Chapter 443: The sword goes sideways, back to the source
It was quite cold on the night of the 17th. When Ye Hua was preparing to leave for Yong Town tomorrow morning, he received a personal phone call.
It was a call personally from the president of Kyoto University. The content was to invite Ye Hua to attend a speech event at Kyoto University, and it was a speech event.
This news was very surprising to Ye Hua. Although many universities in China had invited him, this phone call was very different.
"No problem, I'll fly to the capital tomorrow morning."
On the balcony of a hotel room, Ye Hua gave a positive reply and hung up the phone. He stared at the thick layer of frost on the railing and thought deeply. He couldn't help but reach out and touch it with the palm of his hand...
It feels... bitingly cold!
Suddenly he couldn't help but take a breath of cold breath, which made him tremble. He couldn't help but murmured: "I'm freezing to death, so I'd better go back to the bedroom and feel comfortable."
Ye Hua returned to the room and made a phone call.
"Are you going to the capital tomorrow?"
It was Qiao Wei's voice on the phone. She had just asked the question and soon heard her resentful voice: "Then the follow-up arrangements have been messed up. You won't refuse politely? Or are you addicted to pretending to give speeches in the past few days?"
Ye Hua sighed: "Tomorrow's trip is very, very important, dear. It can be said to determine the prosperity or decline of Coastline Group. It is the real turning point. This trip is more critical than all the previous ones. Perhaps only by starting this company
That day can be compared.”
Qiao Wei: "I don't understand what you are talking about. Everything about the company's development is going well. You shouldn't be troubled by talent issues, right? Are you crazy about seeking talents? That's too much to make a fuss about."
Ye Hua: "You are very good, honey, but if you want to go further, you need to know how to adapt to changes. Forget it, just figure it out for yourself. I have worked hard for you these days. I will love you well when I go back. I'm done."
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He was supposed to go home early the next morning, but Ye Hua's special plane left early and flew to the north. This trip must be made, otherwise all kinds of troubles would follow, like walking on thin ice.
What prompted him to make a decisive decision on the phone and accept the invitation was because the president of Kyoto University personally called him.
How did he know this private phone number?
Someone must have told him. Ye Hua had already guessed it while talking on the phone.
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Morning, Kyoto University.
At the event site, there were more than 2,000 people in the spacious indoor hall.
Ye Hua came to the stage with warm applause from the audience. The stage layout was very simple, with a catwalk, two seats, a bottle of water, a host and a guest who was Ye Hua.
After the opening process, Ye Hua picked up the microphone and looked at the scene and said with a smile: "When I was communicating with the host in private just now, I learned that most of the students who came to the scene today are not men of science and engineering. It is very distressing to have something to talk about.
After much deliberation, I just decided to be special. Today I will take a different approach and share with all the students here the ancient Chinese scriptures, to be precise, the "Book of Changes"."
I Ching?
The Kyoto college students present were immediately curious. They all expressed that they had not seen each other for a long time. You are a big tech guy, how could you be related to something like the Yijing Bagua?
Ye Hua suddenly smiled and said:
"Seeing the surprised looks in everyone's eyes, I was convinced. Everyone seems to be very interested in this. Just be interested, so you won't fall asleep."
"I think as soon as they hear the "Book of Changes", most people immediately think of divination and fortune telling... I don't know how many people have read the "Book of Changes". If you have, please raise your hands."
Immediately a third of the people at the scene raised their hands.
Ye Hua: "Students who think they understand the "Book of Changes" please raise your hands..."
Very few.
After taking a sip of water, Ye Hua officially entered the rhythm and said:
"The Book of Changes is only 4,000 words long and difficult to understand, but I suggest you read it. Not only do you have to read it, but you also need to draw hexagrams."
"When talking about the "Book of Changes", we have to start from the ancient Fuxi 7,000 years ago. Fuxi opened the sky with one stroke, so it is called Fuxi Bagua. In fact, the Bagua is just the base number, but the sixty-four hexagrams. Just make a mathematical table and you will know.
Hexagram eight, eight and sixty-four.”
"If you read the "Book of Changes" and draw the hexagrams yourself to understand, you will find that our characters, the square characters, originally evolved from the trigrams. This is not made up by me, but is based on facts."
"The "Book of Changes" is the oldest classic in our country. It is the first and the beginning of the group of classics and the source of our nation's culture. If there is a map of the genes of the Chinese nation, it is the "Book of Changes."
"The Book of Changes was not written by Fuxi alone, but was created collectively from the ancient Fuxi era seven thousand years ago. It went through Fuxi's hexagrams, Zhou Wen's heavy hexagrams, Zhou Gong's Yaoci, and later Confucius' revision into a classic, that is,
The "I Ching" we see now."
"The Book of Changes has thousands of words, but it is all-inclusive. It has been integrated into various fields such as politics, economy, culture, life, and customs of our Chinese nation for thousands of years."
"More and more scientists at home and abroad are now admiring the "Book of Changes". Before this, there were already several Nobel Prize-winning scientists who had thoroughly understood the "Book of Changes"."
"Before getting into the topic, I have to emphasize one point repeatedly. The "Book of Changes" is not a superstitious book that can only be used for divination and fortune-telling in people's stereotype. It is actually all-encompassing. The "Book of Changes" is the Taoist book.
Divination is a technique. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was no market for Taoism at that time. The major vassal states were obsessed with techniques, such as the art of vertical and horizontal."
"When the First Emperor of Qin burned ancient books, the "Book of Changes" was regarded as a nonsense and useless divination book and escaped the disaster. I am really lucky."
"Now I ask you, what ancient Chinese scriptures do foreigners currently respect? Maybe everyone will think of "Sun Tzu's Art of War" at the first time. After all, West Point Military Academy has included "Sun Tzu's Art of War" as a required course, and some business schools in the West also require it.
"Sun Tzu's Art of War" is a compulsory course. Even some American TV dramas have scenes of "Sun Tzu's Art of War" being carefully copied. You may have heard that Napoleon sighed when he first saw "Sun Tzu's Art of War". If he had seen this masterpiece earlier, he would not have read it.
It would be so miserable."
"Of course Sun Tzu's Art of War is well-known around the world, but it has been exaggerated by the media. Today I will break this rumor for you. No, it's the Book of Changes, which contains the essence of Sun Tzu's Art of War.
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"Nowadays, those foreigners who call themselves experts on China issues will never be able to truly understand us Chinese as long as they cannot understand the "Book of Changes". They want to see us fundamentally and understand a 4,000-word "Book of Changes"
That’s enough.”
"Many people are worried. If the "Book of Changes" is the genetic code of the Chinese nation, wouldn't it mean that foreigners have thoroughly studied it all? Isn't that terrible bad news? It must be banned!"
"I think this worry is unnecessary. The biggest feature of the "Book of Changes" is tolerance. It is all-encompassing and all-inclusive. There is nothing to be afraid of. What is the saying? The best way to destroy your enemy is to turn him into a
Become yours."
"When a foreigner understands the "Book of Changes", he becomes a Chinese. If you don't believe it, just look at those foreigners who really understand us. They are all obsessed with studying our classical culture and plunge into more than ten years of study.
Years or even a lifetime, if you fall into this pit, you will never get up again, and he himself is not very willing to get up. The more he studies, the more he feels intoxicated and enjoys it."
"Some Westerners who have obtained Chinese nationality are still Huapi Xigu, some foreign scholars who have understood the "Book of Changes" have become Xipi Huagu, and some Westerners who have understood the "Book of Changes" and obtained Chinese nationality have become Xipi Xigu.
Reborn, his skin and bones are all Chinese."
"Many people wonder why China was invaded by aliens in ancient times and was Chineseized not long after taking over the Central Plains?"
"You will know this is the inevitable result after reading the Book of Changes."
"Westerners are very rigid about black and white, but for us, black can be white, white can be black, black is white, and white is black. Black and white can transform into each other or reverse each other. They are not rigid at all and are very unique.
Flexibility, very elastic.”
"We all say that great loyalty seems like betrayal, and great hypocrisy seems like truth. Don't look at the literal meaning. The facial features are often deceiving, especially the eyes. You have to look at the truth behind the words. The truth is always behind it."
"The reason behind it is that our thinking is relative, so this idiom appears. Loyalty seems like traitor, and hypocrisy seems like truth. Is it a complimentary or derogatory meaning? Sometimes it is a complimentary meaning, sometimes it is not."
"And Western thinking is absolutist."
"One is rigid and the other is flexible."
"So Westerners are actually very conflicted when facing the "Book of Changes". They are afraid that if they fall into this pit, their values will be completely collapsed and then reshaped. In one sentence, the "Book of Changes" has the ability to Chineseize everything.
ability."
"We Chinese people have risen up now, and it's time for Westerners to study us in depth. But if you study us, you're afraid that your three views will be shattered. If you don't study you, it won't work. This won't work, and that won't work either. It's over!"
"So they are very conflicted now. On the one hand, they want to really understand our genes so they can find ways to deal with it, but on the other hand, they are afraid of being Chineseized by you."
Ye Hua was relaxed and humorous, and the college students present couldn't help but laugh. It was really like that, to say it was a bit exaggerated.
