Chapter 685: Reflection

A few 'tofu blocks' that smeared the Mongols originally made Zhao Hao very happy, but after careful investigation, he found that he had fallen into a narrow conceit. www.biquge.info Mr. Lu Xun, who he remembered, once said: "Chinese has never dared to face life squarely, so he had to conceal and deceive, and thus gave birth ......to the literature and art of deception and deception." "People must have a memory from now on, look in all directions and listen to all directions, sweep away all the previous self-deception hopes, tear off all the masks of self-deception and deception, and reject all the means of self-deception of anyone......

Now the scholars who come to Qiong have made several sensational articles fall into a kind of madness, thinking that they are the orthodoxy of the world, but they forget that they have been invaded, slaughtered and enslaved by the so-called barbarians. Zhao Hao thinks that it is not a bad thing to improve national self-confidence, but to become extreme nationalism and ignore the strength and strengths of the other party is nothing but the waste of dementia, and blindly arrogant to the extreme can only bring about self-destruction.

In his previous life, whenever people mentioned Mongolia, the first reaction in Zhao Yu's mind was grasslands, horses, roasted whole sheep, and then desertification and snow disasters; When it comes to the Mongols, they are rude, aggressive, and drunk, but they also have the simplicity and hospitality of the people, and then you remember that there was a Genghis Khan among the Mongols, and you can't remember anything else.

However, what is puzzling is that after entering modern times, the Mongols still lived a nomadic life, eating subsidies every year, and needing relief when there was a slight disaster. It is said that the geographical environment and resources of the Mongolian people are very rich, and the natural mobility of the Mongolian life also determines that the Mongolian people's vision should not be narrow. Moreover, because it is one of the top 10 ethnic minority populations, there should be no shortage of talents. Even if some people later split off to establish a country, they failed to reproduce the glory of their ancestors, but gradually degenerated into vassals of other peoples, and life was extremely difficult.

There is no doubt that in the modern world, the Mongols are one of the very poor peoples, in the face of the rapid development of science and technology, increasingly fierce competition, and an increasingly globalized economy, the Mongols have also shown extremely serious sluggishness, do not want to forge ahead, in the face of the future development of the world is really unimaginable, there will be no place for the Mongols to live on a huge earth in the future?!

Zhao Yu also had close contact with the Mongols in his studies and work, and found that they were actually very conceited, and they all thought that they were invincible heroes, so under the cover of the simple and simple appearance of the Mongols, the jealousy, resentment and suspicion between each other were also very extreme, not less than other ethnic groups, and even more serious. This sentiment severely reduces loyalty between people and leads to a lack of collaboration, hindering the unity and integration of Mongolian society. Of course, this can also lead to a lack of tolerance, especially for losers, whose friends will leave him as soon as they fail.

In fact, every Mongolian knows very well what the situation of the Mongols is, and what the consequences will be if this state of affairs continues. However, the descendants of Genghis Khan did not inherit any fine traditions from their ancestors except for the pride at the wine table. And the world only knows that the Mongols fell into a long silence after experiencing a short, stormy glory and glory in the early days, just like Ah Q often said - my ancestors have also been wide!

So what are the reasons and what are the fundamental factors restricting the progress and development of the Mongols? At present, Zhao Yuzheng can cross the long river of history to witness the process of Mongolia's decline from the most glorious moment, and can also reflect on why the Han people were defeated by the barbarians, find a way to break the enemy from another angle, and end his turbulent life as soon as possible and enjoy the beauty of being an emperor.

Zhao Hao thinks about the days when he came to this world, and it is not difficult to find that even when the 'great unification' was realized, there were still frequent wars and cannibalism on the Mongolian Plateau. And the price paid by any tribe is to be tortured or enslaved, and the cruelty is absolutely outrageous; If there was a brief period of peace, it was because there were stronger tribes that conquered all the weaker tribes.

In fact, the history of the Mongol tribes continued to fight against each other for a longer time, and after Temujin's father was killed by the Tatars, his people left him and fled to other tribes. After his defeat in the battle with Wang Han, most of the retainers who followed him on the way to escape were not Mongols, but some people of other nationalities, and this situation was not spared even in the era after Genghis Khan, and Kublai Khan still relied on the Semu and Han people to use him as guns.

This reminded Zhao that the Mongolian people in the previous life thought that they were individual heroes, and it seems that they were also inherited from above, and unity and cooperation are always important points that the Mongolian people lack. Under such circumstances, as long as a scheming foreign ruler adopts a divisive strategy, or publicly praises or rewards one of the Mongol tribes, or gives a certain tribe some special rights, it is easy to sow the seeds of discord among the Mongols, provoke disputes among the Mongols, cause them to fight among themselves, and attack each other, so as to achieve the goal of weakening the Mongol nation and becoming the ruled nation.

Another consequence of pretentious personal heroism is that it is easy to be driven by blind passions to plan for something big, but rarely to seriously assess the risks and consequences beforehand. The second attack on Japan and the crusade against Champa and Annam, I am afraid that the envoys of the Yuan Dynasty will be killed and expelled, which triggered Kublai Khan's 'passion' in it, and he blindly sent troops to go without careful arrangements, perhaps thinking that his mother-in-law and mother were a sign of timidity, and if they happened to do it, they would be very proud and proud, thinking that everything in the world was nothing more than that, and the vanity of personal heroism would be greatly satisfied at the same time!

As far as Zhao Yu knew, Kublai Khan was also preparing to organize a third expedition to pacify Japan, but the final Yuan dynasty did not implement it. It can be seen that the Mongols are very lacking in the courage to admit their own shortcomings, and their self-esteem and self-confidence are very fragile in a sense, and they are prone to fall into inferiority and self-doubt after failure, and it is easy to collapse. The two defeats, combined with the death of Empress Chabi, plunged Kublai Khan into depression, but the inherent character of the Mongols made him unable to blame others, so he could only drink and get relief from drunkenness.

In previous lives, people often used cold weather and a lonely nomadic life to justify the Mongols' alcoholism. But Zhao Hao thought that the ambitious Kublai Khan became a drunkard was the embodiment of his nation's willful character, and since they thought they were heroes, they would definitely not be willing to live an ordinary life, like a mediocre person, so that he wanted to pursue extraordinary. However, when reality gave him a blow to the head, he was as fond of alcohol or drugs as those lovelorn men and women and frustrated literati.

Kublai Khan's indulgence in drinking was because he felt that the competition at the wine table also provided an atmosphere of fighting and fighting to a certain extent, which could fully reflect the heroic spirit of the alternative, in order to create impulses from the ordinary. Everyone knows the harm of alcoholism, needless to say, drunkenness and immorality are full of foreign appearances, and it will harm oneself, and fatty liver is light. And the collective drunkenness of the whole people is indeed a sad and terrible thing, and this vice will certainly have a profound effect on the future generations and future of the Mongols.

Genghis Khan also recognized the dangers of alcoholism, and he issued an edict saying: A drunken man becomes blind, he cannot see anything, he becomes deaf, when he calls him, he cannot hear, he becomes mute, and when someone talks to him, he cannot answer. When he was drunk, he was like a man who was about to die, he couldn't sit up straight, he was like a numb and dampened man...... The monarch was not allowed to preside over major affairs, promulgate precepts, and important customary laws; A soldier who is an alcoholic cannot be in charge of a team of ten, a hundred, or a thousand; Guards who are addicted to alcohol will be severely punished. But the nature is hard to change, what's the use of saying it......

After Zhao Hao came to this world, he was often 'advised' by several masters, criticizing him for being impulsive, utilitarian, practical, and cunning, and often making decisions with passion. In addition, he does not pay attention to etiquette, does not listen to the words of the saints, does not follow the teachings of the saints, and acts arbitrarily, so brave and happy. Dealing with government affairs is simple and rude, sometimes based only on personal likes and dislikes, reckless and so on. That means that he is incompatible with the current society, and is no different from barbarians, of course, this is not said.

Whenever he was trained, although Zhao Yu hummed and agreed, he knew that he was perfunctory, and he couldn't accept it all in his heart. However, he didn't think much about his incompatibility with the present, but thought that it was a clash of ideas between modern and ancient Chinese culture. You must know that he also grew up under the red flag, wore a red scarf, was a good student, studied five stresses, four beauties, three loves, helped his grandmother cross the road, picked up a penny and handed it over to the police uncle, and was praised by the teacher as a good person, this is also a traditional Chinese virtue, how to come to them is useless.

Speaking of pragmatism, Zhao Yuji's motto of the university he attended was to apply what he learned and convert what he learned into social value to the greatest extent; After work, the boss also asks them to be pragmatic and not retreat. And without its own practicality, according to the development of the situation to adopt different countermeasures, can there be today's Qiongzhou? If you build the so-called Datong society according to them, I am afraid that you will be forced to jump into the sea before you can touch the edges.

Zhao Yu knew that as long as the ideal communist society was not realized, the Song Dynasty, which was still in a feudal society, would also have no money and could not move an inch. He is not utilitarian, what do hundreds of thousands of troops eat, drink, and take to fight; and what to use to pay wages and bonuses to those who follow him; If you don't try to get money, I'm afraid you will have to live in a grass hut, eat rice and eat dried fish!

Listen to the words of the sage, in modern society, you have to starve to death, always be trampled under the feet of others, play with the law of the jungle in the workplace, pay attention to wolf nature. Whoever abides by those things and acts in full accordance with etiquette is afraid that he will not be sent to a mental hospital, and he will be an otaku for the rest of his life. My wife can't mix it up, and if I have no old age to gnaw, I can only eat subsistence, and I will be with instant noodles all day long.

As for being vigilant, it is also a helpless move, and many times you have no one to trust except your parents. The teacher sees you as just a wallet, as an object of wealth; The boss sees you as a machine, and can't wait to give you electricity to let you work 24 hours a day; Friends see you more often as a tool that can be used, and once they lose their usable value, they no longer know you; And the colleague who gets along with you every day is simply your enemy, not only to be careful of his small report, but also to prevent him from stealing your job one day; Even if you want to believe in a religion and find spiritual sustenance, if you don't get it right, you will be deceived and bankrupt. In such an environment, do you dare not be vigilant at all times?

"Alas, it is said that the times create heroes, and this environment will also change people's personalities!" Zhao Hao reflected on the various experiences he had experienced in his two lives, and couldn't help but sigh, and suddenly understood why the Mongols became like this.

The steppe belt in the hinterland of Eurasia, where the Mongols lived, was not suitable for farming, and the geographical environment determined that the Mongol lifestyle in history must be the so-called "living by water and grass". The nomadic economy, however, is a very monolithic economy, and many of the necessities of life cannot be obtained from livestock. And there are two ways to get these things, one is to trade and the other is to plunder.

In ancient times, trade was very fragile, it was affected by too many factors such as climate, transportation, state, ethnic relations, etc., and it was not as pleasant and convenient as plunder, so for the ancestors of the Mongols, plundering through war was also an important mode of production. In other words, it is not that the Mongols are inherently barbaric, they just have to be out of necessity. Kublai Khan said this very brilliantly, roughly meaning that at the beginning of the establishment of our dynasty, after attacking cities and plundering land, they never garrisoned, just to obtain useful things.

It can be said that the constraints of the geographical environment and the nomadic way of life have gradually cultivated the martial spirit of the Mongols through a long history, thus endowing the Mongols with a brave and tenacious, active and extensive spiritual temperament, however, everything has its advantages and disadvantages, and this martial spirit has also brought many negative factors to the Mongolian character:

Dealing with things simplistic, impulsive, without thinking about the consequences, thinking that passion can solve everything. Hate red tape, and complex rational thinking; The level of culture and education is low, but they look down on cultural people; Reckless, bold, irritable, informal, likes to go straight; Lack of rationality, lack of sober analytical skills and insight, and therefore mediocrity and dullness.

The Mongols hardly liked metaphysical ideas that did not seem to have any practical utility on the surface, and the philosophy of the Mongols was unwritten pragmatism, and only ideas and skills that were useful for real life were valued, so that the early Mongols must have included various craftsmen and craftsmen among the captives who were not slaughtered and taken away after each city they conquered.

Thinking of these, Zhao Hao felt that the Mongols were pitiful enough, and they had already experienced the difficulties of modern society, no wonder their descendants were still reluctant to change......