Chapter 703: Our Cause

A group of young people worked and called a mali, first divided the labor, and then pedaled the bicycle and went out. Every morning, I go to the office to report, and then I start to go out to work, and I have a weekly summary meeting to find and find out the shortcomings in my work. At the end of the month, Chen Xie appeared and held a summary meeting at the end of the month. Chen Zilong really didn't care much about this young man's ability at first, and at the end of the month, he was shouted by Chen Xie into the conference room together.

Chen Xie's daily office is in Songjiang Mansion, and the outside is the bustling world, Chen Zilong doesn't think that these young people can resist all kinds of temptations, nor do they think that they can do things seriously, and even think that Chen Xie is a little rash to let a group of young relatives be in charge of this matter.

Having an idea in your heart does not mean that you have to say it immediately, the mentality of the superior Chen Zilong is not difficult to grasp, it is nothing more than waiting for the matter to come out, and he is persuading him, so as not to lose face. Following Chen Xie, Chen Zilong looked indifferent and decided to listen with his ears.

The young man in charge of this research work is not yet thirty years old, and his name is Li Ping, one of the orphans adopted by Chen Xie. These people are a group of people under Chen Xie who can really do things and have high loyalty. More than 30 people sat down at the round table, all with straight waists, these people were semi-military education back then, because of the high cultural level, Chen Xie was not willing to throw them into the army.

Seeing Chen Xie coming in, everyone stood up neatly, waited for Chen Xie to sit down, raised his hand, and then sat down together. has a bit of a soldier's demeanor, but it is Chen Xie, a female secretary on the left, and Chen Zilong on the right, smiling and not looking like a commander, after all, he is not an army.

With the beginning of the summary meeting, Chen Zilong couldn't calm down. These young people have really been serious about their work in the past month. One, two, three, four, five, ......, all kinds of situations are reported one by one, all of which have been summarized in the past month. Then who found out about the situation, who stood up and carefully explained it clearly, and then came up with a corresponding reasonable disposition of the building. Thirty-one people in the making. No one is like that. They were divided into several groups, and after Li Ping, who was in charge, finished reporting, the team leader stood up to report, and then the team members. This order is not chaotic at all, things are clearly understood, and those who have not been clarified must also say that further investigation is needed.

Soon, several of the most prominent problems were placed in front of everyone, the conflict between clan education and compulsory education, the wealth of the south of the Yangtze River, and the strong clan power of the people. Basically, every village has a private school. In the process of propaganda of compulsory education, there was a fierce conflict with it, and this conflict became more and more obvious after the opening of the school. In large families, the children sent to compulsory education to study are basically children who are side branches and concubines, and have a low status in the family. This is still for the sake of tuition-free. It is even more difficult to implement the article that women study voluntarily. The women of the Ming Dynasty were at home as an appendage of the parents. It is very normal to sell children and daughters, and there is nothing voluntary or involuntary. Even if you don't have tuition. There are few families who are willing to provide their daughters with education, so it is better to marry early, or send them to a large family to be a maid. These issues may seem to have little to do with Project Hope, but they are actually closely related. For those poor households in need of help, many of them are worse than Luo Qi, and some of them still owe usury that they can't pay back in their lifetime. How can there be money for children to study.

Difficult families have their own circumstances, and some families are reluctant to spend money on books even if they can support their children's education. The male baby is still like this, let alone the female baby. This is why the girls' school in Songjiang Prefecture has only accepted 30 students so far. These are all female dolls from large families.

"At present, the most urgent problem of the Hope Project is to solve the problem of usury in rural areas. What kind of profit, donkey rolling, borrowing money once has to be repaid for a lifetime, and future generations have to follow behind to pay it back. When we were in Dengzhou, these problems were basically solved, and we had ready-made experience to learn from. If we do not solve the problem of the survival pressure of low-level peasants, it is just empty talk to promote compulsory education in Jiangnan and even in the whole country. According to the results of a month's investigation, the working group is eager to use the power of the government to cut off this cancer that has existed in the vast rural areas for a long time. ”

Li Ping's report concluded that the first knife fell on the clan and the people's usury. It is believed that these two phenomena hinder the promotion of compulsory education and the improvement of people's livelihood at the grassroots level.

Compared with the urgent problem to be solved, the secondary problem is actually very urgent, that is, the phenomenon of human trafficking among the people. Dividing people into various attributes and being lifelong is a malpractice of feudal dynasties since ancient times. One of the most typical is the lowly nationality. The Ming Dynasty also has the characteristics of artisan households, military households, doctors, yin and yang, etc., and the household registration of such people belongs to the lifelong system, and the children and grandchildren must continue.

Compulsory education is difficult to play a role in the face of this type of people. It's not that you don't want your children to study, but even if you are successful in studying, you have to come back to do these jobs, and you are destined to have a career for them.

When Chen Xie was in Dengzhou, this problem was very prominent, and the response at that time was to improve the living conditions of these people, and the outstanding ones were relieved of the nationality of the craftsmen and given to a petty official. In Liaodong, Chen Xie is downplayed, as if these household registration systems do not exist. In Nanyang, Chen Xie directly abolished these systems. However, in the south of the Yangtze River, these systems still exist, and even when the treatment of craftsmen is greatly improved, it still cannot solve their low social status.

To be honest, Chen Zilong frightened these young people, because the questions they asked were actually always there, and they were very sharp. The artisan system of the Ming Dynasty has been improved, but the craftsman status has not changed, the essence has not changed, and nothing else has changed. There is also the problem of untouchables, "stinky and insulting" This is the positioning of lowly status, and it is not the same positioning of a dynasty. It can be said that in the entire Ming Dynasty, except for Chen Xie, no one will care about their life or death. By the way, these two hukou systems were abolished in the Qing Dynasty.

As for the issue of clan rights and usury, in Chen Zilong's opinion, it is not so exciting. The problems raised by the young people, as well as the solutions to them, completely suppressed Chen Zilong.

"Strengthening the building of the township power institutions, cracking down on the weakening of the rights of the clans and the gentry, and eliminating the evil habit of usury need to be made clear in the law. Because the time to achieve it may be relatively long, it is even more urgent. We agree that the hukou system can be changed more quickly, so it is a secondary issue. Li Ping finally made a summary statement, and every word smashed into Chen Zilong's heart. His family is a big landowner, and there is usury in the family, and buying and selling human beings is even more common. All in all, why are the people of the Ming Dynasty called grass people, human life is as worthless as grass mustard.

Chen Zilong couldn't have imagined that things would evolve like this, on the surface, it seemed to be an integral part of compulsory education, and after the results of this survey came out, it became a discussion and criticism of the low-level system of the Ming Dynasty. What does Chen Xie want to do? Chen Zilong was no longer shocked at the venue, but frightened!

"You've done a great job, and your findings are a testament to the diversity and complexity of society. In the process of practical work, learn to use dialectical methods to look at practical problems, and find ways to solve practical problems. I still say that any social problem cannot be simply viewed, because people are thinking and live in the midst of people. In the actual work, we must bring ideals and enthusiasm, but in the actual operation process, we must be calm and rational. There are many problems in the Ming Dynasty, and it is impossible to solve them all at once, and we must devote our limited lives to unlimited causes. In the future, when we face death, we will not be ashamed of doing nothing, and we can say without shame that our whole life has been working hard for the prosperity and strength of China and the progress of the nation. Chen Xie said such a thing at the last moment.

This is a big vernacular, in Chen Zilong's opinion, there is no word to speak of, but it is this big vernacular, but it is in his mind, like Hong Zhong Da Lu, deafening.

"Our cause must be realized, and our cause must be realized. 10,000 years is too long, seize the day! Chen Xie's conclusion, combined with a strong and powerful gesture, is as powerful as a rainbow. The venue immediately burst into applause and lasted for a long time.

After the meeting ended, the ignorant Chen Zilong returned to his office and remained stunned for a long time. It wasn't until the entourage sent the official document that he pulled out of his sluggishness. Chen Xie didn't say much at the meeting, just a short remark, but he depicted another world in Chen Zilong's mind. It belongs to Chen Xie's world and Chen Xie's career.

A group of people led by Chen Xie, what they did was incompatible with the Ming tradition, they had different moral value systems, and they had more definite goals. They work hard, they are energetic, they belong to another world.

Every word Chen Xie said was constantly repeated in Chen Zilong's mind, and finally swept away many chronic diseases in Chen Zilong's heart, making him irrepressibly excited and excited. finally chose to stand up and walked briskly to Chen Xie's office.

"Cabinet, can you count me in your career?" Chen Zilong asked in a trembling voice, Chen Xie stood up, smiled, held his hands and said, "Welcome!" In the future, please do not call me the cabinet, but call me comrade. Because we are all comrades from all over the world who are working hard for the same goal. ”

Later, Chen Zilong learned that Chen Xie had an organization in private, and this organization was called the "Renaissance Party". Gentlemen are not parties! Chen Xie is running a party, which is contrary to the teachings of the sage, but Chen Zilong does not feel this way at all. In the past, the practice of keeping oneself clean and retiring when the dynasty was sluggish was included in Chen Xie's weak and compromising team. (To be continued......) R1292