Kingdom of Heaven and Han

It was late at night, the moon had already set in the western sky, and the sky was full of stars.The cool wind blows from the Luohe River, carrying a trace of water vapor.

Wang Xiaolie looked at the starry sky with blurred eyes.

In the past few years, Wang Xiaolie has been studying and thinking, and has been facing difficulties. Only this year has a complete political thought.Although the area has been occupied for several years, now only Xiangyang, Nanyang, Luoyang and the surrounding prefectures have a basically complete official system, and other places only have officials who can collect taxes.In the next few years, we will establish schools, train officials, and firmly control all places.

Roughly speaking, this process will take five or six years.It was indeed a long time, but Wang Xiaolie could only wait.

Wang Xiaolie was very patient, and he had to be patient.The new policy is too different from the old one, and officials cannot be competent without training.In the past few years, a large number of cases have been accumulated in administration, which can be used as teaching materials and training officials.Only with officials can we really control the place.Otherwise, a large number of officials will be sent, and in the end these people will form a huge force, and it will be difficult to reform.

Not learning from the political systems of Europe and America is the result of Wang Xiaolie's deep thinking.

European and American political systems have a corresponding historical background.The most important historical backgrounds are the feudal lords and nobles in their history, and the autonomous industrial and commercial towns in history.At least in China, there are no autonomous industrial and commercial towns in history, and the feudal lords and nobles have disappeared for thousands of years. Learning from Europe and the United States is naturally various.

From the political system, and then advance to the field of thought.You will find that the two civilizations have fundamentally different understandings of the world.This difference is neither eye-catching nor ostentatious, but it is crucial.

Human civilization starts from basic knowledge and expands to various knowledge to form a huge system.Some of these kinds of knowledge are right, some are wrong, and some people don't know right or wrong.Wang Xiaolie's knowledge is limited. Apart from Chinese civilization, he only knows European and American civilization.Others, such as Indian civilization, Arabic civilization, Persian civilization, etc., Wang Xiaolie is also not clear.

The understanding of civilization is gradually deepened, and it is not clear from the beginning.Of course, this understanding is not uniform, and not all people can recognize this difference.Graduality and disunity of cognition are the characteristics of cognition, and there is nothing to make a fuss about.

From the initial contact with Europe and the United States, to the opening of the country by strong ships and guns, and gradually understanding of Western civilization, China has gone through this process.There is a huge pedigree from someone who stubbornly insists on being unchangeable to someone who advocates the complete westernization of language and writing.It should be realized that the wider the pedigree, the better, instead of thinking that only one or a few ideas are correct, and other ideas are either useless or counterproductive.The most important thing is what is the mainstream idea selected by this pedigree over time.After the mainstream thinking is elected, how many people still stubbornly cling to the old thinking.

To learn is to learn from others what is advanced and useful, and discard what is backward and harmful.The industrialization of the West must be learned. We must clearly understand the role of industrialization in promoting human civilization and actively study it.What is backward in the West, such as some religious ideas, must be discarded.Some are not yet clear whether they are useful or harmful. At best, we should be skeptical rather than accept them all.For example, politics, economics, and philosophy.

If you cannot get out of what you have learned and clearly understand the system of learning, then you should not be a person who actively spreads ideas.People should have such self-knowledge, and they should also have such self-knowledge.Don't study Western philosophy. If you don't even know what you are learning, just talk about Plato and keep silent about Aristotle.When it comes to thought, Kant, Sartre, and Hegel can only be clowns in thought.

We should be soberly aware that people's understanding of the world is not unified, but diverse.It should be soberly aware that any kind of knowledge system has places that can be learned and places that cannot be learned.

The Western philosophical system has shown its own confusion and hesitation since it entered postmodernism.No matter how many definitions are made and how many laws are summed up, they are helpless when facing a new world.

Other worlds may not know what their confusion and hesitation are, and it would be ridiculous to follow them.It's just that when facing the new world, one must have one's own thinking without learning from Western postmodernism.It is difficult for most people to have their own thoughts.

The world was originally very simple, but when we built the knowledge building, we added too many things to it.Most of these things are useless, only a few are useful, and some don't know whether they are useful or useless.In the face of this vast and complex knowledge, we cannot distinguish good from bad.

Wang Xiaolie sighed.

I can't tell which are useful and which are useless, and which are useful or useless.We can only slowly experiment according to the current reality to find a relatively reasonable answer in this era.Who knows what those answers will look like over time?

Take off some gorgeous coats, all kinds of political ideas and doctrines, in fact, that is the same thing.In the past, Confucianism expounded a beautiful three generations and demanded restoration.Now to describe a wonderful future society requires you to believe that it will come.In fact, what is really useful can be said to be 100 years from now at most, and no amount of time will be reliable.No matter how reasonable your theory sounds, what's the use if it doesn't conform to reality?
The next day, as soon as Wang Xiaolie arrived at the Yamen of the Xuanfu Department, he received an official document.Knowing the affairs of the Privy Council, Zhao Ding supervised the soldiers and horses on Beijing Southwest North Road, Yongxing Army Road, Yanyan Road and Hedong Road, and Zhao Gou decided to make a northern expedition.

Holding the official document, Wang Xiaolie was stunned for a long time.

The Song Dynasty paid attention to the use of culture to control military forces. It is unimaginable that the imperial court did not send people to monitor the Northern Expedition with such a huge force.But it was unexpected to send Zhao Ding here in the name of the commander-in-chief.

These soldiers were all trained by Wang Xiaolie, and Zhao Ding was the commander of the soldiers, but he couldn't command them.At least they should be the soldiers of the imperial court, and the generals of the imperial court will obey Zhao Ding's orders.But the existence of this lawsuit is enough to monitor Wang Xiaolie.

Putting down the official document, Wang Xiaolie sighed.Zhao Gou finally decided to make the Northern Expedition, and sent a governor to him.As for the East Road, needless to say, Zhao Gou personally conquered, everything depends on him.Zhao Ding was sent here because firstly, he was worried about Wang Xiaolie, and secondly, because Wang Xiaolie had been submissive these years, Zhao Gou felt that he could be sent here.

Zhao Ding's Governor's Mansion has a complete set of officials, which seems to be the case.But to Wang Xiaolie, it was just a show.

On the third day of June, Chen Xiaohui returned to Luoyang.As soon as he entered the house, he was called to Xuanfu Division.

Arriving at the official office of the Xuanfu Division, Wang Xiaolie got up and said, "Do it here, I have something to tell you."

Chen Xiaohui said: "In front of Prime Minister Xuan, where is there a small place to sit?"

Wang Xiaolie said with a smile: "I don't pay attention to those. Here I always sit and talk, and there is no reason to listen to training."

After finishing speaking, Wang Xiaolie sat down, and Chen Xiaohui had no choice but to sit empty on the chair.

Wang Xiaolie said: "It's a special thing for you to be able to draw exactly the same as the real thing. I need such a person here. I don't know if you would like to work here? Don't worry, I will give you a good salary."

Chen Xiaohui was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said: "Yes, of course I am willing! If I have a job, why should I draw counterfeit money?"

Wang Xiaolie said: "Of course you will be punished for using counterfeit banknotes. I heard that you performed well in Xin'an, so you came out early. You should be rewarded for meritorious deeds and punished for mistakes. This is the law of the country and common sense. I hope you Don't take it to heart."

Chen Xiaohui hurriedly said: "Of course the small ones don't dare!"

Wang Xiaolie nodded: "It's good if you can think about it this way. For the time being, you go to the painting academy first and get the same salary as other painters. Of course, other painters will paint some paintings by themselves and earn some extra money. This is something you can't compare .”

Chen Xiaohui said: "How dare you compare with those national players? I am very grateful to be able to get the same salary."

Wang Xiaolie said: "In the painting academy, you don't need to draw some high-quality goods like other painters. What you have to do is to draw them on the paper based on the existing objects. For example, crickets, such as cicadas, For example, frogs, all kinds of similar things. Try to be the same, according to the pictures, people will not admit mistakes."

Chen Xiaohui said: "I obey."

Wang Xiaolie smiled and said: "This is a big project, you have to know it in your heart. We are going to compile a book, and everything in the world is in this book. People can recognize everything clearly by holding this book. .Similar to Jin Zhanghua's "Natural History", but there are no gods and ghosts, only real things."

Chen Xiaohui didn't know many words, let alone read it, and didn't know what "Natural History" was.But listening to the name, Wang Xiaolie should compile a book to increase people's knowledge, which should be about things in the real world.

What Wang Xiaolie wanted to compile was actually a book like an encyclopedia.It takes many years and a lot of manpower to compile this kind of book, and Chen Xiaohui was the first person selected by Wang Xiaolie.Then, according to the actual situation, choose the right person to do it.

Talking about books with Chen Xiaohui, Wang Xiaolie said: "Now there is a shortage of people, and there is a shortage of suitable people for everything. You have to draw various drawings and train a few students at the same time. If possible, even organize a A school dedicated to teaching people who have no talent for painting, but paint what they look like."

Chen Xiaohui said: "Mr. Xuan values ​​the little ones so much, how dare you do your best!"

"Okay, okay, I feel more at ease if you think so." Wang Xiaolie nodded repeatedly and sent Chen Xiaohui away.

Chen Xiaohui left, and Wang Xiaolie sat alone, drinking tea slowly.After the end of the First World War in Taiyuan and the Luoyang area settled down, it was time to think about some cultural issues.Compiling an encyclopedia, compiling a pharmacopoeia, compiling a mechanical manual, and compiling a chemical manual can be regarded as the immortal property left by oneself to future generations.