. The victory or defeat of naval battles is almost determined by the size and advancement of the ships. Poor and pitifully small, and has no military talents.And Li Daozong himself is an extremely talented general, and there is such a sinister person as Xu Jingzong beside him to make suggestions. It took nearly a year for the group to slowly figure out the way of naval warfare. One can imagine the result of being able to send out 'outstanding' land generals.Li Daozong led the opponent's army into the deep sea area at that time, and then sent all the [-] Japanese slaves to the Dragon Palace in the East China Sea with the help of the wind and waves at sea.

However, Li Daozong and the others took this opportunity to plunder the population and wealth around the islands of the Wa Kingdom. The population was sent to the "pirate" headquarter, Sado Island, to mine gold and silver mines, and the wealth was sent back to Luoyang by boat, causing the money and food of the Wa Kingdom to be extremely tense. The situation is that the coastal area is even more uninhabited. From then on, simply use Sado Island as the standard to block Honshu Island. The south of "Sado-Sendai" belongs to the Japanese, and the north is the territory of this navy. The slaves and Japanese slaves became farm slaves and began to live a life of self-reliance.

The Yezo people were originally the masters of the four major islands, but they were persecuted by the Japanese for a long time, and then they moved to the Yezo Island (Hokkaido Island) step by step. People look down on them, "Eizu" is the insulting ethnic name given to them by the Japanese, literally translated it means "hairman, prisoner, and fan".

This time, Ji Shi Changdan, who had been in contact with the Sui navy, begged Li Daozong and Xu Jingzong, hoping that the Sui would support them in fighting the Japanese and regaining lost ground. The three generations of emperors gave good prescriptions to the outside world, and seeing that Yang Tong looked down on the barren island in the sea, he felt that Yang Tong might also want to find an enemy for the Japanese slaves, so that they could fight for generations, so he agreed to Ji Shichangdan's proposal. Asked, let them come to the Sui Dynasty on a large ship transporting gold and silver. As for whether Yang Tong agreed or burned these hairy people, it had nothing to do with the two of them.

But in Yang Tong's heart, no matter whether he is a Japanese slave or a native of Ainu, the world will be clean only when he dies clean.

Let’s talk about the Japanese slave, he lives in the sea, as long as they destroy their boats, he can neither fly into the sky, nor go down to the sea, nor run away. The key is that their weapons and equipment are not advanced, and the terrain seems to be complicated , This is undoubtedly the best training ground in the Sui Dynasty. In the future, he can go to the island to conduct actual combat exercises. He comes here once a year and kills a batch of Japanese slaves every year.That being the case, why support a slave vassal?If he became "one of his own", Da Sui would go ahead regardless of international public opinion, but it would be bad for his reputation after all.

"I implore His Majesty, the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty, to help me with the Ainu people for the sake of the same root and the same origin." Jishi Changdan kowtowed and begged.

"Same root and origin?"

"In the same line?"

The empty hall suddenly fell into a dead silence.

Including Yang Tong, almost everyone is stupid, just this hairy thing, is it worthy?

Ji Shichangdan didn't find it tricky, and continued to beg, "To teach His Majesty the emperor of the Sui Dynasty that we are actually descendants of Xu Fu from the Qin Dynasty. When our ancestors traveled eastward, they not only brought rice seeds with them, but also taught us rice farming and medicine. Knowledge, metal smelting, and textile technology enable us to get rid of the original collection, fishing and hunting era, learn to smelt iron tools, get rid of clumsy and ineffective stone tools, and promote agricultural development; the introduction of Chinese characters gives us the foundation of culture; The introduction of family thought has also played a role in enlightening us. In addition, he also brought [-] virgins and virgins, and they have multiplied with the local people to this day. It’s just that our descendants are incompetent, which caused the Japanese slaves to seize the land of our ancestors. , I implore His Majesty the Emperor of Sui to be the master for us."

Everyone just looked at each other in blank dismay. Everyone not only knew about Xu Fu's journey to the east, but even found out the route of his journey from ancient books.

Because the wooden boats of the Qin Dynasty were small, they were powered by sails and manpower, and they didn't even have a compass. Therefore, in this period, they only had the level of coastal navigation.According to historical records, Xu Fu’s first eastward journey started from Langya, crossed Jiaozhou Bay, and then arrived at Laotieshan on the Liaodong Peninsula one by one, and then crossed the Yalu River to the west coast of the Chaoxian Peninsula, and then circled to the peninsula. On the east coast, go through Tsushima Island, Oki Island, Kitakyushu, pass through the Kanmon Strait, and the Seto Inland Sea to Kumano Beach in Shingu Town, Wakayama.This time Xu Fu did not get the elixir.Just before Xu Fu's return, the incident of "burning books and burying scholars" broke out. Xu Fu was also condemned, but because he had not returned when the "burning books and burying scholars" happened, he survived.In the 37th year of Qin Shihuang, Xu Fu returned to Langya and excused himself from the crime on the grounds that "Penglai medicine is available, but it is often suffered by sharks".Qin Shihuang, who was keen to seek immortality, personally shot a giant fish with a crossbow to open the way for Xu Fu. Xu Fu started the second eastward journey, and the route was the same as the first time.This time, when he reached his destination, he never came back.

The Ainu people are the aborigines of the island, so it is normal for Xu Fu's three thousand boys and girls to have some relationship with the aborigines. Today, more than a thousand years later, it seems reasonable for this Jishi Changdan to say that they have the blood of the Central Plains.

It's just that he is young, but he has a hairy face, and he is short and small, which really makes people not want to recognize this relative.

But Yang Tong couldn't help this question. He asked, "What evidence do you have to prove that you are Xu Fu's descendant? What evidence do you have to prove that Xu Fu is your ancestor?"

"I have books to prove it."

"Books, what books?"

"I have brought all the ancient books that Xu Fu's ancestors brought to Yezo." Seeing the obvious change in Yang Tong's attitude, Ji Shi Changdan said immediately, "Now they are in the posthouse of your country."

"Go and get all the ancient books." Yang Tong ordered quickly.

"Here." The guard outside the hall left quickly.

Huangfu Wuyi, Li Jing, Yang Gongren, Wei Yunqi, Yang Shanhui, Yang Shidao, Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Kong Yingda, Wei Zheng, Yu Shinan and others could not help but hold their breath. The "ancient books" had too much influence on people like them.

Yang Guang's collection of books has 37 volumes and more than 77000 categories of books, in duplicate, which are stored in the Ziwei Palace of Daxing Palace.And Yang Tong has been copying the homes of the nobles for these years, and has obtained a large number of rare and unique books. Compared with the collection of books in Yang Guang's period, it has almost doubled.

After sorting and sorting, a large number of paper books were printed. Now Daxing Palace in Daxing City, Ziwei Palace in Luoyang City, Shenwu Palace in Yecheng, Linshuo Palace in Zhuojun County, and Jinyang Palace in Taiyuan each have ten complete sets; The libraries of the three university palaces and the various counties and counties also chose to display a large number of paper books. Compared with school books, libraries in various places sell them. Of course, technologies related to the fate of the country like smelting are kept secret.

Yang Tong also knew that the ancient books brought by the Ainu people were very important, because the Central Plains Dynasty suffered from wars, and most of the existing rare and isolated copies were written after the Qin Dynasty. The ancient books of Xu Fu brought by the Ainu people are undoubtedly valuable treasures. Not only can we study the history and culture of the pre-Qin dynasty and the Qin Dynasty, but also find the essence and true meaning of the sage's learning, which can be used to annotate the classics and restore the essence of the sages. Get a huge effect.

Wasn't he grabbing so many books from various noble families and families to spread the fire of civilization widely?With such a big printing and special printing and distribution all over the world, after a thousand years, there will always be one or two complete sets, right?
About two quarters later, a group of soldiers brought in six large boxes. When they opened it, they were all tortoise shell and animal bones with small seal characters and animal skins with small seal characters. Kong Yingda carefully picked up a piece of tortoise shell and said excitedly : "My lord, this is Confucianism."

"What's written on it?"

"'The people can do it, but they can't do it.' The whole sentence means that poetry, rites, and music are the foundation of educating the people. Let them develop freely, and if the common people cannot explain it clearly, we have to educate them and let them know and understand these things. This just reflects Confucius’ thought that there is no distinction between teaching and enlightening the wisdom of the people.”

"Actually, there are several other interpretations for this sentence." Yang Tong also became interested.

"The people can make it, let it go; can't make it, know it."

"The people can do it, but it can't be done, so they know it."

"The people 'can', let them know. If they can't, let them know."

"The people can let it go? No, it can be known."

"This..." Kong Yingda was sweating profusely. He found that the people of later generations really misunderstood the meaning of Kong Sheng. What's even more frightening is that there are five correct ways of interpreting, but people just use "the people can let them do what they want, and they can't do it." To govern the country with the erroneous view of "knowing it".

"Kong Shangshu, when compiling the "Four Books and Five Classics of Justice", you used Confucius' core concepts such as "education without distinction" and "opening the wisdom of the people" to make sentences in many classics, strive to be accurate, and must not be misled by various fallacies and heresies. Otherwise, it will not only harm the country and the people, but also tarnish the great image of Confucius." Yang Tong ordered.

"I understand!" Kong Yingda respectfully obeyed.

Yang Tong nodded, and when his eyes turned to a box, his eyes lit up, and he walked down from the throne all at once, and said excitedly, "Cement board?"

"What is a cement board?" Kong Yingda asked in surprise.

Yang Tong ignored Kong Yingda, picked up Jishi Changdan who was kneeling on the ground, and asked viciously, "How did you get these boxes?"

As an important building material, cement is widely used in urban construction, water conservancy roads, and national defense projects. How could Yang Tong not want to use it extensively in the Sui Dynasty?Moreover, Yang Tong, who plays big next to the cement factory, also knows that cement is made in a simple way. As long as the temperature of the furnace is as high as [-] degrees, ordinary limestone can be made into cement.

However, the smelting furnace of the Sui Dynasty could not produce a high temperature of [-] to [-] degrees, and therefore, he had no choice but to give up cement as a building material.

What he never expected was that the Ainu people brought several concrete boxes, why didn't he get very excited?
Yang Tong's gaffe turned everyone's minds from the ancient book to this side, and Luo Shixin and Yu Chigong thought that Ji Shi Changdan had malicious intentions, so they strode forward unanimously and took his poor Ji Shi Changdan He took it from Yang Tong's hand and pressed him firmly to the ground like killing a New Year's pig.

"Emperor of the Sui Dynasty, I have no malicious intentions, what is the reason?" Ji Shi Changdan asked with a pale face, terrified.

"There was a misunderstanding, let him go." Yang Tong waved his hand, and then Luo Shixin and Yu Chigong let go.

"Tell me, how did this cement box come about?" Yang Tong pointed to the box and asked.

When Kong Yingda and the others heard this, their faces all turned black!The old face is hot!

The heroic emperor only stared at the inconspicuous box, and even ignored the precious ancient books in the box.The key point is that the box is not only not exquisite and beautiful, but also dark and dark. His Majesty's move seems to be inferior to the people of Zheng Guo who "buy the box and return the pearl".

It's not their fault, because they don't know cement as a building material, let alone the significance of cement technology to the Sui Dynasty.

And Yang Tong has the soul of the future generations, so how can he not know the meaning of these cement boxes?How can one not know how much change cement technology will bring to Tai Sui?

If you can dig out the cement-making technology that produces a high temperature of [-] degrees, even if you distribute the Ezo island to the Ainu people and support the Ainu people to fight with the Japanese slaves, what's the problem?
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