Daming: I, the emperor who trains the carpenter

Chapter 438 Zhu Youxiao realized: "It turns out that there is a problem with my thinking, and I have been brainwashed?"

Zhang Haogu was slightly taken aback, and then said: "I don't dare to be a saint, I just want to do something, I want to change some unreasonable things, I want to completely reverse these things in my mind!! "

"Unreasonable things?" Zhu Youxiao became interested: "Master, you can talk about it in detail!"

Zhang Haogu pondered for a while, and then said: "The people are suffering, and the poor sell their sons and daughters. However, the gentry who are only separated by a wall can eat big fish and meat. What they eat is the people who have worked so hard to cultivate the land. The food that comes out, they wear the clothes that the common people knit one by one, but in the end, they come to a scumbag!"

Zhu Youxiao fell into deep thought, recalling what Lu Cheng said, but felt extremely uncomfortable in his heart.

The hearts of the people are destiny!
Once he accepted this idea, Zhu Youxiao's thinking changed.

The people are the roots, but these scholar-bureaucrats are like moths.

Zhang Haogu continued: "Your Majesty, Zhao Nanxing used 10,000+ acres of fertile land, and he kept saying that he was a sage. He would rather educate Jiannu than educate the people. He thinks that the people are stubborn and uneducable. How about that?" Lu Cheng keeps talking about the destiny, respect and inferiority, and treats the common people like nothing, saying that they are only worthy of farming, dare to ask the emperor, is this reasonable?"

Zhu Youxiao was silent for a while, and then said seriously: "This is unreasonable!"

"Your majesty, you have worked so hard to design steam engines, textile machines, and looms. Everyone can say that you are playing with things and losing your mind. Your majesty, is this reasonable?!"

Zhu Youxiao coughed, and suddenly felt that his soul was being tortured. He whispered, "This seems reasonable?"

Others don't know, but he himself seems to be unable to deceive himself.

I feel that I am indeed a little ignorant of state affairs, and I am wholeheartedly engaged in strange and obscene skills.

In short, I feel that what I did is indeed a little wrong. As the emperor, I don't care about state affairs, but I put my mind on this kind of place, okay?this is not good!
"This is the problem with the emperor's thinking!"

Zhang Haogu said seriously: "Your Majesty, have you been deceived by these rotten Confucian theories?"

Zhu Youxiao was stunned instead: "Is there something wrong with my thinking? I was deceived by these rotten Confucian theories?"

Zhang Haogu continued: "I don't know how many people's burdens have been reduced by the textile and loom designed by the emperor?"

Zhu Youxiao was slightly stunned, and Zhang Haogu continued: "With the emperor's looms and textile machines, how many women can work in factories? Let them make money to subsidize their families, so that soldiers of the armed forces can afford sweaters, It can protect the people from the cold, the emperor does not know how many people have benefited, now, I want to ask the emperor, are you playing with things and losing your ambition?"

Zhu Youxiao was stunned. For a moment, he didn't know what to say.

After thinking about it carefully, can this be regarded as a plaything?Obviously it is for the benefit of the common people, okay?
"The emperor himself thinks that this is playing with things and losing one's ambition. This means that the emperor has been brainwashed by wrong theories. The emperor is obviously carrying on the past and building the future for the sake of the people, but the emperor himself thinks that he is wrong!" Zhang Haogu said seriously: "Your Majesty, do you still feel that you are wrong?"

"But, I am indeed addicted to it, a little, a little bit reluctant to leave!" Zhu Youxiao opened up his heart a little bit rarely, talking about his inner contradictions.

"Your Majesty, it doesn't matter what you think!" Having said that, Zhang Haogu smiled slightly: "Mencius Zeng said that the monarch of a country must first ensure that the people have no worries about food and clothing, and that they can live and work in peace and contentment. This is the most basic issue of people's livelihood." Those who are ten can wear silk clothes", "Those who are seventy can eat meat". That is to say, people over the age of 50 can wear coats made of silk; people over the age of 70 can eat meat. If it is lower than this standard, It just doesn't qualify."

"Your Majesty, now you look at the capital and Shandong. They don't need to be 50 years old. They can already have clothes made of silk on board. They don't dare to eat meat every day. However, at least for a month, they can also eat some during festivals. Eating meat, the emperor feels that he is playing and indulging in it, but it is precisely because of the emperor's playing and indulging in it that the people become rich!"

"Huh?" Zhu Youxiao was stunned. Before this, Zhang Haogu had never explained this issue to himself from this perspective.

just now……

Zhu Youxiao suddenly realized that Zhang Haogunima was absolutely right.

I'm playful, so what if I'm addicted to it?
Is it possible for people to eat meat?Did you get them to wear good clothes?
Thinking about it this way, Zhu Youxiao suddenly felt that he was simply a master of the world. He still felt a little ashamed in the past, but after hearing Zhang Haogu's analysis.

What's wrong with me?

Seeing that Zhu Youxiao fell into deep thought, Zhang Haogu continued: ""What the emperor did was right, but there is only one standard for real evaluation, whether it is for the sake of the common people, whether it has really promoted the development of productivity! "

"I think the way of a sage lies in putting the people first. This is the core and cannot be shaken. With this background, the rest is easy!"

Zhang Haogu said: "When the imperial court enacts laws, it must be carefully considered whether it is for the common people, whether the emperor's deeds and obscene skills have liberated productivity, whether they can make the common people's lives better, and what is the price? ?”

"A simple criterion, is something created by the emperor, in the end, does it make people's lives better? Or does it make people's lives worse?"

Zhu Youxiao suddenly realized, looked at Zhang Haogu and said: "What the master said is really reasonable. It turned out that it was not I who was wrong, it was my thinking that went wrong, and I was brainwashed!"

Zhang Haogu nodded approvingly: "Your Majesty, if you have a benchmark for evaluation in your heart, then when you implement any policy, you might as well ask whether it is based on the people and whether the laws of the court take care of the people! "

Zhu Youxiao pondered for a moment, then nodded and said: "Master is right. After chatting today, I just feel like I have seen the sun through the clouds. Some things that I couldn't understand before suddenly became clear!"

Zhang Haogu smiled and said: "The emperor is wise!"

Speaking of this, Zhang Haogu paused slightly, and continued: "Besides, I still plan to do one thing!"

Zhu Youxiao said, "What's the matter?"

Zhang Haogu said: "Rebuild the "Law of the Ming Dynasty"!"

(End of this chapter)