Verse 94: The inextricable knot

Because Jiang Tian's unintentional behavior of inserting willows has been unanimously praised by the emperor and various generals, Zhang Tao decided to reward something, but after thinking about it, this kid's official position is high enough, and if he is promoted to Zhengyipin now, what will he do in the future? You can't be knighted at a young age! Or give some money and cloth? But that guy had just auctioned off five mirrors, and he wasn't short of money. Rewarding beautiful women? Forget about that...... After hesitating for a long time, Zhang Tao finally figured out that he had fallen into the logical trap of the seventeenth century. Whether he Jiang Tian is out of duty or as his fellow countryman, making this achievement is within the scope of verbal encouragement, and there is no need to regard him as an ordinary official of this era, and it is not very important whether he is rewarded or not before he makes more contributions.

Jiang Tian also thought the same, after all, as a person in the twenty-first century, after having explosives and pulling fire pipes, if he couldn't make grenades, he would belong to the category of not learning and not knowing, so he didn't think that he would get any reward at the beginning. Unless Zhang Tao, the emperor, is not a traverser, it is still a bit possible. He was very indifferent, but his students obviously didn't think so. After all, this shocking weapon came from the teacher, and after explaining most of the relevant knowledge in his own class, the teacher was able to combine these things to make a weapon of the country. This whimsical ability is definitely enough to be qualified to leave a name in the history books, how can the emperor who has always rewarded and punished clearly missed it?

"There's nothing strange about it, because the method of making white phosphorus was taught to me by His Majesty, so half of this grenade was invented by the emperor." Facing a few uneven students, Jiang Tian happily enlightened.

These people also don't know Zhang Huan's identity, otherwise they would have lent them a gut, and they wouldn't dare to say that the emperor was not in front of the prince. Fortunately, they were lucky, and Zhang Huan's attention was completely attracted by white phosphorus.

"Sir, Father...... How did you know how to make white phosphorus? ”

Jiang Tian didn't notice his slip of the tongue for a moment, but just shook his head and said a reason that had been arranged a long time ago: "It is said that in the military camp back then, there was a urine bucket that no one moved all year round, and one day His Majesty passed by this thing at night, and found that the bottom of the barrel after evaporation during the day had a layer of dark green fluorescence, and when I looked at it again in the morning, I found white phosphorus." It's just that at the time, I only knew that this thing was extremely flammable, but I didn't think that it would be of any use. It was only later that it was discovered that on the battlefield where the two armies clashed many times, the corpses of those corrupt humans and animals would also emit a ghostly fire the same color as white phosphorus at night, and then it occurred to me that phosphorus might be part of the human body. ”

This excuse is seamless, if a group of big men in the army are not strict in military discipline, there will indeed be urine buckets that are unmanaged all year round, and the rotting corpses on the battlefield will indeed emit fireflies. So no one could have thought that this was a lie that Jiang Tian deliberately made up. Later, this was also compiled into the history of world science, and officially became the history of the discovery of white phosphorus. White phosphorus was discovered decades earlier than a certain alchemist in Europe who had an abnormal brain and was urinating and playing. But that's not all, Jiang Tian also took the opportunity to announce that he had cracked the ancient times, why did the swordsmith need living creatures or even human lives to sacrifice the furnace, because the temperature of the steelmaking furnace at that time was not enough, it was impossible to completely melt wrought iron, and pig iron was better to smelt than wrought iron because the iron contained a large number of impurities, among which phosphorus played a role in reducing the melting point.

"So, if a steel knife is mixed with phosphorus, will it be easier to make?" Liu Baokai, who listened to the story, immediately thought of how to make weapons.

Without Jiang Tian answering, Song Yi shook his head regretfully: "Theoretically, yes!" But if you want your knife to be chopped up casually, you can indeed add some phosphorus. ”

Jiang Tian looked at him happily, obviously this guy immediately used it in the steelmaking test after getting white phosphorus, and the result must be as he said, phosphorus is a harmful impurity for steel. But Jiang Tian won't take the initiative to say it, otherwise how can you let this only student who can combine knowledge and action grow up quickly?

is also a student, different from the excited boys, Xinyue frowned and thought for a while, but she was entangled in the poignant and tragic emotional drama in the mythological story, especially thinking of famous cases such as the cadre Mo Xie, she found that in front of her old man and master, anything that could not be explained before seemed to be able to analyze the ugliness, so she said that the explanation was turbulent two days ago, Jiang Tian not only moved out a globe, but also borrowed the three forms of matter that she talked about some time ago, To explain the formation of clouds and rain and the interaction of atmospheric circulation, in Jiang Tian's eyes, the vast earth and Lang Lang Qiankun are just a collection of interactions, but how did the master who taught him these knowledge, that is, the master of these students, know these things? Obviously, even those who love research in Xiyi have not yet mastered these things, so how did this mysterious old man summarize these things with his extensive knowledge? I'm afraid that in the eyes of his old man, everything in this world is as small as ants!

In fact, there is more than one heart month with this question, and even many people have this idea, watching Jiang Tian and Zhang Tao will come up with some unbelievable things from time to time, whether it is a reform plan or a variety of breathtaking inventions, it is hard to imagine that these two people are from the same school, coupled with the military ability shown by Zhang Tao during the anti-Qing period that is very different from this era, so that people have to think of how terrifying the all-round emperor should be, and the two personal disciples he accepted are regarded as dragons and phoenixes among people, But they can only learn half of their skills, if it weren't for the seventy-two stunts of the ancestor in the rivers and lakes, it would be difficult for Shaolin disciples to master all of them in their lives. Otherwise, there must be people who suspect that this mysterious emperor is the mortal star of the heavenly realm, and he guides Wen and Wuqu Xing to save the Central Plains from fire and water.

There is no way, limited by the vision of this era, no matter whether Zhang Tao deliberately promotes it or not, people will unconsciously impose all kinds of mysticism on incomprehensible things. Of course, this is also equivalent to having the theory of the Mandate of Heaven and God in disguise, and it has played a role in stabilizing the society, but I don't know if the political and political courses that Zhang Tao values very much will affect the dominance of the royal family in the Central Plains when it becomes a compulsory course in primary and secondary schools. However, if we want to bring about ideological change, it is useless to rely only on the advocacy and incitement of certain people, and it must be done so that the majority of the people have a certain degree of political awareness. What can be achieved is to popularize systematic science education, and gradually form a new ideological system in a subtle way. Relying on the current outdated education system, at least Jiang Tian will not see results in his lifetime.

When it came to another lunch break, Jiang Tian casually picked up the latest issue of the newspaper, only to find that the thickness of the newspaper seemed to have increased, and it didn't matter if he opened it, Jiang Tian only had a wry smile: "This is clearly the later generation of the Central @ Central @ Party @ Newspaper @ Ma!" ”

In addition to the most common political developments in the newspaper, there are also many factual analyses and editorials, especially the reform of ministries and commissions, which are currently being hotly discussed. Zhang Tao, who was still carrying out the redistribution of power, was very busy, and it was normal for the establishment of the new dynasty to change some of the rules of the previous dynasty, so it didn't matter how the name of the department was changed, or how much it was added or how many departments were subtracted, because for thousands of years, no matter what dynasty was, as long as it still wanted to be based on the Central Plains, it was impossible to change some basic things, such as the gentry class that occupies a leading position in this society.

In history, whether it is the Ming or Qing Dynasty, except for some less important differences, the ruling system of the whole country is not much different, the Manchu Eight Banners are just the Ming Dynasty royal family that replaced the corpse vegetarian meal, the main ruling structure of the country has not changed much, any government decree and the regulations of the imperial court can only be exercised to the level of the county order, although the role of Baojia, Li Chang and the like still exists, but the real dominance in the countryside or township is still the local clans and gentry. Those who have no official clothes but have more power than the officials are the ruling class of the country, so that sometimes even the imperial power has to make way for them, if anyone wants to move their interests, not only will all kinds of spokesmen in the court stand up and vigorously oppose it, but also will mobilize public opinion to criticize the enemy and beat them into heinous villains. In history, Yongzheng has been said to be a rare tyrant in the past because of the implementation of the apportionment of the acres to damage the vested interests of these people.

Yongzheng is not treated well because he is a person who is bent on maintaining the stability of the country, or in order to maintain the stability of the imperial power, and does not hesitate to open a knife on all vested interest groups, whether you are a Manchu or a Han, as long as you block the emperor's rights, you must be split with a knife! Not to mention that his son Qianlong couldn't do this, even Kangxi, who was known as the first emperor of the ages, couldn't do it, so the Manchu Qing Dynasty's ability to gain a foothold in the Central Plains was not unrelated to this hated emperor. At the same time, he has an advantage over Zhang Juzheng, who engaged in a whip law, that he does not care about the counterattack of Confucianism and the local gentry, in fact, in the early Manchu Qing Dynasty, when the killing was popular, the social power that Confucianism could use was extremely limited, which allowed him to make drastic reforms.

Zhang Tao is not so lucky, as a Chinese who has crossed over from modern times, fools know that this illegal force in the local area must be dug up, you can't do it generously, and at the same time, you can't ignore the important role of clans and gentry in maintaining local stability, but you want to deprive them of all kinds of illegal rights, how difficult do you say this matter will be? After the Tang Dynasty, except for a bitter Song Dynasty, China has not been able to break this dead cycle, until a baby in Shaoshan Chongli fell to the ground, until a political party with tenacious vitality completely solved this problem with brilliant results. For the first time in the land of China, let the government decree reach every village, let the whole of China unite into a whole, and let the blood that has been emasculated for 300 years return to the spirit of this nation again! Sometimes you have to admire those proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation, they are really using their lives to create a completely different country, they hope that the problems that plagued China can be solved, they don't care whether their children and grandchildren can continue to hold power, because they firmly believe that China is the China of all Chinese, not the China of a certain person or a certain number of people, whether they or their descendants are only a part of the whole Chinese, but it is a pity......

Regardless of what happened to China in the 21st century, Zhang Tao is now facing the problems that any founding emperor must face, and if he wants to restore his national strength to the best of his ability, in order to quickly stabilize the political situation, then selective compromise is inevitable. However, after that magnificent process of national rejuvenation, as a person from the 20th century, these so-called Qingliu celebrities who disregard the future of the country for their own selfish interests are simply disgusting than the excrement in the thatched pit. Therefore, it was written in the newspaper that any lawsuit that was not tried by the local judicial authority, and any case that was tried privately by the clan, was illegal! Any law of civil discretion is illegal! Any act of imprisonment and torture is illegal! Jiang Tian was not surprised at all to see these measures to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, if it is said that when the dynasty was established, the reason why the local emperors in the countryside were able to be uprooted was not unrelated to the purge of various political movements and the flooding of the grassroots with all kinds of new officials. However, limited by the ability to communicate at this time, it is impossible for the central government to control every nerve ending, so whether these policies with a strong atmosphere of suppression can work or not, Jiang Tian does not have any expectations. However, this opened an opening, which was tantamount to declaring that those local emperors who had set up private courts had no legal right to administer, and that there would be a legal basis when the state could free up its hands to rectify them. Of course, these people also understand the danger of this move, there is no difference between the gentry and ordinary landlords who have no management power, and they will not be meat on the chopping block in the future, and they will be handled casually!

But at this time, these people found that the days when they thought that they could seize the political power by relying on a scholar in the clan and then set up a spokesperson in the court had come to an end, and the power of the magistrate was also weakened, that is, the former transcendent status of the scholar was no longer there, and the political capital they relied on had almost disappeared without a trace. It is up to them to weigh their own ability to block the enforcement of the state's violent organs.

In fact, when each founding emperor encountered this problem, he adopted a somewhat similar method, that is, to use the army that had just swept the world to uproot those deep-rooted wealthy families, and sometimes even the people of an entire province were forced to move to another province, which would destroy the original local forces and relatively balance the productivity gap between the regions. But at first it was fine, and as the days wore on, and the settlers became familiar with their new homes, they became natives and established new, entrenched local powers. It's like when Huguang filled Sichuan, who in modern Sichuan can tell whether they are really Bashu and Miao descendants? Anyway, Lao Tzu's life and death are long, and whoever dares to say bad things about Sichuan will be with whom!

When destroying an old world, we must also build a new world, and our old revolutionaries only achieved destruction, and when they were groping for establishment, they all went to Marx to report. Therefore, Zhang Tao knows that if the methods of the 20th century are completely replicated, not to mention that there is no basis for replication at this time, even if it is really done, at most it will only be a change of soup without a change of medicine, and in a few decades or even a hundred years, the country will still follow the old path of the past. Therefore, he wanted to completely transition the social system from the official standard to the people's standard, but the reform in reality must not be so radical, and at the beginning, the people who manage the grassroots must be put within the framework of the law, and this kind of reform is almost against the entire country, which is destined to be extremely difficult.

"Because the Jin Dynasty implemented the nine-product Zhongzheng system, it safeguarded the interests of the ruling class, but curbed the voice of the people, so it not only quickly fell apart, but also failed to achieve the function of connecting the upper and lower levels. The Sui Dynasty created the imperial examination system, allowing ordinary people to have the opportunity to participate in politics, breaking the control of the hereditary aristocracy over the country, and only then did the Tang Dynasty prosper. When the Ming Dynasty monopolized science and limited the imperial examination to the composition examination of the eight-strand text, this was tantamount to a disguised return to the rigid social system of the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, which hindered the change and development of society, and at the same time gave birth to a group of privileged aristocrats dressed in the cloak of Confucianism, and finally led to the rapid decline of national power...... "Jiang Tian read the editorial in the newspaper, almost every sentence was a sentence of punishment, although it was in the vernacular style, so that people could know at a glance that it was written by an editor trained by a certain army, But the meaning of the text is simple and clear, if anyone wants to block reform, it will be the same as those rebellious ministers and thieves in history who have brought disaster to the country and the people, and will eventually become the object of spit. And now the reform of the imperial examination that is being criticized by the literati is just a restoration of the old system of the Tang and Song dynasties, and whoever does not draw a clear line with the former Ming Dynasty will want to become an official again in the future.

Looking at Jiang Tian's thoughtful expression, even the heartless pervert did not dare to speak loudly, this seemingly calm Beijing city has long been undercurrent, if it were not for the army in the hands of the emperor, I am afraid that all kinds of opposition would have flooded the Forbidden City, but this is not the main thing, since the Donglin Party has been repeatedly attacked, there is no longer a party that can unify the mind. On the contrary, because of the imperial examination reform and tax reform, the originally loose civil forces were integrated, and they had to make the last resistance in order to protect their own interests, which is a delicate balance at this moment, and the emperor and these local emperors are preparing their trump card to give each other a well-known blow at any time. And it is unlikely that he, Jiang Tian, will continue to stay out of the matter, and will inevitably be involved in this political struggle related to the fortunes of the country. But Jiang Tian didn't want to participate, because he knew that if a feudal empire could not develop into imperialism, then everything would be in vain, and only on the basis of imperialism could there be room for capitalist survival, and if capitalism could not be allowed to expand to its own limit, socialism would not be born, and this inevitable road of social development could not be jumped! Zhang Tao wanted to play leapfrog development, but he Jiang Tian couldn't stop it.

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