Chapter 100 The iteration of technology and the reform of the world need to break the Confucian sole theory [Please subscribe]
He also found that even if he delegated his power a little.
But it did not allow the officials below to let themselves go.
Instead, they put shackles on the heads of the officials below, making them work harder.
When Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao and his son announced that they would increase their salaries, the officials went crazy.
The three words "increased salary" are simply the biggest stimulus to them.
So now there is no need for him to supervise. The combination of passing the legal exam and getting a salary increase forces officials to work diligently.
The Jin Yiwei under him also fell into disgrace during this period.
On the one hand, it is to examine the environment for the establishment of the Treasure and Money Bureau and the Pingzhen Treasury.
On the other hand, it also collects intelligence on the actions of the officials below.
The situation reported in recent days is as Chen Han said, the test method is really powerful.
The pressure from one level to the next directly passes the responsibility to every official.
They push themselves spontaneously.
So the old man is very relieved now.
When Zhu Biao found Zhu Yuanzhang, the old man had just caught a golden carp.
The personal eunuch Wang Gonggong next to him helped bring the carp back with a fishing rod.
"Oh, Your Majesty, this is a golden carp. Catching such a fish must be God's blessing for you, old man, to be blessed with good fortune, longevity and health, and the Ming Dynasty will last for thousands of years!"
Hahaha……
Zhu Yuanzhang burst into laughter after hearing this.
The mood was particularly relaxed: "When we were young, we had no food to eat, so we relied on the river to fish to satisfy our hunger. I haven't fished seriously in more than 20 years, and my hands are a bit rusty."
The personal eunuch complimented him: "Your Majesty, you are a genius and you have not lost your craftsmanship."
Zhu Yuanzhang was basking in the sun and realized for the first time that life could be so pleasant.
At this moment, the young eunuch came to report: "Your Majesty, Your Highness the Crown Prince wants to see you!"
Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly put down the fishing rod: "Hey, the boss is here, call him over quickly... Put your things away, let the imperial chef handle the golden carp, and bring it to the Hongru Pavilion in the back garden. We want to use it with the prince." meal."
"Here!" The little eunuch carried the fish bucket and stepped back.
Prince Zhu Biao and Ling Han came together.
Zhu Yuanzhang stood outside the Hongru Pavilion and waited for Zhu Biao to come. Seeing that Zhu Biao was still more than ten meters away, he had already stepped forward to greet him.
"My son sees my father!"
"Wei Chen sees His Majesty!"
Zhu Biao and Ling Han both bowed and saluted.
"Get up and talk inside the pavilion." Zhu Yuanzhang said, stepping forward and holding his son's hand.
Feeling that his son's hand had a normal temperature, Zhu Yuanzhang felt particularly relieved.
In the past, he could always feel that his boss's hands were a little cold, but now after more than half a year of nursing, he has finally improved a lot.
Ling Han envied this kind of father-son relationship.
The three kings and ministers came to the pavilion. Wang Hong, the personal eunuch, had already ordered the young eunuch to place soft cushions on the stone bench.
After the monarch and his ministers sat down, Zhu Yuanzhang carefully read the contents of Chen Han's class recorded by Ling Han during this period.
After reading it, I couldn't help but sigh: "Chen Han's teaching to children aroused their curiosity and invisibly brought such huge changes to our Ming Dynasty.
It seems that the knowledge accumulated by the younger generations is not comparable to that of us now.
Boss, you are right. His one or two words have saved countless lives, which is good news to our Ming Dynasty.
But what do you think of the industrial revolution he mentioned? "
"Dad, I think we can refer to the successful cases of the British in later generations and carry out the industrial revolution based on the actual national conditions of our Ming Dynasty." Zhu Biao also finished reading the content of Chen Han's lecture, especially because he was very interested in the industrial revolution.
Especially after seeing what Ling Han recorded, because the British Empire achieved the Industrial Revolution, they suddenly became the most advanced country in the world.
And it has the strength to expand overseas.
A small island country finally achieved overseas colonization, and the colonized land was tens of thousands of times that of its mainland.
After controlling such a huge amount of land, it is known as the empire on which the sun never sets. As long as the sun shines, there is territory.
Such hugeness was a huge impact to Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao and his son.
After reading it, Zhu Yuanzhang strengthened his determination, "The Ming Dynasty should take this path, whether it is the industrial revolution or the development of so-called science and technology, I think this path can be taken.
Now that Chen Han is here, no matter whether he knows that we are in the Ming Dynasty or not, as long as what he says is useful to the Ming Dynasty, we can listen to him. "
Then Zhu Yuanzhang asked Ling Han: "What kind of technology is this? From what I saw in his class, it seemed a bit like what the folks call strange and obscene skills.
When we were among the people, we heard a lot of rumors about this.
Today's gunpowder guns seem to be of this type. "
Ling Han replied: "Your Majesty, I have read ancient and modern history books and found that this kind of statement has been quite popular since the Song Dynasty. The so-called strange and obscene skills are just the misinterpretation of pedantic scholars.
In their eyes, anything that cannot be found in the books of sages is denounced as heresy, strange and obscene techniques.
However, in our land of China, dynasties have changed, the land has been shaken, and new learning has emerged in vast numbers. How can we stick to the outdated Confucian dogma that has not changed for thousands of years? As Confucius said, if you know something, you know it; if you don't know it, you don't know it.
We should be tolerant of new learning so that we can fully understand it and gain what we can't do.
Just improving the plow will not help increase farmland production.
How much manpower and material resources have been reduced by the use of rollover trucks? The construction of Dujiangyan has benefited thousands of generations; How many people in ancient and modern times have been facilitated by the use of papermaking, gunpowder, printing, and printing? The luni-solar calendar and the art of astronomical observation have guided how many generations of our Chinese people have harvested in autumn and stored in winter?
The iterative improvement of such techniques not only embodies the wisdom of our Chinese ancestors for thousands of years, but is also the only way for our Chinese people to last for thousands of years.
Those who ignore these techniques and the efforts of traditional craftsmen are those who have forgotten their ancestors. "
After Zhu Biao heard what Ling Han said, he immediately cheered loudly: "Cai!! That's so well said!"
"Thank you for the compliment, Your Highness. This is the injustice that our ancestors have repeatedly felt about us." Ling Han said.
Zhu Yuanzhang asked with a smile: "You are the right minister of the Ministry of Rites and a serious scholar. If you deviate from scholars like this, no wonder they will say you are stubborn!"
Ling Han stood up: "Your Majesty, I think what Chen Han said is true. The iteration of technology and the reform of the world need to break the Confucian theory of uniqueness.
Confucius was a saint, but many scholars today regard the saint as a fig leaf to hide dirt and evil.
Instead of doing this, it is better to cultivate a group of craftsmen with free hands and follow Chen Han to carry out reforms and be like him. Everyone in the world has sharp eyes and should know how to choose. "
Zhu Biao also looked at his father expectantly.
"This is something that will disturb the foundation of scholars all over the world, so be careful!" Zhu Yuanzhang understood very well.
He hates those pedantic scholars the most, but the only outstanding scholarship today is Confucianism. If he wants to govern the country, he has to rely on these people. Unless someone can come up with a new knowledge to challenge the status of Confucian scholarship, there is no chance at all.
The scientific method that Chen Han is now proposing seems to have the tendency to tear a little hole into this darkness.
I don’t know if it was a coincidence or Chen Han did it intentionally.
Zhu Yuanzhang always felt that before Chen Han proposed the industrial revolution, he helped the Ming Dynasty use the work-for-relief method to get businessmen to participate in disaster relief, and it seemed that the layout had already been planned.
Starting from the opening of commercial channels and the use of work-for-relief, the direction of the Ming Dynasty was already heading in the direction Chen Han wanted.
Nowadays, because among the victims of the disaster, many people from private households have turned to craftsmen, cracks have appeared in the solid household registration system.
Originally, it was absolutely impossible for Zhu Yuanzhang to open this barrier, but he actually accepted Chen Han's opinion.
Even businessmen were involved in such important events of the court.
From this, it can be seen that in fact, Chen Han actually brought him in invisibly.
Lao Zhu referred to the early conditions for the start of the industrial revolution and compared them one by one.
[The Industrial Revolution required a large number of workers. 】After Chen Han's proposal of dividing one person into one mu was implemented, the per capita tax was cancelled.
A large number of black households have emerged. It is not realistic for these people to just dig in the soil and eat.
So Chen Han put forward a suggestion during class that could guide these people to enter the workshop and become workers;
【Industrial Revolution Business needs to be active. 】
Zhao Mian, the Minister of Revenue, just reported some time ago.
Since the Ming Dynasty has lifted the two prohibitions on traders, traders can do business all over the world, and commerce is gradually becoming more active;
[The industrial revolution requires some technological innovations that are closely related to people’s lives. 】
The British Industrial Revolution began with the textile industry.
When it comes to the textile industry, Zhu Yuanzhang believes that Ming Dynasty currently has the absolute right to speak.
Because Huang Daopo, a native of Songjiang, brought back advanced textile technology from Yazhou in the early Yuan Dynasty.
A huge textile industry has emerged around Songjiang, and the technology is absolutely top-notch.
[The industrial revolution requires a huge market. 】
According to the current development of business in the Ming Dynasty and the reform of dividing a small family into an acre, everyone uses treasure money to pay taxes.
This trend will force people to participate in business.
[The Industrial Revolution requires the introduction of some new ideas to impact old ideas, even the ideas of officials. 】
And now Ling Han, who is the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, has begun to waver in Confucianism.
Turning to what Chen Han proposed, we should use science and technology to promote the industrial revolution.
In the future, as long as the collection of business and commercial taxes is increased, and reforms deepen, the salaries of officials will continue to increase.
Some officials will see that strengthening commerce has so many benefits.
Their minds will loosen.
Then you will agree that the businessmen proposed by Chen Han will not become a factor of instability as Confucianism said.
They may even believe that what makes people live and work in peace and contentment is not only the three obediences and four virtues and dogma of Confucianism, but also the increase in income brought by real business.
All this indicates that in the near future, Ming Dynasty will have all the conditions for the industrial revolution proposed by Chen Han.
Thinking of this kind of thing gave Zhu Yuanzhang an illusion.
Could it be that this monkey cub actually knew that he had arrived in the Ming Dynasty a long time ago, and was he deliberately guiding him?
Then Ling Han's eyes lit up when he learned that Japan had huge gold and silver reserves in the Iwami Silver Mine and the Sado Gold Mine.
Zhu Yuanzhang's mind suddenly became active again.
It doesn’t matter whether this little monkey did it on purpose or not, as long as it can bring benefits to Ming Dynasty.
Although Japan is one of the dozen countries he listed as unconquerable.
Of course he definitely has a huge hatred for Japan.
There is no other reason than that during the third year of Hongwu.
He once sent envoys to Japan to discuss how to solve the Japanese pirates problem since the Yuan Dynasty.
But unexpectedly, five of the envoys he sent were killed directly, and the other two were detained for three months before being released.
This incident made Zhu Yuanzhang extremely angry.
However, the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty had not been dealt with at that time, and the lessons of the Yuan Dynasty's Kublai Khan's two failed expeditions to the north of Japan.
In addition, in the early Ming Dynasty, the country was full of waste and could not support such a long-distance cross-sea battle, so it gave up.
But I didn't expect that Japan actually has a silver mine that has been dug for 400 years and produces 800 million taels per year.
Lao Zhu still asked uncertainly: "Does such a silver mine really exist?"
A trace of surprise flashed in his eyes.
In fact, because the annual silver output of the Ming Dynasty was too small, the fact that there could be such a large silver mine in such a small country really overturned his cognition.
Ling Han nodded his head like a chicken pecking rice: "Chen Han said it with all his heart, and he also told the specific location, there will be no lies.
And he also said that Japan is currently divided.
Not only were the two imperial courts divided into the north and the south, there were even dozens or hundreds of warlords fighting within the two imperial courts.
This is really a good opportunity for us.
Once we control the silver and gold mines, we will dig out the silver and gold and transport them to our Ming Dynasty.
Even if it does not become a currency in circulation, allowing people to exchange their treasure banknotes for gold and silver can greatly boost people's confidence in today's reforms.
Even if the money is just stored in the treasure chests of the Treasure Bank Bureau in various places, it is a reassurance for the people.
Wei Chen felt that Chen Han was right. The most important thing now was how to quickly restore the people's trust in the court and how to quickly let the people accept the trust that the treasure banknotes would not depreciate too much.
Only in this way can the common people boldly follow the steps of the imperial court to reform, and merchants will feel more confident when doing business.
And if we can really open up the Japanese market, it will be a big deal.
Since they are facing each other, what do they lack?They are short of food and cotton clothes, so we can do business with them.
As long as the domestic war in Japan never ends, we will always have business to do. "
After listening to what Chen Han said, Ling Han didn't look like a scholar.
In fact, what Chen Han said had too much impact on him.
If he had been adhering to his own views, he might really have no redeeming qualities in front of Chen Han.
Perhaps because of his long exposure to Chen Han, he discovered that the knowledge of later generations was by no means limited to Confucianism.
It can really be said that a hundred flowers bloom, and it is much more enlightened than today's Confucians.
Confucian thought is actually not the thought of Confucius.
It is entirely the scholars, or the ruling class, established it in order to cater to their own rule, imprison the people's thoughts, and win over the scholars at the same time.
Now Zhu Yuanzhang does not trust these scholars too much, because they are originally full of contradictions, and there are many barriers between them.
There is even bitter hatred between these scholars, but we are just trying to learn from each other.
But now when Chen Han said so many scientific methods, Ling Han suddenly felt that a skylight had opened.
He has always believed that today's scholars no longer have ambitions like the scholars before. Today's scholars only want to have immunity.
Zhu Yuanzhang indeed gave privileges to scholars all over the world, but he also really harmed those scholars.
Let these scholars study hard just to get the privilege and exemption, blindly trying to get into trouble.
This not only loses Confucius' idea of absorbing the strengths of hundreds of schools of thought, but also deviates from the original intention of studying to understand the truth.
So much so that Ling Han, the right minister of the Ministry of Rites, also felt a considerable sense of separation.
He was born as a scholar, but he saw that scholars had fallen into a rut, and he really could no longer watch them fall.
The emergence of Chen Han may really give the world a new way to study.
After Ling Han finished explaining his entire set of logic.
After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that he was really interested.
Of course, they are very interested in the Iwami silver mine and the Sado gold mine in Japan.
Coupled with the three years of Hongwu's hatred, it is still branded in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart like a scar...
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