Chapter 205: The Tomb Sect of the Retro School
Why has Zhu Yijun been forgiving Wang Chonggu? Wang Chonggu didn't understand it himself, but Zhang Juzheng was able to understand it somewhat.
The elimination of one class must fill its position in the system of the state with another class, and while the gentry have obtained privileges such as taxation, justice, and labor, they also need to bear the responsibility of the herdsmen of the land, but the gentry only want privileges and do not want to take responsibility.
The powerful and gentry are an important force in maintaining stability in the Ming Dynasty.
And Wang Chonggu unconsciously created a class, this class has a certain culture, controls a certain means of production, and is also the most orderly, because in the factory, anyone who does not follow the rules will die a very ugly death.
And Wang Chonggu actively improved the production tools, actively improved the production environment of the labor workshop, steadily increased the production efficiency, maximized profits, and established the craftsman's children school to settle the craftsmen's children, these are the reasons why Wang Chonggu was forgiven by His Majesty, and it is also the reason why Wang Chonggu should die.
Above the court, with Zhang Siwei's life, the main contradiction has become the contradiction between the reformists and the tomb faction, and this contradiction is constantly intensifying, and the new deal of the Ming Dynasty needs a new class that occupies a leading position to support the new deal of the Ming Dynasty.
Shinong industry and commerce, this is the four people of the country, the pillar of the country, the gentry in the history of this thing, its status has never been challenged.
Zhang Juzheng did not have the luxury of asking for the workers and peasants to challenge the scholars, and as long as they could have the strength to challenge the status of the scholars, the subjective initiative of the scholars themselves would be brought into play.
How to give the workers and peasants the strength to challenge and threaten the status of the gentry required mass employment and commodity production, which needed to be supported by silver.
Zhang Juzheng knows that Zhu Yijun also knows that the money shortage in the Ming Dynasty needs to be fundamentally alleviated, and more and massive silver inflows are needed.
Qiu Jun is also studying the monetary policy of the Ming Dynasty, and he expressed the importance of money in the economy very clearly: Tianli Jun uses his people to pay for the right to make them accommodating to help the world.
Gold and silver, on the other hand, are natural currencies.
"Can I really buy more boats? That's really my luck. Antonio was directly shocked, the five-masted ship crossed, this thing can only be sold for one or two, can it be sold more?
This is a weapon of naval warfare!
Felipe II forbade the sale of the Gallese battleship, and even after seeing the five-masted crossing, the Galasé battleship, which could not cross the ocean, required more than 200 oarsmen, had very few guns, and was mainly engaged in broadside warfare, became more and more backward the more he looked at it, but it was also a battleship.
And to see what Da Ming means... Can I buy more?
"But I don't have that much money right now." Antonio was very annoyed and said that if he hadn't lost the cargo of the two ships, he could have converted the goods into silver and buy a five-masted ship from Daming, but he lost two ships, and he only had the funds to buy two ships.
A five-masted ship could cost 200,000 taels of silver, and he now had only the funds for two cargoes, and he had to buy silk and all kinds of goods to return to the sea, which made him particularly uncomfortable.
Daming's ocean-going ships are hard sails, and more Daming sailors need to be arranged to get on board and operate the boats.
"You can borrow money, since I am your investor, I naturally want to invest in you." Zhu Yijun's tone was simple and naïve, like a political amateur who was ignorant of the world and put forward a naïve fantasy.
What if you borrow so much money and Antonio doesn't pay it back?
Zhang Juzheng looked at the little emperor, his apprentice, who had already turned into a powerful man.
When there were no natural disasters, the powerful and gentry were also annexing land, that is, using the green rice money, the interest rate of the green rice money was extremely high, once the people used the acres of land as collateral to borrow money, they would be overwhelmed by the interest of the donkey rolling, and eventually became landless tenants, and the gentry harvested the land.
Green rice money, when the rice is still green, is the time when the people's families have the least grain storage, and borrowing money at this time is also the time when the profit is the highest, so although the name of green rice money is good, but behind it is a bloody merger.
Scholars have always been like this, the name does not carry a little fireworks, poetic and picturesque, but the things that do things are often dirty and unsightly.
Green rice money is donkey rolling, it is usury, the name is wrong, but the nickname will not be wrong.
His Majesty's neighbors, Wang Yaozhuo's situation is even more special, their family has encountered a disaster year, and they have to borrow money from the Lu family in Shaanzhou, but the operation is the same, robbing can only make people bankrupt, but cheating, can deceive people into debt.
"I'm not very rich, I'll lend you 500,000 taels of silver, but if you leave like this, and don't pay back, won't my silver be gone? So, you need to pledge with collateral. Zhu Yijun said with a smile: "For example, the palm gardens and sugar cane orchards in the entire Nanyang. ”
"Oh no! Your Majesty, that is my most valuable thing! Antonio let out a bitter wail.
Of course, Antonio didn't want to agree, the plantations in Malacca that were all over the country of a thousand islands produced more than 150,000 taels of silver per year, that is, the Ming Emperor confiscated his plantations, and it only took four years to recover the principal, and the days after that were pure money.
Zhu Yijun said with a calm face: "Daming is expanding the water division. ”
Is it a forced buy and a strong sell? Not really.
If Antonio can repay the money on time, then these plantations will still be Antonio's, and if he can't pay the money on time, the sailors of the imperial court will help the emperor collect the debt.
If Antonio refuses to borrow money, then when the Ming Emperor's imperial sailors expand the empire, these plantations will be expanded to the rule of the Ming Dynasty.
"Are you sure your most valuable thing is a plantation? Aren't they those slaves? I heard that the lord of the manor will personally go down and create all kinds of mixed slaves so that they can reproduce more. Zhu Yijun's tone was still calm.
At the moment, Tessie is using slavery, and Liberty Corner and Free City commodities are slaves.
Zhu Yijun continued: "An adult, good tooth, honest and obedient slave needs twenty taels of silver in the Wanli Haitang in the South Seas, and it only takes four years to recoup the cost of working on the plantation, as long as the slave is alive, it is a profit, and a slave in the plantation, the value created in a year is five taels of silver. ”
Before Yin Zhengmao explained the Nanyang plantation business, Zhu Yijun had always thought that slaves were very cheap, but in fact, twenty taels of silver was already a very expensive price.
And a slave can create goods worth five taels of silver a year, spices, palm oil, and sugar cubes. Cocoa and so on are all products of plantations.
"Your Majesty, why can't you let me pay off my debts with slaves?" Antonio asked, a little puzzled.
"There are already a lot of people in the Ming Dynasty, and there will be more in the future, and this land only gives birth to the Ming people." Zhu Yijun gave an answer, but this reason was in Antonio's opinion, the emperor did not need slaves, because the Ming Dynasty had cheaper production tools.
The plantation is the means of production, and the development of the plantation requires a lot of manpower and material resources, from the very beginning of finding suitable land, to logging, raising fields, finding suitable cash crops, etc., all require a lot of time and cost, and slaves are the tools of production.
Antonio didn't understand the Ming Dynasty, so he felt that the emperor refused to pay off the debts of the slaves because the Ming had more and cheaper production tools, or more bluntly, slaves.
If the monarch and court of the Ming Dynasty really treat the people as slaves, the people will release their power to destroy the court and eliminate the tyrannical monarch and the court, and the Central Plains Dynasty has experienced several such dynastic changes.
The Ming Emperor wanted people to fight for him, and he wanted to give every soldier in the Beijing camp eighteen taels of silver a year.
If Wang Chonggu wanted the poor coolies to produce under the high temperature, he needed to give the craftsmen about 12 silver a year in labor remuneration, as well as the corresponding official factory school, to solve their worries.
"Your Majesty's gaze pierced through the fog and saw the truth." Antonio finally gave up his resistance and planned to borrow money, as for the amount of interest, it depends on the negotiations, the minister of Ming Xingli, there is only one at present, and that is Wang Chonggu.
This interest is not too expensive, with an annual interest rate of about 4%-5%, and Zhu Yijun is definitely a big philanthropist.
Zhu Yijun's main purpose is to sell more ships, and the internal significance of selling more ships is to promote the further stabilization, standardization, and increase production of the industrial chain, and large-scale production can effectively improve productivity and promote the maturity of the industrial chain, while the external significance is completely for the convection of silk and silver.
Daming had a commodity advantage, although for a short period of time, Daming lost the commodity advantage of ships, but archaeological scientific research and raiding the Luzon Manila shipyard and other means, finally allowed Daming to restore the commodity advantage of ships.
With the advantage of commodities, it has the status of a structural trade surplus, and the ontology of this surplus is silver.
With its unrivaled manufacturing and exports in silk, glass, porcelain and other aspects, the Ming Dynasty had a surplus in trade with any country, and a structural trade surplus status would cause a commercial 'tributary'.
The more ships that can drift across the ocean, the more beneficial it is for the Ming Dynasty.
"I brought a book this time, and I invite Your Majesty to read it." Marinho took out a book, which he had brought as a gift.
Zhu Yijun can understand, he has been learning Latin for a long time, the author is Copernicus, the name is "The Theory of the Movement of the Heavenly Sphere", open the book, and there is a paragraph written on it: Those who do not understand geometry are forbidden to enter.
This book is the vehicle for heliocentrism.
And in the preface, there is also a text written by the priest Osiander, which is the purpose of the book.
The orbium is an imaginary orbium that has been abandoned in later generations, but is still regarded as truth in the fourth year of Wanli, and is an imaginary sphere that can drive visible celestial bodies to rotate.
Under the continuous processing of later generations, it slowly became the theory of the movement of celestial bodies.
In this text, according to the clergy, Copernicus's first purpose in writing this book was to dedicate it to Pope Paul III; The second purpose is to compile a catalog and predict the mathematical model of the position of the stars, which does not represent the real activity of the planets in space.
[This book cannot be a scientific fact, but a dramatic fantasy.] Just such a sentence has deceived people for a long, long time.
Heliocentrism, the doctrine of the sign of the liberation of the natural sciences from theology.
But in the beginning, this doctrine was not opposed to theology, it looked more like a tool book in order to be published, but with the development of the times, heliocentrism was endowed with more meaning and emotional value.
After Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe, Tessie had confirmed the basic fact that the Earth was a sphere, and in order to maintain the majesty of religion, theology patched up, and a new theological philosophy was constructed with geocentrism as the core, and the eternal, divine celestial bodies could only revolve around the earth in proportion to their noble status.
But this patch, in the face of heliocentrism, has become precarious again.
"Nuremberg is such a magical place, the previous Nuremberg eggs came from here, and the current book is also engraved here." Zhu Yijun closed the book, he wanted to study it carefully, the book has a total of six volumes, and each volume is worth studying carefully.
Zhu Yijun ended his meeting with Antonio and began today's imperial hearing.
Zhang Juzheng made a special report on the construction of the pagoda, not hesitant to praise the words, its numbness degree can be called flattery, but the courtiers not only did not object to this, but also each wrote a praise table into the court, and when the pagoda was completed, the officials of the Ming Dynasty were above the seventh grade, and they had to put on a congratulatory table.
Zhang Juzheng was grateful to Empress Dowager Li and Empress Dowager Chen, and thanked Empress Dowager Li and Empress Dowager Chen for not coveting authority.
Zhu Yijun can understand Zhang Juzheng's gratitude, if Empress Dowager Li and Empress Dowager Chen oppose the new policy, they can really do something harmful to the Ming Dynasty.
The Qing Dynasty followed the Ming system, and if you understand the Tatar Qing Dynasty a little, you will find that the Tatar Qing Dynasty has extremely strict restrictions on the affairs of the harem, even if it is the Empress Xiaozhuang of Da Yuer, she has never been in the dynasty to weigh the system of acting imperial power.
The first time the Empress Dowager was in charge of the dynasty in the Tatar Qing Dynasty, it was Ci'an and Cixi who listened to the government in the last years of the Tatar Qing Dynasty.
The empress dowager of the two palaces, united with Prince Gong Yi, launched a coup d'état in Xinyou, killed the eight ministers of Gu Ming, Prince Yi Zaiyuan, Prince Zheng Duanhua, and the scholar Su Shun, and the four ministers of military aircraft were killed and seized power.
Since then, Cixi began a 47-year-long reign of imperial power, and the curtain was lowered.
Taking the scholar Su Shun as an example, he successively recommended Zuo Zongtang, Zeng Guofan, Hu Linyi and others, during the reign of the country, Su Shun repeatedly reduced the treatment of flag people, and Prince Yi Zaiyuan and Prince Zheng Duanhua, the two iron hat kings, were staunch supporters of the Westernization movement, and these two princes did not understand foreign affairs, so they promoted Han people to do foreign affairs.
The basic idea of the university scholars Su Shun, Prince Yi Zaiyuan, and Prince Zheng Duanhua is: Go to the special Manchu and Han defenses, advocate reconciliation between the Manchus and Hans, and quickly promote capable people to handle foreign affairs, otherwise the Tatar Qing Kingdom will die, and all of them will be foreigners' dogs.
We have a lot of bastards, which is the basic concept of Sushun.
Cixi and Ci'an joined forces with Prince Gong to launch a coup d'état and kill these reformists in the court.
The devil Liugong Prince Yi, representing the ancient tomb faction, advocated the Manchu and Han defenses, and in the last years of the Tatar Qing Dynasty, he missed the only opportunity for reform.
Devil Liuyi, once supervised the case of Wuyu officials, investigated the collusion of officials and gentry and businessmen, accepted bribes, embezzled and embezzled, and refused to buy and embezzle national funds.
Empress Dowager Li and Empress Dowager Chen are not from high backgrounds, but the ancient tomb faction is everywhere in the court, if the Empress Dowager Li wants to appease Li Wei, the uncle of Wuqing, and rely on the ancient tomb faction to make big news, Gao Gong can't stand it, and Zhang Juzheng can't stand it.
Zhang Juzheng thanked Empress Dowager Li and Empress Dowager Chen for their correct choice at a critical juncture in history.
In fact, the ancient tomb faction in the court especially hopes to be able to support the Empress Dowager Li, and then raise the banner of filial piety in a grand manner, and continue the previous trick.
Empress Dowager Li herself also discovered this clue, so she returned to power early.
The court discussion is still going on, and Zhu Yijun likes the theory of the movement of celestial bodies, but some of the contents need to be translated again.
Some of these operational symbols are no longer suitable for reading, similar to △, =, ∠, ⊥, ∵, ∴ these symbols did not appear at that time, which will produce some dyslexia, making the original look obscure, and Zhu Yijun wants to translate the theory of celestial motion more intuitively.
The value of this book is extremely high, for example, it accurately calculates that the distance between the Earth and the Moon is 60.3 times the radius of the Earth, and gives proof.
To calculate the distance between the Earth and the Moon, you need to use a parallax, and if you calculate the distance between the Earth and the Moon, you can calculate the diameter of the Moon, the diameter of the Sun and the Moon, and the distance between the Sun and the Earth, and calculate these to accurately determine the time of the solar and lunar eclipses.
"This astronomer speculates that it is not only the Earth that has a moon Moon, but that Saturn should also have a moon, and we have observed Saturn's ears, and its moons, suggesting that the Earth is not the only center." When Zhu Yijun was reading the theory of celestial motion, he found that Copernicus was limited by instruments, so that he did not see Saturn's ears, that is, Saturn's rings and Saturn's moons.
Once you can see Saturn's ears and Enceladus, it would make the heliocentric model more plausible.
Daming's speculation on the model of the universe is called the Qiankun body map, which is also centered on the earth, and the first day is the moon wheel sky, followed by Mercury sky, Venus sky, sun wheel day and so on.
Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng discussed this thesis for a long time, and if you want to translate this book, you need to know Latin, you also need to know arithmetic, and you need to have time, Zhu Yijun chose to come in person and give proof of the process.
Before Antonio left Beijing, he bought the first folk newspaper of the Ming Dynasty, the Quanjin Miscellaneous Newspaper, which was relative to the Di newspaper, and the front page headline of this miscellaneous newspaper was the topic published by the Ming Emperor: "Labor Diagram".
Antonio could understand it, because it was all written in colloquial characters, and Antonio calculated many matters such as the first mate's purchase of goods and communication with the boatman and sailor, and decided to stay in Beijing for a while.
The labor diagram is poison for the retro school, and for the tomb school, it is a tombstone as heavy as Mount Tai!
On the afternoon of this day, after Zhu Yijun, who had returned from shooting, washed his eyes, he suddenly sent a decree to Wenyuan Pavilion and asked Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang to go to the Yanxinglou box for dinner with him.
The emperor usually gives a big banquet, and it is really rare to invite people to eat in private, Feng Bao also specially told Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang not to wear court clothes, but to go out with a woolen coat.
Zhu Yijun began to order, Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang were guests, and naturally the guests were as they pleased.
"Bang! Zhang Juzheng deceived people too much! An angry roar came from the box next door.
Zhang Juzheng's expression was sluggish, how could he hear someone scolding him after a meal? How hateful you are!
This meal, I'm afraid, is unusual.
It is indeed unusual, after Sun Jigao, the champion of the second year of Wanli, saw the "Labor Diagram", he immediately gathered a group of people and prepared to fight back, how could the high ground of public opinion be handed over to others, this is their biggest means of influencing the government, and now this highland, Zhang Juzheng actually wants to take it!
In the eyes of Sun Jigao and others, this Zhu Zhongxing is Zhang Juzheng's pen name.
The place chosen by Sun Jigao is Yanxing Building, is a high-end atmosphere on the grade of the restaurant, this restaurant is close to the Huitong Pavilion Station, it was originally a restaurant to entertain foreign envoys during the Yongle period, with the passage of time, the foreign envoys gradually decreased, this restaurant was sold in the orthodox years, after several circulation, and finally to the hands of Zhang's relatives in the Xiaozong Dynasty, after the fall of Zhang, was received by Emperor Jiajing within the scope of the imperial village.
After going around for so many years, Yan Xinglou returned to the emperor's name again.
This information is not widely known, which is a typical information gap.
At this time, there were six or seven people around the table, and three servant slaves stood in front of the door, looking around.
"It's ridiculous! Material conditions are because of supply and demand, not human labor, let alone skill! Sun Jigao's tone was particularly excited, Zhang Juzheng denied the material theory of the holy master Mencius, the value of objects is innate, which is called sex in Confucianism.
"What Sun Bianxiu said is very true, there are businessmen selling umbrellas next to the West Lake, this rainy day, from a penny of silver to a penny of silver, in order to avoid the rain, pedestrians still have to pay obediently? This umbrella is still that umbrella, where does this come from? Isn't supply and demand consistent with the situation? Supply and demand are consistent in determining the price of commercial goods, and this Zhu Zhongxing is simply nonsense. Mr. Gu Xiancheng Gu from Wuxi expressed his views and provided an example for Sun Jigao.
Zhang Shaoxian heard his disciple Gu Xiancheng say this, and he also agreed and said: "That's it, this natural disaster is not humane, the gentleman is good at merging the land in the year of the disaster, it is to give the small people a chance to breathe, there are many people who sell land, and few people buy land, and the merger is natural, the court has to intervene, and it is Qingzhang, and it is to return the land, and to collect the debt, why bother?" ”
"If you lose your land, you will work hard, make money, and then buy it back, which is a matter of course in itself, and the court is going to wrestle with heaven and earth?"
Zhang Shaoxian studied under Shi Guanmin, the head of Longcheng Academy, Gu Xiancheng and Gu Yuncheng are Zhang Shaoxian's apprentices.
Sun Jigao, Gu Xiancheng, Gu Yuncheng, and Zhang Shaoxian, these are the mainstays of the Donglin Party in the future, and the tomb faction in the retro faction.
Jiao Hong frowned and said, "Everyone, do you read history?" Except for spring and autumn. ”
"If you don't read, you can't remember." Zhang Shaoxian asked not very concerned.
"Ladies and gentlemen, do you read the contradictions?" Jiao Hong asked with a frown.
Geng Xiang pulled Jiao Hong's hand and motioned to Jiao Hong not to ask again, you ask so, are you still taking the test for fame? This Sun Jigao, as the champion, even if he imparts a little experience in the imperial examination, Jiao Hong is easy to pass the examination.
Geng Xiangxiang is Jiao Hong's teacher, they are the school of mind, and they, the Zhili Wang school, are one of the few schools of mind that talk about practice.
"Why do you want to read it?" Zhang Shaoxian replied again.
"Oh, it turns out that I don't read history or contradictions." Jiao Hong looked suddenly enlightened.
Geng Xiang was anxious when he heard this, and stepped on Jiao Hong under the table, signaling him to stop talking wildly, he will take the exam next year, and will he take the test yet? Be honest in the test, don't be so arrogant!
"It turned out to be a." Jiao Hong was stepped on, regardless of it, but he still scolded it.
"You!" Sun Jigao frowned and looked at Geng Xiangxiang and Jiao Hong, he originally thought that the two masters and apprentices and Zhang Shaoxian's master and apprentice were all here to ask the church for a trial, after all, Sun Jigao was the champion.
But now it seems that it doesn't seem to be, it's more like a kick in the gym!
"Zhu Zhongxing is talking about value, is it price? You confuse price and value to discuss, doesn't this mean what is a deer as a horse? In the past, Zhao Gao pointed to the deer as a horse, and you are not the Yuan Fu courtiers, otherwise, the Ming Dynasty will lose its vitality. Jiao Hong was sitting precariously, but this was not polite at all.
Jiao Hong continued: "A two-horse carriage costs one hundred and forty-eight taels of silver, and the high price of an umbrella is only one dollar and two cents of silver, and the price of the item fluctuates around its value. He just encapsulated it in the value of the commodity. ”
"The price of your umbrella just now rose on a rainy day, which just proves the correctness of the labor diagram."
"Because of the rain, the use value starts to rise, and the exchange value also starts to rise, and the final value rises in a specific time, which is the root of the price increase."
Zhu Yijun heard Jiao Hong say this in the box next door, his eyes lit up, he looked at Zhang Juzheng and said, "Sir, pay attention to this person." ”
"I know." Zhang Juzheng understood that His Majesty the Emperor was a drunkard, not because he was drinking, but because he came to see the excitement.
"That's nonsense! If you say that prices fluctuate around the value of commodities, then why do the prices of food rise to the sky in disaster years? Gu Xiancheng immediately retorted: "Things are ruthless, and they are even more worthless, because people need them, they rise and fall." ”
"That's it." Jiao Hong looked at Gu Xiancheng and asked, "Is it really a disaster year when there is not enough food to eat?" ”
"If there is no disaster in the year, then the world will be under great rule, that is, in the year of disaster, the people will be able to maintain a stable life, which is the manifestation of the great rule of the world."
"By identifying the high grain prices in disaster years as supply and demand, we can get rid of the fact that we have raised grain prices, stripped the small people, and colluded with officials and businessmen, and then put all the blame on the natural disasters."
"Who is stealing the grain that is often closed like a rat on weekdays, who is filling the court's relief grain and grass when the disaster year occurs, who is driving up the price of grain and meat in the fish and meat village during the disaster year, and who is taking the opportunity to annex in the disaster year!"
"If Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Xuandaliao and other border areas are sparsely populated, there are many bandits, and the land is barren, and the food cannot be supplied in the disaster year.
"Are you objecting to the fact that labor intensity and time give value to commodities, or are you doing all the dirty things you do in the word supply and demand, and do evil?!"
Gu Xiancheng's hands are shaking, everyone is a student of Nanya Ground, and they are all going to impact next year's examination, Gu Xiancheng has already seen Jiao Hong's power, but he never expected that he has not seen Jiao Hong these days, and Jiao Hong is even more powerful!
Jiao Hong seemed to have a sharp eye, and he completely saw through their idea at a glance.
"Gu Xiancheng, look at me! Answer me! Jiao Hong stood up, held his hands, and looked at Gu Xiancheng in a serious tone, letting Gu Xiancheng reply.
What kind of bullshit retro school and tomb school are just to find some reason for themselves, and they can criticize the fish and meat people with peace of mind.
Asking for a monthly pass, woo!!!!!!
(End of chapter)