Chapter 60: Leaping from the Dragon Gate
On July 16, Wang Xiaolie left Luoyang City with Cao Zhiyan as the vanguard and Yu Huan as the rearguard.
Walking all the way south along Dingdingmen Street and out of the city gate, Wang Xiaolie turned around and looked at the city behind him, filled with emotion. After more than three months in this world, traveling between the east and west capitals, he was finally going home.
What does home look like? Wang Xiaolie only has a vague impression, as if it is another world. In his impression, there is only an old house and a well at the head of the village.
I am timid about being close to home. When I really want to go home, Wang Xiaolie will inevitably feel a little uneasy.
It is one hundred and eighty miles from Luoyang to Ruzhou. Wang Xiao traveled twice the distance and required the whole army to arrive within five days. On the first night, he stayed in Longmen Town.
At night, Wang Xiaolie came out of the room and stood in the yard, looking at the full moon in the sky. In one month, it would be the Mid-Autumn Festival, but his family would never be reunited. The population was already small, and his father
He died in the war again, and now only two siblings are left.
His sister is two years older than Wang Xiaolie. When he was a child, he was raised by her sister. His mother died early and his father devoted himself to studying. Only the two siblings spent their childhood together. In Wang Xiaolie's vague memory, he only remembers
My sister's small body carried her on her back as she walked crookedly through the road at the end of the village. On one side of the road was a row of large mulberry trees, and on the other side were tangled jujube trees. What she was carrying on her back, I couldn't remember.
All that happened before, now only that scene remains. A small girl, carrying a little boy on her back, walking along the road at the end of the village.
After lingering under the moonlight for a long time, Wang Xiaolie sighed and sat down on a stone bench.
After passing the Dragon Gate today, starting tomorrow, I will usher in a brand new life. I will no longer face the world alone, I will have a family member. I will no longer be wandering around, I will have an army and a base.
In the memory of past lives, the army fought hard before the founding of New China, and the earliest base areas were especially hard. People have formed a consciousness that this is a very difficult thing. In fact, how could it be so hard? For most of history, it was
There will not be such a powerful ruling force, nor will they work together to attack you like in history. As long as you sincerely develop your base area, it will be much easier than imagined.
Wang Xiaolie has thought about this matter in the past few months. Many of his consciousness have been modified by the memory of his past life, and he will have some stubborn ideas. These ideas are actually far from history.
For thousands of years, has China ever operated base areas like before the founding of the People's Republic of China? Cao Cao cultivated land, Liu Xiu contacted the powerful families, and Zhu Yuanzhang built high walls and slowly became king. They all had great advantages over the world. Their own advantages have changed the world.
The process is there, there is an unparalleled fact that the party has established a base, and everything is taught to you. If you don't do it well, there will be problems.
I read a lot of miscellaneous books in my previous life and made many things complicated. The real world is not as innocent as in fairy tale books, but it is also not as complicated as literati imagine. The most important thing is that the strategy must not be wrong and the policy must not waver.
, execution must be resolute. Don’t think that those who do things are tool people, and don’t think that everyone thinks they are scheming, they are just human beings.
The stories written by literati and the reorganized history often ignore objective facts intentionally or unintentionally, and focus on people's subjective consciousness. The characters they write are often scheming, and one sentence has no idea how much meaning it has. How can the real reality be like that?
Is that so? People are just people. They are not monsters or gods. What they say and do could be simple.
Wang Xiaolie remembered that in his previous life, there was a particularly popular book called "Houhei Xue". I don't know how many people treasured this book and thought that the history they read was a lie, and what was told in it was the truth. To be honest,
That's just a special historical period, a special group of people, just imagined out of thin air. If you do things there, you will find it difficult to move forward. The history books we read have been processed by humanities people, and there are countless things they imagined in them.
Story. If you delve into it a few more layers and think it contains a deeper meaning, you are just thinking too much.
Before going to Ruzhou, we must first understand the current world situation, determine our own foundation, and determine our main direction of attack. How to deal with the Jin Army, how to deal with the imperial court, how to develop and consolidate the base area, what kind of governance policies to adopt, and how to train cadres.
, how to train the army. What kind of country and what kind of society should be established.
The education I received in my previous life said that human history is a primitive society, a slave society, a feudal society, a capitalist society, a socialist society, and it progresses step by step. The previous stage accumulates the foundation for the next stage, and the latter stage is the contradictory development of the previous stage.
inevitable. This consciousness has a great influence on people, and even makes many people form a deep-rooted concept that this is how human beings develop. In fact, if you really look at history, you will find that it is certainly not like that. Every civilization has a social history.
There are parts that are progressive in stages, and there are also parts that are inconsistent. How can I analyze them?
A person is a person, not a stone, not a tree, not a grazing sheep, not an ordinary animal. The humanities have their own research methods, which are different from physics, chemistry, biology, etc.
Are there stages in the development of human society? Of course there are. A unified empire is definitely different from tribes, and it is also different from feudal states. A civilization with developed literature, music, painting, architecture, etc., and a civilization that can only light bonfires and dance
Civilizations are definitely not at the same stage. This huge gap cannot be easily smoothed out by learning other people's systems or believing in other people's religions.
In the past, more than 200 countries were divided into two types: capitalism and socialism. Isn’t it funny? If the system works so well, where did the large number of poor and backward countries in the world come from? Some tribal countries are actually rich, and some so-called democratic countries are actually poor.
What happened again?
Human beings in the world are not divided like that. Civilizations in the world are not without standards.
When mankind was transitioning from agricultural civilization to industrial civilization, China was relatively backward and missed that change. Such a huge empire became a hunting ground for powerful countries. This history of decline and oppression had a profound impact on China. Why did it fall behind?
There are various opinions. What really changed the times was the New Culture Movement. Why New Culture? Because China’s culture has fallen behind and has become dross. If we want to become stronger, we must get rid of the past and learn from the West in order to have a brand new culture.
s future.
Is this really the case? The subsequent Republic of China government did not hand in a satisfactory answer. In fact, neither did the new ideas from the north. What really changed China was the Sinicization of new ideas. Sinicization, with or without the word "Sinicization", makes no difference at all.
They are two different things.
After a hundred years of history, no matter what the purpose or where they learned from, the Chinese still have not understood that period of history. Sinicization, these three words, have even been forgotten. Why has China emerged from the historical trough?
Is it inevitable? Is it because Chinese civilization is too excellent? Considering the situation of the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, this idea is ridiculous. Is it because of the social system? Big Brother has collapsed and is not convincing.
Literary people are very confused. I don’t know how many people hate that they are Chinese and hate that they were not born in Europe. Since the Republic of China, there are countless people who have tried their best to leave the country. If they can’t leave the country, they have to make their children
foreigners.
However, no one can give a convincing answer as to why China has emerged from the lowest point in history. Even when a worldwide plague comes, and those countries that are beacons of mankind are full of ugliness, some people still
I firmly believe that it is a beacon for humanity.
Looking back on the hundreds of years since the industrialization of mankind, especially the hundreds of years after the First World War, the situation has been changing. Countless countries have experienced joys and sorrows, ups and downs. How many people have smashed the boundaries of mankind with their own voices.
The shackles of ignorance and the rapid advancement of science seem to have changed the world. The once boundless earth suddenly looks like a village.
However, these hundreds of years have brought too little thinking to mankind, especially how mankind governs itself. Freedom, equality, and fraternity were once powerful voices to awaken the people at the bottom and overthrow all exploiting classes. They were once the aspirations of the exploited.
Roaring. Then what? When the smoke of war slowly dissipates, when the enthusiasm for change recedes, it seems a little confused.
Going back to ancient times, we no longer emphasize agriculture and suppress business. Can China be saved by implementing mercantilism? Can China be saved by developing capitalism? Can China even be saved by learning to establish various constitutional monarchy systems, learning to establish parliaments, and learning to establish presidents?
Going back to ancient times, as the most advanced civilization in the world, what should we save? Save China, which was oppressed by powerful enemies in the late Qing Dynasty? Isn’t it funny to the ancients?
This idea in his previous life was too funny. Wang Xiaolie remembers that at that time, he was deeply influenced by the ideas of the New Culture Movement, and many of his ideas were ridiculous. Many people even attributed the reason for China's backwardness to Chinese culture.
, thoughts, and all kinds of things. When talking about Confucianism, countless people will inevitably jump out and say that it is Confucianism that made China a backward country. They even stabbed Confucius for two thousand years and said that Confucius was a national sinner.
Is it funny? Just like a child who just went to school and found out that his classmates are richer than him, he blames his father. Blaming his father is not enough, so he blames his ancestors. It's funny.
How can human society be a child's play? How can human civilization be explained clearly with a few signs?
Why has China emerged from its trough? Why does it seem to have a bright future? This question needs to be answered by Chinese literati. If this question cannot be answered, China's new culture will not be established. Without new culture, the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation cannot be completed.
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It is useless to blindly belittle history and criticize old culture. It is also useless to blindly cater to Europe and the United States and just want to change the bloodline. It is also useless to laugh at European and American countries when they face the ugly situation of the epidemic. Countless martyrs,
With their blood, they paved a road full of bones, established a new China, and completed their mission. Summarizing experience and establishing a new culture is the task of future generations. This task cannot be shied away and must be completed. This cannot be accomplished.
Without the mission, New China will not be complete.
What did the memory of the previous life teach Wang Xiaolie? It taught Wang Xiaolie how to build a new China and open up a new world. Although it is unclear what the new culture is, the steps are clear step by step. As long as you get through this most difficult time
At that moment, with the ingenuity of the Chinese people, a new culture can always be established. At that time, a great civilization will stand in the east of the world.
Chapter completed!