Chapter 22: Similarities and Differences (Happy New Year!) )
Fame is a very important thing, both in modern times and in ancient times, such as the story of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising that Fang Nan told to the students before, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang have a good reputation in the queue of nine hundred people, the two of them climbed up and shouted, and responded in groups, if they changed to a person with a bad reputation, there would only be very few people who responded.
Reputation is also very important to Fang Nan, if you want to rebel and overthrow the Ming Dynasty, Fang Nan must have people in his hands, and one person can't fight against the Ming Dynasty.
The grandson of the old village owner and the new village owner, these two things somewhat make Fang Nan a little famous in Qingshan Village, but he is too young, and this reputation has little effect on Fang Nan.
Later, Fang Nan showed his extraordinary, and even established a school in Qingshanzhai to teach a group of students to read and write, at this time, Fang Nan's reputation in Qingshanzhai greatly increased, and there were not many problems in participating in Qingshanzhai things.
It's just that Qingshanzhai is so big, and there is no major event for the time being that Fang Nan needs to participate, Fang Nan is at ease teaching students to read and write, and at the same time slowly guiding the students' thoughts, indirectly affecting the thoughts of the entire Qingshanzhai villagers.
Qingshan Village has not been controlled by Fang Nan, Fang Nan naturally did not rush to affect other villages, but he did not expect that with the people who went to other villages or people from other villages to Qingshan Village, the changes in Qingshan Village were spread, causing some impact on many villagers in the deep mountains, and his reputation increased.
This is a great thing, and it will be easier for Fang Nan to take control of Qingshan Village and then set foot in other villages.
Time passed day by day, and with the development of the general knowledge class in the second school year, Fangnan's students finally became "100,000 whys".
Seeing birds flying in the sky, some students will think about why birds fly in the sky, this simple question will soon get the answer "birds have wings, so they can fly".
But birds have wings, chickens and ducks have wings, so why can't they fly in the sky?
This problem is more difficult for the students, so Fang Nan explained it to the students, saying:
"At the beginning, chickens and ducks were also able to fly in the sky, the ancestors of human beings grabbed the ancestors of chickens and ducks to raise, they didn't want chickens and ducks to fly away, so the feathers on the wings of chickens and ducks were cut off, without feathers, chickens and ducks could not fly, and over time the wings of chickens and ducks degenerated, even if they did not cut their feathers, chickens and ducks could not fly in the sky, so they became the poultry we raised."
Another student asked why some of the same crops grow taller and receive less, while Fang Nan said that crops are the same as people, people are tall, short, fat and thin, everyone is different, and each crop is also different.
For the students' questions, Fang Nan's request is to let the students think for themselves first, and if they can't answer them, and then ask him, Fang Nan will choose to answer or not to answer according to the questions.
The students have become "100,000 whys", and their minds are constantly being opened, and some students are even thinking about questions like "why the government landlords are not good for the common people".
More than a month has passed since Fang Nan told the story of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising, and Fang Nan told the story of the second peasant uprising, the Yellow Turban Uprising.
"The political situation in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was unstable, the dictatorship of foreign relatives, the dictatorship of eunuchs, the war against Xiqiang lasted for decades, the cost was huge, the military service was heavy, and the phenomenon of land annexation was serious, and the people were not able to make a living.
Zhang Jiao took this opportunity to combine his own medical skills with the content of the strange book "Taiping Yaoshu" to save the people, so that Zhang Jiao has won the support of many people, and the current court, the people have long lost trust.
Under these circumstances, Zhang Jiao founded the Taiping Dao and established his prestige among the poor peasants, with hundreds of thousands of believers, and Zhang Jiao used his prestige among the people to divide the believers of the world into thirty-six parties; There are more than 10,000 people in the big square and 6 or 7,000 people in the small side; Each side was commanded by a commander with the intention of overthrowing the Han Dynasty and establishing a new world ruled by the Yellow Turban Army.
However, after only 9 months after the uprising, the main force was completely defeated, the Yellow Turban Army faced a strong enemy, after the outbreak of the uprising, the suppression of the Yellow Turban Army not only had a huge Eastern Han Dynasty official army, but also a large and powerful armed forces in various places, they faced the crazy suppression of the entire landlord class, outnumbered.
At the same time, the leaders of the rebel army lacked military command skills, and Zhang Jiao, Zhang Liang, Zhang Bao, Bo Cai, Zhang Mancheng, Zhao Hong, Han Zhong and others all knew how to stick to one city and one pool, or besiege the fortified city for a long time, and fought with the Eastern Han army to attrition, and were always passively beaten until they failed......"
Every time Fang Nan finished telling the students a story, he would ask the students questions, mainly asking them what they learned from the story, and this time was no exception.
"After listening to the story told by the teacher, the teacher has two questions to ask you, what are the similarities between the story of the Yellow Turban Uprising and the story of the Chen Sheng and Wu Guang Uprising earlier? What's the difference? ”
"Teacher, I think the similarities are that the Qin Dynasty and the Han Dynasty were not good to the common people, the uprisings failed, and the leaders of the rebel army lacked command skills; The difference is that the Chen Sheng and Wu Guang uprisings were only suppressed by the imperial court, and the Yellow Turban Uprising was not only suppressed by the imperial court, but also by the wealthy families......" Wang Mu stood up again and was the first to answer Fang Nan's question.
It was also Wang Mu's answer that had a lot of content, and the students who stood up to answer after that supplemented Wang Mu's answer, and from the students' answers, Fang Nan could also see that the students' thinking about the questions was becoming more and more comprehensive.
Towards the end of this class, He Yan, who was the same age as Fang Nan, stood up and asked a question that was very perverse in the outside world:
"Teacher, the Qin Dynasty is not good for the common people, the Han Dynasty is not good for the common people, and the Ming Dynasty is not good for us ordinary people, why did the common people of the Ming Dynasty not revolt to overthrow the Ming Dynasty?"
He Yan's question made Fang Nan also a little surprised, and Fang Nan replied:
"There are also peasant uprisings in the outside world, maybe the peasant uprisings have never ended, but the Ming Dynasty is very strong, with an army of nearly one million, and the peasant rebel army is very weak and will soon be extinguished.
The area of Huizhou Prefecture, where we are located, is one of the areas with the most frequent peasant uprisings in Guangdong, the government and landlords continue to oppress the common people, some of the common people choose to revolt, and after the uprising fails, most of them are killed by the imperial court; Another part of the common people, like our elders, dragged their families and fled into the mountains, and they were still able to survive. ”
Hearing Teacher Fang Nan's answer, not only He Yan, who raised the question, was silent, but Hu Xiaoya and other students in the classroom were also silent, they had been studying for more than a year, and their thoughts were constantly relieved/released, even if they were still young, they had much more insight and knowledge than ordinary people.
It is precisely because they know more that they will be silent, and all kinds of messy ideas will arise in their minds, and perhaps some students will have the idea of "becoming a person like Chen Sheng and Wu Guang and leading the people to launch the Ming Dynasty".