"Where are you from? It's clearly the Tatars." A bold scholar shouted without buying it, and then more scholars gathered around to block the road. At this time, the accompanying officials from the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Guards began to step forward to clear the way.
They opened a path for Fifth Prince and Jiang Xu to walk in. Facing the unfriendly scholars, the two senior officials of the Qing Dynasty maintained their good demeanor and demeanor, smiled and nodded, and walked into the largest auditorium of the academy in full view of everyone.
At this time, the deacon of the academy had been notified and rushed over. He wanted to invite the guests to the back hall to serve tea. However, the fifth elder brother said that he wanted to communicate with the scholars. The deacon looked at the accompanying officials from the Ministry of Etiquette with a troubled expression.
The official thought that it would be a good thing for people from other countries to see Donglin's spirit, so he nodded in agreement.
The fifth elder brother nodded to Jiang Xu, who smiled slightly, climbed up to the podium of the auditorium with the help of his guards, and said loudly: "Dear students of Donglin, I am Jiang Xu, the minister of the Ministry of Rites of the Qing Dynasty. I have heard about Donglin for a long time.
It is the top academy in the world. Now I have some issues that I would like to discuss with you. I wonder if I have the honor."
The noisy students below heard Jiang Xu's name and couldn't help but calm down. Someone responded loudly: "Please enlighten me." Then more people echoed.
Jiang Xu stood on the stage and glanced at the many young faces below. Most of the older batch of Donglin scholars had passed the Jinshi examination and were waiting to be assigned by the official department. These people were all newly arrived Gongsheng scholars, and even Tongsheng students, regardless of whether they were in
Neither knowledge nor experience can compete with Jiang Xu, but these people are just newborn calves and are not afraid of tigers. If you want to talk nonsense in front of them, you are looking for trouble.
"Before I officially start speaking, I want to tell you two short stories." Jiang Xu said. A guard found a chair and stuffed it under his butt. He also made a pot of tea and put it next to him. Jiang Shilang was just getting serious.
The beginning of the sutra:
"Once upon a time, there was a mountain. There were two grasslands on both sides of the mountain. The grassland was uniquely lush, with endless pastures and clear rivers. The sheep lived a peaceful life on the grassland. Suddenly one day, the grassland on the north side of the mountain suddenly
A group of wolves came to the grassland, a group of wolves that lived by eating sheep. From then on, the northern grassland was full of blood. The sheep were brutally hunted and lived a precarious life. However, there were no wolves in the grassland of Shannan, and the sheep still lived peacefully.
A peaceful life. What do you think the two grasslands will look like three years from now?"
"It goes without saying that there are no sheep on the grassland in the north, only wolves are left, and the wolves have nothing to eat and they all starved to death. The grassland in the south is still the same. It turns out that it is not the same as it is." A scholar said in Taiwan.
He replied, and others nodded in agreement with his answer, which they deeply agreed with.
"No! Three years later, the grassland in the north is still full of vitality. The grassland, rivers, sheep, and wolves are all in order. However, the grassland in the south without wolves has turned into a desert. The rivers have dried up, the grassland has become desertified, and the sheep have no grass.
Eat, we are all starving to death." Jiang Xu said, blinking his cunning little eyes.
"That's nonsense. How can a grassland without wolves turn into a desert? But everything in the grassland with wolves is in order. Jiang, you are so good at deceiving, aren't you?" The scholar just retorted loudly, and the others still echoed.
Jiang Xu smiled proudly: "Everyone, please listen to me slowly. Ever since there were wolves on the grassland in the north, the life of the sheep has not been so comfortable. If you don't run for your life, you will die from the wolf's mouth, so your physical condition is relatively poor.
Poor sheep will not live long. The sheep that survive are all alert and healthy sheep. The wolves indirectly help the sheep to improve their physical condition. They also control the number of sheep and protect the grassland from being engulfed by the growing sheep herd.
. On the contrary, the grasslands in the south where there are no wolves are completely opposite. The sheep herds are growing day by day without any restrictions. The sheep eat grass when they are hungry and drink water when they are thirsty. Gradually, the rivers are drained and the pastures are eaten up.
Not even the grass roots were left, and in the end, all the sheep had to starve to death, and the originally beautiful prairie turned into a desert. Do you think we should thank the wolves for their help to the sheep at this time?"
The scholars in the audience were temporarily fascinated by Jiang Xu's sophistry. There was silence for a while, and no one came to refute. At this time, Jiang Xu gave a dry cough and officially threw out his years of research results.
"The wolves I'm talking about are actually the barbarians you call, the nomadic peoples living outside the Great Wall. These people on horseback are as brave, tough and enterprising as wolves, and the sheep I'm talking about are the people living inside the Great Wall.
, the Han people who make a living by planting crops, the characteristics of the farming nation are self-sufficiency and working behind closed doors. Without appropriate stimulation, this nation will slowly shrink, become weak, and decline, so God will send powerful nomads into the pass.
, snatched away their livestock, grain, women and children, slaughtered them, and enslaved them. This behavior may seem cruel, but it is actually a kind of care and help. With this kind of help, the farming people will be more diligent and energetic.
"
When these shocking words came out, the audience was in an uproar, and someone retorted loudly: "So the Huns, Turks, Mongols, and you Tatars have all helped us since ancient times when they broke into our homeland, burned, killed, and looted.
?”
"It's true. The fact is that the nomads and the farming people are the two sons of God. The brave nomads are the elder brothers and the hard-working farming peoples are the younger brothers. Whenever the farming peoples become weak, God will send a strong brother.
Rush into the Central Plains and give blood to the sheep-like younger brother to cheer him up. If the younger brother is too weak to help him, the strong older brother will take over the Central Plains and help him rule for a period of time."
"It's all nonsense and nonsense." Donglin students were not impressed by Jiang Xu's words. Some people had already begun to leave the venue. Jiang Xu said with a cold smile: "I thought Donglin Academy was a place that embraces all rivers, but I didn't expect it to be like this.
You are so narrow-minded that you cannot even listen to the truth. If you can listen to my words before refuting me, and refute me with reasonable evidence, then Mr. Jiang would be willing to kowtow three times under the sign of Donglin Academy.
"
When Jiang Xu said this, the students did not go out, but stayed to watch him continue to perform.
Jiang Xu paused and then said: "First of all, I want to reiterate that nomads and farming peoples are by no means enemies, but brothers that complement each other. Every major national blood transfusion is mutual. Farming peoples learn from nomadic peoples.
When it comes to bravery, bloodiness, and tenacity, the nomads learned diligence, creativity, and of course some bad things from the farming peoples, such as arrogance, extravagance, and so on. Whenever the nomads were corrupted by the farming peoples, the farming peoples learned
After the nomadic people have taken advantage of it, the land of the Central Plains will still return to the hands of the farming people.
In the history of the Central Plains dynasties, all the dynasties that have made a difference have without exception received the care of blood and fire from the nomads, and even deeper integration. During the 800 years of the Tang Dynasty, why could the Li family rule for a long time? That's because The Tang Dynasty was jointly created by the Xianbei and Han people. The Li family had wolf nature and originated from the nomadic people. The Tang Dynasty regarded fatness as beauty, which was the influence of the Hu people. Like the Mongolian people, it was the root of the strong and great character. In the Song Dynasty, The Jurchens conquered the Northern Song Dynasty, captured the two emperors lightly, plundered the treasures from the treasury, and plundered thousands of beauties from the harem to the wilderness of the north. This was because they lacked the backbone - a strong national character.
Speaking of the Song Dynasty, this dynasty is a typical example of the rule of a farming nation. The previous wolfishness has been completely eliminated from the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty. The emperor of the Song Dynasty handed over the army to civilian rule, and he indulged in calligraphy and painting, beauties and wine all day long. People's lives plummeted, and the entire Song Dynasty was facing destruction like a grassland that had been gnawed by sheep. The sky has eyes, and God sent its eldest son, the grassland nomads, to teach this unsatisfactory farming brother a lesson and continue to give him blood transfusions. , harden its backbone and let it stand up again.
Therefore, it can be said that the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty contributed a lot to the Chinese nation: the Mongolian nation gave the Han people the largest territory ever seen in history. It was another powerful blood transfusion of national character. The Mongolian people's blood transfusion to the Han people in the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty was very effective and timely.
Sadly, as the older brother, the Mongolians themselves were softened the most by the farming civilization of the Han people. So much so that they had to retreat to the grasslands. Your Emperor Taizu and Emperor Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty were on the front line of the battle against the Mongolian wolves. The wolf nature was tempered. Xu Da and Chang Yuchun were both masterpieces of Mongolian blood transfusion. The revival of the Han nation in the Ming Dynasty is thanks to the generous blood donation of the Mongolian nation and the resurrection of the wolf totem on the land of China. But the Ming Dynasty In the end, they failed to conquer the Northern Yuan Dynasty, and one emperor was even captured alive. This was because the blood recipients were always weaker than the blood donors, and the Mongolian blood became less and less in the bodies of the descendants of the Zhu family. Later, , and even lost to the mob of peasants who rebelled. At this time, God once again sent the powerful wolf brother to give his younger brother a blood transfusion. However, the protagonist was no longer the Mongolian, but the northern nomadic fishing and hunting people who also worshiped the wolf totem - the great Houjin!
Having said this, I would like to clarify my point of view again: Nomads and farming peoples, or directly the Manchus and Hans, the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, are not only not enemies, but also direct brothers! The supreme worship of heaven in Han culture comes from the grassland Civilized Tengger worship is the original worship brought by the ancestors of Yan and Huang from the grasslands to the Central Plains. Therefore, nomadic worship and Han worship not only do not conflict, but are also emotionally close and easy to accept. There is a nomadic spirit left over from Confucianism in Han culture, like " "Wealth cannot be lascivious, poverty cannot be moved, and power cannot be subjugated." It echoes the spirit of the wolf totem of the grassland nomads. Moreover, the emperor upheld by Confucianism is the son of Tengger. Even the dragon totem worshiped by the Central Plains people actually originated from the nomads. The wolf totem, haven’t you noticed that the dragon’s eyes are the same as the wolf’s eyes?”
"Strictly speaking, we in the Qing Dynasty are not purely nomadic, but a nation that pays equal attention to nomadic herding, fishing and hunting, but this does not prevent us from worshiping wolves, loving wolves, and learning from wolves how to survive and fight. We even do Even better than the real Son of Tengger, don’t you see that we have been able to transfuse blood to the Mongols? As for the Ming Dynasty, they have already enjoyed the benefits of blood transfusions from us as early as ten years ago. In the battle of Shandong last year, your country Isn't it possible that the wolf nature in the bodies of the soldiers is at work for the small gains? This is all thanks to the grassland, thanks to the grassland wolves, thanks to the grassland people, and thanks to Tengger and the Qing Dynasty."
The students of Donglin Academy majored in eight-part essays, and were very unfamiliar with subjects such as geography, history, and nature. Such fallacies were unheard of. No one stood up to refute it for a while, even though Jiang Xu was full of words.
Hu Chai, but I just can’t figure out where the fork came from, and where to refute it.
The officials of the Ministry of Rites did not expect that Jiang Xu could express his wolf totem view at this time, and it was in Donglin Academy. What was even more unexpected was that among the thousands of people in Donglin Academy, no one could stand up to refute this view.
, it really annoys others.
I don't know when it started to rain. The auditorium was packed with people. Everyone was whispering about Jiang Xu's shocking views. Suddenly, a thunderous curse sounded: "What nonsense is a blood transfusion? I'll give you a blood transfusion every three days."
Are you willing to inseminate your female family members?!"