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Green ant new brew wine, mud red small stove. The snow is falling in front of the eaves, and the red plums are blooming under the windows. A hook curtain is far away, and the charm of the piano book in the half room is long.

Qin Mu was dressed in a black embroidered dress, and sat around the fire with Sima An, Fu Qingzhu, and Gu Yanwu, the aroma of wine on the stove was permeated, and a few dishes by the stove were simple and casual.

Of the four people seated, the eldest Sima An was only in his forties, Fu Qingzhu was forty, and Gu Yanwu was thirty-three. In this winter evening, several people sat around casually and chatted.

Fu Qingzhu has exquisite attainments in philosophy, Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, poetry, calligraphy, painting, gold and stone, and research. However, Qin Mu was more interested in his research on martial arts.

Master Fu Qing's martial arts Qin Mu had not seen it with his own eyes, but he knew that he was practicing Taoist qigong. When I saw him for the first time, he was dressed in a Taoist robe, and his demeanor was really unforgettable.

Fu Shan's real name is Fu Dingchen, and the name given to him by his parents has a strong feudal political ideal and traditional etiquette. Later, he himself changed his name to Fu Shan, the word Qingzhu.

This change is full of mountain and forest atmosphere, and he has his own poems: "Since it is impossible to level the mountain, I will come to add a peak of green." From this poem, it is not difficult to feel a kind of transcendent self-satisfaction in his thoughts.

Qin Mu asked casually, "Master Fu, at my age, can I still practice qi?" ”

The eyes of Fu Qingzhu, Sima An, and Gu Yanwu suddenly focused on Qin Mu, who had always worn a sword in and out, even in the upper court. It is quite a bit of the style of princes and nobles in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

"Saying Yuan. "Good Sayings" records that the royal family of Chu Xiangchengjun "On the day of the first seal, he was dressed in jade, with a jade sword, and stood on the flowing water".

It can be seen that swords and jade were still indispensable objects in the canonization ceremony of nobles during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Sword and jade have a special meaning.

A gentleman is like jade, wearing jade is to always be vigilant to himself, moral cultivation and character should be like jade, with warmth on the outside and tenacity on the inside; Be lenient. Be strict with yourself; The brilliance is introverted and inconspicuous.

If jade represents the quality of a gentleman. Then the sword represents the ambition of a gentleman.

The gentlemen of ancient times all wore swords, swordsmen, and gentlemen of soldiers, tied to their waists. Use it to do it. If you don't use it, hide it. Raise the sword with the body, and thus become a spirit, or mighty, or benevolent, or upright, or clever, or simple and unpretentious, or angry bullfighting. Don't be a gentleman!

What is good at the top will be very bad at the bottom.

Qin Muhao's saber is not only quite the style of an ancient gentleman, but also slowly affecting the entire Qin State, and now in Jinling City, the scholar is no longer a folding fan in his hand, shaking around, vassal elegance. Many people have abandoned folding fans and put swords around their waists.

Sima An and the others can ignore these behaviors, but Qin Mu suddenly asked about the art of practicing qi, which made Sima An vigilant, but don't become Emperor Jiajing, indulge in Taoism and ignore political affairs.

Sima An immediately persuaded: "As the lord of a country, King Qin should focus on military and political affairs, and this matter of cultivating qi and seeking pills is not something that the master should inquire."

"Huh?" Qin Mu was stunned, and said with a smile, "Mr. Sima thinks too much. This king asked about the art of practicing qi, not to become an immortal, but to keep fit. ”

Sima An looked him in the eye without shying away from it to ascertain the credibility of his words.

Qin Mu was too lazy to explain, so he simply changed the topic and said: "Before the Two Song Dynasty, no matter how weak China was, it had never fallen into the hands of foreign races, and after the Two Song Dynasty, there was Liao Jinyuan in the past, and now there is the Manchu Qing Dynasty, all of which are aggressive, so that China has almost no power to fight back, do you think this is an accident or inevitable, or is there something wrong with our political system, so that there is a danger of falling repeatedly?" ”

Qin Mu's topic changed a little abruptly, but several people were more accustomed to his whimsical ideas.

Liu Ru stood by the door of the hall as a maid, and she had a kind of beauty that returned to her true self, with a delicate figure like a girl, and exuded a mature charm.

Listening to Qin Mu's question, she couldn't help but glance at Qin Mu quietly and listened attentively.

Sima An thought for a while and said: "In Chen's view, it is not so much that China is defeated by foreign races, but that it is defeated by its own culture. Before the two Song Dynasty, powerful as the Xiongnu and the Turks, there was no concept of the country, since the Liao State occupied the sixteen states of Yanyun, they attracted a large number of Han culture, with the concept of the country, no longer like the original nomadic tribes, the prosperity is also vigorous, and the defeat is also sudden. In addition, they were born in a bitter cold land and still retain the courage of the nomads, so they have the strength to fall into the country of our Han people. ”

Qin Mu said lightly: "This means that the nomads are constantly making progress, while our Han people are stagnant and have lost their cultural advancement, so we have repeatedly faced the danger of losing the world." ”

In this regard, Fu Qingzhu disagreed, he defended: "King Qin's words are exaggerated, what foreign races can learn is only some of the surface of our Han culture, and it is a bit of an exaggeration to say that we have lost our cultural progressiveness. ”

Qin Mu raised his glass and took a sip of his own drink and said: "In the eyes of this king, whether they have learned the essence of my Han culture, abandoned the flies and dogs in Han culture, or as Master Fu said, they only learned a little fur. But there is no doubt about one thing, they have been improving, and they are making rapid progress, while our Han people are stagnant;

Compared with the Tang and Song dynasties, how much has the Ming Dynasty changed in terms of academics, science and technology, and even the most basic people's lives? Don't tell me that our artillery is more advantageous than the Tang and Song dynasties, the Ming Dynasty's bird guns are imitation of the Japanese, and the Franco machine guns and Hongyi cannons are learned from the Yi people.

At the cultural level, the bright atmosphere of the Han and Tang Dynasties is gone, and all that remains is the stinky footwrap of women. From the aesthetic taste of literati and doctors, we can see what our thinking has been distorted. ”

Qin Mu's words shocked the three people present, although none of them were rotten Confucians, but Qin Mu's words seemed to be suspected of comparing Confucian culture to women's footwraps, which shocked them too much.

Qin Mu continued: "Now it's not just the nomads in the north who are making progress, but the whole world is making progress, and what about us? Today, Confucianism, Zhu Chengli, has reached the point where it cannot be challenged, and anyone who says a bad word is deviant;

Whatever doctrine it is, as soon as it is enshrined on the altar, it loses the possibility of progress. Confucianism is becoming more and more closed, more and more respectful, unchallenged, and self-respecting. This in itself is actually a kind of waste of Confucianism.

If Confucianism cannot absorb other doctrines, constantly improve itself, and surpass itself, sooner or later it will be surpassed by others and abandoned.

Confucianism gradually became closed, which led to the overall rigidity of the thinking of our Han people, so after the Han and Tang Dynasties, our progress became smaller and smaller, and even the space for survival was greatly threatened.

As the saying goes, read 10,000 books and travel 10,000 miles. Look at today's readers, they know that the Tao is on the Qinhuai River, and they have made two poems that moaned without disease, and they are proud, how many readers have really traveled thousands of miles?

Open your eyes and see, Xiyi has come to our door from thousands of miles away, how many of our Han people have gone abroad? How many people know what the world outside of China is like?

During the Qin and Autumn periods, Sun Tzu left behind the famous saying that he knew himself and knew his opponent and was invincible. At this time, we Han people are arrogant behind closed doors, and if this continues, our China will not die today, and it will die tomorrow.

Think about it, after knowing the Han and Tang Dynasties, where is the fundamental reason why China has faced the fall of the whole territory again and again? Bachelor Fu and Bachelor Gu are both academic elites, and this king hopes that you can take this responsibility and guide the people of the country to look at the world and stop always staring at women's little feet."

Originally, it was a peaceful conversation, but Sima An and the three of them never expected that Qin Mu, the most reluctant, would say such a thing, and the impact on them could be described as a shock.

In the past, everyone blamed China's fall on natural and man-made disasters, on the emperor's faintness and mediocrity, on land annexation, on the corruption of officials, and on the cruel exploitation of the nobles.

No one has ever blamed the conservatism and rigidity of Confucianism for the reason for the fall of the world.

Qin Mu's words gave them a great shock, so much so that the three of them were silent and speechless for a long time.

Liu Ruis subconsciously looked down at her feet, she had a pair of three-inch golden lotus, and she walked weakly like a wind, she had been quite complacent about this before.

However, Qin Mu's words just now suddenly characterized the woman's small feet as the product of the distorted aesthetic taste of literati and doctors.

She has read more than 10,000 books and has her own ability to discern, and she feels that Qin Mu's words are very reasonable. No matter what, she made up her mind that she would never bind her feet again.

When he raised his head, he saw Sima An, Fu Qingzhu, and Gu Yanwu getting up, saluting Qin Mu with respectful expressions.

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PS: It's too lonely these days, and I feel bad. In addition, my mother had a headache and fever in the past two days, so I had to take her to hang needles and serve decoctions every day. So much so that I didn't dare to write about the war scenes that should have come, and I always felt that I lacked passion.

Ask your brothers for some monthly passes to encourage them and boost their morale.

Haoyuan paused and said goodbye!.

(To be continued......)