Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1153 There are many divergent roads, and today is safe ([-])
After all, Meng Songlu's rites, music, and history were not learned in vain.

Less than two months after this meeting, Meng Songlu compared the history books and basically figured out the situation on the island.

According to Meng Songlu's understanding—of course, his understanding may not be all correct, but people can't imagine things they haven't seen, so he can only mix the situation on the island with the stories of the mythical era recorded in the ancient books of the pre-Qin period.

Generally speaking, it is still in the era of the Three Emperors.

It is about the scene of Yao letting go of the four evil spirits.

The chiefs on the island have established a certain degree of centralization, and the largest chief on the island has the largest tribe and the most territories.

The rest of the little chiefs are like listening to the big chief and not listening to the announcement.

At the same time, some small chiefs, also around the big chief, held similar positions in the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter.

Or send hostages, of course the sons of the lesser chiefs, to serve around the great chief.

The first tribe I met who wanted to buy a gun was a relative of the chief of the island, not too far away.

The son of the little chief of the tribe, in terms of seniority, he has to call the big chief his uncle.

The son of the little chief has been taken as a "hostage" since he was a child, and he was raised by the great chief. The purpose must be to unite his family. Dear".

The problem is that the little chief's son doesn't know whether it's because he's not smart enough, or because he's doing too much, or because his ambition is inflated.

In one battle, the son of the little chief defeated the enemy, and captured the enemy to the chief's ancestral temple, and personally performed a sacrifice to the family god of war.

The result is a contradiction.

In Meng Songlu's view, if there is no contradiction, it will be hell.

The major events of the country lie in the sacrificial offerings and the Rong. The sacrifices have to be held, and the Rong has to be sacrificed. This is the great festival of the gods.

First of all, you are not the great chief, why are you qualified to sacrifice?

Furthermore, what is sacrificed is the family God of War, you are a branch, not the main clan, how can the branch clan be qualified to sacrifice to the family God of War?

Finally, the God of War is both the family god and the main god. If you are a "subject", what do you want to do to worship the "king"'s family god and main god?
As far as these three points are concerned, if it is affirmed in Shang and Zhou Dynasties, it will definitely lose their heads.

It's like writing the word "reverse" on the face.Fortunately, the etiquette here is not so dignified. After this incident broke out, the son of the little chief was defined as the "four evils" and exiled.But the young man ran back to his tribe from the place of exile, and the conflict between the two sides intensified day by day.

There is a trend of "Quwo replacing wings".

That's why they were asked to buy a gun in the first place.

Of course, this is only the case on this island.

The entire archipelago is divided into several great chiefs, and no one can unify the "world".

After two months of careful investigation, Meng Songlu made a decision to support the tribe near the port.

Because the people on the boat have not been idle these days, they circled the archipelago and found that this is the only natural harbor, and there are two.

What followed was a bit magical.

After confirming the support, the muskets and two cannons were unloaded.

The more than 40 people left soon became the confidantes of the son of the little chief.

Then, Meng Songlu rehearsed the forty people according to the ancient etiquette.

The drill is performed completely in the etiquette of "scholars see princes".After all, it is more troublesome to teach the people on the island.

It should be said that the effect is remarkable.

The first sentence of classical Chinese that this chief learned was after accepting the visits of these "scholars", he learned "Today you will know the joy of the king!"

The second thing is to "promote construction".

The six thatched cottages were demolished.

According to the pre-Qin etiquette, a new city should be built in accordance with the requirements of "Kao Gong Ji".

However, considering the lack of productivity, a few new houses were built near the port according to the rules of etiquette.

Meng Tiezhu and another bricklayer—of course, he can only be a bricklayer here, but he is actually an architect. He has participated in the renovation project of Gaolangport Fortress in Ceylon, but he can only be a bricklayer here—as the winter lawyer Sikong, respectively. Da Sikong, Xiao Sikong.

Then Xiao Sikong Meng Tiezhu was in charge of managing "Wangtian", planting rice, wheat, potatoes, sweet potatoes and so on.

After the "palace" is completed, the mill will be built again.

In a few days, when the wind blows and the cooking is cooked, the "God of Autumn" is moved to the right of the "Royal Palace", translated as "Sheji"; the "ancestral hall" is moved to the left of the Royal Palace.All with courtesy.

On the day of harvest, Wang Tian got a lot.

An iron pot was placed in the back kitchen of the "royal palace", and three or five dishes were fried. "Wang Dayue" offered sacrifices to the country. .

The chief's son, scolded Kahuna.

In a few days, Wang Xi, the new king succeeded to the throne, killed three people of Kahuna as human sacrifices, and asked Meng Songlu about "rich the country and strengthen the army".

First, according to the vision of the Yan Li School combined with the pre-Qin system, three hundred young and strong were selected as warriors.

Each samurai got one well in the field, and another ten papa wakao (slaves) were assigned to fix it in the well field and specialize in farming.

Three hundred samurai, out of production, and Xia Guan Da Sima, the former retired captain of the Dashun Marine Corps Busan Garrison, performed the musket formation.

The two cannons were controlled by Xiao Sima, and the gunners also came with them, and they were not handed over to the locals.

He also selected hundreds of good fields and classified them as Wang Tian. The little Sikong Meng Tiezhu commanded Papavakao to plow the fields and raise cattle and sheep.

Over the years, the army formation has just been formed, and the food is abundant.

In winter, worshiping the God of War, going out to fight, and winning a big victory, the island of Oahu was unified, and it wanted to unify the "known world".

Meng Songlu said to him, don't rush, but slow down.

So a new city was developed, the official system was established, rituals and music were modeled, land was sealed off, warehouses were camped, food was widely accumulated, new troops were trained, and punishments were fixed.

They also collected the profits from the mountains, the sandalwood from the mountains, and the pearls from the water, all of which were traded with Dashun merchant ships, trading iron plows, cattle and horses, iron pots, sails, and gunpowder, and collected Dashun banknotes as accumulations.

Of course, these reforms are not the final form of centralized feudal autocratic monarchy, but a transitional form mixed with a large number of primitive social remnants.

This transition form, which is doped with a lot of residue, lasts for a long time.

Meng Songlu is very comfortable here, because his set of things was originally a fantasy based on the level of productivity in the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, or even a higher level.

After all, "Zhou Li" does not seem to have a key thing: farming cattle.

The development of the political process cannot escape the rational form of gradual and orderly progress, so as to achieve it overnight.

As an objective form, the country is definitely not a force imposed from the outside, but a product of a certain stage of social development—before the arrival of people from Dashun, there were already distinct classes and a country. prototype.

In this kind of place, primitive and fragile productivity, thin and superficial culture are destined to make them, consciously or unconsciously, imitate or learn from the political form of the outside world in the political components of the "country".

If Honolulu directly learns from Dashun, it must be "form first, content later". First, a framework is built, and then it is hit by capital, contacted by sailing boats, and finally the content is supplemented.

However, it is precisely because they cannot learn from Dashun that the old-fashioned Meng Songlu can use a form that is completely different from the traditional disintegration under the influence of Western colonialism—the form and content of Confucianism’s old-fashioned style, which is progress here, but I haven't made too many steps, and the degree of fit is much smoother than being directly pulled into the capitalist system.

Of course, the power of capital is terrifying and great.It is a sharp weapon to dispel all the hierarchical systems of the old age, and it is also one of the strongest forces to bring the destruction of tradition into modern times.

In the not-so-long years to come, what Honolulu has to do is to quickly complete the disintegration process of the old era in about five or sixty years under the influence of Dashun business and under the watchful eye of capital.

The former samurai became a plantation landlord who owned land; the former chieftain became a plantation owner who was sitting on sandalwood profits and benefited from the primitive labor system; the former nobleman became an agricultural capitalist who owned plantations and sold grain.

After all, there is no room for self-sufficiency here, and all trade can only and must only be closely related to Dashun's development in North America, and is closely related to Dashun's sandalwood trade.

With the help of this system, the improvement of productivity will gradually change the traditions, marriage and family concepts of the Honolulu islanders.

This transition period will not be too long, at most it will be 50 years.

In the past 50 years, they can only use the history and system of Dashun to project their own history and system to create traditional myths similar to the shadow of China.

But the power of capital, one day, will blow up all the old traditions.

This is why Liu Yu still has a glimmer of hope for Confucian scholars - when the old era is destroyed, a group of people are needed to invent something.

That is, the ethics and morals that are generally applicable in modern, capitalist, and modern societies are disguised or decorated as national.

China's "Zhou Li" can guide this group of people in the tribal system to move forward, precisely because of the universality of the feudal era contained in "Zhou Li", not its particularity.

In the same way, what Dashun lacks now is a new scripture.A new scripture that can lead the feudal era to modern times, and this new scripture must contain the universality of modern times, and fake or decorate this universality of modern times as national.

The specificity is a defensive skill.

Universality is an offensive skill.

There is going to be a battle soon, and Dashun, which will establish a new world structure, needs to focus on offensive skills in the new era, instead of still using defensive skills with Shenzhou Lu Chen's painful memories.

Otherwise, it can be said that many traditional remnants in Honolulu, under the impact of capital, once the Protestantism born in the budding period of capitalism came in, it would directly collapse.

Unless Meng Songlu cuts off all foreign exchanges, destroys all sandalwood trees, and the west coast of America will never be developed, otherwise, I really can’t stand it—because this place is much weaker than Dashun’s stubborn small-scale peasant economy, capital and business must dominate here, born in the capital Protestantism, which is in the development period of socialism and is full of capitalist ethics, is very dangerous.

The danger lies not in the specificity of crap like God, nor in the backwardness of religion, but in the universality of the capitalist era that has been magically modified to suit capitalism.

Of course, Dashun can rely on its first-mover advantage to shape modernity and modernity and export it to the outside world.

However, a carrier is needed—for example, the glorious era of Hong Kong dramas relies on the interpretation of modern life under the first-mover advantage, or in other words, it takes advantage of the universality of modern society to export to the mainland, which is undergoing modernization—Dashun urgently needs it now. Yes, it is such a carrier.

And disguise this universality as the particularity of the nation, to show the superiority of the nation to those countries that are in the collapse of feudalism and enter modern times, and act as a beacon in the cold night.

This is the only way for Confucianism to save itself.

(End of this chapter)