After Wei Qingfan finished speaking, the entire classroom was immediately silent, and the few students who had not seen it all turned their heads to look over.
Li Miaoyu also turned around, raised her face slightly, looked at him with her clear and pure eyes, and frowned slightly at her beautiful eyebrows.
Based on her observations and understanding since they met, she had every reason to suspect that after this person had been quiet for a while, he couldn't help but look for trouble again.
Mu Yang had been teaching for several years and had never encountered such a situation before. He was obviously confused for a while, and then he managed to keep calm and stood on the podium and said to Wei Qingfan: "You say it."
"Thank you, Teacher Mu."
Wei Qingfan still looked very polite, "First of all, before entering modern society, human society did not get better and better with the passage of time. This is the case in any region. Of course, the same is true in some areas of modern society.
in this way.
"Secondly, you just said that England's Magna Carta was humanized in the 13th century, and China still had the Weidong Factory of Jinyi until the Ming Dynasty. But in the 16th century at the same time as the Ming Dynasty, Europe was also carrying out witch hunts, religious courts, and countless
One hundred thousand people were executed in the name of 'heresy';
"At the same time, they believed that witches would become vampires, so they burned them to death. This was not an isolated case, but tens of thousands of people were publicly burned to death... Was there anything like this in China at the same time?"
Mu Yang was speechless for a moment. He was still confused and had never thought that a student would dare to talk to him like this.
Seeing Wei Qingfan looking at him after he finished speaking, and all the students in the classroom looking at him, Mu Yang felt that the blood was rising all over his body, and there were signs of fever on his face.
He tried hard to control his emotions and maintain his dignity as a teacher. He frowned and scolded: "How many books have you read? How much history do you know? Don't come here to show off just because you think you have read something somewhere."
Wei Qingfan smiled and said: "I have read "History of the Ming Dynasty" and "History of the Middle Ages in Europe", which I borrowed from the county library... Teacher, have you read them?"
This was a lie. He had only seen these two books in the county library, but recently they were mainly "pragmatic" books and he had not borrowed them to read them.
Mu Yang hesitated for a moment, and then said with a serious face: "Don't think that reading two books is enough. History is a very heavy topic. What can you explain by giving two examples? I can tell you what I want to say.
A lot of it..."
Wei Qingfan smiled and said, "Then you say it, and I'll listen."
"you……"
Mu Yang almost couldn't help but curse, and said angrily: "Why is China lagging behind? There are so many people like you who are unwilling to make progress and are arrogant. Gunpowder was invented so early, and they only know how to make fireworks. Others use them to make fireworks."
Spears and cannons..."
Wei Qingfan smiled and said: "This just shows the leadership of ancient Chinese civilization."
Mu Yang was stunned and sneered: "If someone uses your own things to beat you, how can you be ahead?"
"The same thing, one person uses it to play and appreciate, and the other person uses it to smash and kill people. Teacher, who of these two people do you think is richer? Whose living environment is safer?"
Mu Yang was stunned for another two seconds, and Wei Qingfan continued: "In addition, gunpowder in China has been used in the military in the late Tang Dynasty at the latest. It has developed in both Song Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty has departments and departments specializing in the development of firearms.
During this period, China did not lag behind in the military application of gunpowder. It was not until the Western Industrial Revolution that it was surpassed and left behind."
Mu Yang sneered: "Aren't you still lagging behind? Why are you still arguing with me here?"
Wei Qingfan smiled and said: "Teacher Mu, I'm just refuting your point of view, not arguing. Let's get back to the topic. Most of the time in ancient China, rule by virtue was the main rule. In modern times, we are mainly rule by law. This does not mean that
It must mean that the rule of law is better than the rule of virtue. Maybe the rule of virtue is too advanced. Of course, ancient Chinese law did not fall behind.
"In terms of law, the Xia Dynasty had the 'Yu punishment', the Shang Dynasty had the 'Tang punishment', and the Western Zhou Dynasty had "Lü Xing". "Lü Xing" has clearly stipulated the fine levels and redemption system..."
When he said this, he paused and asked very thoughtfully: "Teacher, do you know what the ransom level and the ransom system are?"
Mu Yang snorted coldly and ignored him.
Wei Qingfan continued: "The Qin Dynasty governed the country according to law, and the "Qin Code" can be regarded as a relatively advanced and complete type of ancient law. This is not only compared with later Chinese feudal dynasties, but also throughout the world.
"For example, the laws and regulations of the Qin Dynasty strive to be clear and easy to understand so that ordinary people can understand them. Officials are set up to preach the laws so that the people can understand the laws and supervise the officials not to violate them..."
Mu Yang interrupted: "Where did you see it from?"
Wei Qingfan said: "In 1975, the Yunmeng Qin bamboo slips were unearthed in Shuihudi, Yunmeng County, Hubei Province. There are a lot of laws of the Qin Dynasty in them. Didn't Teacher Mu understand them?"
"Okay, okay."
Mu Yang became impatient, "Sit down, I don't have time to talk nonsense with you, you can continue to be arrogant! People have already built pyramids, and you are still playing in the mud..."
Wei Qingfan interrupted: "The pyramids were built by the ancient Egyptians and have nothing to do with Europe!"
"How many days have you been in school? Are you here to reason with me?"
Mu Yang was completely annoyed, his face turned red, and he raised his voice and yelled angrily, "Is Greece Europe? Is ancient Rome Europe? Are you stupid because of reading?"
He is a teacher after all, and when he yells like this, the atmosphere in the entire classroom seems to freeze.
Many classmates who had a good relationship with Wei Qingfan frequently gave him winks to signal him not to anger the teacher.
Cao Ze was tugging at Wei Qingfan's clothes. Li Miaoyu and Xie Yao also turned around and signaled him with their eyes to stop arguing.
"Teacher, I'm trying to reason with you."
Wei Qingfan remained calm and calm, even with a smile on his face, "Don't be angry, just say it properly."
"You're talking nonsense to me."
Mu Yang's anger continued, "What's your point? I said backwardness means backwardness. How can you change modern history in such a long time? Can it change the fact of backwardness?"
"Of course the facts cannot be changed, so we have to study harder."
Wei Qingfan stood up straight and looked at Mu Yang, "But this doesn't mean that we have to deny ourselves completely because of our temporary backwardness."
Mu Yang probably thought that this was a student who was stupid at studying, so he laughed angrily, "Then tell me, what are the glorious deeds in ancient China?"
"Then that's a lot. I'm sure I can't finish it with my half-assed skills."
Wei Qingfan smiled and spoke modestly, but said nothing less, "We are also facing floods. You mentioned that the west built a boat, and a small number of people ran away in the boat. On our side, Dayu controlled the flood;
"We also believe in gods, but the gods have to work for us. When the work is done, incense will be offered to us. If it fails, we will knock down the statues, just like praying for rain. If it fails, we will put the statue of the Dragon King in the sun...
"We also have turmoil, but we are able to reunify and rise every time. We have seen many great empires in history books. Where are they now? How much territory do they still have? How are they living?
"London in the 14th century had a population of 100,000 people, and the streets stank every day because of the excrement of these 100,000 people. Five hundred years ago, Chang'an already had a population of one million;
“When Columbus made his voyage, Zheng He, who had made seven voyages to the Southeast Asia, had already been dead for half a century;
"When the Romans were playing with wooden crossbows, the Qin Dynasty had already begun to mass-produce bronze crossbows. When the Romans replaced bronze daggers with iron swords, the Han Dynasty's steel daggers were tired of use. Europe
When noble knights wore shiny plate armor, the Mingguang armor of the Tang Dynasty and the foot armor of the Song Dynasty had already passed hundreds of years;
"In ancient times, we have been fighting against the nomads in the north. Every time we won a battle, these nomads would run to the west. Why do you think they always ran to the west? How did they survive in the west?
"The Xiongnu were beaten to a crawl by the Han Dynasty, and then went to Europe to destroy the Western Roman Empire; the Song and Jin Dynasties joined forces to destroy the Liao Kingdom; the remnants of the Liao Kingdom Yelu Dashi defeated the Seljuq Empire coalition in the Western Expedition; needless to say the Mongolian Western Expedition, right?
"Among the four ancient civilizations, ancient Babylon is gone, and ancient Egypt and ancient India have changed groups of people in the same place. Only we have always been China, from ancient times to the present;
"Stavrianos said in his book "General History of the World" that China led the world in the thousand years after the Sui and Tang Dynasties. This statement is more objective than many foreigners and even Chinese people, but it is also one-sided.
In the two thousand years before the industrial revolution, we were the ones who single-handedly pushed the entire human civilization forward.
"We have fallen behind in modern times. If we fall behind, we will be beaten. But this is not the reason why we completely deny the glory of our ancestors. We should not be beaten down and never stand up again."
Wei Qingfan doesn’t know much about history, and many of these are messy contents cobbled together on the Internet in later generations, which are not necessarily true, but he is not doing science popularization.
He just didn't want his classmates to be influenced by Mu Yang's remarks that "China is backward" and "Don't believe in textbooks, China has been backward since ancient times."
So it doesn’t matter whether the content is rigorous, it’s enough that it can convey emotions.
As the saying goes: I don’t need to know much, but I just need to know better than you!
He continued: "The Aryans were defeated by the Shang Dynasty during the Eastern Expedition. Alexander's Eastern Expedition did not reach this point, and Timur's Eastern Expedition failed halfway. In fact, I was quite looking forward to it. The one who was in power at that time was Wu Zhu Mobei.
Zhu Di, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, but after the Western Industrial Revolution and the Opium War, we lost, and we lost again and again;
"If the foundation of the family business left by our ancestors was a little thinner, if our ancestors were not so determined, and if there was no such group of people around, we might really be doomed, the same fate as ancient Egypt and ancient India;
"Everyone has learned in modern history. When no one knew whether we could survive, so many people fought against each other under the hail of bullets. We were reborn again. Then, as soon as we founded our country, we were completely broke, so we singled out the United Nations forces and won.
Already.
"We have lost before, but we cannot deny ourselves just because we have lost. We think that we are inherently worse than others, inferior to others, and lag behind others in everything. We cannot stand up again just because we have been beaten down.
Can’t get up…”
He was still talking, and Mu Yang was completely enraged. He slapped the desk and shouted, "What are you doing here? Are you here to go to school or are you here to show off? You are patriotic and you are capable, right?"
"Teacher, don't be angry."
Wei Qingfan still had a smile on his face, "My uncle who works in the County Education and Sports Bureau has always told me that the most important thing in being a teacher is the teacher's ethics. You must reason with your classmates. He likes Han Yu's "Teacher's Talk" the most, which is
have……"
"If you don't want to go to class, get out of here, your uncle..."
Mu Yang was completely enraged. He completely forgot about the elegant style he had always displayed. Veins popped up on his forehead. He was about to show off his majesty as a teacher. Suddenly, as if he had realized something in hindsight, his voice suddenly stopped, like
It looked like his neck was being strangled, and his body was frozen there, like a puppet.
Wei Qingfan didn't seem to see or hear, and continued to talk to himself: "'A disciple does not have to be inferior to a teacher, and a teacher does not have to be better than a disciple. There is a priority in learning the Tao, and there is a specialization in the arts.' These are my uncle's favorite two sentences.
talk.
"He often told me during his breaks at the Education and Sports Bureau that teachers, teachers, sometimes students can also teach teachers..."