The goal of free education is to open up people’s wisdom.
That's right, Zhu Gaoxu wants to enlighten the people's wisdom, and he has been doing this all the time!
When Zhu Gaoxu, the prince of Han Dynasty, first supervised the country's governance, he appointed Rumulu Tiemian as the general affairs envoy, who was responsible for opening the Ming Dynasty Newspaper.
In fact, there were newspapers in ancient times. The Ming Dynasty inherited the system of the previous Song Dynasty and established the General Administration Department and Titang Officials, who were responsible for the collection and delivery of official newspapers. They were called "Di Bao", and there were "Chao Bao", "Tiao Bao" and "Miscellaneous News". called.
This dibao is a kind of bulletin news used for notification. It is a news copy specially used by the imperial court to convey documents and political information to inform the government.
It first appeared in the Western Han Dynasty. Each county had an office in Chang'an, the capital. This residence was called a "di" and had permanent representatives. Their task was to liaise between the emperor and the heads of the counties and regularly report to the emperor. Official documents such as edicts, edicts, and ministerial reports, as well as relevant political information such as palace events, were written on bamboo slips or silk, and then sent to the governors of various counties by messengers riding fast horses through the post roads established by the court.
It has been used by all dynasties to this day. The Ming Dynasty also established a general affairs department specifically to publish "Di Bao" to manage the publication and distribution of "Di Bao".
The only problem is that this newspaper is not for the common people, but for local officials. To put it bluntly, it is a newspaper similar to official documents.
The Ming Dynasty Newspaper, which Zhu Gaoxu asked Lu Mu to run, was specifically for the common people. The entire article was written in the vernacular, and the general affairs envoys had already been stationed in the local area and recruited some down-and-out talented children to travel around the countryside. , explain and publicize the contents of this newspaper to the people.
For this reason, the imperial court allocates a large sum of money every year to the General Affairs Department to publish and publish the Ming Dynasty News!
Why would Zhu Gaoxu do such a thing?
Just to open up people’s wisdom!
Throughout the ages, all emperors, generals, ministers, and dignitaries have a common understanding, which is to fool the people!
That's right, all kinds of methods are used to fool the people, including but not limited to "divine right of kings", "inspiration from heaven and man", etc. Even the most holy teacher once shouted, "The people can do what they want but not what they do." Knowing the "words of sages", his disciples and grandchildren played even more tricks.
Emperors of all dynasties like to play the trick of "divine right of kings", taking advantage of the common people's belief and worship of natural forces, pretending that their own will as the emperor's order is the order of God, artificially creating some auspiciousness, and then proving themselves He is the "Son of Destiny", proving that his kingship is divinely given, calling this "Destiny"!
Dong Zhongshu, a great scholar of the Western Han Dynasty, also very cooperatively proposed the "response between heaven and man", preaching that the monarch is chosen by heaven, and if the monarch makes mistakes, heaven will punish him. This will continue to fool the people, continue to make the people full of respect for the monarch's power, and He also tied Confucianism to imperial power, establishing the enduring and lofty status of Confucianism alone.
To put it bluntly, the emperors of the past dynasties relied on this unfounded sense of mystery and this set of policies and methods to fool the people to win the recognition and awe of the people in the world, so that they could better rule the people and dominate the country!
This is the so-called majesty of the emperor!
This is what the upper class rulers do all the time!
As for the common people, they only need to obey the orders of the emperor, but the emperor is too far away from them, so they only need to obey the orders of the local gentry and powerful people, and live ignorantly and numbly!
Before the people became wise, emperors of all dynasties adopted the policy of obscuring the people to rule the people. Confucianism, which has been passed down for thousands of years, has made indelible contributions in this regard.
Even the sage master uttered these Confucian holy words. One can imagine what measures his disciples and grandchildren would take to fool the people.
What's the most disgusting part?
The most disgusting thing is the disciples and grandsons of the Holy Master, who have become wise after reading books.
The reason why scholars can distinguish right from wrong is not just reading, but also because scholars enjoy privileges and can travel freely around the world without being restricted by road guides. Reading thousands of books is not as good as traveling thousands of miles.
But what about the local people?
They are deeply restricted by the road guide system. Let alone going out for sightseeing, it is basically impossible to leave a county!
This road guide is proof that people have traveled far away from home. All information will be clearly marked on it, including name, age, place of origin, etc., and even facial features and the time of return home!
If you exceed this time limit, you will be severely punished, ranging from exile to death with a stick.
Countless people have spent their whole lives living in their own small village. Let alone traveling far away, they may not even know what year it is in the outside world.
To put it bluntly, the imperial court wants to imprison the people in the countryside and fields, so that they cannot broaden their horizons and let them farm the fields in peace and mind, without any other desires or thoughts!
But in this way, the people are safe, but has the court really benefited?
No!
All the benefits and benefits were taken by the clan and gentry!
Because clans and gentry are the biggest people that ordinary people can come into contact with!
Compared with the court, these clans and these gentry will try every means to fool the people, locking them in local fields for generations, and letting them cultivate the land for themselves for generations!
To give a sad and ridiculous example, when someone asks the people what the emperor's life is like, they don't know what year it is, what the emperor's reign is, or what the emperor means to the Ming Dynasty, they will just be stupid. I speculate that maybe the emperor lived a very prosperous life. He used gold hoes to hoe the ground and gold poles to carry water, right?
It's ridiculous, it's sad, it's sad.
This is a good thing done by the clan and gentry!
They will do whatever it takes to fool the people and make them live a life of indifference.
And what does Zhu Gaoxu want?
What we want is to break their blockade on local people and fields!
Therefore, it is imperative to open up people’s wisdom!
Only by truly enlightening the people's wisdom, and only by truly allowing the people to leave their fields, step out of their clans and move towards the Ming Dynasty, can the Ming Dynasty completely complete its transformation!
After all, if we want to rejuvenate the country through science and education and make the country strong through talents, can those Confucian disciples selected through the imperial examinations be able to do it?
Do not make jokes!
This will only cultivate one gentry after another, and one gentry after another!
Through a series of means to open up people's wisdom, provide free education to the people, so that everyone can read and learn calligraphy, let them have the opportunity to understand this Ming Dynasty, and let them generate desire and wisdom!
When this step is completed, even if there are emerging power groups that want to take away their own land, they will no longer swallow their anger or submit as they did in the past. They will rise up to resist and defend through Ming laws and regulations. own rights!
The General Affairs Secretary has done a lot of things over the years!
For example, the first priority is to popularize the Ming Dynasty laws and regulations, which is the simplest "law popularization" work.
After all, Zhu Gaoxu invested so much money in Lumu every year. If he couldn't even do this thing well, Zhu Gaoxu would have kicked him to Java!
His Ming Dynasty will not tolerate anyone destroying it!
