Kingdom of Heaven and Han

Chapter 311 Headaches
Tang Zhe only stayed in the inn for one night, and the next day he said he had business, so he said goodbye and left.Huang Yuanwai saw the vacancy, how could he bear it?That night, I bought a chicken, a large piece of meat, and a gourd of wine, and it was next night.

Lin Shengyuan looked at it coldly and didn't say much.Huang Yuanwai didn't return to his room until midnight, Lin Shengyuan didn't bother to ask.

It is already August, and the fields are still green.It's just green, mixed with withered and yellow leaves, telling people that autumn is near.

Wang Xiaolie rode on the horse, looking at the surrounding scenery, with mixed feelings in his heart.A year and a half ago, I set off from Ruzhou to chase Yang Jin southward.In this way, Xiangyang and Dengzhou were occupied, and large tracts of land were occupied.The [-] soldiers and horses under him quickly expanded to [-].This speed is too fast, so fast that I feel scared.If the expansion is too fast, the morale of the subordinates will be unstable, and the number of personnel will be insufficient, so it will always feel unreliable.

When Wu Shu came to the west, Wang Xiaolie led an army of [-] to go north and returned to his hometown Ruzhou again.Setting foot on the land of Ruzhou seems like a lifetime away.

At the intersection at the head of the village, Wang Zhong stretched his neck, looking at the intersection he came from.Ever since Xiao Sheren left Ruzhou and went south, I often heard news about him. I know that the family is big and the business is big now, and I don't know what Xiao Sheren has become.

Wang Qingxiu stood quietly by the side of the road with a calm expression, but mixed feelings in her heart.I haven't seen my younger brother in the past two years, so I don't know what he has become.Now there are tens of thousands of troops under his command, is it still the same as before?

Seeing the crowd waiting at the entrance of the village from a distance, Wang Xiaolie hurriedly got off his horse and walked over quickly.

Wang Qingxiu stepped forward and saw her younger brother approaching, her eyes wet without realizing it.

Wang Xiaolie quickly stepped up and held his sister's hand, and said, "How has my sister been these two years?"

Wang Qingxiu nodded: "Okay, everything is fine. You are out alone, thank you for your hard work."

Wang Xiaolie saluted and said: "What's the point of working hard! It's just that now that there are more soldiers and the territory is bigger, I also have a lot of troubles. It's getting late, let's go back and talk."

Wang Zhong came up, saluted and said: "Xiaosheren is still the same as before. I am still worried that in the past two years, Xiaosheren has recruited many soldiers, fought many battles, and won a lot of names. People will change. .It's still the same as before, good, good!"

Wang Xiaolie met the folks one by one, and returned to the village with his sister.

As the evening approached, several tables were set up in the courtyard of the Wang family, and the folks in the village were invited to have a meal.Big fish and meat, and the good wine brought by Wang Xiaolie were put on the table, letting everyone have a good time.Returning home this time, Wang Xiaolie also brought some special products from Xiangyang, and ordered the soldiers to distribute them to everyone.

The crowd dispersed, and it got dark.A crescent moon hangs in the sky, shedding a faint brilliance.

Wang Xiaolie sat beside the sweet-scented osmanthus tree in the courtyard, looking at the moon in the sky.Just sitting there so quietly, smelling the fragrance of sweet-scented osmanthus beside me, seemed to return to the carefree age when I was a child.

When tea was served, Wang Qingxiu sat down beside him.He said: "In the past two years, I have often heard your name. After suppressing Yang Jin, this year he fought two battles with the Jinren, both of which were complete victories. When the villagers talked about it, they all praised you. But looking at you, But not happy."

Wang Xiaolie said: "When I left Ruzhou, I just felt that if I had tens of thousands of soldiers in my hands and ruled a few states, no force in the world would pay attention to it. At that time, the Xingyi Army went north to expel the Jin people and let the people It is very simple to live happily. Only when I really have tens of thousands of soldiers, will I realize that things in the world are not that simple. There are many things that cannot be ignored or ignored, but when I really manage them, I am upset."

Hearing this, Wang Qingxiu laughed: "Da Lang, you think too much! Who in the world would not praise you for your current appearance! As long as you fight the Jinbing a few times in a down-to-earth manner, and grow the ambition of the Han people, then Be a great hero!"

"Big hero?" Wang Xiaolie was stunned for a while, then shook his head. "If I just want to be a great hero, I'm afraid I won't be able to do what I want!"

Wang Qingxiu couldn't help being startled when she heard this.Looking back at his younger brother, he suddenly realized that this was not the boy he remembered.A few years ago, my father and brother joined the army and left their hometown. When my brother accompanied me, he was just a young man with still-haired nipples.In a few years, fighting on the battlefield, my brother quickly matured.Now when doing things, my younger brother has his own ideas, which is not like before.

Looking up at the crescent moon in the sky, Wang Xiao said: "The Jin army broke through the Kaifeng mansion, and the second emperor hunted north. If you want to say it is shocking, it is not without precedent in history. In the early Tang Dynasty, how many times did foreigners invade Chang'an?" Burning, killing and looting caused hardships for the people. However, the two emperors were killed in one pot, and most of the clan was taken away, which is rare in the previous life. In the eyes of many people, the foreign race is not used to the Central Plains, and they will eventually return. Rectifying rivers and mountains is not a difficult task. But I know that this time is different from before, it is really difficult."

The Song Dynasty was the first dynasty in the Central Plains to be completely wiped out by a foreign race. This matter had a greater impact on China than expected.Although the later Ming Dynasty reorganized the country, it never reached the peak of the Han and Tang Dynasties.More importantly, Mongolia has ruled the Central Plains for a hundred years, and its politics, economy, ideology, and culture have had a profound impact on the Han people.After the Manchu Qing entered the Central Plains, all aspects of the Central Plains were affected.

The simplest example, in Wang Xiaolie's previous life, the Tang Dynasty was the most admired by people in the past dynasties.In particular, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, was revered as the Heavenly Khan. Many people talked about it with great interest and yearned for it, thinking it was the highlight moment of the Central Plains Dynasty.In fact, Tian Khan, the emperor of the Central Plains and also the nomadic people in the north, was a compromise with the nomadic people.Tian Khan is not just a name, but also means that there are two political systems in the territory, and the nomads practice their political system and culture.Tang is inherited from Sui.In addition to the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Central Plains dynasties who also served as Tian Khan or similar positions also had the later Yuan and Qing Dynasties.To some extent, serving as Tian Khan also shows that the empire is dual.

The emperor is supreme, and any part-time job is the emperor's condescension.The khan who also serves as a nomad can only explain one thing, that is, he pays special attention to the nomads and gives them political preferential treatment.In fact, in the Tang Dynasty, after the Anshi Rebellion, the emperor himself canceled the title of Tian Khan.In the context of traditional Chinese culture, Li Shimin is revered as the Khan of Heaven, which is not the highlight moment of the Central Plains Dynasty, but just shows that the northern nomads accepted Li Shimin's rule.This is different from Western culture.Western culture likes a long list of names, but Chinese culture has no such habit.

Another word is Tianjiao.Traditionally, Tianjiao is the self-proclaimed title of the northern nomadic rulers, roughly analogous to the Son of Heaven in the Central Plains.But in Wang Xiaolie's previous life, outstanding people liked to be called Tianjiao the most.Some people don't understand it, and some people understand it, but feel that this word is very powerful.In film and television works, and in novels, all outstanding characters must be called arrogance.

The Song Dynasty was destroyed by Mongolia, and later the Ming Dynasty was revived. One of the slogans was that the sun and the moon reopened the Great Song Dynasty.But in the end of the Ming Dynasty, Mongolia in the north was not destroyed.In the end, the Manchu ruler who also served as the Mongolian Khan entered the Central Plains and destroyed the Ming Dynasty.In this sense, the Mongolian khans lasted longer than the Ming emperors.

The destruction of the country by the Song Dynasty had a profound impact on Chinese history, as well as the culture and thought of the Han people.As for later generations, some people even think that the Song Dynasty was not a unified dynasty. The Northern Song Dynasty was the three kingdoms of Song, Liao, and Xixia, and the Southern Song Dynasty was the Northern and Southern Dynasties.Of course the Song Dynasty was weak, but for the Han people, where did the Three Kingdoms come from?
The influence of this kind of cultural thinking is far more profound than people think.Until the founding of new China, more than 70 years after the founding of the country, the culture of the Han nationality was still suppressed.Ideologically, it is said that it is the revival of traditional Chinese culture, and a large number of literati have risen to study Wang Yangming.Before Wang Yangming, there were very few people who studied it.It is said that it is the revival of Confucianism, but the popular ones are the "San Zi Jing" and "Di Zi Gui", which are not considered excellent works in elementary school textbooks.Not many people think about real Confucianism and traditional Chinese culture.

The popularity of Wang Yangming has something to do with the popularity of his ideas in Japan.In modern China, some literati looked around and suddenly discovered that Yangming's philosophy of mind, which had little influence in China, was actually highly respected in Japan.There is even a widely circulated joke saying that the famous Japanese general Togo Heihachiro has a waist card with a sentence on it called "bow your head and worship Yangming all your life", which is ridiculous and sad to say.There are even people who are heartbroken that Yangming's philosophy of mind was not valued in China, but it blossomed in Japan and completed the modernization reform.If the Chinese pay attention to Yangming's philosophy of mind, how can they fall behind Japan?Even Liang Qichao made an astonishing statement, saying that there are two half-sages in Chinese history, one Confucius, one Wang Yangming, and half Zeng Guofan.In a huge China with thousands of years of civilization, there are only two semi-saints like this?I am afraid that Confucius in it is still included because of its historical status.There is also a fellow of Wang Yangming's Zhejiang province who is the president of a party and the leader of a country, and he highly respects Wang Yangming.

China's glorious history and splendid civilization, in the end, the literati can't even explain it clearly.Why didn't China enter the industrial society?This question is called Needham's question, and it is asked by foreigners.Can the Chinese answer?The fact is that it cannot.Although many people claim to have found the answer, in fact most of the answers do not even have the depth of foreigners asking this question.

To be honest, Chinese culture has regressed since the Song Dynasty.Even though many great thinkers emerged in the Ming Dynasty and put forward many theoretical ideas, they had little real impact on Chinese culture.When the Ming Dynasty fell and the Manchus entered the Central Plains, the suppression of ideas became more severe.After the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China has always been war-torn.In New China, whether it is the Sinicization of Marxism-Leninism or the revival of traditional culture, there are really no competent people and dazzling results.

Faced with the differences between ancient and modern cultures, Wang Xiaolie often asked himself.Why is the obvious misunderstanding of Tian Khan and Tianjiao so popular in China?It's not that no one understands it, nor can it be blamed for the lack of knowledge of users and readers, but the general consciousness of a society.This general consciousness doesn't care what traditional China looks like, what they care about is whether they are happy when they read it.There is nothing wrong with thinking this way, the people have the right to use the language they like.The question is, how is this overall social consciousness formed?

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, strong ships and guns from the West opened up the country, and Chinese literati finally saw the outside world.In the past 200 years, they have not seen enough of the outside world, have not lost their sense of novelty, and are still full of yearning.As for the motherland behind them, what is the culture like, how brilliant it is, how it is backward, and what is needed for rejuvenation, they have no interest, let alone want to understand.

When talking about how to prevent China from falling behind in modern times, some people proposed that Confucianism should be abolished, and many people even said that Confucianism should be abolished.If Confucianism is not abolished, China will inevitably fall behind.If you want to ask why, there are many standard answers.There are many names for suppressing ideas, suppressing business, and suppressing capitalism.Regardless of whether these statements are right or not, they are not true.

This is the childish disease of literati.Obviously I don't know, obviously I can't explain the truth, but I like to ramble, and spew out a lot of inexplicable things.China was rubbed against the ground by the West in the Qing Dynasty. There was nothing wrong with the Qing Dynasty. It was all the fault of the historical ancestors. Are these statements a joke?The growth of culture is actually more difficult than national strength.

Wang Xiaolie's memory is reliable in telling him how to train a powerful army.When it comes to cultural thinking, it can only be a headache.

The historical facts tell me that in this era, if we cannot rise up, drive out the Jin army, and restore the Central Plains, the culture will sink.But I don't have enough knowledge to clearly understand the problems of cultural thought.The memory of the previous life cannot be told to myself.

(End of this chapter)