The Tang Dynasty started from saving Empress Changsun

Chapter 124 Shaping a Sense of Civilization Identity
Li Shimin's eyes flickered, and it took him a long time to regain his composure. He said, "Welcome back. In the future, you will be grateful for your choice today."

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Chen Jingke knew that he had passed the test, and the big stone in his heart finally fell to the ground.

Suddenly someone who knows so many things, if there is no suitable background, no one will be relieved.The better he does, the more suspicion will grow.

Asthma and high blood pressure cannot scare Li Shimin his whole life, and he must have been studying these two diseases in private.Once you find effective control means, you will be worthless.

At that time, all the suspicions will explode at once, directly killing him, and even implicating countless people such as Sun Simiao.

After comprehensive consideration, he made up such a story for himself.

Whether Li Shimin believed it or not, it was better than knowing nothing at all.

Li Shimin followed this direction to investigate, and he would find that all the information he told him about the outside world was true.

At that time, even if he can't find any clues, he will tend to believe that this statement is true.

Because these information about the outside world cannot be faked, it must have paid a huge price to be able to investigate so clearly, and the failure to find out can only show that Chen Jingke's clansman's actions are secretive.

Later, if he showed irreplaceable value, Li Shimin would at most be more wary of him and would not do anything to him.

Sometimes Li Shimin's vision is worthy of recognition.

A consensus was reached on the origin of the background, and the atmosphere suddenly became much easier.

Li Shimin continued to ask: "Tell me about civilization again. According to what you said, there have been many powerful countries in this world. Why are there only five civilizations? Isn't Arabia a civilization?"

Chen Jingke explained: "The five major civilizations I'm talking about are the original civilizations that were first born, and the subsequent Rome and Arabia were all born under the influence of the five major civilizations."

"My Huaxia is one of the five origin civilizations, and it is also the only civilization that has not experienced faults and continues to be strong until now."

"But in some respects the rising stars have surpassed us, and if we don't change, one day we will be completely surpassed by them."

"Oh?" Li Shimin didn't believe his words, but he didn't think he was alarmist either, leaving everything to be concluded after the investigation.

At this time, he just said curiously: "Tell me what advantages they have that we can learn from."

Chen Jingke said: "Let me talk about Islam first. Before the Arabs lacked a unified sense of identity, they were divided and fought with each other..."

"The emergence of the Islamic religion has completed the unity of thought, telling them that we are brothers and sisters, and we should help each other, unite and love each other..."

"From the white-haired old man to the young child, no matter their status or status, even farmers who can't read, they all know that they are Arabs and followers of Islam, and they want to fight for the Arabs and for Islam."

"As long as you die fighting for Arabia and Islam, you can enter the kingdom of heaven after death and enjoy endless glory and wealth."

"Because of their faith, all of them fought bravely and did not fear death, and they defeated Sasanian's regular army several times with a mob of hundreds of people."

"The victory of the war made them believe that Islam is right, so more and more people joined, and finally defeated Sassan and established a huge empire."

Li Shimin frowned and said, "Isn't this the same as the yellow scarves of the former Han Dynasty?"

Chen Jingke shook his head and said, "How can it be the same? The Yellow Turban only has a slogan of 'Heaven is dead and Huang Tian should be established', and there is nothing else."

"The purpose of the common people participating in the Yellow Turbans is to have a living, because if they join the Yellow Turbans for a meal, they will also betray because they have food to eat."

"Islam is different. It has a complete concept to educate and unify everyone's thoughts. People join it not just for food, but for more pursuits."

Li Shimin nodded thoughtfully, and said, "Continue."

Chen Jingke said: "Once the Arabs conquer a certain power and country, they will destroy its writing, language, and even history and culture, and force everyone to convert to Islam and assimilate it ideologically."

"It won't take many years for this country to completely disappear and become part of Arabia..."

"The best thing that my Chinese civilization has done in this regard is Emperor Shihuang, who unified the weights and measures of the book, the text and the cart, and brought the seven kingdoms back into one."

"The former Han Dynasty did very poorly. When resettling the Huns, they naively preserved their tribal customs. As a result, the Huns were still the Huns after hundreds of years, which later caused the disaster of Yongjia."

Li Shimin's face became very unnatural, even a little angry.

In the fourth year of Zhenguan, the Eastern Turks were attached, and the courtiers all suggested that they be moved to Henan, scattered and resettled in the residential areas of the Han people for Sinicization.

However, Wen Yanbo put forward different opinions. He advocated adopting the practice of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to resettle the Huns, and resettled the Turks in Shuofang to preserve their tribes and customs.

Li Shimin also felt that the Han Dynasty's approach was very good, so he adopted his suggestion.

Seeing that the emperor had agreed, the other courtiers stopped talking. Only Wei Zheng strongly opposed it, arguing with Wen Yanbo about this matter for several years.

Until now, he has been brooding and has a lot of opinions on Wen Yanbo.

Li Shimin originally thought that Wei Zheng was a bit troublesome, and you raised your opinions every day about the successful practices of the Han Dynasty. Do you understand what it means to learn from history?
But now after listening to Chen Jingke's analysis, especially when he thought of the old incident of the Yongjia Rebellion caused by Liu Yuan, the Hun, he suddenly felt as uncomfortable as eating a fly.

In fact, Chen Jingke said this on purpose, he was quite speechless about the "naivety" of Li Shimin and Wen Yanbo.

But Li Shimin is the emperor after all, so I can't give him any face, so I changed the subject:

"Let's go back to our Tang Dynasty. How many of the more than 3000 million people know the Chinese civilization? How many people know the history of the Chinese civilization?"

"People don't even know who they are, so how can they know who to fight for? The result is that whoever gives them food, they will be obedient citizens."

"What about ancestors, righteousness, etc., how can they know if they haven't learned it?"

"Even if it's our soldiers, what are they serving as soldiers? For food, for military merit, is there anything else besides that?"

"At least we have to tell the people that they are descendants of the Chinese descendants of Yan and Huang, and let them know what our ancestors did, so as to gain a unified sense of identity."

"In this way, when alien races call, they will not surrender just for a bite of food, but rise up to resist."

"Your Majesty has the world in mind and intends to create a great empire that has never been seen before, so he must also complete ideological unity and twist everyone into a single rope."

"If the people in the country don't agree with each other, they hold the idea that he is a Turk, he is a Tuyuhun, and he is a party member."

"To be disrespectful, once the situation changes, they will immediately become the source of disaster. Therefore, it is necessary for us to create a unified sense of civilization identity and turn everyone into Han Chinese and Tang Chinese."

(End of this chapter)