"Oh?" Lao Zhu was hesitant, but for Zhu Biao's sake, he finally unfolded the memorial.
Originally, he thought that what was written in this memorial was just a memorial written by Li Shanchang to express his support for the collection of commercial taxes and to beg for forgiveness from the palace.
But the more he looked, the more serious Lao Zhu's expression became.
"Come on! Go to Xuan Laowu, and Mr. Liu will come to see us!"
After reading the memorial, Lao Zhu couldn't help but stood up suddenly, walked around the palace and thought for a while, and finally called Erhu and asked him to summon Liu Bowen and Zhu Su into the palace to discuss.
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At this time, Zhu Su was still worried about the Imperial College affairs.
The emperor's seizure of the iron coupons for military talismans had already been widely circulated in the city. The literati were celebrating with their crowns, thinking that the emperor was going to put the weapons into the treasury, release the horses to Nanshan, and rule Yuanting across the Great Wall.
Originally, now that the Ming Dynasty had taken back Liaodong and Yunnan, and the ancestral land was already in its hands, the Northern Yuan Dynasty was at the end of its power. There was no need to spend so much tax money every year to support so many people just to fight with the Yuanting.
soldiers and warriors. Your Majesty's actions are exactly following the old wisdom of Zhao Kuangyin, Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty, who released his military power over a cup of wine. Next, he would treat the literati courteously and rule the world with the scholar-bureaucrats.
It happened that at this time, the cakes drawn for the nobles that night were spread like wildfire, and the literati could not help but shout: not only did they not abandon the military men, but they wanted to entrust them to the military men, so that they could be called lonely and outnumbered.
Above the literati?
"It doesn't matter. In the long run, this matter is not a problem at all. Our country is a government school, and those people who make noise are ultimately a disease of mustard. As long as the imperial examination selects talents according to the new learning method, those literati will just
I also need to learn something new about my nose." Zhu Su said. "It's just a bit of a headache in the short term. First, the number of students is decreasing day by day, and the Imperial College has a great reputation, so we can't end up with no students to teach."
"How can this not make sense? How can this not make sense!" As the author of the article, Song Lian was trembling with anger. "There are many well-educated people among these people, but they ignored the meaning of the article and insisted on dragging the article into a superficial civil and military struggle!
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How...how can this be done? Who is it that slanders His Majesty?
Then it happened that at this time, Zhu Su asked Song Lian to compile the first edition of the Imperial Education Program, and "On China" came out. The book starts from the Western Zhou Dynasty and Zhou Rites, goes through the rise and fall of China for thousands of years, and finally points out that the rise of China lies in pioneering and enterprising;
The decline is due to the fact that we are stuck in our own ways. All scholars should inherit the learning of their ancestors, inherit the aspirations of their ancestors, and explore the blue and blue paths to expand China.
"New Learning is our century-old plan for the Ming Dynasty, and it must not be lost. The most urgent task is to let everyone in the world know the ideas in "Hua Xia Lun", and it is best to compete with each other and clear up those people's nonsense.
If you refute it point by point, it should be spread throughout the world, so that everyone will know the evil intention of that old scholar."
It has simply become a big joke in the country.
However, Zhu Su encountered a big problem. Most of the working capital he could use now had been invested in the two bottomless pits of steelmaking and firearms research and development. He did not have enough to run a large newspaper that could supply the entire Jiangnan area.
Money. Besides, he didn’t dare to take possession of something like this that was related to the right to speak. It would be best to let Lao Zhu or his eldest brother Zhu Biao come forward to take charge of it. By the way, the law would prohibit private newspapers from being published at the beginning, completely suppressing public opinion.
It is safest to have this great weapon of death in the hands of the imperial court.
"I do have a solution for this matter. It's just..." Zhu Su looked embarrassed. In the past few days, the Xin Xue literati led by Fang Xiaoru had also debated in public with those students who slandered Xin Xue, but these
Most of the literati are obviously not here to reason. To put it bluntly, these people are like the keyboard warriors of later generations. They don't care about whether the truth is right or wrong. They just want to use words to smear and spit out the budding new learning.
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"Good." Zhu Su also nodded. "In fact, those who oppose the new learning are mostly landlords and gentry, who claim to be farmers and heirlooms, but in fact they have nothing to do with it. It is we who have exposed them for thousands of years.
, disregarding the interests of the country, only willing to stand up and talk about romance, and unwilling to seek happiness for the world, this will cause their backlash."
"However, many students from poor families agree with our new learning. We can set up an admissions examination, and those who can pass the examination can study at the Imperial College for free. Only by cultivating our own literati can we compete with the old literati.
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"Why are you so angry?" Liu Bowen, who has taken over the post of edict, comforted Song Lian with kind words. "His Royal Highness has not made up his mind before. How can this generation of scholars understand the subtle words and great meanings of the saints? They are just using the saints' learning as a stepping stone to promotion.
That's all. Even the words of saints have been changed beyond recognition by such people over the past thousand years, let alone Brother Song's writings?"
Old Master Song's face turned purple with anger.
You must know that those old literati were extremely good at using public opinion to suppress imperial power.
Liu Bowen also nodded. Then he said: "As for the second point, does Your Highness have a plan? Nowadays, the trend of slandering my new learning is very rampant. Those people have no intention of arguing with us, but only want to smear me."
"It needs to be able to prevent my new learning from being stigmatized."
"As for the source of students, I have an idea." Liu Bowen said with a smile. "Confucius said that there is no distinction between education and distinction, so why not take this opportunity to recruit children from poor families into prisons? I have trained hundreds of farmers in the imperial village before.
son."
"These children are so smart and smart that they just fill the quota for the Imperial College. Moreover, if families from poor families have the opportunity to continue studying, they will definitely flock to them. Who cares about the rumors of those old scholars."
"The second is the voice of doubt about "Hua Xia Lun". Although "Hua Xia Lun" is full of true knowledge and insights, there must be people who can discern gold. But most people in the world are followers of the trend. If we cannot suppress this evil trend, I am afraid that
It is not good for the spread of new learning.”
"These people are taking things out of context and making them far-fetched... It's really, really unreasonable!"
"In my opinion, there must be someone from North Korea behind this matter. It won't be that simple." Liu Bowen asserted.
Suddenly, among the literati, everyone in the Imperial College was shouting for beatings, so much so that many of the Imperial College students who persisted before were forced to quit prison due to pressure. There was no Imperial College student left in Nuo Da.
How many people are there.
When Song Lian heard this, he also nodded. The old man turned his anger into joy and said with his hands: "Wonderful! In this way, those people slandering us have become a way to select talents for my new school! After blowing away the yellow sand, we will see you.
Jin, don’t let those half-hearted supervisors go!”
But now, the imperial court has only collected a mere 100,000 taels of commercial tax. Although Lao Zhu has taken care of the nobles, there is no conclusion yet on how to check the tax. Zhu Su has no way to do this. After all, the imperial court has nothing to do.
After all, the Yushitai are just some noble Confucian scholars who are not familiar with ordinary affairs, and the people from the Ministry of Finance can be said to be in the same group as those literati. Let them check themselves, what kind of knowledge can they find?
"Husbands of the Huaxia, obeying the etiquette and etiquette, are the best in the world. Let overseas countries understand the etiquette, know the integrity and shame, and follow our system of the Huaxia. This is exactly what the sage said to spread the teachings and benefit the world! How can it be purely based on martial arts?"
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Otherwise, it would be terrible if someone realized the power of public opinion and he, Zhu Su, set the precedent and allowed others to use the weapon of public opinion to counter the imperial court.
Originally, Zhu Su was not at all afraid of this kind of trolls. It was just about comparing whose voice was louder. As long as he used the two weapons of leaflets and newspapers, sooner or later these trolls would be beaten back to the point of abandonment. After all,
Most people are just mindlessly following the trend. As long as they have control over the direction of the discourse, they will naturally defect to the new learning.
Zhu Su nodded secretly after hearing this, and he thought so. These literati were all instigated. Although there was a reason why dissatisfaction among the literati with the "new learning" that they admired accumulated and erupted, it must also be because someone was behind the scenes.
Later, they fanned the flames. Zhu Su could even guess that the identities of these people must be the civil servants in the court. Seeing that Li Shanchang was unreliable, he deliberately stirred up trouble, hoping that the court would be so anxious that they would not care about their evasion of business taxes.
This article is Song Lian's painstaking work, with eloquent words and beautiful sentences. It is a wonderful article. But it just stirred up a hornet's nest. The literati, in vain of the knowledge in the article, accused the Imperial College of deceiving the public and flattering the public, and described vulgar martial arts in such a high-sounding way.
It means forgetting about our ancestors and worshiping martial arts and suppressing literature.
"How can matters of learning be used for court disputes?" Song Lian was even more angry. What the Imperial College was doing now was a major event that affected China for hundreds of years and reshaped the study of saints. He couldn't tolerate the fact that someone was using this to cause trouble.
We can only wait for Lao Zhu to use thunderous tactics to scare one group of people, and then frighten another group of people. Only with this stupid method can we get the first crack at the commercial tax law?
"Well, to put it bluntly, I still don't have the money to make trouble." Zhu Su sighed. Originally, he just wanted to ask the cheap daddy for some money to study and develop basic technology, but he didn't expect that he would have to come up with new knowledge on his own.
Although the nobles were purged, there was still no trace of the money. Now they added the work of rebuilding the Imperial College and setting up a newspaper office, which made Zhu Su even want to encourage Lao Zhu to start a big case and confiscate the house, and use the stolen money to do things.
Let me do it first.
Science and technology are always the primary productive force of a country, and there is no room for delay! If I remember correctly, in a few years, the Japanese and Southern Dynasties will be unified. If before then, the Ming Dynasty cannot be allowed to form a weapons generation gap and have the Yuanting in the north.
At the same time, it can also deter Japan's strength.
Let the Ashikaga shogunate successfully unify the Japanese country, and it will be even more difficult for the Ming Dynasty to do this again.
"Your Majesty, Fifth Highness, Mr. Qingtian, your Majesty has summoned you." Just as he was thinking about it, he heard someone coming from outside to report.