I am Da Song

Chapter 384 The key to completely leaving the closed society

In terms of wealth, regardless of the Qin, Han, Wei, and Jin Dynasties, or the Sui, Tang, Ming and Qing Dynasties, they all earned huge amounts of wealth abroad through the Silk Road.

Tea, silk, and porcelain are the wealth weapons of the Central Plains. They monopolize the economy and trade. The Central Plains dynasty can lie on the monopoly of patents and live dreamily, and easily harvest the continuous wealth of foreign countries.

But in the end the whole country degenerated, especially the corruption of gentry and officials, which caused endless harm to the country.

And the Qian family, a family that has successfully transformed and is determined to innovate, obviously has a lot of reference for Da Song.

How can the scholars and students of the Song Dynasty be like Qian?Rather than degenerate and become a corrupt scholar-bureaucrat?

And how to prevent Da Song from sinking into drunkenness and dreaming in this endless prosperity?
After Zhao Huan's inquiry, Qian Hui immediately said: "What I admire most is the grand vision put forward by the officials, so that everyone in the Song Dynasty is like a dragon."

"As long as the people of the Song Dynasty have this spirit and temperament, even if the country's mountains and rivers are broken, even if the world is poor and barren. The trillions of compatriots will surely be able to build their family, country and society into a heavenly kingdom overlooking the four directions."

Zhao Huan nodded approvingly. As long as the spirit is strong and a nation strives to make progress, then this nation cannot be defeated.

Even if the technology is backward for a while, even if it is poor for a while, it cannot be defeated.After one or two generations of continuous self-improvement, this nation will once again stand on the top of the nation!Re-create a powerful empire.

Zhao Huan asked: "Qian Qing thinks how can the world be like Qian's? Hundreds or even thousands of years?"

Qian Hui replied with a smile: "I dare not speak falsely about the world. If the officials are interested, I can tell you about Qian's ancestral precepts."

"Qian's ancestral teachings, don't seek for the benefit of the body, but seek for the benefit of the world;

If you don't seek profit for a while, you must seek it for the benefit of all ages;

Don't offend heaven and earth with your mind, and don't be ashamed of sages with your words and deeds;

Although the children and grandchildren are stupid, they must read poems and books, be diligent and thrifty, and pass on the family faithfully, which will last for a long time. "

After finishing speaking, Qian Hui looked at Zhao Huan and asked, "What do the officials think? Do you believe that my descendants of the Qian family can abide by this ancestral precept?"

Zhao Huan clenched his right fist and said firmly, "Qian Qing, the key to the matter is not what others think, but the truth of objective existence."

"Whether the world believes it or not. The Qian family has written this ancestral precept in the ancestral hall openly and truly. It is an ancestral precept and family law that is implemented for all members of the Qian clan!"

"It is the family principles and moral orientation that have been instilled in thousands or tens of thousands of ethnic groups since childhood, and taught by precepts and deeds."

"If there appears in the world an upright official who is worthy of being a sage and seeks to benefit the world, I believe that this outstanding person will come from the Qian family instead of the Qin family where Zuodu Censor is!"

Qian Hui was shocked and deeply moved.As an old man who is nearly a hundred years old, Qian Hui can say that he has seen countless high-ranking nobles and low-ranking people of all kinds, and is used to intrigue and haggling.He has already seen through the hearts of the people, but in this life, Qian Hui has never seen any subject of the Song Dynasty who has such a generous integrity.

Qian Hui's experience of vicissitudes over the past century can confirm that when the officials said these words, they really had the world in mind and sincerely hoped for the peace of the family and the prosperity of the world, not for the prosperity and wealth of the family.

With such an official family in the Song Dynasty, why worry about the world being unhappy?Why worry about the restlessness in the world?

So after a short silence, Qian Hui said: "There are many ignorant and selfish people in the world, and the darkness of people's hearts often makes the despicable people treat the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. Therefore, the world is declining and people's hearts are not old."

"Like Emperor Zhaolie Liu Bei, he was benevolent and righteous all his life, and generous all his life. Nowadays, some people use their own ugliness to speculate on Emperor Zhaolie's heart, and defile him as a hypocrite. If you don't know who you are, you don't care about your deeds. No one is perfect in this world."

Zhao Huan was amused by Qian Hui's statement, the founding emperor of Shu Han, Liu Bei was a hypocrite?

Hypocrite or not, the standard of judgment should not be based on a person's inner thoughts, right?As Qian Hui said, no one is perfect in the world when it comes to deeds, regardless of heart.Who has never had a sinful thought in his heart?

Even if you want to call a person a hypocrite, it should be because he did some evil things in the later stage, which does not match the image of a gentleman in the early stage, so he can be called a hypocrite.

No, I think you are a hypocrite, I think you are pretending to be benevolent and moral, and your heart is dirty, so you must be a hypocrite.

I asked about the specific evil deeds, and the inconsistency between words and deeds, but I couldn't find it.

Liu Bei, a person who taught his children before he died, "Don't do good things because they are small, and don't do evil because they are small", practiced benevolence from beginning to end.All his benevolence and righteousness are praised by the people of the world, not self-proclaimed.

Such a person, being rated as a hypocrite, does not make sense in terms of causality and logical cognition.

It can only be freedom of conscience, similar to defamation, unwarranted and other crimes.I don't think he thinks that way in his heart. Maybe he is evil and obscene in his heart. All these benevolence are pretended, so he is a hypocrite.

Thinking of this, Zhao Huan's eyes suddenly brightened, and looking at Qian Hui, he suddenly understood why he gave this example.

It doesn't matter what the track is!
"Qing is trying to persuade me not to care about those people who are not old-fashioned? To establish the national spirit and promote it in a down-to-earth manner? So as to guide the direction of the whole country and the formation of national character?"

Qian Hui hurriedly cupped his hands and said: "I dare not talk about such a grand matter. But I think that good, evil, beauty and ugliness are not static. For example, filial piety is a virtue. Why? It is always advocated by the state, so everyone in the world admires and obeys it. Do your best."

"It's also like painting a boat on the river. What is the beauty? Countless people praise it, and the desire is beauty. As long as there is a kind of virtue, it is admired and pursued by all the people in the world. It is like pursuing this beautiful woman on the river. What does it matter what you think in your heart? At that time, the world Everyone is Emperor Zhaolie, with great determination and honesty, with heavy responsibilities and long-term ambitions. It can be said that everyone is like a dragon."

Zhao Huan was a little absorbed in thinking about what Qian Hui said, this world still needs some idealistic purity.

For example, Qian’s ancestral precepts, if you don’t seek benefits for a while, you must seek them for all generations; you must not offend the world with your mind, and you must not be ashamed of the sages with your words and deeds;

For example, Liu Bei, benevolent and generous, don't do good because it is small, and don't do evil because it is small.

These ideas, which sound so noble and refined, are so far away from ordinary people.

But the world already needs this kind of ideal and nobility, so that there will be stories that shine with the brilliance of humanity.

Rather than kitsch, to cater to the inertia of everyone who wants to degenerate and rot.

When we tell stories about heroes, we do not necessarily require ordinary people to become heroes, but hope that every ordinary person has a pure and upward character.

The Song Dynasty advocated frugality, so it is rare in the world to fight the rich and extravagant.

Zhao Huan suddenly smiled, he was very curious, if Song Dynasty advocated heroism and said that my fate is up to me, how would this world change?
Thinking about it, I will definitely stay away from a closed and decadent feudal self-sufficient society hundreds of years from now!
What breaks the entire feudal cycle must be the general awakening of the entire nation, not a short-lived decree by a traveler.

(End of this chapter)