In just one day of the Suzhou stock market, more than 30 million yuan was traded in the primary market, and more than 7 million yuan was traded in the secondary market. The hot scene ignited the dreams of all Jiangnan people to get rich, and countless people's accumulated wealth was immediately mobilized. come out.
The two brothers Zeng Guofan are both very knowledgeable people. How could they not understand the power of the stock market? In the eyes of outsiders, this thing is just a place where businesses exchange their needs and cross-exchange shares for financing.
But in the eyes of the marshal, this is a secret agreement between Xiao Letian and Jiangnan merchants to deport each other. Xiao Letian invests in the stock market and receives dividends and taxes from the stock market. This is equivalent to Jiangnan merchants supporting Xiao Letian.
And what did Xiao Letian report to these listed merchants? It is security, a promise of military protection. Once a listed company is maliciously attacked, and the attack is non-commercial, then Xiao Letian is obliged to protect him.
Not only that, Xiao Letian himself is the founder of the Chinese clan. There is a complete system of lords within the Chinese clan. He can even give these businessmen a brand new identity, a noble identity that is not available from the Manchus.
If things go on like this, the four strata of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce that make up the people of the Qing Dynasty will be poached alive by Xiao Letian.
Zeng Guofan sighed, "It's a done deal! Xiao Letian is determined to poach the Qing Dynasty. Once the merchants from Jiangnan benefit from him, then the merchants all over the country will be tempted. The division between the four peoples made him poach a pillar. Do you think this building can still hold up?"
The Ninth Marshal beat his legs, "Scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, in fact, the real power is the scholars and merchants, one is powerful and the other is rich, and the peasants and workers will always follow the scholars and merchants, even those people who are greedy for small profits will naturally Be more friendly with businessmen, after all, businessmen control their jobs!"
"But by doing this, Xiao Letian completely broke the classification of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce! This is offending scholars to death! Is this okay? Without the support of scholars all over the world, how can he move up?"
Zeng Guofan nodded, "You are right. This is also a question I have been thinking hard about. I know that the people under the old farmer have brought this form. Take a look for yourself..."
A table, using a common format among Chinese people, contains basic information on the ten private universities in Ryukyu, including simple guesses about the four military academies.
"Ryukyu, not counting primary and secondary schools, this university is currently a four-year institution with a total of 28,000 students. This year, the number of graduates is expected to reach 3,000, and this number will increase year by year!"
"My brother, the private university founded by Xiao Letian has trained more than 5,000 graduates to this day. None of us know the statistics of the military academy. I think it must be as many as one or two thousand..."
"It's terrible! These are the talents he cultivated himself. When placed in the local government, he would be the county magistrate. When placed in the army, he would be a general and assistant leader. When placed in the Academy of Sciences, he would be an engineer who is envied by foreigners..."
"And it is foreseeable that the number of people graduating each year will be more and more in the future. This year we can only graduate 3,000, maybe next year it will be 4,000, and the year after that it will be 6,000..."
"What about Nanyang? There are no longer a small number of Chinese immigrants there. If every Chinese settlement area has a comprehensive university, then the number of talents trained every year will not be less than that of Ryukyu! It is scary to imagine, ten In a few years, Xiao Letian will have tens of thousands of top talents, and hundreds of thousands of junior and intermediate talents..."
At this time, the old farmer suddenly interjected, "This cannot be counted as literacy rate... Xiao Letian's plan is to abolish all illiteracy among the Chinese in ten to fifteen years!"
"How is this possible!" Jiu Shuai shouted, "Is there zero illiteracy? He can solve the problem of young people, but can those older middle-aged people also be forced to read and read?"
Zeng Guofan smiled faintly, "What's impossible? If one day all high-paying Chinese jobs require literacy, what do you think those people will do? Now there are people in Ryukyu and Tanggu Special Administrative Region organizing high-quality and low-cost night schools, including Literacy classes allow you to take tutoring classes for college students by paying very little money, and don’t tell me, there are so many people going there!”
The Ninth Commander was completely softened and turned into a puddle of mud. "Awesome! He is going to start a new one. Is he going to abandon all the Confucian scholars and start a new one? If he really has 100,000 scholars he has trained, he might really be able to replace Confucianism!"
"But? But is this China still China? Are the words of the saint going to be invalidated?"
The room fell into dead silence for a while, and it took a long time for Zeng Guofan to say, "When did Xiao Letian say he would abolish the saints? Look at this!" After saying this, Zeng Guofan took out a letter from under the pillow and handed it to his brother.
Jiu Shuai found that the envelope was very worn and worn, which meant that his eldest brother would read it often when he was fine. When he opened the letter paper inside, he found that it was a letter written with a foreign pen. At a glance, he knew it was Xiao Letian's note. Jiu Shuai's note was very special. Ripe.
"This letter is actually an agreement between Xiao Letian and I. Do you still remember the time when Xiao Letian brought His Majesty to Jiangnan in secret? He and I had another secret meeting, and none of you knew..."
"Xiao Letian needs my protection. Before his power can protect himself, he needs me to shield him from the wind and rain. Many of his big plans, especially the financial layout of Jiangnan, need my nod, otherwise you think he can Can this financial crisis be solved smoothly?"
"But everything is conditional. Xiao Letian must give me some promises in black and white, and the first one?
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?Confucianism cannot be abolished! "
"Since ancient times, academic disputes have been very cruel. An academic is an idea. In order to instill one's own ideas into others and make others think like him, human beings will not hesitate to kill people!"
"Confucianism is indeed old, and many of it is out of date, especially in the natural sciences... But Xiao Letian cannot completely deny Confucianism. He can abolish the clichés of women and children, but the benevolence, justice, etiquette, wisdom and trust that Confucianism advocates is the Chinese The roots of civilization must not be destroyed!”
"Can't you just throw away benevolence and righteousness just because Wang Shizheng and other rotten scholars don't believe that the earth is round? Can't you throw away the etiquette of superiority and inferiority, filial piety, and integrity just because those Confucian scholars don't accept natural science?"
"You can innovate Confucianism, but you can't overthrow it! You can even cancel the political preferential treatment of the Confucian family in Qufu, but you can't kill their people or destroy the temple of Confucius. This is my bottom line. You Xiao Letian must give me Establish written evidence!"
