571. Secrecy Decree
In ancient times, there was a merchant martingale standing wood for the letter, and now there is Li Er's book for the letter.
No matter how long it has been, whenever Suning thinks of the scene outside the main square of Suzaku Gate at that moment, he can't help but cry with excitement, and almost incontinent......
Once upon a time, reading and literacy was the exclusive right of the children of the family, and the common people didn't even think about it, a small number of poor scholars got the opportunity to read and write because of fate and became readers, that is how many people can't dream of things, reading needs books, and more needs teacher education, but there are fewer readers, more to be officials, how can there be time to be a teacher? Famous teachers are all from families, and if they want to teach, they also teach the children of the family, where can they get the common people?
Educational resources are monopolized, only the children of the family and the children of the eunuchs can get the opportunity to read and write, the vast number of people among the literacy and reading of the ten thousand, the original determination to educate the people to make the people good, the Confucian school lost its original ideals, and instead followed Dong Zhongshu's Confucian hegemony to advance rapidly, quickly turning the lowly class scholars of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period into the highest state controllers.
But this group of state controllers have been cut off from their own way, and after they have raised themselves to several levels, they have blocked the way for the lower classes of people to go up, the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, is the heyday of the family, but it is the decline of the Han nation and the central dynasty, it is imperative to do it, and it is a historical choice.
Political crackdowns and military eradication are not enough to completely eliminate the power of the family, only by breaking the monopoly culturally and spreading the culture all over the world, can the family be completely thrown into the bottomless abyss. In less than ten years, the Tang Dynasty will no longer need the existence of these families who have mastered cultural hegemony, and will no longer have to compromise with them and empower them.
The war of extermination of the clan, which originally relied on the warlords of the late Tang Dynasty and the development of science and technology in the Song Dynasty, was completed in the early years of the Tang Dynasty in the seventh century AD. Forever remembered by posterity.
A whole hundred carts. Fifty carts loaded with paper, fifty carts loaded with books, one cart with about 500 books, and fifty carts with 25,000 books. Mainly Confucian classics. There are also history books and a few other books. Books such as military books and scientific and technical books are considered state secrets, not allowed to be worn outside, and can only be obtained and studied by people in national schools. Not for sale.
And there is another point, these books are absolutely not sold to foreigners, only the Tang Han people can get these books, and no foreigner can get these books for sale, and the official book sales agency will not allow foreigners to obtain these books, not to mention the core technology of papermaking and movable type printing, which is the highest level secret of the Tang Dynasty, and the technical drawings are personally mastered by Li Erma.
The Tang people also forget it, let the foreigners also get these, it will make them also gain the civilization power comparable to the Tang Dynasty in a short period of time, the nomads don't care about these, and they don't understand the Chinese characters and Chinese of the Tang Dynasty, but some countries that have established political power, such as Goguryeo and Silla in the northeast, and even the Wa Kingdom, let them get these, it is a disaster, because they all use Chinese characters and speak Chinese, before Li Ermajesty Xià didn't care, but after being fiercely opposed by Suning, Li Ermaxi began to pay attention to the technology that he had not paid much attention to before.
For example, the technology that the children of the Mo family dedicated to Datang, how many changes they brought to Datang, and how much they paid for Datang's reform, Li Ermajesty couldn't be clearer, with these technologies, Datang can succeed in the shortest possible time, and if those who follow Datang's footsteps wholeheartedly get it for free, it is really not cost-effective, and those countries will be eliminated in the future!
Especially the land of Goguryeo Silla, which was the last step towards the unification of the four seas! The former Han Dynasty, the land of China!
Li Erma's decree then formulated a secrecy decree, mainly aimed at foreigners, but because there was no reason to promulgate it, rashly promulgating these decrees would make foreigners feel uneasy and unhappy, affect the country's diplomatic relations, and also affect his status as the co-lord of the world, which made it difficult for Li Erma, who loves face, to make a choice, but at this juncture, Suning's Dao Honglu Temple report, during the Tang plague, a total of seventeen flying pigeon transmission and secret exchanges were discovered, The people involved accounted for one-third of all foreign diplomats in Honglu Temple.
The Tang Dynasty is in the plague, and they deliver a message to their own country, what is this going to do? The spies of the Zongheng Division arrested all these people, and then tortured them severely, and finally tortured their "disobedient hearts", this is a reason, no matter what the real situation is, only one reason is needed, a reason to prompt the Tang Dynasty to issue sanctions in a dignified manner, with this reason, the secrecy decree specifically for foreign races can be promulgated.
When Li Er's Majesty heard the news, he was overjoyed after being furious, and summoned the foreign diplomats who had not committed the crime overnight, rebuked them loudly, and punished those with bad intentions who had passed the news to the country without permission, ordered the beheading of the two men, and ordered the border garrisons to move to the two small countries that had committed the crime, and prepared for battle.
This move frightened many countries to write to say that they had no two hearts for the Tang Dynasty, and these two countries even wiped out the families of the beheaded diplomats to show that they had no two hearts, implored the Tang Dynasty to withdraw its troops, and promised to pay tribute.
Is it credible?
It doesn't matter, you don't believe me, I don't believe you, I just need an excuse, the secrecy decree was officially promulgated, and a large number of countries were relieved about it, but they didn't let us learn something, these are countries that have no mature regimes, and some envoys from some countries have begun to move around, including the envoys of Goguryeo and the Wa Kingdom, and the envoys of these two countries are the most active.
With a large amount of money and gifts to visit the important officials of the Tang Dynasty, of course, also visited Suning, but was mercilessly rejected by Suning, the Tang officials unexpectedly completely refused to meet with them, which made the envoys of the two countries very worried, Li Er Majesty began to pay attention to Goguryeo and the Wa Kingdom, and ordered Du Ruhui. Du Ruhui ordered a large number of blood droplets from the Zongheng Division to move northeast to intensify the penetration of Goguryeo and Silla, and at the same time sent a considerable number of personnel to closely monitor the envoys of the Japanese state, and if necessary, send spies to the east to cross the Japanese state and blend into the Japanese state.
Li Ermaxi is more concerned about Goguryeo than the Wa Kingdom, to be honest, with the national strength of the Tang Dynasty today. A small Wa country is really not a problem. Three times five divided by two, it was cleaned up, but Goguryeo, without concealment, said that he was a great power with the potential strength to compete with the Tang Dynasty for hegemony in East Asia! Goguryeo in this matter is definitely not modern North and South Korea. It is a great power that has defeated the Sui Dynasty, the overlord of the Central Plains, three times!
The Sui Dynasty marched eastward to Goguryeo. Although it severely weakened the strength of Goguryeo. But the price paid was the collapse of the dynasty, the chaos in the world, and Goguryeo got a chance to breathe. When the Tang Dynasty was founded, Goguryeo was operated as difficult to deal with as an iron bucket, and the large number of casualties paid by the Former Sui was equivalent to a waste, and with the experience of resisting the invasion of the Former Sui, some of the necessary places were built quite majestic, and the difficulty of attacking was several times that of the Former Sui.
Although Goguryeo did not dare to attack the Tang Dynasty on a large scale at this time, after the Battle of the Eastern Turks and the Battle of Lingzhou, the strength and tyranny of the Tang army deeply stimulated Goguryeo, making it very jealous of the Tang Dynasty, and the fear even exceeded that of the former Sui, so the main defensive strategy, but also the land management into a steel defense line, Goguryeo could not fight, and could not confront the Tang heavy army stationed in Youzhou, and similarly, the Tang garrison stationed in Youzhou to build Beiping City was also unable to attack Goguryeo.
Goguryeo, which was not enterprising enough, had more than enough self-preservation, and absorbed the nourishment of Han culture, was not inferior to the Tang Dynasty in the maturity of the regime and the first process of culture, so in another time and space, Li Erma's three conquests of Goguryeo were also unsuccessful, and it was not until the Gaozong era that this mission was finally completed, which can be said to be an eternal pain for Li Erma, who was invincible in his life.
Therefore, after the earth-shaking changes gradually took place in the Tang Dynasty, Goguryeo was the most worried, and sent envoys to investigate and pursue the source of the problem, but could not find the source at all, and finally found out some news about the initiator Suning from the inside, but at the most critical moment was issued a secret decree by Li Erma, in the future, the key technology and military technology related to the national economy and people's livelihood will not be allowed to be studied by foreigners, of course, if you want to learn the Confucian classics, understand etiquette, righteousness and shame, this is still possible, Mr. Kong Yingda agreed with both hands.
Naturally, they didn't know what caused the Tang Dynasty, which has always been generous, to make such a decision, first to terminate the princess's foreign marriage, so that the foreign clan lost the opportunity to become a nouveau riche, and then issued a secrecy decree, not allowing the foreign clan to learn important technologies similar to agricultural technology and industrial technology, and only to learn benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith...... What's the use of these things to put it bluntly?! Without a strong country, these things are waste!
Goguryeo was anxious, and the Wa State was not comfortable, and the former Sui Dynasty sent Sui envoys to the Central Plains several times to study science and technology and politics, and after learning something, they intended to transform the Wa State according to the model of the Tang Dynasty, making the Wa State more powerful, and this time when they were about to learn advanced iron-smelting technology and agricultural technology, when the Tang envoy was about to set off, he was stunned by the news promulgated by the Tang Dynasty.
At the same time, there is also the Tang Dynasty government research and development department papermaking and movable type printing technology to make the cost of papermaking drop sharply, so that the Tang government released a bold statement to make no one in the world illiterate, no one does not know books, such news is even more stunned Goguryeo and Japan, for the nomads and southern barbarians, these tribal countries do not even have their own writing, such news is not a big deal, but for Goguryeo and the Wa Kingdom, this is earth-shattering news.
As the suzerainty of the entire Chinese character cultural circle, the Tang Empire, for a long time, even they themselves did not have enough books to study, which made it even more difficult to find books in Goguryeo and Wa Kingdom behind the Tang Dynasty, they understood the importance of culture, so they have always been committed to this, but nothing has been obtained, and now they suddenly know that the Tang Dynasty has solved this problem, where can they not be excited? Where can you not pay attention?
I finally squeezed into the crowded Suzaku Gate book sales site, but I was told that only Datang people can buy books and paper, foreigners are not allowed, don't think that it is okay to look like a Datang person, this accent, this look, we can distinguish it, and don't expect to find a Datang person to buy it instead of you, we know where every book sold goes, before the emperor does not order you to buy books, I advise you to be honest, otherwise, Datang will not be soft!
The envoys were stunned, and at the same time sent a message to the country asking for instructions, telling them that Datang had become quite xenophobic, and that in addition to their normal life in Datang, it was almost difficult for them to get in touch with any of the deep-seated fields of Datang, and the students sent were all driven out, either driven away, or sent to the Honglu Temple classroom to concentrate on learning poetry, calligraphy and etiquette, and reading all day long, but they couldn't get the most important technology! (To be continued......)