Chapter Thirty-Seven: Bombardment of Corrupt Confucianism
The Japanese United Air Transport Company did not work for Xianfeng in vain, and the exchange condition for the free transportation of supplies to the Northwest Army was to carry out air transportation companies within the territory of the Qing Dynasty to carry out passenger and cargo transportation. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Soon, shipping points spread to more than 100 large and medium-sized cities in the north and south.
A giant helium airship has a total cargo weight of 500 tons, a speed of 100 kilometers, and a maximum lifting distance of 11,000 meters. Although the cost of transportation is still not as cheap as that of sea transportation, it is much cheaper than land transportation at this time. As for the danger, it is also much safer than the aviation aircraft of the 21st century.
Of course, the governors of the southern parts of the country also have their own advantages -- they all pay dividends on an annual basis and are considered to be dark stocks, and for merchants and passengers, the greatest advantage is that they are fast and safe, and there is no need to pay a penny -- a water checkpoint on the Yangtze River does not know how many charges there are.
Since the rise of shipping, the local gold bureaus have been abolished - if the gold bureaus can't make money, who will keep this. You see, if the tax collected by a country's tax bureau is not enough to pay one percent of the salary of the country's tax personnel, how much point does the existence of this tax bureau have?
Speaking of which, centigold is also one of the three major evil taxes, and if it is withdrawn, it will be withdrawn. Another bad tax on salt was washed away by Japan's smuggled salt, which sold not only snow-white salt, but also cement and modern salt-drying methods. After the salt farms that had to be reformed used the modern method of drying salt in cement ponds, they finally had the basis for a price war with Japanese salt, but most of the cities near the salt farms were recovered.
The cost of transportation in Japan, whether by sea or air, is much lower than that of Chinese salt merchants, and people like to eat cheaper Japanese salt in places that are far away. The advantage of Japanese salt hitting the Chinese market is that the price of salt monopolized by the Manchu Qing Dynasty has been suppressed from a few tens of a pound to a few dollars a pound, and the common people finally do not have to buy high-priced salt or even light food. Naturally, the salt merchants cried loudly, but no one paid attention to them.
Today, Japan's determination to reform and the country's thriving momentum are seen and remembered by the courts in the north and the governors in the south.
The court and the governor also sent people to Japan to investigate, and the result was that the Japanese could not eat enough a few years ago, but now even the lowest farmers in Japan can eat a full meal all year round, not to mention a meal of white rice and white noodles. Whoever dares to shout in the street to overthrow the rule of the shogunate by force will be torn apart by angry peasants -- it is not easy to live a good life of being fed and clothed for a few years thanks to the shogunate's reforms, and the peasants who want to overthrow the shogunate must first fight hard.
The lonely and widowed elderly, single disabled people, and orphans who have lost their ability to work are all collectively hired by the Japanese government to take care of them, cook and feed them, and the streets on the market have really reached the level of not closing their doors at night and not leaving them behind; lost money and goods can basically be retrieved at the nearby police station; there is not a single beggar on the street; no matter how big or small the crime of robbery or theft is caught, the criminals are sentenced to death on the street after being caught -- but the Chinese who go to Japan basically have no opportunity to see the killing on the street. After these two killings before, there are basically no crimes in Japan.
Anyone who has been to Japan thinks that the rule of the Three Kings of Antiquity is nothing more than that. Moreover, in today's Japan, Chinese characters are used in public to speak Chinese, all of them are civilized and polite, and everyone is full of vitality, especially young people, and the viewer thinks that Vietnam was called Little China in the past, and now Vietnam can give the name of Little China to Japan.
And in the Qing Dynasty, where I don't kill the poor and don't get rich, I basically can't understand Japan. There is also an exploiting class in Japan, but the exploiting class seems to have become the entire government, but it still leaves a chance for the people at the bottom to survive and make progress -- although Japan is not yet capable of universal compulsory education, there are still dozens or even hundreds of enlightenment schools in each prefecture that are funded by the government for free admission.
Furthermore, it is self-taught, and all kinds of science (kakumono) books in Japan are very cheap, and each prefecture has built a large library for people to read for free. It's said that I really met the seed of reading.,You can also choose to enter a school city with more books to study on your own.。
In addition to going to school and reading for free, in Japan there is also free medical treatment and medicine, and doctors and pharmacies in various medical centers are purchased by the government, and patients come to see a doctor except for emergencies, and then take the medicine and leave. It doesn't cost a penny, the doctors and the pharmacy are all funded by the government, and according to the Qing Dynasty, they are also a nine-grade official.
Although these doctors are not curing all diseases, they have memorized the Compendium of Materia Medica, Qianjin Fang, etc., and the Japanese people are much stronger than in the previous state of resisting minor diseases and waiting for death from major diseases.
Some of the people of the northern court and some of the subordinates of the southern governors were very disdainful of Japan's practice of getting rich without killing the poor -- these people seemed to be richer if they killed the poor, and the Japanese were stupid.
After Xianfeng's expedition to the west, Sijiucheng was still one of China's cultural centers, but the cabinet and military planes followed to Xi'an, and when there was a vacuum in the power of Sijiucheng, the first newspaper of the Japanese Pavilion, "China Daily", finally came out in Sijiucheng.
The first article of the first edition is the article "Slut Confucius" that fired at the feudal forces, in the name of scolding Confucius, he scolded the corrupt Confucians of the Qing Dynasty who only learned to eat and never get tired of being fine. The newspaper was transported by airship by United Airlines of Japan, and within 72 hours it spread to more than 100 cities in the east, west, north and south.
Most of the readers who read the article are self-protégés of saints, and when they see the article, they are first angry, but after reading it, they have an enlightenment, which makes people feel stunned, and then begin to reflect on whether this castrated Confucian is still a Confucian student. Or is it really as the article said, today's Confucian scholars are just eunuchs with birds.
To say that Song Haiping's scolding level is much higher than Zhuge Liang's, on the first day of the publication of the daily newspaper, seventeen Confucians in Sijiu City were angry to death. The sharp words of the articles in this newspaper scolded their resigned and lowly nature. Originally, if you don't say this, I won't say it, he won't say it, everyone pretends not to know, and they can still deceive their conscience, but this time someone stood up and scolded them, letting them know that they still couldn't deceive their conscience, so they died of guilt.
The newspaper is divided into four pages, in addition to the fourth page of advertising, the first page Song Haiping used to scold people, the second page was used to introduce the earth and the solar system and other popular science articles, or to introduce the correct world view to the Chinese, the province all day long still thought that the sky was round and China was in the center. The third edition is used to tell the history of the countries of the world, especially the European countries and historical figures, such as the Lord Protector of England, Napoleon of France, Garibaldi of Italy, and Bismarck of Germany. Garibaldi and Bismarck have not yet become history.