open sea

Chapter 126 Gold
Giving boats to people is the utmost benevolence.

For Chen Mu, he had nothing to ask for, but he did not expect that Zhang Han sent someone from Guangzhou Mansion to deliver a book early the next morning.

"Hengqu Liqi Debate", written by Wang Tingxiang, with notes by Zhang Han.

This is not a matter of benevolence and righteousness, but it is a bit difficult for Chen Mu to accept.

It's different from sending ships and transferring people. To give away his teacher's works, as far as Chen Mu knows, there is no habit of giving away such precious things casually in this era.

It shows that Chen Mu is really Zhang Han's neighbor.

He roughly read the book, which was a big tome for Chen Mu. To understand this book, he had to read more than a dozen books by citing extensively.

But very interesting.

During the Song and Ming Dynasties, a large number of philosophers and thinkers emerged, and they were collectively referred to as Song-Ming Neo-Confucianism.

There are various schools of thought in Neo Confucianism, including Zhu Xi who went so far as to go so far as to develop knowledge from things to the extreme that only by exhausting the natural principles can he become a sage and return to his hometown, and Lu Wang's Xinxue, which broke through on Zhu Xi's shoulders, advocated the unity of knowledge and action, which is in opposition to Zhu Xi's Neo Confucianism.

Of course, from the perspective of future generations, the most in line with values ​​should be the Yangming leftists, such as Wang Gen of the Taizhou School, who advocated that "the daily use of the people is the way", which is shocking; Etiquette criticizes Taoism as its own duty.

This is also the reason why Yangming Leftists are excluded in academia. Confucian scholars are not fools, and they will not ignore good things and refuse to learn. This is the reason why most people exclude Yangming Leftists-this school is not conducive to consolidating the rule.

The book that Zhang Han gave to Chen Mu was neither Zhu Xi’s Neo-Confucianism nor Wang Yangming’s Neo-Confucianism, but another school, Qi Xue.

This school is also very non-mainstream. It flourished for a period of time in the early years, but it completely declined in the Ming Dynasty. criticism.

Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism means "reasons are in things" and "reasons are in advance", while Qi Xue believes that "reasons are in things".

Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism's study of things to gain knowledge is to find out the heart, while the study of qi is to find out the things in the world.

The poor principles of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism are the principles of poor hearts, and the poor principles of Qi Xue are the principles of poor things in the world. They advocate the method of "funding from outside seeking" to achieve the ultimate state of thoroughness and unity of internal and external.

Seeing that Chen Mu wanted to start a sect.

With Yu Dayou's involvement, the matter with Liurong Temple was just revealed, and monk Tianshi was invited to go to Guangzhou Mansion, Chen Mu transferred back some banner troops, and then stayed in the military field for a few days.

After the fields were harvested, he rode his troops back to Qianhusuo, walked around Xiangshan Mountain, and sent troops to roam around in the shallow sea.

Finally, a location for building a water village was selected in the southeast of Xiangshan Mountain, and a piece of land was planned as a future shipyard.

At the same time, it is also where the iron workshop will be in the future.

The great monk came back happily. Chen Mu asked if the matter was done. He said it was done, and asked him how it was done.

It was like a fairy tale, Chen Mu asked him what kind of magic weapon it was, and the great monk raised his casserole-sized fist, full of murderous aura.

"Buddha has a pair of Vajra Treasures!"

"Didn't kill him?"

"No, the Buddha just punched me."

Chen Mu was relieved, the fist was fine, but he was afraid that the one ordered by Mr. Yu himself would go to the Liurong Temple to pay homage, and it would be difficult to directly carry a thirty-jin iron rod into the temple gate.

Now it's just a punch, it's okay, a monk who can hit the abbot is a good monk.

He really felt that he was busy, not only had to train soldiers, read books, but also practice bow and horse diligently, in order to prepare for the martial arts examination in the future. With a serious background other than military household banner officer, it would be easier to expand his social circle.

On the other hand, Xiangshan's 1 mu of military land needs to be acquired, water villages need to be built, and military schools need to be rebuilt if there are too many military households. It has also reached a critical point that needs to be suppressed urgently.

Even for future naval battles, he still needs to learn to swim, wear clothes and carry weapons—this is no longer called swimming, but armed swimming.

Accidentally sank to the bottom and answered his name.

sinking wood.

Shao Tingda came back, and as soon as he entered the Qianhu House, he saw Chen Mu with wet hair, wearing a dry green robe and leading two big geese for a walk, and then the big geese saw Shao Tingda, a stranger, go up and pecked fiercely, with fine teeth full of fine teeth. The reckless worms scurrying all over the ground in fright.

After a lot of flying and jumping, the two sat in the Qianhu Yamen and Qianhu House.

"It's been hard work, I've got a lot of tan."

"It's not hard, Brother Mu, you are really amazing. Xiangshan has changed so much that I dare not recognize it when I come back. There are so many people!"

Shao Tingda smiled and shook his head. Seeing that there was no one around in the house, he untied the pouch on his waist, put it heavily on the table and pushed it to Chen Mu, and whispered: "Brother Mu, 94 taels of gold, the officials in Zhangzhou know it's you For the land, they insisted on lowering the price to delay the time, fortunately they didn't know that the fleet also has our share, otherwise the ship guide would not be able to do it."

"You don't know that in Yuegang and Fujian, you have a great reputation!"

Shao Tingda said with emotion: "It has been spread in Fujian that there are thousands of households in Xiangshan, who have wiped out all the merchants who went to Guangxi this year, and swallowed goods worth tens of thousands of taels of silver!"

"fart!"

Chen Mu patted the table and said: "Those bastards put all the shit on Mr. Chen's head for tens of thousands of taels, but I dare say that those crappy things were gathered and sold for at most 5000 taels. They were smuggled." It can only be sold for tens of thousands of taels!"

Master Chen is wronged, if he really withheld tens of thousands of taels of silver, why is he still busy doing other things?

Armored cannons have everything, and they are still used here to dig out some money, buy ship materials, and build shipyards?

I still have to wait two months, just to wait for the report from Huayu, to see when the barbarians will repair the leaking ship in Haojing, and then lead the troops there?

Isn't it just fucking poor!

"If it weren't for being poor, I would have killed those sons of bitches long ago, why wait until now? Tch!"

Chen Mu waved his hand, "The mouth grows on other people, and they like to say what they like to say, more than 700 taels is more than 700 taels. After all, we not only made money, but also earned a house in the city. Come on - you keep these, go back and forth Go, only our own brothers are the most reliable."

Chen Mu pushed a bar of gold over, and estimated that it weighed ten taels.

One tael of gold is exchanged for eight taels of silver.

"Don't give in, you ran to buy the land, and you ran to sell it, take it, and buy a decent set of armor." Chen Mu said, patted the remaining gold, and said with a smile: "It's just that you Bring the money back, I asked the governor to build a shipyard in Xiangshan, not only a shipyard, but also an academy—let half of the children in the Qianhu Institute have books to read!"

As soon as the words fell, Li Dan stepped outside the Qianhu House and stopped at the door, clasped his fists and said happily: "Father, there is news from Huayu!"

Chen Mu stood up abruptly, his centipede boat - it was about to be repaired!
(End of this chapter)