Chapter 1400: There Is Such a Misunderstanding
Don't think that those who are born poor should seek prosperity first, and as long as they can support their families, they must not pay attention to the good and the low.
In fact, the current situation of the Great Zhou Dynasty is that the vast majority of peasant households, even if they cannot even keep their fields, still refuse to engage in industrial and commercial affairs, believing that in this case, it will be difficult for their children and grandchildren to turn over, and they will indeed be treated more harshly.
Even how many wealthy businessmen, even if they have a lot of money, don't they also hope to change their homes, and rarely choose to be merchants.
And the real lowly people, in the Great Zhou at this time, in addition to the lowest slaves and maids, also included those craftsmen and small traders who were not qualified to buy fields, and all kinds of inequality were not only political status, but even reflected in the law.
As for the wealthy merchants, as long as they were willing to bribe officials, they could also be qualified to buy land, and they were no longer part of the city, so they could intermarry with the nobles and gradually change their families.
However, it is still difficult to rank among the real nobles, such as intermarriage, often only marrying a concubine of a scholar clan, and even if the children want to take the imperial examination, it is much more difficult than the scholar and peasant class.
And after all, rich businessmen are not so easy to produce, and for the vast majority of city registrations, there is no hope of changing their homes.
With such restrictions, there will be many obstacles to the development of business, so Eleven Niang agrees with Zijian's opinion, believing that abolishing the difference between good and bad and changing inherent preconceptions is indeed beneficial to the prosperity of the city's economy.
Of course, this can't happen overnight.
Therefore, Shi Niang thought that it would be better to establish the most obvious benchmark - for example, directly appointing Zijian as an official, followed by the announcement of the children of the city such as industry and commerce, who are no longer limited by their origins, can participate in the imperial examination, and are expected to be among the scholars, although it will cause controversy, but it is also more conducive to breaking prejudices in a short time.
Zijian and other suggestions were not actually for his own profit, he didn't even think that there was a chance to join the office, the idea was just to be a strong support behind Pei Zhao, and he couldn't help but be stunned after hearing this.
Eleven Niang persuaded: "Now in the court, although there are loyal and virtuous people, they are no longer greedy and mediocre, but when it comes to financial management, they are mostly on paper, all kinds of advice, most of them talk about nonsense, and they are rarely realistic. Zhongxing Sheji, this is the avenue, it should be widely opened up to the road, the award is romantic, so that the wild is unpretentious, and the gentleman has a look of embarrassment, is it worried about the questioning of the matter? ”
Zijian smiled and was relieved: "Your Highness is so important, Pei Mou dares to disobey his fate?" ”
And this appointment, as well as the various reforms that were re-announced at the palace meeting that followed, did cause fierce debate, but the determination of the eleventh mother had been decided, and the opposition of Guo Yi, Feng Jizheng, etc., who was quite arbitrary, did not achieve the effect.
He was naturally angry, intending to gather the party to spread public opinion and incite the masses who regarded themselves as good people to oppose the cancellation of the city registration, and Shi Niang didn't care about Feng Jizheng's small actions.
Because she knew in her heart that even without Feng Jizheng's incitement, those self-righteous scholars and civilians would find it difficult to accept for a while that they would be on an equal footing with the "lowly people" who were despised.
She even considered further prohibiting the slave trade in the formulation of laws and regulations, and implementing an employment system in the future, so that although there was a gap between the rich and the poor, and the difference between master and slave, at least the servants were equal in legal status with the master's family, and could not be allowed to be bought and scolded, and their personal rights and interests were more protected.
But this is only the ideal state, and the time for radical reform is not yet available.
He also said that Wei Haichi, although he was abolished and repatriated to his family, which is equivalent to being removed from the royal family genealogy, but his crime of framing Zhongliang has also been punished, and he has not been confirmed to kill the king, and he has been supervised and supervised, and the right to freedom of entry and exit has not been completely deprived, just because the people's anger is too great, like a rat crossing the street, she does not dare to show her face, but it does not prevent the servants around her from going out to inquire about the news - especially Ren Yaoguang, who now has the title of Mrs. Huayang, just acts as an inquiry.
So Wei Haichi also heard about the cancellation of the city registration, slapped his face and sneered: "The Liu family is doing this, it is clear that they want to expand the party's subordinates, and gradually set aside Feng Jizheng and even Tao Baoyi and other orthodox factions, as long as they succeed, in the future, He Ye, the emperor, I am afraid that it will be just a decoration, as for He Hao's child, he is not even as good as a puppet." ”
Xie Ying also became more and more convinced: "After a thousand years, there is indeed no distinction between those good people and untouchables, even the emperor does not exist, and the common people will not kneel and bow when they see the head of state. ”
Don't mention the craftsmen, those businessmen, but a lot of financial resources, Queen Liu has the support of these people, doesn't she want to follow Wu Zetian and take He Zhou Jiangshan for herself, right? !
Xie Ying, who didn't learn and didn't know that in her time and space, in fact, the city registration had been canceled in the Song Dynasty, and the people had no distinction between the unscrupulous and the lowly, only the difference between the host and the guest, and even if it was a customer, the status was equal to the main household.
Vigorously developing commerce was also a major feature of the Song Dynasty, but how could it be the first initiative of the so-called "developed society"?
Of course, the various advanced systems of the two Song dynasties were abolished from the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, and continued to regress in the Ming and Qing dynasties, which finally led to the collapse and disintegration of the imperial system and the development of another civilization.
And the reform of the household registration system is not Shi Niang's personal idea, when He Ye was in power, he argued it with Lu Li and others, just because now it is just the right time, it is the turn of Shi Niang to govern, and it has nothing to do with Wu Zetian's ambition.
But Wei Haichi also believed in Xie Ying's judgment even more, and actually asked about the deeds of Empress Zetian, who knew nothing about her, and brazenly claimed the emperor in the era of male superiority and inferiority of women, in order to deduce Shi Niang's next behavior, at least find a way to die together.
So I listened to an ear of "legends", what strangled his own daughter to marry the queen and the queen, what because his childhood sweetheart's lover died tragically in a mutiny, and finally aspired to be the emperor, etc., etc., the so-called "historical facts", Wei Haichi was a little confused, really rely on these means, can you be the emperor? I didn't expect Xie Ying to be misled by the bloody drama and treat artistic exaggeration as history.
The eleventh lady in the Daming Palace, how clever Ren is, never expected that she had been regarded as a "kind" by Xie Ying, and in Wei Haichi's mind, she became a "demon girl" from another world after a thousand years, at this moment, she finally had the courage to read Lu Li's posthumous works, those words and picture scrolls, recording the past of Wu Dan and his relatives, even though he had said goodbye to the past, but the memory was suddenly vivid at this time.
She smiled and sighed, and maybe she was still sad, but she no longer felt piercing.
There will be no fear, memories and remembrances.
She is grateful to Lu Li, because with this set of books, thousands of generations are separated, and the world will also learn about the deeds of the Pei and Zheng clans from these words, despite the vicissitudes of life, these people and things will not be annihilated by time.
Even she didn't expect it, but Lu Li thought of it and did it.
Eleven Niang plans to hand over the mission of publishing this set of books to Pei Zhao.
At this time, Pei Zhao would still affectionately call Eleven Niang his aunt when he met alone, but he didn't know that Eleven Niang was indeed his in-law, such as a fake aunt.
He did not refuse this appointment again, just as he rejected the title of Duke of Jin given by the Son of Heaven.
Because Pei Zhao also believes that this is his responsibility.
The time for the aunt and nephew to meet this time was not too long, although Eleven Niang had a lot of words to tell in detail, but she was suddenly interrupted.
Because the envoys of Silla and Dongying visited at the same time.