Xinshun 1730

Chapter 545 Difficulties
The emperor still took Liu Yu as a part of Dashun's ruling class for granted.This is similar to the vassal kings of the Ming Dynasty before Zhu Yunwen, or the nobles of Guanlong in the early Tang Dynasty, or the princes who were enfeoffed before the collapse of the Spring and Autumn Ritual, and they belonged to "one's own people".

In the face of "our own people", you don't have to hide your words.

To put it bluntly, the components of the armed forces that Dashun can trust are the self-cultivating peasants, government soldiers, and good families.As for the background of disaster victims recruiting soldiers and factory employees, they can be used to fight abroad, but they cannot be used as a basic disk.

Therefore, the troops stationed in Songjiang must be mainly Liangjiazi, self-cultivating farmers, and government soldiers.

Once something happened in Songjiang, it would be either a hired worker or a big businessman with assets, these are the only two possibilities.

As for the self-cultivating peasants, or the government soldiers who pay the blood tax but not the currency tax as the garrison, they will never be lenient when they cut down these two types of people.

Who is the basic set, who can be relied on, who is a friend, and who is an enemy, this point the Dashun royal family has always been very clear, and they are very clear.

As for Liu Yu, in the eyes of the emperor, he might have a lot of ideas, but he still couldn't get around the ultimate aspirations of the two traditional scholar-officials or nobles, "governing the country and bringing peace to the world", it's just that the routes are different.

The difference in route can still be called "Ai Qing", and there is still a long way to go from "rebel".

Of course Liu Yu understood what the emperor meant, and at this time he could only flatter him like a tide, shouting long live, and following the words of the Minister of the Household Government, he praised His Majesty for his wisdom.But they will not talk about the idea of ​​"saving money and allowing veterans to enter handicraft factories" that the household government minister pondered.

The emperor was very happy to hear Liu Yu's flattery.Because the only person who might think that the emperor might "stop eating because of choking" is Liu Yu.

Now that the treatment method is finished, it has not only proved that he will not give up eating because of choking, but also explained his coping strategy clearly. At this time, of course, he is eager for the praise and approval of his courtiers.

This has nothing to do with power, the emperor will do it whether he agrees with it or not.But the approval of some people will make the emperor particularly satisfied spiritually.

"Since Jinghou also thinks this method is very good, let me ask you, you have a deep understanding of the situation outside the Celestial Dynasty, and you don't know the underlying reasons for the Batavia incident. Even so, Jinghou has also thought about it." Is the Celestial Dynasty prepared?"

Liu Yu hurriedly said: "I feel that the matter of Bacheng is actually nothing at all. I was training in Wendeng. The year before the famine in Japan, famine also broke out from Penglai to Songjiang in this dynasty. Hundreds of thousands of people did it. It’s no big deal to starve to death. What’s the big deal with Batavia’s people?”

"Besides, the local situation is different. Those who rebelled in Batavia can shout 'Tang people are united. I felt... a bean worm, afraid of being devoured by ants, so I told the elephant how terrible the ants are. The elephant looked down at the ants, and thought this was it?"

"Or like a pony crossing a river, the squirrel exclaims that the river is bottomless, but the old cow says the river is no more than knees, how can it be consistent?"

This metaphor is not new. In fact, it is a variant of carving a boat and seeking a sword. The emperor knew two allusions that Liu Yu often said, one is "good cures are not diseased, and there is no reputation for being a good planner", and the other is "carving a boat to seek a sword".

Hearing a similar analogy again at this time, I couldn't help but smile, and said with a smile: "The words of the king of whales seem to have been carefully considered. I have also thought about the matter of Batavia. After all, there are still too many things that cannot be controlled. For example, the whale The Japanese trade that Hou talked about, the Persian king's coercion so that the princes finally followed Cao Pi's example, etc., these things are really difficult to control."

"But thinking about it again, it seems that what Jinghou said makes sense."

"After all, the Dutch national army is weak."

"If you compare Bosi to North Korea, if such a big incident happened in North Korea, the Celestial Dynasty has its own means to deal with it and put pressure on it. In the previous dynasty, North Korea was fighting for the throne. In the former Ming Dynasty, North Korea would be silent with just one word; in this dynasty, North Korea The king's accession to the throne is suspected of the shadow of a candle and the sound of an axe, and a small official in the court of heaven still makes him terrified."

"If the Dutch state could control Persia as a tribute and control Japan as a vassal, the sugar trade would not end there."

The emperor's words were not arrogance, but his vision was widened at this time, and he really felt that the Dutch national army was weak.

The population is only a small part of the state, the land is no more than the size of Tianbao Mansion, and thousands of soldiers and horses are running across Southeast Asia, but no one is invincible?
The truth made the emperor feel that those sultans and Buddha kings in Nanyang were really waste.

Every time he heard about the Dutch rule in Nanyang, after the military reform, the emperor always thought that if the Netherlands really had the talent, he would come to the Central Plains.After waiting for the initial formation of the navy in Weihai, I also thought that if there was another incident in Penghu and Zhoushan in the Ming Dynasty, the Netherlands must know what Tianwei is.

I just feel that I really dare not go to Europa to beat you, but I can't.But at the door of the house, you can still occupy my Zhoushan?
Thinking about it this way, I really feel that the Nanyang countries are too easy to fight.

Not to mention anything else, it is the Junggar tribe. If it is in Nanyang, with the delivery ability of the Netherlands, can it beat Junggar?This is really a question.

Li Gan has often looked at world maps in the past few years, but he just can't understand how the horses fighting the Lansudan Kingdom can't beat the thousand-odd people of the Dutch East India Company?

In the past, some people in the court objected to Liu Yu's "military aggression" admonishment, and they always felt that fighting a war was too difficult and too risky.

Now that Japan is over, on the one hand, the emperor really understands that Liu Yu is proving how terrible the crisis in the southeast coast is, and on the other hand, he feels that it is not difficult to continue to expand.

Can Japan beat Mata Lansudan?Li Gan felt that there was no problem, and it might not take the shogunate to do its best.Satsuma can do it by himself.

That being the case, it would be foolish and senseless not to go to Nanyang before the forces of Western countries "establish a firm foothold in India" as Liu Yu said.

So at this time, on the one hand, he didn't want to be a person who "wasted food because of choking" in front of his courtiers;

Even though the rest of the important ministers don't agree with the court's tribute and trade policy in their hearts, they can see that the emperor really wants to change it. North Korea has been forced by Dashun to switch and abolish the trade preferential treatment of the North Korean mission in the capital... This In the tributary country, North Korea is the ceiling, North Korea is like this, and the rest of the tribute in the future can be imagined.

However, the emperor did not publicly talk about the idea of ​​going to Nanyang, but just complained about the weakness of the Dutch national army.

Then he asked: "This matter of merchants is very different from the past. Whether it is the criminal, household and other governments, it needs to be treated with caution. The only thing I am worried about is whether people who come from the imperial examination can understand these things. ?”

This question should not be asked of Liu Yu, after all, Liu Yu has nothing to do with the imperial examination, and he is not from the imperial examination, so it is useless to ask.

But after the emperor said this, he didn't look at the people who were born in the imperial examination in the surrounding area, but looked at Liu Yu.

The emperor was pretending to be confused, he just needed Liu Yu's statement.

At this time, Liu Yu had two choices.

One is that this kind of thing is a new thing, and those things learned in the imperial examination are simply unintelligible.

Or, as it was said before, "The king does not rule the barbarians", if you use the etiquette to ask the barbarians, isn't that playing the piano to the cow?The same is true for merchants. Isn't it nonsense to ask merchants and manage trade with the words of scriptures and the righteousness of a gentleman?

Therefore, it seems that the imperial examination should be reformed.

Another option, which is to say "OK, no problem, I can definitely figure it out".

According to common sense, everyone knows that Liu Yu is neither from the imperial examinations nor has been advocating practical learning, so he directly chooses the first option, and no one will say anything.

Including the emperor.

Even the ministers next to him at this time felt that this was the emperor's excuse, and wanted to use Liu Yu's mouth to blow the wind of "imperial examination reform".

But unexpectedly, Liu Yu said: "Although I don't agree with the principle of 'all the principles of heaven and earth are in things, and one thing can understand the principles of all things', I don't think it's difficult. Yes, it can be managed as well."

"In the past, although Wang Jinggong was fond of 'new learning' and engaged in 'sanshe', Wang Jinggong was also a Jinshi who passed the imperial examination. He was born in the old school, but he was engaged in new learning, and there was no stagnation."

"The selection of the imperial examination is all the intelligent and intelligent people in the world. There should be no problem in handling such trivial matters."

"It's nothing more than an ox pulling a plowshare. A calf can't do it. It only takes a few days to pull it. The court has its own laws. If there is no precedent, it will make a new law. The so-called, the next is not an example, that's all. The ministers are only three or four A stream of people is nothing more than what they have seen and heard before."

"If things are stable in the future, if you want to try it for a few years, anyone can do it well."

The emperor seemed to be quite approving and nodded, thinking that you know the general situation, it seems that you are really preparing for the Nanyang incident, and you have to learn from Li Weigong to "close the door and guard yourself".

Seeing the emperor nodding, Liu Yu also breathed a sigh of relief.

Xin Dao, thanks to Zhenyi's ear-to-mouth all day long, talking more about the situation in the court, if not, I'm afraid I'll say the wrong thing again today.

There are many examples that can be cited, but the example of Wang Anshi was chosen, which is actually to show an attitude to the emperor.

Wang Anshi is not just a reformist, but more importantly, Wang Anshi is a "leader of consciousness and learning" and has his own set of theories.

Just like the imperial examination, your answer must at least conform to the official ideology.

When Zhu Zixue was an official consciousness, when answering questions, he wrote a bunch of thoughts of the pre-Qin philosophers, or the thoughts of Yongjia and Yongkang, which would definitely be questioned.

Wang Anshi reformed the law, and then he started a "new study".

He came up with a set of ideology himself, and with the new annotations of "The Book of Songs", "Shangshu", and "Zhou Li", as the standard thinking of official schools in the future, he came up with Jingong's new school.

It is the reform method to match the three rules to select scholars, and to support the unified thinking of officials and scholars.Want to become an official if you don't learn from Jinggong and don't use new ideas?Don't even think about it!

It is also easy to understand with the various later generations.It's like writing a bunch of absolutely wrong things when applying for an exam.There must always be a standard of right and wrong. The word "one" in the world is not just as simple as an emperor appointing county magistrates.

Dashun's current situation is very complicated, so complicated that it can be summed up in four words, that is, "broken but not established", so that one cannot be achieved.

Zhu Zixue was destroyed, but a new school of thought has not yet been established. It has not developed a complete system, a complete system that operates from the foundation of the upper level to the lower level.

The emperor asked this sentence, but the subtext was actually asking Liu Yu, practical learning, is it art?Or is there a way in it?

You are now the leader of Chaozhong Shixue, are you No.1 in art?Or are you going to make your debut by the way, and become Wang Jinggong?Reformers plus consciousness leaders?

(End of this chapter)