Sweep the World

When a nation falls into the abyss, the moment it rises up again is most likely to cause a nation's awakening.

However, to be able to produce a national awakening and become stronger again, it is necessary to have the most basic foundation, that is, to have a culture with its own national characteristics.

Every nation has its own culture, but the culture is also divided into different levels.

"As far as the minister knows, there is a civilization in the West called Greece, which is the strongest country of Europa?" Huan Wen knew that Greece is not uncommon, and he even did a very detailed understanding: "It is rumored that all Western civilizations originated from Greece."

Of course Liu Yan also knows Greece, but he doesn't know how much he knows.

As Huan Win said, Greece is indeed the cradle of Western civilization. It can even be said that Greek civilization is still the highest level of existence in the West. The difference is that the Greeks have fallen, and the Romans have used Greeks for generations. The level of civilization created is at its peak.

The Greeks have made remarkable achievements in many aspects. Seriously, they studied astronomy more than a thousand years earlier than Zhu Xia, and they also gave birth to thinkers and philosophers earlier.

As for whether the Greek civilization or the Zhuxia civilization created characters earlier, it is really a bit hard to say, there are too many places to argue.

"There is another civilization, called Egypt." Huan Wen has ignored a group of colleagues who have become more and more smelly of gunpowder: "It is said that it existed more than five thousand years ago, and it was glorious for thousands of years, and was finally conquered by the Daqin people."

There is a view in the historian that ancient Egypt had created characters as early as five thousand years BC, so regardless of whether the historian admits that there was a Xia dynasty in Zhu Xia or not, the first nation in the world to possess characters was Egypt. .

Huan Wen began to talk about rumors that he didn't know if they were true, and found that Liu Yan listened very attentively and spoke very vigorously.

Liu Yan was really listening, he wanted to know the difference between what Huan Wen said and his own understanding.

Upon hearing it, there are really many different places, such as missing some achievements of Mesopotamian civilization, or simply the achievements of some civilizations being transferred to another civilization.

The so-called Mesopotamian civilization is the civilization created by the Euphrates and Tigris rivers. The most brilliant is the civilization created by the Sumerians.

The Sumerian civilization made amazing achievements around 3,200 BC. Later archaeologists discovered that when most peoples were in the primitive stage, they had thirty-nine "world's best". The results.

Liu Yan waited for Huan Wen to stop and asked: "Has Yuanzi ever heard of a civilization called Babylon?"

"This is the western part of Persia today, the one that was subjugated to the country and clan a long time ago?" Huan Wen really knew it, and said with a relatively uncertain attitude: "The minister heard that the Babylonian Empire was very powerful and created the Hanging Garden, but the Hanging Garden was destroyed. In the hands of a country called Assyria?"

Liu Yan was a little surprised by Huan Wen's knowledge.

"I heard that they (Babylonians) also built a building called Tongtian Tower." Since Huan Wen was curious about Babylon, it became normal to know the Tongtian Tower: "They want to build a tower that can reach the sky. I heard that there is no After it was built, it was destroyed by the flood."

Huan Wen's understanding of Babylon is that a civilization that has developed to a very high level of architecture would never create a sky garden, and at the same time, he did not have the confidence to build a tower that could reach the sky.

"The Babylonians did not annihilate their tribe, and the Iraqis consider themselves to be descendants of Babylon." Liu Yan thought of Lao Sa, a man who constantly vowed to return to the height of Babylonian civilization: "They became members of the Persian rule first. It was once again ruled by the Daqin people. Now it is seeking independence among the people."

"The minister thought that if there were no accidents, Greece, Iraq, and Egypt would once again stand alone." Seeing Liu Yan waiting for an explanation, Huan Wen said: "Their ancestors all have creative words, and words carry thoughts (cultures). ). A nation with its own past and inheritance, even if it is a temporary decline, as long as there are people who have not forgotten it, it must be able to rejuvenate again."

Liu Yan admits this, but there is a prerequisite key, that is, that nation must first have unforgotten heroes, and then thinkers.

The hero of a nation is an encouragement to boost the courage of future generations.

The more important thing is how many thinkers a nation has born. If more thinkers are born in a nation, then the culture will inevitably become richer and richer with the increase of thinkers, and the traces will be more difficult to erase.

With core values, ideas are basically shaped, and then it depends on how many heroes this nation has, and what deeds those heroes are considered heroes.

Fighting against the invasion of foreign races, doing something that is considered extremely meaningful, someone becomes a national hero. Usually, when there are more such heroes, it will be a conservative nation.

If you continue to expand outward, and the heroes who command the army to destroy the country and the clan continue to appear, the nation will tend to be offensive.

The only thing that can be confirmed is that the nation that can give birth to heroes is qualified to stand among the nations of the world. The more they respect their heroes, the higher the centripetal force of the nation.

Similarly, once a certain nation no longer respects its heroes one day? No matter how strong this nation was at the time, as long as it encounters a challenge, even if the challenger is weaker than its own, the challenger can also win and pee on the head of the nation that does not respect its hero.

It is always said that there must be evil spirits when the country is about to die. Generally, it refers to a person who can turn the tide and is repeatedly made trouble by the so-called "owner" and even killed. This is the best manifestation of disrespect for our heroes. Many Central Plains dynasties actually perished in this way.

If Liu Yan did not appear, the Central Plains would have become a Hulu playground for as long as 265 years.

The time of fall is too long. Even if the Han people have had any glory, with the long-term humiliation and suppression, generation after generation may be used to becoming second-class... and even a few trillions, even if they know themselves. The ancestors were once so glorious, not how honored they felt, but how glorious their ancestors were, they would have equal resentment.

From the chaos of China to the fall of the Central Plains several times, if you look up the history books, you will find that those people north of the Yangtze River are becoming more and more accustomed to being ruled by foreign races. They are also willing to serve the foreign races. It's far more cruel and cruel to think of his own race than the foreign race.

In fact, once ruled by a foreign race, those who have accepted the status quo will not regard the southerners as their own people. Whether it is to draw a line or to please their masters, they will no longer regard the southerners as the same race.

Under normal circumstances, those people in the enemy-occupied area are the shame and humiliation they have encountered in the north. If the shame and humiliation are counted on those in the south, it is probably "I am so unfortunate. Do you still want to have a better life?" Such a manifestation.

In the matter of culture, there is actually a distinction no matter when and where. The north of the Yangtze River has its own distinctive cultural characteristics, and the south of the Yangtze River also has characteristics that are very easy to distinguish.

Take a look at the poems and works handed down in history. The north must be dominated by gold, iron horses and heroic, while the south is dominated by scenery and humanity.

This is of course related to the living environment. The North has been under the threat of aliens for a long time, but the South can only participate in the national war when it is time for the country to be subjugated.

However, don't think that the Southern folk customs are really weak. In fact, you have to say where the resistance is the most resolute in repeated foreign aggressions. Looking up the history books, you can find that the Southerners are relatively weak in the war, but in fact they are not at all afraid.

The South is not without talents, but compared to the North, the factors of the geographical environment and social environment will make the South have a lower chance of appearing talents.

The small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty was under pressure from the north for a long time. Although the so-called elites were largely rotten, there were still some people destined to shine.

There are many famous generals in the Han Empire, and Huan Wen and Xie An are two of the famous generals in land warfare. If you count the navy, the number will be more, and the representative figures are Li Mai and Wang Kan.

Liu Yan has always believed that human growth is related to the environment. It is not that a person's fate has been determined from the moment he is born. Only animals come out of the womb. There is no change in the trajectory of fate.

Carnivores always only eat meat, herbivores only eat plants, and omnivores eat everything, but they will never wonder why they don’t wear a piece of clothing.

As a human being who possesses wisdom and can rely on learning, what kind of destiny he has is only related to how much knowledge he has, or there is a saying called "knowledge changes destiny"?

The current intellectuals are generally called scholars.

The reason for using the term "scholars" is that, to put it bluntly, there is no certain asset, or even if it is able to have the opportunity to learn knowledge, there is not enough wealth to support it, and it is simply a luxury to want to learn knowledge.

The stratum of the "gentlemen" is the "gentlemen". In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the nobles had another name called nobles. No matter how poor the nobles were, they would definitely be richer than ordinary people.

Liu Yan is not surprised by Huan Wen's initiative to understand the world.

Huan Wen was the one who commanded the army for thousands of miles to destroy the country. Among the generals, he went the farthest, and he was exposed to more new things than others. If he hadn't been curious about the outside world, Liu Yan would have doubted whether he was going to embark on a journey to conquer the world island.

"Yuanzi." Liu Yan kept walking around. The ministers beside him were Huan Wen and Xie An, and the rest stayed there to continue watching the excitement. He walked to the periphery and asked, "I ask you, I found that there are so many countries besides the big man, do you have any ideas?"

"The minister naturally has ideas." Huan Wen's eyes were full of ideals at this moment: "The world is far beyond the imagination of the minister. The minister knows that this is the true face of'Tianxia', and he was so drunk that night."

Xie An interjected: "The minister is like Yuanzi, he got drunk after knowing it."

Even if they didn't say the latter words, Liu Yan probably understood it.

"You are open, but some people are afraid." Liu Yan is talking about people who don't want to see the country fight at every turn. Facing the unusually lively square, he stretched out his hand to catch the snow falling from the sky, glanced at the children surrounding him, and said slowly: "Since the ninth year of Yuanshuo, foreign nations have come from thousands of miles away. , But some people live in their own world forever and don’t want to open their eyes to see the world."

Huan Wen and Xie An must be able to understand what Liu Yan is expressing.

Take a look at the so-called scholars in the square who debate fiercely.

Listen to what those scholars are talking about, at least nine out of ten people say "someone said" at every turn.

Of the nine people who have been talking about "someone who said", at least five of them don’t even know what the "yue" is, and they know to use the "yue" of a certain sage according to the routine. Refute the "saying" of the other sage.

"Haha." Huan Wen didn't like those so-called scholars who studied hard, and said: "In the opinion of the ministers, most of them have become useless. They are literate soldiers in the army, and they are more malleable than them."

This is what Liu Yan is depressed!

Those so-called elites are not as good as the soldiers in the military assault training?

The elites of a nation don't know anything except being a repeater, and they don't even have the ability to do it themselves? Such a nation is glorious for a while. How brilliant it is, it will encounter equivalent tragedies, and when it comes to resistance, those so-called elites will only bury their heads in the ground and push their butts high.

Without the slightest exaggeration, Liu Yan has discovered that the current real situation is similar to what period in history, it is probably the same as the late Northern Song Dynasty, the late Southern Song Dynasty, and the late Ming Dynasty. The group of people considered to be elites, most of them except It’s so drunk, dreaming, and being a repeater~www.wuxiaspot.com~ I can’t do anything too far.

"At least I still have some hope." Liu Yan was talking about lieutenant soldiers: "They can't write poems and prose, they only know the daily words, but at least they don't have a head full of ‘yes’."

Huan Wen and Xie An looked at each other quietly, and after they looked at each other, they had their own ideas.

"I mentioned the imperial examination..." Liu Yan is no longer talking to him. It is easier to follow up his thoughts by speaking out: "So what does the imperial examination test? Examination of the four books and five classics is a cycle of history. Don't examine the four books and five classics, let them What to answer."

Both Huan Wen and Xie An were more acquainted, but they followed silently without talking.

"If you don't take the Four Books and Five Classics, you can take the test of Wujing and Mathematics, you can imagine that those scholars should be crazy." Liu Yan suddenly stopped, facing the two behind him, and asked: "Will it be appropriate to ask questions, study things, mathematics, and geography? ?"

Huan Wen saluted and responded: "You are the Nine-Five Supreme."

Xie An hesitated. He knew that if he did that, he would abandon the people of at least one era. If he did that, something would happen!