The pros and cons of the two hundred and ninetieth chapter of the wisdom of the people
The old man used the words of Legalism, Taoism and Confucianism to explain the policy of obscuring the people, which made Ye An very dissatisfied.
Why implement the policy of obscuring the people? The obvious reason is to maintain the rule of the dynasty!
It is certainly a good thing for the rulers that the people do not think about liberating people's natural labor force, do not think about changing this era, and do not think about how to make this era more fair and reasonable.
Ye An's peach-like eyes narrowed slightly, and he stared at Sun Shi for a long time before slowly speaking: "I wonder if this is your problem, sir, or your empress's?"
Sun Shi was slightly startled, then smiled and said: "This is a question for me and a question for the country. You should know why you ask this."
Ye An thought of what he had said to Zhao Zhen before, and smiled bitterly: "What a good way to fool the people, but sir, don't you think these words are paradoxical?"
"Paradoxical? Why is there such a thing as paradoxical?"
"Confucianism advocates educating all people and enlightening the world, but it claims that "the people can make it happen, but they cannot make it known." Isn't it weird? Taoists also often say "governing by doing nothing" but say that the people cannot pursue enlightenment and wisdom on their own. This is
Isn’t it strange? As for the words of Shang Jun, I don’t agree with him. If people don’t learn and understand, how can they be good? If all the people don’t understand the principles, then all the people will be bad. Rule by law and punish by law. It seems to be a good thing, but
In fact, it is a bad law and bad government that punishes people without teaching them!"
"Then what do you think?!"
Sun Shi suddenly raised his voice and stared at Ye An with bright eyes, eager for his answer. This look actually made Ye An a little scared.
But then he said: "The Changsheng family is different from other people, but I feel that the prosperity of the dynasty is not the strength of the soldiers, nor the strength of the literati! It should be the prosperity of the people of the world!"
"When the people are strong, how will the country deal with itself? Everyone in the world has an idea, and everyone knows the right path?! Wouldn't it turn into chaos?"
"A frog in a well cannot speak of the sea, a summer insect cannot speak of the ice, and a scholar of the wind cannot speak of the Tao!"
Ye An's voice rose a bit unknowingly, and a dull pain and inner dissatisfaction with double standards broke out: "Who sets the rules in this world? Knowledge can only benefit if it circulates and is exposed to more people.
Common people, "Book of Pansheng" and "Essentials for Elevating the People" are serious agricultural books, but they are like waste in the hands of farmers. How many literate farmers are there? What is the use in the hands of scholars? Scholars have no idea at all.
Don’t farm!
How many days did the agricultural adviser of Sinong Temple spend in the farmland promoting farming to the people? Didn't he just shake his head after a few cases and talk nonsense, thinking about how to pass the lock-in examination?!
Farmers still have to rely on the experience passed down from their ancestors to cultivate the land and fight against the power of heaven and earth? How much experience can be passed down? How many skills can be passed down?!
Sir, there are many books here, but this book hidden in the building is just your own private property! Well, even if you can protect the book and pass it on, avoid military disasters and civilian disasters, and avoid the power of heaven and earth, how can you save it?
The knowledge and wisdom in the book are passed down?!
So what if you clean and sweep every day? The book is not covered with dust, but the wisdom of the sages in the book has been covered with dust for a long time! Only knowledge learned by others is knowledge, otherwise it is a big joke!
Times have changed, vicissitudes have passed, and hundreds of years have passed. It is the wisdom in these books that has been passed down to the world. How much of it will not be abandoned by the times? How much of it can last forever. I am afraid that sir knows better than me.
some!"
Ye An said he was thirsty. He picked up the teapot and drank it in one gulp. He sighed and said: "The teacher said that Ye An's family education is weird. Yes, Ye An's family education is like this. It is based on miscellaneous family education.
This means that the people's wisdom will be fully enlightened and the illiterate people will be eliminated.
Because my ancestors believed that literate farmers must be able to grow better crops than illiterate farmers, because they can think, ponder, pass on their experiences, and even provide help to others.
Traffickers who are also literate will be smarter, understand more principles of merchants, seize business opportunities, connect goods from north to south, and allow goods to circulate. In this way, they will make a lot of money, and the country will prosper, and the merchants will prosper.
, the country will be prosperous, and if the country is prosperous, won’t the tax revenue be more?
Some people say that all wealth in the world is determined, not by farmers, but by merchants. Merchants have no production, but farmers are exploited for their hard work. Who knows that the hard work of merchants is not weaker than that of farmers?
Um... I'm off topic, but the meaning is very clear. Farmers with knowledge can increase food production, merchants with knowledge can make more money, help the country circulate goods, and even make money from abroad to supplement the country. These are all needed
The introduction of culture requires educating the people.
What is taught is not only the etiquette in Confucianism, not only the morals of benevolence, justice, propriety, wisdom, and trust, but also wisdom, the wisdom that scholars perceive themselves, and the experience that scholars use wisdom to practice! These are what make a country rich and its military strong, and they are the changes.
Where national strength lies!”
Following Ye An's words, big beads of sweat dripped from Sun Shi's forehead. As a traditional Confucian scholar, he never thought about this. Even though he thought about educating all people, he never thought about making everyone wise.
, let everyone understand.
But Ye An's words gave him impact and shock from another aspect. He could imagine that era, an era when everyone was reading and everyone was sensible.
What would happen if all the farmers understood "Essential Art for Elevating the People"? What if all the merchants had read "Biographies of Huo Shi"?
Sun Shi did not dare to think further, but a huge question also emerged in his mind: "If you tell me, the world will not be in chaos? How can the court manage it? The merchants and the people are all smart and enlightened. Want to
What about opposing some untimely policies of the imperial court?"
Sure enough, back to the starting point, Sun Shi and all the scholar-bureaucrats and the ruling class had the same idea. They were worried that their rule would be shaken, because in traditional Confucianism, it has always been believed that the people do not need to have too many ideas.
As long as you have loyalty, filial piety, propriety, wisdom and trust, the rest will be left to the management and arrangements of the scholar-officials and rulers. If you are asked to grow food, you will grow food, if you are asked to do business, you will do business, and if you are asked to perform military service, you will do so.
When it comes to military service, just follow the arrangements from above.
Ye An smiled: "Sir, what you are saying is that if everyone in the world is enlightened, all kinds of ideas will come up, and the country will be turbulent. But this is forcing the scholar-bureaucrats and the Tianjia to make changes.
, The scholar-bureaucrats need to have higher knowledge and absorb smarter people, and the Tianjia also needs to make changes. It needs to accept the people to become smarter and more thoughtful, and it needs to govern the country better.
, more secure, so that the people are convinced and sincerely admire the Tianjia, thinking that only such a court and the Tianjia can give them a good life..."
Sun Shi caught something in an instant, grabbed Ye An's arm and said: "What if I can't do what you said? What will happen if I can't do what you said?! The people will be enlightened and their thoughts will be stirred up. There will be many people by then.
People with outstanding abilities can stir up the world! Isn’t the country in danger?!"
"Then it depends on what you do and choose. Do you want the Han family to remain unchanged and continue to live like this forever until they are swept away by the waves of this world? Or do you want the Han family to be reborn from the ashes and become immortal despite the destruction?
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Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. Have we, the Han family, made many mistakes? But when has it not been an immortal dynasty that was achieved through hard work?!
Are you afraid that you will always turn a blind eye and continue to tolerate it? If nothing else, even our Song Dynasty did not go too far in order to avoid the troubles of the previous generation?
The Han family has never lacked fighting power, has never lacked strong soldiers, and has never lacked the courage and determination to conquer the world. However, these things have been shelved in high cabinets and imprisoned by iron chains. Now it seems that the Han family has no shortage of fighting power, strong soldiers, and courage and determination to conquer the world.
To maintain the stability of the Tian family and the country, it will definitely become a catastrophe for the country within a hundred years!
The pole of Yang must be Yin, the pole of things must be reversed, the water will overflow when it is full, and the moon will be missing when it is full. If the country does not change, Ye An will not be able to see the country's disaster approaching in his lifetime!"
Ye An's words impacted Sun Shi. Every time he said something, Sun Shi's face became uglier. But in the end, he became calm and said slowly: "Everything is your guess, learned from your family."
Speculation! No one knows what is really going on..."
That's right, no one knows what's really going on, but... Ye An knows!