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Chapter 412 Nonsense, the portrait on the gold coin
This matter is also simple, as long as these real upper-class figures in Fujian unify their opinions and improve, the specific things will naturally be done by noble "scholars".

This is the same as when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sought the strategy of governing the country. Dong Zhongshu suddenly jumped out, "Brother Wu, tell me, what do you want, brother, I will do it!"

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty directly told Dong Zhongshu, "My grandfather and my father, they have been practicing the 'Huang Lao theory' and 'Gou' for so long, and they are no longer as impoverished as they were in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China. Qian, now I want to completely gather local power and centralize power, you know."

"In addition, the 'Huns' bullied my grandfather and my father back then. Now, I want to fuck them all the way to my hometown to kill these bastards, but that, the 'Huang Lao' set, It's not suitable, so, Xiao Dong, it's up to you."

Dong Zhongshu patted his chest, "It's okay, just watch mine!"

Looking back, Dong Zhongshu found suitable theories from legalists, military strategists, strategists, etc. , The husband guides the wife", such a combination of 'kakaka', a set of suitable thoughts on governing the country has been assembled.

In the end, the unification stuffed these things into 'Confucianism'!
As for why it is called "Confucianism", firstly, this is what is needed by everyone. Second, whether it is "Legalism", "military strategist", or "strategist", various theories have their own "leadership" writing books, For example, Legalists, Han Fei wrote "Han Feizi", Shang Yang wrote "Book of Shang Jun", such as military strategists, Sun Wu wrote "Sun Tzu's Art of War", Sun Bin wrote "Sun Bin's Art of War", Jiang Ziya wrote "Six Secret Teachings", etc.

Only 'Confucianism' has room for manipulation.

Confucius once led some of his disciples to travel around the world for 14 years. In his later years, he revised the Six Classics, namely "Poetry", "Book", "Li", "Music", "Yi" and "Spring and Autumn".

According to legend, he had three thousand disciples, including 72 sages.After the death of Confucius, his disciples and their disciples recorded the words, deeds, quotations and thoughts of Confucius and his disciples, and compiled them into the Confucian classic "The Analects of Confucius".

In other words, this "Confucianism", except for the revision of the Six Classics, the sage Confucius did not have any works. Apart from the prime minister...there is no future.

(Dinggong 14th year, Confucius year 56th, the chief minister was doing everything, and he was very happy.)
Before Dong Zhongshu, the so-called "Confucianism" was simply "hidden learning", that is, hermit learning, and "burning books and burying Confucianism" was also called "burning poems and books, pitting warlocks (in other words, narrating scholars, that is, Confucian scholars)". Later, it was called "burning books and burying Confucianism".

That is to say, the rise of "Confucianism" is entirely the need of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Then Dong Zhongshu concluded that in order to make this knowledge appear taller, he went back to the past two hundred years, and at the last look, hey, all kinds of other things 'Zi' has its own works, but 'Confucius' does not, which is very appropriate...

Of course, another reason is that "Spring and Autumn", which is the history of Lu State revised by Confucius, has the saying of "Spring and Autumn Brushwork", which is very in line with the meaning of the ruler. To put it bluntly, it is - flattery + deceit.

In other words, this is the fundamental law of the line of 'Confucianism'...

Chunqiu brushwork refers to paying attention to praise and criticism in the selection of promotional materials.

The methods used by Confucius to edit "Spring and Autumn" are "pen" and "cutting".

"Pen" is to add to the original "Spring and Autumn" records, and "cut" is to delete the original "Spring and Autumn" records.

The Gongyang family said: Confucius wrote "Spring and Autumn", "The pen is the pen, and the sharpening is the sharpening. The disciples of Zixia cannot praise it."

("Historical Records The Family of Confucius") There are three ways of writing.First, "Taboo for the respected, taboo for the relatives, taboo for the sage." ("Zhuangzi · Tianxia") That is to say, when compiling a book, it is hidden when it comes to the venerable. Of the more than 800 events recorded in "Spring and Autumn", in addition to 700 items such as solar eclipses, earthquakes, natural disasters, and wind and frost, the remaining [-] items all record the major activities of Zhou Tianzi, princes, and officials.

At that time, the resistance struggles of slaves came and went one after another, and "thieves were flooded" and "thieves went public" everywhere.These major events that directly endangered the rule of slave owners were not recorded in "Spring and Autumn".

Well, to put it more bluntly, the superiors are all perfect saints. It is impossible to have shortcomings. As long as the reasons are found well, the shortcomings can also be called advantages. If you really can’t find the advantages... then make up , anyway, death cannot have shortcomings.

(Well, the above are all nonsense by the author. In fact, <Han Feizi-Xianxue>: The most prominent learning in the world is Confucianism and Mohism. Where Confucianism comes, Confucius also goes. Where Mok comes, Mo Zhai also. Since In the death of Confucius, there were Confucians of Zizhang, Confucians of Zisi, Confucians of the Yan family, Confucians of the Meng family, Confucians of the Qidiao family, Confucians of the Zhongliang family, Confucians of the Sun family, and Confucians of the Lezheng family. Confucianism. Since the death of Mozi, there has been the ink of the Xiangli family, the ink of the Xiangfu family, and the ink of the Dengling family.)
(However, it is true that before Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, no dynasty or ruler relied on "Confucianism" to make the country rich and the people strong. On the contrary, business, military, and legal powers abound.)
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Now, the de facto ruler of Fujian is Wang Xuan, and these families here are his supporters. Therefore, the arguments set by these people will naturally be summarized by scholars later, and the upper-level forces in Fujian are fueling the flames. It is conceivable that In the future, there will be a trend of 'New Confucianism' in Fujian.

As for pulling up a big flag to make a tiger skin, Wang Xuan is very good at this trick. Anyway, it's not the first time that "Confucianism" has been pulled out as a shield. If you use it, I, Wang Xuan, will naturally use it.

"Okay, let's settle this matter like this. Later, everyone will convey the meaning. Let's talk about the next thing. Don't think that these things have nothing to do with the development of Xiaoliuqiu. As the saying goes, you must first secure the inside if you fight against the outside world. Fujian is our current foundation, if we don’t build Fujian well, how can we expand and develop outside!”

"I'll understand later, Mr. Wuzhou tell me."

The following group of people also expressed their understanding and approval. In fact, many things are like this. It’s not that they don’t know how good they are, but that there is no leader. Many things, no matter how good they are, can’t be done. This is called a snake without a head.

"Let's talk about the money issue again. Everyone knows that my Ming Dynasty lacks 'money'. Whether it's 'copper' or 'silver', my Ming Dynasty's output is underground, and the money circulating among the people is not enough. That's it. The fineness of silver can always cause some messy problems, and there are too many loopholes to exploit in the fire consumption alone, which also leads to many inevitable errors in the process of trading."

This point, everyone here has a lot of experience. Firstly, there are too many copper coins, which are afraid of being broken. Second, it is difficult to count the weight of broken silver. Third, the lack of fineness will eventually lead to losses. Anyway, there are too many troubles, but this point has not been resolved for thousands of years. .

Hearing what Wang Xuan said, everyone was very interested. We have seen a lot of Wang Xuan's wonders in the past. If this matter can be resolved, they will be happy from the bottom of their hearts.

After Wang Xuan finished speaking, he took out a bag, and poured out a bunch of 'coins', or 'coins' to be precise!
Minting coins, especially pressing modern coins, is actually quite troublesome. First, you have to adjust the proportion of silver, mix it with other metals, determine the weight, and finally make molds and press machines. The process is actually quite complicated.

This is also a technology that was fully matured some time ago, and it just took this opportunity to promote it.

In essence, there are gold coins and silver coins. There is only one type of gold coin, one or two weights, with a gold content of 95%, and three types of silver coins, namely one or two weights, five coins, and two coins, with a silver content of 90% and the rest are iron, zinc and lead.

These kinds of coins have bright luster, are not easy to corrode, have high hardness, and have extremely complicated and delicate patterns. They are completely one-time pressed products, and it is almost difficult to imitate without a complete set of equipment.

For example, on a gold coin, the outer ring on the back is rice, the production date is on the bottom, the thumbnail of the new city is carved in the middle, and the head of Wang Xuan is on the front. Even the texture of the clothes is clearly visible, and it is impossible to artificially imitate the carving.

Wang Xuan took the money and walked towards the crowd, each distributed one of each type, which made everyone who saw this kind of coin for the first time marvel.

This kind of engraving technique is simply sensational, so delicate that it makes people fascinated. Moreover, the comparison of two identical coins is absolutely identical, and there is no slight difference at all.

Moreover, the purity is extremely high!
Compared with the current copper coins in circulation in the Ming Dynasty, this is the difference between treasures and trash. Those copper coins are simply too rough.

"This gold and silver coin is absolutely perfect, and that's exactly how it's minted."

"Perfect, it is impossible to counterfeit it."

"The workmanship is so exquisite that I can't bear to spend it."

Seeing a group of patriarchs of aristocratic families exclaiming like old hats, Wang Xuan couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth slightly.

Seeing these guys fiddling endlessly, Wang Xuan finally couldn't help coughing and the two woke up the crowd, "Okay, let me talk about the value ratio. A standard gold coin is one tael, five weights, and a silver coin is one tael. Five coins, two coins, the exchange ratio is, one gold coin, ten silver coins of one tael."

"My Ming Dynasty's measurement units are too mixed and the accuracy is not high, so I have also re-adjusted, and I will give you a new measurement tool later. The accuracy is extremely high. One catty is divided into twelve, and every two points is fifty grams. In the future, everyone will change to a new measurement tool, so that the data statistics will be more accurate, and the people below will not be able to fiddle with it.”

"I know that the confusion of measurement units is good for everyone when dealing with the government's tax collection, but at the same time, the people below will also play tricks on it. To be honest, it's not sure who will suffer. Therefore, all changes must be made in the future. Start with me in Fujian, and after a long time, everyone will understand the benefits."

Wang Xuan's order did not cause any opposition. It was not unified before, and to a large extent it was not promoted by powerful figures.

After all, Qin Shihuang was the last one who could unify the weights and measures. Now, even the emperor does not have the ability to reunify. After all, there are too many interests involved, from the "big and small buckets" when collecting grain to selling grain. The size of the bucket, a little difference is not a small profit.

Those who lie on the line of inaccurate measurement and suck blood, ranging from aristocratic families, to tax collectors, to traffickers and pawns, without the intervention of absolutely powerful people, it is absolutely impossible to be unified and accurate.

(End of this chapter)