After reading this "Philosophical Correspondence: Alienation, the New Aristocrat, and the Psychoanalysis of All Social Strata in the Future of the Ming Dynasty", Xia Yuanji's heart was filled with many mixed and inexplicable emotions.

"Master Jiang, you really have the ability to see thousands of miles by candles!"

"The immortals overlook the long river of history, and they are terrifying!"

"Not only can it break through the possible development direction of the future Ming Dynasty, but also the new social class that will appear, and the ability to analyze it clearly is really unheard of and unseen!"

Not to mention Xia Yuanji's thoughts, he only said that the next few books that were circulated in his hand, even if they were as calm as Huang Fu, they were secretly shocked in their hearts.

I was surprised that this suspected immortal named "Jiang Xinghuo" had such a terrifying insight ability to penetrate the fog of history, which was really amazing.

Giving a detailed direction of future social evolution, how many people in this world can do it?

Huang Fu asked himself, if strictly speaking, I am afraid that only this "Jiang Xinghuo" can.

What's more, the derivation idea given by Jiang Xinghuo is not a castle in the air, but almost closely related to the "Eight Strategies for Changing the Law" presented by Dao Yan.

Huang Fu thought about it carefully, and the "new aristocracy", the new social class in which the military merits and nobles were noble, must be inseparable from the fifth policy "nation-state" and the eighth policy "reshaping the clan system".

It was these two seemingly inconspicuous changes that lifted the moral shackles of the suzerain-vassal system for the Ming Dynasty's overseas expansion, as well as the theoretical shackles of the traditional "Huayi debate" to obtain colonies.

Huang Fu believes that the clan in the "new aristocracy" is also inseparable from the clan assessment that has been implemented some time ago.

Originally, the clan assessment had little to do with the ministers, so not many ministers paid attention to it, but Huang Fu was a careful person, and he clearly remembered that the management methods of the clan assessment included the content of the clan's work, and at that time he thought it was just running the Huangzhuang and something like that.

At present, it is obvious that the content of this clan's work points to the vast overseas colonies and markets of the Ming Dynasty in the future.

These two words are explained in the letter, and it is not difficult for Huang Fu to understand.

Similarly, the new social classes of "artisanal factory owners" and "artisanal factory workers" were born out of the demand for overseas trade and the development of agricultural technology.

This is inseparable from the third policy of the "Eight Strategies for Changing the Law", which completely re-clears the acres of fields, expands and promotes the use of agricultural services into the acres and chemical fertilizers.

Although there are some things, such as the [Iron Horse Eating Coal] mentioned by Jiang Xinghuo in his lecture, Huang Fu is not clear.

But in reality, even the first industrial revolution in Britain did not begin with the steam engine.

Although according to Jiang Xinghuo's more common views in his previous life, industrial change mainly refers to the replacement of manual production with machines, thus causing changes in the mode of production, but the machines here must not be directly equated with steam engines.

Machines are widely used in production, in fact, they appear in the textile industry, especially in the textile industry such as cotton, wool, linen, silk, etc., which is the earliest industrial sector that relies on water, steam and machines to undergo industrial transformation, and is also the initial product of modern production methods.

The invention of the Aclay water-powered spinning machine is often considered to mark the beginning of industrial change in Britain.

The Aclay water-powered spinning machine was improved from the water-powered spinning machine of the Yuan Dynasty.

Here is to say, this statement is really not the history of invention, but in the Yuan Dynasty Wang Zhen's "Book of Agriculture", there is a detailed record of the water-powered spinning machine, Wang Zhen called this water-powered spinning machine "water to large spinning wheel", which was invented in the late Southern Song Dynasty and prevailed in the Yuan Dynasty.

"Water to large spinning wheel" is dedicated to long fiber addition, mainly used for processing hemp yarn and silk, hemp spinning wheel is larger and different from manpower spinning wheel, equipped with 32 spindles, there are four parts such as spindle, addition, water wheel and transmission device, with two leather rope transmission to make 32 spindles run, hydraulic drive each car can add 100 catties of hemp yarn per day.

Wang Zhen introduced its structure, performance and use at that time in detail, and attached a brief drawing of this machine, so as to confirm with unwavering evidence that the world's earliest water-powered spinning machine did exist in China.

As for why Daming didn't promote it

It is also not unrelated to the system set by Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang advocated that men and women weave in rural areas, and planting is the foundation of the Ming Dynasty.

Lao Zhu's experience is that if you don't eat enough, everything else is nonsense.

Therefore, the textile industry can only be developed as a sideline business, and the problem of irrigation water rights in the countryside has also seriously hindered the first industrial transformation in China in the Ming Dynasty.

To get back to the point, Huang Fu still agrees with the fact that overseas trade caused the Ming Dynasty to form a large-scale handicraft workshop.

Because the example of the iron-blooded Great Song is placed there, not without precedent.

As long as the emperor was determined to engage in overseas trade, it was indeed possible for the handicraft industry and commerce to prosper and become a new social class.

When several Shangshu were circulating, Zhu Gaochu also quietly followed Zhu Gaosui into the room.

To Zhu Di's surprise, his stupid son didn't babble, but stood behind him honestly, and didn't even ask for an extra seat.

Later, several Shangshu finally finished circulating this correspondence between Daoyan and Jiang Xinghuo.

As the existence of the top-level bureaucratic system of the Ming Empire, the six Shangshu, no matter how poor their ability is, is only relatively poor, but their vision and pattern are all there.

They are all clearly aware of one thing.

Changing the law can indeed support a new beneficiary class.

Whether it was the "new aristocracy" that had to rely heavily on imperial power and the existing temple system, or the "handicraft factory owners" who could be transformed into some of the more enlightened gentry class, in fact, there was no threat to the emperor of the Ming Dynasty.

Or, in other words, there was no threat in their foreseeable years.

Because of the change of law, the core temple system and military system of the Ming Dynasty were not modified.

Zhu Di, who relied on the military position, still firmly controlled the military power of the Ming Empire, and with the military power in hand, the military merits in the "new aristocracy" were to help Zhu Di occupy the dumping commodity market of the Ming Dynasty; The members of the clan are agents who are attached to the assets of the Ming state.

At the same time, the "handicraft master" was only a tool to help the emperor produce handicraft goods.

In that way, the revision of the imperial examination system in the "Eight Strategies for Changing the Law", the restoration of Xunzi's status as the five sages of Confucianism, and the promotion of the theory of the holy king are also to cooperate with the reform of the law and enhance the status of imperial power

"One ring after another, tightly fitted."

Huang Fu sighed and said secretly in his heart.

Dao Yan looked at the different reactions of several Shangshu, and finally spoke.

"Ladies and gentlemen, do you still have any questions about the question raised by Jian Shangshu just now about supporting the new profit-making class?"

Jian Yi pondered for a few breaths, and said casually: "The old minister still has a question. ”

"Oh?"

Zhu Di, who thought that Dao Yan had taken out the big killing weapon and the overall situation had been decided, was also in good spirits at this time and asked, "What does Jian Shangshu want to ask?" ”

"Since Your Majesty intends to follow the example of the Song Dynasty and vigorously promote overseas trade, so as to achieve prosperity like the Song Dynasty, then the old minister dares to ask Your Majesty, will he fall into the debate between Wang Anshi and Sima Guang about the wealth of the country?"

Hearing the name Wang Anshi, Zhu Di felt a pain in his head.

Why can't you get around this "bad match" that has been an ancient one for I don't know how many years today?

This is a question that is clear to everyone present.

The controversy between Wang Anshi and Sima Guang about national wealth is that Wang Anshi advocates that "those who are good at managing money should be spared by the people without giving them", while Sima Guang advocated that "the goods and wealth produced by heaven and earth should not be in this amount, not in the people, but in the public".

At first glance, Sima Guang is this granite-headed old-fashioned school? How can the wealth of the world be fixed?

But this is to say that in the Song Dynasty, the economic situation was not the same.

On the contrary, the economic situation of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty was quite different.

In the era of Wang Anshi of the Northern Song Dynasty, although the state vigorously developed commerce, the main body was still agriculture, and the agricultural tax and the corresponding poll tax were of course fixed.

And Wang Anshi's set of ideas is not the same as Jiang Xinghuo's theory.

Wang Anshi's "good financial managers, the people do not add endowments and the state uses mercy", refers to the change of the law, the middle class, that is, the part of the officials who are greedy for ink, as much as possible into the hands of the state, in other words, in the monopoly of the imperial court.

It is still the use of the public power of the feudal state to seek wealth, which is not much different from the salt and iron monopoly of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and the recollection of those money that cannot be collected.

This is the problem that Jian Yi has not heard of the relevant volumes of "The Theory of National Fortune".

And in the eyes of everyone's surprise, Zhu Gaoxu actually spoke at this time!

Zhu Gaoxu talked eloquently, just a few simple sentences, summarized the relevant content of Jiang Xinghuo's "Theory of National Fortune" taught him, and explained Jianyi's doubts clearly.

"Is it actually a big watermelon? It doesn't sound like it's out of the question."

Jian Yi frowned slightly, but finally accepted the statement.

After all, although Jian Yi is not a bureaucrat who specializes in the way of economics like Xia Yuanji, since he is the head of the six books, he still understands these things a little.

And Zhu Gaoxu, the second prince who has not been seen for a long time, came up and gave the six Shangshu a "knife butt and big eyes", which was completely different from the performance before he was imprisoned, and it made several Shangshu who didn't know the inside story even more surprised.

Zhu Gaochi, who was sitting on the chair, looked back at his second brother with a gentle smile.

And at this glance, Zhu Gaochi immediately discovered that this younger brother, who had not been seen for a long time, had indeed become different.

Zhu Gaoxu's edge has converged a lot, and he doesn't have the posture of "my father, my second, and my third".

"Since you Shangshu have no opinions, let's move on to the last topic." Dao Yan said.

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