Chapter 32, National Change
Although the book "National Change" is a work by Wen Chaogong, it was not popular in the past.
The "reform" it made was too far away from the lives of the people of Daxia - mainly because the people of Daxia could not understand a country that ruled the huge land and population, but was beaten by an enemy who was hundreds of thousands of miles away with a mere side division, and even wanted to ced land and beg for mercy.
Even in the Warring States Period, the princes on the land of Jiuzhou had never suffered any losses in front of those "foreign countries". Not to mention Daxia, the northern and southern seas were all made by sword and gun.
If we don’t bully others, we are already compassionate and kind to others and be bullied?
Sorry, I really don't feel like applying this...
The fictional social contradictions in this book, just like Pan Long's feeling, seem to be reliable - in this book, the "Qing Dynasty" strictly restricted the spread of martial arts, and the people only knew some crude martial arts, and most warriors could not even touch the edges of the innate realm. Only by obtaining the permission of the court or the aristocratic families could they practice relatively advanced martial arts and then become the best man with their powerful force.
The foreign countries that invaded the "Qing Dynasty" were popularized by the whole nation. Even the most profound and exquisite martial arts were open to everyone. The government unified the martial arts cultivation every year, and then gave the corresponding additional rights based on the martial arts cultivation.
Therefore, although the number of foreign countries is small, there are many martial arts powerhouses. Among the minor three thousand people, even the auxiliary soldiers who do odd jobs have cultivation levels close to the innate realm. The elite soldiers in the army are all real masters, and even the immortals catch one by one.
More importantly, they were keen on learning and research. After they came into contact with the "Qing Dynasty", they worked hard to study the martial arts of the "Qing Dynasty" and soon came up with a series of means to restrain and crack this set of martial arts.
...This is a routine operation for them. A foreign expert must know at least five or six sets of martial arts with different styles in order to deal with various situations. Moreover, they also need to learn the latest martial arts knowledge regularly to ensure that they do not fall behind.
That kind of situation where you practice behind closed doors for decades and are invincible after leaving the country is absolutely impossible.
After thirty years of retreat? After you come out of seclusion, you may find that your martial arts have been cracked. Even someone with a level of cultivation lower than you can easily defeat you!
To be honest, not to mention that readers of Daxia cannot understand this situation, even Pan Long, a time traveler, cannot understand it very much.
What story does Wen Chao design mean? It’s messy!
After he roughly read "The National Change", his evaluation was not high.
"Copying history is much more difficult than copying it. After all... it requires rationality, but history does not require it." He sighed so.
Of course, he put it aside and never read it even once again.
Readers in various parts of Daxia are basically the same. If it weren't for the work of Wen Chaogong, it could be seen from the brushwork and words that it was not forged, I'm afraid it would have been ignored.
Even so, many people think that this book may be forged. Some people used the name of Wen Chaogong and imitated his writing habits to make up such a story.
This statement was once very popular - because no one believed it, the talented Wenchao Guild wrote such a bad story.
... Until Diluan reformed.
The process of Diluan's proposal of reform and the reform measures he proposed, many of the contents are similar to "National Change" - this is also an important reason why conservatives attack the reform.
As we all know, "National Change" is a not-excellent imitation, so-called "learning from the best, only getting it". What will happen if you learn the practices in such a clumsy work?
You know without asking!
Moreover, even if we only look at what happened in the story, we know that the reforms destroyed the interests of too many people and destroyed the stability of the entire society. In the end, the "Qing Dynasty" not only did not eliminate the disadvantages and became stronger because of the reforms, but instead intensified internal conflicts because of the reforms. Not long after, the new generation of martial arts powerful men from civilians raised anti-banks in various places, and some even cooperated with foreign countries, working inside and outside.
"The Change of the Kingdom" has no ending. It ends with a group of young people meeting in the bustling city in the easternmost part of the "Qing Dynasty". They encourage each other with common ideals and formed an organization marked by five stars, vowing to wipe out the shortcomings and reorganize the country.
Then, there is a prophecy.
【Five stars come out of the East and benefit China.】
Only Pan Long, who is also a time traveler, can understand this ending without beginning or end.
The people of Daxia cannot understand this ending, but it does not prevent them from knowing that the end of the story is very bad, and it is probably about to be finished.
This naturally became a reason to attack reforms - even in the fictional story, reforms not only failed to strengthen the country, but instead led to the destruction of the country. So how can we do this reform that harms the country and the people?
In general, because of Diluan's reforms, the original nameless book "National Change" became a little popular in big cities for a while.
However, it was only a short period of time.
After all, this book... is really not well written.
Pan Long didn't mean to buy another book to read it carefully, and even if he didn't read the book, he wouldn't even be able to understand what the allusion Zhang Hao and Zhang Guozhong said was.
But now he understood.
Zhang Guozhong is mocking those colleagues!
If you get the benefits yourself, let others take risks, and you can also make excuses such as "righteousness" and "country".
Isn’t this the one Kang Guangsha in “National Change”!
Kang Guangsha is one of the most important villains in this book. Although this person is talented, he has a despicable character and is not reliable at both ends. When the conservatives are powerful, he is a reformist; but when the reformists gradually become a climate, he becomes a conservative, and the most extreme among the conservatives.
This repeated jumping behavior naturally did not get the respect of readers. Zhang Guozhong used Kang Guangsha to mock his colleagues who encouraged him to come forward and lobby for the prince emperor Hedong to oppose reforms. His indignation and dissatisfaction were simply beyond words.
It’s a blessing that he is a scholar and a very skilled scholar, so he scolded this allusion around the bush.
If it were Pan Long, he would have cursed and then drew his sword to chop people.
The small storm passed quickly, and Pan Long ignored the Hanlin scholars who were still indignant in the tavern and criticized Zhang Guozhong, but were more curious about the "Xiao Zhang No. 1 Scholar".
This person is quite interesting, firm and keen. If you have the chance, you can try to make friends.
But he didn't know that about an hour later, Zhang Guozhong appeared in the mansion of Emperor Hedong.
"Congratulations to Your Highness, your heart is available!" He said with a smile, "Now, it's time for your Highness, you will speak out!"
Chapter completed!