Chapter 289: It's an ass problem
"The way of Confucius and Mencius has been inherited for thousands of years, and your Excellency wants to abolish it once and for all, have you ever thought about the consequences?"
Wang Niansun said brokenly.
"The consequences?"
Yang Feng sneered.
"What do you want to say? Will the country not be a country? You think too highly of yourself, and none of the millions of people in Nanjing have been managed by a Jinshi, and they have been in good order for most of the year, and they are not living as well as your people. What else? Moral decay and people's hearts are not ancient? It's as if you corrupt officials have any morality to speak of! What else? Is it not possible to cut off etiquette and educate? Your set of things is education, isn't it someone else's? The only thing you can use is literacy, but what's so unattainable about that? A compulsory education can make everyone literate in the future! What else do you have to do? Is the eight-strand essay well written? Is poetry and poetry well written? Or are you good at singing praises? ”
Yang Feng continued.
"The people can make it, but they can't know it, and if you abandon the code of ethics, how will you restrain the people? At present, you are not only in harmony with profit, but have you ever thought that you will also divide with profit? Without the constraints of the Three Principles and the Five Constants, it can be seen that one day Your Excellency will be devoured by the people. ”
Wang Niansun said.
"So it's important for you to be able to turn people into slaves? Your slave mentality is very important? I admit that you have indeed succeeded in this, and the consequences of the people's wisdom and enlightenment are indeed not good for ruling them, and when I smash the shackles of the Three Principles and Five Constants on their bodies, my descendants will probably have to bear the consequences, but unfortunately, I don't care about this, because my duty is to save the people of the world, not just the change of dynasty, you can help me enjoy the pleasure of enslavement, but I want the strength of the nation.
But your tricks will only sink the nation in darkness.
So you're useless!
As for you, you have to die, you will be beheaded on the execution ground this time tomorrow, so you still have a day and a night, and in this day and night, you should take a good look at what the future is! ”
Yang Feng said.
He wasn't interested in talking nonsense with these guys.
If the Confucianism of the Song and Ming dynasties is still somewhat useful, the Confucianism of this era has completely become a slave family, and under the suppression of the written language that lasted for a hundred years, even those progressive ideas that sprouted at the end of the Ming Dynasty have been extinct among the Confucianists at this time. Their only research at present is just some meaningless research, to put it bluntly, they desperately look for things that the Manchu court likes in the Confucian classics, and then pick them out and become sages who are instilled in the next generation, and as for those that the Manchu court does not like, they will be burned, and the Siku Quanshu is their greatest achievement.
To put it bluntly, Qianlong's evaluation of them is most in line with their identity.
They are nothing more than a bunch of courtiers.
The literal courtier is no different from the drama and the clown.
Later generations touted Lao Ji and He Shen's fighting method, don't you know that in the real world, Lao Ji is not even qualified to step on He Shen.
And Zhongtang can't afford to lose that person.
And for Yang Feng, the only value of existence is to increase the literacy rate, and the problem of literacy rate is very easy to solve, compulsory compulsory education, night schools for workers, peasants and soldiers can be solved, as for teachers, they will directly enable those children who can't pass the Xiucai exam, give them the status of government employees, and they will be very happy to work for Xianzun. Yang Feng's blow to the green worms is limited to those who have meritorious fame, because those who have merit are the henchmen of the Qing Demon, but the children who have no merit are not included, of course, this child is not a child, in fact, the vast majority of children are adults, and there are even forty or fifty-year-old children, but they have not been able to pass the Xiucai is eighty years old and also a child.
Wang Niansun was thus escorted away, visited the imperial city and the school in the custody of two soldiers, and tomorrow he would be executed and beheaded.
"This is the problem of PI shares!"
Looking at his lonely back, Yang Feng sighed.
It should be said that this person is still worthy of affirmation, he has learned and has courage, and he is the first person to impeach and Shen after Jiaqing was pro-government in the original history, which shows that the political vision is also first-class, but since the pi shares are sitting on the other side, then they must be killed!
"As for you......"
Yang Feng then turned his gaze to another person and said.
"Immortal Venerable, please give me."
The latter said with a humble face.
It was a young man of about twenty, with a shrewd and capable face, and spoke in Cantonese, unlike the soldiers around him who had all cut their braids, and still had braids on his head.
"I will give you what you want, but you must also do something for me, and I promise that in the future, except for land, any property of the Wu family will be preserved, of course, the premise is that you can't be an official of the Qing Demon, and you can't enter the Xi Sect of the West Demon, otherwise I will still copy your family when I take Guangzhou."
Yang Feng said.
This is Wu Bingjian.
The owner of the Jardine Bank of Guangzhou Thirteen Lines, the legendary future richest man in the world in history, and the largest creditor of the East India Company, but at this time the Jardine Bank was not the boss of the Thirteen Lines of Guangzhou, the boss at this time was still the Pan family, and the general merchant was Pan Qi's fourth son Pan Youdu.
The luxury goods flowing from Yang Feng's hands have begun to be sold to European merchants through the Thirteen Lines, but because the number of them is very small because of the distance, as for the source of these things is Yang Feng, a demon who is rebelling, this is not a secret, at least for people like Wu Bingjian, it is not a secret at all, and he secretly came to Nanjing to reach a stable cooperative relationship with Yang Feng, as for the trade route between the two sides after reaching this relationship, this is not worth mentioning, Wu Bingjian came by the Qing Army Navy warship.
"Then what does Immortal Venerable need for the villain's effect?"
Wu Bingjian asked.
He has been in Nanjing for many days, and has seen the training of the Holy Sect Army, with his eyes, of course, he can see that this army can completely trample the Qing army on the ground and rub it, that is to say, the future of this Immortal Venerable may really be promising, so if the Wu family wants to maintain everything at present, it is best to be close to this Immortal Venerable.
"It's very simple, some of my people want to do things in Guangdong, but because the distance is too far, I can't provide them with much help, so I hope that you will help them, such as buying some arms from the West Demon, and the cost of buying arms for them will be offset by the goods on my side. Another point is that I also have some friendship with Zhu Li, they are willing to fight for the Holy Sect, but they need warships, although they can buy them from Macau, but Macao can only buy small boats, large warships, especially large warships that can be obtained immediately, this has to find the Heroic Demon, and you have a close relationship with the Heroic Demon, as long as you can buy two battleships within half a year, then I will use this as your reward. ”
Yang Feng stretched out his hand to the side as he spoke, and his fairy child hurriedly handed over a small box and opened the lid for him at the same time.
"This is a reward, and the value of the battleship is different!"
Yang Feng grabbed a handful of man-made diamonds from it and sprinkled them back into the box in the sun, the dazzling light that continued to flicker like a waterfall almost blinded Wu Bingjian's eyes, knowing the value of diamonds in Europe, his eyes were almost flying out and sticking to these diamonds.
As for the rest......
There's no need to think about that.
He's a businessman, what are you thinking about all that mess? If there is a benefit, just do it, isn't it just to smuggle arms to the heaven and earth in Guangdong? With the Zheng family's pirate fleet and his business network, it is the same as playing to provide cannons and muskets to those Tiandi Guilds in Boluo who are ready to raise troops, even if it is a full set of Western weapons. And although it is more difficult to buy a battleship, but for this box of diamonds, it is difficult to fight for it, and in fact it will not be too difficult, after all, those guys of the East India Company are not uncannibalistic, and it is not impossible to get two large warships from the fleet of the East India Company, and this thing is directly handed over to the Zheng family pirates at sea, and he does not need to take any risks.
"Immortal Venerable, it is a blessing for a villain to be able to serve Immortal Venerable."
Wu Bingjian said without hesitation.
"I just like a cheerful person like you."
Yang Feng said with satisfaction.
At this time, he had already made contact with the Heaven and Earth Society in Guangdong, and the latter was of course willing to join the Holy Sect, Lin Shuangwen was originally their group, and they were ready to raise troops in Boluo, because of Yang Feng's contact, Zheng Yi and his pirates were also willing to join the army. Although these people can buy from Macao, it is not easy to transport arms to Boluo, so Macao is not something that can buy anything, especially the logistics supply after the army, there is no collaborator who can cover it on the land of Guangdong, and the Wu family is enough to play this role.
And the purchase of a battleship is really only to him.
Zhu Lian has also been contacted there, these Fujian pirates are the most devout disciples of Mazu, since Yang Feng is a heavenly immortal like Mazu, and the relationship is a bit special, then of course these people will not refuse him, especially Yang Feng also directly appointed Zhu Li as the governor of Fujian, as well as the Chinese version of the East India Company's flatbread, Zhu Feng's Sky Boat Gang did not hesitate to join the Holy Sect.
But Yang Feng wanted them to attack the Yangtze River, which they really couldn't do.
They can indeed buy some ships from Macao as warships, but they are all duck pi shares and the like, even if they are equipped with cannons, their combat effectiveness is not stronger than that of the Qing army's naval division, and the Qing army's Yangtze River naval division currently has hundreds of large and small warships, with a total strength of nearly 30,000 people, which is not something they can fight against at all, unless they can buy large European warships, but this cannot be bought in Macao, at least not in the short term, and the only one with this ability is the British East India Company, For example, the high price of the purchase of two fourth-class ships directly from the East India Company fleet.
But it takes a strong relationship.
At least Zhu Lian, Zheng Yi and others can't do it, Wu Bingjian can do it.