Section 24 Planning for the Future
After sending Guan Ning away, I just closed the door, and before I could sit down, Gao Shan preemptively said: "Didn't you let us go back to our hometown with you, the Yellow Turban Rebellion is coming, are you safe in Zhuo County?" ”
I shook my head and said to the three of them, "Don't go back to your hometown with me, you will each have your own tasks during my absence, Yin Dong should establish a religious system as soon as possible, in which he should imitate the Ten Precepts and create a moral system, such as: Do not lie; No stealing; It is not permissible to make promises to anyone, but the promises must be kept; Be respectful and fraternal to others; Be loyal to your friends, to your teachers, to your elders, and so on.
It is necessary to set up missionary offices throughout Liaoxi, so that people can worship the Father at a fixed time. To this end, we would like to choose an appropriate opportunity to announce the adoption of a seven-day schedule. The reason for this is that since God works for six days and then rests for one day, so should all mortals. Of course, the deeper reason for this is to make people more efficient and combine work and rest. ”
Zhou Yi interjected and said: "Seven-day work week, do you have to rest the market like Jews on your rest days?" What to do with the soldiers? Who's on the alert? ”
"That doesn't work, we can't build it like Judaism. We can ask the merchants to take turns to close the market, and only those who have made great merit are allowed to close the market on their days off. They were allowed to worship the gods along with government officials and the common people. These big businessmen are all wholesalers, and the half-day closure of the market does not affect them much, but makes them feel that it is an honor. "I said what I had been planning for a long time.
"As for the soldiers, they can pray after sunset on the sixth day and remain on duty during the day. Only one-third of the soldiers were allowed to leave the camp on rest days, and the rest were only allowed to move freely in the camp, and the soldiers who left the camp were not allowed to leave the camp for more than five miles, and they had to return to the camp immediately when they heard the sound of the military trumpet. In this way, we maintain a strong readiness for blows even on rest days. ”
After Yin Dong and the others heard my words, they nodded. Gao Shan then asked, "Then what are Zhou Yi and I doing?" ”
I went on to say, "Takayama, you are still in charge of the construction of the ships, and you are going to stretch our docks out into the sea, and increase the depth of the docks so that we can build large ships." Brainstorm ideas, and everyone draws their own impression of the galleon. We are all studying science, so it should not be difficult to give full play to your strengths, design the counterweight, and calculate the center of gravity of the ship. Of course, such calculations would be too cumbersome, but instead of throwing money and labor on unrealistic construction experiments, we should verify the feasibility of the design through a large number of calculations. We can't be like the leaders of our time, who decide what to do at the moment of the snap of the head? He patted his head and decided that it was someone else's property, that this city was our own, and that we should not destroy it.
Although our calculations will be a little more cumbersome, with a good start, with our calculation formulas, the design of the ship will not be too complicated in the future. In addition, this has the advantage that in the future, we can get people into the habit of using data to speak and mathematical models to calculate feasibility. This task is extremely important, and it is related to our future ocean policy, so I will trouble you. ”
Gao Shan had a bitter face, and knocked his forehead on the table: "Bitter, crying, I have to count it for a year to do this in this era."
We said in unison, "A year? You can figure it out in three years, I take YOU".
Takayama fainted.
Turning around, I took out a roll of drawings and handed it to Zhou Yi: "This is your task - to make clocks and watches." I have disassembled the Yantai grandfather clock in my house a few times, and over the years, I have repeatedly recalled the parts I saw at that time. The principle of a clock is simply to use gravity to cause the pendulum to swing, and then use a mechanical device to keep time. Our weights and measures have been perfected, and the time is still timed with the ancient sundial, which is too imprecise. I ask you to use these drawings to repeatedly test the size and weight of each gear to create a large grandfather clock. Of course, it's better to be able to calculate the weight of the gears of a watch, so that we can make the watch smaller, and you are studying mechanical manufacturing, and this task is up to you. ”
Zhou Yi fainted.
The work is not finished yet, how can I let you lie down, I stepped forward and patted Gao Shan, "Wake up, our chief priest, you still have an important task, I need you to establish a legal system in three years." Of course, this legal system also needs the participation of Yin Dong and Zhou Yi. ”
Standing up, I said to the three of them: "This legal system should include two parts: public law and private law, and the goal of public and private law division is to limit the public power of the government and protect the individual rights of the people.
Among them, public law mainly involves constitutional, administrative and criminal law. The principle of public law is that "the norms of government conduct may not be changed by agreement between private individuals, but must be changed by the consent of the public", and its legal model is that "whatever is not permitted by law is forbidden". In other words, we must establish a set of public laws, constitutional laws, and use this set of laws to ensure that citizens' social rights are not violated, so that the future change of power is only the replacement of people, and the general framework of the system will not change, and there will be no social turmoil. In other words, we want to limit the state power of the government with the social power of citizens.
Of course, we can't tell this truth to the people clearly now, but we can implicit this idea in the law and influence our successors.
Here, I would like to remind Yin Dong in particular that this idea should be instilled in the people of today with the help of religion, that is: "The monarch bows to only two powers, one is our God the Father in heaven, and the other is the law on earth." ”
In this way, when we leave this world, the monarch and officials can be bound by the constitutional laws and religions that we have established. Let our efforts not be in vain, and let our nation take fewer detours.
It is necessary to earnestly warn people that to uphold the law is to maintain order, and that only with order can there be individual power, property, and the prosperity of all the people of the city, and only then will there be the Izumo Castle of yesterday and today. All this is worth our blood and lives.
I think of it this way, we can have everyone who passes the citizenship test, when they take the citizenship oath, say the following oath: 'Let everyone who loves Izumo Castle, everyone who loves life, and everyone who desires a prosperous life swear with his own blood that he will never violate the laws of Izumo and will never tolerate the offense of others against the laws.' ’
As for the establishment of private law, I think it should include human rights law, property law, debt law, and so on. The principle of private law is that "agreement is law", and the principle of consent, arbitrariness, and autonomy of private law should be applied, and its legal model is "everything that is not prohibited by law is permissible".
However, in this hierarchical society, human rights do not lend themselves to being overemphasized. We can only strengthen the property law and recognize that everyone has the right to own the income of his labor.
I often wonder why there were so many traitors in Chinese history, and I think it is not that our nation is inherently inferior, but that the king has never allowed the people to own their own property. For the common people, whoever rules anyway will pay taxes the same, and whoever becomes the emperor anyway must give his property to the ruler to enjoy. So, as long as life is better than it used to be. The common people were ruled by either the Mongols or the Manchus. We must avoid this kind of national tragedy, and we must make the common people consciously protect their property and be willing to shed blood and sacrifice for it."
Looking at them, I said meaningfully, "The wolf guarding the den is the most ferocious, let the people guard Izumo Castle for us."
Historically, it was the establishment of private law that promoted the generation of democracy - one's own property is one's own decision, one's own debts are one's own responsibility, and then the transition to one's own own decisions and one's own responsibility, which is the essence of private law autonomy and the initial meaning of democracy. Our law will sow the spark of democracy.
I got up and announced: "My task now is to return to Zhuo County, recruit Guan Yu and Zhang Fei to the banner, and lay a foundation for you in the troubled times, so that you can develop freely." ”