Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 416 Philosophical Speculation
Dorgon said: "Two million stones are not enough."

It is indeed not enough. The most consumed thing in war is money and food. The Qing Dynasty is not short of silver now.

Since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, food has never been abundant.

When Lao Khan was in power, he implemented reductions many times due to food shortages.

The Han people in Liaodong were killed abruptly from 200 million to less than 50.

I didn't expect to enter the customs now, sitting on the fertile land of Gyeonggi, but still can't get rid of the dilemma of food shortage.

The three traitors Hong Chengchou, Ning Wan, I, and Fan Wencheng also sighed. They actually knew the crux of the problem. The reason why the Qing Dynasty could not get rid of the food shortage was all because of the Eight Banners system.

The Eight Banners system is a good move in the military, which greatly guarantees combat effectiveness.

However, in terms of agricultural production, the Eight Banners system can be regarded as a malignant tumor, which is harmful but not beneficial.

The reason for this is very simple. Since entering the customs and staking the land, the Banners of the Eight Banners have actually become landlords of all sizes.

The errands of farming fell on the head of 50 Baoyi.

However, the Manchurian banners of the Eight Banners are often extremely harsh on the coating.

These people are so skinny that they can't get enough to eat, and each person is responsible for farming [-] to [-] acres or even [-] or [-] acres. How can it be possible to plant well?It is not bad to earn four buckets per mu.

But Hong Chengchou and the others didn't dare to say more about this matter.

Because the Eight Banners system is the root of the Qing Dynasty, who dares to criticize it?
Dorgon said with a dark face: "Two million shi of grain is definitely not enough. Let Fan Yongdou find a way to buy it from Nanming. Isn't Nanming suffering from a silver shortage now? It happens that we have a lot of silver, so let Fan Yongdou buy it from Nanming with silver." Grain, no matter how high the price is, buy all the grain you can buy back for me."

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Nanjing Guozijian Yilun Hall.

All subjects have reported almost the same to the work in progress.

Now it's the medical department's turn to Fu Shan and Wu Youke.

The pair reported primarily on surgical attempts.

After listening to the report of the two, Chongzhen said: "Fu Qingzhu, Wu Youke, you can actually be more courageous. In addition to practicing with animals, you can also directly dissect corpses and teach with human corpses. Isn't it possible for medical students to teach?" Scholars understand the structure of the human body faster and more accurately?"

"Corpse?" Fu Shan said, "Is this okay?"

Wu Youke also said worriedly: "My lord, we are only using animals to practice, and many Taoist masters come to the gate of the medical school all day long to yell and scold. If we really use corpses to dissect and teach, these Taoist masters will not go crazy?"

"Crazy, let them go crazy, ignore them." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "Just use the dead body to teach."

Fu Shandao: "But the problem is, even if we want to teach autopsy, we still can't find the source of the corpse."

"This is indeed a problem." Chongzhen said after pondering for a moment, "In this way, I will greet the cabinet. In the future, if there are heinous prisoners, the family members will not be allowed to restrain the corpses after being executed, and they will be taken directly to the medical school as teaching materials. And I will also find a way for you to provide you with the source of corpses as much as possible."

Fu Shan and Wu Youke were overjoyed and said: "On behalf of the two thousand scholars of the Medical College, I would like to thank the Holy One."

"No need." Chongzhen waved his hand and said, "Oh, and your idea of ​​setting up a Maternity and Infant Hall is very good, but I think you can do more, you can set up a comprehensive hospital, in addition to gynecology, Pediatrics and obstetrics, you can also set up internal medicine and surgery, and the venue can also be expanded, so that not only can you treat more Nanjing people, but also give medical students more opportunities to practice."

Speaking of this meal, Chongzhen said again: "Wouldn't it be more efficient to do this than the two of you walking around the streets with a group of scholars carrying a medicine box on your back?"

Fu Shan and Wu Youke's eyes lit up.

"My lord, I will return to the medical school to make preparations after this."

After dismissing Fu Shan and Wu Youke, only Zhu Cihong, Zhu Cijiong brothers, Wang Wei, editor-in-chief of Huangming Times, and Ruan Dacheng from the Propaganda Department were left in Yilun hall.

"Wang Wei, and Ruan Dacheng."

Chongzhen said: "What's going on with the public opinion in Beijing?"

After dealing with the business, Chongzhen can finally spare time to deal with the negative public opinion in Beijing.

Wang Wei said: "Your Majesty, the public opinion in Beijing broke out suddenly at the beginning of October, after the news that His Majesty demoted Qian Guogong to be a Marquis of Central Yunnan and moved to stay in the capital came back."

"Sure enough." Chongzhen nodded and said, "It seems that there are quite a lot of people who sympathize with the Marquis of Dianzhong."

"Yes." Wang Wei nodded and said, "Even Lu Ge and Meng Ge were quite disapproving of this matter. Both elders thought that even though the Marquis of Dianzhong had done it, they shouldn't be punished so severely."

Chongzhen said: "Is there any cabinet minister behind those censors?"

Wang Weidao: "As far as I know, there is no such thing. Most of the censors follow the trend, and they all think that this matter can gain fame without the danger of being dismissed from office, but Li Huie is an exception."

"Really?" Chongzhen asked with a smile, "Why is Li Huie an exception?"

Wang Wei said: "Because Li Huie married Wei Guogong's concubine daughter as his wife a month ago."

"Concubine daughter?" Ruan Dacheng interjected at this time, "Your Majesty, that is Duke Wei's adopted daughter."

"That's what happened anyway." Wang Wei said, "Li Hui'e is speaking out for his father-in-law."

Chongzhen said lightly: "That is to say, the cause of this incident is that I denounced the Duke of Qian as the Marquis of Central Yunnan, and the instigator was Li Huie, and then the censors in Beijing followed up one after another in order to gain fame. A few officials also supported it, but the cabinet and senior officials of the ministry did not secretly contribute to the flames?"

"Yes." Wang Wei nodded, "Probably so."

Ruan Dacheng said: "But now there has been a siege of public opinion."

Wang Wei nodded and said: "Yes, Chen Liangmo and Wu Ganlai just defended the Holy Majesty a few words, but they were isolated by their colleagues in the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Sixth Division."

"It's so simple."

Chongzhen said: "Then let's fight with them."

After a pause, he said again: "Ruan Dacheng, you are in charge of storytelling and operas, arrange more songs about the harm of feudal ethics, and let Liu Jingting and the others tell more stories about the poison of feudal ethics, such as binding your feet to bind your daughter alive. Beating to death, or cruelly selling a living daughter to a dead man for a ghost marriage, etc.”

"The minister leads the decree." Ruan Dacheng readily agreed, this is what he is best at.

Chongzhen said to Wang Wei again: "You can find some masters of writing, preferably those who are highly respected in the literary world. For example, Zhang Shenyan, the second assistant to the cabinet, is very suitable. Ask them to write a few articles criticizing feudal ethics, and then publish them on the headlines of Huangming Times. Newspaper headlines, changing customs should start with newspapers, how can this position not be used.”

"Your minister leads the decree." Wang Wei cupped his hands and said, "I will ask someone to write an article when I get back."

Chongzhen said again: "You can pay more for the finishing touches, but you should pay a high price for good articles."

Wang Wei immediately understood the hidden meaning of Chongzhen's move, driven by profit.

Inviting a literary figure like Zhang Shenyan to write articles is still the next step. The key is to bring together an innovator like Zhang Shenyan through real interests, and then start a public opinion struggle with the conservatives.

Thinking of this, Wang Weihu said, "Your Majesty, there is one more thing. Half a year ago, the Hanlin Academy also ran a Hanlin Daily. The layout and content were all imitated from our Huangming Times."

"The reason why Li Huie's memorial letter has such a great influence,"

"It's because he publicly published the memorial on the front page of the Hanlin Daily."

After this pause, Wang Wei said again: "So, once our Huangming Times publishes an article criticizing feudal ethics for poisoning people, the Hanlin Daily will definitely publish an article to refute us."

"What's the matter?" Zhu Cijiong said angrily, "Seize them."

"No need." Chongzhen said, "Then let them refute. As the saying goes, if you don't beat the gong, you can't ring, and if you don't argue, you can't understand. Whether the feudal ethics are good or bad, let the people of Ming Dynasty judge."

For such philosophical speculation, Chongzhen was of course happy to see it succeed.

The contention of a hundred schools of thought during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods greatly liberated the thoughts of the Chinese ancestors and created the glory of the next 2000 years.

The Renaissance from the [-]th century to the [-]th century also greatly liberated Western thought, making the Western world take the lead in entering industrial civilization and completing the historic transcendence of Eastern civilization.

Almost at the same time, there was also a dispute between Mind Science and Neo Confucianism in Daming.

Under the speculations of the masters of Xinxue and Lixue Dajia, the foundation of feudal ethics has been crumbling, and the thoughts that have been restrained by Confucianism for 2000 years have a tendency to break free again. Unfortunately, at this time, the Ming Dynasty perished. The wave of ideological emancipation of slaves entering the pass also came to an abrupt end.

Only a short-sighted Jiannu can imprison the mind.

Chongzhen wished that there could be as many such debates as possible, and the wider the scope, the better.

Therefore, it is impossible to prohibit the running of newspapers. Now anyone can run a newspaper.

Of course, if you openly instigate anti-Ming and rebellion against the imperial power in newspapers, you must be banned.

Wang Wei and Ruan Dacheng left after receiving the decree, and there were only Chongzhen and his son left in Yilun Hall.

Zhu Cihong said sadly: "Father, my son has let you down. I failed to be a supervisor of the country, which caused such a big public opinion in Beijing, and also caused food shortages in several prefectures in Nanzhi."

"Hey, how can this be your fault." Chongzhen waved his hand, "You are just a supervisor in name."

Zhu Cihong's prison country is really a prison country in name, and he doesn't even have the power to criticize red.

After a short pause, Chongzhen said again: "Now we can talk about the food shortage, what is going on?"

Zhu Cihong said: "In late September, with the end of the autumn harvest, this year's new rice came into the market in large quantities, and then the price of rice suddenly collapsed. First in Suzhou, then in Huzhou, the price of rice fell directly to five yuan a stone."

(End of this chapter)