Dragon map of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1221 New Deal Debate Nine

Mu Jing knelt on a high seat, his eyes swept lightly, looking at the faces of scholars, he sighed in his heart, these people, after reading so many books, why can't they understand some things.

Is the gap between the times so big?

However, he was also a little surprised. The Minghou Mansion was among the scholars, and it was notorious for making people shy away from the three colors. However, this round was formed today, and many people were welcomed.

There are quite a lot of scholars rushing here today, so many that it should be the most time that scholars gather together after Mu Jing came to this era.

He also saw the faces of some old acquaintances.

For example, on my left, the old man in common clothes didn't feel much at first, but after a few more glances, he recognized it immediately.

Huang Chengyan?
Definitely him.

This old guy, just like an ordinary scholar, was sitting in one place, looking at everyone indifferently, and there should be some contempt in his eyes.

Mu Jing can somewhat understand his contempt.

Since ancient times, political debates have been a grand event for scholars, and they represent a direction of thought. Most of them took place on the quarrels of the imperial court.

Moreover, people without any qualifications will be laughed at if they talk about the world by cooking green plums and wine.

Those who are present today are just scholars from some places, there are not a few people who are famous all over the world, what's more, there are some children who have only just started school.

In his eyes, this should be a nonsense.

But the strange thing in Mujing's heart now is, why did this old man come to Yudu?
This old guy is not staying in Jingzhou, what is he doing in Yudu.

Did you make a special trip to see this debate meeting?

Should not be!

Among the three great sages in Lumen Mountain, Sima Wei is knowledgeable, treats people like a spring breeze, and is the most admired by others. Pang Degong, who bears the honor of Pang, is one of the representative figures of Jingzhou's famous families and a model for Qingliu scholars. Huang Chengyan , this is a very strange person, proficient in both Confucianism and Mohism, he is much more open-minded, but he seems a little more stubborn.

His stubbornness is reflected in his actions. He is a scholar with literary literacy, good ability, and outstanding reading, but his personality is relatively impulsive.

Among the three great sages, he is the one who has the most opinion on him. Every time he goes to Lumen Mountain, he will always be teased by him.

In addition, apart from Huang Chengyan, there are actually some acquaintances.

For example, when Mujing was in the Taixue, he knew the students of the Taixue. Although he was not in the Taixue for a long time, he knew quite a few people. Many of the students who were tender and tender back then have now become pillars of the world.

The former Taixue was disbanded, but those Taixue students were not gone.

This is an era of scholars, the importance of scholars does not need to be reminded at all, all the princes know it, no matter whether they look at their background or knowledge, they treat scholars kindly.

All parties have already scrambled for what they can compete for.

There are only two kinds of students from those days who can appear here today, one is the Minghou Mansion. There were not many of them before, but there are not many now. The influence brought by Cai Yong is still there. The reason why Jing attached so much importance to that old guy, he said a word, is more convincing to scholars than a hundred promises to himself.

The other is the people in the field, who have never been an official, but have been working in the fields. Maybe they pretend to be noble, open a small private school to teach a few students, and collect some money to live on.

There are actually quite a few of these.

Those who were able to enter Taixue back then were all local scholars. If there were no recommendations from local Confucians, Taixue would not easily accept students.

I have read a lot, and under the influence of Confucianism, there are so many nobles.

Today's grand event is not only a grand feast in the Minghou Mansion, but also a big explosion of scholars, which will naturally attract more scholars to wait and see.

Scholars, even in the fields, are the kind of people who talk about the general trend of the world and comment on the ten thousand years of history. Their favorite is this kind of political debate conference.

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The conference has begun.

The debaters on both sides were not polite. Xu Shu launched the attack first, first pulling out the old policy to criticize, and then Wei Ke took over, proposing a new policy to change the local area.

The old political debaters were naturally unwilling to lag behind, Xu Shu and the others said a word, and they said a word.

This situation has been a heated debate from the very beginning.

In fact, regarding the New Deal and the Old Deal, it is just a policy change. If it is a prosperous age, it means a simple policy change, reform and system reform. In today's era, it is more representative of a change of the times.

With the emergence of the New Deal, many people have a kind of thinking that the new government will be established and the old one will fall.

Perhaps this added some resistance.

On the side of the old government, the top ten debaters, regardless of their average age, and their reputation not as loud as the great Confucianists, are after all people who have studied all their lives.

They quoted countless classics and criticized the New Deal from beginning to end. They almost didn't list the top ten crimes, but they basically rubbed against all the policies of the New Deal.

People who have been studying for a lifetime have a lot of ink in their hearts, and their words are well-organized, and they can become very rational for both organized and unorganized things.

They have linked the implementation of the New Deal with the change of regime from the very beginning, and they gave the New Deal a full star at once.

As for the New Deal debaters, Xu Shu was the main force.

Xu Shu's eloquence may not be the best, but it is indeed the sharpest. This scholar who was born as a knight-errant is not good at talking. A few words can make people have nothing to say.

As for Wei Ji, this person comes from a family with profound knowledge, and he has a tacit understanding with Xu Shu. The two formed the main force and are silently carrying out Mu Jing's plan.

Mujing didn't care at all, losing and winning.

Time will tell whether the policy is right or wrong.

The current discussion is actually meaningless at all, it is just talk on paper, and the layout of the New Deal will not be affected by the result of winning or losing.

Of course, this time affects the hearts of the people.

If you can win, it is naturally the best. If you lose, although the Minghou Mansion cannot change its attitude, it will indeed affect some of the local recognition of the New Deal.

Today's political debate, from the very beginning, has been full of swords.

Xu Shu and the others are also desperate.

Cai Kan and Jiang Wan also cooperated very well. Although they are young, but during this period of time, they are in the local area and promoting the New Deal. Few people can match their familiarity with the New Deal.

As for the few people in the academy, I can only fill in the omissions.

Of course, you can’t underestimate him. The biggest thing about these young people is that they are not afraid of tigers when they are newborns. They are high-spirited and dare to criticize everything when they are studying. trivialized.

That's what they do.

After all, the people sitting across from them are all famous scholars, scholars with status and reputation, and scholars like to arrange seniority, so they can use their seniority to overwhelm Xu Shuwei to death.

But the students who are currently studying are not afraid of this, because they are younger and less sensible, so they are not afraid.

There is something good about scholars.

When they quarrel, it doesn't look like a group of shrews scolding the street. Even if they are scolding, they don't have a single dirty word in their words, and they can also introduce the classics of sages and sages.

Mujing just listened to it like this, it was very pleasing to the ear, and it was still a lesson for himself, a very vivid lesson, which at least increased his knowledge by a few points.

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However, for all the scholars present, today's political debate shocked them a lot.

The so-called political debate is to debate whether policies are good or bad.

The New Deal is still being implemented, and it will take time to know the results when it is integrated with the localities. Whether the New Deal is good or bad, whether it is for a wealthy region or for destroying it, I will not say for a moment.

But there is one thing, it was the first time for them to see all the policies and regulations of the New Deal, which gave them a little understanding of the New Deal promoted by the Minghou Mansion.

The New Deal is not just a few added and changed policies. It can be called a New Deal, which means that more than [-]% to [-]% of the original set of official policies have been changed, or even all of them have been changed.

Governing a locality relies on policies one by one. These policies form a framework to persuade the people's actions and guide their lives.

Policy matters, everyone knows that.

Most of the princes now follow the old policies left by the Han Dynasty in the past.

The old politics of the Han Dynasty could not be said to be completely backward, but somewhat adapted to this era, while the new politics, under the influence of Mu Jing's consciousness, seemed to be somewhat ahead of the curve.

It cannot be said that the New Deal is absolutely right. There is a debate, which shows that they have found the shortcomings of the New Deal and can attack the New Deal.

There are many aspects of policy, land, population, household registration, occupational norms, tax provisions, law formulation, official selection, agricultural planting, business status...

Most of these have been changed beyond recognition by Mu Jing himself.

For example, this article of the merchant.

As far as the old government is concerned, the status of merchants is lowly, and merchants are also looked down upon. The express laws and regulations on taxation are very vague, and there are also ambiguities about their income, and many aspects cannot be guaranteed.

This is also a factor that does not allow business to develop.

In the New Deal, many of the express laws and regulations have been clearly marked, regulating various aspects of business, such as tax regulations, such as a kind of protection for merchants' property.

This will give people a kind of adjustment to Confucianism.

From the perspective of a scholar, this should not be the case. If you grasp this point, the New Deal has already been attacked.

But Xu Shu and the others are still a little bit capable.

If you grab one, I'll change the direction. This one can't be argued, but you can change the topic. He's not stupid. Although many people secretly have some opinions on Mujing's emphasis on merchants, but at this time, Ming The New Deal promoted by the Hou Mansion must have absolute support.

There are loud arguments at the top, and there are also many whispers at the bottom in twos and threes.

"The new policy of the Marquis of Ming Dynasty, although we don't know the result at present, but judging from these provisions alone, it does have a certain meaning of Hewlett-Packard!"

"The provisions are all on the table, but what will be the result of the implementation, who knows, how many people will suffer if they rashly destroy the original order of the local area, have they ever thought about it!"

"I rather agree with the positioning of business in the New Deal. The way of business is the way of the lower class, and the merchants are the lowly ones. But throughout the ages, not all merchants are lowly people!"

"It's nonsense. Businessmen don't do production and deprive profits. How can such a person be called a good person!"

"To me, the facts speak louder than words. Our positioning of business is the meaning of sages. The sages are not necessarily the best in the past and the times have changed. However, the prosperity of business today has brought me a good life in Yizhou. , we all see it!"

"This is disrespectful!"

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"The laws and regulations of the Marquis of Ming Dynasty are a bit harsh. Do you want to go back to the past and follow the example of the Tyrant Qin in the past and make Legalism the leader of the world?"

"That's true. Although the laws and regulations of the Minghou Mansion are indeed a bit harsh, the job of practicing the law is a bit more manipulative. Human feelings are cold and warm. Although the laws and regulations are ruthless, people are sympathetic, so it is still feasible!"

"Nonsense, such a law, it will be a disaster for Southwest in the future!"

"That's not necessarily the case. The laws of the New Deal govern the world. If everyone abides by the law and disciplines themselves, why would it cause chaos in the world!"

"However, we are weak, and I am afraid it will be difficult to change the decision of the Minghou Mansion!"

"If the New Deal is implemented, I am afraid that many people's lives will be difficult in the future!"

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"The new policy wants to thoroughly investigate the population of the land and return it to the common people. Why?"

"The land left by our ancestors for generations is our family property. How can the Minghou Mansion be so arrogant!"

"Now that the Marquis Ming's Mansion is very powerful, I'm afraid this strategy will be hard to change. We need to make preparations early!"

"Mr. Ming's arrogance may not go well. We are united as one, what can he do!"

"Don't be frivolous, Minghou's methods are cold and stern, and he even came out of Guanzhong in the past. How fierce, if he is angered, he may not raise his slaughter knife!"

"Actually, I don't think this method is too much. In today's world, isn't it because of your family's greed and annexation of the people's land, so that the people don't have to live on it? !"

"It's nonsense, this is slander. These lands are the wealth left by our ancestors for generations. We are not greedy for it. It is our family property. Why should it be linked to the people of the world!"

"You sons of the wealthy family, with rich clothes and fine food, how do you know the life and death of us poor people? I will support the Minghou Mansion, implement a new policy, return the land and the people, and build a prosperous world together!"

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The whispers were not loud, but the fierce quarrels in Chengdu were no less than the debates on the stage.

Of course, the competition on stage was also very exciting.

Sometimes right or wrong doesn't matter.

The position of interest is something that many people cannot change.

The old politics represented the interests of countless country gentry and aristocrats. With their support, it seemed like a torrent rolling past. Anyone who tried to stop them was an enemy.

And the New Deal also has supporters. Countless poor people can't see the future of life, have no land, no hope, and they have become numb.

Now the New Deal has given them hope.

At this time, it is not supported yet, when will it be.

(End of this chapter)