The warm winter sun dispels the dampness and coldness of winter. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoPeople are lazy, and people can be seen basking in the sun on the side of some streets and alleys in Nanjing. Now for the people of Nanjing, they have another place to bask in the sun, such as the newly built park in the city.

The winter snow a few days ago caused a layer of snow to hang on the dead leaves of the trees in the park, making the park full of its winter beauty. In the nearby pavilions and corridors, you can occasionally see some people basking in the sun, for these people, they never thought that one day, they would be able to enter such a garden, at least in the past, this kind of garden only belonged to dignitaries. Now, as many as five or six similar parks have been built in and around the city.

"Your Majesty, from the courtier's point of view, this Nanjing cannot be compared even with London!"

Guo Songtao, who was walking on the park trail, patted his ass carefully. He didn't know why the King of Han went out of the palace without permission, originally he just arrived in Nanjing yesterday and wanted to meet the Duke of Han tomorrow, but who would have thought that when he reported on his work in the military palace, the King of Han had already changed into civilian clothes and was waiting for him outside the palace, and then the two came to the park by carriage.

He couldn't figure out what King Han was thinking, so he could only speak cautiously now, lest he say something wrong.

"Although London is extremely developed in the West, but its streets are also full of filth, and the air is even more foul and foul in the middle of summer, and although the minister has just arrived in Nanjing, today's Nanjing is far from being comparable to yesterday, the streets are regular, and there is no filth on the road......"

"That's because of the small population!"

Zhu Yifeng interrupted Guo Songtao's sycophants without hesitation, and then pointed to Nanjing and said.

"In the past, Nanjing had a population of at least 600,000, but now, there are less than 120,000 local aborigines, plus more than 20,000 people from Wuchang, the whole city is only 150,000 at most, if the city is not so empty, Yunxian, do you think this king can build so many parks inside and outside the city?"

Now, in the face of the empty city of Nanjing, Zhu Yifeng even regrets a little, regretting that he has built a new capital between Nanxiang, after all, the cost of renovation of the empty city is low. But it was immediately connected, and the capital didn't need to be too big. It does not need to be an economic center, let alone an industrial center, but only an administrative center.

Compared with the capital in the Nanxiang Basin, Nanjing on the Yangtze River has its natural advantages, in the future from Shanghai to Wuchang, and even to Chongqing, the Yangtze River will become China's industrial and economic center, Shanghai may be the leader, but Nanjing will be the center of this dragon.

With the Yangtze River as the economic and industrial center, this is the plan that best meets the development needs of this era - the river will provide convenient transportation, and the resources along the river will also provide sufficient raw materials for industrial development, and of course, human resources, nearly half of China's population is concentrated in the provinces along the river.

It is conceivable that in the next few decades, from Shanghai to Wuchang, it will develop into a dense "urban agglomeration", or even a giant "metropolitan area" with a population of hundreds of millions.

The Nanxiang Basin is located in the middle line of China's geography, which is only a few hundred kilometers away from the "metropolitan area", and close to the Central Plains and the northwest, which is undoubtedly geographically more suitable as the capital.

It would be a catastrophe at all, or at least an environmental disaster. The future capital is better to be simpler! At the very least, we should stay away from the unavoidable, to be precise, uncontrollable pollution of this era.

"If the city of more than 100,000 people looks dirtier than Beijing, then there is really no help, so the first step in Nanjing's urban construction is to focus on public works such as sewers, running water, and parks, as for the official hall......

As for the official hall, of course, there is no need to establish it, once the new capital of Nanxiang is completed, he will definitely move the capital there, as for Nanjing...... With the temporary capital for a few years, it should soon become prosperous. It is not like the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it has not been able to recover until the end of the Qing Dynasty.

"Let's not talk about that for now, Unzen!"

Looking back at Guo Songtao, Zhu Yifeng changed the conversation, and then asked.

"You've been going abroad for almost three years!"

"Back to Your Majesty, it's twenty-eight months!"

Twenty-eight months of traveling overseas, if it is a hundred years later, it may not be anything, but in this era, how much risk needs to be taken in these twenty-eight months, Zhu Yifeng knows very well, he nodded slightly, and sighed.

"Yunxian's work on this trip can be said to be a thousand years old, the submission you submitted, this king has not read it, I want to hear your opinion in person!"

"Hmmm......"

After pondering for a moment, Guo Songtao looked at His Majesty and said.

"In the embassy led by the minister, everyone witnessed the achievements of civilization accumulated by the Western gangs for hundreds of years, which can be described as dazzling, and they were shocked at first, and then drunk, and finally felt their own backwardness, and began to understand the reason why the lord had commissioned us to visit in the first place......

When answering His Majesty's question, Guo Songtao's every word seemed very cautious, but cautious and bold.

"Although the appearance of the Western market has long been heard, and it is not particularly different from what is imagined, but as for the schools and other factories, it is really the minister's humble pen to describe it, and the minister thinks that although His Majesty has learned from the West, he has not fundamentally learned the West, built factories, and trained the army and navy...... My civilization today is not the real civilization, and my civilization today is not the real civilization! ”

Guo Songtao's words fell into Zhu Yifeng's ears, which only made him stunned, he didn't expect Guo Songtao to be so bold, if these words reached the ears of others, I don't know what kind of uproar it would cause.

"The strength of the country is due to the wealth of the people, and the wealth of the people is tied to the amount of property, our country has been enslaved by the Manchu Qing Dynasty for more than 200 years, and has done its best to implement the policy of the weak people, and has the false name of civilization, and competes for the real harm of poverty and weakness.

"The ...... of the Weak People"

When Guo Songtao said these four words, Zhu Yifeng was stunned for a moment, and then replied after thinking for a moment.

Although the Manchu Qing Dynasty was largely responsible for China's current situation, the policy of the weak people was by no means unique to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and the first step of the weak people was to "fool the people", and the first idea of "foolish people" was actually Laozi Zhuangzi and Guanzi in the Spring and Autumn Period. It claims that the monarch who has been good at governing the country since ancient times does not promote education to make the common people smart, but uses the strategy of fooling the people. The reason why it is difficult for the people to govern is that the people are very smart. Therefore, if we govern the country by making the people smarter, we will inevitably harm the country. If the policy of fooling the people is implemented, it will be a blessing for the country. "Tao Te Ching" "The ancient goodness is the ruler, not to the people, will be foolish." The people are difficult to govern, and they are wise. Therefore, the country is governed by wisdom, and the thief of the country; If you don't govern the country with wisdom, the blessing of the country can basically be regarded as the beginning of the "foolish people......"

In the past few years, in order to make up for the weakness of Chinese studies, Zhu Yifeng has been studying classics such as the subset of ancient scriptures and history, and it is precisely because of this that he has a more intuitive understanding of China's ancient culture than in the past, and it is precisely because of this that he will be shocked to find some things that he has not paid attention to in the past.

The so-called Confucianism used to "fool the people" is not the real Confucianism, but the Confucianism of "copycats" in the skin of Confucianism, and the real Confucianism is on the side of the people. On the one hand, in modern times, critics of Confucianism have not read Confucian works such as the Book of Songs, the Book of Songs, and the Analects, but they have completely dumped the crime of "fooling the people" to Confucianism based on empty assumptions.

However, if Confucianism is "wronged", it is not wronged. This contradiction is actually because the Confucianism of Confucius and Mencius and the Confucianism of the past dynasties after Dong Zhongshu are fundamentally different, the "dethrone of the hundred schools of thought and respect Confucianism" during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is not only the development of Confucianism, but also the perversion of Confucianism, and the "deviance" of Confucianism, in the period of Dong Zhongshu, Confucianism has been mixed with "Legalism" and the five elements of yin and yang, etc., it can be said that Confucianism at that time was to a large extent just a "Legalist" wearing the skin of Confucianism, and the "foolish people" of the core of Legalism in Qin, to be precise, It began to influence Confucianism. However, this was only the beginning, and in the following millennia, Chinese monarchs began to selectively emphasize the Confucian concept of the Gangchang hierarchy in order to maintain their rule.

Confucianism, on the other hand, is not a policy of ignoring the people, but on the contrary, it thinks from the standpoint of ordinary people. Confucianism stresses "education without class", advocates enlightening the people's wisdom, and stresses "perseverance and constant production". On the contrary, more demands are placed on the rulers, and even when looking at the problem of individual crime, they also reflect on whether the social system makes them do such things. Confucianism has its own independent thinking in various doctrines, and does not look at problems from the perspective of rulers. This is very different from the Legalists, who take the position of the ruler to give advice, even including the so-called "Wu Wei" Lao Zhuang Zhixue.

However, it is fortunate that these concepts of Lao Zhuang were not the mainstream at that time, and the hundreds of schools of thought also regarded them as "fallacies", and there was no actual proof of the reliability of this theory, so they fell silent as "foolish people". Until the Warring States Period, when the world was annexed to the sun, in order to destroy the country and protect the country from being destroyed, all the sons and hundreds of schools of thought began to explore all kinds of ways to govern the country, so many crooked ways that were originally regarded as "fallacies" also had a market. ”

Zhu Yifeng, who told the root of the "foolish people", couldn't help but look into the distance when he thought that the "crooked and evil way" had become the right way, and then sighed.

But who knows, one person has turned this "crooked way" into the so-called "right way"! ”

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In the colonial era, what else should China use to conquer its colonies other than force? Westerners chose missionaries, chose their so-called Catholicism and Christianity, and after the rise of green **, while conquering a region by force, they also greened the yellow land of Buddhism in Central Asia and other places through religion, and even many Tian Yuan were spiritual people. Oh! That word can't be mentioned, because under the new law and order regulations, it's illegal!

Of course, that's a long way off. Back to the topic, in the colonial era, what did China use to educate the people? Worship God? Catholic? Of course, the people of the country have never been devout believers. In the absence of religion, I think our only option is to use Confucianism to educate the Quartet and let the world bathe in the glory of Confucianism......

But just as Catholicism needed a religious reform, and Buddhism was reformed when it entered China, so did Confucianism, which was responsible for bathing the world, also need to be reformed! How to change? Return to the source internally, as for the external......