Chapter 557: Whose Fault Is This

Coming out of the Forbidden City, looking at the endless flow of people outside, as well as the vehicles coming and going on the street, and the high-rise buildings in the distance, Qianlong was a little shocked.

It's hard not to be shocked, it's hard for you to imagine what it's like for an ancient person to suddenly come to such a modern point, just like Qin Mubai returned to the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago, in fact, it's the same, there are too many things beyond your original imagination.

"When I was in it just now, I thought that the current capital city was similar to what I was back then, but the gap is too big, it's just the difference between heaven and earth, how much does it cost to build the entire city like this?" Qianlong said with a shocked face.

Qin Mubai smiled, how much does it cost? If you simply invest in it, it is estimated that it will take a few years for China to add up its GDP to the current state.

In fact, the reason why these places can be developed is because the money is constantly circulating, although the money is collected by the state, it is returned to the people, and then the money in the hands of ordinary people is returned to the state through various means.

It is in the process of such a cycle that cities rise from the ground, and the country is getting richer and richer, and the lives of ordinary people are getting richer and richer, which is the charm of money. In other words, this is the charm of a perfect money system, which can play good finance and do a lot of things.

Sometimes things are so simple to put it bluntly, but if it weren't for the experience summed up by countless people, you just can't imagine that in fact, such a system can be played in any era, even if you go back to the Qin Dynasty, the Han Dynasty, and the Three Kingdoms period.

It's just that if you don't think of that solution, then I'm afraid there will be only one result, the money will become less and less, and the country will even get poorer and poorer, because too many people have saved their money and not let it circulate.

"I can only say a lot, but certainly less than you think. Qin Mubai smiled and said.

"Is it? According to the time, how many years has it been since the fall of the Qing Dynasty?" Qianlong thought for a while, and then asked directly.

Qin Mubai glanced at Qianlong's expression, very calm, obviously the other party also knew that it was definitely not the Qing Dynasty now. When the Qing Dynasty fell, Qin Mubai didn't bother to think about it, so he simply took an integer time point in 1900 years.

"That's probably more than 110 years. Qin Mubai thought for a while and said.

"More than a hundred years? So, when the Qing Dynasty fell, it was already very powerful?" asked Qianlong with immediate interest.

"No, you're wrong, when the Qing Dynasty fell, it was not much different from your period, I should say...... It's not even as good as you were when you were there. Qin Mubai said lightly, the decay of the Qing Dynasty has created the current situation in China to a certain extent, if it is not the Qing Dynasty, the situation of the Ming Dynasty has developed, even if it is controlled by those literati Qingliu, Qin Mubai feels that it is much stronger than the state of the Qing Dynasty.

"How is it possible?!How many years did my Qing Dynasty last?" Qianlong was a little shocked.

"More than 300 years, not a short time, in fact, we are now just more than 200 years away from your death. Qin Mubai said softly. Some of what Qin Mubai said was not too straightforward, for example, the Qing Dynasty can be said to be the most corrupt three hundred years, even the Kangxi period.

In fact, the Qing Dynasty ruled for 300 years, compared with the Ming Dynasty, has there been any progress? No, 300 years, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were already firearms, and the use of firearms was quite clever, but at the end of the Qing Dynasty...... It is not even as good as the firearms of the Ming Dynasty, and it can only be said that there has been a slight improvement.

Of course, was the Ming Dynasty technologically advanced? Not advanced? How to say it, if you have to say whose pot it is, Qin Mubai feels that this pot is set by Confucianism.

Of course, it was not the Confucianism of Confucius, but the Confucianism that the literati later developed in order to maintain their literary status.

In fact, to put it bluntly, the Chinese are too smart, this is true, because the Chinese are too smart, so smart that many times, those ruling classes can clearly see the development of some things, but they have considered the consequences, but for their own ruling class, it can be said that they still do that.

Can you say that Zhu Xi was completely wrong? No, because in Zhu Xi's time, his idea of loyalty to the monarch was right, and some of his theories, from a simple point of view, really cannot be regarded as wrong, at least in many respects they are the same as some of the ideas of Buddhism.

But can you say that Zhu Xi is right? No, it can be said that the theory put forward by Zhu Xi then made the scholars behind them come up with a new trick, and it can also be said that these literati began to fear their own thinking after the overthrow of this class, so the knowledge of the whole society, and it can also be said that the people's wisdom is after these literati class, and how bold did the literati in that era have to be to overthrow Confucianism?

Throughout the Qing and Qing dynasties, have there ever been people who have thought about developing in agriculture, arithmetic, and physics? Yes, and there are quite a few of them, but these people are also from Confucianism, and at that time, the entire Confucian doctrine was subjected to a great current, and if you dare to violate this great current, the result will be broken bones.

There are many people who see the shortcomings, but these people who see the shortcomings cannot control the main power of the state, and the result is that they will either be crushed to pieces, or they will go with the flow and have no choice but to accept their fate.

To use an analogy, the Holy See in the West burned Galileo and these people, but they were only wiped out from the flesh, but the truth still exists. So if those people in China who try to sort out the things and arithmetic are compared to the Galileo of the West, then who is the Holy See in China?

That's right, it was those literati schools of the time who played Confucianism out of tricks and played to new heights. Without bragging, the Holy See is like a violent executioner, but the methods are too vulgar to resist people's fears, especially if you can't suppress those scientists in your mind.

However, these cultural hooligans in China play a higher end, and it is not possible to physically eliminate you, but to fundamentally eliminate you ideologically, these cultural hooligans play high-end. To put it bluntly, people like Galileo were burned to death, but his relatives, friends, students, teachers, like-minded people will not be afraid of his death, but will be resentful in their hearts.

But these literati in China can play and make your reputation unable to gain a foothold in your own family, among your relatives, friends, teachers and students. In particular, some of the things that these literati did for their own reputation are hard for you to imagine.

To put it bluntly, they are all brainwashed people, and the ruling class needs this kind of people, so they hit it off. In such a situation, these people who play science have no way out at all.

Fang Xiaoru killed his own 10 clans for the sake of his own reputation! What is the concept of the 10 clans? In history, there were many people who were punished by the 9 clans, but this was the first in history to punish the 10 clans, and he achieved his own reputation and killed his own family members. And the person who gave the order was Zhu Di, but Zhu Di hated him, so he killed his ten clans, but Zhu Di knew it very well in his heart.

Such a person is beneficial to the rule of the royal family, so Zhu Di left his last words after his death, and when he died, he could rehabilitate Fang Xiaoru. He killed it with his own hands, and his last words were also left by him, because Zhu Di knew that the royal family needed someone like Fang Xiaoru.

All his relatives and friends, every time they caught one, they killed one in front of him, but he could be calm and calm on his face. From this point, it can be seen how perverted this literati school education was in that era, and it is no exaggeration to say that it is no different from some religious madmen.

But can you say that Confucianism is wrong? No, no. Because from the perspective of justice, fairness, and openness, some of the doctrines and philosophical ideas in Confucianism are actually not wrong, and many of them are still very correct three views, but what is wrong is the thinking imposed on this doctrine by those who understand it and study it.

In fact, going around and around, the words came back to life, it can only be said that the Chinese are too smart, smart enough to play a hundred schools of thought more than 2,000 years ago, if the hundred schools of thought were put in the era of the Ming Dynasty, then how science and technology progressed, it is really uncertain.

"Why did I not make any progress in the Qing Dynasty for more than 200 years, but it could develop to this point in the next 100 years?" Qianlong was a little puzzled.

"Because you, as a ruling class, do not regard the Manchus and Han as a family, or simply say, you do not regard the ethnic minorities of the whole country as a family, you regard the Manchus as the ruling class, then you have to think about your entire ruling class, in order to prevent the people below from rebelling, then you can only eliminate some budding ideas among the people, and when these ideas are eliminated, science and technology will not progress. Qin Mubai said lightly.

"When science and technology will not advance, the demise of the country is a matter of time, there is an old Chinese saying that the rich are not more than three generations, you can't guarantee that every emperor is a Ming monarch, and you can't guarantee that those who are in power will not be corrupted, if this situation continues, the rebellion is inevitable. ”

"He Shen's family property can exceed the treasury of the Qing Dynasty, and you can know what the whole world is like. ”

Qianlong immediately fell silent, and after a long time, he asked, "You mean, He Shen's family property is more than the treasury of the Qing Dynasty?"

"Don't you know? I thought you left your son to raid his house in order to give him prestige. Qin Mubai asked rhetorically.

"I knew he was corrupt, but I never thought he could be so greedy. Qianlong sighed.

PS: I went to the hospital today, plus there was something wrong, I came back late, and I will watch three more tomorrow.