Bai Xiaowen thought to herself, Sister Chen Rong, you are too worried.

Interfering in the affairs of the red dust will make the Dao heart dusty, and it will be difficult for cultivation to progress?

For aboriginal cultivators, this is true, but for evolutionaries like Bai Xiaowen, it is not necessarily true.

The Song-Mongolian War should be the main line of the dynasty hegemony in Shao's position, and if you devote yourself to it, you will have the opportunity to trigger a large number of tasks, and the task means that you will feel the ball of light.

With the Enlightenment Light Ball, are you still afraid that your cultivation will not be able to progress?

Aside from the benefits of cultivation for the time being, if Bai Xiaowen can control an empire, he will be able to draw a steady stream of huge resources from it, and he will really devote the power of the entire dimensional world to help Bai Huangling develop.

The benefits from the above two aspects are enough for Bai Xiaowen to take the four heavenly kings under his command to devote himself to the historical situation of the dynasty's hegemony.

Of course, as an upright young man with ideals and ambitions, Bai Xiaowen can't answer Chen Rong like this. Fortunately, aside from the income theory, his reasons are still strong.

Bai Xiaowen turned around and said, "I'm not worried about the death of the Great Song Dynasty. I don't have any extra good feelings for the Zhao family, and there is no difference between the surname Zhao and the surname Li and the surname Wang in this world. ”

Chen Rong frowned: "Then why are you ......?"

Bai Xiaowen said: "I'm not worried about the death of the Great Song Dynasty, what I'm worried about is the Han people's 'death in the world'!"

Facing Chen Rong's puzzled gaze, Bai Xiaowen said slowly:

"The death of the two Han Dynasty and the Sui and Tang dynasties is just a change of surname in the imperial court, which belongs to the change of dynasty. The systems of politics, law, scientific research and other aspects are all in the same line, which can be said to be the continuation of the Han people's clothing.

However, the Mongol destruction of the Song Dynasty was different. The Mongols are a people on horseback, and after they enter the Central Plains, they will carry out the backward system on the steppe to the whole world, dealing a devastating blow to the cultural inheritance of the Han people! This is the 'dead world'. ”

What Bai Xiaowen said is not nonsense, but reasonable.

In the history of the earth, Chinese civilization has always been ahead of the West, why was it later overtaken and had a history of humiliation for a hundred years in modern times?

Because since the beginning of Mongolia (Yuan Dynasty), Chinese civilization has turned backwards.

The first is the drastic decline in the minds of the rulers.

Fang Tingshi, the imperial historian of the Southern Song Dynasty, once warned Song Gaozong: "The world of the world, the world of China, the world of the ancestors, the world of the ministers, the surname, and the three armies, not the world of His Majesty." In other words, the officials of the Song Dynasty believed that the emperor only managed the world in place of the people of the world, and he had to reflect on himself from time to time in order to be a good emperor.

However, the rulers from the Mongolian steppes brought the concept of the steppe to the Central Plains, regarded the population, land, and other wealth as their own private property, and even began to implement the backward feudal system! This was reflected even in the Ming Dynasty.

Second, strict and rigid and insurmountable class divisions. The Yuan Dynasty abolished the recruitment system of the Song Dynasty, and divided the people into military households, artisan households, salt households, Confucian households, etc. according to their occupations. This step of historical reversal also affected the Ming Dynasty.

There was also the degradation of property rights: Yuan officials were free to confiscate the wealth of ordinary people (including their families), while the system of confiscation was strictly restricted and rarely used in the Song Dynasty.

There was also a resurgence of punishment: the corporal punishment abolished during the reign of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty was revived.

The judicial system was wreaked havoc: the Dali Temple was abolished, the study of law was abolished, criminal law exams were abolished, and even the excellent systems of "Ju Chen Division" (separation of trial and judgment) and "reversal and transfer" (prisoners who retract their confessions must be retried) were all abandoned......

What did this series of reversals lead to?

The Chinese Empire, which had already produced the germ of capitalism economically and a slight "Renaissance" trend culturally, fell into a deep sleep.

A hundred years later, the Renaissance began in the West, while Chinese civilization fell into a centuries-long dark regression due to the arrival of barbaric rulers.

Scholars in the Ming and Qing dynasties could only imagine the noble character of the previous generations of scholars from Tang and Song poems.

When the Southern Song Dynasty destroyed the country, the minister first drove his wife into the sea with a sword, and then committed suicide by jumping into the sea with the little emperor on his back.

And when Chongzhen hanged himself in the Ming Dynasty, there was only one eunuch by his side.

The reason for this is because of the brutality of the ruling class after the Yuan Dynasty (the Ming Dynasty was also brutal under the influence of the barbarians), ignoring the value of life and suppressing thoughts, so that in the face of foreign insults, most Han people were insensitive and were sucked away from their spiritual backbone.

Bai Xiaowen couldn't say much to Chen Rong, after all, there was no way to say about the historical development process after the Yuan Dynasty.

Chen Rong is also difficult to understand, she does not have Bai Xiaowen's broad vision.

Bai Xiaowen said: "Master Chen, you are from a weaving family in Jiangnan, and the cloth is sold all over the world, right?"

Chen Rong nodded: "To have this family business, it is thanks to the development of four generations of the Chen family's ancestors. ”

Bai Xiaowen said: "If one day, Taishou takes a fancy to the Chen family's property and arranges a crime at will, he can sentence the Chen family to confiscate all the money and property into the official, the man is a slave, and the woman is in the church...... Will the Chen family still have such motivation to actively explore and expand the family business?"

Chen Rong said in a daze: "This ...... This can't be, right? Such a big thing, how can a Taishou not be able to cover the sky with one hand. Even if he is found guilty, it will not be his turn to give a verdict. If the Chen family wants to overturn the case, there is also Dali Temple. Unless Taishou and Dali Temple are in cahoots, will the magistrate and the Beijing official collude like this?"

Bai Xiaowen said: "You think too much. If the Mongols destroyed the Song Dynasty, and a group of barbarians from the steppes ruled the Central Plains, not to mention a Taishou, even a county order could make people ruin. Taking a step back, the Mongols were brutal and easy to kill, and they liked to slaughter cities the most. It is difficult to say whether the Chen family will survive until the end of the war. Perhaps the Mongols did not allow the Han people to continue farming and hand-weaving, and wanted to turn all the farmland in the Central Plains into pastures. ”

After a pause, Bai Xiaowen concluded: "The surname Yi changed to the name of the country. Benevolence and righteousness are full, and as for leading beasts to eat people, people will eat each other, which is called the death of the world. (Gu Yanwu's "Daily Knowledge")

Bai Xiaowen started with Chen Rong's family, and finally made Chen Rong realize the difference between the so-called "dead country" and "dead world". She also seemed to understand why Bai Xiaowen wanted to throw herself into the rolling red dust and reverse the general trend of the world.

For Bai Xiaowen, even if Shao's positioning is not orthodox history, it cannot be equated with the earth, and changing the historical process of the Mongol and Song dynasties here is meaningless and cannot change anything for the Chinese history of the earth that has already happened.

But for Shao's positioning, for Bai Xiaowen, it is meaningful.