Kingdom of Heaven and Han

Chapter 484 It's Just I Don't Like It
Look at the people below.Some people are looking forward to it, but more people are confused.Wang Xiaolie felt a little helpless.This is the first time these people have heard such a statement. Many people don't understand what it means.

What can I do?It can only rely on time to let everyone understand slowly.After thinking about it, Wang Xiaolie turned around and drew two curved lines on the blackboard.A flat and slow normal distribution with large variance.The other is thin and tall, and it is a normal distribution with small variance.

Pointing to the two curves, Wang Xiao said: "The line on the left is the normal distribution when the variance is large. The line on the right is the normal curve when the variance is small. After you enter the school, these are important Now I have an impression. We hope that the society under our governance will be like the one on the left, where the variance is relatively large, and there are all kinds of people and things in society. We don’t want to live in the world like the one on the right. It’s not allowed to do this, and it’s not allowed to do that, the whole society is the same.”

"The Master said, at seventy, do what you want without transgressing the rules. We hope that the people under our rule can have such a state. Living in the world, we are not afraid of breaking the law if we do this, or breaking the law if we do that, and we can live happily. We hope that when we rule The people below, when going out, don’t be afraid of being bullied, and don’t encounter thieves and robbers at every turn. There are rich and poor people, but there is no high or low.”

"Such a society requires the government not to ignore everything, nor to manage everything. In principle, except for important matters, general affairs are supervised by the private government. The private government can be close to the people, and the government supervision ensures fairness and justice. Commercial The management is in the charge of the guild. The guild should not be too large. As a general requirement, there must be more than two in the state city, and one in the county. Larger cities can have more. The person who manages the guild is engaged in the industry The government sends officials to supervise the people who work on errands. The rural markets also send messengers to be supervised by officials. The principle of setting up officials in the government is to go to the county and the people below to manage them. The people are convinced."

Speaking of this, Wang Xiaolie smiled.Said: "Speaking seriously, there are no reliable officials, and there is no way to evade. These things can only be said. If the government does not send officials, it will not be long before the place will be controlled by the powerful. Guandu, not just a name, It really needs to be supervised. Only when the government supervises it well, can the affairs run by the people be done well. The core of everything is still the word "official."

After the Qin Dynasty, China was a unified government, and all power was in the hands of the government.Except for special periods, as long as the government wants to do it, there is nothing that cannot be done.This is different from Europe.One must understand this difference and not be confused by the knowledge of later generations.

During the Middle Ages in Europe, there were two societies.From kings to nobles at all levels, feudalism is a kind of rule.The merchant towns everywhere, having no obligation to the king and nobles except to pay taxes, were of another kind.The bourgeois revolution means that the industrial and commercial people in the towns, that is, the bourgeoisie in later generations, overthrew the king and nobles and became the rulers themselves.

Most of the various theories that emerged in Europe cannot be separated from this foundation.Ballot politics, to a large extent, is derived from the selection of administrative officials by industrial and commercial towns.A large number of political ideas also come from this tradition.For example, social contract theory is also a contract between industrial and commercial people in cities and towns and the government.The same goes for other ideas.

If you don't understand your own political traditions and your own nation's history, you can blindly learn from the West. That's not good.

Western political thought, no matter what doctrine or thought it is, is related to the traditions of industrial and commercial cities and towns, and the second is related to common religious beliefs.If you don't have this condition, you can't understand the thinking of Westerners in many cases.

For example, everyone is equal, which means that everyone is equal under God, which has religious meaning.If you don't have religious thoughts, you will be confused. How can people be born equal?Whether it is history or reality, is there an equal place?What exactly is equality?
For example, freedom refers to the power that God bestows on people to be free, and it also has religious meaning.Without religion, it is difficult for other people to understand what freedom really means.Is it political freedom?Or economic freedom?Or freedom of thought?

The discussion of human nature in traditional Chinese thought, such as the theory of good nature and evil nature, is difficult to see in the West.Because of religion, these are not people to discuss.The exploration of human nature is indispensable to political thought.

When I went to school in my previous life and learned Marxism-Leninism, the first thing I had to learn was the definition of a person.By definition of person, start the discussion of society.

A lot of knowledge that was very lively in previous lives has no meaning at all to traditional China.Going back to traditional China, talking about a bourgeois revolution and wanting the bourgeoisie to take power is purely ridiculous.As for why the Ming Dynasty had the germs of capitalism, some people even said that the Song Dynasty had it, but it is far-fetched to compare Chinese history with Western history.In ancient China, where did the bourgeoisie come from?
It's just that there was no need to think about this problem in the previous life, and I didn't see the specific implementation measures.

Speaking of which, Europeans and Americans especially like to make a fuss about border issues, which may be related to their emphasis on conceptual definitions.For people, they argue about how many genders there are, etc. Outsiders will inevitably be puzzled.

Wang Xiaolie said: "For the affairs of the government, the energy should be focused on the problems that are difficult for the people to solve by themselves, not the trivial details. For example, how to collect less and less taxes, but also to make the government's money worry-free. In the reform of Xining period, the government searched too much and too carefully for the people, which is too much. But it cannot ignore the industrial and commercial activities of the people. As long as the government does not care, it will not be long before it will be powerful Lin Li. Our approach is to encourage the management of guilds, but not allow them to be self-governing. The management of guilds must be under the rules set by the government. If they exceed these rules, they must be punished. At this time, the officials in charge of government supervision Especially important. Merchants will inevitably bribe them when interests dictate. Once they are bribed, the system will fail.”

Speaking of this, Wang Xiaolie looked at the crowd and said: "Everyone should have heard clearly that the government's supervision of officials is very important. As long as one official fails in his duties, it will affect a large area. Therefore, our supervision system will be worse than before. Be strict. Everyone must be mentally prepared. After becoming an official, if you do something you shouldn’t do, you will definitely be arrested. Anyone who is caught will definitely be punished. Don’t think that you are irreplaceable. If you punish one, there will be a lot of people behind you. Sit in your seat. As long as you are an official with peace of mind and try to play your role well, you will not lose your glory."

"A few days ago, the officials of the Zhenfu Department went to a restaurant to drink together. There were two people in the middle who came to play Qiao Hesheng. It was very interesting, and all the officials laughed. Chen Sensui who was next to me asked me, and the other officials laughed. Why did the Zhenfu Don’t laugh? At that time, I noticed that I didn’t laugh. After thinking about it for a long time, I couldn’t think of a reason, so I had to say that this scene is very good, but I don’t like it.”

Speaking of this, Wang Xiaolie smiled bitterly: "Oh, it's just that I don't like it. At that time, I realized that I haven't laughed for a long time. I haven't even felt the emotions that ordinary people should have for a long time. I say do it. Officials are acting like gods. Many people think this is funny. Let me tell you, it’s not funny. You won’t know until you really do it and do it well. You will lose your emotions and emotions unconsciously. People should have a lot of emotions. At that time, I realized why I said it was acting. Because you have to get out of the role of acting as soon as you take off the official uniform, and then you will have human emotions. If you can’t get out, it will be difficult for your life It's sad."

(End of this chapter)