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Chapter 1039 Chapter [-] Mianzang Jinxiu Sword and Knife ([-])

"What if... I have seen it?"

"……Um?"

There are merchants returning home in front of them and pass them by.Probably did not expect such an answer, Xigua turned to look at Ning Yi, slightly puzzled.

Ning Yi still walked forward slowly, took her hand and looked at it: "20 years ago, on the day I married Tan'er, I was hit on the head with a stone and passed out. When I woke up, what I forgot everything. This matter was mentioned earlier, right?"

"Yeah." Watermelon said, "I remember it was Xue Jin. When I first heard about it, I still wanted to take you to seek revenge in the future."

"Forget it. Before the beating, Ning Liheng was a foolish nerd. After the beating, he finally opened his mind. Remember others."

Watermelon looked at him and smiled: "Tan'er also said in private, it's really strange, I went to see you twice before marrying you, and I knew who you were, but after getting married, I found out that you have so many ghost ideas, and you are bored in your heart. Mensao..." Seeing Ning Yibai glance at her, he said, "Well, you are serious, where have you seen it?"

Ning Yi withdrew his eyes and smiled: "You may not believe it when you say it. During the few days when I was knocked out, I was so far away that I saw... another scene in the world, in a trance, as if I saw it for a hundred years. History...don't pinch me, you may not believe me if I tell you, but listen first, okay? I'm a stupid nerd, and I suddenly became enlightened. You don't think it's strange. Butterfly, I see another possibility in this world, what's so strange about it."

Watermelon looked a little helpless, and smiled sullenly: "Then you go on, what happened to that world?"

"It is said that after 1000 years now, we still have not developed a systematic study of Gewu..."

"Then all the people in these 1000 years have died?"

"It can't be said that the Confucian metaphysics system has come to an absolute dominant position after our dynasty. They have further developed the spirit of 'min Ke'. A whole set of identity rules. When there is no foreign enemy, they are self-consistent internally. When there is foreign enemy, they assimilate foreign enemy. Therefore, in the next 1000 years, dynasties will change, separate and combine, and Gewuxue does not need to appear, and everyone can live comfortably. Then …The Europa I told you about is now in a miserable place, where the poor are the ones who change but the ones become better, first of all, the study of Gewu has been developed..."

"...It's like the beginning of Zhu Ji's storytelling." Xigua curled her lips, "Why can't we develop Gewuxue in another 1000 years?"

"Uh..." Ning Yi thought for a while, "Let's just think that our life here is too good. Although the people are suffering, but half of the time, we can still support a large group of pampered meat eaters. There is no survival After being under the pressure, these carnivores prefer to study metaphysics, study philosophy, care more about right and wrong, and be more particular about being a human being. But the situation in Europe is worse than ours, and people die at every turn, so they are relatively more pragmatic and pick up a little rule We have to make use of this rule. So we care more about the fantasy of the whole and they can pay more attention to the details...not necessarily right, let’s just think so.”

"Let's talk about business." Ning Yi spread his hands, "Anyway, they invented Gephysics now. After 1000 years, the power in our land is a foreign regime, Manchurians, bragging to others that they are The descendants of today's golden man... don't laugh, it's such a coincidence..."

"Okay, after 1000 years, these golden men will finally rule the world." Watermelon resisted the accusation of his uncreative behavior, "Go on."

"The Manchurians closed their doors to the outside world. Although they didn't have Gewuxue, the art of Confucianism was flourishing. They felt that they were a kingdom of heaven and lived a good life. But the Europeans came, with strong boats and guns, and guns. They wanted to rob Things, to do business, to force the Qing Dynasty to open ports and protect their interests. In the beginning, everyone was curious about each other, and they didn't say they would fight, but as they started doing business, there was friction..."

"This book can't be written. After writing it, they will know what you are going to do next... How can you write yourself as a villain..."

Ning Yi glanced at her, and decided not to ignore her interruption: "Europeans have powerful firearms, and the Manchus also think that they are the kingdom of heaven. The ruler of the Qing Dynasty at that time was a queen mother named Cixi—it has nothing to do with Zhou Pei—— Fight as soon as you say it, and our Manchu Qing declared war against the whole world. Then after this fight, everyone finally discovered that the kingdom of heaven is already a fish on the chopping board, with tens of thousands of troops, hundreds of thousands of troops, and even thousands of people. The troops can't beat it."

"In the international community, if you fall behind, you will be beaten. Once you can't beat it, the good things in the country will be divided up by the enemy with one or another excuse. Since then, the whole of China has fallen into... being taken turns by many countries including Europe In the situation where the aggression took turns to carve up, gold and silver were plundered, people were massacred, cultural relics were robbed, and houses were burned down, and it continued for dozens of hundreds of years..."

When Ning Yi said this, his words had slowed down.Watermelon thought her husband was joking at first, but when she heard this, she couldn't help getting involved, and frowned: "Nonsense... Wu Dynasty was also beaten by Jin Guo like this. It hasn't been more than ten years, and it has come here. Even before, Shang There are not many situations where you have been beaten for a hundred years, and you are not good at learning from others! Even if you build this gunpowder cannon from scratch, it only took you more than ten years, Liheng!"

Ning Yi smiled slightly: "The backwardness of the Qing Dynasty is of course the backwardness of Gewuxue, but this is only the appearance, and the deeper problem is already the backwardness of people and culture at that time-Confucianism has developed another 1000 years from now. In [-], it formed a stronger network inside, suppressing people's thinking, and it hindered people from all aspects of life, work, and social interaction. To defeat Europeans, it is enough to develop better than them, but your thinking The structure is not suitable for making things, you can do it as others, you will never be able to catch up with your enemies... Agua, I sold things to all of them today, and this is also the reason, if you don’t change your thinking, they will always be slower than me step……"

He took a breath: "Going back to Manqing, I was beaten, and I couldn't catch up. Manqing also knew that it would change, but how much would it change? Agua, a general trend in human society is that any inherent system will try to maintain it Although it needs to be adjusted after being beaten, people will always tend to use enough. So at the beginning, the emperor created a department in the cabinet. Okay, let’s learn from the West, learn from things, and learn from them to make guns Cannon, use this department, to protect itself. This behavior is called the 'Westernization Movement'."

Watermelon squeezed his palm: "You still have such a disgusting name..."

"What's so disgusting about the 'Westernization Movement'... Forget it, the Westernization Movement was a department in the imperial court to make changes, either to learn how to make guns and cannons, or to spend money to buy guns and cannons from others, and to practice the so-called "Westernization Movement" with guns and cannons. Recruits. But then they found out, it doesn’t work, there are problems with the soldiers, and there are problems with the officials. The country continues to be beaten, ceded to [-] or [-] small countries in Europe, pays compensation, and kneels underground for decades. Everyone finds out, hey, Westernization Exercise is not enough, so it needs to be more varied, and the entire court has to change..."

"At that time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty had been a country for nearly 300 years. The system was bloated and corrupt. If the reform of a department was not good enough, it was necessary to carry out reforms from top to bottom. Everyone felt that the bloody nature of continuously castrating people with the Confucian system in the past 300 years was also unreasonable. No, the public must also wake up, give more benefits and status to the bitter people below, make officials more friendly, and make the system clearer, so the next step is reform.”

"But no matter what it looks like, the 300-year-old feudal country is hard to return. Those who took advantage of it in the past were unwilling to back down, internal conflicts intensified, and those who called for and presided over the reform were finally defeated. Now that they are defeated, then If the problem cannot be solved, if you are still kneeling outside and being beaten by others, then the reform will not work, and you will have to take a more drastic path... Everyone began to learn to say that there must be equality, there can be no Qing Dynasty, there can be no imperial court, and there can be no emperor It's..."

"In this way, civil strife began, rebels began to appear, and warlords began to appear. Everyone wanted to overthrow the emperor, called for equality, enlightened the people's wisdom, granted people's rights, and paid attention to people's livelihood... Step by step, it became more and more intense. Decades after they were first beaten, they overthrew the emperor and hoped things would get better."

Watermelon took a breath: "You killed the emperor in this book, it will get better soon..."

Ning Yi smiled: "Yeah, it seems... the pioneering feat, the social situation has improved to a certain extent, and then there are powerful warlords, and they want to be emperor again. After this kind of warlord is overthrown, the next talent Abandoning this idea, the old warlords have become new warlords, and calls for equality in society have been going on. People have begun to realize that human problems are fundamental problems, and cultural problems are fundamental problems, so in that Under such circumstances, many people have proposed to completely abandon the old Confucian thinking and establish a new way of thinking that can be matched with the study of Gewu..."

"During the whole process, they are still being beaten. The new warlords can't solve the problem, and the abandonment of the past culture is not thorough enough to solve the problem. A new pattern has been brewing, and thoughtful leaders are slowly forming progressive parties. , in order to resist foreign enemies, a large number of elites form a government and an army, try their best to abandon the previous suspicions, and fight together. ..."

"Tch, Japanese dwarf, your story..."

The watermelon made a sound, and then Ning Yi reached out and knocked on the head.

"...The government formed by the elite will still be unable to change the long-standing traditions of China for thousands of years, because a large part of their thinking is old. After becoming an official and gaining power, they are used to thinking about themselves , when the country is getting weaker and the cake is getting smaller and smaller, everyone will inevitably want to get a little for themselves, more for the big officials, and less for the small ones. At first, they may just want to Live better than the people who starved to death, but slowly, they found that people around them were doing this, and when other companions thought this kind of thing was justifiable, everyone rushed to fish..."

"...the military pay is divided up, half of the strong men sent to the army will starve to death on the way, the enemy invades from the outside, the bureaucracy is hollowed out from the inside, the supplies are poor and the people are struggling... At this time, the whole of China has knelt before the eyes of the whole world for 100 years. , becoming stronger again and again is not enough, innovation after innovation is not enough... Then perhaps more decisive and thorough innovation is needed!"

"...The Westernization Movement was a step forward for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which had accumulated a lot of hard work. The Reformation for the Westernization Movement was a further step. The old warlord replaced the emperor, and it was a further step. The new warlord replaced the old warlord, and it was another step forward. When there is ideal Aspirations, but it is inevitable that some selfish elites have replaced the new warlords, and here is another step forward. But what is going forward? Agua, you have ideals and ambitions, and Chen Shanjun has ideals and ambitions, but your subordinates, can you How many people like this can we find? A little bit of selfishness is worth forgiving, we just need to use strict military regulations to restrain us...Going forward, how do we go?"

"At that time, maybe it was that era that said that this is no longer possible. Therefore, a system that truly advocates equality for everyone and everything for the people finally appeared. People who join that system will truly give up part of their selfishness and truly They believe in impartiality—not the kind of belief that high officials make decisions for the people, but they really believe that they are equal to all people in the world. They become officials, but the division of labor is different, just like someone If you want to dig out dung, it's like someone wants to be an official..."

"Is there really such a thing?" Watermelon asked.

"Of course it's not 100% like this, but the degree of equality is unimaginable. Because after [-] years of humiliation and failure, seeing the complete lack of dignity in the whole country, most of them finally realized... Otherwise, there is no way out. In fact, many of these people are elites, and they could have entered the political system composed of elites. They thought about themselves, and everyone could understand it. But they all saw it, but that This level of effort cannot save the world."

"They are constantly urging and reforming themselves. They will believe in serving the people from the bottom of their hearts. At that time, China has been up and down for thousands of years. It can even be said that the most clean army in the history of human society , was born there... It can also be said that they were forced out."

There is longing and admiration in Ning Yi's words, and Watermelon looks at him.For the whole story, she naturally didn't have a deep sense of substitution, but for the man around her, she could tell that the other party was not talking about it in the mood of telling a story.This made her slightly puzzled, and she couldn't help but think a lot more.

"Then... what's next?"

(End of this chapter)