My Daming New Empire

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He came back with the boat this time to arrange for Zhu Di's two concubines to serve in Timur Kingdom, and Zhu Zhanji asked him to bring bullets without attracting attention.

As for the gun, Zhu Zhanji locked it into a wooden box, gave the key to another waiter, but gave the wooden box to Meng Ying to take.

Giving the bullets to different people is also for the sake of safety.Zhu Zhanji himself doesn't have the confidence to block bullets, so naturally he can't pose a threat to Zhu Di because of the inhumanity entrusted to him.

When it came to his safety, he couldn't be too careful.

On the day when the descendants of Mencius left Yingtianfu by sea boat, the descendants of Confucius came to Yingtianfu from the canal.

And this day, Zhu Zhanji has been waiting for half a year.

During this period, the Confucian Mansion had already submitted two drafts, but Zhu Zhanji sent them back to revise them.

Country and nation, these two words are actually easy to explain clearly, but it is not an easy task to explain them clearly and form a complete set of concepts.

Because today's Ming Dynasty still follows Confucianism, and every scholar's understanding of the world is Confucianism.

In Confucianism, it is very difficult to form the concept of the country and the nation into a set of academics with substance.

It can be said that this is almost the same as Yiqingzi and the others who reorganized speeches from the Book of Changes and Taoism to form a sect.

Thanks to the Confucian family, they have a lot of Confucianism and have been studying Confucian culture all their lives, so they were able to form a complete set of theories in half a year.

Like Yiqingzi and the others, they gathered hundreds of Taoist priests and worked for more than half a year, but the teachings of Shinrikyo have not yet been compiled.

Because this whole set of theories cannot conflict with existing knowledge and be accepted by people, but it cannot contradict itself and form a paradox.

But in fact, the relationship between the state and the nation is inherently contradictory.

Minzu belongs to the vocabulary of ancient Chinese, which is used to express clan and the debate between Yi and Xia.But in fact, until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, China has not been able to form a real national concept.

Prior to this, only a few people in China had quoted the word nation, so that many people still thought it was an imported word translated from English nation.

Many people know this word, or after the Reform Movement of [-], it was borrowed from Japanese Chinese characters.

Because in the hearts of most Chinese people, the clan is what is really important and can represent the nation.

Zhu Zhanji in the second life is not an ordinary person. As a successful man who has already stood at the top of the world, he also has a very clear understanding of the nature of society.

Seeing the world clearly, setting the position correctly, and dealing with the connection between the individual and the world are the basis for no one to succeed, without exception.

In his understanding, the development of a nation has gone through a blood family, to an ethnic group, then to a native nation, and then to a nation in the modern sense.

Needless to say, blood family is the foundation of society.The ethnic group is a group of people with common customs, they are large tribes with common history, culture, religion, language and customs.

Today, except for some countries in Asia and Europe, most regions are still at this stage.

The native nation is a natural community.Its basis lies in the beliefs, cognitions and emotions of the general public, and it is a general concept that distinguishes "my race" from "other races".

At this stage, it is the budding stage of collective consciousness, which has learned to integrate and expand, and has learned to use various knowledge, culture, and language to unify thoughts.

For example, Daming is at this stage now.

But this archetypal nationalism is not enough to create modern nation-states, such as Han Chinese, Jews, Germans, Romans, etc...

Although at this time, the various ethnic groups have been divided into you and me, and have learned to use various means to make each other recognize their existence, but there is still a lack of corresponding reasonable means to allow them to integrate.

At this time, Zhu Zhanji throws out the concept of country and nation, the purpose is to speed up this process, so that Daming can become a modern nation as soon as possible.

From native nationalism to modern nationalism is a process of national self-shaping, from a nation in its own right to a nation for itself.

In the end is the nation first, but nationalism first?It's a chicken-and-egg problem that's hard to tell.

Taking Daming as an example, there must be a nation first, and then nationalism.

But take many countries in Africa and Southeast Asia as examples. They were originally just some unrelated tribes. It was the European colonists who unified them into one colonial country.

After the Second World War, in the process of fighting for national independence and national liberation, these colonial people had to imagine themselves as a common nation, rather than scattered and atomized tribes or ethnic groups. A country built from nothing creates a modern nation-state through nationalistic self-awareness.

The establishment of a modern nation requires self-awareness, a constructed self-identity and self-imagination.

Without the cognition of national identity, it is impossible to establish a modern nation-state and form the concept of nation.

In the unification of Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang was able to rely on rebellion to drive away Meng Yuan, relying on the affirmation of the Han people to their own nation, so they could unite as one and build a new country.

However, the concept of the country is still very downplayed today, and people's recognition of the country is not as good as the recognition of the nation.

Moreover, there is another very important problem here, that is, the current ruling structure still exists in the model of family world.

The country is the emperor's home, you can have a big family, so of course I also have a small family.In comparison, although my family is small, it is definitely more important than the emperor's family.

This has nothing to do with power, status, just the real awareness of people.

Therefore, Zhu Zhanji wants to create nationalism, so he wants people to understand the meaning of the country without causing paradox between the two. One can imagine how difficult it is.

Today's country is more of a historical and cultural community.Although it also has the connotation of a country and has become a political and legal community connected with a man-made political system, but now this awareness is still very weak.

That's why there are so many traitors and surrenderers.

Once the nation and the country are combined, everything is not only nationalistic, but also nationalistic, that is, it has a close relationship with the sovereignty consciousness of the nation-state, and at the same time has a specific national cultural consciousness.

People in later generations will insult a woman from their own country who marries a foreigner, call a traitor when someone betrays the interests of the country, and feel ashamed when the country suffers a loss in a diplomatic situation.

This is the true meaning of nation-building.

Don't explain the era, if it weren't for the guidance of the ideology of the Reform Movement of [-] during the Guangxu period, how many people would care about the unequal treaties signed by the Manchu and Qing Dynasties with foreign countries?

The rebellion at that time was actually for personal gain.

It was only after the demise of the Qing Dynasty that the national consciousness and national consciousness of the whole of China was truly awakened.

Of course Zhu Zhanji can't wait that long, and won't let this kind of thinking fall behind for so long.

The European renaissance is about to begin. Due to the guidance of the renaissance, European countries have greatly accelerated their progress from native nations to modern countries, occupying the forefront of the world.

If Ming wants to maintain its own advantages, in addition to maintaining the lead in force, it should also maintain the lead in ideology.

When the people of Ming Dynasty valued national interests more than personal interests... even if they were equally important.No country, no nation in this world can be an opponent of Ming Dynasty.

The basic requirement of nationalism is that the political structure and the national structure must coincide, and everyone in the country must be in the same cultural background.

On the other hand, people with the same cultural background should live within the same political jurisdiction, in a word, one culture, one country.

If this step can be achieved, Zhu Zhanji will have no worries at all.

Of course, it is not easy to reach this step, because Daming today does not have such a foundation at all.

Confucianism, which was originally the carrier of the same culture, could not meet the needs of Ming Dynasty at all. The more we support Confucianism, the more it will make Ming Dynasty go down the old road.