New Shun 1730

Chen Liang, the only one who could possibly break through this stereotype, had too radical ideas. Within his school, he was about to be expelled from Confucianism, and the entire school was wiping the butt of his radical doctrine.

[When you achieve success, you are virtuous].

This sentence can directly be labeled as a heretic, and there is no problem at all.

The idea is too scary.

It was so frightening that Chen Fuliang, the radical among the Guangyi School of thought, did not dare to admit that this statement was correct.

Because what Chen Liang broke through was the Taoist tradition of [Inner Sage and Waiwang]. If he wanted to reconstruct the Taoist tradition and directly kick out the Inner Sage and Waiwang, he would also abandon the idea that "gong must be restored to etiquette, and learning from the outside to the inside is the right way." Shackles, completely independent of "doing things".

The real master Zhu Xi must have seen the problem, so he uncharacteristically used the most radical rhetoric in the debate - completely denying everything after the three generations. After the three generations, everything was dark, and the Han and Tang Dynasties were also dark - because Zhu Xi knew that as long as he relaxed and said that the heyday of the Han and Tang Dynasties after three generations was not dark, Chen Liang would definitely insist on it.

Why did Zhang Boxing criticize Yan Yuan, saying that one of Yan Yuan's major crimes was that he favored Chen Tongfu first and Wang Anshi second? Because it is recognized by the Confucian circles that Chen Liang is already on the edge of the cliff, and even a little bit of Confucianism cannot be saved if he takes a step forward.

Wang Anshi's influence in history is much higher than that of Chen Liang, but in terms of Confucianism, he is further from the cliff than Chen Liang, and he still belongs to his own category.

The official culture of Dashun is actually in the same predicament as the Yan-Li school, and has reached the edge of the cliff.

Either we must carry out a complete cultural revolution, rebuild Confucianism, reconstruct Taoism, and deconstruct benevolence, righteousness, and etiquette.

Or, you can only choose to do meritorious work, restore etiquette, start from the outside in, and finally return to Taoism again, taking shortcuts and ultimately talking nonsense.

Of course, you don’t have to do it. Judging from the long time of a hundred years, from the abstract national concept, it doesn’t matter.

In any case, it is of no use whatsoever. What they believe to be the most benevolent government in the world cannot be solved through benevolent intentions.

It is nothing more than solving the legality issue of Jiangsu's reform, but the matter has been completed. Dashun's finances have been seriously tied to industry, commerce and overseas trade, and it cannot be retreated if it wants to.

Although progress requires peeling off a layer of skin, the world is in chaos.

But going back, in this situation, we have to peel off a layer of skin.

For a long time, conservatives will have the upper hand.

This conservative refers to conservatism under the reality that Jiangsu has completed reforms at this time, and industry, commerce and maritime trade revenue account for a large part of the fiscal revenue; as well as conservatism under the reality of the current foreign policy.

Five or ten years ago, they were the radical group.

Although Liu Yu mocked their school and set up a retro theater troupe to perform, he actually knew that the Yan and Li school's evaluation of him was right, and Jiangsu's reforms could not be replicated throughout the world.

But it doesn't matter.

unimportant.

Dashun’s number one enemy in external market competition is the United Kingdom.

The coming World War I just needs to be won.

The UK already has a debt of 85 million pounds, which is equivalent to 250 million taels of silver. Even if the UK can borrow at 4% interest, the annual interest will be almost 10 million taels.

Even if Dashun doesn't borrow money or maliciously raise interest rates, 3% is the limit, and it will still get seven to eight million taels that year. The tax revenue that can be mortgaged in the UK has almost been mortgaged, and how can this cash cow in India not be used? Can't get it.

A Jiangsu province would definitely not be able to stain the Thames Estuary with blood.

But when it comes to stirring up trouble, there is definitely no problem if the British national debt cannot be sustained, interest rates explode, North American rebellions, economic depression, a run on the national debt, and the disintegration of the Navigation Ordinances occur.

If we don’t have money, we can only liberalize imports and earn tariffs to pay back the money.

It doesn’t take the whole country.

Although Dashun has poor administrative capabilities and low tax collection efficiency, there is one good thing about it.

No national debt.

To a certain extent, Liu Yu feels that his mission has been completed, and the rest will evolve spontaneously.

Because just like the original expedition to Nanyang, Britain had already lost by all accounts.

There was originally a bright road, but he made the investment early and replaced the Netherlands as a second-tier dealer between the East and the West; he gave up India, drove the tigers and devoured the wolves, and directly disintegrated the Sino-French alliance.

However, they don't take this route. They still hold the interest of more than 200 million taels of silver in their hands. The East India Company is also an important purchaser of national debt. Dashun will definitely explode if he puts in a little effort.

Therefore, Liu Yu, who had the mentality of having accomplished his mission, even though he ridiculed the Yan-Li school, still hoped that they would solve the dilemma of Confucianism and make the theory of meritorious work its own logical flaws in Confucianism, and become a truly prominent school.

At least, run schools in various places, publicize the idea that equalizing land is the most benevolent government in the world, and prepare for the subsequent self-destruction of Dashun.

But one thing is that Liu Yu will never allow them to touch his practical school before he releases his shackles.

Who knows that they will come to the point of breaking out of the shackles?

Or is it going back to the reactionary path of going back to Gongxue?

Anyway, history has proven that it is more likely for reactionaries to regress and return to the path of returning to the path of meritorious deeds.

Therefore, even though the Yan and Li School's attitude towards Liu Yu is very ambiguous, even if they criticize and ridicule each other, it is still a bit flirtatious.

But Liu Yu was still far away from them.

Anyway, until they unlock, deconstruct and rebuild themselves, they don’t even count as passers-by.

As for Zhao Liben, who is neither a Confucian scholar nor a member of the new school of thought like Liu Yu, he is just a bad citizen in the eyes of the lower class people...

Zhao Liben was illiterate and had no knowledge of the disputes between these schools of thought. The reason for stopping here was simply because he felt that if his children were alive, his children's voices might be heard among those reading loudly.

As for the economy and construction.

From Yingkou to Songjiang, and then from Songjiang to the north, Zhao Liben's intuitive feeling was that this rural community was very dilapidated and far worse than other places.

Of course he can only feel it intuitively.

It is also impossible for him to understand the problems of the previous infrastructure, the early stage of enclosing the stalls that were too big, and the lack of subsequent capital, and the fact that capital from other places was attracted from various places and did not need to be accumulated by oneself, etc.

If the most ordinary people can understand it to this extent, then there is really no need to bother.

In the capital circle area of ​​Huainan, the two-crop rotation of wheat and cotton has been completed, and a series of agricultural revolutions such as water conservancy construction, fresh water for salt flushing, and bean cake fertilization have been completed through early investment.

Even the Funing area, as a model area for Liu Yu to find trouble and kill people to equalize land, has also realized the "cotton and watermelon" intercropping industry through large capital investment, young crop loan support, controlling the speed of mergers, and a large number of practical students going to the countryside to guide and receive wages. , local people achieved watermelon freedom at least in the summer, and their living standards were also improved with the support of large amounts of loans.

Compared with the negative example here, the north and south are better than here.

In short, the resurrected Taizhou School left the rural communities and became more and more influential along the Huainan Reclamation Area.

As for the Yan-Li School, in addition to having a strong influence on the upper echelons of academia, the grassroots level could not even get out of the rural communities, or even the rural studies of the rural communities.

It should be said that when Zhao Liben, who was illiterate, heard the modified Three-Character Classic coming from inside, this was the moment when he, a lower-class commoner, came closest to the Yan-Li school of thought.

When he left the confines of his rural studies and no longer heard the sound of reading in his ears, he became further and further away from the Yan and Li school of thought, which still tried to follow the traditional "herdsman" line.

At least that's the case at this time.

After leaving the school and asking around for a while, Zhao Liben, who had been away from home for many years, finally saw his wife and children.

The child no longer recognized him, but at least he was still alive.

My wife is still alive.

The second brother is also still alive.

It's just that the three brothers still didn't get together after all.

"Where's the third child?"

"Not long after your accident, we couldn't live well here. The third child went to a labor dispatch company and went to Ceylon. After selling for three years and pawning four or five taels of silver, my sister-in-law and I survived. ”

Listening to the second brother talking about the whereabouts of the third child, Zhao Liben thought about his own experience, clenched his fists, and gritted his teeth and said: "The gangsters in the car and boat shop deserve to be killed even if they are innocent! What a fucking labor dispatch company, they are just a group of human traffickers. Want to If I wasn’t lucky, I would have died in the mountains of Guandong.”

After a few curse words and some parting words, he took out his own money and asked his children to buy wine.

I learned that my younger brother was also married, but his life was very tight, and it was obvious at a glance that he had no money left.

Zhao Liben sighed a few words, but his second brother praised the township community a lot.

"Brother, we can survive and I can get married, thanks to the adults and gentlemen who organized this village community."

"The rural treatise says it well:"

"Be good at changing customs and guard your homeland. During weddings, funerals, and sick days, do not be extravagant and self-deprived, and use Yinzhimao to eat food. When you are in a wedding home, do not plan dowries or dowry, or drink and eat. When you are in a funeral home, do not encourage gods. ,exhaust Spend money to support relatives and provide for the elderly, do not support them sparingly and bury them in a desolate manner; when you are sick, seek medical advice; do not believe in sorcery and specialize in witchcraft; when dealing with relatives and friends, be sincere and courteous, and do not use empty words and extravagance..."

Zhao Liben knew that his younger brother was also illiterate, but he sang and recited the rural covenant very naturally.

"In this rural community, the customs have changed. In the wedding house, don't worry about wedding dowry or big things such as food and wine. I can't even make a lot of money. Because I am capable, I finally got a wife."

"My sister-in-law has been here all these years. The child is still young, so she has her own twenty-five acres of farmland. If she can't grow it herself, she gives it to others to grow it and gets half of the harvest. This half of the harvest also reduces other corvee duties. My sister-in-law spun and weaved in exchange for some food from the village community, and I helped a little bit, and finally got through it."

"These adults and gentlemen who are organizing the rural community are all good people. Although life is difficult, the gentlemen said that this year the river will be repaired, and there will not be so many corvees in the future. I heard that these original salt ponds, Either provide money or provide people.”

"We don't have much money, so we have to hire people. In the past few years, we have built rivers and sea walls. It's been a bit hard, but we are still alive."

"If it hadn't been for these good people, it would have been difficult. I really couldn't survive at first, so the third child signed a contract with the people from the dental shop and went to the country of Ceylon. He said he was going to Gaolangbu to work as a sailor, right?"

Zhao Liben knew that it would not be easy for his family to survive when he ran away, and he was grateful to the people who planned to build these villages.

Thinking about the original reform, no one asked me about the salt workers who were hired by market operators without salt household status. In this way, it is really a matter of judgment.

"Is the rent high here?"

When asked about this, the second brother's face became a little ugly, and he sighed and said: "The rent is not high. Pay the state tax, and the tax is one out of ten."

"But we have to build schools and churches, we have to dig rivers and build embankments. We also have to pay for my husband to teach in the countryside...all of this is a lot."

“We can just make do with it. They say that after the canal is opened this year, there won’t be any major projects to be done, so it should be better.”