Chapter 686: Face it up
Good is rewarded with good and evil is rewarded with evil, and it is not that the time has not yet come. www.biquge.info The Mongols did not change their traditions during the centuries of conquest, but instead strengthened their legacy and poisoned their descendants. Zhao Yu rarely drank with the Mongols in his previous life, first, because he knew that he was inferior to the amount of alcohol, and secondly, he couldn't stand them and made trouble after drinking. They are 'invincible' after a few drinks, and their cruel and irascible nature will explode to a certain extent. Its characteristic impudence and indulgence are difficult for ordinary people to accept, and they can no longer listen to explanations with different views.
And the indulgence of the Mongols in their history has also given the descendants of enough nations a reason to hate the Mongols, and although the prevailing values in the contemporary world are equality and tolerance, there are still many who remember this hatred for centuries. This is why even in the globalized modern world, the Mongols are unable to gain the respect of the world and are increasingly isolated.
They can only explain impulsively after drinking, but Zhao Yu thinks that this word can be fundamentally equated with passion, but it shows two sides. Impulsiveness can be a source of creativity to a certain extent, and the excellence and richness of Mongolian folk tales, poems, and songs is a testament to this creativity that resides in impulse. A person who lives in such an atmosphere may become the most admired and excellent person; Conversely, the presence of such passions could have become an abomination and feared destroyer, driving the Mongols to carry out large-scale conquests and massacres.
The Mongol army followed Genghis Khan on horseback, brandished sabers and fought everywhere, sowing the seeds of the Mongols everywhere, and experiencing the pleasure of impulsiveness and cruelty, but they never thought that after the so-called Daru Huachi left after the attack and perished, these Mongol descendants would have to suffer the revenge and oppression of others, and the former vanquished would be rewarded to them tenfold or hundredfold.
In addition, Zhao Yu found that the loyalty of the Mongols came from the extreme cult of personality and the blind following of rulers and successful people. Whether in life or work, you can never convince the Mongols to do something that is beneficial to everyone through reason, although your idea is brilliant and feasible, but the Mongols are very cold to your preaching, and you think that you are lacking in contagion, and you will soon find that the Mongols can never be persuaded by reason, and the end result is that the Mongols have alienated you, making you feel as if you have offended them in some way.
But in fact it is not your fault, but because there is a conventional hierarchical relationship among the Mongols, among whom there are always leaders and authority figures who are either from noble families, wealthy, or simply able to fight. If you can't find these connections, if you can't find these big people and convince them to help advance your plan, you can't do anything, they only trust 'authority', even if it might lead them into the ditch.
At present, the Mongolian ruling class has also handed over almost all the power to judge and grasp the situation to the authoritative figures it trusts, from the early Yelu Chucai to the current Ahma, Kublai Khan is obedient to his words. As a result, the Mongols also lacked the ability to understand themselves, lost the opportunity to reflect on themselves, and made them not good and unable to make decisions about their own future.
Both scholars and scholars who are highly valued contribute their passions and efforts to their leaders without reservation, but they are never sure where the authority figures they trust will take them, what the ultimate goal is, and how far they will satisfy the king. But they are bound to make mistakes and invite attacks from political opponents, which can lead to failure, but it is often they who bear the consequences......
Zhao Yu thinks that he also likes to 'ask experts when he has something', and it goes without saying technical problems. In government affairs, he relied on Ying Jieyan and Liu Huang; Militarily, he trusted Zhao Mengjin, Liu Zhu and Jiang Xuan, and it can be said that this was well known in the Xing Dynasty. However, he did not let them serve as the first assistant, nor did he grant totalitarian power, but appointed Lu Xiufu, who had disagreed with his views, as the prime minister, and Zhang Shijie, who strongly opposed his accession to the throne, as the privy envoy, but did not replace them, which was a surprise to everyone.
Zhao Yu knew that he was doing this, in addition to the need to stabilize the situation, he also knew that even if only three people participated in the same matter, there would be three opinions: left, center, and right, which was not only a different perspective on the problem, but also human nature. He knows how good he is in governance, and he cannot escape this responsibility, so he must listen to many opinions, even those against it, in order to reduce the mistakes of his own administration.
If you promote the people you trust to a high position, some people will think that Your Majesty only trusts his cronies, and the meaning they convey is the holy will, and no one will give an opinion; Moreover, Zhao Yu believes that people's butts often determine their heads, and who dares to guarantee that they will not crack down on dissidents and eliminate dissidents, so it is inevitable that there is only one voice in the court, which is not conducive to their own government affairs.
On the other hand, even if some people have opinions on their own policies and guidelines, or even strongly oppose them, Zhao Yu thinks that this is not a bad thing, indicating that there may be suggestions for improvement. Of course, you can also hold the mentality of encouraging people to change what is not to look at different opinions, and it is beneficial to correct yourself, and you can also explain and discuss if it is useless, and you can also ignore those who are moaning without disease, so as to reduce the chance of making mistakes. Therefore, there is a difference between the appointment of experts and Kublai Khan's belief in authority.
In addition, as for the issue of impulsiveness, Zhao Hao thinks that as a 'young man', it is inevitable to act impulsively, and it is understandable that he will even do something out of the ordinary. Let's just say that in the Battle of Qizhou Ocean back then, the situation was so crisis, if I didn't stand up and lead the army to intercept it impulsively, maybe there would be no today's situation; If it weren't for the impulse to get on the plague ship to save Ni Liang, who of those sick people at that time would believe that he was a person who values love and righteousness, and thus be loyal to himself!
Of course, Ying Jieyan often criticized Zhao Yu for being too impulsive on the issue of military reform and preparing for the establishment of a new army, and hastily introduced a plan without the discussion of the ministers. But he didn't think so, he still knew how to think twice, although these plans were newly released, they were already in the making, and they didn't write such things with a pat on the head. Attacking Guangzhou and Quanzhou seemed impulsive and extremely risky, but he also carefully considered that if he hadn't robbed so many things and money in the two cities, where would Qiongzhou get the development funds, and how to solve the dilemma of the empty treasury and financial difficulties of the Xingchao Dynasty, and get through all kinds of difficulties after moving to Qiongzhou.
Some people also criticized Zhao Yu for being young and murderous, beheading thousands of demoted officials in Quanzhou, and slaughtering the Pu family for personal revenge. But he knew best in his heart that those royal relatives had nothing to do with his Mao, but he still wanted to kill them, in fact, to show his attitude. You must know that Pu Shougeng has killed thousands of royal relatives, and if he doesn't even let out a fart, it will inevitably make people think that he is weak and incompetent, and he will not even avenge his family hatred, let alone national hatred. And the killing of those demoted officials is also to deter the unstable elements in the Xinghe army, so that they know that daring to betray themselves is the end.
At that time, some people said that killing prisoners was ominous and that it was a loss of the king's benevolence, but more people said that they killed well and happily. Therefore, Zhao Hao can't humbly accept his name of murder, and he has a purpose, not a reckless act, and is definitely not the bloodthirsty nature of the Mongols who slaughter for the sake of slaughter. It is not a devil who impulsively wants to kill all the people in the world, who wants to turn the north and south of the river into pastures, nor is it a murderer who can slaughter the people of the Western Xia capital for personal revenge......
After reflecting for a long time, Zhao Hao suddenly found that his personality was really a bit similar to the Mongols, he and the Mongols also believed in the law of the jungle of the jungle, advocating happiness and enmity, believing that impulse was the driving force to create a new world, and there was a devil hidden in the pure heart, etc., but in the end, two completely different melons grew on a vine.
Zhao Yu was troubled by this problem for a long time, and he felt tasteless when he ate, and he didn't think it through until he went to sleep, but when he touched the "Analects" next to his pillow, he suddenly understood that it was culture. Of course, he does not refer to cultural knowledge in a narrow sense, but to culture in a broad sense, which refers to the history, geography, customs, traditional customs, lifestyle, literature and art, behavioral norms, ways of thinking, values, etc., which can be inherited by human beings and can be inherited from the history, geography, customs, traditional customs, lifestyle, literature and art, behavioral norms, ways of thinking, values, etc., which is a universally recognized ideology that can be inherited by human exchanges.
Zhao Yu didn't take the "Analects" next to his pillow seriously, and even felt a little repulsed in his heart, and often used the loopholes in it to make fun of and attack those scholars. But it was in this resistance that he studied it more critically, with the original aim of storing 'ammunition'. But in the process, he found that it was not all dross, and some things are still influencing the thinking and behavior of Chinese people even in modern times.
In his previous life, Zhao Yu lived in an era when science and technology were extremely advanced and Chinese and Western cultures blended with each other, and people's minds were unprecedentedly active, daring to challenge authority, questioning traditions, and trying to get rid of shackles. But he can only smile bitterly at the moment, cultural traditions have long been silently infiltrated into all aspects of life, infiltrated into the bone marrow, and guided his words and deeds. The ideas that make him realize that the long-term stability and development of a society are precisely those theories that are not useful on the surface.
The development of the West after the Renaissance was precisely on the basis of the resurrection of the classical ideas of ancient Greece and Rome, and Lenin once clearly expressed similar ideas, he believed that if a nation wants to move forward, it cannot leave rational thinking for a moment. These theories stand behind the human mind, directly stimulating the birth of new methods and skills through imagination and the establishment of hypotheses, which the Mongols lack.
Since the time of Genghis Khan, the Mongols have not attached importance to education, perhaps the Mongols at that time thought that they were born rulers, as long as they were powerful, they could get the world, and there was no need to pay attention to the weak stinky lactic acid literature, but hundreds of years have passed, and the development of history has proved that the Mongolian martial light literature has brought endless harm to the descendants.
It is true that the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty broke the artificial cultural shielding phenomenon that had appeared in previous history, the reality of Chinese cultural diversity was widely recognized, and the pattern of pluralism and integration became a reality in a unified environment. But the main sources of Mongolian ethics are shamanism and Tibetan Buddhism. One of the main characteristics of shamanism is ancestor worship, as an empirical way of learning, and generations of Mongols have learned the norms of being human from the way their ancestors dealt with interpersonal and social problems.
But there are both positive and negative sides to everything, and all the negative effects of these two ideas on the Mongols are a kind of pathetic servility, an uncritical inheritance of tradition, a reverence for the deification of ancestors, and a glossy glorification of the shortcomings of ancestors. This kind of servility is like fire and water compared to the heroism of the Mongols, which extinguishes the spirit of fighting for oneself and the nation and daring to resist, and extinguishes the self-esteem and forward momentum of the nation.
In the minds of the Mongols, those ancestors who have passed away are gods, and their words and traditions are unchangeable. All this makes it unjustified to be conformist, lacking the motivation to innovate, lacking the courage to doubt authority, and the resulting laziness and selfishness. They don't like changes in their lives, and they don't actively seek them. When an obvious crisis comes, there is no thought of avoiding it; When an obvious opportunity comes, it will not be thought of seized.
Based on the belief that the Mongol culture exhibits a strong rigidity and lack of change, the weakness of this culture is exposed when the living environment changes significantly, and the experience provided by the ancestors does not solve new problems, the social maladaptation of the nation as a whole occurs, and the progress of the nation is seriously hindered. There is no doubt that the Mongol way of life has not undergone significant changes and innovations over the centuries, which is inseparable from this relationship to ancestor worship.
Tibetan Buddhism's demand for humility and non-ostentation clearly constrained the Mongols' boasting; Unprincipled kindness, humanity and docility, and a lack of risk-conscious enthusiasm and generosity are reinforced by Tibetan Buddhism. That's a good thing in a sense. Sadly, however, the Mongols did not actually understand the moral importance of modesty and prudence, but instead provided a smokescreen for the Mongols' self-proclaimed heroic infighting. In contrast, in their early texts, the Han Chinese have developed the idea of restraining one's emotions and desires, abiding by the laws and morals of society, and respecting and loving the people as monarchs......