Chapter 68: Is There Really Such a Thing as People's Wisdom?

The rulers of ancient China were based on the hierarchical structure system of methodology, which was the generation of dragons and tigers.

At the time of Wenjing, the court did not do anything, it could not move, it was not encouraged to make money, it was quiet and inactive, and the people were quite happy. Emperor Wu moved, good martial arts is the good side, and the disadvantage is that the people are a little bitter.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the restrictions on the people were very dead, and many people felt that it was a pity that the budding capitalism in the middle and late Ming Dynasty did not develop, and that was not a pity, because it was this sprout that the Ming Dynasty died.

The Song Dynasty was not a sprout, it developed, first the Northern Song Dynasty, and then, the world.

Qianlong had seen foreign guns, and many people who could not understand the structure of Chinese civilization would think that Qianlong was stupid, and why foreigners were not allowed to preach and engage in commercial trade, and the dragon and the sheep could not be explained.

The stupid Qianlong pulled the national strength to the peak, the first in the world, and the population base and territory were clearly placed there.

The last peak of ancient China was in the Qianlong era, and then his grandson Daoguang met the West, it was already 1840, and it has been more than 300 years since sheep eat people.

Even if the media network was developed in later generations, didn't they still think that the Ming and Qing dynasties were closed off from the country, how did so much silver flow into the Ming Dynasty? The Ming government closed the country and smuggled among the people? Doctors insist on closing the country for the sake of family self-interest?

When questions come out one by one, isn't it just a bunch of information to help people think, and then start arguing, which is different from the media and public opinion.

Appearances emerge endlessly, what information can not be found on the modern Internet, and there are still endless arguments, is it meaningful to be right and wrong? Did Ancient China Dare to Open the Wisdom of the People? Is that the opening of the wisdom of the people, or the opening of the Warring States?

Is everyone really wise? Can Minzhi really be opened?

Is it really beautiful for everyone to have a wise world?

The United States is already the hegemon, it is good for Americans to know where the United States is, how many years has the Iraq war been fought, how many Americans know where Iraq is? How many Americans can multiply ninety-nine, add, subtract, multiply, and divide within a hundred?

The United States is a cult empire, ghosts everywhere, get enlightenment, believe in everything, believe in virgins and children, and be religious, where is the science, where is the double-blind comparative experiment? The moon has landed, and the people still believe in virgin children, dual personality or schizophrenia, what kind of people's wisdom is this?

How did it become the hegemon?

Do people really know what they want, whether they want money, happiness, feeling, getting ahead, having no one to have, a strong country, being comfortable, respecting, and relaxing?

Do you still have to be told?

That's the demand! Where did the demand come from? Created by competition!

Someone else has an iPhone, you don't have it, someone else has a house, you don't have it, someone else has money, you don't have it, the comparison between the two comes out, the demand comes out, and the competition begins.

In the era of ancient China's great unification, servility was not slavery, it was suppressing demand and contention, and China and the Chinese were slaves in the world?

Great unification is a closed environment, only one part of the Central Army plus armed police in various places, no elite field army, there is no opponent of the same level in the outside world, only border troubles, leek-like things, cut stubble after stubble. The means of production in the agrarian era were land and people, producing crops and handicraft products. To encourage demand is to encourage land annexation and personal dependence.

Homesteaders are high-quality soldiers in the farming and warfare system, and if they lose their land, they will become bankrupt peasants, tenants and small citizens, and the morale of the army will collapse. When the internal comparison is together, the folk customs will be broken, and the disputes will be together, and the Warring States will come.

The annexation of land in the agrarian era by any dynasty could not be stopped, it could only slow down the process. Extravagance can't be stopped by any dynasty, it can only slow down the process. On the contrary, demand and contention accelerate the process.

There is no immortal dynasty, but you can choose whether to redistribute it once in a hundred years or two, or to be in a jungle world of need and struggle day and night.

In a world where princes compete for hegemony, the population does not grow much. Whether it is the Spring and Autumn Warring States, the Japanese Warring States, or the European princes competing for hegemony. Where is the population that should have grown?

Potatoes and sweet potatoes are all high-yield crops in Europe, the types of food that Chinese eat they can't afford, and Irish potatoes are not enough, what is the situation?

In the world of the Warring States, spring ploughing and autumn wars, people are like grass mustard, and the fallen leaves are withering in autumn.

Venice, Florence and other commercial city-states can be engaged in commerce, and the country is a city with an external market.

What is the size of the unified China, how can there be an external market, the amount of foreign trade is not worth mentioning, there is no point in the prosperity of commerce, no matter how large the supply is, it is also internal digestion, which will only increase luxury, increase mergers, and weaken the people's customs.

What is Jinshan Yinhai used for? A trillion tons of silver have been given to you, how are you going to spend it? Before the Industrial Revolution, there wasn't even anything to buy outside.

Is the Silk Road a good thing for Datang?

Is it a good thing that the net inflow of silver in the middle and late Ming Dynasty is getting bigger and bigger? In addition to melting into ghosts and putting them in the cellar, in addition to increasing inflation, accelerating the speed of peasant bankruptcy and land annexation, increasing luxury and weakening the people's customs, what can this silver do?

When money is gold and silver, it is almost worthless, in a way that barters are extra, it is not even goods, and faith is a way?

A way to accumulate fanatically?

The Chinese sages were not interested in this, and in ancient China in the agricultural era, whoever was interested in this would perish.

The reason why Chinese civilization was brilliant in ancient times was because this civilization could effectively suppress demand and contention, and this is how the Confucian cultural circle came about, and the surrounding forces admired your civilization and hoped to be like you, which was the best consciousness-form in the agricultural era.

The core of China's super civilization in the agrarian era is invincible in the known world in the entire agrarian era. All the places affected by the Chinese civilization, any fragmented civilization will be swallowed up, and the civilization in the surrounding areas will only be gradually influenced by the Chinese civilization, becoming more and more like China, not the other way around.

There was a problem in the industrial stage, and the introverted Chinese civilization, which emphasized indisputability, and did not encourage demand, was defeated by foreign civilizations that evolved to industrialized thinking one step earlier, and this is how the century-old national humiliation came, not that the guns were inferior to people, but that human beings had entered the industrial stage.

The methodology of his own civilized rule has not kept pace with the times, there is no need to blame others, he has been enjoying happiness for too long, and it is appropriate to be beaten by those who can endure hardships.

Then why did the Chinese stand up again later, and didn't the spirit of the warrior lag behind?

The spirit of the warrior is the commonality of all existing powerful nations, the Japanese samurai and European knights are not lacking in this, the fighting nation is the vodka berserker, not to mention, the Arabs are also quite brave, the main people are agricultural countries, there is no blade in their hands, except for pricking you with needles, playing with other steel is not enough, but the spirit is commendable.

My conditions are not as good as yours, but I don't give in, I don't have this kind of spirit, I hate the poor and love the rich, I am flattering and bullying the low, where does it come from the core of civilization, isn't that just sand, and it will be gone as soon as the wind blows!

But it is not only the spirit of the scholars, the spirit of the scholars is the spirit of ancient China, after the unification of the more and more out of place was gradually transformed, otherwise the imperial examination to make a scholar with the spirit of the scholars, the custody of the invisible to find the chapter and extract the sentences, all of them are high-spirited heroes, but that must be prepared for war, not only to see the advantages but not the disadvantages.

In the world of fighting, social mobility and thinking change rapidly, and it is the norm to go down and down, and the Japanese people can't stand it so much, and the samurai will to cultivate the sword is not false, and if it is out of the sheath, it will see blood, and if it does not hurt others, it will hurt itself, and it is in vain to cut the people. The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period were also in a mess with the European states, and the villains did not die quickly, which was not suitable for great unification.

The tiger and wolf are in the world, not the blessing of the people, to put it bluntly, in a world of the law of the jungle, the weak are bullied and have no place to cry out.

In the imperial era of great unification in ancient China, it was right to suppress demand by means of Confucianism and discourage contention, which was a means of consciousness-form cultivation and control that was very in line with the times. You can't just see the merits of Wei Huo, the fierceness of Emperor Wu, and you can't see the murderous Yingye at the end of the Han Dynasty, the blood flowed and the pestle flowed, and the result of the competition was that the population dropped to several million, followed by the chaos of Wuhu and the death of the world. The feudal towns of the Tang Dynasty ultimately harmed the majority of the common people.

The world that encourages competition is a place for heroes to compete for deer, but it is also a place for people to bury their bones.

All those capable people who have reformed the spirit of scholars, enriched the doctrines of a hundred schools, and contributed their own ideas to Chinese civilization, no matter whether they falsify history or fool the common people, they have always made great merits with a public heart.

Huang Lao is right, Confucius and Mencius are right, Xunzi is great, Li Si is right to burn books and Dong Zhongshu is not wrong to respect Confucianism, whether it is a hundred schools of thought or Confucianism, the Chinese sages are never pedantic and are ahead of the times. What is wrong is that the descendants are self-contained, Confucius said Mencius all day long, lying in the merit book of the ancestors, not knowing that the world has changed, and still not knowing the arrogance of Yelang who does not know whether to live or die. In the face of setbacks, it is to blame the thinking of the ancestors for not keeping up with the situation, and the Chinese sages have been able to lead the world for thousands of years.

The reason why China later stood up was that the spirit of the scholars awakened, because the world of great controversy came again, and the ancient imprints in the Yanhuang blood began to recover.

Second, the core of civilization began to inject new elements, the socialist system, which is a system with super organizational ability and incomparably strong mobilization power, a kind of collectivist thinking, and its strengths and weaknesses are very prominent, but it is to adapt to the era of large-scale industry, a kind of national-level large-scale industrial system that the capitalist world fears the most, and it is not at all because of any democracy, freedom, and human rights.

The system that emphasizes collectivism is the natural enemy of the system that emphasizes individual liberalism, and it is a debate on the methodological framework, not on the surface.

Collectivism is not abstract, there is a film in Germany "Wave" that mentions it superficially, and finally it is reversed to political correctness, but what collectivism should be talked about has been slightly explained.