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Chapter 247 The Great Change Is Coming

Xu Ping, who was far away in the northwest, didn't know about this big debate in the court, so he couldn't take care of it. The military and political relationships on Jingyuan Road should be smoothed out like Qinfeng Road, and tens of thousands of imperial guards were waiting for training. In the battle of Tiandu Mountain, we had to discuss military merits and rewards, and also took into account the impact of a large number of troops stationed on the local area. Xu Ping was so busy that he was dizzy that he could not mix with those things.

The thoughts of a thousand years later also made Xu Ping unable to interfere in this debate. The influence of the four years of Zhenguan political struggle on nearly a thousand years has been forgotten by later generations. Later generations only remember that Emperor Taizong of Tang had the glory of a "Tian Khan", but they had forgotten it until Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, the official title of those emperors was "Emperor Tian Khan". The Tang Dynasty was a dynasty for the great exchanges and integration of Hu and Han, but this kind of exchange and integration was not limited to the Tang Dynasty, and it was at least not until the Ming Dynasty in history.

Where did Dangxiang come from? The Tang Dynasty moved in. Youyan was considered to be the homeland of the Han people by the Song Dynasty and must be taken back, but are the people there looking forward to the Song Dynasty? The answer is obviously no. The Han people there may not be really Han people. It is the so-called "Four Majors of Yan" where they are now considered to be the Han people, and their ancestors may have been Hu people. The exchanges and integration of the nations include the sinicization of the Hu people and the Hu people in different periods, and each prevails in different periods. The Hu people moved inwardly, and they have been in the north.

Fang Xin's nation emerged again, and the Hu people who moved south became Han people. Shi Jingtang of the Later Jin Dynasty was originally a Shatuo people, and the military power they depended on was mainly Shatuo people. When they called the "child emperor" to the Khitan, the Khitans thought he was Han people. The Han people mentioned in this era may not be able to be true, not only bloodline, but also culture. The imperial guard system was incompatible with the entire society, so it retained a large number of this tradition of the Five Dynasties, which was a product of Hufeng and Han style mixed.

Since the fourth year of Zhenguan, the Tang Dynasty moved to the mainland as a whole to a million Fanhu. With the population density of this era, these people could firmly occupy the territory of several provinces in later generations. After the Anshi Rebellion, the Han people in the Central Plains slapped Hu, and a large number of Hu people moved to Hedong Road and Hebei Road, which was as strong as the Shaanxi Road, which hosted foreign races to move inward. Later, the imperial guards mainly recruited people from these routes to join the army, not only thought that the people there were tall and could fight and dared to fight, but also the cultural factors behind it.

Xu Ping's military system reform was actually secondary, and the most touching of military culture was the military culture. However, Xu Ping himself did not have this kind of self-consciousness, and his thoughts in his previous life were deeply rooted, so he thought it was not important.

The dispute between Hu and Han Dynasty, until this era, was actually a very important influencing factor that was hidden under the surface. One reason why the Song people respected Han Yu and no longer mentioned later was that Han Yu had a very important intention to revive Confucianism. Why did Han Yu call for "destroying Buddhism"? The most fundamental reason was that he believed that Buddhism was the Hu religion. Later, the three religions were integrated, and one major background was that the entire localized Zen school was dominant. The conflict between Hu and Han was linked to the emphasis on culture and military rejuvenation in the Song Dynasty.

In history, before the Northern Song Dynasty was destroyed and the imperial guards were completely destroyed, civil servants, mainly Han people, wanted to attack the imperial guards, but they were not successful, and there was also such an impact behind them. Now Xu Ping proved that under the Han system, the army could fight, and the storm caused was completely beyond his expectations.

This era was when Ouyang Xiu grew up. The reason why Ouyang Xiu in history was a generation of literary scholars was incomparable to everyone else. Not only was the article written well, but also an important reason was that he determined the mainstream status of Confucianism in the Song Dynasty. It was his proposition of "correcting the origin and reversing the will of the will" that established the general direction of Confucianism in history. Wang Anshi and Sima Guang were both deeply influenced by it. Behind the rise of Confucianism in the Song Dynasty, there were cultural factors that compete for orthodoxy and excluded Hu Feng.

This big debate was not caused by Xu Ping's words. The more fundamental reason is that his financial reform brought economic confidence, and Longyou's victory brought military confidence. Ouyang Xiu and others have always had absolute cultural confidence and have been brewing for a long time. Xu Ping's words were just a fuse.

Xu Ping's political and military system reforms are generally based on the facts and do not give full play to it. However, a group of young officials, mainly Ouyang Xiu, are deepening this reform to the cultural level. Their views and opinions may not be the same as Xu Ping, but they are more radical, and they are very quick to something Xu Ping could not have imagined.

Millions of Hu people moved inward and became the protagonists on the political stage for nearly two hundred years. The institutional and cultural inertia brought about by this cannot be eliminated in one sentence. This influence is actually everywhere. Even in Xu Ping's previous life, all the names of officials in film and television related to history were "adults". However, in the long history of China for thousands of years, this name was only less than a hundred years, but everyone thought it was normal. The names of "master" and "master and lady" swept into the garbage dump of history in a short time, but it quickly rekindled. In this era, such phenomena existed, from living habits to daily names, the influence of those two hundred years can be seen everywhere.

Xu Ping, who has been around for thousands of years, does not have this understanding. Ouyang Xiu's group of people are different. They have extremely strong cultural awareness. On the one hand, they are slowly accepting Xu Ping's governance measures, and looking for basis from the remarks of Confucian classics and famous officials of all dynasties, and incorporating Xu Ping himself into the Confucian discourse system. On the other hand, they have brought Xu Ping's actions to a deeper level, elevating them to the cultural level, and cutting them off from the thousand-year history after the Han Dynasty.

The so-called Three Immortals, "The Strategy for Rich the Country and Safeguarding the People" can be used as Xu Ping's statement. To pacify the northwest, it can be used to make contributions, and deeply affect the moral integrity of later generations is not his own actions. Ouyang Xiu's group of officials who actually have many different political views from him, and for various purposes, they are pushing him to a position that he can never imagine.

Since Xu Ping became an official in politics, he has never been a censor of Cichen, and he himself thought he could not do well. But in the end, he became the sharpest knife in Cichen's censor of Cichen, and killed those who were blocking him.

This is an era with the most frequent political reforms, and what is actually reflected in the great cultural changes. A large number of growing scholars were pursuing an ideal home comparable to the "three generations" after the chaos of the late Tang Dynasty. This is the necessity of the times, whether it is this time, a thousand years ago, or a thousand years later. In Xu Ping's previous life, people looked for this spiritual home from foreigners. In this era, people looked for it from the distant ancient times.

This ideal home actually does not exist, it is just a cultural and spiritual sustenance, so Ouyang Xiu's idea of ​​"retracing his will and pursuing Mencius with his ancestors" stood out.

It doesn't matter how Xu Ping thinks it is. People in this era will care about his remarks and the court will pay attention to his opinions. But in later generations, he will definitely be shaped by a group of people represented by Ouyang Xiu. This shaped Xu Ping is a person who reproduced the mighty style of the Han Dynasty, cleared the legacy of Hu Feng for thousands of years, and was perfect. This person actually has nothing to do with Xu Ping now.

Xu Ping had been working hard for more than ten years, and he had no such understanding at all. He didn't know that the impact of this Tiandushan Battle was far from what he imagined. This great victory would soon bring about a complete change of the entire era. The obstacles he thought that he could not overcome would be wiped out by the rapidly rising Ouyang Xiu and others with their articles and remarks.

Xu Ping is busy doing things, and some people will willingly drive them forward, even if they are bleeding from their heads. This nation has fallen again and again, even fallen into the abyss, and can get up again and again, so there are many people who go through fire and water in such dangerous times. They may not do well enough and have many shortcomings in their lives, but they do have a hard bone.

(The Huns in the previous chapter were called Turks, and I wrote it wrongly. Of course, the remarks of people in the Tang Dynasty at that time were used as the Huns to refer to Turks, which was normal at that time.)
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