"Why not?"
"oh?"
Shan Gui became interested. He didn't believe that young people like Lu Wenming could answer such questions, but this did not prevent him from listening to the so-called wise opinions.
Lu Wenming looked at the mountain ghost with a "cheating" smile on his lips.
He said: "It would be a bit difficult to explain this to others, but since you have lived for more than two thousand years, you can clearly remember everything that happened since the pre-Qin period, right?"
The mountain ghost lowered his eyelids: "Yes."
Lu Wenming asked again: "Have you ever met me?"
The mountain ghost drank slowly and said, "Ah, I'm lucky to have met him."
Lu Wenming asked again: "Since I have seen it, I must have read the Tao Te Ching. May I ask, what is the explanation for a small country with few people?"
The mountain ghost looked at Lu Wenming and smiled sarcastically: "It's you who came to ask me. In a small country with few people, if you have machines but don't use them, if you have carriages and horses but don't ride them, you can resume tying knots to record events, live and work in peace and contentment, and never interact with each other until old age and death. This is you. s answer?"
"It was good to be innocent in ancient times, but times have changed."
"The karma in the world today is so heavy and people's hearts are so complicated that even if Haotian comes, they can't reverse it."
Lu Wenming sighed: "It seems you still don't understand."
Click!
The wine glass was directly crushed by the mountain ghost, and the scattered porcelain powder slipped between his fingers. He smiled "politely" and said: "Then what do you have to say?"
Lu Wenming said sternly: "The great road is broken, and hundreds of schools have emerged."
"Where did Bai Jia come from?"
"The emperor lost his studies, but he learned from the barbarians."
"What is barbarian? Those who are not in the middle court are barbarians in all directions."
"Thousands of years of civilization are the culmination of the study of the emperor. In the hands of King Wen of Zhou and Gongdan of Zhou, the "Book of Changes" studied by two generations has brought the study of the emperor into a completely new version."
"There is a central court studying the emperor's learning and climbing forward."
"There are temples in the center of the four barbarian dynasties, and the feudal states are divided into small states with few people. They live in peace and contentment and keep quiet."
"This is the scene of 'a small country with few people' painted by Lao Tzu."
"There are rare tools but they are not used. When the world reads the Tao Te Ching, they only see that there are machines that are not used, but they do not see that the prerequisite for not using them is that they are there. Where does it come from? From the imperial court."
“Have something but don’t use it, do nothing but do everything.”
"This is me."
The mountain ghost's expression gradually became serious, and he realized that although Lu Wenming was "arrogant", he seemed to really have something. Lao Tzu does not reject science and calls for a return to ancient innocence.
But when technology is highly developed, you can give up technology and return to the natural life in the fields...
Technology guarantees material conditions, but people’s hearts need to remember the past.
In this way, there is balance...
"The old man is really powerful, but even if you understand it, so what? The premise of a small country with few people is to have a single court. In today's world situation, it is simply impossible."
"As for having it but not using it..."
"Oh, people in this world are not worried about scarcity, but about inequality."
"Are you going against people's hearts?"
Shangui said that what I said was right, but it couldn't be put into practice, so it was useless.
Lu Wenming did not answer hastily, but said: "The emperor lost his studies, and he learned in the barbarians. It is from the emperor's hundreds of officials that hundreds of schools were born. This is the great rift and the emergence of hundreds of schools. These are about the Zhou Dynasty."
"You have experienced Da Qin."
"In your opinion, what is the fundamental significance of the centralization of power in the Qin Dynasty?"
Shangui did not answer, but stared at Lu Wenming. He knew that he had entered Lu Wenming's rhythm, but it was undeniable that this kid was indeed extraordinary.
He pondered for a long time, tapping his knuckles on the table.
Shangui suddenly opened his eyes and spit out two words: "Power, capital."
Lu Wenming smiled and said: "Congratulations, you got the answer right. Power is capital that has not yet been quantified. The Qin Dynasty started centralization. People have only discussed the political impact, but they have not discussed the impact of strong centralization on national resources. and manpower mobilization.”
"I have never considered the highly efficient military industry that Da Qin has experienced since Shang Yang's reform after hundreds of years of war."
"The technical involvement of the Mohists was not considered."
"There is industry, technology, and the resources brought by centralization, that is, the injection of huge capital. What does this mean to Da Qin."
"Your Majesty Shangui?"
Shangui spit out four words with a cold face: "Industrial Revolution."
Lu Wenming smiled and said: "Yes, the industrial revolution, a mild industrial revolution, uses the dynastic cycle as a small cycle to accumulate technological wavelets. In a troubled time, the fields will be divided equally, the capital will be dispersed, and the buildings will be destroyed , people will die, but books and technology will be passed down from generation to generation."
"Since the Qin Dynasty, the small-cycle industrial revolution has continued."
"Until...the Ming Dynasty falls."
"Other people won't understand and think this is a fake history that I made up. But you are the one who has experienced it personally, so you understand the secrets, right?"
Shan Gui took a deep look at Lu Wenming and said with a smile: "Ah, of course I understand, and the real situation is far more complicated than you imagined. But I didn't expect that you could actually glimpse the tip of the iceberg through history. .”
"Boy."
"When you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes into you."
"Be careful and you will never recover."
Lu Wenming waved his hand and said: "Let's talk about those difficult secrets later. Since you agree, you should understand that the barbarians outside the country did not have the conditions for a peasant uprising, so they broke away from the restrictions of the cyclical law of the dynasty, and capital expanded disorderly , like cancer.”
“That’s how the vast modern history was born.”
"So much so that we have reached the current dead end."
"They are like wild horses running wild. They are not satisfied with the land and resources plundered by the 'Great Geographical Discovery', nor the wealth of the current time and space. They begin to live in a desperate situation. They are not satisfied with the real space, and then they have the data world of the Internet."
"That's not enough."
“It’s better to say that they are not satisfied, but that the monster industry is not satisfied. The investment required will be larger and larger, and the research cycle will be longer and longer. This is increasingly contrary to the profit-seeking nature of capital. Here, It was only due to the distortion of such contradictions that the current strange situation was born.”
"And can feed the modern industrial system in order to enter the next industrial stage. Can carry out such large-scale, long-term investment that has no profit output."
"Only centralized power."
"And the greatest centralization of power is not any system, but... unity of purpose."
"That is to say."
"It's not the virtues in the world and the striving of people's hearts that lead to the torrent of humanity. It's the world and this civilization that, if they don't want to perish, must unite as one to form an unprecedented... torrent of humanity."
The mountain ghost's expression became serious and he murmured: "It's not that a torrent of humanity cannot be born if the world sinks. It's that if the world sinks, a torrent of humanity will definitely be born. But if it succeeds, it will be saved, and if it fails, it will be destroyed."
"Before life and death, did you have to fight hard?"
"Is... playing chess like this?"
He stared at the sky and did not ask Lu Wenming how this united force would appear. In other words, he already has the answer.
One hundred years of humiliation in modern times gave way to twenty years of golden age.
How much suffering does it take in the world to get that hard work? The world is unkind and treats all things as stupid dogs. If all sentient beings have feelings, they are heartless...
