Chongzhen: I am the king of prosperous times

Chapter 629: All Beings (3)

Concentrating power to do big things is the concept of governing the country that Emperor Chongzhen has been pursuing. No matter what field it involves, if you want to facilitate the deployment and planning of the plan, you will focus on people from the source.

the anticipated goal.

The direction of progress.

the results achieved.

the resulting value.

If this factual basis is violated, no matter how much you do and how much you invest, it will be futile and will not produce any useful positive effects.

West Hills.

"Your Majesty, I have always had doubts in my heart, why do you attach so much importance to missionaries from various countries in Europe?"

Huang Daozhou, who was accompanying him, bit the bullet and expressed his doubts all along, "Western missionaries came to Daming, and they had a great impact, especially the sects they believed in, which had a great impact on ethics.

In a sense, this is destroying the foundation of my Ming Dynasty’s rule, and I want their sectarian thoughts to affect my Ming’s rule, which is also the root of the Wanli Dynasty’s ban on religion..."

"Huang Qing thinks that I treat those missionaries too favorably?"

Emperor Chongzhen looked at Huang Daozhou with a smile on his face, and said firmly: "Speaking of which, I also feel that I have treated missionaries from European countries too favorably.

Especially from the second year of Chongzhen, a large number of missionaries were influenced by me, and they gathered in the capital from the coastal areas of the Jiangnan provinces, and most of them came from the trenches.

All in all, there are more than a thousand Western missionaries who are proficient in various disciplines in Beijing. This is not a force that can be ignored.

If they armed themselves and wanted to attack the capital by surprise, it would inevitably cause corresponding chaos, and even cause serious casualties.

However, the reason why I gather them and treat them preferentially is not for the so-called faith. I never believe in God, and I know that God cannot save Da Ming from the predicament.

I just want the domain knowledge they have learned to promote the construction and development of the local Ming school system, which is the most important thing. "

If you want to seek change and development, you must first face up to your own shortcomings. As a civilization with a long history and no dynasties, China is definitely the strongest civilization in the world.

Tolerance and openness and learning from others have always been the advantages of the Chinese civilization. Through continuous expansion and compatibility, the Chinese civilization with a long history has been promoted.

With a hoe in one hand and a knife in the other hand, every time a new area is conquered, the flowers of civilization will spread and take root. This has created the current territory of the Chinese civilization.

It was only with the emergence of the keynote of "rejecting all schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone", and as time went on, in order to cater to the preferences of the ruling class, the ideological dimension of Chinese civilization gradually began to become conservative.

Resting on our laurels has become a reality.

Confucianism is definitely not a dross, it is an important part of the Chinese civilization, but the gradual confinement of the self is doomed to make the Chinese civilization lose the source of forging ahead, especially the mainstream thinking despises non-Confucian schools and discriminates against technological creation, which also makes the Chinese civilization doomed It takes a great catastrophe that cannot be broken or established to break the deep-rooted shackles and cages, but the price paid is too tragic!
The root cause of all this is the almost distorted feudal ethics.

If the ideological cancer cannot be eradicated, there will be no long-term change.

"In terms of the suppression of the rebellion launched by Guochao in recent years, has the Qing family really thought about why Guochao can make corresponding progress?"

Looking at the pensive Huang Daozhou, Emperor Chongzhen smiled and said: "The rampant and brutal Jianlu rebellion and the intensifying bandit rebellion are really due to the establishment of a military aircraft department, the deployment of several counter-rebellion troops, and the promotion of Liaodong Governor. Teachers, governors of the three sides, etc., can they be suppressed gradually?

What is the underlying logic behind this? Has the Qing family really thought about it?

Let me tell the Qing family, it is due to the continuous improvement of productivity.

The army participating in the counter-insurgency at the front line is constantly acquiring more sophisticated ordnance, armor, firearms, artillery, gunpowder products, etc., even if they are only better than Jianlu and thieves, but as long as they are transported on a large scale, they can recover from the past. It collapses at the first touch, gradually becomes able to resist, and finally dares to speak out.

This process of changing the country took several years, and the price paid was very high, but it changed the atmosphere of talking about slavery and talking about thieves in the past.

In the past, I was arbitrarily arbitrarily organized, regardless of the objections of the courtiers, and specially set up new government offices such as the Military Aircraft Department. What changed was the problem of official corruption. When these two aspects are gradually improved, it will contribute to the current momentum of repression in the country. Let the momentum of the rebellion no longer affect the stability of the country. "

The doubts on Huang Daozhou's face grew even stronger.

He didn't know what the inner connection between what the emperor said and the preferential treatment of Western missionaries was.

"Collision makes impact, collision makes change."

Emperor Chongzhen continued: "Like the development of the telescope, the mass production of colored glaze, the emergence of cement, the development of self-generating guns, the improvement of the quality of gunpowder, the grading of various types of artillery, and the development of rifled flintlocks. Born, such as the improvement of flower bombs and so on.

If you leave the collision of ideas, can you gradually study it out in the past few years?
I have thought about this question.

it is also fine.

However, the disputes and opposition between the government and the opposition will affect the talents of Song Yingxing and Jiao Xu, preventing them from concentrating all their energies on the fields they are good at. "

Huang Daozhou's expression changed.

He seemed to understand something.

"The significance of the existence of Western missionaries is to concentrate these contradictions and let the outlet of public opinion change from focusing on Song Yingxing and others in the past to Western missionaries."

Emperor Chongzhen said with firm eyes: "At the same time, the field knowledge learned by Western missionaries can open Song Yingxing's imprisoned thoughts, allowing them to think, argue, and collide from another angle.

I always believe that only collisions can bring about changes, just like the establishment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is more about banning eunuchs and chaos, which can really help me share my worries.

There are already enough contradictions in Ming Dynasty, I don't want to see more contradictions, so I want to untangle all these and let change become the mainstream of Ming Dynasty.

Only by changing can Da Ming get out of the predicament.

Only by changing can the Daming country be made permanent.

If we don't even have the courage to change, then no matter how much I want to do, it will be in vain after all. After all, the accumulation is hard to recover, and the collapse of the Ming Dynasty is inevitable. "

Huang Daozhou's face changed drastically. He didn't expect the emperor to say such words as the overthrow of the country. Waiting for worry, it may not happen.

It's just that such words can only be thought in the heart, but they must not be spoken out!

(End of this chapter)