Song Dynasty Cannon Fodder Counterattack Record

Chapter 246
"Li Zhongzheng is going to Qingyuan Academy to learn knowledge? When?"

"Tomorrow morning!"

"That can't be missed. I don't know what novelty he said this time. I have to go early tomorrow to take a seat."

"Why tomorrow? I heard that many people are going to go, and some of them are already living in Qingyuan Academy. If I go out of the city tomorrow, I'm afraid I won't even be able to squeeze in the place. If my brother wants to listen, he will go out of the city before dark and live there." , It is reasonable to queue up at Qingyuan Academy early tomorrow. It is getting late, and I have to go out of the city to find a place to live. Farewell."

"Hey, wait a minute. In that case, I'll go out of town with you. Just for company."

Qingyuan Academy put up large posters all over the capital, and the news that Li Buqi was going to give lectures at the academy quickly spread.When Li Buqi accompanied Shao Yong to the newly built rugby field in the academy in the morning, the field was already packed with people, except for the stands, the field was full of people sitting on the ground.

Shao Yong smiled and said: "Everyone wants to see Zhongzheng's demeanor. Many people lined up in front of the academy before dawn, just for a seat. There are also many people from the Imperial College."

Li Buqi laughed when he heard this.Shao Yong said: "Presumably today we can see Zhongzheng's demeanor of Confucianism again."

The wall of the podium of the rugby field is very distinctive. It is curved both horizontally and vertically, and more than ten large tanks are embedded in the wall to play a resonance role.Therefore, speaking on the rostrum, you don't have to shout at the top of your voice, and everyone in the audience can hear it.

Shao Yong first made a speech on the stage, calling on everyone to mourn in silence for the alumni who sacrificed their lives for the country and the people who suffered in distress, and then announced that Qingyuan Academy would build a shrine to commemorate the alumni who died in Wangshi and made special achievements in learning and technology, and then he invited Li Buqi on stage.

Li Buqi cleared his throat and said with a sinking dantian: "A few days ago, I had some thoughts on the way back to Beijing. I sorted them out in the past few days and discussed them with you. The topic of my speech today is 'A gentleman who wants to govern a country must value profit. Pragmatic and skillful'!"

Everyone in the arena was taken aback.Sure enough, as Li Buqi expected, a gorgeously dressed young man stood under the rostrum and asked loudly: "Mencius said, 'Govern the country with righteousness, why talk about profit'! The gentleman of the day said: A gentleman does not speak of profit! Do you want to be different?"

Li Buqi smiled and said: "I will answer your questions later. After I finish speaking, there will be a special time for questions. If you have any questions, can I ask them later?"

Li Buqi saw the scholar sitting down resentfully under the white eyes of the people around him, but his eyes flashed.Because he saw the scholar turned into a middle-aged man, he seemed to be Sima Guang!It seems that there will be a tough battle to fight today.

He cleared his throat again and continued: "Why do you say that profit is important in governing a country? Because people survive with profit! It is profit, the spoils obtained by soldiers in battle are also profit, and the beautiful articles that please people's mood are also profit. In short, the products that satisfy people's own survival and development are all profit. Imagine how people can survive and support officials to govern without food and cloth. How can the common people support the army to resist foreign aggression? If there are no books and articles, how will the culture be passed on? If there are no benefits, there will be no people and no country.”

"Profit is the foundation of the world's existence. The sage never hides profit. The Master said, 'Don't worry about inequalities, but inequity'. The inequity and inequalities naturally refer to profits. "University" says, "There is a way to make money, and there is a way to make money." Those who eat it are few, those who eat it are ill, and those who use it are comfortable, then wealth will always be enough'. Wealth is just a form of profit..."

"In my opinion, that brother just misunderstood the phrase 'a gentleman does not talk about profit'. It is not that a gentleman does not talk about profit, but that he should not only seek profit, and not fight for his own profit."

"Is there any person in the world who does not live for the benefits of the world? In my opinion, there is no one. People live, they must eat and wear, even if they eat and drink, they are also rentiers. Since people can't live without renters all the time. But to survive, why can’t you talk about benefits? If only those who talk about benefits are worthy of being called gentlemen, it is unfair to the majority of people. It must be known that people in high positions enjoy the benefits of the world, but they can eat without talking about benefits. .Even without talking about profit, there are people who make profit for him. But there are few people in high positions in the world, and most people have to talk about profit in order to survive. If a person who does not talk about profit is a gentleman, then only the rich and the A person in a high position can be called a gentleman, and a person born in a poor family does not even have this qualification..."

Many scholars also come from ordinary families. Many people may have been touched by Li Buqi's words, and they all applauded.

When the applause subsided, Li Buqi said: "Let's study how the benefits of the world are produced. The benefits are naturally produced through human labor. If there is no human labor, even if the fertile fields are placed there, it will not affect people." Generate half of the profit. This issue has been discussed by sages in the past few years, so I won’t talk about it here. Today, I want to analyze the necessary conditions for generating profits.”

"Can people make profits as long as they work? If there are no forests, land, and mineral deposits, how can people work? Therefore, to make profits, you must have forests, land, and mineral deposits. I call them labor materials or resources. How do people work? To use labor materials? Tools such as knives, axes and sickles must be used, and the human hand is the simplest and most basic tool, but now we have developed better and more tools, and the role of the hand is not so obvious. ……”

"Since people rely on profit to survive, let the world generate more profit, so that people will be at ease and the world will be at peace. If the world generates less profit, if it is not enough to support the world's people, the world will be chaotic. Therefore, those who want to stabilize the country must find out the strategy of generating profit. How to make the world A lot of profit? Let’s analyze them one by one.”

"First, let's look at the possession of the means of labor. At the end of the troubled times, the population is dying, and when the country was established, we assumed that each household could own an average of [-] acres of land and forests, and we also assumed that ordinary households could cultivate [-] acres. In this way, everyone can produce as much as they can, and households with spare capacity can cultivate more land for farming. Therefore, the world will generate more profits, and if there are few people who are relatively rentier, the world will be rich. However, the country has been in peace for nearly a hundred years, and the household registration is increasing. Fan, if today each household can only own [-] mu of land and forests on average, and ordinary households can still cultivate [-] mu of land, the benefits of the world will not increase, but there will be many more rentiers, and the world will inevitably fall into trouble. At the same time However, each family has a labor force capable of cultivating more than ten acres of land, which has been wasted."

"In this way, if we want to rebalance the interests of the world with the interests of the world, we must find ways to provide enough land and other resources for the people."

"Assuming that various resources are sufficient, how to increase the benefits of the world? Here I would like to propose a term - 'efficiency'. What is efficiency? It is the ratio of output benefits to input manpower and material resources..."

Li Buqi talked eloquently, analyzing the division of labor in society is inevitable to improve production efficiency, the improvement of technology and the improvement of labor tools are the main means to improve production efficiency.From this, it is deduced that the division of mental labor, manual labor and civil and military labor is just a social division of labor, and the technology that was considered to be miraculous and obscene in the past is more important than poetry and poetry.Of course, there must be exchange if there is a division of labor. He also pointed out that business is indispensable in today's society.

"Due to the division of labor in society, people must form a collective to complete complex production labor! The master of this collective is the country! The country is not simply consuming the people's taxes, it must provide the people with security, law, and order, so that the people can concentrate on production And stable exchange, it is necessary to provide roads and canals to make the exchange more convenient, to organize the people to complete projects such as irrigation ditches that cannot be implemented by a single person to improve production efficiency, and to use the wealth obtained from the people to educate and improve technology. Improving the productive capacity of the people in the aspects that cannot be completed... Only when these things are done can a country survive for a long time..."

"The country has to do so many things, how to do it well? There are so many things to do, what to do, how to do it, you can't figure it out by relying on fantasy in your study, it all depends on being pragmatic..."

"Unfortunately, there are quite a few people in the imperial court who are accustomed to retreat. They don't seem to live in today's world. They must be called the Three Emperors and don't know what's going on today. They say that they are ruled by the arches, but they don't know that the Three Emperors lived in a small country with few people and a lot of land. There are few people, and the heads of Guizhou are all chieftains and nobles, but now the Song Dynasty is a big country with thousands of miles, and the people all rely on the court, how can it be compared with the Three Emperors?"

(End of this chapter)