Zuo Zongtang was shocked, there is still such a country in the world!

"Brother Ji Gao, not only are the leaders of this country from propaganda, but most of all the civil and military officials are also elected and placed under the supervision of the people, if they have lawlessness, there is no place to hide at all!"

Zuo Zongtang nodded and replied: "All officials are under the supervision of the people, and it is indeed much more effective than a procuratorate and a prosecutor." Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"This is a difference in political system, as well as a cultural difference, China pays attention to educating the people, and knows etiquette; The West is different, the West focuses on practicality, the unity of knowledge and action, and uses the knowledge of a body to improve people's survival, so they have developed Western clocks and watches, which can be timed anytime and anywhere; They developed a steam engine that could drive vehicles and ships quickly without relying on manpower; They studied metallurgy and could produce harder and tougher steel, which China was too paranoid in comparison......"

"Ming Shuai,"

Zuo Zongtang frowned and said: "Pay attention to education, is there anything wrong?" If even the etiquette is different, how is this man different from a beast? ”

Guo Ye smiled faintly and replied: "Brother Ji Gao, all the words are still on the sentence just now, Cang Liao knows etiquette and etiquette, and the West pays attention to the application of knowledge, so it can improve people's livelihood very well, the people are well fed and warmly dressed, and naturally have the spare energy to learn etiquette, maybe Brother Ji doesn't know yet, right?" In China, what a Han person produces in a year is only worth a few taels of silver, but in the West, in England, what a person produces in a year may be worth more than twenty taels of silver! Twenty taels, at least five times more than our Qing Dynasty! The Qing Dynasty has a population of 40,000, and one person can only pay taxes for three cents of silver, and if there is more, he may not be able to eat; But in England, a person can pay taxes of more than five taels of silver, even if the population is only less than one percent of us, this year's income is far above the Qing Dynasty! ”

"It's impossible, a person can produce twenty taels of silver a year, so what will this country be rich!"

Zuo Zongtang was shocked.

"If not so rich, with the population of their British Empire, how can they be our opponents? Don't go far, in a word, now Westerners are more full than us, naturally they also know etiquette, have cultivation, we only look at education, but 30,000 or 40,000 people, can't even eat, how can we have the energy to take care of etiquette? At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a great drought in Shaanxi and Gansu, and the situation of farmers changing their children and eating happened from time to time, where did the etiquette come from? ”

Zuo Zongtang suddenly fell into contemplation after hearing this, what he heard today was really surprising to him, and it was difficult to digest it all for a while, not because he was not knowledgeable, but because he had never seen or heard these insights, it was really incredible!

"There is another thing, Confucianism has clouds, everything is inferior, only reading is high."

Guo Ye continued to instill his thoughts in Zuo Zongtang, "The words are good, but a good sentence has been mispronounced by future generations!" ”

Zuo Zongtang was puzzled: "Ming Shuai, there is also a problem with this sentence?" What's the problem? How did I not find out? ”

Guo Ye sneered: "Brother Ji Gao, it's very simple, the imperial court takes the imperial examination, and people get ahead, there is only one way to participate in the scientific examination, and it is still a rigid eight-strand text, how many scholars are poor, and they have been delayed in the eight-strand for the rest of their lives, Brother Ji Gao, didn't you also try and fail back then?" If there is no Taiping Heavenly Kingdom uprising, I'm afraid you will die of old age Lin Quan, right? However, from the first time you participated in the scientific expedition to the present, all the juzi and jinshi together, there are no less than 1,000 or even 10,000 people, why haven't I found a person who is more talented than you? You have a lot of knowledge, but let's talk about it, how much of this ability comes from Bagu? ”

Zuo Zongtang was silent, and said after a long time: "What Ming Shuai said is that the imperial examination is full of drawbacks, how many scholars only know that they are buried in the four books and five classics, dead reading, reading dead books, even if they have read a lifetime of books, but they can't even support themselves, what's the use of reading?" It's just that if you don't use the imperial examination, what better way is there? ”

"It's not that the imperial examination is impossible, but that our sentence is wrong, everything is inferior, only reading is high, why is reading the most noble? Without the work of the peasants, the scholar must not starve to death? If there is no woman to weave and a craftsman to build a house, that person must not freeze to death? Without Xinglin's skill, which patient would not be tortured? All walks of life have the value of their existence, where does the high and low come from? This is just the paranoid words of Confucianism, misleading people's children, misleading people's children! ”

"So, you just want a big change, a complete change?"

"Not bad! It is to bring about a complete change, to break the cage that has bound our China for thousands of years in one fell swoop, so that the Han people can see the light of day and regain their freedom! ”

"Ming Shuai, your thinking is very dangerous, in your eyes, this famous religion has almost no merit, but don't forget, our China has stood in the world for 5,000 years, the prosperity of the Qin and Han dynasties, the strength of the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the romance of the Zhao and Song dynasties. Isn't it Confucianism? ”

"What about after Zhao Song?"

Guo Ye asked, "After the Zhao and Song dynasties, it is difficult for us Han people to find the glory of the past, even in the Song Dynasty, we are also bullied by the Liao, Jin, Xia, and Meng, why?" ”

Forehead......

Zuo Zongtang was speechless, why? In Zuo Zongtang's eyes, this is just a change of dynasty, a dynasty always has its destiny, there is a time for prosperity, there is a time for death, everything has its own destiny! Guo Ye actually asked him why, why?

Of course, Zuo Zongtang couldn't answer.

"Brother Ji, you have been exposed to Confucian doctrine since you were a child, and you must be called Confucius and Mencius, but how much of your knowledge comes from Confucius and Mencius? If it is really from Confucius and Mencius, it is also a fortunate thing, but unfortunately, what you accept is just emasculated Confucianism, in the name of Confucius and Mencius, but it is Zhu Xi's castrated science, and Wang Yangming's second castrated mind, how many are Confucius and Mencius? ”

"This ......"

Zuo Zongtang listened to Guo Ye's words, his heart was full of unconvinced, this kid was full of fallacies, but under the fallacies, it was impossible to refute, Guo Ye's every sentence was directly aimed at the key point of today's Confucianism and Taoism, and he was whipped into it, even with Zuo Zongtang's talent, he had a feeling of powerlessness! But let Zuo Zongtang accept Guo Ye's argument that the Confucianism he accepted was castrated Confucianism, which was difficult for him to accept no matter what!

Absolutely unacceptable!

(To be continued.) )