As a great Honglu, as a great Confucian of Zou Lu, when Wei Xian heard that the subordinate country was under the promotion of Ren Hong, he was drumming up a map of the world and preparing to present it on the winter solstice, he couldn't help but chuckle in his heart: "This is to prove Zou Yanzhi's statement!"
”The world view of Confucianism in the Han Dynasty is condensed in the Yu Gong in the Shangshu, Yao makes Yu as the commonplace, flat water and soil, with the mountains and wood, and sets the height and the order of Kyushu: Ji, Yan, Qing, Xu, Yang, Jing, Yu, Liang, Yong, this is China.In Yugongli, with the central country as the center, five suits are divided layer by layer, each serving is five hundred miles, anyway, two thousand five hundred miles away is the barbarian clothes at the end of the world, all barbarian quicksand, the Central Plains is a lonely and only Ming state.However, this view of the world, which was perfect in Wei Xian's view, was hit hard by reality in the Wudi Dynasty.In 81 years before the sixth year of the first century, at the salt and iron conference, the virtuous scholars spent half an hour discussing the view of the world with the imperial historian Sang Hongyang, and Huan Kuan wrote an article on Zou, which was very short, and the two paragraphs were over, because this debate was lost by the virtuous scholars.What Sang Hongyang holds is Zou Yan's great Kyushu said: "Zou Zi is a Confucianist in his later life, he doesn't know the Hong of heaven and earth, the way of Zhaokuang, he will be a song and want to be nine folds, keep a corner and want to know all directions, there is still no quasi-level and want to know the superiority, no rules and want to know the square circle."
So he pushed the fortune of the great sage to the end of the world, in order to metaphorize the princes and princes. ”It means that you Confucian scholars only know how to guard one acre and three points of land and live in a small alley, let me Lao Sang tell you how big the world is!
In the theory of Great Kyushu, the so-called China is only one-eighty-one times the world, called Chixian Shenzhou, separated by the sea and green mountains and other mountains, and there are eight regions about the same size as China in the outside world.And across the difficult to cross the Eight Poles and the Great Ying Sea, there is a larger Kyushu.Yugong said that he and the Great Kyushu said that they went head-to-head in that debate, and in the end it was the virtuous and virtuous school that fell behind.The times have changed, different from the closed Jingzhi world, Emperor Wu sent many Han envoys to explore the outside world, and the news sent back all supported the Great Kyushu and said: The area of the Western Regions is the same size as the Central Plains, and there are many unheard of big countries to the west of the Green Ridge, with words, coins, and rites.The Great Han is not a lonely Ming kingdom in the world!
This is like the discovery of aliens in later generations, which shook the government and the opposition.Sang Hongyang turned over the records and slaps his face one by one, didn't you say something like "those who are close are not reached, how can they know Yinghai"?
This is a man who measured with his footsteps and recorded it with a knife and pen, and there is no way to refute it!
Xianliangxue can only be hard-handed, relying on the transfer of war to roll the crooked building perfunctory, and in the end, there are only a few strokes in the account, and there is no beginning or end.Sang Hongyang fell, although this matter has passed, Xianliangxue also realized that the five suits that were limited to two thousand five hundred miles were full of flaws.When Dr.
Shu was at a loss, Dr.
Li stepped forward to save the scene.Fortunately, the description of the world in the Five Classics is not the same, in addition to the five costumes of Shangshu, there is also a kind of nine costumes in the Zhou rites that extend the world border to 4,500 miles outside China, not to mention the deserted clothes, the outermost one is called "feudal clothing".Under the remediation, the hole was barely filled, but a wave of unsettled waves rose again and again.For decades, the Han envoys were in power, and they supported the Great Kyushu and said that they wanted to make a complete map of the Kunyu Wanguo, and turn the words that could be refuted and distorted into a freeze-frame map.It is a pity that everyone belongs to different units, and the opposition is invalid.No matter how long Wei Xian's hand was, he couldn't reach out to the subject country, so he could only watch as the artwork was completed and handed over to Shiqu Pavilion for inspection.Fortunately, as soon as the map was opened, they caught a flaw!"
Why is China not in the middle of the map!
Xi'an Hou, what do you mean!
”Behind Wei Xian, Dr.
Ouyang Shangshu Xia Housheng pointed out this problem again, this person is simple and upright, simple and without prestige, and he likes Hong Fan's yin and yang theory, and the upper platform is also quite powerful."
In the past, Zou Yan was not a saint, he made a mistake, and he confused the king of the six countries, so he said.This Spring and Autumn Period, the so-called puppet is also confusing the princes.Xi'an Hou, do you want to do the same?
”Behind Xiahou Sheng, several doctoral disciples also began to accuse one after another.China is not in China, this is unacceptable, dare to paint like this, it is simply a challenge to Shangshu, a challenge to Zhou Li, and a challenge to the bottom line of all Confucian scholars.On the side of the pawn country, from Su Wu to several Cao officials, they all smiled and looked at the scolding on the other side as if there was nothing, and Ren Hong had already passed the anger with them.The imperial court also knew that the two institutions of the Dianguo and Da Honglu had always been at odds with each other, and they were afraid that they would fight and tear down the Shiqu Pavilion, so today they specially sent Zongzheng Liu De to play a round, and Liu De hurriedly stopped: "Da Honglu, Dr.
Xiahou, don't worry, and listen to Xi'anhou's explanation first." ”Although Zongzheng Liu De also studied poetry and books, his real interest was Huang Lao, and he collected the book of Huainan Zi compiled by Liu Anling, the king of Huainan, which was a posthumous work of Huang Lao's Taoism, and also supported the Great Kyushu theory.The disciples of the King of Huainan were much bolder than Zou Yan, and directly announced that the entire world within the four seas was 28,000 miles long from east to west and 26,000 miles from north to south!
Names have also been given to those continents that have not yet been discovered.But even with such radicalism, Huainanzi still set China as the center of the world, so Liu De wondered why Ren Hong, who had always been shrewd, would make such a low-level mistake.Everyone's reaction was all expected by Ren Hong, and he secretly said in his heart: "Sure enough, this trap is dug one by one." ”Egypt, the Two Rivers, China, which classical Ming Dynasty never saw the world from its own perspective, thinking that it was the center of the world?
Therefore, the Han people don't care about whether the earth is round or not, anyway, in the Hun Tian theory, it is a round egg heart, except for the heavenly officials who are arguing, ordinary scholars don't want to care about this matter at all.There is only one thing they care about most: "I am a dignified state in the heavens, and I am not in the middle of the world!?"
”At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Italian missionary Matteo Ricci presented a map of the world to the Ming Emperor, and deliberately moved the meridian 170 degrees to the west, so that China happened to appear in the center of the map of all countries.A crooked kernel understands the truth, how can Ren Hong not know?
In the face of questioning, he made a long gesture: "Everyone, listen to Hong's words, China, of course, is in the middle of the world!"
”"As for why it is not on this map, it is just because the Han envoys have gone too far to the west, and they have all gone to rest 11,600 miles away from Chang'an.""
On the contrary, the east is rarely set foot in, thousands of miles out of Chang'an is the sea, although there are Japanese people in the sea of Lelang, but no one has ever been there, and then there are any states outside, I don't know at all."
Ren Hong complained helplessly: "Da Honglu, Zongzheng, Tai Shi Ling, every state on this map, either the Han envoy personally arrived in peace, or the local Li Xuan, body poison, how many miles away from Chang'an, out of Xuwen Port for a few days, are clearly described in the appendix of the Jane, all taken from the predecessors. ”"We can't just add to the east and deceive the Son of Heaven in order to fill up the eastern territory, right?
So it's just a matter of drawing the discovered area, if you think it's wrong" Ren Hong smiled: "You might as well follow the example of the final army, take the initiative to ask Ying, as a Yellow Gate envoy to visit the Wa Kingdom?"
”As soon as they heard this, Wei Xian and Xiahou Sheng realized that they had been deceived, and all the doctors and disciples also looked embarrassed.In the face of the irrefutable theory of the Great Kyushu, Xianliangxue has a theory: "The country that is not the crown belt, within the reach of Yugong, and governed by the Spring and Autumn Period, can and cannot be done, so why bother to explore?"
”That means, I don't care how big your world is.Out of the scope of Yugong Kyushu, what was not mentioned in the Spring and Autumn Period is a useless place, and it can be regarded as non-existent.Not to mention extraterritorial, even Jiaozhou, which has set up counties, should actually be abandoned!
Therefore, not only did they not take the initiative to ask for envoys, but they even continued to prevent the imperial court from sending envoys from the Yellow Gate to explore the exotic lands in the South China Sea, for fear that the exotic beasts and pearl tortoiseshell there would fascinate the emperor and cause more trouble.But now, Ren Hong has laid a trap on this map.Without exploration, it will be impossible to prove that China is really in the world.Seeing that the noisy doctoral disciples suddenly shut up, Ren Hong smiled and said: "Why, in the past, Confucius still wanted to float on the sea to the land of Jiuyi, but now no one wants to explore?"
On this map, a journey of nearly 10,000 miles, if the princes can find out so far on the land and sea, they will come back to the Son of Heaven to return to their lives, and the subject country can add the discovered territory, so that it can prove that China is indeed in the world!
”Xiahou Sheng argued: "What Confucius said is that there is no way in the world, and now there is a world of Tao, so there is no need to be like this" In the end, Liu De played a round: "What the Hou of Xi'an said is not bad, and the undiscovered area really can't be drawn indiscriminately."
But it is really inappropriate for the Han to not be in the middle of the world, it is better to make the final map, lengthen it by one zhang, and leave it blank to the east of the Lelang Sea, and wait for the envoy to go to the Wa Kingdom in the future, and then add it is not too late, what is it?
”Su Wu agreed: "Just do what Zongzheng said." ”Ren Hong didn't continue to pursue and make it difficult, their purpose today was to let Yutu pass the Shiqu Pavilion test, anyway, he buried this pit for the Confucian scholars.There are two bases of Confucian scholars in Kanto, one is Ludi, and the other is Qidi, both of which are close to the Oriental Seashore.Exploration and discovery are not necessarily entirely out of profit, but also must be supported by faith, and the most important thing for Europeans in the Age of Discovery is not only to find China and India, which are full of gold, but also to contact the "Kingdom of John the Elder" who believes in Christ.Ren Hong believes that there are tens of thousands of Confucian scholars in this world, and there are really a few mellow Confucians who are not afraid to sacrifice in order to prove the "Tao" in their hearts.Confucius's sentence in the Analects, "Floating on the sea", may be misinterpreted by a new school, and it will become an opportunity for the Age of Discovery, or maybe a few hundred years later, relying on this momentum, someone Yang Fan will go around and complete the round-the-world journey."
Do you want to prove that China is the center of the world?"
Looking at the indignant appearance of the Confucian scholars, Ren Hong showed a scheming smile: "If you want to, then go to the sea to find it!"
”After the principle of "why is China not in the center of the map" resolved, everyone can take a good look at the map.However, I saw that the Thirteen Thorns of the Han Dynasty were depicted in a faint earthy yellow, and each county was depicted with a thin line.The Xiongnu are pink, and the rest of the mountains and the countries of the Great Moon Clan are pale green.Mountains are depicted in light green, rivers are depicted in hyperbola, and oceans are depicted in dark green, and coastlines and rivers are very different from past maps.In the following time, Tai Shi Ling, Da Honglu, and the doctors began to discuss the details, and each country depicted on the map was compared to the appendix.It took a month to sort out the slips of the subject country, and recorded in detail the location, mileage, customs and specialties of each country, all of which were well documented, and the doctors could not find any fault.It wasn't until they found the westernmost part of the map that they found a kingdom that had been so little written about before."
Great Qin?"
Liu De squinted for a long time, and found that this country occupies almost every island and bay in the west of the West Sea, and the territory is very vast, depicted in eye-catching pale red."
Marquis of Xi'an, what kind of country is this Great Qin, which I have rarely heard of in the past?"
Ren Hong said with a smile: "It was found out from a lot of envoy records, when Emperor Xiaowu was the envoy, the envoy who returned from the envoy rested in peace, but he only got his name, and he didn't know the truth." ”Ren Hongzhen didn't lie about this sentence, and the Han envoy called Rome Daqin, and I don't know why.The next sentence is deceiving, this is the first trap that Ren Hong planted on the map."
Hong was in the Western Regions before, attracting Sogdian merchants to take refuge in the Han Dynasty, which was quite rumored, so he knew the details of the Great Qin, and the reason why he wanted to make a map was to let the Son of Heaven know about this country.Zongzheng, Da Honglu, and Taishi, please listen to me in detail. ”Ren Hong pointed to the map and said: "The Great Qin Kingdom is in Haixi, and the Yiyun Haixi Kingdom is 15,000 miles away from Chang'an.Its place is vast for thousands of miles, there are more than 400 cities, its soldiers are strong, the army is reckless, and there are dozens of small national servants.Take the stone as the city, set up the post booth, the law is very strict, there are pines and cypresses, trees and grasses, and eat wheat. ”At this time, a doctor was discussing in the back: "Great Qin, what does it have to do with the Qin Dynasty?"
”Someone said: "It should be just a transliteration, what do you think about the three Hans south of Nalelang County and Yingchuan Korea?"
”Ren Hong raised his head: "No, this Great Qin State of Haixi really has something to do with the Qin Dynasty that was destroyed by Emperor Gao!"
”"What?"
Everyone present was shocked.Ren Hong became serious, looked at everyone, and disclosed this shocking incident: "The Sogdian merchant Jia Yan said that its people are all grown up and upright, similar to China.Tracing back to its origin, it is said that a hundred years ago, there were Qin people white horses will lead thousands of people to the west, and rest with the Tiaozhi, with its kings Haixi, subdued, from its customs, to the long ""But in order not to forget the shame of the fall of the second, they are still called Daqin, day and night training to conquer the Quartet, want to reach Kyushu and Fang Yinghai, herd barbarians and towards all countries!
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