Chapter 225: Amazing Man
Yu Ren showed a wry smile, and saw that Liang Ruji on the side had already shown a little impatient, so he hurriedly said, "That's good." Now that I do have something to talk to Mr. Liang, you will send someone to follow me. When I finish talking with Mr. Liang, I will definitely go to your house for dinner immediately. It's always okay! ”
Hou Jingru thought about it. "Good. Then I'll wait for you. After speaking, Hou Jingru asked one of his followers to follow Yu Ren, and he must invite Mr. home for dinner. After explaining to the follower, Hou Jingru happily went home to prepare.
Yu Ren showed a wry smile to Liang Ruji, "Mr. Liang, please." ”
Originally, Yu Ren wanted to invite Liang Ruji to Wang Wenyan's house to talk, but because of the interruption of waiting for Jingru halfway, the two found a nearby teahouse with a slightly remote location and opened an elegant private room. The two of them started talking in the private room.
Yu Ren has a hunch that his conversation with this person named Liang Ruji will have a significant impact on his future life. His mood at this time feels like the mood of modern men and women before the night, a little expectant and nervous.
Zhao Rui also knew that what Yu Ren was talking about with this Liang Ruji must be some apostasy and deviance, and she didn't want others to listen to it, so as not to cause unnecessary trouble, so she stood outside the door of the private room, which was regarded as a wind for them. And the subordinate sent by Hou Jingru also stood downstairs from a distance and waited.
Mr. Liang's words suddenly made me feel enlightened. My current situation is indeed as Mr. said, no worse. I just don't know what good way for Mr. Liang to save the world? ”
Liang Ruji sat in front of the window and said, "If you want to talk about the strategy of helping the world." From my point of view, the most fundamental thing is to change our current imperial system that has lasted for nearly 2,000 years. ”
Yu Ren suddenly heard Liang Ruji say such a sentence, and he was really shocked into a cold sweat. The first thought that flashed through his mind was: this guy is also a traverser. Otherwise, how could he have uttered such a sentence with obvious modern overtones.
"I want to hear about it."
That Liang Ruji picked up the tea, took a sip gently, and then said, "I don't know if Brother Yu has ever heard that more than forty years ago, there was a very famous figure in Daming. ”
"Are you talking about Zhang Juzheng?" Although Yu Ren did not study history well in the past, he made up for the history of the Ming Dynasty after he came here, and naturally knew that more than 40 years ago was when Zhang Juzheng was at the peak of his fame.
Liang Ruji shook his head. Although Zhang Juzheng is famous, it is because of his actions in officialdom. The person I'm talking about is a man of cloth who has no quality and no job, and his achievements are not in the officialdom, but in the people. ”
Yu Ren thought about it for a long time, but finally couldn't answer.
"He Xinyin! Have you ever heard of this name? ”
Yu Ren shook his head. He was telling the truth. Although he had read a lot of history books before the Ming Dynasty. But the name He Xinyin is really the first time I've heard of it.
"This He Xinyin's original name was Liang Ruyuan, and he was also a native of Ji'an, Jiangxi, and he was a disciple of Wang Xue, who belonged to the Taizhou school. He once said that the most meaningful and deviant thing he had ever done in his life was the Juhetang he founded when he was thirty years old.
Before that, he had just won the first place in the township examination in high school, and when he was about to enter the Beijing entrance examination, he happened to meet a strange person - Wang Gen. Mr. Wang Gen is the descendant of Mr. Mingyang and the founder of the Taizhou School. It is said that he used to be just a stove in a salt factory, but later learned the Tao from Mr. Mingyang, and finally did his best.
After He Xinyin met Wang Gen, he listened to several of his lectures, and was deeply moved by Mr. Wang Gen's idea that 'the people's daily life is the way', and finally decided to give up the examination and returned to his hometown to found Juhetang, which confirmed and explored the so-called 'people's daily life is the way' taught by Mr. Wang Gen with practice.
The Juhe Hall he founded brought hundreds of households into one place, and uniformly dispatched and educated them. He set up a special school in Juhe Hall, and all children over the age of six in the hall, whether rich or poor, must go to school.
For the children in these schools, he not only exempts tuition, but also provides free room and board for the children, so that adults don't have to worry about it at all.
In addition, he also took out his own thousand acres of fertile land and divided them equally among the people, who cultivated them themselves. As for the taxes handed over to the imperial court, the whole village was also collected and paid by him on his behalf.
In fact, Juhetang is like a big family, and He Xinyin is like the head of this big family. In this big family, everything is arranged and handled by He Xinyin. In this big family, there are only differences between men and women, old and young, and the division of labor, but there is no difference between the noble and the lowly. ”
Speaking of this, Liang Ruji showed a yearning look.
And Yu Ren was even more shocked, he really didn't expect that in China more than 400 years ago, communism was already being practiced. In the past, in school, didn't the teachers always teach us, that communism was introduced to China from Europe, and it was the first to arise in Europe? Why did some people in China begin to put this theory into practice more than 200 years before communism arose in Europe?
Although judging by the name, they have nothing to do with each other. But in terms of their actual goals and operating methods, they are all so similar. Did the Europeans learn communism from us, or did we learn communism from the Europeans? Yu Ren was confused.
Now, though, that's not his focus.
"And then?" Yu Ren asked, he was too interested in this Juhetang founded by He Xinyin.
"This Juhe Hall has existed for twelve years. Later, once the imperial court wanted to add Huangmu silver taels, Mr. He objected, and wrote a letter to ridicule Yongfeng Zhixian at that time. So, the magistrate sent someone to arrest Mr. He. At first, they convicted him of hanging him, but later, under the mediation of Mr. He's friends, the hanging sentence was changed to exile, and Mr. He was sent to Guizhou to fill the army.
Soon after Mr. He was assigned to Guizhou, he escaped again with the help of a friend. Since then, he has abandoned his original name: Liang Ruyuan and changed his name to He Xinyin. Since then, he has traveled the world and lectured all over the world. It wasn't until he was finally arrested by Wang Zhiyuan, the governor of Huguang, in Qimen, that he was soon quietly killed in prison. ”
Liang Ruji said this, his expression was gloomy.
Yu Ren didn't speak, and he was also very sorry for the ending of this He Xinyin. However, he was more concerned about the fate of that Juhetang.
"And then? What happened to that Juhetang? ”
Liang Ruji sighed, "Naturally, it is scattered, after Mr. He was arrested by the government, Juhetang lost its backbone, and there was no one in charge anymore, so how could it continue." ”
Yu Ren sighed lightly, although he had long expected this result, but when he heard it with his own ears, he couldn't help but let out a sigh.
"To tell you the truth, I am a native of Yongfeng Liangyuan Village. My dad was the one who experienced that big change firsthand. When Mr. Ho founded Juwo Tong, my father was seven years old. At that time, our family only had one acre of thin land, and although we rented other people's fields every year, we could only barely survive.
If it weren't for Mr. Ho who founded Juhetang, my father would not have had the opportunity to study at all. At that time, it was good for the family to be full, but where they still wanted to study, and when they encountered bad years, they all had to rely on Mr. He's family to help, so that the family could live.
However, after Mr. He founded Juhetang, our family was given 10 acres of free land provided by Mr. He, and my father and several of my uncles were allowed to study in the village school for free, and they were also provided with food and accommodation.
My father had been studying in the school for eleven years, and in the first year after he came out, Mr. He was arrested. At that time, my father ran around with his brothers in a class and finally saved Mr. Ho's life. Later, Mr. He went, and Juhetang dispersed. Although my father and several classmates tried their best to recover, they were finally unable to do anything because of their limited fame.
Coupled with the pressure of the imperial court, Juhetang never reunited. My father was so disheartened that he took my mother and left Yongfeng.
My father's greatest wish throughout his life was to rebuild Juhe Hall, and although he left Yongfeng, he has been working hard in this regard. It's a pity that throughout his life, his wish has not been realized, and he has suffered several lawsuits for this, if it wasn't for his friends' rescue, he would have died in prison long ago.
Even so, when I was nine years old, my father still couldn't escape that catastrophe and was finally arrested and put in the county jail again. This time, he never came out again. ”
After Liang Ruji spoke, his voice began to choke up a little.
"Brother Liang, have you ever thought that He Xinyin's Juhetang is obviously very popular with the people, but why did he fail in the end?"