Smuggling Daming

It was also out of awe of Wang Yangming's mind, that's why Zhou Zhong didn't dare to disturb Wang Yangming before, but now it's different, Wang Yangming has been transferred to the South Taipu Temple as the Shaoqing, and the South Taipu Temple is located in Chuzhou. The duty is to be responsible for breeding cattle and horses.Zhou Zhong felt that it was a bit too much for someone like Wang Yangming to raise horses, and only someone like Wang Yangming could shock Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai, so he wrote a memorial to Zhengde, and Wang Yangming was very disappointed. He soon received the imperial edict to be transferred to the Governor's Mansion of the Four Seas.

"The next official, Wang Shouren, pays homage to the governor!" In the governor's mansion in the spring of the ninth year of Zhengde, Wang Yangming, who had just turned forty, saluted Zhou Zhongshen. He just rushed to Shuangyu Port, so he was the first to come to see his Shangguan.

Zhou Zhong also looked up and down at Wang Shouren, who could stand shoulder to shoulder with Confucius, and saw that the other party was a tall, middle-aged man with a long face, a tall forehead, regular features, and a thick beard under his jaw. The reason why he has worked in the Ministry of War for many years makes him look more heroic than ordinary civil servants. Even if he puts on a suit of armor, no one will believe that he is a civil servant.

"Your Majesty Wang, you don't need to be too polite. This time, the Governor will ask His Majesty to transfer Lord Wang from the Taipu Temple to serve as an inspector. It is precisely to use the power of Lord Wang to rectify the administration and justice under the Governor of the World. Help Ben Du to share the pressure." Zhou Zhong smiled and asked Wang Shouren to sit down and said politely, although he had just met, he was already impressed by Wang Shouren's temperament.I believe that someone like Wang Shouren, who is both literary and military, serves as the inspector of the supervisory officials, and his position is higher than that of Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai, so he should be able to temporarily suppress their arrogance.

In fact, Wang Shouren is still a little strange up to now. He used to be his own young minister in Nantaipu Temple, and he went out to give lectures and promote his knowledge in his spare time. Now he has a certain influence among the scholars in the south. , and even accepted a few students, but unexpectedly, His Majesty suddenly issued an imperial decree.Wang Shouren was really puzzled by asking him to serve as an inspector in the Governor's Mansion of the Four Seas, and everything was under the arrangement of Governor Zhou Zhong.

The Shaoqing before Wang Shouren was the fourth rank, but the current inspector has been promoted from the second rank to the third rank, and it was an imperial edict issued by His Majesty the Emperor himself.This is a very rare holy family. Even on the day when the imperial decree arrived, Wang Shouren could see envy and jealousy in the eyes of his colleagues. Served in the Ministry of War and Taipu Temple.He has never been an official like Yushi, nor has any experience in it.And from the very beginning, he was the inspector of Zheng Sanpin, which put a lot of pressure on Wang Shouren.

However, although Wang Shouren was full of doubts in his heart, he did not ask them in front of Zhou Zhong. After all, his official career these years was not for nothing, and he was very clear about some official taboos. You just need to do your job well.Instead of asking why he was transferred to the Governor's Mansion.

Wang Shouren didn't ask, and Zhou Zhong didn't take the initiative to tell him the situation of the northern and southern officials in the governor's mansion.Anyway, he will know soon, so Zhou Zhong just briefly introduced the situation of the various places under the administration of the Governor's Mansion of the Four Seas. Among them, the Taiwan Mansion has a large area and many officials under its rule, and most of them are newly promoted officials. It is inevitable that there will be mixed good and bad, so Wang Shouren needs to focus on rectification. In addition, there are Malacca and Old Port, which are too far away from Ming Dynasty, and the binding force on officials is lower, so they are more prone to problems.

In addition to the affairs in the officialdom, Zhou Zhong also briefly introduced the situation of the three places in Taiwan, such as population, economy and products.Wang Shouren had also heard about some of the overseas activities of the Governor's Office of the Four Seas before, but he was also influenced by the thinking of some traditional scholars, so he didn't pay much attention to it, and he didn't have a deep understanding. The impact on Ming Dynasty, especially the alleviation of the refugee problem caused by land annexation, Taiwan alone was able to resettle millions of refugees. Such a huge number shocked Wang Shouren, and Zhou Zhong was also shocked. He couldn't help being in awe, because he knew that the entire Governor's Mansion was built by this young man in front of him.

"Your Excellency, although emigrating overseas can alleviate the problem of land annexation, the overseas land will not be endless. If one day our Ming's population fills up the overseas land, how will we solve the land problem then? The question of mergers?" Wang Shouren asked a question that Zhou Zhong was very familiar with, because he had been asked this question more than once.

"Your Majesty Wang is worrying too much. You may not know much about the overseas world. I can tell you now that the overseas world is much bigger than we imagined, and our Daming is not the center of the world. If nothing else, The total land area of ​​Nanyang alone plus Australia and other places farther away will not be smaller than that of our Ming Dynasty. In addition, there are two American continents on the east side of the sea. Not only are there extremely rich products, but also the land area It is several times that of our Ming Dynasty. The above places alone are enough for us to immigrate for hundreds of years, and the world is always changing. Maybe we regard land as extremely important now, but people will live in it hundreds of years later. It seems that land is not the only important wealth!" Zhou Zhong explained with a smile.

"Oh, land is not the only important wealth?" Wang Shouren looked at Zhou Zhong with some doubts. He felt that Zhou Zhong seemed to have something to say, so he asked again, "My lord governor, listen to what you said, It seems that you have some other methods of physiognomy, and I would like to ask, can you tell me about it so that I can learn a thing or two?"

"This" Zhou Zhong hesitated for a while about Wang Shouren's request. His overseas immigration policy can only alleviate the problem of land annexation, but it cannot fundamentally solve this problem. The most important thing to solve the land annexation is To liberate most of the people from the land, in other words, to vigorously develop industry and commerce, after all, only when industry and commerce develop can accommodate those who have been liberated from the land, then people will find that the land is not The only means of production, most people can rely on industry and commerce to support themselves, and even live a more exciting life. At that time, the profits produced on the land will become very poor compared to industry and commerce. I am afraid that the imperial court will encourage others to annex the land. After all, if there is no one to cultivate, those lands can only be abandoned.

However, although Zhou Zhong knew that industry and commerce could solve the problem of land annexation, he never mentioned this matter to anyone. After all, in the era of Ming Dynasty, industry and commerce were still cheap industries, and the social status of craftsmen and merchants was still extremely low. If he was the first to propose vigorously developing industry and commerce, it would inevitably improve the social status of craftsmen and merchants, which might attract the hostility of many people. With Zhou Zhong's current status, there is really no need to make too many enemies for himself. Now he It is only necessary to vigorously develop maritime trade. As long as trade flourishes and there is demand for goods, industry and commerce will naturally flourish. When industry and commerce develop to a certain level, people will naturally jump out and shout for industry and commerce.

"Okay, since Mr. Wang wants to hear it, I'll tell you my opinion, but I haven't told anyone about it, and if these words are spread, I'm afraid I will fall into the criticism of others. So please ask Mr. Wang to keep it secret!" Zhou Zhong thought for a long time, and finally nodded.

Although Zhou Zhong didn't tell others about the vigorous development of industry and commerce, he could talk freely about Wang Shouren in front of him, because Wang Shouren has an important philosophical thought in his philosophy, that is, "Theory of the New Four Peoples".The so-called New Theory of the Four Peoples means that Wang Shouren believes that scholars, farmers, workers, and merchants "return to the way that is beneficial to the living, and they are just one." Yan Yiye's point of view, it can be said that he put business and industry, which has always been regarded as a "cheap industry" in the traditional concept, on the same level as scholars.

Knowing Wang Shouren's New Theory of the Four Peoples, and knowing that he doesn't regard business as a cheap industry like traditional scholars, Zhou Zhong opened his mind and expressed his thoughts on vigorously promoting industry and commerce.

When Wang Shouren heard Zhou Zhong's novel theories, he was also very interested. Combined with his previous experience, he found that Zhou Zhong's ideas were not just fantasy, but extremely operable.Zhou Zhong even used the Song Dynasty as evidence to strengthen his persuasiveness. After all, the land area of ​​the Song Dynasty was much smaller than that of the Ming Dynasty, and the population was not as good as that of the Ming Dynasty, but the treasury revenue of the Song Dynasty was several times that of the Ming Dynasty. The Song Dynasty was the only dynasty that did not suppress land annexation, but there were only a few peasant uprisings in the entire Song Dynasty. In comparison, Daming was simply a negative example. Since its establishment, it has never stopped. The most important reason for the difference is the attitude of the two dynasties towards industry and commerce.

Wang Shouren has learned from the past and the present, so he naturally knows that what Zhou Zhong said is the truth, and what Zhou Zhong said today also shocked him greatly. After all, what Zhou Zhong said is all from the era of knowledge explosion in later generations. Wang Shouren represents the ideas of the top figures in the Ming Dynasty. When two ideas from completely different eras meet, collisions and frictions will naturally occur. I just don’t know what kind of impact these collisions and frictions can produce. Idea spark? (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.)