Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1109 Shangguo Mentality ([-])
The beginning of Quan Zheshen's mental breakdown was when he and Meng Songlu walked into a farmer's house by the canal, opened the door, and saw the farmer's feeding pigs with soybean meal and miscellaneous grains.

Seems like such a simple little thing.

But in fact, it is a major event that can directly break people's minds.

Quan Zhe ran to the pigsty, stretched out his hand and grabbed a handful of sticky pig food in the barrel, holding it in his palm, his hands trembling.

Dogs cannibalize people without knowing it.

This is just one sentence.

Just like the word murder, it is not scary when expressed in words.It can be seen that many people who are accustomed to the two words killing a pig may not even be able to bear the bloody scene of killing a pig.

When this sentence appeared in front of Quan Zhe's eyes not in words but in an intuitive picture, only trembling hands were left.

The place Meng Songlu brought to see is not universal, but it depicts a future for the future.

This is the surrounding area of ​​several large cotton and wool industry workshops in Nantong; it is the gate of the Han Dynasty to the Yangtze River from the Salt River; it is the area where looms were first popularized in the countryside during the Dashun Industrial Revolution; it is also the must pass for bean fertilizers in northern Jiangsu. staging area.

The reason why people here raise pigs is very simple.

Don't look at the compensation when raising pigs, but look back at the crops.

This is a common saying in northern Jiangsu, pig manure fertilizes the fields.

In addition to this common saying, the demand for pork in the surrounding large factory area also allows pigs to be sold at a good price.

Originally, the environment here restricted the pig raising industry.Because there is no open space to cut hogweed.

But now, miscellaneous grains and beans are raising the pig industry here.Of course, it also includes sheep in northern Jiangsu, poultry and ducks in Gaoyou, horses and cattle in Huanghuai.

Of course, in the remote Northwest, Southwest, and even the Yellow River area of ​​the Central Plains, and the disaster areas in the upper reaches of the Huaihe River in Anhui, there are really cases of hungry scorpions painted on them without knowing it, and it is really the same as the dogs here. sharp contrast.

But it makes no sense.

Because, it can't be shipped.

The capital heard that the price of food in that place had skyrocketed. When the news came, they bought the food and shipped it over. The next year's seeds may all germinate.

With the few bird money in the hands of the imperial court and the limitation of transportation capacity, the only thing that can be done is to encourage local gentry and businessmen to donate food.

And this kind of encouragement cannot only rely on kindness, it must give benefits; the benefits that can be given can only be given to students and tribute students; if these identities are given, it will intensify the local forces to squeeze good people...

However, Quan Zhe couldn't see these things through the pig food held up by his hands.

All he saw was the shock of Shang Kingdom's prosperity.

Originally, in history, the Xinghu School was divided into two, left and right. It was also because of the failure of the political struggle that many people were exiled to the countryside.

Witnessed the development of commodity economy, the circulation of currency, the beginning of land annexation, the bankruptcy of self-cultivating farmers, and the tragic situation of a large number of farmers who could no longer survive.

After the division between the left and the right, the Xinghu leftists had another internal split.

Quan Zheshen tried to integrate Confucianism and Christianity, religiousize Song Confucianism, and turn Song Confucianism's Jingzhai Admonitions, Four Wu Admonitions, Su Ye Admonitions, and Xiangshe Rituals into mass ceremonies and worship.The intention is to spread Confucianism at the grassroots level by completing religious and ceremonial reforms, which is similar to the way of preaching Confucianism and Taoism in doggerel poems after the death of the masters of the Taizhou School.

Ding Ruoyong, Quan Zheshen's disciple, followed the Mozi line.Personalize the ghosts of heaven, think that heaven has personality, deny that reason is heaven, and think that heaven is supreme.Under Haotian, everyone is equal.The difference between humans and animals lies in labor skills, so they engage in cranes, waterwheels, vaccinations, weapons, and looms.

This differentiation has not yet occurred.

But with Dashun's foreign exchanges, especially the infiltration and trade with several countries in the same cultural circle, some great Confucians in the Jiangnan area, especially those who are extremely opposed to Western religions, have already felt this crisis.

This is especially true after knowing the incidents such as the Shimabara Rebellion in Japan, and seeing that the Confucian principles of North Korea have been mixed with Western concepts.

The school Meng Songlu belongs to, because of its own school characteristics, attaches great importance to this matter.

Their school advocates practical learning, but the level of practical learning is far behind Liu Yu's new learning, which is directly systematic.

Cannons, warships, good breeds, water conservancy, machinery, these things, their schools cannot lead.

Technology and cultural system ideology are two legs.

Obviously, one leg cannot dominate, which makes their school attach great importance to superstructures such as ideology and cultural systems.

In the concept of "the world", they need to create a set of things.

Not necessarily one size fits all.

But it must be able to solve the problems of several countries in the same cultural circle, so that the Confucian scholars in the same cultural circle will not run towards Christianity or the road of heresy.

Then why do they run in the direction of heresy and heresy?

Because there is a problem with the construction of the superstructure at this time, it cannot guide reality, solve real problems, and is out of touch with reality.

At the same time, the current special situation of Dashun, as well as the special situation of Jiangsu's first-mover areas are here.

Save the nation?These four words are really too far away.

skill improved?These four words, they cannot lead.

Moreover, Dashun now has a lot of practical talents. A few years ago, it was easy to find enough mental workers with qualified mathematical skills to make star charts and moon distance maps.

This is not the same as when it was beaten up by outsiders in history and forced to integrate into an international system formulated without China's participation.

At that time, Confucian scholars developed universalism, which was greatly influenced by the Western consciousness, and they relied on it rather than spontaneously reconstructed it.

In the current situation, what the best Confucian scholars who truly believe in must engage in an ideological reconstruction that is not common but not too narrow.

Not just to be applicable in Dashun.

Instead, we must continue to be the mother country of the cultural circle, and lead the surrounding authentic vassals who are deeply influenced by Confucianism to find the right way forward.

Instead of letting them look for it and find it, they either look for Christianity or heresy.

This is also related to Dashun's promotion of Yongjia Yongkang School.

The official school of thought has an attitude towards the Neo-Confucianism of the Song and Ming Dynasties. It believes that although they did it to fight against Buddhism, in the process of doing it, they followed the Buddhist set of mind, nature, and reason. Do it, or even misinterpret what Mencius said about xinxing.

Confrontation is confrontation, but in fact, oneself has also been polluted.

And this kind of attitude, continued until Dashun banned religion, which directly cut off the possibility of Confucianism and Confucianism merging and supplementing Confucianism with Confucianism.

This is absolutely wrong, at least in official ideology.

Therefore, after Cheng Tingzuo read Li Xuan's book, he directly gave the characterization of "infected by Western religion".Speaking of Li Xuan's three hearts, it is simply Aristotle's three soul rings covered up.

In addition, starting from the textual research of ancient Chinese books and the atmosphere of anti-Confucianism, some great Confucianists in Dashun who are interested in "creating words" found opportunities.

Going straight to the source, returning to Han classics, and then returning from Han classics to the original classics of the Duke of Zhou, which was not written by the master, abolished all kinds of Confucianism in the Song Dynasty. It is confirmed that the orthodoxy is in the original six classics that the master narrated but did not compose.

Any "religious" reformation starts with ancientism and primitive religion, but it goes back and forth to innovation.

Will new ones be created, or will they come back to the original teachings again and again?
For this side, there is a fixed answer: the original scriptures have too few words, and the sentences are self-explanatory, so they can no longer be the original teachings.

For example, there are at least three different interpretations of "be rich first and then teach".Do you know etiquette when you are rich?Or rich enough to re-educate?Or is the relationship between Fu and Jiaohua progressive but synchronized in time?These are just the three simplest understandings.

At this time, the Confucian scholars in Dashun's first development area had various sects.

But the foundation of the Yan-Li school of thought is practical learning and land.

In fact, the Yan-Li School has basically given up trying to dominate until now.

Whether it is tactics, military affairs, guns, or agriculture, astronomy, and arithmetic, it is others who carry the banner of practical learning.

And over the years, their school has discovered that it really can't carry this banner, and now it is the Academy of Sciences that carries the banner.As for martial arts... within seven steps, the short gun is accurate and fast, and Meng Songlu has already replaced the sword with a musket at his waist.

Therefore, the land issue and the construction of ideology have become the direction that the Yan-Li School strives to engage in.

This Confucian sense of responsibility has the world in mind.

And with the world in mind, and because Dashun is now returning to the Western Regions in the west, going south to Nanyang, serving Japanese pirates in the east, and reaching Rakshasa in the north, there is really no room for salvation.

The mind of the world at the time of decline and peril is the mind of the Central Plains and the nation.

The mind of the world during the expansion of the prosperous age is to come up with something universal and spread it everywhere.

Therefore, in this "prosperous age", the world with the world in mind is the entire Confucian cultural circle.

In terms of ideology, we must let the vassals of the Confucian cultural circle stop trying to find a way to save the world from paganism and heresy, and as the cultural mother country, we must take on the responsibility of the country.

In terms of the land system, it is necessary to develop a land system suitable for the Confucian cultural circle and be able to solve the difficult problem of land annexation.

In other words, turn "equal land" from a slogan into a practical and non-utopian system.

To rebel, to reform, or to hope for redemption, this is a question of weakness and fantasy.

How to equalize the land after the rebellion, how to equalize the land under the reform, or how to equalize the land under the redemption are questions of fantasy and limitations.

This is different.

This is also a very normal state of mind.

How to send envoys to the Tang Dynasty to operate without breeding tigers is one thing.

Whether people send Tang envoys or visit the European Youth League is another matter.

Meng Songlu was driven by the mentality of going to the top of the country in this special era and under the unprecedented changes in the millennium. Although he was quite sarcastic about Liu Yu's policy, he still led Quan Zhe to see the most beautiful place in the north of the Yangtze River. prosperous rural areas.

Take this family as an example. The women weave and the men grow vegetables and supply the workshop area, completely integrated into the commodity economy.

Taking this village as an example, the tenants were all expelled from their tenancy, and more than half of the remaining self-cultivating farmers, more than half of the men, are also engaged in textile-related industries.

It can be regarded as the area north of the Yangtze River, the first area where dogs cannibalize people.

As long as the Northeast and Nanyang regions are still in hand, and Dashun's shipping is still normal, then dogs can be guaranteed to eat people here for at least a few decades.

Because the iron-wheeled shuttle looms go to the countryside to cooperate with the rural economy, there is no advantage in woven fabrics that can stand up to the original World War I period in history, and even have greater potential for squeezing. Have to provide accommodation.Small plots are equipped with manual iron wheel looms, and the upper limit of crushing is theoretically higher.

But now is the rising period, and several wars have created a huge market, which is not very popular, and it is not yet the time to squeeze it to the limit.Therefore, the small life is really good.

(End of this chapter)