Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2277, The opposition between feudalism and the new era
Under the leadership of Liu Jin, the military general Xungui Group of Ming Dynasty has actually transformed into a new bourgeoisie early on, and each of them owns a large number of industries.

These factories, commercial firms, etc. are all controlled by emerging capitalists and entrepreneurs, and these feudal nobles are just emerging capitalists wearing the skin of feudal nobles.

The traditional feudal nobles, the soil they depend on for survival is the traditional feudal enfeoffment system, relying on the entrusted land produced by their own families to survive, plus doing some small business appropriately.

Under such a system, although these noble groups can live a good life, their wealth and energy are far inferior to those of capitalists.

The output of the land is limited, especially under traditional cultivation, the food, cloth, tea, etc. that are only produced can still allow these nobles to live a good life in a feudal society .

However, in the era of rapid development, the rampant capital and the rapid development of science and technology, this output seems insignificant.

A factory is different from a commercial bank. As soon as the machines in the factory are started, the money will come rolling in like snowflakes. The income that any factory can generate in a year is higher than the income obtained by being close to the land before.

Although these nobles in Ming Dynasty were still nobles, they had already broken away from the original foundation of feudal aristocracy in essence, and they were representatives of the emerging bourgeoisie.

Since it is a bourgeoisie, it will naturally have its own interests, and will require the entire social system to better fit the development of the capitalist era.

To put it simply, it will require the imperial court to better serve itself and the capitalist era.

The traditional feudal system often relies on the barriers of this kind of policy, and establishes interests in this area through various laws or privileges.

Because only a certain degree of education can be applied and qualified for related jobs. If there is no culture and too little knowledge, it will be difficult to be competent for this job.

In the past, Liu Jin and Wang Shouren realized this very easily, so they have been making efforts in various aspects, but now.

Fortunately, the Ming Dynasty took over a good situation. Sadly, with the development of the times, the feudal era is constantly being buried, and the development of the emerging bourgeoisie puts more demands on him, the emperor. If he cannot adapt to this era.

However, during the Yongsheng Dynasty, Emperor Yongsheng began to reuse his traditional conservative civil servants. The views of these conservative civil officials ran counter to the interests of the bourgeoisie.

They don't need to know characters, let alone have any cultural knowledge, and without knowledge and culture, it is more conducive to the rule and stability of feudal society.

For example, in the automobile manufacturing industry, do you think that any random person can go to the automobile factory to drive screws?
Automobile manufacturing is a technical activity, and the employees in the factory basically have educational requirements. Even in later generations, at least they will require a college degree or above.

In the final analysis, these are all serving the development of capitalism, looking for the origin of raw materials and sales places for capitalists, so that the products of the Ming Empire can be sold around the world, and at the same time, raw materials are obtained from all over the world.

This requires the government to actively serve the society, raise funds to improve infrastructure, and at the same time better regulate and manage the market, provide general basic education, and cultivate more qualified industrial workers.

They earned higher incomes and lived a completely different life from their ancestors. They are now the mainstream and main force of Ming Dynasty.

If it is in a feudal society and the land is used to bind the people, the people only need to know how to farm the land, and they don't need to know much about other things.

In the final analysis, it is actually a struggle for the right to speak.

Because of the monopoly of salt and iron, these salt merchants can unscrupulously raise the price of salt. If you don't eat this salt, you have to eat it. No matter how expensive it is, you still have to buy it.

Relying on this method, the society is divided into the general public and the elite. The elite firmly controls everything, while the general public is relatively ignorant and ignorant, and even half of the basic Adding one-third equals nothing.

Especially in some technological factories and emerging fields that require technology, the requirements for workers are even higher. Not only must they know words and arithmetic, but they must also understand more scientific knowledge, mechanical knowledge, and so on.

Just this point completely angered the bourgeoisie, and also angered ordinary people throughout Daming.

Later, with the gradual cancellation of the salt and iron monopoly and the opening of the salt industry, not only did the Ming court get more taxes on salt, but the common people also got cheaper and better quality salt.

The happy education advocated by Europeans and Americans in the later generations is essentially laissez-faire, letting the children of ordinary people happily abolish it, and it will never be possible to have the possibility of entering the upper class.

The idea of ​​governing the country of the conservative officials and the interest demands of the emerging bourgeoisie are completely opposite.

These common people, who are firmly bound to the land, generally do not go beyond their own county towns, and many of them have never even gone out of their own towns in their entire lives.

The current bourgeoisie is not what it was decades ago. They have already occupied the mainstream of Ming Dynasty, and they also possess extremely huge power.

Relying on such policy barriers, the salt merchants became the richest people in the world, but the Ming court and the people did not get any benefits at both ends.

The existence of new learning has enabled countless Ming people to acquire knowledge, mastered knowledge, and changed their own destiny. Countless Ming people have transformed from traditional peasant children into urban industrial workers, business managers, teachers, doctors, engineers, etc. wait.

In fact, the current set still exists in Europe and America in later generations.

This will require the Ming Empire to always maintain a strong posture externally, because only a strong Ming Empire can successfully open up the markets of other countries, and at the same time involve other countries in the age of capitalism, making the whole world a The origin of raw materials and the market for product sales of capitalists.

The reason why the education of later generations can develop is not because those elites are really thinking about ordinary people, but because of the development needs of capitalism, they need more talents, more educated talents, so they will build more many schools.

At the very least, if workers know how to write, know weights and measures, know how to do arithmetic, etc., they can be qualified for the work in the factory.

At the same time, the government will develop compulsory education and popularize higher education through the government, so as to cultivate various professional talents to serve themselves.

New learning is the foundation, and prohibiting new learning will disturb their foundation and foundation, and they will naturally be strongly opposed by them.

Instead, we should pay attention to traditional Confucian education, vigorously establish more private schools, academies, etc., and spread Confucian education and ideas.

It's very simple. Most of the conservative civil servants are always clamoring about the ancient system and ancient system. They are used to the traditional way of being an official. They are superior, and the people are ignorant and ignorant. Kneading, they just need to drink tea, read the newspaper, and try the case.

Fortunately, Emperor Yongsheng was still sober and did not really listen to the opinions of these conservative officials, otherwise, the current Ming Dynasty would have been in chaos.

For ordinary people, of course they hope that their children can receive education and acquire knowledge, because only in this way can they change their own destiny.

This is a typical phenomenon after breaking barriers. Only when there is competition in the market can there be services, and only then can there be better quality and value.

As for the real elite, the education their children receive is very strict. They all go to private schools, and their studies are extremely heavy since childhood.

This is also a very important reason for the crisis in the textile industry in Ming Dynasty, because with sufficient supply of raw materials and all the machines in the textile industry running, the production capacity has skyrocketed, and the world simply cannot digest so many clothes and shoes.

Of course, they don't want to lose their jobs or their lives, and they don't want to be illiterate like their ancestors, who don't understand anything, and don't know anything.

Naturally, there is no need to popularize education for ordinary people, and farming does not require much culture, and even the knowledge of ligatures is not required.

For example, they believe that new learning is the source of the spread of Gongpai ideas and other new trends of thought, and they should strictly prohibit new learning and the opening of new learning schools.

But the traditional feudal system and bureaucratic system obviously cannot adapt to this.

The emerging bourgeoisie will require the government to serve them, and their factories need convenient transportation, water and electricity, etc., as well as high-quality workers.

It stands to reason that it should be distributed according to the imperial court system, distributed to those merchants, and then sold to people all over the country.

Only on this basis can these capitalists run factories and firms with higher technological content and higher added value.

Quite simply, the capitalist and industrial ages require a lot of raw materials and markets.

Relatively speaking, capitalists hope to obtain a level playing field, where everyone can participate and eat according to their ability.

Being an official in this way is naturally very comfortable, and there are very few things that need to be done every day.

Emperor Yongsheng was lucky and sad.

Therefore, in feudal society, knowledge is always in the hands of a very small number of scholars, the proportion is very low, often there may not be many people in a county who can read, and the cost of reading is extremely expensive, so as to crowd out ordinary people outside.

At the same time, emerging capitalists will also demand that they can recruit enough workers and good enough workers better and more easily. This requires the free movement of the population and the need for these workers to obtain a certain basic education.

The tuition fees of private schools are extremely expensive, and ordinary families cannot afford them at all. However, private schools can lead directly to good universities, which is the foundation for the future to gain a foothold in the upper reaches of society.

If capitalists want to develop better, they must have power and the right to speak, so that they can better serve the development and growth of the bourgeoisie.

More importantly, the bourgeoisie will demand a relatively more level playing field, while the tradition of feudal society is to rely on feudal privileges to erect barriers.

For example, the salt in the past, because of the monopoly system of salt and iron, this salt was in the hands of the imperial court, and the salt produced by the stove households in the salt field kept cooking salt day and night.

The traditional feudal system and bureaucrats obviously cannot do this. They feel that they are the old men of this society, and that capitalists serve themselves instead of serving capitalists themselves.

For this reason, Liu Jin even used grain to impact the main grain producing areas of the world, making Europe, the Ottoman Empire, Persia, Middle East and other regions give up growing their own grain, and instead grow cotton and sheep, so that they can get more raw materials.

In this regard, both Liu Jin and Wang Shouren did well when they were there.

Emperor Yongsheng Zhu Zaicheng began to reuse these feudal conservative officials. Not only did they fail to make efforts in this regard, they even began to go against the grain and introduced some systems that were not conducive to the development of capitalism.

But for capitalists in the new era, they have many requirements. For example, if capitalists want to build factories, they naturally require the construction of good roads, railways, ports, etc., so as to facilitate the transportation of raw materials and commodities.

Liu Jin looked at the newspaper, and looked at one thing reported in the newspaper, thinking rapidly in his mind.

In addition, the bourgeoisie hopes that the government can respond more quickly, and if any problems or troubles arise, they can be resolved quickly.

On the contrary, if he still wants the previous imperial era, his future will be full of various changes.

This is a typical example of relying on policies to erect barriers, relying on this unfair policy to make a lot of money.

However, in fact, because of this salt and iron monopoly system, all the salt was finally in the hands of these officials who held power, and then flowed into the hands of businessmen related to themselves.

Continuous external expansion, obtaining more land to grow cotton and sheep, this is the source of raw materials, and at the same time use the powerful force of the Ming Empire to force the Ottoman Empire to sign a trade agreement, so that the goods of the Ming Empire can be dumped into the Ottoman Empire, and No additional tariffs etc.

It is not difficult or impossible to unite to overthrow the Zhu family dynasty.

And now the bourgeoisie already has its own ideological guidance, as well as the demonstrations made by the South African colonies and the Western United Firm.

The public world is not impossible, in fact, the public world is better than the family world.

If Emperor Yongsheng continues like this, the bourgeois revolution will inevitably happen.

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