Chapter 37 The Invisible Financial Shackles

Many scholars and doctors opposed Western doctrines, that is, Western studies did not have a way of life.

The way of life is very complicated and difficult to summarize, but in essence, it is about people's status in society. How to deal with social relations already, what is good and what is evil. It's all about this.

Although He Xi's theory does not say, it emphasizes two points, the first extreme pragmatism. Whether it's science or something else, there's no moisture at all.

There is a piece of evidence, and if you say a word, you don't care about any gods, ghosts, and heavenly principles.

Second, it emphasizes human power.

Specifically, everyone should have their own rights.

For ordinary people, these things have nothing to do with the way of life. But for smart people, it's enough.

What is called white space.

That's white space.

He Xi didn't mean to do this, he just selectively looked for doctrines from later generations, and for some others, he didn't think it was important that he didn't write it. But He Xi is not the world's first-rate talent in the end. There are many things where the sense of smell is limited.

And Ding Xian is different, it doesn't matter if he has a bad mind, or if he does something else, but Ding Xian's wisdom can't be ignored.

He directly deduced the way of life in his opinion, that is, Yang Zhu's learning, from the two premises.

That is, since this world is material, then there are no gods, gods, ghosts, and no karma. And the infinite extension of human power is human desire, and in a short period of time, people should reach the peak they want to achieve. As for the country, home, they are all floating clouds.

For the sake of what you can get, you don't mind trampling on all laws and morals. Of course, if the flowers are useful to you, you can use them.

This is also known as the refined egoist.

The reason why many Western scholars say that it is necessary to choose ideas from Eastern Confucianism to redeem the future of the West is because this kind of extreme self-interest and money worship will cause harm to the whole society while benefiting oneself.

Many things are relative, and when capitalism first began, many people encouraged everyone to pursue their own desires, believing that everyone doing what was best for them was good for society as a whole.

This kind of thinking is a trend of thought for a long time.

But this kind of thinking brewed a world war, even a nuclear war.

After that, some people began to reflect on the fact that everyone pursues the maximization of their own interests, is it really a good thing for the whole society?

Ding Xian didn't know this, anyway, he felt that to some extent, he was the heir to He Xi's mantle, because he really learned the essence from He Xi and brought forth the new.

In his view, science is all technology, and his thinking is the way.

Of course, he won't publicize it widely, but will only be as secret as the emperor's mental art, after all, He Xi is also hidden outside the book, and there are wise people who know it, and he is the wise man.

Now, he is only one step away from the head of the civil service, how can he not be excited.

He knew Zhu Yunwen too well.

Zhu Yunwen asked this, not because he wanted to know what the answer was, but because Zhu Yunwen already had the answer in his heart, but he didn't know how to do this thing.

Zhu Yunwen was already tired of Fang Xiaoru and wanted to replace Fang Xiaoru. After all, Fang Xiaoru's ability was not enough to maintain the current situation. As the war does not go well, it is foreseeable that the scale of the war will become larger and larger in the future.

With Fang Xiaoru's ability, he may be able to be the prime minister of the peace, but Xiao He and Li Shanchang who are Zhu Yunwen are not enough.

Ding Xian said, "Your Majesty, Confucianism has been passed down through the ages, and it is naturally not easy for the ages. However, in troubled times, there are many laws that have the right to change. It's also common sense. Now the northern thief is menacing, and he learns his long skills in case of emergency. It's also a matter of course. The heavens do not change, the Tao does not change, and there are thousands of spells, which are used according to the time."

Zhu Yunwen was overjoyed and said, "What a spell, it is used for the time."

The spells here are not spells of the magic Dao method

, but the specific way of doing things.

Zhu Yunwen admires He Xi's doctrine and rejects it.

Zhu Yunwen is very optimistic and concerned about He Xi's many specific methods. However, he is extremely repulsive to He Xi's recent public opinion and providence.

Without him, the will of heaven is never difficult to ask, and no one can say clearly, what the specific will of heaven is, which gives the emperor the space to go up and down, and the emperor manipulates the will of heaven very simply. The so-called auspiciousness, those visions born in the history books, and so on.

These things, the ancients did not know to be fake.

It's just that the foolish man and the foolish woman don't know.

And the most in the world is a fool and a foolish woman. Therefore, the induction of heaven and man is corresponding to the policy of fooling the people. Even the so-called indoctrination is not necessarily a kind of policy of fooling the people.

Many emperors are very repulsive to Xiangrui, but all they can do is not allow Xiangrui to be offered below, not to completely eliminate it, knowing that the emperor himself actually knows what he is doing.

But public opinion is different.

In fact, public opinion is the same as the will of heaven, there is no so-called providence, and naturally there is no absolute public opinion, after all, it is difficult to reconcile the mouth, so that the people of the world have a unified idea, it is also very difficult. It's just that it's really easy for some to package their own meaning as public opinion.

This is the difference between providence and public opinion.

Providence, the emperor himself manipulated it easily, and at most competed with the scholars for the right of interpretation.

And public opinion, this thing is difficult for the emperor to manipulate, but it is very easy for the scholars to manipulate. This put the emperor's power at risk.

The sky does not change, the Tao does not change, what does not change? It's the emperor's set of the Son of Heaven, the spells are ever-changing, what is the change? It is He Xi's handling of specific matters, what factories, banks, commercial tax collection methods, and so on.

Zhu Yunwen didn't see that many things about He Xi were not what he wanted or didn't want. It's just an adjustment of the torrent of the times.

What Ding Xian said was the most in line with his mind.

Use the good ones in He Xi's doctrine, and not the bad ones in He Xi's doctrine.

Ding Xian said: "The Holy Ming has no past Your Majesty, and the ministers are also inspired by Your Majesty to gain something."

Ding Xian said it according to Zhu Yunwen's thoughts. This sentence is not wrong.

Zhu Yunwen said, "Then where should I start with this matter?"

Ding Xian said, "The minister thinks that we should start with military spending."

Zhu Yunwen said, "Please try to speak."

"Yes." Ding Xian said, "The minister is responsible for the production of firearms, and the Taiping Iron Factory has been working at full capacity. However, the minister estimated that after a year, there were only more than 10,000 artillery pieces, corresponding to the front line, Shanxi, sea and other places, which were still insufficient. Moreover, there are many old-style artillery, but there are very few new-style artillery. I won't be able to improve much in the future."

"But even these Taiping Iron Works have to subsidize tens of thousands of taels every month. And the more firearms are produced, the less other iron materials are produced. The Taiping Iron Works had no other income. After a long time, either the financial subsidy will be increased, or the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armed Forces will pay for it."

"Otherwise, it's unsustainable."

"This is still just artillery, and there are too many other types of military supplies in demand, and the Shaofu can't support it anymore. However, the bank deposit in the household department will not last long. The minister didn't know how Fang Shoufu explained to His Majesty. However, since the military reform, spending money has been like flowing water, even though during the Hongwu period, Emperor Taizu left tens of millions of stones of grain, tens of millions of taels of gold and silver of all kinds, and tens of millions of paper money, but if this continues, it will be spent sooner or later."

"Your Majesty, you should let Fang Xiaoru give you a strategy. The minister felt that Lord Shoufu couldn't give a strategy. At that time, Your Majesty will naturally use other methods, so that You can't blame Your Majesty, you can only blame Fang Shoufu for being incompetent."

In fact, Beijing and Nanjing are similar in many things. But it's just similar, and it's different in many things.

For example, He Xi actually made Liaodong and Zunhua Iron Works pay a lot more in terms of weapons. But generally speaking, Beijing is bookkeeping, and then the Ministry of Finance and the enterprises can write off. Anyway, these businesses are every year

To hand over a lot of profits, the two sides press on the price, the write-off is about the same, if there is a difference, there are tax exemption and other policies. In short, He Xi's main hit does not cost money.