Zai Chun's talent seems to be obviously stronger than that of Shang Tai. Being able to ask such a question shows that he has a deep understanding of the knowledge he imparts and is very attentive. Xiao Letian is deeply pleased.
"I have not systematically studied Buddhism, but I appreciate the causal relationship in Buddhism. Every appearance has cause and effect, some are simple, some are profound..."
"Killing people to pay debts and paying back money is a relatively simple cause and effect relationship. It is of course impossible for you to harvest rice when you plant wheat. Even if a cowherd boy who is tired of studying since childhood dreams of being named on the gold medal list, this will not show up..."
"In fact, when we analyze social problems in detail, there is cause and effect, but it is more complicated. It is often the countless causes in the past that lead to the countless effects in the present. The entanglement of cause and effect can never cut off other generalizations. analyze……"
“I said today that bureaucracy harmed the emergence of capitalism and the process of industrialization in China. This is just one of many historical reasons. There are many other reasons for today’s bad consequences..."
"Land annexation is a big problem. The arable land in the Central Plains is limited, and the plains are basically annexed by the landlord class. The extremely poor farmers have always been an unstable factor in society. Once there are natural disasters and man-made disasters, they will be annexed. Will rise up..."
"Speaking of natural and man-made disasters, I once read the notes of a southern literati in the Ming Dynasty. I can't remember exactly who wrote it, but he once said in the notes that in the late Ming Dynasty, the West Lake was frozen almost every year, and carriages and horses could be driven on it. …”
"Look, the weather changes at that time have become extremely bad. Severe drought continues in the north, and the temperature in the south is also dropping. I call this climate the Little Ice Age. Since nature is so cruel, it makes the extremely poor farmers even more desperate. If the law survives, a major rebellion will naturally be inevitable..."
"We can't decide the weather manually, and we can't change the amount of land with our bare hands. Look, we have entered an endless cycle."
Although King Shangtai was the monarch of the island country, he still studied the civilization of the Central Plains very deeply. He sighed, "Yes, when the Central Plains dynasty was first established, it experienced a sharp decrease in population after war. There was a lot of land but a small population. The natural economy entered A period of recovery…”
"But after the dynasty experienced a huge population expansion for several generations, land conflicts began to rise. Gradually, the land annexation phenomenon reached its peak. The extremely poor people who could not survive had no other choice but to rebel. There was another war and chaos, and another A new dynasty was born from the bones..."
"War is the last resort to solve the problem of land annexation, hey..."
Xiao Letian smiled. Both apprentices were enlightened. He really did not teach in vain. "Okay, that was an endless cycle in the Middle Ages, but now we have encountered a major change that has not happened in three thousand years. This endless cycle is about to be broken." Already..."
"The core of the problem lies in industrial upgrading. The so-called change will lead to generalization, and generalization will not hurt. It is obvious that the land can no longer support more people, why not consider industrial upgrading, and why should the people be locked on the land."
"If there is no land to grow, why not develop industry and commerce? The output of an acre of vegetable fields or orchards is far more than food. Why not let people circulate for long-distance trade? People actually have to open roads to guide them when they go out. What kind of evil method is this? "
"During the Ming Dynasty, the skilled weavers in the south of the Yangtze River could earn enough money from brocade weaving in a year for a family of three to live a life of adequate food and clothing. Didn't they live very well without land? Without land, the sky would really fall. The end of the world?"
Xiao Letian took a sip of tea to moisten his throat. "I wonder if you still remember the East Asia grain adjustment event years ago." The two apprentices nodded desperately.
"Actually, there is enough food in the world for us to enjoy. In South Asia, rice is harvested three times a year. There are deep-sea granaries everywhere along the long coastline. The entire earth is extremely rich in products. It depends on whether we can mobilize it..."
"Rice from Southeast Asia, Korea, Japan, Ryukyu, and Jiangnan are continuously transported to the capital through the hands of merchants. Within half a month, I can bring the price of rice in the capital back to the heyday of Kangxi and Qianlong. What do I rely on? It’s not the power of businessmen…”
"The exchange of goods is the natural choice for people's survival. Even those mountain people with poor land, if the trade routes are opened, won't the herbs, game, exotic flowers, wood... countless specialties in the mountains be exchanged? If it becomes money, money cannot be exchanged for food..."
"Look, the development of industry and commerce is a very effective way to solve the vicious cycle of land annexation. But it is a pity that businessmen are suppressed by civilian politics, and the power of industry and commerce cannot be unleashed at all..."
"Without the great development of industry and commerce, what kind of industrialization can we talk about? The essence of industrialization is to improve productivity and efficiency, make goods cheaper and produce more, and then use goods to exchange for the resources the country needs..."
"That's what Britain did. When Napoleon swept across Europe, Britain and France were obviously at war, but the woolen cloth used by the French army was provided by Britain. Why? It's because Britain was the first to industrialize. Their The price of wool can be kept to the lowest in the world..."
"Isn't it ridiculous? Isn't it ridiculous? We are obviously the enemy, but we still use the enemy's products and let the enemy make money. This is the invisible hand of the market regulating..."
At this point, Xiao Letian stood up and walked around the room, "Isn't this wrong? Isn't this wrong? Develop industry and commerce, increase productivity, improve the technology level of goods, and then use these goods to go around the world in exchange for the resources we Chinese people need." …”
"Food is a resource, gold, silver, copper and iron are also resources. Even the ratio of men to women is out of balance. Daughters-in-law of foreign races are resources. In short, what is our country lacking? We need to find ways to use money to go shopping around the world. Isn't this a natural thing? Why? In the eyes of those bureaucrats, it becomes a treasonous act..."
"The merchants will be oppressed to death, and the sea ban will be enforced until death. They watch the poor people in China starving to death one by one without knowing how to buy food overseas to save their lives. You must know that a box of Chinese porcelain bowls can be exchanged for a shipload of food overseas. , with food to save lives, why would the extremely poor people rebel?"
"When you are full, you will not rebel. This is a truth that everyone understands. Don't those civil servants understand? Wrong, they understand, they understand very well, but they deliberately pretend for their own selfish interests. I don’t understand…”
Xiao Letian roared angrily. He opened the window and startled a large number of students who were listening. The leader was actually Xiang Ying. These college students did not even cough during the two hours of studying. .
Xiao Letian smiled bitterly and shook his head. He did not expel these students. He roared in a low voice.
"These are the bureaucrats. What they want in their hearts is for civilian officials to control the government forever. If industry and commerce are opened up, the social status of businessmen will be improved. If the sea ban is opened up, military generals will have countless opportunities to lead troops and make achievements, and they will be separated. s right……"
"They are so smart. They actually understood the importance of industry and commerce earlier than Europeans. Guan Zhong during the Warring States Period had already explained all the principles clearly... China's affairs are not defeated by ignorance, but by ignorance. Defeated by selfishness.”
"Civilian politics comes from the landlord class, which means that land is the foundation for their livelihood. In order to maintain the unshakable status of land, they will not hesitate to kill industry and commerce and industrialization... because they know that when industry and commerce develop, they will definitely Create a new wealth gathering place..."
"When all the wealth in society flows into industry and commerce, will the land in their hands depreciate, a large number of farmers become workers, and the number of tenants they can control will decrease."
"The development of industry and commerce will definitely bring about the rise of grassroots intellectuals, and their monopoly on knowledge will definitely be shaken. How could they let this happen?"
"Hahaha..." Xiao Letian smiled bitterly, his eyes already wet. He looked at the college students sitting cross-legged on the ground and said with great sadness.
"So, these civil servants would rather watch King Chuang's army of one million marching across the Central Plains, and millions of people forced to trade their children for food because of hunger and cold... They could even watch the emperor trapped in the treasury with more than 100,000 taels of silver and remain indifferent. Anyway, the Ming Dynasty was destroyed. There is also the Qing Dynasty. After the Qing Dynasty falls, there will be a new dynasty..."
"They looked at it so coldly, so ruthlessly and cold-bloodedly. They knew that as long as they opened the customs and sent overseas the porcelain, silk, and tea produced in the south of the Yangtze River, they could exchange for boatloads of food and silver... …They clearly know that’s okay.”
"But...but they wouldn't do that until Chongzhen was hanged in Meishan. For their own rights, they could watch millions of people starve to death and be killed. They didn't care about the life or death of an emperor. …”
"Damn it, what the hell? As long as you open the country, you can get food and silver. As long as you open the country and activate the power of merchants, the Ming Dynasty will not fall. But no one will do it. If you want to do it, they will try their best. I have to find a way to get rid of you. This is bureaucracy, an unstoppable nightmare that has existed in China for thousands of years."
The tragic situation before the demise of the late Ming Dynasty caused a dead silence inside and outside the study. Finally, Xiang Ying gritted his molars and said, "Kill, you deserve to be killed, you are a sinner through the ages."
Everyone present, including the little emperor, clenched their fists and shouted, "Kill, deserve to be killed, eternal sinner..."
Xiao Letian raised his head and sighed with tears rolling down his face, "Do you know, when a kind person accepts the values of bureaucrats, he is no longer a person... I once had a dream, in that horrible dream , a group of bureaucrats would even set fire to innocent people in order to rob a tile-roofed house. They gathered around to drink and celebrate. They hugged beautiful women and indulged in debauchery, watching the living people turn into ashes in front of their eyes without any action..."
"When bureaucrats see money, they will turn into madmen and beasts. They will lose the last trace of their conscience. They will not only kill the people, but they will also kill the country..."
"The most terrifying thing is that they will never admit guilt until they die, and they will control public opinion so that they can stand on the moral high ground to accuse others..."
"How could China's thousands of years of culture produce such a devil and freak?"
Note: This chapter is written in a very depressing way, and it is a bit edgy. It is enough for everyone to be aware of it. In fact, countless chaos in society have not been eradicated from ancient times to the present. It is just a new skin. In the bones The culture is the same.
Don’t think that you are very high-minded when you hear the word culture. In fact, corrupt officials also have their own culture, African savage tribes also have their own culture, and the bureaucracy also has its own culture.
That is an idea, an idea that supports their behavior. Corrupt officials kill people and make money. There must be their own set of ideas and values in their hearts. There is no doubt about it.
All cultures have historical heritage. As long as you study carefully, you can find the ghost under the skin of all paintings.
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