Kingdom of Heaven and Han

Chapter 452

A crescent moon in the western sky slowly slid to the end of the sky.The cool wind has risen, and it blows on people's bodies, bringing a cool feeling.

Wang Qingxiu looked at the younger brother in front of him, so familiar, but a feeling of strangeness was still lingering.

Sighing, Wang Qingxiu said: "In the past two years, my brother has done many important things and changed a lot. In my eyes, you are still the same as before. But sometimes when I think about it, you are so strange, and you are no longer the same as before. When I was young, my father studied, took exams, and became an official, so he had little time to take care of us, and you grew up with me. Now I feel strange, is it because you have grown up, or because you have become an official?"

Wang Xiaolie said: "Sister, most things in the world can't be explained clearly. Maybe it's because I grew up, maybe it's because I became an official, maybe it's both, or maybe it's because of other reasons. Say no When things are clear, don’t explain clearly, don’t ask for trouble.”

Wang Qingxiu said with a smile: "If you said this, it means you didn't say it. ——No, maybe it contains a Zen mechanism, but my aptitude is too shallow to realize it."

Wang Xiaolie shook his head: "Sisters and brothers talk, where did the Zen machine come from? I'm telling the truth, just the truth, and it's often not what people want to hear. In this world, there are few people who tell the truth and do practical things. can do it."

Wang Qingxiu smiled and shook her head: "How could no one do it? Who in the world doesn't want to listen to the truth?"

Wang Xiaolie said: "In fact, there are very few people in the world who want to hear the truth. Those who want to hear the truth are just talking. The truth of this is only after I became an official, and I slowly realized it."

Wang Qingxiu thought about it, but couldn't think of a reason.After taking a sip of the wine, he said, "You are an official, so you have so many crooked principles."

Wang Xiaolie also thought about it.Finally he said with a smile: "It's just that these are not false reasons. It's just that people in the world don't like to hear and think like this. What can we do? This world is such a world, the world is such a world, and our life is such a life It's just that most people feel that the world is not like this, the world is not like this, and they shouldn't live like this. They always imagine a world, a world, and a world based on their own imagination. how people should live.”

"What a mouthful!" Wang Qing shook his head. "After you became an official, do you have to talk about such nonsense? To me, this is all nonsense. But it is difficult to understand, as if there is a Zen opportunity."

Wang Xiao took a sip of wine, looked at the waning moon in the sky, and didn't speak for a long time.

Zen machine, where did the Zen machine come from?But when you calm down and study the world down-to-earth, you will find that this world is very different from the world you know.It is not that the world has changed, but that we have never seriously understood the world.

For a lot of people, it's a laugh-out-loud statement.I live in this world, eat, dress, work, sleep, everything is what I really feel, how can I not know this world?But the fact is that the world that a person really feels is only a part, and most of what he knows is what he hears, learns, or even imagines.

In the previous life, there were some games about knowledge on the Internet.A common sense question that is often asked is how many relative provinces there are in China.For example, north and south are relative, and east and west are relative.This is the most basic geography question, but people often answer it wrong, and everyone laughs.But few people have really thought about it. There is no such term in geographical knowledge, only the provinces.Some teachers watched this video on the Internet and thought it was a good teaching subject, so they taught it to their students.Learned in class, not from formal geography textbooks, but from teachers.

In fact, some of these north-south and east-west relatives are true.For example, Guangdong and Guangxi, from the Song Dynasty, divided Guangnan Road into two Guangnan East Road and Guangnan West Road.For example, in Hunan and Hubei, the Song Dynasty also divided Jinghu Road into two, Jinghu South Road and Jinghu North Road.

But there is another part, not so, just a coincidence.For example, Shandong and Shanxi did not divide into two from one administrative region, but appeared successively.Whether it is because there is Taihang Mountain in the middle is only guessed by later generations.Shandong and Shanxi, which are really divided into two, should be the two administrative regions of Shannan East and Shannan West in the Tang Dynasty according to later generations.

Such as Henan and Hebei.In the Tang Dynasty, it was indeed divided into Hebei Road and Henan Road according to the Yellow River.The Song Dynasty inherited Hebei Road and renamed it Hebei Road.However, Henan Road did not inherit, but because the capital was in Kaifeng, it was divided into two parts, Jingdong Road and Jingxi Road.Puppet Qi was established, Jingdong Road was renamed Shandong Road, and most of Jingxi Road was renamed Henanfu Road.At this time, Henan Fu Road, the name clearly comes from Henan Fu.The name of Henan Prefecture comes from the fact that Henan County is south of the Luohe River.Henan and Hebei are not relative, the names are just a coincidence.

Without studying the origin, it is easy to regard Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, and Hebei as the same province naming form as Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan, and Hubei.Ordinary people, this is nothing.But for experts and scholars, such mistakes should not be made.As for using it to test others, it is a joke.Those who can't answer may not have rich knowledge, and the same is true for those who ask questions.

There are so many problems like this in this world.So much so that for ordinary people, the world they know is actually far from the real world.Experts and scholars should eliminate the false and keep the true, remove these misunderstandings bit by bit, and restore the world as it is.But when experts and scholars do not do so, the problem becomes serious.

Common sense issues are just people's daily talk, but some major issues are not so simple.

In life, there are often conflicts between the people and the government, and the government's handling is not satisfactory.At this time, some people say, why should people in the government waste taxpayers' money.The word taxpayer, you can tell by the name, it does not come from the general regime tradition.In fact, most of the local governments in European and American civilizations come from the aristocracy or local self-government.Local self-governments are financed by taxpayers.Most of these taxpayers are industrial and commercial owners, and economically they are the local elites.Because of this, there are such questions from taxpayers.The bourgeois revolution, the local government dominated by industry and commerce, overthrew the nobility and established a new country.The scope of taxpayers has expanded, and many people feel that they have paid taxes and have become taxpayers in the traditional sense.Obviously, this is the political tradition of European and American civilization and has nothing to do with other places.

In China, the people are the masters of the country, and the government serves the people.Citizens receive government services regardless of whether they are taxpayers or not.In fact, beggars on the street don't pay taxes, so the government doesn't care?According to taxpayer logic, poverty alleviation policies are simply inexplicable.

How many people are confused about such an obvious thing?Many people think that this term comes from the West, and they use it to show that they are well-informed and in line with international trends.Even some officials use it in this way regardless of political principles.

For another example, at some point in time, the idea of ​​self-government by the local virtuous people suddenly appeared in many places.Some people actively advocate and advocate it, saying that it is the essence of traditional Chinese culture.Some people strongly opposed it, saying that the traditional dross had emerged.Those who advocate it quote scriptures and say that there are many benefits.Those who oppose dig deep into history, from the nobles in the pre-Qin period to the squires in the imperial examination, saying that the sages of the country only represent the interests of a small number of people.

Amidst all the hustle and bustle, Wang Xiaolie also attracted attention.But after reading the statements of all parties, according to their statements, I flipped through the history books a little bit, and I couldn't help but have a doubt in my heart.Is this self-government by the sages a Chinese tradition?

If this is a Chinese tradition, what is the unification of Qin Shihuang?The political traditions and social realities of Chinese dynasties rarely see the shadow of self-government by village virtuous people.If there is any similarity, it can only be that during the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered retired officials to return to their hometowns, thus creating a class of squires.At other times, except when the society collapsed in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, there was no shadow of Xiangxian autonomy.

Advocates say this is a Chinese tradition, which is extremely funny.Those who oppose it have searched the history books and counted the sages of all generations, and they are equally ignorant.A non-existent thing has been turned into a Chinese tradition by people from both positive and negative sides, which is a big joke in the world.

Where is the tradition of Xiangxian autonomy?In his previous life, Wang Xiaolie was a bumpkin. He had never been abroad, never seen the outside world, and he was not rich in knowledge.Only through the knowledge in history books that I have learned, and through movies and TV shows, I also know that it is a European and American tradition.

To put it bluntly, the self-government of township sages, like the taxpayers mentioned above, is a tradition of self-governing towns and towns beyond the control of European aristocrats.In other words, these sages are taxpayers.The bourgeois revolution overthrew the nobility, and autonomous towns became the background of European and American politics.

What about taxpayers, what about self-government by the local virtuous people? It's just that some people are taking the political traditions of Europe and the United States and wanting to set them on the Chinese people.There has never been such a tradition in China's history. To refute it according to the Chinese tradition can only make people laugh at the shallowness and ignorance of those who refute.

However, from a standpoint, Wang Xiaolie agrees with the opponents.It's just that such a person made Wang Xiao feel ashamed to be with him.

Cultural workers cannot be fools.A cultural worker must have a clear mind.Know what you are for, what you are against, and what you are saying.Confused, my side is impassioned, but completely irrelevant, how can it work?

The world people know, or think they know, is far from the real world.The truth that you think you know may not be the same thing as the truth that the world really needs.

Wang Xiaolie in his previous life was a small person, these things are just daily conversations, so they don't need to be taken seriously.The current Wang Xiaolie, as the leader of one party, must figure it out.Otherwise, it will be a passer-by in history.

(End of this chapter)