This is the second time that Qin Yuzhen has seen Zhao Jiaren tell others about the theory of the 'modern nation-state', which she has carefully studied, and with Zhao Jiaren's summary, she can probably summarize it with the 'state system of rights and obligations'.

When such an abstract theory emerged in her heart, Qin Yuzhen felt a little anxious. If the concept could have been more full and emotional, she probably wouldn't have found it so unsettling. She also asked Zhao Jiaren to tell more about it, and Zhao Jiaren told Qin Yuzhen, 'The state is a tool of class rule, and the ruling class practices class will through law. ’

Stripped of all the practical disturbances, Zhao Jiaren showed Qin Yuzhen the essence of the world. Relying on her own intelligence and wisdom, climbing along the path pointed out by Zhao Jiaren, and finally standing on top of the abyss of history, Qin Yuzhen saw the whole picture of the abyss, and she did not feel joy, because she could feel that when she was staring at the abyss, the endless abyss was staring at her.

However, the man's feeling seemed to be completely different, Qin Yuzhen ordered someone to put the freshly brewed black tea on the table and remove the black tea that had already been drunk. I saw Wen Tianxiang wiping away tears with the back of his hand. From the prevailing upper hygiene standards at this time, this is not a very hygienic option. Repeated use of handkerchiefs is easy to accumulate all kinds of bacteria, so why not wipe them with a paper towel?

However, Qin Yuzhen didn't say anything, and she left the reception room.

Wen Tianxiang didn't notice that someone came to change the new tea, but he did, and this memory was instantly forgotten. At this time, he was completely immersed in emotion, which was as strong as when he decided to follow Zhao Jiaren. Being an official is not the same as doing things. If you are admitted to the top prize, you can become an official, and this has been the case for more than 300 years in the Great Song Dynasty. It has nothing to do with who is in charge. Just as Wen Tianxiang's heart has long given up on Li Zong and Du Zong, it is not a big deal if he resigns. Wen Tianxiang has long understood this.

Following someone is completely different, it's a personal choice. Wen Tianxiang was originally an official in the small court of Fuzhou, that is, to be an official, and he did his best. He really decided to follow Zhao Jiaren personally, and it was when Zhao Jiaren decided to go on the Northern Expedition. At that time, almost all the civil officials from the Jinshi were against Zhao Jiaren, and the Jinshi quoted the words of the main battle faction Xin Qiji, 'Yuan Jia Caocao, Feng Wolf Juxu' to dissuade Zhao Jiaren, who was a firm main battle faction. There are too many cases of failure in the northern part of the Southern Song Dynasty, and everyone can tell all kinds of truths.

At that time, Zhao Jiaren said loudly, "Time has passed, and today the destiny is mine!" When he heard this, Wen Tianxiang suddenly understood that he had decided to follow this powerful minister with unprecedented power in the Great Song Dynasty. Regardless of victory or defeat, Zhao Jiaren's dream is Wen Tianxiang's dream. And Wen Tianxiang has no ability to chase his dreams, if he still refuses to give up, he has to stand with Zhao Jiaren. Wen Tianxiang will never give up his dream.

When the news of Zhao Jiaren's diversion of the Yellow River during the Battle of the Yellow River reached Lin'an, the few military generals who stayed behind roared excitedly, and the civil officials were too frightened to say anything. Wen Tianxiang burst into tears and laughed loudly. He knows very well what the civil servants think. If other people want to usurp the throne, they will do everything possible to make some auspicious proverbs spread everywhere to create a momentum. Zhao Jiaren ordered the Yellow River to be rerouted, which is better than cutting the white snake and filling the room with red light a hundred times and a thousand times. As for the fox cry and the fish intestine book, they are not worth mentioning in the face of such a feat.

These are no longer important, for Wen Tianxiang, what a happiness it is to be able to turn dreams into reality. even made Wen Tianxiang suspect that he had not woken up from his big dream.

What happened after that, as the civil officials expected, Zhao Taiwei became Zhao Guan's family. Such a great change is not worth mentioning to Wen Tianxiang, he only cares about the Great Song Dynasty Zhongxing and Huaxia Zhongxing. Zhao Jiaren not only fulfilled the dream that Wen Tianxiang dared to make, but even Wen Tianxiang did not dare to dream that everything was fully realized. Compared with such achievements, the state ownership of land and the integration of officials, which were not necessarily acceptable to Wen Tianxiang, became acceptable and were fully implemented.

Just when Wen Tianxiang was satisfied, he saw a new dream.

Compared with his excited subordinates, Zhao Jiaren only felt very tired. Talking to the Song dynasty about the modern nation-state was a thankless task, even with the best of the states. In contrast, science and engineering men like Zhao Qian are easier to communicate. Picking up the rich black tea and taking a big sip, Zhao Jiaren felt a little more uplifted. Looking at Wen Tianxiang, who was moved to tears on the other side, Zhao Jiaren felt that there was no way to do it.

The idea that the modern nation-state is a product of the industrial era is not unique to the industrial era. As early as the pre-Qin era, there was 'Qi Jinggong asked Confucius about politics. Confucius said: Monarchs, ministers, fathers, sons. Gong said: Good! Faith is like a king not a king, a minister not a minister, a father not a father, a son not a son, although there is corn, I have to eat all?'

However, the level of productive forces is different, in the era of industrialization, the efficiency of the effective operation of society has been greatly improved, and rights and obligations can be fed back very quickly, in order to prevent the means of production from being destroyed at an astonishing rate in all kinds of inevitable mistakes, social production and social life are forced to be closely integrated with management.

In a slow-paced agrarian society, rights and obligations can only be embodied by exceptionally outstanding individuals like Simon Leopard, or by a few officials whose sense of justice is far beyond ordinary people, and finally becomes the legend of a Qing official to be passed on to future generations. However, in reality, people like Ximen Leopard are a thorn in the side of ordinary officials, and Ximen Leopard himself was finally killed under the impetus of the resentment of countless officials. Even his son doesn't seem to be able to die well. The vast majority of Qing officials ended up as dismal as Ximen Leopard.

Only in the era of real industrialization will the benefits of getting rid of people like Simon Leopard slightly outweigh the losses for the ruling class. It seems that only in New China will people like Ximen Leopard be propagated to the whole people as a positive example. Thinking of this, Zhao Jiaren had to add the phrase 'the first few decades' in his heart.

Just when Zhao Jiaren fell into his own thoughts, he suddenly heard Wen Tianxiang speak, at this time, Prime Minister Wen had already regained his composure, and there was no excitement in his voice, "The official family, the previous Great Song Dynasty regarded loyalty to the official family as the highest morality, and the morality of science was higher than that of the official family, and most of them were played by borrowing topics. In the end, it's for their own benefit. If the official family really wants to implement a modern nation-state, I am afraid that there will be too many people who will confuse the public. With the ability of the minister, I am afraid that I will not be able to deal with so many people. ”

"Don't be afraid." Zhao Jiaren replied indifferently. As far as he heard in the countryside, Zhu Yuanzhang killed the hero, and the prince couldn't stand it, so he ran to intercede. Zhu Yuanzhang gave the prince a jujube twitter, which is a jujube branch, and said, "If you can smooth the thorns on it, I will spare these people." ”

Seriously, although Zhao Jiaren had heard this story, it was only during his Northern Expedition that he suddenly remembered to see what the jujube branches looked like. Seeing the various spikes on the branches, Zhao Jiaren finally understood that 'the wisdom of the people is infinite'. Where does such a story come from, Zhao Jiaren has not researched it, and there is no way to verify the future in this era. But that parable is no less than 'the journey of the sun and the moon, if out of it; The stars are splendid, if out of it'.

So Zhao Jiaren smiled: "Don't worry about this kind of thing." Rui Song said that he should select talents and talents, and I still have this vision. Back then, Rui Song Ken followed me, and I didn't say anything, and I didn't know how happy I was in my heart. ”

Hearing this, he felt that Zhao Jiaren was a little exaggerated, and Wen Tianxiang still felt happy. It's a great pleasure to be so identified by someone you identify with. Then Wen Tianxiang listened to Zhao Jiaren say: "But I want to do something auspicious, something ethereal." ”

"What?" Wen Tianxiang asked with some puzzlement.

"Song Rui, I don't know what you think of the nine-tailed fox?"

Hearing this, Wen Tianxiang couldn't help frowning. In China, dragons, unicorns and other exotic beasts are auspicious. Including the nine-tailed fox is also one of the exotic beasts. Even Wen Tianxiang, who no longer believes in ghosts and gods, also believes that encountering this kind of strange beast represents the favor of God. If there really is a nine-tailed fox in the world, Wen Tianxiang will really think that person has an infinite future.

However, in the Song Dynasty, the reputation of the nine-tailed fox declined as the overall status of the fox declined, and it became not very good. So Wen Tianxiang asked, "Could it be that the official family is going to let the prince see the nine-tailed fox?" ”

"Not see. Have you ever seen a record in the history books that the king traveled and got a nine-tailed fox. ”

“…… It's not easy to outfit a fox with eight more tails. Wen Tianxiang could only persuade like this. He could imagine that if Zhao Qian wanted to implement a modern nation-state system, he would need to have unparalleled prestige. There are many ways to accumulate prestige, and it takes a long time. Seeing the nine-tailed fox is indeed a quick way, but there is no impermeable wall in the world, if the Zhao official family does this, it is the inferior of the inferior.

However, Zhao Jiaren sang, "Suisui White Fox, Nine-Tailed Pang Pang, Chengzi's family, Naidu Youchang." ”

This style made Wen Tianxiang happy, and he knew that it was an ancient song. It is said that when Dayu controlled the water, he was thirty years old. I feel like I have to get married and have children. At that time, the Tushan clan was a relatively powerful clan at that time, and Dayu went to the Tushan clan to ask for relatives.

At that time, Dayu was a talent, with his subordinates, holding a nine-tailed flag. It is also not known that he is dressed in white, or if the flag is white. Anyway, let the leader of the Tushan clan feel that Dayu is a reliable guy.

According to the history textbooks of Zhao Guanjia, at that time, each tribe had its own totem, and the Tushan clan should be a tribe with foxes without totems, so they used the nine-tailed fox to describe Dayu's talent, and married the daughter of the tribal leader to Dayu as his wife.

However, later literati wore chisels, and some people said that Dayu's wife was the incarnation of the nine-tailed white fox. This is really funny, even if there is a nine-tailed white fox, it is Dayu himself. Of course, this also makes the nine-tailed fox one of the legendary beasts in Chinese dynasties.

Thinking of this, Wen Tianxiang could only persuade again, "Official, I understand your ambitions." Just doing this, it will definitely let the villain get in the way, but I am afraid that it will hurt the reputation of the official family. ”

Looking at Wen Tianxiang's expression, Zhao Jiaren laughed: "Haha." I didn't expect you to be so serious. You've read so many books, do you think that so many of the predecessors thousands of years ago got the nine-tailed fox, they were just nonsense? ”

Wen Tianxiang didn't know what to say. There are indeed many legends of 'nine-tailed foxes' in many ancient books of the pre-Qin period, and of course, there are also those who have seen the Queen Mother of the West. As for stepping on the giant's footprints to get pregnant, swallowing the eggs of the bird is pregnant, there are a lot of them. There are many records in the annals of history. After watching too much, Wen Tianxiang didn't believe it at all.

It's just that Zhao Guanjia said this, and he must have an idea. Because if there is anyone in the Great Song Dynasty who doesn't believe in this than Wen Tianxiang, there are only characters like Zhao Jiaren. Since he said there is...... Is there really one?

Hearing this, he felt that Zhao Jiaren was a little exaggerated, and Wen Tianxiang still felt happy. It's a great pleasure to be so identified by someone you identify with. Then Wen Tianxiang listened to Zhao Jiaren say: "But I want to do something auspicious, something ethereal." ”

"What?" Wen Tianxiang asked with some puzzlement.

"Song Rui, I don't know what you think of the nine-tailed fox?"

Hearing this, Wen Tianxiang couldn't help frowning. In China, dragons, unicorns and other exotic beasts are auspicious. Including the nine-tailed fox is also one of the exotic beasts. Even Wen Tianxiang, who no longer believes in ghosts and gods, also believes that encountering this kind of strange beast represents the favor of God. If there really is a nine-tailed fox in the world, Wen Tianxiang will really think that person has an infinite future.

However, in the Song Dynasty, the reputation of the nine-tailed fox declined as the overall status of the fox declined, and it became not very good. So Wen Tianxiang asked, "Could it be that the official family is going to let the prince see the nine-tailed fox?" ”

"Not see. Have you ever seen a record in the history books that the king traveled and got a nine-tailed fox. ”

“…… It's not easy to outfit a fox with eight more tails. Wen Tianxiang could only persuade like this. He could imagine that if Zhao Qian wanted to implement a modern nation-state system, he would need to have unparalleled prestige. There are many ways to accumulate prestige, and it takes a long time. Seeing the nine-tailed fox is indeed a quick way, but there is no impermeable wall in the world, if the Zhao official family does this, it is the inferior of the inferior.

However, Zhao Jiaren sang, "Suisui White Fox, Nine-Tailed Pang Pang, Chengzi's family, Naidu Youchang." ”

This style made Wen Tianxiang happy, and he knew that it was an ancient song. It is said that when Dayu controlled the water, he was thirty years old. I feel like I have to get married and have children. At that time, the Tushan clan was a relatively powerful clan at that time, and Dayu went to the Tushan clan to ask for relatives.

At that time, Dayu was a talent, with his subordinates, holding a nine-tailed flag. It is also not known that he is dressed in white, or if the flag is white. Anyway, let the leader of the Tushan clan feel that Dayu is a reliable guy.

According to the history textbooks of Zhao Guanjia, at that time, each tribe had its own totem, and the Tushan clan should be a tribe with foxes without totems, so they used the nine-tailed fox to describe Dayu's talent, and married the daughter of the tribal leader to Dayu as his wife.

However, later literati wore chisels, and some people said that Dayu's wife was the incarnation of the nine-tailed white fox. This is really funny, even if there is a nine-tailed white fox, it is Dayu himself. Of course, this also makes the nine-tailed fox one of the legendary beasts in Chinese dynasties.