The Lonely Family in the Red Chamber

An open class is being held in the multifunctional classroom of Imperial University, taught by the world-renowned historian Lin Zhuo.

"Today, the history we are going to talk about is actually only four or five hundred years away from now. Everyone knows that for thousands of years, the empire has been a traditional continental agricultural country, and the mainstream is still the self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy. , It’s not enough for overseas expansion!” Lin Zhuo is wearing a Chinese dress, which is also the traditional dress of the empire on formal occasions, with an elongated crown and a belt, a wide robe and large sleeves, looking extraordinarily graceful and spirited, he stands with his hands behind his back, talking and talking And Tan said, "This situation was fundamentally reversed during the reign of Emperor Changzhi!"

"Emperor Changzhi's political life should start when he was established as the prince! A few years ago, the imperial family deciphered the living notes at that time, from which we can know that Emperor Changzhi was a relatively active person when he was the prince. However, Although he has a lot of movements and a relatively large pace, he is not a very aggressive and radical person!" Lin Zhuo paused before continuing, "According to those historical materials, we can find that Emperor Changzhi , what he does the most is to seduce people with profit! He never forces you to do anything, he just hangs a tempting carrot in front of you, if you don’t follow, let alone a carrot, you won’t even be able to drink soup Come on! At that time, many families representing the interests of the traditional landlord class failed to keep up with the pace and stuck to the tradition, and finally fell down!"

"Jia Lan, the most famous writer of popular novels at that time, came from such a family. This is clearly reflected in his book "The Story of the Stone". It can be summed up in four words, that is ignorance of current affairs! They participated in political speculation several times, but failed many times. Emperor Chengqing was not someone who loved beauties and did not love the country. Therefore, the Jia family and the group it represented fell down. Because of the drastic changes of the times, these families naturally couldn't keep up with the development of the times. , and ultimately did not leave any obvious traces in history!"

"The emergence of Emperor Changzhi was the greatest luck for the empire. He single-handedly guided the industrial revolution of the empire, making the bourgeoisie replace the landlord class and step onto the stage of history. Almost at the same time as the Renaissance began in Europe, On the one hand, Emperor Changzhi introduced a large number of talents. On the other hand, through the introduction of a series of laws and regulations, as well as the stimulation of interests, it promoted the blowout development of the empire's technology and the transformation of art and culture! The most typical example is The author of "The Story of the Stone", if the Jia family had not declined, his path would have been nothing more than passing the scientific examination, entering the official class, or even being an ordinary civil servant, but the Jia family was convicted, and his path to official career was blocked. But at the right time, Emperor Changzhi issued a series of laws and regulations to protect copyright and patents, and regulated the publishing industry. Coupled with technological progress, Jia Lan was able to stand out and become a very famous professional writer at that time, and his name was passed down to future generations! One of his works The series of novels has also become an important basis for us to study the customs and culture at that time!"

"What makes us who study history can't understand is that Emperor Changzhi showed talents and wisdom that were almost completely inconsistent with the education he received at that time!" Lin Zhuo showed a strange smile, "Time travel novels are prevalent these years, Many people speculate that Emperor Changzhi may be a time traveler with a very rich reserve of knowledge. Of course, there is no theoretical basis for this kind of thing. Scientists said that such a thing as time travel is nonsense! However, this It can also reflect how forward-looking Emperor Changzhi was in many of his actions at the time!"

Lin Zhuo waved his hand vigorously, and said: "Looking at some historical materials at that time, we can find out how many things Emperor Changzhi did. He should be the founder of modern industry. Multiplication is rapid, and land mergers are becoming more and more serious. What Emperor Changzhi did was not to restrain land mergers, but to promote land mergers, and finally achieved modern large-scale agricultural production. Bankrupt farmers did not behave like Western bourgeois revolutions. , was forced into desperation, which led to the so-called "sheep cannibalism" tragedy. Under the arrangement of Emperor Changzhi, the bankrupt farmers transformed into hired workers, that is, the so-called working class. The changes in industrial society, and the invention of a large number of agricultural machines, pesticides and fertilizers, have transformed traditional labor-intensive agriculture into large-scale high-tech agriculture. For the bureaucratic class, Emperor Changzhi was under the banner of restoring the imperial examination system of the Tang and Song Dynasties , began to absorb the officials of the practical group into the bureaucracy, and eliminated the traditional bureaucrats through a series of assessment behaviors. It can be said that even if he was not born in the royal family, he would have been an outstanding official, an outstanding businessman, and someone who was destined to stir up trouble in that era!"

"Emperor Changzhi's luck lies in Emperor Chengqing's trust in the son born after the Yuan Dynasty. Before Emperor Changzhi promulgated the "Royal Inheritance Act", the profession of prince was the most dangerous profession. There are only a handful of princes on the throne! In particular, Emperor Changzhi is not a prince who is no different from a puppet in the usual sense. From historical materials, we can find that he had a great influence on Emperor Chengqing. Many policies of Emperor Chengqing Influenced by his own son. Emperor Chengqing was a more tender emperor, but he killed his two rebellious sons in his later years. These two sons were all loved by him. I have to say that this is Emperor Chengqing After opening the way for Emperor Changzhi to prevent Emperor Changzhi from ascending the throne, he tied his hands and feet! The introduction of the Royal Succession Act may also be affected by these things!"

Lin Zhuo smiled slightly, and continued: "At the same time, Emperor Changzhi is a very contradictory figure. On the one hand, he refused the harem to participate in political affairs. The empress of Emperor Changzhi is such a victim, but on the other hand, he was a feminist! Before Emperor Changzhi, Women mostly exist as subordinates of men, and the three obediences and four virtues run through their lives. Emperor Changzhi did not issue any laws to protect women's rights, but what he did promoted the development of women's rights! In the recently declassified daily life notes , we found that Emperor Changzhi directed the women's literacy program, and he did just a few things. He asked factories to give priority to recruiting literate female workers, and then carried out literacy campaigns in Jiangnan, where the industry was increasingly developed at that time, and encouraged women to be self-reliant and self-reliant. , allowing them to have independent economic capabilities. In the late period of Emperor Changzhi, not only a large number of female workers appeared among the people, but noble women also began to come forward to take care of their own industries, and gradually gained independence. After decades, the nobles In the Inheritance Act, women can also inherit the title of the family, and the female officer system has moved from being limited to the harem to the former dynasty!"

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Lin Zhuo's public class lasted for three hours before it ended. After the get out of class was announced, he left with the teaching plan, and the people listening to the class began to discuss.

"I still think that Emperor Changzhi must have traveled through time. How can there be such an all-rounder!" A girl with a little baby fat said while packing her things, "I checked a lot of information before, and he is the modern Such a master of science and engineering, when he was born, these things were still excluded from the mainstream society! If it wasn't for time travel, how could he have learned these things!"

"That's not necessarily the case. You can't push everything on time travel! Look at people who travel through time, who doesn't plagiarize a few ancient poems? Emperor Changzhi didn't have any poems handed down to the world! Moreover, throughout the dynasties, there have been many such things. Well, there were railway tracks in the Qin Dynasty, the seismograph of the Eastern Han Dynasty can still be used now, and Wang Mang even made a vernier caliper! If the great people of all dynasties have traveled through time, we will all enter the interstellar civilization now, and we don’t need to be on the earth. Toss!" On one side, a girl wearing a water-red half-sleeved skirt held her book and raised her head to think about it, "Oh, you said that it would be great if I could travel through time. That Empress He is not worthy of Emperor Changzhi at all, except for life In addition to the two sons, all kinds of troubles are added! Some time ago, in the "Emperor of Changzhi", Empress He was described as a generation of empresses, it is a joke!"

"Pull you down, Emperor Changzhi's harem is not easy to mess with!" On one side, another girl in a Confucian shirt curled her lips, "Instead of wearing it in the harem to be a concubine, it is better to be a son of Emperor Changzhi. Emperor Changzhi told himself The sons and daughters of the family are called a heart and soul, no matter which one is arranged well, the prince is entrusted to be the lord of the country, and the princess lives very freely, has property, has freedom, and does not need to be restrained too much. The son-in-law married Princess Ning, the son-in-law excused that the princess had no children, and took some noble concubines, and went back with Princess Ning to file a complaint, saying that he wanted to divorce her husband. , Some ministers advised that the princess was jealous, so Emperor Changzhi directly rewarded the sons-in-law of those ministers with a few concubines, and asked their daughters to go home to be virtuous and virtuous, not to mention how relieved they are!"

A few little girls were chatting and laughing all the way, and beside them, a boy who was also wearing a Confucian shirt, tall and straight, with an extraordinary temperament walked by, listening to them thinking about what they would do in the past, he couldn't help laughing .He looked back at the buildings of Imperial Capital University with different styles. The students coming and going on the road, many of them were international students with different hair, color and skin color. They spoke fluent Chinese, and many people were talking about applying for a permanent residence permit. Things, he smiled, he changed everything after all!