Kingdom of Heaven and Han

Chapter 889
In front of the house, Zhang Yuan straightened his clothes and hat, and took a deep breath.He raised his hand and tapped on the door.

The door opened, and a soldier looked Zhang Yuan up and down.He asked, "Who are you looking for?"

Zhang Yuan said: "My name is Zhang Yuan. You go back and report to the master, he will naturally know."

The soldiers hastily let Zhang Yuan in, and said: "Qian Jurisdiction, just come in when the outsider comes. Qian Jurisdiction will wait inside."

Zhang Yuan stabilized his mind and walked inside.

Pingping was killing a fish by the well, when she looked up and saw Zhang Yuan, she hurriedly shouted inside: "Ah Weng is back!"

Zhang Jun's mother heard it and rushed out from inside.Seeing Zhang Yuan, he plunged into his arms.He kept patting Zhang Yuan's chest with his hands, and said in his mouth: "Since you have returned to the Central Plains, why do you still live outside? We have been separated for many years, don't you miss me?"

Zhang Yuan patted his wife's back with his hand, didn't know what to say for a while, but just sighed.

Zhang Jun walked to the door and stopped in his tracks when he saw this scene.Recalling that when I was young, my parents were so kind, and my family was happy and happy, the scene in front of me was a little dazed.

Zhang Yuan looked up and saw a young man standing by the door, tall and majestic, full of hustle and bustle.Between the eyes and eyebrows, he vaguely still looked like his son when he was a child.Standing there, I couldn't help being crazy.

Until Zhang Jun calmed down, he took a few steps forward and bowed to Zhang Yuan: "I've seen Dad!"

The mother turned her head and hurriedly pulled Zhang Jun to Zhang Yuan's side, saying: "You have been away for so many years, look, I have brought up my son by myself! Now he is a leader in the army, and he is considered a leader."

Zhang Yuan looked Zhang Jun up and down, and asked tremblingly, "How are you all these years?"

Zhang Jundao: "Since I came to Xuan Fu's subordinates, it's pretty good. Although there are many troubles, it's finally over."

"Okay, okay, as long as you are well." Zhang Yuan stepped forward and took Zhang Jun's hand, looking at Zhang Jun with tears in his eyes. "I've been living in the north all these years, and I really miss you, mother and son, all the time. God is sorry, we can still meet."

While talking, several people held hands and walked into the house.

Zhang Jun's face was calm, thinking in his heart, whether his father, as a spy of the Jinren, should talk now about what he will do in the future.It's better to spend a safe night in peace and wait until tomorrow.

In the house, Zhang Yuan let go of his wife's hand and said to Zhang Jun, "You are a senior general in the army, you should have something to say to me. Coming back from the front line is not a small matter, and it can't just be for reunion."

Zhang Jun looked at his father and nodded heavily.

Zhang Yuan said to his wife: "Our father and son have something to say, you wait outside first, don't disturb us."

Zhang Yuan's wife was about to say something she didn't want to say, when she turned around, she saw Zhang Jun staring at her like a knife.All the words were held back in my stomach, and I didn't dare to say another word.Over the years, Zhang Jun has more authority in the family, unknowingly he has more weight than Zhang Yuan.

In the backyard of Xuanfu Division, Wang Xiaolie, Chen Qiudao, Wang Ruohai and Chen Yuyi were sitting around.While drinking, eating meat, and chatting.

The meat is mainly pork with some lamb skewers.The wine is chilled grape wine, served in a glass, which is pleasing to the eye.

Wang Xiaolie said: "Now our civil affairs are mainly short of officials. Although we have established a school in Luoyang, there are still too few students who come out every year. We must find a way to recruit more teachers. It is best to run a short-term official school. good."

Chen Qiudao said: "It's easy to run a school, but how can there be so many teachers? The current school has insufficient teachers, and a large number of students have to rely on their own discussions. How to build a new school? Don't worry about this. I want to wait two or three years. It would be better to select outstanding local officials and let them serve as teachers for a year when they change positions."

Wang Xiaolie sighed: "Many prefectures and counties in Guanzhong now either retain their former officials, or have no officials at all. How can this work?"

Chen Qiudao said: "Even if there are no officials, it is better than when the Jin Dynasty ruled. Xuan Fu said that it is better to be cautious in this matter than to be indiscriminate. If it is not possible, we should appoint such powerful officials and group officials so that the local government can pay taxes and serve in the army." Just fine."

Wang Xiaolie said: "It has to be like this. However, the school in Luoyang still needs to expand its scale as much as possible, and it can't be like this for a long time."

Chen Qiudao said yes.

Wang Xiaolie said: "Actually, not only is there a lack of officials in the local area, but the army is also short of officers. We have a military academy in the army, and if we lack officials, we will speed up the promotion of lower-level officials. If there are no officials, this cannot be the case. Staff Chen must find a way to set up a school."

Chen Yuyi said: "I've thought about this. But officials who collect folk songs, Xuan Fu decided to rely on these people to understand the place, and ordinary schools can't do it. Now, there is an extreme shortage of teachers. So in the past few years, officials have been sent to the place first. Randomly collect folk songs, and in a few years select some outstanding officials from among them as teachers."

Wang Xiaolie nodded: "Okay, that's it for now. For a political regime, collecting folk songs is very important. What we learned from the administrative system is a top-down summary, and it is the official description of the folks. I don’t know the real situation of the people. What we collect is the perception from the bottom up, the feelings of the common people, and the real style of the people of an era. The combination of these two is the world and the real life.”

Chen Yuyi said: "This time the case of Xin'an, the lower officials are also very impressed. The officials who collect the news are indeed different from ordinary officials when they go to the place. They can observe some things that have not been noticed. These things are well known in the local area. And outsiders don't know."

Wang Xiaolie said: "Yes, what they saw was something other officials didn't understand, or even wanted to hide. Without these people, we wouldn't understand society. Now that the status of officials collecting folklore is low, there is nothing we can do about it. Follow-up They are getting more and more proficient, and they will make adjustments when they have merit.”

Speaking of this, Wang Xiaolie sighed: "To be honest, what I value most is collecting folk songs. If this whole system is done well, and the real situation of the people is revealed, it will be a great shock to officials. No matter what Whether it is good or bad, officials will treat them carefully. As an official, as long as they have the opportunity, they will deceive the upper and lower. Not to mention those who are small, but how much credit they have for bullying ordinary people. You can do whatever you want to hide, this temptation is enough to attract people. It takes a lot of energy not to lie and hide, it is not as good as when you didn't have to. How do they choose?"

Chen Yuyi said: "What Xuanfu said is true. There are still few people who are willing to face difficulties and really solve problems."

Wang Xiaolie said: "Without such a system as Caifeng, how can the higher-ups not know what's going on below, how can they govern the country? Of course, collecting Fengs can't solve all problems. If the Feng-collecting system cooperates with the administrative system, it will be useless."

Chen Yuyi nodded silently without saying anything.

Collecting folk songs is a unique tradition in Chinese politics. Needless to say, there was a "Book of Songs" in the Zhou Dynasty.The Yuefu of the Qin and Han Dynasties has been passed down to the Wei and Jin Dynasties.Later, as the theory of prophecy and weft was gradually abolished, the tradition of collecting folk poems was gradually broken.

When this tradition is broken, although the people can no longer use prophecy to cause chaos, it also makes politics a line from top to bottom.This is very unfavorable for rulers.Even if the world is full of turmoil and the emperor lives in the deep palace, there are many people who don't know the truth.

It's hard to say whether this is good or bad, but in Wang Xiaolie's case, the positive meaning of collecting folk songs must be brought into full play.Politics should not only have a line from top to bottom, but also a line from bottom to top, forming a closed loop.Only when the emperor is in the middle of these two lines, can the yin and yang complement each other, and the government is in harmony with the people.

You can't expect that with this system, the politics will be clear and the world will be peaceful from now on.There is a good system, but also people who implement the system, both are indispensable.

This is a characteristic of Chinese civilization, so don't be paranoid.

One of the most notable features of European civilization is the emphasis on rationality, which exists independently of the world.This rationality cannot be understood as reason, reason, etc., but the rational world in Western philosophy, which is opposite to and surpasses sensibility.

Why did you give the example of weights earlier?Because weights are not just weights, but a whole set of weighing theories.Western philosophy believes that this set of theories, that is, the rational world, is real, not illusory.Correspondingly, they believe that the rational world is real and the other side of the world.

Why is it said that the status of Hegel, Kant, etc. in the history of philosophy is equivalent to that of the great Confucians of the Tang and Song Dynasties in Chinese thought?Because the Confucians in the Tang and Song Dynasties could not walk out of the benevolence, righteousness, and propriety established by the pre-Qin scholars, and their thoughts were always in circles.Although they say that heaven is reason, mind is reason, etc., it is actually just some technical tricks and has not changed fundamentally.And Hegel, Kant and others also circled around in the theories set by previous philosophers.They talk about the rational world and the perceptual world. No matter how many technical means they have, whether they talk about the self, the ego, or materialism and idealism, they have not come out of the previous theories.

Outside of Europe, such as China, Araba, Persia, India and other places, because Europe has achieved industrialization, they learn European culture and ideas.They accepted the western idea that Europe developed because of European thought, especially philosophy.For Europeans, of course, this can be said, because their philosophy and industrialization accompanied and developed together.But to outsiders, is industrialization really a matter of European philosophy?
In fact, industrialization is constantly negating previous knowledge, and knowledge is constantly updated along with industrialization.Not only philosophy, but also political, economic and other theories, including theology.

Europe's admiration of the rational world will inevitably lead to theology.So, Jesus may have been born very late, but European thinking, when you pass through the fog of time, you will find that at the end of time, there is always a God there.

Of course, many Chinese scientists are staunch atheists, but there are also many who believe in a Creator.Because the Western science they learn is always incorporated into a theological system, and they believe it unconsciously.They don't necessarily believe in religion, but they believe in the Creator.

When passing through the end of time, Wang Xiaolie finally understands that people have different understandings of the world.This difference, in China, is not the difference between materialism and idealism, but the difference between belief and non-belief.The theory of previous life studies is just a kind of understanding, not a kind of textbook copied by oneself.

What are you copying?Western thinking has fallen into chaos, and science is obviously not suitable for Western philosophy. How stupid to copy it.During the Tang and Song Dynasties, resummarizing a political theory from Chinese culture was much more reliable than copying Western politics.

(End of this chapter)