There are many schools of Yangming's school, there are seven schools of Wangmen, which can be roughly classified into two major schools, one of which is called Wang Xuezhengzong, and the members are mainly gentry, such as Xu Jie, Zhang Juzheng, etc., this school is integrated with Zhu Zi's science, developed rapidly in the bureaucracy, and has continued to this day, the so-called Confucianism and internal interpretation refers to this school. The other faction is known as the peddler's pawn school, the members are mainly lower-level officials and civilians, because Wang Gen, who founded the doctrine, is a native of Taizhou, also known as the "Taizhou school", Li Zhen and He Xinyin are the representatives of it, and Wang Xue, who talks about the heart of the truth, the Taizhou school advocates that "the people's daily use is the way", "everyone is a gentleman", extremely opposed to Zhu Zi's science, shouted the slogan of "no father and no king, not killing the father and killing the king", openly contempt for the royal power and clan power, and the government regarded it as a heresy and tried its best to suppress it. After the death of Mr. He Xinyin and Mr. Li Zhen, the Taizhou School gradually disappeared in the Guannei, but the interesting thing is that it became the guiding ideology for the development of Fengzhou outside the Guanzhou.

"Almost all the people of Fengzhou are poor, and it is not surprising that the study of Taizhou can blossom and bear fruit here, but why is it also the study of the heart, which has been reduced to empty talk about the mind in the Guan, but shines outside the Guan? Foolishly thought that it was the government's wanton interference that led to the drive of good and evil, the rise and fall of all things in the world have a fixed number, and the same is true of the people's livelihood events like this, the world will choose its good ones from it, why should the government disturb each other, so Fengzhou advocates the rule of the people, restricts the rule of the government, and the affairs of the people are done by the people. Li Fugui finally said.

"Fengzhou advocates the rule of the people, so the people themselves did the establishment of Yicang and the opening of public schools?" Huang Zongxi asked a little puzzled.

"Yes, this is still the idea of the Ming State, but the Ming court wants to send grain, donations, and Ding, which will inevitably harass the people, although the idea is good, but it can't be done, and we implement local autonomy, and the officials of the hundred households and thousands of households are elected by the people, although the officials of the health office are sent by the Prime Minister's Office, but they must also be approved by the Council, and the power of land endowment, municipal tax and labor tax is also delegated to the locality, so that the people can pay taxes and use money independently, and there will be no complaints, and they are willing to pay money to supplement the Yicang and expand the public school, don't think that the people don't know what to do, Without the government, they live a more nourishing life. Batu replied with a smile.

"I have long said that there are too many officials to disrupt the government and too many soldiers to disrupt the country, and replacing official rule with public rule is a good way to solve the source of chaos." Gu Jiang patted his thigh and said.

Yun Rong shook his head vigorously and said: "Zhongqing is wrong, the people value the immediate and not seek the long-term, they are most vulnerable to the traitorous party, the people are bewitched, the power will definitely be abused, the people's rule is just people-oriented, the ruler must also choose the meritocracy, the so-called world for the public, the selection of meritocracy and ability is this truth, but the temptation of authority is too great, and the meritocracy will be corrupted if it stays in a high position for a long time, so Fengzhou actually adopts the policy of checks and balances, the central and local checks and balances, the checks and balances between the people and the officials, the checks and balances between ethnic groups, and the balance of various forces, no one dares to act rashly, Good governance can only be achieved through mutual compromise. ”

Gu Jiang and the scholars all lowered their heads in contemplation, and Yang Tinglin suddenly spoke: "I have to admit that you have good governance, but this kind of governance policy is only applicable to small countries and widows, if the place is big and the population is large in the future, what should you do?" ”

Yang Tinglin's words hit the nail on the head, Fengzhou used to be only a palm-sized territory, and the population was only four or five hundred thousand, although the life was hard but peaceful, but now the west to the Tulu Domain, the east to Duolunuoer are included in the palm, the population is more than one million, the Prime Minister's Office is more and more feeling that there is no way to govern, Chahar, Khalkha and Xiningwei of the Ming Kingdom are crying and shouting to join Fengzhou, but they are all turned away, the reason is that it affects the well-being of the people of Fengzhou.

"Perhaps we have ignored a problem, the sage never mentioned the unification of the world, but advocated the feudal rule of all countries, respecting the Son of Heaven and practicing Zhou etiquette." Li Huai didn't speak today, and then a sentence suddenly came out.

"Yushan is a big fallacy, feudal rule will inevitably lead to the princes fighting, life and souls, and then foreign enemies plunder, China is not guaranteed, the world tragedy is unbearable, only the true destiny of the Son of Heaven to unify the world to achieve great unification, in order to make China strong and prosperous and create a peaceful and prosperous era." Liu Zhilun stood up in surprise and said.

"Yes, only great unification can gather China's strength to do great things, such as resisting foreign aggression, disaster relief and helping the people, etc., can a small country do it?" Liu Zongzhou couldn't help but shake his head.

"But it is also possible to do stupid things with China's strength, and it is even more harmful, and what is happening in the Ming Dynasty today proves this? If there is great unification, there will inevitably be tyranny, harsh government, and there will inevitably be division, and the chaos caused by each division will kill more than half of the population, and the wealth accumulated by the previous dynasty will also be lost, and its tragedy is far greater than the struggle between the princes, and the cycle of chaos has been repeated for two thousand years, and it will be the same in the future," Li Huai shook his head painfully, clenched his fists and said loudly to everyone, "The sage never said that the great unification, this was made by that tyrant, the first emperor played us all, he left the great unification, and also left the cycle of tyranny and chaos, This scoundrel has been dead for 2,000 years, but the stench is still gone, and he is still leaving a legacy for future generations. ”

"I've read a lot of Han books, there is no good thing in the heroes who compete for the world, and the real son of heaven who wins in the end must be the villain among the villains, the people of the Central Plains paid a heavy price to gain unification, but they had to endure the tyranny of the villains, and finally had to face the cycle of chaos, I calculated, the Central Plains is a small chaos in a hundred years, a small chaos in two hundred years, a big chaos in three hundred years, and this has always been the case for two thousand years, you must have gone the wrong way, I think maybe unification and great unification are completely two different things." Ortai said.

Silence, silence for a long time, all the scholars here are scholars, and they understand that Li Huai and Ortai are telling the truth, but who has the ability to solve the problems that have not been solved for 2,000 years? After a long while, Huang Zongxi bowed his hand to Li Huai and said: "Brother Yushan, I think that the chaos in the world does not lie in the rise and fall of a surname, but in the sorrow and happiness of the people. Does Brother Yushan have a solution? ”

"No solution, it will be the same in another five hundred years," Li Huai shook his head, stared blankly at the distance for a while, and replied thoughtfully, "Fengzhou has the "Rich People and Strong People Order", maybe when the civil power is strong enough, everything will be solved." ”

"Brother Yushan, I have been taught, I have read the "Decree of Enriching the People and Strengthening the People", agriculture and animal husbandry are the foundation, industry and commerce are preferred, the people can enjoy their benefits, and the officials are not allowed to monopolize their interests, it is really insightful, if the civil power is strong enough to check and balance the imperial court, then there will be no tyranny and harsh government, and the great unification will become unified, maybe this is really a good medicine to solve the disadvantages of feudalism." Gu Jiang suddenly stood up and applauded and laughed.

Everyone's emotions were mobilized, and they offered suggestions and suggestions, and the meeting ended for three consecutive days, and Liu Zongzhou finally proudly announced the establishment of the Shixue Society. The scholars proposed to hold a celebration rally following the example of the Fusha Society, so everyone ran to the Restoration and gathered more than 2,000 disciples from the Toyosu Academy, the Industrial and Commercial Academy, and the Western Academy to march.

Chang Shu accepted an exclusive interview with the "Liberty Daily" and "Citizen Daily", and clearly pointed out that the establishment of the Shixue Society proves that the view that "the well-dressed Huaxia may not be in the Guannai" is correct, and the people of Fengzhou have their own doctrine from now on to be civilized people, and he also explained the meaning of "Yidi has a king, not as good as the death of Zhuxia", the sage said that Zhuxia refers to the country of morality and etiquette, and Yidi refers to the country of barbarism and tyranny, Fengzhou is the most reasonable and understands etiquette and naturally belongs to the country of Zhuxia, and the Qing country must be the country of Yidi, And once the original country of Zhuxia becomes barbaric and tyrannical, it is a country of failure - although it is not explicitly stated, everyone can hear that the country of failure is undoubtedly a country of indication.

After the commotion, the scholars scattered and returned to the pass in groups, and no one thought that this farcical meeting of the Zhaojun Tomb would bring earth-shaking changes to history. Huang Zongxi and Gu Jiang were retained, and Yun Rong and Chang Shu must have introduced these two young talents to Li Yu - the general was in a hurry in the pass, and he couldn't come back for a while.

At the beginning of August, Li Yu first arrived at Xinpingbao to secretly meet with the general army of the three towns in Guannei, this year's drought locust severity exceeded imagination, the continuous drought caused the Fenshui and Zhanghe rivers to dry up, a large area of land was lost, the people have become homeless, starvation all over the wilderness, the scene of Yizi eating is shocking, but also thanks to these three guys are righteous, they use all their strength to set up blockages to block the displaced people as much as possible within the side wall, otherwise Li Yu is afraid that he will be in a hurry to hang himself. The leaders of the four major armies all felt that the prospects were not good, Wang Pu could still do some business next to Fengzhou, and a day was counted as a day, Hu Dawei's defense area was the most serious, and he really couldn't survive it, and planned to follow Yang Sichang to Huguang to suppress thieves, but Yang Guozhu insisted on giving up Zhangjiakou Fort to Fengzhou, so as to open up another trade route for him to get a little light. The military leaders sighed and talked for a day before they dispersed, and Li Yu rushed to Yanghe to see the governor of Xuanda.

Chen Xinjia was very polite to the newly released naturalized uncle, and after listening to Li Yu's explanation, he immediately said that he had originally opposed Lu Xiangsheng's forcible repossession of the guard's field, and the naturalized uncle would take it back if he wanted to, anyway, the land was abandoned and abandoned, but the cost of the tuntian you had to discuss with the governor of Datong, Yanghe was so poor that a big son couldn't take it out, and there was a mutiny because of arrears some time ago.

Li Yu arrived in Datong, and the governor Ye Tinggui was happily packing his luggage and preparing to go home - this year's famine was too serious, Ye Tinggui was anxious and tired and couldn't afford to be sick. Ye Tinggui agreed to Li Yu's request, and instigated Li Yu to occupy as much abandoned land as possible, and he also asked the scribe to take out the account book and show it to Li Yu, proving that it was not that he did not help the naturalized uncle to do good things, but that he really couldn't come up with the money.

When you come out of Datong, you can see groups of homeless people everywhere, they are unclothed and faltering, but they are firmly walking northward - Zhili, Henan, Shaanxi drought, epidemic, Shanxi people all pinned their hopes of survival to Fengzhou outside the Guan, no matter how big the price is, they have to go on, the white bones on the roadside, the hungry people who robbed the horse manure and the bare tree trunks made Li Yu feel frightened, and ordered the Flying Tiger Battalion to hurry to Taiyuan with a cessation of flags.

Ningwu Pass, although the official army has been under martial law on the front line of the Inner Great Wall, the displaced people who are eager to survive are still overwhelming, repeatedly rushing to the pass in an attempt to go north, and the Shanxi officials and soldiers guarding the pass are forced to use artillery, bows and arrows to drive away, leaving pieces of corpses at the foot of the Great Wall. When Li Yu arrived, the sound of cannons on the city wall was still ringing from time to time, and Hu Dawei and Sun Xianzu, the deputy commander of the Shanxi People's Army, were sitting on the ground with their heads covered and stupid.

"Shanxi is over, Shanxi is over, about half of the people will die this winter, the villagers are suffering, the commander, you save the people of Shanxi!" When Sun Xianzu saw Li Yu, he knelt on the ground and cried. Li Yu silently looked down at the Great Wall - there are hundreds of thousands of people here, and the black pressure could not see the end at a glance, and the sound of songs and ballads came in the wind one after another.

"God, you are old, deaf and dazzling, you can't see people and can't hear words, people who eat fasting and chant Buddha starve to death, kill people and set fire to enjoy glory, God, you can't be heaven, you collapse, you collapse!"

Li Yu felt that his scalp was numb and his hands and feet were weak, and he suddenly had an unprecedented fear in his heart.

"Uncle Naturalization, please show the customs clearance document issued by the imperial court!" Ning Wuguan Beidao suddenly said behind him, this guy must be new, I don't know that Li Dashuai has always been imaginative, thinking of it, the court's writing is a fart.

"Dare to fuck me, fuck your eggs!" Li Yu turned around and kicked Ningwuguan Bingbei Dao out, and then shouted to Hadari and Rabdu, "We will take a detour, and we must reach Taiyuan tomorrow." ”

Song Xian, the governor of Shanxi, is an honest man, since taking office, he has been following the rules and regulations of his predecessor Wu Xian, seeking great achievements by doing nothing, and is willing to govern Shanxi with the gentry, and the gentry not only turn a blind eye to the deviant behavior, but also act as a protective umbrella, so as to win wide acclaim in the local area, but his luck is really bad, last year's drought was not easy to survive, this year's drought locusts are unprecedentedly serious, and Shanxi is almost pushed to the brink of collapse. After struggling for a while, Song Xian thought that he was powerless, so he simply did nothing, except for constantly asking the court to exempt taxes and help the victims, he did nothing else, and in fact he really couldn't do it.

"The governor is so Yaxing, there are hungry people everywhere outside the city, and you are starving for thousands of miles, you turn a blind eye, how can you be an official for your parents?" Song Xian was chanting poems and painting with a few literati in the mansion, Li Yu suddenly broke in and shouted, and then pointed at the literati, "What are you doing in a daze, get out of me immediately!" ”

"Naturalized uncle, please sit down, this official has played the disaster many times, asked for relief, but the court wants to chase after Shanxi over the years, this official has tried his best not to do it, how do you want this official?" Song Xian was not surprised by Li Yu's sudden appearance, waved his hand to let the scribe hold a big seal, and said to Li Yu with a sneer, "This official sometimes wonders, is this Shanxi from the imperial court or from your naturalized uncle?" It's okay if you come, the official's guard is here, even if you take it, the official can't do anything. ”

Li Yu glared at Song Xian fiercely, turned his head and strode out, and Song Xian immediately followed behind - Taiyuan City really changed its guard, and Xu Sheng, the local bandit who was recruited, sat at the door of the governor's mansion with a big grin, and the street was also full of Shanxi people's troops wearing green cloth uniforms, and none of the officers and soldiers could be seen.

The corruption of Shanxi civil and military officials is rare in the country, and the courage is particularly big, how many years of war between the Ming Dynasty and Mongolia, how many years they have done smuggling, after the rise of Fengzhou, it is even more strange things continue, Shanxi Town is not the chief soldier, but the kingdom of Fengzhou, Wang Zhong, Sun Xianzu This group of old army leaders, big and small things have to be discussed by the old army leaders, no one can do things without their nod, Xu Dingguo, who was appointed by the imperial court to take over the general army of Shanxi, did not dare to go to Ningwuguan to take office because he did not negotiate the conditions with the old army leader, And Hu Dawei will definitely listen to Fengzhou if he doesn't move his nest; The Shanxi Joint Defense General Bureau is also interesting, nominally the Shanxi Joint Defense General Bureau, the Shaanxi Joint Defense General Bureau, and the Shanxi Military and Commercial Bureau merged, but they still live their own lives, the Shanxi Joint Defense General Bureau is almost a big partnership business, and the shareholders include landlords, businessmen, and retired officials, because they have asked for Fengzhou, and sent some dry shares to Li Yu, the number of dry shares is not much, but the shares that are relatively scattered among thousands of people have an advantage, so Li Yu has become the big owner of the Shanxi Joint Defense General Bureau.

The big proprietor entered the Pingyang Hall with a gloomy face, Song Xian refused to go in, Gao Heizi simply picked him up and left-this old guy followed the team all the way, and deliberately pretended to be pitiful, and those who didn't know thought he was being held hostage, he was so annoying, he must be pulled into the water this time.

Pingyang Hall is the nest of the Shanxi Joint Defense Bureau, a group of local snakes led by Zhang Daojun have long been entrenched here to manipulate local forces, this year's disaster is not trivial, these people are also worried, very early in the discussion of disaster relief matters, but in addition to sending the gentry from all over the country to open a porridge factory, can not come up with a decent way, when Li Yu entered the lobby, they are still arguing for each family to produce a few more buckets of rice.

"You have all made a fortune these days, I heard that now five buckets of sorghum can buy one acre of land, and people are also very cheap, two buckets of rice for a big girl," Li Yu heard Zhang Daojun say a few words, waved his hand to interrupt his words, slapped the table and shouted loudly, "Shanxi has been suffering from natural and man-made disasters for many years, and the loss of millions of people is enough, not only do you not help the villagers, but take advantage of the fire to rob, you are still not human?" ”

The gentry were scolded, unconvinced, and immediately defended themselves, these years they are willing to buy people and land with grain is to save people's lives and do good deeds, it is definitely not to take advantage of the fire to rob, no one can bear to see the villagers suffer, disaster relief should be the business of the imperial court, they took the initiative to take out grain to open a porridge factory, is it not enough?

"Shameless, embarrassed to mention the porridge factory, your porridge can be seen, you can save a few people, the people are so hungry that they eat tree bark and horse manure, you say, how many more people will die in Shanxi?" The more Li Yu spoke, the more excited he became, Song Xian couldn't help but run outside the door and cry loudly, Li Yu continued to point at Zhang Daojun and roared, "You said that Shanxi's land is not serious, lie!" The land of the people has been taken away by you. ”

Zhang Daojun's face changed, and he picked up Li Yu and walked out of the lobby.