"This is to bribe you, and it is also intended to bribe the entire Datong Machinery Factory, and then seize its profits, turning the factory, which was originally intended to benefit the workers, into a profit-making tool for some rich and powerful people!"
boom!
Bi Ziyan slapped his palm on the table and said, "You're quite generous! I can give you an interest-free loan of six million yuan in silver coins!"
Gu Yanwu nodded and said: "These wealthy businessmen in Suzhou are already chaebols! They intend to use their wealth to control the world and stop the imperial court's will to make the world rich."
"We can't let them succeed!"
Bi Ziyan replied directly.
"To make the poor get richer and the rich not become poor, so that the wealth obtained from consumption can be distributed as much as possible to the hands of producers, not just to the hands of operators, so as to avoid the situation where the rich get richer and the poor become poorer. Impoverishment is the original intention of our establishment of Datong Machinery Factory!"
Gu Yanwu also replied and said: "I just didn't expect that these Suzhou chaebols would have such a keen sense of smell and come up with ways to prevent factories like ours from appearing so quickly."
"But I have to say that their methods are very clever. They don't forcefully prevent factories like yours from appearing, but bribe you to change your color! This is the same as the establishment of a dynasty. Even in the early days of the founding of the country, the king and courtiers No matter how honest and honest you are, they will eventually corrode you."
Bi Ziyan said.
"It's okay for the few of us. We all set up this factory for our ideals, not for wealth! The students only worry about the future."
Gu Yanwu said and looked at Bi Ziyan.
"Report this matter and your concerns to His Majesty and let His Majesty know about it!"
Bi Ziyan ordered.
…
“Capital is so pervasive that there is never a day when it doesn’t want to concentrate the world’s wealth in the hands of a few people!”
Zhu Youxiao expressed such emotion after receiving Gu Yanwu's report.
"Every bustle in the world is for profit, and all the hustle and bustle in the world is for profit! Human nature is inherently evil, not inherently good. Xunzi's words are actually the theory that those who practice good governance throughout the ages have relied on!
Therefore, I believe that the purpose of the existence of the imperial court is to prevent the evil of human nature. The laws and regulations established, the morals established, and the civilization established are all to restrain the evil of human nature and make the human world different from the animal world. "
Wen Tiren said something at this time and said:
"Your Majesty, I recommend that Xunzi should be given the title of Xunzi and ranked with Confucius and Mencius, so that future generations will know that when in government, we should never forget to suppress the evil of human nature."
"No! Human nature is good, and evil is acquired after birth. The country should be governed based on promoting good. I believe that the employees of Datong Machinery Factory will not choose to betray the purpose of building the factory! As long as they educate them diligently, there will be transcendence. More and more people understand this principle, and then become strict with themselves, and know good and avoid evil, so as to preserve their conscience."
Liu Hongxun retorted.
"Promoting good and eliminating evil are not contradictory!"
"Xunzi's status can be increased, how can we, China, only respect a saint? In this way, the saint will become a big thief! And we, China, have more than one saint with great ideas?! And good deeds should be promoted, so in the future, even Datong Machinery Factory If the situation changes, we will build a new Datong Machinery Factory for testing."
Zhu Youxiao made his own decision.
"yes!"
Liu Hongxun replied helplessly.
Although he was unwilling to recognize Xunzi's status, he knew that the court now needed to recognize Xunzi's status to show its attitude of controlling the disorderly expansion of capital, so he no longer objected.
"We must also prevent the disorderly expansion of capital, crack down on huge private fund-raising, and issue an edict to the world. Anyone who raises more than one million yuan without my permission will be complicit in rebellion. This does not mean that we must prepare a large number of troops and secrets. Building a large amount of ordnance is considered treason, and amassing huge amounts of funds without authorization with the intention of manipulating government affairs is also complicit in treason!"
As Zhu Youxiao spoke, he ordered: "Dongchang must find out the source of Hu Cunyi and others' funds. If there is illegal fund-raising, arrest them first and then interrogate them!"
"yes!"
…
It didn't take long.
According to Zhu Youxiao's instructions, the Ming Dynasty officially issued an edict to admit Xunzi to the Confucian Temple, and requested that Xunzi be ranked alongside Mencius and Confucius. Together with Mencius, he was posthumously named the Most Holy Sage. The first teacher was changed to the most holy sage.
Zhu Youxiao deposed Yanshenggong's title because of the incident at Yanshenggong's house, but he did not take away Confucius's position as the most holy teacher.
Zhu Youxiao still recognized Confucius' contribution to Chinese thought and culture.
Therefore, he still retained the title of Confucius.
However, he now placed Confucius on a par with Mencius and Xunzi.
In Zhu Youxiao's view, there is a difference between sages and teachers. First teachers have the intention of letting future generations imitate and follow them, while sages only allow future generations to know their knowledge, study their knowledge and have their own independent thinking. .
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao changed the name of the most holy teacher to the most holy sage.
When Zhu Youxiao issued this edict, the whole world was immediately in an uproar.
"There are three people who don't understand: 1. How can the most holy teacher be ranked with the two sages Mencius and Xun? 2. Why is Xunzi qualified to be worthy of the Confucian Temple? 3. Xunzi can all be worthy of the Confucian Temple, but Yanzi, Zengzi, Zisizi, and Zhuzi Woolen cloth?"
At this time, the scholar Jin Zijun mentioned this matter in front of a group of scholars because of this matter.
Another scholar, Gong Hongxu, said: "The imperial court did this not to respect Xunzi, but to use Xunzi to say that people in the world are inherently bad, so they need to strengthen control."
All the scholars nodded and praised him.
Many civil servants who advocated that people's hearts are inherently good were indeed quite dissatisfied with this, and felt that the imperial court was deliberately strengthening control over the people and preventing people from being free.
"I actually misjudged people like Gu Ningren (Gu Yanwu). These people are not moved by profit!"
After Hu Cunyi learned that the imperial court had issued a decree to respect Xunzi and also prohibited fund-raising, he guessed that the imperial court must have known about the intention of wealthy businessmen like himself to use capital to discolor Datong Machinery Factory through people like Gu Yanwu, so he issued such an order. government decree, so he said this quite angrily.
"It also prevents us from using money to make profits at will in the future!"
"I, the scholar, have always had discord among people. The root cause is that some people have read incorrectly, and the meaning of saints has not been unified. Some people only care about justice in the world, but do not care about a person's rights."
"What is the right, life and wealth, and freedom! The freedom to do business, the freedom to seek profit, the freedom to choose one's master, the freedom to use money, the freedom to live! We, the rich businessmen, have worked hard to earn money for generations. , of course, we should be allowed to use it however we want, why should the court take care of it! This is really unreasonable!"
Although Hu Cunyi was a wealthy businessman, he was also a Confucian scholar, so at this time, he also talked a lot, then slammed the table and said to his son Hu Chun:
"You go out and take a look to see which Han vassals are governed by this method of freedom. These days, my father is dividing the family property at home and preparing to leave China and leave this place where people are not allowed to be free."
"yes!"
Not long after Hu Chun said that, Xiwen hurried in and said, "Sir, the people from Dongchang are here! They said they would take you to the Anti-Corruption Department for questioning."
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