Li Jiantai is a very ordinary, in the late Ming Dynasty, due to the overall quality of civil servants in the Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen could only be replaced like cutting leeks, so the original university president-like figure, without any experience and training, directly became a big man like a university scholar......

Essentially, it was a matter of equality and selection of civil servants at that time.

Looking back for hundreds of years, the Empress Dowager Xie of the Southern Song Dynasty said sadly, "My country has been treating scholars and doctors well for three hundred years. I and the heir have suffered a lot of hardships at home, and the little minister can't come up with a plan to save the times, the internal officials will leave the times, and the outside will entrust the seal to abandon the city, take refuge and steal life, who else is it? How can I see the first emperor underground, "The meaning is very simple, the salary given to you by the old lady's family is not low, but you bastards all shrank and ran away one by one when something happened to the company, otherwise you directly took the power of the company to join the opponent, are you considered a person, do you have the face to see my husband after you die."

This is the system that has been delayed for hundreds of years at that time, in fact, how many people really regard reading the Four Books and Five Classics as the real ability to govern the country? A true gentleman of morality?

But now, it's time to fool a bunch of fools.

The reason why Li Jiantai is willing to come to Baoding to be this puppet is actually because he is already a poor bastard.

In history, this person fooled Chongzhen that he wanted to go out for the country for the sake of family wealth, and after hearing that his hometown had been occupied, he directly cut half of it, but he was afraid that the inside was not for the country's social welfare, but for the family's wealth.

The Yuan Dynasty destroyed the Song Dynasty, almost with the moral level of the nomadic stage, and broke into an agricultural society with the highest degree of civilization and development in the world at that time, and the concept brought to people must not be good.

China may not be very smart, in fact, there is a striking fact that the moral level of scholars at that time was surprisingly low.

In the eighteenth year of Hongwu, there was a soldier named Tang Yanshan, and his eldest brother ordered a doll when he was a child, and the object was called Shi Lingzhi. Within a few years, his eldest brother died. When Shi Lingzhi grew up, she married Yao Xiaowu from Hongdong County and had three children with him.

In the past, there was a bad custom of ethnic minorities in the Yuan Dynasty, that is, when the elder brother died, the younger brother could "inherit" the sister-in-law.

Tang Runshan bit this bad custom to death, went to the military department to toss, and then the relevant leaders of the military department issued an order to Hongdong County, asking the county to send Shi Lingzhi to Tang Yanshan as a military family. Shi Lingzhi's husband went to file a complaint, and the county magistrate knew about it, but he didn't want to offend the military department, and in line with the principle that more things are better than less, and the officials and officials protect each other, he completely ignored the public opinion and had to carry out the orders of the military department. This matter has been troubled all the way to the Criminal Department, the Shangshu of the Criminal Department is called Wang Yu, he deliberately maintained this bad habit, and also said a bunch of crooked reasoning, what Wu Zetian is still Li Shimin's who is who, and later it became Li Zhi's who is who, since the ancients are like this, why should we ......

The latter thing is easy to guess, Zhu Yuanzhang is extremely good to his son and wife, and he is also so-so to the common people, but these beast-like scholars and doctors have never treated them as people, and in fact, these Confucian scholars did not treat the common people as people, everyone was to each other.

From the Hongdong County Order to kill, all the way to Shangshu, none of them fell, all of them were beheaded, of course, it was a bit too much for female family members to be prostitutes in the Teaching Workshop Division, so it was better to kill them.

"Its history of Lingzhi is the way of human ethics and normality, and it is the first priority of the company. Therefore, it is ignored, so there is a division, and it is cut down. "In the big message, I directly scolded these so-called scholars to the point of blood, and didn't give any face."

Zhu Yuanzhang saw through these Confucian scholars.

However, he also understands that governing the country needs to rely on these Confucian scholars, but the moral level of these Confucian scholars is close to the level of losing their conscience. When he was in power, he sat with his hands high, and he did not know what to do. Even if you are a person of the article, you are not different from Hu people...... Under the rule of Hu Yuan, the customs of the world have changed, and it has lasted for ninety-three years. Those who have no ambition do it by stealing it. Although I tried my best to speak and tried my best, I couldn't turn it into a dead end, and it was difficult to whine. Even before he died, Zhu Yuanzhang had some insight into the future of his country, and the last sentence, with all his words and efforts, could not be dissolved all year round, and it was indeed bitter.

This is the greatest sorrow of the elders from Qin Shi Huang to Zhu Yuanzhang to today, knowing that these Confucian scholars, really talking about their nature, can be said to be the most vicious and incompetent characters, but the common people have been brainwashed for hundreds of years, and they recognize them the most.

Of course, it's actually a good thing for the elders.

Your strategic opponents are breathtaking in terms of morality and incompetence, so you can defeat them individually.

The ancient Chinese used various ways to express their differences with Yidi, clothing culture is one of the most important cultural symbols, such as the left and right, in the era when there were no buttons, the clothes were tied with a belt, wrapped from the shoulder, tied with a belt around the waist, the nomads generally left side, the Han people chose the right side.

For example, the hair of the nomads was distributed in their heads, and the Manchus combed their braids, and the Han people developed a more agreeable oath culture. These are basically only used to sign "I'm different from you" function, some people believe that the right side is more inconvenient to draw a bow and shoot arrows than the left side, and the wide robe and big sleeves of the Han people are not suitable for combat, too troublesome to swear, and it is not born for battle, so in order to improve military strength, King Wuling of Zhao adopted the Hufu cavalry and archery policy.

These symbols may indeed be inconvenient, but if you force them to go there, it is an insult to the spirit of the Han people, even if a person is unkempt, has a lot of lice on his body, and smells, he himself may feel uncomfortable, but a person comes and shaves his hair, brushes him clean, and sprays him with perfume to cover the smell, this person will not feel friendly, but will be disgusted. Even a homeless man can't accept others forcibly changing himself when he doesn't feel decent, let alone the cultural symbols that the Han people are proud of, so it has caused a fierce resistance.

Therefore, the elders are extremely cautious about this aspect, and the external rhetoric is that the combat helmet must be worn at all times, and the highest-grade helmet can only be worn by shaving hair, such an explanation, anyway, the elders themselves believe it.

Li Jiantai is dressed as a Confucian student, as a native of Shanxi, Li Jiantai can be said to have been hit repeatedly, the property of his hometown is finished, not only can he not accept all kinds of rents in the future, but he also has to find a way to help some family members, as well as his biggest dependence, those rich and oily imperial businessmen, of course, these imperial businessmen like to make friends with people from Shanxi as sources and helpers, even if they have only been a scholar for half a year, Li Jiantai has also gained huge benefits from them, which is evocative.

Unfortunately, the butcher's knives of the elders did not let go of the imperial merchant group that ate inside and outside, ate Chinese food, and smashed the Chinese's pot, and with the full cooperation of the jubilant Shunjun and Jiang Xiang, they achieved amazing results, and also let Li Jiantai's backstage financiers be hit to the sky.

This is also the reason why Li Jiantai is willing to eat Zhou Li honestly.

The common people are still convinced of a scholar like Li Jiantai, and they are at ease if they are a high-profile figure like a college student.

After the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, in order to publicize the hair problem, the effect has not been good, because of the cost, it can only be confined to the city, but the vast majority of people live in the countryside, and go to the countryside to publicize, the cost is too high, it is not realistic at all. In addition, the results of the propaganda are only useful to the readers, and only they know what is going on. A farmer who doesn't know big characters and has never been out of the house, you say that you want to restore the tradition, he still thinks that the braids are left by the ancestors, and if you dare to cut his braids, he will play with you. And tell them that the braids were left by their ancestors, precisely those who read.

This is also a clear distinction between two kinds of people, the person who serves in the clothes of the Ming Dynasty, salutes Zhou Zhiwei, a short-haired man.

Of course, the elders understand very well that those who follow the example of their own short hair may not really agree with the new regime, but more for the purpose of getting closer to their superiors, and it is caused by a psychological factor of "what is good at the top and what is good at the bottom", compared to imitating Li Jiantai with a Daming hairstyle, it is more like imitating the elders with short hair, Zhou Zhiwei is for convenience, these people are for the sake of the elders' favor, at least they don't want the elders to be disgusted.

Of course, for the behavior of some people, the elders sneered, the era of industrialization has come, and they are still clinging to this? I'm an elder, not your father, and I care about your clothes and food!

Clothing and hair, these are just symbols formed in the initial stage of civilization development, the real advanced civilization symbols, never what clothes to wear, what hairstyle to wear, but what kind of language to speak, what kind of writing to write, more advanced, what kind of music to listen to, what kind of painting to paint, and the most apex of culture, is what kind of thought, what kind of person, what kind of useful behavior.

In later generations, other civilized countries in the world were assimilated by Western thought, and everyone began to generally look at problems and structure the world with Western thought, which is the real death of civilization, not the loss of some cultural symbols.

Most of the elders still understand things, if they still think like the people who hung up Dorgon, it will be too cheap, they must consider deeper problems, and if Chinese civilization is to flourish, then it is necessary to let others think about problems with Chinese ideas, and use Chinese ideas to structure the world.

But there is a long way to go to accomplish this, and it is far from being as easy as giving an order to make people cut their hair.

This is also the reason why in a hurry to carry out all kinds of projects in Hebei, at least within three years, to turn Hebei, the original agricultural country, into a modern industrial country, is almost as difficult as Guo Xiaosi and Tyson boxing without sparing their hands, and Comrade Guo Xiaosi actually did not kill him.

The stone of the mountain can attack jade, and now, it is necessary to use the power from the West, fortunately, at least it can not drop the price.

People in this era still have a sense of arrogance, although this kind of arrogance can often be regarded as a fool who eats the ancients, but at least there is a breath of anger.

In fact, in the future period of time, at least until the Qing Dynasty disgraced the Chinese, China was still very advanced in the eyes of Westerners, you know, the so-called Age of Discovery, is to find another sea route to buy Chinese porcelain.

Westerners have also used China as an example to criticize their own country, such as Voltaire and other masters in the Enlightenment, who constantly compared China and the West to attack the traditional maladministration of Europe. He admired China's literati politics to criticize the aristocracy of Europe, and he advocated China's unification politics to criticize the division of European states.

Voltaire was still fifty years away from his birth, and thirty years after Voltaire's death, the West had already given birth to the consciousness of "Lao Tzu is the best in the world", and what is not Western is the concept of barbarism. And this kind of consciousness of "Lao Tzu is the best in the world" has been maintained by the Chinese intellectual class for thousands of years, and the concept of non-Chinese or barbaric is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

To put it bluntly, they have been unable to find an opponent to compare with themselves with the lantern, so this pride is naturally born.

Therefore, there is no need to use knives and money to deal with these scholars, beat them, throw them in water and wash them, and then get them overseas to see how big the world really is.

Under the leadership of the Qing Dynasty, in the 100 years of contact between China and the West, the pride in the hearts of the Chinese intellectuals was gone, and self-criticism and self-examination were also one of the essences of traditional Chinese culture, but the problem was that the intellectual elites of that era had gone far beyond the level of self-examination, and they were completely denied.

Originally, the source of the problem of the gap was whether the creation of wealth was a question of science or land, and a question of respecting the grammar elite or the technological elite, but they traced back to the root cause and beat the stick on the text.

These bastards led to the fact that during the entire Republic of China, 9 percent of college students were useless liberal arts students in the country, and they also shouted all day long about the boring business of deposing Chinese characters.

What Zhou Zhiwei didn't know was that there were still a few months to go, and the person who wrote a book like Di Zigui, which specializes in brainwashing people and how to be a slave, was about to be born.

Baoding Mansion as a place where the elders often come over, although it is still the old bureaucracy in the management, and because it was broken by the Shun army, the speed of the city's recovery is not fast, and the industrial chain of the imperial capital with a larger population is pouring in, so benefiting from this, the security and order of Baoding Mansion is good, and the large influx of products produced in the imperial capital is also very fashionable.

This is the passage of the imperial capital railway into Henan, which naturally brought a new atmosphere to Baoding Mansion, originally in history, Baoding Mansion has experienced countless bloody battles, and the so-called enclosure of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, its core is in Baoding, which is close to the emperor, many people who originally knew nothing came together in the morning, but were told that they did not know a certain Manchurian uncle announced that their land and themselves belonged to the Manchurian uncle, and they were not allowed to resist, and the fugitives would die, and the fugitives would also die.

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