Hands behind your back.

Qin Chao looked at the birds outside the window.

"Is it a coincidence or providence?" Qin Chao resounded in his mind the telegram he had just seen, and Wang Anshi submitted it, and the title of the manuscript turned out to be the same as the title of the article published during the vernacular literary movement launched by Hu Shi, Chen Duxiu, and others in later generations.

"Literary reform, the vernacular literary movement, should have been launched a long time ago, but although Wang Anshi has courage, his vision is still a little worse, and there is still a place where he has not clicked on this article. ”

Wang Anshi's "Discussion on Literary Improvement" is similar to the suggestions put forward by Hu Shi, Chen Duxiu and others, of course, Wang Anshi has more content, such as proposing that punctuation marks must be used in writing essays, proposing to run newspapers nationwide, advocating four-year compulsory education, and making education popular.

However, in the eyes of the Qin Dynasty, Wang Anshi lacked the most critical link - logic.

"In my previous life, for a long time in the West, it was said that Chinese were sick, and Chinese were called the sick men of East Asia, and there was a disease, not a physical disease, but a brain disease. ”

Because of the brain disease, there are almost no people in Japan who will win the Nobel Prize, and there are many in India, but more than a billion people in China cannot produce a Nobel Prize.

So even in the 21st century, there are still some people who think that there is something wrong with Chinese thinking, and this problem is nothing else, that is, Chinese do not pay attention to logic.

In fact, it is not that the Chinese do not pay attention to logic, but they do not standardize the definition of things, so the public says that the public is reasonable, and the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable.

"One of the most important aspects of the Renaissance is to teach people how to speak. ”

The Qin Dynasty squinted, and the Renaissance in the West opened a great change in the whole society, and science developed as a result, and other aspects of the Renaissance did not have much reference significance for the East. However, the speeches and arguments must be logical, and the descriptions of things must be systematic, even data-based and empirical, which is what the Qin Dynasty really needs in the East.

"I now throw out Aristotle's Instrumentalism. The real purpose is logic, but ......"

The Qin Dynasty was a little puzzled that people like Wang Anshi didn't see that "Tool Theory" was about logic.

"Young Master Qin. Lian Miaoyu said, "Isn't Wang Anshi's "Discussion on Literary Improvement" exactly what you think, I think it can be published." ”

"Miaoyu, don't mess around. Jun Yueru frowned slightly, "Others can write this thing and publish it in the newspaper, but Wang Anshi, that is absolutely impossible." ”

"Young Master Qin. Look?" said Miaoyu, looking at the Qin Dynasty.

Qin Chao waved his hand: "Let's take a look, Wang Anshi is still there, if he is, I'll tell him." ”

Jiangning City Newspaper Printing Workshop.

Wang Anshi walked in the workshop.

"Wang Xianggong, these are what we call 'movable type', as long as you put these characters into the template one by one, apply ink, and then you can print. Wu Ao introduced.

"Interesting. Wang Anshi watched with interest as the workers were busy. Wang Anshi is no stranger to printing, and he has also been to the printing workshop to see it.

But those workshops. The engraving alone takes countless hours.

And there is no need to carve a plate here, what to print, just need to compare the manuscript paper, quickly take the word mold and install the word mold, others carve a board to take several days, here shortened to a few pillars of incense.

"Mr. Wu. This character mold ......" Wang Anshi picked up a character mold and looked at it carefully, "The old man doesn't feel like copper, nor does it look like iron, this is made of what metal." If you use copper or iron instead, or if you use pottery characters, won't wooden characters work?"

"Even if the best pear wood, jujube wood, and willow wood are used, the wood texture is also dense and uneven, difficult to carve, deformed after being wet, and it is not easy to separate from the medicine when it sticks together, let alone others. Wu Aolian said what he had inquired about from Ah Zhu and Ah Bi, "As for the pottery characters, ink is a big problem. Copper characters are too expensive, iron characters are troublesome to make, and no matter copper characters, iron characters, wooden characters, pottery characters are not good in ink, the engraved handwriting is not full and clear enough, too small words can not be printed, as for what metal these metals are used, this even I don't know. Wu Ao excitedly introduced. ”

Wang Anshi nodded, and said casually: "Aren't these Momo also mysterious?"

"Wang Xianggong is really wise. Wu Ao said, "These inks are indeed the exclusive ink developed by Duan Haifeng, specially made for this movable type printing, and if the ink from other printing workshops is used, it cannot be printed clearly." ”

......

In the workshop, Wang Anshi was full of interest and asked questions from time to time, and Wu Ao also told everything he knew. The printing workshop actually doesn't have much to look at, but Wang Anshi still turns around and around it.

"This section of the sea is a whimsical idea. ”

Wang Anshi was very excited, after such a detailed viewing, he could see that this method is more than ten times faster than the traditional printing technology, not to mention the quality, the speed alone is more than ten times faster, plus the manpower is also more than ten times less, using this way to print books, as long as the number of books is large, the cost is not much less than the traditional printing technology.

"By the way, Mr. Wu, can Sima Junshi's Zizhi Tongjian be printed with your kind of printing technology?" asked Wang Anshi.

"This ...... I haven't heard of it. ”

"That's not it. A light flashed in Wang Anshi's eyes, "It seems that although this Sima Junshi has not banned the newspaper, he is still very disgusted with Qin Xianao's actions in his heart, maybe he is already doing work and wants to ban the newspaper." ”

......

Wang Anshi left the printing workshop, and under the leadership of Wu Ao, he read all the processes of the entire newspaper, and some of them were quite fresh, which made Wang Anshi's eyes shine on his way of doing things.

"Outsiders say that Qin Xianao runs a newspaper because he loses money to buy and ......shout," Wang Anshi was about to leave.

"Master Wu, Gongzi Qin has sent a telegram. A voice rang out.

Wu Ao was suddenly overjoyed, and even looked at Wang Anshi and said: "Wang Xianggong, it is Qin Xianao's son who sent a telegram, it may be a reply to your manuscript, I don't know ......"

"Oh?" Wang Anshi raised his eyebrows, a hint of inexplicability flashed in his eyes, and he smiled slightly: "I just want to communicate with Gongzi Qin." ”

Soon telegraph room.

"Tick tick~~~" The sound kept ringing.

In front of the telegraph, a person was narrating with notes, and after the voice stopped, Wu Ao picked up the words of the person's narrative and handed it to Wang Anshi: "Wang Xianggong." This is sent by Qin Gongzi, greetings to you. ”

"Yes!"

Wang Anshi's voice had a hint of inexplicable smile, and he took the paper, in addition to saying hello and expressing Qin Xianao's admiration for Wang Anshi, this telegram also wrote a large article:

"Quack heals. Stop the symptoms but not the root cause, treat the disease well, and treat both the symptoms and the root causes. However, what is the standard and what is the original?"

"The shortcomings of my Great Song Dynasty are nothing more than three redundant and two accumulations, one is economic, the other is military, and economically: redundant officials, redundant soldiers, and redundant expenses have caused a situation of poverty. Militarily mistactic. Inflicts weakness. ”

In addition to this, I think there is also a class relationship, which is manifested in the sharp contradictions between the peasant class and the landlord class and the ruling group. ”

Seeing this, Wang Anshi's face was solemn.

The first words in Qin Xianao's call are all nonsense, everyone can say it, but the back points to 'class contradictions'.

Although the word 'class' appeared for the first time in this era, Wang Anshi could not understand what it meant.

"What a class contradiction. Wang Anshi squinted.

Class contradictions are naturally easy for modern people to understand, but no one in this era would have thought of this at all. But when Wang Anshi thought about it, he knew that this was the real contradiction.

"The reason for this is that I, the Great Song Dynasty, connived at land annexation. So that a large amount of land was annexed by bureaucrats and powerful people, and naturally ......"

Here we talk about the causes and consequences of class contradictions, as well as the solutions of the upper echelons of the early Great Song Dynasty, such as Fan Zhongyan and Ouyang Xiu.

Wang Anshi sank into it completely.

Qin Xianao didn't say much, everything was on point.

This is the specimen and origin of the great Song accumulation in the eyes of the people of the world. ”

"I think there is a 'Ben' after this 'Ben'. ”

"Man is sick. In the eyes of a good doctor, this is the 'root', and in the eyes of the divine doctor, there are deeper reasons behind this, such as living habits. For example, if the family has no money to buy food and clothing, for example, if you eat a certain food......"

"The foundation of my great Song Dynasty's accumulation of disadvantages lies in the culture and in the scholarly class. ”

"For thousands of years, the cultural atmosphere of governing the country with Confucianism and scholars has created the current system and caused all kinds of existing ills. ”

"If you don't change your habits, if you don't change your poverty, if you are cured, you will relapse eventually. If the civilized way and culture do not change, the illness of the Great Song Dynasty will be cured and it will be repeated. ”

And the "Cultural Improvement Proposal" mentioned by Mr. is to find the right root and find the root of the disadvantages of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

Wang Anshi's eyes flashed with infinite light.

"That's right, hunger and cold force people to get sick, even if they are cured, if the poor disease of hunger and cold does not go, the disease will still come, the culture has not changed for thousands of years, the thinking has not changed, and the disease of the Great Song Dynasty has been cured for a while, so it is, so it is ...... so"

Wang Anshi's eyebrows fluttered, and he finished reading the rest in one go, and then looked at Wu Ao: "Mr. Wu, you sent a telegram to the past, and said that I want to ask Mr. Qin what he thinks of my 'active open source'." ”

"Yes!"

A tick-tick sounded.

After a while, the telegraph personnel here stopped sending telegrams, and in just a few breaths, the telegraph machine rang automatically, and the telegraph receiver began to write quickly with a pen.

A moment later.

"Wang Xianggong. Wu Ao handed over the paper, and Wang Anshi looked at it.

"Wang Xianggong should be asking for your opinion on your law of reforming rich countries. Sima Xianggong held the method of 'throttling', which was negative, he only saw that reform would cause chaos and turmoil, but he should not blame you for this turmoil, but on the moths of those countries. If you want to not make mistakes, the best way is to shrink your head and not do things, and his fear of things is not what I like. ”

Wang Anshi raised his eyebrows, and everyone could see the smile on his face. Indeed, in the final analysis, reform is to oppose people, and it is against the greatest power stratum in society, that is, those who are rich and powerful.

"The saying 'you make mistakes when you do things' is a good saying. Wang Anshi continued to look down.

"As for your 'active open source', its method is the same as Duan Haifeng's printing technique, the same is the printing of books, as long as it is properly adjusted, it will take five or six years for one to print the "Zizhi Tongjian", and the other will only take one or two months. ”

"Okay, it's self-evident who is right and who is wrong. Wang Anshi nodded, Wang Anshi's financial management method is 'active open source', which is to implement various means in the country and society to improve productivity and optimize resource allocation.

"Mr. Wu, can you ask Mr. Qin again, does he think my new deal is a success or a failure?" Wang Anshi was a little nervous when he said this, after all, Wang Anshi took his new policy too seriously, and others commented that Wang Anshi didn't care, but ......

A telegram was sent.

"I think the great achievement of the reform lies in reversing the situation of weakness and poverty to a certain extent......

"1. Change the situation of poverty ......"

"2. Suppressing the ...... of mergers"

"3. Change the weak situation ......"

......

"Progressiveness is manifested in ......"

"1. The implementation of the law change measures has increased the government's ......"

"2. The reform of the law promotes the development of the economy and is objectively ......"

"3. Be able to ...... the disadvantages of the Great Song Dynasty"

......

"Its failure lies in ......"

This time, the entire telegram was very long, and the narrative of the success and failure of the reform was whipped to the blood, and the needle was to the flesh, and the more Wang Anshi looked at it, the heavier his face became. The telegram did not simply say success or failure, but pointed out the success, but also pointed out the failure, Wang Anshi was very pleased to see the success, but the various descriptions of failure were particularly heavy.

After a long time, Wang Anshi walked out of the newspaper office. (To be continued......)