Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 848, getting worse

The majestic Minister of the Ministry of Officials, the important minister of the three lords and nine ministers, at this moment, looking at the angry common people in front of him, he was frightened to death all at once.

He has never encountered such a situation before. No matter where he went before, everyone was respectful to him. Trembling.

It's all right now, each of them seems to have a grudge against him, wishing to tear himself apart, some shrews said something so ugly that Wang Jia couldn't help but straighten his beard.

"People in the market are short-sighted, how can they know the great things of the future."

"Xia Chong can't say anything. The way of Confucius and Mencius is the foundation of our Ming Dynasty. The new schools don't teach the true meaning of Confucius and Mencius, but they only teach heresy ways. Putting the cart before the horse, if things go on like this, there will be endless disasters."

"How can you people understand, you are just blinded by the little profit in front of you."

Wang Ji's face was flushed with anger. Looking at the ordinary people in front of him, he felt a kind of hatred for iron and steel, and felt that he was playing the piano with a cow, but he had to stand up and defend himself.

"We are short-sighted. All we know is that this new school doesn't charge us tuition fees, feeds our children back, teaches our children to read and write, and can have a good job in the future."

"If you are really for the great cause of Qianqiu, can you use your property to run a school?"

"Can you?"

Shopkeeper Zhang immediately sneered and mocked when he heard this.

"Yes, can you?"

"If you have the ability to run a school and let our children go to school for free, you have the final say on what to study."

"I don't have the ability to keep beeping here, as if you care about the country and society, as if without you, Ming Dynasty would perish."

"On the left is the way of Confucius and Mencius, and on the right is the true meaning of the philosophers. We ordinary people don't have such high pursuits. Our children don't want to be officials. They just want to read some books and learn some skills so that they can make a good living in the future. , Just like that, you still want to cut off our hope."

The people next to him also shouted.

"I...I~"

Wang Jia was at a loss for words, and asked himself to spend millions of taels of silver every year to run the school.

"Old man, hurry up~"

"Look at you and come on fire."

"Why don't you eat minced meat? It's what you people did."

"Every one of you has a lot of money, so naturally you have the money to hire a teacher to teach. We ordinary people, if it weren't for Mr. Liu's great deeds, we and other common people would be illiterate for generations. Now my son finally managed to enter the new school."

"Able to read and write, with excellent grades, the teacher said, I will definitely be admitted to middle school, not to mention honoring my ancestors, at least I will have a good living in the future."

"Of course you don't understand how we ordinary people want our children to study. You don't understand our difficulties. Only Mr. Liu understands. They understand and are willing to help us."

"Yes, because Mr. Liu, like us, was born as an ordinary citizen and understands our difficulties."

"Where does this Wang Jia know, he knows how to talk high-spirited, and the way of Confucius and Mencius is all bullshit~"

Seeing Wang Jia's appearance, the people next to him became even more angry, and Wang Jia's face was red and his beard was crooked when they said a word.

"You...you~"

Hearing someone say that the way of Confucius and Mencius is bullshit, Wang Jia was even more angry, pointing at the other party, he didn't know how to refute it for a while.

"Summer insects cannot speak ice, summer insects cannot speak ice~"

"go back!"

He was so angry that he boarded the carriage directly, and he really had nothing to say to these common people.

Where do they know the importance of the way of Confucius and Mencius, how can they know the importance of the true meaning of the philosophers to the governance of the country, the country, the country, the new school, putting the cart before the horse, which will inevitably lead to turmoil and the precariousness of the country.

"Smash you to death~"

Seeing that Wang Jia got into the carriage and was about to leave, and he didn't know who threw a rotten egg at his carriage, all the people around immediately followed suit.

Rotten eggs, rotten vegetable leaves, small stones, broken bricks, stinky salted fish, etc. all flew towards Wang Jia's carriage.

I can't stay any longer. If I stay any longer, I might be beaten to death by these people one by one.

The news that Wang Jia was severely humiliated by ordinary people in Shijing soon spread, and some people continued to applaud and call him very happy.

But for Confucianists, this makes people very angry.

Wang Jia was the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and his disciples and old officials were all over the whole Ming Dynasty. At the same time, he was a great Confucianist in Confucianism, with high knowledge and a high status among Confucianism.

Knowing that Wang Jia was humiliated, the scholars of the Imperial College in the capital immediately exploded, shouting in groups of three or four, and at the same time contacting the candidates in the capital to rush for the exam.

These gathered together, and some of them went to the imperial palace in the capital to ask for orders and wrote letters, demanding that Emperor Hongzhi severely punish those outlaws who humiliated Wang Jia, and at the same time immediately close all the new schools opened by Liu Jin.

Some scholars rushed into a new-style school run by Liu Jin, causing trouble in the school, demanding that the school suspend classes immediately, and all teachers and students must go back immediately.

As a result, the disturbance did not come to fruition, but it aroused the anger of the students of this school, and staged a melee. These scholars were beaten black and blue.

The news that the Imperial College scholars and the students who came to Beijing to rush for the exam were beaten because they went to the new school to make trouble quickly spread quickly.

All of a sudden, things became more and more troublesome, and more and more scholars went to the palace gate to petition for orders. At the same time, from all over the Ming Dynasty, all kinds of impeachment of new schools, and even the impeachment of Liu Jin were like snowflakes. Fly to Emperor Hongzhi's desk.

However, things did not end there.

These Confucianists were extremely angry, and their continuous petitions demanding the closure of the new-style schools continued to arouse public indignation.

The common people in the Beijing-Tianjin area stopped working. In the Beijing-Tianjin area, there are factories, commercial firms, and large ships here. The workers do not go to work and gather together. The guys in the commercial firms stop working, and they also gather together. If you don't go to sea, you also gather together.

Everyone wrote the Wanmin Book together and wrote it to Emperor Hongzhi to express their appeals, hoping that Emperor Hongzhi could listen to their voices.

Ordinary people like them don't have much pursuit. We just want to live our own life in peace and stability. We hope that our children can read and write, and can understand some basic common sense such as arithmetic. Being able to have a good job will not be easily deceived by others.

We didn't think that our children could take the imperial examinations, be able to become officials, etc., and we didn't want to study the true meaning of the philosophers, and we didn't need to understand the way of Confucius and Mencius.

We are just ordinary people, and we are just ordinary people, such a simple wish.

Finally, there are free schools to study in, to teach the children some useful things, and at the same time, to teach the children to be loyal to the emperor and the country, to be knowledgeable, to be self-reliant, to love themselves, and to be polite and honest.

that's enough.

As for the Tao of Confucius and Mencius and the true meaning of the philosophers, let them read it. Our request is very simple.

But such a simple and unadorned wish will be extinguished by others. If we want to cut off our hope, please Your Majesty to give Wanmin justice.

The first large-scale strike in the history of the Beijing-Tianjin area of ​​the Ming Dynasty was not due to the squeeze of capitalists, not because of long working hours, poor factory environment, etc., but to fight for the right to study and educate their children general strike.

Some sour and rotten factories, trading houses, merchant ships, etc. that Wang Jia had already been recognized were quickly recognized, and soon, the factories, trading houses, merchant ships, etc. of these people were completely closed.

Angry workers and ordinary people quit, no matter how high the wages you pay, I will not do it for you, just do whoever you like.

Large-scale strikes soon spread to the entire Beijing-Tianjin area, and a large number of factories, businesses, workshops, etc. began to shut down. Workers gathered on the streets of the capital, shouting slogans, and holding the Wanmin book.

Although scholars and examinees have the right to speak and can go straight to heaven, angry citizens are not easy to mess with. Tens of thousands of citizens rushed to the streets to express their demands and pour out their anger.

For them, life is hard and tiring.

Daming's factories, workshops, etc., now casually enter a factory or workshop to work, at least six hours a day, and some even have to work in it all day long except for eating and sleeping.

The environment is poor, the life is very bitter, and the food is not good, but it doesn’t matter. It’s just a little hard and tiring.

When I get my salary every month, the white silver dollars are the most real, and all the suffering and tiredness disappear at once. Every year when I go home for the New Year, I bring home the big and small bags, and then look at the new house in the house. Eating chubby children.

Everything is worth it.

But you can't deprive us of hope. If there is no hope, then all of them will be meaningless, and their hope is their children. Children can read and write, go to school, and hope to succeed. This is the greatest. hope.

For this reason, no matter how hard it is, there will be no regrets.

This is how Daming's first strike occurred. Unlike the strikes in history before Liu Jin traveled, the strikers were not fighting for their own labor rights, but for their children's right to education.

For the people of this land, everyone clearly knows the role of knowledge and education.

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