Kingdom of Heaven and Han

Chapter 667 Confidence
Jiang Min went out, Wang Xiaolie stood up and went to the window, looking at the summer scenery in the yard.On the big poplar tree, there were two maemis lying on their stomachs, and they were singing happily.Wang Xiao went to the window, shut up all of a sudden, and kept sticking his ass there.

Suddenly, Wang Xiaolie felt that the world was very funny, so he couldn't help laughing.

When he first arrived in Xiangyang, Wang Xiaolie was confused about what kind of army he wanted to build and what kind of government he wanted to build.The army doesn't know anything by itself, so it can only learn to build according to the memory of the previous life.The government is better, and they know how to put the people first, and try to do it bit by bit.

Thinking about it now, the confusion at that time was not only correct, but also necessary.If I feel that I understand everything from the beginning, I will not be cautious, it must be a big open axe.and then?Maybe there will be no more.

When the strong ships and guns of the West opened the door to the East, it took one or two hundred years before the East struggled to break free from the control of the great powers and tried to go its own way.There are various views on how to go your own way.There are China's "Chinese learning for the body, Western learning for application", Japan's leaving Asia and entering Europe, and India's non-violent non-cooperation.Of course, in various countries, there are groups that completely abandon their own culture and copy the culture of Western countries in an all-round way.

More than 200 years have proved that in various countries, it is impossible to completely abandon their own culture and copy other people's culture.Whether it is in Japan, China, or India, what develops over time is a culture that is different from the West and integrates its own culture.

Those who advocate abandoning their own culture and completely copying Western culture could say that their own country was too backward, and they could only take it step by step, gradually becoming the same as the West.When the Eastern countries catch up with the Western countries and are not at a disadvantage in many respects, this kind of argument is becoming more and more idiotic.

It's like an exam, a student who just copies the answers will never be a good student.Only when you fully understand the problem and come up with the answer can you be a good student.

I think back to when I was young in my previous life, when several students got together and talked about historical issues, some people always said that if China was like that country in what era and implemented what policies, it would inevitably develop.You say you want to learn from Britain, others say you want to learn from France, others say you want to learn from the United States, and even say you want to learn from Russia and Japan. The answers are varied.So students are just students after all, and they have such thoughts only because they haven't graduated yet.

People often ask, why didn't the industrial revolution happen in China first?This question even has a special name called Needham's Question.Actually, there is no answer to this question.Or rather, there are too many answers to list clearly.Forcibly listed, the various reasons will fight with each other, and cannot form an answer.Those who say that they can answer this question, without exception, are all nonsense.

The science of studying human beings, whether it is politics, economy, society, ethics, etc., a lot of content is nonsense.why is it like this?Because Wang Xiaolie used the method commonly used by Westerners in his previous life.First define a few concepts, and then list a bunch of rules to deduce the results.

Is the world like this?no.The world has no concepts and no rules. Concepts and rules are just ways for human beings to understand the world.So are there any rules in the world?There is, but it is not a rule that is commonly understood.

The laws of the world discovered by humans, whether it is physics or chemistry, information science or life science, are all summaries of knowledge formed by human understanding of the world.These laws are never true, nor are they universal, but conditional.

This is not only true of the humanities, but also of the natural sciences.What makes natural science more scientific than humanities is that the boundaries of natural science research objects are relatively clear.In other words, in the natural sciences, after a definition is made, it is not easy to touch the boundary of the definition.

After years of practice, coupled with the result of his own thinking, Wang Xiaolie believes that the fundamental rules in the world are limited but not bounded.The reason why there are degrees but no boundaries is because degrees exist naturally, and boundaries are added by human beings' understanding of the world.People cannot be omniscient and omnipotent, and this world must be blurred.One more thing is the existence of Dao.Those who don't know, can't explain clearly, but clearly know that they exist in the world are called Dao.Dao is not a thing, not a law, but something that is limited by human cognition, something that is not yet known or clearly explained.

What is the way of heaven?The way of heaven is by no means an existence where it is right to do this and wrong to do that.The same approach, sometimes right, sometimes wrong, some people do it right, and some people do it wrong.It sounds unreal, but it is real.

To know the world, you must always know that what you know is only a temporary state of the world, a part of knowledge.The laws and knowledge concluded from this are not eternal.Just like beginners in physics, you will feel that mass is real and energy is illusory.But when the object is really cut open, it is found that the energy is everywhere, but the mass cannot be found no matter how hard you look.

This is true of the natural sciences, let alone the humanities?Where is the answer to what standard is stipulated!Chinese culture has a long history and many sects. When we really analyze it, it is nothing more than either conforming to the will of God or conforming to the will of the people.Of course, there is such a wonderful thing as Legalism in the middle, and everything belongs to the emperor alone.

When Germany rose, there were some philosophers.Hegel, one of the most influential figures, said after reading the Analects that Confucius only talked about some common sense morals, which we can also find in other nations.We cannot gain anything in any special sense from saying that Confucius was merely a practical worldly wise man, with only some good, tactful, moral precepts from him.Speaking Chinese is a low-level language because it is not precise enough.

When the West is in full swing, Chinese people can't help but feel a lot of emotion when they see this kind of evaluation.It is still foreigners who dare to speak, and hit the essence directly with one word.So I also learned from Hegel and various Western philosophers.After learning a little bit of superficiality, I came back to criticize my own culture.

In the final analysis, those who do this have neither understood Hegel nor Confucius.The worship of Hegel is not because Hegel is so great, but because Germany is more developed, more advanced, and richer.

When China developed and did not learn from any Western country, these former thinkers did not know what they would think.

A big reason for the criticism of Chinese culture and the admiration of Western culture is that when China was poor and backward, the West was rich and developed.Why is this happening?Most people do not have the ability to analyze the cause, or even come up with a solution.After thinking about it for a while, I just slapped my head, because the culture is different.There is such a difference, of course, because Western culture is better.He even invented a set of theories, which became a famous science.For example, it is said that the industrialization of the West is due to the light of Greek civilization, and it is due to which or which group of philosophers.Strange, does Greece have science or industry?It is called Greece only because a group of barbarians were the first to enter industrialization, and they chose Greece.

This follows that after the Song Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty could not defeat the northern peoples most of the time.In many cases, there is even a world of difference in combat effectiveness.Many historians do not have the ability to analyze why this is so. They slapped their heads because the Central Plains dynasty respected literature and restrained military affairs.

I believe you a ghost!
Because of the complexity of history, no matter how outrageous it is to put forward an opinion on an issue, you can almost find a lot of evidence.If you write a book and list how many examples of literati suppressing generals when the military power of the Central Plains Dynasty was weak, it cannot be said that this is right.Because at all times and in all over the world, there are many examples that are inconsistent with this conclusion.War has its own laws, and this law is by no means summed up in this way.

After defeating Zhao Bin in World War I and occupying Tongzhou, Wang Xiaolie witnessed the battle in person, and only then did he truly build up his confidence.No matter past life or present life, those inexplicable preachings should go to hell.Practice does not necessarily test the truth, or in other words, there is no truth if one does not believe in God.But practice can really bring the knowledge needed.This knowledge is the cornerstone to the next step.

The Northern Expedition to Luoyang and subsequent wars finally allowed Wang Xiaolie to get out of his previous ignorance, gain confidence in the future, and have his own plan.As for what to do in the future and where to start, Wang Xiaolie already has a well-thought-out idea.

(End of this chapter)