The narrator said: Ye Yu, do you think that if a country wants to become strong, it must be open to foreign exchanges?
Ye Yu said: If you ask me like this, it is basically the same as asking me whether one plus one can not equal two or whether it can equal three. How do you want me to answer you?
The narrator said: How to say?
Ye Yu said: How to say? Let’s talk about the ancient times first. In Chinese history, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were the most splendid and star-studded eras of thought and culture. During this period, there was an unprecedented academic situation where hundreds of schools of thought challenged each other and argued with each other, occupying an important position in the history of the development of Chinese thought. There were many academic schools at that time, 189 of which were named, and 4,324 works. However, the more widely spread and influential ones include Confucianism, Legalism, Taoism, Mohism, Ming, Yin and Yang, Zongheng, Nong, and Za.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the achievements of various ideological and academic schools complemented the ancient Greek civilization of the same period; the three major philosophical systems represented by Confucius, Laozi, and Mozi. By the Warring States Period, a prosperous situation was formed where various schools of thought contended. It promoted the development of thought and academics at that time, and also had a profound impact on the development of social economy. The key to the ideological and cultural achievements of that period was openness and communication.
However, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty implemented the policy of "deposing hundreds of schools of thought and respecting Confucianism," Confucianism, represented by Confucius and Mencius, became the ideological orthodoxy of the ruling class and dominated Chinese thought and culture for more than two thousand years. There is no longer any great progress in ideology and culture. Instead, it has been going downhill. The most direct evidence is that the Confucian ideology of later generations has deviated from its original intention, so much so that even Confucius probably couldn't recognize it anymore. Moreover, there has never been a saint like Confucius in the line of Confucian scholars in later generations, but hypocrites continue to spring up like mushrooms after a spring rain in the whole society. Its failure lies in the lack of openness and communication
Talking about something more recent, in 1840, the Western powers used force to forcefully knock on the door of the ancient closed Manchu Qing Dynasty, ushering in China's century-old history of humiliation. At that time, people wanted to strengthen themselves, their country, and no longer suffer the humiliation of Western powers. They know that they cannot continue to be conservative and closed, otherwise the only outcome will be the annihilation of the country and the destruction of the nation. They broadened their horizons and went abroad. At that time, the slogan "Learn from the foreigners and develop skills to conquer the foreigners" was echoed by many people. Although that sentence was in the wrong direction to save the country, it is not difficult to see from it people's intention to seek change, and that at that time people had realized that they could no longer stand still and build things behind closed doors. will die
The lessons of history are there, and the head of the Chi family, Chi Li, did not need to consult historical records to understand that period of history. That was because Chi Li was the person who experienced that period of history. At that time, he was not the head of the Chi family, but a high-spirited young man. Naturally, he also participated in the vigorous patriotic movement to save the nation. But later on, I received a huge blow because I saw with my own eyes the ugly human nature beneath the surface of unyielding resistance. Frustrated, he returned to southern Xinjiang and inherited the position of head of the Chi family.
To use a popular saying today to describe Chi Li's situation at that time, it would be: "I can only struggle, I cannot fail, otherwise I will have to go home, inherit the family's hundreds of millions of wealth, live there and wait to die. And in the end I failed. "
The situation that the Chi family is facing today is almost exactly the same as the beginning of Huaxia's century-old history of humiliation. In the same way, someone used force to open the door.
But damn, I, Chi Li, am not that old bitch like Empress Dowager Cixi!
For Chi Li, in the current situation in southern Xinjiang, since raising one's head is a sword and shrinking one's head is a sword, what else should he be concerned about?
Talking back to Chang'e, on the night of the eighth day, the Jade Rabbit, who had been forcing himself to stay quietly by his master's side, discovered that Chang'e's master had been sitting there cross-legged in meditation from the beginning, never moving once and motionless. But in fact, this is nothing. Even ordinary eminent monks in this world who can meditate can do it. But it is not easy to keep staring at the secret realm of unlocking the lock of the day, staring at a certain focus, without being disturbed by the outside world, without turning your eyes, without even blinking. Moreover, the Jade Rabbit discovered that there was a rhythm lingering around its owner, which seemed like Zen but not Zen, and seemed like Tao but not Tao. Perhaps calling it Tao Zen would be a more appropriate image
Suddenly, the pupils in Chang'e's eyes condensed slightly, and the original Taoist and Zen artistic conception on her body disappeared, replaced by a biting coldness that penetrated the sky and the earth. Even the usually slow Jade Rabbit felt the change of its owner Chang'e. The Jade Rabbit knew that this meant that there were enemies nearby. So Jade Rabbit immediately stood up, took out his fairy treasure pestle, and entered a combat alert state.
I saw Chang'e standing up slowly, her face was serious and cold, her eyes were cold and cold, her eyebrows were slightly furrowed, her eyebrows were slightly raised, and the corners of her mouth were slightly lowered. It seemed that the other party was a strong enemy. Raising his hand, a majestic and vast divine power condensed in his palm and was about to take shape. At this moment, the moon in the sky seemed to feel the call of Chang'e, and became a little brighter.
Chang'e stared intently at the dark place under the tree not far away where the moonlight could not reach
After a long time, Chang'e said coldly:
"Since fellow Taoist fellow Daoist is here to see me, why don't you show up and speak? What are you doing so secretly?"
After the sound, no one appeared in the dark place where Chang'e was staring. It seemed that no one was there at all, but Chang'e kept staring at that place without questioning her judgment at all. After a long time, a cold voice broke the atmosphere that was about to freeze into water. No, no, it should be this cold voice that completely turned the atmosphere into a frozen world.
"Fairy Chang'e truly deserves her reputation."
Before she finished speaking, a man in a gray cloak walked out from the shadow under the tree where Chang'e was staring. The man's face had been hidden under the hood, and only his face could be seen. With blood-colored thin lips, he should be a man from the body shape.
Jade Rabbit stared at the man with sharp eyes and very alert, and saw the corner of the man's mouth slightly raised under his hood. But the next moment, Jade Rabbit felt something bad, because Jade Rabbit felt that he suddenly felt sympathy for the man, and he could not move. , unable to think, but his body received the instruction to think and generally wanted to move. It was the other party's methods that deprived him of his thinking, so that an inexplicable emotion appeared, and that emotion made him feel: serve That man is a kind of enjoyment and an honor. He is even willing to sacrifice his life for the other person.
The opponent's illusion was just a slight smile at the corner of his mouth, and he had already controlled the Jade Rabbit who had the early cultivation level of a True Immortal. From this point of view, his strength was really terrifying.
