There were traders returning home passing them in front. Probably not expecting such an answer, Xigua turned to look at Ning Yi, feeling slightly confused.
Ning Yi still walked forward slowly, holding her hand and looking at her: "Twenty years ago, on the day when I married Tan'er, someone hit me on the head with a stone, and I fainted. When I woke up,
I have forgotten everything. Did you tell me about this a long time ago?"
"Yeah." Xigua said, "I remember he was named Xue Jin. When I first heard about it, I wanted to take you to seek revenge in the future."
"Forget it, before the beating, Ning Liheng was a stupid nerd. After the beating, he finally got the idea. Remember what he learned."
Xigua looked at him and smiled: "Tan'er also said privately, it's really strange. I went to see you twice before marrying you, and you know how to pick up on it. After we got married, I found out that you had so many weird ideas, and they were all kept in your heart. This is called
Mensao..." Seeing Ning Yi give her a look, he said, "Well, let's talk about business, where have you seen her?"
Ning Yi rolled his eyes and smiled: "You may not believe it when I tell you. During the few days after I was knocked unconscious, I wandered around the world and saw... the scene in another world, in a daze, as if I saw something that was hundreds of years old.
History...don't pinch me. You may not believe it, but listen first, okay? I'm a stupid bookworm, and suddenly I have enlightenment. Don't you think it's strange? There are so many stories of wandering in the world through the ages, Zhuang Shengxiao's dream is obsessed with it.
Butterfly, I see another possibility in this world, there is nothing strange about it."
Xigua's expression was already a little helpless, and he smiled angrily: "Then go on, what happened to that world?"
"It is said that a thousand years later, we still have not developed a systematic study of studying things..."
"Then all people in this thousand years have died?"
"It cannot be said that the Confucian metaphysical system has reached an absolute dominant position after our dynasty. They have carried out the spirit of 'people can' more deeply. The king, king, minister, father, father and son, serve the world.
A whole set of identity rules were established. When there were no external enemies, they were internally consistent. When there were external enemies, they assimilated the external enemies. So in the next thousand years, dynasties changed, divisions were divided and combined, and the science of physical studies did not need to appear, and everyone could live in harmony.
Then... Europe, which I told you about, is very miserable now. If it is poor, it will change and it will be successful. It first developed the study of things..."
"...It's like the beginning of Bamboo Storytelling." Xigua curled her lips, "Why won't we be able to develop the science of physics for another thousand years?"
"Uh..." Ning Yi thought for a while, "Let's just say that our life here is too good. Although the people are also suffering, half of the time, we can still support a large group of pampered carnivores. Without it, we can't survive.
After the pressure, these carnivores prefer to study metaphysics and philosophy, care more about right and wrong, and be more particular about life. But the situation in Europe is worse than ours, and people die at every turn, so they are relatively more pragmatic and follow some rules.
We have to take advantage of this rule. So we care more about the illusion of the whole, while they can focus relatively more on the details... It may not be true, but let’s just think about it this way.”
"Let's get down to business." Ning Yi spread his hands, "Anyway, they invented geophysics now. A thousand years later, a foreign regime, the Manchus, will be in power in our land. They will brag to others about themselves.
He is the descendant of today's Jin people...don't laugh, it's such a coincidence..."
"Okay, after a thousand years these Jin men will finally conquer the world." Xigua resisted the accusation of his uncreative behavior, "Go on."
"The Manchus closed themselves off to the country. Although they did not have the study of Buddhism, the Confucian art of governance was flourishing. They felt that they were a kingdom in heaven and lived a good life. But the Europeans came, with strong ships and cannons, and muskets. They came to rob them.
They wanted to do business, forcing the Qing Dynasty to open its ports to protect their interests. At first, everyone was curious about each other and didn't say they wanted to fight, but as the business gradually started, friction began to arise..."
"You can't write this book. Once you write it, they will know what you are going to do next... How can you write yourself as a villain..."
Ning Yi rolled his eyes at her and decided not to pay attention to her interruption: "Europeans have powerful firearms, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty also felt that they were a celestial country. The person in power of the Qing Dynasty at that time was a queen mother named Cixi - she had nothing to do with Zhou Pei -
We will fight as soon as we say it. The Qing Dynasty will declare war on the whole world. Then after this fight, everyone finally discovered that the Kingdom of Heaven is already a piece of fish on the chopping board, with tens of thousands of troops, hundreds of thousands of troops, and even thousands of people.
Even the troops can’t defeat it.”
"In the international community, those who fall behind will be beaten. Once they cannot be beaten, the good things in the country will be carved up by the enemy under one or another excuse. From that time on, the whole of China has fallen into... being taken turns by many countries, including Europe.
In the situation of successive invasions and carving up, gold and silver were plundered, the population was massacred, cultural relics were snatched away, and houses were burned down, and this continued...for dozens or even hundreds of years..."
When Ning Yi said this, his words had slowed down. Xigua thought that her husband was joking at first, but when he heard this, he couldn't help but got involved and frowned: "Nonsense... Wu Dynasty was also beaten like this by Jin Guo. Isn't that right?"
It’s only been over ten years. Even before, there weren’t many situations where I was beaten for hundreds of years. If you are different from others, why don’t you learn from it? Even if you build this gunpowder cannon from scratch, Li Heng, you only spent more than ten
Year!"
Ning Yi smiled slightly: "The backwardness of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, first of all, is the backwardness of the study of physics, but this is just a superficial phenomenon. The deeper problem is already the backwardness of people and culture at that time - Confucianism has developed a lot since now.
Over thousands of years, it has formed a stronger network internally, suppressing people's thinking. It holds people back from all aspects of life, work, and social interaction. To defeat the Europeans, it is enough to develop better than them, but your
The structure of your thinking is not suitable for doing gewu. If you do what others do, you will never catch up with your enemies... Agua, I sold things to all of them today for the same reason. If you don't change your thinking, they will always be better than others.
I'll take a step slower..."
He took a breath: "Back to the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, they were beaten and couldn't catch up. The Manchu and Qing Dynasties also knew that they had to change, but how much should they change? Agua, a common trend in human society is that any inherent system will try to maintain it.
Although it needs to be adjusted, people will always tend to use it as much as it needs to be modified. So at the beginning, the emperor set up a department in the cabinet. Well, let's learn from the West, study things, and learn from them to make muskets.
Artillery, use this department to protect yourself. This behavior is called the 'Westernization Movement'."
Xigua pinched his palm: "You still have such a disgusting name..."
"How disgusting is the 'Westernization Movement'... Forget it, the Westernization Movement was a department set up in the imperial court to carry out changes. They either learned artificial muskets and cannons, or spent money to buy muskets and cannons from others, and also used muskets and cannons to practice so-called
New recruits. But then they discovered that it didn’t work. There were problems with the soldiers and officials. The country continued to be beaten. It had to cede land to 178 small European countries, pay indemnities, and kneel in the ground for decades. Everyone discovered that, hey, Westernization
Sports are not enough, so we need to be more varied, and the entire court has to change..."
"At that time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had been a country for almost three hundred years. The system was bloated and corrupt, and if the reform of one department failed, reform and reform from top to bottom had to be carried out. Everyone felt that the Confucian system had been used to continuously castrate people in the past three hundred years.
Bloody nature is not enough, the people also need to wake up, give more benefits and status to the Kuhaha below, make officials more approachable, and make the system clearer, so the next step is the reform and reform."
"But no matter how it is beaten, the three-hundred-year-old feudal country is still hard to recover. Those who had the benefits before were unwilling to give in, internal conflicts intensified, and those who called for and presided over the reform were finally defeated. Since they were defeated, then
If the problem cannot be solved, if you are still kneeling outside and being beaten, then if the reform fails, you will have to take a more drastic path... Everyone began to learn to say that if there is equality, there can be no Manchu Qing Dynasty, no court, no more
The emperor..."
"In this way, civil strife began, rebels began to appear, warlords began to appear, everyone wanted to overthrow the emperor, call for equality, open up the people's wisdom, provide civil rights, and pay attention to people's livelihood... Step by step, it became more and more intense.
Decades after they were first beaten, they overthrew the emperor in the hope that things would change for the better."
Xigua took a breath: "If you kill the emperor in this book, things will get better soon..."
Ning Yi smiled: "Yeah, it seems...the world-opening feat, the social situation has improved to a certain extent, and then there are powerful warlords who want to be the emperor again. After such warlords are overthrown, the next talents will
After giving up this idea, the old warlords became new warlords. The call for equality has been going on in society. People have begun to realize that human problems are fundamental problems and cultural problems are fundamental problems. So where
Under such circumstances, many people have proposed to completely abandon the old Confucian thinking and establish a new way of thinking that can be matched with the study of things..."
"Throughout the whole process, they were still beaten. New warlords could not solve the problem, and the abandonment of the past culture was not thorough enough to solve the problem. A new pattern has been brewing, and thoughtful leaders are slowly forming advanced parties.
, in order to resist foreign enemies, a large number of elites formed a government and formed an army. They tried their best to put aside their old grudges and fight together. At this time, the Japanese people on the other side of the sea had become stronger in the continuous war carving up, and even wanted to rule the entire China.
…”
"Hey, Japanese dwarf, your story..."
Watermelon made a sound, and then Ning Yi reached out and hit it on the head.
"...The government composed of the elite class will still be unable to change China's thousands of years of hard work, because a large part of their ideas are still old. After becoming officials and gaining power, they are accustomed to thinking about themselves.
, when the country becomes weaker and weaker and the piece of cake becomes smaller and smaller, everyone will inevitably want to get something for themselves. Those with high officials will get more, and those with small officials will get less. At first, they may just want to
They lived better than the people who starved to death, but slowly, they discovered that everyone around them was doing this. When other companions thought that this kind of thing was excusable, everyone rushed to start fishing..."
"...the military pay was divided up, half of the strong men sent to the army starved to death on the way, the enemy invaded from the outside, the bureaucracy was hollowed out from the inside, and the people were destitute of materials and had no way to live... At this time, the whole of China had knelt down for a hundred times in front of the whole world.
Year after year, getting stronger one after another is not enough, and innovating one after another is not enough...then perhaps more decisive and more thorough innovation is needed!"
"...the Westernization Movement was progress for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which had long been hard to recover from. The Reform and Reform Movement was a further step forward for the Westernization Movement. The replacement of the emperor by the old warlords was another step forward. The replacement of the old warlords by new warlords was another step forward. To achieve the goal of having ideals and
The elites who are ambitious but inevitably somewhat selfish have replaced the new warlords, and here is another step forward. But what is the next step? Agua, you have ideals and ambitions, Chen Shanjun has ideals and ambitions, but your subordinates can
How many people like this can we find? A little bit of selfishness deserves to be forgiven. We can just use strict military regulations to restrain them... How can we go forward?"
"At that time, maybe it was that era that said that this would not work anymore. Therefore, the system that truly shouted that everyone is equal and everything is for the people finally appeared. People who joined that system would truly give up part of their selfishness and truly
They believe in selflessness - not the kind of belief that high-ranking officials make decisions for the people, but they really believe that they are equal to everyone in the world. When they become officials, the division of labor is just different, just like someone
To dig out manure is like someone wanting to be an official..."
"Is this really possible?" Xigua said.
"Of course it won't be 100% like this, but the degree of equality is incredible. Because after a hundred years of humiliation, failure, and seeing the complete lack of dignity in the entire country, most of them finally realized...
... Otherwise there is no way out. In fact, many of these people are elites. They could have entered the political system composed of elites. They thought more about themselves, and everyone could understand it. But they all saw it, but
That level of effort cannot save this world."
"They constantly supervise and transform themselves, and they will make the entire army and the entire government believe in serving the people from the bottom of their hearts. At that time, China has been up and down for thousands of years, and can even be said to be the most honest army in the history of human society.
, were born there... It can also be said that they were forced out."
There was admiration and admiration in Ning Yi's words. Xigua looked at him. Naturally, she didn't have a deep sense of involvement in the whole story, but for the man beside her, she could tell that he was not speaking in a story-telling mood.
This made her slightly confused, and she couldn't help but think a lot more.