Drive the RV back to Datang

Chapter 650 Chapter 668: Silla is dying

Liu Xuanji stroked his beard pretending to be profound, and said slowly: "My lord, the most important thing in a country is military affairs, and the most important thing in a nation is culture; military power, my lord, you can't touch it for the time being, it will easily arouse the king's anger." Suspicion, then what adults can do is to promote and strengthen the culture of Silla, and culture can best enhance a person's status in the hearts of the common people and literati."

"I understand the truth." Park Zhiyong asked expectantly, "Then how should we do it?"

Liu Xuanji smiled and beckoned behind him, Wang Shi and Wang Lei stood up, carried two big bags, put them in front of Pu Zhiyong, and untied the bags, only to see that the two bags were full of books. There are more than 30 copies.

"This is..." Pu Zhiyong looked at the two books in a daze.

Liu Xuanji smiled and said: "My lord, this is... culture that Pindao specially brought from the Tang Dynasty."

Pu Zhiyong roughly understood Liu Xuanji's intentions, and said happily after hearing the words: "Great, Mr. Liu has a heart, the Tang country has a rich cultural background, and all nations admire it. Although I, Silla, have always admired and studied the Tang culture, I have never been able to understand it. Looking at its essence, the classics that Mr. Liu prepared for me must be the classics of Tang culture."

"That's natural." Liu Xuanji nodded with a smile, and said, "My lord, you can recruit many scholars as students, learn the culture in these books, and then go to Silla to travel around and spread the culture. The most important thing is, you must let them beat you. In just a few years, my lord, you will be the teacher of all literati in Silla."

"Wonderful, this trick is wonderful." Both Pu Zhiyong and Park Mingshun couldn't help nodding their heads in praise when they heard the words. They are high officials in the court, so they naturally know how powerful and influential the words of those literati are, and they can almost directly influence public opinion. direction.

Pu Zhiyong happily picked up the first book on the stack of books on the left, only to see "Chu Ci" written on the cover, Liu Xuanji saw this and introduced: "My lord, this is a collection of poems written by the patriotic poet Qu Yuan during the Warring States Period."

"Qu Yuan? I seem to have heard about it." Pu Zhiyong opened it up as he spoke, and looked at it. At the first glance, he couldn't help but read: "The descendants of the Emperor Gaoyang, my emperor called Boyong. Photographed by Zhenyu Meng Zouxi, but since Geng Yinwu came down..."

As he was chanting, he couldn't help shaking his head. Sure enough, the ancients paid attention to rhyme when reading, and Li Sao's rhyme is very neat and beautiful.

After reading more than a dozen lines, Pu Zhiyong stopped, and couldn't put it down and said: "Wonderful! Wonderful! Such a beautiful poem is just like the sound of nature."

Liu Xuanji smiled and said: "My lord just read the most famous "Li Sao" by Qu Yuan, which is also highly respected among the literati of the Tang Dynasty. My lord really has a good eye."

"Ah, hahaha, I can tell at a glance that "Li Sao" is a good thing, a good thing!" Pu Zhiyong was praised by Liu Xuanji, and suddenly lost his way, and then asked, "I heard that Datang has What festival seems to be related to Qu Yuan?"

"Yes, my lord." Liu Xuanji nodded and said, "It's the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival."

Pu Mingshun who was on the side asked curiously: "Then what is the relationship between this Duanyang Festival and Qu Yuan?"

Liu Xuanji began to popularize science for them: "In China, the fifth day of May every year is the Dragon Boat Festival, which is a traditional Chinese festival. Before the Spring and Autumn Period, the Dragon Boat Festival was a festival for curing diseases and preventing epidemics. During the Warring States Period, Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet of Chu State, The king refused to listen to his advice, but believed in slander, which was extremely distressing. He couldn't bear to watch his country weaken and perish step by step.

On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, people died for their country and declared their aspirations by throwing themselves into the river. On the day Qu Yuan threw himself into the river, the people of Chu State were reluctant to part with Qu Yuan, a virtuous official, who threw himself into the river to die. Many people rowed boats to chase and rescue him.They scrambled to be the first, and Qu Yuan disappeared when they chased to Dongting Lake.After that, dragon boats are rowed on May [-] every year to commemorate it.They used dragon boats to disperse the fish in the river so that the fish would not eat Qu Yuan's body. Some people made rice dumplings with glutinous rice and rice dumpling leaves and threw them into the river. The purpose was the same. They wanted to feed the fish with rice dumplings and prevent the fish from eating Qu Yuan's body. .Later, dragon boat racing and eating rice dumplings became the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival. The purpose was to pay homage to Qu Yuan. Most of these customs, such as purses and five-color silk threads, are for curing diseases and warding off evil spirits. "

Pu Mingshun couldn't help but sighed after hearing this: "So that's the case. No wonder when we passed through Youzhou when we returned home, it happened to be the Dragon Boat Festival. We saw mugwort calamus hanging in front of every house. I didn't expect it to be a festival custom, but really interesting."

Pu Zhiyong was fascinated for a while, and suddenly his eyes lit up and said: "Mr. Liu, do you think that if I change this Dragon Boat Festival into a festival of our Silla, will those illiterate people remember me?"

Liu Xuanji was shocked when he heard the words, and looked at Pu Zhiyong in amazement. Why was he surprised? Because when Li Hao made a plan for him, he asked him to encourage the Silla people to steal the Chinese Dragon Boat Festival. Liu Xuanji refused at first. Yes, because he didn't think the Silla people were so shameless that they plagiarized festivals from other countries, and Li Hao said with certainty at that time that the Silla people would definitely plagiarize the Dragon Boat Festival, because they themselves are a shameless nation.

Unexpectedly, everything was right by Li Hao, and before Liu Xuanji encouraged him, Pu Zhiyong proposed to plagiarize the Dragon Boat Festival.

Liu Xuanji deliberately put on a look of embarrassment when he heard the words, and said, "This... is not good, after all Qu Yuan is..."

"What is it?" Pu Zhiyong raised his eyebrows, "Is Qu Yuan from Tang Dynasty?"

Liu Xuanji hesitated when he heard the words, shook his head and said: "No." Qu Yuan was not from the Tang Dynasty in the first place, and the Tang Dynasty was only established for a few decades, so how long has Qu Yuan been dead.

Pu Zhiyong said with high spirits, "Since Qu Yuan is not from the Tang Dynasty, what are we afraid of? You may not know that in ancient times, our country in Silla was very large. Qu Yuan's ancestral home was in our Silla, and he is from our Silla."

Liu Xuanji was shocked. He felt that his three views were about to collapse. He thought that Li Hao was a very shameless person, but this Pu Zhiyong was so shameless that he reached a state of perfection. Silla only appeared in the Han Dynasty. Yes, and it was just a few small tribal villages at that time. As for the period of the Warring States period, there seemed to be no people living here in Silla. It is estimated that they still lived a life of savages who kept knots and kept records. big?He also said that Qu Yuan, who is full of knowledge, is from Silla. Did he even deceive himself?Liu Xuanji felt that he could not bear to slap him.

Pu Mingshun boasted from the side: "Gao, cousin, your trick is really powerful. If this Dragon Boat Festival is promoted among the people in your name, the common people will surely praise cousin."

Pu Zhiyong straightened his beard with pride when he heard the words, Liu Xuanji secretly sneered: "Yes, people in China will praise it, but this will annoy the officials in the Tang Dynasty, let them know that the "Chu" they often recite "Ci" suddenly became written by Silla people, so it's no wonder they didn't strangle you to death."

At this time, Pu Zhiyong picked up another book from another stack of books, and saw "The Analects of Confucius" written on the cover.

"The Analects of Confucius, haha." Pu Zhiyong said happily, "The Analects of Confucius written by Kong Shengren is a must-read for almost everyone in Silla."

Liu Xuanji smiled and nodded: "This pile is all Confucian classics."

"Confucianism...Confucianism...OK." Pu Zhiyong looked at the Analects of Confucius, and heard his tone, he seemed very envious, envious of what, envious of the land of China came out of Confucius.

Pu Zhiyong hastily flipped through "The Analects of Confucius", and suddenly asked: "Does Mr. Liu know where is the ancestral home of this Confucius?"

Liu Xuanji said: "Confucius' ancestral home seems to be in the Song Kingdom. The exact location is not clear to Pindao. The only thing that Pindao knows is that he is from Zouyi, Lu Kingdom."

"Lu State...Song State..." Pu Zhiyong began to ponder, then got up to take out a painting from a painting cabinet, unfolded it, it was not a painting, but a map.

His map is basically a map of the Korean Peninsula, but it also includes many territories in the Bohai Sea and the Tang Dynasty.

Pu Zhiyong asked Liu Xuanji to look at the map, and asked, "Where do Mr. Liu refer to the State of Lu and the State of Song?"

Liu Xuanji roughly pointed at the map, and said, "Song Kingdom is here, and Lu Kingdom is here."

Pu Zhiyong frowned thoughtfully when he heard the words: "These two places... seem to be..."

Seeing his appearance, Liu Xuanji's heart suddenly rose, and he thought to himself: "He won't shamelessly say that Kong Sheng is also from Silla, right?"

In the next moment, his thoughts were verified, and Pu Zhiyong said: "These two places seem to have been our territory in Silla, so Kong Sheng turned out to be from Silla."

Liu Xuanji was already stunned, he really wanted to pull Li Hao over now, let Li Hao see what is shameless, what is truly shameless, let him open his eyes, Li Hao is weak compared to him up.

Pu Mingshun chased after Pu Zhiyong again, and Pu Zhiyong pretended to be modest and said: "Actually, at the beginning, we couldn't say that Confucius was from our Silla, otherwise it would very likely annoy the Tang people. After all, Confucius is very important in their hearts. Now we can only say that Confucius may be from Silla. The word "possible" is good. It is plausible. Tang people can't criticize us. After we expand Confucianism in Silla and our national strength, then Then we can openly tell the whole world that Confucius is from Silla, and Confucianism belongs to Silla."

Liu Xuanji's three views have collapsed, and now he doesn't know what to say, he can only keep laughing along with him, but he is sneering in his heart: "King Qiongnan really knows things like a god, the people of Silla really It is shameless to the extreme. How can they get their hands on Confucius? They don’t know the status of Confucius in the hearts of Chinese literati. The catastrophe of extinction, how do you say that sentence that the prince often said? Oh, yes, if you don’t die, you won’t die.”

(End of this chapter)