Li Shimin's eyes flickered, and it took him a long time to regain his composure and said: "Welcome back, you will definitely feel lucky for today's choice in the future."
"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.
If a person suddenly appears and knows so many things, no one will be at ease if he does not have a suitable background. The better he performs, the more serious the suspicion will be.
Asthma and high blood pressure cannot frighten Li Shimin for his whole life. He must have been studying these two diseases in private. Once he finds effective control methods, he will be worthless.
At that time, all the suspicions will explode at once, directly killing himself, and even involving Sun Simiao and countless others.
After comprehensive consideration, he made up such an origin for himself.
Regardless of whether Li Shimin believes it or not, it is still much better than not knowing anything at all.
If Li Shimin investigates in this direction, he will find that all the information he told him about the outside world is true.
Even if no clues can be found by that time, he will be inclined to believe that this statement is true.
Because this information about the outside world cannot be faked, it must have paid a huge price to investigate so clearly. The failure to find out can only mean that Chen Jingke's clan members are acting secretly.
If he shows irreplaceable value later on, Li Shimin will at most be more wary of him and not do anything to him.
At certain times, Li Shimin's boldness and courage are still worthy of recognition.
After reaching a consensus on their origins, the atmosphere suddenly became much more relaxed.
Li Shimin continued to ask: "Tell me more about civilization. According to you, many powerful countries have been born in this world. Why are there only five civilizations? Isn't Arabia a civilization?"
Chen Jingke explained: "The five major civilizations I am talking about are the original origin civilizations. The subsequent Rome, Arabia, etc. were all born under the influence of the five major civilizations."
"China is one of the five origin civilizations, and it is also the only civilization that has not experienced any faults and is still strong today."
"But in some aspects, the rising stars have already surpassed us. If we don't change, we will one day be completely surpassed by them."
"Oh?" Li Shimin didn't believe what he said, but he didn't think he was alarmist either. Everything was left to be investigated before making any conclusions.
At this time, he just said curiously: "Tell me what advantages they have that are worth learning from."
Chen Jingke said: "Let me talk about Islam first. In the past, the Arabs lacked a unified sense of identity and were divided internally and were constantly fighting with each other..."
"The emergence of the Islamic religion has unified their minds and told them that we are brothers and sisters, and we must help each other, unite and love each other..."
"They range from white-haired old men to young children. Regardless of their status or even illiterate farmers, they all know that they are Arabs and believers of Islam, and they must fight for Arabs and 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 their people were brave and not afraid of death. They defeated the Sasanian regular army several times with a mob of several hundred people."
"The victory in the war made them more convinced that Islam was right, so more and more people joined, and finally defeated Sassanid and established a huge empire."
Li Shimin frowned and said, "Isn't this the same as the Yellow Turban of the Han Dynasty?"
Chen Jingke shook his head and said: "How can it be the same? The Yellow Turban only has the slogan 'Heaven is dead and Huang Tian is here to stand', and there is nothing else."
"The purpose of people joining the Yellow Turbans is to have food to eat. If you join the Yellow Turbans while eating, you will also betray because you have food to eat."
"The Islamic religion is different. It has a complete concept to educate and unify everyone's thoughts. People join it not just for food, but for something more."
Li Shimin nodded thoughtfully and said, "Continue."
Chen Jingke said: "Once the Arabs conquer a certain force or country, they will destroy its writing, language and even history and culture, force everyone to convert to Islam, and complete ideological assimilation."
"In a few years, this country will completely disappear and become part of Arabia..."
"The best thing our Chinese civilization has done in this regard is the First Emperor. He unified weights and measures with the same writings and chariots, and reunited the seven kingdoms into one."
"The former Han Dynasty did very poorly. When they settled the Xiongnu, they naively preserved their tribal customs. As a result, the Xiongnu remained the Xiongnu after hundreds of years, which later led to the Yongjia disaster."
Li Shimin's face became very unnatural, even a little angry.
In the fourth year of Zhenguan, the Eastern Turks surrendered, and the court officials suggested that they be moved to Henan, scattered and placed in Han residential areas to implement Hanization.
Wen Yanbo put forward a different opinion. He advocated adopting the method adopted by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to resettle the Huns, and settled 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 suggestions.
The other courtiers saw that the emperor agreed and stopped talking. Only Wei Zheng strongly opposed it and argued with Wen Yanbo for several years about this matter.
To this day, he still holds a grudge against Wen Yanbo and has great opinions on him.
Li Shimin originally thought that Wei Zheng was a bit troublesome. You always give your opinions on 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 I think of the old story that the Huns Liu Yuan started the Yongjia Rebellion, I feel as if I've eaten a fly.
In fact, Chen Jingke said this on purpose. He was quite speechless at the naivety of Li Shimin and Wen Yanbo.
But Li Shimin was the emperor after all, so he couldn't give him any face, so he just changed the subject:
"Let's go back to our Tang Dynasty. How many people among the more than 30 million people know about Chinese civilization? How many people know about the history of Chinese civilization?"
"The people don't even know who they are, so how can they know who to fight for? The result is that they become obedient subjects of whoever gives them food."
"How can they know about ancestors, righteousness, etc., if they haven't learned about them?"
"Even our soldiers, why do they serve as soldiers? For food and military honors, is there anything else besides that?"
"At least we have to tell the people that they are descendants of the Chinese people, the descendants of the Yan and Huang Dynasties, so that they know what our ancestors have done, so as to gain a unified sense of identity."
"In this way, when the aliens attack, they will not surrender just for a bite of food, but will rise up to resist."
"Your Majesty has the world in mind and wants to create a great empire that has never been seen before. He must also achieve ideological unity and twist everyone into one."
"If the people in the country do not agree with each other, they should hold on to the idea that he is a Turk, he is a Tuyuhun, and he is a Dangxiang."
"To be disrespectful, once the situation changes, they will immediately become the source of trouble. Therefore, it is necessary for us to create a unified sense of civilizational identity and turn everyone into Han and Tang people."
