"Haha, why would you disagree? I'm afraid they will still invest in support." Xia Wanchun said with a smile, "Brother Jiugao hasn't seen my father and teacher for at least a year, right? Maybe I don't know that their thoughts now are already very different from those in the past.

It's different.

In fact, it is not just them. Since the emergence of the Ming Pao, I have been reading every issue, and later I read the special issue of natural sciences. Now when I think about it, I just feel that what I think and say now is completely different from the past.

What the emperor said is right. Confucianism has come to an end to its fullest for thousands of years to demonstrate its knowledge, and Confucianism only involves human thoughts and social principles... "

"Wait, what is society?" I found that I couldn't understand Xia Wanchun's words, so Du Dengchun couldn't help but ask.

The term society was not without it before, but it was used to refer to social gatherings or social festivals. Xia Wanchun's words "society" must not be what she originally meant.

"Brother Jiugao must have missed a few issues of the Ming Dynasty, right?" Xia Wanchun said, "The so-called society is the sum of the relationship formed by people and the environment, which is probably related to what we said before, "the world" and "the world"

, or commonly known as "Jianghu" means similar.

The role of Confucian principles in self-cultivation is beyond doubt, and the second is to understand the principles in society.

As for assisting the king in the court to getting along with people around him, Confucianism is very good - this is not what I said, but the remarks made by the emperor through the Daming Pao.”

Because the weather was hot, Xia Wanchun was thirsty and took another sip of tea.

Then he said: "However, Confucianism has no direct effect on improving the country's productivity, scientific research capabilities, industrial scale, people's livelihood economy, and commercial prosperity.

For thousands of years, we can only rely on soft means such as clear administration and clear government and people to restore the above aspects, but cannot directly improve them...

Xia Wanchun talked endlessly to Du Dengchun, but did not notice that at some point, there were more and more tea tourists gathering around.

Among them were gentry and merchants, but more were young scholars like two.

Many of these scholars have read many issues of the Ming Dynasty, and even like Xia Wanchun, they must read every issue. Therefore, they not only understood his words, but also agreed with them.

I even admired it - because some truths were not directly stated in the Ming Dynasty, but were interpreted by Xia Wanchun.

"Confucianism focuses on agriculture and industry and commerce. Sometimes it even suppresses industry and commerce for the sake of developing agriculture, but it does not know that industry and commerce, especially industry, also have a lot of improvement in agriculture.

In the distance, there are advanced agricultural tools made by craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty, which have increased grain output time and time again.

Recently, you should have heard of the grain of fairy world that the imperial court has promoted in various provinces, right?

In fact, that is not a grain seed in the fairy world, but is also cultivated through natural science and industry assistance. The yield of rice and wheat per mu can reach a thousand kilograms.

If we only use Confucianism, even if we manage a place that is rich and does not close our doors at night and do not pick up the remains on the road, how can we achieve this achievement in grain production?

As stated in the "Da Ming Pao", Confucianism can only play an auxiliary role in production and has an upper limit on improving productivity."

Speaking of this, Xia Wanchun stopped to have tea again, but heard someone say, "This brother said that the tools of farmers in all dynasties were made by craftsmen, but as far as I know, most of the inventors are scholars, and it can even be said that

I am my Confucian disciple."

Only then did Xia Wanchun notice that there were many people listening.

He couldn't help but blush slightly, then bowed to the people around him, and finally smiled at the person asking the question, "What this kind of brother said is indeed good, but even a Confucian disciple, when he thought about inventing tools to benefit the farming and sericulture,

Isn’t he Mo Yugong?”

When many young scholars heard Xia Wanchun's words, they subconsciously nodded in agreement after being slightly stunned.

There is no doubt that the invention of new rural residences to boost agriculture and sericulture is the method of the Mohist and the workers.

The scholar who asked about the question was surprised at first, and then bowed to express his conviction.

···

Wuying Palace.

Zhu Ma was summoning the Minister of Finance Ma Shiying, Minister of Finance Yi Yingchang, and Fang Jinxian, the fifth-rank chief of the Mint Bureau.

It must be mentioned that as the first chief of the Mint Bureau, Fang Jinxian was originally a young eunuch in the Sichuan Prince's Mansion. He was first valued by Fang Zhenghua, and later transferred to the treasury to serve. He did the most meticulously. He explained to him.

Tasks are never wrong.

Considering the importance of the Mint and the need for her "instructions" in the future, Zhu Mai transferred Fang Jinxian from the treasury and promoted him to the head of the Mint.

"Please look at your Majesty, this is the first batch of coins used by the Mint to mint the imperial mother's coins and new technology."

Following Fang Jinxian's words, the three eunuchs each entered forward with a wooden pallet with red velvet cloth. The silver dollars and two types of copper coins that Zhu Mai ordered to be minted.

Lian Qiao took two palace maids to the fruit tray and carefully placed it on the imperial desk.

Zhu Mai looked at it roughly and felt that it was basically cast according to her previous requirements.

At the same time, Hao Guangming on the other side also saw the batch of coins through the camera.

The silver dollar was slightly larger than Yuan Datou in later generations. There were clear spiral patterns around it, and the whole was slightly shimmering silver.

The main pattern on the front is the word "1 circle" surrounded by rice ears and wheat ears. On the north is the abstract word "Ming" composed of sun and moon patterns. There is also a circle of extremely small Arabic numerals under the word "Ming".

Ordinary people naturally don’t understand the meaning of this number, but it represents the date of minting and the number of the silver coin.

Although each number cannot be unique, it has a certain number. It is a few hundred, thousands, or tens of thousands, and hundreds of thousands. Only the records can be found in the Mint.

At the same time, the blank part has fine round patterns, which feels great to the touch.

"Pick it up and pop it and listen." Hao Guangming said.

Although Zhu Meiyu didn't know why, she did as she did immediately and intentionally approached the phone and microphone.

So, Hao Guangming heard an extremely crisp and pleasant voice, and Zhu Mai naturally heard it.

"This sound sounds better than playing Yuan Datou. It is worthy of being carefully made good money!" Hao Guangming praised sincerely.

Zhu Meiyu smiled slightly after hearing this, and then looked at the two kinds of copper coins again.

The style of copper coins is generally similar to before. On the one hand, there are four traditional characters in the Ming Dynasty, "Zhaowu Tongbao", and on the other hand, there are "Shiwen" or "1wen".

Both are copper yellow, which looks like gold, but when the big money that is picked up is slightly purple, and when the small money that is 100% of the small money that is picked up is slightly red.

Moreover, there are also fine spiral patterns around the two types of copper coins, but there are two vermilion bird patterns on the blank area on the north side of the Shiwen Daqian, and there are only fine round patterns on the blank area on the north side of the Shiwen Xiaoqian.

Whether it is the rotating patterns on the edges of the coin, the pattern and circular patterns on the surface, in addition to making the coin more exquisite, its main function is to prevent scratching.

With such patterns, when they wear to a certain extent, they are easily defined as waste money.

In fact, with the material of Zhaowu Tongbao and silver dollars, it is not easy for the people of the Ming Dynasty to wear quickly, and they can only wear naturally during long-term use.

After reading it, Zhu Mai nodded with satisfaction, and the other party said, "The coin in the Mint is well minted."

Fang Jinxian hurriedly said, "This is all the matter of slaves...they are all things that are the subject of the minister."

In the past, Fang Jinxian called himself a slave, but now he has not been a formal official for a long time, and his name habit has not been completely changed.
Chapter completed!