There were originally 70 or 80 households in this village, but now, there are only 12 or 3 households with living people. The village has long been out of food. They rely on digging wild vegetables and peeling bark to find everything that can fill their stomachs. These villagers

Just survived.

Walking on the road, I occasionally saw one or two villagers. They were all skinny and had empty eyes. When I saw people like Wang Xiaolie, they just stood on the roadside and stared blankly, without sadness or joy. They didn't even say a word.

It's like wood. They don't ask what they do, they just move like wooden stakes. Even if they are still alive, they have lost their vitality.

After entering the courtyard, Wang Xiaolie sat down on the high chair. After being silent for a while, he said to Chen Yuyi: "In the past, when I saw the mountains and rivers broken and the people suffering, it was just to express my condolences for how difficult the people's livelihood was. To say that the people had suffered so much was nothing more than saying

There are no roosters crowing for thousands of miles, and the bones are exposed in the wild. It is difficult for others to feel how miserable the people in the war zone really are. To be honest, this dynasty has been destroyed by the Jin people in a few years from its prosperous days in Henan Province.

The capital city is like an uninhabited land in China, which is rare in all dynasties. From the days when people lived in prosperity, people were suddenly expelled like chickens and dogs. Who dares to think? How many human tragedies happened during this? How many families were destroyed and people died? These things

, can’t be forgotten.”

Chen Yuyi said: "That's what observation says."

Wang Xiaolie said: "The original intention of bringing you here this time is to let you record the war. How many Jin people participated in the war? Who are the groups among them? How were the Jin people organized? How did they fight? If we win

, how did you win? If you lost, how did you lose? These must be recorded clearly one by one. Only when the records are clear can we learn after we go back. Judging from the results of fighting the Jin people in the past few years, our army is indeed

It's too bad. It's not enough to lead troops according to the original method. So I have always said that we must learn war from war. To learn war, we must record the war process clearly. If you don't understand how the war is fought, how can you learn?

"

Having said this, Wang Xiaolie sighed: "But judging from the past few days, your role is not only that. There are also crimes committed by the Jin soldiers going south and the suffering they brought to the people, which should also be recorded.

. Just like this village, how many people were there before the war, how many rich households, how many poor households. How were the households divided? Can the lower-class households have enough to eat, and can they take care of the old and the young? When the Jinlu came, they

How many people were captured, how many were killed, and how many died as a result. What are the remaining people alive like? You must also record them in detail one by one. Write them down so that our soldiers know why we are fighting.

.If we don’t fight, what will the future be like? People die under Jinlu’s sword, and Jinlu will point the knife at our bones and say, these are slaves——”

Wang Xiaolie forgot where he learned this sentence, but kept it in his heart. It was written by a man to encourage the resistance during the Anti-Japanese War. Unfortunately, Wang Xiaolie only remembered this sentence,

But I forgot the name of the creator.

People often forget the sufferings suffered by the people in the war. Not to mention the Five Husties in China, the turn of the Song Dynasty, and even the War of Resistance Against Japan, which was very close to later generations, has been forgotten by many people. In the hearts of many people, the sufferings suffered by the people

It's not worth mentioning, it's just bad luck. When talking about war, we talk about the various legends, true or false, with gusto, and forget about the people.

Historical novels basically belong to the same genre as the anti-Japanese dramas of later generations. They romanticized the cruel war and replaced the talented and beauties in peacetime with heroic beauties. These works can relax people's spirits, but they are not real history after all.

What's more, for one purpose or another, they deliberately glorified the invaders. The most typical example is the Qing Dynasty. The Manchu Qing Dynasty's entry into the customs caused huge harm to the Han people in the Central Plains. This harm should not be forgotten. It is possible People deliberately beautify this process for political purposes, or to show that they are knowledgeable, or for other messy reasons.

The fact that the Manchus have become part of the Chinese nation cannot change the cruelty of the Manchus entering the country in history. The territory of the Qing Dynasty was very large, and the territory passed on to later generations is very large, and it cannot change history. No matter what the reason is, history cannot be changed.

The literary prison of the Qing Dynasty brought very bad habits to later generations. There are always some people who think that history can be written casually, and the characters in history can be dressed up casually. But they don’t know that history is history, and there are always Hiding the reality of the past.

Chen Yuyi said: "We scholars read the books of sages and seek the road to governing the country. Although these people are pitiful, what is the use of writing them down? Who in the world does not know the evil of the Jin people? Why bother to bother about this matter? .”

Wang Xiaolie shook his head: "Look at the remaining people in the village now, they are like zombies. People only know that the Jin people burned, killed and looted, but they don't know that the people were killed like this. To put it harshly, if we can't restore our homeland , expelling the Jinlu, a hundred years later, how many people will remember what happened now? Although there are many books by sages, the principles are very simple. What is the point of reading them over and over again? If you have time, it is better to care more about the people. The world belongs to the world. I don’t know how people in this world are alive, so how can they understand this sentence?”

Seeing that Chen Yuyi still couldn't accept what he meant, Wang Xiaolie waved his hand and said: "I am not discussing this matter with you, but ordering you to lead people to do it. Today and tomorrow, you must lead people to do things in this village." Write it down five to ten times, don’t miss it. Tomorrow we will go to Shaanzhou to officially start a war with the Jin people. By then, you must record the war clearly."

Chen Yuyi had no choice but to hand over his hand and say yes.

It's not that Chen Yuyi doesn't care about the suffering of the people, but since ancient times, literati just know how the people live. As for how the people live, whether they live happily or not, whether they live in pain or not, literati do not need to put themselves in their shoes and feel it. In Chen Yuyi's view, Wang Xiaolie's request to record things clearly was a waste of his time.

This is a fundamental disagreement about how to do knowledge and what kind of knowledge to do. In Chen Yuyi's mind, literati should be familiar with the books of sages and study the ways of governing and governing the people. As long as the people can have enough food and clothing, and even sing with their belly full, they can govern the world. There is too much to take care of.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, we often talked about considering and studying problems from the people's standpoint. Some people think that this people's standpoint means taking sides and showing off. In fact, it is not. This is a big question about what kind of knowledge scholars should do. Everything From the standpoint of the people, many learnings will have a different look. The entire academic system will become different.

This sentence sounds simple to say, but it is actually very difficult to do. For many people, they don’t even know why and how to proceed from the people’s standpoint. They just mention it sometimes to show that they know.

Let’s take a simple example. In the previous life, real estate reforms were carried out, and house prices soared after changes and changes, especially during a period of time. Some people proposed to collect real estate taxes. But why collect real estate taxes? Experts came out to say that house prices have risen too much now.

Quickly, what disadvantages has this brought? Then introduce the experience of foreign countries, especially the United States. Local governments in the United States mainly rely on property tax, personal income tax and other taxes to meet local financial needs. And by extension, if China collects property tax, according to

What will the American experience be like?

This is a typical example of not studying people's knowledge from the standpoint of the people. How the United States or other places in the world are, of course has reference significance for China, but it is only a reference significance. Rather than what others do in the United States, China must follow suit. The United States

The local governance of China has a strong legacy of European politics and the experience of the United States, which is fundamentally different from China.

For example, personal income tax. As a socialist country, why does it tax the labor income of workers? Instead of taxing the assets of asset holders? Regardless of the nature of the country or historical tradition, assets should be taxed.

Taxes are. The same is true for house income tax. As an asset, of course, taxes must be levied. And if it is just a residence, in principle, no tax should be levied. When housing prices rise rapidly, houses are no longer just residences, or even just assets, but also have financial attributes.

Then of course there will be taxes.

This is a problem common to many scholars. They have learned a lot of knowledge, but don’t know how to use it. They talk clearly and logically, but when they get to the basics, they don’t know how to explain it. Since the late Qing Dynasty, China has sent a large number of overseas students.

Go to the East, the West, and various developed countries in the world to learn. I hope they can learn the principles of governance and save the suffering motherland. But what is the final effect? ​​Let’s be realistic.

, they introduced foreign ideas and inspired Chinese people with lofty ideals. They introduced foreign science and technology, allowing China to be reborn. But the ideas of governing the country are far from enough. And a large part of those who go to study abroad,

He turned around and became a comprador, determined to take advantage of the information gap between internal and external parties to seek benefits for himself.

This problem also existed among the literati of this era. For example, Chen Yuyi and others still did not understand what Wang Xiaolie meant by doing knowledge for the people. In their eyes, doing knowledge meant reading the books of sages.

, plus their own thinking, without considering the people.

Wang Xiaolie has no need and actually has no ability to change the minds of scholars in this era. He only needs to be clear about it and use his power to order others to do people's learning. If more people do it, new ideas will naturally come to him.

People often say that ideology is a futile thing, or even useless. In fact, it is not. Ideology plays a vital role in a country and a nation. It is just that in a certain period of history, ideology is labeled.
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