New Shun 1730

Generally speaking, the meaning of the way of tension and relaxation in civil and military affairs is definitely not this. But when the emperor talks to the selected successor, this meaning can be said to be more disgusting and cruel.

In this seemingly stable but actually turbulent era, it is impossible for the prince to only learn the kingly way of benevolence, otherwise he will not be able to control the situation, protect the crown, and protect the ancestral temple in the future.

After Li Li said this, the prince vaguely understood.

The Xianxue school has its own program and future plans.

They have ideals. Although many ideas seem wrong, naive, and reactionary now, they do have a program after all.

The imperial power, on the other hand, uses everything as a means, or its program is existence, and existence is the program.

For the Xianxue school, the external land is now a resource for the world to reach a well-off and harmonious world. If used well, it can not only survive the difficult industrialization transformation.

For the imperial power, the external land is now a card in the emperor's hand, a card that can be used to ease conflicts when conflicts break out, and a resource that can be used to continue the imperial power.

Before, when Li Li came to power, he relied on selling a lot of resources and a lot of land in exchange for support.

In name, at least the words he said to Liu Yu, or the words he said to get the support of Liu Yu and the forces behind him, were for the people of the world and the future of China.

In essence, from another perspective, it is better to say that the railway built to the north of the Songliao watershed is his reward to those supporters, the bourgeoisie, and the officer corps. In the north of the Songliao watershed, a condition that conforms to the capitalist production relations has been created, making the land production there profitable.

Of course, everyone is not stupid about this matter. Liu Yu knew it very well at the beginning, but they used each other, and at least the "legacy" was arranged in advance.

Now, the Dashun imperial power has a stable reactionary ruling group.

This ruling group is composed of the officer corps, the new military aristocracy of the soybean farmers, the oil pressing industry, and the sorghum wine industry, and the blood tax soldiers who were probably the most reactionary when Liu Yu conquered Luosha.

Of course, their power is not very strong, but they stand closely with the imperial power. The imperial power needs them, and they also need the imperial power to maintain their special status.

As Engels said, the liquor industry saved the German Junkers and enabled them to complete their transformation; and soybeans and related industries such as oil pressing, bean cakes and fertilizers created a strange military aristocratic group for Dashun - even to put it bluntly, it is similar to digging ginseng and pearls, creating a military group in Liaodong in the late Ming Dynasty.

Obviously, they alone cannot suppress the world.

And relying on this group to rule, the imperial power must learn one thing: jumping left and right, instigating and taking advantage of class contradictions, standing on this side and standing on that side, using workers to scare the bourgeoisie, and using the bourgeoisie to scare small farmers and handicraftsmen.

However, Li Li had been in contact with Liu Yu for a long time before. Although Liu Yu did a lot of reverse training, reverse training is reverse training, but you still have to know the Tao to reverse training. Don’t you know how to reverse?

He has said it a lot, heard it a lot, and seen it a lot in the past few decades. Therefore, from the perspective of imperial power, he is ultimately a "defeatist".

That's why he said things like "There are fifty great ways, forty-nine heavenly evolutions, and only one human way, and there is only a glimmer of hope."

He said that after his death, there would be a flood, and he also placed his hope on his son, hoping that his son would win in the chaos and seize that glimmer of hope.

He placed this glimmer of hope in the future chaos he called "floods".

That is, when Europe awakened, India revolted, and the disease of "excessive blood and overproduction" in the first-developed areas of Dashun broke out.

He believed that carrying out reforms, changes, improvements, and equal land and immigration now is "adding fuel to the fire."

This is equivalent to knowing that this person will have a disease of excessive blood and excessive fire in the future, so he asked this person to grow his body and become stronger, so that the problem of excessive blood can be alleviated. On the other hand, this thing only treats the symptoms but not the root cause. The more you do this, the fatter you will be. When the blood-burning disease breaks out in the future, it will be completely incurable and you can only wait for death.

This is what he thinks is the angle of "adding fuel to the fire".

As for how to use this flood or crisis, Li Li still gave the prince a simple example to understand what "disintegration" means.

"Since we are talking about differentiation and disintegration, we must know which people are most capable of success and most threatening if they are not divided."

"Or, who can threaten the ancestral temple now?"

Since it is about threatening the ancestral temple, then obviously exclude options such as Jingnan and Xuanwumen. For the ancestral temple, this is called meat rotten in the pot.

The prince knew very well that his father would not speak nonsense. Since he was asking about threatening the ancestral temple, then options such as Jingnan and Xuanwumen must have been excluded.

Then he said: "Learn from history, it may be destroyed by external forces, such as the Jingkang Shame and the Yashan Bloodshed."

"Or it may be destroyed by internal forces, when one man causes trouble, cuts wood into weapons, raises a pole as a flag, and the seven temples are destroyed."

"However, as I have seen the world, the Jingkang Shame and the Yashan Bloodshed are no longer possible. For example, Mongolia has been exploited by merchants and can no longer survive. It is powerless; and the neighboring countries such as Korea and Japan are not my arrogance, so they are not worth worrying about; as for the European countries, there is no need to mention them."

"Therefore, if we say that the biggest threat and the most capable of accomplishing things are the lower-class people."

Li Xi nodded.

The things he learned from Liu Yu were messy and fragmented, and he did not actually receive a complete set of education.

Therefore, it is impossible for him to logically deduce the principle that "under small real estate ownership, small farmers cannot be pulled away by the bourgeoisie as during the legal reform, but will instead form an alliance with urban proletarian workers."

However, just because it cannot be deduced logically does not mean that Li Han cannot derive a possible answer from a wrong method.

Li Han's reasoning angle is wrong, superficial, and formal. But the conclusion is correct.

"Well, when one man is in trouble, he cuts down trees to become soldiers, raises poles to become flags, and the seven temples are destroyed. This time is different from the past."

"Since the former emperor's rule was divided into internal and external parts, now the empire is divided into two parts: internal and external."

"Inside, those who chop wood are small farmers and craftsmen."

"Anyone who raises a pole outside is a hired worker and has no property."

"To divide the inside and outside, it is necessary to rebel both inside and outside, and only seven temples can win."

"Otherwise, the situation today is very different from the past. Internal rebellion can be suppressed by the advance delivery of goods, supplies, and customs duties; external rebellion can be suppressed by soldiers and border troops from the interior, but the Celestial Empire will never One city can capture the resources of the world.”

"Therefore, the most important thing is to try our best to prevent the poor people at the bottom, both inside and outside, from forming an alliance and seeking justice for the world."

"On the other hand, they are the ones who want to divide and disintegrate."

"What did health care workers do in the past? It was just to prevent scholars who were frustrated and had difficulty living, so they would cause chaos. For example, if Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't get Liu Bowen, it would be difficult to achieve anything. Therefore, in the past, the rulers only needed to be on guard against small farmers who started to cause chaos, and worked with the scholars to do that. But that’s the point.”

"But now, with the spread of practical knowledge, many truths that were kept secret in the past are actually flooding the market. Therefore, when ruling now, what we should be wary of are those people in the city who are educated but talk about the benefits of hired labor. Especially now that they are showing off their knowledge , who not only solves the problem of farmers having their own land, but also wants to solve the dilemma of industrial development. It has a program and makes sense, and talks about equalizing land. This is the kind of person we should be wary of. "

"The key to differentiation and disintegration is to divide and disintegrate them. To differentiate between inside and outside, between workers and farmers, to instigate from the middle, to drive tigers to devour wolves, to kill people with borrowed knives, so that their power is dispersed, you have to rely on the wise and benevolent virtues of the sage king and emperor."

"Nowadays, the most discussed issue in the world, apart from the equalization of land, is the issue of Chao Guan Zi Kou."

"Let me ask you, if there is turmoil in Europe and riots in India in the future, and the output in Songsu and other places increases due to the use of machines, it cannot be sold..."

"The equalization of land may be a long-term solution, or a root cause. But water from afar cannot quench the thirst for nearness. At that time, will it be necessary to talk about banknotes, internal control, and protection of the mainland?"

The prince had no doubts about this and responded: "What my father said is absolutely true. Juntian may be effective for a long time, but the effect is slow, and water from afar cannot quench the thirst of nearby people."

"The huge mainland market is just like us expanding externally to seize the colonial market by deregulating the banknotes, deregulating industry and commerce, and deregulating capital controls."

"Therefore, it will be necessary to talk about the liberalization of banknote tax, deregulation, ban on inland handicrafts and protection of small farmers in order to sell things."

Li Han added: "Today's radicals in practical learning talk more about 'progress'. Xing Guogong's knowledge can be interpreted from many angles, and each has its own reasons. This kind of 'progress' knowledge is the most dangerous, especially those who talk about hiring workers. How can we take this opportunity to tarnish its reputation and undermine its meaning?”

"For example, before this, we selected a few people who were quite prestigious among the hired workers in the market and secretly supported them."

"Once the polycythemia crisis breaks out, these people will be asked to talk about 'progress'. And they must talk about 'progress' from the perspective of pretending to be for the benefit of the employees."

"Or: The small farmers and handicraftsmen in the mainland are all reactionary and hinder progress, and deserve to be crushed by cheap industrial products."

"Let him talk about how to crush small farmers and handicraftsmen so that the hired workers can benefit."

"When the so-called 'progress' idea is under your control, when he talks about white, you should not mention black, but light white, pink white, goose-yellow white, etc., secretly taking away the positive color, replacing white with yellow, and making the positive color White annihilation.”

"While they talk about 'progress,' they also talk about small farmers and handicraftsmen being a reactionary group that hinders progress, etc."

"For factory owners, they will definitely like it and will support it."

"As for the hired workers, they can also be confused. They are unemployed due to the disease of excessive blood and anger, and they are worried about being unemployed. At this time, they talk about crushing small farmers and handicraftsmen and turning the mainland into a market. Most of them will think that there is a great opportunity. reason."

"Even if some die-hards oppose it with false claims in the name of Duke Xing, I'm afraid they won't be able to take back the leadership. At that time, the leadership of Xianxue, or in other words, the leadership of industrial workers and other classes will be in the support of In the hands of those mouthpieces, most of the employees will follow those mouthpieces and will not accept the ideas of those die-hard radicals. "

"In this case..."

Li Hao smiled lightly and continued: "Open a province's banknotes and controls, and use the most 'progressive' policies to counter progress."

"Since you want 'progress', then I will give you 'progress'."

"Don't talk about oral taxes and protection taxes. We don't even care about land sales, capital enclosures, hoarding goods, speculating on food prices, cheating, and lending to extort land. We must be the most 'progressive' and just We must crush the reactionary group according to the words of those 'progressive' people."

"In this way, within two years, the province will be in chaos! It may be chaos due to Bailian or Yihe. Their generation may not be against the imperial court. Most of them will support the imperial court and uphold government affairs, and destroy those 'progressive' factions."

"The atmosphere of the world will definitely change. The haze of radicalism and progress left by the founding of the country will also dissipate and turn conservative."

"I want to reform the imperial examination first, so this is why. By then, officials from the mainland, although they have learned practical knowledge, will they be able to support such 'progress'?"

"When the time comes, the world will be in turmoil and a rebound will be necessary. It will also make small farmers and craftsmen remember the 'progressive' rhetoric of the proletarian workers in the city."

"Even if the hired workers in the city start an uprising in the future, the small farmers and craftsmen will remember the hatred of that day and will not help. I am afraid that they will still think in their hearts that this 'progress' is not necessary. It is really terrible. The people in the city cannot be relied on, so it is better to rely on the emperor."

"Recruit An Na and other people who are responsible for the trouble, and have them stationed around the cities in the first areas to prevent changes in the city. Don't you care about old and new grudges?"

"If this is the case, how can we show off our knowledge?"

“Is dispelling ‘progress’ worse than labeling small farmers and craftsmen as a reactionary bunch?”

"Whether it is reform or land equalization, it will all come from the imperial court and the imperial edict in the future, rather than being dominated by a school of thought or a certain program."

"And factory owners and others, seeing how terrible the rebellion of small farmers and craftsmen is, will probably restrain themselves. They know that if the imperial court does not protect them, they will be hung on the tree. I have seen their weakness a long time ago, so what will happen then?" Are you worried that they won’t be disobedient?”

"In a time of great strife, if factory owners need the navy, bayonets, and cannons of the imperial court to compete with factory owners in other countries, it would be easier for them to be obedient. However, looking at the world now, the industrial owners of other countries are invincible, foreign invaders, and unable to compete. It is easy for them to be disobedient. They need to use a group of people in the country to scare them and make them obedient. Let them know that without the emperor, they will not be able to control the situation. Only in this way can they surrender obediently and put away those things. Inflated mind.”

"After this incident, the alliance between workers and peasants is no longer possible. Without the support of peasants, the workers are alone and weak. If they do not rely on the sage king and emperor to control the factory owners, who can they rely on?"

"Hired workers are easy to buy. When a crisis breaks out, if you advocate 'progress', that the inland market will allow them to live a good life, and that you will crush the small farmers and craftsmen in the inland, they must be fooled, and will not join the group of immigrants who want to equalize land." Those who want to develop big industry after entering the country will leave.”

"Use this method to first break their alliance, divide them, and force the small farmers to the emperor's side; then cut off their allies, cut off their internal support, and isolate the hired workers. They can only place their hope in the sage king, and then force the hired workers to Come to the emperor."

"In this case, just follow the story of the past: in the past, we protected small farmers and suppressed mergers, but in fact we still ruled the world with the scholar-bureaucrats, landlords, and gentry."

"It will be the same in the future. In name and righteousness, we will protect small farmers and hired workers. But in fact, we will still rule the world with the big bourgeoisie."

Li Han didn't know the scientific name of the thing he was talking about.

But in fact, to sum up in the words of future generations, it is actually a reactionary feudal society that "takes three galasal".

This is related to the "internal and external division" situation in Dashun.

Inside, it is a small-peasant society, quite similar to France during the Third Age, where small-scale farmers were generally poor and were about to collapse due to usury and land mortgages.

In addition, it is a society of plutocrats, military aristocrats and big bourgeoisie, just like Prussia during the time of Lassalle.

The issue of small farmers, the so-called Great Eastward Movement, equalization of land, and relocation of people, can be regarded as a Dashun variant of Nasan's [On the Elimination of Poverty].

The problem of hired labor, the so-called "As long as the emperor transforms himself from a privileged imperial power into a social and imperial power, then the working class will tend to regard the emperor as a natural embodiment of the egoism of bourgeois society." 】

To a certain extent, this is the very bad sequelae left by Liu Yu's reforms to Dashun - the emperor was exposed to the class things and way of thinking earlier than the hired workers and small farmers.

And itself, the revolutionary society, is the background color of society after the removal of hundreds of schools of thought. Wang Mang's restructuring was the social practice of a utopian reactionary society under the productivity levels of blast furnace iron, ridge farming, and a yield of 100 kilograms per mu.

Unfortunately, Liu Yu is already dead.

It is said that I annotate the Six Classics, and the Six Classics annotate me.

Liu Yu's words can easily be exploited by those who are interested, especially to label small farmers and handicraftsmen as a reactionary group that hinders historical progress; to label peasant uprisings as a reactionary group based on the principle of real estate.

This set of things itself can easily lead to mechanical economic determinism.

Ilyich also complained about this issue, saying, "It is impossible for workers to have a sense of society." This awareness can only be instilled from outside. Otherwise, it can only form...] Or a federation of trade unions, or a workers' aristocracy - a typical example is the attitude of Irish railway workers towards Chinese workers. No one has instilled it, and it is extremely reactionary.

On the Dashun side, there is an even more troublesome problem of "the aristocracy of workers" that is likely to occur among the "first powers".

For example, in the situation mentioned by Li Huan, when the crisis comes, workers in the first-hit areas will not care about the lives of small farmers and handicraftsmen in the mainland. In order to have jobs and make money, they will demand that the banknotes be opened and the mainland will be cancelled. What about backward protection and market capture?

Obviously, if someone deliberately confuses, instills reactionary ideas, distorts the concept of "progress", and adds interests, it is indeed very easy to be led astray.

The situation in the mainland of Dashun is extremely helpless.

Dashun obtained the two raw material producing areas of Nanyang and India; obtained the advantages of sea and water transportation; obtained the grain from Japan, North Korea, Southeast Asia, and stabilized the price of grain in the first-mover areas...

The mainland, such as the textile industry, cannot compete no matter what. This is inevitable.

No matter the grain price, raw material price, capital abundance, etc., they can't compete with each other. The result of "agriculture and natural order" is not a booming development under competition. The only thing that can be achieved is that the original handicraft industry in the mainland will go bankrupt quickly, and it is impossible to sprout and grow into a large factory.

Of course, if you say that Dashun was beaten up, lost India, lost Southeast Asia, and shrunk back to the mainland. It is possible to grow cotton in Jianghan, or there is no other way but to grow cotton in Jianghan, and then the Jianghan area can become a textile center. Otherwise, it is impossible.

As long as India and Southeast Asia are not lost, as long as land transportation is not comparable to sea transportation, even if the Jianghan area builds a textile center, it will go bankrupt. It's that simple.

Now the Jianghan area relies on the local and Sichuan markets, and relies on the opportunity of Sichuan salt entering Chu to develop. They still use Indian cotton yarn. If the power of Jianghan's textile capital is really released, the big textile capital in Songsu area can make it unable to rise again with just a little finger - they don't even need to do dirty work, such as controlling Indian cotton yarn. Just market competition, Hubei's food self-sufficiency is now a problem. How can the grain price be compared with Songsu, which has Nanyang rice, Northeast sorghum and sea transportation?

It's still the same sentence: Imperialism in history has not only disintegrated the small peasant economy and killed the handicraft industry; it has also killed the bourgeoisie of the country. That's why they are said to raise both their left and right hands.

The current situation is different. They don't need to raise their right hands to fight against imperialism.

And Dashun can't be applied to the fragmented countries of Europe. It can only be solved by the ideas of "world" and "great harmony". Can a thing that accounts for two-fifths of the world's population and more than half of the world's total industrial and agricultural production value be applied to the European concept of a country?

Since it is said, the current problem of Dashun can only be solved by the concept of "world great harmony" that transcends the fragmented small countries.

Then it means that the problem of Dashun is too difficult to solve - among the heroes in history from 1840 to the next hundred years, there are those who fought for the nation, those who fought against aggression, those who fought to wash away humiliation, and those who fought against the Manchus and the Yama demons... In the humiliating history of the original history, these people can stand together, or at least walk together for a while.

At this time, Dashun, which wants to achieve world peace, can only go on its own, and can't even find people to walk with.

This also gave Li Li an opportunity, an opportunity to really find a chance to seize a glimmer of life in the dead end of "Fifty Great Ways, Forty-nine Heavenly Derivations, and One Human Way".

And this opportunity, in Li Li's view, is what the envoys saw and heard on the way back with Liu Yu's body this time - France is going to be in chaos, Europe is going to be in chaos, India is going to be in chaos, and even in some cases, the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in South America may also be in chaos. A major crisis of relative overproduction may break out in the first-developed areas of Dashun.

Once the crisis breaks out, the areas that may bear such a large-scale overproduction may only have the 200 to 300 million people in the internal areas of Dashun on the entire earth.

This will break the original balance of Dashun, which is "expanding externally to satisfy the gluttony of the emerging class, and reaching a compromise without destroying the small peasant economy internally".

Of course, it does not mean that it cannot be solved.

In fact, there is a solution.

Not to cure the root cause.

Just to cure the symptoms, or delay the outbreak of the crisis.

For example, the bourgeoisie pays for immigration, relocation, and the use of billions of acres of land in North America and Australia to create a market of 200 million people.

But obviously, they will definitely not do it.

If people move there and the market is there, it is possible for them to invest and make money again.

But if they say that they spend money to immigrate, spend money to develop productivity and commodity exchange potential, they will not do it.

Li Xi also wanted to take advantage of this point and lay out the imperial examination reform in advance, so that he would have talents from the inland areas available at that time. This is his preparation for a rainy day.

The bankruptcy of small farmers, the collapse of handicrafts, and the collapse of the old urban exchange system are the real material world.

It will not be reversed just because they originally studied Confucian classics and now study arithmetic and geometry.

Nor would they become conservatives because they originally studied Confucian classics and felt that it was inhumane and inappropriate to be so radical when they saw the bankruptcy of small farmers and the collapse of handicrafts; but after learning new practical studies such as arithmetic and geometry, they immediately became a different person, thinking that the collapse was good and suddenly became radicals.

Including the real radicals in the current advanced regions of the practical school, the real radicals want to equalize land, relocate people, expand the market, and transform the rural areas of the world from use value production to exchange value production. They are radicals. And many of these radicals are opposed to directly opening up the currency gate, believing that food should be eaten one bite at a time and shit should be taken one piece at a time, and that if you take two steps forward, you will take one step back, otherwise it is easy to go to the extreme and then reverse, which makes them look like conservatives - for example, Liu Yu, who later went to repair the Yellow River channel, is also such a conservative.

And those who want to engage in radical agriculturalism and natural order, and want to open up the currency gate, seem radical, but in fact they are regarded as childish and not presentable within the practical school.

The Dashun Dynasty had a tradition of emphasizing agriculture over commerce. As early as the Han Dynasty, it had suffered losses from uncontrolled commercial capital. This is not surprising. It is still what Lao Ma said: Since commercial capital still exists, it proves that this is not capitalism at all. It does not mean that the existence of commercial capital or the great losses suffered by commercial capital prove that this is the embryo of capitalism. Lao Ma said very clearly that there was also commercial capital in the slave era, and only when commercial capital melted its own independence could it be called capitalism. Commercial capital is parasitic, and the existence of commercial capital alone proves that this is not capitalism.

Therefore, under this tradition, under the current situation, if the radical agricultural school and natural order school can become a prominent school, it would be a ghost story.

Li Li wanted to support this group of people who were not presentable to become a "prominent school", replace them, replace white with yellow, and kill the real radical prominent school - since there must be a prominent school, why not support a prominent school?

Because he was a Dashun person, he understood the principle that things will turn against themselves when they reach the extreme.

I have also read the story of "Zheng Bo Ke Duan Yu Yan", which is to "fake the famous school to stir up trouble, pretend to be helpless to take the lead in one province, and the capital must make a shocking and shocking scene".

Thus, the "radicalism" that has been lingering over Dashun since Liu Yu fled has receded.

It is easy to say that Li Xi also did the "expansion and colonization" business with Liu Yu.

Without any control, Li Xi knew very well what capital had done in India and Southeast Asia, whether capital would go to hoard land or develop industry, and what is the robbery system under the dominance of commercial capital.

This model of Zheng Bo Ke Duan Yu Yan will definitely play out under the conditions of Dashun's railway, steamship and land transactions, nine out of thirteen returns. If it takes two years to force the people to rebel, it can only be said to be conservative.

As for industrial investment? Who has the brain to invest in the inland instead of investing in the first-developed regions and other places with advantages in raw materials and sea transportation?

Therefore, industrial capital will not go there at all, only commercial capital will go there, which can force landlords to go bankrupt.

And the whole process.

Li Xi does not need to do anything.

He just needs to do nothing.

If he can live to that time.

As for the province to be the "straw man to scare the radicals", Li Xi has already made up his mind: Henan and Anhui.

One of these two is a province with a large population, and the other is the disaster-stricken area of ​​the Huaihe River. With rapid impact and economic crops occupying land for planting, a small disaster will quickly cause food shortages, and an uprising of 100,000 people will break out.

Of course, what kind of place is Henan and how critical it is, others do not know, but the Dashun Dynasty should be the clearest.

However, Liu Yu's advice to the previous emperor, "railways crisscross, the Yellow River and the Huai River are divided, even if there is an uprising, it is only divided into pieces, the world is like a chessboard and the invaders cannot escape", to deceive the old emperor into building railways, abolishing the canal transport, and controlling the Yellow River and the Huai River, was reasonable, so it could deceive the old emperor, and that's why the railways were built and the Yellow River and the Huai River were controlled. Now it has become the basis for Li Li to make scarecrows to scare people.

Li Li wants to make scarecrows to scare people.

He wants to wave the beggar's bag at the bottom.

He also wants to change the imperial examination system to make himself appear to be a "progressive emperor".

As for what to do in the future, Li Li can't say now.

Let alone whether he can live to that time.

Even if he lives to that time, now he can only have a general idea first and then wait and see.

He is afraid that he will die one day, so he wants to tell his son this ray of hope, the most disgusting and dark set of things.

The prince doesn't think it's a big deal, but he is a little worried.

"Father, in the past, the prince of Wei, Zhou Yu, rose to power by rebellion, and he raised troops and expanded to divert conflicts, enhance his prestige, and suppress discontent."

"Duke Lu asked Zhong Zhong: Did Zhou Yu succeed? He replied: War is like fire. If it is not extinguished, it will burn itself. After a year, Shi Que killed his own relatives for the sake of justice, just as Zhong Zhong said."

"Father, you want to find a ray of hope in the chaos. If you don't put out this fire well... I am afraid..."

Unexpectedly, Li Li laughed out loud.

"This fire? Did I set it? What ability do I have to set such a fire?"

"Such a fire cannot be 'created'. It is ignited by a law that is not subject to the will of a certain person."

"Did I let those factory owners create overproduction?"

"Did I let France go into chaos soon?"

"After the chaos, they can't sell it. Did I let them think about the inland market?"

"If they want the inland market, if Henan and Shandong are released, did I let capital buy land and occupy land for annexation, did I let merchants bring in machine-made cloth to destroy the local cloth in southern Henan and make it difficult for female workers to make a living, did I let the landlords see the high prices of tobacco, cotton, sesame, etc. and not grow grain, causing a food shortage?"

"I didn't set the fire. I just didn't put it out in advance. The fire was not caused by me. , where is the argument of playing with fire and burning yourself? "

"When the crisis comes, you will say nothing, and there will be people advocating the opening of internal market control, and regard progress as the righteousness. Just follow it, why set fire?"

"And if it is opened, land annexation, speculation of grain prices, hoarding of goods, buying low and selling high, attacking local cloth, defrauding local chambers of commerce, etc., did you ask them to do it? "

"This kind of thing that cannot be changed by someone's will, no one can change it, let alone create it. "

"But it can be used. "

"Change to learn to use it. This is why we have to learn Xing Gong Shi Xue. If we don't understand it, how can we prepare to use it? "

The prince frowned and said: "Since my father said so, Xing Gong Shi Xue is widely spread, and there are many people who know its righteousness and strategy. Don't they know how to use it? "

Li Han smiled disdainfully and asked: "If Emperor Taizu had started an uprising during Hongwu and Yongle, would great achievements have been achieved?"

"If Chen interferes with Wu Guang and starts an uprising while the First Emperor is still alive, will he be able to capture the Qin Temple?"

"There are many stories of people eating each other due to great hunger. But how many people can raise the flag and take over the world?"

"If you want to achieve great things by cutting down trees and raising poles, you must not only be hungry and eat each other so that the people cannot live, but also the court must be decadent and unable to rule. Neither can be accomplished without one of the two."

"The blood-soaked crisis I'm talking about can last ten years or twenty years. Come to think of it, it won't be just ten years. I, the heroic soldier who fought from Japan to Gibraltar, will be reduced to a military household of the former dynasty, right? "

"Besides, the capital is no better than other places. The capital is a city based on taxes, rice, official salaries, and military pay. It is not a production city for the purpose of exchange and selling money. Therefore, the capital will not be prone to a bloody and irritating surplus crisis. Chaos. If the capital is not in chaos, and the navy is in hand, there will be no chaos in finance, taxation, and rice; if there is no chaos in finance, taxation, and rice, even if it is playing with fire, it can still put out the fire."

"The envoys came back from Europe and said that France would be in chaos if its etiquette was broken and music would be ruined. How can Paris be the same as the capital? French workers, merchants, scholars, gentry, etc. all live in Paris, and hundreds of thousands of people produce around Paris' consumption. If It's going to be chaos, sure It is difficult to control. The capital is very different. It is difficult to live in Kyoto. Cloth is obtained from pine, silk is obtained from Su, porcelain is obtained from Gansu, rice is obtained from Java, beans are obtained from Songliao, coal is obtained from Xishan, and tea is obtained from Wuyi. How to bring chaos to the capital?"

"And if we follow the example of Emperor Taizu and promote the principle of equalizing farmland and freeing grain...the national life span has not yet come, and the previous dynasty still has 260 years of work, and it is only the principle of equalizing farmland internally, it is too early to worry about it."

"As for the Xianxue school...most of them are stuck in the old tradition of Xingguo Gong. They still want to seek the support of industrial capital to complete the land equalization, and then levy agricultural taxes and relocate the people, thinking that industrial capital will support them. Wanting to get rid of the landlords with help is a show of learning, and this generation will not be able to do anything. "

"As for the few radicals who talk about working for the common people? Do you think when a crisis breaks out in the future, will the hired workers support their idea of ​​working for the common good? Or will they support the idea of ​​grabbing the mainland market, crushing small farmers and craftsmen, and expanding the market to tide over the crisis?"

"You have to know that they talk about the world being a public servant, but when the crisis comes in the future and the restrictions of the two provinces are broken, a large number of small farmers and craftsmen will go bankrupt and flood into the city to make a living. This will lead to a sharp drop in the wages of the original hired workers, and the original hired workers in the city will Will resent small farmers even more Most of the craftsmen would form groups to crowd out those who came to the city later. When I was at Songsu Pier with Xingguo Gong, it was not uncommon for us to gang up and kill each other in order to resist the unloading work. They took this matter first. Once it’s settled, let’s talk about the world as a public institution.”