Chapter 415: Autumn Harvest in the Ryukyus (Part I)

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September 10, Republic 2762 (1921), Ryukyu City, Taiwan Province.

If it is in the original time and space of the Great Picture Dynasty, today should be Teacher's Day. However, although there is also a Teacher's Day in New China, it is not this day, but September 28, that is, the birthday of Confucius.

Because Mr. Wen believes that Teacher's Day should be a festival with great cultural connotation, and it should continue the long-standing historical tradition. Confucius is the most famous and greatest educator and educational theorist in ancient times, there is no one, his theories on education have been influential to this day, so it is very appropriate to use his birthday as the Chinese Teacher's Day.

According to the research and estimation of the domestic masters and wild masters of the Chinese Academy of Culture and History, Confucius was born on September 28, 551 B.C. (Gregorian calendar), which is also an opportune date: the busy start of the new school year has passed, and there is time to prepare for Teachers' Day and National Day.

Here I want to talk about Wen Desi's attitude towards Confucius and Confucianism.

It should be said that the attitude of the political power of the New China Science and Technology Socialist Party towards Confucianism was not friendly, although it did not smash the Confucian temples in various places like the "four olds" of the Datu Dynasty in those years, but the Confucian Mansion in Qufu was copied. More than 3,000 people were sent to re-education through labor, including hundreds of whom were sentenced to death.

This fate is all brought on by them. Everyone knows that Confucius has always been not a good bird, in history it is known for its wall grass, repeatedly kneeling and licking aliens, no integrity, as long as the invaders have the upper hand, then they will definitely kneel and lick, whether it is Jurchen, Mengyuan, Manchu or Japan. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in the original time and space, Chairman Jiang saw through the urine nature of this family, so he brought the "Yan Shenggong" to Chongqing. Facts have proved that Chairman Chiang did the right thing, and sure enough, as soon as the Japanese came, the acting head of the family left by the Confucian Mansion went to kneel and lick the Japanese Taijun and Wang's puppet regime.

Confucius said back then, "Microtubule Zhong, I am sent to the left." Even if Guan Zhong was the prime minister of Qi and the great enemy of Lu, he did not hesitate to praise. If Confucius knew underground, he would have to be angry and come back to death to kill these unscrupulous descendants. Well, there is also a saying that the current Confucian family may really not be the descendants of Confucius, and the descendants of the grandson have all hung up in the late Tang Dynasty "Confucius Mess Hole", and the family that was in charge of the Confucian Mansion later could not fight with Confucius.

Of course, the fact that Confucius was a traitor was only a matter of their history, and this was not the main reason why they were confiscated. The main reason why they were killed is that they are too good at death, they are local tyrants, they occupy a lot of land in Qufu and nearby areas, and they have been bullying men and women for many years, doing all kinds of evil, anyway, other local tyrants and inferior gentry have done all the bad things, they have done it all, and even relied on the signboard of "Yan Shenggong" to do even more excessively. When Qufu was liberated, there was an endless stream of people who came to complain and report them. So whether it is from the perspective of political reckoning or from the perspective of Ming Zheng's punishment, they are all dead.

Besides, when the CSD uprising, they began to keep talking and viciously attacking the CSD and Wen Dehei, but Mr. Wen didn't have the temper of being slapped on the left cheek and putting the right cheek over, and it was strange not to put them to death under the new hatred and old hatred. At that time, when the Confucian Mansion was copied, the government clearly announced many charges against the people of the Confucian Mansion, but many "masters" and corrupt Confucians still jumped out to intercede, and some even asked themselves to go in to accompany them. These short-sighted nature also followed into the labor camp and re-education through labor, and after sending hundreds of them in, they came back to their senses, Mr. Wen was playing for real, so they were all honest.

After seeing that Confucius was **** by the government, some speculators jumped out to "criticize Kong" and tried to take the opportunity to climb up. Wen Desi first ignored them, and when they were almost in trouble, he published signed articles in major media, severely criticizing these speculators, calling them "morally corrupt and of bad character", and then declared: "Confucius is Confucius, Confucius is Confucius, and the sins of future generations cannot be blamed on the ancestors." ”

At the same time, the Central Propaganda Department was in full swing, and the domestic masters also went out one after another, and while they echoed Wen Dehei, they also took out a large number of historical records of "Confucius at the end of the hole", questioning whether the current Confucian Mansion is the descendant of Confucius. The implication is that if they weren't, there would be one more charge of impersonation. Finally, Wen Desi's article "The Consistency of Confucius Thought and Scientific Socialism" issued a fatal blow.

At this moment, those guys who patted the horse's hooves were dumbfounded, and the group of them who danced the most happily were also sent in, accused of "slander" and "rumor-mongering", and accompanied the people of Confucius to contribute to the cause of socialism. Those who didn't go in were also completely stinky, and they couldn't get mixed up in the circle anymore.

It was only then that everyone came back to their senses and figured out Wen Desi's attitude, that he did not want to completely destroy Confucianism, but to remove its dross, retransform and reinterpret it, and make it conform to the characteristics of modern civilization and the theory of scientific socialism. Many of the old neutral literati who had complained about the raid of Confucius completely fell to Wen Dehei. For these masters, the methods of "Tuogu reform" and "I note the Six Classics, and the Six Classics note me" are naturally no strangers, and soon all kinds of articles and works on the reinterpretation of ancient classics were published.

Among these works, not only Confucius's, but also Mencius, Xunzi, Wang Yangming and other works have been packaged and re-launched, as for Confucius himself or not, it doesn't matter. Of course, not all Confucian representatives were promoted, and Zhu Xi fell into bad luck and became the target of verbal criticism. On the one hand, his theory is indeed amusing enough, and it is completely incompatible with the theory of scientific socialism. On the other hand, his own character is too inferior, and in the end, he needs to find a person to blame Confucianism, and he must find someone with enough weight to come out and take the blame, so as to remove Confucianism from the stigma. Everyone looked left and right, and found that Zhu Xi was the most suitable, so "Comrade Zhu, for everyone's sake, you can carry this pot......"

Wen Desi's attitude is very clear: things like Confucius and Confucianism, which have become symbols of Chinese spirit and oriental culture, are very uneconomical to completely defeat them, and they will cause very serious ideological confusion. Datu Chao was so happy that he knocked them all down and threw them into the dung pit, but after a final turn, he found that there was really nothing better than them in terms of culture, so he had to pinch his nose and pick them up from the dung pit and use them again. With this kind of lesson in the past, Mr. Wen naturally will not take this kind of detour.

If China wants to carry out cultural export and cultural aggression, then it must first have its own cultural core. Confucius and Confucianism are things that have been precipitated for thousands of years and perfected by countless people, and have been recognized by the vast majority of people, so how can they be so easily replaced? What's more, these things have a strong influence in the surrounding areas, and if they are not used, then the brain will be in water. What the CSD did with Confucius and Confucianism was to transform and reinterpret it into line with its own values and theories.

In fact, the Socialist Party was not the first to do this kind of thing, Dong Zhongshu of the Han Dynasty took the lead in playing, and then Wang Mang also played it, and many people including Zhu Xi, Wang Yangming and so on, some of them succeeded, and some of them served on the street. Of course, whether they are servants or not has nothing to do with whether their theories are correct or not, only with the strength of them and their supporters. Playing this with the strength and prestige of the CSD is, of course, only possible, and impossible to get on the streets.

This is politics, whether it is the reform of the Togu system or anything else, it is a practical need, and all history is contemporary history.

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However, such theoretical, superstructure things are not yet the turn of the middle-level bureaucrat Ximen Fuxue, who is now full of this year's grain.

"Comrade Simon, I will entrust you with the autumn harvest work in this city this year......" At the regular meeting at the beginning of the month, the mayor assigned the task. As deputy mayor in charge of agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry, fisheries, and health care, this month is his busiest time.

"Whether the city can achieve self-sufficiency in food depends on this year......" Ximen Fuyuki walked out of the office as he thought about the content of the meeting.

"Deputy Mayor Ximen, where are we going first today?" asked Secretary Xiao Liu.

"From far to near, let's go to Dadong Island first......" Ximen Fuxue said after thinking about it. You can see the situation on the main island of Ryukyu at any time, but let's take a look at the farthest point first.

"Okay, I'll go to the director of mine construction immediately to arrange the plane ......" Xiao Liu hurriedly ran to the general affairs office.

Ryukyu City is an island city, although the land area is not large, but the territory is very divided, from the northernmost Grass Islands (Togara Islands) to the southernmost Shigeyama Islands, a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers, the easternmost Daito Islands, more than 400 kilometers from Naha Ward, can be said to be the largest city-level administrative unit in China.

For such a long distance, it is definitely not possible to rely only on vehicles and ships. Therefore, in order to facilitate the management of local officials, the higher authorities have provided airplanes to all governments at and above the county level in Ryukyu City, and even some towns and villages have also been equipped with airplanes. If it seems to future generations, this approach may be a bit exaggerated, but this era is different, and the current piston type is light and inexpensive, not much more expensive than a car. China is now the number one aviation power, and it is not a problem to allocate business jets to some local governments.

The city government has four business jets, a Y-1 light passenger aircraft that can carry 12 passengers, a Y-5 "hoopoe" liaison aircraft that can take four passengers (the L-5 liaison aircraft similar to the original space-time aircraft, with a single wing and a single engine, fixed landing gear), and two water-transport-1 "White Gull" seaplanes that can carry five passengers. These three types of aircraft are light aircraft with very short take-off and landing distances, especially the Y-5, which can even take off within 50 meters, and there are no requirements for the airport, and the farm's drying yard can take off and land.

Ximen and they are going to many islands this time, and they are taking the water-1 "White Xuanou", which is a single-wing, single-engine hull seaplane, similar to the sea otter of the original time and space Britain, with a cruising speed of 280 kilometers and a range of 1,600 kilometers.

The Daito Islands consists of three islands, Beida Daito Island, South Daito Island and Okio Daito Island, the largest of which is about 30 islands. 6 square kilometers, the area of Beidadong Island is about 12. 7 square kilometers, Oki Daito Island is the smallest, only 1. 2 square kilometers. All three islands are coral islands, and most of the islands are home to seabird droppings, which react with the calcareous corals to become "struvite stones", which are a very good phosphate fertilizer.

The Daito Islands were originally uninhabited islands and did not become inhabited until the Meiji era when the pioneer group entered. After the Sino-Japanese War, the area became a Chinese territory, and the Japanese in the area were repatriated and then emigrated from all over the country. At present, it belongs to Ryukyu Town, Ryukyu Prefecture in terms of administrative division. There are only two village-level units in the Dadong Islands, South Dadong Village and Beida East Village, one on each island. Okidaito Island is too small for a permanent population, and there is a meteorological observatory and a naval observatory on the ground.

In 2 hours, Ximen Blowing Snow and his party arrived at Nandadong Island. Although the island is not large, there are many natural lakes and marshes of various sizes, among which Lake Oike is the largest natural freshwater lake in the Ryukyu Islands, and these lakes are formed by the accumulation of water from rainfall. After China took over, the lake and marshes were also repaired, and the berm was repaired, and the bottom of the lake was deepened, making it a source of domestic water and production water for the island's residents.

At present, there are about 800 residents on this island, half of whom are employees of the Ryukyu Phosphate Fertilizer Company, and the struvite resources here are quite abundant, and the Japanese in the original time and space have been mining here for 30 years before they finish, even if the Ryukyu Phosphate Fertilizer Company uses a large number of machines and the collection efficiency is much higher than theirs, but there are too many struvite stones, and it is estimated that it can be mined for at least another three years.

"Bai Xuanou" stopped at a small airfield on the west side of the village, although the Dadong Islands are remote, but the government attaches great importance to them, there is a small airport on Beidadong Island and South Dadong Island, which can take off and land light transport aircraft, and of course can also take off and land fighter jets or whatever.

"Welcome Mayor Ximen to inspect the village ......" The village chief who received the notice has already greeted him at the airport. This is a young man under 30 years old, with a strong build.

"Hello, Comrade Liu Jinbao......" Ximen Chuixue shook hands with him cordially, Liu Jinbao is a retired non-commissioned officer of the People's Liberation Army, he was selected as a grassroots civil affairs cadre after retiring, received a year of advanced training in the administrative school, and after graduation, he was arranged here to serve as the village head.

Liu Jinbao said: "Mayor Ximen, let's go to the village office to rest first and have a cup of tea......

"Tea will be drunk, let's go to the field first to see the autumn harvest ......" Ximen Fuxue waved his hand, he was now anxious to know the result, how could he be in the mood to drink tea.

"Okay, Mayor. Liu Jinbao hurriedly asked the driver to drive the car over.

An off-road vehicle drove over, and they got into the car in turn.

Liu Jinbao also knew what his superiors were most concerned about, and immediately ordered: "Go to the 2nd group that is being harvested first, and Mayor Ximen will see the actual situation of seawater rice......