"The county system ......, I seem to remember that it was during the Qin Dynasty, right?" Ruan Xihao said with some hesitation.

"The in-laws have a lot of knowledge." Zhou Dahong said with a smile. Since Ruan Xihao had a certain understanding of that period of history, Zhou Dahong explained the county system to Ruan Xihao.

Without waiting for the old gentleman's schoolbag to drop a few words, Ruan Xihao frowned and said, "Wait, I remember that the county system is a two-level government structure. Below the county is the county, and the county is in charge of the grassroots level such as villages, li, and townships. Do you mean that the governor wants to abolish the administrative units at the provincial level? ”

Zhou Dahong was stunned, he thought that Ruan Xihao, a person who didn't know poetry and books, should not know much about history, but after listening to Ruan Xihao's words, Zhou Dahong found that Ruan Xihao had grasped the main point. And this point is not the most important part of Zhou Dahong's thinking.

Looking at Ruan Xihao, who was in a high position and showed enough ability to understand the problem in his speech, Zhou Dahong's heart was sour. Emperor Wei Ze never fought softly when he killed his enemies, but he never engaged in physical extermination of literati, and Zeng Guofan would not attack literati. As the largest academic faction in the late Qing Dynasty, the Tongcheng faction did not suffer so much loss in the war. In times of peace, the Tongcheng faction did not recover quickly because of this, but it was declining at an alarming rate.

Just like in the eyes of readers, Ruan Xihao, who couldn't recognize a few words when he was a teenager, is a rough person, and he belongs to the standard old rough model of the world. However, this is also just a "think". If it is compared to poetry books, of course Ruan Xihao can't. But compared to historical knowledge, the guys of the Tongcheng faction who study for a career may not be able to beat Ruan Xihao too much. After marrying the Ruan family, Zhou Dahong learned that there was compulsory compulsory education in the Liberation Party, and these old guys belonged to the key coverage targets. Nguyen Hee Ho was almost fifty years old, and finally got a bachelor's degree in military science. Put it aside, this also belongs to the student level of Guozijian.

But the literati of the old era had to meet the power when they faced it, that is, what they considered had to be what the power had to consider. The vast majority of literati did not have their own ability to construct society, as Ruan Xihao pointed to the core of the county management hierarchy, which Zhou Dahong thought was true, but he himself did not know the difference between two-level management and three-level management, and why he did so.

Now listening to Ruan Xihao's analysis so well, Zhou Dahong is not willing to admit defeat easily. He just paused, and then smiled: "The in-laws said it well. However, this county system is a tyrannical system, but it didn't last long......"

As soon as Ruan Xihao heard the word "Violent Qin", his face was not good-looking. The education of the Guangfu Party made it clear that the collapse of the Qin Dynasty was first due to the problems of its own system, and when the internal strife of the heirs first destroyed the order of the Qin Dynasty, it collapsed under external military pressure. Meng Tian's troops had a very low fighting spirit, and the Qin Dynasty troops heading south simply abandoned the central government. This has a Mao relationship with "brutality", if Xiang Yu was facing Meng Tian sent by the First Emperor when he played the trick of breaking the kettle and sinking the boat, I was afraid that the head of the traitor Xiang Yu would have been cut off and hung high for public display. The Qin dynasty fell not because of brutality, but because of incompetence. Just like Zeng Guofan, the loyal lackey of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, no matter how brutal he was, he was completely powerless to save the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Regarding the literati's, Ruan Xihao frowned. When Zhou Dahong put himself in the position of the staff of the old literati, Ruan Xihao felt that this person was quite interesting. But when Zhou Dahong began to express his own opinions, Ruan Xihao felt that the "Untouchability Law" was very good, not a small good, but a big good.

So Ruan Xihao smiled and said: "Hearing you say this, Empress Dowager Dou said that Sikong Chengdanshu still wronged Confucianism." ”

Zhou Dahong couldn't laugh this time, and Ruan Xihao's knowledge many times made literati speechless. As a figure of the Tongcheng faction, Zhou Dahong can be regarded as having read the historical records and knows that this is the language used by the Empress Dowager Dou in the Han Dynasty to worship Huang Lao and scold Confucianism. If it weren't for the profound reading skills, the average reader in the Manchu Dynasty might not have understood it.

Although he was unhappy in his heart, Zhou Dahong had to smile and said: "Could it be that my in-laws want me to fight with pigs?" ”

Ruan Xihao sneered: "What are you kidding, I'm not the Empress Dowager Dou." There is no prince at home who throws a sword into it. ”

Zhou Dahong also laughed a few words, but it was really wrong in his heart. This kind of words that seem to be ridiculed among literati are the reason for the complete destruction of the Tongcheng faction and even Confucianism. The old guys who also claimed to be the descendants of the Tongcheng faction talked privately that the current emperor Wei Ze was by no means from a bitter background like the legend, and that he must be a person who had read poetry and books and had an incomparably deep understanding of Confucianism. If it weren't for this, Emperor Wei Ze would not have been able to completely destroy Confucianism as he is now. Only people who know Confucianism very well can destroy Confucianism.

The "Untouchability Law" of the Liberation Party was a fatal blow to the scholars, and the successive dynasties relied on the martial arts to fight the world, and the literati relied on the world. However, the People's Dynasty established by the Restoration Party was very different, and they relied on a group of self-educated party members and cadres who "stressed science and studied science" to conquer the world. The same is true of ruling the world, kicking the old literati out of the ruling class, and recovering the party's own schools and education. At a time when the literati were not yet clear where the world was heading, a large number of poor people who had graduated from modern education had rapidly occupied leading positions.

The reason why Confucianism has been the most influential school in China for thousands of years is that the content of the examination is a Confucian classic. When the Confucian classics became a very small part of the examination, the status of Confucianism was directly proportional to the content of the examination.

The Tongcheng faction also used to think that they were literate people, and they had to be regarded as "hermits" at worst, and continued to live in order to survive Confucianism in this terrible society. But the problem is that in less than twenty years, their knowledge has fallen behind, and their culture has fallen behind. Those mud-legged people followed the government, and their days were booming day by day. Including the Tongcheng faction itself, it has also reached the point of falling apart and having no one to follow.

Ruan Xihao, who was born in the mud legs opposite, would never be considered a Confucian person. But when this person uses cultural allusions to ridicule Confucianism, he must be treated as a cultural person. Similarly, as cultural people, Confucian cultural people are now inferior. The hustle and bustle of the world is for profit, and the hustle and bustle of the world is for profit. Young people who are willing to work in a profession that is destined to be inferior. Even in the hundreds of years of Wuhu Chaohua, a large number of Confucian inheritors still went to the south to preserve culture, and even went to the northwest to open altars to teach, and it was difficult to pass it on. In just twenty years, Confucianism has been uprooted from society. It is not an exaggeration to say that this is a deliberate approach.

However, Ruan Xihao has no intention of taking his own in-laws' approach, Zhou Dahong's sentence of "violent Qin" did make Ruan Xihao very unhappy, and he also smiled: "The county system proposed by the in-laws this time is very insightful. I was also taught. ”

Zhou Dahong said with a smile: "It's good to be able to help." ”

After a while of gossiping, the two came out. found that Ruan Xihao's daughter Ruan Xuan had already left with her husband and daughter first. Ruan Xihao's wife heard her husband ask, and said complainingly: "You are talking inside, and the children don't dare to disturb." She has an exam tomorrow, so she has to go back and arrange it first. I didn't even eat this and left! ”

Seeing that Ruan Xihao was a little unable to deal with it, Zhou Dahong felt even more sad in his heart. He is not sad for Ruan Xihao, but sad for this world.

Ruan Xihao's wife is in her forties and still has an outstanding demeanor, which shows her appearance when she was young. Ruan Xihao is not ugly, so his daughter Ruan Xuan looks very good. But she decided to buy a house with Zhou Dahong's son before she got married, and she never lived with her in-laws at all. Ruan Xuan and Zhou Dahong's son is a college classmate, both of them are studying machinery, in today's rapid development of the machinery industry, she can fully support her family with her own salary. Judging from many details of life, Ruan Xihao's daughter's request for the status of Zhou Dahong's family is just someone who can show his hand and not lose the Ruan family. Ruan Xuan's request for her husband is one, "Since everyone can support the family, you have to be good to me!" ”

According to the Confucian social concept, the situation of "the rooster is singing" is simply chaotic, which is a sign of the country's demise. But his son, who is not angry, saw that the legs of the beautiful woman were weak, and the husband and wife occasionally quarreled, especially after Ruan Xuan gave birth to a child, the number of times she counted her husband increased significantly. But Zhou Dahong's son has no manly spirit, and he deals with his wife cautiously. The life of these two people can be regarded as harmonious and beautiful. It's just that the foundation of harmony and beauty is that etiquette collapses and the world is not ancient.

No matter how unhappy he was in his heart, Zhou Dahong couldn't help it. In the past, women were the appendages of men. In the current new era, Emperor Wei Ze said "women can hold up half the sky", and the world has completely changed. In the past, only husbands repaired their wives, but now in divorces under the Marriage Law, women divorce a large proportion of their husbands.

Zhou Dahong is a Confucian believer, and he is also a human being. Because he was unhappy, he forced his son to divorce, and he couldn't do it. What's more, it is Zhou Dahong's youngest brother who supports the façade of the Zhou family, not Zhou Dahong himself. If he dared to do this, he didn't even need Ruan Xihao to make a move, his younger brother, who first joined the army and then became the secretary of the Anqing Municipal Party Committee, would not agree. The basic foundation of Confucianism is to unswervingly serve power, and it is people like Ruan Xihao who now represent power. Instead of relying on kinship to barely get rid of the scope of the "untouchability law" Zhou Dahong.

This kind of struggle is no longer a struggle of ideas, still less a struggle of systems. It's a struggle between people. Don't talk about the order formulated by the Confucian Niu B, and only talk about human feelings, Zhou Dahong didn't dare to make it difficult for Ruan Xuan to play with him. What's more, Ruan Xuan cut off the possibility of his in-laws' difficulties early, and their husband and wife have already lived independently.