golden scales

Zhu Cihong let the sons and daughters of the clan study Zongxue together with the honored relatives, so the officials of the East Palace who lectured and studied became vain jobs.Zhu Hegui inherited his father's talent, and he was quite hungry for reading, so in addition to the masters of Zongxue, he also went to the Imperial College to find some great scholars in the Imperial Academy for advice.

These great Confucians also taught other princes homework, but it was generally believed that only the crown prince was sensitive and eager to learn. As for the second son Zhu Heqi, he could be regarded as extremely stubborn.

Now the Guozijian is in charge of Liu Zongzhou, but the knowledge of Jishan has not been carried forward.For no other reason, now that politics and science are separated, without political support, it is difficult for any philosophical thought to be carried forward.What's more, Liu Zongzhou is not the only great Confucian in Guozijian. Other Guan Xue, Luo Xue, Cheng Zhu Neo Confucianism, and Yangming Xin Xue are also mainstream ideas, and students are also debating endlessly.

In order to increase his strength, Liu Zongzhou also brought his favorite student Huang Zongxi into the Imperial College.

Huang Zongxi is good at thinking and has read a lot of books. After being imprisoned, he has the style of a master.He went to Zongxue to lecture on history, and he was quite favored by the crown prince, and he often came to ask questions.

The gentleman Zhu Hegui asked for advice was precisely this Mr. Huang Zongxihuang.

This Mr. Huang has the same surname as Huang Daozhou, and has a very similar personality charm, which is why the crown prince trusts him so much.

"In all dynasties, talents have always been the most important thing for the king. Since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there have been imperial examinations to select scholars for the country. Now that the emperor has established a new school, the way to obtain scholars has changed again." Huang Zongxi took the royal details and detailed for the crown prince Analysis: "This is why the Holy Spirit spares no effort in running the school."

"Then why invest in factories and mines?" asked the crown prince.

Huang Zongxi was also a little puzzled, and said: "Maybe it's because the profits in this area are not high. The Holy Son of Heaven is benevolent. He doesn't compete with the people for profit."

Based on what his father had said before, the crown prince felt that it might not be what Mr. Huang said.

Now Himin is far from entering the energy era.In addition to refining kerosene, petroleum is only useful for asphalt and ink, which are cheap.This is especially true for coal and iron. If it does not scale, it will basically not make money.So Zhu Cihong's layout in the energy field doesn't look like doing good deeds to others?

However, once steam engines and internal combustion engines appeared on a large scale.These scumbags will be transformed into the backbone of the country's economy.

It can be said that as long as the energy is controlled, no one can weaken the royal influence.Unless the entire system is simply broken and a revolution like a storm is carried out.

For Huang Zongxi, who doesn't pay much attention to technology, this is naturally a star in the sky, which is hard to see with the naked eye.

What Huang Zongxi valued more was the royal family's shares in overseas colonial territories.Today, most of the revenue of the royal family is provided by the Nanyang Company and the Australian Company, and the American Company is gradually catching up, sending back a large amount of real money.If the emperor attaches so much importance to overseas colonial territories.It is definitely going to affect the future national policy.

"Mr. Huang, I don't understand." Zhu Hegui respectfully said: "The heart of the people that my father said is my heart of heaven. We must focus on the place where people live and live. It is nothing more than basic necessities of life. However, in terms of 'clothing', the Tian family only occupies A very small part of it is the cotton farm that Baohedian bought in Tianshan itself, which is not what the father intended. Food. Many Huangzhuang have changed hands. Apart from growing some food, vegetables and fruits in Nanhaizi, the Tian family has almost no farmland beside it. Why don't you catch these two big heads?"

Huang Zongxi is also very strange, such an industrial layout is obviously not conducive to the development of the family.Any big family must have its own land before it can talk about investing in other floating wealth.

"Here," Huang Zongxi felt a little embarrassed, "I dare not speak up, and let Rong Chen go back and think about it for a while before reporting to His Highness."

Zhu Hegui was rather disappointed and said, "Yes."

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Zhu Cilang looked at his second son who was riding a bamboo horse.I have been thinking about why the temperaments of the two sons are so different.Maybe it's because the elder brother has reached the age where he wants to prove himself, but the younger brother is still ignorant.

"Jia Geer, what kind of emperor do you want to be?" Zhu Cihong asked suddenly.

At this time, there were only father and son in the yard, Zhu Heyuan was only six years old, and he was eating apples happily, not listening to his father's questions at all.

Zhu Heqi stopped his bouncing steps, blushed a little, and said, "Isn't only father and brother emperors capable of being emperors?"

"If." Zhu Cihong said: "If you can be an emperor, what kind of emperor do you want to be?"

"Hey," Zhu Heqi smiled, "I want to be an emperor like Qin Shihuang."

"That's not a model of Mingjun." Zhu Cihong also laughed.

"But Mingjun is working too hard, so he's not happy." Zhu Heqi continued to jump up and gasped, "Isn't Grandpa Huang a Mingjun? I'm always angry with those old guys. My father is also a Mingjun. He is busy all day long. You have to worry about everything, and you have to bargain with others earnestly for some things."

Zhu Cihong looked at the second son in surprise, and usually felt that he was a little heartless and thick-skinned, but he did not expect that he was also observing the world.

"Qin Shihuang is so good, what do you want to do?" Zhu Heqi jumped to Zhu Cihong's side, grinning and said: "If I become emperor, I will tell my ministers: I want to fight the Turks, I want to fight Taixi, and I want to fight Xiyi. If you want to fight the whole world, go and set off when you are ready! Then I can continue to play, and after playing, they will take down the place for me."

"If you become an emperor, you can eat whatever you want?" Zhu Heyuan interrupted and asked suddenly.

Zhu Cihong patted the third child on the head, stared at Zhu Heqi and said, "What if the ministers below refuse? They refuse to fight. Can you force them to go?"

"Then... there must be a way." Zhu Heqi said, "Why would the ministers under Qin Shihuang agree? So, there must be a way, but I don't know it yet."

"There is indeed a way." Zhu Cihong nodded lightly, watching the second son jump and play again.In his heart, he has actually answered Zhu Heqi's question, that is, "allies", or to use a more precise term in later generations, it should be called a community of interests.

After Shang Yang, the Qin State rewarded its people with martial arts. Not to mention that the nobles enjoyed benefits from conquering the six kingdoms, even ordinary Qin people also improved their social status and improved their living environment during the campaign.This is the greatest community of interests.

When the people of the six countries were still fighting for the king, the people of Qin were already working for themselves.In terms of work enthusiasm, do part-time workers care more about corporate profits, or do the bosses care more?

The reason why he didn't say it was because Zhu Heqi was too young to understand.On the other hand, Zhu Cihong has also entered a new stage of governing the country, with strategic layout and ideological brewing.

Judging from the education Zhu Heqi received in his previous life, although he studied abroad in his early twenties, the real "politics" is still a political class in domestic high schools.No matter how controversial the political education in middle school was at that time, Zhu Cihong now feels that he has benefited from it.

Without the literacy of Marxism in high school and the introduction to Marxism-Leninism-Mao-Deng in college, Zhu Cihong would not have realized the importance of production relations at all.In the first ten years of his administration—if you don’t count the usurpation of the Qiandi era, his main energy was to liberate the productive forces.

To put it bluntly, Zhu Cihong did not think about changing the relationship between people in the whole society, but just hoped to tap more power to enter production and create social value.

However, it is impossible to simply liberate the productive forces without touching the relations of production.

When the police and the inspection department escorted groups of lazy, blind, and poor people to the Northeast, Taiwan, Australia, and even the Americas with state violence, the production relationship has already been touched.

When Shandong, in order to raise military expenses, the Donggong guard camp confiscated rich and powerful households, even the homes of officials appointed by the court, and produced "criminal officials" in batches, the production relationship has also been shaken.

To this day, "Lu Zheng" is still a scar that people dare not mention, because in that "movement" that benefited a lot and greatly promoted Zhu Cihong's career, in fact, he has already stood at the forefront of the values ​​of the whole society. on the opposite side.No one mentioned it, precisely because people dare not criticize the emperor, not because they can agree.

Zhu Cihong has supported a new class in these years, allowing the old owners of the means of production to transition to this class, and of course the royal family itself.From a Marxist point of view, he found a class ally.This class ally will fight, plunder, and exploit for the benefit of the class together with the royal family.

The key problem is that there are too few philosophers in this world.How many people have clearly boarded Zhu Cihong's pirate ship, but they don't know it at all?How many people have obviously stepped into a new class and made profits in new ways, but they are nostalgic for the old small-scale peasant economy, and even have the intention to withdraw?

Zhu Cihong knows that once the problem of changing production relations is in front of him, it will require more sophisticated means and greater patience to solve it.

So in the emperor's mind, what kind of changes in production relations should Ming carry out?

According to the knowledge learned in high school, production relations can be divided into two types, one is based on public ownership, and the other is based on private ownership.From a historical point of view, the Confucian scholars in the Song Dynasty hoped to build a world of great harmony based on public ownership, so even if the court could not compete with the people for profit, the state could only tighten its grip on important economic fields such as salt and iron and foreign trade.

From the perspective of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Taizu Emperor Gao and the subsequent emperors were all carrying out private ownership reforms.A large number of government-run saltworks and iron factories have become privately owned at extremely low prices.The entire guard system collapsed, and it was precisely because of the slackness of the imperial court that nearly half of the country's land and population became the private property of the military aristocracy.

It can be said that the Ming Dynasty has gone a long way on the road of private ownership. If it wants to go back to the road of state capitalism based on public ownership, probably only the rebirth of Mao Zu can do it, and it is definitely not within the reach of Zhu Cihong. (to be continued~^~)