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    Chapter 29: Martial Spirit

    The martial spirit is the best interpretation of Tian Xingjian.

    ??Civil and martial arts are just like the yin and yang of the Tao. The combination of civil and military forces can make a perfect man. The prosperity of a country also requires the combination of civil and military forces. As the so-called way of civil and military affairs, one can relax one after another.

    Throughout the world, the martial spirit has provided a huge impetus for the prosperity of this nation. In ancient times, the Spartans in the Peloponnese Peninsula did not engage in farming, work, or business, but the entire country practiced  A military system in which all people are soldiers.  Sick and deformed babies were thrown into the ravine, while the strong ones began military training at the age of seven and could not be discharged until they were sixty years old.

    The whole of Sparta was like a military camp, and all the people were required to be brave, tenacious, and strictly disciplined. The purpose was to ensure that the Spartans, who accounted for a small number of the total population, were superior to the vast majority of Greeks and Piliasians.  rule, and the final victory of the Peloponnesian War, which lasted for twenty-seven years, was the ultimate portrayal of this national martial spirit.

    The Germans, who were regarded as barbarians by the Romans, also had a national martial spirit. The Germans believed that war and plunder were a noble cause, and those who fought bravely and suffered the most injuries should be respected.

    There seems to be a description of the martial spirit of the Germans in Caesar's "Gaul Wars". Even the demise of the Western Roman Empire is inevitably connected with the German mercenaries.

    Although a country is prosperous, if it is warlike, it will perish.

    This emphasis seems to have been popular a long time ago, and history seems to support this so-called truth.  Neither the Spartans nor the Germans could permanently safeguard their national interests with pure force.

    But this does not deny the sudden rise of Qin in Chinese history and the important role it played in Chinese history.

    The ancestors of the Qin people are a branch of the ancient Qiang people. Because they were far away from the Central Plains, they were regarded as barbarians by the countries in the Central Plains.  However, since Xiaogong appointed Shang Yang, he worked hard and accumulated great achievements, and finally became the strongest among the seven heroes in the late Warring States Period, and laid a solid foundation for his final unification of China.

    The martial spirit of the Qin people originated from this. Farming and war supported their economic life and war expansion. They were happy when they heard about the war. This was the most authentic portrayal of the Qin people at that time. They regarded fighting as a necessity in life.  It was this martial spirit that contributed to the first unified situation of "China as one" in Chinese history.

    The Qin State was able to unify the world. First of all, it should be grateful to the Legalists, who brought Shang Yang to the Qin State, which could highly unite the country's will. It should also be thanked for the hegemony and the ability to communicate far and near, which can be called the origin of Chinese wisdom. It should also be thanked for the spirit of martial arts. Legalists and Legalists  In the end, Ba Dao forged such an indestructible and powerful weapon for the Qin Dynasty that could cut iron like mud.

    Willpower lacking wisdom is weak, and wisdom lacking will is dangerous. Countless experiences at home and abroad tell people that the high degree of unity of will and wisdom is the only way for a nation to become strong. When a national spirit  The entire nation is firmly united on one point, and its will and wisdom can express a spirit, which is the martial spirit.

    When all the people unite to carry forward the national martial spirit, let those who have joined the army feel that their hardships are understood by the people, glorious and great, and let those who have not yet joined the army feel that being a protector is extremely sacred.  It is so proud that the whole country cheers for the soldiers, and even makes the enemy countries fear because of the soldiers.

    To carry forward the national martial spirit is not to simply put military construction as the center, but to make people proud of the soldiers who defend the country's territorial integrity, sovereignty, economic security and other national wars from the will, so that those who are full of steel can  Ordinary people with will and intelligence enter the army to receive a baptism.

    I think back in the Han Dynasty, the elites of the entire society were willing to join the army to serve the country and make contributions, so Ban Chao decided to join the army.  Therefore, it is not surprising that the Han Dynasty had outstanding military achievements in annihilating the Xiongnu, Po Loulan, and Ping Qiang people.

    Although the Tang Dynasty in history was not as good as it is today, it was still very successful in martial arts and possessed a strong martial spirit. It destroyed the Eastern and Western Turks, pacified Xue Yantuo, conquered Goguryeo and made achievements outside the territory, and showed off the power of China to intimidate the foreign barbarians.

    This is where the heroic deeds of the Han and Tang Dynasties still inspire passionate young people until the era when Du Rui lived.  However, the Han and Tang dynasties were too showy of force and had a strong martial spirit, which directly paved the way for the same demise of the next two dynasties. Because the local tyrants and the separatist forces of vassal towns were too strong, it directly led to the hollowing out of the central dynasty, which was eventually eliminated.  perish.

    It was in view of this that the later Song Dynasty changed its course. Although this prevented the Song Dynasty from being destroyed by the generals, it brought an unprecedented national crisis to the Chinese nation. Foreign invasion became the biggest trauma to the entire China at that time.  In the end, the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty, which was relatively peaceful, was still inevitably destroyed by Mongolia.

    After Mongolia occupied China, they desperately killed everyone who dared to resistpeople, and used force to intimidate the Han people and stifle the martial customs of the Han people.  For example, the Baojia system was implemented, in which Mongolians served as the chief security guards of each family to monitor each Han family, and each Han family was required to share a kitchen knife. The kitchen knife was usually tied with an iron chain to prevent it from being stolen.  Under the high pressure of the Mongols, the Han people could not bear it and had to rebel and overthrow the short-lived and unlucky barbarian rule.

    In fact, the Chinese people have gradually eliminated the martial arts since the Song Dynasty.  Since the founding emperor Zhao Kuangyin relied on the Chenqiao Rebellion to steal the country from the orphans and widows, he was extremely sensitive to the generals who held military power. After he secured the country, he had to "release the military power over a glass of wine" to relieve the military power of the generals.  Since then, in the Song Dynasty, a culture of valuing civil servants over military officers has formed. For official positions of the same grade, civilian officials are larger than military attach¨¦s and receive better treatment.  Not only that, the emperor also tried every means to control the command power of the generals. When the generals faced the enemy, they had to fight according to the formations prepared by the emperor in advance. In addition, the Song Dynasty sent literati as magistrates to take charge of local administration and established transfer envoys to manage local financial rights, which further weakened the  Military power.  Even in the Song Dynasty, there were many cases where literati directly took charge of military operations.

    In short, the emperor of the Song Dynasty was too cautious about the generals. On the one hand, he was in view of the "separatism of vassal towns" in the late Tang Dynasty and the warlords' melee during the "Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms" period; on the other hand, he was afraid that others would imitate him and launch a military coup to overthrow the central dynasty.  .

    The difference between the Song Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty was that the central imperial army controlled by the emperor was significantly stronger than the border defenders. On the contrary, in the Tang Dynasty, the border defenders had great power and the army's combat effectiveness was very strong. By the middle and late Tang Dynasty, it even surpassed that of the central government.

    The emperor of the Song Dynasty believed that it is better to defend against the inside than against the outside.

    General Yang and Yue Fei were both famous generals, but they were jealous and persecuted by the rulers.  In view of this, coupled with the Song Dynasty government's intention to promote a literary style in society, after more than three hundred years of hard work during the two Song Dynasties, the entire Chinese descendants no longer have the enthusiasm to join the army and serve the country.  The elites of society all studied literature but did not practice martial arts. The greatest social contribution during this period was probably "Song Ci".  This directly led to repeated defeats in the wars between the Song Dynasty and the Khitan, Dangxiang, Jurchen and Mongolia.

    Therefore, China¡¯s literary weakness began in the Song Dynasty.  When Zhao Kuangyin conquered the world, based on the chaos of "power emerged from the barrel of a gun" during the Five Dynasties, on the one hand, he "released military power with a glass of wine" and on the other hand, "informed state affairs with civil servants", not only took away the power of the Qiu Ba people, but also even used the barrel of the gun.  They all hid themselves.

    In the hands of Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty reached the peak of its power. Emperor Zhenzong even personally wrote the "Essay on Encouraging Learning", declaring that "there are thousands of bells of millet in the book", "houses of gold", and even "there are as many chariots and horses as clusters".  Encouraging "men who wish to fulfill their life ambitions to read the Six Classics diligently in front of the window" puts an attractive carrot to the world.

    Yan Yuan, a thinker in the early Qing Dynasty, pointed out: "The well-dressed scribes are ashamed of the warriors' teeth. The talented people go out with bows and arrows, which scares the villagers. Even the children who ride and shoot are armed, and the fathers and elders regard them as incompetent." He said bitterly: "I have nothing to do.  Talking about the nature of one's heart, and repaying the king with one's death when facing danger is the best!" He also believes that the root of this is "for more than a thousand years, he has led everyone in the world to exhaust his physical and mental strength and become a weakling, a sick person, and a useless person.  "Ji Hui'an did it", "If things don't go back like this for a long time, the whole world will be weakened, how can it be too late?"

    He even scolded: "Confucian scholars since the Song and Yuan Dynasties have become effeminate." The whole country has become an enlarged forbidden palace. The vast majority of people have been collectively emasculated mentally, and they are eagerly and painstakingly waiting for the blessing of power.

    In fact, although the Song Dynasty was weak and peaceful, it also had a martial spirit. When 40,000 Mongolian cavalry, led by God's Whip Mengge Khan himself, invaded Sichuan with overwhelming force, they suffered a disastrous defeat in this small Diaoyu City.  Even death in a foreign land.

    This battle of Diaoyu City, which rewrote the history of the world, extended the life of the Song Dynasty for 20 years. In the intoxicating warm wind, "West Lake was singing and dancing day and night, just waiting for the mountains to sail."

    The Battle of Diaoyu City became the final rise of that soft and charming regime.  It also shows its incomparable loneliness and helplessness. The huge China relies on this small fortress to survive. This is undoubtedly the pride of Diaoyu City, but it is the sorrow of China.

    The stubborn resistance of the Southern Song Dynasty soldiers in Diaoyu City made the small Diaoyu City a hard nut in the throat of the Mongolian army.  Diaoyu City has been "fishing alone in the Central Plains" for 36 years and fought more than 200 fierce battles, changing the world's history.

    The 50-year-old Meng Gehan never expected that the Han people, who had always been as weak as cattle and sheep on the grassland, or even more docile than cattle and sheep, would suddenly burst out with such strong fighting power.

    His grandfather was the great Genghis Khan, and his father was Genghis Khan¡¯s youngest son Tuo Lei, the Mongolian ¡°Anda¡± of Guo Jing and Guo Daxia in Jin Yong¡¯s martial arts novels.  Meng Ge was a resolute leader, taciturn, frugal, and violent. He was already 42 years old when he ascended to the throne of Mongolia through a bloody civil war.

    He led an army to besiege the small Diaoyu City 5.For months, there was no progress at all, except for the numerous bodies left behind.  In a yurt on a stone mountain beside Jizhao Beach in Qujiang, he watched winter turn into spring, and spring turn into summer, but he never became the master of this castle.  The flag of the Song Dynasty is still flying on the top of Diaoyu Mountain, although it has been somewhat damaged by the war.

    He developed a strong curiosity about the castle and its residents.  So, he ordered the soldiers to build a watchtower on the rooftop opposite the east gate of Diaoyu City, and set up a carriage similar to today's elevator, which could be raised and lowered by cables.

    He sprinkled mare¡¯s milk on the holy ground of Genghis Khan¡¯s old palace and swore an oath to fight.  In May of the following year, they crossed the Yellow River and divided their troops into three groups at Liupan Mountain: his brother Kublai Khan led his troops to attack Ezhou; general Wu Lianghatai led his troops to attack Yunnan and Guangxi, and then went to Ezhou to join forces with Kublai Khan;  He personally led the main force to attack Sichuan.

    The attacks of various Mongolian armies went very smoothly. The main force led by Meng Ge himself was overwhelming in Sichuan, which is known for its natural dangers. The Southern Song Dynasty defenders often collapsed without a fight.  In March 1258, Meng Ge successfully occupied Chengdu. This was the first colorful world they had enjoyed in southern China.

    At the end of the year, the Mongolian army, with the power of victory, marched towards Chongqing in a mighty manner.  But they did not expect that the defenders of the Diaoyu City Fortress did not surrender or collapse like the previous cities. Instead, they raised flags and fired cannons on the top of the mountain, and beheaded the Han Jin Guobao who went to persuade them to surrender.

    After five consecutive months of offensive setbacks, Meng Ge also struggled with this small fishing town.  Although his generals advised him that from a strategic perspective, as long as a small number of troops were left to surround Diaoyu City, the larger army could bypass this difficult nut and continue attacking eastward.  But Brother Meng refused to listen and insisted on capturing the fortress.

    After the watchtower was completed, Brother Meng came to inspect it in person.  What he didn't know was that from the day the construction of the watchtower began, the Song Army also set up special cannons on the east gate of Diaoyu City and aimed their muzzles at the watchtower.

    When he saw a large number of high-ranking Mongolian army officers with brilliant crests and bright armors appearing, guard Wang Jian gave an order and rained bullets and stones completely shattered the watchtower. Meng Ge Khan was also hit by artillery fire.

    Six days later, Meng Ge died of his injuries, leaving behind a will: "After I confess, if I conquer this city, I will massacre it all."

    The main force of the Mongolian army attacking Sichuan, guarding Meng Ge's coffin, withdrew and returned to the Mongolian grassland.  Kublai Khan, who had already surrounded Ezhou, accepted the peace proposal of Jia Sidao, the Prime Minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, retreated to the north, and went to compete with his younger brother Ali Buge for the throne of Khan.  Having passed through Wulianghetai in Yunnan and Guangxi, he also led his troops to cross the Yangtze River north to evacuate.

    At the same time, Hulagu, who was gaining momentum in the Middle East and was approaching Egypt, also led his army back eastward.  The invincible Mongolian army finally failed to set foot on the African continent.

    A fierce civil war broke out between Kublai Khan and Ali Buge. The Southern Song Dynasty temporarily lifted the crisis of national subjugation. The fierce civil war split the Mongol Empire into many small khanates.  The kind of large-scale army operations that swept the world became the last song from then on. The whip of God was completely eliminated, and the threat of Mongolia was basically eliminated in Europe.

    After more than 20 years of civil war, Kublai Khan re-launched the war against the Song Dynasty after firmly controlling the Mongolian power.  Diaoyu City once again became a hard nut in the throat of the Mongolian army.  After Lu Xiufu died carrying the young Emperor of the Song Dynasty across the mountains and seas, the "Song" flag on Diaoyu City still flew high for three years, truly "fishing alone in the Central Plains".

    In 1279, a year of severe drought, Diaoyu City experienced a food shortage. At the same time, Chongqing fell, and the horns were suddenly lost. Diaoyu City became a veritable isolated city.  After 200 fierce battles and 36 years, guard Wang Li decided to surrender. This was an honorable surrender with harsh conditions: no flags lowered, no weapons collected, and no county annals changed.

    Kublai Khan actually agreed and kept his promise, leaving Meng Ge's will to massacre the city behind.  The Mongolian army wiped out the last trace of resistance in a peaceful manner.

    There was no China after Yashan. If we look at the sword-fighting spirit and masculinity of the nation, there was actually no China before Yashan.  Wen Tianxiang and Diaoyu City are truly an alternative among alternatives, an anomaly among anomalies. No wonder even Meng Ge was surprised and aroused his desire to win.

    After learning the news of the fall of Diaoyu City, Wen Tianxiang, who was in prison in Dadu, collected Du Fu's poems to mourn Zhang Jue and Wang Anjie, who preferred death to surrender: "I am alone in a corner of the sky against thousands of generals."  If Xiangshi's country is not destroyed, what will be his achievements?

    Soon after, Wen Tianxiang also died generously. The "Song of Righteousness" he wrote in prison began to spread throughout China and spread across the ocean to Japan.

    Looking at the entire history of the Ming Dynasty, we can find that it inherited and even developed the cultural system of the two Song Dynasties in many aspects.  Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism was fully developed in the Ming Dynasty. The emperor did not care about border wars, but paid more attention to the loyalty of his ministers and the consolidation of imperial power.  The generals had no initiative at all when fighting, and they were actually subject to eunuchs appointed by the emperor to supervise the army.

    The entire Ming Dynasty¡¯s foreign wars were no longerLooking back at the glory of the Han and Tang Dynasties, despite the victory over the coastal Japanese pirates and the support of North Korea, it was only slightly better than the Zhao and Song dynasties.

    Why is this so?

    Because the emperors of the Ming Dynasty did not want the people to have a martial spirit, they would take the Han and Tang dynasties as a warning. The strong martial arts in the Han and Tang Dynasties also created the "Yellow Turban Rebellion" in the late Han Dynasty, the powerful separatism and the late Tang Dynasty.  The Huangchao Uprising and the "separatist rule of feudal towns"?

    In the eyes of the emperors, when fighting against foreign forces, one must first pacify the interior. Defense against the people is more important than defense against barbarians. Internal troubles are always greater than foreign troubles.

    ???Looking at Xiong Tingbi and Yuan Chonghuan, the commanders of the army who surrendered to death, how can upright soldiers not be heartbroken?  Lu Xiangsheng, a loyal minister who did not care about personal gains and losses and devoted himself to serving the country, died not so much in battle, but because of the emperor's suspicion and the villain's slander.

    With such a gloomy political atmosphere throughout the Ming Empire, how can soldiers be allowed to serve their country with peace of mind?

    The folk customs are no longer as tough as they used to be. During the Warring States Period, Li Mu's troops defeated hundreds of thousands of Xiongnu. In the Qin Dynasty, Meng Tian's army captured the Hetao and drove the Xiongnu thousands of miles north. In the Han Dynasty, Li Ling's infantry of only 5,000 troops forced Shan Yu to retreat.  He used all the strength of the country to resist; in the Tang Dynasty, Li Jing's lone army of three thousand went deep behind enemy lines to defeat the Turks.

    By the Ming Dynasty, these had become distant memories. Whenever they encountered the Manchu cavalry, they would inevitably be defeated again and again even though they were several times outnumbered by the enemy.  The generals of the Ming Dynasty looked quite similar to the Song Dynasty when they met the civil servants. They always seemed to be half shorter.

    Under the high-pressure social policies, the common people have been transformed into obedient people. Most of the citizens have been transformed by Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism so that they have no edges and corners, and there is no talk of martial arts.

    As a result, taking advantage of the civil strife in the Central Plains, the Manchu and Qing Dynasties took advantage of the situation and took advantage of the situation to gain control of the Ming Dynasty.  Out of fear of the Han people, the Qing Dynasty launched a "literary prison" to persecute the Han people's resistance spirit, and systematically and plannedly chipped away the last bit of the Han people's martial spirit step by step.

    At the same time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty forced Han people to grow braids, changed the customs and habits of the Han people, and blurred the self-awareness of the Han people. This kind of spiritual insult deeply damaged the self-esteem and self-confidence of the Han people.

    Since then, the Han people have been greatly transformed by the Manchus according to their own will.  The Manchus were more "civilized" than the Mongols. They knew that physical killing alone could not permanently dominate the Central Plains. Only by cultivating slaves culturally could they maintain their rule.

    Therefore, the Qing Dynasty, which focused on cultural invasion and paralyzed the spirit of the Han people, ruled longer than the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty. Just because it lasted longer, its spiritual poison was deeper.

    The Manchu Qing Dynasty was also proficient in the method of "using Han to control Han" and focused on promoting the lineage of Confucianism to cultivate lackeys loyal to the court.  They were afraid that the Han people would become strong because of their love of martial arts, and they paid great attention to killing the martial spirit of the Han people. They only wanted the Han people to be the slaves of the Manchu Qing Dynasty like the models advertised in Neo-Confucianism, while the Manchus themselves never forgot hunting, archery, and diligent martial arts practice.

    "Look at the Manchu emperors such as Kangxi and Qianlong who set an example and set an example for their subordinates. They hope that the Manchus will never forget their ancestral roots and be ready to suppress the resistance of the Han people at any time.

    In short, since the Song Dynasty, because the Han imperial power group was afraid that the strength of the martial arts might endanger its own rule, it deliberately restricted it.  The birth and development of Neo-Confucianism during this period was not accidental. It was entirely focused on safeguarding monarchy and strengthening ideological supervision.  It preserves the so-called "natural principles", but truly eliminates "human nature".  As the "gold mean" flourished in the world, the descendants of the Yan and Huang Dynasties no longer had the edge and bloodiness, so there was no "martial spirit" to speak of, because it was not what the rulers wanted to see.

    With the Mongolian Yuan and Manchu Qing dynasties taking over the Central Plains one after another, for reasons that are not difficult to understand, the idea of ??preventing the Han must be the mainstream consciousness of the foreign rulers.  Therefore, they either emphasized physical torture to intimidate the Han people from resisting, or they launched a cultural and ideological "literary prison" to persecute and deceive scholars, so that the Han people could be obedient people within their designated circles, so as to achieve the stability of their country.

    Therefore, in the more than a thousand years since Taizu of the Song Dynasty, the Chinese folk customs have been transformed into chaos by themselves or by foreigners, and they are no longer the Chinese people in the pre-Qin, Han and Tang Dynasties.  They began to lose confidence in the face of foreign invasions. Although there were "Five Hus in China" after the Western Jin Dynasty, the descendants of Yan and Huang were still confident at that time and still had martial arts background. At least they still had Ran Min's order to kill Hu.

    However, after the Song Dynasty, traitors and "traitor culture" were written into the history of Chinese civilization. The small alien race actually caused hundreds of millions of descendants of the Yan and Huang Dynasties to be humiliated many times. This shows the decline of China's martial culture.

    Who knows that the name Han comes from the Xiongnu¡¯s admiration for us. The Xiongnu cavalry once roamed the Western Regions and harassed the Central Plains, and the remaining troops also raided Europe.  However, the Huns have never been able to match the richness of the Central Plains, and were driven to death in the desert by the two Han Dynasties. Whenever they think of the Han people, they will praise: "What a strong man!"

    Since then, the name Han has followed the Xiongnu mounts throughout the deserts of the Western Regions.In Europe, many countries in the Western Regions also called China this way. Since then, the "Han people" have been associated with China.  Of course, this is the majesty established under the saber and the enemy's sincere awe for the Chinese nation.  Those sonorous and powerful words still echoed in my mind: "Anyone who offends a strong man will be punished no matter how far away he is!"

    When a mediocre civilization and a martial civilization meet, the former always suffers.  That is to say, "When a scholar encounters a soldier, he cannot explain why."  Few people would think that the culture of the Mongols and Manchus is superior to the culture of the Han people, but it was the Mongols and Manchus who conquered the Han people.  Both Kangxi and Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty highly praised Han culture, but they were very insistent on one thing, which was not to allow the Manchu soldiers to be sinicized, because they believed that the sinicization of the Manchu soldiers would make them lose their martial spirit.  The two dynasties that greatly expanded China's territory, the Yuan Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, were not Han dynasties.

    The current Tang Dynasty inherited the style of the Sui Dynasty. The Sui Dynasty can be said to be the pinnacle era of Chinese history. At that time, China could beat anyone they disliked without looking for trouble.  Even the three expeditions to Goguryeo, which were slandered by some people in later generations, ended in the King Goguryeo being greatly frightened and condemning his envoys to surrender.

    Historical records record: In the tenth year of Daye, he led his troops across the sea to Beishe City. The whole country of Goryeo came to fight. Hu'er was defeated, and tens of thousands of people were beheaded. He was about to take Pyongyang. Gao Yuan was frightened and sent an envoy to Liaodong City. He asked for surrender.  , the emperor promised that he would send people to protect his son and the master with a chastity edict.

    Even before the demise of the Sui Dynasty, all the countries around the world respected the Sui Dynasty and paid tribute to the Sui Dynasty.  "Book of Sui" and "History of the North" both record: "In the spring of the eleventh year of Daye on the first day of the first lunar month, there was a big banquet for hundreds of officials. Turks, Silla, Mohe, Bi Dasi, Hedu, Chuanyue, Wunahe, and Pola  , Tohuluo, Julujian, Hulun, Mohe, Hedo, Peihan, Qiuci, Shule, Khotan, Anguo, Caoguo, Heguo, Muguo, Bi, Yimi, Shifanyan, Jiazhe  , Khitan and other countries also sent envoys to pay tribute."

    At that time, China's military force was strong, and frontier poetry was also magnificent. The spirit of military songs of that era was broad, powerful, far-reaching, transcendent, full of vitality and self-confidence.

    For example, He Ruobi's "The Heroic Poems of Yiyuan": Jiaohe Huqimu, Hepu Fubo Camp.  Don't let the Qilin fly without my name.

    Although Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty was notorious, he was respected as the "Saint Khan" by the Turks. "From the sky below to the earth above, the sun and the moon shine only on the Saint Khan. Today is the great day, may the Saint Khan  "Thousands of years live forever."

    There has never been an emperor in Chinese history who traveled so far westward than the emperor of the Sui Dynasty, and there has never been an emperor in a dynasty who made foreign leaders kneel down to worship him, only the Emperor of the Sui Dynasty.

    At that time, the Sui Dynasty was an emerging empire, and the Chinese nation was an open and proud nation.  So much so that some people lamented, "Now that the Chanyu Wei Bridge has been worshipped, where can the general find fame?"

    The Turkic Chanyu has surrendered and paid homage to the DPRK. Where can I go to fight and gain military exploits?

    Compared with Shan Yu's absconding at night, Shan Yu's visit to the court showed the strength of the Chinese empire and its power without fighting.

    China needs a martial spirit, and a martial spirit is indispensable, so when Li Xian proposed erecting a monument and a temple for the martial spirit, Du Rui agreed without hesitation.

    ??Wu, whoever is opposite will be destroyed.

    ??Wu, whoever disobeys will be attacked.

    Wu Gao is the country, Wu Gao*proud.
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