Three Kingdoms

Joy is short-lived, but trouble is the eternal theme in life, so humans like joy so much and hate trouble. When encountering trouble, there are usually three ways to do it, one is to solve it head-on, one is to go around it from the side, and the other is to stay where you are and try to delay.

Trouble, as the name suggests, when there is trouble, there is anger. This is human nature, but only those who can control themselves can achieve great things.

Naturally, Fei Qian could choose to just give the order with little or no explanation. After all, he had traveled a long distance and was physically and mentally exhausted. There was nothing wrong with letting Pang Tong retreat. However, Fei Qian still controlled himself because of his fatigue. Explain the anger in your heart to Pang Tong.

As Pang Tong, who is younger than Fei Qian and can even be said to be the representative of the Jingxiang gentry group, if he cannot be convinced and truly understand the meaning of Fei Qian's actions, then it is impossible for other Jingxiang figures to understand. And cooperated with the implementation.

Mr. Pang De's words were somewhat unexpected to Fei Qian, but strictly speaking, they were reasonable. After all, for most descendants of noble families in the Han Dynasty, they didn't actually think much about it. Only thinkers like Pang Degong might have noticed Fei Qian's intentions for the first time and had their own opinions.

"Do you still remember the pulley part used in the military to hoist objects?" Fei Qian pointed to his nose and said, "I drew it for Mr. Huang under Lushan Mountain, but then I painted it for Mr. Huang in the Huang Family Villa. He painted it in front of other craftsmen... Can you imagine the expression on Mr. Huang's face at that time?"

Pang Tong nodded slightly.

"So..." Fei Qian continued, "This matter is just like the clothes we wear... At the beginning, people did not know how to weave cloth, but only used animal skins, and then there was the saying of consuming hair and drinking blood... What happened later? , found flax, and then there was clothing. The word "clothes" means that a person wears a hat and a piece of cloth... Later, from simply twisting and weaving by hand, now we have a loom. , there may be more complex and more effective machines in the future, and these, including what happened to Huang Dajiang, are all the same, and they are all due to human instinctive desires..."

Fei Qian raised three fingers and then took them back one by one: "Greedy, lazy, greedy!"

Pang Tong subconsciously touched his belly, then took a breath back and held it in, but after a while he couldn't hold it any longer and popped it out. He shook his head and said, "That's not entirely true, is it? There are also people in the world who are not greedy and who are not greedy. You’re a lazy, greedy person!”

"Those who can control one of them can become famous, those who can resist two of them can be regarded as powerful, and those who can avoid all three can be called saints..." Fei Qian laughed and did not object to Pang Tong's statement, "But In this world, there are mostly ordinary people, how many saints are there?”

"This is the same..." Pang Tong touched his belly again and said, "Then I am greedy... Sigh... In this case, I am only a little short of a saint..."

Fei Qian raised his head and smiled, noncommittal.

"So it can be seen that not only Pang Gong, not just the nobles, but also ordinary craftsmen, do not like the knowledge they have mastered to be passed on..." Fei Qian continued, "But have you noticed that as long as it is not What is passed down from outside is basically easy to be lost in the end, no matter how well protected it is within the family, this is the case, why is this?"

Pang Tong blinked a few times, nodded and said: "The children in the family have different talents, and there are some wars and turmoil... The inheritance of the family has been interrupted, that's it..."

"Pang Gong said that the people can make it happen, but they cannot make it known. This is the first way to say it, but there is a second way of saying it, that is, the people can make it, follow it, but not make it known..." Fei Qian nodded and said, " And something, is actually the first statement I agree with...if a fool cannot speak, it is the most reasonable thing in the world..."

Pang Tong was stunned for a moment, looked at Fei Qian and said, "Why are you..."

Fei Qian laughed and said: "If you are a fool, no matter how you put it, you can't understand it no matter how you teach it. Do you really have to teach them all before you can do anything? What else can you do?"

"Since ancient times, smart people know how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and how to lead ordinary people together to better find prey and collect fruits. However, stupid people are at a loss when encountering problems. How can I bring others along with me to overcome thorns and thorns?”

"So what Pang Gong means is that people in the world today have limited talents, and knowledge and wisdom are highly dependent on talent. If they are ignorant, how much time and energy will it take to let them know the truth? It is better to let the smart people understand the truth. When stupid people work, the order of heaven and earth will be maintained... People can follow it but cannot understand it... This is the way of heaven and earth, governing it by doing nothing... right?"

"That's right." Pang Tong nodded and said.

"Actually... these two sentences may sound different, but..." Fei Qian suddenly showed a meaningful smile and said, "These two sentences are the same..."

Pang Tong took a breath and said hesitantly: "You mean... this 'people'?"

Fei Qian banged the table a few times and laughed: "Yes! It's 'people'! The key is this 'people'! Just reading the sentences is not enough, you also have to understand the meaning of the words. ! What is the people? What does the 'people' in the first sentence refer to? What does the 'people' in the second sentence refer to?"

Pang Tong rolled his eyes and said nothing.

Fei Qian continued to laugh, laughing until tears came out. He wiped it with his hand and shook his head. In later generations, I actually agreed more with the second sentence. How could the people be deceived, how could they not have the right to know, how could the society be like this, and how could it not be like that? But in the Han Dynasty, people in power became After that, some concepts and habits were also changed by the current Han Dynasty.

The Han Dynasty came from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and from the hundreds of schools of the Qin Dynasty. During these thousands of years, there were many extremely smart people who explored, groped, and then found the current path.

The disputes among the various schools of thought are not entirely academic disputes, but differences in political concepts of governing the country. In the end, Huang Lao was used to rule the country in the Han Dynasty, and Confucianism was used to spread the country. This was also a rule left by many forerunners. In this rule, ordinary people Ordinary people, whether they know it or not, whether they do it or not do it, they cannot break the rules, nor can they be stronger than etiquette.

The same will be true in later generations.

But, you can mix some private goods into it...

Fei Qian pointed to a brazier in the hall and said: "The heaven and the earth are like an oven, and you and I are the fuel in it... But if there are only so many fuel in this furnace, it can only keep warm." It’s just such a square hall... In other words, if there are enough fuel materials..."

Pang Tong somewhat understood, straightened his body, and looked a little excited: "That's it... fuel material... um..."

"In a small room, such a pot is enough, but if there are tens of millions of firewood pots in the world, how many firewood braziers are needed? Can you and I do it?" Fei Qian continued, "This requires more. Even if you don’t understand the ‘people’, you must tell them and teach them. Only then can you find a way to make everyone in the poor house in the world happy... Even one step closer, you can also let these people find a way on their own to see how they can be in the same situation. Cut better firewood and make more braziers within the time, and we will reward these people and tell the woodcutters who come later about the methods they found, so that the fuel wood will be endless and the braziers will come more and more. The more... And if these people want to do this, it is impossible to do it without teaching them first..."

If a country wants to develop, develop stably and rapidly, ordinary people with a certain basic knowledge are indispensable. Therefore, no matter which country it is in the future, basic education will continue to be promoted, and even free education will be forcibly legislated.

"So in this regard, it's the second sentence before, if the people can do it, let them know it; if they can't, let them know..." Fei Qian tapped the table with his fingers, "However, these 'people' can only chop wood. Can you participate in the governance of the country? It is still impossible. A thousand people have a thousand ideas, and ten thousand people have ten thousand ideas. However, the first thing that ordinary people think about is often themselves, and when dealing with the entire huge When collective interests are aligned, can all the different wishes of everyone be satisfied? It is obviously absolutely impossible. Therefore, above these 'people', that is, going back to the first sentence, the people can make it happen, but they cannot make it known. Yes...but we also need to pay attention to one thing. The people who serve the people must not be stupid or greedy people. Otherwise, they will definitely be unable to escape the three disasters of greed, laziness and greed, and eventually the family and country will be destroyed..."

"So, these two sentences are actually not contradictory at all..." Fei Qian looked at Pang Tong and said, "If we want to be strong, we need more 'people'... The reason why Pang Gong is worried is that these 'people' know Too much, and then it becomes difficult to control... But the question is, do we need to worry about this problem now? The world is so big, we need more people to control various places and find more fuel materials 'And the 'brazier'! We are so in short supply now that even if we have a hundred or a thousand times more, it won't be enough, so why should we stop eating because of choking?"

It's like some scholars in later generations called beasts. When they saw the public starting to raise all kinds of doubts, they hurriedly began to preach that the next generation should be happy, not to learn too much, and it is best not to learn anything...

When there are still many people with malicious intentions in the world, why should we abandon our martial arts and stop eating due to choking?

"If there are always only internal problems, then using the first method, using Huang and Lao's governance, to let everyone under the rule live a peaceful and happy life, be happy, and not worry about anything, is actually quite good... Fei Qian continued, "But during the time of Emperor Wu, this matter was already clear. Huang Lao's government could only solve internal problems, but could not deal with the outside world..."

As Fei Qian spoke, he suddenly fell silent for a moment because he thought of Confucianism. At the end of the Han Dynasty, the Confucian disciples who integrated the modern classics and the ancient classics inherited the essence and dross of the modern classics and the ancient classics. As the people pursue class and order more and more, the people are naturally castrated again and again...

This is the "future" Fei Qian knows.

“If you want to go abroad and go out, you must re-energize the people, you must awaken the people’s national pride, and you must tell the people something, some knowledge, some wisdom, so that these people can have a way to go out. , and establish a firm foothold outside..."

"From ancient times to the present, we have come step by step like this. Is it possible that now, in order to maintain stability, we have begun to tie our hands and feet?"

"Is this clear enough?"

Fei Qian asked Pang Tong.

Pang Tong took a deep breath, was silent for a while, and nodded slowly.

"We only had Bingbei before, but now we have Guanzhong, Hanzhong, Longyou, Sichuan and Shu..." Fei Qian raised his head, looked at the sky in the distance, and said, "The heaven and the earth are unkind, and treat everything as a cud dog. Everything is ruined." They are equal. How do we understand this "people"? Naturally, this "people" will treat us... If the whole world is the people of China, what does it matter even if one family loses its inheritance? Maybe people of this generation have this or that No matter what happens, there will always be a generation of people who can fight back, make progress again, and look for a broader world again..."

Fei Qian paused, patted the table gently, and said, "The person who holds this position is also unkind..."

Pang Tong nodded, and then said: "But how should we do it specifically?"

"There is no distinction between teaching. As long as you are willing to learn the most basic things, you can learn them! Basic literacy, counting, laws, etc., can all be learned..." Fei Qian said confidently, anyway, if these things in future generations, It was enough for the Han Dynasty. "Then all higher education is to select a group of people who have the talent and willingness to specialize in a certain field of knowledge on top of these people who have received basic education, and then Among these highly educated people, a group of elites will be selected to observe the current situation and take charge of the overall situation... In this way, as long as the fire of Chinese civilization does not go out, it will be immortal for thousands of years!"

Pang Tong danced his arms twice in excitement, but soon frowned and said, "Is that so... Why do I feel that the methods of clan learning are similar to those of ordinary noble families?"

Fei Qian laughed loudly, nodded and said: "I originally came from this, how could it be different! But after all, the base of a clan's learning is too small, and greed and greed are too easy to hurt people. If you are not careful, this clan's learning Those who are supposed to be talented among them will live in the dust and wait to die... The rotten ones should be uprooted, otherwise they will only become more rotten... We must make the clan school bigger, not It gets smaller and smaller..."

"You need to know that in this Han world, Huaxia is originally one clan..."

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