Liu Yu sighed and shook his head and said, "So, you only know the past and not the future. With the knowledge of your old devil, there will only be herders on behalf of the heavens, and the kings are granted these powers. However, in our later era, the wisdom of the people has been opened up. No one thinks that the emperor or kings are the ones who are born to rule themselves. There is no reason to mercenary or deprive them of these rulers. You don't think about it. If people in the world no longer respect the gods and no longer regard their lives as God's gift, how could they care about these kings in the world?"

The ancestor sneered disdainfully: "Don't respect the heavens and the gods, there will always be times when you regret it. If people do not have awe, they will despise all laws and rules in the world, and the country cannot maintain it. Just like the barbarians on the grassland, they also ignore the laws of the world. In addition to worshiping ancestors and gods, they only surrender to power and violence. I think your era was similar to barbarians on the grassland. Liu Yu, you always want to destroy the barbarians and restore China, but I think you want to become barbarians."

Liu Yu was not angry, smiled slightly, and said, "The reason why the barbarians and barbarians were unreasonable and ruled is that they have always been with wild beasts, and they are invincible in their virginity and loyalty. The fundamental basis of their tribe is to allow all tribes to survive, but later it gradually changed and became powerful leaders, who wanted to drive and enslave more tribes and serve his family. Therefore, they had to constantly compete for water and pastures, and use this as a reason to launch wars and conflicts to capture more prisoners, these prisoners, male

If a son becomes a slave, he works hard for him or joins the army to fight, while a woman will become the wives and concubines of the tribe leaders and nobles, and give birth to children for him. However, ordinary tribe members cannot get the benefits of female capturing. As time accumulates, more and more descendants are the leaders. However, ordinary tribe members, because of the lack of fighting and wounded during the war, they will slowly die out. Finally, gradually, most of the tribe members in the tribe will become different descendants of a certain ancestor. This is how the so-called common ancestor comes from."

The ancestor said coldly: "This is something that people know. You don't need to use this to educate me. Tribes will also be divided by family divisions, gradually, in a region, they are all close relatives and tribes of this common ancestor descendants. Just like you people from the Central Plains who claim to be descendants of Yan and Huang, they are actually just descendants of the two common ancestors, Yan Emperor and Huang Emperor. Those people from other tribes of the same period gradually disappeared without a descendant."

Liu Yu nodded and said, "But the one that maintains these relationships is the common ancestor, the same tribe, and the same blood ties. In our later generations, this is called a nation, just like our Chinese tribe and the descendants of Yan and Huang, which can be called a large nation. However, because nomadic grasslands and farming in the Central Plains are completely different lifestyles, and the race and blood ties are also different over time. Therefore, the people in the Central Plains gradually became called Han people, while the people in other frontiers were called ethnic minorities, such as those on the grasslands, those in the Mongolians, those in the Sushen, Liaodong, were called Manchus, and those in the Western Regions, were called Uyghurs, and so on."

The ancestor sighed: "It's just a debate between China and the barbarians. There's nothing new. It's just a different name in later generations. However, the Han people you mentioned should have been established from the Han Dynasty. In other words, you later generations have established the Han Dynasty and Liu Bang used Qin to represent the Qin Dynasty as the origin of this ethnic group?"

Liu Yu said seriously: "Yes, just like Qin Shihuang, we think he started the unified Central Plains dynasty. Unfortunately, the Qin Dynasty was too short and left a brutal reputation in history. The most important thing is that the Qin Dynasty burned books and buried scholars, and did not regard the Zhou Li Confucianism as the foundation of its values. This is inconsistent with the traditional concepts of our entire Chinese nation, or the Han people. Therefore, we later called the Han people, not the Qin people, nor the Zhou people."

The ancestor smiled slightly: "During the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the world was indeed a feudal system, with princes and tribes standing in a row. The so-called emperor was just the leader of the tribal alliance. Qin Shihuang destroyed the six kingdoms, pacified the eight deserts, and one in the four seas, setting a precedent for a unified dynasty. It was completely different from the feudal model in previous dynasties. The Han inherited the Qin system and used the Han as the clan name, which was indeed very suitable. However, you have said that there were many barbarian invasions in later generations, the Central Plains changed their ownership, and even the northern grasslands established dynasties. So the clan name will not be changed?"

Liu Yu shook his head and said seriously: "It will not change, because the military strength between the Central Plains and the grassland may be different, one will decline and the other will rise. However, in terms of culture and production capacity, there are huge differences. The grassland is dominated by strength, and the attacks and battles are constantly, and the brothers and sisters and fathers will often quickly decline rapidly due to this civil strife and finally be destroyed by outsiders. This is a fatal point that they cannot cure. The Zhou Li Confucianism system emphasizes order, divides hierarchies, and emphasizes etiquette and law. It not only solves the contradiction between the inheritance of power within the upper class of the rulers, but also appeases and rule the newly conquered people. Therefore, whether it is the current northern barbarians such as the Northern Wei Dynasty or the new barbarians entering the Central Plains in the future, they want to gain a foothold in the Central Plains, only by respecting the Zhou Li Confucianism system, and they can completely reverse their original customs and rules."

The ancestor said coldly: "That is to say, like Emperor Xuanyuan Huangdi, they entered the Central Plains with force and conquered the people of the Central Plains, but they could only serve as rulers, and in the end they had to accept a series of rules and rules of the Central Plains, learn Confucian Zhou Li and other Confucian people, and slowly transform themselves into the Han people?"

Liu Yu sighed: "Yes, this is also what Murong Lan wanted during her lifetime. She hoped that Hu and Han would resolve their hatred and finally merge into one. She was not a person from later generations, but she also had such insights. I really respect and appreciate her."
Chapter completed!