Chapter 337: National Awakening
"Brother Huang is capable of defeating 50,000 elite cavalry with only 5,000 infantry in Dushikou, and it is a great victory, dare to lead 3,000 troops to sweep the grassland, directly defeat the little prince's camp, and capture tens of thousands!
This is the military industry, the power of industry! And industry depends on craftsmen! There are living examples in front of your Aiqing, and you Aiqing still dare to look down on craftsmen?
If Daming can't be ahead of the world, then when the West or the industry on the grassland rises, can I Daming only watch my door be blasted open by strong ships and cannons?
Watching the tragedy of more than 200 years ago continue to befall the head of the Han nation?
Don't think that I am alarmist, my knowledge is indeed not as profound as your Aiqing, but I see the long-term better than you, my eyes have never been only on one acre and three points of land in the Ming Dynasty, I am looking at the real world! ”
"Ministers are taught." Yang Yiqing led the way, any hot air balloon can take people into the sky, the emperor proved himself with reality, if they still want to question, it can really only be said to be stupid.
Although they still didn't quite believe in the iron cart that could run all over the ground, and they couldn't accept that steel could break the waves on the sea, they didn't dare to blatantly doubt it, lest they be slapped in the face again.
"You Aiqing have always had a lot of complaints about the world of my Xingxue, and even once worried that my Xingxue Society would not threaten the Confucian Taoism, and if it did, maybe it would be a game of death with me.
The purpose of our study is not how many scholars can be born in this world, but to let Daming have more professionalism and talents who can contribute in various fields.
Confucianism reads the Four Books and Five Classics, can do first-hand moral articles, and can manage government affairs, but too many officials in this world can only be officials but cannot be officials.
For example, if you don't understand the economy, but you are in charge of tax collection, and you are deceived by the officials of various government offices without knowing it, you don't understand the law, and you haven't even read the "Da Ming Law" seriously, but you expect them to judge the case, how ridiculous it is.
The new scholars I have cultivated, even if they do not take the path of the imperial examination, can go into various yamen, share the worries of officials who do not understand economics and law, and become masters or officials.
This is only good for Confucian officials to govern, but the Manchu Dynasty is suspicious of my ulterior motives, don't I want to make the Ming Dynasty rich and prosperous, I don't want to see the Ming Dynasty's world and the people are safe, don't I want the Ming Dynasty to inherit the future, the country is rich and the people are strong?
Could it be that I have enough to eat, and I have to spend tens of thousands of taels of silver to go to school in the world?
Do you know what is the deep-seated reason for the study?
It's because I don't want to fool the people, and the price of fooling the people, I can't afford it, the Ming Dynasty can't afford it, and the Chinese nation can't afford it, what I want is the awakening of the nation!
More than 300 years ago, the Jin people occupied the Central Plains, more than 200 years ago, the iron hooves of the Mongols raged on the land of China, and the Chinese nation was almost dug up in a battle of Yashan!
The conquered Chinese nation trembled under the obscenity of the alien race, and the people were treated as pigs and dogs, but they still obeyed it, why is this so?
Why did the people themselves dare not resist when they were humiliated, and why could the scholars kneel at the feet of aliens in the Yuan court in exchange for the insignificant so-called glory and wealth.
Forget your ancestors, nothing more than this! The reason for this is that whether they are scholars or ordinary people, they have no sense of national honor, and their belief in the nation has not yet awakened, and for them it is nothing more than a change of master.
The most important thing is not to let the people of the world read the book of death, but to let them understand what loyalty, filial piety and righteousness are, and to ask the people to engrave the four words of loyalty and patriotism into their bones, in order to awaken the sense of national honor of all the people in the world.
It is to make the people of the Ming Dynasty proud of being the Ming people, to make them proud of their identity as the people of China, and to make their blood boil in the face of foreign conquests, rather than being willing to be obedient people.
In this way, even if one day the Ming Dynasty failed to escape the fate of the dynasty, and finally irreversibly went to extinction, if it was a foreign race that destroyed the Ming Dynasty, then I hope that the Chinese people can sacrifice their lives and forget their deaths and rise up to resist, instead of being a wagging tail and begging dog under the hooves and guns of the alien race! ”
The hearts of the eight important ministers were extremely shocked, and the four words of deafening and deafening seemed to be enough to describe what the emperor said.
National Awakening!
The four words were like a thunderbolt blowing up the sky of the Ming Dynasty, which reminded them involuntarily of the Wuhu Rebellion period, when the Han people in the north were slaughtered and eaten as two-legged sheep, there was not much resistance.
They remembered Yashan more than 200 years ago, when 100,000 soldiers and civilians jumped into the sea and died on that vast sea, but when the Yuan court completely ruled this land, how many Confucian ministers still chose to be obedient ministers of the Yuan court......
However, what the eight people couldn't figure out was that the current Ming Dynasty was strong enough, and the northern border was worry-free, what kind of enemy could make Emperor Jiajing have such a sense of distress, as if he saw the future.
It's true to have a long-term vision, but how can it be so long-term?
Could it be that the West that the emperor said in his mouth really gave birth to a powerful nation, and it can still pose a threat to the Ming Dynasty?
How is that possible, unbelievable.
Zhu Houwei's eyes looked at Wang Qiong and said: "Wang Aiqing's visit this time is nothing more than a resignation, and the reason for his resignation is that he thinks that the authority of the Ministry of War has been taken back by me, making the Ministry of War seem dispensable, but this is my negligence, in order to reform the military system and realize the road to strengthening the army, I ignored the feelings of the Ministry of War and Wang Aiqing."
"The old minister is terrified." Wang Qiong hurriedly spoke.
Zhu Houwei shook his head and said: "Wang Aiqing didn't realize my good intentions, Aiqing, as the secretary of the Ministry of War, naturally knew how much the Ming army's army had been eroded before the reorganization of the forbidden army.
The garrison has long been eroded, the land of the garrison has become the private land of local generals, and the soldiers have become tenant farmers of the generals.
Let them fight the Japanese to exterminate the bandits, it is really useless, Taizu's original intention to build guards in various places is not to spend the money of the imperial court to let the Ming have a million male soldiers.
But what about the facts? The truth is not the case at all, is the land of the guard not silver after collecting taxes? How much land does the world own? How much tax does the imperial court lose each year? How many elite soldiers can be raised by these taxes?
In my eyes, the Ming Dynasty's troops were even inferior to the Song Dynasty's Xiang Army, and it was one of the biggest malpractices in the Ming Dynasty! ”
"One?" Yang Yiqing chuckled in his heart and asked, "Dare to ask Your Majesty, what are the other major malpractices?"
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