Chapter 176 The Food Crisis in Daming 【Seeking Monthly Pass】
The four realms of Confucianism and Taoism: self-cultivation, family order, country governance, and world peace.
The corresponding four Confucian principles are Tianwen, Shouxin, Caution of Speech, and Dufa...
Among them, the only method is Pingtianxia Poetry, which is the Confucian art that can greatly enhance the strength of Confucian and Taoist extraordinary people. As long as you master it, you can write some familiar articles and give these articles a variety of extraordinary abilities.
For example, Hu Zongxian's most famous song "Song of Righteousness" can turn more than 30,000 ordinary people into super warriors without fear of pain and fatigue.
After using Li Bai's "Jianjinjiu", everyone within the Confucian area can enter a state of drunkenness.
Compared with the power of Dufa, the remaining three Confucian arts are not that great in improving the strength of the extraordinary person itself.
It can even be said that the improvement of combat effectiveness of these three kinds of Confucianism is almost zero.
But the power of the extraordinary system of Confucianism, Taoism, and Talent is not in fighting and killing, but in the transformation of thoughts.
Zhu Yuanzhang was convinced that if these three Confucian techniques were used in the right place, their effect would be beyond imagination, even greater than Dufa.
For example, the function of Confucianism Tianwen is to shock people's hearts, making it impossible for them to hide their inner thoughts.
This is especially useful when dealing with uncivilized alien races, because using this Confucianism you can quickly understand the other party's true inner thoughts and use this to prepare countermeasures.
On the contrary, Confucianism's mind-keeping can make one's heart strong and not be disturbed by various external affairs. At the same time, it can resist the Confucian effects of Tianwen.
This technique seems to have no effect, but guarding one's heart also has a small effect, which is that it can make oneself more confident, more contagious, and more approachable.
This allows Confucian scholars who learn this technique to quickly gain the trust of those foreign races instead of being hostile.
The last word of caution in Confucianism can be heard for hundreds of miles, and can prohibit the spread of all sounds within the scope of Confucianism.
This is easy to explain. This corresponds to propaganda, which allows more foreigners to bathe in the broad and profound Chinese culture.
As a small seventh-grade county magistrate, Xu Yuan only reached the Qi family level in Confucianism and Taoism.
Therefore, he only mastered the two Confucian arts of Tianwen and Shouxin.
But these two techniques alone are enough.
Half a month after landing on this land, after the young general led hundreds of men to defeat tens of thousands of Indian troops in one fell swoop, he used Confucianism to gain the trust of a large number of Indians in just three days.
Then the education begins.
In just three months, a large number of Indians have learned simple Chinese communication and understood simple Han etiquette.
This is quite exciting news for Xu Yuan.
Now he has completely adapted to life here.
And full of energy.
Of course, he didn't think it was because he almost starved to death for not cooperating in the first few days after arriving, and had to bow to those warriors who were only thinking about muscles.
He just really found the joy of educating all people, and at the same time gained huge benefits from it.
In the Ming Dynasty, there were two ways to improve the realm of Confucianism and Taoism.
The first is to become an official in the court and serve as pastor and guard for the current saint. The realm of Confucianism and Taoism will improve with the promotion of official position, and the other way to improve is through enlightenment.
As long as you educate enough people so that more people can understand etiquette and know the law, the realm of Confucianism and Taoism will also improve.
And isn’t what he is doing now to educate all peoples?
Although these people are aliens, after transformation, they can also become qualified people of the Ming Dynasty!
Of course, it was impossible to reach the level of becoming a general or becoming a prime minister, and it was not necessary at all. Those warriors obviously did not really want to teach these Indians such profound Confucian knowledge so that they would have the ability to participate in the imperial examinations of the Ming Dynasty.
They just need a large number of laborers who understand Chinese and are thoroughly Sinicized.
Xu Yuan didn't care about this, because even if he just taught a little Chinese and let these barbarians understand a little Han etiquette, he could still improve his Confucianism and Taoism.
In the current Ming Dynasty, he is a small seventh-rank official, and it is not his turn to educate the people, but here, he is the most knowledgeable.
Looking at those eyes with a strong thirst for knowledge, Xu Yuan seemed to have seen the scene after he became a world-famous scholar.
This gave him endless motivation.
A year flies by in the blink of an eye.
During this year, the Ming Dynasty's various armies that went out to conquer the world reported frequent successes.
The battlefield in America is just a microcosm of the world.
The new army of the Ming Dynasty was stimulated by Lord Zhu Yuanzhang's land policy of granting land and showed unparalleled operational capabilities.
The Age of Discovery, which had just begun to emerge in Europe, was directly crushed by the large ships and cannons of the Ming Dynasty Royal Navy.
America, Australia, Africa, and even the entire world, all grovel under the power of the Ming Navy.
The Ming Navy conquered most of the world in just one year.
As for the remaining half of the world, it is not that it cannot be conquered, but because there are not enough manpower...
"Your Majesty, it seems that although Confucianism and Taoism extraordinary people have low personal strength, our ability to assimilate Chinese Confucian culture has been greatly improved because of this extraordinary system."
"If it weren't for those Confucian extraordinary men, it would have been a lot of trouble to conquer those foreign races." In the Xiyuan, Xu Jie put down a few memorials in his hand and said with a smile on his face.
Yan Song, Gao Gong and others beside him all nodded when they heard this, quite agreeing with Xu Jie's statement.
They now know the world of the early Ming Dynasty very well, and Gao Gong and others have even been there through the portal.
They knew very well that compared to the warriors of that world, the great scholars like them were completely incomparable in terms of military force.
But they also have their own unique characteristics and abilities, which are the basis for their future foothold in the political arena.
As Zhu Yuanzhang said, the more they know, the broader their horizons will be.
Now they are already considering what position they and others can occupy after the two worlds merge.
As elder statesmen, they naturally understood that the more important the system of Confucianism, Taoism, and Talent was in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart, the better their position in the Ming Dynasty's court would be in the future.
Now that I have the opportunity, I will naturally spare no effort to praise you.
Zhu Yuanzhang was naturally aware of this, and what Xu Jie said was not an exaggeration.
The extraordinary system of Confucianism, Taoism and Talent was indeed of great use to the Ming Dynasty.
He experienced the world war in the late Qing Dynasty.
He deeply understood that it was easy to defeat a nation, but it was an almost impossible task to completely conquer everyone in the nation.
Relying on bloody suppression alone is completely unworkable.
But now the extraordinary system of Confucianism and Taoism has given him a perfect solution.
There is no need to conquer these ethnic groups, just assimilate them into part of the Chinese nation.
"For us now, the most important problem that needs to be solved is the serious shortage of Confucian and Taoist extraordinary people in the military!"
"Xu Da and the others have been asking us for people during this time. Without enough Confucian and Taoist extraordinary people, they will not be able to quickly recruit a group of local natives loyal to the Ming Dynasty for their own use after military occupation of those places. The war can achieve
The effect will be greatly reduced.”
"This issue must be resolved as soon as possible."
"Can you guys tell me if there is any good solution?" Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at the many ministers in front of him and asked.
When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but look at each other.
These extraordinary Confucianists and Taoists who joined the army were the officials and gentry who obstructed the Ming Dynasty's New Deal reforms that year.
However, after this year of thunderous suppression by the court, the remaining officials and gentry have become much more honest. If they want to find trouble to exile them and let them work for the court for free, I am afraid that it will not be possible in a short time.
"Why not make the conditions better and recruit directly?" Gao Gong said suddenly.
"Now that the imperial court's reform is getting deeper and deeper, it has touched the fundamental interests of the gentry. Does Zhongxuan Gong think they will respond to the imperial court's call at this time?" Hai Rui asked.
Hai Rui knew very well the character of those gentry.
They can't accomplish anything big, but if they do bad things, each one will be more powerful than the other.
"Your Majesty, I have an urgent report here." Suddenly Zhang Juzheng hurried in.
"Tell me about it!" Zhu Yuanzhang said with great interest.
"This year, Henan and Shanxi suffered from a severe drought that has never happened in a century. Many people have lost their harvest. I originally wanted to take precautions and collect a batch of grain from grain merchants for backup, but I didn't know that the grain on the market was also no longer available.
Grain prices in the two affected provinces, Henan and Shanxi, have begun to fluctuate upward..."
"What's even more serious is that according to my investigation during this period, not only Henan, but also Shandong, Zhejiang, South Zhili and other places also have insufficient grain stocks."
"It seems like overnight, the food on the market in Ming Dynasty suddenly disappeared." Zhang Juzheng said with a solemn face.
"But someone is hoarding goods?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.
Zhang Juzheng shook his head: "That's what's weird. After my investigation, those grain merchants also have no grain in their hands."
"Humph, what's so weird about this!"
"It must be the fault of the big farmers. They hold grains in their hands and work together not to sell out. They want to take advantage of this calamity year to conquer our army!" Zhu Yuanzhang sneered.
"You see? This is the drawback of the imperial court not being able to control the power of pricing food. Those people don't care about the lives of the people."
"I guess they are waiting to see the court's joke right now?"
"Just arrest a group of gentry for hoarding goods and confiscate their homes!" Gao Gong shouted angrily.
This man is a very angry old man. Although his family is also a big landowner, he has no awareness of the big landowners at all. Especially since Zhu Yuanzhang revealed his identity, he has become more and more free in his speech.
"No!"
"Your Majesty has always acted in accordance with the Ming Law. Now those people are just saving their own grain and not selling it. There is nothing wrong. If your Majesty launches a large-scale prison for this, the fairness of the Ming Law will be completely lost. At the same time, it will also destroy the justice of the Ming Law."
Losing the hearts of all the people in the world." Hai Rui hurriedly stopped him.
"Don't worry, we have made the laws of the Ming Dynasty, how can we violate it?"
Zhu Yuanzhang narrowed his eyes slightly: "This matter is actually easy to solve. As long as there is enough food, those people's plan will not only be defeated without attack, but also suffer heavy losses."
"But where can there be so much food?"
"Even if all the food in the Changping warehouse is transferred to the disaster area, it will still be insufficient. It can only last for half a month at most. After half a month, there will be no food." Xu Jie sighed.
"Haha, it doesn't exist here, but that doesn't mean it didn't exist in the early days!"
"Last year was a bumper harvest in the early Ming Dynasty, and the grain reserves were enough to last ten years."
"We want to see if those people can spend ten years with us." Zhu Yuanzhang sneered.
