I'm only seven years old, Lao Zhu, you let me supervise the country?

Chapter 290 Fang Xiaoru is unhappy, the importance of the reservoir!
Zhu Yunzhen's speech was not just for the students present.

It was also spread to students throughout the Ming Dynasty through the mouths of caring people.

He just wants all the students of Ming Dynasty to know that there is not only one path to success!
Confucianism is not orthodox either!
In the world, only practical knowledge is worth the attention of the court!Only then is he worthy of Zhu Yunxuan's attention!

After these words spread, countless frustrated students were excited and prepared to devote themselves to practical knowledge.

Read for the rise of Ming Dynasty!
However, I don’t know how many Confucian scholars I provoked!
They have worked hard to learn something all their lives, and now they have finally mastered it, and even got the true inheritance.

Understand what is the law of heaven and what is the way of heaven.

Carrying a large basket of the Four Books and Five Classics.

Now they are told that Confucianism is out of date and will be abandoned by the court?Want to be ranked alongside other uninitiated schools of thought in the imperial examination?

How can a Confucian scholar who is obsessed with being an official accept this? !
Countless Confucian disciples gathered outside Fang Xiaoru's door, hoping that Fang Xiaoru would make the decision for them.

I urge you to remonstrate with your grandson and return to the right path!
Respect the law of heaven!

Inside the door, Fang Xiaoru and other great Confucians from Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism gathered together, their expressions serious and their brows furrowed.

"Your Highness actually wants to weaken our Confucian family, what should we do?"

"Yes, His Highness is simply crazy! He actually said that he would add other subjects to the imperial examination! This is absolutely impossible!"

"Since ancient times, all imperial examinations have taken my Confucianism as the test content!"

"My great-grandson is so deviant and rebellious, he is actually on the road to his own destruction! God cannot tolerate it!"

Even though they themselves can’t tell exactly what is the law of heaven and what is the way of heaven.

But this does not prevent these great Confucians from using their imagined and fabricated laws of heaven to restrain others.

Because as long as there is this kind of justice, they will have the greatest say in the world!On a moral level, no one can ever question it!

"quiet!"

Fang Xiaoru stood up and stopped everyone's chaotic quarrel.

Said: "Your Highness's move really does not take Confucianism seriously! It has offended all the scholars in the world!"

"Sooner or later, we will be surrounded on all sides and have to bow to my Confucianism."

Fang Xiaoru calmly judged: "Since ancient times, my Confucianism has been the right way for the world. This is definitely not something that His Highness can control."

"My Confucianism cannot be separated from the support of the emperor, but the emperor cannot be separated from the support of my Confucianism! The two are already closely connected and complement each other!"

"Since His Highness Taisun is unwilling to accept my Confucianism as orthodox, then I, the Confucian school, will have a fight with His Highness Taisun! Sooner or later, His Highness Taisun will regret the decision he made!"

"What we really want to think about is not how to make our grandson repent."

"But how to fight for the greatest benefits for our Confucian family after Taisun's defeat!"

Speaking of this, Fang Xiaoru suddenly became excited.

He clenched his fists, waved his big hand, and said: "In the old Song Dynasty, this world was not only the world of the royal family, but also the world of our Confucian scholars!"

"The royal family and the scholar-bureaucrats belong to the same world!"

"How brilliant? The Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism we believe in is a science that can limit the power of kings!"

"Even if the emperor wants to make any decision, he must ask my Confucian opinion! See if it is in line with heavenly principles!"

"But now?"

Fang Xiaoru's eyes were full of disappointment and he said unwillingly: "We Confucian scholars have not only lost our past glory."

"We have lost many privileges. After the land reform, we even lost the right not to pay taxes! His Majesty abolished the position of prime minister, and the grandson set up an advisory office to share the power. The voice of the scholar-bureaucrats is getting weaker and weaker!"

"The authority of the royal family is getting stronger and stronger!"

"We can't resist!"

In the past, scholar-bureaucrats not only had many privileges, but also had a very important say in the court.

The court must value every scholar.

But what now?Lao Zhu first tried his best to remove and then abolish the prime minister. From then on, the civil servants lost a civil servant who was the head of the civil service and a civil servant who was as powerful as the emperor.

And Zhu Yunzhen was even more ruthless.

The establishment of the Advisory Office seemed to gain power, but in fact it distributed the power.

Every counselor has become a tool to work hard for Zhu Yunxu and share government affairs!

There is no actual autonomy at all!
Since then, the voice of their civil servants has become weaker and weaker, and the privileges of scholar-bureaucrats have become less and less.

This situation made all the scholar-bureaucrats extremely anxious, but they had no chance to reverse it.

But now, grandson Zhu Yunzhen has given them a chance!
Confucianism has been the official orthodox doctrine for thousands of years since its emergence, and since the Han Dynasty.

Now Zhu Yunxuan dared to challenge the authority of Confucianism.

Even if he is the grandson, he must be taught a lesson!Even... it is not impossible to dethrone his grandson position because of this!

You know, the reason why the Yuan Dynasty only existed for a very short time.

One of the reasons is that although the Yuan Dynasty respected Confucianism and promoted Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, it was unwilling to integrate with the culture of the Central Plains.

The great Confucians of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism often stayed outside the political power.

Since then, the rule of the Yuan Dynasty has become superficial, without real support from the scholar-bureaucrats.

But now Zhu Yunxuan not only made the same mistake as the Yuan Dynasty, but even went a step further and challenged Confucianism's status as the official orthodox doctrine of China for countless years.This is not courting death, so what is it? !

"So!" Fang Xiaoru said loudly: "We Confucian scholars must regain power! Restore the grand occasion of the Song Dynasty when kings and scholar-bureaucrats ruled the world together!"

"Really do it, reason is higher than power!"

The so-called principle is higher than power means that the doctrine is greater than politics, that is, the existence of heavenly principle is greater than the court!Greater than the government!Greater than the emperor!

Even the emperor must obey the law of heaven!We must obey the laws of nature!

Otherwise, the great scholars of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism would be qualified to tear you down from your position as emperor.

Let someone else come up!

Thus suppressing the monarchy!
It's just that Fang Xiaoru didn't dare to say this clearly.

But deep down in his heart, Fang Xiaoru completely scoffed at Zhu Yunxuan's words, and could even be said to be very unhappy!

Just arithmetic!

What can be compared with Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism? !
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Royal study.

Zhu Yunzhen knew how serious the consequences his words would have, but he never expected that they would cause such a strong response.

It only takes half a day.

The memorials of remonstrances were sent one after another.

It can almost be said to be a mountain of piles.

And this is just the beginning. If it had been a while, Zhu Yun would have spent two or three days just looking through these memorials.

"Put all this aside."

Zhu Yunzhen ordered.

Soon, the palace officials put all these useless memorials aside, leaving only the memorials with practical significance.

It is convenient for Zhu Yunxu to handle government affairs.

Compared with patience and being able to keep his composure, Zhu Yunzhen will never lose to anyone!
Anyway, the signal has been released.

The world's atmosphere will naturally change, and Zhu Yunzhen has no reason to be anxious.

Let the wind blow for a while first!
Picking up the memorial, Zhu Yunxuan began to read it. Some time ago, the autumn harvest had been completed in various places in the Ming Dynasty.

The weather has been smooth this year. Most areas have successfully harvested sufficient amounts of grain, and there have been no crop failures.

However, there are still some areas that suffer from grain harvest failure due to drought or waterlogging.

There are even extreme areas where there is no harvest due to excessive drought!The people in this area don’t even have rice to cook with!
Zhu Yunxuan looked at the memorials coming from these places.

I feel very uncomfortable.

These days, farmers are completely dependent on the weather. As long as God doesn't give them face, they will never have a good life.

It can even be said that the entire Ming Dynasty did not have a good life.

Once a major disaster occurs, we can only survive by relying on the old food of the past.

Although old grains are more unpalatable, in Zhu Yunzhen's previous life, no one was willing to eat them.

But in the Ming Dynasty, when the people had no food, it was good to have a mouthful of old food.

Not to mention, if there is no harvest for several consecutive years, you will not even be able to eat a morsel of old grain!
And such a situation is not impossible, on the contrary... it is extremely likely!Because the entire Ming Dynasty was in the Little Ice Age, the climate was erratic and extremely extreme!

Major droughts, ice disasters, and floods are all possible!
Throughout the Ming Dynasty, there were more than 1000 recorded natural disasters!
Therefore, we must find ways to ensure a stable food harvest.

Not to mention its effect on the people, Zhu Yunxuan must solve it simply because a stable grain harvest will help liberate more labor forces.

The most effective way to ensure grain harvests during droughts and floods is to build reservoirs!
During droughts, the gates can be opened to release water, and when there is too much rain, precipitation can be stored to prevent flooding.

And the reservoir has other functions besides these.

There is also the advantage of creating a height difference, which can be used to obtain sufficient water power when discharging water.

Although the Ming Dynasty's utilization of water power is still superficial.

But water power is also the power that Ming Dynasty can best use now!Many of the newly opened factories in Ming Dynasty are inseparable from the support of water power!
But it is not that easy to build a reservoir.

Not to mention the difficulty of building a large reservoir, the canals supporting the reservoir are already quite difficult.

After all, if there is no canal, even if the gate is opened and waterproofed, who can it be released to?
How do farmers use water from reservoirs?

If the water in the reservoir cannot be released to farmland during drought, what is the difference between whether the reservoir is repaired or not?
And is the reservoir really that easy to repair?
The manpower and material resources required...are an astronomical figure, definitely not lower than building a road!
"But no matter what, you still have to cultivate..."

For the Ming Dynasty, there is basically no need to explain the importance of the reservoir, because one of the reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty was the natural disasters caused by the Little Ice Age.

And if you want to deal with natural disasters, you need reservoirs!
Only by building a reservoir can we ensure that the Ming Dynasty's grain harvest becomes stable, instead of losing the harvest once drought or waterlogging occurs.

People's income is not guaranteed. It's strange that such a country is not in turmoil!
Zhu Yunxuan calculated the money and manpower needed to build the reservoir, and couldn't help but sigh that he still had a long way to go on the road to changing the Ming Dynasty.

Today's Ming Dynasty can hardly squeeze out more manpower!

Labor is needed in the fields, newly opened factories, the expansion of the capital and the construction of the city, and even more labor is needed for the construction of national highways!

Daming's human resources are already in crisis!
(End of this chapter)