Smiling at the peach blossom fan, peach blossoms smile at the spring breeze

The historical trend is mighty, and those who go along with it prosper and those who go against it die. No one can be strong enough to block the tide or forcibly change the trend, so smart people lead the way, ordinary people go with the flow, and those who don't open their eyebrows move against the trend.

Mao Bijiang is a smart person, because he is smart and admits death, moves against the tide, and goes against the society, and is naturally eliminated by the historical trend.

In stark contrast to the rudiments of the frontier, many of his classmates, colleagues, and old acquaintances have developed one by one and have unlimited futures. Compared with Mao Kaijiang, these people have a certain gap regardless of their family background, cultural level, and moral level, and some of them have character defects or psychological defects, but they are open-minded and pragmatic, and they are recognized and reused by the imperial court.

This is a huge visual stimulation and psychological impact for anyone who has real talent and is depressed, and it is a huge temptation that is difficult to resist for anyone who is tormented by poverty. Some people are a little unbalanced psychologically, why are the benevolent and righteous people who have loyalty, righteousness and shame are covered in dust and buried, and the rotten wood above the temple is the official, and the beasts under the palace are eaten, why is this court so unsophisticated.

What the court wants to see is this kind of result, this is the gold to buy horse bones, this is the gold to build a high platform, just to stimulate everyone, to sting everyone, don't you have to be ashamed? Don't you give shame to your face? What do you love, Lao Tzu doesn't ask for help!

Seeing that fame and fortune were within reach, and seeing that the sea of suffering was boundless and turned back, many people gradually realized that it was meaningless to continue to stalemate with the imperial court, and that they would only lose more face if they died, so they gave up their persistence one after another and bravely pursued a happy life.

If Mao Bijiang is willing, he has the ability and qualifications to choose a completely different life, can get more, and does not even need to bear the reputation of betrayal, because the government has found a good theoretical basis for him: it is found that Mao Bijiang is a descendant of the Mongolian royal family, immigrated to the Central Plains during the Yuan Dynasty, and his work for the government is not only not a betrayal of the Ming Dynasty, but a recognition of his ancestors and his ancestors.

However, Mao Bijiang still acted willfully, went his own way, ignored the autumn waves and dark waves of the imperial court, was unwilling to throw his arms into the imperial court, and did not hesitate to choose the worst option of being tough with the imperial court, and chose to retain the integrity in his heart, poor and strong, poor and lowly, and did not fall into the ambition of the clouds - whether it was worth it or not; he was not afraid in the face of the threat of force - whether it was right or wrong; he still acted willfully in the face of the threat of force, loved what he loved, hated what he hated, did not do what he was sorry for, and did not do anything that was sorry for his conscience. In this respect, Mao Bijiang is a hero, a lonely and nested hero, at least his own hero.

Heroes have no regrets, heroes have tears. Capriciousness needs to pay a price, he braved the frontier and chose idealism, his future is destined to be full of thorns, the rest of his life is destined to be miserable, he must grit his teeth with tears, and watch others perform in this wonderful world in inaction.

If time could be repeated, would he still make the same choice?

Due to the limitations of historical generation, status, cultural level, and spiritual realm, we cannot accurately grasp the thinking of breaking new ground, unable to understand his joys and sorrows, and can only vaguely guess that he should be in pain and happiness - the pleasure of martyrdom and the pain of all things having to live and rest from time to time.

Pleasure and pain cannot be neutralized, but two feelings coexist. Mao Bijiang didn't believe in the quantum entanglement of reincarnation in parallel space, thinking that this life would be like this, thinking that the young bird would never come back, thinking that he might regret today's choice when his face was wrinkled and his teeth fell to describe the withered, and the pain of Mao Bijiang was even worse, so he continued to drink, looking for the temporary joy of forgetting reality after drinking.

I have a scoop of wine to soothe the dust.

Three glasses of turbid wine in his stomach, he was bold, emotionally excited, and dared to say anything, he used the strength of wine to make up stories, write articles, and compose poems, full of nostalgia for the previous dynasty and nostalgia for the past, which also vaguely contained a small amount of dissatisfaction with the current dynasty.

The government doesn't care about drinking, but the government has to talk to him about speech.

When the Qing people first entered the customs, they were not afraid of swords and pens, and whoever wanted to say anything would do it! The Qing people immediately won the world, admired wild beauty, and showed off their muscles everywhere; when they saw articles attacking them, they not only did not get angry, but laughed at these literati who resisted with pens for being too stupid, and did not know that steel knives were much harder than brushes.

Kangxi and the ancestors have a significantly different point of view. Kangxi believed that it was possible to vigorously show off force against the enemy in wartime, but to show off force to one's own people in peacetime was a low-quality manifestation and an animal instinct that had not evolved completely. As the leader of the New Culture Movement, Kangxi was panicked by the complacent behavior of his compatriots for being uneducated.

In order to completely take off the hat of "uneducated" Manchurians, Kangxi organized and sorted out the national dictionary, compiled the Siku Quanshu, set up historical offices at all levels to compile historical records, and set an example from me, carrying a brush to inscribe everywhere, and striving to express the literary and artistic style, through these measures to vigorously enhance the cultural image of the imperial court and the cultural literacy of the imperial court officials.

However, the Chinese literature is too broad and profound, and it is impossible to learn all in just a few years, not to mention that the emperor's energy is limited and his time is limited, and he will never be able to compare with those pedants who are looking for chapters and excerpts, which is the gap between amateur and professional, and can never catch up. Therefore, when the emperor shows off his literary and academic qualities, he can often only show his ugliness, boredom and ignorance, and as for comparing literature and art with the literati, he attacks the enemy's strengths with his own shortcomings, and he is uncomfortable and unhappy to find abuse.

Kangxi refused to admit defeat, his own efforts and the praise of sycophants made him think that he had two brushes, and he took time out of his busy schedule to write poems, inscribe inscriptions all over the country, and show off his Chinese literary attainments everywhere.

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scheming masters of Chinese culture were happy, they often pulled pigtails from Kangxi's literary and artistic works, exploded all kinds of black materials, joked that the Qing court did not know the literary style, and forcibly attached to the vassal elegance and pretended to be gentle.

Not only that, but the masters of Chinese culture often play dumb riddles with the imperial court, play hidden poems, word splitting games, homophonic stalks, etc., pointing out that Sang scolded Huai and insinuated to attack the imperial court, which is unguardable.

Culture is the soft threat of the Qing people, and the old and young relics of the Ming Dynasty always pick up the soft coercion, tirelessly, and never get tired of it. Sometimes the court was scolded and thought it had been praised, and sent a plaque to the master of Chinese culture to send a pennant to encourage him, and gradually felt ashamed when he came back to his senses, but he still had to pretend that the cloud was light and indifferent, not to mention the fire.

Kangxi was ashamed and courageous, worked hard, required the Manchurian and Mongolian people to work hard to learn the Central Plains culture, and formulated various strict KPI assessment indicators.

This trick is very effective, many Manchu people later have a very high level of culture, more Han than the Han people, such as Nalan Rongruo is one of the best, its "life is only as first seen, what is the autumn wind sad painting fan" and "a deep love? deep mountain sunset deep autumn rain" is the famous sentence made by him.

However, these did nothing to change the stereotypes of the Central Plains. The Central Plains has been contemptuous of the culture outside the Guanwai for thousands of years, and the naked regional prejudice, even if the Manchus are more cultured than the Han people, has not changed, and it is purely from the bottom of our hearts: for example, we despise the small days, even if the small days become bigger and stronger, they still can't reverse our contempt; for example, the third brother despises us and even the world, even if they are all insects in our eyes, they still despise us and the world confidently.

At the beginning, Kangxi still had the intention of changing this situation by improving the cultural quality of the Manchus, but later found that it was useless, no matter how hard the Manchus worked, they could not be recognized, and the Central Plains people instead intensified their efforts and played all kinds of word games with the government.

I have been yin by the Central Plains many times, and the court is rumored, and I am always afraid that I will accidentally touch the road, and I always feel that there is a pit waiting somewhere.

Kangxi was angry, in the past, we were despised by you when we were uneducated, and now we are despised by you when we learn culture, so don't we learn in vain! He decided not to play, and directly flipped the table, no longer comparing literature and IQ with the Central Plains people, but Daxing Literal Prison, I can't play with words, I can't play with you, and you can't play with knives, but whenever there is a little suspicion of attacking the imperial court, there is a suspicion of catching wind and shadows out of context, from "the people stop at the people's end" to "the breeze is illiterate" , I'd rather kill the mistake than let it go, and the whole family takes medicine when one person is sick, and the students, teachers, relatives and friends can't kill them all, in short, you scold me and I kill you, try your pen or my knife, your mouth is black or my heart is black.

The root cause of the outbreak of literary prisons in the Qing Dynasty was the cultural lack of self-confidence of the imperial court. It is precisely because of the lack of self-confidence that the imperial court has never forgiven the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, especially the cultural people who refused to cooperate with the imperial court.

It is the original sin to be the backbone of the Restoration Society, which has been removed as a cancer during the Shunzhi period; the refusal to go out of office in the first place is direct evidence of anti-society; and now it is still talking nonsense as a provocation, playing with fire, and committing death.

NODONODIE, PEOPLE HAD FORESEEN THE TRAGIC DEATH OF MAO BIJIANG AND BEGAN TO DISCUSS WHETHER HE WOULD DIE ONE OR THE OTHER.

But what is surprising is that in the matter of venturing the frontier, Kangxi here Qu Fa Shen En swallowed the boat and let him go.

Later generations have not understood the reason, and they have been analyzing, which is nothing more than the following points.

Some people think that Kangxi is too busy, and his main energy is focused on Zheng Jing in Taiwan, Chen Jinnan in Tiandihui, Mu Jianping Mu Jiansheng in Mu Wangfu, and Hong Antong, the leader of the Shenlong Sect in the East China Sea, and other underground underworld forces and local separatist forces.

Some people also think that Kangxi took into account that Mao Bijiang is not young and his health is not good, so he should not live for a few years, and it will pass if he can't bear it, and there is no need to bear the reputation of killing literati.

The most unreliable theory is that Mao Bijiang and Shunzhi have a common woman - Dong Xiaowan - Dong Xiaowan's story is quickly told, so that Mao Bijiang can be regarded as Kangxi's father to a certain extent, and Kangxi is unwilling to commit incest to his father.

Whatever the reason, Mao Bijiang was fortunate to escape the catastrophe and did not die young and became a martyr.

However, capital crimes can be avoided, and living crimes cannot be escaped, and those who go against the trend of history are doomed to be eliminated by history. Since he gave up on himself violently, the court left him to fend for himself. The quality of life in the frontier is getting worse and worse, and when he is old, he is even more destitute, relying on selling words to make a living, and we can see how miserable it is through his self-report: "The fire burns and the blade is connected, and it is extremely miserable in ancient and modern times! The two sons were exhausted, and they could not provide for the dogs and horses. Although there is a certain amount of exaggeration and misery, the hero I will cry poor when he ventures into the territory, which shows that his life is indeed not very good.

One must find the meaning of living, even if it is to live for the sake of living. What is the meaning of the life of a scholar? The sages have summed it up: Establish a heart for heaven and earth, establish a life for the people, continue to learn for the saints, and open peace for all generations. There are two main ways to achieve these four points: becoming an official and writing books.

Mao Bijiang has already blocked his first one, and it can only be the second one, and it is too appropriate for him to take the second way. I have talked about the conditions for writing a book earlier, and I will compare it with Mao Bijiang:

1. Wealthy families, have eaten and seen.

2. Rich experience, ups and downs.

3. Miserable. Falling, imprisoned, fleeing, ruined, no future, no youth, no body, no assets, no family, no more society, no country, many people encounter one of the above matters is considered miserable, he has all encountered, can be described as the culmination of tragic things.

Fourth, it's okay to be idle, it's still a long time before the lying board buries the mountain.

5. Have a certain literary foundation and strong expression skills.

6. Have a strong desire to talk.

From this point of view, it is simply the fate of writing a book, and I am really sorry for him for so many perfect conditions if he does not write a book.

He began to write, not one by one, but one by one, volume by volume, publishing a large number of poetry and prose collections, writing his full of grievances and miserable years into passionate works.

Every day there was a small achievement, and the pain of venturing the frontier was greatly reduced, and he happily wrote while drinking a little wine, as he said: "I can't let go of the book, and I am proud to entertain myself." Every night under the lamp writes thousands of small letters, towards Yi rice wine. "

At the age of eighty-four, he ushered in the two major curses of life at the same time: the curse of "seventy-three, eighty-four, the king of Hades does not call himself" and the curse of the natal year. He couldn't get through these two spells, and he was gone. As soon as the people lay down, the cloth was covered, and the whole village waited for the food to be served; those who walked walked and carried it were carried up, followed by a piece of white.

It's a blessing to live a long life and then die. Confucius was deeply touched by the number of people who live to be old, and believed that "those who are virtuous will live their lives". According to Confucius, Mao Bijiang can live past this age, which shows that he is a moral person.

Looking back on Mao Bijiang's life, he is indeed excellent compared to ordinary people, but he is always almost something, he has no vigorous and vigorous part, he has not been a big official, he has not picked up a weapon and cut Li Zicheng and the Qing people, he has not ended his life with heroic sacrifices, and there are no famous sayings and sentences that have been passed down through the ages, his deeds are not particularly prominent, his image is not particularly distinct, and he should not become a celebrity under normal circumstances.

However, this loser, who walked alone in the night, suddenly became famous.

Sitting on the painting screen sadly on a spring night, it is better to look into the blue and the underworld.

A mountain protrudes and the hills are jealous, and the emperor is speechless.

The reason why he became a woman named Dong Xiaowan was Mao Bijiang.