Chapter 207 Re-education of the people!
Liu Sanwu stood stunned on the spot.
Xia Zhibai's words had a great impact on him.
He never thought that someone would have such an idea.
Limited to taxis! ! !
Liu Sanwu opened his mouth, wanting to refute something, but he didn't know what to say. In the end, he had to sigh, stood up slowly, and said in a deep voice: "As rumored by the outside world, you are really unique, and you really asked me."< br>
Xia Zhibai shook his head.
He looked at Liu Sanwu calmly, looked at the old man, and said lightly: "Master, it's not that I'm asking you a question, but that you haven't thought about it at all, whether the scholar class in today's world has There are too many privileges."
"The fact that the scholar class enjoys certain privileges is determined by history."
"Because the world needs to be governed by scholars."
"But the world will change."
"Because the cost of literacy in the past was very high and there were few scholars, it was natural to give preferential treatment to scholars. But with the advent of papermaking and printing, scholars are no longer scarce. Nowadays, scholars still enjoy the privileges of scholars in the past. They have usurped too many interests in the world. "
"This is unfair." , the number of gentry families is as high as several million.”
“There will be more and more in the future.”
"These people don't have to serve, they don't have to pay taxes, and they occupy most of the land. Is this really good for the world?"
"If Master really cares about the world, he should re-examine the current situation of the scholars."< br>
“When responsibilities and obligations are not equal, fairness will be skewed, and people will definitely be dissatisfied. I just shouted out in advance on behalf of the people at the bottom, and I will wait for thousands of people in the future. If you shout out, the inner treasury will be burned to ashes, and the bones of the ministers will be trampled on the street. It may not happen again. "
"The re-education of the people is a historical necessity."
"In Master. It seems that I am destroying the Great Wall by doing this, but am I not protecting the scholars?”
"The gentry and landlords in the world have done too many evil things, and sooner or later they will be overthrown. However, many people always hold on to a little illusion, always feeling that they will not be the last group of people, so they still persist in trying to continue the work of the people at the bottom. Exploit, so that you can enjoy it for a while longer."
"And Master, you think that if I don't do this, the people at the bottom will have no way to learn and read?"
"Impossible."
“They will sharpen their heads and climb up.”
“In the past, there were nobles from poor families, but now there are also differences between scholars and the bottom.”
"Huang Chao and a group of people destroyed the nobles and allowed poor families to gain access to their homes. In the future, there will definitely be a new 'Huang Chao' who will completely trample the scholars under their feet and allow the lower class people to gain access to their homes. The scholars have enjoyed the privileges for so long, and they should give in. It’s time to wake up.”
“Open your eyes and see the world!”
“Although this process still takes some time”
“I just want to speed up. People at the bottom have more opportunities to read and become literate, so that more and more people can fight against injustice and stand up to protest, so that the evil in the world will no longer be hidden in the darkness."
"Even. in"
"Let Confucianism be a bystander."
Liu Sanwu looked at Xia Zhibai suddenly and said, "What do you mean?"
"What the Ming Dynasty admires is pragmatism!" Xia Zhibai He said categorically: "Confucianism is becoming more and more pragmatic now. It is flashy and unrealistic, strong on the outside but weak on the inside. In the end, it has nothing to say and is reduced to empty talk. This is not what the people at the bottom want to learn."
"What the people at the bottom want to learn." It’s agriculture, technology, experience, management, how to get more yield from their fields, how to make more money and improve their lives, how to make their living environment better, and how to protect their legitimate rights and interests. ”
“Instead of dropping the book bag there”
"I watch some 'Zhi Hu Zhe Ye' every day, shaking my head, not to mention having nothing to do all day long. I wonder whether to change 'Ying Cry' to 'Ying Hu', or whether to change 'Ape Xiao' to 'Ape Cry'."
“Pragmatic.”
“This is the first criterion for studying in the future.”
“As for morality, etiquette, justice and shame, the people at the bottom are subjected to all kinds of things more than three hundred days a year. They know much more about education than those scholars."
Liu Sanwu pointed at Xia Zhibai angrily.
He wanted to accuse Xia Zhibai of not respecting his teacher.
Just looking at Xia Zhibai's determined eyes turned into a sigh.
He said: "You are too radical."
"Going against the grain will only harm you in the end."
Xia Zhibai said with a calm smile: "Going against the grain? I don’t think so. I think I’m on the right track. The privileges of the gentry are too great and need to be restricted. If we continue to let the gentry do whatever they want, the Ming Dynasty will be hopeless.”
"And I believe that the people will make the right judgment."
Liu Sanwu looked at Xia Zhibai solemnly, shook his head, turned and left.
Xia Zhibai watched Liu Sanwu leave.
He didn't have much opinion of Liu Sanwu, an old man who was full of economics and influenced by worldly views. He never got rid of the influence of "Shilin" throughout his life, and even paid for it with his life.
There are many people like Liu Sanwu in the world.
Xia Zhibai knew this very early.
They are all vested interests and will only be willing to take another puff.
Take another puff!
Xia Zhibai sorted out the notes he had taken and looked around. The surroundings were empty and there was no one else around. The originally bustling Hanlin Academy was being appointed as last year’s Jinshi one after another. Due to the heavy responsibilities, the Hanlin Academy is now quite empty.
Xia Zhibai put away the compiled notes and turned back towards the salt shop where he lived.
other side. At a corner, Liu Sanwu didn't leave.
He just watched Xia Zhibai go away. When Xia Zhibai was completely out of sight, he slowly walked out.
He looked at the empty door and sighed: "The future life is terrible."
Although he was not optimistic about what Xia Zhibai was going to do, Xia Zhibai's words did make him I woke up. There seemed to be more gentry in the world today, and the privileges granted to the gentry by the imperial court in the past were now inherited in full.
In the future Ming Dynasty, there will be vassal kings and gentry who occupy the local areas.
Think of this.
Liu Sanwu’s eyes darkened.
He is indeed older, but at such an advanced age, he can still be valued by Zhu Yuanzhang. Naturally, he has his own abilities. He only entered the court last year, but during this year, Zhu Yuanzhang asked himself many times They asked him for advice on how to govern the country and the people, how to select talents and appoint capable people, and entrusted him with the important task of formulating regulations and etiquette.
Even the imperial examination candidates followed his advice.
And he gave Zhu Yuanzhang a very important suggestion.
If the article cannot be "clearly understood" and "applied at the right time", it will be useless.
But this ‘timely use’ is easy to say but difficult to do.
If he really adheres to this point, he should summarize Xia Zhibai's suggestions and report them to the emperor, so that His Majesty can impose certain restrictions on the scholar-bureaucrat class. However, in this way, he will become the target of public criticism.
How can he bear it?
Liu Sanwu put his hands behind his back and walked out, shaking his head and saying: "I'm getting old."
"Why are you afraid of dying when you get old?"
"It's strange. "
He secretly made up his mind that he would never ask about what Xia Zhibai did again, and he would also remind his son-in-law not to get involved, no matter what. No matter which side he goes to, he will face big problems. This is the only idea he can take for his son-in-law.
Just returned to Yanpu.
Jing Man walked up.
At the same time, a letter was handed over.
Xia Zhibai reached out and took it. There was no signature on it, and asked: "Who sent this letter?"
Jing Man shook his head: "I don't know, I just saw a person. He ran over, put this letter here, and told me to come to the banquet on time."
Xia Zhibai frowned.
There is very little content in this letter, just a location and time.
Invite him to meet.
Jing Man said: "Sir, why don't you go?"
Xia Zhibai pondered for a moment, shook his head and said: "No, since the other party sent a letter here, it means he has something to do with me. Shang, you won’t do anything to me, and I am considered a fifth-grade official now, so you will think twice about taking action against me.”
Xia Zhibai chuckled.
He looked at Jing Man and said: "It's been a little quiet recently."
"That's right."
"How do you feel about the establishment system I showed you?"
"Is there anything that needs improvement?"
Jing Man shook his head quickly and said with a smile: "My lord, you are joking. Your lord has considered it very carefully. There is nothing that needs to be modified. On the contrary, I think you have considered it." There are too many, and the treatment given is so good, it is higher than many officials.”
Xia Zhibai laughed and said: "This is not an idea."
"Throughout the ages, there has been a concept circulating in the world, that is, everything is inferior, only reading is high, and many people study just to Become an official and make a fortune, and this misconception is getting stronger and stronger as time goes by. Instead of focusing so much on making a fortune, why not just go for the road to making a fortune?"
"It can be considered as a different path to the same goal."
“If this can be done to allow some officials to take the initiative to leave officialdom, it may not be a bad thing.”
“Under the system established by His Majesty today, is it not that he is deliberately lowering the salary of officials and letting some people’s minds Leave unfailingly.”
Jing Man was thoughtful.
But he didn’t take Xia Zhibai’s words seriously.
There is still a big difference between being an official and doing business. How much money can you make in doing business?
If officials don’t relent, can merchants really make money?
But he is happy with this. Whether it is more and more scholars doing business or his entry into officialdom in the future, it will reduce a lot of pressure, and he can see that their bachelor is very ambitious. Big, and very ambitious, if you can really display that ambition.
The future of these civil servants who came here first will not be bad.
Xia Zhibai asked Jing Man to close the shop, while he returned to the study and continued to tidy up.
He wants to design the general framework of the new 'dictionary'.
When the design is completed, he will use his name as a 'big bachelor' to hand it over to other bachelors and students of the Imperial Academy. Otherwise, if he is asked to do it himself, he really can't stand it alone. It is too time-consuming and labor-intensive to compile the entire dictionary and also draw lessons from "Shuowen Jiezi".
But whenever he saw "Shuowen Jiezi", he had to admire the wisdom of the ancients.
It is really a great initiative to determine the arrangement of Chinese characters by radicals.
Three updates tomorrow
(End of this chapter)