On July 16, Wang Xiaolie left Luoyang City with Cao Zhiyan as the vanguard and Yu Huan as the rearguard.
After walking south along Dingdingmen Street and exiting the city gate, Wang Xiaolie turned around and looked at the city behind him with deep emotion. After more than three months in this world, traveling between East and West Beijing, I was finally going home. What does home look like? Wang Xiaolie only had a vague impression, as if it was another world. In my impression, there is only an old house and a well at the head of the village.
Fear of being close to home. It was really time to go home, and Wang Xiaolie was inevitably a little uneasy.
It is one hundred and eighty miles from Luoyang to Ruzhou. Wang Xiao hunted twice and asked the entire army to arrive within five days. On the first night, we stayed in Longmen Town.
At night, Wang Xiaolie came out of the room and stood in the yard, looking at the full moon in the sky. In one month, it will be the Mid-Autumn Festival, but my family will never be reunited. The population was originally small, and his father died in the war, so now there are only two siblings left.
My sister is two years older than Wang Xiaolie. When I was a child, I was raised by my sister. The mother passed away early, and the father devoted himself to studying. Only the two siblings spent their childhood together. In Wang Xiaolie's vague memory, he only remembered his sister's small body, carrying him on her back, walking crookedly through the village. On one side of the road is a row of large mulberry trees, and on the other side there are messy jujube trees. I actually can’t remember what I was doing behind my back.
Everything before, now only that picture remains. A little girl, carrying a little boy on her back, walked through the road at the end of the village.
After lingering under the moonlight for a long time, Wang Xiaolie sighed and sat down on a stone bench.
After passing the dragon gate today, starting tomorrow, I will usher in a brand new life. No longer facing the world alone, I will have a family member. No longer wandering around, he has an army and a base.
In the memory of past lives, the army fought hard before the founding of New China, and the earliest base areas were especially hard. People develop a sense that this is very hard work. In fact, how can it be so painful? For most of history, there will not be such a powerful ruling force, and they will not work together to defeat you like in history. As long as we sincerely develop the base area, things will be much easier than imagined.
Wang Xiaolie has figured this out over the past few months. Many of my consciousness have been modified by memories of past lives, and I will have some stubborn ideas. These ideas are actually far from history.
For thousands of years, has China ever had a base area run as it was before the founding of the People's Republic of China? Cao Cao was stationed in the fields, Liu Xiu contacted the powerful families, and Zhu Yuanzhang built high walls and slowly became king. They all had great advantages over the world. My advantage is that there is a process of changing the world and there is an unparalleled fact that the party has established a base. I can teach you everything. If you don't do it well, there will be problems.
In my previous life, I read a lot of miscellaneous books and thought about many things in a complicated way. The real world is not as innocent as in fairy tale books, but it is also not as complicated as literati imagine. The most important thing is that the strategy must not be wrong, the policy must not be wavering, and the implementation must be resolute. Don’t think that those who do things are just tool people, and don’t think that everyone is scheming, they are just human beings.
The stories written by literati and the reorganized history often ignore objective facts intentionally or unintentionally, and focus on people's subjective consciousness. The characters they write are often wily and scheming, and one sentence has no idea how much meaning it means. How could the real reality be like that? People are people, not monsters or gods. What they say and do could be simple.
Wang Xiaolie remembered that there was a particularly popular book in his previous life called "Houhei Xue". I don’t know how many people regard this book as a treasure and think that the history they read is a lie and that what is said in it is the truth. To be honest, it was just a figment of the imagination of a special historical period and a special group of people. It's really like doing things there, you will find it difficult to move forward. The history books we read have been processed by humanists and filled with countless imaginary stories. If you dig a few more layers into it and think it contains a deeper meaning, you are just thinking too much.
Before going to Ruzhou, we must first understand the current world situation, determine our own foundation, and determine our main direction of attack. How to deal with the Jin Army, how to deal with the imperial court, how to develop and consolidate the base area. What governance policies should be adopted, how to train cadres, and how to train the army. What kind of country and what kind of society should we build?
The education I received in my previous life said that human history is a primitive society, a slave society, a feudal society, a capitalist society, and a socialist society. It progresses step by step. The previous stage accumulates the foundation for the next stage, and the latter stage is the contradictory development of the previous stage. inevitable. This consciousness has a great influence on people, and even makes many people form a deep-rooted concept that this is how human beings develop. In fact, if you really look at history, you will find that it is certainly not that way. The history of every civilization has parts of its social stages that are progressive, and there are also parts that don't fit in. It's just a question of how to analyze it.
A person is a person, not a stone, not a tree, not a grazing sheep, not an ordinary animal. The humanities have their own research methods, which are different from physics, chemistry, biology, etc.
Are there stages in the development of human society? Of course there is. A unified empire is definitely different from a tribe, and it is also different from a feudal state. A civilization with developed literature, music, painting, architecture, etc., and a civilization that can only light bonfires and dance are definitely not at the same stage. This huge gap cannot be easily eliminated by learning other people's systems or believing in other people's religions.
In the past life, more than 200 countries were divided into two types: capitalism and socialism. Isn’t it funny? If the system works so well, where did the large number of poor and backward countries in the world come from? Some tribal countries are actually rich, and some so-called democratic countries are actually poor. What's going on?
Human beings in the world are not divided like that. Civilizations in the world are not without standards.
When mankind was transitioning from agricultural civilization to industrial civilization, China was relatively backward and missed that change. Such a huge empire has become a hunting ground for powerful countries. This history of decline and oppression has had a profound impact on China. Why are we lagging behind? There are various opinions. What really changed the times was the New Culture Movement. Why is culture new? Because China's culture has fallen behind and has become a dregs. If we want to become stronger, we must get rid of the past and learn from the West in order to have a new future.
Is this really the case? The subsequent Republic of China government did not provide satisfactory answers. There are actually no new ideas from the north. What really changed China was the sinicization of new ideas. Whether to add the word "Sinicization" or not is completely different.
A hundred years of history have passed, and no matter what the purpose is or where they learned from, the Chinese still have not understood that period of history. Sinicization, these three words, have even been forgotten. Why has China emerged from its historical trough? Is it inevitable? Is it because Chinese civilization is so excellent? Considering the situation in the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China at that time, this idea was ridiculous. Is it because of the social system? Big Brother is broken and unconvincing.
The literati were confused. I don’t know how many people hate that they are Chinese and that they were not born in Europe. Since the Republic of China, countless people have tried their best to leave the country. If you can't leave the country yourself, you have to make your children foreigners.
However, no one can give a convincing answer as to why China has emerged from its lowest point in history. Even when a worldwide plague comes, and those countries that are beacons of humanity are full of ugliness, there are still people who firmly believe that they are beacons of humanity.
Looking back on the hundreds of years since human industrialization, especially the hundreds of years after the First World War, the situation has been changing, and countless countries have experienced joys and sorrows, ups and downs. How many people have used their voices to break the shackles of human ignorance. The rapid advancement of science seems to have changed the world. The once boundless earth suddenly looked like a village.
However, these few hundred years have brought too little thought to mankind, especially how mankind governs itself. Freedom, equality, and fraternity were once powerful calls to awaken the people at the bottom, to overthrow all exploiting classes, and were once the roar of the exploited. Then what? When the smoke of war slowly dissipates and the enthusiasm for change recedes, it seems a little confused.
Going back to ancient times, instead of emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business, can China be saved by implementing mercantilism? Can developing capitalism save China? Even learning to establish various constitutional monarchy systems, learning to establish parliaments, and learning to have a president, can these save China? We have gone back to ancient times. As the most advanced civilization in the world, what can we save? Save China, which was oppressed by powerful enemies in the late Qing Dynasty? For the ancients, isn’t it funny!
This thought from the past life is too funny. Wang Xiaolie remembers that at that time, he was deeply influenced by the ideas of the New Culture Movement, and many of his ideas were ridiculous. Many people even attribute the reason for China's backwardness to Chinese culture, ideas, and other factors. Whenever Confucianism is mentioned, countless people will inevitably jump out and say that it is Confucianism that made China a backward country. They even go so far as to accuse Confucius of being a national sinner for two thousand years.
Is it funny? Just like a child who just went to school and found out that his classmates were richer than him, he blamed his father. I feel that blaming my father is not enough, I blame my ancestors. funny.
Human society is nothing but child's play. How can human civilization be explained clearly with a few symbols?
Why did China emerge from the trough? Why does it look promising? This question needs to be answered by Chinese literati. If we cannot answer this question, China’s new culture will not be established. Without new culture, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation cannot be completed.
It is useless to blindly belittle history and criticize old culture. It is also useless to blindly cater to Europe and America and just want to change the bloodline. It is useless to laugh at European and American countries when they are facing the ugly situation of the epidemic. Countless martyrs paved a road riddled with bones with their blood, established a new China, and completed their mission. It is the task of future generations to sum up experience and establish a new culture. This task cannot be shied away from and must be completed. If this task cannot be completed, New China will be incomplete.
What did the memory of his previous life teach Wang Xiaolie? He taught Wang Xiaolie how to build a new China and open up a new world. Although it is unclear what the new culture is, the steps are clear step by step. As long as we get through this most difficult moment, with the ingenuity of the Chinese people, a new culture can always be established. At that time, a great civilization will stand in the east of the world.
Taking this step is like a fish jumping over a dragon's gate, and you will never be the same again.
