The ninth and sixty-fifth chapters of the four seas tossing clouds and water anger (9)
The summer sun shines down, and there is an endless stream of tourists coming and going between the Jianmen Gate towers. In addition to the businessmen who were the most numerous before the war, there are also many knights and scholars at this time. The young scholars move forward with a high-spirited feeling.
As we walked, the middle-aged and elderly Confucian scholars observed everything with cautious eyes. Because the towers had not yet been repaired, there were still traces of the war in some places, which caused people to stop and watch from time to time, and they started talking a lot.
The Chinese army originally held a casual attitude of watching, but later, the gathering of crowds affected the roads, so they had to come out from time to time to chase people away.
"Keep order! Go forward. There are many places you can see all the way to Chengdu——"
Ning Yi and Zuo Xiuquan looked down from the hilltop not far away.
"...How do you feel, Mr. Ning, about Xinjun's decision?"
Zuo Xiuquan asked a question, and Ning Yi smiled: "What do you think of the Zuo family? To follow, or not to follow?"
"As Mr. Ning said, the new king is tough. Looking at what he does, he has the determination to win even if the cauldron sinks the boat, which makes people passionate and heartbreaking. However, the reason why the cauldron sinks the boat makes people talk about it is because it is true.
In practice, there are too few people who can succeed. Judging from today's situation, my Zuo family is not optimistic about this innovation..."
Ning Yi looked at him, and Zuo Xiuquan paused: "...But, the Zuo family will follow."
Ning Yi laughed: "It's not surprising, Zuo Duan Youzhi's family really has a way..."
"Before his death, my uncle said that Mr. Ning is open-minded and you won't be offended if you can talk about some things. The new monarch's ability, temperament, and qualifications are far better than those of the previous majesties. It is regrettable that the Wu Dynasty has gained so much
It's late, but since he will take over the throne, no matter what the situation ahead is, the Zuo family will accompany him."
Zuo Xiuquan cupped his hand and spoke sincerely, and Ning Yi nodded: "The logic of the innovation is established... The new king succeeded to the throne and won over all parties. It seems that he can inherit the orthodox power immediately, but what happens after the inheritance?
What to do? Repair it, its upper limit can be clearly seen today. If you survive for a few years, you will face those idiots in Lin'an, Wu Qimei, Liu Guangshi and other guys who are ready to move. You can defeat them and kill them, but soon
There will still be a dead end after that. You can't defeat the Jurchens, you can't defeat me... Let me tell you frankly, in the future you may not even be able to defeat that woman from Jin. If you don't innovate, you will be dead... But you also know the problem of innovation very well.
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Ning Yi looked over: "This is not a question of whether a few households support or do not support it. If it is put into business, it is a question of the entire game framework and the talent training system not supporting it. In the past two hundred years, the Wu Dynasty has
It operates within the framework of "co-ruling the world with scholar-bureaucrats". Your talent training is consistent with this theory in countless details. Today, the Wu Dynasty is in danger. People like you who are in power are not without efforts.
The Zuo family will follow the Wu Dynasty’s efforts in awakening, and there are many great scholars and knowledgeable people who will lose their fortunes and join in the national calamity, but what about the people below you?”
"In a relatively long process, those who follow Junwu must consciously pay more and receive less. Senior leaders like Mr. Zuo and you have a sense of mission. You don't want money or rewards, but you are just the Zuo family.
One system affects thousands of scholars, and affects hundreds of thousands of people who eat with you directly or indirectly. When you go to them, what matters is daily fuel, rice, oil and salt. For the sake of the emperor, you can break your family and earn money, but you will still not be hungry.
Belly, but they will."
"If this kind of thing continues for a long time, everyone will see the difference more and more clearly. Those who defect to Lin'an can become masters if they have some connections. Why can't you? In the past, you could cheat and cheat. Why are the laws and regulations so strict today?
As for "officials don't have a living". Then they will start to find reasons. It is because you have disturbed the country's foundation, which led to such a result. Everyone starts to say, this is not possible... Most people in the world are such animals.
Most of the time, everyone is making excuses for their own purposes instead of doing certain things after recognizing the reasons clearly. There are always very few people who can really talk about things as they are."
"Your Zuo family may be the most staunch family standing by the little emperor in this revolution, but two-thirds of your internal strength will become resistance in this revolution. This resistance is even invisible and intangible.
It is reflected in every laziness, fatigue, complaint, and every incense stick... This is the situation of the Zuo family, more big families, even if an old man expresses his intention to support Junwu, his family, us
The part of everyone's mind that is not willing to make a fuss will still turn into a quagmire, holding back this innovation from all aspects."
"That's the problem with every innovation."
There was a bustle of people in the distance. When Ning Yi said this, there was a silence between the two. Zuo Xiuquan said: "In this way, the root of innovation still lies in the human heart. As for Li Pin's New Confucianism, Your Majesty
The Jiangnan Military Academy is not wrong at all.”
"Many problems do not lie in the concept, but in the degree." Ning Yi smiled, "I heard a joke before. Someone asked an old farmer that if the country is in trouble today, if you have two big houses, would you be willing to donate one?
To the court, the old farmer happily replied yes; what if you have one million taels of silver? Are you willing to donate? The old farmer replied, yes. Then he asked, if you have two cows, are you willing to donate one? The old farmer shook his head and said no.
, ask why...I really have two cows."
Zuo Xiuquan was stunned and burst into laughter.
"Today the Wu Dynasty is in danger. If you ask people all over the world if they want to innovate, everyone will say yes. If you want to wear one less piece of clothing and want to innovate, I don't know what everyone will say. If you want to make everyone less
How about eating a meal? Should we innovate? Some people say yes, some say no, but the real complexity is that many people will say that you need to innovate and at the same time say that your method of innovation is wrong. There are some truths and lies...
… How many people can the little emperor give his own interests to support innovation, and how many people can the little emperor pay for his interests? This is the core of the problem."
Ning Yi looked at the people passing through the customs below and paused: "Actually, you all know what I said."
"I just don't know what Mr. Ning will do if he changes places."
"Haha... Look, you've seen it too."
"With Mr. Ning's cultivation, if you don't want to talk about it, we probably won't be able to ask you anything. It's just that you once said when you were discussing Taoism with your uncle in the past that what you like the most is a person who is unyielding and shining in the face of difficulties.
Posture. From last year to now, the actions of the Fuzhou court may be able to catch Mr. Ning’s discernment.”
Zuo Xiuquan's words were sincere. These words were neither irritating nor concealing, but seemed open-minded and open-minded. Ning Yi glanced at him and was not angry.
"...Mr. Zuo, the only thing that can fight against a cyclical and mature ecosystem is another ecosystem."
"To give a simple analogy, in today's Wu Dynasty, the idea that the emperor wants to rule the world together with the scholar-bureaucrats has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. It is supported by a whole set of theoretical systems that match it. In a village, when adults give birth to children,
Even if children do not study, they will continue to receive bits and pieces of these ideas as they grow up. When they grow up, they will take it for granted when they hear the theory of "ruling the world with scholar-bureaucrats". Mature adults
, a cyclic ecosystem is that it can operate on its own and reproduce continuously.”
"The Confucian system used by the Wu Dynasty today is highly self-contained. Of course, 'ruling the world with the scholar-bureaucrats' is only part of it, but if you want to change it to respect the king and resist the barbarians, saying that it is better to decentralize the imperial power, it is better to concentrate it. You must first cultivate a sincere heart
People who believe in this statement then use them to cultivate more people, letting it circulate naturally like water."
"In today's Fuzhou, it seems from the actions that the little emperor's initial thinking was certainly correct. He used New Confucianism to respect the king and resist the barbarians, prepare for centralization of power, and use the Jiangnan Military Academy to unify the control of the military and let the leaders
He became the emperor's disciple... On the one hand, because hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers were temporarily concentrated in his hands, no one could fight against him; on the other hand, because everyone was massacred by the Jurchens, everyone learned from the painful experience and temporarily
I agreed with the idea that reform was needed, so I took the first step.”
"But next, is Li Pin's theory high enough to underpin a cyclical, self-consistent system of respecting the king and rejecting the barbarians? Is the idea of loyalty to the emperor promoted by the Jiangnan Military Academy a rigid indoctrination, or does it really have unparalleled persuasiveness?
What you need is mature theories and mature expressions to overthrow the idea of "ruling the world together" which is actually more mature. Only when these ideas form a solid cycle in the current small area, can you really get out of the situation.
Step one. Today the imperial court issued an order that everyone must be patriotic, but no one will listen."
"The formation of a theory requires a lot of questioning, a lot of accumulation, and a lot of conflicts of thinking. Of course, since you asked me today, I do have something here that can be provided to Fuzhou."
Zuo Xiuquan narrowed his eyes and saw Ning Yi looking over with a smile but not a smile. The feeling in his heart gradually became weird. The two sides were silent for a moment. He still sighed in his heart and couldn't help but said: "What?"
He saw Ning Yi spread his hands: "For example, the first idea I can recommend to you is the people's livelihood and civil rights among the 'four people', which can be modified, for example, combined into one: human rights."
"Mr. Ning, what are you..."
Zuo Xiuquan couldn't help but speak. Ning Yi pressed his palm with a sincere expression: "Listen to me."
Zuo Xiuquan didn't want to hear it...
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"...I have told people before that throughout our history, almost all innovations in the court have been caused by the same party fighting against dissent. A group of privileged classes has formed a group, and a political issue has become a focus. What should we do? We unite with other parties.
Minister, persuade the emperor to defeat the issues that need to be defeated. But the problem is that once you can defeat the previous interest group, the innovators you gathered will inevitably become a new interest group."
"...Any interest system or group will automatically maintain its own interest tendencies, which cannot be changed by individual will. That's why we see a cycle of chaos in a dynasty for hundreds of years. One interest system appears and another is overthrown.
It will then come again to defeat the previous one, sometimes it will temporarily alleviate the problem, but on the most critical issues, it must be constantly accumulating and aggravating. By the time two or three hundred years later, some problems will no longer be able to be reformed. Dynasty
It has become inevitable to begin to disintegrate and turn from rule to chaos..."
“… To defeat an interest system, you can only become a larger interest system. To solve a problem, you yourself will become the problem… Is it possible to change this simplest rule of the game? It was not possible in the past, but it may not be possible today.
Well, we can see that in the past political games, the people were never taken into consideration. Even if some people say it is for the people, the people cannot tell who is good and who is bad. They cannot participate in the struggle. Even if they participate, both sides will
Just talk about some truth and deceive them, and their choice will not matter..."
"...But today, we try to take civil rights into consideration. If the people can be more rational and their choices can be clearer, their share will not be large, but they will definitely have it. For example, the interests we are going to fight against today
Groups, their strength is ten, and your strength is only nine. In the past, you had to have at least eleven strengths to defeat the other party, and interest groups with eleven strengths will have to share eleven interests in the future...
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"...Today is different. Thousands of people can listen to you. Of course, because of their stupidity, they can only generate two points of power at the beginning, but if you promise them, you can temporarily borrow these two points.
Share your strength and defeat the opposing interest group. After defeating you, you are the privileged class and you will take away nine points of the benefits, but you must fulfill at least part of your promise. Two points or at least one point of the benefits will return to the people. This
That is, the power of the people, this is the possibility of changing the rules of the game."
Ning Yi clicked his fingers in the air a few times with a serious look.
"...Today, the Junwu of Fuzhou have to fight against the scholar-bureaucrats of the entire Wu Dynasty, and to fight against their thinking and their theories. With the passion of Mr. Zuo, you rationalists, passionate people, and great Confucians, there is nothing you can do.
, the force of resistance is like a quagmire, it will feed back from all aspects. So the only way is to pull the people in."
"...But stupid people are of no use. If they are easily deceived, your negative scholar-bureaucrats can also easily incite them. In order for them to join political calculations and develop controllable tendencies, they must have a certain ability to distinguish and analyze.
Know where your own interests lie... You couldn't do it in the past, but it's different today. Today we have the theory of matter, we have technological progress, we can start to make more paper, we can open more study classes...
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"...These study classes don't need to be too in-depth, and they don't need to train them to be great scholars like you. They only need to know a little bit of words, they only need to understand part of the truth, they only need to understand what human rights are, and let them understand themselves.
rights, let them understand that everyone is equal, and Junwu can tell them, I, the emperor of the Wu Dynasty, will lead you to realize all this, then he can win a force that no one has ever thought of.
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"...This whole trend was actually done subconsciously by Li Pin two years ago. He ran a newspaper and tried his best to write in vernacular in the newspaper. Why, he just wanted to win over more people at the lower level, who were just ordinary people.
Literacy is even for people who like to listen and read in restaurants and teahouses. He is aware of this, but what I want to tell you is a thorough enlightenment movement that puts most of the people who have not been won over by the scholar-bureaucrats into literacy classes and night schools.
Tell them that everyone is equal in nature in this world, and then make certain decisions about the emperor's identity and explanation..."
"...Then, you will be able to coerce the people and counterattack the nobles. By then, the interest tendency of 'jointly governing the world' that seems to have been accumulated for two hundred years will become a minor issue... This is the only thing you have today.
A slight chance of winning..."
Zuo Xiuquan looked at Ning Yi. When he heard "Four People", he thought Ning Yi was trying to be clever, and he heard it with a somewhat defensive and somewhat funny mentality. But at this moment, he couldn't help but look serious and frown.
They were almost twisted into a circle, and their expressions were a little scary unconsciously.
Opposite him, Ning Yi's expression was calm and serious, he was sincere and direct, and he was talking eloquently... The sun shone down from the sky.