Chapter 635: The Difficult Argument
Chen Kan stayed in the military camp for two days, and Wu Jing also stayed with Chen Kan for two days. Later, he called his martial arts teacher, confirmed Chen Kan's identity, and immediately turned off the itinerary for the next day. He was shameless and stayed in the military camp with Chen Kan for two more days on the pretext of hoping that Chen Kan would treat himself.
Chen Kan had no objection to this. People just need to know how to seize opportunities, otherwise how can they seize success.
Chen Kan had no objection, so Masayoshi Son naturally had no objection. It was rare that Chen Kan had to spend the night in the military camp, which was to cultivate the relationship between a comrade-in-arms. Secondly, with such plenty of time, the soldiers of the Sword Brigade would naturally learn from Chen Kan in various ways. If he opposed the anger of Chen Kan, he would be devastated.
That night, Chen Kan experienced the nightlife of the military camp again, which was very different from the nightlife of the US military. The Sword Brigade also organized a large bonfire party and there were people from the art troupe to perform.
The next morning, Chen Kan gave a fighting class to the people of the Lijian Team. This time he explained boxing. The sport of boxing has a long history and it is not unreasonable that it can be so popular all over the world. It is a minimalist fighting art.
After this boxing talk, Chen Kan basically finished talking about several famous fighting types in the world, including Sanda, Karate, Judo, Muay Thai, Taekwondo, boxing, etc.
After these were finished, their foundation was basically laid. Chen Kan taught them the fighting technique created by Captain America back then. Chen Kan was too lazy to name it, so he called it "mixed fighting technique", which was a bit of a mess.
Chen Kan left the military camp that afternoon, and Wu Jing also left. Wu Jing originally had an itinerary today. As an artist, he had many things to do without help. However, in order to learn from Chen Kan this time, he turned off his original itinerary.
After Chen Kan went to his senior sister Weng Xiupin's house for dinner, he exchanged some recent reading experiences, and then left Jinling with Dong Bing and returned to Zhonghai.
After that, he stayed in Zhonghai for a while, and Dong Bing began to write her papers, and Chen Kan focused on his own affairs. This time, Chen Kan also found a lot of relevant information from the Song Dynasty, which was enough for Chen Kan to work hard for a while.
As the research progresses step by step, everything becomes more and more difficult, especially if it encounters conflicts between historical materials, it will be very deadly and requires rigorous reasoning and verification.
The more severe the conflict between historical materials, the more difficult it is to argue. Many doctoral students ignore the conflicting materials when writing papers, that is, the historical materials that are not conducive to their own argumentation, because it is too difficult to sort out the conflicting materials.
However, Chen Kan cannot do this. If Chen Kan wants to write a masterpiece, he must stand the test and face all the conflicting materials. This Chen Kan has caused great difficulties.
Let me give you the most typical example, Qin Shihuang’s origin problem.
In "Records of the Grand Historian", there are two different statements about Qin Shihuang's origin. In the classics of Qin Shihuang, there is no problem with his identity, which is the son of Qin Yiren's father, but the problem occurs in the biographies of Lu Buwei. In the biographies, Ying Zheng became Lu Buwei's son.
This is why so many film and television works have set Qin Shihuang as the son of Lu Buwei. This is easy to understand. This kind of shooting can attract more attention and ignite the audience's gossip. This also leads to many people now thinking that Qin Shihuang is Lu Buwei's son.
In fact, this is a mystery in history about who Qin Shihuang was. The mystery created by Sima Qian personally has no direct evidence to prove it. If you want to know, you can only do a DNA comparison.
However, this is impossible now, so we can only conduct rigorous logical reasoning. The mainstream view in the historical community now tends to believe that there is no blood relationship between Qin Shihuang and Lu Buwei. How did this view come about? This is thanks to Chen Kan.
The first part of Chen Kan's master's thesis provides a detailed discussion and meticulous reasoning on this point. It cannot be said that it is correct, but it can ensure that it is closest to the truth. At least Chen Kan convinced many scholars.
In history books, the reason why there is a saying that Qin Shihuang was the son of Lu Buwei was because Lu Buwei invested in politics, that is, Qin Shihuang's father Qin Yiren. Lu Buwei gave one of his singer Zhao Ji to Qin Yiren as his wife. It is said that Zhao Ji had been pregnant with Lu Buwei's genius before, and this person was Ying Zheng.
How credible is this statement? It is actually very small.
In this world, most cultures will eventually enter patriarchal society. One of the reasons is that men want their descendants to inherit property, while women do not know who the children they have given birth to are.
In ancient times, people didn’t know what eggs were. At that time, men and women often made random moves, and women didn’t know who the child they gave birth to was.
As long as a man controls the woman well, he knows that the baby is his own and can hand over his property to his children with confidence. Therefore, men take his own women very seriously and cannot make people mess around.
This is also the reason why the descendants were highly valued in ancient times. Just like the concubines of the Qing Dynasty mentioned earlier, they all had to be tracked and recorded. Every pregnant concubine was a treasure. For example, in film and television works, the concubines would have to be miscarried at any time. That was because the concubines had to record every move and could not hide anything you did.
In "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", Empress He poisoned the beautiful Wang, but she was known, and she was not killing the fetus, but killing the beautiful Wang.
In the Warring States Period, it was still a relatively strict hierarchy society. At that time, he valued bloodlines very much, so if Qin Shihuang had doubts about his bloodline, then the possibility of him becoming a king was very small. You should know that Ying Zheng had many brothers, and they all had a very background, at least the background was stronger than Ying Zheng.
Another point is that Lu Buwei himself, why did Lu Buwei invest in Qin Yiren because he wanted to make greater political benefits. If the incident of his pregnancy for Qin Yiren's singer was exposed, then all Lu Buwei's plot would be done.
Maybe you would say that if your son becomes emperor, the return will be greater, and the possibility is very small. You look at it now and Lu Buwei's investment is successful, so you think it is possible, but if you think from the standpoint of Lu Buwei at that time, the possibility is very slim.
Because the situation at that time was very bad for Qin Yiren, even if there was a little mistake, Lu Buwei would fail. As a shrewd businessman, Lu Buwei would not artificially add an uncertain factor.
The investment target of Lu Buwei was Qin Yiren, which is certain. When Qin Yiren and Lu Buwei even abandoned everything and fled Zhao and returned to Qin, the young Ying Zheng was abandoned in Zhao. Later, it was because of all kinds of luck that Ying Zheng could return to Qin. This was also the starting point for the relationship between Prince Dan of Yan and Ying Zheng. Both of them were in Zhao and were playmates.
Furthermore, the so-called "high risk and high return" does not mean that the risk is raised without restrictions. It is a fool. If people from all over the world compete for power, it would have the greatest theoretical return. As a shrewd businessman, Lu Buwei is not stupid.
This is Chen Kan's general discussion and reasoning about Qin Shihuang's life experience. Of course, Chen Kan also has many analysis of historical materials.
This is just a matter of identity, and it is so troublesome to argue. There are so many materials in the Song Dynasty and the conflicting historical materials are also as numerous as a cow. Each one requires Chen Kan to conduct rigorous logical reasoning, and the workload is very huge.
This is also the reason why no one studies this aspect, because it is too complicated. In addition, many historical materials from the Song Dynasty were compiled in the Yuan Dynasty, and the Yuan Dynasty was really a mess, which undoubtedly increased the difficulty.
Chapter completed!