The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

Yan Song dares to assert that if there is no soul figure like him who consciously pushes Ming Dynasty to transition to capitalism, even if Ming Dynasty is given another 500 years, the buds of capitalism will still be buds, and will never develop into a force that can rival the feudal imperial system !

No social revolution can be completed without undergoing major ideological changes and major economic and political changes.Even if it is barely completed, such as the capitalization of Japan, Germany, and Tsarist Russia, it is extremely incomplete and unhealthy.

That's why political deformities such as Nazi Germany, Japan, and the Tsar later appeared, along with feudal remnants and capitalist freaks.

From this point of view, Yan Song's far-reaching influence on Daming far exceeds the scope of a certain powerful minister or a chief assistant.

It is no exaggeration to say that he was the pioneer of the modernization of the Ming Dynasty, the godfather of the capitalist revolution in the Ming Dynasty, and the enlightener of bourgeois thought.

Yan Song wrote the theory of sea power, which led to the opening of the sea in Ming Dynasty, and officially opened his eyes to see the world and the whole world.

But this is not enough.

Although Ming opened the sea, it only eased the domestic economic crisis and currency crisis financially. If Ming wanted to become truly prosperous and strong, it had to develop domestic capitalism.

For example, now, the businessmen of Daming Kaihai are actually those merchants from the past.Opening the sea is only for their goods, adding an export market, expanding the market size, and increasing business opportunities, but most of the wealth, labor, and productivity of Ming Dynasty are still firmly tied to the land.

As long as the land, a production tool and material that has been passed down for thousands of years, still maintains its dominant position, no matter how much wealth Ming has accumulated through exports, it will still not be able to embark on the road of capitalism and become rich and powerful.

This can be seen from the brutal example of Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and other trading powers that once controlled the hegemony of the world’s oceans, declining gradually after the rise of the Industrial Revolution.

Wealth is not equal to capital.National wealth does not equal national strength.

For Ming Dynasty to become really strong, capital, labor and market must be freed from the transfer of thousands of years of land, and transferred to modern capitalist large-scale industry and large-scale colonial production methods.

This rests on two basic premises.

One is the primitive accumulation and formation of domestic capital, and the other is the breakthrough and progress of science and technology.

And these two prospects, there is a biggest premise.

That is to open people's wisdom!

Let the common people truly realize that there is no future if you are bound to the land, eating loess with your back turned to the sky, and relying on the sky for food!

To truly make the country rich and the people strong, it is necessary to shift from agriculture to industry, develop large-scale industries, adopt new technologies, colonize foreign countries, rapidly accumulate capital and wealth, and form primitive accumulation of capital.

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Only in this way can the bourgeoisie of Ming Dynasty grow rapidly and mature rapidly no matter in terms of economy, politics or ideology.During Yan Song's lifetime, he could see the formation of a strong, independent and self-confident bourgeoisie, which posed a great challenge to the imperial power of Ming Dynasty.

This requires Yan Song to write "The Wealth of Nations"!

Let the common people of Ming Dynasty know what the essence of wealth is, how the country is rich, and how the people can be rich.

Now, Yan Song is writing vigorously.

"An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations."

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In the first sentence of the opening chapter, Yan Song's words are not surprising and endless.

"Man is by nature, and always will be, a selfish animal."

"We don't get our supper through the benevolence of the butcher, wine merchant, or cook, but from their self-interest."

"So, everyone will do his best to use his capital for the greatest benefit. Generally speaking, he will not intend to serve the public, and he will not know what contribution he has made to society. He is only concerned about himself. safety and his own interests. But in this way, he seems to be led by an invisible hand, unconsciously doing his best for the improvement of society. Under normal circumstances, a person has no intention of making contributions to society out of self-interest. contribution to society far greater than is intended."

Writing this, Yan Song smiled.

"I'll go, if this [The Wealth of Nations] is published, I'm afraid Daming will blow it up?"

"You must know that in the Ming Dynasty and even in China, the ideas and concepts that have been followed for thousands of years are all sages and gentlemen. The so-called sages rule the world, loyalty and filial piety are the foundation, and virtue and goodness are the foundation."

"In [The Wealth of Nations], it is proposed that a person who is selfish and only cares about himself can contribute more to society than those noble people who specialize in contributing to society."

"These feudal defenders, don't they want to explode?"

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Chapter 1179 Yuanfang, what do you think? 【1】

Yan Song knew very well that once this "The Wealth of Nations" in his hand was published, what kind of earthquake would it cause in Ming society?

This is not the same as the theory of sea power.

The theory of sea power, at any rate, only stays at the level of "skills", and those feudal defenders may not disagree with the inclusion of other countries as colonies.As long as the colonies also adopt Kong Lao Er's set.

But the Theory of the Wealth of Nations has to fundamentally dig up Kong Erer’s ancestral grave!

The theory of national prosperity and strength it puts forward directly involves the country's core ideology, political structure and power theory.

According to the theory of the Wealth of Nations, those who contribute the most to society are actually businessmen, or entrepreneurs, who grasp business opportunities and production.

That is to say, those people in the lowest class of Daming Shi, agriculture, industry and commerce.

Do the scholars do it?Can peasants (landlords) do "[-]"?What do craftsmen think?

You must know that those who ruled Ming Dynasty for nearly 200 years and China for thousands of years were all the landlord and gentry class.They will definitely spare no effort to maintain their supremacy.

Yan Song also felt troubled.

But there is a force that drives him to continue writing.

"Fuck, no matter how confused Daming is, someone will break this dead silence. Although I don't want to be the first bird, but for the sake of China, for the nation, hehe and of course for my own reputation for generations to come, I can only fire the first shot .”

Fortunately, Yan Song is very clear that this "The Wealth of Nations" cannot be accomplished overnight, and there is no need to be so anxious.He is still very young at this time, and it is not a problem that he can live to be a hundred years old if he is successful in cultivation, and everything can be done slowly.

You can throw out some of the most acceptable content first, and let Daming start a big discussion.Similar to the discussion on the liberation of the mind before the sea power theory opened the sea.