Chapter 13 Foothold 1
86_86695 Wang Shuhui's understanding of politics is very vague. Although sociology is the study of human relations, when it comes to political issues, the theorems and laws that can be embodied in the majority of people immediately do not work. It can be seen that politics is a kind of perverted relationship between people.
In the eyes of modern people, what is the biggest difference between ancient and modern? Wang Shuhui believes that the biggest difference between the productive forces and the level of production relations is that the relationship between people is absolutely unequal. Although people are also unequal in modern society, that inequality is, after all, the economic and political inequality hidden under the social consensus that everyone is equal.
In ancient social environments, once the inequality between people was linked to the government, this inequality would immediately be infinitely expanded.
When Wang Shuhui was in modern society, he was very disgusted with some cumbersome face etiquette issues. When facing the ancients, cumbersome etiquette is an inevitable thing. In the past few days, in the process of communicating with several maternal uncles, their various etiquette rules have made Wang Shuhui feel very headache, if he goes to the county yamen to deal with those ancient officials, Wang Shuhui really doesn't know what to do. The most important point is that as an ancient black household without the identity of a scholar, if he meets the county magistrate of Zhijiang County and various officials, Zhu Youzi, who is different from the royal identity, Wang Shuhui must also kneel and salute, which Wang Shuhui does not want to face at present.
In fact, Wang Shuhui doesn't think kneeling is a big deal. In his opinion, modern people will not become nobler and more dignified because they do not kneel. When it comes to the issue of interests, anyone's knees are also very soft. If you kneel, you can get an official hat, and if you kneel, you can get a red ticket. No matter who it is, whether it is a man or a woman, young or old, high or low, there will be no hesitation when kneeling.
In fact, modern people are absolutely a million times stricter than ancient people because of their unscrupulous means because of their interests. Purely from a narrow point of view, there were people like Liang Hongyu in the entertainment industry in ancient times, but in modern society, there is absolutely no such entertainment figures. To be honest, in ancient Chinese society, because of the backwardness of the productive forces, the social system that maintained social stability was not perfect, and it was necessary to supplement the social management system of ancient society with a moral system that was recognized by most members of society. From a moral point of view, the ancient Chinese were much more moral than the modern Chinese.
Wang Shuhui's question is not that he doesn't want to kneel, but who to kneel. Like other traversers, he can also choose to bow to the ancient society and bow to the ancient people. However, Wang Shuhui is not another time-traveler. When he came to the end of the Ming Dynasty, he did not want to revive feudalism and maintain China on the old path of feudalism. His aim was not just to simply pass guò his own knowledge and cross the golden finger to re-establish an old-fashioned feudal China. For Wang Shuhui, the Ming Dynasty didn't even need Wang Shuhui's contribution, and it would soon be doomed by itself. The peasant army led by Li Zicheng and the Manchu invaders led by Huang Taihe, although it was said that there would be some troubles in destroying them, but in Wang Shuhui's view, it was just some troubles.
What Wang Shuhui wants to do is to fundamentally change the entire Chinese society and eliminate feudalism at the root and the existence of people and strata dependent on feudalism in China. In a certain way, he wanted to personally initiate a Chinese-style Spring and Autumn Retro and Warring States controversy in China at the end of the Ming Dynasty. This revolution amounted to a composite of the Renaissance and the May Fourth Movement. This is the truest goal and ideal in Wang Shuhui's heart.
Therefore, in this case, Wang Shuhui could not kneel down to the bureaucrats of the late Ming Dynasty, who represented the decadent and degenerate feudal landlord class, and to the representatives of the backward forces that would be completely eliminated in his future plan, both physically and mentally.
In Wang Shuhui's plan, there was no kneeling to the feudal bureaucracy at all. He believed that as long as he mastered a large amount of land resources and popularized high-yield crops, he could gather and train four or five thousand soldiers of modern standards. Then, he will become a landlord in the late Ming Dynasty who can kneel to no one and be strong. And in the forty-eighth year of Wanli to the fourth year of the Apocalypse, in these five years, Wang Shuhui thought that it was not very difficult to complete such a task.
Although Wang Shuhui was not ready to go to the Zhijiang County Yamen with Zhu Youzi to do things, he still made full preparations for Zhu Youzi's trip to the Zhijiang County Yamen. Wang Shuhui's view of the beauty of the incense car is deep-rooted, so he customizes several iron-welded four-wheeled carriages with steering parts from a small processing factory on the outskirts of modern society. From the outside, several four-wheeled carriages are all made of steel, with plywood on the outside, and the plywood is covered with artificial leather. The carriage comes with a flexible steering mechanism, a stable spring steel shock system, and lightweight rubber wheels. These carriages are completely different from the ordinary two-wheeled carriages of the late Ming Dynasty, and they are thoroughly manufactured products of the 21st century.
Zhu Youzi didn't think about the question of where such carriages came from at all, but kept complaining about why Wang Shuhui didn't show him his car earlier. He didn't even notice the strange phenomenon of several carriages and not a single horse.
Zhu Youzi's entire attention was attracted by the whimsy of the carriage design. Especially in the spacious carriage, all kinds of living facilities, such as thermoses, sofas, foldable small tables and other humanized designs, made Zhu Youzi addicted.
Wang Shuhui customized a batch of silver dollars weighing one tael and with a purity of about 90 percent in modern society. Wang Shuhuitong's investigation found that in terms of purchasing power, a tael of silver in the last years of the Ming Dynasty was worth between 800 and 1,000 yuan. However, in terms of actual price, in modern society, the actual weight of one or two pieces of silver is about 37 grams, while in modern society, the actual market price of one gram of silver with a purity of 99 percent is only more than three yuan. In other words, the actual price of a tael of silver in modern society is only about 110 yuan. Therefore, in the modern society, it is common to auction antiques in exchange for silver, and then take it to ancient times to consume, except for some trouble, it will not lose money at all.
Wang Shuhui gave his uncle 100 taels of silver and asked him to buy a few big animals in Zhijiang County, whether it was horses or mules. Anyway, because of the structure and materials of the carriage, several fat dogs can pull the carriage. Some of the refugees who happened to be recruited were veterans who could drive cars, but a few people needed to get familiar with this new type of carriage.
Wang Shuhui used a large amount of cloth bought back from modern times to gather the women of the refugees and start sewing clothes. More than 200 refugees wore all their outer clothes, except for the cotton clothes and trousers inside, which Wang Shuhui had purchased from modern times. Because Wang Shuhui found that buying fabrics in modern times to making clothes in the late Ming Dynasty was obviously more economical. Wang Shuhui asked these women to make 20 sets of silky and shiny polyester cloth clothes, and selected 20 young men from among the refugees who were passable in height and appearance, and handed them over to his uncle, who is now Zhu Youzi's housekeeper, for training.
A few days later, twenty servants wearing shirts and green clothes inside, dark blue armor outside, and black ** hats, all in their twenties and thirties, and already behaving in some rules, began to train in formation on the small square in front of the gate of the palace garden that had just been leveled.
Standing in front of these twenty people, Wang Shuhui found that the dress of the ancient people was not completely outrageous. At least these twenty young people in uniform look very pleasing to the eye. It's not the weird shape that Wang Shuhui saw in modern TV dramas at all