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Chapter 206 Ancient Tomb Sect Among Retro Schools
Why did Zhu Yijun keep forgiving Wang Chonggu?Wang Chonggu himself didn't understand it, but Zhang Juzheng could somewhat understand it.

To eliminate one class, another class must be used to fill its position in the state system. While the powerful and powerful gentry have obtained the privileges of taxation, justice, labor, etc., they also need to assume the responsibility of reassuring the herdsmen, but the powerful and powerful gentry only Want privilege, don't want responsibility.

The powerful, nobles and gentlemen were an important force for maintaining stability in Ming Dynasty.

And Wang Chonggu unconsciously created a class, this class has a certain culture, controls a certain amount of production materials, and also obeys the order the most, because in the factory, anyone who does not follow the rules will die very ugly.

And Wang Chonggu actively improved production tools, actively improved the production environment of the labor workshop, steadily increased production efficiency, maximized profits, and established a school for the children of craftsmen to accommodate the children of craftsmen. These are the reasons why Wang Chonggu was forgiven by His Majesty. damn reason.

Above the court, with Zhang Siwei's death, the main contradiction has become the contradiction between the reformists and the ancient tombs, and this contradiction is constantly intensifying. The new policy of Ming Dynasty needs a new class that occupies a leading position , to support Daming’s New Deal.

Scholars, farmers, businessmen, these are the four peoples of the country, the pillars of the country, and the status of the gentry has never been challenged in history.

Zhang Juzheng did not expect extravagantly. Workers and peasants challenged the scholars. As long as they had the strength to challenge the status of the scholars, the subjective initiative of the scholars themselves would be brought into play.

How to enable workers and peasants to have the power to challenge and threaten the status of the gentry requires large-scale employment and commodity production, all of which require silver to support.

Zhang Juzheng is clear, and Zhu Yijun is also clear, that the money shortage in Ming Dynasty needs to be fundamentally alleviated, and more and massive silver inflows are needed.

Qiu Jun is also studying the monetary policy of the Ming Dynasty. He expresses very clearly the importance of currency in the economy: the king of heaven uses the people to pay the interests and rights, so that it can be accommodated to benefit the world, not just for the use of one family. , so those who understand all kinds of things and are popular in the Quartet are also coins.

Gold and silver, on the other hand, are natural currencies.

"Can I really buy more boats? That's really my luck." Antonio was immediately shocked. The five-masted oceangoing ship, this stuff is just one or two ships, but can you sell more?
This is a naval warfare weapon!
Felipe II banned the sale of the Galese battleship. Even after seeing the five-masted oceangoing ship, the Calaisé battleship could not cross the ocean, required more than 200 oarsmen, and had very few artillery configurations. The galley, which is mainly used for side battles, is getting more and more backward, but it is also a battleship.

And Kan Daming means...can you buy more?
"But I don't have that much money now." Antonio said very annoyed, if he didn't lose the goods of the two ships, he could exchange the goods for silver and buy a five-masted oceangoing ship from Daming, but he lost two boats, he only had funds to buy two boats.

A five-masted ocean-going ship might cost 20 taels of silver, but now he only has funds for two cargoes, and he has to buy silk and various cargoes to return to the voyage, which makes him extremely uncomfortable.

Daming's ocean-going ships have hard sails, and more sailors from Daming need to be arranged to operate the ships.

"You can borrow money. Since I am your investor, I naturally want to invest in you." Zhu Yijun's tone was simple and naive, like a political amateur with no knowledge of the world, putting forward a naive fantasy.

Borrowing so much money, what should Antonio do if he doesn't pay it back?
Zhang Juzheng looked at the little emperor, his apprentice, who had turned into a powerful figure.

When there is no natural disaster, the rich and wealthy gentry are also annexing land, that is, using green rice money. The interest on green rice money is extremely high. Become a landless tenant, while the gentry reaped the land.

Qingdaoqian, when the rice is still green, is the time when people have the least food in their homes. At this time, borrowing money is also the time when the interest is the highest. Therefore, although the name Qingdaoqian is good, but behind it is a bloody merger.

Scholars have always been like this. There is no smoke in their names, and they are poetic and picturesque, but the things they do are often filthy and dirty.

Qingdaoqian is donkey rolling, it is usury, the name may be wrong, but the nickname is correct.

His Majesty's neighbor, Wang Yaozhuo's situation is even more special. Their family encountered a disaster year and had to borrow money from the Lu family in Shanzhou, but the operation is the same. Robbing can only make people bankrupt, but cheating can Deceived people are in debt.

"I'm not very rich, so I lent you 50 taels of silver, but if you leave like this, if you don't pay back the money, wouldn't my silver be gone? So, you need to use collateral as collateral." Zhu Yijun said with a smile : "For example, the palm orchards and sugarcane plantations throughout Nanyang."

"Oh no! Your Majesty, that is my most valuable thing!" Antonio wailed in pain.

Of course Antonio didn't want to agree. The plantations in the Thousand Islands in Malacca produced more than 15 taels of silver every year. That is to say, the Emperor Ming confiscated his plantation, and it only took four years to recover the principal. The rest of the day is all about making money.

Zhu Yijun said calmly, "Da Ming is expanding its navy."

Strong buying and strong selling?Not quite.

If Antonio can pay back the money on time, then these plantations still belong to Antonio. If he can't pay back the money on time, the navy of the court will help the emperor collect the money.

If Antonio refused to borrow money, then when Emperor Ming's imperial navy expanded the territory of the empire, these plantations would be expanded together under the rule of Ming.

"Are you sure your most valuable thing is the plantation? Isn't it the slaves? I heard that the manor owner will personally end up creating all kinds of mixed-blood slaves so that they can reproduce more." Zhu Yijun's tone remained calm.

Right now Tessie is using slavery, Liberty Point, Liberty City commodities are slaves.

Zhu Yijun continued: "A grown-up slave with good teeth and obedience needs 20 taels of silver in the Wanli Haitang in Nanyang, and it only takes four years to recover the cost of working in the plantation. As long as the slave is still alive, it will be a profit." , and a slave in a plantation can create five taels of silver a year."

Before Yin Zhengmao explained the Nanyang plantation business, Zhu Yijun always thought that slaves were very cheap, but in fact, 20 taels of silver was already a very expensive price. Thanks to the Daming Navy's ability to guard the waters of Daming, otherwise it would be a waste to sell Daming people. An extremely profitable business.

And a slave can create goods worth five taels of silver a year, such as spices, palm oil, and sugar cubes.Cocoa and so on are all products of plantations.

"Your Majesty, why can't I use slaves to pay off the debt?" Antonio asked a little puzzled.

"There are already a lot of people in Ming Dynasty, and there will be more people in the future. This land only breeds people in Ming Dynasty." Zhu Yijun gave an answer, but in Antonio's opinion, the emperor didn't need slaves because Daming had cheaper production tools .

The plantation is the means of production, and the opening of the plantation requires a lot of manpower and material resources. It takes a lot of time and cost from the initial search for suitable land, to logging, farming, finding suitable cash crops, etc. And slaves are tools of production.

Antonio didn’t understand Daming, so he felt that the reason why the emperor refused slaves to repay debts was because Daming had more and cheaper production tools, or more bluntly speaking, slaves.

If the Ming monarch and the court really treated the people as slaves, the people would release their power to destroy the court and eliminate the tyrannical monarch and court. The Central Plains dynasty has experienced several such dynasty changes.

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty wanted to make people work hard to fight for him, and he wanted to give each soldier in the Beijing camp 18 taels of silver a year.

If Wang Chonggu wanted the poor coolies to carry out production under the high temperature, he needed to give the craftsmen about 12 silver labor remuneration per year, as well as the corresponding official factories and schools to solve their worries.

"Your Majesty's gaze pierced through the fog and saw the truth." Antonio finally gave up his resistance and planned to borrow money. As for the amount of interest, it depends on the negotiation. At present, there is only one minister of Ming Xingli, and that is Wang Chonggu.

The interest is not too expensive, the annual interest is about 4%-5%. With such interest, Zhu Yijun can definitely be regarded as a great philanthropist.

Zhu Yijun's main purpose is to sell more ships. The internal meaning of selling more ships is to promote further stability, standardization and increase production of the industrial chain. Large-scale production can effectively increase productivity and promote the maturity of the industrial chain, while the external meaning is completely It is for silk and silver convection.

Daming has a commodity advantage. Although in a short period of time, Daming lost the commodity advantage of ships, archaeological scientific research and looting Luzon Manila Shipyard and other methods finally allowed Daming to restore the commodity advantage of ships.

Having a commodity advantage means having a structural trade surplus, and the essence of this surplus is silver.

Relying on the unparalleled manufacturing and export of silk, colored glaze, porcelain, etc., the Ming Dynasty has a trade surplus with any country, and the structural trade surplus status will cause commercial "tributary" This is an established fact .

The more ships that can cross the ocean, the better for Daming.

"This time I brought a book, and I invite Your Majesty to read it." Marinho took out a book, which was a gift he brought.

Zhu Yijun can understand it. He has learned Latin for a long time. The author is Copernicus, and the name is "Theory of the Revolution of the Celestial Sphere". When he opens the book, there is a passage written on it: Those who do not understand geometry are forbidden to enter.

This book is the carrier of the heliocentric theory.

In the preface, there is also a postscript written by the priest Osiander. The postscript is the purpose of writing this book.

The celestial sphere [orbium] is a concept that has been abandoned in later generations, but it is still regarded as the truth in Taixi in the fourth year of Wanli. It is a false sphere that can drive visible celestial bodies to rotate.

Under the continuous processing of later generations, it gradually became the theory of celestial body movement.

In this postscript, according to what the priest said, the first purpose of Copernicus writing this book was to dedicate it to Pope Paul III; the second purpose was to compile the star table and predict the mathematical model of the position of the planets. Does not represent the true movement of planets in space.

[This book cannot be a scientific fact but a dramatic fantasy. ] Just such a sentence has deceived people for a long time.

Heliocentric theory, the symbolic theory that natural science is liberated from theology.

But this theory was not against theology at the very beginning. In order to be published, it looked more like a reference book. However, with the development of the times, the heliocentric theory was endowed with more meaning and emotional value.

After Magellan's voyage around the world, Tessie has confirmed the basic fact that the earth is a ball. In order to maintain the majesty of religion, theology has been patched and a new theological philosophy has been constructed with the core of the earth center theory. The eternal and sacred celestial bodies can only correspond to Because of its noble status, it revolves around the earth.

But this patch, in the face of the heliocentric theory, has once again become precarious.

"Nuremberg is really a magical place. The previous Nuremberg eggs came from here, and the current book is also published here." Zhu Yijun closed the book, and he wanted to study it carefully. There are six volumes in this book, and each volume is worth Study it carefully.

Zhu Yijun finished meeting with Antonio, and started today's imperial court hearing.

Zhang Juzheng made a special report on the construction of the pagoda, and he did not hesitate to praise it, which can be called flattery, but the courtiers not only did not object to this, but each wrote a letter of praise to enter the court, and when the pagoda was completed, Officials of the seventh rank and above in the Ming Dynasty must submit a congratulatory form.

Zhang Juzheng is grateful to Queen Mother Li and Queen Mother Chen for not being greedy for power.

Zhu Yijun can understand Zhang Juzheng's gratitude. If Queen Mother Li and Queen Mother Chen oppose the New Deal, they can really do things that endanger Ming Dynasty.

The Qing Dynasty followed the Ming system, and if you have a little understanding of the Taqing Dynasty, you will find that the Taqing Dynasty has extremely strict restrictions on the matter of intervening in the harem. Even Empress Xiaozhuang, Dayuer, has never been called by the court to act as the emperor.

The first time in the Tartar Qing Dynasty that the empress dowager proclaimed the system, it was in the last years of the Tartar Qing Dynasty, when Ci'an and Cixi listened to the government behind the curtain.

The empress dowagers of the two palaces, together with Prince Gong Yi, launched the Xinyou coup and killed the eight ministers of Gu Ming. Prince Yi Zaiyuan, Prince Zheng Duanhua, University scholar Sushun, Prince Consort Jingshou, and four military ministers were killed and seized power. .

Since then, Cixi has begun a 47-year-long pronounciation system, listening to politics behind a curtain.

Take Sushun, a university scholar, as an example. He successively recommended Zuo Zongtang, Zeng Guofan, Hu Linyi and others. During his reign, Sushun reduced the treatment of bannermen many times. , is a staunch supporter of the Westernization Movement, the two princes do not understand Westernization, so they promoted Han people to do Westernization.

The basic ideas of the academician Sushun, Prince Yi Zaiyuan, and Prince Zheng Duanhua are: go to the f*cking Manchu-Han defense, advocate the reconciliation of the Manchu-Han, and quickly promote capable people to manage Western affairs, or the Qing Dynasty will perish , are all foreigners' dogs.

There are many jerks in our bannermen, which is the basic philosophy of Sushun.

Cixi and Ci'an, together with Prince Gong Yi, launched a coup and killed these reformers in the court.

Prince Liu Gong, the devil, represented the Ancient Tomb Sect and advocated the great defense of the Manchu and Han Dynasties. In the last years of the Tartar Qing Dynasty, he missed the only opportunity for reform.

Guizi Liuyi once supervised the handling of the Wuyu official account case, investigated the collusion between officials, gentry and businessmen, accepted bribes, embezzled and embezzled, refused to buy and embezzle state funds, and then burned the manuscript library of the Ministry of Finance with a torch. After playing a game of fire and dragon burning the warehouse, the butler of Prince Gong's mansion was pushed out to take the blame.

Empress Dowager Li and Empress Dowager Chen are not of high background, but there are ancient tomb sects everywhere in the court. If Empress Dowager Li wants to appease Wu Qing Bo Li Wei and rely on the ancient tomb sect to make big news, the high arches can't stand it, and Zhang Juzheng can't stand it either .

Zhang Juzheng thanked Queen Mother Li and Queen Mother Chen for their correct choices at key points in history.

In fact, the ancient tomb sect in the court especially hoped to be able to surround the Queen Mother Li, and then raise the banner of filial piety majestically, and continue the previous tricks.

Empress Dowager Li herself also discovered this clue, so she returned to politics early.

The court discussion is still going on, and Zhu Yijun likes the theory of the movement of celestial bodies, but some content in it needs to be translated again.

Some of the arithmetic symbols in it are not suitable for reading anymore. Symbols like △, =, ∠, ⊥, ∵, ∴ did not appear at that time, which would cause some dyslexia, making the original look obscure, and Zhu Yijun It is necessary to carry out a more intuitive translation of the theory of celestial movement.

The value of this book is extremely high. For example, it accurately calculates that the distance between the earth and the moon is 60.3 times the radius of the earth, and gives a proof.

To calculate the distance between the earth and the moon, a parallax instrument is required. After calculating the distance between the earth and the moon, you can calculate the diameter of the moon, the diameter of the sun and the moon, and the distance between the sun and the earth. By calculating these, you can accurately determine the time of solar and lunar eclipses .

"This astronomer speculates that not only the earth has a satellite moon, but Saturn should also have satellites, and we have observed Saturn's ears and its satellites, which shows that the earth is not the only center." Zhu Yijun read Theory of Celestial Movement At that time, it was discovered that Copernicus was limited by his instruments, which caused him not to see Saturn's ears, that is, Saturn's rings and Saturn's moons.

Once you can see Saturn's ear and Mimas, it will prove that the heliocentric model is more plausible.

Daming’s guess about the model of the universe is called Qiankun Titu, which is also centered on the earth. The first sky is the lunar sky, followed by Mercury sky, Venus sky, solar disk sky and so on.

Zhu Yijun and Zhang Juzheng discussed this argument for a long time. To translate this book, one needs to know Latin, as well as arithmetic and have time. Zhu Yijun chose to come in person and give the proof process.

Before Antonio left the capital, he bought Daming’s first private newspaper at the Huitong Post Office, the Quanjin Zabao. The Zabao is relative to the Dibao, and the headline of this magazine is published by the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. The topic: "Labor Illustration".

Antonio could understand it, because it was all written in vulgar words. Antonio made some calculations about the first mate's purchase of goods and communication with the sailors and sailors, and decided to stay in the capital for a while.

The theory of labor pictures is poison to the ancient school, and to the ancient tomb school, it is a tombstone that is as important as Mount Tai!

In the afternoon of this day, Zhu Yijun, who came back from shooting, took a shower, and suddenly delivered an order to Wenyuan Pavilion, ordering Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang to go to the box of Yanxing Building for dinner.

The emperor usually gave a big banquet, so it was really rare to invite people to dinner in private. Feng Bao also specifically told Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang not to wear court clothes, but to go out wearing a woolen cloak.

Zhu Yijun began to order food, Zhang Juzheng and Qi Jiguang were the guests, so naturally the guests did as they pleased.

"Boom! Zhang Juzheng is bullying too much!" A roar came from the box next door.

Zhang Juzheng looked dull, how could he hear someone scolding him after a meal?How hated I am!

This meal is probably unusual.

It is indeed unusual. Sun Jigao, the number one scholar in the second year of Wanli, saw the "Labor Illustrated", and immediately summoned a group of people to fight back. How could the high ground of public opinion be handed over to others? This is their biggest means of influencing the government. Now Zhang Juzheng wants to take this highland!
In the eyes of Sun Jigao and others, this Zhu Zhongxing was Zhang Juzheng's pen name.

The place Sun Jigao chose was Yanxing Building, which is a high-end restaurant. It was sold during the orthodox period, and after several transfers, it finally came into the hands of Zhang's relatives during the Xiaozong Dynasty. After Zhang's downfall, it was received by Emperor Jiajing within the scope of Huangzhuang.

After going around for so many years, Yanxinglou returned to the emperor's name again.

This information is not widely known, which is a typical information gap.

At this time, there were six or seven people around the table, and three servants stood in front of the door, looking around.

"It's simply ridiculous! Things are due to supply and demand rather than human labor, let alone skill!" Sun Jigao's tone was extraordinarily excited. Zhang Juzheng was denying the most sage teacher Mencius's theory of things, that the value of things is innate. In Confucianism it is called sex.

"What editor Sun said is very true. There are merchants selling umbrellas by the West Lake. On rainy days, the price has increased from a penny to a penny. In order to avoid the rain, pedestrians have to pay obediently? This umbrella is still that umbrella , Where does this come from the theory of skill? Isn’t the consistency of supply and demand the condition of things? The consistency of supply and demand determines the price of goods. This Zhu Zhongxing is simply talking nonsense.” Mr. Gu Xiancheng Gu from Wuxi expressed his point of view, It provides an example for Sun Jigao.

Hearing what his disciple Gu Xiancheng said, Zhang Shaoxian quite agreed with it and said: "That's it, this natural disaster and the earth's calamity are inhumane. The merger of the gentry, the gentry, and the public in the calamity year is to give the ordinary people a chance to breathe. There are many people selling land. There are few people who buy land, and the annexation is natural, and the imperial court insists on intervening, and it is clearing the Zhang, returning the land, and recovering the debt, why bother?"

"If you lose land, you should work hard, and if you earn money, you can buy it back. This is a matter of course. Is the court trying to wrestle with heaven and earth?"

Zhang Shaoxian studied under Shi Guanmin, the head of Longcheng Academy. Gu Xiancheng and Gu Yuncheng were both Zhang Shaoxian's apprentices. This time Er Gu went to Beijing to rush for the exam. Zhang Shaoxian brought his apprentices to the capital. Naturally, he would visit some famous people in the court and run around for his disciples.

Sun Jigao, Gu Xiancheng, Gu Yuncheng, Zhang Shaoxian, these are the mainstays of the Donglin Party in the future, the ancient tomb sect among the retro sects.

Jiao Hong frowned and said: "Everyone, do you study history? Except Spring and Autumn."

"If you don't read, you can remember things, and you don't have a big relationship." Zhang Shaoxian asked not very concerned.

"Everyone, do you read Contradiction?" Jiao Hong asked with a frown.

Geng Dingzhi pulled Jiao Hong's hand, and signaled Jiao Hong not to ask any more questions. If you ask this question, will you still be tested for fame?As the number one scholar, Sun Jigao, even if he imparted a little experience in the imperial examination, Jiao Hong would be able to pass the exam.

Geng Dingzhi is Jiao Hong's teacher, they are the school of mind learning, and their Zhili Wang School is one of the few schools of mind learning that talks about practicality.

"Why do you read the demagogues of the people of Jing?" Zhang Shaoxian replied again.

"Oh, so I don't read history, and I don't read contradictory theory." Jiao Hong looked suddenly enlightened.

When Geng Ding heard this, he became anxious, stepped on the scorched foot under the table, and signaled him to stop uttering wild words, and he will take the test next year, will he still take the test?Just be honest in the exam, don't be so arrogant!

"It turned out to be a lowly Confucian." Jiao Hong was stepped on, but he still scolded despite being stepped on.

"You!" Sun Jigao frowned and looked at Geng Dingxing and Jiao Hong. He originally thought that the two masters and the three disciples, Zhang Shaoxian and Zhang Shaoxian, were all here to ask the church for a trial. After all, Sun Jigao was the number one scholar.

But now it seems that it is not, this is more like coming to kick the gym!
"Zhu Zhongxing is talking about value, did you say it is price? You confuse price and value to discuss, isn't this referring to a deer as a horse? In the past, Zhao Gao said that a deer is a horse. You are not the courtiers of Yuan Fu, otherwise, the vitality of the Ming Dynasty will be lost." Lost." Jiao Hong sat upright, but his words were not polite at all.

Jiao Hong continued: "A two-horse carriage is priced at 140 eight taels of silver, and an umbrella is only worth one cent and two cents. The price of items fluctuates around their value. Zhu Zhongxing denied that if there are too many things, they will be cheap, and if there are few things, they will be cheap." Is it expensive? He just included it in the commodity value."

"You just raised the price of umbrellas on rainy days, which just proves that what Lao Tuo said is correct."

"Because it rains, the use value starts to rise, and the exchange value also starts to rise, and the final value rises within a certain period of time, which is the root of the price rise."

Zhu Yijun heard what Jiao Hong said in the next room, his eyes lit up, he looked at Zhang Juzheng and said, "Sir, pay attention to this person."

"I understand." Zhang Juzheng understood that His Majesty the Emperor didn't want to drink, but came to watch the excitement.

"It's nonsense! If the price fluctuates around the value of the commodity as you said, then why the price of food can rise to the sky in a disaster year!" Gu Xiancheng immediately retorted: "Things are ruthless and worthless , It is because of people's needs that there are ups and downs."

"That's it." Jiao Hong looked at Gu Xiancheng and asked, "Is it really a disaster year, is there not enough food?"

"If there is no disaster in the year, the world will be in great order. That is to say, in the year of disaster, the people can already maintain a stable life. This is the manifestation of great order in the world."

"Determining the high food prices in disaster years as supply and demand can get rid of the facts of driving up food prices, depriving people, and collusion between officials, gentry and businessmen, and then put all the blame on the head of natural disasters."

"Who is stealing the grain in the Changping warehouse like a mouse on weekdays, who is filling the pockets of the government's relief grain and grass when the disaster year occurs, who is driving up the price of grain during the disaster year, and who is in the fish and meat village during the disaster year It's time to take the opportunity to merge!"

"If Shanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Xuandaliao and other border areas are sparsely populated, roads are full of bandits, and the land is barren, it will be fine if there is no food supply in a disaster year. Huaihe, Zhejiang and Jiangnan are the granaries of the Ming Dynasty. Whenever there is a flood, there will be starvation everywhere!"

"What do you object to is that labor intensity and time give value to commodities, or is it to put all the dirty things you do into the word supply and demand, and do evil?!"

Gu Xiancheng's hands were trembling, everyone was a student from Nanya, and they were all going to take the next year's exam. Gu Xiancheng had seen Jiao Hong's power before, but he never expected that Jiao Hong would be even more powerful since he hadn't seen him these days!

Jiao Hong seemed to have piercing eyes, seeing through their plans at a glance.

"Gu Xiancheng, look straight at me! Answer me!" Jiao Hong stood up, raised his hands, and looked at Gu Xiancheng with a serious tone, asking Gu Xiancheng to answer.

What kind of nonsense retro faction and ancient tomb faction are just to find some reasons for themselves, so that they can criticize the common people with peace of mind.

　Ask for a monthly ticket, woohoo! ! ! ! ! ! !
　　
　
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