I am the king of the dead

Chapter 363 Abandoning the basics and chasing the end, rituals and music collapse

Zhu Qiyu looked at the angry Li Xian.

That kind of anger that comes from within.

If you call Li Xian a scholar of Confucianism, you are scolding him, and you should call him a scholar of Taoism.

Because Confucian scholars in the Ming Dynasty are more often referred to as those who have just finished elementary studies in sociology and Confucianism.

Calling Li Xian, a dignified scholar who graduated from the imperial examination, a scholar of Confucianism is like calling him a student who has not yet graduated from elementary school.

But what Li Xian read is indeed Confucian classics, he can indeed be called a scholar of Confucianism.

Confucian classics have certain constraints and requirements on morality.

This is also something Zhu Qiyu doesn't like. This kind of restriction and requirement has developed to the present and has become a religious thing, even usurping public power.

There can only be one sun in this land of Ming Dynasty!
But no matter what kind of knowledge, or the general scriptures of a serious religion, it is to persuade people to be good, which is the basic appeal of attracting believers.

So how should we specifically define this group of things that even Confucian scholars despise?
Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "A group of insects!"

"The end of insects is death, and insects that refuse to pay taxes are even more damned."

Zhu Qiyu was already very restrained. As an emperor, after he arrived in Nanjing, Xu Chengzong went to hold a meeting for them. This was the second time Zhu Qiyu tried to persuade them.

He ransacked the house of a group of daring guys, beheaded them, and made an example of them.

If there are still people who dare to continue to usurp public power and seek personal gain during the severe cold wave, Zhu Qiyu will definitely let the army search all their homes.

Zhu Qiyu was never a good person, but a villain who was scolded as a king of subjugation.

Zhu Qiyu himself knew this clearly and recognized it, and hoped that everyone in Daming would clearly recognize this point.

He is a foolish king, don't point a gun at him, he will really die.

He changed the subject and said: "But we have all noticed that there are also people who accumulate wealth through their own hands, that is, people who work normally and pay taxes to get rich."

Zhu Qiyu wandered around Nanjing every day and saw a lot of handicraft households, working hard to make money and support their families. These people do business and pay taxes on time.

Did Ming Dynasty study the gap between rich and poor?
Yes, and many.

For example, Chen Yijin, the supervisory censor of Zhejiang Province, once wrote: "For a hundred years, Moli has flourished, and laziness has become a habit. The land is polluted, and the family of several people has no savings. The most important thing is to ask for private money, and the more miserable. The richer the more The rich, the poor get poorer."

For example, Cai Yu, Wen Linlang of the Imperial Academy, wrote a letter saying: "The people's wealth and poverty have a long history. The rich start from hard work, while the poor come from laziness."

"Those who work hard day after day gather their jars until they cover their possessions; those who are lazy day by day waste away until they go into exile. That's why the poor are enslaved by the rich, and the exiles are mediocre to the natives."

"This benefit its own benefit, and the other contributes to its strength. It is like funding at the end of the farmer's life, but not related to disease."

People's livelihood depends on diligence, but diligence is not lacking.

This is true, but simply blaming the complex problem of the gap between the rich and the poor on whether the people are hardworking is one-sided and simplifies the complex problem. This is the main means of bureaucratic indolence.

Translation Translation is a tree target.

Thinking about the gap between the rich and the poor can be found everywhere in the history of Ming Dynasty.

For example, Lanling Xiaoxiaosheng's divine book "Jin Ping Mei Ci Hua" contains more descriptions of the rich and the poor.

"So, what exactly do you want to ask? I have given the answer with practical actions, and the insects should die. What else do you want to ask?" Zhu Qiyu asked with a smile.

Li Xian's fourteenth question was a very vague question, he didn't even know what he wanted to ask.

He is very confused, so His Majesty needs to solve some doubts.

"I want to ask why? They are already rich, so why do they hoard silver taels?" Li Xian asked in a low voice.

Zhu Qiyu understood that this was the question a scholar should ask.

Knowing this, but also knowing why.

What is the reason behind such crazy money-making?
Knowing that His Majesty found out that they were manipulating the amount of copper coins to threaten the court to submit, they must die.

But they are still taking risks.

His Majesty has clearly given the answer, but Wei Guogong needs to personally use all kinds of coercion and lure to threaten them and not to act arbitrarily.

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "I mentioned it at the first salt and iron meeting that wealth is power."

"Because social labor is indescribable, the essence of imperial silver coins cannot be described. It can only be described through the fact of imperial silver coins, that is, one by one silver coins."

"Tao can be said, very Tao."

"Then as long as the imperial silver coins remain beautifully made and can still be used as savings and measurement of social labor, private individuals will inevitably accumulate money continuously and infinitely."

"So they compete with me for financial rights."

Li Xian thought about it seriously for a long time, and finally shook his head and said: "Your Majesty has not solved my doubts."

"I know why they are so bold, but there are still things I don't quite understand."

Zhu Qiyu frowned and said: "Then you ask, what don't you understand?"

Li Xian shook his head and looked at Yu Qian in confusion, he didn't know what he was confused about.

Yu Qian didn't know what Li Xian was confused about. It was obvious that His Majesty had solved all his problems.

But Li Xian still looked confused. Obviously, he still had a huge doubt in his heart, but this doubt was like an iceberg in the deep sea, which could not be seen at all.

Li Xian said helplessly: "I am stupid, I clearly still have doubts in my heart, but I don't know what the doubts in my heart are."

This may be the most uncomfortable part, that is, there are doubts in my heart, but I don't even know what I am confused about.

Heavy fog surrounded Li Xian.

Zhu Qiyu carefully sorted out the content discussed along the way, acknowledging that private rights and affirming that public rights are sacred and inviolable; protecting private rights is not unlimited indulgence of private rights; moreover, he answered that those people are insects and must be eliminated.

He also explained that he was competing for the circulation of gold flower silver and imperial silver coins, which was actually a competition for currency management rights.

Then what's the problem, what's bothering Li Xian?

Zhu Qiyu looked at Li Xian's slightly painful expression, and fell into thought.

Li Xian boasted that he was well educated, and he had been an official for 19 years, because he offended Yang Shiqi who had been in the local government for 16 years.

Back in the capital, he was unlucky, encountered a civil engineering change, and survived by luck.

Unlucky for him, he went south to patrol salt and encountered rebellion again. Because he was too talented, he was captured by the rebels and survived again by luck.

Li Xian is definitely not one of the hard-educated people in the Hanlin Academy, but even so, he is still confused.

He is now like a flat boat, on a very calm sea, surrounded by a vast expanse of whiteness, he doesn't even know where to slide, it is the other shore.

He didn't even know the direction.

Zhu Qiyu sat up straight and said, "I know what you want to ask."

"Ah?" Li Xian looked at the emperor dully.

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "Actually, what you want to ask is the foundation of these insects, the way they walked, how did they use their private power to steal public power, and they are so unscrupulous."

"Only by figuring out this problem can we govern in the future with ease."

Li Xian nodded hurriedly and said, "That's right, that's the way they are going!"

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "Actually, the answer is very simple. This kind of operation of financial affairs based on stripping and stripping accumulation is the core and foundation of the powerful family."

"The way of accumulating wealth in the stripping style will eventually cause labor, land and currency to lose their original appearance, and eventually they will be alienated, and people will not be like ghosts or ghosts."

Feudalism turns people into ghosts.

What about capital?Can turn people into monsters.

Li Xian seemed to see the direction of progress, and asked dully: "What are you peeling?"

"Surplus... social labor." Zhu Qiyu originally wanted to talk about surplus value.

But obviously this concept is not the framework of the Wealth of Nations, but the framework of Capital Theory.

It would be too troublesome to explain this, so Zhu Qiyu changed the vocabulary that Li Xian could understand more easily.

"What caused it?" Li Xian stood up suddenly, but he didn't notice that he was on top of the car and touched the shaft, but he didn't care at all, but his eyes were full of excitement.

The excitement when he finally got close to an answer to a question that had been troubling him for months was indescribable.

Zhu Qiyu motioned him to sit down, thought about it seriously, and said, "To be more precise, it led to..."

He changed his way of speaking and said: "Abandoning the basics and chasing the end, rituals and music will collapse."

Zhu Qiyu changed to a word that is easier to understand in the context of Ming Dynasty, and the accumulation of stripping will eventually lead to two evil results.

[-]. People over-mythologize currency.

Money sometimes seems to be the supreme god: all people must submit to it, obey its commands, and worship before the altar of its power.

The supremacy of money will eventually lead to the alienation of all labor, land, ocean, currency, fighting dendrobium, trade-offs, seals, benevolence and righteousness, clearly marked prices, and ultimately the disintegration of the social atmosphere.

No harvest at night, regardless of life and death on the grassland, running for the safety of Daming, this kind of loyalty to Daming, loyalty to the emperor, can this kind of loyalty be measured by money?

Obviously not.

But if one day, holding high: "Loyalty is only the price of betrayal is not enough", and worshiping it like Guiyin, wouldn't it be a collapse of ritual and music?

Zhu Qiyu didn't ask Hu Min to translate, and he didn't use words that Li Xian and the others couldn't understand. He used two concise words, and he directly translated them into words that people in Ming Dynasty could understand.

I, Minister of the Ministry of Households of the Ming Dynasty, and Minister of the Ministry of Rites!

No one knows translation better than me!
Yu Qian hesitated and asked, "Your Majesty, what's left?"

"Social labor." Zhu Qiyu and Yu Qian quickly asked and answered.

Yu Qian sighed.

He has always felt that His Majesty has another theory system based on "The Wealth of Nations" that can better explain social phenomena, but His Majesty just doesn't say it.

For example, the triple profit mentioned by Hu Wei is lawless.

This sentence was fulfilled in his family.

It's not that Zhu Qiyu doesn't want to say it, it's that this thing has no social basis, and it's completely useless to explain it forcibly, and it will misinterpret its own meaning.

Li Xian was thinking dully, his eyes became brighter, he took a deep breath and said: "Thank you for your instruction, I understand! I understand everything!!"

"It's just that the journey is fine, just discuss financial affairs." Zhu Qiyu waved his hand and said, "It's very simple, just some reason."

Yu Qian sighed, is it simple?

Look at Li Xian's strenuous appearance, it's not easy at all!

It is understandable to peel off, and the accumulation of peeling is also understandable, but it is a new understanding to abandon the basics and chase the end, and the ritual and music collapse.

The original meaning of sacrificing the root and chasing the end is to give up farming and mulberry, and chase after the meager means of money.

Liyue collapse originally meant that the rules and regulations of rites and music were greatly damaged.

But His Majesty obviously didn't mean that, but everyone could understand the meaning very smoothly.

Zhu Qiyu said with a smile: "Then thank you Li Aiqing, send the correct performance to the capital, verbatim."

Li Xian nodded again and again and said: "The minister leads the order."

Yu Qian was quite curious. When Hu Wei received the memorial, would he sigh in vain, saying that he was unemployed?

Zhu Qiyu said with a serious face: "So, when we formulate policies, we have to start from two angles."

"One, we ensure that public wealth, that is, social labor, can be reproduced, that is, to ensure labor remuneration for laborers."

"Second, if the evil is not punished, the good will surely fail."

"If you follow the rules, you can only earn small profits; while the rewards for breaking the law, plundering, stealing, and cheating are extremely rich; everyone must do evil."

"Only by learning from the past and learning from the future can we expect a peaceful world."

Zhu Qiyu must leave Nanjing City and return to his loyal Shuntian Mansion.

The affairs of Nan Ya are cumbersome, and Zhu Qiyu also hoped that Li Xian could preserve the victory of the army, not that after the army returned to the court, everything would return to the original state.

Of course, Zhu Qiyu will also leave a whole set of methods to ensure the absolute loyalty of Nanjing and make Nan Ya the shape of an emperor.

Before he came, it was a powerful world, and Nanjing City was not absolutely loyal. After he left, it was still a powerful world, and Nanjing City was still not absolutely loyal, so didn't he come in vain?

The car stopped, and Zhu Qiyu said relaxedly, "Okay, we're here."

"Li Xian, after you understand these two questions and understand them well, then think about what the remaining ten questions in your fourteen-question memorial should be."

Li Xian was full of shame, bowed his head and said: "I am terrified."

Wasting His Majesty's precious time to ask questions, but he didn't even understand the question. In the end, His Majesty clarified his inner doubts.

In fact, everything His Majesty said follows a basic logic.

That is the phenomenon, the problem, the reason and the method. This is a logic of seeking truth from facts, so His Majesty can guess his doubts.

Although he has been using a realistic approach to solve many problems, but it is all rote.

When he was confused, he subconsciously threw this logic behind him.

Li Xian didn't think that the ministers guessed that there was a tall man behind His Majesty, he thought that His Majesty himself was that tall.

Prudent and wise, wise and self-contained.

His Majesty was born with talent, it's just that everyone didn't realize it in the past, and that's all.

Zhu Qiyu looked at the huge Ma'anshan construction site, and the driving department leveled a new road to connect with the Guandaoyi Road. The coal well department in Ma'anshan can be seen from a distance, and the chimneys are emitting white gas, which is burning smoke .

Clinking and shouting mingled, and a puff of smoke and burning smoke filled the air.

This is the result of the labor of those rebels back then. They needed to serve five years of hard labor, which was a punishment.

But how can they reform themselves during the five years of service?

Zhu Qiyu copied another set of methodologies, and Emperor Ming arrived at his loyal Ma'anshan Twelfth Regiment's barracks, ready to check whether his method was effective.

He tends to be effective.

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