Shouting slogans seems to be a creation of oriental culture. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The Westernization Movement is an example, the master of the long technique to control the country, the master of the long skill to self-improvement, and then the Meiji Restoration in Japan also has five oaths, declaring that the country will be rich and strong, and the emperor will be greatly revitalized.

It seems that Westerners rarely put forward such programmatic slogans systematically in the midst of change, and there were no exciting slogans when Peter the Great reformed, and Prussia did not seem to set up any banner of reform in the reform after the Napoleonic Wars.

On the contrary, the French Revolution and the later October Revolution had such programmatic slogans, and from this point of view, such things are often of a revolutionary nature and can greatly stimulate the human spirit.

"Seek innovation and self-improvement, and try to defend the road!"

In October 1878, Zhu Jinglun convened senior officials from six ministries in three provinces and began to throw out this banner.

He then explained the slogan.

Seeking innovation, at the government level, is to eliminate maladministration, establish a new way of governance, and completely eliminate the negative atmosphere of slacking off government in the officialdom, disguising one's wrongdoing, getting by, and not seeking merit but seeking no fault, and the style of being reluctant to be responsible, so as to stimulate new strength; At the private level, it is to introduce new technologies and open new industries to enhance the country's ability to create wealth, so that the people can be rich and the treasury will be full.

Self-improvement is to stimulate internal strength, improve their management level through training officials in the government, promote officials who have made achievements, and improve the execution of the government; The people are calling on the people to rely on their own strength to carry out creative production and develop their current industries, and not to rely on the government or borrow foreign debts.

Seeking innovation and self-improvement, it can be said that it is based on the current actual situation, the government needs to carry out innovation, introduce new management methods, improve efficiency, and make the government's management ability stronger. The private sector needs to introduce new things, new technologies, new management methods, new management ideas and business models, but everything can only rely on the private forces to promote themselves, and the low-interest government loans and tax subsidies in the past are no longer realistic.

Compared with the pursuit of innovation and self-improvement, it is visible, tangible, has guidelines, policies, and can be implemented, and the latter two contents, the map and the defense of the road, are completely pragmatic, and it can be said that they are completely put forward for the purpose of rallying the people's hearts, especially the psychology of those conservatives.

After more than ten years of enlightenment by folk thinkers, the growing group of readers in the Ming Dynasty has actually opened their eyes to see the world.

They know the current situation of the expansion of the Western powers in the world, and under the pressure of the social Darwinism that began to germinate in the West, a large number of intellectuals feel that the country is in danger of survival, although their sense of crisis is far less strong than that of the Westernist bureaucrats or the Japanese people and government, but they also feel that if the Ming Dynasty cannot become strong, there will definitely be a risk of being bullied by the Westerners, especially the extraterritoriality that the British have retained so far, which is an obvious discrimination and unequal treaty.

On the one hand, they have cultivated a strong sense of cultural pride from traditional education, but on the other hand, they feel as if that is not the reality, and the reality is that the Chinese nation is currently declining in the world, and even in the mainstream view of Europe, it is an inferior culture and an inferior nation.

These young generation of intellectuals who have awakened their national consciousness are the elite groups that can really move these slogans and can really strongly stimulate the national patriotism, so as to take action and take measures to change the status quo.

As for the new-school characters cultivated by the earlier batch of foreigners, they are too radical, just like the Japanese, who lack cultural self-confidence, and think that they are indeed very barbaric, and even racial self-confidence, thinking that the Japanese race is inferior to others, and should borrow from the foreigners. For these people, the government gives such a banner of change, just to make them understand that the government is interested in change, to let them know that the government has the heart to change, and they will not be eager to make a revolution.

The older conservatives, on the other hand, are too conservative and stubborn, and even if they see the facts and recognize the status quo, they can't accept it from the bottom of their hearts. For these people, it is impossible to change their mentality because of a slogan, but it can give them a reason to know that this is a change that has to be carried out as a last resort when the nation is in danger, and that if it is poor, it will change. Therefore, the government has made a big show of the banner, just hoping that this group of people can understand and not cause trouble.

The last slogan is to unite the people as much as possible, and the so-called Weidao, which literally means to defend one's own Taoism, is to reassure those who are proud of their culture, and to tell them that the government is not promoting reform, not to change the Xia with raze, not to completely become Western.

Although there is a conflict between the Westerners and the diehards in the introduction of Western science and technology and culture, there is one thing that they both insist on, that is, to guard the hearts of the Chinese people, they talk about "learning the skills of the Chinese with the heart of the foreigners", this is the idea of middle school as the body, Zeng Guofan believes that "foreigners are good at making tools, and the value of the Chinese people is in the hearts of the people."

Among the elites of the Ming Dynasty, about ninety percent of the people hold this kind of thinking, and Zhu Jinglun certainly will not attack the concept of the vast majority of people. Zhu Jinglun also took great pains to unite all the factions as much as possible, but it doesn't matter what slogan is, what matters is the content of the implementation and the policies implemented.

Bismarck, with the goal of reunifying Germany, always used the most euphemistic reasons to express himself in the softest voice and the most resolute policy when he introduced his policies.

Zhu Jinglun can now make high-profile innovations with great fanfare, which in itself is a huge step forward for this old empire that has been closed and conservative for hundreds of years.

Whether it is the various slogans of the Westernists, or the various slogans of Japan, or the four modernizations of New China, etc., in the final analysis, it is nothing more than catching up with the train of industrialization, and everything can be industrialized as the core.

The purpose of administrative reform is to meet the needs of management in the era of industrialization. The military was reformed in order to adapt to the new weapons of the industrial era. The purpose of reforming education is to provide the necessary new types of human resources for industrialization. The purpose of reforming the economy was to allow the traditional economy to shift to an industrialization model.

As for slogans, they have always been just a means of rallying people's hearts, and now they can shout slogans, which means that innovation has gradually become a method that can unite people's hearts, and this is the result of Zhu Jinglun's silent implementation for 20 years, and he hopes that the government can further develop on the basis of cherishing and making use of these achievements.