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1906, Mao Zedong just turned 13 years old and dropped out of school to help his father do farm work. However, the heavy field work did not erase the young Mao Zedong's reading will. Every time in the dead of night, he quietly got out of bed, closed the window, lit the oil lamp and secretly read all the books he could find.
In the vast sea of books, there is a book that deeply attracts Mao Zedong and will never be forgotten by him. This is Zheng Zaisheng's dangerous words. This is also the first book he read to discuss social and political issues, and he was deeply inspired after reading it. He said: "The fear of prosperity aroused my desire to resume my studies. At the same time, I am tired of working in the fields. Needless to say, my father was against it, so we had an argument and finally I ran away from home. "
Warning in the Prosperous Age is a collection of essays edited by Zheng Yu 1894 (the 20th year of Guangxu). The cover title of this book: "First of all, the drums and calls of business", which includes all the problems of building a modern country and solving the crisis of the day.
Dangerous Words in a Prosperous Age is a work that China thought about the transformation from traditional society to modern society earlier. As far as his thinking on many problems at that time is concerned, its brilliant practical significance can not be erased after a hundred years. Warning in the Prosperous Age is a comprehensive and systematic study of western society. There is no denying that China lags behind the West in many aspects of social life. This paper puts forward a plan to transform China society from the aspects of politics, economy, education, public opinion and justice.
Politically, it not only proposes to establish a parliamentary constitutional government, but also proposes that politics should be made public in the media and commented by the ruling and opposition parties, so as to improve the administration; Economically, Zheng advocated setting up non-governmental industrial and commercial organizations and vigorously developing modern industries; In education, there are new ideas from basic education to higher education.