After sending off Wang Mingshan, Vézé sat in front of his desk and pondered over a stack of papers. Zuo Zongtang tried to persuade him, "Your Majesty, it's getting late. There's an inspection tomorrow, so you should stop writing today. "
As Vézé's secretary, he saw Vézé start out in a daze and then start writing at a high speed. Then, the night passed. In terms of action arrangements, it was indeed inappropriate for Vézé to do this during the inspection.
"That's true," Vézé said, then picked up a pencil and wrote down the outline of his thoughts on a piece of paper.
Empirical science should be subject to falsificationism. There were at least two advantages to falsificationism.
First, scientific theories were generally expressed as a general judgment, while the object of experience was individual. Therefore, if experience was used to prove theories, it would not be able to exhaust general theories. For example, no matter how many white sheep there were, it could not prove that all sheep were white, but a black sheep could prove that all sheep were white. Therefore, the real significance of experience was to falsify pseudoscientific theories.
Second, falsificationism could avoid the defense and dogmatism of false theories. If one insisted on positivism, then once there was an experience that contradicted the theory, people would make special settings or restrictions to make the theory satisfy the experience. But in fact, such settings were often extremely unscientific. Falsificationism made people believe that all science was just a kind of guess and hypothesis. They would not be confirmed in the end, but they could be falsified at any time.
In the end, Vézé wrote, "Truth is divided into absolute truth and relative truth, and practice is the only standard to test the truth."
After reading the content, Zuo Zongtang asked, "Your Majesty, aren't you worried that someone will learn from you and plot to take over the country?"
"Plot to take over the country?" Vézé was stunned.
This question had been perplexing Zuo Zongtang for too long. In the conversation between Vézé and Wang Mingshan, Vézé not only emphasized theoretical knowledge, but also suggested that Wang Mingshan, as the Party Secretary of Guangdong Province, should strengthen ideological education within the Party so that everyone could understand the reality of the world. Only when the comrades could understand the real operation of society could the rest of the content be understood and accepted by the comrades.
Of course, all of this was built on the basis of practice.
"Your Majesty, you teach your party members everything you know. Won't Your Majesty be afraid if someone with bad intentions learns from what you've taught and does something rebellious, Your Majesty? "Zuo Zongtang asked this question in one breath, feeling very comfortable in his heart.
Vézé smiled and said, "Since you asked this, it means that your theoretical knowledge has not been fully developed. The change of regime was not due to differences in ideology. Differences in ideology led to internal disputes. The change of regime was due to the different economic foundations and interests of both parties. As the saying goes, it's better to cut off one's source of wealth than to kill one's parents. If you say that the landlords counterattack, I think everyone can understand. If you say that the workers rise up and plot to take over the country, don't you think it's ridiculous? This is a class issue. By the way, Comrade Zuo Zongtang, I suggest that you read the Declaration of Freedom. It's very clear in it. "
What puzzled Zuo Zongtang the most was why Vézé did not hide his knowledge. "Your Majesty, after learning what you've taught me, I feel that my horizons have been broadened and my thinking has been broadened. So I'm very curious as to why Your Majesty must teach these things to the whole Party. At the very least, the people I've met have always hidden these things. "
This question really stumped Vézé. At least in the 21st century that Vézé had experienced, there were active or passive deceptions in politics. There were almost hysterical attacks on the political system, and there was a deep-rooted fear of Mao Zedong's ideas. However, there was really no school of thought that "treasured their own ideas".
All political schools had to loudly publicize their ideas in order to gain more support. So, Vézé had never thought of hiding his political ideas. Faced with Zuo Zongtang's question, Vézé frowned and thought for a while. Suddenly, his face lit up. "Comrade Zuo Zongtang, that's a good question. I can answer your question now. The reason why I didn't hide it is because the politics of the new China is no longer the politics of the emperor, but the politics of the party. The politics of the party requires each party to have clear and definite theories and ideas, so I have to take out my ideas and explain them clearly to everyone. So that more comrades who accept this idea can join our Restoration Party! "
Zuo Zongtang originally thought that the question he raised was a rather personal one. It involved Vézé's personal morality, integrity, and even Vézé's personal nature. Unexpectedly, after thinking hard for a while, Vézé came up with an extremely political answer. Some of the doubts that Zuo Zongtang had been puzzling over were temporarily solved. For example, what was the difference between Vézé and others. In the past, Zuo Zongtang thought that Vézé's personal character was different from others. Now, it seemed that Vézé was a highly political person.
Just like the question just now, in Zuo Zongtang's view, it was a matter of personal interests, but in Vézé's view, it was a highly political question. This different view had indeed created a different Vézé. Zuo Zongtang sighed in his heart.
Vézé, on the other hand, did not have such a sigh. Zuo Zongtang's question suddenly cleared up a lot of his thoughts, and at this moment, he felt very refreshed. Vézé smiled and said, "Why do we call each other comrades? It's because comradeship is the organizational model of party politics. In terms of basic ideas, if there are no people who have the same ideas and common understanding, they cannot join the same party. "
This was not the first time that Vézé had raised the idea of comradeship, but this was the first time that Vézé felt that he was not simply imitating the politics of the 21st century, but that he had made this system a part of himself. As soon as this opening was opened, Vézé felt as if he had been suddenly enlightened.
Looking at Zuo Zongtang's complicated expression, Vézé felt that Zuo Zongtang probably did not understand this. He smiled and said, "Everyone, go and rest. We still have an inspection tomorrow!"
The next day, Vézé gave a speech at the welcome meeting of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee. He made a small summary of the struggle in Guangdong over the past ten years. Through this summary, he explained the old land system, the pure capitalist system, and the socialist system.
This was something that Vézé did not dare to explain directly before. It was not only because China, which lacked industry, could not understand capital operations, but also because Vézé was very worried that there would be a group of people who would directly try to turn themselves into capitalists. Zuo Zongtang's question yesterday made Vézé suddenly see the light. It was inevitable that some people would have such intentions, and Vézé himself could not stop them. If the reason why the Restoration Party went from one victory to another was that Vézé had led everyone to adopt a scientific attitude and adhere to the principle of fairness and openness in the implementation of policies, then there was even less reason to worry about some people's political position changing now.
This was not a problem that could be solved by worrying.
At this time, Vézé did not have any worries, and his speech about the social system could be said to be sonorous and forceful. Wang Mingshan, Pang Congcong, and the others had long been convinced of Vézé's ability. In fact, the middle and lower level cadres in Guangdong had not directly worked under Vézé. These comrades had only heard too much of Vézé's name, but they had learned about Vézé's personal ability from various sources. They knew that the simplified Chinese characters and Hanyu Pinyin they learned were all produced by Vézé's guidance. They knew that the scientific knowledge they learned now, those textbooks were all compiled by Vézé. In addition, Vézé represented more of an order, the theory and ideas that existed on paper that were not easy to understand.
Until now, Vézé personally explained politics and political ideas to them. The middle and lower level comrades suddenly realized that the leader of the Restoration Party in front of them was not the sum of the various fragments on paper and in various reports. This living leader was using very easy to understand words to connect the fragments of political ideas that they had heard before in an orderly manner.
Many of the political ideas in the past were incidental to the implementation of various government systems. For example, during the land reform, it attacked the evils of the old land system and the reactionary landlords. During the civil war, it attacked the corruption and evil of the Manchu Qing. During the war against foreign countries, it boiled down to the phrase "since ancient times".
This kind of tagged political propaganda could indeed provide a concept of explanation, but in the eyes of many members of the Restoration Party and government cadres, these were simple word games.
After listening to Vézé really start to talk about the theory of the system, the party members suddenly felt that these seemingly simple word games were not so simple. There really was a door that they had overlooked before.
The more Zuo Zongtang listened, the more surprised he became. He found that not only did Vézé not hide any of his political ideas, he even began to talk about how he thought about the problem to the party members. In the era of traditional emperors, there was a very classic saying, "The minister does not bury his body, the monarch does not bury his country." From a vulgar point of view, this was about keeping personal secrets. From a more political point of view, it was necessary to hide the content related to the conflict of interest. It was better to cut off one's source of wealth than to kill one's parents. In any action, there would inevitably be a party whose interests were harmed. This was an irreconcilable contradiction.
Vézé, on the other hand, just used the phrase "class struggle" to expose all kinds of content that should have been hidden tightly in front of everyone. The Restoration Party fought against the landlords, against the Manchu Qing, against the foreign devils. All of this could be explained by "class struggle".
Zuo Zongtang even suspected that Vézé was angry with Zuo Zongtang. But on second thought, Vézé was not the kind of person who would seek revenge for the smallest grievance. Zuo Zongtang's ideas could not influence Vézé's.
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