"What if...... Have I seen it? ”

“…… Well? ”

Ahead of them, there were returning vendors passing by them. It should not have expected such an answer, Watermelon turned his head to look at Ning Yi, slightly puzzled.

Ning Yi still walked forward slowly, took her hand and looked at it: "Twenty years ago, on the day I married Tan'er, someone took a stone and hit my head, fainted, and when I woke up, I forgot everything. You said this a morning ago, right? ”

"Hmm." Watermelon said, "I remember a man named Xue Jin, when I first heard about it, I thought about taking you to seek revenge in the future." ”

"Forget it, Ning Liheng was a stupid nerd before he was beaten, and he finally got the hang of it after he was beaten, and he remembered other people's things."

Watermelon looked at him and smiled: "Tan'er also said in private, it's really strange, I went to see you twice before marrying you, and I will order it, and after getting married, I found out that you have so many ghost ideas, and they are all stuffy in your heart, this is called sullen ......" Seeing Ning Yi glance at her, she said, "Well, you said business, where have you seen it?" ”

Ning Yi retracted his eyes and smiled: "You may not believe it when I say it, in the days when I was knocked unconscious, I wandered out of the world and saw ...... The scene in another world is in a trance, as if I have seen more than a hundred years of history...... Don't pinch me, you may not believe it, but you listen to it first, I'm a stupid nerd, and I suddenly opened my mind, don't you think it's strange, there are so many stories of wandering in the world throughout the ages, Zhuang Shengxiao dreams of butterflies, I see another possibility in this world, what's strange. ”

Watermelon's expression was already a little helpless, and he smiled angrily: "Then you go on, what's wrong with that world?" ”

"It is said that a thousand years later, we still haven't developed a systematic study of things......

"Then all the people of this thousand years are dead?"

"It can't be said that the Confucian metaphysical system has reached an absolute dominance after our dynasty, and they have brought the spirit of 'Minke' into play more deeply, and the monarchs, ministers, fathers, sons, and sons have made a set of identity rules for the people of the world. When there is no external enemy, they are internally self-consistent, and when there is an external enemy, they assimilate the external enemy, so in the next thousand years, the dynasties will change, divide and merge, and everyone can live well without the appearance of Gewuxue. And then...... The Europa region I told you about is now very miserable, and if you are poor, you will change and make sense, and you will first develop the study of things......"

“…… It's like the beginning of the bamboo story. Watermelon pursed his lips, "Why can't we develop the science of physics in another thousand years?" ”

"Uh......" Ning Yi thought for a while, "Let's just think that our side is living too well, although the people are also suffering, but half of the time, they can still support a large group of pampered meat eaters, after there is no pressure to survive, these meat eaters prefer to study metaphysics, study philosophy, care more about right and wrong, and pay more attention to life." But the situation in Europe is worse than ours, and people die at every turn, so it is relatively more pragmatic, and you have to take advantage of this law if you pick up a little law. So we care more about the fantasy of the whole, and they can focus more on the details...... Not necessarily, let's just think so. ”

"Get down to business." Ning Yi spread his hands, "Anyway, no matter what, now they invented Gewuxue." A thousand years later, in power in our land was a foreign power, the Manchurians, who boasted that they were descendants of today's Jin people...... Don't laugh, it's such a coincidence......"

"Okay, after a thousand years, these golden people will finally win the world." Watermelon held back the accusation of his uncreative behavior," you continued. ”

"The Manchurians were closed off from the country, and although they did not have the study of physical things, the art of Confucian rule was thriving, and they felt that they were the Celestial Empire, and they were doing well. But the Europeans came, with guns and muskets. They want to come to grab things, they want to do business, and force this Qing Dynasty to open its ports and protect their interests. At first, everyone was curious about each other and didn't say that they wanted to fight, but as they started doing business slowly, there was friction......"

"You can't write this book, and they'll know what you're going to do next...... How can anyone write themselves as villains ......"

Ning Yi glanced at her and decided not to pay attention to her interruption: "Europeans have powerful firearms, and the Manchus also feel that they are the upper kingdom of the Celestial Empire, and the ruler of the Qing Dynasty at that time was a queen mother, called Cixi - it has nothing to do with Zhou Pei - just fight when you say it, and our Manchus will declare war on the whole world." Then in this fight, everyone finally found out that the Heavenly Empire was already a fish on the chopping block, tens of thousands of troops, hundreds of thousands of troops, and even thousands of troops could not defeat the troops of thousands of people. ”

"In the international community, if you are backward, you will be beaten, and once you can't beat it, the good things in the country will be divided up by the enemy under one excuse or another...... In the situation of repeated invasions and partitions by many countries, including Europe, gold and silver were plundered, people were slaughtered, cultural relics were looted, and houses were burned...... Tens of hundreds of years ......"

When Ning Yi said this, his words had become slow. At first, Watermelon thought that her husband was joking, but when she heard this, she couldn't help but get involved, and wrinkled her brows: "Nonsense...... The Wu Dynasty was also beaten like this by the Jin State, and it was not more than ten years, and it came over, even if it was before, there were not many cases where it had been beaten for hundreds of years, it was bad with people, and it would not be able to learn! Even if you build this gunpowder cannon from scratch, it only took you more than ten years to build Liheng! ”

Ning Yi smiled slightly: "The backwardness of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, first of all, of course, is the backwardness of Gewuxue, but this is only the surface, a more in-depth problem, it is already the backwardness of people and culture at that time - Confucianism started from now, and developed for another thousand years, it formed a more solid network internally, suppressed people's thinking, and it dragged people's hands and feet from all aspects of life, work, and socialization. If you want to defeat the Europeans, you just need to develop better than them, but your mental structure is not suitable for Gewu, and you can never catch up with your enemies...... Agua, I sold things to all of them today, and that's the reason, if you don't change your mind, they will always be one step slower than me......"

He took a breath: "Go back to the Manchu Qing, I was beaten, I couldn't catch up, the Manchu Qing also knew that it was going to change, but how much did it have to change?" Aguas, a general trend in human society is that any inherent system will try to maintain its original appearance, although it has to be adjusted after being beaten, but how much to change, people will always tend to be enough. So in the beginning, the emperor divided a department in the cabinet, well, we learn from the West, learn from the Gewu, learn from them to make muskets and cannons, and use this department to protect ourselves. This act is called the 'Westernization Movement'. ”

Watermelon squeezed his palm: "You still have such a disgusting name......"

"Where is the 'Westernization Movement' disgusting...... Forget it, the Westernization Movement is a department in the imperial court to make changes, either to learn artificial musket cannons, or to spend money to buy muskets and cannons, and also take muskets and cannons to train so-called recruits. But then they found out that it didn't work, there were also problems with the soldiers, there were also problems with the officials, and the country continued to be beaten, ceding land and paying reparations with seventeen or eighteen small European countries, and kneeling in the ground for decades. Everyone found out, hey, the Westernization movement is not good, then it has to be a little more changeable, and the entire court has to change ......"

"At that time, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was already a country of almost 300 years, and the system was bloated and rampant, and if the reform of one department could not work, it was necessary to carry out reform and reform from top to bottom. Everyone thinks that it is not enough to use the Confucian system to continuously castrate people's blood in the past three hundred years, and the people must also wake up, give more benefits and status to the bitter haha below, and make the officials more cordial and the system clearer, so the next step is the reform of the law. ”

"But no matter what it looks like, the three-hundred-year-old feudal country is hard to return. Those who had previously held the benefits were unwilling to back down, internal contradictions intensified, and those who called for and presided over the reform of the law were finally defeated. Since you are defeated, you can't solve the problem, and you're still being beaten on your knees outside, so you can't change the law, and you have to take a more drastic path...... Everyone began to learn to say that to be equal, there can be no Manchu, no court, no emperor......"

"In this way, civil strife began, rebels began to appear, warlords began to appear, everyone wanted to overthrow the emperor, to call for equality, to open up the wisdom of the people, to give civil rights, to pay attention to the people's livelihood...... Step by step, it became more and more intense, and it had been decades since they were beaten for the first time, and they overthrew the emperor, hoping that things would get better. ”

Watermelon took a breath: "You killed the emperor in this book, it's about to get better......"

Ning Yi smiled: "Yes, it looks ...... The groundbreaking feat, the social situation has improved to a certain extent, and then there are powerful warlords, and they want to be emperors again. After this kind of warlord was overthrown, the next people gave up this idea, the old warlord, became the new warlord, the call for equality in society has been going on, people have begun to realize that the problem of people is the fundamental problem, the problem of culture is the fundamental problem, so in that case, many people propose to completely abandon the old Confucian thinking, and establish a new way of thinking that can be matched with the study of things......"

"Throughout the process, they are still being beaten, and the new warlords can't solve the problem, and the abandonment of the old culture is not complete enough to solve the problem. In order to resist foreign enemies, a large number of elites formed a government and an army, and tried their best to abandon their previous suspicions and fight together......

"Hey, Japanese dwarf, you ...... story"

The watermelon made a sound, and then Ning Yi reached out and knocked it on the head.

“…… The government formed by the elite class will not be able to change the thousands of years of Chinese history, because a large part of their thinking is old. When the country is getting weaker and weaker, and this cake is getting smaller and smaller, everyone inevitably wants to make a little money for themselves, the big officials make more money, and the small officials make less, they may just want to live better than the starving people, but slowly, they find that the people around them are doing this, and when other companions think that this kind of thing is excusable, everyone will scramble to start fish......ing."

“…… The salaries of the army were divided, half of the strong men sent to the army would starve to death on the road, the enemy invaded from the outside, the bureaucracy was hollowed out from the inside, and the people were poor in materials and had no livelihood...... At this time, the whole of China has been kneeling in front of the whole world for a hundred years, and it has become stronger again and again, but it is not enough, and it is not enough to innovate again and again...... Then we may need to be more resolute and radical in our innovation! ”

“…… The Westernization Movement was a step forward for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which was difficult to return. The reform of the law was a further step in the Westernization movement. The old warlords replaced the emperor and went one step further. The new warlords, replacing the old ones, have gone one step further. When the new warlords were replaced by an idealistic and ambitious but inevitably selfish elite, there was a step forward. But what is it to go further? Ah Gua, you have ideals and ambitions, Chen Shanjun has ideals and ambitions, but how many such people can you find under your subordinates? The slightest bit of selfishness is worthy of forgiveness, and we just need to restrain it with strict military regulations...... Further on, how? ”

"At that time, maybe it was the era that said, it can't do this anymore. Therefore, the system that really shouts that everyone is equal and everything is for the people has finally appeared, and those who join that system will really give up part of their selfishness, and will truly believe in the selflessness of the great justice - not the kind of belief that the big officials are the masters of the people, but they will really believe that they are equal to all the people in the world, and they have become officials, but the division of labor is different, just like someone wants to dig out dung and someone wants to be an official......

"Is there really such a thing?" Watermelon Road.

"Of course it's not 100 percent, but the level of equality is incredible. Because after a hundred years of humiliation and defeat, and seeing the complete loss of dignity of the whole country, most of them finally realized ...... Otherwise, there is no way out. In fact, many of these people are elites, and they could have entered the government composed of elites, and they thought more about themselves, and everyone could understand it. But they all saw that just that level of effort could not save the world. ”

"They are constantly pushing and reforming themselves, and they will believe from the bottom of their hearts that the whole army and the whole government will serve the people. At that time, thousands of years from top to bottom in China, and it can even be said that the most incorruptible army in the history of human society was born there...... It can also be said that they were forced out. ”

There was longing and admiration in Ning Yi's words, and the watermelon looked at him. For the whole story, she naturally doesn't have a deep sense of substitution, but for the men around her, she can see that the other party is not talking about these things in the mood of storytelling. This made her slightly puzzled, and she couldn't help but think a lot more.

"That'...... What's next? ”