Taipingchun

"Don't push and push, Mr. Hengxiu is right there, any of you can see... I said, stop pushing and pushing! Did you hear me?"

Lifting the door curtain, Xu Xiu looked out slightly, and seeing the raging crowd, obviously worshiping herself more than hating herself, her mood improved a lot.

These students are the seeds of thought, the hope of the future, it doesn't seem like a big deal to see them messing around, Xu Xiu made a signal, took a few steps forward, and walked out.

As soon as the students saw Xu Xiu walking out, the volume instantly rose to a higher level. Xu Xiu was not affected, but just raised his hands and pressed down, and the room was filled with silence.

He cupped his hands and said, "It's an honor for me to be here today. I have met all the students and gentlemen."

Heroic and valiant, quite a bit heroic.

I saw that the man on the stage was only thirty years old, although he was a bit of a traveler, but he couldn't hide his demeanor, his spine was very straight, and the students were very excited to see the gentleman's true face.

Over the past few years, Mr. Hengxiu's theory of Wujun and Mr. Yangming's theory of mind have been the most talked about in the whole country.

The limelight can be said to be unmatched, and of course the treatment they get is also different. The former seems to be shouted and beaten by everyone, while the latter seems to be admired by everyone, but it is hard to say that it is not the same predicament.

Although everyone yells and beats the former, many people secretly study it in private. Although the latter is admired by everyone, they dare not gossip too much.

Xu Xiu has imperial power in front of him, and Duke Yang Ming has Zhu Xi in front of him, both of which are hurdles that are difficult to overcome at present.

Even though the imperial court banned them extensively, all kinds of gatherings are not banned just because they are banned. No, Mr. Da, who is going around giving lectures, came in front of us.

A bowl of clear water was served, and the three-foot podium was spread out. The teacher sat on the top, and the scholars sat on the bottom, and opened the forum to give lectures. The students listened attentively, and Xu Xiu spoke attentively.

One hour, two hours.

The so-called no monarch is not against the monarch.

Xu Xiu took the trouble to emphasize this concept. Due to the excessive force at that time, many people who were rebellious took his theory as a program. This was not his original intention, so he had to emphasize it clearly, and it was time to explain his theory After the Wujun theory, how to build a problem.

Learning is divided into righteousness and unrighteousness. The so-called unrighteousness is to ask various questions, tell you where the problem is, and analyze with you why this kind of problem occurs. If you read too much of this kind of knowledge or books, you will be pessimistic. It's just because it didn't tell you what to do about this problem, how to solve it.

Once you understand it, your righteousness will be higher. It will ask you the question, tell you why this happened, and tell you what to do in the future.

Xu Xiu clearly and repeatedly emphasized that the duties of the emperor and the duties of the ministers are a change in form, not a change in the family, the country, and the change of dynasty.

"My Ming Dynasty stands in the universe. I am unparalleled in the world. The change of dynasty will cause people to die. At that time, it will only be a different family, and it will be the fault of one person. There will be no essential difference to us and the general public."

"The monarch looks after him, the spirit of the country, and the political work is all in the group."

What Xu Xiu didn't explain is that more political reforms are aimed at the transformation of taxation and system. If the taxation of the Ming Dynasty is viewed from the book, 3000 million taels a year is not a problem. After hearing this, some people may wonder, how The annual tax of more than 3000 million taels is not enough. The main problem is that this is not the central government’s unified revenue and expenditure. It is similar to the difference between the central government having no money and the local areas being very rich before the central tax reform in the 90s in later generations. The same is true in Ming Dynasty. For this problem, there can be tens of millions on the books, but in the end it falls into the hands of the court, only a few million taels.

All kinds of military use, disaster relief, or construction are all spent by the central government, and this money cannot be used. For example, during the Jiajing period after that, taxes were overcharged for decades.

How can the common people survive? It can only be that the common people suffer, and Hai Qingtian will say: Jiajing and Jiajing are all gone!

As long as taxation can be clarified, in Xu Xiu's view, the financial crisis of the Ming Dynasty is enough to change, but it is so difficult.

The bureaucratic group, the local gentry, and the merchant class are three big mountains. They are all attached to this system and become the vested interests of this system.

If he wanted to move these three mountains away, he could only rely on the supreme imperial power. Thinking about this, Xu Xiu shook his head slightly and said inwardly: The so-called anti-learning is widely spread, but in the end it depends on the emperor to complete the final system transformation.This kind of thing can only happen to Emperor Zhengde.

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In the spring of the eighth year of Zhengde, the emperor issued a decree, ordering Xu Xiu and other anti-scholars to be searched and investigated from top to bottom.

Several central departments such as the Ministry of War, the Ministry of Officials, and the Ministry of Rites were found to have Xu Xiu's party and secretly rallied.

The wrath of the emperor stained the rivers and seas with blood.

With the heads rolling, the public opinion is even more jittery.

The southeast is even more miserable. Folk literary societies are banned, academies are closed down, great Confucian scholars are swept away, and scholars are thrown into prison.

Not to mention all kinds of signed books, when they are burned, the smoke billows, which has the feeling of covering the sky and the sun.

Some people with radical thoughts said angrily: "Mr. Fen Hengxiu's learning, the Ming Dynasty will never be bright and bright, and this thick smoke is the best proof."

Killing oneself to stop it, but it is of no use.

Even Jiangning's essays, which were renamed Gonghe News, were also collected and destroyed. Whoever dares to collect them will be regarded as an anti-thief.

Along the streets and roadsides, as soon as people gather, patrol officers will come forward to disperse them.

The so-called anti-party and anti-thief, Ming Dynasty set up a huge prison in the eighth year of Zhengde.

From time to time, cabinet ministers knelt in the Zijin River, begging His Majesty to take back his orders, and said, "It's just a child born wildly, so why set up a big prison."

Which dynasty or generation is good at building big prisons, it is not the blessing of the people of the country, and it may be in danger of laying eggs.

However, the emperor refused, so he had to leave sadly.

Two capitals and one thirteen provinces, all kinds of road cards, water network and banknotes are countless.

The strictness of the investigation has not been seen in 50 years.

The whole country was disturbed by Xu Xiu.

A Taoist master said that this son is a great thief in the world and a great thief in the country.

Some monks said that Emperor Gaozu of the Han Dynasty killed the white snake to revolt, turned his head on Wang Mang, troubled the great man, turned his tail on Xu Xiu, and messed up my Ming Dynasty. This son is the reincarnation of the white snake, and he is also a monster.

Some missionaries said that this man was a prophet of the East, whose teachings illuminated the starry sky.

However, after speaking, he was thrown into prison.

Some scholars said that Mr. Hengxiu's study of heaven and man, the mystery of Taoism for 3000 years, is also a saint.

However, after finishing speaking, he was sent to prison.

Some students said that Xu Jun's crime of instigating the world should be lingering.

As for the attitude of the imperial court, it is even more clear and unmistakable. Those who capture Xu Xiu will be rewarded with ten thousand taels of silver, and will be promoted to three ranks in a row.

From this we can see the extent of Xu Xiu's influence.

But more ordinary people are less excited.

It's just because things are still too far away from them, but they already have concerns in their hearts. Everyone knows that Da Qingtian who often walks in the countryside to teach everyone about farming and mulberry, and lectures on literature to the villagers.

As for the emperor?who is he?Don't think that the common people of the celestial dynasty can treat the emperor's old officials very much. Thousands of years ago, there were princes and generals who had kindness. When it comes to not being afraid of authority, the people of the dynasty should be the first. Now there are emperors taking turns to do it. This year The saying to my house is that if you are too far away, you will always be less close.

Xu Xiu understands that top-down revolutions are hard to succeed. The several reforms in the Qing Dynasty were all top-down, so there is no need to say anything about the results. As for the bottom-up, let the broadest masses If his interests are equal to his interests, then he will be invincible, and no one can stop him.

In the early days, a certain organization of Wei Guangzheng in the later generations relied on this magic weapon to complete the feat of starting a prairie fire with a single spark.

Familiar with books, I have naturally read a certain anthology known as the classic of rebellion and crossing dragons. Although the times are a bit different, one sentence can serve the interests of the people: after the reform, the land will be exempted from taxation.

Common people don't need to understand what post-restructuring is, and they don't know what the post-restructuring world will look like, but equalizing land and exempting taxes is the most touching thing, and even thousands of years of rebellious slogans are rarely out of this world.

Although many rebels used the slogan of equalizing the land and exempting them from taxation, it was of no use. Li Zicheng's slogan was the loudest.

Yes, but it is still useless, but what Xu Xiu said is indeed useful. As for why, because they don’t know about not collecting agricultural taxes, Xu Xiu knows that it is the period of great voyages, and the large-scale influx of overseas silver into Daming has already begun. Not far away, highly developed industry and commerce, smooth roads, and...the legendary salt tax.

As long as the business tax is settled, then the food on the land can no longer be charged.

A very clear figure, the salt tax in the Song Dynasty was about 6000 million taels, and the current Ming Dynasty is less than 100 million.

But today's population is much larger than that of Song Dynasty, such an unreasonable situation is full of tricks for the ancestors.

As long as it is reversed after the restructuring, it is not impossible to end the taxation of farmers 600 years in advance. At that time, if you have money in your pocket, you will not panic.

The supplies of the Celestial Dynasty are the dream of Westerners. They use Chinese porcelain, drink Chinese tea, and wear Chinese silk. Xu Xiu must handle these three foreign trade treasures.

The first one is tea. The trade surplus of tea is so huge that it is even irreplaceable by Westerners. This is easy to understand. Their eating habits are essentially no different from those of nomads, and nomads cannot eat meat without tea from the Central Plains. , or you will die.

The same is true for Westerners. Don’t think that drinking tea is elegant for them. In the beginning, they also lived on tea. Later, the slave trade during the great voyage brought capital to them, and life improved and gradually became a habit.

Many people think that the Western powers of later generations attacked the Qing Dynasty because we were uncivilized and we got along well, why did you beat me?

In fact, the trade surplus is too huge for them to bear.

How do the British do it?

They grew tea in Sri Lanka, they grew poppies in India.

Then they forcibly opened our country, sold opium to us forcibly, and then used Sri Lankan tea for their own tea. In this way, the trade deficit with China that lasted for thousands of years in the Western world was reversed.

What about the Opium War, why we are uncivilized, and why we are backward.

They are all imaginary, so what is real, the real thing is that we earn too much money, but we are unable to protect ourselves, and our trade surplus is too huge, so that after the establishment of a capitalist society, Westerners , The unbearable huge trade deficit, in the final analysis, it is a capitalist trade deficit war, the result is that China has changed from a trade surplus country to a deficit country, and they have become a trade surplus country.

After this, the Qing Dynasty lost the ability to pay high indemnities and lost overseas income. When it was still in surplus at the beginning, the Qing Dynasty was rich and powerful, so it would pay for it. Anyway, we have money, and then there are [-] million people. Each person pays one or two taels of compensation, and even the tariffs can only be collected by Westerners, and they can only squeeze the peasants, but the peasants are the cornerstone of the country. If the peasants are in chaos, can this dynasty be far from extinction?

Knowing how the British did it, Xu Xiu purposefully arranged what the chamber of commerce should do. Sri Lanka, a good place, must not be taken away by them. However, the relocation of the people of the country is not easy at present. Fortunately, time It's still early, and Xu Xiu still has time to make arrangements. As long as the political system and the country are full of competitiveness, even if there are a few defeats, there will be no dark and desperate 100 years for future generations.

As for India, this is actually a place with hundreds of small states in the concept of a continent, let the Westerners toss about it. As long as we have the ability to protect ourselves, who would dare to force us to take drugs?

The second treasure is porcelain. This Xu Xiu is not worried. As long as the Westerners work hard to get silver, they will drive directly to Daming. There will be no problems. They are still in the In the era of trying to make porcelain by mashing shell powder, as long as we protect our own craftsmanship, there is no need to rush for hundreds of years.

There is no need to worry about porcelain, let alone silk. No one can take away the accompanying treasures of China.

There are many problems in the Ming Dynasty, but collectively, a word of money is enough to solve them.

But solving this problem is indeed even more difficult. Xu Xiu chose his path, which is restructuring, we will wait and see.