Chapter 38 A Debate Competition
Classical literature majors have access to many ancient books and classics. They record records of the Western Regions in the Qin and Han Dynasties such as "Historical Records", "Hanshu", "Houhanshu", and "Wei Lue" I went through all the books and listed these contents, which proves that Liu Hongmin's paper is highly credible.
No one has ever studied world history like this before. Liu Hongmin opened a door for them, and it seemed like there was a whole new world inside.
Their subjective initiative was mobilized, and under the leadership of Ge Chaoguang, they did a lot of research. According to the schedule theory proposed by Liu Hongmin and with reference to the topographic maps of Central and Western Asia, they re-created the route map of Gan Ying's mission, proving that Gan Ying finally arrived in the Mediterranean.
A few of the students who were interested in military affairs specifically studied "The Expedition of Alexander". The author of this book is Arrian of ancient Greece. It is the earliest historical work describing Alexander's Eastern Campaign.
Soon, they discovered that Alexander, with 30,000 spearmen, traveled more than 100,000 kilometers on two legs and captured 5.5 million square kilometers of land in just ten years.
You must know that our army's Long March lasted two years and traveled 25,000 miles. On average, it is more than 6,200 kilometers per year, which has been hailed as a miracle in the history of human warfare.
Although the Long March required climbing snow-capped mountains and crossing grasslands, the marching speed was sometimes very slow. But no matter how slow it is, can it be faster than siege of a city?
Even if the cities in Central and Western Asia are small, they do not have city walls. But even if you lean against the fence, you can withstand it for three to five days, right? Three days and five days for a city, one year for a hundred cities.
What's more, his enemy, the King of Persia, also has 20,000 cavalry. Even if the spearmen restrain the cavalry, will they still run away if they can't defeat him? Can two legs hunt down four legs?
If the King of Persia was so determined, how could he wait until Alexander attacked? The country has long been destroyed.
Even if the battle is just a formality, when you reach the edge of the city, open the door and surrender. So how to solve your food and grass problem? It can’t all be about fighting to support fighting, right?
That’s an army of 30,000 people. How much food do they need to eat every day? There are deserts over there in West Asia. How can local food supply an army of 30,000 people?
How many people are needed to transport it from Greece? Without vehicles, the baggage troops would be at least ten times larger than the combat troops.
And after ten years of fighting, Alexander's army not only did not decrease but actually increased by 20,000. Look at our Long March, from 300,000 to 30,000 in two years, it is clear which one is really fighting.
This textual research article immediately made the world history professors jump and scold them. Why are your Chinese departments meddling in the academic disputes between our history departments?
On the contrary, the students felt something was wrong. It would be fine if Liu Hongmin was talking nonsense alone. The entire class of classical literature majors testified for him, which was a problem.
Although the classical literature major has a good relationship with Liu Hongmin, they are definitely not to the extent that they would wade into troubled waters for him.
Coupled with the Chinese Department's voice on "Unnamed Lake", many students of world history were shaken. The professor is indeed authoritative, but "Weiming Lake" is also authoritative.
There is nothing academic about the Chinese department’s article, they just say that anyone is allowed to express their opinion. The title of Liu Hongmin's paper said it was speculation, and even speculation was not allowed. This is not the academic atmosphere that Peking University should have.
Voltaire said, "I don't agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it!"
Students of world history deeply agree with this sentence in the article. If Liu Hongmin is not allowed to speak, what will be the difference from a few years ago?
The special period has just passed, and the students have not forgotten this suffering. Now that I see world history comprehensively suppressing Liu Hongmin, I suddenly feel sad and naturally side with Liu Hongmin.
Zha Jianying organized students to go to the teaching building of the History Department and demand an open debate.
"The reason cannot be explained clearly, and the words cannot be explained clearly. Since you think Liu Hongmin is wrong, then we will make it clear to you face to face."
Being blocked by so many students, the professors paused My face feels dull. Not fighting means they are afraid, so they can only fight bravely. They are lucky and don't think these Chinese students will have good historical knowledge. When an expert beats an outsider, I have the advantage.
However, they did not know that Zha Jianying and the others had internal contacts in the history department.
Professor Tao asked Zhao Zhizhong to send a book list to Zou Shifang, and Zou Shifang immediately sent the book list to Ge Chaoguang.
Ge Chaoguang took students majoring in classical literature to check the information, summarized the information, and then handed it over to Zha Jianying, who majored in literature to design a speech.
Zha Jianying took the lead as the first debater, opening his mouth with a lot of questions.
"Dear professors, if our country wants to confirm whether history really exists, it mainly relies on the dual dialectics, that is, historical books plus archaeological discoveries. So, are there any historical records about Alexander's Eastern Expedition? "Alexander's Expedition" I have read that the above records are not as good as "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and its author Arian does not even understand military common sense..."
A series of dozens of unreasonable records about the "Alexander Expedition" After speaking out, Zha Jianying finally asked: "What do the professors think about these questions?"
There was silence on the other side, and the four world history professors didn't know how to answer.
They have never examined "Alexander's Expedition" in this way, so naturally they cannot answer these questions.
This world history work was published in China as early as the 1920s, and has always been used as a basis for studying the history of Alexander's Eastern Expedition.
Not just at home, but also abroad. The rest of the research materials are basically from the 17th and 18th centuries, which is too far away from the Alexander period, and the content is basically derived from "Alexander's Expedition".
Many foreign scholars have questioned the authenticity of this book, and some in China have also questioned it, but they have all been suppressed by these world history students.
This group of people regard it as a standard, how can they allow others to question it?
"Little girl, you are still young and do not understand the value of this book. In the process of historical transmission, it will be copied many times, and copying errors are normal. It was definitely not like this at the beginning. , but since we have not found the original version, we can only study Greek history through it..."
Zha Jianying frowned. This professor didn't take this debate seriously at all!
Then she was not polite, "Professor, can I think that most of the content of "Alexander's Expedition" is false? Maybe Alexander only reached Egypt or the Red Sea, and maybe he even hit the target. You have never set foot in Asia or South Asia?”
“How dare you say that?”
The professor’s nose was so angry that he said, “That’s nonsense!”
(End of this chapter)