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Chapter 1 Where is the Homeland

At that time, Tiemuer envoyed Song, as the prince of the enemy country, not only could he go to the inn, but he could also go out to the streets to play, but no one did anything to him. It can be said that he treated him according to courtesy. However, Li Siyan's identity was far inferior to him. Not only was he scolded by the court officials, but he was also besieged by the people on the way back to the inn, and he was scolded by the people. If it weren't for the escort of officers and soldiers, he would be inevitable.

Zhao Bing knew that the reason why Li Siyan caused the indignation of the court and the public was that he was not only a Han Chinese, but also a serious Song people who passed the imperial examination and became an official in the Song Dynasty. In theory, he should have been chasing the Song Dynasty and serving the country with death. However, when the Mongols and Yuan occupied Jiangnan, he accepted the enlistment of the enemy country and became an official in the Mongolian Yuan. He also came to bargain with the Song Dynasty and spoke for the enemy, which was a traitor and traitor.

The matter stopped for this and was becoming increasingly fierce. The Bureau of Affairs reported that someone was planning to attack the inn where Li Siyan lived, and even prepared to intercept him in the street. Zhao Bing was shocked when he heard about it. Assassinating envoys from other countries was an extremely bad incident, both ancient and modern times, and issued an order to investigate immediately and strengthen the protection of the inn to ensure the safety of the Mongolian Yuan mission personnel.

Zhao Bing could also express his understanding of the excessive behavior of the subjects of the Song Dynasty. As an angry young man in his previous life, he had this idea. Even when he came to this world, he hated traitors. At the beginning of the defense of Qiongzhou and the recovery of Jiangnan, all captured Mongolian officials were immediately executed, and ordinary soldiers were punished for hard labor. He would never let go of the traitors who had surrendered to the enemy. The raids who searched for their families and did hard labor were the lightest, and they would harm their descendants.

However, as the war deepened, the front line crossed the traditional border of the Southern Song Dynasty and penetrated into the enemy's territory. Zhao Bing felt that this policy would no longer apply. You could not implement the extermination policy and slaughter everyone. Theoretically, the areas within the Central Plains and the Great Wall were all traditionally dominated by the Han people, that is, the scope of the country. Most of them were Han people. Do you still have to kill each other?

In history, the so-called "Northern Hu, Nan Barbarians, Dongyi and West Di" means the hangling meat under the neck of an animal, which extends to refer to the northern ethnic groups that eat nomadic meat. Today's "Hu Lai", "Hu Saying", and "Hu Wan" are all the descriptions of the barbaric behavior of the Hu people on that day; Barbarians, Southern Barbarians, snakes, Mencius once said: The man with the Southern Barbarians' tongue; the human figure carrying a big bow means the hunter; Di means hunting with a hunter.

"The Literature of Zhou·Zhifang" says: The people of the Four Barbarians, Eight Barbarians, Seven Mins, Nine Hehe, Five Rongs, and Six Di. "The Literary·Shidi" says: Nine Barbarians, Eight Di, Seven Rongs, and Six Barbarians are called Four Seas. People who regard the surrounding ethnic minorities as wild animals or who also carry wild animals totems, and names are related to animals, insects, dogs, bows and arrows, and are not within the eyes of equality of the Han civilization and development.

The guests in the four fields are not humans. "If you are not my race, your heart will be different." This concept is very popular. However, later these guests in the four fields have become Chinese, so the name "China" should be changed to "Huaxia". The original meaning of "China" is just "Central Plains". Treating others and yourself with this attitude will result in stupid arrogance and closed refusal, refusal to admit that others are equal human beings.

As a modern human being, Zhao Bing knew that the evolutionary history of human beings was actually the history of the fusion of human blood ties. Even in ancient times, it was also a historical process of the gradual merger of foreign races between the Eastern and Westerners. If the old scholars knew that they were born with the same roots as foreign races, and even had to be genetically related to Europeans and Africans, they didn't know what to think of them.

However, Zhao Bing thought that these corrupt scholars with bloodlines also knew very well that the so-called Han blood was no longer pure, but just pretending to be deaf and mute on this issue. Just as this dynasty was just about being chaotic, after the demise of the Tang Dynasty, after hundreds of years of turmoil between the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, during which foreign races invaded the Central Plains and established regimes many times. During this period, assimilation and intermarriage were inevitable among different ethnic groups. The Song Dynasty was based on this basis.

The later Song Dynasty also carried out a historical movement of hybrid ethnic cultures on the vast North China Plain. The ethnic minorities in the north continued to intermarry with the Han people in North China. Even the hostile Khitans in the Song Dynasty "those who taught Han officials followed the Han rituals and listened to marriage with Han people." After the Liao Kingdom occupied the North China Plain, most of the Han people were "transferred households" and were assigned to each "Ganluduo". Therefore, every tribe had Han people integrated into the Khitan army as soldiers.

The Jin Kingdom organized the Han people and Jurchens to form a social-military organization composed of fifty to three hundred households, with the heads being the Jurchens. In this way, in fact, the Liao and the Jins of the Khitans went to war to the Song Dynasty in the south, and many Han people from the North China Plain participated. When Mongolia destroyed the Jin and entered the Central Plains, they simply classified the Khitans, Jurchens, Bohai people, etc. as Han people.

Therefore, the cultural connotation of the concept of "Han people" is becoming more and more mixed at this time and no longer has a blood-related significance. In his previous life, Zhao Bing also knew that there had been many debates about the significance of the country. Under the framework of modern civilization, the wars between the Central Plains dynasty and the Khitan, Jurchen and Mongolia that had entered the control were civil wars, such as Temujin, Wanyan Aguda and Nurhaci, who could all be regarded as heroes who expanded their territory. However, from the national standpoint, these people were enemies and barbarians who invaded the Central Plains.

Now, no matter who is right or wrong, Zhao Bing knows that the latter view occupies the mainstream in history. Patriotism in ancient China is intricately entangled with complex national and regional issues. The country he loves is the Han country, which is closely related to nationalism and the concept of the Central Plains. The same is true in the current Song Dynasty.

Ironically, the fate of Chinese history is as follows: civilization first flourishes in the central area, and the surrounding areas are backward ethnic areas, but the northern nomadic peoples are militarized nations, occupying a high position, and always covets the wealthy Central Plains region. First, the backward ethnic groups in the border areas were obedient, the people of the Central Plains despise despise the four fields, and then the Central Plains politics became corrupt.

In order to preserve his throne, the emperor weakened the country's military power, which led to substantial backwardness. Therefore, the people of Hu, Qiang, Jie, and Manchu took the opportunity to invade, and civilized culture had to give in step by step. When the Central Plains culture was overwhelmed, civilization lost to barbarism, the boss retreated and lost his territory to guard the land, and the Han people gradually gave up with decent defeat. Then, the distant guest entered the Central Plains, and the vassal became a great country, and the Han people became inferior people.

Later, history became a reality. The Han people gradually regarded the barbarians of that year as their masters, and the mixed races of ethnic minorities and ethnic minorities were mixed into one. The country they loved in the past was outdated, and it was no longer appropriate to insist on loving the old country. Later, the new masters were gradually sinicized and inherited the corrupt nature of Han culture. Feudal culture became increasingly degenerate. The feudal dynasty that lag behind the rule of ethnic groups gathered the negative culture of the Han and ethnic minorities, and once again headed to the downward slope of history.

History and reality have repeatedly told Zhao Bing that the people in the occupied areas often do not care much about who the master of this country is. Times have changed, and people will gradually accept the facts. Fan Chengda of this dynasty went to Jin to pass through the hometown of the Northern Song Dynasty north of the Huai River, and wrote many poems and a diary "Langguilu". One of the quatrains reads: The north and south of the Zhouqiao is Tianjie, and the elders are waiting to return every year; they bear the tears and ask the messengers when the six armies will come.

However, in Zhao Bing's view, Fan Dacheng was cheating clearly, but his diary recorded the real facts: the people have been accustomed to Hu customs for a long time, and their attitudes and hobbies have changed. When they passed Xiangzhou, they just said: "Li Li often shed tears and sighed, and instructed people, "This is a Chinese Buddhist!'" Where did the old man dare to stop the Song Dynasty envoy on the streets of Nanjing, Jin Dynasty and ask why the Song army did not fight back to their hometown!

Three years later, Han Yuanji went to the Jin Dynasty to envoy, and recorded that the envoys avoided suspicion, hid in the car, and did not dare to talk to the local people. He got out of the car to ask for water and drank, and encountered children and women, and used language to test it, and asked his confidants to secretly ask them many times, "Then I knew that the people in the Central Plains were there, and they always hated that we could not take it!" At present, Zhao Bing had encountered enemies on the battlefield in previous wars over the years, and the enemy they encountered on the battlefield were also the Han people from the northern part of the Han people and the surrendered troops of the Southern Song Dynasty. There were much more than the Mongols, and they were also more fierce.

In Zhao Bing's view, the main reason for this kind of thing is that the dynasty was constantly subverted and the regime changed frequently in Chinese history, which left an extremely embarrassing problem for ordinary people: Which country should we be loyal to? Which emperor should we be loyal to? So in the hearts of some Chinese people, the concept of not loving the country was developed, so there is a natural reason to become a betrayer.

Since we do not have a country that we can love sincerely forever and the country is also the emperor, then betrayal has become a natural and strange thing, which has left people with the impression that there are many traitors since ancient times. Those who love the Song Dynasty are rebellious and rebels in the eyes of the Mongols; those who are loyal to the Mongols will be scolded by the Han people as lackeys and traitors.

However, as time goes by, most people choose to surrender. No one rebelled in order to restore the previous dynasty, and those Confucians would put down their figure and go into the court of foreigners. At this time, whoever shouted to restore the previous dynasty would not only be wiped out by the dynasty, but also by thousands of people in the country would be criticized by them.
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