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"...What's next?"

"Next, the Japanese are defeated..."

"Uh..."

Ning Yi smiled and shook his arm: "...After the Japanese are defeated, don't forget that there are villains in the West, their development of physics has reached a very high level, and China...three thousand years of Confucian remnants, one hundred years of weakness, which led to a great distance between them in physics. As I said before, if you fall behind, you will be beaten, and they are still wandering around your house every day, threatening you, asking you to cede this benefit and that benefit."

"But on our side, at that time, we already had an indomitable will that surpassed everything, and a spiritual force that could twist the entire China into one rope. At that time, even if you were still hungry, if you had the last steamed bun in your hand, you would think about giving it to your comrades, imagine, at that time, such an army appeared. And the physics of the West is a hundred years more advanced than ours now, steel planes fly in the sky, steel chariots run on the ground, and the bombs they drop can blow up this entire street with one..."

"The battle between China...and the strongest Western countries broke out..."

Ning Yi looked at the night, paused slightly, and Xigua frowned, "Lost?"

"No, that was...in that period of human history, the last time humans used spiritual power to forcibly fill the gap in material resources, they repelled the West. By that time, China, which had been beaten for one hundred and twenty years, was for the first time valued by many Western countries and won a stable space for development."

They went on, waved his hand, and Xigua smiled, "Then next, unify the world, for all ages?"

"Then next..." Ning Yi also smiled, "Then next, they continue to move forward. They have experienced too much humiliation, been beaten for more than a hundred years, and finally found a way here. They saw that educating and innovating everyone, and making everyone noble and caring about others, could achieve such great achievements, Agua, if it were you, what would you do?"

Xigua looked at him.

"They will continue to delve deeper, they used spiritual will to fill the material foundation, and then...they want to complete the spiritual transformation of the entire society before the material is sufficient, directly bypassing the material obstacles and entering the final Datong society."

"Spiritual transformation...how to transform..."

"Through classroom education and practical education."

"..." Xigua couldn't think clearly for a while, Ning Yi looked ahead, and then spoke.

"...They finally came to a conclusion that humans find it difficult to cross that spiritual gap when the material foundation is not satisfied. If they want to achieve equality for all and make everyone's spirit infinitely noble, they must first turn back to create a material foundation, an educational foundation, and a cultural foundation..."

Ning Yi fell silent here, and Xigua thought for a moment, "What does spiritual nobility have to do with material things?"

"It's like when I have a full stomach, I will choose to do good deeds, and I will want to be a good person. If I can't even get enough to eat, I probably won't have the heart to be a good person."

"Isn't that just the saying 'the poor are scheming and the rich are kind'? Are such good people really good people?"

"What is a truly good person, Agua? Where are the truly good people? People are just people, they have their own desires, their own weaknesses. It is desire that generates demand, and it is demand that promotes the creation of today's world. It's just that everyone lives in this world, some desires will hurt others, and we say that this is wrong, and some desires are beneficial to most people, and we call them ideals. You are gluttonous and lazy, and you want to be an official, this is called desire, you work hard and strive to become an official, this is an ideal."

Ning Yi smiled: "Although material things cannot truly make people become good people, material things can solve some of the problems, and it is of course good to solve more of them. Education can also solve some of the problems, so education must also come up, and then, they threw away three thousand years of culture, and they have to establish their own culture, each thing, solves a part of the problem. When everything is done, someday in the future, maybe they will be qualified to launch a challenge to that ultimate goal..."

"...Their previous challenge." Xigua hesitated, "How did they come to this conclusion? What happened to their challenge?"

"Agua, stories are just stories." Ning Yi touched her head, "The real question is, in these stages that I have seen, what is the core law that truly dominates every change? From the Westernization Movement, to the Reform Movement of 1898, the old warlords, the new warlords, to the elite government and then to the People's Government, what is the core in the middle?" He paused, "The core in the middle is called social consensus, or, collective subconscious."

"This kind of social consensus is not a superficial consensus, but putting this society

Add everyone together, intellectuals may be a little more, officials are more, and farmers are less. Add up their views on the world and calculate an average value, which will determine the appearance of a society."

"Of course, in the beginning, the proportion of ordinary people without education was very small, and the further they went, their weight could not be ignored. When we talk about the three hundred years of the Manchus, and they were suddenly beaten, everyone would start to think, what should we do? At this time, the Westernization Movement was proposed, and everyone thought, it makes sense, this change was accepted by the public."

"Continuing to be beaten means that the change is not enough. When everyone's thoughts are added up, they accept that this is not enough, and then there will be the Reform Movement of 1898. At this time, if you say that we don't want the emperor...it will not form a social consensus."

"Only when they continue to be beaten, and not wanting the emperor becomes a social consensus. Then the old warlords become a consensus, and the warlords need to learn foreign ideas and technologies, which slowly becomes a consensus. Our cultural system is obviously incompatible with physics. After being beaten for so long, slowly getting rid of this cultural system will also become a consensus. After the elite government was established, all the leaders were pioneers who had opened their eyes and saw the world. The social consensus at that time felt that this was enough, so they kept looting, which also became a consensus."

"When the elite political system can no longer be sustained, and the people are struggling to survive, everyone comes to a consensus that we need to be more excellent, more incorruptible, and more self-disciplined... This kind of social consensus will deeply affect a group of people. They deeply agree with these ideas in their hearts, so they can do such things, and they can give a steamed bun to others even when they are hungry. This is the social consensus that has finally been created after a hundred years of humiliation. It is what everyone feels should be done from the bottom of their hearts."

"After one hundred and twenty years, the enemy has finally been defeated, and there is no foreign enemy. This consensus continues according to inertia, but at this time, everyone still doesn't have much to eat. If you are hungry, and there is a steamed bun in front of you, will you give it to your companion, or take it back to your children?"

"When such questions fall on tens of millions or hundreds of millions of people, you will find that in the most difficult times, everyone will feel that such 'nobility' is necessary. When the situation is better, some people will feel that it is not so necessary. If you want to maintain such nobility, what should you do? Use better material things, better education, and better culture to compensate for part of it, maybe you can do it."

"Agua, today you don't have to worry about these farmers outside, just go and look at those scholars, the officials around you, my students, and think about what the social consensus is today? Equality for all? Most people in this society haven't even formed the consensus of 'letting the farmers learn to read'. Even the consensus of not wanting the emperor, I have already taken several steps forward, let alone... the consensus like Old Niu Tou's?"

"Without that kind of consensus, Chen Shanjun cannot truly shape such officials. It's like the court construction in the Chinese army, we stipulate the articles, and through serious steps, everyone does things under such articles. When there is a problem in the society, whether you are rich or poor, the articles and steps you face are the same, so that it can be as equal as possible, but where is the social consensus? Poor people can't understand this kind of impersonal article, they yearn for the judgment of the wise officials, so even if they repeatedly give orders and hold classes for education, the roving law enforcement teams outside still have the impulse to be wise officials, abandoning the articles, either dealing with them severely or giving them a break."

"The judgment is not bad." Xigua muttered.

"It's not bad, we have to explore and grind slowly." Ning Yi smiled, and then drew a circle towards the entire night sky, "This world, so many people, looks like there is no connection, and the world has nothing to do with them, but the appearance of the whole world is still connected to them. The appearance of the social political system can be one step ahead, or one step behind, but it is difficult to produce a huge leap."

"It's like being an official, everyone verbally hates corrupt officials, but if your uncle becomes an official, do you think he should be extremely honest? Or do you think he should help his family a little? The ideas in the public's mind will determine the appearance of this world. Assuming that today equality for all has taken a big step forward, if you are an ordinary citizen and something happens, your first reaction is to find a relationship to help, or to directly let the judicial organs handle things according to the articles. The appearance of society fluctuates up and down in these average values of ideas."

"I can hold hundreds of meetings a year in the Chinese government, desperately telling them that you should be incorruptible, but these meetings cannot truly defeat and reverse the consensus in people's hearts. The consensus in the entire social subconscious is determined by culture."

They turned the long street in front and turned out to a secluded square. Beside it was a small river, and flower boats passed by on the river, reflecting sparkling waves. The two walked quietly for a while, and Xigua said, "No wonder you let Zhu Ji...write those things..."

"What can penetrate the subconscious is only culture." Ning Yi smiled complexly and tiredly, "If you want equality for all, you have to fill people's lives with stories about equality. If we want to tell others about the sins of a family world, we must let them discuss the昏庸无能 (hūn yōng wú néng – incompetent and fatuous) of the emperor. Of course, on the whole, it is not that simple, but this is the main thing... We can drag this society forward one step at a time. Every time we take a step forward, we must lay a good foundation in everyone's hearts. Only after one step is completed can we go to the next step, otherwise, if you take one more step, they will pull you back."

"Chen Shanjun's Old Niu Tou can bring a lot of experience about equality... For example, he roughly divided the land in the beginning because our soldiers supported him. If there is no behemoth like the Chinese army as a premise, do we have to spend more time and create better public opinion? He has been running Old Niu Tou for two years. At first, he talked about equality with people. When he encountered this and that problem, he would constantly add his own theories and statements. Whether he can get through it or not, these will become the cornerstone for moving forward in the future..."

"But if you ask me to do it, Agua, you overestimate me, I can't get through it either, because I'm afraid of the subconscious in everyone's heart. Once you go too fast, they will hold you back, and even without them knowing it, they will kill you..."

"What are you thinking about all day..."

Xigua reached out to stroke his brow, and Ning Yi smiled: "So, it's not like I haven't seen it."

"In your story, it will probably take hundreds of years to achieve Datong, right?"

"I'm afraid it will be..."

"Will they carry out the next challenge? What will it be like then?"

"I can't see clearly behind..."

"You can't even make up a complete story..."

"So I said I really saw it, and I didn't just make it up myself, don't believe it..."

"You speak so convincingly, of course I believe it."

Ning Yi looked at her, and Xigua blinked her big watery eyes.

"Forget it, by the way, you said the Westernization Movement was disgusting before, what's the matter?"

"It's just disgusting!"

The two laughed and talked, and went forward. When they reached a section of the road in front, the lights lit up again, and there were pedestrians on the road. Xigua suddenly saw someone, and pulled Ning Yi to move forward quietly. Then the couple hid behind an alley, and poked their heads out to peek forward.

"Who is it?" Ning Yi frowned, leaning on his wife's shoulder.

"A bad guy in the city, look, that old man, called Guan Shanhai, brought a woman...Da Y Mo...He has been saying bad things about us in the newspapers these days."

Ning Yi curled his lips: "You're enough, don't you want face? There are thousands of bad people in Chengdu now, if I open the door and let them in, which one do I care about? You're pulling me to peek at him like this, if he knows, he'll be able to brag about it for the rest of his life. Let's go, I'll be ashamed to look at him one more time."

"No." Xigua waved his hand to hit him, "This afternoon, Ning Ji asked Hou Yuangong to investigate this old thing, someone mentioned it, I don't know why, isn't this just what we ran into...the old thing offended my son..."

"Huh?" Ning Yi frowned, leaned behind Xigua and looked a few more times, "Okay, what offend or not, with that old man's body, if he really offended him, Lao Er would have unloaded him into eight pieces... No, do you think Lao Er would do that?"

"I don't know." Xigua said, "Xiao Ji is pretty good."

"Alas, forget it, what's so good about an old man whoring, let's go back and find someone to investigate. Let's go."

"You can't investigate, I trained Xiao Ji, he's very powerful. If he secretly finds Xiao Hou, and you make a big fuss, he will know that he's exposed. He will have to say that we are monitoring him all day long."

"What you said also makes sense, he knows to find someone secretly, this is to avoid our monitoring, obviously he has a guilty conscience... Should we really send someone to follow him?" Saying this, he couldn't help but look at him a few more times, and then felt that he had lost his identity, "Let's go, you can't see anything."

"I'll come over and kill him in the middle of the night. I can tell at a glance that he's not a good thing."

"You can't do this... let's go."

"Don't pull me, I..."

Tear—

Under the moonlight, Guan Shanhai took the woman into the big mansion, and the couple here stood in the remote alley, looking at each other unhappily.

"How can you be like this, tearing your woman's clothes outside, what's so proud of you if others see it..."

"I said let's go, your god-like husband has spoken, you treat it as a wind in your ear... An old thing, I'll ask someone to catch him and pour chili water on him later..."

Xigua stretched out her hands to hit him, and Ning Yi also raised his hand to fight back. The two waved their hands into windmills and beat each other in the dark alley, and went all the way back home.

This night, the stars were like weaving, and Xigua's low mood from Old Niu Tou was slightly relieved after Ning Yi's "nonsense interruption". After returning, the couple watched some things separately, and someone sent a secret report to Xigua, but Qian Luoning's alarm about Old Niu Tou's condition also arrived.

Stumbling all the way to here, no one knows whether Old Niu Tou can continue to persevere. But for Ning Yi, everything in Chengdu is important at the moment, just like what he said on the street, thousands of enemies are涌来 (yǒng lái – pouring in, surging in) into the city, and the Chinese army seems to be responding mechanically at the moment, but

Countless tasks are underway inside.

Xigua recalled all the things her husband had said before - although it sounded like a fantasy, she knew that Ning Yi would not speak without aim when he talked about these things - she grabbed paper and pen, hesitated for a moment before starting to write the four characters "XX Movement" on the paper.

She really didn't want to write the first two characters. Ning Yi was too bad, even making up nonsense about such serious things.

After "XX Movement", there was "Reform Movement of 1898", "Old Warlords", "New Warlords"...and so on. Relying on memory to write these down, she repeatedly thought about the "that world" that Ning Yi said.

Is this the step he saw? Is this road really so long and difficult? Is it because he never dared to easily consider success, so he let Old Niu Tou split? So he regarded all exploration as an experiment?

More than a hundred years of humiliation and exploration, constantly looking for a way, constantly failing, and then constantly summarizing experience and modifying the road, absolute correctness has never really appeared at any moment. If she were in such a world, what would she feel? Strive or despair?

She could still remember the excitement when she heard Ning Yi say those words of equality on the streets of Hangzhou. When Ning Yi assassinated the emperor and rebelled, she thought that that day was not far away. More than ten years later, she felt more and more clearly every day that her husband was defining the success of this career on a scale of centuries and millennia.

Life is really short...