Jiang Min went out, and Wang Xiaolie stood up and went to the window, looking at the summer scenery in the yard. On the big poplar tree, there were two singing cicadas, which were chirping happily. When Wang Xiaolie reached the window, they suddenly closed it together.

mouth, where he kept sticking his butt out.

Suddenly, Wang Xiaolie felt that the world was very funny and couldn't help but laugh.

When he first arrived in Xiangyang, Wang Xiaolie was confused about what kind of army he wanted to build and what kind of government he wanted to build. The army himself knew nothing and could only learn to build it based on the memories of his previous life. The government was good

Some people know how to put the people first and try to do it bit by bit.

Thinking about it now, the confusion at that time was not only correct, but also necessary. If I felt that I understood everything from the beginning, I would not be cautious and I would definitely be bold and bold. Then what? Maybe there will be no more.

When the strong ships and cannons of the West opened the door to the East, it took a hundred or two hundred years for the East to break away from the control of the great powers and try to go its own way. There are various opinions on how to go its own way. There are China's

"Chinese learning is the body and Western learning is the application", such as Japan's departure from Asia and joining Europe, and India's non-violent non-cooperation. Of course, in various countries, there are also groups that completely abandon their own culture and fully copy the culture of Western countries.

Over two hundred years, it has been proven that in various countries, it will not work to completely abandon one's own culture and copy other people's culture. Whether it is in Japan, China, or India, the development of culture over time has

They are all fusions of their own culture that are different from the Western culture.

Those who advocate giving up their own culture and completely copying Western culture can be said to have been too backward in the past, and they can only take it step by step and gradually become the same as the West. When Eastern countries catch up with Western countries, they will not fall behind in many aspects.

When we are downwind, this statement becomes more and more like a fool's dream.

It's like a test. A student who can only copy answers will never be a good student. Only a student who fully understands the questions and comes up with answers is a good student.

I recall that when I was young in my previous life, a few students got together and talked about historical issues. Some people always said that if China was like any other country in that era and implemented certain policies, it would inevitably develop. You said that you should learn from the United Kingdom, and he said

We should learn from France, and some people say that we should learn from the United States, and even say that we should learn from Russia and Japan. The answers are varied. So students are just students after all. They have this idea just because they have not graduated yet.

People often ask, why did the Industrial Revolution not happen in China first? This question even has a special name, called the Needham Question. In fact, there is no answer to this question. In other words, there are too many answers to make it impossible to answer clearly.

List it out. If you list it forcefully, the various reasons will still fight with each other and cannot form an answer. Anyone who says that he can answer this question, without exception, is all nonsense.

In the science of studying humans, whether it is politics, economics, society, ethics, etc., much of the content is nonsense. Why is this? Because Wang Xiaolie used methods commonly used by Westerners in his previous life. First define a few concepts, and then

List a bunch of rules and deduce the results from them.

Is the world like this? No. The world has no concepts and no rules. Concepts and rules are just ways for humans to understand the world. So are there any laws in the world? Yes, but they are not the laws that are commonly understood.

The laws of the world discovered by human beings, whether they are physics or chemistry, information science or life sciences, are a summary of the knowledge formed by human understanding of the world. These laws are never the truth, and they are never universally applicable.

It's conditional.

This is not only true for the humanities, but also for the natural sciences. What makes the natural sciences more scientific than the humanities is that the boundaries of the objects of natural scientific research are relatively clear. In other words, in the natural science community, after definitions are made, it is not easy to touch

defined boundaries.

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After years of practice and the results of his own thinking, Wang Xiaolie believes that the fundamental rule in the world is that there are degrees but no boundaries. The reason why there are degrees but no boundaries is because degrees exist naturally, and boundaries are how humans understand the world.

In addition, people cannot be omniscient and omnipotent, so this world must be a model. Add one more thing, which is the existence of Tao. What you don’t know, can’t explain clearly, and yet clearly know exists in the world is called Tao. Tao.

It is not a thing or a law, but something that is not known or explained clearly due to the limitations of human understanding.

What is the way of heaven? The way of heaven is by no means an existence where doing this is right and doing that is wrong. The same approach is sometimes right and sometimes wrong. Some people do it and it is right, and some people do it and it is wrong. It sounds imaginary.

, but it really exists.

To understand the world, you must always know that what you know is only the temporary appearance of the world, a part of the knowledge. The laws and knowledge summarized from this are not eternal. Just like when you first learn physics, you will feel that mass is real and energy is ethereal.

. But when we really cut the object open, we find that energy is always present, but mass cannot be found no matter how hard we look for it.

Is this true for the natural sciences, let alone the humanities? Where is the answer to what standards should be stipulated? Chinese culture has a long history and many sects. From a real analysis, it is nothing more than conforming to the will of God or the human heart. Of course, there is Legalism in the middle.

All this wonder belongs to the emperor alone.

When Germany rose, some philosophers appeared. Hegel, one of the most influential figures, said after reading the Analects that Confucius only talked about common sense morality, which we can also find in other nations. Confucius was just

A practical worldly wise man only has some kindness, experience, and moral precepts. Apart from this, we cannot obtain anything in a special sense. Speaking Chinese is a low-level language because it is not precise enough.

When the West was at its peak, the Chinese couldn't help but sigh with emotion when they saw this kind of comment. Foreigners still dared to say it, and they hit the essence with just one word. So they also studied Hegel and various Western philosophers.

.I learned a little bit about it, and then I came back to criticize my own culture.

In the final analysis, people who do this have neither understood Hegel nor Confucius. They worship Hegel not because Hegel is so great, but because Germany is more developed and advanced.

Just richer.

When China developed and did not learn from any other Western countries, I don't know what these former thinkers would think.

A big reason for the criticism of Chinese culture and the admiration of Western culture is that China was poor and backward, while the West was rich and developed. Why is this? Most people are not able to analyze the reasons or even come up with solutions. Thinking

When I couldn't figure out the point, I slapped my head because the cultures are different. There are such differences, of course, because Western culture is better. They even invented a theory, stacking beds and building houses, and it became a prominent science. For example,

, it is said that the industrialization of the West is due to the light of Greek civilization, and it is because of which philosopher or group of philosophers. It is strange that Greece has science or industry? It is said that it is Greece, just because the first people to enter industrialization were a group of barbarians, and they chose Greece

That's all.

This is just like after the Song Dynasty. Most of the time, the Central Plains dynasty could not defeat the northern peoples. In many cases, there was even a huge difference in combat effectiveness. Many historians were not able to analyze why this happened. They slapped their heads and concluded that this was because the Central Plains dynasty valued culture and suppressed martial arts.

.

I believe you as a ghost!

Because of the complexity of history, no matter how outrageous your opinion on an issue is, you can almost find a large amount of evidence. If you write a book and list how many examples of literati suppressed military generals when the Central Plains dynasty was weak, you can also

This cannot be said to be correct, because there are many examples at home and abroad that are inconsistent with this conclusion. War has its own laws, and this law is by no means summarized in this way.

After defeating Zhao Bin in the First World War and occupying Tongzhou, Wang Xiaolie witnessed the war in person and truly built up his confidence. Regardless of his past life or this life, go to hell with those incomprehensible preachings. Practice may not test the truth, or in other words, do not believe it.

God has no truth to begin with. But practice can truly bring about the necessary knowledge. This knowledge is the cornerstone for moving to the next step.
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