Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1120 Township Covenant Village Society ([-])

Chen Liang, the only one who could break through this stereotype, his ideas were too radical, and within their school, he was about to be expelled from Confucianism, and the whole school was wiped out for his radical theories.

[Where the merit is achieved, there is virtue].

This sentence is directly labeled as a heresy, and there is no problem at all.

The thought was intimidating.

It was so frightening that Chen Fuliang, a radical member of the generalized classmate school, dared not admit that this sentence was true.

Because what Chen Liang broke through was the orthodoxy of [Inner Saints and Outer Kings]. To reconstruct the orthodoxy, he directly kicked out the inner sages and outer kings, and also threw away the idea of ​​"gong must return to ritual, and learning from the outside to the inside" The shackles completely separate "doing things".

The real master Zhu Xi must have seen the problem, so he uncharacteristically used the most radical rhetoric in the debate-to completely deny everything after the third generation. After the third generation, everything is dark, and Han and Tang are also dark-because Zhu Xi knew that as long as he let go and said that the heyday of the Han and Tang Dynasties was not dark three generations later, Chen Liang would definitely hold on to it.

Why did Zhang Boxing criticize Yan Yuan, saying that the major crime of Yan Yuan's set of things is that Chen Tongfu is the first to be promoted, and Wang Anshi is still behind?Because it was recognized by the Confucian circles that Chen Liang was already on the edge of a cliff, and he would not be able to keep even a little bit of Confucianism if he went one step further.

Wang Anshi's influence in history is much higher than that of Chen Liang, but in terms of Confucianism, he is farther away from the cliff than Chen Liang, and he still belongs to the category of his own people.

The official knowledge of Dashun is actually in the same predicament as the Yan-Li School, and it has come to the edge of this precipice.

Either engage in a wave of thorough cultural revolution, rebuild Confucianism, rebuild orthodoxy, and deconstruct benevolence, righteousness, and propriety.

Or, you can only choose to do meritorious deeds, return to ritual, from the outside to the inside, and finally return to the road of Taoism, take shortcuts and end up talking nonsense.

Of course, it is also possible not to engage in it. Judging from the long time of a hundred years, from the abstract concept of a country, it does not matter.

Anyway, it's useless to do it anyway. What they think is the most benevolent government in the world cannot be solved by showing kindness.

It is nothing more than to solve the legality of Jiangsu's reform, but the matter has been done, Dashun's finances have been seriously tied to industry, commerce and overseas trade, and it is not easy to withdraw.

Of course, progress has to be skinned, and the world is in chaos.

But going back, the current situation has to be skinned.

For a long time, conservatives will have the upper hand.

The conservatives refer to the conservatism under the reality that Jiangsu has completed its reform at this time, and the income from industry, commerce and sea trade accounts for a large part of fiscal revenue; and the conservatism under the reality of the existing foreign policy.

Five or ten years ago, it was the group of radicals.

Although Liu Yu ridiculed their school and set up a retro theater troupe to perform, in fact, he also knows that Yan Li School's evaluation of him is correct, and Jiangsu's reforms cannot be replicated all over the world.

But it doesn't matter.

unimportant.

The number one enemy of Dashun's external market competition is the United Kingdom.

World War I is coming, just win it.

Britain already has a debt of 8500 million pounds, which is equivalent to 2.5 million taels of silver. Even if the UK can borrow 4% interest, the annual interest is almost 1000 million taels.

Even if Dashun doesn’t borrow money and raise interest rates maliciously, 3% is the limit, and it will be 800 million taels in that year. The tax revenue that can be mortgaged in the UK has almost been mortgaged, and India, a cash cow, can’t afford it. got it.

A Jiangsu would definitely not be able to bloody the Thames Estuary.

But when you stir up the shit stick, it will definitely be no problem to stir up the British national debt, interest explosion, North American rebellion, economic depression, run on national debt, and disintegration of the "Navigation Regulations".

If you have no money, you can only let go of imports and earn tariffs to pay back the money.

It doesn't take the power of the whole country.

Although Dashun's administrative capacity is stretched and its taxation efficiency is too low, there is one thing that is good.

No national debt.

To a certain extent, Liu Yu feels that his mission has been completed, and the rest will evolve spontaneously, and he just needs to toss about it.

Because it is the same as going to Nanyang back then, within the calculation, Britain has already lost.

Originally, there was a bright road, and he voted early to replace the Netherlands as a second-hand businessman between the East and the West; give up India, drive away the tigers and wolfs, and directly disintegrate the Sino-French alliance.

But he didn't go this way, he still held more than 2 million taels of interest in his hands, and the East India Company was still an important purchaser of national debt. If Dashun made a little effort, it would definitely explode.

Therefore, with the mentality of fulfilling the mission, Liu Yu ridiculed the Yan and Li schools, but still hoped that they would solve the plight of Confucianism, and become a real prominent school because of the logical flaws in Confucianism of Gongshu itself.

At least, run schools in various places, publicize the idea that Juntian is the most benevolent government in the world, and prepare for the subsequent self-destruction of Dashun.

But there is one thing, before he looses his shackles, Liu Yu absolutely does not allow them to touch his practical school.

Who knows, they will come to the point where they can jump out of the shackles?
Or go back to Gong Xue and return to the reactionary road that merit must be restored?
Anyway, history has proven that it is more likely that the reactionaries will go backwards on the road of return to meritorious deeds.

Therefore, even though the group of Yan Li School had an ambiguous attitude towards Liu Yu, even if they spat and taunted each other, it was still a bit flirty.

But Liu Yu was still far away from them.

Anyway, before they unlock and unlock themselves, deconstruct and rebuild themselves, even passers-by are not counted.

As for people like Zhao Liben who are neither Confucian scholars nor Liu Yu, who are from the new school of thought, they are just bad people from the bottom of the eyes...

Zhao Liben was also illiterate, and knew nothing about the entanglements of these schools. The reason for stopping and staying was just that if his child was alive, maybe the voice of his child might be heard in the sound of reading aloud.

As for the economy and construction.

From Yingkou to Songjiang, and then from Songjiang to Hebei, Zhao Liben's intuitive feeling is that this township is very dilapidated, and it is far worse than other places.

Of course he can only feel it intuitively.

It is also impossible for him to understand the previous infrastructure, the large stalls in the early enclosure and insufficient follow-up capital, and the capital from other places is absorbed from various places and does not need to be accumulated by himself, and so on.

If the most ordinary people can understand this level, then there is really no need to bother.

In Huainan's capital circle area, the two-cropping rotation of wheat and cotton has been completed, and a series of agricultural revolutions such as water conservancy construction, fresh water flushing salt, and bean cake fertilization have been completed through early investment.

Even the Funing area, as a model area where Liu Yu finds faults and kills everyone, has realized the interplanting industry of "cotton and watermelon" through a large amount of capital investment, support of young crop loans, control of the speed of mergers, and a large number of practical students going to the countryside to guide and receive wages. , the local people have achieved watermelon freedom at least in summer, and their living standards have also been improved with the support of a large number of loans.

Compared with the negative model here, the north-south sandwich is stronger than here.

In short, the revived Taizhou School has stepped out of the village community, along the Huainan reclamation area, and its influence is growing day by day.

As for the Yan-Li School, in addition to having a strong influence in the upper echelons of the academic world, the grassroots could not even get out of the township associations, or even the rural studies of the township associations.

It should be said that Zhao Liben, who is illiterate, heard the magically reformed Three-Character Classic from inside. This was the moment when he, a low-level commoner, was the closest to the Yan-Li School.

When he left the scope of Xiangxue, and the sound of reading was no longer heard in his ears, he became farther and farther away from the Yanli School, which was still trying to follow the traditional "herdsman" line.

At least for now.

After leaving the school, after inquiring for a while, Zhao Liben, who had been away from home for many years, finally saw his wife and children.

The child no longer recognized him, but at least he was still alive.

The wife is still alive.

The second brother is also alive.

It's just that the three brothers still didn't get together after all.

"Where is the third child?"

"Not long after your accident, we couldn't get along here. The third child went to a labor dispatch company and went to Ceylon. After selling it for three years and pawning four or five taels of silver, my sister-in-law and I survived here. .”

Hearing the second brother talk about the whereabouts of the third child, Zhao Liben thought of what had happened to him, squeezed his fists, and said through gritted teeth: "The foot and teeth of the car and boat shop should be killed if they are innocent! What a fucking labor dispatch company is a group of human traffickers. It's not that my fate is hard, I died in the mountains of Kanto."

After cursing a few words and saying something about parting, I took out the money and asked the child to buy wine.

Knowing that my younger brother is also married, but life is tight, and I can tell at a glance that I don't have much money left.

Zhao Liben sighed a few words, but the second brother praised the township society a lot.

"Brother, we can survive and I can get married, thanks to the adults and sir who organized this village."

"Xiangyueli said it well:"

"Be good at changing customs, guarding your body and your hometown. On weddings, funerals and sickness festivals, don't be trapped by extravagance and extravagance, and pay for your food; in the family of marriage, don't count on betrothal dowry, wine and food; in the house of mourning, don't entertain the gods , waste money; do not care for relatives for the elderly, don’t care for them poorly, and bury their body poorly; seek medical treatment when sick, don’t listen to sorcery, and specialize in witchcraft prayers; ..."

Zhao Liben knew that his younger brother was also illiterate, but he sang and recited the township covenant naturally.

"In this township community, customs are changed. In the wedding family, don't count on hiring money, dowry, food and drinks. You can't spend a lot of money. Because I am capable, I finally got a wife."

"These years, my sister-in-law is also here. The child is still young, so I also have my own 25 mu of grant land. If I can't grow it myself, I plant it for others and get half of the harvest. This half of the harvest has reduced other labor. My sister-in-law relies on spinning and weaving to exchange some food in the village, and I help a little, and finally survived."

"These adults and gentlemen who organize the township society are all good people. Although life is hard, but the gentlemen have said that this year the river has been repaired, and there will be less corvees in the future. I heard that these original salt ponds, It's either money or people."

"We don't have much money, so we can only send out people. In the past few years, we have built rivers and seawalls. It's hard, but we are still alive."

"If it weren't for these good people back then, I'm afraid it would have been difficult. At the beginning, I really couldn't make it through. Only then did the youngest sign a contract with the people in the tooth shop, and went to Ceylon, saying that he was going to Gaolang Port to work as a sailor?"

Zhao Liben knew that it was not easy for his family members to survive when he ran away, and he was grateful to those who planned to build these villages.

Thinking about the reforms at the beginning, no one asked me about these Yandingzi who had no status as salt households and were hired by merchants.In this way, it is really a judgment.

"Is the rent high here?"

Asked this, the second brother's face was also a little ugly, sighed and said: "Speaking of it, the rent is not high. Pay the national tax, ten and the tax is one."

"However, we need to build schools and sanctuaries, dig rivers and repair embankments. We also need to pay for teachers to teach in rural schools... Adding all these together, it becomes more."

"Let's make do with it. It's said that after the canal is completed this year, there won't be any big work to do in the future. It will be better."

(End of this chapter)