Chapter 177: The Dressed March (Part II)

Even more terrible than individual autosuggestion is group autosuggestion, or the spontaneous unconsciousness of the group. www.biquge.info In a relatively closed collective, where all believe in a certain purpose, the person who is outside feels a pressure to think carefully about it, even if he does not take refuge immediately, so as not to be excluded from the collective.

Even if you are not rejected on the surface, even if you can't interject in the conversation, it is an invisible barrier that separates a person from his surroundings.

Untrained isolated, often not suspecting the fault of the environment, will look to themselves for reasons and further seek "progress".

The army is a melting pot, even if it is hard-hearted, it will be shaken in the accumulation of getting along and training, not to mention these ordinary slender men who have not seen modern brainwashing techniques.

It soon became apparent to the Instructors that the Slender Men had shown a fanatical interest in Cosmopolitanism and a visceral hatred for anyone hostile to Cosmopolitanism. This kind of hatred is by no means contrived, because when a kind of hatred exists between walking, sitting, lying, behaving, words and deeds, and between all human words and actions, even if it is a disguised hatred, this hatred is destined to take root in the heart and eventually grow into a towering giant tree defending Datongism.

And this kind of autosuggestion can be self-reinforcing. Once a person accepts a certain idea, he will not easily change his place without major ideological setbacks, and once such a person has the feeling of "being reborn", he will take the initiative to draw a line with his past self, and strive to make the people around him become the same as himself - if he changes and others remain the same, is it not his own unwisdom!

The soldiers walked with firm steps along the main street of Songjiang Prefecture, and their destination was the largest restaurant in the prefecture. The crowd of onlookers had gathered a lot, but not a single one of them turned their heads to look left and right, and no one was proud of the fact that they were dressed in a decent and beautiful military uniform. These soldiers, who had managed to break away from their tragic past, understood that being able to be selected from more than 4,000 soldiers was enough in itself to show their excellence. And being able to participate in such a march is a big bargaining chip for their future promotion.

These soldiers, eager to gain fame, honor, and praise, attached great importance to this opportunity, so that even if they saw their acquaintances on the side of the road, even if they were called out by young girls, even if they were loudly applauded by the citizens, their most outrageous response was to smile slightly, so as to show their inner excitement and excitement.

As an ordinary soldier, a former stinky slender man, for many soldiers who are about to die on the battlefield, today's scene may be the pinnacle of glory in their lives, so no one complains that the weather is too cold, no one complains that the journey is too long, everyone is as hearty and intoxicated as if they have drunk fine wine, as if they are enjoying the bliss of life.

"Slow down, slow down the team, let's enjoy this glorious march again!" The soldiers shouted inwardly.

"Slow down, Leader, and let us show our glory and majesty to the fullest!"

Their wish seems to have come true.

Orders were gradually passed down from the front of the line, row after row, passing orders to each other, and the whole team stopped neatly like a link of a giant snake.

"Deliver the leader's order, a high platform has been erected in front, the leader must speak in front, everyone stands still and listens to the speech!"

"Yes!" Everyone agreed in unison, and the sound shook the sky.

Thanks to having a leader who is good at giving speeches and taking every opportunity to promote himself, Liu Xu's subordinates have practiced a good kung fu of building a podium, and in just a quarter of an hour, they use the materials they carry with them to build a simple high platform.

The high platform is not very high, that is, about five feet, not enough for people from a distance to see Liu Xu, but it is enough for his voice to cover an area, and enough for the enthusiastic and determined soldiers and citizens who rushed to hear the news to hear his speech clearly.

That's enough.

The great development of the city at the end of the Ming Dynasty was embodied in the strengthening of the power of the citizen class and the gradual development of the market into a long-term living town. Had this urbanization not been interrupted by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, it might have been possible to develop urban self-control and emerge a powerful capital force that would have pushed China down the path of capitalist expansion.

History has no ifs, and there are not so many deductions, after all, all these are only assumptions, and all judgments are only based on existing historical materials. And Liu Xu personally crossed over and finally realized that the urbanization process of society in the late Ming Dynasty was really quite advanced.

Not to mention anything else, just as far as Songjiang Mansion, which is rich in the world, is concerned, the citizens are not only gorgeously dressed, ordinary craftsmen can wear silk cotton robes, and the merchants are even more beautifully dressed, confident and gentle, obviously the citizens of a big country. In addition, the scholars in long robes and high crowns, well-nourished peasants, and handsome and beautiful women all rushed back and forth on the avenues of Songjiang Mansion, talking to each other, boasting to each other, with the confidence and comfort peculiar to the prosperous world, with the leisure and curiosity peculiar to the citizen class, quickly clustered around Liu Xu, ready to listen to his speech.

Perhaps the entire Ming Dynasty has fallen into a stormy situation, but in Jiangnan, in Nanzhi, and in Songjiang, the life of the citizen class is still happy and comfortable, so what they pursue is not only food and clothing, they demand appetite, strange talk, grandstanding, fine clothes and food, red wine and green, red men and green women, and everything that can meet their material and spiritual needs. It is for this reason that the brothel of Golan was opened for them, the novels were written for them, the Washer Casino was built for them, and the citizens did not hesitate to pay for their labor and enjoy all the conveniences of being a rich urban dweller.

"Maybe it's a blessing that can't be enjoyed, who would have thought that the current prosperity of Jiangnan with flowers and brocade and cooking oil would kill the Manchu people and bleed the Lu? At that time, Suzhou was prosperous in the world, but when Emperor Kang Mazi came to Suzhou, there were only broken walls and white bones. Although all the killings and sins cannot be attributed to the Manchus, after all, there are still rebel armies and rebel armies that have caused boundless killings, but they cannot run away from the fact that they have the lion's share. Liu Xu casually thought about the relationship between civilization and chaos, watched the people in front of him gather more and more, nodded, took the amplification from Zhou Jun beside him, and strode onto the podium, ready to speak. (To be continued.) )