Yang Fan sighed and said: "Then I understand. The saying: "Starving to death is a small matter, but losing integrity is a big deal." This sentence must also be required of scholars. It means that scholars would rather starve to death than betray their own property.
Honor and integrity. Later, I don’t know how, but I changed my demands on scholars to women. Scholars liberated themselves."
After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, wasn't this what those people in Shui Tailiang were like? Their moral integrity was worse than that of Liu Rushi, a prostitute. They actually shamelessly changed the concept and replaced the scholar's moral integrity with a woman's chastity.
Then you can let yourself go. If the country is destroyed, you can just force the woman to commit suicide. Then you can surrender to the enemy and continue to be an official.
There was Nuxi in the Xia Dynasty, Daji in the Shang Dynasty, Baosi in the Western Zhou Dynasty, Zhao Feiyan in the Han Dynasty, and Yang Yuhuan in the Tang Dynasty.
The gentry and civil servants used women to marry in peacetime. If they messed up, they would use women to take the blame when the country was destroyed.
Xiao Niangpi and the others curled their lips, Zhu Xi was a saint in the Ming Dynasty. Although they were very dissatisfied, they did not dare to speak ill of Zhu Xi.
Yang Fan felt deeply ashamed. After the Song Dynasty experienced the Jingkang Incident, the queens, princesses, concubines, and officials' wives and daughters were kidnapped and sent to the north. This incident deeply stimulated the scholar-bureaucrats of the Song Dynasty.
But the strange thing is that they did not choose to be like the Han and Tang Dynasties, working hard, working hard, knowing their shame and then being brave, and accumulating strength to avenge their hatred. Just like Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, he first surrendered to Jieli Khan, and then defeated him when he became stronger.
The Eastern Turks captured Jieli.
They are like a group of drug addicts who are unable to quit their addiction. Since they can still maintain the status quo, they can just live with it and get by. However, they cannot bear the shame of Jingkang.
Therefore, they did not want to work hard and take revenge. Instead, they directed their evil fire at the women they could not protect. They let them engage in deceptive tricks, such as starving to death is a small matter but being dishonest is a big deal.
It seems that as long as these humiliated women end it themselves, the shame will be washed away.
They can get over the hurdle in their hearts. From then on, they can continue to sing and dance every night, becoming corrupt and degenerate. It's OK to just forget about this matter.
It was after the Jingkang Disgrace that the overall trend of China reversed. Zhengzhi no longer had the masculinity of the Han and Tang Dynasties. Instead, it became feminine, with the lower limit getting lower and lower. The characteristics of Zhengzhi after the Song Dynasty were like women's
Same as pie. Completely taking a feminine approach.
Just like Guo Songtao's evaluation of the late Qing Dynasty, they were blindly stupid, blindly barbaric, blindly deceitful, and blindly afraid. They acted barbarically because they were stupid, and when they failed to act barbarically, they resorted to deception. When they failed to deceive, they knelt down and begged for peace.
The history of the Southern Song Dynasty is a history of useless people. The gentry of the Southern Song Dynasty were merciful to their enemies and unkind to their friends. Yue Fei was killed, Han Shizhong was relieved of his military power, and all north of the Huaihe River was given to the Jin people.
Jia Sidao enacted the public land law, nationalized the land and redistributed it to landless farmers. This solved the problem of financial depletion and the occupation of various industries by gentry without paying taxes. Like Zhang Juzheng, he continued to live for the Southern Song Dynasty for decades. The result
Jia Sidao was scolded miserably by history books.
It was not until modern times that we reawakened the bloody nature of the Han people. The golden monkey rose up with a mighty stick, and the jade moon clarified thousands of miles.
Many nations have encountered these things, and they have never recovered after experiencing just one. However, the Chinese nation can always be reborn from the ashes like a phoenix Nirvana. This is true in the Spring and Autumn Period when the kings resisted the barbarians, the Five Husties disrupted China, this was true in the late Yuan Dynasty, and it is even more true in modern times.
in this way.
It was obviously on the verge of national subjugation and annihilation. However, it was like bottoming out and rebounding again. Yang Fan has been looking for the reason. Why, only our civilization can do it.
It wasn't until Yang Fan read a Western research report that he understood the reason.
All this is because of the fighting gene (formerly known as the violence gene). The warrior gene refers to the gene code-named MAOA located on the X chromosome.
The warrior gene (MAOA gene mutation), also known as the violence gene, is found in 77% of the Han people...the highest in the world (about 1/3 in Europe and the United States).
The original function of this gene is to produce monoamine oxidase, which degrades excess dopamine in the body. After mutating into the warrior gene, this degradation ability is weakened, so excess dopamine makes people more impulsive, but at the same time, the ability to withstand stress will also be reduced.
Stronger and easier to make smarter choices under high pressure.
People with this gene are more likely to survive adversity.
One-third of the Caucasian population carries the warrior gene, which is the second most common race among humans. Because there are so many people carrying this warrior gene, they are very aggressive. They
It is the main factor leading to the instability of Blue Star.
And 77% of the Han population carries this gene. Actually more than three-quarters. Compared with the Han people, they are nothing to mention.
This can explain the reason why one Han Dynasty served as the Five Hus during the Qin and Han Dynasties.
This also illustrates the principle that we should not oppress the Han people too harshly.
Back then, the Japanese aggressors were determined to destroy us. As a result, the crisis of national subjugation and genocide triggered the bottom line of the Han people. Then, they were finally driven back to those islands.
At the end of almost every dynasty, there were large-scale peasant wars. From the unification of Qin to the end of Qing Dynasty, because at the end of every dynasty, the gentry stopped being human beings.
There are basically no large-scale peasant wars in any other country. The United Kingdom only had one that failed to start, and Russia only had one with Puyachev. Japan only had one funny rice riot. Although there were many, the scale was about the same as that of villagers fighting.
There are almost no other countries.
Only China was rich in martial virtue, which happened almost once in every dynasty. When the gentry no longer behaved, the peasants taught them how to behave.
They are gentle, modest and tolerant, timid and afraid of getting into trouble. For the sake of their family, they are even tolerant to the point of being useless. As long as they can still have food to eat and survive, they can live in peace and contentment.
But these are all appearances, not the underlying nature.
Because of two thousand years of Confucian brainwashing and pua, their external characteristics have changed. They are a group of warriors disguised as weak and cowards.
These mud-legged workers, those who work as coolies, those who drive carts and sell pulp, never come into the eyes of emperors, but when they do, they are enemies of the country. The water that capsizes a boat is the tears of the common people, and you don’t know it until it reaches Hengliu.
When Yang Fan's family was eating hot pot, there was a huge quarrel in the Forbidden City.
Since the Jizhen mutiny, Wuying Hall has become a decision-making place for military operations. Now Chongzhen and the noble generals, cabinet, six ministers, inspectorate, Jinyiwei, etc. are all here, pointing at a big table. This is from
A sand table along the Great Wall that Yang Fan got.
This is a large table three meters wide and fifteen meters long, covering a long strip of area north of the Huaihe River, south of Siberia, east of Jiayuguan, and west of the Sea of Japan. Because it was based on satellite maps, it is very accurate.
The sand table is made of sand and glue. In order to represent the desert, Gobi, farmland, and rivers, the dyeing method is adopted. It seems that the entire north of the Ming Dynasty is clear at a glance.
Luo Yangxing broke into a cold sweat, he was a little nervous to read the latest battle report.
"Seven days ago, at Pinghu Fort by the Laoha River, a large number of slaves were discovered in the early morning. There were more than 200,000 people in Pinghu Fort. Pinghu Fort only had 5,000 Gansu soldiers and horses led by Ma Xi.
The core of the first line of defense is Chifeng City, one hundred and fifty miles away from Pinghu Fort."
"Ma Dengyun has 50,000 people in his hands, 10,000 of whom are stationed at various strongholds on the upper reaches of the Liao River. 30,000 are in Chifeng City. Another 10,000 are located in the pass fortress in the mountains behind Chifeng. Mr. Ma
The layout is quite reasonable. Once the front line is defeated, the passes behind can also block the enemy under the city wall."