Chapter Seventy-Nine: New Learning, Breaking the Shackles (II)
Zhu Yunwen stayed in Tanglin until it was dark before leaving.
"From today onwards, I will select some of the books and political affairs that I find interesting and valuable for discussion from all over the country and compile them into a book, and send them to you, and as we do today, you will open your minds to discuss and write down the ideas that you think are most feasible, and do not be afraid of shocking the world, no matter how bold I am, I will not be blamed."
Zhu Yunwen's words were kept, along with the explanation of their feelings after watching for a whole day, which planted a seed in the hearts of this group of students to lift the ban on thought.
From the Shanxi coal mine incident, the law popularization and trust system were introduced, and it was proposed that when the government took the lead in breaking the law and breaking the law, can the people still trust the government when the government decree is issued in the future?
The image of the government bullying the people and dishonesty has become a natural social form, if Zhu Yunwen wants to recruit workers to repair the project in the future, will the local recruitment be smooth? What if the people won't believe it? Forced forced labor for the Zhuangding?
When a new law is promulgated, but the order is changed day by day, and it is treated differently, will such a country have centripetal force and cohesion?
In the year of Hongwu, the local government and county officials entered the provincial capital to pay taxes and register, and all they carried were blank inscriptions, which were only stamped with official seals, and the provincial officials took this blank inscription book into Beijing, and when the household department checked it, they filled it in according to the actual amount of the treasury's revenue treasury, resulting in local greed for ink, and the actual collection of 10,000 stone of grain only paid half or even less.
After Emperor Taizu noticed this, the suspicious Taizu thought that the officials of the whole country were such corrupt officials who deceived the people and deceived them, and then killed them from the center to the locality, even if they were Qing officials, they did not escape, and they did not investigate at all, they were killed! In the later stage, it led to the fact that all literate people in the local government could be county orders, so that the government affairs were chaotic and the laws and regulations were not passed, which was an empty seal case.
If Zhu Yunwen wants to implement the national policy of integrating the whole country to pay grain, it is inevitable that the imperial power will go to the countryside and interrupt the right of local landlords to speak at the village level, so he must rely on the people at the bottom to report how many fields, subordinates, and tenants these landlords have.
The people do not trust the government, fear the landlords, conceal it and do not report it, and the so-called decree that the officials and gentry are strong and strong and pay grain in one is a fart and is completely impossible to implement.
From the craftsman to develop coal and stone processing technology and win the honor of the Ingenuity Medal, it leads to the reflection of the craftsman class in the world.
What is a craftsman? Artisans are the backbone of scientific and technological development and the vanguard.
An inconspicuous coal and stone, can survive hundreds of thousands, the people are bitter cold, the common people can't afford to burn charcoal, the cold winter is cold, the people are frozen to death are numerous, the people have no culture, take it for granted, take it for granted, but if you can keep warm and live, who wants to freeze to death?
Encouraging craftsmen to create today and giving them privileges and wealth tomorrow will enable many ordinary people who are not suitable for governance, leadership, and business to find a new way out.
They have no culture, they haven't learned Newton's laws, they don't know what steam is, what is mathematics, physics and chemistry, so they think that they can't invent and create, and slowly figure it out themselves?
Scientists in the 21st century have a systematic and academic system to learn from, but the earliest group of scientists, they did not have a systematic academic system, and they created their own academic system for future generations to learn!
Westerners must be smarter than our Chinese nation?
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The creation of the four great inventions and the use of gunpowder have been thousands of years earlier than the West, so why did the Westerners cross the gap of thousands of years in just one or two hundred years, catch up and surpass?
In the Ming and Qing dynasties, craftsmen were regarded as lowly statuses, although Yongzheng abolished the top ten lowly books and allowed the descendants of craftsmen to take the imperial examination, but that's all.
The descendants of artisan households can participate in the imperial examination, who is willing to inherit their father's business and engage in fortifications? The status of the craftsmen themselves was still very low, and the Tatar Qing relied on sabers and cavalry to win the world, fearing that the firearms would be proficient, and the Han people would rebel, so they interrupted the already extremely skilled cannon and musket manufacturing process left by the Ming Dynasty.
It's been another 300 years of reversing.
Zhu Yunwen also mentioned that many places along the southeast coast were banned from opening trade, so that the salt market, iron market, coal market, and cloth market were fully liberalized and free trade, so that the daily trading volume was extremely huge, and the Grand Canal and the Yangtze River were densely packed with daily transport ships, like a carp crossing the river.
The commercial taxes levied are high every month, and many places are sour and rotten, isn't it also rumored that the imperial court is beneficial to the people?
Their excuse is to collect merchant taxes, and the cost of merchants will increase, and when they sell, the price will inevitably increase. Merchants are profit-seeking, and if they pay a penny in tax, they will sell for two pennies more.
Zhu Yunwen didn't bother to explain to this group of fools.
The imperial court does not collect commercial taxes, where is the money for construction? The opening of canals and tributaries of the Yangtze River, the widening of rivers, the addition of road administration, and the strengthening of transportation and transportation can greatly reduce the transportation costs of merchants and trade, and the prices of commodities will naturally be reduced.
If one does not fall, other merchants will.
Even if they hug each other and don't fall, what do the imperial merchants engaged in by Zhu Yunwen eat?
In the future, the central authorities will set up a State Administration for Industry and Commerce, and a law on hoarding and raising prices will allow for the outright killing of heads and seizures of homes.
In the imperial society, Zhu Yunwen was not merciful, and was only fined and imprisoned.
If you engage in coaxing, you are indirectly forcing the people to die, resisting their lives with their lives, and killing their heads and robbing their homes!
This group of students was ignorant, but they still grasped some key points.
Shinong industry and commerce are no longer classes, let alone people are divided into four classes, they are just four different professions, contributing to the Ming Dynasty in different fields.
Students like Ji Gang, who came from military households, also understood Zhu Yunwen's core viewpoint on the reorganization and training of the new army many times.
The new army, why is it called national defense? It's called the Ming Defense Army! The numbers are also the first and second divisions of national defense, not the dragons, tigers, wings, and tigers, and the twenty-four guards of the Beijing camp.
In ancient times, there were clear factions in the army, the northern army was the northern army, and the southern army was the southern army.
The Northern Army was divided into the Liaodong Army, the Gansu Army, the Taiyuan Army, and so on.
The Southern Army was even more diverse.
They have no concept of a country, and even the northern and southern armies despise each other, especially the southern region, which is more important, for example, the soldiers in Fujian will never regard the soldiers in Jiangxi as comrades-in-arms!
They won't say that we are all soldiers of the Ming Dynasty.
Even within the army they despise each other, how can they expect their military discipline to be good?
Zhu Yunwen dared to say that if the army in Liaodong was not pulled back to the camp of the new army in Beijing to give political and cultural lectures, if this group of soldiers were transferred to the south of the Yangtze River, for example, to suppress bandits, they would be worse than the bandits' military discipline! They will never be soft on the scourge.
The use of national defense is to let them strengthen and deepen the meaning of the word "country", so that they can ask questions when they greet each other every day.
"Where are you troops?"
"The Seventeenth Division of National Defense."
"I'm from the 18th Division."
"Where are you stationed?"
"Quanzhou."
"That's not far away, I'm in Fuzhou."
Instead of carrying a messy army number all day long like now, it's like Mo Nanwei, will they think that they are Mo Nanwei of the Ming Dynasty?
No, their first thought was Mo Nan's Mo Nan Wei! They are the soldiers of Monan! The purpose of the number change is to make them say when they think of their identity: We are soldiers of the First Division of Daming National Defense, and we are stationed in Monan!
When the conditions are perfect, the military department will recruit troops, and Zhu Yunwen will move out of the regulations for stationing troops in other places, and there will be any province in Tiannan, Haibei and Tiannan in a troop, and the regional barrier will slowly be dissolved.
For a whole day, there were all kinds of new policies, but in the end, none of the new policies mentioned by Zhu Yunwen were clearly written, let alone a systematic academic system at a large cost, so that they could learn ideas according to this.
Learning is a verb, it is to explore, it is to find out the most beneficial way to deal with the country and the people, and then check and fill in the gaps to formulate relevant protection laws, and ensure that this policy can benefit the people and the country under the legal system.
New, also a verb. The policy of the Song Dynasty was old to the Ming Dynasty, and the policy of the first year of Jianwen was also old to the 30th year of Jianwen.
The core of the new school is to make continuous progress, continuous improvement, and continuous inspection and filling in the gaps according to the time and events, and once the new school will one day begin to govern according to the laws and regulations that have been formed, then the new school will become the old school.
Zhu Yunwen planted a seed for them, and what they should do in the future is to open their minds and gradually explore the most reasonable and most in line with the development of the times in front of the government affairs in all parts of the country.
Let them shape the idea of a national game of chess from now on.
One day, this group of students has reached a high degree of tacit understanding with Zhu Yunwen ideologically, that is, it is time for Zhu Yunwen to raise the butcher knife and engage in an empty seal case!
Don't break it, don't stand it!
Reform is always bloody.
The reform of boiling frogs in warm water may be benevolent, but it is too time-consuming, and time is running out, and the Ming Dynasty cannot give the barbarians in the West any more time to catch up.
The imperial chariot returned to the capital under the protection of the five thousand new troops, and in the spacious and luxurious imperial chariot, Shuangxi looked at Zhu Yunwen, who closed his eyes and recuperated with joy, and his face was full of joy, hesitated for a moment, but still opened his mouth, "Your Majesty." ”
Zhu Yunwen was humming a little song complacently, but he didn't open his eyes when he heard the voice, "Huh? ”
"Today, Your Majesty said that the school will start, and the slaves and maids are mediocre talents, and they have also benefited a lot after listening to it."
Zhu Yunwen smiled, "If you have something to say, just say it, I know that you are smart." ”
Shuangxi knelt at Zhu Yunwen's feet, "Although Xinxue is good, it is too shocking, although the slave maid is dull, but he also knows loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness in his head, His Majesty allows them to think wildly, and the slave and maid are worried that one day, there will always be some disloyal and unfilial rebellious students, and they will have evil thoughts." ”
The idea of banning is to impact the imperial power.
When the new learning comes to an end, the imperial system ends.
The meaning of Shuangxi's words, how could Zhu Yunwen not know that he had fully considered this issue before deciding to start a new school.
After the Opium War, the country fell, and the Western barbarians invaded, bringing not only opium and killing, but also their ideas and culture.
If we start from the earlier Thirteen Lines in Guangzhou, the wave of Western thought has multiplied and existed in the land of our country for hundreds of years, even if it is only counted during the Opium War, it took 80 years since Western thought began to be learned and understood by the grassroots people in our country to overthrow the imperial system!
This is still achieved on the basis of the unity of the whole country.
The first condition for bringing down the mountain of the imperial system is that the imperial system is not suitable for the national conditions, let alone accepted by the people.
Zhu Yunwen let go of the ideological imprisonment, but they did not understand the national conditions of the West, and they did not know that in this world, some countries developed very well without an emperor.
This group of students, deep in their hearts, still deeply believe that all new policies and new laws are implemented under the leadership of the emperor, just like the great governance of previous dynasties, Wenjing, Zhenguan and the like.
They are just using the new concept of governance to govern the country and develop Shinong commerce, and they may leave a mark in the history books in the future: the rule of Jianwen.
Of course, there is no imprisonment in thought, sooner or later, maybe it's them, or maybe it's the disciples and students they teach, will there be a kind of world for the public, do you still need an emperor? This kind of shocking and rebellious rebel thinking, but they need to gain the support of the people, the support of the army!
Zhu Yunwen established a new school and set a new policy, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty will only become stronger and stronger, and when the time comes, the territory will be expanded, the people will be rich, the Ming Dynasty as the code name of the country, will be respected and loved by the people, and the rebel ideology wants to get the support of the people, which is simply unrealistic for two or three hundred years.
Unless Da Ming was beaten on the ground and knelt on the ground to beg for mercy like the late Qing Dynasty, all the people felt a great shame! Lose all centripetal force to this court.
Two or three hundred years later, it will be the eighteenth century.
If Zhu Yunwen traveled to the Sui and Tang dynasties to be the emperor, he would definitely not engage in any new learning, he could set up a tax inspection administration, gather a loyal army, and under the premise of not destroying the political status of Confucianism in the country, not many people in the world would fight with him Zhu Yunwen.
But this is the second year of Jianwen.
1400 A.D.!
Less than 80 years before the opening of the Age of Discovery!
It was less than two hundred years before the Renaissance reached its peak!
Less than 300 years before the Big Bang era!
It has been less than 500 years since the launch of the first ironclad ship and the beginning of the era of global colonization!
Zhu Yunwen didn't take the initiative to reform in advance as a traveler, can he expect his sons, grandsons, and descendants to think of this?
Don't forget, even if the Ming Dynasty is like history, it can have a national honor for more than 200 years, and by that time, even if you want to change it, it will be one step behind the West.
In case, the torrent of history is unstoppable, the Tunguska has entered the pass, and it is hundreds of years of standing still, we still have to enjoy the "Chinese and dogs are not allowed to enter" sign at our doorstep, and in the twenty-first century, countless people sing that the moon is full in the West, white people are the best race, black people are secondary, and yellow people are the worst!
The country and the nation are not strong, where is there still cultural self-confidence and speaking loudly?
Shuangxi still felt a little unreliable, and persuaded again, "Your Majesty, in fact, the so-called upper is better, and the lower must be very bad." As long as Your Majesty reveals the meaning of the ban on thought, the princes of the court may not dare to come against Your Majesty. ”
"How can you be stupid sometimes?"
Zhu Yun was happy and poked Shuangxi's head, "It's not what the emperor wants to do, those ministers will echo or something." ”
The basis for what is good at the top and what is good at the bottom is what the emperor wants to do, and those ministers also want to do it, or it will not affect their fundamental interests.
Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty wanted to open the imperial examination, why didn't he see the vassals of the world's family valves? Instead, they attacked it en masse?
If Zhu Yunwen wants to think about it and strengthen his national strength, he is bound to improve the social status of industry and commerce, and if he wants to build a system of law popularization and trust, he is bound to suppress the status of the scholars.
Confucianism may be able to accommodate new doctrines, but are those who study Confucianism willing to one day sit on an equal footing with farmers and businessmen?
They won't be willing, and history has amply proven that this is not a matter of raising the bar.
Zhu Yunwen does not have the ability to separate the scholars from the Confucian academic system, and it is impossible for him to live for hundreds of years, and slowly screen and screen which students are willing to accept new learning.
For the sake of the country, he can only do a one-size-fits-all approach.
"I'm going to plant the seed."
Zhu Yunwen smiled, lifted the curtain and looked at the people of Nanjing who were kneeling outside the window.
"One day in the future, my Ming Dynasty will be extremely strong, my army will go to every corner of the grassland, Min Zhejiang Naval Division, will plant my Ming banner all over every island, and when that time, the people who are kneeling on the ground are unwilling to kneel, they want to stand up and talk to the emperor at eye level, so what?
My descendants will be ousted from the throne, and my Zhu family's dynasty will be ended, just like the previous dynasties, how can there be an immortal dynasty.
But at that time, I had already left a rich legacy to the people of later generations, we had a vast land, powerful artillery weapons, and perhaps the warships that appeared in my dreams, which were far crushing the Fanbang barbarians for hundreds of years, even if the children and grandchildren of later generations fought for the right to rule the world, it was impossible for the alien races who only relied on sabers, bows and arrows to take advantage of the slightest! ”
The country of the Han people, after all, the Han people come to sit!