Since the Accounting: A Chronicle of the Roman Khanate

Chapter 286 The Demon Kong Laoer Promotes Secular Education and Locks up the Empire's Technological Development (Monthly Ticket Required)

"The things mentioned above are all common, and more importantly, everyone's differences and personalities." Seeing that no one expressed any objection, Guo Kang continued.

"Personality? Is it the government part-time church?" Little Rangna asked.

"This is a manifestation. Of course, the actual situation is much more complicated than this." Guo Kang said with a smile: "If we have to talk about the difference, we may have to start from 5000 years ago. But time is limited, so I will keep it simple."

"Everyone starts with 'Heaven', 'God', etc., and the supreme being grants authority to the supreme ruler. Then, the supreme ruler distributes the authority step by step to establish order in this way. In the East, That's pretty obvious. And since Rome's dominance in Europe has crumbled, it's rarely seen here."

"For example, everyone knows the feudal towns in the middle and late Tang Dynasty." He thought for a while and said.

"I know." Little Rangna also nodded: "This seems to be a historical time period with a great influence. I heard it from my teacher when I was just enlightened."

"That's right, everyone thinks that the separatist regime is an important feature of the second half of the Tang Dynasty. But in fact, this 'separatist regime' is often misnamed, and the vassal town is not always in a state of division and war." Guo Kang said.

"A considerable number of military towns are economical, and their military strength is not strong, and they don't have much tendency to be independent. Instead, they are the main force that provides money and food to the court. Border towns and other powerful military towns may not necessarily ignore the orders of the court. On the contrary, Many people are willing to obey the imperial court—or at least superficially obey, and will pay tribute and accept officials, and don’t want to make trouble on the surface.”

"In this way, after the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty still maintained for more than 100 years even though the region seemed to have been separated. Although there were rebellions from time to time, the overall unity was maintained. Until the rise of Huangchao completely broke the situation."

"The reason here is not complicated." Guo Kang explained: "Because at that time, not only the imperial court had a headache about whether the feudal town would rebel, but also a lot of problems within the feudal town. Jiedushi had to worry about whether Ya would rebel, and Ya I will worry about whether the tooth soldiers will rebel. This way, everyone will be suspicious of each other."

"And the reason is, as I said just now: In the dynasties of this era, authority is delegated step by step. Everyone pursues the same set of ideas and believes in the same source of holiness. Therefore, the collapse of authority It will not stop deliberately at a certain step, it will only collapse to the end once.”

"So, if the Jiedushi thinks that the military is strong and the horse is strong enough to be the emperor, the Yabing will think that the military is strong and the horse is strong enough to be the Jiedushi. The arrogant soldiers and the brave soldiers appeared together. Only a small number of people have enough ability. Keep your soldiers under control. For most people, the risk of this matter is too great."

"In order to protect themselves, the upper echelons of feudal towns often need to rely on the moral support of the imperial court, because this kind of morality can provide organizational capabilities and form a deterrent to the subordinates. Therefore, unless it is a person with high prestige and strong control over his subordinates, only Motives to rebel. Not only are other people not motivated, but sometimes they even need to leave Chang’an on their own initiative and go to the emperor to escape the internal turmoil in the feudal town.”

"And these people are often besieged - because the imperial court has a larger organization. In this way, no one dares to break the existing order."

"According to you, this order was finally broken not by the feudal town, but by Huang Chao." Little Rangna thought for a while and said, "So, in fact, there are not many people inside who have the motivation to break through it?"

"Of course. If it is not forced by the situation, not many people are willing to change the status quo." Guo Kang replied in a natural tone: "Not only the people, but also the officials. Being able to exist in the original order does not mean that it can be maintained in a troubled world. .”

"The chaos cycle is a very luxurious thing. Restoring order after a chaotic world is not an 'inevitable' thing. In the whole world, how many civilizations can do it?" Guo Kang shook his head:

"Even in Serris, no one knows how long the troubled times will last and how it will end. Similarly, no one knows whether they will be victors or stepping stones."

"Moreover, many things that were taken for granted in the era of peace only exist because they are protected by order. Once they face real competition related to life and death, they will be ruthlessly eliminated. People who have advantages under the original order may not Just adapt to the new environment. So, of course everyone feels guilty."

"That's right." Theodora felt a little emotional for some reason, and nodded in agreement.

Monk Daoyan looked at Guo Kang with great interest, while Jeanna and her daughter began to pay attention to Theodora who hadn't spoken much before.

"But in Rome, once the country disintegrates, it really disintegrates." Guo Kang continued: "The empire did not establish a top-down, systematic religious system, let alone popularize those more advanced concepts. Yes. The major Patriarchates have been unconvinced with each other, and it is slightly better than the polytheism era."

"Until the great schism that followed was nothing more than the result, not the cause, of this chronic lack of governance."

"Then why is there such a big gap between the two? I don't think there is any problem with the church's theological system." Princess Jeanne said doubtfully.

"Of course there is no problem. In terms of the perfection of teachings, European countries must be far superior to the Central Plains. The various theories and logics in theology and philosophy are also much more sophisticated than the studies of Central Plains people." Guo Kang said bluntly: "It is better to say, from ancient times Since the beginning of three generations, the Central Plains people have hardly made any progress in this area. Even the completion of the world outlook and the concept of the soul in philosophy was brought by Buddhism. If it was not taught by the people of Tianzhu, I am afraid that everyone would not even understand this.”

"It is said that since the time of Confucius, they have made it clear that they don't like to talk about the world and gods on the other side." Little Jeanna also told her mother: "He is equivalent to our Socrates here, but his disciples Students, but they all think that theology is crooked, and only emphasizes secular education. In addition, some very important fields in philosophy may also be ignored.”

"There is such a saying." Guo Kang said.

Many people believe that the philosophy of the Central Plains, including natural philosophy, is relatively backward.The reason may be that it rejects theological research and emphasizes secularization.The representative figure in this regard is Confucius.

Of course, as the saying goes, the authorities are obsessed, but the bystanders are clear.The Central Plains people themselves may not be able to recognize the essence of Kong Laoer, but the people around him are.

For example, in Tibetan mythology, Confucius is called "Gongze Chuji Jiebu".It is said that when he was born, there were [-] ring-shaped "Gongze magic letters" on the palms of his hands, so he was called "Kongze, the king of Han magic".Some scholars also translated it as "Confucius transformed himself into a king".

Legend has it that "Gongze Chuji Jebu" can observe these magical letters to predict the future.He is also good at reciting incantations, and is the creator of mysterious cultures such as divination, incantations, arithmetic, and rituals, so he has become one of the four guardian gods of Bon religion.

It can be seen that Kong Laoer is actually an evil god known as the "King of Magic".It was actually his conspiracy to promote secular education, and in the end it really locked up the imperial technology.

Many people believe that the civilization of the Central Plains has always been in a cycle of reincarnation and stagnation, and has never made progress.It is said that this is not a random conclusion, but the consensus of the authorities.

According to his archaeological conclusions at that time, the civilization of the Central Plains is estimated to have a history of 8000 years—rounding up, technology has stagnated for 1 years.The last time science and technology developed was probably the era of the primitive People's Congress expedition from Africa all the way to the Central Plains.After all, people from the Central Plains will be counted as people from the Central Plains after that, and people from the Central Plains will not make progress.

Although Kong Laoer only appeared 2000 years ago, it is well known that once the evil god appears, it will spread to all timelines, including before this moment.Therefore, even if someone accuses "Confucius II of harming China for 5000 years", it is only a statement of facts, and the actual situation may be more than that.

Therefore, as long as these are imported, it can be explained.

(End of this chapter)