Kingdom of Heaven and Han

Chapter 342 Fusion of ancient and modern
We have learned a lot of knowledge since we were young, but we are also bound by this knowledge.Being able to learn and step out refers to stepping out of the learned knowledge and no longer being bound by these constraints.

Stepping out does not mean breaking the original learning system.The system is still the same system, and the knowledge is still that knowledge, but when you come out from the inside, you stand outside and look at it.What are the advantages and what are the disadvantages?If you come out, what changes is the way people who learn see the world differently, not knowledge and systems.

If you can't get out, there are always many constraints.Taking major issues as an example, during the period of reform and opening up, there were debates about the surname of the society and the surname of capitalists, and countless quarrels occurred from theory to practice.That's what didn't come out.If you come out, there will be no such debates. What system and method are beneficial to the country and the people, then learn what.

For the current Wang Xiaolie, the shackles of previous life knowledge have been broken, and he no longer restrains himself.No matter what you do, don't think about whether it is in line with the law of human development that is not in line with previous life studies, and don't think about whether it is this doctrine or that doctrine, and what direction it is.What really guided Wang Xiaolie was China in his previous life, who for the first time proposed that the people are the masters of the country and that the government should serve the people.These five-character inscriptions are hung on the walls of almost all party and government organs.

If the founding of New China is a great revolution in Chinese history, this revolution should be the illusory destiny of the old society, and the revolution has become the people as the masters of the country.Under this premise, all achievements of human civilization can be used and learned.Don't have to think about what I believe in, what I stand for.There is no need to think about what human beings were like before and what the future of human beings should be like.There is no need to think about the people being the masters of the country, what experience they have had in previous lives, and what lessons they have learned.Don't worry about what's going well and what's not.

Based on this, it can be connected with the "Heaven sees itself, the people see, the sky listens, the people listen" in "Shang Shu-Tai Oath", and it can be connected with Mencius' thought.An important ideological trend of Confucianism in the Song Dynasty was Mencius' promotion, and his rising status in Confucianism coincided with it.

The knowledge and ideas learned in previous lives have strong ideological characteristics.It's not that ideologies shouldn't insist that existence in past lives has its own raison d'être.Instead, you travel through the millennium, there is no need to persist in this world.The characteristics of the civilization of the previous life are that it originated from Western Europe and bears a strong imprint of Western European civilization.Without this premise, a lot of knowledge is useless.

The bourgeois revolution in Western Europe was accompanied by the decline of the royal power, and more importantly, the decline of the enfeoffment aristocracy. The capitalist society was very different from the feudal society.Not all parts of the world have experienced the same changes in Western European systems.The revolution in China is not so much a fall of imperial power as a change of destiny.From this perspective, it breaks away from various trends of thought and doctrines born in Europe.

Human society is objective, but people's conclusions about human society are subjective.All kinds of ideas and doctrines derived from these summaries are also subjective based on objective basis.These subjective thoughts cannot be used to demand objectively existing human society.The analysis of human society learned in previous lives is actually mostly useless in this era.Because the objective reality that produces these knowledge and thoughts has not yet appeared.

When China was facing the crisis of national subjugation and genocide, many people with lofty ideals shed their blood and tried every means to save it.If we look at that time, it is not so much that Western doctrines were introduced into China that saved China, but that those people with lofty ideals chose this doctrine and saved China.The most important thing is not doctrine, but those people with lofty ideals.It's not that doctrine is not important, without doctrine, these people with lofty ideals probably wouldn't be able to accomplish such a great cause.Rather, people are more important than ideas.

Human civilization has developed for thousands of years, but many times it is actually like a child.We know that we must seek truth from facts and proceed from reality, but when learning and researching knowledge, we often fail to do so.

In China's most difficult time, some people choose to learn from foreigners, some choose to criticize China's shortcomings, and of course some choose to hold on to the incomplete.Whether it is learning the knowledge of foreigners, criticizing Chinese culture, or adhering to the incomplete, it is the practice of special times.

We always have to criticize the bad and learn the good, which is normal.But the special practices of special times are different from this kind of normal criticism and learning, and cannot be confused.But there are always people who can't tell the difference, and can't get out of it.

The simplest example, why did China lag behind in modern times?Why didn't the Industrial Revolution happen in China?Why was China invaded by developed countries in modern times?Why is China poorer than developed countries?
Criticism in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China was all-encompassing and merciless.The most important role of these criticisms is to attack those who are conservative, and to awaken the enthusiasm of Chinese people to abandon the old and learn the new.Many times, the criticism at that time was not correct.But a hundred years later, some people just can't get out of it, and continue to criticize.

Why is China lagging behind?Some people replied that it was because of Confucianism.When did it start?Some say it started in the Ming Dynasty, some say it's wrong, it started in the Tang and Song Dynasties.Some people say that it started from the Han Dynasty.More people say that it started with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's exclusive respect for Confucianism.Some people even say that it started with Confucius in China.It was very lively and the debate was extremely fierce.

Wang Xiaolie really wanted to say something to these people, you guys are so smart.The time when China was surpassed by Europe is not difficult to find, the late Ming Dynasty.Even if you want to find the reason, going back a hundred years, to the Yuan Dynasty will be great.You have been chasing after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and Confucius, are you kidding me?If you don’t understand it, just answer honestly that you don’t understand it, and you will lose a piece of meat.

Mentally, humans often behave like children.Two children quarreled, and one couldn't beat the other, saying: "You wait here, I have a stick at home. I'll take the stick and beat you to death!" The other said: "We have a knife at home, you took the stick It’s useless.” The first one said: “I have a gun at home!” The other said: “I have a gun at home!” The first said: “I have a tank at home!” The other said: “I have an airplane at home!” The former one said: "My house has an atomic bomb!" The other said: "My house has a hydrogen bomb and a neutron bomb!"Someone asked him why he was beaten, and he said, "Because that guy has a hydrogen bomb in his house!"

China's backwardness is certainly not a reason.Among the many reasons, there are main reasons and secondary reasons, which are intertwined to form such a result.But if you must ignore other things and find a reason, you may not be able to find it.Because the main reason may be the interaction of these reasons.Scientific researchers know that to learn experimental design, they need to know the interaction of conditions.Social scientists, why don't you know.The theory that comes out is sometimes confusing.

In the subjective knowledge that humans have summed up from objective reality, we always have too many restrictions, and we are easily led astray.Only when you really jump out can you see the true face of this knowledge.

After returning from Ruzhou, Wang Xiaolie finally walked out of the knowledge and memory of his previous life, and was no longer bound by it.That's how it should be done, so do it.What if there is no staff?Cultivate and educate.What if others can't figure it out?Slowly educate and guide.is it hard?not difficult.The difficulty is that I can't figure it out and dare not do it.As long as you figure it out, what's the problem?
The vast majority of people in this world cannot learn knowledge.This is a fact, there is nothing, no one stipulates that a person must learn everything to live in this world.People who can get in often can't get out.Trapped in the ocean of knowledge, there is no escape in thought.This is also true, and there is nothing surprising about it.It's just that for Wang Xiaolie's status, he has to come out.

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