"Since that's the case, who will be responsible for this matter?" Li Shimin asked.

When Jing Wen heard Li Shimin's agreement, he also took the initiative to say: "Your Majesty, since this matter is done, I will personally supervise this matter. As long as I personally supervise it, this plan can be truly realized! After all, if those Confucian scholars do this, they may not even bother to learn the classics of those foreigners."

Jing Wen believes that only he can do this. After all, ancient Chinese people had a blind arrogance, especially literati. They believed that they were the core part of the world and were disdainful of cultures in other places. This situation is actually because China has been leading in East Asia for a long time, so they developed this habit. They have no idea about the West and are not willing to understand it at all, so they are also a manifestation of Yelang's arrogance. They don't know how big the world is, so they are just limited to East Asia. It is not surprising that they have this Yelang mentality.

Therefore, Jing Wen believes that this matter can only be supervised by himself, so that the so-called translation of foreign literature can be truly realized and foreign works are promoted in China. If those local Chinese literati were allowed to do such things, they would be able to end up being a mess and not being able to do anything at all, which would ruin Jing Wen’s cultural export plan.

"Your Majesty, I hope that other yamen will not interfere in this Tongwenguan, but it is a place that is specifically responsible for the cultural output. Because if other yamen interfere, there will probably be many variables. However, Tongwenguan is not as good as Hongwenguan. Hongwenguan is just a place for teaching and teaching, but Tongwenguan is a place used to spread culture. The great responsibility can be imagined. So if other yamen interfere casually, it may be easily constrained. So please don't let other yamen interfere casually!" Jing Wen said.

"Okay, since this is the case, it is to set up the Tongwenguan in the sub-district province, and the status is from the third rank! No one can easily interfere. And you will supervise it in the future, and you will choose the official positions here. You can hire some foreigners to be used as these translators, and then see if we can translate some good things. We can even translate some of our books, and then bring them to others when needed!" Li Shimin said.

Jing Wen immediately burst into an inspiration and said, "Your Majesty, you might as well set an example in the future. If a foreigner comes to my Tang Dynasty, we should not give too many wealth gifts, but send books specifically. We will give them to foreigners so that they can bring them back to their country through business. Then it will naturally spread. After all, culture is the greatest wealth, and knowledge is wealth. With the emperor, you personally set an example, those foreigners will definitely study the books we translated so that they can spread them to each other."

"Most of those foreigners who can come to our Tang Dynasty are big names in their own country, either rich or have rights. We can borrow them as examples and let the whole nation pursue our Central Plains culture. Isn't this a very good result?" Jing Wen asked.

Jingwen's meaning is actually to let Li Shimin set an example. Then he gave foreigners the works of his own country, and then asked foreigners to study it like this. In fact, this kind of thing has also happened in later generations. Foreign officials gave Chinese officials some local cultural products, and Chinese officials also gave foreign officials some special cultural souvenirs. In short, these are things with special cultural connotations. But do these really want to commemorate? In fact, this is just to promote culture with each other, and in fact it is to promote culture so that everyone can learn.

Of course, this method was already a means of being played with in later generations. But it was still very interesting in ancient times. In this era, countries did not send any books, but gold, silver and jewelry. Those vassal states came to pay tribute, and the Central Plains dynasty were not given several times the wealth to them. This reflected the wealth of the Central Plains dynasty. However, Jing Wen scoffed at this behavior, so now he changed to send books. Anyway, knowledge is priceless, what else can you say? As for those of them who took it back to their homeland, it naturally allowed those citizens to start learning.

After all, those rich and powerful people can be used as examples, especially public figures can be used as examples. If foreign public figures can learn Chinese culture, then ordinary people will follow suit. Isn’t that good? So Jing Wen is just deliberately playing with them and asking them to learn Chinese culture, so that they can spread Chinese culture well.

"Then I will order in a few days that those foreign merchants in Chang'an and with certain strength can give some gifts from their own country. Anyone who went to the Western Regions to do business in the Tang Dynasty must give some of their own classics to foreign merchants. What do you think?" Li Shimin asked.

Jing Wen immediately said: "The emperor is wise. If these foreign merchants have obtained books from my Tang Dynasty, it must be very good. They will definitely study it carefully and then become the messengers of our Tang Dynasty's cultural communication. We can also hire many foreigners to promote our culture. After all, they are all the same race, and it is easier for them to win each other's trust. If our Tang Dynasty people go to foreign countries, they must have a natural sense of rejection. But if we hire a group of foreigners to spread culture, they will definitely achieve miraculous results."

"Yes, this method is good. The idea that none of my race will have different minds is not necessarily unique to my Tang Dynasty Central Plains. If we can hire foreigners to promote it, then under the publicity of our compatriots, we will definitely achieve miraculous results." Li Shimin also agreed.

In fact, this is what later generations call the so-called foreign countries supporting traitors to slander Chinese culture and then promote foreign culture. Many traitors and literati also do this, relying on foreign money and then slandering Chinese culture for foreign countries. Now Jing Wen is so alike and is adopted by Westerners of this period. All this is Jing Wen and theirs, not Jing Wen takes the initiative! As for them, it will be miserable. They never dreamt that these are Jing Wen deliberately used the means of their descendants to deal with them. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better and faster!

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