Shentong hopes to build a city where everyone can live in harmony. This wish is obviously unrealistic, but it is also consistent with his character who pursues the best of both worlds in everything.
To build a city, you must first complete the original accumulation. This is completely dependent on everyone's support for magical powers and the convenient transportation environment. It is not because ordinary people and magicians live together that the original accumulation is completed. Ordinary people are nothing these days.
Culture still needs to spend money to popularize education before it can develop.
Once the infrastructure, education, and medical care of a big city are established, it will inevitably attract outsiders from around it. These outsiders either come to hunt for gold or to settle down. The limited conditions of the city cannot include everyone.
If a public facility is built for 1,000 people first, it will attract 1,100 people, and the subsequent 100 people will not be included. If a facility is built to cover 10,000 people, 11,000 people will be attracted.
People, and so on... there are always some people who are not included in public facilities and cannot receive protection from education and medical care. At the same time, because new people are constantly coming in, asset prices in the city will remain high.
But big cities represent the priority of information, and the priority of information represents opportunities, which will continuously attract more people.
Therefore, it is almost impossible to prevent urbanization. We can only get rich first and then get richer later, and rely on cities that develop first in terms of geographical environment to develop other places without geographical advantages. Only in this way can we ensure that conflicts can be alleviated.
However, Shen Tong obviously had no such idea. He just naively thought that building a harmonious city would be enough.
"Then why do we all live together? Is there no other goal? Without a goal, ordinary people have the interests of ordinary people, and the magicians have the interests of the magicians. If the conflicts between them cannot be reconciled, then this city
The city will be filled with all kinds of conflicts. In the end, Shentong An will only be a second-rate talent and will not be able to become a first-rate talent."
Dulan's requirements are still very high, saying that it would be impossible for An to achieve harmony just for the sake of harmony. Harmony is for a greater goal, a great goal that everyone can accept compromise.
"Your demands are really high." Jie has completed his revenge and defeated the Fire Nation in the war, but he is still confused about the future. He also agrees with An's goal, a city where everyone can be harmonious, but now
After listening to Dulan's various explanations, he discovered that in order to achieve his goals, the most important thing is actually culture, a culture where everyone can trust each other.
Why should ordinary people and magicians trust each other? How can they trust each other? These problems have not been solved by magical powers.
Just like how could the nobles and barbarians trust each other in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period? Shang Yang's South Gate erection alone was definitely not enough. Although the law could stipulate that benefits were transferred from the nobles to the barbarians, it was not certain that both parties could really trust each other.
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Shang Yang's approach is to expand. As long as the benefits are sufficient, everyone will share the spoils together. There is no such thing as trust or distrust. Everyone is a grasshopper on a rope.
But expansion is not forever. In the end, we still have to rely on Mencius’ righteousness. When expansion ends, we must rely on justice to redistribute resources. Give up your life for righteousness and regard righteousness as the highest standard. Abandon the altars and etiquette of the nobility, and use justice to regulate the nobility and
Savage ensures mutual trust between the two and regards righteousness as the standard of distribution.
Faced with the crisis of trust between ordinary people and magicians, An cannot handle it. An will make laws and rely on his own moral character to set an example, but he has not created a culture that is accepted by both parties. Then wait until the benefits
When there is not enough points, conflicts will erupt intensively after An's death.
Because there is no basis for trust, neither party knows what to do to gain the other's trust.
The reason why magical powers are trusted is entirely due to the accumulation of magical powers in the past hundreds of generations. Even if An disappears for a hundred years, once he returns, everyone will still be able to trust him. You must know that the ending of the first generation of magical powers is very bleak. He has been thinking about it all his life.
He wanted to create peace, but in the end peace did not come. He was still fighting on the battlefield at a young age, and finally died on the battlefield.
The trust gained by supernatural powers does not appear out of thin air, but is achieved by the example of supernatural powers in past generations.
Unfortunately, it is too difficult to create a culture. It is very difficult to get everyone's approval and to get everyone to accept a set of values. As the old saying goes, one of the most difficult things in the world is to turn other people's money into your own.
The second is to put your own thoughts into other people's brains.
There is no brainwashing device in this world, and it is a good thing to directly make everyone believe in the same idea without pressing a button.
"The time, place and people are favorable. I think now is the moment for the birth of a new culture." Dulan believes that now is the opportunity for the birth of a new culture. If Shen Tong can seize the opportunity, it can reduce a lot of troubles later.
Jie doesn’t know much about it, and of course he doesn’t know how to invent culture. Speaking of which, what is the definition of culture?
"The rituals, words, and ideologies that allow everyone to accept the unfairness in the distribution relationship and allow different classes in the distribution relationship to trust each other and cooperate are the rituals, words, and ideologies that can achieve this goal." Duran said that culture is necessary.
This is really difficult to achieve, and Jie can't do it anyway.
An couldn't figure it out. Although the city's construction was going smoothly and many people were willing to come and settle there, overall, everyone was now looking at Shen Tong's face. Once everyone's strength increased and the Shen Tong was disenchanted, Shen Tong's deterrent power would
It will be reduced a lot, and disobedient people will appear one after another.
At the same time, as the city develops, more and more people will come to the city to make a fortune. Not only are they honest wage earners, but there are also criminals who want to get rich. These existences will deepen the conflict between ordinary people and magicians.
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After the conflict deepens, ordinary people and magicians will create conflicts in order to protect their own interests, and there will be a chain of suspicion. People with malicious intentions will add fuel to the flames, destroy harmony, and eventually war and tragedy will occur.
"So now we must first obtain a new identity, and then we must care for the vulnerable groups."
"Why should we care for the vulnerable?" Jie asked.
"Come on, come on, this is the question that cultural creators must answer." Dulan was very happy that Jie raised this question. On the other hand, there is another question: Why should the vulnerable groups believe in the powerful groups?
Confucius did not answer this question, but Mencius answered it, so the ways of Confucius and Mencius were connected, because Mencius supplemented Confucius' benevolence.
Why do you need benevolence? Why do you need righteousness? If you just start from the interests, you can just ensure your own interests. Why care about the vulnerable groups?
The king, the king, the minister, the father, the son, the son. If we only consider the interests, we only need the king, the king and the father, and the minister and the son can be completely ignored. Why be benevolent, why should the king care about the minister, and the father should care about the son?
Mencius believed that this is because people have four principles: the heart of compassion, the principle of benevolence. The heart of shame and disgust, the principle of righteousness. The heart of resignation, the principle of propriety. The heart of right and wrong, the principle of wisdom.
People have these four beginnings when they are born, so human nature is inherently good, and everyone should trust each other. Benevolence, justice, etiquette, and wisdom are also spontaneously formed in the heart, and everyone has it. Because human nature is inherently kind, it is natural to care for the disadvantaged, just like
It is human instinct to feel sad when seeing a cow being killed, and to be anxious when seeing a child fall into a well. It’s just that when people grow up, they are blinded by interests, so they have questions about caring for the weak.
Later, anyone who wanted to do big things would claim to be loyal, and the main manifestation was to care about those weaker than themselves. The weak should also use their own actions to protect the rules of the strong and form complementarities. Trust is built through this interactive behavior