Chapter 833 Profit is spoiling, and spoiling is profit
Liu Ji has sailed six times in six years. In the past six years, he has traveled all over the world, and all he has seen is endless purgatory.
He saw the bloody wound under the whip in the Governor's House of Mexico; he saw the bodies hanging from trees after being killed by wanton people, which was a warning, and the colonists warned the local barbarians not to approach the gathering areas of the colonists; he saw the laughter of the colonists and the celebration party of the tribe, and the savings of hundreds of years, were carried to the market for sale;
He saw the slaves working all day long but eating soil in the Peruvian plantation, which was the land where sugar cane was planted, with a little sweetness The children's stomachs bloated like a ball. They were like a group of animals, looking at the colonists curiously, and then killed in any corner, and the bodies were eaten by scavengers;
He saw a mass pit in the Riorian Silver Mine, and countless bones were randomly discarded in these pits, and some scavenged birds built nests beside the pits; he saw the force of the amalgam method to extract silver withered and unhuman; he saw teams of slaves sent to Riorian Silver Mine;
He saw countless bloody gold on the Gold Coast of Africa. These bloody gold are the foundation of the prosperous Taisie, but no one cares about who this blood belongs. He saw the corpses of rotten for many days in the cocoa plantation, becoming nutrients for the cocoa trees;
He saw the towering castles in the Governor's Mansion of Mozambique, and also saw Heiban shouting and rushing towards these castles to commit suicide. Perhaps, these castles contain his family, his brothers and sisters, and the wealth that their tribe had accumulated for hundreds of years, but this charge is just a boring game of killing for the colonists.
Liu Ji saw the Ram people aimed their weapons at their fellow countrymen of the same language and race at the Governor General of Diu. The Governor General of Diu recruited a large number of vassals, which were like the Hualang Army on the Korean battlefield, and were even more cruel than the colonists.
Along the way, Liu Ji saw too much cruelty, but he could not see gentleness, respect, frugality and pride.
Liu Ji had no empathy for these barbarians. Compared with the experiences of these barbarians, Liu Ji was even more worried that the Ming people had become like this, becoming the oppressed side, and the bent backbone was straightened again, which was as difficult as climbing to the sky.
The treasures left by civilization are randomly discarded in the corner of the cabin, and sometimes they are thrown into the sea because of loads;
The experience left over for more than a thousand years becomes worthless, and all wisdom seems extremely ridiculous when gunpowder erupts;
The words created by the barbarians also become strangers to the barbarians. No one knows them anymore, and no one tries to understand the deep meaning behind them, because backwardness and ignorance have become synonyms for them.
Whenever I see these, Liu Ji always tells himself that this is not the case!
That is all precious wealth, that is the legacy of the ancestors, that is the survival experience of the ethnic group, it should be valued and cherished, but who cares?
The Ming Dynasty must win, and the price of losing is unbearable. This is the lesson Liu Ji learned from taking the fleet around the world six times.
Liu Ji saw a very active Thai, not the barbarian Thai in the Ming Dynasty, but the Thai, who was active to make people imagine.
In Lisbon, Portugal, he saw ships from the North League of the Netherlands. This kind of ship, Frute merchant ship, is 30% higher than the three-masted clamp ship, almost the same load ratio as fast sailing ships, and has a draft of four feet less than the three-masted clamp ship. A ship with a more delicate structure and cargo can gain more maritime trade advantages;
In the New World Trade House in Seville, Spain, he saw a ship with a mixed skeleton, with a longitudinal skeleton on the deck and bottom, and a sidewalk The side and lower decks use transverse frames. This hybrid frame takes into account the advantages of the two skeleton structures. The structure is more complex, but the cargo is larger and the hull is more flexible and varied;
He saw many numbers in the House of Wise in Liberty City. Both ships starting from Tessie and returning ships have to pass through the Free Islands. Various data show that Tessie's fleet capacity can increase by 12% every year, and this number is still growing, especially the fleets in the Netherlands and England are increasing rapidly.
If the Ming Dynasty stagnates, it will take only seven years for the Ming Dynasty to have a lower capacity than the Thais;
He saw a ship in the Strait of Gibraltar. The shipbuilding technology that the Ming Dynasty was promoting and popularizing. Copper-clad wood is a new ship tested by the Spanish. They also discovered that copper-clad wood can greatly extend the use time of the ship.
He heard that in London and Amsterdam, England, the body-sharing system is being promoted to raise funds, set up special Oriental routes to the ports of the Ming Dynasty. The body-sharing system of the Ming Dynasty is not common, and the legacy of the production relations that strongly rely on is still harming every corner of the Ming Dynasty.
The Ming Dynasty was like a splendid and prosperous dinner in the old era. The guests were all polite, dressed in gorgeous clothes, and kept talking about classics, history, and collections of classics, history, and literature. On the surface, it revealed elegance and luxury, but behind this is the erosion accumulated by countless flesh and blood, and the corruption of not being enterprising.
This is what Liu Ji saw in the Ming Dynasty. The vitality of the Ming Dynasty was still too weak compared to Taixi.
"Start sail!" a sailor hung on the mast and shouted loudly.
The global caravan set sail from Ryukyu and set out again towards Songjiang Prefecture New Port. After Liu Ji arrived at Songjiang Prefecture, he immediately took a fast sailing boat to Tianjin Prefecture. He wanted to report to His Majesty and at the same time went to the Ministry of Revenue to determine the list of the ocean-going trade caravans this year.
In fact, the list of goods is very different every year, mainly six global commodities, including porcelain, tea, silk, iron pot, cotton cloth, and spices. This is the advantage of the goods controlled by the Ming Dynasty, and it is a highland that must not be lost.
The salt carried on the ship last year was sold out, and the Netherlands lost their salt-producing land, but the Ming Dynasty ship arrived at the port, which made up for this very well.
But the differences arose, and the Netherlands' Union Yugoslavia and the Northern Alliance began to split again. The Union Yugoslavia went to Madrid again and offered loyalty to Felipe, while the Northern Alliance still revolved around the oath of exorcising the bill and refused to obey.
When Liu Ji arrived in Tongzhou, he bought a mansion and various miscellaneous newspapers from Tongzhou Shuimayi for a whole year.
The "Jiaowu Daily" can understand the technological progress of the Ming Dynasty; "Xiaoyao Yiwen" can see what alienation the bold limited liberals discussed; "Minbao" can see all kinds of interesting stories about the Ming Dynasty; "Qingliu Famous Confucians' Romance and Romance" is all about the gossips of bad pants that happen when various famous scholars raise concubines;
As long as you read the mansion and miscellaneous reports this year, you can understand what happened in the Ming Dynasty. For example, the horsepower in the middle of Shengping No. 6 has increased to 150 horses, and it is still miniaturizing continuously;
The Ming Dynasty was studying the Zhenwen of the Shang Dynasty. Liu Ji looked at it for a long time and immediately confirmed that the relationship between the Ming Dynasty and the Taixi was probably the relationship between the Shang people and the Qiang people at that time, which was a competition between survival.
Interestingly, old scholars such as the Ministry of Rites, Hanlin Academy, and Imperial College are not clear about the original appearance of these commonly used characters, black, white, and use, because these characters are really used too often. There are so many people who write them, and as they write, they are wrong.
In the tortoise shell and animal bone inscription, the word "white" exists, but it does not mean black and white, but it means "Bo", which means "Bo", which represents a prince of Fang Bo, and these Fang Bosses seem to have a complicated relationship with the Shang King. The Shang King occasionally uses Fang Bo to sacrifice his ancestors, and uses their heavenly spirit cover, which is the fontanelle, as bones for sacrifices.
When the word fontanelle evolved to the Ming Dynasty, it almost only expressed the meaning of that bone and had no other use.
Liu Ji was not willing to read all the miscellaneous newspapers. He only read the mani newspaper because he had to read the mani newspapers because he had to read the mani newspapers, but he would take these miscellaneous newspapers to the sea and read them slowly, and spend a long, boring and boring time on the sea.
The emperor and his ministers had a recent confrontation. Whether the Yanxing Building Trading Bank was closed, and finally issued stamp duty.
"So, after struggling for such a round, I added a stamp duty tax to Shiyaohao right?" After reading the cause and the result, Liu Ji always felt a little strange. He quarreled with Yuan Fu, and the one who was injured in the end was Shiyaohao right?
But if you think about it carefully, looking at the whole world, Your Majesty’s tax is still very low, with the general tax rate only 13%, while the general tax rate of Tessie can reach more than 30%.
In order to ensure the legality of transfer of ownership of all contracts, contracts, and industries, you must purchase tax invoices and post them on the contract, otherwise you will be in tears when the taxation institute is reviewing taxes.
The people who can afford money houses are all luxury households. After all, this thing is profitable by chasing houses. In the Ming Dynasty, those who can legally chasing houses are all nobles among the nobles, and these people are also the target of the taxation institute.
Liu Ji entered the capital and stayed at Huitong Inn. He was busy all the way, but when he entered the capital, he seemed a little busier. He was called the God of Wealth in the capital. He could catch the east wind of the global trade caravan, and that was a huge wealth.
After Liu Ji returned to Beijing, there were endless people visiting him.
When the crowd dispersed, he leaned on the back of the chair and dealt with these high-ranking officials, which was a little more tired than dealing with the violent ocean.
But he can't afford to offend any of these high-ranking officials. These people have no ability to accomplish things, and are very capable of bad things. A few gossips can make people leave the holy heart and holy favor.
Liu Ji glanced for a while, then went to Taibai Building. This was a social event that he had to go to. He refused to say that he would meet the emperor tomorrow. He had to go to social events, which was obviously a decision that he could not refuse.
The second auxiliary son and the general manager of Yanxinglou Wang Qian held a banquet to welcome him, and Liu Ji had to go.
Wang Qian holds a banquet, and the person who is accompanying him is naturally either rich or noble.
Ye Xianggao, a Jinshi in the 11th year of Wanli, was a Shujishi of the Hanlin Academy. He was appointed as an official editor and was in charge of the affairs of the Imperial College. He was a leader in the younger generation and was known as the Qilin Talent.
Ye Xianggao was born in a family of poetry, books, rituals and music. His father is now the magistrate of Guangxi. He is from Fuzhou Prefecture, Fujian. When he was still in his mother's womb, there was a Japanese attack in Fujian. Ye Xianggao's mother was wandering with the child in her belly.
In the 38th year of Jiajing, Ye Xianggao was born in a dry toilet and could not eat enough. After eating, he did not eat the whole meal and hid everywhere.
When the Japanese storm started, no matter what kind of family of poetry, books, rituals and music you are or the nobles you are.
In the 41st year of Jiajing, Qi Jiguang led his army to break through the Japanese nest in Niutian and wipe out the Japanese pirates. The Japanese tide in Fujian gradually calmed down.
Four-year-old Ye Xianggao was able to return home. He was still very young at that time. He only remembered that when the Qi family army left, the people in the city were kowtowing to see him off. This was a recreation.
Ye Xianggao was still young at that time and his head was red because he finally didn't have to hide everywhere. The memory of that time was already blurred, but he remembered that his mother always refused to cry, and would hit him hard, and then hugged him and cried silently, for fear of attracting Japanese pirates and the whole family was mourning.
Yao Guangming of the Yao family is a wealthy family, and he came on behalf of his elder brother Yao Guangqi. The wealth of the Yao family is half of Wuzhong. He is rich and really rich, but no matter how rich he is, he cannot be protected without power. Therefore, Yao Guangqi is now promising, and the whole family has to point to Yao Guangqi who was kicked out;
Mi Wanzhong, Mi Wanzhong's father, is a hereditary family of Jinyiwei, and his elder brother Mi Wanchun was a martial Jinshi during the Longqing period. He is now a general in the Jingying camp. Mi Wanzhong is even more famous as a talented man, with all kinds of poetry and songs;
Xiong Tingbi was also called to accompany him. He came on behalf of the Quanchu Guild Hall. He was busy with his studies and was preparing for the next examination to strive to become a Jinshi.
When Wang Qian heard the doorman come to report that Liu Ji had arrived, he immediately stood up and greeted him at the door.
"Sitting and sitting is all for Your Majesty, so you don't have to be polite." After Wang Qian led Liu Ji to sit down, he smiled and turned the fish head on the table, aiming the fish head at Liu Ji, with a smile.
The fish head is aimed at the right time, and the wind is smooth. This is a good wish, and I hope Liu Ji can always be smooth sailing.
Wang Qian's words are very clear. Today's meal was not organized by him, but was received by the holy will, so Ye Xianggao, Yao Guangming, and Mi Wanzhong, who were either rich or noble, would accompany him.
There was no wine on the table because Liu Ji had to face the sage the next day. The wine was a waste of etiquette, but the atmosphere at the table was very warm.
Wang Qian was very curious about the ocean and was willing to listen to Liu Ji telling stories about the sea. Yao Guangming and Mi Wanzhong were both mainlanders and had never seen the sea in their lives. He was extremely surprised to hear that the waves were three feet tall and even the bow of the boat could penetrate into the water.
With a good audience, Liu Ji naturally opened up and briefly talked about the ups and downs of the past year.
"This Thai-sex red-haired fan is so vicious?" Wang Qian said in horror: "It's not the end to kill a person. Killing someone is just a slightest. He has to hang the person upside down, warning the barbarians not to get close to him?"
"It's really a bad thing!"
Kill someone just by killing someone, killing someone upside down, which is a bit a bit serious. Ye Xianggao gritted his teeth and clenched his fists and said, "Commander Liu is not lying. Fujian has also had a red-haired fan, which is no less than the Japanese pirates. They are all barbarians with wolves faces and beasts. They kill people without blinking, and even children."
The Northern Barbarians on the grassland are at least above the wheel. They will only take revenge on the wheel. Most of them are plundering the population.
Fujian had a red-haired fan. When it comes to Zhu Wan pacifying the Japanese pirates in Shuangyu, the Japanese pirates at that time were already very complicated, including the Japanese, red-haired fan, black fan, Ming Dynasty outlaws, etc.
After Ye Xianggao and Liu Ji explained, Wang Qian could actually understand the fact that the Shang king used Qiang people to sacrifice. Some barbarians did use it better. "The Han'er is talking about Hu'er, but he scolds the Han people at the top of the city."
"Commander Liu said that the Rama people in the Diwu Governor's Palace aimed their weapons at their compatriots. This kind of thing happened in Suiyuan, which is not bizarre." Xiong Tingbi shook his head and said, "When I was in Suiyuan, I had a similar experience. At that time, I took my thousand households to tell me not to believe in the Hu people on the grassland, nor to believe in the Han people on the grassland." "I almost suffered a loss at that time." Xiong Tingbi cared more about the stories of the Rama people because he had seen them on the grassland, and was almost humiliated by these Han people on the grassland. Fortunately, he was very smart and saw through the conspiracy.
"I think these stories of you can be written into playbooks and are worth singing." Yao Guangming came up with a good idea. Qianmen teahouse belonged to his family. He decided to make these stories of Liu Ji into singing, just like the stories of the Governor General's Office of Jinchi. "This idea is good." Wang Qian immediately agreed.
Liu Ji felt a little strange. He actually became a person in the play, but he felt that it was nothing. He was busy and should not hear these singing segments. If he couldn't hear them, he wouldn't feel embarrassed.
The most new ⊥小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小小"Is that Li Zhi?" Liu Ji looked at the people on the stage. There was a gathering today, and the speaker was Li Zhi.
Wang Qian looked at Li Zhi and said with a sigh in his tone: "A crazy man, he would have died long ago if he was not protected by Mr. Huang."
Wang Qian was in the quagmire of the officialdom. He knew deeply how dissatisfied the traditional scholars and officials were with Li Zhi. His existence made the old literati feel like a thorn in his throat, which was even more unacceptable to these old literati than the emperor scolding the lowly Confucian scholars.
Because Li Zhi's existence is a fundamental question of ethics, authority and classics.
He said: One person is born to have his own use, and it will not be taken to Confucius before he can get it. If you have to wait for Confucius to gain enough, then will you not be able to be a human being without Confucius forever?
God was born with a person, and he naturally had the purpose of being a person. He did not need to rely on the words of Confucian classics. He could also cultivate himself, cultivate his nature, manage his family, and be based in the world. If he really had to follow the words and deeds of the Master to be based in the world, then without Confucius forever, wouldn’t he be a human being?
When there is no Master, is a human? If humans are not humans, then above the three generations of Dharma, that is, in the era of Yao, Shun and Yu, were even Yao, Shun and Yu not humans?
With this sentence, no one in the entire capital could argue with Li Zhi. Of course, there were also people who were arrogant and made various ridiculous remarks, but not many people recognized it.
Since Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism became popular, Confucianism has developed a habit of saying but not writing, which means that it only explains the theories of predecessors and does not create them by itself. The books of sages must not be created by themselves, but can only annotate them by themselves.
What Li Zhi broke is this kind of style of saying but not doing, emphasizing the individual's independent judgment and constantly improving one's own cognition with practice, that is, the unity of knowledge and action.
He believed that worshiping Confucius's remarks and taking this as the basis for living is blindly following.
This kind of criticism naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of countless people. "Dare to advocate chaos, confuse the world and slander the people, and corrupt the hearts of the world." They are all hats on Li Zhi, but not only did he not refute these hats, but he would wear them every time he chatted with them, not being ashamed, but rather being honored.
There is no way, this is the person protected by Mr. Huang. Even with his open identity, Mr. Huang is the general's family. No one dares to say anything. Those who know Mr. Huang's true identity will be even more taboo.
"The Wanli New Policy is thriving, why are there still people who are strongly opposing the new policy?" Jiao Rong sat on the stage. He is a doctor of Gewu from the Gewu Academy. He is a god-like dragon who is not at the end of the world. He is not good at human nature and cannot be an official.
But in the Geju Temple, he was a master in the field of mathematics in the Ming Dynasty and Xu Guangqi's mentor. Because Jiao Rong and Li Zhi were good friends, Jiao Rong would go to Taibai Building to have a chat when Li Zhi invited him.
Recently, Jiao Xu led Xu Guangqi to study the problem of why the earth revolves around the sun and why people stand on the ground.
For example, Jiao Rong raised an interesting question: the stones and javelins thrown by people will land on the ground, and the lead shells fired by the cannon will land along the parabola, but will fly further. But when the shell is fast enough, will it not fall to the ground?
This is an ideal experiment issue, and doctors of the Gewu are having extremely fierce discussions.
Li Zhi smiled and said, "Indeed, the world is constantly changing, and the imperial map has begun to open up all nations. But someone is catching the mistakes in the process of restoration. Why do you oppose the Wanli Restoration?"
"It's just for your own status."
"The sea transportation is surging, obscuring its monopoly benefits; the rush to rush and breaking the foundation of its fields. Because those who have inherited the wealth of the world are not as smart as those of the middle-aged people, and their talents are hard to overcome. In a constant world, they are still worried about falling. How can they avoid panic when there is a drastic change?"
The Wanli Reform has triggered a drastic change in society, and the society has a new direction of growth, especially the opening of the sea and the improvement of productivity. Some people who rely on the legacy of their ancestors are not smart or even very stupid. In an unchanging world, they still cannot guarantee the stability of their status, and may even decline. After the society has a huge increase, it is even more difficult to ensure their social status.
This is the fundamental reason for opposing the Wanli Reform.
Li Zhi's words poked the lungs of the Confucian scholars and started to curse, saying that their wisdom could not reach the level of middle-aged people, and that they would not be as terrified as a boy who had finished studying in elementary school.
The starting point is much higher than others, but I got up early and rushed to the evening party. Not only did I fail to maintain my position, but I lost everything. "After all, it's just incompetence." Jiao Xun said with a smile: "When the river goes east, how can a corrupt scholar stop it; the furnace melts gold, but not a rotten wood." "Mr. Zhuo Wu, there have been many discussions in the capital recently. The power and power of this profit really make people a little scared. I wonder if Mr. Zhuo Wu has heard of it?"
Li Zhi shook his head and said, "Profits seem to be omnipotent, driving everyone to profitable places. This has not been a rare thing since ancient times."
"Why do gentry in the world merge? It is for profit. However, the profits of the land merger will only increase by 500 per year. However, the profits of opening up the sea will be at least 20% per year. This person naturally rushed into the sea trade."
"It is not to be afraid of taking advantage of the situation. Of course, the court was in the middle of the country. The masters are in charge of the country and are related to the safety of the country. No matter how cautious it is, it is not an exaggeration. After all, it is not a crazy man like me, just open his mouth."
"What I want to say today is why profits are so omnipotent, because profits have the root of terrible power, and are stripped of others."
"I think that profits are the most terrible thing about others' labor, stripping others' time, and stripping others' lives to make profits. "
As soon as Li Zhi said this, everyone who talked about it whispered to each other, because just happened a few days ago, the owners of the money shop didn't even care whether the money they released could be recovered, because these money shops essentially made profits by raiding their homes. This incident just fulfilled Li Zhi's statement today.
Profit is to peel, and peeling is to profit. "I saw something even more vicious." Li Zhi sighed. "Oh? What did Mr. Zhuo Wu see?" Jiao Xun asked with a serious expression. Li Zhi's gathering was not based on the original form, and even Jiao Xun didn't know what Li Zhi was going to say.
Is there anything more vicious than profit, and spike is profit?
Jiao Xunshen said with a frown: "In the past, the speed of annexation of land was actually very slow. It was only from the Hongwu Dynasty to the Hongzhi period that the merger was initially completed. For more than a hundred years, there were still many people who cultivated their own farming people in the Ming Dynasty." "During the Jiajing period, the Qingzhang began to return the fields. From the nobles, the Wanli Reform, and the Qingzhang returned the fields again." Zhang Juzheng made the Qingzhang return to the fields. In fact, Zhang Cong also did it in the early years of Jiajing, and the scale of the momentum and the effect was not bad. Zhang Cong was gone, Lu Bing was gone, and Emperor Jiajing was trapped in the Western Garden and could not move.
Li Zhi said: "In the past, the merger of land was slow, but now, the accumulation of stripping is far higher than the speed of the merger of land was the first time. It is enough to constantly accumulate silver, and even there is no need to merge land."
The merger of land was slow, and the efficiency of capital stripping is far higher than that in the past. In this way, everything began to accelerate, and the requirements for the court will only be higher. Once these increasingly large interest groups cannot be effectively restrained, they will be swallowed up by these interest groups.
This is one of the fundamental contradictions that the Ming Dynasty must face when entering the commodity economy: the difference between value and price.
On the one hand, social labor and production; on the other hand, unfair pricing; the differences in value and price are not only reflected in quantity, but also in nature. Even intangible morals, such as honor, loyalty and loyalty, can be priced, even worthless.
The huge differences in value and price have caused rapid accumulation of capital stripping, and will become faster and faster as time goes by, eventually forming a huge gap. "What should I do?" Jiao Xun asked anxiously.
Li Zhi shook his head and said, "I don't know. If I had known, I would have gone to Wenhua Palace to be Ming Gong!"
After listening to this conversation, Liu Ji looked at Wang Qian and asked in a low voice: "Chief Wang, has Li Zhi always been so bold in this conversation?"
Wang Qian shook his head and said: "This has been much restrained. He used to be more bold. Now he is the only author of "Xiaoyao Yiwen". He is afraid that he will be covered with his mouth, so he has tried his best to be cautious."
(End of this chapter)