"… First, imagine yourself in a cage. We are upright, just, smart, and selfless. No matter what kind of situation we encounter, we will inevitably fall …" In the room, Ning Yi spread his hands. "Someone is holding a knife to your neck? We will not yield. Bad people are powerful, we will not yield. If someone tells you that the world is bad, we will even slap them in the face. But, imagine, your relatives want to eat, drink, and take advantage of … just a little bit. Your father-in-law wants to be a small official, your brother-in-law wants to run a small business. People like that have to survive. Today, you want to eat pork trotters outside, but there are countless examples around you that tell you that it is not a big deal to reach out and take a little, because it is very difficult for the higher-ups to investigate … Mr. He, your family is also from a large clan, I believe you understand these things. "
He Wen looked at him. Ning Yi smiled. "These dense relationships are a force greater than life and death, but can it really defeat an upright person? No! "
"There is still a path. If I really want to be honest in life, I can turn against my family, I can suppress my selfish desires, I can be unreasonable, and I can follow the rules. It's a little hard to bear, but it's a little hard to bear. Can't I do it? That is not necessarily the case. Confucianism has a thousand years of history, and there are many Confucians who can endure this kind of oppression. Even if we only face such enemies, people will see this kind of suffering as a part of the noble. It seems difficult, but in reality, there is still a narrow path that can be taken. The real difficulty is definitely more complicated than this … "
"So, I continued to look, to continue to perfect these ideas, to pursue a cycle that I could not escape from no matter what. Until one day, I discovered something. This matter is an objective rule. At that time, I almost completed this cycle. With this principle, no matter how upright I am, how hard I work, I will inevitably become a corrupt official, a bad person … "
"What principle?" He Wen asked.
Ning Yi's expression was calm, and he tilted his head. "All the changes in the world are the same party against the different."
This sentence made He Wen silent for a long time. "Why do you say so?"
"Because the world is made up of people." Ning Yi smiled, his gaze complicated. "When you are an official, you can not contact your family, you can not accept bribes, you can not give face to anyone. But when you want to do something, who do you rely on? If you want to beat up bad people, the bailiffs will help you. If you want to innovate, the superiors will endorse you, and the subordinates will strictly carry it out. If the execution is not smooth, you need a trustworthy assistant to punish them. This world looks complicated, but in reality, it is all kinds of competition. The strong will defeat the weak. The so-called evil cannot defeat the good. It will always be the wish of the foolish. The power is the driving force. Evil triumphs over good because the power of evil triumphs over the power of good, and good triumphs over evil. Many people think that it's the will of the heavens, but that's not the case. Someone must have done something and gathered all the power. "
"I beg to differ on this matter." He Wen said, "The law of officialdom, in addition to favoring those who are of the same faction, there is also the concept of checks and balances."
"There is such a method in the law of emperors." Ning Yi nodded. "The court checks and balances the two and three factions, causing them to be suspicious of each other. One side benefits, while the other side suffers. But since ancient times, I have never seen a truly incorruptible royal family. The emperor may have no desires, but the royal family must be the biggest interest group. Otherwise, do you think he can really play with all the factions in the palm of his hand?"
He Wen thought for a moment. "A gentleman is in a group but not in a party. A villain is in a party but not in a group."
"There is a saying like that." Ning Yi smiled approvingly. "But this is a perfect state. The current situation is that a gentleman who is in a group but not in a party will never be able to defeat a villain who is in a party but not in a group. Why? A gentleman gathers because they share the same ideals. A villain gathers because their interests are interlinked. Ideals can be strange. A gentleman who gathers today will stand on the opposite side tomorrow. A villain is always together, forming a group, cooperating with each other, training each other. Has Mister He seen an assembly line? After half a year to a year, the workers are more than ten times more efficient than a motley crew. Soldiers with strict military discipline can defeat ten times more untrained boorish men. There is no use in being hot-blooded here. "
Ning Yi paused. "In the eleventh year of Jinghan, I was in the Right Minister's residence, assisting in disaster relief. The big landlords in the disaster area have been twisted into a rope. This is the power of the aristocratic families accumulated over two hundred years. In order to contain them, what should we do? The landlords and merchants of other places used slogans and benefits to bring into the disaster area. In the process, the Right Minister's residence put pressure on many local officials. In the end, the landlords on both sides made a profit. But the large-scale annexation of land that should have appeared was curbed to a smaller scale … This is a competition of power. Without power, no matter how loud the slogan is, it is meaningless. With power, you can take as much as you are higher than others. You can lose as much as you are less powerful. The world is fair and just. "
"If the Right Minister's residence does not have the power, they cannot even do this kind of alliance. But this kind of thing, how about talking to the gentlemen? The Minister's residence says disaster relief, but in fact, they have taken the money. The people who work for the Minister's residence actually earn. We call people to the disaster area, saying it is disaster relief, but in fact, it is to sell food. The price is higher than usual. What should we do? Is this a good thing? The gentlemen will probably have to float in the sea. The people who died, the people who have grievances, will increase by another level. "
Ning Yi clasped his hands together. "Only when the power of good really overwhelms the power of evil, and evil cannot win over good, will it appear. The party is the same and the people are different. This is the essence of all changes. If you want to do things, you have to satisfy your subordinates. In the end, your power will become greater and greater. You will defeat the bad people, and your subordinates' needs cannot be ignored. After that, there will be all kinds of temptations, and relatives that cannot be refused. You will inevitably retreat step by step, and in the end, there will be no retreat. This is how I became a corrupt official, a bad person. Of course, after a long period of observation and improvement, in this process, I saw all kinds of desires, flaws, and some essential undeniable things … "
"So Mister Ning is called the devil of the heart?"
"That is why I asked your disciples. Why is it that a person like Mister He is unable to leave the circle of the Confucian School? Is there only one such outstanding person in the world? He Wen, Qin Siyuan, Li Pin, Yao Zunian, Zuo Duanyou … "Ning Yi smiled." To be honest, I killed the king and threatened to rebel against the Confucian School. Many of the youths here are filled with contempt towards the Confucian School. The more outstanding your performance is, the more it will show them just how great the problems they face are. For over a thousand years, all sorts of outstanding people have had no choice but to walk into these problems. If they think that they can solve these problems with their arrogant hearts, then that is truly a joke … I hope that they can be humble. "
"Humble …" He Wen smiled. "Since Mister Ning knows that these problems haven't been solved for a thousand years, why are you so arrogant that you think you can completely overthrow them and build up a new framework? Do you know the consequences of being wrong? "
"The sun is shining brightly. Mister He, let's go for a walk." The afternoon sun shone in from outside. Ning Yi spread his hands. When He Wen stood up and left, he said as he walked, "I don't know if I'm right or not, but I know that the Confucian School's path is wrong and we have to change it."
The two walked out of the room and saw Ning Xi, Min Chuyi and the others looking over from the hallway not far away. The two of them knew martial arts and naturally knew that Ning Xi and the other children had been eavesdropping outside the room — they had been speechless after He Wen's debate in the morning and wanted to hear how Ning Yi would get back at them. Ning Yi patted Ning Xi's head. "Go back and record what Mister He said in the morning." He sent them back.
He Wen saw the children go in before saying, "The Confucian School might have problems, but how is the path wrong? Mister Ning is too ridiculous."
The two of them spoke as they left the room, walking towards the streets and fields outside. Ning Yi said, "Mister He talked about the Book of Rites in the morning. He talked about Confucius, Laozi, and the era of the Great Harmony. Does Mister He think that Confucius and Laozi are saints or great men? "
"The saints and teachers are naturally saints."
"I think they should be great men." Ning Yi smiled and shook his head.
"Then I have to ask, what is a saint, what is a great man?"
"Saints are people who descended from the heavens, their words are the law, teachers of the world, they are on a different level from us. What they say is the truth, they are definitely correct. As for great men, when the world is in trouble, they are unyielding and use their wisdom to find a way out. They contribute greatly to the development of the world, they are great men. Mister He, do you really believe that they are fundamentally different from us? " After Ning Yi finished, he shook his head, "I don't think so. There are no gods or saints, they are just two normal people, but they have undoubtedly done great explorations."
These things were hard for He Wen to respond to. He wanted to say sarcastically, "How can you be so sure?" but in the end, he just shook his head. Ning Yi spoke again, "Laozi, Confucius lived in the Warring States, Spring and Autumn Period. At that time, people came out of their primitive state, people started to interact, ideas started to clash, and the world was in chaos. In that era, the wheel was not yet made, words had just left the oracle bones, and people started to use wooden slips. In such a chaotic world, everyone started to search for a path. Hence, a hundred schools of thought contended, and the survival of the fittest. As for the Zhou Dynasty, Xia Dynasty, and the ancient world before that, there were no written records. People were in a chaotic world, and they imagined that everything was good in the past. Of course, it is hard to say whether it was good or not … "
"In the process of searching for a path, Laozi and Confucius were naturally the best. Before that, there were no written records, and even the legends of the past were not true. Everyone was looking at this world. Laozi's book, Tao Te Ching, was mentioned in class today, and I liked it very much. 'After losing Tao comes virtue, after losing virtue comes benevolence, after losing benevolence comes righteousness, after losing righteousness comes propriety. Propriety, loyalty is thin, and chaos is the first. ' Mr. He, you can see that Laozi's most admired state of society, or rather, the state of people, is in line with the Great Way. If it cannot be in line with the Great Way, then we seek virtue. After losing virtue comes benevolence, and after losing benevolence comes righteousness. Without righteousness, we can only seek propriety. When we seek propriety, the world will be in chaos. The propriety of that time is actually equivalent to our current laws. Propriety is what you do, and righteousness is what you agree with. Mr. He, can you explain it this way? "
He Wen thought about it, "It makes sense."
"Laozi's greatest contribution is that he explained what a perfect society is in a society that has almost no cultural foundation. When the Great Way is useless, there is benevolence and righteousness; when wisdom is born, there is hypocrisy; when the six relatives are not in harmony, there is filial piety; when the country is in chaos, there is loyalty. Laozi mentioned the signs of the world turning bad, and talked about the hierarchy of the world, morality, benevolence, righteousness, and propriety. At that time, people were willing to believe that in ancient times, people's lives were in line with the Great Way, and they were carefree. Of course, we will not argue with Laozi about this … "
Ning Yi smiled, "Since the Tao can be Tao, in the end, the Tao of Heaven will benefit but not harm, and the Tao of Saints will not fight. The five thousand words of Tao Te Ching discuss the basic laws of the world. It talks about the perfect state, and also states at every level. As long as we reach the Tao, then everything will be fine. But how do we reach it? If there really was an ancient world where people's lives were in line with the Great Way, then of course, all their actions would be within the scope of the Great Way. How could they harm the Great Way and seek virtue? 'When the three kings ruled the world, the Great Way of the world gradually disappeared, so wisdom was born.' The Great Way gradually disappeared, but why did it disappear? Did the Great Way fall from the sky? Climb up, and then leave again? "
"There is no other meaning in saying this. Laozi was amazing. He saw perfection and told the world the basic principles of heaven and earth, so he was a great man. When it came to Confucius, he found a more detailed standard and preliminary method. He told the world that we must restore the Zhou Rites. The ruler must be like the ruler, the minister must be like the minister, the father must be like the father, and the son must be like the son. As long as we do this, the world will naturally run smoothly. He respected reason, and told people to repay grievances with justice, and to repay kindness with kindness. He learned from the Great Way, and finally, at the age of seventy, he followed his heart's desires without breaking the rules. "
"At that time, your teacher told you to do this, and also explained the basic principles. Why do you do this? Because it is in line with the Great Way. But if you can't do it, then that is your problem … Confucius did not achieve his ideals and ambitions in his life. We can only think that when he reached the age of seventy, he might have become open-minded, and he was also an amazing great man. "
The group of people crossed the fields and walked to the riverside. They saw the surging waves of the river, and the sounds of the secular world came from the market, the waterwheel, and the workshops in the distance.
"This is also your personal deduction, Mr. Ning."
"Yes, it is only my personal deduction. Mr. He can use it as a reference." Ning Yi did not care about his response. He tilted his head, "Lose righteousness, and then be polite. The world that Laozi and Confucius lived in had already lost righteousness, and then was polite. How could we deduce righteousness from propriety? Everyone thought of all kinds of methods, until the hundred schools of thought were dismissed, and only Confucianism was respected. A narrow road appeared, and it combined the strengths of many schools, and could be used in politics. The ruler is the ruler, the minister is the minister, the father is the son, and the son is the son. This is very useful. Confucius said that everyone should have their own style. The country said the same thing, the minister should be like the minister, and the son should be like the son. These can all be supervised, but the ruler must have the appearance of a ruler. Who is going to supervise? The upper class has more room to maneuver, and the lower class has more slogans and guidelines to control it. These are the words of the Sages. It doesn't matter if you don't understand it, but we are teaching you according to the words of the Sages. You just have to follow them. "
"No matter how well Laozi described the perfect state, we have to face the fact that society has in fact relied on propriety. Every generation of Confucian scholars after Confucius and Mencius wanted to educate the people, but they had to face the reality that the power of enlightenment could not be popularized. The reality must be passed, and we can't float in the sea with the slightest obstacle. Then … you don't understand why you have to do this, but you just have to do it. Generation after generation of Confucianism has made progress, and set all kinds of rules for the ordinary people of the lower class. The rules are getting more and more detailed. Is this considered progress? In terms of expediency, it seems to be. "
Ning Yi smiled and shook his head, "Until now, before Old Qin died, he annotated the Four Books. Based on his experience of looking at society, he found more detailed rules. According to the principle of harmony of time, he clearly explained all aspects and the details that needed to be optimized. These principles are valuable. They can make society better, but they are faced with a situation that most people can't explain clearly. What should we do? Let them do it first, Mr. He. The more Confucianism develops, the stricter the management and requirements of the lower class will only become. Before Old Qin died, he said that to attract people's desires is to follow heaven's justice. He clearly explained the principles, and you feel the same way. If you do this, you will naturally follow heaven's justice. But if you don't explain it clearly, in the end, it will only become heaven's justice and extinguish people's desires. If you can't use reason to subdue them, then you can use force. "
"I don't see anything wrong with that," He Wen said.
"But this process is actually castrating people's courage."
"There will naturally be more and more scholars, and there will also be more and more people who understand reason." He Wen said, "If we let go of force on ordinary people, there will no longer be rules of propriety. Selfish desires will run rampant, and the world will immediately fall into chaos. How can we know that Confucianism is not the right way to go?"
"Naturally, it is one way of thinking." The two of them walked along the riverbank. Ning Yi smiled and said, "A thousand years ago, Laozi and Confucius and Mencius understood one thing. For a person's spiritual world to reach a perfect state, it has little to do with material things. In fact, material things can even affect a person's perfection. In the past one or two thousand years, Confucianism and Buddhism, in the process of cultivating the human heart, ultimately pursued the abandonment of material desires. No matter how society operates, the ultimate goal is nothing more than to make people's hearts and minds harmonious. Therefore, later on, Confucianism abandoned strange and obscene techniques, afraid that selfish desires will disturb the human heart. But … Mr. He, do you not have selfish desires? "
"My realm is naturally not enough."
"I also have, and so does Old Qin." Ning Yi said, "The wisdom to truly face selfish desires is not to destroy them, but to face them squarely, and even to control them. Mr. He, I am a person who can be extremely extravagant and pay particular attention to enjoyment, but I can also be indifferent to it, because I know how my selfish desires operate, and I can use reason to control them. Greed in business can promote the development of the economy, and can lead to the emergence of many new inventions. A lazy mind can make us constantly seek efficiency and methods in work, want to buy a good thing, can make us work hard, like a beautiful woman, can make us become an outstanding person, and fear of death can also make us understand the weight of life. A truly intelligent person needs to thoroughly understand and control his own selfish desires, and not destroy them. "
"But this is also the highest realm of Confucianism."
"But the path is wrong." Ning Yi shook his head and looked at the town in front of him. "Suppressing selfish desires at the bottom of the whole society and emphasizing strict propriety, the suppression of greed and innovation will naturally become more and more severe. When a country is established and we enter this system, we have no choice but to form cliques for selfish purposes. The accumulation of people leads to the emergence of aristocratic families. No matter how we try to contain them, and constantly check and balance them, this process is still irreversible, because the process of containment is actually the process of cultivating new interests. In two or three hundred years, there will be more and more contradictions, and the power of aristocratic families will become more and more solidified, and the castration of the bottom will become more and more severe. The country will perish and enter the next cycle. The researchers of Confucianism will learn from the previous experience, and aristocratic families will appear again. Do you think the method of breaking up aristocratic families will advance, or the method of castrating the people at the bottom in order to suppress the grievances of the people will advance? "
"I think it's the latter," Ning Yi said, "This wheel of Confucianism has already rolled in this direction irreversibly. When we find a path, of course we have to be sure that it will eventually lead to a perfect result. If you temporarily expedient, in the end, you end up using expediency as the goal, then what is the point of playing? Moreover, there are objective laws in this world. My hot air balloon is already in the sky, and iron cannons are out. If you don't develop these laws, then in a few hundred years, there will naturally be foreign races that will desperately develop, driving machines that can fly through the sky and burrow into the earth, pushing cannons that can destroy mountains and cities to knock on your door. "
"Since Mr. Ning has done it, how can people in the future abandon it?"
"Because Confucianism seeks stability and harmony, but it is definitely not stability and harmony. If you want to be lazy, if you want to make progress, then the flow of material desires will promote its development. If I die, you will definitely destroy it. "
Ning Yi stood on the river bank, looking at the boats and the bustling town. He put his hands on his waist, "I destroy Confucianism because I can no longer see its future. But Mr. He, tell me about the future I fantasize about. I hope that in the future, the people in front of us will all understand the basic laws of the world. They will all be able to read, understand reason, and ultimately become gentlemen, taking responsibility for their own future … "
"As you said, what have those smart people been doing for the past thousand years?" He Wen said sarcastically.
"We talked about the matter of gentlemen being a group and not a party." The wind on the river blew over, and Ning Yi slightly tilted his head, "When Old Qin died, there were many crimes, and many of them were true. At least, it must be true that he formed a clique for personal gain. At that time, there were many people who relied on the Right Minister's residence to make a living. Old Qin tried his best to walk on the right path of interests, but it was impossible to be clean. My hands have also been stained with the blood of many people. We tried to move them with emotion, but if we are purely gentlemen, then we can't do anything. You may think that if we do good deeds, the common people will support us, but in fact, they are not. The common people are the kind of people who will execute the other party as long as they hear the slightest bit of evil. Later, Old Qin was paraded through the streets and splashed with dung. If we look at it from the standard of a pure good person, he was upright and outspoken, without any selfish desires, and his methods were open and aboveboard – he really deserved it. "
"Mr. Ning actually blamed the common people?"
"I don't blame the common people, but I analyze them as an objective law." Ning Yi said, "Since ancient times, the political system is usually like this: there are a few people in the upper class who try to solve the imminent social problems. Some of them are solved, and some of them are unable to solve it. In the process, other problems that are not the main concern of the upper class have been solidifying and constantly accumulating negative causes. The country is constantly in a cycle, and the negative causes are getting more and more. You enter the system, but you are powerless. The people under you have to eat, buy clothes, and be a little better. Your interest group may be able to solve some small problems, but overall, it will still be in the growth of negative causes. Because the process of the formation and solidification of interest groups is itself the process of accumulation of contradictions. "
"In this process, the small interest groups have to protect their own livelihood, and the big interest groups have to compete with other interest groups. When it comes to the emperor or prime minister, some ambitious people try to resolve these solidified interest groups. The most effective way is to seek a new system, and this is reform. There are very few who succeed, and even if they succeed, the reformers often die without a burial place. Every generation of the upper class of power and knowledgeable people try their best to break up the solidified interest groups, but they can never match the speed at which the other side solidifies because of the interests of the other side. "
"Knowledgeable people like Mr. He probably fantasize that one day, there will be enough knowledgeable people in Confucianism to break up this cycle. However, as long as the rules of reform don't change, if you want to reform, you will have to accumulate another interest group, and this cycle will never end. "
"If we treat this as a mathematical calculation, I wonder if we can introduce another factor that has never been introduced before, so that they can naturally resolve the negative causes of society. In the end, this can only fall on these ordinary people." Ning Yi smiled. "Of course, they have to read first."
"Mr. Ning established these paper mills and studied the investigation of things. It is indeed a magnificent feat. If in the future, everyone in the world can read, it will be a meritorious deed comparable to that of a saint. However, I can't understand other than this."
"I can give you an example. Mr. He, you will understand." Ning Yi pointed at the rows of waterwheels in the distance. "For example, Mr. He, you are very familiar with those paper mills."
He Wen nodded. "I remember these things every day. If I can, I wish I could put them in my bag and take them with me."
"Paper making has a lot of pollution. Mr. He, have you seen the drainage outlets of those paper mills? We cut down a few mountains of wood to make paper, and the drainage outlets are already polluted. The water can't be drunk, and sometimes there are dead fish. " Ning Yi looked at He Wen. "One day, there will be paper mills everywhere along this river, and even the whole world will have paper mills. All the water will be polluted. Fish will die everywhere, and people will get sick after drinking the water …"
"How can that be!" He Wen growled.
"Just think of it as an example." Ning Yi smiled. "One day, it will be so polluted. However, these mills are the lifeline of this country. When the people come to protest, you are a lowly official. How can you explain the problem to the people? "
He Wen frowned and thought for a long time. "I will tell them the truth, and explain the reason in detail …"
"Then your superior will scold you, and even punish you! The people are simple. As long as they know that it is these mills, they will immediately start pressuring these mills to immediately close them. The country has already started to prepare a solution, but it will take time. If you confess, the people will immediately start to hate these mills. Then, the yamen that does not deal with these mills will naturally become a nest of corrupt officials. If one day, someone dies from drinking water, the people will take to the streets and a mutiny will be imminent. In the end, it will be out of control, and you will be guilty. "
"… Then we can only lie."
"Yes, we know that the people are so simple. We will tell them that the people died because of some other reason, that the pollution is not serious, that the court is already dealing with it, and that everyone has to share the hardship. Then, the court will force these lifelines to quickly rectify, and let these mills quickly get out of trouble before the people's anger rises. Of course, we know that telling the truth is a good thing, but when faced with such people, telling the truth will only cause the result to be out of control. We will not be able to find out who is at fault, but unless we acknowledge this rule, we will not be able to find a way to change it. "
Ning Yi looked at the water wheels. "For example, when I saw that the river of the paper mill is polluted, I stood out and told the people that such a mill will cause trouble in the future. At this time, the paper mill is already a matter that benefits the country and the people. We will not allow any negative comments about it. We will tell the people that this fellow is a bad person sent by the Jin Kingdom, and that he wants to cause trouble. When the people hear that I am a bad person, of course, they will take me down first. As for whether I have a reason to say that there will be trouble in the future, no one cares. Also, if I say that these mills will have problems because I have invented a better method of making paper, and I want to make a profit, the people will see that I am doing it for money, and of course, they will start to criticize me again … These are the objective attributes of the ordinary people. "
"When faced with such objective attributes and simple likes and dislikes, if one of our yamen's bailiffs does something wrong, and someone dies, you and I are small officials in the yamen. You and I are lowly officials in the yamen. If we confess immediately, what will happen if there is a problem with our yamen runners? If it is possible, we will first start to smear the dead person, and hope that the matter will pass. This is because we understand the hearts of the people. If they see that there is a problem with one bailiffs, they may think that there is a problem with the entire yamen. Their understanding of the process of the matter is not concrete, but muddled. They do not reason, but reason … At this stage, they are almost useless to the country. "
"But if one day, they improve, what will happen?" Ning Yi's gaze was gentle. "If our people start to understand logic and reason, they will know that it is best to be neutral in the world. They will be able to judge things as they are, analyze things, and not be deceived. When faced with such people, if someone says that the paper mill will have problems in the future, we will smear him. But even if he is a bad person, is it possible that the problems of the paper mill are true? At that time, will we still try to use smear to solve the problem? If the people don't think that all bailiffs are bad because of one bailiffs, and they are not easy to deceive, even if we say that there is a problem with the dead person, they will still pay attention to the bailiffs. Then, will we still use the problem of the dead person to cover up the problem of the bailiffs? "
"The organs of the court will appear perfunctory. It is like how laozi said how to be perfect, but we are just ordinary people. We have to deal with dozens of things every day. Our superiors want to investigate, and the court demands that there be no problems. Then, the principle of the yamen's officials to deal with problems is to choose the simplest and most practical method. They just have to hand it over. This phenomenon is not easy to change. If the people start to understand reason, the cost of this perfunctory method will continue to increase. At this time, because the people are not extreme, they will choose to confess. The reasonable people will become a cushion to absorb negative causes, to feed back to the court, and to take the initiative to dissolve the solidification of the interests of society. This process is the so-called autonomy of the people, and is also the true meaning of a gentleman, not a party. "
"To achieve this point, of course, it is not easy. You say that I blame the people, but I just hope that one day, they can understand what kind of society they are in, and that all the changes are the same party against the different. Old Qin is an interest group, those fixed landlords, Cai Jing, and the others are also interest groups. If there is any difference, Cai Jing and the others take 90% of the benefits and give 10% to the people, while Old Qin may take 80% and give 20%. If the people want a good person who gives them 100% of the benefits, then there is only one way to achieve it. "
"Let's first see clearly the one who gives us 20%, support him, and let him replace the 10%, and we take 10% more. Then, there may be someone who is willing to give us 25%, and we support him to replace the former. Then, there may be someone who is willing to give us 30%, and so on. In this process, there will also be someone who is willing to give us 20%, and they will deceive the people. People have the obligation to see it clearly and resist it. The world can only change through the changes of interest groups. If we want to be a 100% good person from the beginning, then we will misunderstand the laws of the world. All the choices, right or wrong, can only be left to fate, and these choices will be meaningless. "
"In this process, there is a lot of professional knowledge involved. The people may understand one day, but it is absolutely impossible to understand everything with their own strength. At this time, he needs trustworthy professionals. These professionals can know that they are doing important things, can be proud of their knowledge, and in order to pursue the truth, they can exhaust their lives, and even face power, and die. In this way, they can gain the trust of the people. This is called the cultural self-esteem system. "
"The people can understand, and the society can have cultural self-esteem. With these two, the core of democracy can be formed, and the society can be cycled, no longer declining." Ning Yi looked at He Wen. "This is also the reason why I did not make things difficult for you."
"… I am afraid that you can't achieve it." He Wen looked for a moment and said calmly.
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