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Walking into the side hall of the school outside the palace, the two teenagers called in a low voice: "Big brother......"

The face and outline are similar, the eyebrows are poor, the blue-clothed navy uniform, the second Li Keming with a soft temperament, the red-clothed army uniform, and the third Li Kechong, who has a cold temperament, are fifteen and fourteen years old respectively, and they are about the same size as Li Kezai.

The three brothers were originally very close, and they had a lot to say when they reunited after a long absence, but now is not the time. Li Kezai nodded heavily, took off his military hat, and stood side by side with them, his eyes set on the front. Behind the bamboo curtain, a figure could be seen lying low on the side of the bed, it was their father, the founding emperor of Great Britain. But at this time, the emperor was like a medical worker, holding a medicine bowl and feeding medicine to the people on the couch.

"You're really back......"

The deliberately suppressed crisp sound sounded in his ears, and the hairs on the back of Li Kezai's neck subconsciously stood up, this is the overlord of the family, his nemesis, the eldest sister Li Kexi.

Fortunately, the tone was mournful, not to make any mess with him, Li Kezai hummed sullenly, turned his head and looked, and his sister in green clothes was beside him. In the distance, the mother and several mothers were there, all holding their breath, followed by their younger siblings. The mother held the virtuous concubine Zhu Niangniang, stroked her back and clapped her hands to comfort her. Occasionally sneaking a glance at him, Li Kezai knew that if it weren't for this time, his mother would have rushed over to break his arms and legs to see if he was missing a piece of meat, or if he was not a concubine.

It's September 24th. Duan Hongshi suddenly fell ill in the school and had been bedridden for eight days.

It's just that he is sick and not so popular, but the emperor's warrant that Xiao Sheng received in Huangpu said that the doctor confirmed it. That is, it is a matter of ten days and a half months, and it is difficult to return to heaven. The emperor asked Xiao Sheng to recall Li Kezai, who served in the Western Fleet, and Li Keming, who was studying at the Fuzhou Naval Academy, and at the same time asked Xiao Sheng to stabilize the navy and guard against changes.

Duan Hongshi was the emperor's teacher, and the British country was almost built brick by brick by him under his guidance, and the master and apprentice worked together to pry open a crack in Kangxi's "prosperous era" and grow the towering tree of Daying. Duan Hongshi even added flesh and blood to the ideological skeleton thrown by the emperor with his own hands. Let it grow into the study of the Heavenly Dao, break through the shackles of Confucianism, and lay the ideological foundation for a country. Later, he led a group of scholars to complete a masterpiece of historiography and literature and education. The new generation of scholars in Britain all regard Duan Hongshi as a scholar, and if something happens to him, the hearts of the people in the country will inevitably be turbulent.

Old Master Duan is gone, I'm afraid that there will be some variables in a country, right?

With a bang, the emperor hurriedly put the medicine bowl on the table, interrupting Li Kezai's thoughts. He and the hearts of the people outside the curtain were raised. On the other side, two people exhaled lower: "Teacher! ”

Those were Duan Hongshi's other two apprentices, Xue Xue and Chen Wance. One is the second assistant, and the other is the servant, after the two speak in unison. glanced at each other again, which made Li Kezai a little puzzled, and the two seemed to be much more separated than before.

“…… Ten years ......"

“…… Keming ......"

Father's voice came from the curtain, low and depressed, I didn't know what I was talking about, I only vaguely heard such words.

Then the father fell silent. After a while, Concubine De scooped up the beaded curtain. Summoned: "Gram load in." ”

Hard-headed, under the gaze of everyone, Li Kezai entered the room, and saw the old master on the couch, dying, his eyes were hot, and tears suddenly came down. The old master watched him grow up, starting from enlightenment, but whenever he was free, he had to lecture with him, and now he ......

"Now, it's all you have to do with grams."

When his father said this, Li Kezai was not only hurt, but also had another layer of panic.

Duan Hongshi on the couch couldn't make a sound, he was raising his hand, his index finger trembled, and when he saw Li Kezai coming in, he exhaled with relief and curled his fingers.

Then the father withdrew with him, handed over a book, and said, "This is the old master's new book, you can take a look." ”

Li Kezai took it, and the cover was "Three Generations of New Theory".

When the time for the visit came, it was rare for the family to reunite, but the old master's affair swept away the festive color, and the father and the emperor took all the ladies and brothers and sisters to dine together, and the laughter and laughter were lost during the banquet. Concubine Xian had been crying silently, while her mother bit her lip and blamed herself from time to time. Listening to his mother's nagging to supervise the old man to practice the five poultry plays every day, Li Kezai couldn't laugh at all.

During the evening break, Li Kezai opened the book "Three Generations of New Theory" and suddenly fell into a vast torrent of thoughts.

The skeleton of the Heavenly Dao Learning was made by his emperor father, and the old man of Xuezong has been teaching him since he was a child, so even if Li Kezai is not successful in school, he has a little experience. Although his ambition was to become a naval commander like Boss Xiao and defeat the navies of the Europa powers in the stormy seas, he was not at all disgusted with the scholarly writings of the old master.

I can't stop looking at this, and the more I look at it, the more excited I become, and the more I admire the wisdom of the old master.

The old master divided the world of China into three generations: the ancestors, the ancients and the present, and it is refreshing that he summarized the life of the ancients as the personal dependence bound to the fields, and the division of generations is based on the proportion of agricultural and non-agricultural population.

In the world of the ancients, the non-agricultural population was less than the agricultural population, and the core of the operation of the whole China was grain and forced labor.

Under the grain power system, the operation of a country must revolve around the production of grain and the collection and distribution of forced labor, although there are silver and copper coins, but only a small part of the grain and labor are exchanged for money, and most of them are looted and consumed by the ruling system based on the fields and the head to the head.

The old master believed that this kind of farming-based system was the basis for China to dominate the world, and as long as it was suitable for cultivation, it was eventually incorporated into the Chinese system, first in the Yellow River basin and then in the Yangtze River basin. But it was also this system that made it impossible for China to effectively control the seas and grasslands, so that it was vulnerable to foreign threats from these regions.

The old master said in the book: "One stone is beneficial to the country for three liters, and the power of a hundred people is beneficial to the country for three people. It was difficult to reciprocate in the Han and Tang dynasties, and the country was rich but not strong in the Song Dynasty, and it was even weaker than external forces in the Ming Dynasty. ”

The bond that sustains the food system is personal dependence. Small peasants could not protect themselves, so they had to seek refuge in various ways, the lives of the ancients, the tribes, the slaves, the tenants, and then the households of the eunuchs and gentry. Even the yeoman peasants must also use the power of the clan to gather for self-protection. The country is also // the fastest text update, no pop-ups, no ads // can only gather resources, money and food through large and small, layer after layer of "human head tower".

The old master mentioned in bitter words that the warriors of the Ming Dynasty had to rely on their families to fight effectively. He also sighed: "The fool only knows his home and only his master, and the wise only knows the king, and the monarch and the country are one." Only the great wisdom of the people, the knowledge of the community, the truth. ”

The life of the ancients was more about summing up experience and reviewing mistakes. What fascinates Li Kezai is the world of today, which is also a rare time for Duan Hongshi to describe and summarize the changes in China that was changed by the founding of this dynasty.

Duan Hongshi said that the present world is compared with the ancient world. The agricultural population will be less than the non-agricultural population. This is the change brought about by the progress of agriculture. Agricultural progress is not only a matter of agriculture, but also driven by the non-agricultural population. For example, if you can increase production by relying on oxen and iron ploughs, then someone has to raise cattle and strike iron. If you can increase production by relying on waterwheel irrigation, you have to have artificial waterwheels. Yields can be increased by changing improved varieties or even introducing new crops, but it depends on the merchants. In short, the relationship between agriculture and non-agriculture is not diametrically different. Rather, they affect each other. In the world of the ancients, the Song and Ming dynasties were able to accommodate hundreds of millions of people, because the living space dependent on agriculture was still vast enough.

But in the long run, people will always have to grow, which is a huge problem, even if Yinghua is grabbing land overseas. If there is a limited amount of land suitable for farming, so will the farmers who can cultivate it. What happens when agriculture can no longer accommodate the extra population?

Since ancient times. The collapse of society is not a lack of food, but the annexation of land, the inability of the state to adjust, the inability of too many people to live, and the collapse of the government.

Duan Hongshi believes that the solution is to press money deeper into every strata and every corner of society, which is also the general trend of this dynasty, so that the production of fields and the consumption of manpower can be exchanged for money as much as possible.

On this basis, this life is completely different from the past.

"Money can be counted, and if all the land and manpower are exchanged for money, the property of the world can be counted. And the substitution of money for the past forced labor can also be consumed several times in the world. In this way, the world's property and manpower exchanges can be counted several times, and there is no longer the confusion of ignorance in the world. ”

This is also a basic principle of the Heavenly Dao Theory, that everything must be measured by numbers, so that we can know the nature of this thing, and then we can use it effectively.

The second advantage of money is more crucial, money is a thing that is exclusive to trading, not only grain can be exchanged for money, but everything that people need, it can be traded through money, including human wisdom and human labor. As long as you are willing to pay, it will definitely give you a return, the difference is only how much you can trade. Since it is a transaction, as long as you have money, you can exchange anything.

Because of money and because of money transactions, not only can accommodate more non-agricultural people, but also change the foundation of the rule of the ancients. In the world of the ancients, there were "human head towers" piled up by personal attachment, and in today's world, because you can rely on intelligence and labor to exchange for money, and then money can be exchanged for livelihood needs. Since then, people no longer have to be attached to another person, and there is no longer a master-slave relationship between people, but mutual exchange, that is, transaction.

This money and the transaction of money, Duan Hongshi is compared to a lion, corresponding to a fierce tiger like a country.

Great Britain took advantage of the general trend of silver to gather in China from all over the world, and pressed money downward, which was manifested in supporting the financial industry, vigorously promoting industry and commerce, and ensuring their interests, so that the foundation of the country changed from a food-based system to a money-based system. To put it bluntly, feed the lion and let it grow up to be able to compete with the tiger.

Duan Hongshi emphasized that although the lion of money has reformed the old world, there are advantages and disadvantages, and it is equally violent. Just because money can be exchanged for all things, people's hearts are easily tempted by it and lose their bottom limit, so the world will continue to be troubled.

At this time, we revisited the old theory, if we want to break the personal oppression of the tiger of the state, we have to rely on the lion of money, but to restrain the lion, we have to rely on the big tiger of the country. The two fight each other, but they fight without breaking.

But unlike before, Duan Hongshi has a detailed description of this "fighting but not breaking", which makes Li Kezai feel quite fresh.

"This dynasty is in the way of heaven, the heart of the people, and the union of heaven and man is in the law, and the law is the Taoist system of this dynasty. When lions and tigers compete, they must fight around the power of the law, the law and the judgment, so that the national body can not be broken. ”

"The view of the present dynasty is in the three things of the law. The system is not complete, the economy is not practiced, and the political structure of the east and west courts, legal departments and temples. There are still ungood places, and how to gather and disperse is a major event that shakes the foundation of a country. ”

Duan Hongshi was still very worried about the structure of imperial power, legal power, and bureaucratic power, believing that the current system was still very imperfect, and he did not know when there would be an uncontrollable mess, and even affect the future of a country.

Seeing this, Luzon is in chaos. Zhou Ning's battle with the magistrate, and even seeing that Xue Xue and Chen Wance seemed to be in discord before, all the incidents came to Li Kezai's heart, making him suddenly feel that what Duan Hongshi said was not a matter of the future, and now it seemed that there were signs.

Halfway through the book, there are still a lot of analysis and comments on "this world, money-oriented", but Li Kezai's mind is already confused. I can't take it anymore. My mind was full of distracting thoughts, tossing and turning, and I didn't close my eyes until midnight.

Probably just fell asleep. was awakened, listening to the chaotic footsteps of the palace, and his heart sank like a piece of lead.

On the twenty-fifth day of the ninth month of the nineteenth year of the Holy Word, three o'clock in the morning. "Yingji Tianshi" is 3:50 in the morning, and Duan Hongshi passed away at the age of 85.

"Your old master, my teacher...... Let's go. ”

In the imperial study of the palace, Li Kezai talked with his father alone, and saw that his father's eyes were red and swollen.

"When you are in the afternoon. The old master raised three fingers and said that he still had three unfulfilled wishes. ”

His father looked for him. Obviously to explain why he had to take him to meet with the old master before, Li Kezai didn't dare to interject, so he listened quietly.

"The first case is to clear the Tartars and return to the homeland."

Thinking of the ten years he had vaguely heard, Li Kezai understood that it was a promise made by his father to the old master.

"The second is the inheritance of the old master in the Duan family...... It's not Keming, it's Keming's future son. ”

Li Kezaiben was also startled, thinking that the second brother was going to change his surname to Duan, but he was relieved when he heard this.

"Third, have you read the old master's book?"

The father then asked, Li Kezai nodded quickly, and said in his heart that it was okay to read it just now, but he didn't finish it.

"So, what do you think about Zhou Ning's matter?"

Father suddenly came to such a sentence, Li Kezai's mind was a little confused, and he subconsciously felt that he should not accept the accusation, and he should not promise to sue on his behalf.

But thinking of the singing in the Heavenly Temple, the focused expression of the little Heavenly Maiden, Li Kezai gradually regained his courage, since it was wrong, it should be corrected! Isn't that what my mother has always taught herself?

Li Kezai puffed up his heart and said: "My son thinks that if there is a mistake, he will be punished!" The guilty will be prosecuted! ”

There was silence in the imperial study for a while, and then the father changed the topic thoughtlessly: "The third matter, the old master asks the prince to ......"

Li Kezai's brain exploded as soon as he busted, he was mentally prepared to hear this, but he himself was very afraid of it. It's not that he's afraid of any cruel battle for the throne, but he feels that he is not the material to be an emperor at all, especially since his father sat on the dragon chair so brilliant and sacred, and no one deserved to sit down.

My father is the founding emperor, not a simple founding emperor, the old master's "New Three Generations" makes it very clear that he is the emperor of the new world. And in the mouths of the old Yiming Dao, who passed away before, and the leaders of the Heavenly Temple of Xu Lingti and Ye Chonglou, Dad was privately said to be a saint alongside Lao Zhuang Kong Mengmo Zhai, and he was the last saint.

Not only is his name and prestige higher than that of the emperors of the previous dynasties, but the authority of his own father is also heavier than that of the emperors of the previous dynasties. Don't look at the righteousness of the father is not the monarch's father, but in terms of real power, his father created the emperor's direct leadership of the army, law, money and food and foreign affairs and other powers, although now all the piles are thrown out, but no emperor can be like his father, saying who to fight, saying how many troops to raise, no courtier has the right to squeak.

Of course, Daddy, the emperor, has very little internal power, he can't stretch out his hand to the treasury, he can't say that he will kill whoever he wants, and even how much tax he collects, he has to discuss it with the East and West Houses......

Speaking of meritorious deeds, the prosperous era of the Tatar Qing Dynasty rose up, and he stood firm in a few years, angry with Kangxi, and forced Yongzheng to "die", and now Qianlong is still supported by his father.

Not to mention the outside world, defeating Spain, including Luzon and even Nanyang, and gaining a million miles of land in Nanzhou, and even Dongzhou occupying a foot. Now it is open on all sides, except for the hometown of Taqing and the Western Regions, all of them are fighting for foreign lands that China has not set foot in for thousands of years.

Yu Jun, the dragon flag flutters all over the ocean, and the red clothes shake the rivers and mountains.

For the people, every family has a livelihood, food and clothing is a shame, and it is not rare to be rich, and there are hands and hearts.

Yu Shi, the temple is solid, the school is loud, and tens of thousands of wild travelers are all in the hometown.

There are too many to mention...... In Li Kezai's heart, the image of his father is the double-body dragon flag, if he is not a prince, just an ordinary naval lieutenant, he is full of thoughts and fights for this flag, and he will not regret even if he dies.

Although his father has not been too straightforward about himself since he was a child, he is always kind and gentle, but the majesty of the emperor and even the saint is contained in the family affection, and the older Li Kezai gets, the heavier he feels this coercion.

Do you want him to take over his father's position? How could he possibly do a good job!? At that time, the Chinese people will be afraid that they will say, alas...... Is this what His Majesty's son looks like? It's disappointing.

Yes, I am afraid of disappointing the countrymen, I am afraid that the old master who has now arrived in Huangquan will be disappointed, I am afraid that my father who will also go to accompany the old master in the future will be disappointed, and I am afraid that my mother who is almost doting on me will be disappointed.

So Li Kezai has always resisted the arrival of this day, he ...... Suffering from "Prince Allergy".

Because of this fear, his face was covered with sweat, and he subconsciously wanted to excuse himself, and at the same time, he also thought that according to the ancient etiquette, he must also make a resignation. Unexpectedly, the father said: "Of course, Lao Tzu's responsibility has to be borne by his son, you are the biggest one, you have loved martial arts since you were a child, and you have the heart of a martial artist, except for you, who else can carry it?" ”

This is a bit incomprehensible, what does the heart of the warrior have to do with the prince and the future dragon chair?

Li Kezai was in a trance, but as soon as his father changed his attitude of telling things through in the past, he waved his hand to signal that the matter could not be changed, and drove him away.

"I didn't want to do it so early, but the teacher couldn't hold on for a few more years, so he could only pull his son out to block the gun first, which is not what I want."

Seeing his son retreat in a daze, Li Xi let out a deep sigh, old man, old man, why did you just leave...... We still have a lot of things to discuss together.

In the night breeze, Li Shi sat buried, hiding his face with his hands, for more than 20 years, the time spent walking hand in hand with his cheap master flowed in his heart, and unconsciously, tears slipped down his cheeks.