Chapter 290: Attacking Zi's Shield with Zi's Spear
After coming out of Prince Yu's Mansion, Zhao Zhenji and Li Chunfang were in high spirits and beaming with joy, and they did not show any displeasure or annoyance at being demoted by Zhu Zaijing.
The two of them walked on the cold and windy streets of the capital, glanced at each other again, and then suddenly burst out laughing heartily, looking extremely happy.
“Congratulations to Editor Zhao.”
“Congratulations to Editor Li.”
Zhao Zhenji and Li Chunfang bowed to each other in a good mood.
The older Zhao Zhenji stood on the street outside Prince Yu's Mansion, looking at the prosperous scene in front of him, he sighed and said: "Zi Shi, I never expected that Prince Yu would have such a strange thing." With a wonderful thought, the seemingly useless Hongwen Hall can turn into a hot and important yamen."
"It depends on you and me whether we can take advantage of this east wind to prosper. How much can people understand the profound meaning of Prince Yu? "
"To say a disrespectful thing, it is true that a hero comes from a young age. It is really a great blessing for you and me to live in the same era as Prince Yu. What a great blessing!”
Zhao Zhenji was full of energy and fighting spirit at the moment. He could not wait to devote himself to the initial construction work of Hongwen Hall as soon as possible to make the blueprints that Zhu Zaijing just mentioned in the palace come into effect as soon as possible. Scenery changes into reality.
Li Chunfang listened to Zhao Zhenji's laughter, and he said sincerely: "Brother Meng Jing is absolutely right, this is really a great blessing for us! Fortunately, His Majesty's favor is deep, otherwise you and I might not get this opportunity. Follow Prince Yu Yu. "
"We must work hard to realize Prince Yu's grand plan as soon as possible, and contribute to our Ming Dynasty's cultural undertakings to create greater glory."
Zhao Zhenji! After the two said these words, they looked at each other and smiled.
Obviously after this visit and conversation, the two of them were full of longing for the future.
If the two of them were thinking about the future when they first came to Prince Yu's Mansion to pay their respects, then now they are thinking about the hope for the future.
Prince Yu is the eldest son of the current emperor and the destined future king of the Ming Dynasty.
He is now so clever that he can come up with such indescribable ways to establish a new style of culture for the Ming Dynasty.
It can be seen from this that if we wait until the day when Prince Yu reaches his peak in the future, we don’t know how prosperous the Ming Dynasty will be.
Compared to the prosperous Han and Tang Dynasties in history books, it shouldn’t be too much, right?
This is the good thing about scholars. Once you become idealistic, your imagination will always be much better than the realist Zhu Zaicheng.
Zhu Zaijing's thinking was always reality-oriented, and he didn't think too much about the prosperous times of the Han and Tang Dynasties.
All he has to do is use the existing rules and power within a limited space to create and imitate more successful examples for future generations, in order to achieve his expectation of changing the future destiny of Ming Dynasty.
As for the dream of a prosperous age, although Zhu Zaicheng also had dreams, what he thought more about was what a prosperous age is?
If we only calculate it based on the fact that there is no war and the people can have a good meal, then the current Ming Dynasty should be considered a prosperous age.
After all, even if there is a war in the Ming Dynasty now, it is only limited to the nine front lines, and the sporadic Japanese pirates who are causing trouble on the southeast coast. The real people are displaced, the situation is precarious, and the corpses are lying thousands of miles away in the fierce battles. The Ming Dynasty No.
And even if those gentry and landowners were greedy and annexed, they were at least willing to give the tenants a piece of food, and did not let these tenants and poor peasants end up selling their sons and daughters.
But can such a low requirement be considered a prosperous age?
After all, although these people living at the bottom are numb and ignorant, they are also living people.
If the court and the world don't care about their life and death and regard them as cattle and horses, then this era should not be praised.
Because we apply ourselves to others, if we look at it hundreds of years in the future, which one of us will be the best in the prosperous times? So, if you don’t want to be a cow or a horse, you want to be a human being.
Then you should fight for your rights as a human being, instead of just being a cow horse who thinks everything will be fine after you have enough food.
Because one day, if there is any major force majeure accident, those raised cattle and horses will be a delicious meal on the owner's plate, and they can only be eaten by humans, without being able to resist.
Zhu Zaijing does not have any big ambitions now. He just wants more people to realize that he is a human being, and while realizing that he is a human being, he can also realize the dignity and responsibility of being a human being. .
If you only talk about dignity and ignore responsibility, then such people are not actually human, they are just a group of hungry wolves in human skin.
Therefore, what Zhu Zaijing has to do now is to let some people who have not yet had the opportunity to become hungry wolves re-examine their abilities, and let them not only discover their abilities, but also devote themselves to the responsibilities within their abilities.
And this is what Zhu Zaijing wants to do in Hongwen Hall.
Hongwen Museum can manage and review any collection of articles in the world, but it must also provide a certain level of living security to those who can write collections of articles.
For example, once the collection of articles they write is approved by Daming Bookstore or other booksellers recognized by Hongwenkan, and is photocopied and published, they can receive corresponding remuneration.
Instead of writing books or articles as in the past, it is an act of generating electricity for love that drains the family's wealth. And this is what Zhu Zaijing said is the dignity that protects all poor men in the world and makes them happy.
Zhu Zaijing wants to show a new trend: there is no shame in talking about money, and there is even less shame in making money based on one's ability.
After all, a gentleman also needs to eat.
Of course, while eating this bowl of rice, you must also make corresponding contributions. You must understand that this bowl of rice is given by the court, so if you are lucky enough to receive the royalties generated by your articles and collections, you must Pay at least 20% tax.
Let them also truly understand the importance of paying taxes for the country and the safety guarantee after paying taxes.
After all, they can make money from their articles and anthologies, and it is Hongwenguan who is providing the money and effort. If they do not repay the platform, then let Hongwenguan generate electricity for love?
This is obviously not in line with Zhu Zaijing's interests and cognition.
Therefore, royalties must be collected, and they must be collected openly and plausibly, so that those who pay taxes can also feel the glory of being a taxpayer!
At the same time, we must also let them despise those gentry and landlords who only know how to take advantage of the court and annex the people's land without paying taxes. Then use them as swords to fire at the land of those gentry who do not pay taxes or food!
Let those traditional scholar-officials also experience the power of the weapon of public opinion. After all, the weapon of public opinion has been their exclusive possession for thousands of years.
Now that Zhu Zaijing wants to make new moves in the future, he must first remove the opponent's public opinion weapons before he can promote the new moves in an open and honest manner.
In one fell swoop, we reversed the unreasonable nature of Ming Dynasty’s finances and taxation, and then extended the life of Ming Dynasty.
Instead of just relying on the fierce politics promoted by Zhang Juzheng to make money, although it also brought money, it also caused people's hearts to be separated and conflicts to increase, which led to constant party strife in the late Ming Dynasty and the country's demise.
So what Zhu Zaijing wanted to do was to start from point to point, in a silent way, to use a trick to change the situation, and split the original group of scholars who controlled the weapons of public opinion into two, so that They use their spears to attack their shields.
Then he would sit firmly on the Diaoyutai and follow the current and implement the reforms that were in the interests of the Ming Dynasty, and that would be it.
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There is another chapter tonight.
(End of this chapter)