The two drank tea silently for a while, and Du Zhongxiao said: "Except for the generals of the Hequ Road Army, Nehan is the first one who is willing to listen to me talk about this nonsense. ”

Wang Gongchen said: "The festival is handsome and modest. Are these words really nonsense? No one listened, or because the festival commander didn't speak. This time I went to Shengzhou, and when I was leaving, the saint confessed that the forbidden army in Wujing City was defeated last time, and I must find out the reason. In particular, I want to listen to the section commander talk about what is going on. If you have something to say, just tell me, the more detailed, the better, and I will go back to Beijing to be a saint. ”

Du Zhongxiao nodded, took a sip of tea, and thought for a while: "Since this is the case, then I will explain it in detail." The words are coarse, just tell the meaning and understand it. How to repay the saints, Neihan decides. ”

Wang Gongchen said: "Please speak." When I return to Beijing to report, I will be cautious. ”

Du Zhongxiao didn't talk about these things before, and he rarely talked about why when he was arranged in the army, one reason is that his own level is limited. The mind is full of the noun concepts of later generations, and occasionally two pop up and say it in a series, and others are confused. Today, I finally have someone who is willing to listen to himself, the level is still enough, and Du Zhongxiao is willing to talk more.

After drinking tea for a while and sorting out his thoughts, Du Zhongxiao said: "Life is between heaven and earth, and it is often said that it is a troubled world or a ruling world. The so-called chaotic separation of people is not as good as a peace dog, if there is no way, who does not want the world to be peaceful? What is Governance? The harvest of grains, the surplus food at home, the road is not forgotten, and the house is not closed at night are all some performances. Fundamentally speaking, it is the heart of the world, and people from afar come to vote. Neyhan thought, yes and no? ”

Wang Gongchen nodded silently and did not speak. This is a big topic, it would be good for Du Zhongxiao to bring it up, and Wang Gongchen didn't expect him to be able to explain it clearly. As long as there is no big mistake, then let's go on, there is no need to argue at this time.

The Great Song Dynasty established the country, and it was Taizu Chen Qiaoyi who was added to the yellow robe, standing on behalf of Zhou. No matter how it is beautified, it is actually a general usurping the country, and people at this time do not mention it does not mean that they do not think so. Therefore, the Song Dynasty congenitally had the problem of insufficient legitimacy. Many of the policies of the Song Dynasty, such as treating the forbidden army as the minions of the Son of Heaven, setting the combat unit at the battalion level of only a few hundred people, and actually abolishing the general level of the army, were related to this. Including the use of troops by the Privy Council and the commanders without leaving the army, and the separation of military and political affairs from military orders, were all affected by this.

In this era, faced with many crises, reform has become a consensus and an urgent matter. However, it is impossible to avoid carrying out large-scale reforms and re-establishing the legitimacy of the regime. Otherwise, many things the courtiers did not dare to start, and the emperor did not dare to rest assured and restrained each other. It was in this situation that Ouyang Xiu was the standard-bearer and core that new theories began to be established to make up for the lack of legitimacy for the Song Dynasty. The later Wang Anshi reform was based on the ideological changes at this time. The Six Classics note that the law of the ancestors cannot be observed, and all of them are provided by new ideas.

Ouyang Xiu first advocated following Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan, and theoretically cut the roots of the Mandate of Heaven theory. Why is the emperor an emperor? Not because he was destined to be the Son of Heaven, but because he could govern the world well. What does it mean to be destined for heaven? The world is under great rule. The rule of chaos in the world replaced the secret doctrine of the Mandate of Heaven as the basis for the Mandate of Heaven. If the world is in turmoil, it means that the mandate of heaven is not there, and the emperor is not worthy of being the son of heaven.

Taking the control of chaos as the legitimacy of the regime avoids the problem of the lack of legitimacy of Taizu's usurpation of Zhou. What about the usurpation of power by the generals? As long as you can govern the world well, it is the destiny of heaven. At the same time, the theory of chaos put a tight spell on the emperor. Once there is turmoil, the legitimacy will be questioned, it is always possible to change the emperor without changing the dynasty, the old Zhao family Ding is prosperous, and the emperor is not the only one surnamed Zhao. The extreme performance is that after the Song family crossed to the south, Song Gaozong chose the crown prince and chose Taizu. Because of the Jingkang tragedy, the legitimacy of Taizong's family is gone, and after not choosing Taizu, the situation is even more uncontrollable. This point is not only the consensus of Wenchen, but also recognized by the royal family, and there is no psychological pressure on the Southern Song Dynasty to change the emperor.

Du Zhongxiao started from the control of chaos, it was because at this time Ouyang Xiu's thinking began to mature and had an impact on the literati. Why didn't Du Zhongxiao put aside Ouyang Xiu and put forward his own theory? Because I don't have that ability. has been an official for more than ten years, Du Zhongxiao is self-aware, does not do things beyond his power, and jumps on the stage to let everyone see his jokes.

As for the education he received in his previous life and the theories he learned, don't be funny, it's good that Du Zhongxiao can still have a middle school level. Thinking that you can start a sect with middle school knowledge, and being a master in front of these top talents on a thousand-year-old scale, I think too much. If this era were a stage, it would not be a positive angle on the stage, but just a clown.

In particular, in Du Zhongxiao's era, the achievements in the cultural field are completely incomparable with this era. Using the theories of that era to educate the people of this era is like the forbidden army of this era, shouting at the people's army thousands of years later that they are iron-blooded and strong Song.

If we separate the military and the civilian group as two systems, and their exploits are divided into civil rule and martial arts, then we can see it clearly. The army of the Song Dynasty was congenitally insufficient, from the founding of the country to its demise, except for a few generals such as Yue Fei who had made outstanding contributions to the outside world, this army had never been recognized by the people. In the folk context, a soldier is an inferior person who is looked down upon. Their performance was also appropriate, they lost successive wars and defeats with foreign countries, and handed over all the lands unified from the five dynasties and ten kingdoms to the alien race in hundreds of years. This army is congenitally insufficient, and the day after tomorrow does not rise up, the so-called martial arts dynasty is a joke in history, and most of the hatred of the country must be borne by them.

The civilian group developed from the old bureaucrats and the staff of the major generals at the beginning of the founding of the country. The Taizong Dynasty expanded the imperial examination, and the literati completely eliminated the old civil official group in a few decades, showing a new look. Contrary to the fact that the military was useless to the outside world, the civil official group of the Song Dynasty had a huge influence on the internal and external world, and a large part of the cultural foundation of the descendants was laid by them. After the literati of the Two Song Dynasty, there was no cultural group that reached their height. The Tang and Song Dynasty are talking about articles, but in fact, they show their ideological status. The foundation of the Mandate of Heaven was changed by controlling chaos, and a whole set of political, economic, social, ethical, and ideological theories were born from it.

The founding of New China was a political power coming out of the barrel of a gun. The army hanged the people and cut down the crime, saved the country and the nation from peril, saved the people from fire and water, and gave birth to a new regime. The foundation of the regime is the people's army, and the contribution of the literati can be basically ignored. Faced with a thousand years ago, the people's army can laugh at the army of this era to their heart's content, they are qualified. And the literati a thousand years later, laughing at the literati of this era, it will be the other way around.

The ministers of the Song Dynasty, many of whom were on the opposite side of the Khitan, had their own fans. When the Song Dynasty sent envoys to the Khitan, they generally used the famous ministers in the literary world as envoys, who were worthy of their mission, and sometimes they would meet themselves who particularly admired themselves, such as Su Zhe later. When encountering difficulties, most of them can be properly resolved, and they will not humiliate the country. For example, the white-faced scholar Wang of Lianzhong Sanyuan once sent an envoy to the Khitan, and the Khitan suddenly proposed an archery competition to make this scholar make a fool of himself in public. Wang Zeng was shot with an arrow, and everyone had nothing to say. How many later literati did it? Most of those who were honored as guests and received high courtesies by envoys to other countries were from military backgrounds.

In Du Zhongxiao's previous life, the literati did not have this consciousness. When it comes to the status of literati, it is how it was in ancient China, and when it comes to the contribution of literati to the country and nation, it is scandalized to the fullest. The thoughts of the ancient Chinese, even if there are one or two points in favor, must be added a few definite words, such as this shows something simple, that shows something primitive, as if how advanced they are.

Why is this happening? The literati of that era swept away the literati of the late Qing Dynasty and called themselves new literati. Where's the new? Abandon Chinese cultural traditions and introduce foreign culture. They are particularly adept at smashing an old world, but have not shown the ability to build a new world culture. Much of what they did was to introduce foreign knowledge, not to build China's own new culture. The New Culture Movement began with the construction of smashing the old culture and introducing foreign culture, and it has always been like this, and it has always been like this, without establishing China's own new culture.

The civil envoys of the Song Dynasty will meet their own fans, and the literati envoys of the new era are proud to be able to see their idols. Even if you can't see your idol, it is extremely glorious to be able to set foot on the land where idols live. The literati of the new era added almost all of the cultural achievements of ancient China to simple, primitive, and simple terms, not because they were advanced or because they were powerful, but because they had learned the knowledge of foreigners. The culture of foreigners is naturally advanced, advanced, and complete, and in their eyes, Chinese culture is naturally only worthy of those fixed words.

In the eyes of the literati, why does China lag behind the foreigners? Everything is the ancestors do not accumulate virtue. The Song Dynasty began to worship literature and suppress martial arts, and the Han Dynasty began to respect Confucianism. When the Great Han Wei added the world, all of them were concubines within the four seas. When the culture of the Song Dynasty was at its peak, there was Song style within 10,000 miles. It doesn't matter to these people, the most important thing in their eyes is how not to learn from foreigners earlier.

When Du Zhongxiao first ascended to the throne, he also wanted to use the knowledge of later generations to make political achievements and enter the temple, bringing enlightened ideas and advanced culture to the world. After being an official for a long time and reading a lot of books, I realized that I was fortunate not to have that opportunity, otherwise I would be embarrassed. How embarrassing? Just like the Song army at this time said to the people's army after a thousand years, you can't do it, let my iron-blooded Song army teach you.

Internally, culture is manifested in the cohesion of the people, the happiness of the people, and the firm support of the people. Externally, it is the foreign people who admire the Chinese style, take the initiative to take Chinese names, use Chinese characters, speak Chinese, and read books written by Han people. This is not based on poetry and songs, it is just a cultural subsection, an amateur activity. What really appeals is the theory in the culture.

Culture and ideology provide firm theoretical support for politics, and the most powerful fighting power is manifested in politics. The last martial arts performance in the capital made Du Zhongxiao feel that this world was very absurd. It was not because of victory or defeat, but because of the forbidden army in the capital, most of the command and action were run according to the wrong procedure, as if it was a trick, and Zhang Qi picked up a big victory. The forbidden army in the capital is absurd, if culture is war, wouldn't the previous life be just as absurd?

In the previous life, political power came out of the barrel of a gun, and the people's army was the foundation of the people's political power, and the political principles were very clear. The most basic requirement is that one is politically competent. But even if there are soldiers who proudly say that "the duty of a soldier is to obey orders", where does this kind of thinking come from? Culture people blow out. The slogan of the people's army is "serving the people", and the foundation is, of course, the people.

China is not so backward, and it is also going to export culture to the outside world, what to export? It can only be said in one sentence. The cultural output that really has an impact on foreign countries, Du Zhongxiao thinks about it carefully, and there are probably only two that are real. One is the exaggerated performance in the movie, a foreign guy sees the Chinese, snaps his hands, puts on a posture, and then comes to say: "Chinese Kung Fu -" must have a foreign accent. Another thing is that the military appearance, military salute, military system, and other contents attached to the army of the Chinese army are really exported.

Other cultural exports smell of absurdity. In the previous life, the most talked about food culture and cooking skills have become "cuisine" in China, and everyone thinks that they need to use Japanese names to appear high-grade and cultured, where do you export them? Do you say that this dish shows the breadth and depth of Chinese food culture, is it an export of Chinese food culture, or is it a way to show people that Japanese people can come up with names? In the past two decades, the men and women, boys and girls used outside the school, have become boys and girls, everyone knows that this is from Hong Kong and Taiwan, but it is so temperamental. In the school, good classmates have become seniors, seniors, sisters, and girls, and Wanwan is learning Japan. Artificial intelligence, which was once normal, and all kinds of intelligence, suddenly became all kinds of intelligence, and it was still learned from Hong Kong and Taiwan. All this happened when the economy had caught up, the Chinese had self-confidence, and the cultural people had confidence.

These appearances show the cultural heritage of a society. What about the cultural heritage? It is said that the revival of traditional culture and the three-character scripture are respected. Regardless of the ideological content, this is a Mongolian reading material, that is, the traditional cultural level of cultural people at that time was still in the stage of Mongolian learning, and they were semi-cultural and blind. The cultural people who came out to promote traditional culture are themselves semi-literate, so what else can they say. In addition to promoting the Three Character Scripture and promoting traditional etiquette, who are you looking for? Those who talk about cross talk, those who beat drums, come to tell you about the old etiquette, and you must bring a voice. Without a child's voice, it does not reflect the level of kindergarten.

Traditional etiquette, old etiquette? There is absurdity everywhere. In this era, there is a Taichang Rite Academy, which often redefines new rites, and those various classics are for you to refer to to to determine new rites, and talk about what the old rites want them to do.

Rite and music are linked, rite and music. Etiquette is used to regulate people's social behavior and reflect the style of the times, which has existed since ancient times. The five stresses, four beauties and three loves of the previous life were the new gifts of that era. The new society, without the use of old classics, is out of the classical era. Music does not simply refer to music, or the main content is not music. Music is the positive tone, and after the positive tone, to unify the weights and measures. There is a unit in weights and measures, the bell, which is used for music. To set happiness is to set weights and measures. Etiquette is to determine the correct behavior of people, and in contrast to etiquette, music is to confirm the yardstick of nature. What does it mean to be literate? In this way, weights and measures are literate. The elbow is set in one unit, the foot length is set in one unit, and one unit in two horse butts, do you dare to say that it is cultured? When Du Zhongxiao established the Iron Prison, he only unified and standardized, and did not redefine weights and measures, because he really couldn't. According to the above, the arbitrary unit will make the cultural people of this era look like monkeys. Using music to determine weights and measures can be traced back step by step by future generations in the case of continuous extinction of civilization, even if the method used is very primitive, but it is effective.

Culture is a system that manifests itself in all its aspects. Folk culture is the skin, and the political, economic, legal and other superstructures are the masters. The duty of a soldier is to obey orders, and such a sentence that violates the political principles of the army can be boasted about by cultural people, and can even affect soldiers in turn, which shows the weakness of the culture of the times. The political mission of the people's power is written by the gate: "Serve the people". The political, economic, and legal systems should start from this sentence and form a complete system. "Serve the taxpayers" and "be responsible to the taxpayers", which is seriously inconsistent with political principles, but is used as a mantra by people of culture and affects officials, do you dare to say that there is culture in the times?

Culture is manifested as the political achievements of officials, that is, civil governance, as opposed to martial arts. The ultimate of civil rule is the return of the world to the heart, in the words of later generations, it is the desire of the people of the regime. Culture is the foundation of culture, and the whole society looks like there is no culture everywhere, where does culture come from. Wenzhi is the heart of the world internally, and the people from afar are admired externally, and foreign countries and races yearn to learn your culture. What the Song Dynasty showed was the sinicization of the Khitan on the opposite side, the sinicization of the party items next to it, and the sinicization of the later Jurchens. The army can't be defeated, who has the means to put up such an army that is congenitally deficient and does not work hard the day after tomorrow.

In Du Zhongxiao's previous life, under the escort of a strong army, not to mention the distant people who admired it, even the people of the same race, the same culture and the same race who were recovered and confiscated looked down on you from the bottom, did not agree with you, and felt that they should be high, what does it mean? It shows the weakness of the culture, and the foundation is shallow to the point of absurdity. Don't say that the enemy is strong, don't say which people are afraid of power and not virtuous, that is, they can't do it. Cultural people point out the country to history, but the dead who bully can't speak, and those who can speak, they can't even beat the weakest chicken.

In the military, Du Zhongxiao can rely on the knowledge in his memory to open up a situation. Culturally, with the little bit of fur that he has learned, and the little sense of superiority instilled by shallow literati, he will become a clown on the political stage if there are literati to guide the country in this era. Specific measures are OK, but once they rise to the level of theory, you will find that people understand better than you.

Ouyang Xiu reformed the Mandate of Heaven theory by controlling chaos, filling in the foundation of legitimacy for the Song Dynasty, so that later generations of literati would comment on it, and they would definitely add a few definite words, simple, primitive, simple, and so on, to show the high level of their culture. However, taking economic construction as the center, poverty is not socialism, and so on, does not go beyond the framework of the theory of controlling chaos. Where is the so-called high-level culture?

If Du Zhongxiao used the theories learned by later generations to educate the literati of this era, he would have become a Great Song Forbidden Army that ridiculed the people's army. Because the people who taught him knowledge, the theoretical and ideological heights, are far from reaching the level of being able to evaluate the culture of this era.

If there is one that allows Du Zhongxiao to look down on this era in terms of thought and theory, in fact, there are only a few simple words.

That is, stupid, it's the people. No matter what, as long as it is on the position of the people, it will truly stand in an invincible position.