"Now it seems that the ideological divisions within the Jiangnan scholar-bureaucrats have become very serious, and the conflicts are very sharp. Even if the court does not directly favor one side, they themselves have had several big fights! This is simply a big fight with the native people from Fujian and Guangdong. Let’s compare!”
"In particular, many scholars have become very reactionary and ignore the king's laws. They actually advocate using strong methods to directly kill those who do not agree with their views. This is something the court cannot tolerate! We in the Ming Dynasty cannot have such Han people! Taking another person’s life is essentially treason!”
On the day when Shengjia left Nanjing, Lu Xiangsheng talked about his thoughts after these days of inspection at Zhu Youxiao.
Then, Lu Xiangsheng talked about the reasons he analyzed: "The root cause of these is that there are many wealthy families with generations of bureaucrats in the Jiangnan area. Many wealthy families cannot accept being controlled by the imperial court. , and more and more people from poor families are competing for the status quo, and this has caused great dissatisfaction!"
"Therefore, in my opinion, we have to start moving the big families in the south of the Yangtze River to other places!"
Lu Xiangsheng therefore put forward his own suggestions.
Wen Tiren also seconded: "Some large families have several houses in one place, and even some counties are basically all members of the same family, and the land basically belongs to their family, and it is difficult for the government to control it. Therefore, in order to avoid the situation in the future, In the case of more bloody riots, relocation is indeed necessary.”
Zhu Youxiao nodded and asked: "In your opinion, where is the most suitable place for these big families to relocate?"
"India!"
Lu Xiangsheng gave his answer at this time and said: "If His Majesty had not launched troops in India and immigrated to India, I would not have thought that there would be so much arable land in India. Now our army has opened up acres of arable land in India. It has surpassed China. At present, the spontaneous immigration of the people and the resettlement of disaster victims have still led to a large number of people but a small number of people. Of course, this is related to the strict sinicization policy implemented by the imperial court. Therefore, there are more native people who resist, and there are many resisters, which naturally leads to A lot of natives were killed, which meant that the area we had occupied still had a small population and a small number of people, so it was necessary to forcefully relocate some wealthy families."
"The Han people with sufficient cultural heritage are also needed to take root there. It is difficult to completely root our Han culture in the local area just by relying on the migration of common people. We may still be influenced by the local culture and gradually form a new civilization."
Wen Tiren agreed to move some nobles to India. After all, the nobles did have profound cultural heritage and could speed up the development of Han civilization in the local area.
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao also agreed very much: "Those wealthy scholars who want to become masters will only become more reactionary if they stay in Jiangnan, and may even corrupt the poor scholars. It's better to move away! Let them go to India to become masters! Come back. After Beijing, the first thing to do is this."
"yes!"
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"Your Majesty, please look!"
At this time, Lu Xiangsheng pointed outside the window of the royal steam car.
Therefore, Zhu Youxiao looked outside and saw that the official road was lined with scholars.
Confucian turban and blouse, standing elegantly.
As far as the eye can see, there are as many egrets as there are on the riverside.
Zhu Youxiao exempted the world from land tax, regulated commercial taxes, curbed the mergers of powerful and wealthy families, and promoted civilian education. Therefore, many poor people, small landowners, and scholars from the small business class in Jiangnan respected him as the emperor. .
In addition, Zhu Youxiao's reprimands a few days ago inspired the scholars in Jiangnan.
Therefore, the scholars respected His Majesty the Emperor even more, and many even took him as their teacher.
Including some scholars from wealthy families like Huang Zongxi and Lu Fu, they were not stupid. After being enlightened by Zhu Youxiao, they also understood the emperor's goodwill and were grateful for it.
These scholars all came to see their Emperor off from Nanjing.
However, Zhu Youxiao himself did not expect that his operation of not only allowing his suggestions but also directly suppressing them with iron blood these days, made the scholars in Jiangnan surprisingly more united than before, and therefore they all came to pay tribute to His Majesty the Emperor.
"Congratulations to Your Majesty!"
"Congratulations to Your Majesty!"
"Congratulations to Your Majesty!"
…
These scholars shouted in unison at this time.
The leaders Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu and other scholars came to the front and said: "We have let your Majesty down. I am worthy of being a scholar of the Han family! Your Majesty, please rest assured that the students will never point the butcher knife at their compatriots in this life! Unless There are compatriots who want to be Han traitors and split our Han family territory!"
Zhu Youxiao laughed happily and said: "Very good! That's how it should be, we all share the same bloodline, why should water and fire be incompatible!"
"Your Majesty, this is a book on how to limit the rights of the people, written in vernacular according to the imperial edict and written in vernacular by the students these days. I would like to ask Your Majesty to read it and enlighten the ministers on the shortcomings!"
Not long after Zhu Youxiao said this, Huang Zongxi presented a book, held it with both hands, raised it above his head, bent down towards Zhu Youxiao, and shouted loudly.
"Your Majesty, this is part of the "Book of Benefits and Diseases of the Counties and Countries of the World" written in vernacular. Your Majesty, please review it!"
Gu Yanwu also presented his book at this time.
After hearing this, Zhu Youxiao said: "Since it is written in vernacular, it can be regarded as responding to the court's call. Take it. If it is well written, the court will help them become famous."
Therefore, some ministers then brought both books to Zhu Youxiao.
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Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu were naturally happy when they saw this.
They were among the first people to respond to the imperial court's call and start writing political articles in the vernacular style.
And this is undoubtedly a good start for the development of the entire Ming culture.
After all, this means that vernacular writing is no longer just available in the marketplace, serious political articles are also beginning to be written in vernacular.
The Han scholar-bureaucrats finally took another step towards being close to the people and becoming people's writers.
"Gong Gu, can the students take a look at the first draft of your "Book of Benefit and Diseases of the Counties and Countries of the World", so that the students can learn more about some insights that the students themselves have not thought of?"
Huang Zongxi has not yet become an official, but Gu Yanwu has already taken the newly established official position of bachelor of Zizheng Academy.
The Zizhengyuan is an agency under the cabinet. It is a national policy research institution. It does not have real power. It only provides suggestions and conducts corresponding policy research to cabinet ministers, so that cabinet ministers can make better suggestions at the imperial court.
And here, because Gu Yanwu became an official, Huang Zongxi also called him public and called himself a student.
After hearing this, Gu Yanwu smiled and replied: "Let's talk about it after I finish writing it. How about showing me your book on restricting people?"
"Then please ask Mr. Gu to correct me when the time comes."
Huang Zongxi replied.
The two of them just walked side by side towards the city while chatting.
Historically, Gu Yanwu was regarded as a weirdo by the Donglin Fushe scholars. However, Gu Yanwu himself did not like being a scholar, giving lectures and hanging out among the powerful. The scholar of Donglin Fushe.
It was the same in this life. He would rather accompany Bi Ziyan, an old minister who resigned from office and returned to his hometown, to do economic surveys from house to house, and even donate his own land to experiment with government-run industries where employees hold shares, rather than go to give lectures and talk to The royal family and nobles were in contact with each other, and even participated in the struggle for the foundation of the court, and they had no interest in contacting the liberal scholars who were willing to change the world at every turn. They even often published articles criticizing them for being unpragmatic.
But because of the words of Emperor Zhu Youxiao, he also realized that even if he was a Han Chinese, even if he looked down on them, he should not be too contemptuous or too heartless to communicate, so he was willing to talk to people like Huang Zongxi, not to mention Huang Zongxi and others were also willing to promote vernacular literature, which gave him the idea of promoting literary reform together with Huang Zongxi and others.
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