Chapter 40: The Three of Us Talk at Night
When he arrived at the Governor's Mansion, the guards invited Luo Jian into the hall as usual before going to report, Shi Kefa was reading in the study, and when he heard that Luo Jian was coming, he quickly invited Luo Jian to the study and sat down.
"Xinghua, everything is arranged?" Shi Kefa put down the book and asked.
"Well, it's all arranged, I thought about it too simple before, but fortunately, Xiao Liu had studied a similar major before, and let him take over to do it, so I'm much easier now." Luo Jian said. "Don't everyone have something to do, I'm idle, so I'll come over to talk to Brother Xian."
"Okay, Xinghua, if you're fine, come and talk to me more, I have a lot of questions to ask you, see that you are so busy that your feet don't touch the ground, and you haven't found time. It's better to bring Shi Ze to everyone to talk about it, he is the big housekeeper in Yangzhou, and many things have to be done by him. Shi Kefa said, seeing Luo Jian nodding, he picked up the walkie-talkie and called Ren Minyu to come over.
Ren Minyu hurried over, thinking that there was something urgent, but when he arrived, he called him over to chat.
After Ren Minyu sat down and the next person came over to pour tea, Shi Kefa said: "Xinghua, last time you said that you were not in the sky, what is going on?" Can you tell us more about that? ”
"It's a long thing to say, and I'm afraid that Brother Xian and Brother Shi Ze will be difficult to understand." Luo Jian thought for a while and said.
"Xinghua, you just said it, have we seen less incomprehensible things from you in the past few days?" Ren Minyu hurriedly took it and said.
Luo Jian thought to himself, if he really wants to explain it clearly, I'm afraid he has to start with the concept of time and space in the theory of relativity, how can the two of them understand, and after careful consideration, he said: "You both saw the mirror this afternoon, right?" ”
"What does this have to do with mirrors?" Shi Kefa asked anxiously.
"When we look in the mirror, is there a 'we' like us?" Luo Jian tried to explain, and when he saw the two nodding, he continued: "The 'we' in the mirror is actually virtual, an imaging effect caused by light, and we call this phenomenon a mirror image. ”
Seeing that the two of them nodded in understanding, Luo Jian continued: "In fact, there is also a world corresponding to our world, and these two worlds are the same as the things inside and outside the mirror, so we call these two worlds a mirror relationship. ”
"Two worlds?" Both of them exclaimed, obviously unable to understand.
"It doesn't matter if you don't understand, you just need to know that there's such a thing. On both sides of the mirror are one real and one virtual, but both worlds are real. Luo Jian saw that the two still didn't understand, so he had to change his words, "These two worlds are like two rivers that are exactly the same, and time is like the river in these two rivers." ”
Luo Jian took a piece of paper from the table, picked up the signature pen in his pocket and paddled two rivers out casually, pointed to the sketch with the pen and continued: "Later, the people in one river first discovered that they could go back to the upper reaches of the other river. Luo Jian drew an arrow on the paper with a pen.
Later, this person read the history books and found that his own nation and ancestors had been bullied and humiliated for hundreds of years more than 2,000 years, so he sent the four of us to the city of Yangzhou in a special way. I don't know if you understand? Luo Jian explained in the simplest way possible.
"Xinghua, are you saying that the Manchu Qing Dynasty later destroyed my Ming Dynasty and sat on the country?" Both of them asked painfully, although they knew that this Nanming small court was a dou who could not be supported, but they were still very uncomfortable when they heard the news.
"If I have said something a little too much, in other words, if there is disrespect to the emperor and the court, will you be able to understand it? If I understand, then I'll move on, and if not, then how about we not talk about it? Luo Jian thought for a moment and said very cautiously.
Hearing Luo Jian say this, both of them fell silent. Luo Jian saw that the two of them were deeply rooted in their loyal thoughts, even if they knew their ins and outs, they still couldn't let go of the obsession in their hearts, and sighed and said:
"In this way, I will not force the two of them, let's change the topic, how do you think of the Chongzhen Dynasty why it is extremely erosive, although the first emperor has been sleeping all night and exhausted, he will not be able to change the outcome of martyrdom?"
In fact, Luo Jian wanted to explain why the dynasty fell, but he was afraid that the two would not be able to accept it, so he changed to such a compromise statement.
"Xinghua wants to talk about the reason for my Ming Dynasty's demise, right?" Shi Kefa let out a long sigh and said in a low voice.
"The last words of the first emperor: 'I despise Liangde, and I am to blame the heavens, but all the ministers are mistaken', I think this sentence can explain the reason, what does Xinghua think?" Ren Minyu said. What he meant was that Emperor Chongzhen's suicide note said, "I have worked hard enough, but God does not bless me, there are natural disasters everywhere, and the extreme of the ministers is the only way to make the Ming Dynasty unsafe." ”
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, when the earth entered the Xiaoice period, there was drought and little rain everywhere, and many people could not live. And the last years of the Ming Dynasty officials are even more sensational, their bribery and bribery and even bribery has reached an unbelievable level, officials are ineffective, unbearable, perfunctory, false and wrong, etc., plus there are rebels in the court, there are Manchus outside, and the enemy is on the back, it can be said that Chongzhen has not lived a comfortable life since he became the emperor.
"Brother Shi Ze is very reasonable, but our analysis of problems is generally divided into internal and external factors, internal factors play a decisive role, and external factors play an auxiliary role. What Brother Shi Ze just said I think is only external causes, and there are deeper things in internal causes. Speaking of this, Luo Jian paused and looked at the reactions of the two.
"Oh, and what other reasons? Xinghua, come and hear about it? When Shi Kefa heard this, he became interested.
"In this era, we generally divide the whole society into three classes, the first class is the emperor and those who depend on the emperor for survival, all the officials in the palace plus the palace maids and eunuchs, and the people in the royal family are all from this class; The second class is the scholar class, which includes officials at all levels and the gentry of the people; The third class is the grass people, that is, the people at the bottom. Can you recognize this? ”
Seeing the two nodding, Luo Jian continued: "Under normal circumstances, the emperor relies on people from the second class to rule the country, that is to say, in most cases, the interests of the first and second classes are the same. If there is no management of the gentry and officials at all levels, these grass people seem to be a plate of loose sand, and a plate of loose sand is not much destructive, but the most basic wealth of the whole society is precisely created by these grassroots people at the bottom. ”
Luo Jian picked up the cup and organized the language while drinking water, and saw that the two of them were looking at him with anxious eyes, so he continued: "Generally, at the beginning of the founding of a court, the number of people in the royal family is not very large, and the proportion of interests occupied by the first class is not too large at this time, the emperor is nominally rich all over the world, but in fact the wealth that can be mastered is not too much, so at this time, the second class can grasp and distribute relatively more interests, and the benefits that can be distributed to the grass people are relatively more. At this time, the contradiction between the three classes was not sharp, and every time this time was the time when a court or country was at its strongest. ”
"For thousands of years, China has rarely raised science and technology to a very high level to understand, and this has caused a phenomenon."
"What phenomenon?" Before Luo Jian finished speaking, Ren Minyu asked anxiously.
"Because production technology has been hovering at a low level, the overall wealth growth of society as a whole is extremely slow. In other words, it is such a big cake, everyone thinks about how to eat more, but few people think about how to make this cake bigger. Luo Jian gestured with his hand and said.
"From the founding of the Ming Dynasty to the Chongzhen period, the country has been in the country for more than 270 years, and the descendants of the Zhu family have nearly one million according to statistics. This wealth already accounts for a significant proportion of this pie, can you both agree with this? ”
Both of them nodded thoughtfully, these people in the clan do not have to pay all kinds of taxes, which means that these people do not contribute to the country at all except consumption.
"Then this big pie has been cut off a large piece, and in this process, the number of officials and scholars is also increasing, and the demand for the big cake is also increasing, so the contradiction between the first class and the second class is inevitable, the appearance of this contradiction is that officials at all levels are ** into the norm, people are superficial, lazy and lazy, and its essence is the intake of interests."
Seeing that the two of them were fascinated, Luo Jian took a sip of water and then continued: "And in the division of interests between these two strata, the most exploited is, of course, the third stratum, that is, the grass people. In fact, the Chinese people are extremely enduring, but as long as they can maintain a simple existence, this contradiction will not intensify to the extreme. But the extreme weather of recent decades has greatly shrunk this whole pie, and in this case, the first and second estates have not only not given up their own interests to help the third estate, but have intensified their exploitation. At this time, the most fierce contradictions, that is, the contradictions between the first two strata and the grass people, inevitably occurred, and most of the results caused by this most intense contradiction were the change of dynasty. ”
Speaking of this, Luo Jian stopped, he knew that the two of them had to be left enough time to think, and sure enough, both of them stopped talking and were thinking quietly.
After a long time, Shi Kefa said leisurely: "Xinghua, how will the future generations solve these contradictions?" ”
Later generations generally adopted several ways to resolve or alleviate these contradictions. First, we should vigorously develop science and technology, greatly increase the overall wealth of society, and make this big pie as big as possible. For example, the development of fertilizer technology has increased the yield of rice by two to three times, and the development of steelmaking technology has increased steel production by thousands of times. The second is to find ways to change the way this kind of benefit is distributed as much as possible. For example, the government collects taxes from developed industry and commerce, and uses the money to feed agriculture, while giving better benefits to ordinary people; In later generations, there is also a kind of tax called personal income tax, when the individual's income is high to a certain extent, you must pay taxes, this kind of policy of 'robbing the rich and helping the poor' can also achieve certain results. Third, we should continue to explore what kind of social system is more suitable for reducing the occurrence of various contradictions. In later generations, many kinds of social systems have emerged, and these systems can only alleviate or delay the occurrence of various contradictions at a certain stage or to a certain extent, but in short, because of the great increase in social wealth, the occurrence of the most intense contradictions in this kind of dynasty change is relatively rare. ”
After saying so much in one breath, Luo Jian felt that his mouth was dry, and he picked up the water cup and drank a cow drink.
Seeing that both of them were extremely heavy, Luo Jian had the intention to alleviate this extremely dull atmosphere, and said, "According to the guy who sent us here, the entire earth has finally become a federation. I said we live on the same big ball, wouldn't you be surprised? ”
"Guys? Didn't you say that you were a person in the afterlife in another world? Ren Minyu remembers what Luo Jian said before.
"It's a guy made by that person, and for example, it's the equivalent of what we call a ghost." Hearing Luo Jian say this, the minds of the two of them were really attracted again.
Seeing that the two of them looked at him suspiciously, Luo Jian had no choice but to explain again: "You have all seen my computer. Seeing the two nodding, he continued: "That kind of thing will become that 'guy' after more than a thousand years of continuous research and development. ”
Seeing that the two of them were still staring in confusion, Luo Jian was not ready to explain, and he wanted to tell them clearly what hardware and what software was, and it was estimated that he would not be able to explain it clearly in three years.
Seeing that Luo Jian didn't say any more, Shi Kefa stood up and said, "I won't leave you two behind, I have to think carefully about what Xinghua said tonight." ”
Ren Minyu said to Luo Jian on the way back: "The Inspector probably won't sleep tonight, I also have to think carefully about what Xinghua said today, I don't know how your head grows, how can you understand so much?" ”
"Hehe, the amount of information in later generations is huge, and people are exposed to more information every day than they are now, as long as you think hard, you will always have your own knowledge and understanding of some issues." Luo Jian said with a smile.
"Xinghua, I was tossed by you today, I guess I won't be able to sleep well tonight." Ren Minyu said with a wry smile.
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