At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 667: The 3.0 versions of Legalism and the construction of rural spiritual civilization

As soon as Dong Zhongshu finished speaking, there was an uproar among the Han officials present. The high-ranking officials of the Han Dynasty knew roughly the situation in India. This was also the reason why the Han Dynasty held the Datong Conference and did not allow the Indians to speak, because they looked down on what those factory owners did in India and were even ashamed to be associated with them.

However, the middle and lower level Han officials in the Han Dynasty knew very little about India, unless they were in a department that dealt specifically with India. Their impression of India was that there were a large number of laborers doing dirty and messy jobs in the Han Dynasty, and that they solved many urban garbage problems. It was the first time they heard of India employing children under the age of ten.

Gongsun Hong, who was standing below, was stunned and said, "The nobles and powerful people oppressed them to such an extent, and yet the Indians did not rebel?"

This was simply unbelievable to him. It was natural for parents to love their children. Even for the sake of their own children, the Indians should kill those who oppressed their children. If this happened in the Han Dynasty, the whole world would have rebelled long ago.

Zhao Yu had heard about some things about India when he was in the south. He said, "A few decades ago, India was still a slave society. At that time, children were not forced to work as servants, but were born as slaves. The current situation is a bit of progress to some extent."

"Is this an improvement over a ten-year-old child?" Gongsun Hong asked in amazement.

Zhao Yu nodded and said, "Yes, decades ago, these children could only become human sacrifices for the upper class in Tianzhu. It was not much different in other regions. There is a habit of headhunting in Nanyang, so not many children can live to the age of ten. In the New World, they have bloody sacrifices, and the sacrifices are made by one tribe after another. It is extremely cruel and bloody. There are even many tribes that retain the tradition of cannibalism."

The various schools of thought of the Han Dynasty grew along with the civilization of the Han Dynasty in this timeline. Under the guidance of Xu Fan, they were also constantly exploring the future of building a world of great harmony.

When the Age of Exploration arrived, global civilization began to come into the sight of various schools of thought. They were extremely disappointed with the backwardness of other civilizations. Looking around the world, although the Han Dynasty had no civilization that could be its enemy, it also had no civilization with which it could communicate. From this point of view, the Han civilization was extremely lonely.

However, when the various schools of thought explored civilization, they had an extremely unexpected surprise, that is, they could use other civilizations to verify what happened in the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, and even what happened in the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. These primitive tribes were a living history, and the various schools of thought could deduce the things that happened in ancient tribes through a large number of other primitive civilizations. For example, the various schools of thought could learn about the process of Shang Dynasty sacrifices from the Maya in the New World. The more they studied Maya civilization, the more they suspected that Maya was really related to Shang Dynasty, as they had too many similar customs.

The trend of the academic community in the past decade or so in the Han Dynasty is to enter these tribes to observe and explain some ancient events through these primitive tribes. Although Zhao Yu is only a grassroots Han official in the Han Dynasty, his status in the Legalists is not low. He also has a deep understanding of civilizations outside the Han Dynasty through academic journals published by the Legalists.

Zhao Yu said slowly: "Don't bring the environment of the Han Dynasty to other countries in the world. The reason why the Han Dynasty is called the beacon of civilization is because the level of civilization of the Han Dynasty is the highest. In other regions, slavery is already considered advanced. Primitive tribal countries like the New World, Nanzhou, and Yanzhou are the norm in this world. It is because of the Han Dynasty's decades of spreading civilization that the other four continents have been brought into the civilized world. Spreading civilization is the clear destiny given to the Han Dynasty by God. Fulfilling the destiny and gaining hegemony is God's reward to the Han Dynasty."

It was the first time that Gongsun Hong knew about these things. He nodded firmly. Without the Han Dynasty, who knows how many innocent people would have died in such meaningless sacrifices.

But Xu Aijun above was feeling somewhat embarrassed. After all, this kind of thing was not in line with the secular morality of the Han Dynasty, but it was difficult for him to stop this kind of thing because it was in line with the secular morality of Tianzhu. The senior officials of Tianzhu all did this, and it would be difficult for him to stop it even if he was the king of Tianzhu. As for promoting compulsory education in Tianzhu, he could not do it. Tianzhu did not have as abundant resources as the Han Dynasty, and its population density was almost the same as that of the Han Dynasty. He did not have the ability of his father to purge the nobles and powerful people. There were too many rentiers, and fewer resources could be distributed to the bottom.

Xu Aimin asked: "Now that we know the situation in Tianzhu, how do you think we can ensure long-term peace and stability in Tianzhu?"

Dong Zhongshu pondered for a moment and organized his words: "First, we need to make wealth and nobility equal. The reason why India is in such a mess now is because the gap between the rich and the poor is too big. The wealth of the nobles and merchants in India is not much less than that of the nobles and merchants in our Han Dynasty, but the people of India live a precarious life. This is the root cause of India's economic crisis."

"Second, we must crack down on the nobles and tyrants in India, restrict their annexation of land, crack down on monopolies, reduce taxes, reduce corvée labor, allow the people to recuperate, reduce the consumption of human energy, and give the people a rest."

"Third, we should strengthen the power of the Indian court, strengthen the control over Indian society, and ease the conflicts between the nobles and the Indian people."

"Fourth, we will reshape the ethical principles of India. In terms of culture, we will advocate governing the country with virtue and supplemented by the rule of law. We will educate the nobles and powerful classes of India with benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness, attach importance to education, and replace harsh punishments with benevolence."

"As long as these four points are implemented, and all classes of India are educated with benevolence and virtue, and contradictions in India are eliminated, the long-term peace and stability that the king hopes for will naturally be realized."

After listening to Dong Zhongshu's words, Xu Aijun nodded with satisfaction. Each of these words hit the nail on the head for India. He planned to use Dong Zhongshu's policies to govern India after returning to India.

Only the Legalists and Han officials were dismissive. Dong Zhongshu was playing the trick of grafting flowers and trees, which was clearly the method of their Legalists. However, he insisted on adding "rule the country by virtue and supplemented by law" and put on a Confucian cloak, treating it as their Confucian stuff.

But let the Confucians pick them up, those are all the 1.0 version of the Legalists, which have long been outdated. The Legalists now disdain them. What we are playing with now is the 2.0 version of the state-run economy, which is to develop industries and weave a big Legalist network with factories as the core, covering all the scholars, farmers, merchants and artisans in the world. Everyone does their job and everything goes back and forth.

At the same time, the Legalists are preparing for version 3.0, expanding the official economy to the world, making plans for global industrial development, and letting global forces contribute to the development of the Han Dynasty. The so-called royal relatives, princes, nobles, and wealthy merchants are all puppets in their hands. After this plan is completed, the Han Dynasty will become the undisputed hegemon of the world, and the Legalists will rule the world with the Han Dynasty.

Whenever the Legalists thought of this blueprint, they felt that they were doing something sacred and that the Han Dynasty would become the eternal overlord in their hands.

As for the Confucians, they are still trying to govern the country with virtue and supplemented by law. The Legalists could only smile indifferently in their hearts. The two sides are no longer on the same level. Among the Confucians now, only the Huns' Confucianists can fight better. Some of them are pioneering and innovative, and they are worthy of their respect. The Confucians who remain in the Han Dynasty are nothing but a group of corrupt scholars.

Xu Aimin also noticed the expressions of the Legalists. He pointed at one of them curiously and asked, "What do you think of the development of Tianzhu?"

Zhang Ou didn't want to speak, but the emperor called him and he had to stand up and said, "I think that in order for the industry to develop stably and avoid crises, the entire industry chain needs to cooperate with each other, but Tianzhu can't do this because their industries are controlled by the nobles and powerful, and this is the most fundamental contradiction in Tianzhu.

Take the textile industry as an example. Factory owners know best whether an industry is overcapacity or not. However, because these industries are in their hands, even if they know that the textile industry has overcapacity, they dare not reduce production, because if they reduce production, they will be replaced by factory owners who continue to produce. However, if production capacity is expanded in this way, overcapacity will occur, and in the end no one will make money, and an economic crisis will break out. "

"This is also the reason why the economic crisis broke out in the Han Dynasty two years ago. But our Han Dynasty now relies on government-run enterprises to control industrial development. When we know that an industry is beginning to be oversupplied, we will take the initiative to eliminate backward production capacity and eliminate contradictions in advance. Naturally, the economic crisis will not break out. So what Tianzhu needs now is not to rule the country with virtue, but to establish a Shaofu and a strong official system that can control the development of the industry and prevent the nobles and powerful people in Tianzhu from dragging everyone to hell."

Zhang Ou's words made Xu Aijun even more excited. If he learned the official camp system of the Han Dynasty, his power as the King of India would increase exponentially. He would be like his elder brother, with his words being laws, and become a true king, instead of the King of India who needed to constantly compromise like he is now.

Unfortunately, he knew that this was impossible to do. India did not belong to him alone. Not to mention the huge Kushan Empire, there were twelve vassal states within India alone. In addition, there were the nobles and powerful people of the Han Dynasty, the local priests and nobles of India. The internal forces were so complicated that they were extremely complicated.

More importantly, he, the king of India, was an outsider. Zhang Ou's theory was essentially to follow the way of heaven, to reduce the surplus and make up for the deficiency, and to use the interests of the Han Dynasty to make up for the interests of the Indians. However, his base was the nobles and merchants of the Han Dynasty. Using the policies of the Han Dynasty would not only be a self-destructive move, but the Indians would not necessarily stand on his side. At that time, he, the king of India, would be neither a person nor a person. He had no strength or external environment to learn the policies of the Han Dynasty. It must be said that Xu Aijun was somewhat self-aware. 2000 years after him, there was an emperor who could not distinguish his base, Maximilian I, who went to Mexico thousands of miles away to give up his life.

So after thinking for a while, Xu Aijun thought that Dong Zhongshu's method was more suitable for Tianzhu. Those lawless nobles and powerful people really needed to be suppressed. He didn't want to be an overthrown king of Tianzhu. Moreover, forcing a ten-year-old child into a factory was not a good reputation. If he didn't stop this, he would not be able to raise his head in the future. Dong Zhongshu's doctrine of moderation was more suitable for Tianzhu now.

So Xu Aijun approached Xu Aimin and said, "Brother, how about giving this Dong Zhongshu to me?"

Xu Aimin smiled and said, "I think Zhang Ou is more suitable for the current Tianzhu."

Xu Aijun smiled bitterly and said, "Brother, don't joke around. If you really use the Legalist approach, I'm afraid that India will be in complete chaos. If you really want to help me, give me 10 more labor quotas and buy more fabrics and clothes from India, then you can pull me out of the quagmire."

Xu Aimin said, "Labor is easy to solve, but fabric is difficult. The fabric in Tianzhu is of poor quality. The people of my Han Dynasty don't like it. I can't force them to use these inferior goods. But if you want Dong Zhongshu, you can communicate with him. As long as he is willing to go to Tianzhu, I will release him."

After the conversation, Xu Aimin said loudly: "My dear ministers, if you have any suggestions for me, please write them down now. I will definitely read them one by one."

The students of the Political Affairs Academy were overjoyed. If their articles were recognized by the emperor, their careers would surely be very successful. Jia Yi was appreciated by the emperor because of this. Even though Jia Yi offended the group of meritorious officials, he still became one of the nine ministers with the emperor's recommendation. If their policy papers were recognized by the emperor, they might become the next Jia Yi.

So the students on the scene began to write furiously.

Xu Aimin took Xu Aijun to visit the School of Public Administration.

Xu Aijun looked at the portraits of famous Han officials such as Zhou Zhang, Zhang Liang, Chen Ping, Xiao He, Cao Shen, and Ye Teng, and thought of the huge empire they established. He couldn't help but envy them and said, "Father has many wise officials. If my country of Tianzhu had such a wise official, we wouldn't be in the crisis now."

Xu Aimin shook his head and said, "Father's opportunities are rare, and it's not so easy to be surrounded by powerful officials."

Xu Aimin was even somewhat thankful that there were few obstacles to his succession to the throne, that is, in the first few years after he ascended the throne, the old officials looked down on him. But his father had formulated policies, and when he reached the age and term of office, he had to step down even if he was the prime minister.

However, his father was younger than most of the meritorious officials. Before his father abdicated, a large number of meritorious officials had retired. In addition, due to the feudal system, a large number of meritorious officials were enfeoffed overseas, and there were very few left in the country. Starting from the 40th year of the Han Dynasty, he could arrange for his own close ministers to occupy high-level positions in the Han Dynasty and promote his own political ideas.

Xu Aijun thought of several princes in his country of Tianzhu and nodded in understanding.

That night, Xu Aimin stayed at the Government Affairs College overnight, while Liu Chang collected all the strategies of thousands of Han officials, and then Xu Aimin read them one by one.

The strategies were full of practical information which made Xu Aimin nod his head in satisfaction. The Han officials who could come to the Academy of Government Studies were the best among the hundreds of thousands of Han officials.

The collected policy papers were all well-written, with charts and figures, allowing Xu Aimin to understand the local situation at a glance.

The strategy in his hand introduced the situation of Linyang County in Wuling Prefecture. It clearly recorded the household registration, population, number of fields, number of cash crop gardens, water wheels, pumps, canals, tractors, etc. This series of data showed that Ji Wei, a Han official, was well aware of the affairs of the county. Obviously, he was an extremely competent Han official.

Through these data, he can also roughly understand the situation in Linyang County. Linyang County has many hills and relatively few fields. The local people mainly grow economic crops such as tobacco, tea, and sugarcane. At the same time, there are many Baiyue tribes in the county, and the people are relatively tough, so the court needs to increase education, etc.

Ji Wei explained the situation in Linyang County to show that Jiangnan is still an economy mainly based on agriculture. Even if the court has abolished the military settlement office, it still has to increase investment in Jiangnan's infrastructure. Ji Wei even assured the emperor that Jiangnan's economic potential is not inferior to that of the Central Plains. As long as the court increases investment, Jiangnan will become the court's most important economic center in the future.

Xu Aimin nodded with satisfaction and said, "This Ji Wei can be the county governor."

Then Xu Aimin read a few more policy papers and finally saw the one written by Gongsun Hong and Zhao Yu. This immediately attracted Xu Aimin's attention, because most of the strategies of other people were written on the spur of the moment. It is easy to make the words meaningful, but it is difficult to have data and detailed examples.

But in Gongsun Hong's strategy, Xu Aimin could see a lot of data and examples. It was obvious that he had been preparing for a long time, and he just happened to have the opportunity to write it down today.

What's more, it is also related to the stock market crash in Jiang State half a year ago. Although the second generation of princes of the Han Dynasty paid a price last year, the greedy people of the Han Dynasty also paid a heavy price. Only a few listed factories had their stocks repurchased and privatized. Most of the money of listed companies had been spent on wine and women by the second generation of princes. In addition, their fathers were unwilling to repurchase their stocks. A stock market crash broke out in Jiang State. Except for a few lucky ones, most of the people who bought stocks in Jiang State lost their hard-earned money, and many even lost everything. Even the Han Dynasty court was helpless about this.

It was through Gongsun Hong's strategy that Xu Aimin realized that the second generation of princes of Jiang State were the main culprits of the stock market crash, but the local powerful knights of the Han Dynasty were also accomplices. The Han Dynasty had relaxed its suppression of knight groups in the past few decades, and they actually began to rise again in the countryside of the Han Dynasty, and began to exploit the people of the Han Dynasty again with the help of gambling and usury.

It also records many cases of families being torn apart and people dying because of local powerful and tyrant groups. Xu Aimin was furious when he saw it and said, "I didn't expect that after not cracking down on these tyrants for decades, they would actually prosper again. The powerful people of the Han Dynasty must also be taught a lesson. They don't want to develop their industries, but want to use fraudulent means to squeeze the money of the Han people. The court must clean up the local area."

In the end, Xu Aimin suppressed his anger and watched Gongsun Hong's strategy. He believed that there were too few entertainment activities in the rural areas of the Han Dynasty. There were only a few small opera troupes and temple fairs for the people to entertain themselves. The rest of the time, the farmers of the Han Dynasty were extremely idle. The various service facilities in the rural areas of the Han Dynasty were far inferior to those in the cities.

In order to solve the problem of gambling and wandering in rural areas, the Han Dynasty must not only strengthen rural economic construction, but also strengthen rural cultural construction, manage the free time of rural people, enrich rural entertainment activities, and build a spiritual and civilized world for farmers.

Gongsun Hong also proposed several measures. First, the court should increase the frequency of opera performances in rural areas, to 2-3 times a week, especially during the slack season. Second, the court should organize each village to form football teams and basketball courts, carry out comprehensive village football leagues and village basketball leagues, and build rural libraries and other facilities.

"Strengthening the construction of rural spiritual civilization is a new concept!" Xu Aimin pondered.

(End of this chapter)