Bury the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 292 Outrageous Literacy Rates
Did God give the emperor the power, and then the emperor distributed the power to the officials, or did the people give the power to the emperor, the court, and the government?
No one dared to answer this question.

This kind of words can only be said by Zhu Jinsong, who is the emperor, but if you change someone, let alone Zeng Cheng, the chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, even if it is Zhu Erdan, the emperor's brother, you have to weigh these words carefully. s consequence.

However, no one dares to answer this question, but it does not mean that this question does not exist, because Zhu Jinsong, the emperor of Ming Dynasty, has already asked this question openly.

Zhu Jinsong knocked on the table with his fingers, and said with a smile: "No one is willing to answer this question? Then I will change the question-in this world, do the rulers and ministers come first, or the common people first?"

Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs looked at their noses and noses, and thought to themselves, is this question any different from the one just now?
The answer is obvious. In this world, there must be people first, tribes that appear after people, and leaders that gradually appear after tribes. Therefore, the answer to this question is that there are people first, and then there are kings.

But this question is the same as the question of who gave the right to whom just now, and it's a taboo!
Seeing that Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs were afraid to answer this question, Zhu Jinsong didn't care about it. Instead, he asked himself and answered: "In this world, there are people first, and then there is a king. Therefore, the one who governs the country Power is actually entrusted by the people of the world to the emperor and officials."

"It's a pity that some people have forgotten this truth, or they don't want all the common people to know this truth, because once all the common people know this truth, they will find ways to fight for the power that should belong to them."

"Some people, they want to hold this power firmly in their own hands and seek benefits for themselves—including me, I also hope that the country of Ming Dynasty can last forever, and I also think about my children and grandchildren in my heart Sun can continue to be the emperor of Ming Dynasty."

"However, in order to achieve this goal, some people do not hesitate to fool the common people as fools. They even wish to block the common people's eyes and ears, and then sew the common people's mouths shut. If possible, they even wish to interrupt the common people's speech." backbone, so that the common people can honestly accept the fate of being enslaved and ruled."

"These people have forgotten that the world is moving forward after all, it may be fast, it may be slow, but it has never stopped."

"The common people don't know these truths now, but it doesn't mean they don't know them in the future—this result has been doomed since the birth of words and languages."

Speaking of this, Zhu Jinsong suddenly changed the subject, and said to Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs: "Do you know, Qing, what is the best way to rule forever?"

Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs continued to be confused.

In all honesty, Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs also think that what Zhu Jinsong just said is very reasonable, because there is a process of diffusion from high to low in language and writing, as well as knowledge and technology. It will always spread slowly, and more and more people will read it. There will always be some people here who can understand what His Majesty the Emperor said.

But what Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs couldn't figure out was why Zhu Jinsong, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, had already said this just now, but suddenly asked what to do about the eternal rule?
Furthermore, since Pangu opened the sky, the Three Emperors ruled the world, and the Five Emperors established the Lun, how can there be an eternal rule in this world?How is the situation on Europa? Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs haven’t studied it too carefully, but on the Central Plains Tangkou side, the longest rule is only the 800-year state of the Zhou Dynasty. Where is there any real eternity? not move?

However, when Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs continued to be confused, Zhu Jinsong went on to say: "If you want to be truly eternal, the best way is to create a false scene of prosperity for the people, so that they can Eat enough food, but don’t let them eat too much, arrange a lot of novels, operas or other messy things to do and play for them, so that they can break away from thinking about books.”

"For example, the benevolent people mentioned by Europa, the indulgences, the destruction of books and the banning of history and the reduction of people's foolishness that the Qing Dynasty has been doing all the time, all of these are actually for this purpose, and no one has ever put these Stuff is revealed."

Zeng Cheng and the other bigwigs were still confused.

Yes, we all admit that what you Emperor Zhu said is reasonable, but while your old man is talking about these messy things here, he is vigorously promoting social studies in Daming, and it is also included in the textbooks of county schools, government schools, and even universities. Analyze the reasons for the rebellion in the past dynasties, let the common people in the world know what is going on in politics, and let all the common people know how to deal with such things as rebellion. Do you think you are sick?
Zhu Jinsong looked at Zeng Cheng and the others' bewildered faces, and said with a smile: "Why, I don't understand why I said this, but taught the people to rebel in the book?"

Zeng Cheng nodded, and replied: "Your Majesty, I really don't understand—although the foolish people in the Qing Dynasty were devoid of conscience, Your Majesty should also admit that their methods are indeed effective. year, why bother..."

Zhu Jinsong smiled and waved his hands, and said: "Wannian Jiangshan? Shit Jiangshan Wannian! Although the policy of fooling the people and reducing the number of people is good, but this kind of approach will cut off the future of the entire country from the root, so how can it be said to be effective?" ? If this approach is really effective, how can I restore Daming?"

"Furthermore, he built the barbarians to close the country, fooled the people and reduced the population, but Europa did not stop moving forward. Even if there was no rebellion, after a few decades, when the Jianyi court completely lagged behind Europa's At that time, what do you think will happen to those savages in Europa?"

"They will be like mad dogs that smell the smell of meat, and they will rush forward crazily, lying on the land of the Qing Dynasty and biting wildly, and the Jianyi court will only transfer all these sufferings and losses to the world. on the people."

"In other words, our Daming has now sold so many guns and cannons to Europa, and Europa is now fighting every day, so who is unlucky? Anyway, Daming has money in the treasury, and the people of Daming also have food. The unlucky ones It will not be the common people of Ming Dynasty."

"Looking back, has Daming ever rebelled in these years?"

"Facts have proved that if you want to live forever, ignoring the people and reducing the number of people is the least advisable. Instead, let the common people know what rebellion is and how to rebel, so they will not easily go to rebel."

"If you really want to live forever, there is actually only one sentence in the final analysis, and I have said this sentence countless times-we hold the common people in the palm of our hands, and the common people will hold us high above our heads! "

Speaking of this, Zhu Jinsong casually grabbed a newspaper from the table, and said with a sneer: "These bastards want to go against the grain and take back the rights and benefits that I originally gave to the people back into their own hands. Really brave!"

Zeng Cheng's heart trembled, and he was about to speak out to persuade him, but Zhu Jinsong waved his hand and said, "I just said that the problem they created will be handed over to the split-off Metropolitan Procuratorate and Yushitai. , Dali Temple to deal with it, it is right to practice, and now I will not open any big case casually."

"What I want to tell Qing and others is that the power in the hands of Zhen and Qing and others comes from the people. If the people are satisfied with the Ming court, then the power of the Ming Dynasty will naturally last forever. The descendants of Qing and others Future generations will naturally be able to be high-ranking officials and ride horses like you."

Just as Zeng Cheng wanted to nod his head, he suddenly felt something was wrong, especially when he saw that Zhu Erdan, Liu Huaiwen and others were taking it for granted, Zeng Cheng knew that Zhu Erdan and others had been lied to.

Is there any problem with Zhu Jinsong's theory?
No problem, this theory is completely correct, even the theories that His Majesty the Emperor said today are correct, no matter who comes, he can't find any faults.

However, it's like what His Majesty's old man once said - theory must be combined with practice!

Just like the few inexplicable newspapers thrown out by His Majesty the Emperor and his elders, isn't this the typical rule of the Great Ming Law?
People are always selfish. No matter how good the plans and regulations are, when it comes to the implementation level, it may completely change into another situation.

After thinking about it, Zeng Cheng still decided to remind Zhu Jinsong: "Qizou Your Majesty, I think what your Majesty said is very true, but..."

Zeng Cheng pointed to the newspapers on the table, and said after deliberation: "It's just that desires are hard to fill. After all, there are still bastards like the Eight Great Locust Merchants in this world. Just like these newspapers on the table, I don't believe that there are no people behind them." Secretly instigated."

Zhu Jinsong sneered and said: "I know that there are people behind these newspapers, so I plan to give it a try, to see whether these bastards can outdo the demons, or the rules I set out can outdo it." Husband."

Of course, there are people behind these newspapers, and they have to be operated jointly by influential gentry and wealthy businessmen in the Jiangnan area. After all, a newspaper involves messy things like finalizing the edition, printing machine, paper, printing, distribution, etc. The problem is not just to get some paper, but to make a few chapters and print them out.

More importantly, even if these messy problems are solved, the prerequisites for running a newspaper are only met, because the right to distribute newspapers is in the hands of the Ming court. Some people in the government must be dragged into the water first, otherwise, the local government will never sit back and watch them publish such a nonsense tabloid.

It's just that Zhu Jinsong doesn't particularly care about these bastards.

For Zhu Jinsong, whether it's these city foxes and social mice, or what he said to Zeng Cheng and other bigwigs today, it's actually just Zhu Jinsong's attempt.

Try to make changes on the basis of crossing the river by feeling the rabbit.

As for the worst outcome...

Anyway, as long as Zhu Jinsong can feed and clothe the common people, he can do it boldly, no matter what he does, he will not die. Even if he really creates a lot of messy problems, he can solve them slowly in retrospect.

Besides, what if there is a problem?Zhu Jinsong can also transfer the risk to Europa through a small pot, even if it cannot be transferred, it is at most a matter of guilt.

Just like Liu Yezhu, this buddy is also tossing to death, seeing that he is going to toss until the world is in chaos, and finally solves the problem by means of guilt.

Of course, the edict of guilt is a double-edged sword, and it should not be used when it can be used. After all, Emperor Chongzhen has issued more than a dozen edicts of guilt, and finally hung it on the old crooked neck tree in Meishan.

After thinking about it, Zhu Jinsong simply came up with a new way to play.

Zhu Jinsong curled his fingers, knocked on the table slowly, and said slowly: "Let the Imperial Academy and the Ministry of Rites, Ministry of Punishments, Ministry of Households, and Ministry of Officials cooperate with each other, and make a new "Hongwu Law" according to the current "Law of the Ming Dynasty". "Dagao", change all of them into vernacular."

"I don't ask you to explain all the laws and regulations through the "Hongwu Dagao", but I want you to collect the content related to the "House Law" and the laws and regulations related to dealing with corrupt officials in the form of stories. go in."

Hearing what Zhu Jinsong said, Zeng Cheng probably knew Zhu Jinsong's way of playing, and Zeng Cheng knew very well that this way of playing had a great chance of success.

To put it bluntly, Zhu Jinsong's ultimate goal is to strengthen the private rights of the people and strengthen the people's role in supervising the government.

To achieve this goal, the premise is that the people should be literate, which happened to be impossible during the Hongwu Emperor's period, because the literacy rate of the people during the Hongwu Emperor's period was so low that it was terrible. "Hongwu Dagao" can also be compelled to be collected by the people, at most it is preached and preached by people, even if the people want to read it, they will not be able to read it at all.

However, Zhu Jinsong, the emperor of Ming Dynasty, has been sparing no effort to build social studies ever since his old man occupied Meng Lianggu, and even recruited a large number of gentlemen who failed the exams to let them find ways to eliminate illiteracy.

If being able to recognize five hundred commonly used Chinese characters is regarded as literacy, then the literacy rate of the people of Ming Dynasty has already reached an unreasonable level in just a decade or so-although it cannot be said to be 100% literacy rate, but Around 30.00% is definitely no problem.

Although knowing Chinese characters and being able to write Chinese characters are two completely different concepts, if the threshold of literacy is raised to 50.00 Chinese characters, the current literacy rate of Ming Dynasty will become extremely low, and it may even drop from 40.00 to [-]. % dropped to about ten percent, and it may take a generation to recover to the peak of [-]% in the Ming Dynasty.

However, even if it is [-]%, it is still a terrible ratio-the literacy rate of the Qing Dynasty...is only [-]%.

(End of this chapter)