The summer sun shines down, and there is an endless stream of tourists coming and going between the gates of Jianmenguan. In addition to the most merchants before the war, there were many knights and scholars among them at this time. The young scholars walked forward with a sense of high spirits, and the middle-aged and elderly Confucians observed everything with cautious eyes. There are still some places where the imprint of the war remains, causing people to stop and watch and talk about it from time to time.
The Huaxia Army originally held the attitude of watching at will, but after arriving, the gathering of the crowd affected the passage, so they had to come out from time to time to chase people away.
"Keep order! Go ahead, all the way to Chengdu, there are places you can see"
Ning Yi and Zuo Xiuquan looked down from the hill not far away.
"... What does Mr. Ning think about this decision of Xinjun?"
Zuo Xiuquan asked a question, and Ning Yi smiled: "What are your Zuo family's thoughts? Follow or not?"
"As Mr. Ning said, the new monarch is tough, and looking at what he has done, he has the determination to win the battle, which makes people excited and heartbroken. In practice, there are too few successful ones. Judging by today's situation, within my Zuo family, I am not optimistic about this innovation..."
Ning Yi looked at him, Zuo Xiuquan paused: "...But, the Zuo family will follow."
Ning Yi laughed: "It's not surprising, Zuo Duanyouzhi's family really has a set..."
"Before my uncle died, he said that Mr. Ning is open-minded, and some things can be said, and you won't be surprised. The new monarch's ability, temperament, and aptitude are far superior to those of the previous His Majesty. It's a pity that the Wu Dynasty was so powerful. It's too late, but since he succeeds him, no matter what the situation is ahead, the Zuo family will accompany him for a trip."
Zuo Xiuquan bowed his hands, his words were sincere, and Ning Yi also nodded: "The logic of innovation is established... The new king succeeds to the throne, attracting all parties, and it seems that he will inherit the orthodox power immediately, but what should we do after the inheritance? Tinkering, its upper limit, you can see it clearly today, after a few years, facing the idiots in Lin'an, Wu Qimei and Liu Guangshi, you can beat them and kill them, but not long after There’s still a dead end, you can’t beat Jurchen, you can’t beat me… I’m frankly speaking, in the future, I’m afraid you won’t be able to even beat that woman in Jindi. If you don’t reform, you’ll be dead… But the problem of reform is clear to you.”
Ning Yi's eyes looked over: "This is not a question of support or disapproval of several households. If it is about business, it is a problem that the entire game framework and the talent training system are not matched. In the past two hundred years, the capital of the Wu Dynasty has It operates within the framework of 'co-governing the world with scholar-officials', and your talent training is in line with this theory in countless details. Today, the Wu Dynasty is in danger, just like you people in power, it is not for nothing. The Zuo family will follow the Wu Dynasty's consciousness, and there are many great Confucians and people of insight who will go to the national disaster, but what about the people below you?"
"In a relatively long process, those who follow Jun Wu must consciously give more and get less. Senior executives like you, Mr. Zuo, have a sense of mission. You don't want money and don't return anything, but it's just the Zuo family. In one series, thousands of scholars are affected, and incidentally, the number of people who directly or indirectly eat with you is 100,000. When you go to them, what is related is the daily firewood, rice, oil and salt. For the emperor, you can break your family and express your wealth, and you will not be hungry. tummy, but they will."
"If this kind of thing goes on for a long time, everyone will see the difference more clearly. Those who go to Lin'an can become superiors with a little relationship. Why can't you? As for 'officials don't have fun'. Then they will start to find the reason, it is because you moved the country, which led to this result, and everyone started to say, this can't be done... Most of the people in this world are such animals, absolutely Most of the time, everyone is trying to break up reasons for their own purposes, rather than doing certain things after recognizing the reasons, and there are always very few people who can really talk about things.”
"Your Zuo family may be the firmest family standing beside the little emperor in this revolution, but two-thirds of your inner strength will turn into resistance to appear in this revolution, and this resistance can't even be seen or touched, It is reflected in every laziness, tiredness, complaining, every incense stick... This is the situation of the Zuo family, more big families, even if an old man expresses his support for Jun Wu, his family, we every time The part of a person's mind that is unwilling to toss will still turn into a quagmire, holding back this innovation from all sides."
"That's the problem with every innovation."
There was a hustle and bustle of people in the distance. Ning Yi said here, there was silence between the two, and Zuo Xiuquan said: "In this way, the foundation of innovation still lies in people's hearts. The Jiangnan Military Academy is not wrong."
"Many problems do not lie in the concept, but in the degree." Ning Yi laughed, "I heard a joke before, someone asked an old farmer if the country is in trouble today, if you have two large houses, would you like to donate one? To the court, the old peasant readily answered yes; what if you had one million taels of silver? Would you like to donate? The old peasant replied, yes, too. Then he asked, if you have two cows, would you be willing to donate one? The old peasant shook his head, not willing , ask why... I really have two cows."
Zuo Xiuquan was stunned for a moment, then laughed out loud.
"Today the Wu Dynasty is in danger. You ask the people of the world if you want to innovate. Everyone says yes. How about eating a meal? Is it still innovating? Some people say yes, some people say no, but the real complexity is that many people will say that your innovation method is wrong while talking about innovation, and there are true and false... How many people can the little emperor give his own interests to support innovation, and how many people can give his interests, this is the core of the problem.”
Ning Yi looked at the crowd below and paused: "Actually, you all know what I said."
"It's just that I don't know what Mr. Ning would do if he moved to another place."
"Haha... Look, you've seen it too."
"Based on Mr. Ning's cultivation, if you don't want to say it, I probably won't be able to ask anything. It's just that when you and your uncle were discussing Taoism in the past, what you like most is the indomitable and glowing people in difficult situations. Attitude. From last year to the present, the actions of the Fuzhou court may be able to gain the insight of Mr. Ning."
Zuo Xiuquan's words were sincere. These words were neither aggressive nor concealed, but they seemed magnanimous 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 can be another ecosystem.”
Zuo Xiuquan frowned: "What is... a circular, mature ecosystem?"
"To use a simple analogy, in today's Wu Dynasty, the idea that the emperor should govern the world together with the scholar-officials has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, supported by a set of theoretical systems that match it. In a village, adults give birth to children, Even if children do not study, they will continue to receive these ideas in the process of growing up, and when they grow up, they will take it for granted when they hear the theory of 'governing the world with scholars and officials'. Mature A cyclic ecosystem is that it can function and reproduce on its own.”
"The Confucian system used in the Wu Dynasty today is highly self-contained. Of course, 'governing the world with literati and officials' is only part of it, but you have to change it to respect the king and oppose the barbarians, saying that it is not good for the imperial power to be dispersed, or it is better to concentrate it. First of all, you must cultivate your sincerity. People who believe that, and then use them to train more people and let it circulate like a flow of water.”
"Today's Fuzhou, from the point of view of the actions, the little emperor's initial thinking is of course correct, with Neo-Confucianism as a note for respecting the king and deterring the barbarians, preparing for the centralization of power, and unifying the control of the military with the Jiangnan Military Academy to let the army lead the army. He became a disciple of the emperor... On the one hand, because the elite military power of more than 100,000 people was temporarily concentrated in his hands, and no one could fight against it, on the other hand, it was because everyone was slaughtered by the Jurchen. The idea that reform was needed, so the first step was started.”
"But then, is Li Pin's theory high enough to make a note of a circular and self-contained system of respecting the king and rejecting the barbarians? Is the loyalty to the king's thinking promoted by Jiangnan Wubei Academy a blunt indoctrination, or is it really unparalleled persuasion? What you need are mature theories, mature arguments, to overthrow the more mature idea of 'governing the world together'. Only when these ideas form a solid cycle in a small area at the moment will you really get out of the way The first step. Today, the court issued an order that everyone should be patriotic, and no one will listen."
"The formation of a theory requires a lot of questions, a lot of accumulation, and a lot of thinking conflicts. Of course, since you asked me today, I do have some things here that can be provided to Fuzhou."
Zuo Xiuquan narrowed his eyes, seeing Ning Yi's eyes looking at him with a smile but not a smile, the feeling in his heart gradually became strange, the two sides were silent for a moment, he still sighed in his heart, and couldn't help saying: "What?"
He saw Ning Yi spread out his hands: "For example, the first idea I can recommend to there is the people's livelihood and civil rights among the 'four people', which can be transformed, such as combining them into one: human rights."
"Mr. Ning, you are..."
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...
…
"... I used to tell people that in our history from ancient times to the present, almost all the innovations in the court are the same as the party. A group of privileged classes has formed a group, and a political issue has become the focus. What should we do? We unite with other ministers. , convince the emperor to overthrow the problems that need to be overthrown. But the problem in the middle is that once you can overthrow the previous interest group, the innovators you gather will inevitably become a new interest group."
"…Any interest system or group will automatically safeguard its own interest tendencies, which cannot be changed by the will of the individual. That's why we will see a cycle of chaos ruled by a dynasty for hundreds of years, with one interest system emerging and another overthrowing it. , and then beat the previous one, sometimes the problem will be temporarily alleviated, but on the most critical issues, it must be constantly accumulating and aggravating. After two or three hundred years, some problems can no longer be reformed, and the dynasty begins. Disintegration, from governance to chaos, becomes inevitable…”
"…To defeat a system of interests, you can only become a larger system of interests. To solve a problem, you will become the problem yourself... Is it possible to change the rules of this simplest game? It was impossible in the past, but not necessarily today. We can see that in the past political games, the common people were never taken into consideration. Even if someone said it was for the common people, the common people couldn’t tell who was good and who was bad. They couldn’t participate in the struggle. Make a big point, deceive them a little bit, and their choice doesn't matter..."
“…But today, we try to take civil rights into consideration. If the people can be more rational and their choices can be more clear, their share is not large, but there will be. For example, the interest groups we are fighting against today. , their strength is ten, and yours is only nine. In the past, you had at least eleven strengths before you could defeat the opponent, and the interest groups with eleven strengths will share the interests of eleventh in the future..."
"… 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. Power, defeat the opposite interest group. After defeating, you are a privileged class, and you will share nine points of the interests, but at least you have to fulfill part of the promise, and two points or at least one point of interests will return to the people, this is , people power, it's a game-changing possibility."
Ning Yi's fingers tapped in the air a few times, his eyes serious.
"... Today, Jun Wu of Fuzhou has to fight against the scholars and officials of the entire Wu Dynasty, to fight against their thinking and against their theories, just rely on the passion of some rationalists, warm-blooded, and some great Confucians, Mr. Zuo, you can't do anything, The power of resistance is like a quagmire, and it will come back from all aspects. Then the only way is to pull the people in."
"...But the stupid people are useless. If they are easily deceived, the scholar-officials can also easily incite them. If you want them to join the political calculation and have a controllable tendency, they must have a certain ability to distinguish and distinguish clearly. Where are my own interests... I couldn't do it in the past, but today is different. Today we have the theory of lattices, we have the advancement of technology, we can start to make more paper, we can open more classes... "
"... These classes don't need to be too in-depth, they don't need to be trained as great Confucians like you, they only need to know a little bit of Chinese characters, they only need to understand part of the truth, they only need to understand what human rights are, and let them understand their own Right, let them understand that everyone is equal, and Jun Wu can tell them, I, the emperor of the Wu Dynasty, will bring you to achieve all this, then he can win a force that no one thought of before."
"... This whole tendency, in fact, Li Pin has been doing it subconsciously two years ago. He runs a newspaper, and he writes in the vernacular as much as possible. Why, he just wants to win more people at the lower level, those who are only literate Even people who like to hear about books in restaurants and teahouses. He realizes this, but what I want to tell you is a thorough Enlightenment movement, which squeezed most of the people who were not won by the scholar-officials into the literacy class and into the night school, told The essence of their world is that everyone is equal, and then they make certain handling of the emperor's identity and interpretation..."
"...Then, you will be able to coerce the people and fight against the gentry. At that time, the interest tendency of 'to rule the world together' that seems to have accumulated for two hundred years will become a small problem that waits for it... This is the only chance for you to win today. A little possible…”
Zuo Xiuquan looked at Ning Yi. When he heard 'Simin', he thought that Ning Yi was shaking smartly, and he listened to it with some precautions and some funny mentality. But at this time, he couldn't help but look serious, his brows were almost twisted into a circle, and his expression was a little scary unconsciously.
On the opposite side, Ning Yi's expression is calm and serious, sincere and direct, and he talks freely... The sun shines down from the sky.