Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1103 Industrial Revolution ([-])
Indeed, when Quan Zhe read this miscellaneous essay for the first time, the sentence that appeared in his mind was the sentence of Mencius, "a dog cannibalizes people without knowing how to check it, and it is painted with hunger but does not know how to send it out".

He didn't even need to read more books to find out where Dashun suffered another disaster last year.

Because when he went out yesterday, he saw a dead body.

In the most prosperous places in the world, there are corpses who died of freezing and starvation. Is it necessary to think about whether there are starving deaths elsewhere?
This "Soviet Food Debate" starts from a very small point of view and introduces a series of new foods that have emerged in recent years due to trade, or the capitalist system that has emerged due to the budding of capitalism in Dashun.

There is no need to mention the textual research on fried buns.

The tradition of eating poultry eggs does not need to be mentioned because of the tradition of duck eggs in Gaoyou.

However, due to the outbreak of the Industrial Revolution in southern Jiangsu, the impact of cotton planting in northern Jiangsu on food has to be mentioned.

After the enclosure, in order to maintain soil fertility, to increase profits, to ensure the profit of cotton production, and to smuggle the wool yarn needed by the cotton textile industry in southern Jiangsu to Europe, northern Jiangsu became the most developed area of ​​animal husbandry and breeding in the Central Plains.

none of them.

Bean cakes with eight coins and one stone, and relatively surplus corn and sorghum are the basis of breeding and animal husbandry.

Animal husbandry and aquaculture are the basis of meat.

Urban citizens are pursuing high-fat and high-calorie food; the canal was abandoned, and the meat practice on the canal trade road for the water workers also flowed to the port; the development of sheep farming in northern Jiangsu caused by the demand for cashmere yarn also made mutton It has gradually become a "traditional" food in southern Jiangsu.

Just like the smoked chicken of later generations, it has moved from the canal to the railway, so wherever there is a railway intersection, there must be the famous smoked chicken.

The economic system involved in the Industrial Revolution and the germs of capitalism brought more than just black smoke.

Instead, even in the smallest places such as food, clothing, housing and transportation, the local "tradition" for thousands of years is quietly changed, and then it becomes the so-called "tradition" and is inherited.

Of course, these things are relatively "obvious" after all.

The reason why this book was recommended by Meng Songlu, and even praised this pamphlet as a truly powerful book since the beginning of Gu Tinglin's textual research, stems from what he said, "eating debates, Time changes too!"

Dai Zhen has political ambitions.

Originally in history, Wang Guowei's evaluation of Dai Zhen was very clear.

"Dai Zhen wanted to replace Zhu Zi's position."

Including his contemporary Qian Daxin, also said similar problems.The general idea is, Xiao Dai, your level of astronomy, mathematics, textual research, and history is very high.But, your level of doing things like Neo-Confucianism and Giri is actually a little bit... So, you'd better not think about making a big news, and directly criticize Cheng Zhudou, because there is a specialization in art.

The thing you are good at, going to the home field of people who study righteousness, sexuality, xinxing, and orthodoxy, isn't that purely for money?As soon as you study mathematics, astronomy and history, you go to debate with other professional classics, and to debate classics, can you stand up?
Originally, in history, Yao Nai once named four people's names, and the evaluation was extremely fierce.

His life cannot be done by Cheng Zhu, but his intention is to compete with Cheng Zhu for fame, so that he will not be hated by heaven.Therefore, Mao Dake, Li Gangzhu, Cheng Mianzhuang, and Dai Dongyuan were all extinct. This cannot be accidental.

It is normal for literati to compete, schools of thought to compete, and ideas to compete.

But using a word like [death and heirs], in the tradition of paying attention to the continuation of offspring, it can already be counted as the most vicious curse.

Li Wei.

Cheng Tingzuo.

Dai Zhen.

All of them are on the list, and they are directly hated to the point of wanting to kill off their children and grandchildren.Fortunately, Yan Yuan has never been to Jiangnan, unlike his disciple Li Yi who went to Jiangnan in the later period, otherwise Mao Qiling's position would definitely be taken by Yan Yuan.

Although it was said that Quan Zhe didn't know Dai Zhen at all, he didn't know much about Dashun's situation and ideological disputes.

However, just like the metaphor Meng Songlu pointed out to Quan Zhe's identity.

It is said that the novel "History of Flowers" in your country is all about the story of the Kingdom of Flowers, the struggles of peonies, peonies, chrysanthemums, osmanthus, etc., but you know what is actually written and what is alluded to.Not only do you know it in your heart, but this is a Chinese novel. When it is passed on to Dashun, any scholar on Dashun will understand what it is after reading it.

This is the same culture circle.

And this "Food Debate" is the same, it is actually "Time Change".

It has academic "ambition".

They even want to "establish a sect".

The ideological enlightenment in the same cultural circle is basically similar.

For example, Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Ming Dynasties was originally aimed at countering Buddhism and perfecting the world outlook and cosmology.

It also leaves a lot of "breaking point".

These breaking points lie in the view of the universe and the world audience.

For Korea, the starting point of its ideological enlightenment is astronomy and geography.

Things like astronomy, geography, and heliocentric theory were introduced into North Korea.

Then, thinking about the concept of "China" and the barbarians came into being, and began to shake the confidence in Zhu Zixue.

Of course, Quan Zheshen has personally experienced these things. Although it is a thought that has been circulated in private, as a person who An Dingfu believes that his radical behavior will inevitably destroy the Xinghu School, he has naturally come into contact with this radical thought early on.

Historically, Dai Zhen's biting and smashing of Zhu Zi's Neo-Confucianism also started from astronomy, world outlook, and cosmology.

This is the famous "left-handed theory" and "right-handed theory" debate in history.

The theory of Song Confucianism is that "the sky is the father and the sun is the son, so the sky rotates to the left and the sun travels to the right".

Basically, astronomy is meant to go hand in hand with ethics.

Zhu Xi's explanation is similar, the reason is "Tian Xingjian, this thing is extremely fast".

That is to say, because the sky is healthy, the sky must turn the fastest, why?Because the sky is healthy.

Because the sky is healthy, so the day can only be healthy.The moon is bigger than the sun, so it runs slower.

It should be said that after the Song Dynasty, the level of astronomy directly fell back to before the Western Han Dynasty.

So much so that in the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties, this question was specifically asked in the imperial examination.

It is said that since Zhang Zai proposed the left-handed theory and Zhu Xi wrote the book, it has become the mainstream.But this statement is completely different from that in the Han and Tang Dynasties.Why is this so?
Of course, the most interesting thing is not the question of the imperial examination.

It's the last sentence of the title: [Don't just say I'm not a blind old man, how can I know the way of heaven]

It means, please answer seriously, don't say that my mother is not Shun's father, how can I understand astronomy?
"Zuo Zhuan" said that Shun's father, Gusou, knew the way of heaven and the weather, and guided the people to plant in the right time.

This sentence was specially added to the test questions. Obviously, in similar questions before, someone handed in the blank paper confidently, and said something like "I don't fucking do this, how would I know?"

In the original history, Dai Zhen relied on the progress of astronomy. Starting from the left-handed theory, he tore up the Confucianism of the Song Dynasty, and finally came up with "Mencius's Characters and Meanings". Confucianism and rationality kill people" is the view of ethics and cannibalism.

But it is true, as Qian Daxin commented, that Dai Zhen is "cross-professional", standing on the opposite preset battlefield, and in terms of righteousness and principles alone, it is indeed too far behind Zhu Zi and others. Giri, if you don't lose, you'll be damned.

Not only was he torn apart and criticized by others, but he was also directly cursed by Yao Nai to cut off his sons and grandchildren along with Li Yi and Cheng Tingzuo.

But now, because of Dashun's special situation, Dai Zhen's thinking has changed a bit.

In itself, Dashun is anti-Zhu Zixue.

Of course, the root cause is that Zhu Zixue did not support rebellion; and the learning of the Yongjia and Yongkang schools was the learning of the "Northern Expedition", and the jurisprudence of Dashun originated from "the aspirations hungry for the meat of the barbarians, and the jokes and thirsty for the blood of the Huns"—Zhu Xi said, The orthodoxy has been cut off since Confucius and Mencius; and Chen Liang said, fart, the Han and Tang Dynasties did not have the shame of Jingkang, and the common people's life was just enough, so the Han and Tang Dynasties inherited the orthodoxy.

The difference from the rule of the Three Dynasties is that in the same set of test papers, the Three Dynasties got full marks, while the Han and Tang Dynasties got only [-] points.Dashun Li Jiaxin said that this orthodoxy is wonderful, I like it, and I can actually get [-] points if I work hard, so I am also orthodox.

Originally, the reaction against Li Zhi and others in the late Ming Dynasty and the moral corruption in the late Ming Dynasty basically followed the direction of Confucianism and morality.But being tossed by Dashun directly kicked Cheng Zhu Neo-Confucianism to pieces and took a step forward.

Wude Palace itself also needs to learn practical knowledge, and the exchange of astronomy has not stopped. The criticism of left-handed theory and right-handed theory has already begun, so it is not the turn of the current "new generation", Dai Zhen, to mention it.

But why do you say that both Quan Zheshen and Meng Songlu can see the other side's thoughts from this booklet?

This stems from something derived from the "change of food".

Since food traditions can be changed, new traditions replace old ones out of "people's needs".

Then, Confucianism originated from Confucius, to Mencius, Xunzi, and then to Han Confucianism, Metaphysics, Song and Ming Neo Confucianism, etc. Is it also a kind of "human needs"?

There are actually two things mentioned here through food.

The first thing is to say that economy, trade, industry and commerce, and transportation can shape many new "traditions".Everything that is old is not necessarily sacred; change is not necessarily bad.

That's okay.

Mainly the second thing.

With so many kinds of food, why do oily buns, smoked chicken, etc. stand out?And other food also came here as the canal was abandoned, the capital of the southeast and the northwest gathered, and the population flowed, and food from all over the place also gathered here.Why did other things fail to stand, but the oily buns, supported by factories and dock workers, stood out?

Is it something else that doesn't taste good?Not really.Because other foods are also strong in other places, but here they lose to smoked chicken, buns, meat pies, fried cakes, etc., which are either high in calories or slightly easier to store.

So, can this be used as a metaphor that the development of Confucianism is also the result of choice?All kinds of theories, even earlier theories of various schools of thought, is it because they are inferior to "orthodox" learning?Or because they were artificially abandoned?

For example, the Song Dynasty paid so much attention to ethics, can it be considered that it is directly related to the chaos of the Five Dynasties and the injustice of the country?

Basically, Quan Zheshen and Meng Songlu understood at a glance how high-profile this pamphlet is, and it contains the crazy and pioneering ambitions that are unique to "young people" in the academic world in their 30s and [-]s.

Because before that, whether it was Yongjia School, Jiangzuo School, Jiangyou School, Fujian School, etc., this school, that school, there were disputes, and each other called heresy, but "Orthodoxy" is sacred, and everyone is fighting for the sacred Right of interpretation.

And this booklet is a line of deconstruction: how can there be so many sacred things in the sacred tradition of chicken feathers?Steamed buns beat rice rolls, mainly because steamed stuffed buns are rich in oil, quick to make, easy to make, delicious to eat, loved by those in docks and factories, and the rhythm is also suitable for urban life.So, buns stand out because they are more sacred than rice rolls?If there were no steam stone mills in Liaodong to ship flour here, Baozi would definitely fail.

To understand the changes in the world from behind the food changes, to see the big from the small, knowledge must also follow the changes of the times, and make changes like food changes...

(End of this chapter)