"Jiang Xinghuo, can you really make people who can't read or count be able to add, subtract, multiply and divide in more than two months, and know 500 commonly used words?"

At this time, even Zhu Di didn't believe it.

There is no other reason.

When he Zhu Laosi went to school, although he was a little late, his literacy was taught by Song Lian, a world-famous Confucian.

Well, it is the one who wrote "Expelling Hulu and Restoring China" and "Sending Dongyang Horses to Life".

So how long did Zhu Di study?

Five hundred words, half a year of study.

You say that Zhu Di is stupid, then he must not be stupid.

You said that Song Lian can't teach, that's even more impossible.

So Zhu Di referred to his childhood experience and came to a conclusion intuitively.

- Impossible!

The top educational resources, with their own absolutely smart minds, and when they were receptive as children, the three are added together, and you have to learn five hundred words for half a year, why do you have to pick up a few prisoners in the edict prison at random, and you can learn it in more than two months?

Are you insulting me?

Jian Yi and Ru Yu also shook their heads again and again, obviously they didn't believe that Jiang Xinghuo could do this.

Only the old monk Daoyan sat calmly.

He knows.

If there is anything incredible in this world, then it must be Jiang Xinghuo.

At the beginning, he was shocked by Jiang Xinghuo's miraculous skills.

That's why after enlightenment, he tried every means to help his Jiang Sheng open the path to eternity.

Now, Jiang Sheng said that he could do it, so Dao Yan believed that he would definitely be able to do it.

On the other hand, if arithmetic and literacy cannot be done in common sense, how can we overturn the science that has ruled the world for hundreds of years?

"There are more than two months, four classes at most, and I will be released from prison."

Dao Yan's eyes were deep.

Regarding Jiang Xinghuo's arrangements after he was released from prison, Dao Yan's thoughts were completely different from Zhu Di's.

Zhu Di advocated finding a suitable showdown with Jiang Xinghuo.

After all, as long as Jiang Xinghuo is released from prison, he is not a fool, and he will find out the changes he has brought to Daming at a glance.

So since it is impossible to let Jiang Xinghuo continue to stay in prison, then he can only confess all this to Jiang Xinghuo.

Zhu Di plans to directly worship Jiang Xinghuo as a national teacher.

Anyway, King Wen of Zhou was the first to go to the Panxi River to visit Jiang Ziya, so he worshipped Jiang Ziya as his master.

A truth, not abrupt.

What's more, Jiang Xinghuo's "Fertilizer Immortal" is already famous, if Zhu Di announces to the hundred officials that the fertilizer immortal will come to the world and worship himself as a national teacher, the hundred officials who have already tasted the sweetness will not have much objection to granting a high position with such a reputation greater than power.

On the contrary, they will expect that the fertilizer immortals, oh no, the national teacher, will bring them more practical benefits.

Throw out more elixirs or something.

This is also the reason why Zhu Di decisively adopted the suggestion of Zhang Yuchu, the Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain.

The purpose is to build momentum for the national teacher in advance.

Of course, Zhu Di knows that Jiang Xinghuo may not care about these fame, fortune and power positions at all, but he is expected to not object, right?

Dao Yan doesn't think so!

Dao Yan believes that there are very few idealists in the world who are as pure as him in order to display their ambitions in their hearts, and who do not hesitate to live and die and ignore the honor and disgrace.

But if he still has fellow travelers, or even guides.

Then it must be Jiang Sheng!

What is there for idealists to truly stay?

Position, power, beauty, wealth?

No, it's just a passing moment.

The only thing that can really leave idealists is ideals!

What ideal?

The world is the same!

How to Datong?

Overthrow the science of science!

Only when the Ming Dynasty launched an ideological revolution could it be possible to lay the foundation for the transformation of the mainstream trend of thought in society.

And only when the concept of the whole society has changed, can the Ming Dynasty move towards that new road.

Otherwise, once the heroic and enterprising emperor dies, there will be a change of power.

The entire Ming Empire will definitely be dragged back to the old way by the gentry class dominated by Cheng Zhu Lixue.

The premise of all this is to overthrow the rule of Cheng Zhu Lixue.

It is not necessary to completely destroy Cheng Zhu Lixue, but to degenerate it from a dominant position to one of many mainstream doctrines.

So if you get out of prison and let Jiang Xinghuo be the national teacher, can you do it directly?

Obviously not, Dao Yan is soberly aware that if he wants to open up the road of eternity, he must start from the mind, and start from the thought to fight the science, and now the theoretical basis that "they" have is still too little and too little.

After all, Cheng Zhu Lixue is a theoretical edifice that has gone through more than ten generations of Confucianism, constantly adding bricks and tiles, and perfecting.

But there's another hurdle here.

- How did Jiang Xinghuo feel that it was necessary for him to realize this ideal?

Dao Yan gave the answer, and it is also a path of cultivation in Buddhism.

To realize.

Go to the world to understand the joys and sorrows of the people, to understand the difficulties of the people, and to understand the destruction of human nature by Cheng Zhu Lixue.

In this way, Jiang Xinghuo could make up his mind to overthrow the science of science and open up the road of eternity.

Of course, this is just Daoyan's current thoughts.

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Back to the tree.

Jiang Xinghuo continued to write by hand, writing on the wet ground.

(1) Organizational preparation, whether to establish an independent township-level tax agency? OK.

(2) Personnel preparation, need to meet the needs of literacy, mathematics, integrity, and strangers? OK.

(3) Policy decomposition, new tax institutions, personnel, and systems, 'Daming Tax Police Corps'?

(4) Policy experiments, looking for a test site.

(5) Policy publicity, to set up a newspaper.

(6) Policy promotion, not yet.

Jiang Xinghuo asked: "That is to say, if I can prove that people who are illiterate and illiterate can learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division within three months, and learn to know 500 commonly used words, will the personnel preparation be completed?" And then regression, is organizational readiness also feasible? ”

"Naturally." Zhu Gaoxu said in a sullen voice.

Xia Yuanji asked curiously: "What do you mean by the Daming Tax Police Corps?" ”

"Policeman, warn. "Zhou Li, Tianguan, Zaifu" contains: When the year is right, the law is used to warn the officials. ”

"The tax police are the personnel used to warn the officials not to be greedy for taxes."

"If I can prove that, I can find some veterans, teach the same, train a group, experiment on a small scale somewhere, and then start to expand the scope gradually."

Xia Yuanji asked again, "What about the newspaper?" ”

"The newspaper is similar to the Di newspaper, but there are differences in the layout and content settings, as well as the degree of exquisite printing, mainly for the common people." Jiang Xinghuo said.

"For the common people? The common people are illiterate."

Xia Yuanji suddenly closed his voice and looked at Jiang Xinghuo seriously: "Mr. Jiang, isn't there really any way to teach people to read quickly, right?" ”

"Yes." Jiang Xinghuo said with a smile.

"What's the method?" Xia Yuanji asked curiously.

Jiang Xinghuo looked at the mysterious Mr. Qiu and said lightly.

"I won't tell you yet."

Xia Yuanji almost didn't catch his breath.

"Go on."

Jiang Xinghuo didn't care at all, and continued: "And since there is a tax police corps, you can build a tax police agency. ”

"First, it's good that you treat the tax police as an independent few guards, and Daming is not a few guards who can't afford to raise an extra few guards."

"Second, the reason for the cost of money is that I am afraid of the money of the supporters, and it is better to collect more money because of the new tax collection agency."

"But if you think about it from a different angle, in fact, the role of the tax police is not only about collecting taxes."

"It's that the imperial power goes to the countryside!"

Xia Yuanji's heart was shocked, but he still reluctantly asked: "There are a few tax policemen in each township, is the imperial power going to the countryside?" ”

"No, the true meaning of the imperial power going to the countryside is not the permanent residence of a few emperors, but the will of the emperor, which can be conveyed to the people in the township, otherwise, the township is the emperor of the soil!"

"With the tax police, who are stationed on a permanent basis or in rotation for several years, and these tax policemen are literate, the decrees of the imperial court can easily be told to the people through their mouths."

"Don't underestimate this, many people live like larvae who have no contact with the outside world all their lives, living in the 'information cocoon' constructed by regions and clans."

"And the tax police are a knife to break this 'information cocoon'!"

"From now on, the voice of the outside world from the imperial court can be transmitted to the ears of every ordinary person!"

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Tax Police!

Information cocoon!

Imperial power to the countryside!

Almost immediately, the two Shangshu understood why they should cultivate numeracy and literacy.

The purpose is not only to collect taxes per se, but to send the imperial power to the countryside!

As I said before, in the face of the absolute force of the imperial court, the clan gentry in the local township actually did not have any ability to resist.

Because the times have long changed, with the evolution of history, the Han Dynasty and even the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Sui and Tang dynasties, the strong local armed forces that were enough to protect themselves, after the Song Dynasty, began to disappear without a trace.

Well, in this way, the iron-blooded Great Song still has a hand in attacking internally to ensure the stability of the country.

In fact, judging from the practice of "I am the Qing Dynasty", the Jiangnan locality, in the face of the Eight Banners Iron. The hoplites, indeed, did not have the ability to resist.

How, then, could the local clan gentry control the place?

The previous two Shangshu were not very easy to describe, and they always thought about what patriarchy, bloodline, authority, culture, and customs.

Now that I think about it, Jiang Xinghuo really said it in one sentence.

- Information cocoon.

Yes, just like why the ancient Chinese peasants were illiterate, because they didn't need to be literate.

So why can't the imperial power go to the countryside? Because they couldn't hear the emperor's voice.

They are surrounded in a huge information cocoon formed by patriarchal blood and other factors.

From birth to death, the world is the same.

And outsiders, if they use normal channels, they really can't enter the township where the clan power is intertwined.

In fact, the two Shangshu were clearly aware.

The tax police is indeed the best entry point.

Because I have to pay taxes to the emperor.

The emperor didn't care much about doing evil in the local area or keeping to himself.

If you don't pay taxes, the emperor's sword won't be used to you.

The emperor sent someone to collect taxes, do you dare to stop it?

Let a tax cop disappear silently?

It doesn't matter, soon Zhu Di will perform a trick for you, letting you see how the rest of your family tree disappears except for the cover page.

Then, once the tax police can be stationed in the township, and these tax policemen know the common words, the emperor's orders, and the imperial court's decrees, they can also be conveyed to the countryside as a matter of course.

In this way, the information cocoon is naturally self-defeating!

To put it bluntly, the information cocoon built for farmers seems to be unbreakable, but it is like a real insect cocoon, which can be broken when poked!

The key is that the emperors of the Western Han Dynasty and later generations felt that they did not have the knife (tax police) to take advantage of, and the benefits of poking it were not big (the cost of imperial power going to the countryside).

Therefore, a tacit deal was reached, and the power in the township, including public security, trial, etc., belonged to the local clan.

You only need to pay taxes to the emperor, it doesn't matter if you are greedy in the middle, just suffer the people.

But Zhu Di is not happy.

Zhu Di is not unwilling to suffer the people.

He doesn't have Jiang Xinghuo's personal experience of an eighth-generation hard-working person.

Zhu Di's heart knot

- That's all my fucking money!

- Moreover, you are still smearing me with the law!

"Tax Police Corps, what a tax police corps!"

Zhu Di looked at the two Shangshu with a smile.

"The imperial power goes to the countryside, isn't this solved?"

Jian Yi and Ru Yu were silent.

What else can be said?

The problem that they thought was impossible to solve not long ago has been solved by Jiang Xinghuo's practical plan.

But Jian Yi was still a little unwilling: "Your Majesty, what Jiang Xinghuo said about teaching prisoners to read and write, the minister still feels a little incredible. ”

"I think so, too." Zhu Di said instead, "Why don't I make a bet with the two Shangshu?" ”

"Bet on what?" Dao Yan suddenly spoke up and fanned the flames.

"I haven't thought about it yet, let's bet on a private promise that won't involve state affairs in the future, and you two will count as two."

The emperor wanted to bet, and the two Shangshu naturally had nothing to say.

In particular, the difficulty of this matter is clear to Jian Yi and Ru Yu.

If you want to pick a few prisoners who can't read or count, it will be too difficult to go to church within two months.

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"So, the first part is a temporary solution?"

Hearing Jiang Xinghuo's question, Zhu Gaoxu was stunned.

It turns out that this class seems to be only halfway through?

Let's go back in time.

Jiang Xinghuo said that the currency talked about in the last lesson, and the tax in this class.

The first part of taxation is the essence of taxation, and the essence of taxation is naturally a game, which gave rise to the game theory model of 'dividing the silver into the Japanese', followed by a three-way game between the imperial court, the local government, and the gentry.

The court and the local government in the tripartite game led to the two-level taxation system of the central and local governments, and led to the 'progressive tax on household registration' and 'notary tax on separation'.

And the imperial court and the gentry led to the tax police corps.

So, what about the second part?

Jiang Xinghuo said slowly: "Next, what I want to talk about is the significance of taxation to the country. ”

"Do you really think that for the state, taxation is to collect money?"

Zhu Gaoxu and Xia Yuanji were a little stunned.

Or else?

What is the significance of taxes other than collecting money?

Isn't that the case for the country?

(End of chapter)