Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1068: Evil Dragon Afterimage ([-])

Because they must also have a large number of "illegal" grass in their hands.

However, they didn't ask too directly, but instead asked a seemingly irrelevant question in a roundabout way.

"Duke, we have said before that the Son of Heaven is sage, and the Duke has far-sighted eyes, and has solved many flood problems. But besides that, there are two problems with the floods here."

"One is that the imperial court built dams at some river mouths to prevent smuggling of ships in order to check salt smuggling."

"Another one is that when the river flows into the sea, some people always block the mouth of the river and surround the polder."

"For the two, if the autumn water comes, the polders will be blocked, and the river dam will block the grid, and the water will not flow out, and there will always be floods."

"In the future, if those land reclamation companies are involved in water conservancy, they also need to formulate a charter so as not to block the river. The Duke should also set a rule. If there is a flood upstream, they cannot use it to irrigate the fields."

The local rich family surnamed Jiang made some insinuations, but what he said made sense.

They have also read pamphlets on how to reclaim wasteland and desalination.For some lands where the salinity is very serious, it is still necessary to build a dam underneath and rely on fresh water to solve the problem.

But asking this question is not because I really want to discuss technical issues with Liu Yu, or the stalemate of water competition or flood discharge that the people have never been able to solve, but to see how firm Liu Yu's attitude towards the waste reclamation issue is.

Liu Yu didn't care about it, and said casually: "Don't worry, the land reclamation company and the upper reaches will set the rules. There will also be a system here. When it shouldn't be released, the water should be released forcibly, and when the water should be released, it will be for oneself. Self-interest must be grasped.”

"To pay respects to Mr. Fan Wenzheng today is also to think about what happened to Mr. Fan's embankment back then. If the land reclamation company is willing to pay for the repairs, it will reduce a lot of people's power, which is also a good thing for you."

The accompanying gentry hurriedly said: "Yes, yes. Because of this, this county has established a shrine, and dare not forget the virtue of Duke Fan Wenzheng."

After finishing speaking, several gentry glanced at each other. It was obvious that Liu Yu meant that the land reclamation was settled, and they were already considering building a new seawall.

"Duke, the Duke knew about the fight in the Japanese county a few days ago. Then... but I don't know the Duke's treatment of Cao Dang. What do you think?"

Liu Yu smiled, but did not speak immediately.

Instead, he read the couplet articles in the ancestral hall for a while, and after deliberately leaving these people alone for a while, he said: "However, it's hard to say. Although the state has state laws, sometimes they really can't be enforced."

"A few days ago, didn't many salt households say that those land reclamation companies were wronged?"

The gentry hurriedly said: "Master Jiedu thinks that this matter is not trivial, and it involves controlling the people's property and competing with the people for profit. Moreover, the Duke of the state does not know that there are many savages in the people here."

"In order to prevent accidents, the Duke should let the army prepare in advance."

This time Liu Yu came with soldiers.Although a field force of 2 people was stationed in Jiangsu Province, the emperor still dispatched troops from the north to prevent accidents. It was impossible for Liu Yu to open an opening to mobilize even a small-scale army.

The emperor knew very well that this reform not only involved salt merchants and gentry, but also many low-level people.Most likely, something will happen, and if something really happens, without the army, it will definitely not work.

Generally speaking, the gentry opposed the entry of soldiers into the city, and it was even less likely that they would take the initiative to invite troops to enter the city.

Liu Yu knew well that these big clans might not have directly controlled Caodang, but their families, branches, and subordinates must have occupied a lot of Caodang.

Obviously, these people hope that the problem of grass littering can be solved in a way that is beneficial to them.

Seeing that Liu Yu didn't express anything, these gentry said: "The Duke knows that in the previous dynasty, the Yangming School flourished, and here even Wang Xinzhai founded the school here. Although the Yangming School has declined, the Taizhou School seems to have disappeared. But in fact, folklore is very popular.”

"In particular, his great knowledge has been widely spread among the villagers. The future generations will not have their talents, and they will gradually be as dull as evil. I'm afraid that many troubles will arise when the time comes."

Liu Yu also has some understanding of the situation here.

What these gentry said can't be simply said to be good or bad, it can only be regarded as an attempt of Confucianism.

What is involved in this is the idea of ​​"equalizing the grass" that arose when the Taizhou School was prosperous.

The situation here is a little more complicated.

The Taizhou School in history basically had no influence at the end of the Ming Dynasty, because the famous and theoretical ones in the school basically disappeared during the Wanli period.

In the follow-up, under the background that the world almost perished at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Gu Yanwu, Huang Zongxi, Wang Fuzhi, and even Yan Yuan, Li Wei and others after them, comprehensively criticized and reflected on the spontaneous behavior of New Learning and Neo-Confucianism. The Taizhou School itself was quite For going out of line, the overall public opinion has been severely criticized.

And some words of Wang Gen back then finally made the Taizhou School a complete historical term.

It was Wang Gen who talked about "King Wu defeated Zhou".

What do you mean?

That is to say, King Wu defeated Zhou, right?Right and wrong.

The benevolence of saving the world, of course.

However, after King Wu overthrew Zhou, Weizi was still alive. You should not use the Zhou Dynasty as the Shang Dynasty, but you should support Weizi as the emperor. You people should return to Shaanxi.

Supporting the benevolence of saving the world and opposing Zhou Wu revolutionized the destiny.

After Dashun conquered the world, Wang Gen had been dead for an unknown number of years.However, some adherents of the previous dynasty could not stand to translate these remarks.

These theories are very useful, and they are simply "tailor-made" for the relationship between Dashun and Daming.

Customization of geography, returning to Shaanxi; customization of behavior, the benevolence of saving the world can be done, but Mingxing in Shun Dynasty is not advisable, and there were still descendants of Zhu family at that time.

After Dashun's world, this is not only too visual, but also really irritating.But it's hard to say that a person who had been dead for decades at that time, who had no prophecy beforehand, had thoughts of nostalgia for the previous dynasty and allusions to the current dynasty.

However, some adherents of the previous dynasty can't stand it and use this statement to engage in evil politics.

Dashun is quite smart here, because this thing is a horse liver theory, something that was played with flowers more than 1000 years ago.

The issue of political legitimacy is not something that should be discussed.Once debated, once discussed, it will only increase the number of problems. The best way is not to argue or care.

Even if the great Confucianists were specially found to debate the classics, and the result of the debate came, it would only be a victory on paper, but in fact it would encourage the spread of these theories.

However, after this incident was uncovered, with the gradual stabilization of Dashun's rule, the Taizhou School really died out in name, because no stupid gentry and doctor openly said that he belonged to the Taizhou School.

However, people can die and their fame can be destroyed, but thoughts cannot die.

The Taizhou School died out in name, but with the Dashun ruling the world, many people here are still influenced by the Taizhou School due to many historical issues.

It should be said that the impact was very profound.

However, it is hard to say whether it is positive or not.

On the one hand, he bears the brunt of Daming's almost death.Gu Yanwu directly compared Wang Yangming and Wang Anshi, hoping to "turn the troubled times against the good"; Huang Zongxi even said, "the teacher who enlightened Qu Tan's secrets and returned to him, and became Zen after he joined Yangming."

On the other hand, because of the saying that "King Wu defeated Zhou, he should protect Weizi to rule the world and return to Shaanxi by himself".

For these two reasons, this school no longer discusses politics and principles, but degenerates into something like a religious thing.

Perhaps, this is also a desperate attempt?
Wang Gen made it up before, saying that in a dream, the sky collapsed, and the people shouted, and he stretched out his hand to split the collapsed sky and saved the people.

Yan Jun is even more direct towards making Confucius into a god, and engages in activities such as large and medium-sized images, and altars.

It should be said that when it reached the middle of the Ming Dynasty, all sensible people felt that it was really impossible to rule according to the old methods of the past, and tried all kinds of strange and wonderful ways to improve Confucianism.

This religiousization of Confucian superstition, whether good or bad, is an attempt.

Originally, Wang Gen thought, how can ordinary people understand such things as self-discipline, benevolence and righteousness, and Tai Chi?
Since everyone can be sanctified, why not adopt this method that is closer to the common people and spread the essence of morality?

After Wanli, with the death of several masters of the Taizhou School, the remaining remnants of the Taizhou School turned to be radical heresies, and instead believed that the system at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty was the most suitable system, and preached about the physiology of each safety everywhere. , Doing nothing.

On the one hand, it was a set of systems established by the previous dynasty at the beginning of the founding of the country, which really did not adapt to the development of the southern commodity economy at all.

On the other hand, social conflicts began to spark, and after Wanli began to erupt in general.

Under this reality, these old scholars were unable to put forward a new theory suitable for the development of society; on the other hand, some figures who founded schools died one after another.

The rest naturally turned to reaction, trying to stabilize society through reactionary reforms.

This is not at all contradictory to the sayings such as the ideological enlightenment given to the Taizhou School by later generations.

Reactionary retrogression is originally a concomitant product of ideological enlightenment.

By the time of Dashun, because of those two reasons, the Taizhou School, as a school, was actually dead.

But this idea of ​​going deep into the people and spreading morality has been handed down.And because they no longer talked about those reasons and debates, on the contrary, they gradually changed their careers for a second time.

Relying on easy-to-understand songs such as "The Song of Dacheng".

"The Sudesi people have the same way, and there will be a lot of peace in the world; I said peace of mind, so everyone is in harmony; I said that the heart is right, so everyone's heart is right..."

In this way of poems, limericks, and sermons, it quickly spread among the people.Or try to engage in villager self-government pacts; or spread some things like moral filial piety everywhere.

To say that the beautiful society they fantasized about is actually the kind of idealized perfect society at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.

Basically, it is a bit like the school of rural self-government and moral construction.

These are the successors who have taken the "dross" of the Taizhou School, and they still have a great influence among the people.Especially after taking the feudal and superstitious line of being close to the people, it has been widely recognized by the bottom.

For example, in the matter of the Yan government, their influence in Yanhu is still very large.

The idea we uphold is still the same as the original idea that the grass will be divided equally and the chaos will not be chaotic for thousands of years. Set up a village pact, and the squires will be responsible for educating morals, creating a perfect semi-closed society.

Of course, the gentry who talked about this issue with Liu Yu all had straws in their hands, and they definitely didn't want to share them equally.

The reason why they wanted Liu Yu to make preparations early and prepare the army was mainly because they were worried that if the sentence was forced, it would lead to a large-scale resistance at the bottom.

This is not just the salt households, but also the general public who have been influenced by the remnants of those schools of thought. They really hate these gentry and wealthy businessmen, and they yearn for equality.

The general public, as well as a large number of small producers such as the textile industry in the golden age, are not really the bottom of the society.

Compared with the reality that the gentry and wealthy merchants plunder by force, and the future Liu Yu wants to let the capital drink blood, for the people at the bottom, it is true that the idealized Ming Dynasty at the beginning of the founding of the country after being filtered, coupled with It seems that the state of preaching by the Confucian scholars in the perfect town who are trying to be religious is the most beneficial to them.

For those small producers, Yanhu is a totem pole, and it is even more important that the contract be honored.But for those people at the lowest level, isn't the idealized Yanhu in Juncaodang also a totem pole?

(End of this chapter)