"... Let's first imagine a cage for ourselves. We are upright, just, smart and selfless. Whatever situation we encounter, we will inevitably fall..." In the room, Ning Yi spread his hands and said, "Someone puts a knife on your neck.
Go up? We will not give in. Bad people are powerful and we will not give in. If someone tells you that the world is bad, we will even slap you back. But imagine, your relatives want to eat, drink, and occupy...
...It’s just a little bit cheaper. My father-in-law wants to be a small official, and my brother-in-law wants to run a small business. People like this and that want to survive. You want to eat pig’s trotters from outside today, but around you, there are countless examples to tell you.
, In fact, it doesn’t matter if you reach out and pick it up, because it is actually very difficult to check it from above... Mr. He, your family also comes from a wealthy family, so these things are obvious to you."
He Wen looked at him, and Ning Yi smiled: "These close relationships are more powerful than life and death, but can they really defeat an upright person? No!"
"There is still a way. If I really pursue integrity as my life pursuit, I can turn against my relatives, I can suppress my selfish desires, I can be unreasonable, and I can behave in a well-behaved manner. It's just a bit uncomfortable to feel uncomfortable. Can't you do it?
?That’s not necessarily the case. Confucianism has lasted for thousands of years, and there are many Confucian scholars who can endure this kind of depression. Even if we face only such enemies, people will regard this kind of suffering as a part of the noble. It seems difficult, but in reality
There is still a narrow road to walk on, but the real difficulty must be more complicated than this..."
"So I continued to read, continued to improve these ideas, and pursued a cycle that would trap myself in it and make it impossible to escape no matter what. Until one day, I discovered something, which was an objective rule. At that time
, I have almost completed this cycle. In this sense, no matter how upright and hard-working I am, I will inevitably become a corrupt official or a bad person..."
"What's the point?" He Wen asked.
Ning Yi looked calm and tilted his head: "All changes in the world are caused by the party uniting to defeat those who are different."
This sentence made He Wen silent for a long time: "How can I see it?"
"Because the world is made up of people." Ning Yi smiled, with complicated eyes, "When you are an official, you don't have to interact with your family, you don't have to accept bribes, and you don't have to sell anyone's face. Then when you want to do something
, Who should you rely on? You have to fight the bad guys, the government servants have to help you do things, you have to make innovations, the superiors have to endorse you, and the subordinates have to strictly implement it. When the implementation is not smooth, you have to have trustworthy assistants to punish them. The world looks at
It sounds complicated, but in fact, it is just a variety of competitions. Those with greater strength will defeat those with less strength. The so-called evil cannot defeat good is always just the good wishes of foolish men and women, and the driving force is the essence. Evil prevails over good.
, because the power of evil prevails over good, and good prevails over evil. Many people think that it is God's will, but no, someone must have done something and gathered strength."
"I don't agree with this." He Wendao said, "The law of officialdom includes checks and balances in addition to party unity and opposition."
"There is such a method in the emperor's art." Ning Yi nodded, "There are checks and balances between the two factions and the three factions in the court to make them suspicious of each other. If one party benefits, it will harm the other party. But throughout the ages, I have never seen a truly honest person.
The emperor may have no desires or desires, but the royal family must be the biggest interest group, otherwise do you think he can really play with various factions?"
He Wen thought for a while: "A gentleman is a group but not a party; a villain is a party but not a group."
"There is also such a saying." Ning Yi smiled approvingly, "But this is a perfect state. The current situation is that a gentleman who is in the group but not in the party will never be able to defeat the villain who is in the party but not in the group. Why? Gentlemen gather in groups.
It's because they have the same ideas. Villains form a party because they have similar interests. Ideas can be all kinds of strange. The gentlemen who gather together today will be on opposite sides tomorrow. Villains will always be together, forming a group, cooperating with each other, and sharpening each other.
Mr. He, have you ever seen an assembly line? The efficiency of workers who have been trained for half a year and a year is more than ten times that of a mob. Soldiers with strict military discipline can defeat ten times the rough guys who have not been trained. All the blood here is useless."
Ning Yi paused: "In the eleventh year of Jinghan's reign, I was in the Youxiang Mansion to assist in disaster relief. The big landowners in the disaster area have become one. This is the power of the family accumulated over the past two hundred years. In order to contain them, how can we
What to do? Introduce landlords and businessmen from other places to the disaster area with slogans and benefits. In this process, the Right Prime Minister's Office put pressure on many local governments. In the end, the landlords on both sides made a fortune, but they would have otherwise
The large-scale land annexation that has occurred has been contained and reduced in scale... This is a competition. Without power, there is no point in shouting slogans no matter how loud you are. With power, you can take away as much as you are higher than others. You have the power.
Throw away whatever you have, the world is fair and just."
"If the Right Prime Minister's Office itself had no power, it would not even be able to achieve this kind of vertical and horizontal cooperation. But how about talking to the gentlemen about this kind of thing? The Prime Minister's Office shouted disaster relief, but in fact they took the money.
, People who work with the Prime Minister actually make money. We call people to the disaster area and say it is for disaster relief. In fact, they are selling food at a higher price than usual. What should we do? Is this doing a good deed? Gentleman probably
It will float on the sea, and there will be one more level of dead people and people with grievances."
Ning Yi put his hands together: "Only when the power of good really overwhelms the power of evil, and evil cannot prevail over good, will it appear. The party agrees but opposes differences. This is the essence of all changes. If you want to do things, you must be satisfied.
In the end, your strength becomes stronger and stronger, you defeat the bad guys, and your subordinates have to give you what they need. After that, with all kinds of temptations and relatives who cannot refuse, you can't help but step by step.
I retreated, and finally I had no way to retreat. This is how I became a corrupt official and a bad person. Of course, after long-term observation and improvement, during this process, I saw various desires and flaws of people, and saw some essential things.
Something undeniable..."
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"So I ask your disciples. Why can't people like Mr. He get out of the Confucian circle? There is only one such outstanding person in the world? He Wen, Qin Siyuan, Li Pin, Yao Zunian, Zuo Duanyou..." Ning
Yi smiled and said, "Frankly speaking, I killed the king and threatened to be anti-Confucian. Many young people here are full of contempt for Confucianism. The better you perform, the more you can explain to them what they are facing."
How big the problem is. For thousands of years, all kinds of outstanding people have had to deal with the problem. If they can solve it with an arrogant heart, it is really a joke... I hope they can be humble."
"Humility..." He Wen smiled, "Since Mr. Ning knows that these problems have not been solved for thousands of years, why is he so arrogant? He thinks that he can build a new framework by overthrowing it completely. Do you know the consequences of being wrong?"
"The sun is very nice, Mr. He, let's go for a walk." The afternoon sun shone in from outside the house. Ning Yi spread his hands. After He Wen got up and went out, he said as he walked: "I don't know if I am right or not.
But I know that the Confucian path is wrong, and it has to be changed."
When the two walked out of the room, they saw Ning Xi, and Min Chuyi and others were looking towards here from the corridor not far away. Both of them were skilled in martial arts, so they naturally knew that Ning Xi and other children were eavesdropping outside the house just now——
They were rendered speechless by He Wen in the morning, and in the afternoon they wanted to hear how Ning Yi regained his position. Ning Yi patted Ning Xi on the head: "Go back and finish recording what Mr. He said in the morning." Send them back.
.
He Wen saw the child go in and said: "Confucianism may have problems, but what's wrong with the way? Mr. Ning is really ridiculous."
As the two talked, they left the house and walked to the streets and fields outside. Ning Yi said: "Mr. He talked about the etiquette in the Book of Rites this morning, talked about Confucius, Lao Tzu, and the world of great harmony. Mr. He
Do you think Confucius and Lao Tzu are saints or great men?"
"The most holy teacher is naturally a saint."
"I think he should be a great man." Ning Yi smiled and shook his head.
"Then I have to ask, what is a saint and what is a great man?"
"Saints, people descended from heaven, speak the Dharma, and are teachers of all ages. They are existences on two levels with us. What they say is the truth and must be correct. But great men, when the world is in trouble, are unyielding and unyielding.
Those who seek a way out with wisdom and make great contributions to the development of this world are great people. Mr. He, do you really believe that they are fundamentally different from us?" Ning Yi finished speaking and shook his head, "I
I don’t think there are any gods or saints, they are just two ordinary people, but they have undoubtedly made great explorations.”
These things were extremely difficult for He Wen to respond to. He wanted to sarcastically say, "How can you be sure?", but finally just shook his head. Ning Yi had already spoken again: "I, Confucius, lived in the Warring States Period. During the Spring and Autumn Period, people at that time
Only then came out of the primitive state of ignorance, people began to interact with each other, ideas began to collide, and the world was in chaos. In that era, wheels were not well built, writing had just broken away from oracle bones, and wooden slips had begun to be used. Faced with such troubled times, all
People began to look for a way, and hundreds of schools of thought contended, and the fittest survived. As for the Zhou Dynasty, Xia Dynasty, and the ancient times before that, there are no written records. People are in troubled times, imagining that everything was fine in the past. Is it really good?
Of course it’s hard to say…”
"In the process of finding the way, Laozi and Confucius were naturally the best. There was no writing before this, and even the legends of the past were not true. Everyone was looking at the world. Laozi wrote five thousand words about morality. Today, Mr. He is here
It was mentioned in class, and I also like it very much. "If you lose morality, you will be virtuous. If you lose morality, you will be benevolent. If you lose benevolence, you will be righteous. If you lose righteousness, you will be polite. Those who are polite will be loyal and trustworthy." Mr. He, you can see
It turns out that the social state, or the state of human beings, that Lao Tzu most admires is in line with the Dao, but cannot be in line with the Dao. So we seek virtue, and benevolence comes after losing virtue, and righteousness comes after losing benevolence. All righteousness is gone, so we can only seek
Ritual, when you ask for rites, the world will be in chaos. The rites at that time are actually equivalent to our current laws. Ritual is what you should do, and righteousness is what you agree with. Mr. He, can you give me a rough explanation?
?”
He Wen thought about it: "It makes sense."
"Lao Tzu's greatest contribution is that he explained what a perfect society is in a society with almost no cultural foundation. When the great righteousness is abolished, there is benevolence and righteousness; when there is wisdom, there is hypocrisy; when relatives are in discord, there is filial piety and kindness; when the country is in chaos, there is filial piety and kindness.
There are loyal ministers. There are also echoes of being virtuous after being dishonest. Lao Tzu talked about the clues of the deterioration of the world, the levels of the world, morals, benevolence, justice and etiquette. People at that time were willing to believe that in ancient times, people's lives were in line with
The great road, the carefree one, of course, we don’t argue with Lao Tzu about this..."
Ning Yi smiled: "You can follow your own way, and in the end, the way of heaven is beneficial without harm, and the way of the saint is done without fighting. The five thousand words of morality all discuss the basic laws of the world. It talks about the state of perfection.
It also talks about the state of each level. As long as we reach the Tao, everything will be fine. But how do we get there? If there really was an ancient world where people's lives were in line with the Tao, then of course, they
All their actions will be within the scope of the Dao. How could they damage the Dao and seek virtue? "When the three kings ruled the world, the Dao in the world was gradually disappearing, so they had to use wisdom." The Dao was gradually disappearing, why was the Dao?
Will you go? Didn’t the road fall from the sky? Get up and then leave again?”
"There is no other meaning in saying this. Lao Tzu is great. He saw perfection and told everyone in the world the basic principles of heaven and earth, so he is a great man. As for Confucius, he found more detailed standards and preliminary methods. He told
People, we must restore the Zhou rites. The king must be like a king, the ministers must be like ministers, the father must be like father, and the son must be like son. As long as this is done, the world will naturally run smoothly. He respects the principles and tells
People should repay grievances with honesty and repay kindness with kindness. He learned from the Great Way at every turn. Finally, when he was seventy years old, he followed his heart's desires without going beyond the rules."
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "The teacher at that time told you to do this and also told you the basic truth. Why should you do this? Because it is in line with the Tao. But if you can't do it, it's your fault.
The problem... Confucius never achieved his ideals and ambitions in his life. We can only think that when he was seventy years old, he might have become more open-minded and he was also an amazing great man."
A group of people walked through the fields and walked to the river, where they saw the Taotao River flowing by. Worldly sounds were coming from the market not far away and the waterwheels and workshops in the distance.
"This is also your personal inference, Mr. Ning."
"Yes, it's just my personal inference. Mr. He can just refer to it." Ning Yi didn't care about his response and tilted his head, "Disregarding justice before following propriety. Lao Tzu, the world where Confucius lived has already compromised justice before propriety.
How to reverse from etiquette to righteousness? Everyone thought of various ways, and even after deposing hundreds of schools of thought to only respect Confucianism, a narrow path came out. It integrated the strengths of many people and could operate politically. The king, the king, the minister, the father, the son, the son.
, this is very useful. Confucius said this, everyone should have his own appearance. The country said this, ministers should be like ministers, and sons should be like sons. These can all be supervised by people, and the king should have his own.
Look, who will supervise it? The upper levels have more room for maneuver, and the lower levels, we have slogans and programs to control it. These are the words of the sage. If you don’t understand, it doesn’t matter, but we are teaching you based on the words of the sage.
Yes, just do it."
"No matter how well Lao Tzu describes the perfect state, he has to face the fact that society has actually resorted to rituals. Every generation of Confucian scholars after Confucius and Mencius, who want to educate the world, have to face the fact that the power of education cannot be universalized.
Reality, reality must pass. You cannot float on the sea on a boat if things go wrong. Then... you don’t understand why you have to do this. You just have to do this. The progress of Confucianism from generation to generation has set a certain standard for the ordinary people at the bottom.
There are various regulations, and the regulations are becoming more and more detailed. Are they considered progress? According to expediency, it seems so."
Ning Yi smiled and shook his head: "Up to now, before Lao Qin died, he annotated the Four Books. Based on his experience in looking at society, he found more detailed laws. Based on the principle of harmony in time, he made clear all aspects of what is needed.
The details of optimization. These principles are precious. They can make society better, but they face a current situation that is impossible for most people to explain clearly. So what should we do? Let them do it first, Mr. He,
As Confucianism develops, the management and requirements for lower-level people will only become more and more strict. Before Lao Qin died, he said that attracting people's desires leads to natural principles. He explained the truth clearly. If you feel the same, if you do this, you will naturally approach natural principles.
.But if you can’t explain it clearly, it will only end up being based on heaven’s principles and destroying human desires. If you can’t convince them with reason, then let’s force it.”
"I don't think there's anything wrong with that." He Wen said.
"But this process is actually castrating people's blood."
"There will naturally be more and more scholars, and there will also be more and more sensible people." He Wendao said, "If we let go of the oppression of ordinary people, there will no longer be rules and regulations of etiquette, and selfish desires will be rampant, and the world will immediately deteriorate.
There will be chaos, and Confucianism is slowly trying to figure it out. How can we know that it is not the right path?"
"Nature is an idea." The two walked along the river bank, and Ning Yi said with a smile, "I, Confucius and Mencius thought clearly about one thing more than a thousand years ago, that is, the human spiritual world must reach a perfect state.
In fact, it has nothing to do with matter, and even matter will have an impact on human perfection. In the past two thousand years, Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism have actually pursued abandoning material desires in the process of cultivating the human heart. How does society operate? The ultimate goal
, it’s nothing more than making people’s souls harmonious, so later, Confucianism abandoned strange and obscene techniques, fearing that selfish desires would confuse people’s hearts. But... Mr. He, don’t you have selfish desires?”
"My level is naturally not enough."
"I have it too, and so does Lao Qin." Ning Yi said, "The true wisdom in facing selfish desires is not to kill it, but to face it and even control it. Mr. He, I am a person who can be extremely luxurious and pay attention to enjoyment.
, but I can also be indifferent to it, because I know how my selfish desires work, and I can control it with reason. Be greedy in business, it can promote economic development and promote the emergence of many new inventions. Lazy
The mind can make us constantly seek efficiency and methods in our work. Wanting to buy good things can make us work hard and make progress. Liking a beautiful woman can make us become an excellent person. The fear of death can also make us understand life.
The weight of it. A truly wise person must understand and control selfish desires, but cannot kill them."
"But this is also the highest realm of Confucianism."
"However, the path is wrong." Ning Yi shook his head and looked at the town ahead: "Suppress selfish desires and insist on strict etiquette at the bottom of the entire society. The suppression of greed and innovation will naturally become more and more severe. Once a country is established, we enter
This system has to form parties for personal gain. The accumulation of people leads to the emergence of aristocratic families. No matter how to contain it and keep checking and balancing, this process is still irreversible, because the process of containment is actually the process of cultivating new interest groups. Two or three hundred
Over the years, there have been more and more conflicts, the power of the aristocratic families has become more and more solidified, and the castration of the lower class has become more and more serious. The country has perished and entered the next cycle. Confucian researchers have learned from the previous experience, and the aristocratic families have once again
Once it appears, do you think the method of progress will be the method of breaking up the wealthy families, or the method of emasculating the people at the bottom in order to suppress public dissatisfaction?"
"I think it's the latter." Ning Yi said, "The wheel of Confucianism has rolled irreversibly in this direction. When we find a way, of course we have to be sure that it will eventually achieve the perfect result. If you are expedient for a moment,
In the end, if expediency is regarded as the goal, then why bother playing with it? Moreover, there are objective laws in the universe. My hot air balloon has already gone up to the sky, and the iron cannon has come out. If you don't develop these laws, hundreds of years later, there will naturally be
The foreign races are trying their best to develop, knocking on your door with instruments that can fly into the sky and escape from the earth, and cannons that can tear down landslides and cities."
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"Because Confucianism seeks harmony and stability, the study of things is by no means harmonious and stable. If you want to be lazy, want to be aggressive, and have materialistic desires, you can promote its development. If I die, you will definitely smash it."
Ning Yi stood on the river embankment watching the boats and the excitement in the town, with his hands on his waist: "I smash Confucianism because I can no longer see its future, but Mr. He, tell me about the future I imagine.
.I hope that in the future, these people in front of us will all know the basic laws of how the world works, that they will be able to read, understand reason, and eventually become gentlemen and be responsible for their own future..."
"As you said, what have those smart people been doing for more than a thousand years?" He Wen said sarcastically.
"We talked about the gentleman's group but not the party." The wind on the river blew over, and Ning Yi tilted his head slightly, "When Lao Qin died, there were many charges, many of which were true. At least it must be true that he formed a party for personal gain.
At that time, there were quite a lot of people eating under the right prime minister's house. Lao Qin tried his best to keep the exchanges of interests on the right path, but he wanted to be clean. How could it be possible? I also had the blood of many people on my hands.
We try our best to be emotional, but if we are purely gentlemen, we can't do anything. You may think that if we do good things, the people will support us. In fact, this is not the case. The people are a kind of people who only want to hear a little bit of bad things.
, they would execute the other party's people. Later, Lao Qin was paraded through the streets and had excrement thrown at him. If we look at it from a pure standard of a good person, he is upright, has no selfish desires, and his methods are just and aboveboard - he really deserves it."
"Mr. Ning actually blames the people?"
"I don't blame the people, but I analyze them as objective laws." Ning Yi said, "Throughout the ages, the political system has usually been like this: there are a few people at the top trying to solve imminent social problems, and some have solved them.
Some attempts to solve them cannot be successful. In this process, other problems that have not received major attention from the upper levels have been solidifying and negative causes have been accumulating. The country continues to cycle, and there are more and more negative causes. Once you enter the system, there is nothing you can do.
The people below you need to eat and buy clothes. They need to be a little better and a little better. Your interest group may be able to solve some small problems below you, but overall, it will still be in the growth of negative factors. Because
The process of formation and solidification of interest groups is itself a process of accumulation of contradictions.”
"In this process, small interest groups have to protect their livelihoods, and large interest groups have to compete with other interest groups. When the emperor or prime minister has some ambitions, he tries to resolve these solidified interest groups. The most effective way is to seek
For a new system, this is a reform. Very few succeed, and even if they succeed, the reformers often die without a burial place. The upper echelons of power and knowledgeable people in each generation want to work hard to solidify the system.
Even if interest groups break up, they will never be able to compete with the speed at which the other party's interests solidify."
"Insighted people like Mr. He probably dream that one day, Confucianism will develop enough to have enough knowledgeable people, so they can break this cycle. However, as long as the rules of change remain unchanged, if you want to change, you must have to
Accumulate another interest group and the cycle will never end."
"If we treat this as a mathematical calculation, I wonder if we can introduce another factor that has never been introduced before, so that they can naturally resolve the negative causes of society. In the end, this can only fall on these ordinary people." Ning Yi smiled.
Laughing, "Of course I have to study first."
"Mr. Ning's establishment of these paper-making workshops and the research on objects are indeed a feat through the ages. If everyone in the world can really read in the future, it will be a feat comparable to that of a saint. However, I cannot understand other than this."
"I can give you an example, Mr. He, and you will understand." Ning Yi pointed to a row of drainage trucks in the distance, "For example, Mr. He is very familiar with those paper-making workshops."
He Wen nodded: "I keep these things in my mind every day. If possible, I wish I could put them in my bag and take them away."
"Papermaking is very polluting. Mr. He, have you ever seen the drainage outlets of those paper-making workshops? We cut down several mountains of wood to make paper, and the drainage outlets are already polluted. The water is not drinkable, and sometimes people die.
Fish." Ning Yi looked at He Wen, "One day, there were paper-making workshops that discharged sewage everywhere along this river, and even in the whole world, there were paper-making workshops. All the water was polluted, and fish were dying everywhere.
People also start to get sick after drinking water..."
"How can this be so!" He Wen shouted in a deep voice.
"Just take me as an example." Ning Yi smiled, "One day, the pollution is so great, but these factories are the lifeblood of this country. People come to protest, you are a small official in the government, how can you explain to the people
question?"
He Wen frowned and thought for a long time: "I should tell the truth and explain the reasons in detail..."
"Then your boss will scold you and even deal with you! People are simple. As long as they know that these factories are responsible, they will immediately start to put pressure on these factories and demand immediate closure. The country has begun to prepare to deal with it.
There is a way, but it takes time. If you confess, the people will immediately start to hate these factories. Then, if the yamen do not deal with these factories for the time being, they will naturally become the nest of corrupt officials. If one day someone even drinks water and dies,
When people take to the streets, a mutiny is imminent. In the end, it gets out of control, and you are guilty of the greatest crime."
"...Then we can only deceive."
"Yes, we know that the people are so simple. We will tell them that the dead people are due to other reasons. The water pollution is not serious. The court is already dealing with it. Everyone must share the difficulties. Then the court forces these lifebloods to quickly
Make rectifications and let these factories escape quickly before public dissatisfaction boils over. Of course we know that telling the truth is a good thing, but in the face of such people, telling the truth can only make the results out of control. There is no way to find out whose fault it is.
, but unless you acknowledge such a law, how can you find the possibility of change."
Ning Yi looked at the waterwheels: "For another example, I saw pollution in the river of this papermaking workshop earlier. I stood up and told people that such a factory would have big problems in the future. At this time, the papermaking workshop is already benefiting the country and the people.
We do not allow any bad remarks to be made about this important event. We tell the masses that this guy is a bad guy sent by the Jin Kingdom and wants to cause trouble. When the people hear that I am a bad guy, of course they knock me down first. As for what I said
No one will pay attention to whether there will be problems in the future. If I say that these factories will have problems, it is because I have invented a relatively better paper-making method. I want to make a fortune. People will see that I am doing it.
Money, of course, will start to criticize me again... These are all objective attributes of ordinary people."
"Faced with people who have such objective attributes and simple likes and dislikes, if one day our yamen servants do something wrong and accidentally kill someone. You and I are minor officials in the yamen, if we confess immediately, our yamen servants
If there is a problem, what will happen? If possible, we will first start to smear the dead person, hoping that the matter will go away. Because we understand the people's psyche, if they see a problem with a yamen officer, they may feel that the entire yamen is corrupt.
There is a problem, the process of their understanding of things is not concrete, but chaotic, not reasonable, but emotional... At this stage, they have almost no meaning to the country."
"But what if one day, they make progress?" Ning Yi looked softly: "What if our people begin to understand logic and reason, they know that it is best to be moderate in worldly affairs, they can discuss things as they are, and they can analyze things without being deceived.
.When we face such people, someone says that this paper mill will have problems in the future, and we discredit him, but even if he is a bad person, is it possible that the problems of the paper mill that this person said are possible? At that time, we will still
Are we trying to solve the problem by smearing people? If the public does not think all government officials are bad guys because of one government official, and they are not easy to be deceived, even if we say that the person who died has a problem, they will still pay attention to the problem of the government officials.
Then will we use the problem of the deceased to solve the problem of the government officials as soon as possible?"
"The imperial government's organs will be perfunctory. It's like I said how to be perfect, but down to the individual, we are just ordinary people. We deal with dozens of things every day. Our superiors want to ask questions, but the imperial court does not ask for anything.
problem, then the principle of the yamen officials to deal with the problem will be to choose the simplest and most affordable method and just explain it to the past. This phenomenon is not easy to change. If the people start to become sensible, the cost of this perfunctory will continue
Increase, at this time, because people are not extreme, they will choose to be honest. Reasonable people will become a cushion to absorb negative factors, feed back to the court, and actively resolve the consolidation of social interests. This process is the so-called people's independence.
, which is also the true meaning of gentlemen being in groups rather than parties.”
"It's certainly not easy to achieve this point. You said I blame the people, but I just hope that one day they will understand what kind of society they are in. All changes are caused by the same party and the rejection of dissent. Lao Qin is an interest group, and those solidified
Landowners, Cai Jing and others are also interest groups. If there is any difference, people like Cai Jing took away 90% of the benefits and gave 10% to the people. Lao Qin may have taken away 80% and gave 10% to the people.
If the people want a good man who will give them 100% benefit, then there is only one way to achieve it."
"Let's first look at the one who gave us 20%, support him, and let him replace the 10%, and we got 10% more. Then maybe someone is willing to give us 25%, and we
Support it and replace the former, and then there may be people who are willing to give us 30%, and so on. In this process, there will also be people who are only willing to give us 20% and deceive people.
, people have the obligation to see it clearly and resist it. The world can only change through the transformation of interest groups. If we want to be a 100% good person from the beginning, then we have misunderstood the laws of the world. All choices are right.
If you make a mistake, you can only let it happen, and these choices will be meaningless."
"This process involves a lot of professional knowledge. The public may one day understand, but it is absolutely impossible to understand everything by themselves. At this time, he needs trustworthy professionals to refer to their opinions.
, these professionals can know that they are doing important things, can be proud of their knowledge, and can spend their whole lives seeking the truth, even facing the powerful and dying. In this way, they can gain
The trust of the people. This is called the cultural self-esteem system."
"The people can understand reason, and the society can have cultural self-esteem. Only with these two can the core of democracy be formed, and society can be cyclical and no longer depleted." Ning Yi looked at He Wen: "This is why I will not embarrass you.
reason."
"...I'm afraid you won't be able to achieve it." He Wen looked at it for a moment and said calmly.
"Then study first." Ning Yi smiled, "and then take the exam."