sweeping the world

Chapter 812 Living God
If you don't want to destroy a nation physically, the best way is to destroy their culture, and at the same time make their original language disappear.

The language of each nation has its own characteristics. Even if there are no words, some words or slang must have related background stories and allusions. Any story or allusion is actually the history of a nation. I have not forgotten these , the culture of the nation will be preserved.

There are many ethnic groups that have been eliminated culturally and linguistically in the world. Their genes still retain the genes of their ancestors, but no matter in terms of values, ideas or ways of doing things, they have no connection with their own ethnic groups. The integrated nation still has descendants, but the problem is that it will be no different from disappearing.

The number of ethnic groups destroyed and integrated by the Yanhuang clan is terrifying, otherwise they would not have opened up such a large living space. It is not that there are no people in those areas, but that the people who once lived in that land were either eliminated or integrated.

The earth is actually that big, and there are too many types of non-livable resources. Even renewable resources need land. If a nation wants to have more living space, it is squeezing the living space of other nations. It is a life-and-death competition , Failure is to withdraw from the stage of the forest of nations in the world.

Liu Yan is someone who has experienced modern information warfare...or cultural warfare.In the era he lived in, the Zhuxia culture was not much different from being wiped out. People's values, thoughts, and ways of doing things had actually been fully Westernized.But that is also a helpless thing, who let Zhu Xia gradually fall behind in the long process of competition, and if he doesn't want to be completely left behind, he naturally has to learn from others, that is, he learns everything regardless of the essence and the dross, and even absorbs a little bit of the dross.

Thanks for that debate, whether Zhu Xia should also adapt to globalization to abandon square characters and use Latin letters.Their persistence kept Chinese characters from being abandoned, and at least some of Zhuxia's culture was preserved. Otherwise, even if some history was preserved, it is not known whether the original meaning can be passed on after the characters are completely changed.

"For a very long period of time, we have been exporting culture." Liu Yan is talking about the contribution of Confucianism, but it must be that the Central Plains Dynasty has been reborn repeatedly and can still be strong: "For a long time, we The Chinese language has always been the unique language in East Asia. Any country or race that wants to get in touch with civilization can only learn our language. After learning our language, their thoughts are also affected, but sometimes it is unavoidable that "South Orange and North Orange" ' Deviation."

In the Zhuxia cultural circle, the peninsula is actually the most successful group to be domesticated to a large extent. As a thousand-year-old peninsula, almost everything is in line with the Central Plains dynasty, and it is also a relatively docile group among many vassal states; the same is as a vassal state On the Jiaozhi side, after they became independent from the Central Plains Dynasty, they have added obstacles to the Central Plains Dynasty for a long time, but they did not cause too much harm; the Wa Lie Islands were actually quite docile and even humble for a long time. to a little too much.

Whether it is the peninsula, Jiaozhi, or the Japanese Islands, as long as the Central Plains Dynasty is strong, they will be well-behaved. Their daring to jump is the weakening of the Central Plains Dynasty, which fully proves that any friendship is false. Only by staying strong forever can they stand firm.

Sang Yu thought Liu Yan was talking about the fact that the Japanese paid tribute successively, glanced at the kneeling Japanese, and said: "The first time the Japanese paid tribute to the Central Plains was in the second year of Jingchu, Emperor Ming of Wei (AD [-]). king."

"Cao Rui?" Liu Yan looked at the group of Japanese nobles who were kneeling on the ground. Their clothes had obvious characteristics of the Han Empire, but some details were modified: "I thought it was Wei Wendi Cao Pi."

There are so many specious jokes in later generations that it is difficult for non-experts to tell whether it is true or false.

Liu Yan seems to remember reading an article I don’t know if it’s a joke. It said that Cao Pi was in power for the first time when Yamatai paid tribute to the Central Plains. Cao Pi gave gifts to the envoys of Yamatai when the Central Plains had entered the Iron Age. The time is rather strange, that is, the three artifacts that are widely rumored by the Japanese, the Tiancongyun Sword (the Kusanagi Sword), the Bachi Qiong Gouyu, and the Yata Mirror.

Regardless of whether it is called the Amadai Cloud Sword or the Kusanagi Sword, it is a bronze sword anyway, and it was given to Himiko, the queen of Yamatai at that time.

Giving jade to the Japanese is a kinder thing, after all Zhu Xia has valued jade since ancient times.

The mirror is a bronze mirror. It is rumored that a mirror will be added as a special gift, either because the king of Yamatai is a woman, or because the makeup of the Japanese people at that time was too ugly.

Now there is no evil horse stage left, as for how to destroy and by whom, Zhu Xia doesn't care.Another point is that the modern Japanese refuse to admit that they are a continuation of the country or nation of Yamatai, and their refusal is quite reasonable. The ancestors of the modern Japanese are the Yamato people who are now entrenched in the main island of the Japanese Islands near Shikoku Island. It would be as absurd for them to admit that they continued in Yamatai, which would be as absurd as asking modern Han people to admit that they were descendants of the Qiang, Di, and Jie races during the Five Husbands of China. (Solemnly declare that the modern Qiang and Di people are not the same as those in ancient times.)
Liu Yan admits that some jokes are still valid, and it is difficult for him to admit that the makeup of the Japanese is good-looking.

The Japanese aristocrats at the scene painted similar makeup, with white rouge all over their faces, blush on both cheeks, and women would put a narrow lipstick on their lips.Their makeup looks have a lot of origins. If we go back in time, until the ancient pre-Qin period and even the pre-Han period, the above-mentioned makeup looks were exclusive to the court, and the folks can only wear such makeup on special wedding days. To put it bluntly, it is A lost culture of Zhu Xia.

It is very unpleasant but it must be admitted that the culture of Zhu Xia has been lost too much, while the surrounding ethnic groups that have absorbed the culture of Zhu Xia have preserved it intact.

There is a saying that if you want to see a smaller version of Li Tang Chang'an, you can go to the ancient city of Tokyo; if you want to see the drumming culture that was lost after the two Song Dynasties, you can go to Vietnam to see the drumming team; the Japanese karate and stick taekwondo are all special Are they inherited or improved from the Tang Dynasty? More than these, mentioning one item after another can almost write an encyclopedia.

"The Japanese nobles have been following us closely." Yu Yi was talking about the makeup of the Japanese: "They went to Jiankang many times for pilgrimage, and the envoys looked like this."

By the way, the current Zhuxia land actually retains the same makeup, even Wuhuluanhua has not been able to completely "extinct", but now very few people will wear such makeup, and they will no longer wear it during the wedding period Yes, only some official prostitutes can draw when welcoming guests.This kind of makeup will have variations in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The court has improved it, but the folks are only painted by some flamboyant men, but they are used in weddings.

When Liu Yan arrived, he originally thought that he would see every Japanese nobleman holding a fan, but he was thinking too much. At present, there is no shadow in the two Song Dynasties. Without the invention of the round fan by the Song people, it would not have spread to the Japanese Islands. Naturally, the Japanese did not improve folding fans, and the culture of Japanese nobles holding a fan naturally did not take shape.

There is another point, Liu Yan obviously found that the kimono worn by the nobles of the Japanese people is not the kimono of later generations, but the style worn by some priests of the Onmyodo.If he had studied history, he would have discovered that the uniforms worn by the priests of the Yin-Yang Dao were basically official uniforms of the Zhuxia Continent during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods.

It must be explained that the Japanese did not call the service they wore kimono at the beginning. They actually called it Hanfu. Master, Japanese people are unwilling to call their traditional service Hanfu, so they gave it a name of kimono.

What's more, the rich and powerful of the Japanese people didn't call themselves Japanese or Yamato people for a long time. They actually thought that they were a Han Chinese, even if they used radicals to create flat words. Kana and katakana are still called Chinese characters. Waiting until the Southern Song Dynasty, Japanese people gradually called themselves Yamato people. The fundamental reason is that they are no longer a vassal state of the Central Plains Dynasty (Southern Song Dynasty), and the two have equal diplomatic status.

Liu Yan would not follow the arrangement of the Japanese. He walked over and saw rows of Japanese nobles kneeling on the ground with their buttocks raised high, but they did not follow the arrangement at all and walked up to the high platform at the prescribed time.

The high platform is still the style of Zhuxia. Liu Yan already knew from Wang Ji that the Japanese were very careful in building the platform, and all the specifications and styles were the emperor's model. He repeatedly begged Wang Ji to let Liu Yan go to the high platform to accept the Japanese's kneeling.

Liu Yan didn't even get the Japanese kneeling on the ground to stand up, not to say that he was deliberately insulting or something, as the emperor of the Han Dynasty, he hadn't lost his status to this point, but he completely ignored it.

"What is this?" Liu Yan stopped halfway, pointing at the things placed on the table, three things were covered by red silk, he lifted one of them: "Bronze sword?"

Wang Ji was appointed governor of the Uriel Islands.What he needs to do is to supervise the mining of gold and silver mines everywhere, and even be responsible for the collection of sulfur and saltpeter. In addition, he is to deter those countries in the Wa Islands, because the Han Kingdom is indeed too powerful, and his governor seems to be Those countries are too king.

"Your Majesty, this sword is the sword that Emperor Wei Ming gave to Xima Tai." Wang Ji awkwardly picked up the sword from the stand with both hands, not afraid that the sword would be cut without the scabbard, and presented it to Liu Yan: "This sword was lost and found several times, and is now owned by Yamato."

The so-called Yamato country is now a very small country, but the ambition of this small country has been unusual since the moment it was born.If the history has not changed, they have indeed managed to unify the whole island and govern the Wa country into a strong state. At its peak, it occupied more than half of East Asia, and even the Pacific Ocean was once their inland sea.

It was a well-maintained bronze sword. From the engravings, you can see the strong traces of Zhu Xia. The blade of the sword is also sharp, and when you look closely at the blade, you can even reflect a human face.

It's just a bronze sword. Liu Yan didn't have any plans to use it. The meaning of its existence is that there was a time when the emperor from the Central Plains dynasty conferred on a certain Waman, leaving a record of pro-Wei Wawang in history. .

For Liu Yan, even if he has a hobby of collecting ancient swords, it is really meaningful to find the swords of great emperors or famous generals in history. Cong Yunjian is almost indistinguishable from a piece of broken copper.

The Japanese were able to use the three "artifacts" bestowed by Emperor Wei Ming Cao Rui on such occasions. They took out the three "artifacts" to express a meaning, probably "Son of Heaven, we have always been our own people. ", and the extension may be "The concubine's body has been stripped and washed, and the honey has been wiped off, so let's get lucky with the concubine's body" and the like.

Only then did Liu Yan seem to remember that the Japanese had already knelt for a long time, so he gave Cui Zong some instructions, and soon a person who specially sang the ceremony shouted: "Everyone is flattened."

There is no emperor's oral edict, no emperor's edict, let alone the emperor's order, it depends on the occasion and the object, and the set of "mouth containing the constitution of heaven" will only appear in novels.

First the Japanese nobles stood up, and after the last Japanese noble, the rest of the Japanese who had been observing got up one after another.

"The Japanese attach great importance to class." Although Wang Ji has only been the governor of the Japanese islands for two years, he must conduct research on the Japanese: "Their civilians consciously respect class dignity."

The Japanese Islands are actually in the era of slavery. They respect the class system not by persuading them with good words, but by killing people at every turn to force them to obey.For example, in Zhu Xia, even the nobles could not execute slaves at will, but the nobles on the Wu Lie Islands could execute anyone below the nobles as long as they wanted to. This is to use blood to prove the solemnity of the class.

Don't expect Liu Yan to have a cordial conversation with those so-called kings or nobles, even the dialogue will not happen.After he inspected it, he felt that he had enough before he walked to the high platform, and walked up the stairs to the top platform. When he stood up, all the Japanese people on the scene fell down like cutting wheat.

"King Wen is above, Yu Zhao is in heaven. Although Zhou is an old state, its order is renewed. There is a week that does not appear, and the emperor's order is not from time to time. Wen Wang's descent, at the emperor's side..."

Good guy, Liu Yan is still thinking about what he should do, and the Japanese are singing "The Book of Songs. Daya. King Wen" again.

This is a flattering poem. The author is Zhou Gongdan, and it is specially used to sing the praises of Zhou Wen Wang Jichang. After it was created, it will be sung on some special occasions. Of course, the intention is also to flatter.

After the song "The Book of Songs. Daya. King Wen" was sung, the Japanese chanted some words neatly, bowing down again and again.

"Your Majesty." Wang Ji understood some Japanese and translated, "They think you are a god."

Liu Yan at this moment: "..."

(End of this chapter)