Arriving in front of the house, Zhang Yuan straightened his clothes and took a deep breath. He raised his hand and tapped the door.
The door opened, and a soldier looked Zhang Yuan up and down. Asked: "Who am I looking for?"
Zhang Yuan said: "My name is Zhang Yuan. If you go back and report it to the master, he will naturally know."
The soldier hurriedly let Zhang Yuan in and said, "Qian Hao has given instructions. When the officers come, just come in. Qian Hao will wait inside."
Zhang Yuan calmed down and walked inside.
Pingping was killing a fish by the well. When she looked up and saw Zhang Yuan, she hurriedly shouted inside: "Aweng is back!"
Zhang Jun's mother heard this and rushed out. Seeing Zhang Yuan, she threw herself into his arms. He kept patting Zhang Yuan's chest with his hands and said, "Since you have returned to the Central Plains, why do you still live outside? We have been separated for many years, don't you miss me?"
Zhang Yuan patted his wife's back gently with his hand. He didn't know what to say for a moment, so he just sighed.
Zhang Jun walked to the door and couldn't help but stop when he saw this scene. Recalling that when I was young, my parents were so kind and my family was so happy, the scene in front of me was a little blurry for a moment.
Zhang Yuan looked up and saw a young man standing by the door. He was tall and majestic, with a strong feeling about him. Between his eyebrows, he still vaguely looked like his son when he was a child. Standing there, I couldn't help but be fascinated.
Until Zhang Jun calmed down, he took a few steps forward and bowed to Zhang Yuan: "I've met my father!"
The mother turned around and hurriedly pulled Zhang Jun to Zhang Yuan's side, saying, "You have been away for so many years, and look, I have raised my son to adulthood by myself! Now he is a commander in the army, and he is considered a leader."
Zhang Yuan looked Zhang Jun up and down, and asked tremblingly: "How have you been over the past few years?"
Zhang Jun said: "Since I came under Xuanfu, things have been pretty good. Although there have been many troubles, I have finally gotten over it."
"Okay, okay, as long as you're okay." Zhang Yuan stepped forward and took Zhang Jun's hand, looking at Zhang Jun with tears in his eyes. "In these years, I have been living in the North, and I really miss you, mother and son, all the time. It's a pity that we can still meet."
While talking, several people walked hand in hand and walked into the house.
Zhang Jun looked calm, thinking whether his father, as a spy for the Jin people, should tell him now what he would do in the future. Let’s have a peaceful family night and wait until tomorrow.
When they arrived at the house, Zhang Yuan let go of his wife's hand and said to Zhang Jun: "You are the commander of the army and a senior general. You should have something to say to me. Coming back from the front line is not a trivial matter and cannot be just for reunion."
Zhang Jun looked at his father and nodded heavily.
Zhang Yuan said to his wife: "We father and son have something to say, please wait outside and don't disturb us."
Zhang Yuan's wife was about to say something she didn't want to say, but when she turned around, she saw Zhang Jun staring at her with eyes like daggers. All the words were suppressed in his stomach, and he didn't dare to say another word. Over the years, Zhang Jun's authority in the family has become more important, and he has become more important than Zhang Yuan without realizing it.
In the backyard of Xuanfu Division, Wang Xiaolie, Chen Qiudao, Wang Ruohai and Chen Yuyi were sitting around. Drinking wine, eating meat, and chatting.
The meat is mainly pork, with some lamb skewers. The wine is chilled wine, served in a glass, and it is pleasing to the eye.
Wang Xiaolie said: "Now our civil affairs mainly lacks officials. Although there is a school in Luoyang, there are still too few students coming out every year. To get this, we need to find ways to recruit more teachers. It is best to open a short-term official school. good."
Chen Qiudao said: "It is easy to run a school, but where are there so many teachers? There are not enough teachers in the current schools, and students have to rely heavily on their own discussions. How to run a new school? This matter cannot be rushed. I want to wait for two or three years. It would be better to select outstanding local officials and let them serve as teachers for one year when they are replaced.”
Wang Xiaolie sighed: "Nowadays, many prefectures and counties in Guanzhong either retain the original officials or have no officials at all. How can this be done?"
Chen Qiudao said: "Even if there are no officials, it is better than when the Jin Dynasty ruled. Xuanfu said that it is better to be cautious than to overdo this matter. If it doesn't work, just appoint such powerful officials and small officials so that the local area can pay taxes and serve. That’s good.”
Wang Xiaolie said: "That's all we have to do. However, Luoyang's schools still have to expand their scale as much as possible and cannot stay like this for a long time."
Chen Qiudao said yes.
Wang Xiaolie said: "Actually, it's not just the local government that is short of officials, the army is also in short supply, and Staff Chen's Cai Feng officials are also in short supply. In the army, we have a military academy. If there is a shortage of officials, we speed up the promotion of lower-level officials. If there is a shortage of Cai Feng officials, this cannot be done. Staff Officer Chen needs to find a way to set up a school."
Chen Yuyi said: "I have thought about this matter. But the officials and Xuanfu are determined to rely on these people to understand the place, and ordinary schools cannot do it. Now, there is an extreme shortage of teachers. So in the past few years, officials have been sent to the place first. Feel free to collect ideas, and in a few years select some outstanding officials from among them to be teachers."
Wang Xiaolie nodded: "Okay, that's it for now. For a political power, collecting style is very important. What we know from the administrative system is a top-down summary. It is the official description of the people. The people We don’t know the true situation. What we get from collecting the wind is the perception from the bottom up, the feelings of the people, and the true style of the people in an era. The combination of these two is the world and the real life."
Chen Yuyi said: "This Xin'an case also touched my subordinates deeply. When Caifeng officials go to the local area, their eyes are indeed different from those of ordinary officials, and they can observe some things that are not noticed. Everyone in the local area knows these things, and officials And outsiders don’t know.”
Wang Xiaolie said: "Yes, what they saw is something that other officials don't understand and even want to hide. Without these people, we would not understand society. Now that the collecting officials have a low status, there is nothing they can do about it. Follow-up They are becoming more and more proficient and will make adjustments as they gain merit."
Having said this, Wang Xiaolie sighed: "To be honest, what I value most is collecting styles. If this entire system is done well and the true situation among the people is revealed, it will be a great deterrent to officials. Regardless. Whether what they say is good or bad, officials will treat them carefully. As officials, as long as they have the opportunity, they will deceive superiors and deceive subordinates. Not to mention those young people, even ordinary people, they have much merit in bullying them. You can hide it as much as you want, and this temptation is attractive enough. If you don't deceive others, you will spend a lot of energy, but it will not be as good as when you didn't exert any effort. How do they choose?"
Chen Yuyi said: "What Xuan Fu said is true. There are still few people who are willing to face difficulties and truly solve them."
Wang Xiaolie said: "Without a system like Caifeng, how can the country be governed if the top does not know what is going on below? Of course, Caifeng cannot solve all problems. If the Caifeng system cooperates with the administrative system, it will be useless."
Chen Yuyi nodded silently and said nothing.
Collecting styles is a unique tradition in Chinese politics. Needless to say, there was the Book of Songs in the Zhou Dynasty. The Yuefu of the Qin and Han Dynasties was passed down to the Wei and Jin Dynasties. Later, as the theory of prophecy was gradually abolished, the tradition of collecting folk poetry gradually ended.
This tradition was broken. Although the people could no longer use prophecies to cause chaos, it also made politics a line from top to bottom. This is very detrimental to the rulers. Even if the world is in turmoil and the emperor lives deep in the palace, there are many people who do not understand the real situation.
It's hard to say whether this is good or bad, but in Wang Xiaolie's case, the positive significance of collecting wind must be brought into play. Politics cannot only be a line from top to bottom, but also have a line from bottom to top, forming a closed loop. Only when the emperor is in the middle of these two lines can the yin and yang be harmonious and the government can be harmonious and harmonious.
You cannot expect that with this system, politics will be clear and the world will be peaceful. To have a good system, you also need people to implement the system. Both are indispensable.
This is a characteristic of Chinese civilization, so don’t be paranoid.
One of the most striking features of European civilization is its emphasis on rationality and its existence independent of the world. This rationality cannot be understood as reason, reason, etc., but in Western philosophy, the rational world that is opposite to and transcends sensibility.
Why did we use weights as an example earlier? Because weights are not just weights, but a whole set of weighing theories. Western philosophy believes that this theory, that is, the rational world, is real and not illusory. Correspondingly, they believe that the rational world is real and is the other side of the world.
Why is it said that the status of Hegel, Kant and others in the history of philosophy is equivalent to the status of the great Confucian scholars of the Tang and Song Dynasties in Chinese thought? This is because the Confucian scholars of the Tang and Song Dynasties could not get out of the benevolence, righteousness, and etiquette established by the pre-Qin scholars, and their thoughts were always wandering inside. Although they say that heaven is the reason, the heart is the reason, etc., in reality they are just some technical tricks and there is no fundamental change. And Hegel, Kant and others also revolved around the theories established by previous philosophers. They talk about the rational world and the perceptual world. No matter how many technical means they use, whether they talk about the self, the self, or materialism and idealism, they actually do not come out of the previous theories.
Outside of Europe, in places such as China, Arapai, Persia, India and other places, as Europe achieved industrialization, they began to learn European culture and ideas. They accepted the Western concept that Europe was developed because of European ideas, especially philosophy. For Europeans, this can certainly be said, because their philosophy developed together with industrialization. But to outsiders, is industrialization really related to European philosophy?
Industrialization is actually a constant denial of previous knowledge, and knowledge is constantly updated with industrialization. Not only philosophy, but also political, economic and other aspects of theory, including theology.
Europe's admiration for the rational world will inevitably lead to theology. Therefore, Jesus may have been born very late, but according to European thinking, when you go through the mists of time, you will find that there is always a God there at the end of time.
Of course, many Chinese scientists are staunch atheists, but there are also many who believe in the Creator. Because the Western science they learn is always incorporated into a theological system, they believe it without even realizing it. They don’t necessarily believe in religion, but they believe in the Creator.
After passing through the end of time, Wang Xiaolie finally understood that people have different understandings of the world. This difference, in China, is not the difference between materialism and idealism, but the difference between belief and non-belief. The theory of past life studies is just a kind of understanding, not a textbook copied by oneself.
What to copy? Western thought has fallen into chaos, and science is obviously not suitable for Western philosophy. How stupid would you be to copy it? During the Tang and Song Dynasties, resummarizing a political theory from Chinese culture was much more reliable than copying Western politics.
(End of chapter)
