"What my father said is that if the common people raise a son, they still need to draw milk to feed it. The imperial court supports the people, so it should take external profits to support it. How can it be that it only takes from the people and does not support them. "
Zhu Ciwei replied.
Zhu Youxiao nodded and said: "That's right, the royal family must have the awareness not to serve us with all the people, but to support our family with all people! Since ancient times, the decline of the royal family has been due to the fact that it only knows how to take from the people, but does not know how to use it. My responsibility is to create profits to benefit all people!"
"Loving the people cannot just be frugal and not competing for profits with the people. It is impossible to govern the world without benefiting from the people. The responsibility of governing the world is to ensure that the people have a steady stream of benefits. Even if the government takes them, they will not exhaust them!"
Zhu Ciwei nodded and continued to reply.
Zhu Cizhuo, like Zhu Cikai, stopped talking like a gourd with a sawed mouth as soon as he arrived in front of the emperor.
How active he is in front of others, how quiet he is in front of his father.
Zhu Youxiao also noticed this and asked Zhu Cizhuo: "Lao Wu, what do you think of what your elder brother said?"
"OK!"
Zhu Cizhuo replied.
"What's so good about it?"
Zhu Youxiao asked again.
"Back to my father, I am stupid and don't know what's good about me."
Zhu Cizhuo replied.
Zhu Youxiao lowered his face and said, "Don't pretend here. If you don't reveal your identity, I won't let you go."
"Then let me think about it."
Zhu Cizhuo touched the back of his head and said:
"Fortunately, the royal family wants to find ways for the people of this country to get rich! Isn't this why my father asked us, the royal family, to use our financial resources to invest and colonize overseas? This way we can increase our wealth without harming the people of this country. The key is to bring along the people to generate income together.”
Zhu Youxiao nodded: "But this is your elder brother's idea. Please tell me what you think about our Ming Dynasty's active expansion."
Zhu Cizhuo wondered: "Can you not say it?"
"It must be said!"
Zhu Youxiao's tone became serious.
"Well, actually, father and eldest brother are both right!"
"Extracting profits from foreign countries to support the people of the country will greatly improve the knowledge, cultivation and wisdom of the people of the country, and even widen the gap between them and the foreigners. It is possible to maintain the advantage of hundreds of years, but it is also possible There is no guarantee that the enlightened people of the foreign barbarians will be dissatisfied, and there is also no guarantee that we will be too greedy, which will intensify their resistance, and ultimately lead to the strengthening of the self-national consciousness of the foreign barbarians, or even very strong!”
"So, I am wondering whether the Ming Dynasty should establish a global order that transcends nationalities as soon as possible, so that the countries of the world are divided into hierarchies and have their own division of labor. Although the Ming Dynasty, as the suzerain state, exploits all countries in the world, it can be ranked among the Ming Dynasty. Below, those who are above all nations, although they are oppressed by the Ming Dynasty, can oppress other countries, and the other countries are naturally willing to maintain the status of the Ming Dynasty. By analogy, countries at all levels will be in their own positions, and the court can always benefit from Countries.”
"Even the Ming Dynasty will not have to focus on destroying the countries in the world, but on maintaining the global order. Perhaps once the underlying countries are in danger of causing the order to collapse, the Ming Dynasty will also need to provide relief, or have technological innovations to make society When productivity increases, the imperial court can also benefit from it, so that all mankind can share the benefits of science and technology."
"And Ming Dynasty only needs to deal with a few individuals who have a tendency to rise and challenge their own status."
"Presumably this is also the reason why my father has always emphasized global order. I only came up with this idea based on my father's emphasis on this."
Zhu Cizhuo replied.
After hearing this, Zhu Ciwei looked at his fifth brother in surprise.
Then, Zhu Ciwei hurriedly said: "Father, I think the fifth brother's suggestion is a good one. Stupid bandits only know how to kill people and steal wealth, but this way they can only steal wealth once;
The smart bandits know how to keep his life, force him to continue production within his control area, and only take part of his wealth. They will even protect his life and help him produce stably, just for the sake of energy and continuous profit!
The Ming Dynasty should treat the foreign countries in the world like this. Although it has the ability to destroy them, it will not destroy them, but will keep them in captivity and take advantage of them at any time. In this way, it can continuously take advantage of them. "
"Having said that, it's not that easy to ask foreigners to obey your rules. If the civilization is different, there will be no sense of cultural identity, and they will not be willing to obey the rules you set. It's like, if we are not a family, why are we? As a father and you as sons, why should I be in charge of you and pay me!"
Zhu Youxiao said something at this time.
"What my father said is true! But in my opinion, you have to be strong in yourself when forging iron. For the Ming Dynasty, it should be me, China. If we want to remain at the top of the world's nations, we still have to let our workers be the most prosperous in the world. Skilled workers, our farmers are the best farmers in the world, our scholars are the most innovative scholars, and our soldiers are the soldiers who dare to fight the most. In short, our people should always be better than the people of other ethnic groups."
Zhu Ciwei said.
Zhu Cizhuo could not help but say at this time: "The strength of a nation lies in its youth!"
Zhu Youxiao couldn't help being surprised and looked at Zhu Cizhuo: "Lao Wu, please continue."
"Old people will grow old, and the future belongs to the young. If the nation can continue to be strong, it will naturally depend on whether the young people are strong today."
Zhu Cizhuo replied.
"What the fifth brother said is true, but for young people to be strong, they need the love and guidance of their elders, instead of treating them as uneared wheat in the field, just waiting for them to grow up so that they can be harvested so that they can enjoy happiness in their later years! Lao Wu Lao And the essence of the sage’s words is here!”
"I believe that the people of our own tribe need to have the morality of treating their own children as their own children. They cannot just treat their own children as human beings and be willing to expend their efforts for them, while treating other people's children as selfish gifts! Especially this. Those in power should be more open-minded."
Zhu Ciwei said.
Zhu Youxiao laughed: "It seems that I, as an old guy, have to work hard and dedicate my life to young people like you, and I can't think about enjoying my old age."
"Father! I don't have this intention!"
Zhu Ciwei replied quickly.
Zhu Youxiao waved his hand: "No need to explain more! I know what you mean. Within a group, should the old be willing to be fertilizer for the young, or should the young repay the kindness of the old for raising them, and be driven by it? No one It’s clear who is right and who is wrong, but for the continuation of a ethnic group, it is indeed better to be unfair to the elderly, and the law of nature is indeed to remove the old and preserve the new.”
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"My father met with my eldest brother and my fifth brother alone. It must have been about my eldest brother's seizure of the railway construction rights of the Japanese country in Nagasaki and my fifth brother's participation in sending troops to the Rakshasa Kingdom. I don't know how they discussed with my father and whether they would Does this make your father more determined to let one of them inherit the throne in the future?"
Zhu Cikai asked about Zhu Cican at this time.
"You have to ask Father about this."
Zhu Cican replied.
"In terms of popularity, the eldest brother is not as good as you, the second brother. The fifth brother has always been a libertine, even worse than me! Second brother, you don't have to worry too much."
Although Zhu Cican acted indifferent, Zhu Cikai still comforted him.
"Your Highness the Seventh is right. The eldest son of the Emperor is good at everything, but he is a bit cold and mean. He is not as kind and loving as your Highness. He has already taken many lives on his hands!"
Chen Weisong also said something at this time. He actually wanted to say that the eldest son of the emperor was very similar to his father in terms of being cold and mean, but in the end he held back and did not say it.
After hearing this, Zhu Cican smiled slightly and said what Chen Weisong wanted to say: "My eldest brother advocates iron-fist governance. This is similar to my father. He has the spirit of killing thousands of people! It does seem a bit too ruthless. I’m afraid that if necessary, he can even ignore his father’s face!”
"Last time in Jiangnan, I treated an old man politely because I remembered that the virtue of respecting the elderly cannot be abolished. This is filial piety. But the elder brother resolutely killed him. It was useless for me to plead for mercy. He was doing it for the king's law and for the sake of the king. The people of future generations want to maintain a just world, and for this reason, they would rather ignore filial piety and kill the elderly! It can be seen that I am different from him. I said so at the time. Now it just depends on what my father chooses."
"In ordinary people's homes, who doesn't like filial sons? Presumably, Your Majesty will also choose those who are benevolent and filial. Only in this way can we always succeed."
Chen Weisong replied.
Zhu Cican changed the subject at this time and said: "But what can be expected is that if the eldest brother really takes the throne in the future, the world may still be the current world, and the Ming Dynasty will still be the current Ming Dynasty."
"In today's world, what I can't stand the most is why workers and farmers are so rich?! Some are even richer and even more noble than officials!"
Zhang Ersu, who had been silent until now, couldn't help but say something.
"That's right, workers and peasants only need to have enough food and clothing, but they want to study, become rich, and rule the prosperous times with the country. It's really a reversal of the people's status! The principles are often disordered!"
Chen Weisong also echoed.
“This is also to implement the principle of national economic distribution that maximizes the interests of producers.”
Zhu Cican replied.
"Maximizing the interests of producers? It has always been that those who grow food are not as rich as those who sell food, and those who weave cloth are not as rich as those who sell cloth. This is the law of nature and the way of heaven! It is the operators who should get the maximum benefit, not the producers, so By doing this, the court is acting against the laws of heaven!”
Zhang Ersu spoke excitedly, and also complained: "First, the workers in the government-owned industries became rich because the court gave them profit sharing, saying that it was employee shareholding, and then forced us private workers to follow suit in order to protect the industry. Profit is distributed to employees, and sometimes even more is given in order to compete with government-owned industries that have technological advantages. As a result, private businessmen who work hard for a year are not much richer than their own employees, but they have much more to worry about, Your Highness. , do you think this is fair?”
"Then why not go directly to work as a worker? Those who can do business will naturally have some skills. I think it will not be bad to work as an employee in a government enterprise."
Zhu Cican replied with a smile.
"It really does happen! I have seen it with my own eyes. People give up business and go to school to study and learn skills. The world is so strange today. Business is not as good as workers! Scholars are not as good as workers! I, Ming Dynasty, rule the world together with workers!"
Zhang Ersu replied.
Zhu Cican said: "But this is the choice of the father! According to the theory of Xingming Society, the distribution rights of the means of production are in the hands of the father. Whoever the father wants to be rich will be rich!"
"But Your Majesty will grow old. Sooner or later, the distribution rights of the means of production will be handed over to others. I only hope that they can be handed over to people who will truly benefit the future of Ming Dynasty."
Chen Weisong said something and glanced at the elegant and easy-going Zhu Cican. He now had the urge to put the yellow robe directly on Zhu Cican.
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