It is very important to have a goal in everything, let alone a large-scale system project like reform, but Zhu Jinglun really did not put forward any goal before, did not raise any banner, and always did things silently and did not argue. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Is it that he doesn't dare to discuss with the stubborn forces, is it that his personality is used to being low-key, no.

It's just that he is never willing to do anything that is not beneficial, and he can also reform with great fanfare, but the reform must have a reference, can the Ming government openly show the banner of Western countries and governments as a reference, and carry out changes in various affairs of the Ming Dynasty?

If the government really does this, Zhu Jinglun is not unable to do it, the officials of the government will definitely not be able to implement it in unison, Zhu Jinglun can use strong means, it is a big deal to appoint those new school figures, the Ming Dynasty has the kind of radical thinking, advocating the West, depressed characters, the British colonized Hong Kong for almost 40 years, their church schools, folk schools, have cultivated a lot of such figures, I believe that these people are very in the Ming Dynasty to fully implement Westernization, even Hong Renji after a few years in Hong Kong, Returning to the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which proposed measures such as building railways and opening companies, it is obvious that there is an atmosphere in Hong Kong society that the Chinese should completely follow the example of the West in building modern undertakings.

But the consequence of this is that the cause that the government vigorously pursues is seriously torn apart from the national ideology, and the more the government pushes it, the more rebellious the people become, and they do not accept the Western system from the heart.

Japan is a successful model of modern social reform, but after the defeat of the Manchus and then Russia, and especially Russia, Japanese society has set off an extreme nativist trend of thought, which began to despise Western civilization, which reached its peak before World War II. It can be said that it is precisely because of this rebellious psychology against the government's forced Westernization that Japanese civil society has become fascist and extreme.

Russia also has this kind of problem, when Peter the Great forcibly implemented Westernization, very successful, Russia became stronger, but after the death of Peter the Great, the society rebounded comprehensively, in the history of the Russian Empire for hundreds of years, Russia has always been on the issue of Westernization and localization, repeatedly wandering, there are always comprehensive Westernization factions and nativist factions fighting each other, seriously affecting the cohesion of Russian society, but also let Russia despite its strong national strength, has the best economic development conditions in Europe, However, it has always been in a culturally and economically backward position in Europe.

After the comprehensive Sovietization of New China, after the reform and opening up, did it not also have to be liquidated by the culture and ideology of the non-governmental intellectual circles, and the government was unable to ideologically unify with the non-governmental elites for a long time, and even if it launched public opinion propaganda tools, it was never able to make the people trust the government, and its credibility was seriously insufficient.

But the credibility of the West and the U.S. government is full, the people can scold the government, and film and television works can satirize the government, but the people believe in the various policies introduced by the government. Therefore, in World War I and World War II, the British could shout Long live the queen and charge into battle; The American GI scolded the president for being a son of a bitch, but he would not stop pulling the trigger in his hand.

This is because European and American governments rarely force the people to accept the government's ideas and policies, even if those policies are necessary, the people do not support them, do not understand them, and do not dare to implement them.

Whatever forces the people to accept the ideas, ideas and culture promoted by the government will eventually be liquidated by the people spontaneously, and the associated people will have a serious distrust of the government, and at worst, they will go to repeated anti-government movements, setting off revolutionary movements again and again.

Therefore, Zhu Jinglun never hyped up slogans that were obviously unacceptable to the people before.

However, the various systems of the Eastern world have been obviously backward, and they have to be reformed, so Zhu Jinglun still has to do things, do things, and can't be high-profile propaganda, so he can only do it silently, there is a kind of enlightened autocratic characteristics of the European Enlightenment period, Frederick the Great, who implemented various policies at that time, said, you say yours, I do mine, he allows the people to put forward opinions, whether to listen or not is his business.

This time for the reform, Zhu Jinglun decided to change the norm, and he planned to start making a big splash.

Because after so many years of silent work, a large number of achievements have been made, these achievements are placed in front of the people, they see, the people's eyes may not be bright, but the eyes of the social elite absolutely see clearly, see thoroughly, even if they don't accept it, their hearts will begin to think, begin to compare, and begin to send out questions such as "Is Yiren really useless" and "Is China really perfect".

More and more people are seeing the financial improvements brought about by industrialization, and the convenience brought by modern facilities such as railways, roads, water supply and drainage projects, telegraphs, gas lamps, etc.

Although culturally and ideologically, it has not yet recognized that the West is completely stronger than the East, but at least there has been a material unification of opinions, that is, everyone believes that Westerners are unique in the manufacture of weapons, Wei Yuan as early as 30 years ago put forward the slogan of "mastering the skills of the master to control the country", the Manchu Westernization Movement also took steps in the midst of various opposition, and the Ming Dynasty of course went further, whether it was the civil elite or the government officials, in the face of the facts, they all recognized that the establishment of Western-style industry was an urgent task that could not be delayed.

As early as a few years ago, with the advancement of the silk tea trade and the promotion of industrial production of silk tea, the government collected a large amount of financial revenue, but did not loot the farmers from the beginning, which made the earlier officials feel incredible, so the first began to explore the answer, and the first began to reverse the mentality.

The transformation of folk thinking is much slower, and it has to be said that the famine in the north has played a boosting role.

Zhu Jinglun did not put forward a slogan, but the Ministry of Industry used various ways and methods to publicize industry, such as publishing the official newspaper "Ministry of Industry Daily", which introduced various industrial sectors, from the huge steel industry to the textile industry. Any propaganda, even fascist propaganda for fooling the people, must set up a glorious banner, and the banner of the Ministry of Industry is to enrich the people.

The continuous propaganda of the Ministry of Industry and the promotion of industrialization can enable more people to find jobs and more people to eat.

However, the previous propaganda effect was not very good, and those who really believed in this propaganda were only those new-school characters who were willing to believe in themselves, those who had been educated by foreigners since childhood, and who had been indoctrinated with Western civilization and Eastern barbarism since childhood.

What the orthodox scholars see is that industrialization has destroyed the traditional society, and the big machine factories have made the family workshop unsustainable, so where is this to let more people find jobs and let more people have enough to eat, this is simply robbing more people's livelihoods?

So no one supports it.

But this famine in the north deeply stimulated the thoughts of the great doctors.

Previously, the new school figures said that without promoting industrialization, it would be impossible to feed China's hundreds of millions of people by relying on traditional male farmers and female weaving, and that although the Ming Dynasty was located in the south, it was still greatly overpopulated. The solution proposed by the new school was to build a large number of large factories in which the people could produce goods in large quantities and export them abroad in exchange for food to feed the huge population.

Conservatives think this is a complete absurdity, and that having more children and more blessings is a traditional idea, and that prosperity has always been regarded as a conscription for prosperity. What is wrong with men and women weaving, it has been the case for thousands of years, men cultivate and raise their wives and children to support their parents, women weave, weave and tailor, enough to make the people of the Ming Dynasty worry-free. Building a factory is nothing more than destroying feng shui and transmuting the ancestral system, which is a great rebellion.

The controversy between these two factions has been going on for many years, and although the new faction's borrowing of Malthusian population theory of strict prohibition is very convincing, the conservatives will not give up in the absence of seeing is believing, they have their own set of theories, and it can be said that both sides are talking the same thing, and neither is convinced.

But this famine perfectly confirmed the theory of the new school, that is, the land really could not support so many people, and that a single famine would kill tens of millions of people.

The Ming government staked all the acts of disaster relief, so that the entire Ming Dynasty was deeply involved in this famine, although the people of the Ming Dynasty could not starve to death, but their lives were greatly affected, the food more than doubled, the poorest people actually starved to death, a group of middle-class people who could have been able to eat and clothing also began to starve, and the rich people in the upper class even felt the pressure of prices.

The newspapers kept transmitting the situation of people starving to death in the north, and attached photos as evidence, when they saw the tragic scenes, and saw that in some places, people were like pigs and sheep, stripped and washed, and the upside-down hangers were slaughtered and sold, at this time, what kind of etiquette collapsed, and what kind of transmutation of the ancestral system was so powerless.

At this time, the conservatives of the Ming Dynasty also had to ask such a question, what would have happened if this famine had happened in the Ming Dynasty?

The Ming government's disaster relief efforts were supported by righteousness, which was agreed upon by both conservatives and new, with the new approving the government's responsible attitude and the conservatives saying that it was the benevolent government of the Son of Heaven.

Therefore, conservatives believe that if the Ming Dynasty suffers a disaster, the government will spare no effort to provide disaster relief, but can the government save it? The four or five northern provinces were affected, and the Ming Dynasty staked everything, and it was still impossible for all the victims to live. Now the Ming Dynasty has four southern provinces, plus Zhejiang, which has been captured by newspaper reports, and the population has reached 100 million. If the Ming Dynasty is affected by a disaster, the government wants to save 100 million people, and I am afraid that many people will starve to death.

Another important piece of evidence of the new school is that the reason why the Ming Dynasty was able to provide disaster relief and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was completely powerless was because the traditional economic and social system was no longer able to protect hundreds of millions of people. If it weren't for the fact that Daming built so many factories, Daming opened so many ports, and if it wasn't for Daming to introduce the bond system, Daming wouldn't have been able to save this disaster.

Seeing the results with their own eyes, feeling the consequences with their own eyes, and a series of realities as evidence, coupled with the beginning of recognition of the government, the voices of conservatives began to weaken, and the phenomenon of scolding the government disappeared.

Zhu Jinglun knew that the theories of the new faction had gradually gained the upper hand and began to influence the country and nation, but the conservative faction was not completely convinced, and they only suffered a blow in the face of the facts.

It is unrealistic to expect the diehards to change their attitude and embrace the future, but with this new wind, the government's large-scale reforms can turn the thinking of the vast majority of people around, and take advantage of the east wind of the world economic recovery to greatly promote the process of industrialization.

On the one hand, the broad masses of the people began to accept new things, on the other hand, the conservatives began to lose control over the national ideology, and the government's guidance at this time will not only not set themselves on fire, but will establish a high degree of unity with the people in the process of reshaping the national ideology.

It's just a big fanfare, then it definitely needs a flag, a slogan, a goal, and a direction, but Zhu Jinglun has already thought about it, and he wants to use this slogan, that is, to unite the new faction, but also to take care of the old faction, to highly condense the national ideology, and to rush forward with a close centripetal force.