I am Da Song

Chapter 532 Wonderful Architecture
Li Chao's return to historical fate made Zhao Huan excited for a moment, but then he had doubts.

You must know that everything is the result of various internal and external factors.

In later generations, this area moved closer to the Celestial Dynasty, apart from the internal reason of "Heaven is too far away, and the Celestial Dynasty is too close", it is also because of the external Midi sharpening his sword and crazily sucking blood in order to maintain its own existence and avoid collapse.

Although the Great Song Dynasty is now unparalleled in strength, its economy is also the most prosperous in the world.

But Bingwei has not gone directly south after all.

According to the traditional characteristics of the Confucian cultural circle, all people have the same virtue, and they pay attention to being the head of a chicken rather than the tail of a phoenix.

The remnants of the Li Dynasty separatist regime in the south, called the king as the ancestor, very happy.Why did he suddenly think of offering soil to the Central Plains?

Zhao Huan didn't believe in the theory of destiny. He always believed that everyone's behavior was influenced by the environment and forced by the general trend.

So Zhao Huan asked directly: "The Hongyu Temple Minister thinks why the Li Dynasty made such an abrupt move? It stands to reason that the energy of our royal teachers is in the western Xinjiang, while the Eastern Ryukyu, Northern Mongolia, Southwest Longyou, and even Dali, In Guangdong and Guangxi, everything is ahead of Jiaonan.”

"The remnants of the Li Dynasty cannot be ignored. The imperial court has no energy to manage them. Why did they suddenly ask for surrender from the Central Plains? There must be monsters when things go wrong. What does Honglu Temple think of their land offerings?"

Tang Yi immediately said: "This is definitely not a sudden move by Li Chao. In recent years, the officials have all focused on the western border, on the Western barbarians."

"But in the eyes of Da Song, the world is vast and boundless, and it is far more than the area of ​​the Taixi people. They are just a sliver of the world, and they themselves do not have a developed civilization. As for the economy, let alone, far away It is not as good as the Nanyang feudal clans and Southwest India."

"I don't know why the officials attach so much importance to them. But in this world, how can the Taixi barbarians dare to regard themselves as the whole world?"

"In terms of population, economy, technology, and academics, they are just ordinary members of all civilizations."

"If you look away from them and pay attention to the Persian region, the Indian region, and the Nanyang region, you will find that this world is extremely vast, with heroes and heroes emerging in endlessly, rich and wealthy populations are crowded and crowded, and the level of civilization is competing for beauty."

Zhao Huan nodded involuntarily. Later generations of Westerners have mastered the right to speak in the media, and they always think that their less than one billion people are the whole world.

But in fact, if you look deeper, they only account for one-eighth to one-seventh of the world's population, and they have to be divided into two camps.

The relationship between the two camps was not harmonious either. To be specific, one side wanted to suck blood from the other side, and the other side was weakly resisting.

In terms of economy, the Taixi region used to be number one in the world, but was later surpassed by Midi and then by the Celestial Dynasty. I am afraid that it will not be long before it will be surpassed by the Alliance of Southeast Asian Nations in terms of population and economy.

They claim to represent the whole world, which is probably far from the truth.

And the crusade, which was praised by later generations as miraculous, if the myth of self-selling and boasting is thrown away, in this era, they return to the essence, which is a war of marginal barbarians.

Whether it is the number of people participating in the battle, the scale of the battle, the level of the war, or the distance of the battle, they are not necessarily comparable to the Nanyang feudal clans.

In terms of wealth and population, Nanyang is far behind.

Tang Yi said to Zhao Huan, "Does the official know about Sangxiang's house?"

Zhao Huan nodded, he still knew about this world-wide spectacle.

The name Sangxiang Foshe may be less familiar to ordinary people.

But another name, later generations will be like a thunderbolt, that is, Angkor Wat.

Sangxiang Foshe is the name given to him by the Central Plains people.

Angkor Wat, which is a world cultural heritage of Cambodia, has the same status as the Great Wall in the Central Plains, Mogao Grottoes, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum, the Silk Road in Chang'an, and the world ocean business center in Quanzhou, Song and Yuan Dynasties.

These world cultural heritages that have been passed down for thousands of years, among which Quanzhou's World Ocean Trade Center and Angkor Wat were formed in this era.

When Angkor Wat, that is, Sangxiang Buddha House, started construction, it also caused a sensation in the Central Plains.

Because it is the largest temple building in the world.

That's right, the world's largest is not in the Central Plains, but in Southeast Asia.

This is not because the architectural level of the Central Plains is not good enough. You must know that in the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Central Plains has always been famous all over the world for its architectural wonders.

The Weiyang Palace is not magnificent but has no prestige, and it has become Zhuxia's eternal memory.

Ordinary people may not have an intuitive impression of this magnificence.

For comparison, if you have been to the Forbidden City, you will find that the style of the first three halls is completely different from the style of the palace behind.

It seems that the buildings of the Three Kingdoms of Giants are mixed into a group of low huts, because the first three halls were built by Ming Dynasty.The palace at the back was repaired by the Qing Dynasty.

Compared with the first three halls, the scale of Qin and Han buildings is about ten times the gap between the first three halls and the rear palaces.

A person standing in front of the platform (site) in front of Weiyang Palace looks as small as an ant.

As history progresses, the scale of the palace becomes larger, which seems to be different from ordinary people's perception. Those who are not confident will think that the history books are talking nonsense again.

This is the consequence of not having the right to speak in the media.

If the history books of the Central Plains are not credible, then those Western histories that are completely based on conjecture without any physical evidence are as unreliable as the vulgar stories of the village.

China and the West have completely different attitudes towards the study of history.

As long as China does not have physical evidence to prove this history, even if it is recorded in history books, it is still false.

As for the West, as long as you can't prove that the history I said is false, then it is true.

Back to the large-scale buildings, the most important reason why the ancient buildings in the Central Plains are getting smaller and smaller is that there are not enough giant trees.

How tall can this giant tree be?Take the Tang Dynasty Mingtang (also called the Vientiane Shrine) as an example, its base pillar (site) has a diameter of 9.8 meters and a height of 89 meters.

And how tall is the entire Mingtang?On the basis of the base column, it is 9 meters higher, and the total is 98 meters.

98 meters!
This is the technology of the Tang Dynasty.

When will later generations have a tall building that breaks through 100 meters?
And this is not the tallest building in the Tang Dynasty, his tallest building is called Heaven.

How high is heaven?
The historical data are too exaggerated, even if every detail is clearly recorded to size, later generations dare not restore it.

However, there is a movie "Di Renjie: Tongtian Empire" that tried to restore it, and it turned out to be a good historical movie, which immediately looked like a fairy tale movie like "Shushan".

And this is only the Tang Dynasty. After the large-scale felling in the Qin and Han Dynasties, there are very few giant trees left.

You must know that "Shushan Wu, A Fang came out. The pressure is more than three hundred miles, and the sun is isolated."

This is by no means an exaggeration of the poet. In the era when there were so many giant trees left behind, the magnificent spectacle of the Central Plains was magnificent enough to isolate the sun.

Never underestimate the extent to which the ancients exploited nature.

With the disappearance of the giant trees in the Central Plains, it is necessary to go to Southeast Asia to mine the giant trees in the northeast and transport them back to the Central Plains.

So Sangxiang Buddhist House started construction in Nanyang, and the scale even caused a sensation in the Central Plains.

Not only because of its height, but also because of the giant trees in Nanyang that attracted the attention of merchants in the Central Plains.

(End of this chapter)