Since he is not a person inside or outside, Shen Xi can only think about Hui Niang's personal safety. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Hate it!

Shen Xi secretly sighed to himself, this might make the two of them more distinct, and at the same time, let himself break his thoughts more completely.

Shen Xi is not prepared to use official power to suppress the Fujian Townsmen's Association, because that would likely be a fake show. He only needed Song Xiaocheng to secretly sabotage, and before that, he had already sent Ma Jiu back to Tingzhou Mansion to temporarily disband the Che Ma Gang. He calculated that by the end of the year, the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce would almost officially become a thing of the past.

Originally, in Shen Xi's view, since there was the germ of capitalism in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, there was a hotbed for commercial development, and even if there were risks and twists and turns in business, it could be regarded as a means to change fate.

But with the official crackdown again and again, Shen Xi finally understood one thing: in the absence of a strong political background, any effort is futile!

No matter how big the business is, it is not as good as a word from a court official.

"Now it seems that this road is not going to work, and when you have power in the future, let's try again." Shen Xi sighed in his heart, "I just don't know if Hui Niang can wait until then?" Maybe we're strangers for a long time! ”

Shen Xi wanted to help Hui Niang in his heart, but the general environment of the times did not allow it, so he could only temporarily give up his business plan and be his court official with peace of mind.

Shen Xi plans to summarize the gains and losses of doing business since childhood in his spare time.

The reason why capitalism cannot develop rapidly in Daming is that most businessmen have a disadvantage in their consciousness, and when they have money, they do not expand their operations and carry out technological innovations, but invest them in real estate and fields, which makes the scale slow to rise.

But Hui Niang basically does not have this defect, she is very willing to invest in business, such as opening a printing workshop, a pharmaceutical factory and a silver number, and creating a chamber of commerce, which has a rich return. However, it is precisely because of success that Hui Niang will become paranoid and like to set everything to a set of fixed rules.

It can be seen that consciousness is really a double-edged sword, and if one is not good, it will hurt oneself by mistake.

Shen Xi felt that it was best to have a new invention at present, which could greatly promote the development of productive forces, leading to the rapid emergence of a class, and by the time the imperial court reacted, there was no way to control it.

In the fourteenth year of Hongzhi, that is, at the beginning of the sixteenth century, there were still two centuries before the industrial revolution in Europe, although Shen Xi asked himself that his mind might not be as good as Watt, the improver of the steam engine, but there were some things that had to be done, and it was necessary for the Chinese nation to win at the starting line.

When Shen Xi was studying world history, he had studied Watt's improved steam engine.

The principle of the steam engine is very simple, later generations of young people often see Watt observed that when the teapot boils water, the water vapor pushes the teapot lid to beat and then invents the story of the steam engine, although the truth is easy to understand but the story is completely apocryphal, the original steam engine is the first century AD invented the steam ball, and now many books in the Ming Dynasty have this from the West "strange tricks" record.

Before Watt, the steam engine had been used for coal mine drainage, and Watt's improvements were the addition of an independent condensing chamber, the invention of a mechanical linkage device with gears and tie rods, a double-acting engine, a centrifugal governor that automatically adjusted the speed of the steam engine, a pressure gauge, a counter, a dynamometer, a throttle valve, and many other instruments.

As long as the steam engine is activated, it can lead to the rapid development of commerce, and capitalism can flourish, instead of remaining in the so-called embryonic state forever.

Before he really took control of his own destiny, Shen Xi did not plan to continue to do business things for the time being, and felt that if he had the opportunity, he could start the research and development of steam engines first.

This is also the first time that Shen Xi has tried to use the technology that has become popular in later generations to change this feudal and backward era after coming to this world.

Unfortunately, we are still on the road to success.

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After serving as the chief examiner of the Shuntianfu Township Examination, Shen Xi's mansion became the most respected place for scholars in the capital.

The folk legend of Shen Xi gradually increased.

Many people don't know anything about it, and they boast about Shen Xi as godlike.

Of course, there are many things that have happened, such as the court's tongue war against the Tatars to expose the lies of their heavenly books, the night attack on the fleet of the Koubian of the Buddha and the force to pay tribute to the imperial court, the arrest of Zhang Lian, the prefect of Quanzhou who perverted the law, etc., and even many details of the battle in Beiguan have also been transmitted to the capital.

The common people did not believe it at first, but later they believed it after hearing too much.

Three people become tigers, and this principle can be used in any era.

There were a lot of rumors outside, and they began to circulate in the palace later, and Shen Xi seemed to have become a topic of conversation for people in the capital overnight.

At this time, up to the emperor and down to the dawn people, there is no pastime and entertainment in life, and he always likes to sit down and say something new, because Shen Xi has become purple recently, the topic always falls on him unconsciously.

Because he was not talking about cabinet scholars and officials of the six ministries, and he was not criticizing the government, the imperial court took a non-caring attitude towards this rumor and did not publicly "refute the rumors".

In fact, the imperial court also according to the order of Emperor Zhu Youzhi of Hongzhi to "build momentum" for Shen Xi.

Shen Xi presided over the Shuntianfu Township Examination at the age of fifteen, and he was somewhat unable to convince the public, but since the emperor had issued a holy decree, he must make the people feel that this was not an ordinary fifteen-year-old boy, but a Ming Wenkui of Sanyuan and the first, a bachelor of Hanyuan, a lecturer and a Japanese general, and a great contributor to the long-term stability of the Ming Dynasty!

So much so that after Zhu Youzhi heard Empress Zhang talk about the story of Shen Xi defeating the Tatars in Yulinwei, he just waved his hand to express his disbelief, because Emperor Hongzhi knew that Shen Xi couldn't even ride a horse, how could he kill all sides on the battlefield?

Emperor Hongzhi adopted a tacit attitude, and the courtiers would not take the initiative to break the matter, so Shen Xi's reputation spread and grew little by little.

At the same time, it was Shen Xi's "Xinxue", which was very popular among the scholars around the capital.

This is also related to Shen Xi becoming the chief examiner of the Shuntianfu Township Examination, and studying the mind can study the preferences of the examiner, who called this little champion Lang to put forward the heart school when he took the government exam at the age of ten?

Everyone knows that Shen Xi is a little narrow-minded in his studies, and now that Shen Xi's knowledge has been affirmed by the imperial court, then the study of the heart will naturally rise.

In the minds of those great Confucians, Xinxue is simply an undeaf nonsense put forward by a naughty child, and even a teenager like Shen Xi will feel embarrassed.

Therefore, in the beginning, even if the study of mind spread in a small area, no one stopped it, but as the study of mind was widely spread in Beijing, those great Confucians who admired science could not sit still.

Confucianism relies on the respect of others to live, today the official sends some gifts, tomorrow the friend comes to toast a tea, many Confucian fields and real estate do not have, all rely on ideology and learning as a sharp weapon, rely on others to help and give lectures to the outside world to live.

In the past, those young students respected science very much, often listened to their lectures, and would be very busy every year when they went to the township to take the exam. But since Shen Xi's mind science has risen, those scholars have begun to "turn against the water", and they don't even like to listen to the broad and profound knowledge of science.

Young people like novelties, the production of the mind, just has its background of the times, although there are a lot of talented people in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, but there has not been an idol-level figure in learning for a long time, Wang Shouren in history stands out, at this time Wang Shouren has not yet formed a climate, but Shen Xi first exploited the loophole.

The theory of mind proposed by Shen Xi is more solid than Wang Shouren's, because Shen Xi itself adopts a systematic and complete theory.

The mature study of the mind did not fall behind in the slightest when it came to the science of science, and the thought of the conscience was much more advanced than that of the science, and even the rulers were more inclined to the scholars to move closer to the direction of the study of the mind.

Because science makes people knowledgeable, while the most important point of mind is to conscience, what is admired is gentleness, courtesy, frugality, and idealism, which is closer to Taoism's return to nature.

Hongzhi 14 years into the midsummer, the capital scholars are rising, a large number of candidates from the north of the country gathered in the capital, ready to participate in the township examination, during which miscellaneous studies prevailed, not only science, mind, but also Confucianism of various sects, for the situation of a hundred schools of thought, the imperial court adopted a tacit and tolerant attitude.

In addition to this is a new science, the most important thing is that it is rumored that the examiner of this township examination will respect this.

Shen Xi did a little bit very smart, he proposed that after Xie Pi was obsessed, he immediately changed the propaganda policy, and when he admired the study of mind, he first said that this was the admiration and in-depth study of Cheng Zhu's science, which was tantamount to changing the hypocritical packaging, and after careful study, he found that mind and science are two different theoretical systems.

Many people were deceived into going to the mental science forum, they thought that this was just a kind of science thought put forward by the chief examiner of the township examination, everyone sat down to study together, to see if it was helpful for the imperial examination, but I didn't expect that after listening to a few lectures, I found that the content was very different from the science I had learned in the past, but it made sense when I thought about it carefully.

If you listen carefully, you will unconsciously indulge in it, and like Xie Pi, you will respect the study of the mind, and then bring others in.

Shen Xi is like a demagogue, he used his mental studies in the cloak of science to make a group of scholars "go astray", and by the time these people reacted, they were already deeply trapped in it and could not extricate themselves.

But these forums have not been approved by the main lord Shen Xi, and they are spontaneously formed. Now Xie Pi is locked up at home by Xie Qian and can't come out, Shen Xi's loyal preacher is not there, but just relying on Xie Pi's friends and people who have listened to Xie Pi's preaching on Xinxue, they unknowingly spread Xinxue.

"It's so loud, shouldn't I listen to it myself?" Shen Xi learned from Xie Duo that even some people in Guozixue began to preach the study of mind, and he felt helpless.

In his teens, he was already very conspicuous, and if he preached Xinxue at a young age, he would be on the opposite side of the entire Confucian world, and the attacks on him by others would increase day by day. Those great Confucians who became famous by relying on science would never allow heresy to exist, because it was impossible for them to put aside science and study mind again.

Only by waiting for the disciples of Xinxue to rise and occupy the commanding heights of the court and Confucianism can Xinxue flourish.

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