"Your Majesty, this fake "Confucian Gate Xundao" suddenly appeared seven days ago. Most of the content above is no different from the real "Confucian Gate Xundao". It just replaces the article introducing the land equalization compensation plan with "On Xiang Xian" and "On Wu Zhou Jun Tian". The Jinyiwei people discovered something was wrong five days ago, and immediately sent out plainclothes cavalry to arrest several newsboys, and found the fake "Confucianism Xun" privately printed. The book engraving workshop of the newspaper. However, the engravers who were caught said they did not know that the newspaper they were printing was a fake newspaper. They just carved the plates based on a handwritten copy of the "Confucian Xun Bao"... Beizhen Fu After Si's interrogation, it was discovered that these engravers could only draw pictures of gourds and ladles, but were actually illiterate."
Sitting in a large sand ship-shaped passenger boat, reporting to Zhu Heji the progress of the "fake newspaper" case, was Pang Siming, the commander of the Jinyi Guards, who had just arrived from Nanjing to Wuxian County, Suzhou. Despite his young age, the adopted son of the 9,000-year-old Pang Eunuch was only sixteen or seventeen years old when he followed Zhu Heji, and he is only in his early twenties this year. However, because of his reliability and ability, as well as the help of a group of little brothers, He became one of Zhu Heji's right-hand assistants. From the Governor of the Inner Gunpowder Factory, to the Chief of Guards in the Attendance Department, to the Commander of the Royal Guards, he has already become a highly respected minister at a young age. This is in troubled times, but in peacetime, I wonder if you have ever left campus at this age?
While listening to Pang Siming's report, Zhu Heji held a fake "Confucianism Newspaper" and looked at it with a somewhat helpless expression on his face - it is wrong to make fakes! Although the printing volume of the genuine "Confucian Xun Bao" is a bit small, the price is also a bit high. But you can’t just print pirated copies and sell them because of this. Do you know about intellectual property rights? This is illegal!
In addition, the problem with this "Confucian School Xundao" is not only piracy, but a "fake newspaper" that uses the name of "Confucian School Xundao"!
This idea... is really amazing!
"Teacher, this fake newspaper must be the work of spies sent by the Qing Yao Confucian Sect. The purpose is to sabotage the exam competition that will be held early next year. The students suggest posting shadow graphics to hunt down the Qing Yao spies!"
The person who made the suggestion was Zhu Heji's favorite disciple Yan Yuan. He is still serving as Zhu Heji's minister and chief of bodyguards. He led a group of guards and attendants (guards are bodyguards and attendants are secretaries) to follow Zhu Heji. Private visit via incognito.
"Can you catch it?" Zhu Heji glanced at the "little father-in-law".
"Yes!" Pang Siming said, "But there is no need to draw shadows and figures, just a secret arrest... The plainclothes cavalry sent by the minister are originally to investigate and arrest secretly, and the masterminds behind the scenes should not know it yet. Their book engraving workshop has been controlled by Tiqi..."
"Well done!" Zhu Heji nodded with a smile. This generation of Jin Yiwei is not the same Jin Yiwei who had a hard time in the late Ming Dynasty. The backbone of them are all from rebel backgrounds, and they do secret work with their heads up, but their level is different!
Pang Siming changed the subject at this time and said, "But I think it's best not to arrest the masterminds behind the scenes."
"Not arrested?" Zhu Heji was stunned, "Why?"
Pang Siming handed over another note, "Your Majesty, this is from Penglai Bank in Dengzhou."
Zhu Heji took the note and looked at it, and immediately laughed: "It turns out that Zhou Qiuguang is here... No wonder he can come up with such a brilliant idea. This person really can't be caught, we have to find a way Let him go back and continue to assist Kangxi!"
Zhu Heji both sent spies to Kangxi's south study room, and of course they knew the nickname "Zhou Qiguang".
By capturing and killing "Zhou Qiuguang", didn't this help Kangxi?
Pang Siming added at this time: "But it's inappropriate to let them propagate Confucian fallacies like this..."
Zhu Heji looked back at Yan Yuan, "Yi Zhi, what do you think of the rural sages they advocate and the equalization of land in Wu and Zhou?"
Yan Yuandao: "Teacher, the students think that the rural sages themselves have nothing. After we finish equalizing the land here, whether the land is owned by the clan or the village community, we need someone to take charge of the subcontracting of the land and the rural schools. These Aren’t people just virtuous people?”
Zhu Heji nodded, "That's right, we don't have that many officials to send... Kangxi's imperial power does not go to the countryside. Our imperial power can only go to the countryside at most, and it is impossible to go to the village to join the clan. "
There is a cost for the imperial power to go to the countryside. No matter how good Zhu Heji is in business, he can't make money without the current productivity. However, the current productivity can only support the bureaucracy to go to the countryside, and the cost of going to the village to join the clan is simply unbearable.
Moreover, Zhu Heji's system not only included officials, but also Confucian sects, government-run universities, middle schools, and elementary schools co-managed by Confucian officials... When imperial power went to the countryside, elementary schools would of course follow suit, and Confucian sects would follow. Go to the countryside together.
In addition, when officials, schools, and Confucianism went to the countryside, the judicial, financial, and supervisory systems of the New Ming Dynasty also had to expand downwards.
This is an expansion of the entire ruling system, and one can imagine how high the cost will be. Although the country's taxation and mobilization capabilities will also expand at the same time, the development of productivity does not happen overnight.
Therefore, before the industrial revolution is completed, villages and clans must be autonomous!
Yan Yuan added: "But our village community and clan autonomy are completely different from Qingyao's so-called rural sages. Our purpose of allowing village communities and clans to be autonomous is to let them take care of their own affairs, not for Collect more taxes. The village chief and clan chief are not appointed by us, but elected by the villagers and clan members themselves.
Moreover, we are also promoting compulsory education where everyone has access to books... As long as everyone is literate, they will have the opportunity to be admitted to township primary schools, county middle schools, government academies and provincial universities. What about the village community and It is impossible for the clan leaders to cover up the sky with one hand. "
Yan Yuan thought deeply and said: "But Qingyao's towns and counties implemented it in conjunction with the tax farming law... This is actually a kind of rural toast!
Qingyao hired out not only taxes, but also royal laws and rural soldiers, otherwise the tax collectors would not be able to collect taxes at all. Moreover, Qingyao's tax farming requires the tax collector to be clearly identified, which is equivalent to sealing the land of a township to one person. As time goes by, when the power of these tax collectors develops, Qing Yao will fall apart. This kind of tax-paying method for rural sages is really tempting poison and quenching thirst. At the beginning, you can receive a lot of money, but over time, haha...
As for Wu Zhou's method of equalizing land, it was much better than Kangxi's method. I have been studying Wu Yingxiong's methods these days and found that he actually distributed the landless and small-land farmers in Huguang to the heroes below, and asked these heroes to send their children and servants to lead them to enclose and develop the land in Sichuan. The reclaimed wasteland was then given to farmers, children, and servants, and at the same time, it served as a fiefdom for the meritorious officials of Wu and Zhou Dynasties.
Although this is also feudalism, the poor households in Huguang have a way out, the wasteland in Sichuan can also be reclaimed, and the heroes of Wu Zhou also have their own feudal states, which can be regarded as killing three birds with one stone. Although Wu Yingxiong is an unfaithful, unfilial and unjust person, he is still good at politics.
In fact, some of us are doing this method here. In recent years, people from Fujian have been moved to Taiwan Island by people from the Yanping Palace to plant sugar cane. "
After listening to Yan Yuan's analysis, Zhu Heji nodded slightly and said: "Yi Zhi, you and Pang Siming will go back to Nanjing immediately to find Huang Zongxi and ask him and his disciples to write an article criticizing the Qing Dynasty in the "Confucian Xunbao" The demon's system of rural meritocracy." As he spoke, he already laughed, "Zhou Qiuguang is a scholar after all, and he actually wants to argue with us... We have Dong Lin's successor Huang Lizhou, and he can't reason with his wife. A dog-headed military advisor who lost his troops again?"
"Your Majesty, I will pay them all that week..." Pang Siming asked.
"Check!" Zhu Heji said, "But don't alert the snake... focus on finding out how their money went? If you find out the money, you find out the person! After you find out the person, you want to find out who they are. It won’t be difficult to do whatever they want. Once we figure out what they want to do, we can give Kang Mazi some eye drops.”
Pang Siming said: "I understand!"
