"Good, good...very good!" Li Shimin pointed at the TV, "Send troops immediately to investigate!"
He also shot Li Shimin blind. If Li Shimin was hurt, the Tang Dynasty would never let it go!
"Uncle, calm down. Film and television works are mainly for entertainment!" Xiao Ran comforted Li Shimin with a smile.
"No, this is a historical drama?" Li Shimin frowned. "Isn't this nonsense?"
"This is a blatant humiliation, a deliberate smear campaign against me and the Tang Dynasty. This is truly... intolerable..."
Li Shimin stood up and paced back and forth in the room.
"Uncle, calm down. This is just a joke." Xiao Ran stopped watching and picked up the remote control and pressed pause.
"History...history, you must have some basis for this! This is complete nonsense!" Li Shimin underestimated the bottom line of some people today. To be more precise, they have no bottom line.
"History is divided into official history and unofficial history. It's normal, but this one is indeed a bit too wild!" Xiao Ran also wanted to laugh.
A drama broke Li Shimin's defense.
"I've read a lot of official history, and occasionally read unofficial history, but this is the first time I've seen this kind of crap... What bad luck!" Li Shimin pointed at Xiao Ran, "Don't show me this kind of rubbish next time. It's a waste of my time!"
"What is this Yeon Gaesomun? Is he really that powerful? Does this person really exist? I doubt that he exists." Li Shimin did not remember this person.
"You probably haven't heard of my uncle yet, but he really exists. I looked him up before, and he's a capable person, not an ordinary person."
"Also known as Yeon Gae-geum, he was a Buyeo native and a highly controversial iron-fisted military dictator during the late Goguryeo period. He is mentioned numerous times in Chinese historical texts. The New Book of Tang records him as Quan Gaesomun to avoid mentioning his name, while the Old Book of Tang records him as Qian Gaesomun."
"He's not worthy of it!"
This made Li Shimin very angry.
Li Lizhi and Empress Changsun didn't know what to say for a moment.
"I have to go back and talk to Li Jing, Li Shiji and the others. I can't wait any longer."
Now Li Shimin was in a very bad mood and felt extremely humiliated.
"Your Majesty, it's New Year's Day, there's no need to rush these two days." Empress Changsun pulled Li Shimin, knowing that Li Shimin was angry.
"Xiao Ran, let me see the map. I want to see where this country is now."
Xiao Ran picked up Li Shimin's tablet, opened the web page and searched the world map.
"Hey, uncle, this is the map of our planet."
Xiao Ran put down the tablet computer and said, "The red one is the current territory of China."
"So this is what the earth looks like..." Li Shimin was shocked when he saw the world map for the first time.
Li Lizhi and Empress Changsun were also curious.
"No... The world is so big, why is China so small?"
"Ah???" Li Shimin's soul asked, and Xiao Ran was a little confused for a moment.
"Uncle, it's actually not that small anymore. Now China is ranked third!"
"Humph! Only third... My great China is only third..." Li Shimin waved his hand, "No way!"
Li Shimin pointed at the map and said, "These should all belong to us. Why aren't they ours now?"
Xiao Ran scratched the back of his head. "Uncle, I'm just an ordinary person. This is not your concern. The territory has become like this after many years of evolution. Compared to the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, it may be worse..."
"This is more than just a little short!" Li Shimin was very dissatisfied with the current territory. "The world is so big, but we only occupy such a small part, and we are already ranked third..."
"Uncle, these are not my concerns, and you can't influence them either. Let's get down to business!"
Xiao Ran pointed at the map and said, "My China is five thousand years old, a developing country. I have two idiots around me. One is a cultural thief, and the other is a motherless person! Their combined minds are worth eighteen thousand!"
Li Shimin looked at Xiao Ran, "You don't seem to have a good impression of these two!"
"Most people don't like them, but there are also some who like them... Everyone has their own preferences!" Xiao Ran couldn't understand the mentality of those who liked these two neighbors and praised them in various ways.
Although these two neighbors have their merits, they are just annoying!
"This is where the TV series is filmed, right?" Li Shimin pointed at the peninsula.
"It's the one in the south. The one in the north is now on friendly terms. They are different."
"What do you mean by stealing culture?" Li Shimin didn't quite understand.
"This shameless thing said that Chinese characters belong to them."
Li Shimin was shocked. "Chinese characters? Are they theirs?"
"Is he crazy?"
"We say we have a history of five thousand years, and they say they have a history of eight thousand years!" Xiao Ran was also annoyed.
"Okay, okay, I will ask their king to come to Chang'an City and tell me in person who owns Chinese characters and how many years of history they have." Li Shimin was also annoyed when he heard this.
"Some also claim they own chopsticks, the Dragon Boat Festival, traditional Chinese medicine, printing, papermaking, even tug-of-war, painting, kang heating, wrestling, falconry... the list goes on."
Hearing this, Li Shimin's blood pressure rose.
"It's just such a small place. We looked down on it before. Why are they so arrogant now? Shouldn't we beat them up?" Li Shimin now wished he could lead the army in person.
The Tang Dynasty would not allow such a powerful country to exist around it.
"Uncle, times have changed. They are completely different from before. You will understand it slowly in the future."
Li Lizhi was also puzzled. "I can understand stealing things, but stealing culture? What's the point? Aren't these things something we can learn from each other?"
"Because he has nothing, he has low self-esteem and is nothing. His neighbor happens to be wealthy, and for some special reasons, he can't beat him up, so he can do whatever he wants."
"This is the first time I've heard of such a shameless country." Li Lizhi never thought of using the word shameless to describe a country.
But I feel this word is very appropriate.
"Okay, okay... I've remembered all of this! It's not convenient here, but it's very convenient for me in the Tang Dynasty. Although it's a bit difficult, I can't swallow this."
"Where's the other one?" Li Shimin pointed to the other side of the peninsula.
"This is even more abominable! He invaded China in modern times, resulting in over 35 million casualties and at least 280 million unnatural deaths in China."
"How many?" Li Shimin's eyes widened. "No, no... He's the only one who dared to start trouble? So many people died?"
Not to mention 280 million, even 35 million was a scary number in the Tang Dynasty. There were not so many people during the Zhenguan period.
Now in the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, there were only more than 10 million people, and they had not yet recovered from the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty.
The death of 35 million people had a huge impact on Li Shimin and his colleagues.
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