Chapter 222 The Peak of Confucianism
Zhou Charter nodded: "Well, you go with me. However, it is not convenient for our mother and Qiaoer to act with us. Moreover, there is no need for so many people to go to Zalantun. I mean, let Yao Xi and your men escort our mother to North Korea. In addition, Zhao Zhenglun is still waiting for us in Fengtian City. We killed Jia Shanren yesterday, and it is inconvenient to go back to the city to meet them. I think we will go directly to Zalantun and send someone to inform Zhao Zhenglun to go to Zalantun to meet us.
Yao Xi was not happy: "Big brother, I haven't separated from you since I entered North Korea..."
Guo Erpole said, "That's because your wife is not around. Now you have a wife. Why are you sticking to our eldest brother all day long?"
Zhou Charter frowned: "Guo Er pole, you son of a bitch, what you said is so awkward! That's it. Yao Xi took someone to escort my mother, Qiaoer and your wife to North Korea. By the way, he went to Fengtian Provincial City to inform Zhao Zhenglun that Guo Erwan and Zhang Zuolin would take me to Zalantun.
Yao Xi lowered his head in frustration and whispered to Zhou Charter, "Brother, the old lady went to North Korea. Zhao Xiaoman can't hide it."
Zhou Charter was stunned and looked back. He saw the old lady of Qin sitting under a big tree. Zhao Qiaoer and Cuihua sat next to her. The old lady smiled faintly at Zhou Charter and waved to him.
Zhou Charter hurried to the old lady: "Mom, what's the matter?"
The old lady said softly, "You call me mom, and I'll thank you for Xiaoman."
"Where..." Zhou Charter suddenly found something in the old lady's words: "Mom, what are you saying? Thank you for your son."
The old lady said slowly, "Charter, I know that I can't see it full when I go to North Korea."
Zhou Charter's heart sank and stared at Zhao Qiaoer fiercely: "Qiaoer, what did you say to your mother!"
"Don't blame your sister! She didn't say anything. The old lady said, "Since you first called me mother, I have long thought that Xiaoman is gone!"
Zhou Charter's heart twitched. This ordinary rural old lady has unimaginable perseverance. She has already guessed the truth of the matter. However, for so long, she has hidden the heartbreaking pain of losing her son seamlessly. She is comforting Qiaoer and Zhou Charter with her smile!
What kind of perseverance it was and what kind of mind it was at that time!
Zhou Charter looked at the old lady in a daze and didn't know what to say. He suddenly found that it was not the old lady who needed to be comforted, but himself.
The old lady had tears in her eyes, but a smile on her face: "Charter, Xiaoman has left, and I have two sons. I have nothing to ask for as an old woman. You are a person who does great things. Don't look forward to the future. I can survive. Don't worry about it.
Zhou Charter knelt in front of the old lady and kowtowed respectfully. Then he stood up and said to Zhao Qiaoer, "Qiaoer, take good care of your mother. I'm leaving."
Zhao Qiaoer nodded with tears in her eyes: "Don't worry, brother."
There was heavy snow in the sky, and thousands of miles of frozen land in the northeast.
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Beijing, Summer Palace and Kunming Lake are frozen like a huge mirror.
It has just snowed, and the Great Summer Palace is wrapped in silver and silent. Occasionally, one or two eunuchs passed by, but their footsteps were so light that they could not hear the sound of them stepping on the snow.
In the past few days, the Empress Dowager is in a very bad mood. People in the garden have to be more careful for fear of accidentally touching the moldy head.
In an authoritarian family, the joys and sorrows of parents determine the joys and sorrows of the whole family, while in an authoritarian country, the joys and sorrows of the supreme ruler determine the joys and sorrows of the whole nation!
Maintain a high degree of consistency with the supreme ruler, which is politics and daily life! The subjects should not only unreservedly support the rules, laws and systems formulated by the ruler, but also unreservedly integrate their own life trajectory with the life of the ruler.
Just like now, the Empress Dowager Buddha is depressed, then the subjects of the whole Qing Dynasty cannot be happy. At least, their faces cannot show happiness. That kind of untimely pleasure will be taken for granted by the rulers and her minions as a kind of gloating or deliberately mocking!
The supreme dignity of the supreme ruler of the Qing Dynasty is based on deep cultural inferiority! Three hundred years ago, they conquered this country with swords. However, when the Eight Banners Iron Horse stepped into the Central Plains, their hearts had been impressed by the splendid culture of this country.
This country has a unique 5,000-year oral history and 3,000 years of written history. The starry cultural classics are overwhelmed by the Qing Dynasty, and even the fragments of civilization broken by the eight flags are so dazzling!
The Manchu people finally understood that the strength of the nation lies not in the rapidness of the iron horse and sharp sword, but also in the seemingly weak words, language, silk, folk songs, clothing, social fire, shrines, temples, food,... All of which are so vulnerable in the face of fire and knives and guns, however, it is So tenacious! Just like running water, no matter how sharp the sword is, it can't cut off the stormy waves of this country's culture!
On the contrary, the sword that was once "Yangzhou Santu" and "Jiading Ten Days" were melted by the culture of this country and melted to the bones!
The rulers of the Qing Dynasty finally realized that entering the Central Plains meant the demise of the nation!
The demise of the nation is not the demise of the body! But the demise of culture!
In those years, the difficulties faced by Xianbei Tuoba fell on the head of the Manqing Aixinjue Luo family - either comprehensively Chinese, automatically surrendered to the broad and profound Han culture, so as to peacefully complete the demise of the Manchu Qing nation; or to rise up against the strong cultural hegemony of the Han nation, this resistance is tantamount to holding fire. In the end, there is no doubt that it will be defeated, and it will be more thorough and more tragic!
Like Xianbei Tuoba in those years, the Manqing people chose the former.
This choice is tragic, but also wise.
With his broad mind and superhuman vision, Emperor Kangxi Xuanye formulated the basic national policy of the five ethnic groups to prosper together. The so-called co-prosperity is to recognize that the Han people enjoy the same rights and obligations as the Qing Dynasty. In Chinese history, there have been countless land sinking in China, and this time, the Han people, as conquerors, enjoyed the same status as conquerors for the first time!
And this is just an appearance, and the deeper significance is that the Han scholars were surprised to find that the Qing Dynasty, a foreign race, has pushed Confucian culture to the peak of history!
Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's "respecting Confucianism", Confucianism nominally occupied the core of Chinese culture and became the dominant ideology of rulers. However, in reality, what the rulers of the dynasty really use is the art of legal hegemony. Confucianism is actually just an ideal. In real social life, it has never really been realized. For more than 2,000 years, the ideal world that Confucianism has yearned for is actually just a "Chinese dream"! Even in the 200 years of the Ming Dynasty, the Han people became farther and farther away from this Chinese dream!
However, from Kangxi to Qianlong, this "Chinese dream" is becoming clearer and clearer.
The Manqing people completely fell at the foot of Confucianism, and stepped forward step by step towards the ideal Confucian society.
The full lover has finally completed the grand business that the Han people have not done for 2,000 years!
This is the embarrassment of history - the Confucian ideal created by the Han people was finally realized by the Manchus! They fulfilled the 2,000-year dream of this country and thoroughly implemented Confucianism into the national policy. They have achieved the glory of Confucianism!
However, the inheritance and development of Confucian culture in the Qing Dynasty is ridiculous!
Manqing worshipped Confucianism, which was certainly a good thing. However, their worship of Confucianism makes them afraid to take the initiative to make any choice against Confucian classics.
While carrying forward the essence of Confucianism, they also carry forward the dross of Confucianism vividly!
The rigid ideas, funny logic and authoritarian ideas of the three principles and five permanent emperors, monarchs and ministers were further strengthened and consolidated by the rulers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
From the heyday of Kangxi to Qianlong, the role of these dross was not very obvious; and once the late Qing Dynasty was around the weak powers, those dross became more and more prominent and eventually became a huge obstacle to the progress of civilization.
In the late Qing Dynasty, most of those who refused to make progress and opposed reform were not corrupt officials or incompetent mediocrity. It was precisely those scholars who were armed with Confucianism and took the world as their own responsibility, which constituted the backbone of hindering social progress! They strictly self-discipline, abide by the law, are impassioned and passionate. They vow to defend the cultural etiquette of the heavenly kingdom and resolutely reject the Western civilization that represents the direction of world development.
What's more sad is that the weak and closed thinking of the country further strengthens the dross and weakens the essence.
Just like the current Summer Palace, the authoritarian ideology of kings and ministers has developed to the extreme!
The will of the owner of the garden has become the will of the garden, and the owner of the garden is the supreme ruler of the country. Therefore, the will of the garden is the will of the whole nation.
The Empress Dowager is unhappy, and the whole country will fall into a bloody storm!
and Shuge Gemin embroidered on the path leading to the Foxiang Pavilion, surrounded by surprisingly quietness, only the chirping sound of footsteps on the snow.
Being her, the close maid Cherry whispered, "Guge, take it easy. I'm afraid the old Buddha is unhappy today."
Even the cherry, a subordinate, knows that the silence in the garden comes from the old Buddha.
Minxiu snorted, but her footsteps were not lightened at all. Instead, it aggravated her footsteps and the chirping sound spread far away. She is challenging the authority of the Empress Dowager in her own way!