"Public and private should naturally be distinct, Grandpa Zhao, our country's culture is a culture of human feelings, you help me and I help you, this is very humane, but in the market economy human feelings will not work, because the market represents interests, in the face of interests, human feelings are absolutely very fragile, you talk to others about human feelings, others may not tell you human feelings; Chinese people themselves talk about human feelings, foreigners will not tell you about human feelings; you talk to the government about human feelings, there is likely to be corruption in this; the government talks to individuals about lovers, and in the end it can only be individuals, so in the market economy, this human favor is not a good habit, and many people and even the government will suffer losses and be deceived。

So everything has to talk about the rules, only to develop a set of fair rules, everyone according to the rules, that will put an end to all kinds of problems, will let the normal development of society, I recruit employees, no matter how good the personal relationship between us, but must sign a contract, both parties agree to formally sign, which eliminates a lot of hidden dangers, or when my business is bigger, the other party lion big mouth I will suffer, or the company is finally in trouble, I have no money to pay the other party's remuneration, the other party will suffer, a paper contract will completely eliminate these hidden dangers, this is what both parties want。 ”

Zhao Tianming is a historian, he knows the history of China well, Liu Lang He is right, ancient China is a society of affection, you help me, I help you, a person is famous, the whole family will follow him, in addition, the ancients liked the most "gangs" This is the so-called friends, relying on the relationship between people, and the fall of the Ming Dynasty is largely because of the friends fighting each other.

It can be said that Liu Lang's theory of human affection is to the point, and Zhao Tianming has to admit it.

"Alas, it seems that I am really old, the society is progressing, and now I can't keep up with the pace of social development, the market economy! I don't know what the market economy is, I'm old, I'm going to retire this year, let the young people do it!"

Zhao Tianming sighed and said, and there was endless loneliness between his words.

"Grandpa Zhao, in fact, human favor is not bad, and traditional human favor is no longer suitable for our current society, in my opinion, real human favor is a kind of integrity, mutual assistance, Helping each other, one side is in trouble and supporting from all sides, this is the new era of human feelings, and is no longer the same as before for the sake of human favor would rather sacrifice their own or even the interests of others, this is not human feelings, but a distorted concept, our country is developing at a high speed, many people have not yet realized this problem, I think our cultural workers should raise this issue, redefine our ancient traditions, so that these traditions can better serve the society, rather than dragging down the social development, this is called advancing with the times!"

"Okay, Liu Lang, you are so good at keeping pace with the times, Chinese traditional culture has been passed down to basically not much change, during the Republic of China, some people put forward the view that traditional culture is not good, and even some people want to completely abandon traditional culture, and then New China was established, traditional culture has also been regarded as a symbol of backwardness and has been suppressed, Deng Gong came to power after the chaos is set right, our group of talents can be regarded as reborn, but in recent years we also feel that we can no longer keep up with the trend of the times, and now your proposal to keep pace with the times is suitable for our group of cultural workers, and it can definitely be regarded as an important topic to study！”

Liu Lang's words gave Zhao Tianming a feeling of being sudden.

Liu Lang in his "National Problems in the Next Five Years" focused on the creation of a new cultural system, the core of which is the construction of the legal system, but this kind of legal system is not the kind of legal system of Western society, it is a new type of legal society combined with traditional Chinese culture, if you use a term to describe it, that is, a legal society with Chinese characteristics, of course, the word "Chinese characteristics" will not appear until ten years.

Since it is "Chinese characteristics", then there must be China's own things in it, and traditional culture is its core content, so that those officials will naturally not succeed in doing this, and there must be a group of intellectuals who first conduct theoretical research, and then formulate a cultural development plan suitable for themselves, and then the government is responsible for implementing it, and this is the right way.

Relying on the government to do it alone, that is, it belongs to the layman to manage the insider, and the more he manages it, the more chaotic it becomes, and the country has done such a thing for so many years, and the result is self-evident.

After Liu Lang's reminder, Zhao Tianming also has a new hope, he is proficient in traditional culture, in the new situation he feels that traditional culture has been a little lonely, but he forgot a sentence on the Book of Changes: poor is changing, change is general, general is long, everything in the world is changing, nothing will be eternal, culture is the same, with the development of the times will also change, ancient China is an agricultural society, traditional culture must adapt to the situation of agricultural society, now the country has entered the industrial society, into the market economy mode, traditional culture must also adapt to the market economy。

"Liu Lang, this proposal of yours has given me a new idea, I think traditional culture should be combined with Professor Wu He's economy to form a new cultural system!"

"Well, Grandpa Zhao, your proposal is very novel, the core of the market economy is the spirit of contract, and it is definitely a pioneering initiative to build a new cultural system around this spirit of contract. ”

"Hehe, the spirit of contract, in fact, in the country's traditional culture, there are also guidelines that must be believed and deeds must be fruitful, but the times have changed, and few people know such guidelines!"

Zhao Tianming sighed.

"Our country's culture can be described as broad and profound, all-encompassing, not that he can't adapt to the development of the times, but no one has dug deeply. ”

Liu Lang nodded.

"Okay, then I'll take advantage of the fact that I haven't retired to do one more thing, set up a cultural research group, specifically to study the construction of traditional culture under the market economy, maybe I'm an old guy can't complete this task, but I believe that you young people will finally achieve it, because this is the foundation of our Chinese nation, which can never be abandoned." ”

Zhao Tianming took the lead in setting up a research group on traditional culture, which Liu Lang had never thought about, and it seemed that he had not heard of it in his previous life, but thirty years later, the country put forward a set of self-confidence theories such as cultural self-confidence and institutional self-confidence, in order to build a system with its own characteristics, in which cultural self-confidence refers to China's own traditional culture.

Now, the construction of cultural self-confidence appeared more than 20 years in advance, such as Zhao Tianming, everyone has the ability to reconstruct a new traditional cultural system, but they do not understand the market economy at all, do not know what its real core is, many times always think that the market economy is just money, which is simply contrary to traditional culture, in fact, this is a wrong understanding.

The core of the market economy is the spirit of contract, whether it is to buy or sell, there must be the spirit of contract, once written in black and white, it is necessary to do things according to the contract, only such a market economy will develop normally, on the other hand, in the first ten years of the country's opening up, the market economy is almost in a state of deception, all people's purposes are for money, cheating and deception, bullying and dominating the market, this is all pediatrics, and those things that corrupt the law are also endless, the reason is that the state ignores the changes in people's spirit, and does not make changes in time。

The role of spiritual culture is very important, which can be seen from the process of development of the island country, their development is based on Chinese Confucian culture, integrity, discipline, respect for those who have knowledge, these cultures in the industrial development of the formation of the spirit of craftsmen, it is by virtue of the spirit of craftsmen, their industrial development will be so rapid, and China's industry lacks this spirit of craftsmen, the core of the spirit of craftsmen is actually traditional Chinese culture.

The older generation of intellectuals like Zhao Tianming have a deep understanding of traditional culture that cannot be compared with those island countries, and if they "make a move", they will definitely build a cultural system no less than that of island countries, but Zhao Tianming and these old intellectuals do not understand the true connotation of the market economy at all, and even somewhat misunderstand the essence of the market economy, and they still think that the market economy is centered on money.

Of course, Liu Lang's understanding of Chinese cultural traditions is not as good as that of Zhao Tianming, but he understands the market economy! Now that he has told the other party the essence of the market economy, Zhao Tianming immediately understands that the market economy is not what he thinks! In fact, there is not much difference between the two, and if he continues to study them, he believes that the two will be linked together to form a new traditional cultural system.

Liu Lang can be regarded as solving a piece of Zhao Tianming's heart disease, it seems that an old guy like himself is still useful!