Wang Qingxiu drank wine, took a piece of fish fillet and ate it. Said: "You just think too much. Only by not thinking so much can you be happy and feel the joy of life. By the way, after I get married, you should get married. Lin Guanren is very anxious. , asked many times.”
Wang Xiaolie said: "When you marry me, there are always a lot of etiquette. Set it in October, two months apart, everything can be easily arranged. Just decide the date with Dad Wang and the Lin family, as long as As long as I’m free.”
Wang Qingxiu smiled and shook his head: "October is about to prepare for autumn. Let's set a date and you will be free?"
Wang Xiaolie was stunned. Yes, if you want to guard against autumn, will you be free? If the Jin army attacks in large numbers, he must go to the battlefield.
After thinking for a while, Wang Xiaolie said: "Just make sure you are settled. No matter how busy I am, I want to get married before going to the battlefield."
Wang Qingxiu nodded and didn't ask any more questions.
Will the Golden Army launch a massive offensive this fall? Regarding this issue, Wang Xiaolie discussed this issue many times with his subordinate officials. The final conclusion is that everyone still tends not to. The last time they fought for Xijing, the Jin army was defeated too cleanly. If they are not sure, they will not rush south.
Thinking of this, Wang Xiaolie thought of the artillery that Zheyan had pledged and escorted. Since he is a member of the Golden Army, he will not miss this opportunity.
Just after the Battle of Jingxi, Wang Xiaolie and his own army gained great prestige and were considered to be the strongest army in the world. After a few months, everyone knew about artillery and its important role, so they no longer thought so. Many generals are thinking that if they have artillery, they will definitely have a strong army. The imperial court sent people to ask for artillery for this reason.
The Song Army was like this, and the Jin Army was like this.
Knowing the important role of artillery, the Jin army tried every means to obtain the manufacturing method of artillery. In the past few months, many batches of Jin Army spies have been seized in Luoyang, Xiangyang, and even Dengzhou. It's just that Wang Xiaolie has always been on tight guard, and except for a small group of people, the craftsmen involved in the casting only know one or two processes, so the Jin army has been unable to succeed. Wang Xiaolie couldn't do it here, so the artillery wanted by the imperial court would naturally become a target.
Are artillery useful? Of course it works. Is it as useful as others think? Of course not.
Without a research and development and manufacturing system for artillery, without in-depth research by the military, and without changes from system to personnel, artillery is just a more powerful weapon. It's a bit much to think that one weapon can change the war.
Just like in the late Ming Dynasty, the Ming army not only needed artillery, but also blunderbuss and many firearms. In the end, the Qing army was not defeated, but instead became a sharp weapon in the hands of the Qing army.
If the Jin army had artillery, could they defeat themselves? Wang Xiaolie shook his head. In the use of artillery, he is already far ahead.
Looking at Wang Xiaolie's appearance, Wang Qingxiu said: "My brother is lost in thought again."
Wang Xiaolie said: "Sister, forgive me. Now is a turbulent era. I am in the eye of the storm, so I have to think more."
The two siblings were drinking and eating vegetables, chatting about their own family affairs in the watery moonlight. Wang Xiaolie had not experienced such a relaxed and comfortable life for a long time. And this is life, the life that Wang Xiaolie likes.
If possible, who doesn't want to be unrestrained, who doesn't want to be carefree. Calculate every day and be careful in everything, so as not to exhaust yourself to death.
I am facing such an era, an era in which the Han people are like pigs and dogs, the mountains and rivers are broken, and it is difficult to survive. You can't just sit back and watch, you can only stand up and save all people from fire and water. I come from an era when someone called out that the people were the masters of the country and everything was prosperous. How can we be like the emperors and generals in ancient times, who only care about their own honor and disgrace and ignore the nation, state and people?
If you are like that, it means you are incompetent and unworthy of being born in these two lives.
There are always people who think that the people are the masters of the country. This is just a saying, but it is not the case in reality, and it cannot be done at all. It should be said that it is normal to feel that you can't do it. It is not easy in the first place. If you think that because you can't do it, the world can't do it, that's wrong.
Even if you can't do it now, you can still learn, correct it bit by bit, and work hard to do it. Instead of thinking that it is wrong because you can't do it, what you do is right.
Thinking of this, Wang Xiaolie said to Wang Qingxiu: "Since I arrived in Xiangyang at the end of the second year of Jianyan, now that I think about it, I have done a lot of right things and a lot of wrong things. I have said many right things and many wrong things. .I didn’t succeed, I was on the way to success. I didn’t find the right path, but I was on the path to finding it.”
Wang Qingxiu burst out laughing: "Why are you telling me this?"
Wang Xiaolie said: "Because I don't know who to tell. My sister is about to get married, and it will be difficult to tell you in the future."
Wang Qingxiu said: "What are you afraid of? If my sister is married, and you are married too, there will naturally be people who can speak your mind."
"Maybe." Wang Xiaolie raised his head and looked at the moon in the sky. Will there be one? Who can tell?
It’s normal to do the wrong things and say the wrong things. Wang Xiaolie also learned his knowledge from others. He didn't come up with it out of thin air, so it would naturally be wrong. There are both errors in the knowledge system and errors in my own inability to understand.
It’s normal to make mistakes along the way. Never mistake a mistake for a right, and don't allow others to say you are wrong. A human being is a human being, not a statue of a god. He who never says the wrong thing or does the wrong thing must be worshiped. Whenever someone tells you that you are wrong, you are disloyal and impious, and you will be retaliated against.
The knowledge system that Wang Xiaolie learned in his previous life was introduced from Western civilization. Chinese culture is also learned, but most of it is considered wrong and needs to be criticized. When talking about thinking, we must talk about the limitations of this kind of thinking and which part is wrong.
Every civilization is different. Even civilization is alive. It took a long time for Wang Xiaolie to realize this and realize that the world is not uniform, but should be rich and colorful. It's the same as watching TV, but there are many, many kinds of TVs and many, many kinds of TV programs. It's the same as wearing clothes, but there should be various styles and styles. Don’t look the same everywhere you go, be colorful.
It took Wang Xiaolie a long time to realize that learning is not easy, and it is even more difficult to learn well. It is even more difficult to learn to advance and get out.
European civilization, starting from the destruction of Rome by the barbarians, has had nobility and kings, as well as a feudal system attached to the land system. In addition to these, they have merchants, they have craftsmen. These are outside the feudal system and different from China.
The characteristics of Europe determine the process of European industrialization, which is different from other civilizations. For real learning, we must truly understand the process of industrialization in Europe, and also understand that there is no process of industrialization in China. Only by learning well and discarding the old can we truly learn well. Rather than others being like that, we just need to be like that. Who cares about the past?
If you study in this way, you will find that you have no way to go until one day you achieve some results. At that time, I wanted to learn from others, but there was nothing I could learn from others. I want to carry forward my own traditions, but I have discarded them all. I wanted to open up something new, but found that there was no talent. Really reached a dead end.
Open book exams are always fun because we experience simple exams. The test questions are all in the book, so just copy them. If there are no test questions that can be copied, open-book exams will often be more difficult.
Looking at people, this is not bad, that is not bad, it is normal. Only in this way can we know what to study. When something happens, you will only think of imitating this person's way or that person's way. If you can't think of a solution yourself, then that's wrong.
What touched Wang Xiaolie was that many people in "Water Margin" ate beef, and they believed that the Song Dynasty banned the slaughter of farm cattle and did not eat beef. They even made up the story about the heroes eating beef in Water Margin to show their rebellious spirit. This research method is really scary.
It is not that there is no data to check on prices in ancient times. Cheng Minsheng's "Research on Prices in the Song Dynasty" is a relatively serious history book. From the information in the book, we can see that it is not unusual for pork to be more expensive than beef in cities. It's just that Cheng Minsheng himself may have been affected by the previous statement and did not dare to draw a firm conclusion. The prices of beef and pork are not without context. If you look up some information, the price in Wuhan recorded in Japan in 1900 was 160 Wen for mutton, 160 Wen for pork, 80 Wen for beef, 160 Wen for chicken, 140 Wen for goose, and 9 Wen for each egg. It was actually common knowledge in those agricultural days that pork was more expensive than beef. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, although there was no nationwide ban on slaughtering cattle, many places actually had local regulations. China Statistical Yearbook, it was not until 1978 that beef prices caught up with pork prices.
It is precisely because of this kind of taken-for-granted mentality and not doing down-to-earth research that we can reach these incredible conclusions. And he was so proud that he spread these common sense to the whole society.
In fact, it’s more than just the price of beef and pork. For example, why have the armies of the Central Plains regime since the Song Dynasty been often inferior to those of the nomads? The sayings of worshiping literature and suppressing martial arts, and being corrupted by the weak culture of the Han people, come from our Qing Dynasty. It's just that at the end of my Qing Dynasty, the army was not much better, and even worse. Some people just insist on advocating literature and restraining force, and even feel complacent, thinking that they have the truth.
As for the organization, system, recruitment, command, etc. of the military, these practical issues are rarely studied in a down-to-earth manner. Some people have studied it, but as soon as they bring it up, they will be attacked and even laughed at.
When it comes to learning, if we neither study the history of Europe, where industrialization originated, nor study the history of our own nation in a down-to-earth manner, we will slap our heads and shout slogans. How can we learn well like this?
When we talk about learning, we talk about learning from the British Constitutional Monarchy, the British Magna Carta, the French Revolution, and even Russia and Japan. I just don’t think carefully about whether I can learn these things. If you don’t study the really useful things in history, what do you want to learn?
Britain, the United States, France, Russia, and Japan no longer learn from each other. Instead, they learn from their own New China. If you neither understand theory nor study reality, what can you learn?
For Wang Xiaolie, the situation he faced was very difficult, but there was not much useful information. If you want to change the world, you need your own efforts.
Are the things you learned before useful? Of course it works. But the purpose is not to do what others say you should do. Instead, you must re-evaluate based on the world you see. Step out from the learning of your previous life and take a new path.
