Chapter 244: Speech, National Culture
Autumn has arrived, and the fields are golden.
The annual autumn harvest kicked off, and production was hot.
However, in the fields, the common people were talking about whether it was better for Chairman Xia to be president or emperor.
"Look at me! It's better to be an emperor, you can be an emperor for a lifetime, Chairman Xia is definitely a prosperous monarch, and it's good for us people. When the time comes, there will be no substitutions, and we won't have to worry about it for the rest of our lives, how good is that! ”
"yes!"
"What's the difference between that Mingzhu Republic and Chairman being the emperor?"
"I heard my son say, the main difference is to be a few years, what a bright republic! After the imperial system, it was also constitutional, so there was also a bright boil! Now the strongest British in the world is a constitutional monarchy, and Germany is also a constitutional monarchy. To put it bluntly, it's like this piece of land was planted by the chairman, and when the grain is ripe, others will come to grab it when they look at it. ”
"Of course it's the truth, my son is still called Mingzhu Republic all day long, and I don't clean him up when I see him come back from school, it's like his brain is arched by a pig, it's really a pig's brain."
…… In the factory, there is also a scene of busy production, the roar of machines filling the eardrums, and a group of workers gather around during dinner.
"Fellow, have you heard, now many people are saying that they want Chairman Xia to be the president!" A worker who came out of the workshop to eat in the cafeteria asked a few fellow villagers.
"It's just that you haven't heard of it all day long."
"I'm not a doll shouting for a new house! I'm busy paying off my loan right now! Where do I have time to pay attention to these idle things, but I heard that Chairman Xia will become president in the future, and he can only serve two terms at most, and then he will be replaced. ”
On the spot, a little literate foreman said affirmatively: ", that can still be faked." You see that the doll doesn't cost money to go to school, it doesn't cost money to see a doctor, and anyone can get a pension, we have 40,000 people in China, how much does it cost? Over the years, it has not been the chairman of the committee who has used his own money to give us benefits. Let's talk about annual donations, is East China Group the most donated? It is higher than its second place to the sky, and besides, this medical treatment, the annual profits of pharmaceutical products of East China Group are used to treat our people. Besides, this pension is something that you have to get while sitting at home. If someone else becomes president, Chairman Xia will be able to ignore us completely. When the time comes, if you want so much money for welfare, others who become presidents may not be able to develop the economy so well and make welfare so comprehensive. ”
"Yes! What can I do? ”
"It's just been a good day, is it coming to an end?"
"The devil knows what those people are doing, what is there to do with that big president, we have never had a big president in East China, and the chairman has the final say."
"We can't just sit back and wait! Isn't it for us to write a book of all peoples? ”
"It's a great idea."
"Then let's do it together after work!"
"Do it now, I'll ask for leave."
"Okay."
…… On October 5, five days after the disintegration of Beiyang, Xia Jun came to East China University amid various appeals from the people.
East China University is located in the university town of Hangzhou, which has a total of six universities and is home to the largest number of high-level talents in China.
Xia Jun came to East China University this time to give a speech.
When they heard that the chairman was going to give a speech, the college students of the six universities were all moved by the news, and all of them gathered on the main square of the university town, waiting for the chairman's arrival.
In the midst of all the attention, Xia Jun's motorcade came to the square.
When Xia Jun got out of the car, the audience cheered enthusiastically.
In the warm atmosphere, it can be seen that Xia Jun's status in the minds of these higher education students is a kind of love and worship from the heart.
Because of his ability, his merits, his love for his people, his national thoughts, and even his simple life.
It was he who led backward China to defeat Yuben and bring China out of the ranks of semi-colonial countries. It was he who freed the Chinese people from the hardships of hunger and cold to a life of prosperity and prosperity. It was he who regained the lost territory and opened up the territory.
People can find many reasons to love him from their own perspective.
Xia Jun walked to the podium, looked at the teachers and students below who were full of anticipation, and said to the microphone: "Students, teachers, good morning. ”
There was warm applause again, and Xia Jun continued: "I came here today to talk to you about our traditional culture. ”
Xia Jun didn't talk nonsense anymore, and cut straight to the topic, saying: "Some people say that our Chinese culture is outdated, can't keep up with the times, and is even ignorant. For they said, "Look! How powerful Westerners are, how rich Westerners are, Westerners can build the most powerful guns and warships, and we in China can't build anything, and we lose badly in confrontations with Westerners, all because of our cultural problems. ”
"But I can say that there is no problem with our culture, our Chinese culture is much more mature than Westerners, because our Han nationality is a precocious nation, we have hundreds of schools, and our culture is not only Confucianism, but even Confucianism, there are some advanced surnames. Do you ask, then, why is our nation so weakened when there is nothing wrong with our culture? ”
"The problem is very complicated, first of all, we will lose to the Westerners, but the Meiji Restoration was early, and that is because the Manchus are alien, they are not really acting in the interests of China, so we have been defeated again and again. You may say that it is just an excuse, since there is no problem with Chinese culture, then why is it ruled by foreign races? ”
"If you want to ask why we are ruled by foreign races, then we have to talk about our geographical problems, our northern China is a vast grassland, there are many nomads and nomadic peoples, the nomads are backward in productivity, and often lack food and necessities, so they will come to rob. But we are an agricultural country with advanced agricultural technology and a perfect medical system, so we have the largest population, the best craftsmen, and the most material and financial resources. Therefore, nomads generally cannot shake our Han people. But it is precisely because we have advanced agricultural technology that can feed more people, and we have a perfect Chinese medicine system that can reduce the mortality rate, so our Chinese population has been growing steadily for generations. When the population grows to a certain level, the land is not enough. In addition, the land annexation was serious, so social contradictions also appeared, and this is when the peasant uprising occurred. ”
"When the peasant uprising occurred, then a dynasty also entered the weakest period, and often at this time, foreign races began to enter the Guannai, Wuhu Chaohua is like this, the Manchu Qing Dynasty is also the same as the entry into the customs, and the Mongols are a special case, this is because of the short-sightedness of the Song Dynasty when the founding of the country, a lot of living space to foreign races caused. The alien race has a strong mobile surname, coupled with the underdeveloped means of communication in ancient times, so when a dynasty is extremely weak, the alien race can often turn our whole China upside down.
This kind of weakness is inevitable, because in ancient times, science and technology were underdeveloped, and a large population would inevitably cause violent social contradictions, and social contradictions would eventually erupt.
Just because we are ruled by a foreign race does not mean that we are weaker than a foreign race, nor does it mean that we Han people are cowardly. The alien race has attacked us thousands of times and tens of thousands of times, but they can't beat and run, they can even run to Europe and come back, and they can never fail, and we fail once, it is a failure, which is caused by special geographical factors.
You can make an assumption, if we don't have such a special historical environment in China, what would be the result?
Although our agricultural civilization has a cyclical surname, we also know that in the feudal era, the contradiction was between the peasants and the landlords, and when the peasants rebelled and won the victory, they would become new landlords, while the population decreased, the social contradictions disappeared, and they entered a period of stability again.
Or the previous dynasty suppressed the peasant uprising, and the population of the society decreased, and it once again entered a stable state. Facts have proved that the peasant uprising lacked combat effectiveness, just as the peasant army was defeated by the Manchus at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the Taiping Rebellion at the end of the Qing Dynasty, although it was huge, but it was fruitless.
If it is the sovereignty of the Han people, then in the era of great changes in this world, our monarch will never only think about maintaining his own rule and suppress the people like the Manchu Qing Dynasty. As they say, they left the ranks of colonial powers very early, why? Because they have the existence of our Chinese culture, and the profound surname of our Chinese culture is incomparable to Western culture.
Maybe people think that this is just a hypothesis, then we can assume that he is just a setup.
But now in China, we Han people have stood up again, we have defeated Yuben and left the ranks of semi-colonial countries, just like ancient China, we have begun to enter a period of steady growth in power. In ancient China, we had the Spring and Autumn Enlightenment, the iron-blooded Qin Dynasty, the Han and Tang Dynasty martial arts, the two Song Dynasty prosperity, and the Zheng Zheng Ming Dynasty. Every dynasty is from scratch, from chaos to rule, to prosperity, and then to decline.
Today's China has almost completed the steps from chaos to order, and we will enter a road to prosperity, but will we decline?
As I said before, China is an agrarian country, so there are cycles of prosperity and decline. Nowadays, with the rapid development of science and technology in the world, the productivity has been greatly improved, and we are no longer like in ancient times, because of the growth of population and land contradictions, secondly, with the development of science and technology, foreign races no longer have mobile surnames, and they can no longer pose any military threat to China.
The decay of ancient Chinese civilization has an irreversible cycle, and that is because of the underdevelopment of science and technology. Now that science and technology are developed, we are free from such shackles, so who can stop the pace of China's rise?
Our decay is only a limitation of technology. Therefore, dear students, what we really need to learn about the West is technology, not their culture. When our ancestors went through the Spring and Autumn Enlightenment, the Qin and Han dynasties, the Tang and Song dynasties, and the Ming Dynasty, they created a brilliant civilization, so what kind of civilization will we create? If when our children and grandchildren look back at us, if they see only a cultural country that simply replicates Westerners, then what is the point of our existence? ”
(To be continued)