Human beings have been thinking about the essence of this world for a long time. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Some people say that the essence of the world is me, only I exist, the world exists, and the world is only an extension of my perception.

There are also people who believe that the essence of the world is a thing, which is objective and does not change due to the existence of human beings.

These two ways of understanding the world constitute two opposing camps for a long time, namely, idealism and materialism. Later, after a long period of development, Western philosophy was divided into countless schools, such as subjective idealism, objective idealism, mechanical materialism, dialectical materialism, etc., which made people feel that they were reading tongue twisters.

Wang Mai felt that the arguing old man next door had begun to develop in these two aspects, which was a good thing. Logic originated from debate, two groups of civilized people fighting, naturally a gentleman does not move. Both factions try to find flaws in each other's words and attack them, while at the same time beware of loopholes in their own words, at least out of the realm of sophistry. George Bernard Shaw famously said, "You have an apple, I have an apple, and if we exchange two of us, we will each have only one apple; You have one thought, I have one thought, and two people exchange, and those two people have two thoughts, or even more.

He himself thinks that he is a materialist, after all, he has learned so much scientific and cultural knowledge in later generations, but he also knows that many very powerful scientists and celebrities belong to idealists. So in fact, no one is right or wrong in these two statements, but everyone's position is different.

What surprised him was that these old Confucians had changed so thoroughly, and they were clearly divided into two factions. At the beginning, the two factions pinched and pinched and some people switched to the enemy camp because of their unstable position, but later they basically made it clear that they were friends and enemies. One faction wanted to firmly regard Wang Mai's "exhausting his reasoning and then knowing it" as a heresy, but the other faction became his solid supporters. The two factions had a clear division of labor and went their separate ways, and in the morning they were held back in their own camps to discuss their own views and study each other's arguments, and in the afternoon they met at Wang Mai and began to fight. At the end of the day, the side that has the upper hand tends to be triumphant, and the side that has fallen to the bottom is not discouraged, but goes back and prepares more adequate and unassailable arguments to prepare for tomorrow's regain.

Since discovering that these two factions no longer bothered him, Wang Mai's illness was cured. He was back to the same laid-back life as before, except for some boredom. Song Laosan has rarely come recently, saying that Wang Shichong has engaged in some kind of "sealing ceremony" to invite famous scholars to Luoyang as officials. Wang Shichong portrayed him as a despicable villain in his romance, forcing Qin Qiongluo Chengcheng to bite the gold, and now it seems that it is quite in line with historical facts. Now that he has soldiers in his hands, those powerless scholars are naturally afraid of him, and it seems that they have chosen to stand by his side temporarily. However, when a strong enemy comes, this prestige gained by intimidation may be lost, and even the wall will be pushed down.

In this era, there is no shortage of anything, that is, there is no shortage of careerists.

Li Mi's failure was not just a failure to adopt a sound strategy, but the strength of Wagang was actually a very beautiful bubble. From the old Wei Wei Zheng, he learned that there were obvious factions in Wagang. Shan Xiongxin, Xu Shiji and others, who first followed Zhai Rang, were one faction, and Qin Qiong, Luo Shixin, Pei's father and son, who joined later, were another faction. Li Mi killed Zhai Rang resolutely, but did not split Wagang, but this crack was irreparable. If the Wagang Army is smooth sailing, then the two factions can benefit, and they can cooperate temporarily to defeat Yu Wenhua and this is the state before. At that time, Wagang won victories one after another, and fought until the eastern capital of Luoyang, and Li Mi was promoted as the leader of the anti-king alliance. But the death of Emperor Yang of Sui deprived these rebels of their reason to unite, and the relationship between them became delicate. The tree is a big move, and the Wagang Army has become the object of everyone's attention. In order to integrate the internal and subdue the external enemy, Li Mi can be said to have made a big gamble, he didn't wait any longer, he had to take Luoyang with the most resolute attitude. If this gamble is successful, he will sit firmly in his position, and Zhai Rang's old generals will obey him, and the enemies who are eyeing him outside will not dare to fight his idea, and he can even ascend to the Ninety-Five with the power of victory. But this time he lost the bet, a regime with internal stability loses a war is nothing, it's a big deal to make a comeback. But the Wagang army is not such a regime, and once defeated, the bitter fruits caused by his killing of Zhai Rang in the past were revealed.

When he fled from Luoyang City with the remnants of the defeated army, he found that he had nowhere to go, he didn't know if Xu Shiji and the others would obey him? When he killed Zhai Rang, the knives of the soldiers under his hands were all on Xu Shiji's neck, and he almost killed him with a knife, he didn't dare to take this risk, he had already lost the bet once, and if he lost again this time, he would lose his life. He took refuge in the Tang Dynasty with his subordinates who were still willing to follow him, promising them to "share wealth and prosperity". But when he arrived in Chang'an, he learned that Xu Shiji had never surrendered to Wang Shichong. His mood must have been mixed, and the flame of revolution that had been extinguished in his heart was slowly rekindled. He begged Li Yuan to let him take his men down to recruit the original old department, and Li Yuan agreed, but before he could go far, Li Yuan regretted it again. Li Mi was finally buried in a place called Bears Ears Mountain, when he had already left Tongguan and was not far from his original territory, but after all, he did not return to the place where the earliest dream began.

It was already the end of the year when the news of Li Mi's death came, and Wang Mai and others were finally lifted, but they were clearly told that they were forbidden to step out of Luoyang City and could only move in the city.

There is a Luoshui in the middle of Luoyang City that divides Luoyang City into two, with a total of one hundred and three squares, and the surrounding squares around the North City in the north of Luoshui are mostly the gathering areas of some poor people and peddlers; To the south of Luoshui, a large number of dignitaries lived, at least it was also a well-off family, and the highest place in the northwest corner was the location of Miyagi Taiwei Castle. The avenues between the alleys are called streets, and the alleys in the alleys are called alleys. Luoyang City has a total of eight city gates, each of which corresponds to a main road. The main road, Dingdingmen Street, is called Tianjie, which leads to Taiwei Imperial City from outside Dingdingmen, with a width of more than 100 meters. Tianjie is divided into three roads, the left and right are divided into popular people, and the ordinary people are not allowed to walk in the middle, and only when the officials go to the court can they take this road. Walking on the streets of this ancient imperial capital, Wang Mai felt its magnificence. Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty built Luoyang, and at most used 2 million migrant workers, Wang Mai couldn't imagine what the concept of a construction site with 2 million people was, and the construction site he had seen in his previous life was at most 200 people.

"When we first ascended the throne, there were less than 30,000 households in Luoyang City, so we ordered the surrounding households to sneak into the city, so that there is today's prosperity, and it is said that there are now 80,000 households in the city." Song Laosan said on the side.

Wang Mai roughly calculated, according to five people per household, there are now more than 400,000 people living in this Luoyang city, plus the army, it is 500,000 in the sky, which is less than the scale of a medium-sized city in later generations. But after thinking about it, the population of the whole of China is only one or two million people, and if the two are compared, it is indeed a first-class metropolis in the world.

After walking for nearly half an hour, he finally came to the door of Cheng Yanjin's general's mansion, and thanked Song Laosan who led the way, Song Laosan waved his hand and went back, he was not on duty today, but he had to go back to the store to take care of business.

The person who opened the door was stunned when he saw Wang Mai, and felt that the person in front of him was very familiar, but he didn't know where he had seen it, but Wang Mai recognized him at a glance as one of Cheng Yanjin's personal soldiers.

"Who ...... that" Wang Mai opened his mouth but was embarrassed to find that he didn't know the other party's name, "This big brother, General Cheng and Wang Fugui can be in the mansion." ”

"Wang joins the army?" The soldiers finally remembered who Wang Mai was, "My name is Liu Qing, the eldest in the family, just call me Liu Da when Wang joins the army." Fugui and General Cheng are there. ”

"I'm tired of the big man to help me report it."

"What else to report. The general of my family and the rich and noble family have been chanting your name every day since they learned that you were in Luoyang. Just come in with me. After Liu Qing finished speaking, he turned around and shouted loudly towards the door, "Rich, rich...... Look who's coming. ”

As soon as Brother Wheat ...... stepped into the door, Fugui rushed out of the side room and gave Wang Wheat a bear hug, "You want to die......"

"Stinky boy......" Wang Mai struggled out of Fugui's arms and punched him in the chest, "You want to suffocate me to death." After taking a closer look at Fugui, the kid had grown taller again, and his face had flesh, and there was some faint fluff on his lips.

"Brother Wheat......" Cheng Yanjin also walked out of the house happily when he heard the movement.

"Brother Cheng."

"That day, a military man came to the house to inquire about the news of wealth, and I only knew that you were in Luoyang, and I had been waiting for you for many days. Who, you go and call Uncle Bao over, saying that Brother Wheat is here. ”

Liu Qing agreed, and ran out of the house in a hurry.

Qin Qiong's Longxiang General's Mansion was also on this street, and in less than a quarter of an hour, Wang Mai heard Qin Qiong's hearty laughter coming into the house from outside.

The two of them sighed again before they took their seats, and Cheng Yanjin instructed his subordinates to prepare dishes, a huge copper basin squatted on the stove, and half a basin of wine was hot in it, and after a while, the room was full of wine. Fugui served a bowl to everyone one by one, and finally sat down on the edge of the low couch with a bowl of hot wine. Everyone sat on the couch and chatted around a small table about the Luoyang Battle at that time.

"Speaking of which, that day was saved thanks to wealth." Cheng Yanjin took a big sip of wine and said.