Xinshun 1730

Chapter 842 Demolishing the Roof and Opening the Windows ([-])

As soon as this lunatic-like, Dutch-style editorial urging everyone to drink big bowls of wine and eat beef, and talk about weighing and dividing gold and silver, Kang Bushao finally felt some flavor.

Seeing the rise of "Water Margin", you know that the world will be in chaos.

Whoever wrote this incendiary article, obviously that last paragraph is all sarcastic.But the sarcasm was like this, Kang Bushao felt that there must be someone instigated and intentional.Could it be that Anthony and the others instigated it?

He has also read the book "The Fable of the Bee", a bestseller in the Netherlands.The reason is actually very simple. According to Kang Bushao's understanding, just one sentence: Everyone wants to pluck other people's hair, and eventually the world will form a perfect society where everyone does not pluck a hair.

However, the original intention of this book is definitely not to encourage complete anarchic chaos.

It is nothing more than facing the counterattack of the ideological trend of "ruling the world with virtue" in various countries, and the views in this book are indeed banned by all countries, except the Netherlands.

Britain felt that this book was morally corrupt, at least not in line with religious morality, and banned it.

In France, enlightenment scholars generally do not read such pamphlets.

Only in the Netherlands, this book is widely circulated.

Borrowing the principles of bees and bee colonies, what I want to say is: it is purely a "romantic fantasy" to build a prosperous society full of virtues by means of moral teaching and based on "public spirit".

It is not human virtue and goodness that build a good society, but institutional rules that enable even wicked people with bad morals to serve the well-being of society.

But how did such institutional rules come into being?Precisely because of the selfishness of each person, it is generated in human practice full of sinful and deceitful business practices.

Everyone is selfish and seeks their own interests, and the final result is a compromise: I am selfish, of course I am willing to cheat, kidnap, and steal, but what should I do when I encounter someone who is better at cheating, kidnapping, stealing and killing than me?I love money and I have money, of course I hope that all the money will belong to me, but what should I do when I meet someone who has no money but has a knife in his hand?
In the end, a law, norm, and system will definitely be formed, so that everyone can maximize the benefits to the public after weighing the pros and cons.

The situation in the Netherlands is very special, so the content of this book is liked by most people.

Businessmen think that it is right to seek self-interest, so this book is right.

The regents and nobles were criticized by the elites, saying that they lived in luxury and were corrupted by the French.And this book can be interpreted as: the pursuit of luxury life is human selfish desire and evil virtue, but it can greatly promote the development of industry and commerce.

It's like beaver fur hats. If you don't wear them, how will the hunters who catch beavers and the tailors who sew hats live?
The Netherlands itself is a Protestant country.

Protestantism has a concept of "vocation": that is, the things, occupations, and jobs you do in the world are all arranged by God.

Everyone is a unique life created by God, and everyone's work is meaningful. Secular labor and work are the ways and manifestations of human beings to glorify God.Man works according to God's instructions, and the purpose of labor is to serve God.

Everyone's sweat and contributions to secular work are sacred.Labor is not only God's will, but also man's obligation to God.

Work, like eating fast and reciting Buddha, meditating, practicing alchemy, etc., has a great spiritual meaning beyond reality.

How can you prove that you are serving God well?

get rich.

The more money you make, the better you can prove your "vocation".

Of course, the words cannot be understood directly in this way, but need to go around a circle:

Since they are all "vocations", in theory, you are just managing these wealth in the world for God's manager in the world.

God's purpose is to redeem all people.

So if you just use this money for your own extravagant enjoyment, then it must be wrong.

However, when you wear a beaver fur hat, you feel that you are not enjoying yourself, but that you are helping the hunters who catch beavers and making hats; when you eat a big meal, you feel that you are not enjoying yourself, but that you are helping the cooks. , Those who prepare the ingredients - let them also have the opportunity to fulfill their vocation.

If you don't have extravagance and don't wear a beaver fur hat, don't you deny hunters and tailors the chance to fulfill their "vocation" and go to heaven in the future?

As long as you think that you are not extravagant, but that you are fulfilling the mission God has given you, and that you are helping more people, then you will be able to go to heaven in the future.

This kind of reasoning of taking off pants and farting has been explained with similar logic when Christianity faced the issue of interest—interest is not interest, but a subsidy for the risks taken to help lenders.

Including murder, aggression, massacre, etc., can actually be explained.This is the meaning of the religious reformation. Looking at the Middle East without the religious reformation, lending is not allowed. You have to buy the collateral first (in fact, it is a loan), and then rent the collateral to the lender to collect rent every month. Charging rent, not interest, to avoid it is not the same as being justified by direct theological explanation.

One is that a white horse is not a horse.

The other is to paint the horse yellow and say it is a cow, and the cow is legal.

With such a religious foundation of Christianity transformed by demons, it is very easy to understand why this book became very popular in the Netherlands.

In this era of religious ebb, in this era when everyone is beginning to pursue rationality, religious methods are not very useful. This requires a person to use "rational" analysis to prove that personal pursuit of self-interest promotes progress.

It's just that it was originally a religious interpretation.

Now for the rational explanation.

When it comes to the logic of this set of things, there is not much difference, but reason is now higher than religion and is more fashionable.

The point of view of this editorial cannot be said to be completely contrary to the original intention of "Fable", but it is nothing more than a kind of extreme accelerationism-since this kind of rule that enables villains with bad morals to serve the well-being of society requires a long period of time. In such a short period of time, let everyone's selfishness be formed in the practice of human beings full of sins, so I can just speed up?
Direct anarchy, random killings, robbery, murder, smashing, looting, beheading, occupation and coercion, all the demons in everyone's heart are released immediately and unlimitedly.

In the end, won't it be possible to accelerate the emergence of the situation of "rules that enable villains with bad morals to serve the well-being of society, and everyone agrees"?

The new rules of compromise that would have taken hundreds of years to form, if you speed up, blood will flow like a river, maybe it will come out in three to five years.

It sounds like the ravings of a lunatic, but Kang Bushao believes that seditiousness is absolutely extraordinary.

Moreover, the person who wrote this editorial is deliberately pretending to be crazy.

The discussion in the following paragraphs about freedom and its insecurity without a gun to defend is not something a lunatic can write.

The centripetal force of the pseudo-natural law derived from satirizing the decree of the gods, the monarchy is the way of nature, and it goes directly to the three cardinal principles and five constant principles of Dashun, which makes Kang Buxio call him a master.

What is really lethal is precisely the few paragraphs about "guild militias, citizens participating in politics, and defending with guns" that are sandwiched in while pretending to be crazy.

This also speaks to the heart of Kang Bushao, a Dashun man.

I thought in my heart that this is right, is there any use in fighting over and over again?Don't you have to rely on Gao Zu to kill snakes and Huang Chao to write poems?Pick up the gun and do the right thing.

Thinking of my Emperor Taizu, who was also a serious taxpayer in Mizhi back then, "making the main levy self-sufficient"-since I came to the Netherlands, I knew that I could make the taxpayer industry into a debtor, It's also really weird.There are a bunch of brothers who can be the founding generals of the country so capable of fighting, I really have to be hard-hearted, and I am afraid that the tax will not come up if the tax is paid?

The conscientious taxpayer actually owed a lot of debts, but he didn't argue that the imperial court's tax system was unreasonable, but just copied the guy and did it.Only by doing it can we make a bright future; say, is there a fart for talking about breaking the sky?
The situation in the Netherlands is different from that of France and Russia in later generations.

France is a monarchy under absolute centralization, so before the monarch is beheaded, it is impossible for the republicans to fight first.

And the Netherlands... not to mention the 40-year period of no government, just say that William IV's power can really be compared with the French king and the Russian tsar?

It is not so republican to say it is a republic; but to say that the Netherlands is an absolute monarchy is pure nonsense with closed eyes.

In this case, overthrowing the monarch under the "uncrowned monarchy" is not the most important thing.

This thing, at least in the eyes of the various factions in the Netherlands, is a fragile group that does not need to be overthrown at all.

Therefore, in France, or later in Russia, the situation of overthrowing the monarch unanimously first, and then fighting to the death would not be possible in the Netherlands.

On the contrary, whether the future Netherlands will be a united Dutch Republic or a scattered seven-province confederation has become the primary life-and-death issue within the Netherlands.

How can we get all factions in the Netherlands to accept a compromise result and temporarily put aside disputes?
Simple, find a common enemy.

So, who is the common enemy of these people who are currently debating?

Not France, not England.

It is the people of the Netherlands, the people, and those radical Enlightenmentists who want to engage in the people whose sovereignty lies with the people.

Regardless of whether it is the decentralization faction or the regency faction, they have not given a path like that in 93.

The virtue theory of the separation of powers requires that a person with a family property of more than [-] dong is considered a person; the regents don't care about the people at all, because many of them are tax collectors themselves.

In itself, the Enlightenment has just begun, and Rousseau, the initiator of the most powerful thought in the 93 incident, is still writing operas.The radical ideas in the Enlightenment faction are not mainstream yet.

But this kind of thinking, which is not yet mainstream, is the most terrifying to the first and second class people in the Netherlands.

The two sides have debated so many scriptures before, but it is not as powerful as this editorial proposes to organize militias and defend freedom.

This means that someone may turn the Dutch third and fourth estates into a real part of the nation.

And this will be a result that neither faction can accept.

The dispute between the two factions is a dispute between the first class and the second class, and it is a dispute where the meat is rotten in the pot.But if people from the third or fourth rank take advantage of the situation, it will be troublesome.

Excluding the last part of the ramblings in this editorial, this editorial is quite dangerous for the first and second estates in the Netherlands.

Sure enough, as soon as this editorial was published, the direction of the entire Dutch debate changed drastically.

It was not long ago that the fight was in full swing. The decentralizers accused the centralizers of being the supporters of the tyrant;

Now, they are criticizing this editorial calling on people of the third and fourth ranks to take up arms in unison.

They were in lockstep, and the supporters drawn out by that editorial turned against each other.

The content of the original pamphlet's debate was whether to decentralize or centralize power.

Now it has become a debate about whether the general public should participate in politics or only the rich and upper class should continue to participate in politics.

There were already Leiden militiamen who elected their own commanders, which in fact controlled the ruling power of the city.In some places, people have already started to practice it.

If this matter continues to develop, the Orange faction will certainly not be able to sit still, and the red-faced and thick-necked republicans who argued before will have to temporarily unite to fight against the untouchables.

(End of this chapter)