son-in-law

Chapter 1024
The summer sun shines down, and there are endless tourists coming and going between the towers of Jianmenguan.In addition to the most businessmen before the war, there are also many knights and scholars among them at this time. The young scholars walk forward with a sense of vigor, and the middle-aged and elderly Confucianists observe everything with prudent eyes. There are still traces of war left in some places, causing people to stop and watch and discuss from time to time.

The Huaxia army originally held an attitude of watching casually, but after arriving, the gathering of the crowd affected the passage, so they had to come out from time to time to drive people away
"Keep order! Go ahead, this way to Chengdu, there are places you can see—"

Ning Yi and Zuo Xiuquan looked down from the hill not far away.

"...Mr. Nanning, what do you think of Xinjun's decision?"

Zuo Xiuquan asked a question, and Ning Yi smiled: "What do you think of the Zuo family? Follow, or not?"

"As Mr. Ning said, the new monarch is tough. Looking at what he does, he has the determination to win if he dies. If we do it, there are too few people who can achieve it. Judging from today's situation, within my Zuo family, we are 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 passed away, I said that Mr. Ning is open-minded. Some things can be spread out. You will not be surprised. The ability, temperament, and qualifications of the new monarch are far superior to those of the previous majesty. It is a pity that the Wu Dynasty is too good. It's late, but since it's his succession, no matter what the situation ahead is, the Zuo family will accompany him there."

Zuo Xiuquan arched his hands, and his words were sincere, Ning Yi also nodded: "The logic of innovation is established...The new king succeeds to the throne and wins over all parties. It seems that he can inherit the orthodox power immediately, but what happens after the inheritance?" What to do? Repair it, its upper limit can be seen clearly today, lingering for a few years, facing those idiots in Lin'an, Wu Qimei and Liu Guangshi who are ready to move, you can defeat them and kill them, but soon After that, there is still a dead end, you can't beat the Jurchens, you can't beat me... I'm frank, in the future, you may not even be able to beat that woman in Jindi. If you don't reform, you will die... But the problem of reform, you are also clear .”

Ning Yi looked over: "This is not a question of whether a few families support or not. If it is put on business, it is a problem of the entire game framework and the talent training system not matching. In the past 200 years, the Wu Dynasty has It operates within the framework of "governing the world with literati and bureaucrats". Your talent cultivation is in line with this theory in countless details. Today, the Wu Dynasty is in danger, just like you who are in power, it is not for nothing The awareness paid by the Wu Dynasty, the Zuo family will follow, and there are many great Confucianists and people of insight who will go bankrupt and go to the national calamity, but what about the people below you?"

"In a relatively long process, those who follow Junwu have to consciously pay more and get less. Mr. Zuo, high-level people like you have a sense of mission. You don't want money or return, but it's just the Zuo family. First, thousands of scholars are affected, and hundreds of thousands of people who eat with you directly or indirectly are affected by the way. When you go to them, it is related to daily necessities. You can spend your money for the emperor, and you will still not be hungry. belly, but they will."

"If this kind of thing goes on for a long time, everyone will see the difference more and more clearly. Those who go to Lin'an can become masters if they have a relationship. Why can't you? In the past, you could sneak, rape and play tricks. Why is the law so strict today? As for 'officials are not worth living'. Then they will start to find the reason, it is because you moved the country, which led to such a result, everyone began to say, this is not possible... most people in this world are such animals, Most of the time, everyone is trying to reason for their own goals, instead of doing certain things after recognizing the reasons, and there have always been very few people who can really discuss the facts."

"Your Zuo family may be the most steadfast family standing beside the little emperor in this revolution, but two-thirds of your internal power will become resistance in this revolution, and this resistance can't even be seen or touched. It is reflected in every laziness, fatigue, complaint, and every stick of incense... This is the situation of the Zuo family, more big families, even if an old man expresses his support for Junwu, his family, we The part of everyone's mind that is unwilling to toss will still turn into a quagmire, holding back this innovation from all aspects."

"That's the problem with every innovation."

There were bustling voices in the distance. When Ning Yi said this, there was a silence between the two. Zuo Xiuquan said: "In this way, the root of innovation lies in people's hearts. Then Li Pin's new Confucianism, Your Majesty The Jiangnan Armed Forces Academy is not wrong."

"Many problems do not lie in the concept, but in the degree." Ning Yi smiled, "I heard a joke before, someone asked an old farmer, if the country is in trouble today, if you have two big houses, would you like to donate one Give it to the imperial court, the old farmer readily replied yes; what if you have 100 million taels of silver? Would you like to donate it? The old farmer replied, yes. Then he asked, if you have two cows, would you like to donate one? The old farmer shook his head and said no. Ask why... I really have two cows."

Zuo Xiuquan was taken aback for a moment, then burst out laughing.

"Today, the Wu Dynasty is in danger. If you ask the people in the world if you want to innovate, everyone will say yes. If you want you to wear one less piece of clothing, if you want to innovate, I don't know what everyone will say. If you want everyone to be less Eat a meal? Do you still want to innovate? Some people say yes, some say no, but the real complexity is that many people will say that your innovation method is wrong while talking about innovation. There are some truths and some falsehoods... …How much the little emperor can let people pay their own interests to support innovation, and how much interest can people pay, this is the core of the problem.”

Ning Yi looked at the crowd below and paused: "Actually, you all know what I said."

"I just don't know what Mr. Ning will do if we change places."

"Haha... Look, you're also trying to see me poorly."

"With Mr. Ning's cultivation, if you don't want to talk about it, we probably won't be able to ask you anything. It's just that you once said when you discussed Taoism with your uncle that what you like the most is the indomitable and glowing spirit of people in difficult situations." Posture. From last year to now, the actions of the Fuzhou court may be able to catch Mr. Ning's eyes."

Zuo Xiuquan's words were sincere, neither provocative nor concealing, but rather open-minded.Ning Yi glanced at him and was not angry.

"...Mr. Zuo, the only thing that can fight against a cycled and mature ecosystem is 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 wants to rule the world with the scholar-bureaucrats has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and there is a whole set of theoretical systems that match it. In a village, when adults give birth to children, Even if children don't study, they will continue to receive bits and pieces of these ideas as they grow up. When they grow up, they will take it for granted when they hear the theory of "ruling the world with scholars and bureaucrats". Mature A cyclical ecosystem lies in its ability to function and reproduce on its own.”

"The Confucianism system used in the Wu Dynasty today is highly self-contained. Of course, 'governing the world with the scholar-bureaucrats' is only a part of it. People who believe in this statement, and then use them to cultivate more people, let it circulate naturally like a stream of water."

"Today's Fuzhou, from the point of view of actions, the little emperor's thinking at the beginning is of course correct. Use the New Confucianism as a note to respect the king and fight against the barbarians, prepare for the centralization of power, and use the Jiangnan Armed Forces Academy to unify the control of the military and let the leaders Those who become disciples of the Son of Heaven... On the one hand, because the 10,000+ elite military power is temporarily concentrated in his hands, no one can fight against it, and on the other hand, it is because everyone was slaughtered by the Jurchens. I realized the idea that reform was needed, so I started the first step.”

"But next, is Li Pin's theory high enough to comment on a cyclical and self-contained system of respecting the king and rejecting barbarians? Is the thought of loyalty to the emperor promoted by the Jiangnan Armed Forces Academy a blunt indoctrination, or is it really unparalleled in persuasion? What you need is a mature theory, a mature statement, to overthrow the more mature ideas of "co-governing the world" in fact. Only when these ideas form a firm circle in the current small area, can you really get out of the The first step. Today the imperial court issued an order that everyone must 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 conflicts of thinking. Of course, since you asked me today, I do have something here that can be provided to Fuzhou."

Zuo Xiuquan narrowed his eyes, seeing Ning Yi's eyes looking over with a half-smile, the feeling in his heart gradually became weird, the two sides were silent for a moment, he still sighed in his heart, couldn't help but said: "What?"

He saw Ning Yi spread his hands: "For example, the first idea, what I can recommend to the other side is the people's livelihood and civil rights among the 'four peoples'. It can be transformed, for example, it can be combined 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 it...

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"... I used to tell people that in our history, from ancient times to the present, almost all the innovations in the courts were caused by the party's unity and dissent. A group of privileged classes formed a group, and a political issue became a disease. What should we do? We united with other Ministers, persuade the emperor to overthrow the problem that needs 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 maintain its own interest tendency, which cannot be changed by individual will. That's why we see a cycle of chaos in a dynasty for hundreds of years, one interest system emerges, and another is overthrown It, and then another one to overthrow the previous one, sometimes it will temporarily alleviate the problem, but on the most critical problem, it must be accumulated and aggravated. After two or three hundred years, some problems can no longer be reformed, and the dynasty begins. Disintegration, from rule to chaos, becomes inevitable..."

"... To defeat a system of interests, you can only become a larger system of interests, and to solve a problem, you yourself will become a problem... Is it possible to change the simplest rules of the game, which was impossible in the past, but not necessarily today Yes, 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 could not tell who was good and who was bad. Just talk about some big truths and deceive them, and their choices won't matter..."

"...But today, we try to take civil rights into consideration. If the people can be more rational and their choices can be clearer, their share is not large, but there will be. For example, the interests we are fighting against today Groups, their strength is ten, and your strength is only nine. In the past, you had to have at least eleven strengths to defeat the opponent, and interest groups with eleven strengths will share eleven interests in the future... "

"...It's different today. Tens of thousands of people can listen to you. Of course, because of their stupidity, they can only generate two points of power at first, but you promise them that you can temporarily borrow these two points. Divide your strength and defeat the opposite interest group. After you are defeated, you are a privileged class, and you will share nine percent of the interests, but you have to fulfill at least part of your promise, and two or at least one percent of the interests will return to the public. That is, the power of the people, this is the possibility of changing the rules of the game."

Ning Yi's fingers tapped a few times in the air, his eyes serious.

"...Today, the rulers and warriors of Fuzhou want to fight against the scholar-bureaucrats of the entire Wu Dynasty, to fight against their thinking and their theories. You can't do much with the passion of some rationalists, bloody factions, and some great Confucians, Mr. Zuo. , The power of resistance is like a quagmire, which will be fed back from all sides. Then the only way is to pull the people in."

"...But stupid people are useless. If they are easy to be deceived, the scholar-bureaucrats who are against you can also easily incite them. If you want them to participate in political calculations and produce controllable tendencies, they must have a certain ability to distinguish. Know where your own interests lie... In the past, I couldn't do it. Today is different. Today we have the theory of things, we have technological progress, we can start to make more paper, and we can hold more classes... "

"...these classes don't need to be too in-depth, and they don't need to be trained to be great Confucians like you. They only need to know a little bit of characters, they only need to understand part of the truth, they only need to understand what human rights are, let them understand their own Let them understand that everyone is equal, and Junwu can tell them that I, the emperor of the Wu Dynasty, will lead you to achieve all this, then he can win a force that everyone has never thought of. "

"...This whole tendency, in fact, Li Pin has been doing it subconsciously for two years. He runs a newspaper, and he tries to write in vernacular in the newspaper. Why, he just wants to win more people from the lower class. Those who are just Literacy is even for people who like to listen to books in restaurants and teahouses. He is aware of this, but what I want to tell you is a thorough enlightenment movement, stuffing most of the people who were not won by the scholar-bureaucrats into literacy classes and night schools, Tell them that everyone is equal in the essence of this world, and then deal with the identity and explanation of the emperor..."

"...Then, you will be able to coerce the people and retaliate against the gentry. At that time, the interest tendency of 'co-ruling the world' that seems to have accumulated for 200 years will become a trivial problem... This is the only thing you have today. A little chance of winning..."

Zuo Xiuquan looked at Ning Yi, when he heard 'Simin', he thought Ning Yi was shaking his wits, and he listened with a somewhat defensive and funny mentality.But at this moment, he couldn't help but look serious, his brows were almost twisted into a circle, and his expression unconsciously became a little scary.

On the opposite side, Ning Yi's expression was calm and serious, sincere and straightforward, talking freely... The sun shone down from the sky.

(End of this chapter)