Chapter 596 Talking about Dreams in Dreams

When I was young, I didn't understand "Dream of Red Mansions", and I was already middle-aged when I understood it. In the beautiful Grand View Garden, there is such an old man. Let the grandma and ladies make fun of it, this person is Grandma Liu.

Many people didn't like her very much at the beginning, thinking that she had no self-esteem in her life, but then everyone gradually understood her suffering.

If it is not forced by life, who would like to be like the dust on the soles of others?

The first time Grandma Liu entered Jia's mansion was because the family was really difficult, his daughter and son-in-law were too embarrassed to come to the house, and she was an old woman who was not afraid of being laughed at, so she had the cheek to go to Jia's mansion to play the autumn wind.

This time she met Sister Feng and got 20 taels of silver, which was enough for their peasants to live for a year.

In the old days when Jia’s mansion was in power, Jia’s mother ate the same rice from the imperial field as the emperor. In the book, Sister Feng once said that Li Wan’s monthly allowance was 20 taels of silver. The last time Grandma Liu came to Mrs. Wang, she gave Grandma Liu a hundred taels of silver, which shows how rich and powerful the Jia Mansion was in its heyday.

But at the end, Mrs. Wang couldn't even pay for Jiamu's birthday gift.

At that time, Sister Feng said to Jia Lian like this: "It was the old lady's birthday the other day. My wife was in a hurry for two months and couldn't think of a way to do it. I mentioned it. There are four or five boxes of big copper and tin guys upstairs. , took it for three hundred silver, and only then did the wife hide her shame."

Later, even Wang Xifeng began to pawn her own dowry. When she had money, she was extravagant, and when she had no money, she pawned the things at home. A courageous housewife should cut off all human relations at this time, and not waste three hundred taels of silver on "partial money", because when it is time, you can't tell the priority.

Scarlett sold the wood to the Yankees regardless of other people's gossip. Morality can be put aside in the face of survival issues, not to mention etiquette.

The man is in charge of earning money and the woman is in charge of housekeeping. This is the basic model of a Slytherin family. If you marry into a rich family and don't know how to manage money, you will just spend money desperately. This kind of little woman and "old woman" will definitely be incompatible.

The nemesis of a woman is another woman. Concubine Zhen and Cixi get along very well at the beginning. They both like to take pictures, but in the end they can't get along because of a little thing. How big is "posing"? The problem is that Empress Dowager Cixi just cares about "decency", and the more she looks at the concubine Zhen who is not "decent", the more she hates it.

"Old women" pay much attention to tradition, but "new women" are different. Concubine Zhen spends a lot of money on make-up, so how can she attract the attention of Emperor Guangxu if she is not beautiful. She is not the first one to sell an official title. It is indeed easy for women to participate in politics. For example, Princess Anle and Princess Taiping in the Tang Dynasty, but she didn't know who she was. Will feel bad.

The princesses and nobles of the Tang Dynasty raised many literati, similar to the Medici and Borgia families during the Renaissance. They supported many artists. The ancient prose movement had already begun in the Tang Dynasty.

After the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, the country declined, the vassals and towns were separated, and the eunuchs exercised power. Han Yu and Liu Zongyuan advocated ancient prose for the purpose of restoring the ancient Confucian orthodoxy, and turning the reform of the style of writing and the revival of Confucianism into a complementary movement. In the end, this kind of ancient prose movement still did not escape the barriers of Confucianism, that is, it did not escape the rule of "Eight Pieces" that the ruling class enjoys privileges, and it did not achieve equality before the law.

The biggest difference of the New Culture Movement is the ideological trend of equality. This movement dealt a heavy blow to the traditional ethics that ruled China for more than 2,000 years, and removed the "Eight Pieces" from Chinese laws. There is no longer a privileged class in the Constitution of the Republic of China. But freedom and equality are still only on paper, and Chiang Kai-shek’s dictatorship is still in the country. This is the same as when Washington became the president, and someone asked him to be the king of the United States. .

However, it is not that simple to let the privileged class give up their privileges. Those who have made military achievements must be rewarded. The Malfoy family came to England with William the Conqueror and entrusted them with the land of Wales. After so many years of annexation, the land is already very vast. This time, old Malfoy tried his best to get out of prison, at least they didn't fall to the point of selling their property, Lucius just sold those bloody thieves, it was very easy for Kingsley to move these "losers" , but it is not so easy to reduce the power of the Gryffindor pure-blood nobles who are also winners.

The Gaunt family was also very prosperous for a time, and it was full of ostentation. When Merope arrived, there was only an ancestral ring and a locket left in the family.

As losers, many of the pure-blooded nobles, especially those with the Dark Mark on their arms, began to pawn things from their own homes. Many of these antiques had a lot of history.

Of course, the Anti-Dark Magic Alliance wanted to ban black magic, but they still couldn't help their greed, so Bok Bokin, a black shop that had caused a lot of casualties at Hogwarts, continued to exist with the tacit approval of the government.

Marcus Flint did not have the sword passed on by the seller, but "used" it well. The current Royal Mint is no longer in charge of making coins like Newton did. They mint commemorative coins and there are not many gold reserves in them, but the officials reported an astronomical figure. They embezzled those who took bribes.

Young people still have dreams, while middle-aged people are exhausted by reality. In order to "live", Grandma Liu has lost all face, but Grandma Liu is an ordinary person, with the simplicity and kindness of a "farmer". On the contrary, those who read a lot have no conscience.

They have woven an illusory American dream, defrauding low- and middle-income families into being heavily in debt. It is conceivable that once the subprime mortgage crisis breaks out, many people will be displaced, their houses will be confiscated by the bank, and many people will be homeless. .

When the Black Death was raging in Europe, the plague gave people an epiphany of many things. People no longer remained devout to religion, and many people started carnival before the "doomsday". This is the germ of consumerism.

Spend tomorrow’s and the day after tomorrow’s money today. Anyway, people under the cloud of the Black Death don’t know if they can live until tomorrow.

This kind of cognition is wrong, but people like to enjoy the happiness brought by capital, and completely forget what Marx said: when capital comes into the world, from head to toe, every pore is dripping with blood and dirt.

This kind of magical carnival must experience a major disaster before people can wake up to how blind and vain their life is.

Waste is shameful, whether it is food or money, the behavior of others starving and pouring out milk is in line with the law of market value, but it does not conform to the conscience and morality of being a human being. This is a social Darwinian behavior.

Yes, social Darwinism has a bad reputation. No one likes to admit that they live like a beast, but many people unconsciously follow the rules.

These people provide themselves with the purpose of class mobility by harming others and benefiting themselves. When they open the door to pick up a courier one day, they will be stabbed to death and robbed, or because their children are better at studying, they will be sent to the hospital by a group of poor students to become a vegetable. Only then will they realize what mistakes they made.

After all, they just think "I'm the only lucky one, even if I turn the whole society into a jungle, I'll get away with it".

If the majority of people in a society have become social Darwinists, it can only be said that the regime in the region is coming to an end.

Du Fu is a poet who experienced the Tang Dynasty from prosperity to decline. When the society was relatively stable, there were temples and welfare institutions organized by the government to accommodate refugees. During the earthquake in Qinzhou, many refugees flooded into Chang'an. These institutions took in refugees. those who are homeless.

Later, he wrote the poem "The wine and meat of Zhumen stinks, and the bones are frozen to death on the road", which means that the Tang Dynasty at this time could no longer afford the rescue work.

There is only one way left for those people, and that is "elimination".

The thinking in peacetime does not work in wartime, "Natural selection, survival of the fittest", but when we use the power of an organization to systematically eliminate the unsuitable, we will face the problem, what is unsuitable?

Soldiers are useless in peacetime, and what is the use of literati who can only recite poems and paint pictures in wartime?

During the French Revolution, those aristocrats who discussed politics in the salon were all smart, at least much more knowledgeable than ordinary people. Why were they still pushed to the guillotine?

It is also a dream of Red Mansions, what does a normal woman taste when reading it?

Pomona was really curious, because she seemed like a really abnormal woman.