Chapter 300: Something I Don't Care About and Worry About
After sending Li Tianwei away, Chen Xin had no joking opponents, so he had to smile and taste some melons and fruits with Anya and chatted for a while.
After that, I went for a walk in the back garden with Anya.
"Xuan He, I still have a lot of words for concubines, they are all officials of the kingdom, and they are all courtiers under your command, so I don't need to worry too much about relying on you."
Chen Xin knew what Anya was talking about, and responded with a smile, "Xiaoya, I have never taken these hundred or so low-level officials seriously, as long as they are not too excessive, I will not take care of them, this time, it is only because the front line is fighting that I found an excuse to temporarily close them."
These corrupt Confucians who have just joined the government department of the kingdom are easy to deal with, but I am worried that after entering the Central Plains and taking over the entire Ming Dynasty, there will inevitably be a cultural conflict. That's what makes people bother. ”
Chen Xin didn't say much, you know, he tolerated these Confucian protégés to serve in the royal government, on the one hand, because of the obsession in his heart, and on the other hand, it was also to get to know them closely, so that he could deal with the scholars of the Ming Dynasty in the future.
The United Kingdom of China was founded on military power, and it was completely fought by foreign forces.
Painting on a blank piece of paper is far more convenient than directly intervening in the quagmire of the Ming Dynasty.
With Chen Xin, a traverser, as the leader, after the founding of the country, he naturally vigorously developed industry, followed by foreign trade.
However, whether it is heavy industry or heavy business, food is still the most basic need of human beings, and agriculture will not be despised by Chen Xin.
In particular, under the climatic conditions of the Xiaoice River period, the perennial reduction in agricultural production shook the stability of Daming, and Chen Xin's experience of starvation during the period when he was captured as a slave in Houjin also made Chen Xin pay special attention to agricultural development.
Moreover, the Huaxia Kingdom also has a unique advantage in the development of agriculture, back and forth several waves of people, the Korean Peninsula has been beaten into a blank land, so that in the process of agricultural development, the distribution of means of production that destroyed the foundation of the empire in the later period of the Central Plains Dynasty basically does not exist.
With a large amount of arable land per capita, advanced labor and tools, and industrious people, the kingdom's agricultural development was extremely stable. In addition, the completion of several major water conservancy projects has greatly reduced the number of natural disasters, and the total food production of the kingdom has increased year by year.
When there was enough food, the kingdom vigorously developed animal husbandry, forestry, fishery, and other industries to increase the income of the peasants. The marine fishing industry, in particular, greatly enriched the kingdom's food supply.
In this way, the kingdom's agriculture is no longer a small-scale peasant economy that supports itself as a man and a woman, but has entered a commercial agriculture that is highly integrated into the distribution field and pursues profit and efficiency.
In addition, under the leadership of a group of economically minded people, some of the people who have been developing for a long time have emerged in specialized agricultural production and entered the initial stage of capital agriculture.
So, from all this there is something that shows the direction of the kingdom's economic policy.
From the economic aspect, the current economic policy of the kingdom is similar to the initial capital sprout in Songjiang and other areas in the south of the Ming Dynasty, and the two societies can basically be docked.
However, the southern part of the Ming Dynasty is the territory of local tyrants, gentry, and officials, and it has nothing to do with that country.
The group of officials in the Ming Dynasty, as the spokesmen of the local wealthy families, did their own business and monopolized the market, and as soon as the emperor collected taxes, he was "competing with the people for profit".
The resolutely implemented policy of "emphasizing agriculture and suppressing business" is to collect agricultural taxes from the crazy ordinary peasants of the non-gentry line, and then exempt them from taxes on the commercial activities monopolized by the wealthy families.
This XX is actually called "heavy agriculture and suppression of business"!
Under this policy, the treasury of the huge Ming Dynasty was actually empty, the military salaries of the nine-sided military town were constantly in arrears, and there were mutinies every year. When a large number of disasters were affected in the country, there was no money to help the victims, and the uprisings of the displaced people became more and more rampant.
Until Chongzhen hung himself on the crooked neck tree of the coal mountain with a belt, he failed to change this group of guys, but a large number of former Ming Dynasty officials turned into loyal ministers of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.
Chen Xin knew very well that during Chongzhen's reign, the court was also cleaned, but no matter who came to power, the country always irrepressibly slipped into the abyss.
This is not that Chongzhen doesn't know people, but in fact, the Confucian disciples in the court are basically potential stocks, and before they came to the fore, they were pulled into the water by the wealthy families from all over the world, and even, they were originally the children of the wealthy families, and none of them were white.
Now, although the Huaxia Kingdom has not yet entered the Central Plains, in Chen Xinxin, he has long been sure that he will come to the land of China and return to his hometown.
Therefore, how to deal with that group of Confucian protégés is a tricky problem.
You can't kill them all, or don't use them all, right?
The population of the last turbulent decades of the Ming Dynasty, in later generations, was estimated to be 130 million, 160 million, and 190 million, and there was no unified answer.
It can only roughly fix the population range of the Ming Dynasty during the Wanli period at 100 million to 200 million, which is within the huge margin of error.
After all, this is too big to be true of the 70 million population in the early Manchu Qing Dynasty, so people from all walks of life have been unable to agree on it.
Even if you take a minimum value of 100 million, the number of readers, it is counted in millions.
These scholars are the inheritors of traditional Chinese culture and the elite of this era, and a large part of them are people with high status in the local area.
After all, in this era, the only way to change one's fate is to study for the imperial examination, and smart people, or in other words, people who think they are smart, will all choose to read, and reading, under normal circumstances, can only choose Confucian classics.
Faced with such a large base of people, or people who conflict with the political ideas of the United Kingdom of China, what can Chen Xin do?
Judging from the big move of the Confucian protégés who have newly joined the government this time, it is not a simple matter to subdue them and use them for their own use, and it is easy to be self-defeating.
But you can't just start and kill all these people, in that case, I'm afraid that the entire Chinese nation will enter the dark ages.
Let's not talk about the big issue of whether the collective IQ will decline and whether the human race will degenerate, let's talk about the moral level, Chen Xin, who traveled from later generations, has completely experienced the social state of the ideological turmoil period after the 90s when he was a child, and has a clear understanding of the society in the era without Juche ideology.
The muscular man has already crossed over, and he doesn't want to go through that era again.
So, what if it's idle?
This is impossible, Confucianism has always been restless.
Their ancestor was a powerful existence who traveled around the world and ran around for officials. There is also Dong Zhongshu, who later wrote "Countermeasures for Promoting Virtue and Virtue", put forward the ideas of "Heaven and Man Induction", "Great Unification", "Depose the Hundred Schools of Thought, and Respect Confucianism Alone", and established the political status of Confucianism. There are also Zhu Xi, Wang Yangming and other big bulls, which clearly illustrate the attitude of Confucianism.
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