The development of Chinese history, like the movement of a gyroscope, is constantly rotating, circle after circle, and cycle after cycle. In this cyclical movement, there is something constant that remains constant at all times.
The first law: the law of ivory chopsticks
Shortly after King Yin ascended the throne, he ordered someone to make an ivory chopstick for him. Xianchen Said, "Ivory chopsticks must not be equipped with clayware, but with the bowl of rhinoceros horns and the cup of white jade." The jade cup certainly cannot hold wild vegetables and coarse grains, and can only match the taste of mountains and treasures and seas. After eating the taste of mountains and treasures, he refused to wear coarse kudzu short clothes and live in thatched huts, but he wanted to wear splendid clothes, ride in Chinese cars, and live in high-rise buildings. If you can't be satisfied at home, you have to go abroad to search for rare treasures. I can't help but worry about him. (Feng Menglong)
Sure enough, the King of Lu "paid a generous tax to the money of Shilutai,...... Harvest dog and horse utensils, fill the palace room. ...... With wine as the pool and hanging meat as the forest, men and women are separated from each other for the drink of the long night. The people resented and the princes rebelled, destroyed their kingdoms, and "went to the fire and died."
Isn't this the case with the greed of the world? You have to move forward, you have to look forward to Shu. There is no end to it. The king's greed is even more terrible, because he has unlimited power, and no one can stop him.
King Yin, the famous emperor, tyrant, and king of the fallen kingdom in Chinese history, what did he leave behind for his descendants? Two words were left behind, "Yin Jian". Uncontrollable power, infinitely inflated greed = Yin Jian is not far away.
The second law: the law of rabbit and dead dog cooking
The Yue king cheated, revenge and hatred, lying down and tasting courage, and his spirit was extraordinary. But the two heroes who helped him plan his grand plan, after achieving great things, one was killed and the other escaped.
Previously, Fan Li had advised Wen Zhi, "The birds are exhausted, the good bows are hidden; the cunning rabbits die, and the lackeys cook." The Yue king is a long-necked bird with a beak, and can share suffering with him, but not with pleasure. "Fan Li's wisdom is obviously higher than that of the literary genre, and he can finally avoid death."
Rabbits and dead dogs cooking such things have been repeated in history.
Why are people like this, suffering is easy to share, rich and noble are difficult to share?
The third law: the law of encirclement
Mr. Lu Xun said that all "fierce people" "always have a few people surrounded by people, surrounded by water." As a result, "it is to make the fierce man gradually become faint, with a tendency to be almost a puppet." "The reason why China will always follow the old road is that it is encircling..."
Around power, there is also an invisible "field" of power. All kinds of people with intentions will make directional movements towards the center of power in the "power field". Hence the "encirclement". Encirclement exists objectively, and in China, the powerful must have encirclement.
The greater the power, the thicker the encirclement.
Mr. Lu Xun believes that "if the fierce people can get out of the siege, China will be saved by 50%. Therefore, he wanted to write a "New Theory of Encirclement" about the "Encirclement and Separation Law". "But finally I couldn't think of a good way to do it." I was very pessimistic at that time, and Lu Xun, like Fan Li, was the smartest person in China, and he couldn't think of a good way. Later, I heard that the Swedish prime minister went out without guards and went to work to take a bus. I thought, the answer is here, the encirclement can be broken.
The fourth law: the law of the enemy ring
Liu Zongyuan of the Tang Dynasty had a short article entitled "Enemy Ring", whose thinking logic was completely contrary to the common sense of ordinary people and was rich in philosophy. People have always regarded the enemy as a scourge, avoided by the powerless, and eradicated by the powerful. Only Liu Gong believes that it is good to have enemies.
Without a strong enemy, without external pressure, the interior naturally decays. I didn't hear the horn, but I saw the song and dance. Since the Qin Dynasty, the history of the imperial dynasty has been worse than that of a generation, and the spirit of the entire society is in a state of degradation. It is precisely this historical environment that has been working for a long time that has made Chinese happy, not thinking of making progress, cowardly and fearful, and insensitive.
The Fifth Law: The Law of The Partisans
During the tang muzong period, officials of scholar origin headed by Li Deyu formed a faction, and officials from the imperial family headed by Li Zongmin and Niu Monks and Children formed a faction, and the two factions attacked and attacked each other in the imperial court for forty years.
All dynasties and generations have friends and gangs, which is a historical phenomenon with Chinese characteristics. The phenomenon of partisans has its social roots. The biggest feature of traditional Chinese society is that it is a patriarchal society. One of the characteristics of patriarchal societies is entanglement.
A person standing in society is not isolated. There are all sorts of relationships around him. These relationships constitute a person's social resources. Smart people, well-functioning, promising, like hard-working spiders, weaving their own networks.