Wei Jie said excitedly: "Dare to ask the Venerable Master, what can I do?!" ”

Lin Xi said: "Seeking the Tao lies in seeking truth, seeking righteousness, pragmatism, and common prosperity, and doing the Tao lies in invention, creation, development, and transcendence."

Wei Jie asked: "Seeking truth or not seeking holiness?" ”

Lin Xi asked: "Dare to ask the saint what is the truth?" ”

Wei Jie said: "Of course it can't be, otherwise how can we justify the scriptures?" ”

Lin Xi smiled and said, "Since the saint has not exhausted the avenue, can the words of the saint solve the problems of the world?" ”

Wei Jie also smiled and said: "If the words of the sage can solve the rule of the world, then it is already the rule of three generations." However, how is the general's seeking different from Lao Tzu's words? ”

Lin Xi said: "Lao Tzu is at least an honest man, enlightened and seeking the Tao, and is not forced to be the spokesperson of the Tao. ”

Wei Jie was also stunned: "Actually, the master (note: here refers to Confucius Confucius) is not, if it were not for the interests of future generations, how could he cover the search of the avenue with his own selfishness, that is, the master, he also said but did not do, and believed in the ancients." Knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing, and knowing is knowing. ”

[Note: Pre-Qin Confucius's "Analects and Narratives": "Say but not do, believe and be ancient."] The general interpretation refers to only narrating and clarifying the doctrines of the predecessors, and not creating them themselves. However, there are doubts about this here, and the statement can be understood as the exposition of the Dao, rather than the meaning of fabricating, creating, and forcibly interpreting it by oneself. To believe is to believe, the meaning here is to like - the ancients, a certain interpretation of the ancients here can be understood as people who can directly talk to the heavens, that is, witches, and they teach words, so that they can really explain it, otherwise there will be a problem, with the development of the times, there are many things that were not available in the previous era, and they provide convenience, so they should all be abandoned, but the ruling class has never done this. For example, in the era of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, there were no stools and chairs, only low beds and desks. Confucius sorted out the "poems" and "books" and determined the standard version (classic) of ancient documents; In the Spring and Autumn Period, he established the principles for evaluating history; tells about "Zhou Yi", so that "Zhou Yi" and "Zhou Yi" have changed from the book of divination to the book of philosophy, and created the study of righteousness and reason; It is very great in itself. Even. The sage of Confucianism is the so-called "supreme of humanity", that is, a morally perfect person. The most important thing that Confucius taught us is also the cultivation of life and philosophical thoughts. This may be generalized to the political level, because morality is one of the benchmarks of politics. It was caused by the fact that the scholarly class wanted to monopolize the interests of this class forever because of the monopoly power used for knowledge. 】

Lin Xi said: "Now the road is withering, it lies in the ruling class, not in the avenue itself, so from the bottom up, from scattered to the public, is a small probability event, the great unified dynasty will instinctively corrupt, instinctively suppress the development of Gewu Zhizhi, will instinctively oppress the people." Therefore, in the real Datong world, those who seek its sage should be able to understand things for everyone, at least most of them, and everyone has no worries about survival. Everyone knows the boundaries of balancing their own desires with others. This may require the opening of the wisdom of the whole people. ”

Wei Jie asked: "How can the whole people enlighten their minds?" There is not enough people and goods, and there are not enough officials. ”

Lin Xi said:

"The scripture says, The arm of God is not shortened and cannot be saved, and the ears are not dull to hear. But your iniquity has separated you from God, and your iniquity has hid his face from you. (Note: Isaiah 59:1-2)

This sin is unbelieving. The reason for unbelief is self-righteousness, and the manifestation of self-righteousness is face.

The expression of face is the so-called dignity and official manners.

When a person insists on opposing and suppressing all people and things that make him lose face with one of his unverified theories and concepts, he has lost his desire to seek the Tao for a long time.

People have the need for security, food and clothing, development, and even acceptance and respect, which are all normal things given by God, but God has their seasons.

But Taoists will put up a banner to condemn others and make themselves happy.

But sin is sin.

Xunzi's "Theory of Heaven" has a saying - heaven is constant, not for Yao, not for death. If it should be treated, it will be auspicious, and if it should be chaotic, it will be vicious.

This is a brilliant statement, and its righteousness is great.

But he went on to say that if you are strong and use sparingly, you will not be poor; When you are ready to move, you can't get sick; If there is no way to do it, then the sky will not be a disaster. Therefore water and drought cannot make them hungry and thirsty, cold and heat cannot make them sick, and monsters cannot make them fierce. If the scarcity is used in luxury, the heavens cannot make it rich; If you raise a strategy and move rarely, the sky cannot make it complete; If you do something recklessly, the heavens will not make it auspicious. Therefore, the flood and drought have not yet arrived, the cold and heat have not been thin and sick, and the monster has not yet arrived. The time is the same as governing the world, and the disaster is different from the world, and you can't complain about the sky, and its way is also. Therefore, it is clear that the distinction between heaven and man can be said to be human.

At that time, there were only a few people under the rule of King Zhou, and now, how many people are under the rule of the Great Song Dynasty.

If you can't even grasp the core of the problem, or are unwilling to grasp it, how can it last for a long time?

There is no shame in bowing to the truth and truth.

Because we are not omniscient and omnipotent, but we can seek knowledge.

Seek benevolence and get benevolence, why can't you get the way when you seek the Tao?

Does knowing but not being able to do it count as true knowledge?

Be faithful and sensitive to action, and be a gentleman. ”

Wei Jie listened to Lin Xi's words, and he also felt empty, but when he heard the last sentence - people, there is no shame in bowing to the truth and truth, so his face improved. However, sitting and discussing, in fact, it is very difficult to cross the field, and Wei Jie can't understand Lin Xi's full meaning at once, but this does not harm Wei Jie from his extensive travel and knowledge, and extracts the main line that fits Lin Xi's meaning.

However, there is a premise for this, this is that the growth of the production of wealth in the world can exceed the growth of the basic consumption of the population, and this point, Wei Jie does not have a clear concept, Wei Jie is mindful, anyway, to ask this kind of question, only this time, this time, Lin Xi will answer all the questions, and after this time, Wei Jie himself does not have the courage - or he does not feel the courage - to ask such a sharp question again.

Wei Jie then looked at Lin Xi and asked: "Dare to ask the Venerable Master, Wei Jie has a doubt, I implore the Venerable Master to solve it, the people's property depends on the land, but there is a fixed number of acres of land, at that time, what should the general do?" ”

Lin Xi said: "In our world, each mu can produce 700 catties in one season, and you can eat one ding; You can also interplant ginger, garlic, and watermelon, and the rest of the time, some places can also plant a season of corn. ”

[Note: Ding is mainly the meaning of adult men, enough food a ding, is enough for an adult man to eat, the ancient bottom of the people to staple food, rarely non-staple vegetables, meat, poultry, eggs and milk, so the main need for food to provide calories and nutrition, the standard is six hundred catties, the actual weight of each dynasty is slightly different, but the modern seven hundred catties are still basically enough. 】

Wei Jie asked, "What is corn?" ”

Lin Xi patted his head and thought to himself, as if the Song Dynasty had indeed not yet introduced corn to the Central Plains, so he said:

"A high-yield food, Master Weijie doesn't have to care.

Wheat interplanting corn for two seasons can harvest another eight or nine hundred catties of corn.

Wheat interplanting corn and then soybeans can harvest another three or four hundred catties.

Of course, fertilizers must keep up, and good seeds are also indispensable.

If planted well, one mu can produce enough staple food for two people, as well as fifty or sixty catties of soybean oil, and 1,200 to 1,600 catties of tofu.

If rice is planted in the south, it can be 1,200 catties per mu per season, and about 2,000 catties of double-cropping rice per year.

If you plant sweet potatoes, you can produce 8,000 catties to 10,000 catties per mu per season.

If potatoes are planted, each mu can produce six or seven thousand catties per season, and two seasons can produce 12,000 catties a year. ”

Wei Jie's eyes were about to bulge, and he hurriedly said, "General, General, where are these things?" ”

Lin Xizheng was talking happily, and when he heard Wei Jie say this, he was a little unhappy, and then said: "Below the sky, above the earth." ”

Wei Jie said: "The general is joking? Wei Jie thinks that he has traveled all over Middle-earth, and he has never tasted it. ”

Lin Xi didn't care and continued:

"In the paddy fields, deep ditches and ridges can be used to raise loaches, crabs, frogs, and prevent insect pests, planthoppers, borers, and even locusts.

Loaches can produce 5,000 catties per mu, and crabs can produce more than 100 catties per year.

In fact, according to the utilization and conversion of solar energy into dry matter, one acre can produce more at most.

We can continue to exploit the potential of these productions through re-creation, but we cannot replace the work created by God in the short term. Nor can we deny the creation of God because we can recreate.

As for what you mentioned not seeing, it's because we haven't looked for it yet.

These are the food of the people.

People also have clothing, housing, living, education, travel, play, culture, education, and creation.

Nowadays, each woman can only twist one thread twist at a time, and if you use a machine, each woman can see 100 or 200 thread twists at the same time.

"Peacock Flying Southeast" said - five horses were broken in three days, and adults were too late; About seventeen zhang per day, which is almost impossible to achieve for a long time.

(Note: Huang Daopo 1245-1330, a famous cotton weaver in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty.) Also known as Huang Po, Huang Mu. A native of Wunijing Town, Songjiang Prefecture (now Huajing Town, Xuhui District, Shanghai). Born in poverty, the young man was oppressed by the feudal family and lived in Yazhou (now Hainan Island), took the Taoist temple as his home, worked and lived among the Li sisters, and learned to use cotton making tools and the method of weaving Yazhou quilts under the Li people. Lin Xi remembered it wrongly, so he directly advanced Huang Daopo's affairs a little earlier.

In addition to making important contributions to the reform of cotton spinning tools, Huang Daopo also summarized the weaving techniques she learned from the Li people, combined with her own practical experience, into a set of relatively advanced weaving techniques such as "wrong yarn, color matching, heald thread, and silk flower", and enthusiastically taught them to people. Therefore, at that time, the quilts, mattresses, belts, silk and other cotton fabrics produced by Wunijing had various beautiful patterns such as folding branches, regimental phoenixes, chess games, and words, which were bright and picturesque. For a while, "Wu Nijing was taken" and went away, and nearby Shanghai, Taicang and other places competed to follow suit. These textiles were exported to all parts of the country and were very popular, and soon the Songjiang area became the center of the cotton weaving industry in the country, which lasted for hundreds of years. At the beginning of the 16th century, local farmers weaved tens of thousands of pieces of cloth a day. In the 18th century and even the 19th century, Songjiang cloth was exported to Europe and the United States and gained a high reputation. At that time, it was called Songjiang cloth "clothed by the world", which of course condensed a lot of efforts of Huang Daopo.

Huang Daopo actually perfected the entire textile process. 400 years ahead of Jenny's loom. )

And Huang Daopo has increased this efficiency by at least four times.

In the future, electrically driven textile machinery, each can easily reach three pieces of cloth per hour, thirty-six pieces of cloth per day, can meet the needs of thirty households, and can meet more than one thousand households and three or four thousand people a year. To meet the 100 million population of the whole Song Dynasty, only 30,000 units are needed to meet the needs, and the whole world is now no more than 200 million people, and only 60,000 units are needed.

Of course, there is still a lot of work to be done to meet this technical standard.

travel, now walking less than ten miles in an hour; Riding a horse for less than 200 miles (note: one mile in the construction scale is 115.2% of the current city, and the average speed of the horse does not exceed 50 kilometers per hour), if you run for a long time, travel thousands of miles a day, the horse will be tired.

However, if you use a rail train, you can reach 1,000 miles per hour (note, about 500 km/2 hours, that is, 250 km/h).

If you fly in the sky, you can fly more than 3,600 miles per hour (note: the speed of modern commercial airliners is about 800-900 kilometers per hour, which is about 3600 miles per hour).

Now, houses need to be felled, soiled, and tamped, and in the future, houses can be poured by machines, and if you want, one floor in a day, the house can not only have one floor, but can be a hundred stories high, even up to three hundred zhang high.

[Note: When the central tower was built in the 11th century, it was only 4 floors, which was a rare tall building at the time.] The walls of the tower were made of stone blocks, and each floor had to be able to carry the weight of the layers above it. In order for the tower to stand majestically, the lowest wall had to be as thick as 5.2 meters. Buildings with load-bearing walls are up to 5 stories high. Because the lowest wall, no matter how thick, cannot support a higher structure. It is only possible to build a tall building if the frame is used to support the weight of the upper floor, and the lighter walls are used to protect against the wind, frost, rain and snow. Medieval timber frame houses are the first steps in this direction. It was not until the 19th century, when steel production increased dramatically and was reliable, that a fundamental solution was found. Until the 19th century, buildings with more than 6 floors were still quite rare. People don't want to climb too many steps, and the hydraulic vertical lift only lifts about 15 meters in height. Advanced steel technology, reinforced concrete and water pumps make it possible to build extremely tall buildings, some of which are more than 300 meters high. In fact, the main factor in the development of skyscrapers stems from the invention of elevators. 】”

Wei Jie interjected: "More than 100 zhang, how long does it take for people to go up and down the stairs?" ”

Lin Xi said with a smile: "Master Weijie is extraordinary, he can think quickly, yes, super high-rise buildings, need a hoist, fast power hoist, can make people from the lowest floor to the top floor in a moment."

People will dig and refine gasoline, diesel, and kerosene to make cars and airplanes move quickly. ”

Wei Jie immediately asked: "This will change the war, dare to ask the general, what other sharp weapons?" ”

Lin Xi said: "It seems that Master Weijie is not going to leave?" Yes, even if you escape from the sea, you won't be able to escape far. Think about how we can win this battle for us.

In the future, there will be endless things that will be invented and created, they are like magic, they don't depend on the magic of a certain master, no, it's the magic of immortals, the magic of gods.

If there is a good social organization, a good social culture, and the pride of the sky, it is possible to soar in the blue sky in the next ten, twenty, thirty or a little longer, and set foot on the stars in the next fifty or a hundred years.

In the next 200 years, as long as we don't make stupid mistakes, we will create all kinds of puppets, which can do all kinds of work, such as sweeping the floor, washing clothes, cutting vegetables, cooking, and war, so that we will not be cold in winter and hot in summer, so that women will not have to go through the ghost gate in childbirth, and all children will be able to read, write, work, and participate in political affairs.

In the future, officials will no longer be powerful, but professional services.

Because everyone can use the power of election and monitoring in their hands.

The ancients could only hope for the world of great harmony but could not pray for.

There must be a broad road. ”

Wei Jie paused for a moment, so he gave a deep salute: "I don't dare to ask for what I want." Just ask the general to tell me the force on which he is now depending. ”

Lin Xi said to Song Qing: "Song Qing, give you a quarter of an hour to let Master Weijie know everything that can let him know." ”

Song Qing sighed: "Master Weijie, come on, I'll take you to see our bazookas, hot air balloons, voltaic battery stacks, cold photoelectric panels, wired telegraphs, and electric bells." ”

Wei Jie exclaimed, "You killed Zhang Hongfan!" ”

Mi Sanmei laughed loudly: "Hahahaha, we don't know who that old thief is, but we did burn a lot of ships along the way." ”

Wei Jie exclaimed: "Sure enough, sure enough"

Then, he also looked up to the sky and laughed: "Hahahaha, I Weijie also has today, the sky will not kill me, and the sky will not kill me." ”

Song Qing took Wei Jie to understand the situation, and here, everyone returned to Lin Xi's side.

......

Tu Xicai asked, "Venerable Master, what are you doing at the moment?" ”

Lin Xi asked, "Are you hungry?" ”

Tu Xicai said: "It's really, a little hungry." ”

Lin Xi said: "Let's start the meal, let the chef cook something good." ”

Mi Sanmei immediately said, "I'll give the order." After saying that, he jumped and walked away.

Zhen Niang saluted Lin Xi and said, "Venerable Master, I will also go and help, dare to ask the Venerable Master?" ”

Lin Xi nodded, and Hui Niang next to her said, "You went to help like this, how could the Venerable Master not allow you." ”

Xiuniang said: "Hui Niang also wants to go?" ”

Hui Niang said, "But listen to the Venerable Master's orders. ”

Xiuniang said: "There is also a need for someone to serve here, so let's arrange someone to set the table first." Oh, by the way, let the soldiers take turns to eat first. ”

The helmsman Fei Zhishan said with a smile: "Let the soldiers, just take turns to eat first, don't scare them." ”

[Note: Dining and eating, in the culture of the time, belonged to the terms of two classes.] 】

......

On the shore, six or seven commanders were complaining to each other, and the tall officer said to Rao Juren:

"How is it now?"

Rao Juren changed color and said:

"Rao went to reason, isn't it for our Song army? Now blame me! ”