"Why do those Confucian scholars open their mouths about morality and keep their mouths shut, but they privately accept bribes to sabotage the dynasty and bully one side in the fish and meat township?"

"Because they have only private virtue, they only know filial piety and faithfulness, and they only see their own interests and the interests of those who are good to them. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info They don't know what public morality is, they don't know how to follow the overall interests of society and do things that are beneficial to society. ”

"If you only have the private virtue of filial piety and faithfulness, but you don't know social morality, then if someone else gives you money to help the bad people and the people, why don't you do it? What does it have to do with the people you don't know and with filial piety and faithfulness? The people of fish and meat do not violate the values of filial piety and faithfulness! ”

"If those in power are Confucian scholars who only know filial piety and faithfulness, then who will uphold justice? Who cares about the efficiency of society? Who will tell the difference between right and wrong? Who will understand the responsibilities and responsibilities of society, nation and state? ”

"No one in power cares about social justice, no one cares about the efficiency of society, and the emperor who only knows how to honor his parents and loyally give himself power, how can the officialdom not become a miasma of party power struggle, bribery and corruption? If officials only talk about Confucian private morality and not public morality, what is the difference between those traitors who bribed him with money and his parents who raised him? It's all benefactors! ”

"Confucian scholars only talk about private morality and ignore public morality, and in the end they will become well-dressed beasts who hold power and wait for the price to be sold! When a group of well-dressed beasts occupy the court, chaotic society, and build slaves to kill them, can we stop them? ”

"If we continue to maintain this kind of society with only private morality and no public morality, the organizational capacity of society will become more and more unbearable. The people can't farm, the soldiers can't fight, and we Han people will be enslaved! ”

Li Zhi paused, looked at the ignorant young people sitting in his seat, and said loudly: "However, in Tianjin, we want to build a society that stresses public morality. ”

"We are the officials of Tianjin in the future, and the starting point of everything we do should be for the best interests of the society as a whole, not for the best of our own interests, not for the best of those who are good to ourselves."

"If there is a tax collector who insults the small people, even if the tax collector is friendly with you, you must stand up and make decisions for the small people. Because the small people are bullied, the tax system will be chaotic. If no one stands up and speaks, there is no incentive for a small people to dig wells and build water conservancy, and no one to fertilize the fields. The small people may even abandon their fields and go into exile and become thieves. ”

"If there is a traitor who bullies a small trader who comes to Tianjin to do business, even if the traitor is your friend, you should stand up and stand up for the small trader. Because only in this way can Tianjin's social order be intact, and more people will want to come to Tianjin to do business and make our city prosperous. ”

"These are the little things around us. In general, if there is a war in Tianjin in the future, and someone kills the good and takes the risk, should you abide by filial piety and faithfulness and turn a blind eye? If you have public morality, you should stand up and punish those who kill ordinary people! ”

"If you have a sense of public morality, you will not be like those Confucian scholars who only have private virtues, sitting back and watching the country's silver being corrupted and exploited by layers of officials, and be indifferent."

"A family with a family that does not have a sense of public morality will continue to decay. A country in which those in power have no sense of public morality will perish sooner or later. The Ming Dynasty sat on tens of millions of fields but couldn't afford to support hundreds of thousands of border troops, and the Jiannu who had millions of guards but couldn't beat tens of thousands of people, because the officials in the court had no public morality, so the rivers were declining. ”

"You are my Li Zhi's students, and you are the future officials of Tianjin, in Tianjin, we must not build a society with only private morality and no public morality, only interests and no right and wrong."

"In the future, in Tianjin, the criterion for selecting officials is not to see whether the person is strong or not, but to see whether the person has public morality. People with public morality are less capable, and they can also supervise their capable subordinates to make profits for the society. If a person without public morality is capable, this ability will become a terrible weapon for his own gain. ”

"What we want to build in Tianjin is a Tianjin where everyone understands public morality and talks about right and wrong everywhere. Let every farmer in Tianjin be able to build water conservancy fertile fields with peace of mind and grow more food. So that every craftsman can improve his craft with peace of mind and make a fortune with his ability. So that every small trader can plan to buy and sell goods with peace of mind, and fill the container with all kinds of goods, without worrying about the extortion of the green skin, and not worrying about the servants coming to exploit it. ”

"What we want to build is a new society with a sense of public morality!"

The young people who were like blank sheets of paper looked at Xingguobo who was talking eloquently, and their eyes were shining with excitement. Building a society in which everyone lives and works in peace and contentment, without oppression and injustice, has been the highest ideal of the Han people for thousands of years, and these ignorant young people also yearn to live in such a society.

Xingguobo is now leading everyone to build such a society with their own hands, how can the students not be excited?

Li Zhi smiled and said: "Today is your first class, and the teacher of "Public Morality Class" will teach you the 'Public Virtue of Officials', and learn how to maintain the social order around you by example as an official official. Everyone applauded and welcomed our teachers. ”

Amid the applause of the students, a thin young man straightened his turban and stepped onto the podium. "Students, I am your public morality teacher, my name is..."

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On 25 August, Li Zhi sat in the second hall of the General Military Mansion and discussed various matters concerning the daily newspaper with Huan Yihua, the "general manager of the newspaper" who was responsible for founding the "Tianjin Daily."

Li Zhi wanted to publish the first official newspaper of the Ming Dynasty.

Speaking of which, the Ming Dynasty also had newspapers, and Di Bao should be regarded as an early crude newspaper. Every day, after the various recitals were made public by the six branch corridors, the scribes of the Imperial Court General Administration Department took pen and paper to transcribe the important recitals, and then organized people to copy these recitals into the Di Bao.

However, the Di Bao had to be copied and passed on layer by layer by "copyist", and it was obvious that every piece of music could not be copied in time, but it would take a month to compile it into a volume and circulate it. Although in the Chongzhen period, the General Administration Department began to print the Di newspaper with movable type, but the Di newspaper was still printed once every half a month. Moreover, the number of prints is limited, and low-level officials such as county magistrates and the like want to read the Di Bao, but they still have to wait for the higher-level bureaucrats to read it before they can read a copy of the Di Bao all the way down.

This kind of newspaper obviously cannot meet the needs of the times. Moreover, the newspaper only has local chapters, and does not include local news, which is also a major flaw.

Li Zhi wanted to issue a copy of the "Tianjin Daily," which was issued daily, promptly logged into local news, written in vernacular, and could be understood by anyone who could read or write.