Chapter Seventy-Eight: New Learning, Breaking the Shackles (Part II)
Question everything that is old and break the cage of thought.
The two points mentioned by Zhu Yunwen undoubtedly caused strong discomfort to this group of students at this time.
What I have learned in my head for decades is now to be overturned and re-argued!
It is necessary to completely shatter the academic outlook that has been shaped in the past 20 years, so that we can truly begin to learn and accept new learning.
"A few days ago, I gave you a book."
Zhu Yunwen waved his hand, and a eunuch behind him stepped forward with a stack of books and put them on the table in front of Zhu Yunwen.
"The content of the book, I asked you to write down your impressions, I have read all of what you have written in the past few days, and I have picked a few books and brought them with great satisfaction."
Zhu Yunwen casually copied a copy, "I took out all the books I sent to you and turned to the fourteenth page." ”
There was a sound of flipping books, this is an account of the delivery of a coal mine by the political envoy of Shanxi.
"Before the end of last year, a landlord in Shanxi wanted to build a yard to escape the heat, so he bought a small hill from the county, thinking that he would plant some trees so that he could enjoy some shade in the coming summer.
As a result, the landlord found a coal mine on the top of the mountain, in which the reserves of coal and stone were amazing, and the county reported to the prefect after knowing about it, and the coal mine was nationalized by the government, and the landlord returned all the money to buy the land, and gave him 500 taels of silver. ”
Zhu Yunwen paused when he said this, "I asked you to write your feelings and opinions, and many people wrote that this landlord should not charge the five hundred taels of silver, and only one student wrote: The county is untrustworthy and the county is illegal!" ”
Zhu Yunwen raised his head, "Who is Chen Chong?" ”
Chen Chong stood up with a loud voice, "The student is here." ”
Oh, it turned out to be the one who refuted theology.
Zhu Yunwen added another point of appreciation in his heart, "Tell me carefully, how the county is untrustworthy and how the county is illegal?" ”
"Yes."
Chen Chong gave up his hand, "The landlord surnamed Zhao bought this barren mountain with 1,500 taels of silver and signed the title deed, but the prefecture and county repented after selling it and returned the purchased silver to take back the title deed, which is dishonesty."
When the landlord surnamed Zhao discovered the coal mine, the title deed was still in his hands, and naturally all the output belonged to him. ”
In this era, under the background of great feudalism, it is unrealistic for Zhu Yunwen to establish a legal and trustworthy system covering the whole country.
Because should the main body of the imperial court be included in this system?
If it is not covered, this system will collapse in one fell swoop.
If it were included, it would greatly shake the authority and dominance of the imperial court.
If you want to rule the world, you must first make the world afraid of you!
This is the most basic ideological requirement for the people not to fight with the officials.
In this era, ninety percent of the world is illiterate, they are used to listening to the local officials in everything, they don't know how to read the Ming Law and the Great Edict, they can't understand it, they only know what the government says, they just need to blindly follow it.
The first martingale changed the law, and the wood was lifted to hang the gold. Since then, Daqin has entered the high-speed fast lane of comprehensively governing the country according to law and trust, and the Qin government must also be true to its word.
This is the trust in the decree! The soldiers of Daqin knew that even if they died in battle, the country would definitely reward them for their military merits, and would not take away the fields that he had once made military exploits and exchanged his life for his family!
The development of Confucianism for 2,000 years has vigorously advocated that in order to stabilize the rule, the people should not be enlightened, and the people of the world should be regarded as tools, but only need to farm the land with peace of mind, pay grain, and serve labor, and vigorously preach the importance of the authority of the imperial court to rule.
has made today's Ming Dynasty, and the government dishonest and bullying the people has become a matter of course?
Two thousand years, two thousand years of governance in the end is a reversal of history?
From the state not to lose faith in the people, to the state not to indulge in the people.
If I want to collect your coal mine, you must give it to me, otherwise it will be against the orders of the officials, and you will kill your head and rob your family.
Zhu Yunwen sometimes thinks that if the Qin Dynasty lasted for hundreds of years, cut off the seeds of Confucianism, let Legalism govern the country, and let strict law and trustworthiness replace Confucianism's humility and benevolence, and become the cultural backbone of the Chinese nation, what kind of world would the world be today?
Will democratic ideas be born a thousand years in advance? Will the world have already been unified?
He sent the Shanxi incident to the more than 300 people in front of him, but only one Chen Chong felt that the county was untrustworthy and illegal, while everyone took it for granted, and most of them even thought that there should be no more than 500 taels of silver.
The official is the official, and the people are the people!
"Turn to page thirty-one."
Zhu Yunwen sighed, and said again, "Some people have made their own processing of coal and stone, and made chimneys, which greatly reduced the poison of coal and stone, so that a large number of coal and stone replaced charcoal has become the main consumable for civilian heating in winter, and hundreds of thousands of lives have been invisibly survived. ”
Zhu Yunwen raised the book in his hand, "Everyone thinks he is unworthy!" Craftsmen, lowly people! Why you deserve it! Only this one named Mo Cheng told me that I gave it lightly, and I should be given a first-class medal and a marquis! Who is Mo Cheng? ”
One person in the crowd stood up, "The students are here." ”
"Tell me your reasons."
"Yes."
Mo Cheng organized the language, "Since ancient times, there has been a saying that if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, and the role of tools and instruments has run through the civilization of our Chinese nation for thousands of years.
Today, I am Ming, because of the textile machine to have clothes to wear, because of agricultural tools to have food to eat, because of artillery and muskets, Mongolia does not dare to invade our territory, the ancestors of three thousand years ago did not dare to think of a god artillery, a cannon can kill dozens of people, today I Ming, no one dares to believe that three thousand years later, or there is a thing, can kill a thousand people. ”
Not 3,000 years, 500 years later, a single atomic bomb can destroy hundreds of thousands of people.
Four hundred years from now, there will be countless Western barbarians, relying on ships and guns, occupying our land, and then inserting a sign that reads "Chinese and dogs are not allowed."
"Craftsmen are also contributing to my Ming Dynasty."
Mo Cheng said loudly, "Even, a small invention can live hundreds of thousands of people and expand thousands of miles, such a special feat, why is it reduced to a lowly status." They are all sons and daughters of my Han family, and they are all contributing to the country, do they still have to be like the anti-Yuan barbarians, who are divided into four classes! ”
The craftsman is a lowly person, and all generations down are lowly people who can't take the imperial examination, and the fucking Qinglou's drama can still be good, and it's not as good as a bitch to do inventions! Is this the social form of a healthy country?
This batch of students is well cultivated, and the future of Daming is not far away!