The broadcast of the fourth episode of "A Brief Talk on Western History" gradually opened up a major discussion in the historical community on the axis era, and also aroused the strong interest of many netizens in this at the first time.

Professor Diao then published an article "On the Causes of the Axis Age" on the "Chinese Studies Age" app. In his article, he proposed three possible reasons for the Cause of the Axis Age:

First: Thanks to the obvious progress of human productivity and the separation of physical labor and mental labor, a considerable number of people can separate from labor and specialize in mental labor. (In the article, a variety of forces such as Confucius' acceptance of disciples are listed)

To put it bluntly, when humans don’t care about food, clothing and expenses, they still analyze what philosophy and science they study, and how can they have free money and leisure?

Secondly, the development of the economy and the use of iron weapons have expanded the scale of ancient wars, expanded the area and scope of human activities, and thus broadened the horizons of human understanding, observation, and understanding the objective world, and improved human ability to understand the world.

Third, it is thanks to the realization of human potential inspired by social contradictions and struggle.

During the Axial Age, social unrest in the East and West: the Five Hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period; India, Mogadha, Josaro and other states competed for hegemony for a long time; in Greece, Sparta, Athens and other states, the struggle for hegemony was on land and at sea, one after another, intermittent...

This point of view can be summarized in one sentence: heroes come from troubled times!

Professor Diao wrote a line of words at the end of his article: The point of view of this article comes from the lecture of the famous scholar Mr. Li Fan.

Well, I heard it from Li Fan’s lecture. However, Li Fan only summarized it in a few sentences. Professor Diao extracted three of them for detailed analysis and research.

In other words, Li Fan's short words and it took Professor Diao's articles thousands of words.

On Thursday, a clip of Lin Feng’s lecturer in class by Renmin University’s lecturer was exposed on the Internet.

In the online video, Lin Feng analyzed the Axis of the Popular Topics and believed that the main reason was:

All civilizations have produced elites, and the elites have broken through the ground and provided fertile soil for the arrival of the Axial Age.

During this period, ancient Greek slavery was developed, citizens were generally educated, and philosophers were highly respected; India produced a Brahman sacrificial class, which led to anti-Brahman thoughts, and Jainism and Buddhism were born; while China produced a scholar class.

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This view was also mentioned in Li Fan's lecture.

Ouyang Changqing, director of the History Department of Beijing Normal University, published an article focusing on the relationship between the great population migration and the Axial Age.

Professor Chenhua Su Wu was interviewed and discussed separately the main reasons for the emergence of India's Axis era and believed that it was important to have a connection with the socio-economic changes at that time.

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For a time, the historical community suddenly entered a big discussion on the Axis Age. In this era when the network was extremely developed, discussions about the Axis Age were spread all over the Internet.

However, no matter how the historical community discusses it, it is basically discussed under the theoretical framework provided by Li Fan.

In the lecture, Li Fan only talked about the Axial Age in a general way because of the program duration and content that was too rich. Although each view may only have a few sentences, it contains a large amount of content worthy of wide discussion and analysis.

This is also the reason why Li Fan decided to publish a book. The theory and research of the Axial Age cannot be finished in just one or two sentences.

After several days of fermentation, discerning people have discovered that although some historians have published research on the Axial Age, none of them have separated from Li Fan's lecture content, as if the historians' discussions were conducted under the framework given by Li Fan.

When Professor Diao read his colleagues' analysis of the Axial Age, he couldn't help but sigh, wondering: Why is Li Fan so awesome?

There is no way to do this, Li Fan’s standing height is too high.

During a week, the discussions in newspapers, magazines, the Internet, news, Weibo, etc., entered a period of explosion. It was during this period that Li Fan was preparing to sign a sky-high contract.

Jingda University Press, located in the northwest corner of Jingcheng University, belongs directly to Jingcheng University. Today, they were lucky enough to sign Li Fan’s new future book.

The four major publishing houses in China are the People's Literature Publishing House, Zhonghua Book Company, Commercial Press and Sanlian. As for the Peking University Publishing House, their fame and strength are incomparable to the four major publishing houses.

They had negotiated a preliminary agreement with Sister Jiang. Today, the final details will be discussed soon, and the last step before signing the contract.

The reason why Jingda University Press won was not because Li Fan was a student of Jingda University, but because they issued the highest royalty for writers in Chinese history, 25%.

This sky-high royalty has set a new record of 21% of the highest royalty since the founding of the People's Republic of China!

Literature is not worth a lot of money. Not to mention ordinary writers, they are famous writers. The royalties are generally only about 1%, and there are only a handful of them in China who can achieve 15%.

This 25% royalty contract has basically squeezed the profits of Jingda Publishing House to a very small extent.

Sister Jiang just brought her assistant to the downstairs of Jingda University Press. As soon as the president of Jingda University Press and others came, her phone suddenly rang.

People's Literature Publishing House suddenly threw out a 26% royalty, continuing to raise the new record of the highest royalty in history.

After putting down the phone, Sister Jiang's eyes were full of apology. The president of Jingda Publishing House was full of heart but not enough, and she was heartbroken and regretful, and failed.

Two days later, People's Literature Publishing House officially held the "New Book Signing Ceremony and Media Meeting".

Li Fan got up early that morning, washed his face and brushed his teeth, and dressed neatly, so he went to the cafeteria to have breakfast.

The breakfast standard was 4 buns and a bowl of porridge, plus a small plate of pickles, but today he had a big appetite and was not full, so he raised his chopsticks and reached out to Gu Yating's plate.

"You go to make your own food. I'm a regular beauty meal!" Gu Yating pulled open his chopsticks.

"Beauty meal? Is your soy milk fried dough sticks a beauty meal?"

Li Fan went to the canteen window and grabbed two buns. When he was sitting back on his seat, he saw Gu Yating looking at him with a frown. Li Fan said in confusion: "What's wrong? I'm immersed in my beauty and can't extricate myself?"

Gu Yating raised her mouth slightly and asked, "Is the 26% royalty given to you by People's Literature Press before or after tax?"

“Before tax, of course, it’s before tax.”

"Oh!" Gu Yating began to settle accounts, "If this book is priced at 49 yuan and the total sales volume is 30,000 yuan, then the pre-tax income is 49x30,000 x.26, which is 3.22 million yuan.

According to the Chinese law, 3.22 million x(1-.2)=35 If friends know, they will definitely criticize me for insulting the RMB!”

My aunt laughed: "Yes, there is nothing we can do about this. Who said we are celebrities in society? Pay attention to every bit, and Xiao Fanfan finally changed his name successfully."

Erha heard his name again, then suddenly jumped to his aunt, rubbed it affectionately, and raised his big paws to him.

My aunt and Gu Yating both burst into tears. It was over. The whole afternoon of the dog's homework was in vain.

Li Fan asked, "Are you finally willing to change your name to Erha?"

Gu Yating said: "Of course, you think about it. Once you shouted "Xiaofan", you and Xiaofan came over at the same time. Are you embarrassed or a dog embarrassed?!"

Li Fan was speechless, "What did you think of before?"

Gu Yating said: "The key is that I am coming. If the aunt comes to the house and calls 'Xiaofan', I will be embarrassed when you run over with the dog."

Li Fan was sweating violently and then joined the ranks of dog training.

Faced with the scattered thoughts surrounding the four people, the dog collapsed and hummed.

At this time, Li Fan's cell phone rang, and Li Fanyi didn't notice that he pressed the hands-free button.

The call was made by Li Ma, and Li Ma's happy voice came out: "Xiaofan, what are you doing?"
Chapter completed!