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Innovation is the most troublesome thing.
In every unified feudal dynasty, in the middle and late stages, someone will try to innovate.
However, the most successful ones can only extend the life of the dynasty by a few decades, and in the end it becomes difficult to return, leading to another cycle of chaos.
The Yuanshi Rebellion was just a prelude.
Afterwards, Lu met the Empress Dowager and realized where the real trouble lay.
Right at her feet, inside and outside the capital.
"Report to the Queen Mother that Liu Yuanwai outside the capital asked his thugs to smash up the Western-style school opened in the town, thinking it violated the laws of our ancestors."
"Wang Xiucai ridiculed that those who studied Western learning were all libertines who failed to pass the imperial examination, which caused conflicts."
"A group of old boys united to kneel down in front of the saint's statue and cried out that Western scholars are just people who have forgotten their ancestors."
"Are they all sick?" Lu Zhi didn't understand what these people were thinking.
Has it really harmed their interests?
No, firstly, we did not take their land, and secondly, we did not increase their taxes.
No one dared to look up and answer.
"Go down." Lu Zhi waved his hand.
Maoqiu answered her question: "People always habitually hide in their comfort zone, just like modern programmers arguing for various languages. Everyone hopes that the language they are proficient in can be promoted. In this case, it will not
Additional new learning costs will be required.”
Lu Zhi fell silent.
Only then did she understand where the real resistance lay. There were not many people in the court who needed Western learning.
Until it hurts to the bone, people's hearts will not change and they will always choose the simplest way to do things.
Just like why Westerners can develop science, it’s because if they don’t develop it, they will starve to death and cannot survive. The barren land alone cannot feed people at all. They have to transport wheat to the other side through the ocean.
cereals.
Her reforms were destined to fail.
She had no idea that in Wen Rensheng's previous life, the Qing Dynasty had been beaten like that, and most people still didn't want to change.
What's more, the current imperial court is still in the middle stage, and it is still more than a hundred years away from being completely finished.
Over the past one hundred years or so, it has been determined that people will only regard Western learning as a fun thing to have, rather than a necessity for survival.
People do not have the motivation to learn Western learning urgently, only a small number of people do.
Just like in the last years of the Ming Dynasty in the previous life, a handful of laudable scholar-bureaucrats actively studied Western learning in an attempt to use Western methods to save the dying Ming Dynasty.
It's a pity that they are not cheating time-travelers after all. The Western-style power they have accumulated is really difficult to match the old forces. The Western-style cannons they introduced have instead become the destroyer of the dynasty.
"What should I do?" Lu Zhi asked with a headache.
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"What should the Queen Mother do to solve the problem of innovative motivation she faces without using extraordinary power?" Wen Rensheng asked everyone the same question at home.
Zhao Han, Wu Shanshan, Wang Wenwen and other girls frowned there. This kind of historical issue is a headache for them.
Wen Rende, Wu Liansong, and Li Shuangyue were quite interested and started whispering among themselves.
"It's not easy, just give me money." Xiao Huan replied quickly.
Thanks to the Queen Mother who no longer listens behind the curtain, she finally doesn't have to fan herself.
"Now that we've come to an idea, who's going to pay?" Wen Rensheng asked.
"She is the Queen Mother. She ordered the ministers to hand over their family's money, and she will give it to those who study Western learning." Xiao Huan continued.
Everyone laughed.
With the thinking of a child, it is enough to have a high official position. But they don’t know that when it comes to money, it will not be easy even if the emperor comes.
"In the court of Empress Dowager Lu, the only place where Western learning could make money was in navigation. However, the most important force in the court was the big landowners. They had huge land income and would not invest in risky investments.
During the voyage, only some landowners along the coast would do this. After they were done, they were keen to buy land instead of continuing to develop trade." Wen Rende analyzed seriously.
Wen Rensheng nodded silently. In this world, Dongzhou did not have in-depth historical and political education. After all, there was a huge variable in the form of aliens.
So after excluding the aliens, on a new planet with only a very small number of mysterious powers, how society will evolve is not clear to the people around me.
Only he knows best.
The birth of science is not inevitable, but accidental.
Not any civilization can give birth to science after a long period of development.
The planet he simulated had a specially chosen protagonist and a script from a previous life. After more than a dozen reincarnations, science could be born.
Just as he was thinking about it, the mysterious seed that had been motionless for a long time suddenly gave him a reminder, almost missing him——
"The mystery of civilization: Was the birth of rationality accidental or inevitable? This is a question. Remember the ambition of the game simulator? It is related to this question."
"Mystery:???"
"Mysterious composition:???"
How long has it been since the mysterious seed prompt was triggered?
Wen Rensheng recalled it and found that it must have happened a long time ago.
I made a profit this time, solved an incident, and also solved an incident a long time ago.
He had learned about the ambitions of the game simulator before, and he wanted to master the power of time reversal.
This reversal refers to the entire universe, not to a single planet that he plays house with.
Of course, in the eyes of ordinary extraordinary beings, his Wen Rensheng's playing tricks are already at the level of the Creator.
But compared to the ambitions of game emulators, it's nothing.
After all, in a small galaxy, the number of planets is measured in billions.
However, the Mysterious Seed never gave any hint of completion of the mission, and it was only today that I saw the possibility of completion.
Yes, the evolution of civilization is an important part of the universe.
With civilization, the originally empty universe without any observers was given the meaning of existence.
Game simulators have created many secondary worlds, but those worlds are too illusory and unreal.
In the real universe, the water in civilization is too deep, and it cannot be grasped.
It wants to master the evolution of civilization... This should be another component of its ambition.
As long as you wait for the evolution of civilization to end and see if the event is completed, you will know whether your guess is correct.
I hope that the upper limit of the mystery will be doubled again. No, I am too timid. Why is it not square?
Square is a bit exaggerated, multiplying by LOG(N) will do.
Thinking of this, Wen Rensheng cheered up and paid great attention to it.
"Hey, Lao Wen, your state has suddenly changed?" Xiao Huan said in surprise.
"Because this is a matter that affects hundreds of millions of lives. We will encounter it again in the future. Look at the residents outside. They are part of civilization. They are also working hard to push civilization forward, not just us."
Wen Rensheng said and opened the window.
When everyone looked up, the scene in the city came into view as if it was refracted.
Office workers walking quickly, elderly people taking a leisurely stroll, crying children...
Shopping malls with people coming and going, assembly lines going up and down, and crematoriums carrying goods in and out...
People live hard in the city, completing a short but real life from birth to death.
They have death, and even Wen Rensheng did not interfere with this death. Because of this, they appear real.
The family members were silent.
At the same time, I felt an indescribable feeling. People outside were really living, but they were discussing the evolution of civilization of hundreds of millions of people, which seemed a bit fake.
