Yipin Tang

Chapter 184

"Your Majesty, I want to set up a school of all nations."

Li Er was talking with Empress Changsun in the Lizheng Hall. Hearing Wang Xiang's words, he asked curiously, "Wan Guo Xue Tang? What do you want to do?"

Empress Changsun was leaning on the bed, holding a new novel from Linglong Bookstore in her hand, and she seemed curious when she put down the book.

Wang Xiang thought about it for a while and said, "Your Majesty, do you still remember the Fusang envoy?"

"Fusang envoy?" Li Er frowned and thought for a moment, "Is it that..."

Seeing his appearance, he probably couldn't remember, Wang Xiang said quickly: "Matsudaira Ichiro."

"It seems to be such a name, why, what does this Wan Guo Academy have to do with him?"

Wang Xiang smiled wryly and said, "Did Matsudaira Ichiro ever mention to His Majesty that he wants to send people to study at Gewuyuan?"

After he reminded Li Er, he also remembered a little bit, nodded and said: "It seems that there is such a thing, I remember to ask him to find you, you can do it as you see fit."

Li Er, a remote and small country like Fusang, really didn't take it to heart. Not to mention that compared with powerful foreign countries like Turks and Tubo, I'm afraid even Gaochang and Yanqi are far inferior. There are countless foreign missions who come to Tang Dynasty every year. I have a little impression of Matsudaira Ichiro because the ancient knife he presented at the birthday banquet gave a little limelight.

Seeing Li Er's indifferent expression, Wang Xiang shook his head and said, "I didn't promise him."

"Why? Could it be that the Fusang envoy offended you?"

Damn, can you stop making me think so badly, Wang Xiang looked depressed.

Seeing Wang Xiang's depressed look, Empress Changsun pursed her lips and said with a smile, "Zixin is afraid that they will learn the knowledge of Gewu Academy?"

"The empress is wise!"

Wang Xiang just pretended not to see Li Er's unfriendly gaze, and continued: "That Ichiro Matsudaira has pestered me many times, and I think it's not a problem to keep rejecting him like this. On the contrary, it makes people think that there is no such thing as a state in Tang Dynasty." tolerance."

Li Er casually said: "Then let him send a few people to study in Gewu Academy."

"no!"

"Ok?"

Wang Xiang quickly explained: "Your Majesty, think about it, what is taught in the Gewu Academy is not those poems and classics, but the knowledge of a rich country and a strong people. If you let them learn it, it will be a threat to the tiger."

I thought Li Er would be alert when he heard this, but he laughed loudly: "A remote place, a small country, Zixin overestimates them, even if they learn the knowledge of our Tang Dynasty, it is hard to pay back." Can it be stronger than my Tang Dynasty?" This is the self-confidence of being a great country for thousands of years.

Empress Changsun also smiled, she heard the meaning of Wang Xiang's words, his Gewuxue is the knowledge of making the country rich and the people strong, not poetry and classics, if the world's literati find out, they might drown him with their saliva .

Seeing that Li Er and Empress Changsun didn't seem to take his words to heart, Wang Xiang secretly sighed and said with a serious face: "I'm not joking."

"Perhaps in His Majesty's eyes, a place like Fusang is a barbaric place, a tiny country, but a poisonous snake can kill a person even though it is small. Do you still remember Tianleizi, Your Majesty?"

Hearing the smile on Tianleizi Li Er's face, the smile suddenly subsided, and the murderous spirit burst forth.

"It's useless for Your Majesty to stare at me. I won't reveal the method of making Tianleizi. However, after mastering Gewuxue, others will find out the method of making Tianleizi sooner or later. That's why I don't want them to send people to Gewuyuan Learn."

Tianleizi can be said to be Li Er's biggest trump card now. There are only three people in the entire Tang Dynasty who know how to make Tianleizi. One is Li Er himself, the other is Wang Xiang who invented it, and the third is Yuan who is in charge of making it. Tiangang, even Empress Changsun didn't know about it, which shows how cautious and important Li Er is to it.

"Are you saying that other people can figure out how to make Tianleizi?" Li Er finally realized the seriousness of the matter. The Tang Dynasty has a vast territory and strong soldiers. The swords, horses and arrows are not afraid of those small barbarian countries, but If those barbarian small countries mastered Tianleizi, it would be like Wang Xiang said that although the poisonous snake is small, it can kill people. He has seen the power of Tianleizi with his own eyes. The cavalry is a testament to the power of this thing.

Wang Xiang nodded and said: "All the knowledge in the world can be explored, but the length of time and the difficulty are different."

Seeing Li Er's face was ugly, Wang Xiang quickly said: "Your Majesty, there is no need to worry too much. If you don't have the formula, if you want to find out the method of making Tianleizi by yourself, you will not be able to succeed in hundreds of years. Datang is the first to have gunpowder. The advantages."

"It takes hundreds of years to achieve success?" Li Er's face finally looked a little better, but he also had some doubts about Wang Xiang's words.

Wang Xiang smiled and said: "Flowers, plants, trees, gold, silver, copper, iron, cloud, cement and stone... There are so many great things in the world. If there is no formula, it will take many years to find the right materials. As for each material It is even more difficult to match the geometry of each requirement, and it may not be successful for hundreds of years."

He remembered that gunpowder was not spread to Arabia until the Mongolian large-scale foreign expedition during the Yuan Dynasty, and then spread to Europe through Arabia, that is to say, no other country developed gunpowder until the Yuan Dynasty, and it was finally passed on by the Yuan Dynasty, so he did this affim.

After listening to Wang Xiang's words, Li Er really realized how amazing Tianleizi is. He looked at Wang Xiang suspiciously, and you have easily found something that has been difficult to figure out for hundreds of years?

Li Er's gaze made Wang Xiang feel a little uncomfortable, and continued with a dry cough: "Actually, the production of Tianleizi also belongs to Gewuxue, so I don't let Fanbang envoys enter Gewuyuan to study."

"Well, you handled this matter well." Li Er pondered for a moment and said, "Tianleizi's matter is of great importance. Not only that, my knowledge of the Tang Dynasty cannot be learned by those barbarians from other countries. I will issue an order to lock it down." Frontiers, sea areas, foreign envoys are not allowed to stay in the Tang Dynasty."

Damn, is this the rhythm of seclusion?Wang Xiang was stunned for a moment, it seemed that he had overkill.

In fact, based on the knowledge of later generations that Wang Xiang possesses, it is not harmful to Datang even to close the country. He does not think that there is anything worth learning and communicating with other countries in other countries now or in the next few hundred years.However, once the closed door is closed, it will not be easy to untie it. Now or hundreds of years later, the Tang Dynasty will still be far ahead, but the lack of communication with the world will sooner or later lag behind. This point has been bloody in the history of later generations Lessons.

Wang Xiang didn't want to be the instigator of the closed-door policy, so he quickly told Li Er the key points, and Li Er hesitated to give up the plan to close the country.

Li Er glanced at him, and said angrily, "What is the name of the Wan Guo Academy?" After talking so much, I still don't know what the Wan Guo Academy is for...

Wang Xiang chuckled, "It's a special place for Envoys from Fanbang to learn about our Great Tang knowledge."

Looking at Wang Xiang's smiley face, Li Erzhen wanted to slap it up, let's say that for a long time, he did not dare to let Fan Bang envoys stay in Datang, but you can get a Wan Guo academy for them to learn?Are you kidding me!
Wang Xiang saw the veins on Li Er's forehead exposed and did not dare to play tricks and quickly explained: "Of course the Wan Guo Academy will not teach them Gewu."

"Could it be possible to teach them poetry and scriptures?"

Wang Xiang shook his head, pretending to be serious, and said: "The most important thing to avoid impatience is to study knowledge. You must proceed step by step. I plan to teach them the way of self-cultivation and self-cultivation."

"what is that?"

"Buddhism."

(End of this chapter)