Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1107 Shangguo Mentality ([-])

Of course, Quan Zheshen could hear a trace of irony in Meng Songlu's words, so his mouth was not so clean, and he boldly said: "Brother Meng, there is actually a sentence that I don't know if I should say it or not."

"According to what you said, the methods used by Duke Xingguo are all domineering techniques. Since the Celestial Dynasty is a superior country, it should be a model for all nations, and it should follow the kingly way and conquer the world. North Korea is a small country, but it does not forget to observe etiquette..."

Although within the concept of Tianxia, ​​two people have a common language.

But after all, Dashun used very radical Huayi culture in the past, and Liu Yu has been promoting public opinion for the upcoming "World War I" in the past few years. Meng Songlu felt very uncomfortable after hearing Quan Zheshen's words.Xindao, you are also worthy of mentioning the kingly way?

But he is a scholar after all, he didn't scold the street directly, but quoted a real domineering trick with a smile.

"In the past, the state of Qi had much salt, and the state of Chu had much gold. Guan Zhong said: Let the barbarians live in the gold of Chu, and I can make farmers eat without plowing, and women wear clothes without weaving."

"Qi Huan then exchanged salt for gold and got tens of thousands of gold. Duke Huan then called Guan Zi and asked, "Can you use gold?" The weight of transporting gold to weigh all things belongs to the king. Therefore, it is said that using it is like throwing it on rivers and seas, and losing it to horses. This is the karma of the king of Yin."

"Brother Zhao said that Xingguo uses the domineering technique. From my point of view, this technique is better than that used by your country."

In a word, Quan Zhe directly broke the defense.

The words quoted by Meng Songlu are to the effect that Qi does not produce gold, and it may be copper, in short, it is precious metals.

Guan Zhong used salt to exchange a large amount of precious metals from abroad, and then declared the precious metals as legal tender, stipulating that gold should be used for paying taxes and tributes, and the only people in Qi who had precious metals were Guan Zhong and King Qi, so they relied on the precious metals in their hands as The king of Qi has enriched a large amount of "national wealth" of Qi.

The reason why Meng Songlu quoted this sentence was actually satirizing North Korea's military deployment policy.

Guan Zhong exchanged salt for gold from abroad, and then announced that no matter it was court congratulations, tax payments, etc., gold had to be used, so gold was precious, and the gold in the court's hands could be exchanged for more things.

You North Korea implements the rice system, exchanges rice for Dashun cloth, and then announces that the military cloth tax will continue to be retained, and Liang Ding will continue to use cloth to pay taxes, so he has to buy cloth.The cloth in the hands of the court can be exchanged for more grain.

Isn't it the same thing?
Who is using the domineering light and heavy technique?What kind of king are you?
As for whether Liu Yu has practiced light and heavy techniques, Meng Songlu actually knows in his heart that he has indeed done so.

Especially in terms of foreign policy, Meng Songlu had to admit that Dashun was indeed domineering.

Domineering does not mean that you have to use swords, guns, swords and halberds.

Duke Huan of Qi asked Guan Zhong that the Siyi refused to accept it, and feared that he would go against the government and hurt the widow. Is the behavior of the widow justified?

Guan Zhong said: "North Korea is not in the dynasty. Please use the leather and small clothes as coins."Therefore, things have no owners, things have no connections, and distances and nears cannot be related to each other, so the four barbarians will not be able to go to the court.

Duke Huan of Qi said, what if North Korea does not come to pay tribute?
Guan Zhong said, simply, North Korea is rich in fur and mink, so fur and mink should be pulled into the economic system and given a high economic value.Pull their Wenpi and small clothes into the economic system, do you think he will come to pay tribute?
And Dashun's policy towards North Korea is indeed in this way.Through port opening, North Korean ginseng, mink fur, paper, deer antler, grain, etc. were forcibly drawn into Dashun's economic system.

Food is okay.

The industrial chain of ginseng, mink fur, deer antler, etc. is aimed at the Dashun market.Under the deep bondage, if you don't pay tribute, you have to pay tribute. It is impossible to implement the model of pure internal circulation of small farmers before Dashun.

Of course, this method is definitely not kingly.However, the academic environment created by the founding of Dashun, one by one, is passionately trying to wash away the shame of the literati at the end of the previous dynasty. In terms of foreign policy, Meng Songlu said that he supports the kingly way, but in his heart he is quite supportive of such domineering methods. .

Moreover, this matter involved how the vassals viewed Dashun. Dashun must have its own political correctness.

It cannot be said that the vassals say that what you are doing is not kingly, but we are kingly.It is impossible for the Confucian scholars in Dashun to just nod their heads quickly. That’s right, you are right. This imperial court is no longer kingly orthodox. You should quickly cross the Yalu River to build a kingly paradise. We welcome you in Yifu.

All in all, in the academic thinking triggered by the economic transformation in Jiangnan in these years, at least half of the Confucian scholars avoided talking about the concept of Tianxia and how to maintain it.

Everyone knows it, but everyone doesn't say it.

I won't be idle and have nothing to do to get this name.

I can't fight it out.

Second, it is easy for those big businessmen and transformed gentry involved in trade to hire a group of hooligans to beat them up, and then write books and sing plays to discredit them.

Of course this is external.

Internally, the group of scholars in Jiangsu is also in a state of seeing through and not telling the truth about some things.

For example, after the reform of the salt administration, Songjiang Prefecture replaced Yangzhou and became the logistics and financial center of the salt industry in the five provinces.

Of course, the imperial court collected a tax from the salt tax.

But after all, it is a government-supervised commercial operation, and the new group of salt merchants still made enough profits.

The profits obtained were invested in Jiangsu Province.

For example, at least one-third of the investment in the seawall and water conservancy projects in northern Jiangsu actually came from the money for the salt that people in the five provinces eat.

It is equivalent to drawing money from the people in five provinces to build seawalls and canals in northern Jiangsu.

Another example is the soybean planting industry in Kanto, and the rising cotton production in northern Jiangsu, which is almost nonsense.A single flower in a crop depends entirely on fertilizer, and the price of soybeans is kept low so that only cotton can make money.

Everyone in the province has benefited, is it unreasonable to jump up and down?This is not kingly?

Although some people are skeptical, the reason why Liu Yu insisted on abolishing Yangzhou and allowing the salt industry center to overlap with the light industry center may be that one day in the future, with the help of the salt industry's transportation channel, the light industry products in southern Jiangsu will be shipped out together. Borrow the formed transportation line and market scope formed by the salt industry.

But now it is just suspicion, at least at this time, it has not been seen that it is really going to do this.

So everyone has got the benefits, how many people will stand up and speak out?

Anyway, the reality is such a situation, and the living standards of farmers and above have improved overall.

The owner farmers in Dashun itself are different from those in the UK. The owner farmers affected by the British enclosure rely on the "commons" to maintain their livelihoods. After enclosing the commons, they will definitely not be able to survive on their own private land; The self-cultivating peasants in Shunjiang Province are maintained by men farming and women weaving. Not to mention the public land, the public ponds have long been privatized.

The looms went to the countryside and external plunder stabilized the self-cultivated farmers in Jiangsu and destroyed the tenant farmers in Jiangsu.The attitude of scholar-bureaucrats towards tenant farmers... is really not considered to be of concern, and it is basically not included in the category of "people", especially after the abolition of head tax and labor, people's registration is basically expelled.

In general, more than 150 million people affected by the Yanghuai Canal, the vast number of tenant farmers, those who were captured and exiled to the Northeast or Southeast Asia as contract slaves, and those who were forced to work in factories Combing wool and rubbing cotton... Basically within the category of "people", Liu Yu has managed to improve the living standards of "people".

The attempt by Meng Songlu and others to make an appointment with the Xiangxian village community has already failed, and some original ideas of righteousness have already been shaken, or at least here in Jiangsu.

Liu Yu wrote to satirize his teacher, saying that the biggest contradiction in their school's pretense of the world is that the per capita hundred mu of land is not enough to eat.But can Liu Yu's method be used in the whole world?Obviously not.But at least in Jiangsu, it seems that the effect is good.

Whether it was due to wavering in his inner beliefs, or because it involved the dynasty and vassals, Meng Songlu was not stingy about directly satirizing Quan Zhe himself, thinking that at least North Korea is not qualified to talk about Dashun's domineering and heavy tactics.

On one side is the world orthodoxy of faith.

On one side is the actual court state.

However, one is to apply domineering light and heavy techniques, and the other is to bear all this, so the mentality is quite different.

Quan Zheshen does not deny Meng Songlu's accusation that North Korea is also using light and heavy tactics to strip the people, but is very supportive.

"What Brother Meng said is very true. It is precisely because a small country uses light and heavy tactics and does not follow the kingly way, so the people live in dire straits. If they practice the kingly way, why is this? The army distribution method and the rice return method are what I want to abandon. What can I do? The treacherous ministers in the court are in power and deceive the king; the loyal people are often exiled."

"If the righteous way is not good, evil will be born. Brother Meng is worthy of being a man of the upper kingdom, and he can see through it at a glance. That's exactly the case. To be honest..."

Quan Zhe saw that Meng Songlu knew a lot about North Korea, and had completely revealed his identity, so he didn't hold back, and told his real name and who he was a teacher of.

After he finished talking about his master's legacy, Meng Songlu couldn't help but touch his forehead, and said a polite word in his mouth, but he was not so polite in his heart.

"It turns out that Brother Quan is a teacher of Li Xinghu... Mr. Ling has also read Master Ling's book."

You say this politely, but you think in your heart, I don’t know if your teacher’s thinking has changed over the years. If it’s true, it’s useless to me.

The school to which Meng Songlu belonged was indeed interested in land reform.With the conquest of Japan and the opening of ports in Dashun, a lot of books from the same cultural circle were also passed on. Thinking that it would be beneficial to read the books, choose the good ones and follow them.

Cheng Tingzuo had actually read Li Xuan's book, but after reading it, he commented to Meng Songlu and other disciples that...it was not very useful in this dynasty.

First of all, in terms of superstructure, Cheng Tingzuo's evaluation was very straightforward - this person was infected by Christianity, and his righteousness was impure.

Because this set of superstructure is too obvious.People in Dashun have read Matteo Ricci's "The True Righteousness of God".

Li Xuan made the superstructure, and put forward a statement of the heart of vegetation, the heart of animals, and the heart of heaven and earth.

Cheng Tingzuo recognized it at a glance, and commented that this is Aristotle's set of low-grade souls of plants, middle-grade souls of animals, and high-grade souls of humans, with a vest of mind and righteousness.

The Yan Li School inherits Confucianism, and Cheng Tingzuo has long been vigilant against the "Island barbarians". Knowing yourself and the enemy is the only way to fight. He has read Matteo Ricci's book a long time ago. This set of Aristotle's third-grade soul Huan's rhetoric can be seen through at a glance.Put on a vest, don't you recognize it?

On the superstructure, I feel that the opposite is impure.After looking at the system concept of the lower level, I also feel that it is too useless.

Cheng Tingzuo's evaluation is that it really doesn't work to build a car behind closed doors. It took two to 30 years to think about it, and the land reform plan he came up with almost copied Lin Xun's "Ben Zheng Shu" in the Song Dynasty.

Cheng Tingzuo's evaluation in front of his disciples was quite harsh - it was like writing the "Three Character Classic" repeatedly but independently.If you say he is uneducated, it is wrong; but if you say it is meaningful, it is also wrong.

(End of this chapter)