The Great Industrial Ming Dynasty Started from Beiping

On both sides of the southern end of the palace, there is Wenhua Hall on the east side and Wuying Hall on the west side.

The Liuke Langfang is in the Wuying Hall, and the cabinet is in the Wenhua Hall.

Wenyuan Pavilion is not just an attic, but the name of a building complex. The main hall in the middle is where the cabinet ministers work. The buildings built around the main hall are provided for the rest of the officials.

Lu Zhen, the Minister of Rites, came here specially to discuss the matter in the newspaper with several cabinet ministers.

Yang Shiqi looked solemnly through an article sent by the Ministry of Rites. After a fierce dispute in the social newspaper, most people preferred to publish it, but they still reported it to the Ministry of Rites. After seeing it, the Ministry of Rites did not dare to write.

"I heard that the people of heaven all want to obtain good laws to ensure their survival, and then the country will be peaceful and the country will be stable. In the past, the wise kings, such as Xia Qi, Shang Tang, and Zhou Wu, all governed the country with laws and were impartial.

"The law is the Tao, and it is the rule that the emperor and the common people abide by. The emperor cannot be above the law, and the common people cannot belittle themselves. If the emperor violates the law, he is guilty of the same crime as the common people. This is the normal way of heaven and the foundation of human relations."

"I heard that there are no people in the world who cannot be cured, and there is no law that cannot be cured. Only good laws and good governance are based on fairness and justice. Therefore, it is said: everyone is equal before the law. There is no noble or base, no wise or stupid, everyone must abide by the law. discipline to fulfill their responsibilities.”

"Today, if people want to practice the rule of law, they must first understand this meaning. The emperor and the common people are both protected by the law and subject to the sanctions of the law. In this way, the country will be well governed and the people will live and work in peace and contentment."

No wonder even the Ministry of Rites did not dare to make a judgment. Yang Shiqi looked at Xie Jin.

The cabinet went round and round, with several personnel changes, and returned to its original state, except that Hu Guang had died of illness, Huang Huai had gone to seven western provinces, and several new cabinet ministers.

At present, Yang Shiqi and Xie Jin are the candidates for the first assistant of the current cabinet in terms of qualifications and prestige. Who the final assistant is depends on the prince's wishes.

Jie Jin stroked his beard and ignored Yang Shiqi's gaze.

Yang Shiqi withdrew his eyes and looked at Lu Zhen again.

"Does Lu Butai think it should be announced?"

Lu Zhen hesitated. He was going to become an official this year, not because he was noble, but because he was too old. Facing the increasingly heavy affairs of the Ministry of Rites, he felt that he was unable to do anything, so he came up with the idea of ​​becoming an official.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has agreed, but the Ministry of Rites does not yet have a suitable candidate, so Lu Zhen still temporarily stabilizes the situation in the Ministry of Rites.

Today's Ministry of Rites is no longer the Ministry of Rites of the past. Not only does it have more authority, but its workload has also greatly increased.

Lu Zhen shook his head and said hurriedly: "Why should Mr. Yang Ge embarrass me? If I have considerations, why should I send it to the cabinet for discussion?"

Yang Shiqi sighed.

The current cabinet is at a critical juncture, and he knows the heart of His Royal Highness, so Yang Shiqi was unwilling to cause extraneous matters, but he did not expect that such a major event would happen, so he could only report it.

This article is of great significance and relates to the foundation of the country.

There are so many major events in the world, but the imperial court has its own laws and everyone performs their duties in an orderly manner. Therefore, although there are many things, the cabinet actually has rules and regulations to deal with them, so it is not a big trouble.

But some things are very critical, and Yang Shiqi can clearly see the weight contained in them. Although he doesn't want to be meddlesome, he has a stake in his position, and he must do so.

Since the implementation of the New Deal, the palace has no longer recruited new eunuchs.

Over the years, the old eunuchs have grown old and passed away, and the young eunuchs have also aged. Although they are still raised in the palace, their authority over palace affairs has been reduced.

There were female officials and female historians in the inner palace, external affairs were handled by the Palace Affairs Bureau, and contacts with the imperial court were maintained by the officials in the Wenhua Palace Library.

In fact, the current clerk's office is somewhat similar to the cabinet in the history of the Ming Dynasty, but the current cabinet of the Ming Dynasty is very different. It only takes one step to gain status.

Status is very important. Historically, the Ming Dynasty’s cabinet lacked status.

If the name is not correct, the words will not be smooth. Therefore, although the Ming Dynasty's cabinet was already the core of the imperial court in history, it still suffered from many constraints and was not able to manage the various ministries of the imperial court smoothly.

Yang Shiqi and Xie Jin met with Zhu Gaochi.

Zhu Gaochi quietly read the first draft of the newspaper.

Zhu Gaochi had actually been prepared for it a long time ago. Although Yang Shiqi and Xie Jin could not tell the mood of His Royal Highness, Zhu Gaochi was actually not disturbed in his heart.

Nothing is created out of thin air. The evolution of the world is also gradual. The germination and development of ideas sometimes take longer, let alone appear suddenly.

In the more than fifty years since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, especially in the past twenty years, the industrial development and ideological changes guided by the Ming Dynasty have inevitably led to today's melons.

Very early on, Zhu Gaochi had given up thinking about the origin of Western industrial development because it was really impossible to test, which also led Zhu Gaochi to abandon the path of imitating Western modernization.

Because according to later generations, the Western Industrial Revolution came from the Renaissance. So what is the source of the Renaissance?

Martial arts secrets.

Yes.

It's the same as in the novel, starting with a young man picking up a treasure book.

In the small town of Florence, a symbol of Italian civilization, Florentines learned Chinese silk drawing and weaving techniques from Muslims and began to produce silk that sold well in Europe.

Economic development has turned the local area into a financial center. The Holy See, who has money, therefore wants to complete the huge local cathedral. People don't know when the construction of this cathedral started. They only know that it has never been completed.

It happened that Cosimo, who came from the Medici family, when he was only twenty-five years old, discovered some scriptures and manuscripts from the ancient Greek and Roman era in the corner of the unfinished church.

Finally, relying on the knowledge in these manuscripts, Cosimo completed the capping project of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence built by the Holy See and received a generous reward.

For this reason, Cosimo became very interested in collecting scriptures and manuscripts. After many years of collection, it became the largest library in Europe. This library revived the knowledge of ancient Greece and Rome and brought the Renaissance, which in turn promoted the Industrial Revolution.

Such a statement is really insulting and ignorant of the development process of civilization.

Zhu Gaochi wondered if there was a young man like Cosimo in China who had picked up a treasure book from ancient times.

However, most people do not agree with this idea, because later generations of young people who are more thoughtful believe that future generations must have richer knowledge than their ancestors. The most powerful ancient secrets only exist in novels.

The civilizational achievements of later generations in the West are definitely not achievements that can be achieved by relying on a few so-called ancient Greek classics. There are all kinds of birds in the forest. There are unreliable scholars in China, and there are also unreliable scholars in the West.

Just like some people in later generations think that the moon in foreign countries is rounder, there are also young people in foreign countries who think that Chinese people love to study since childhood, and the content of videos they watch is all knowledge content.

Abandoning prejudice and inferiority, and thinking based on his own identity, Zhu Gaochi changed the market by creating demand, thereby promoting the industrialization of the Ming Dynasty.

But it is undeniable that the thinking of the Song Dynasty was highly developed after the slavery system of the Yuan Dynasty, and many bad habits were already commonplace in the minds of people in the early Ming Dynasty. For example, there were many records of generals breaking laws and disciplines.

What Lan Yu did was not accepted by public opinion in the Song Dynasty. In the early Ming Dynasty, not only Lan Yu did this, people also thought it was normal.

There is a big difference between the thinking of the Ming Dynasty and that of the Song Dynasty, not only in terms of law, but also in morality.

The brutal things the Jin soldiers did in the capital of the Song Dynasty were shocking. Not only did later generations think it was barbaric, but the people of the Song Dynasty were also shocked.

Just like in the 21st century, a country that claims to be civilized persists in carrying out genocide despite the opposition of the entire civilized world, shattering people's outlook.

In the same way, after experiencing the successive devastations of the Jin and Yuan Dynasties, the civilized world has long been destroyed.

Not only in terms of technology and knowledge, but also in people’s minds.

People are accustomed to a world where slaves exist. They are obviously the same race, and it has only been a hundred years. Although they are calling for the restoration of the Song Dynasty system, they still retain the slavery system and burial system left over from the previous dynasty.

This is just one aspect, the entire society is experiencing regression and decline in all aspects.

People no longer pay attention to law and morality, but are accustomed to oppression by force.

The Song Dynasty had the lightest convictions for official corruption, but the level of corruption among bureaucrats was even lower than that of the Ming and Qing dynasties. The Ming Dynasty implemented a famously high-pressure policy, but official corruption was repeatedly banned. Even in the Qing Dynasty, it was a joke that officials were not corrupt, and buying officials was a joke. Selling one's official position has become a universal phenomenon.

This is because the level of civilization is highly determined.

The glory of a civilization is definitely not just economic and military, but also includes ideas. Even ordinary people are more moral. It is precisely because of high moral standards that people have a high degree of self-discipline.

Without secular and good thoughts, no matter how good the system is, it is nothing more than a fiction.

If up to 80% of taxi drivers believe that they would become corrupt officials, then any supervision policy is useless. On the contrary, if 80% of taxi drivers believe that they would never become corrupt officials, then it is very simple. Supervisory policies can also have good results.

The investigation report on taxi drivers was a small-scale activity that did not attract publicity in later generations.

In the process of continuous development of civilization level, imperial power will inevitably be restricted.

In a country with a highly developed civilization, imperial power is uncontrolled, and the two absolutely cannot coexist. Imperial power is not just imperial power, but represents a series of rights.

So when the imperial power faced restrictions, the existence of a new kind of guarantee for the development of civilization was what Zhu Gaochi needed to consider.

Do they have the level to lead the development of civilization?

Zhu Gaochi never thought of confrontation.

Contrary to the development trajectory of things is a counter move that goes against the general trend. Not only is it unsustainable, it will only intensify conflicts. The struggle between the imperial power and the bureaucratic class in the middle and late Ming Dynasty was considered by Zhu Gaochi to be this type of phenomenon.

There are more and more people reading, and they will no longer consider themselves inferior after reading.

The Ming Dynasty's high-level education system and system of preferential treatment for scholars destined this group to be very large. With a folk foundation, even if the imperial power was reduced and the recognized rules were respected, it became inevitable to respect the law.

Then, the new psychology that emerged in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, and even the knowledge of scolding Confucius and criticizing the emperor, not only were not banned, but became more and more popular, which is also inevitable for the development of things.

There were many reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty, but the royal family definitely had a major responsibility.

A feudal dynasty is a feudal dynasty.

Yongbi is an utopia among Westerners, which does not mean that the royal family of the Ming Dynasty has no problems, so Zhu Gaochi is willing to delegate power. However, Zhu Gaochi is worried about whether the cabinet has the ability to carry the banner and maintain the royal family's detached status.

The royal family of the Ming Dynasty can delegate power, but it cannot disappear, at least not now, otherwise it will only lead to civil strife.

It's just that Zhu Gaochi didn't expect that what was supposed to happen would come a little early.

He has always put things in front, so Ming Dynasty has been going smoothly over the years. Even if there are some natural disasters, it is of no consequence due to the rapid development of Ming Dynasty's cultivated land area, fertile land, chemical fertilizer technology and so on.

Even when considering the cabinet this time, he wanted to get things done in advance and provide the foundation for the change of thinking ten or twenty years later. Zhu Gaochi was both pleased and troubled.

He was gratified that this was what he pursued, but worried about whether Ming's management system could keep up with the development of ideas.

Zhu Gaochi never dared to think that the things of later generations could be achieved by the Ming Dynasty.

That is disrespectful to the ancestors and martyrs.

After a long period of fire and blood, and a hundred years of suffering, the iron will and the advanced team created are definitely not comparable to the current Ming dynasty's bureaucracy.

In Zhu Gaochi's view, although the social environment of the current Ming Dynasty is much better than that of the Ming Dynasty in history, there are still many shortcomings.

Before the world's worries and worries, after the world's joy and joy.

Although it is just a line of poetry, it is also the high state pursued by literati.

in short.

People all believe that only in a society where they are themselves, and will never be corrupt officials, can the justice and implementation of the law be truly achieved. It cannot be changed by Zhu Gaochi enacting a few laws.

Zhu Gaochi did not expect everyone to be a moral person. This is impossible.

But so does public opinion in general.

Whether the capabilities of the imperial court are up to par, and whether the quality of local officials and film studio directors are up to par.

On the other side of Zhu Gaochi's case desk was an investigation report sent by Jin Yiwei. It was about the studio director who bullied others and violated more than twenty Ming laws. How many cases were there behind this.

According to the provisions of the Ming Dynasty Law, the studio director does not have such great rights, and the common people have the right to defy the illegal demands of the studio director, but so what, the facts are the facts.

But Ming Dynasty is too big.

Demands for suppressing imperial power also arose. This is the contradiction.

Zhu Gaochi read two different memorials, and finally saw Yang Shiqi and Xie Jin.

In their early years, the two went to Peking to study the theory of industrialization. They learned a lot. They needed talent, experience, and ability. They were the top political talents of the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Gaochi decided to take a look at businessmen's affairs, ideological matters, and the future of the Ming Dynasty.

This is the most precious wealth Zhu Gaochi left to Ming Dynasty. (End of chapter)