In the era of Ru Mao drinking blood, human beings did not know that food could be processed by fire, so they could only eat in the form of Ru Mao drinking blood. However, after humans learned to use fire to process food, it was impossible to let humans live back to that kind of life of drinking blood.

    When there is no choice, we accept reality. When it comes to choosing, we choose the option that is most beneficial to us. This is a basic law.

    Ma Xianglin didn't know that there was such an organization as the Revival Society in the world, and he didn't know that there were people like Wang Shuhui in the world. He had no idea that a musket could have such a powerful bayonet, or that a cannonball filled with picric powder could burn down a city wall.

    However, after Ma Xianglin knew about the picric cannon, after knowing that the musket could have such great power, after knowing that there was an organization like the Revival Society in the world, and after knowing that there were people like Mr. Wang Shuhui in the world, you want him to return to the kind of life of "I don't know why I want to do that at all, anyway, my mother said that if you want to be loyal to the court, then you must be loyal to the court". This is as unreliable as the idea of wanting humanity to go back to the days of hairy and blood-drinking.

    Ma Xianglin was educated by his mother, Qin Liangyu, who was born in a scholarly family in Zhongzhou. Qin Liangyu knew that his son had inherited the martial arts head of his husband Ma Qiancheng, and he couldn't do such a thing as memorizing books and taking the imperial examination. Therefore, Qin Liangyu, who has a family history, taught Ma Xianglin according to his aptitude.

    She did not force Ma Xianglin to memorize the Four Books and Five Classics, but taught Ma Xianglin all the truths in the poems about the ruler to be benevolent, righteous and love the people.

    Ma XianglinAs the successor of Shizhu Tusi, Qin Liangyu taught Ma Xianglin this way of benevolence, which is based on the traditional ideology of Confucianism. Although the consciousness of the real ruling class needs those who read to discover for themselves. However, from the perspective of Confucius himself, this sage 2,000 years ago really hoped that the ruler would have such a benevolent, righteous and loving mind.

    Although Ma Xianglin did not figure out the sense of power and scheming of the ruling class from the Four Books and the Five Classics, nor did he realize from practice that this theory of benevolence, righteousness and love for the people was actually a deception of the rulers to propagandize and enslave the common people. In a simple environment, Ma Xianglin really regarded the idea of benevolence, righteousness and love for the people as a real truth.

    When we see scientific social thought today, we will think that it is a set of scientific and rigorous theoretical systems with strong practicality. This is because scientific and social thought has blossomed and borne fruit in China and has been truly proven in practice. However, if we put aside the scientific nature of scientific social thought and its practical significance, scientific social thought and Confucianism are really similar in a sense.

Political parties and individuals with scientific and social ideas have comprehensively analyzed the nature of social economy through the theory of political economy, history, and dialectical materialism, and unearthed the contradictions and antagonisms between the productive forces and the relations of production. They understood the essential contradictions of social development from a class standpoint and came to the conclusion that advanced political parties and organizations must stand with the broad masses of the proletariat.

The understanding of the progressive significance of the proletariat in the theory of scientific sociology has made those who agree with the theory of scientific society realize that "history is created by the people" and that advanced political parties and organizations must "serve the people."

    If we put aside the premise of scientific social theory and the use of scientific methods to analyze and understand the world, and simply look at the political concept of "serving the people". It is very normal to come to the conclusion that the political ideas of the believers of scientific social theory are the same as the people-oriented idea advocated by Mencius.

    In terms of political philosophy, the political concepts of "the people are the masters of the country" and "serving the people" of the Fuxing Society are actually very close to the political ideals of Confucianism.

    Ma Xianglin simply took the idea of benevolence, righteousness and love for the people as his own values, but why should he be benevolent and love the people, and how to achieve benevolence, righteousness and love for the people, Ma Xianglin naturally also thought about it.

    The question is that there can be no practical answers to these questions in feudal society. After all, the rulers of feudal China did not really believe in Confucianism. What they need is to fool the people with Confucianism, and what they need is to maintain their legitimacy in the skin of Confucianism.

    The truth is that even those famous Confucian sages can't really solve Ma Xianglin's doubts. They can say some unrealistic nonsense and stupidity that goes against the facts and is impossible to achieve, such as "the ruler must be pure-hearted and have few desires". But the reality is that no feudal ruler has ever been able to do that.

    Actually, from Confucius to Zhu Xi, Cheng Hao, and Wang Mingyang, none of them actually came up with a set of practical and feasible ways to realize Confucian political concepts. In popular terms, the Confucian set is used to sing high-pitched Mengren, which is one and one is accurate. But if you try to put their political ideas into practice in their way, you will fail.

    Ma Xianglin learned the idea of benevolence, righteousness and love for the people, but no matter who he asked, no one could give him a set of practical methods that could truly realize the people's living and working in peace and contentment and implement the idea of benevolence, righteousness and love for the people. Listening to those talented people, coupled with the scholarly mother who kept answering himself with unreliable high-profile such as "mind" and "science", Ma Xianglin was really disappointed.

    The arrival of the revival will provide Ma Xianglin with a new perspective. At first, he was only amazed by the products of the Renaissance, the weapons of the Renaissance, and the military skills of the Renaissance. As he got in touch with the cadres and fighters of the Revival Society, he found that the unimaginable thing of everyone becoming a sage and enjoying happiness for everyone seemed to be really possible under the rule of his cheap teacher.

    The most direct evidence is that the nearly 700 soldiers and cadres sent to the Revival Society are actually educated and can speak a set of clear and clear truths.

    At the beginning, Ma Xianglin thought that these 700 people were Wang Shuhui's carefully trained personal soldiers. However, as the relationship with the Fuxing Association sent battalion became closer and closer, Ma Xianglin found that those soldiers who were obviously the most basic soldiers in the dispatch camp also seized all the time to read and study during the interval of military training. More importantly, these soldiers and officers were also very active in teaching the soldiers of the White Pole Soldiers to read and write.

    Ma Xianglin still found it hard to believe this after discovering this. Therefore, he specially sought out the cadres of the Fuxing Association who were responsible for helping the local people develop people's livelihood in the Shizhu area to understand the situation. (In fact, the level of education of those technicians was higher than that of the average officer in the army.) ）

     When Ma Xianglin confirmed that the revival will be up and down, whether it is a mud leg (agricultural technology cadre), a merchant (a commercial cadre), or a gun (soldiers and officers), all people can write and calculate, and when it comes to reason, it is the reality that the head is the way. He was really excited.