Watching Wei Zheng's carriage disappear at the end of the winding mountain road, Fang Jun let out a dull breath.
Standing beside the mountain road with hands behind your hands, you can see the winding Wei River flowing at the foot of the mountain, and the majestic Chang'an City dormant in the distance. There is a melancholy beauty in the gentle breeze and drizzle.
However, hidden under the surface of tranquility, wealth and strength, is the dirty evil nature of this nation...
Mr. Lu Xun once said that the Chinese people have a slavish nature in their bones. Firstly, they are submissive and willing to be humble and humiliate the poor without realizing it. Secondly, once they gain power, they use the noble to bully the humble and the rich to bully the poor, doubly oppressing their compatriots.
In his opinion, there are only two kinds of people in China: masters and slaves.
People who live in a servile manner will behave like a domineering master when they are successful, showing bestial cruelty; when frustrated, they will be a slave, begging for mercy, obeying the master's orders, sharing the leftovers of cannibalism, and showing the humbleness and shamelessness of slaves...
Fang Jun thinks it makes sense.
But where does this servility come from?
The oppression caused by foreign invasions and wanton humiliation in the Yuan and Qing dynasties cannot be simply blamed on the Confucian "gold mean", nor can it be said to be the genes carried by the nation itself. No one is born a bitch...
In the final analysis, it is still the result of social status quo.
Family is the most unique idea of the Chinese nation.
In Chinese people's thinking, "family" has an extremely lofty status and irreplaceable meaning. Whether you are a trafficker or a member of a well-known family, you can easily sacrifice everything for "family"...
It is the instinct of animals to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. When the Chinese people are autocracy and the power has been rampant for five thousand years, it is really helpless for the Chinese people to endure it silently. It is said that the Chinese people are honest, prudent and self-protective, content with the status quo, and selfish. Being cowardly is actually helpless. In this long-term authoritarian society, it is understandable to have seniors and subordinates at home and young children. Do you have to have your family ruined for the sake of your integrity to be considered a hero?
However, the "slavery system" since ancient times has made this "slavery" even more profound.
From the Han, Jin, Sui and Tang Dynasties, the "slave status" has always existed. In the Song Dynasty, it eased slightly. The improvement of the status of literati and the rise of the poor gentry liberated the minds of the people. However, what followed was the ruin of Yashan and Shenzhou. Lu Chen, the entire nation fell into the eternal darkness, and the civilization that was about to emerge was completely annihilated under the scimitars and iron cavalry of the alien race.
Although Taizu of the Ming Dynasty expelled the Tartars and restored China, he still adopted a high-pressure policy to govern the country. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, the rise of the cabinet system gradually liberated the people's wisdom. The sparks were about to start a prairie fire, but they were invaded by aliens. The cruel rule...
It has been nearly three hundred years since the Qing Dynasty entered the country, and the Han people have been lingering under the iron heel of the Qing Dynasty for nearly three hundred years. Their spines have been broken, their bones have become soft, and their souls have dispersed. Even if the Republic of China was established, even if the Anti-Japanese War was won, even if New China rose. , but the legs of the Chinese nation have stood up, but the soul is still kneeling...
"Slavery" is a shackles of thought, which directly leads to the discontinuation of the inheritance of Chinese civilization.
How to liberate the mind and eliminate "slavishness"?
This is the problem of the century. Fang Jun, a small bureaucrat in his previous life, was incapable of solving it and could not even find an accurate method.
But he feels that this should start from cultivating Han people's responsibilities.
It is impossible to eliminate autocracy, but if every Han people were upright and established, wouldn't the soil for this kind of "servility" to survive be much smaller?
It was drizzling and the breeze was blowing. Fang Jun stood beside the mountain road with a solemn face, thinking about a problem that even the most knowledgeable scholars of this era could not understand.
Unconsciously, a gorgeously decorated carriage slowly approached behind him. The curtains of the carriage were slightly opened, and a slender jade hand stretched out, waving gently, stopping the guard in front from trying to kill Fang Jun, a "passerby". The plan to disperse...
The horse's hooves clattered, the wheels rumbled, and the gorgeous carriage passed by Fang Jun slowly.
Fang Jun's mind was wandering, his eyes were unfocused, and he was completely unaware of the carriage passing by.
Not to mention the beautiful face like a flower behind the floating car curtain...
Princess Fangling looked at Fang Jun on the side of the road in Zhuoli and wondered: "What disease has this boy got that he is standing on the side of the road in the rain?"
As the carriages crossed each other, Princess Changle could clearly see the tangled beauty and heavy expression on Fang Jun's face.
Biting her lip slightly, she turned a deaf ear to Princess Fangling's words, but she was wondering in her heart, what kind of difficulties did she encounter that could confuse such a talented young man like Fang Jun?
I really didn't expect that Fang Jun, who seemed free and uninhibited, would have such a solemn moment.
Sure enough, it is better for men to be deeper...
*****
Jin Wang Li Zhi was very upset.
The funeral of Changsun's family had just ended and Changsun Dan had just been buried. Changsun Wuji couldn't wait to send someone to invite him to meet him at his house.
Li Zhi was a little puzzled and a little scared. What on earth was his uncle trying to do? Wasn't he afraid that his father would find out and suspect that his highness, the King of Jin, was so close to foreign ministers and had such frequent contacts?
But despite the fear in his heart, he dared not not go when faced with Changsun Wuji's summons...
Ever since he was little, he has been afraid of his uncle who hides his knives in his smile and specializes in scheming.
His still childish face was full of troubles, and he kept pacing back and forth in the hall, sighing from time to time, hesitating and tangled in his heart, it was really hard to give up.
go?
Still not going?
Behind her are jingle bells, and the fragrance is lingering.
Jin Princess Wang was dressed in a splendid palace attire, with a charming smile, a straight back, and a delicate and bright face with the restraint and majesty of a lady. She came behind Li Zhi with slow and delicate steps, and stretched out her delicate hands to hug Li Zhi. He raised his arm and said softly: "Your Highness, what is so difficult to decide?"
Li Zhi stopped and looked back to stare at Princess Jin's bright face. A feeling of depression surged in his heart, and he was about to get angry. But when he thought that it was this beautiful body under the palace clothes that was still in his body last night. He politely accepted the joy and brought himself the ultimate enjoyment, so he endured it, suppressed the anger that was about to burst out, and snorted coldly: "Isn't it a good thing done in your family?"
Ever since they got married, the Taiyuan Wang family immediately moved in and out with the eldest grandson family, colluding with each other and putting Li Zhi on the fire...
"No matter what His Highness said, my concubine's family will naturally stand by His Highness's side and spare no effort to support it!"
Princess Jin smiled and said softly.
"Hmph! That's nice to say. Didn't you think that when you saw that this king had such a rare thing to live in, you started to have such undesirable thoughts?"
Li Zhi is not a fool. How could he not know the purpose behind the collusion between the Wang family and the Changsun family?
Princess Jin smiled brightly, gently pulled Li Zhi's hand, and said softly: "How can you say that it is undue thoughts? Although the position of crown prince has been determined, after all, His Majesty is in his prime, and things are still changing. Prince
He is His Majesty's legitimate son, and King Wei is His Majesty's legitimate son. They can compete with each other, but why can't Your Highness, His Majesty's most favored legitimate son, also compete with each other?"
Li Zhi was a little annoyed, angrily shook off Princess Jin's hand, returned to the chair to do it, and said angrily: "They are both my biological brothers, they can fight, but how can I fight? And how can I fight?"
The uncle's bad idea of asking me to sow discord with the prince's brother is simply too stupid! The prince's brother is kind and may not think twice about it, but Fang Jun is such a naughty guy, how can he not see through this king's behavior?
intention?"
Princess Jin moved lightly and sat down next to Li Zhi. She smiled sweetly and said: "Isn't Zhao Guogong's intention an upright conspiracy? Even if Fang Jun could see the intention, it would inevitably lead to a conflict between him and the prince.
As long as the prince cuts off Fang Jun's arm and the king of Wei is far away in the Western Regions, who can say that the position of the crown prince will not change again?"
This woman is not very old, but she is also very thoughtful and eloquent.
Li Zhi patted the coffee table in front of him irritably and hesitated to speak.
Do you want to say in front of Princess Jin that you are actually afraid of Fang Jun?
If others don't know, how could he, Li Zhi, not know Fang Jun's character? If it had been anyone else, he might have suffered the loss of being dumb. Even though he knew that he, Li Zhi, had plotted against him, he could only swallow his anger. But who is Fang Jun?
That's Chang'an's No. 1 mallet!
Back then, he dared to hold down King Qi and beat him up, and chased King Wei to beat him up!
As long as he thinks of Fang Jun's glorious achievements in the past, Li Zhi can't help but tremble...
What if Fang Jun becomes so ferocious that he chases him to Prince Jin's Mansion and beats him up? With such a small body, Fang Jun will probably fall apart after three punches and two kicks.
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But after thinking about the princess's words, I felt that the position of crown prince was really tempting, and maybe I could really seize grain from the fire and successfully counterattack.
Compared with this, even if you get beaten up by Fang Jun, it is worth it, right?