Wei Zheng looked at Fang Xuanling, a little confused, "What's wrong with you today? What are you feeling about? It's all nonsense."
"Why are you talking nonsense?" Fang Xuanling was speechless.
"Isn't it? You call these small changes? The Tang Dynasty has already been reformed into what it is now, so where are the small changes? As for those that gradually penetrate, such big changes will definitely lead to changes in a small area, and everyone will It's changing." Wei Zheng looked at Fang Xuanling and said.
"Okay, okay, I can't talk to you. Come on, come on, won't you invite me to tea?" Fang Xuanling waved her hand.
The two quickly walked to Yongxingfang and arrived at the teahouse Wei Zheng mentioned.
"I met Zheng Guogong and Liang Guogong." I don't know who opened the teahouse, but the shopkeepers of the teahouse obviously knew them. Fang Xuanling also knew that those who could open a teahouse in this place must be from a wealthy family.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for ordinary people to buy real estate in Yongxingfang.
As the most expensive cities in Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty respected the left. Naturally, these cities on the left side of the imperial city were expensive. Just arranging ministers and so on was not enough. For example, The residences of the Sixteenth Prince and others are also in this place. The residences of Li Xiaogong and Li Daozong are further to the left.
The markets on the right side of the imperial city are mostly dominated by temples and Taoist temples. However, after His Highness King Qin carried out reforms, no more Taoist temples and temples were built. On the contrary, many of the primary schools of the Tang Dynasty clan were built there.
After the two came in, they found that there were still some ministers sitting here, but everyone was obviously used to the habit of drinking tea and eating snacks here. After seeing Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling, they just sat there in advance and cupped their hands. , they said hello, no one came to disturb them.
I found a quiet seat by the window and sat down. A waiter came up to me with a smile and asked, "My dear husband, would you like some tea or some barbecue or something?"
"Uh? Are you already having a barbecue?" Fang Xuanling was a little stunned.
"Well, we just launched it. Do you want to try it? The mutton skewers are very good." The waiter smiled happily.
"Forget it, I'm old and my appetite isn't very good. If I'm not very hungry, let's have some refreshments, green tea." Fang Xuanling shook her head, and then looked at Wei Zheng again.
"I've always had an average appetite, and so do I." Wei Zheng shook his head.
"Okay, please wait a minute." The waiter immediately turned around and left. Not long after the waiter left, another waiter came over with a charcoal brazier and put the brazier under the table. , and then said with a smile, "My dear husband, the weather in Chang'an is very cold at night. Please warm up by the fire, but be careful not to burn your clothes."
"Okay, I understand, let's go down."
The table is a standard square table, with a shelf for a brazier underneath. The specially burned charcoal has no smoke. Now it is lit, and it quickly feels warm.
"By the way, what did you mean by those words just now?" Wei Zheng looked at Fang Xuanling and asked.
"Nothing, I just had a lot of feelings just now, and suddenly I felt that His Highness King Qin is really powerful. Many things can be described as taking one step at a time and observing ten steps at a time. The vision is too long-term." Fang Xuanling said with emotion. road.
Wei Zheng glanced at him sideways and didn't answer. Isn't this nonsense you said? If His Highness the King of Qin had not been so powerful, would the Tang Dynasty have become what it is today?
A pot of tea and some pastries were quickly placed on the table. The store was not too big, but there were four or five tables and a dozen colleagues sitting here.
"Do you think it will be the powerful families in the future, or the students who took the national unified examination?" Fang Xuanling asked while pouring tea for herself and looking at Fang Xuanling.
"Do you still need to ask? The numbers on both sides are not at the same level. It must be the students who took the national unified examination. At least the base is not at the same level. But you want to put them at the top, or the top in a certain aspect. Talent, this may not be the case." Wei Zheng shook his head.
"What's the explanation?"
"As the student base across the country grows, geniuses will naturally appear, but you and I both know that it is not just his mind that determines genius." Wei Zheng pointed to his head, and then continued: "There is still a chance. "
"Opportunity is not just a chance for him to get ahead and be reused, but rather how many forks in the road he has to pass through as he grows from a child to the most outstanding and top talent in a certain aspect, and if he makes the wrong choice at these forks in the road, One person, this person who originally had the potential to become a genius may be lost to everyone."
"And the probability of ordinary people trying to get this kind of opportunity is far less than that of a wealthy family, or even a wealthy business family."
"After all, the boundary between merchant families and wealthy families will not be so clear in the future. To put it more plainly and straightforwardly, children from wealthy families can have many more opportunities than children from ordinary people's families. Because the probability of them taking the wrong path is much less than For children from ordinary people’s families, the chances are naturally much greater.”
"Also, these children who come from wealthy families don't have to worry about survival issues, so their study concentration is even higher than that of children from ordinary people's families, and they are less distracted."
"What's more, it makes sense that children born from smart people and smart people will be smarter. Otherwise, the five surnames and Qi Wang wouldn't all choose to intermarry among themselves before."
"Although as His Highness King Qin said, there will be some children with problems, but if you give birth to more children, there will always be smart children. I have heard Master Sun talk about this problem, saying that it is survival of the fittest, just like It is a truth that animals in nature that adapt to their environment are more likely to survive."
"So, if you want to say that the mainstay of Datang in the future will naturally be children from ordinary people's families, because there are enough of them. But if you want to talk about the proportion of the top talents in Datang in the future, I think children from powerful families will account for The quantity will not be too small." Wei Zheng shook his head.
"Okay, Lao Wei, I have read a lot of books about Xinxue. What you said reminded me of the term I saw in His Highness's Xinxue." Fang Xuanling thought for a while and said.
"What?" Wei Zheng was a little confused.
"Survivor bias." Fang Xuanling said five words.
"Oh, this old man hasn't read it yet, what is it about?" Wei Zheng was a little curious.
"That is to say, after a thing exists and becomes widely known, it will give people the illusion that this thing is a universal phenomenon. But in fact, there is a big deviation between this perception and the actual perception." Fang Xuanling said with a smile.
