Although Yan Jun is an old scholar who has no official career, he is still full of confidence in shaking people. After three times, five times and two times, Gao Hanwen was told his plan. It seemed that although the Taizhou School was not a prominent school, it was still quite popular among the middle and lower classes, such as Feng Xiucai, the manager of Xiaolian Tea House.
After the discussion, it is the academic turn to deal with the practical issues of the Ming Dynasty. In Yan Jun's original view, the problem of the Ming Dynasty is ultimately a problem of six urgent problems. The first is the first urgent problem. What happened in the Ming Dynasty was first of all that people from all walks of life and all classes had their hearts broken, and they turned to beggar-thy-neighbor and were extremely selfish.
The second worry is that people's hearts are running fast, and they will never know how to be true and perfect until old age and death, and have thousands of desires. People say that the whole society is extremely indulgent. The desires here are not only for money and power, but also for all kinds of sensuality.
The subsequent four emergencies are the manifestations of these two emergencies being applied to monarchs and ministers, couples, friends, and homeless people.
This is the Confucian tradition of analyzing issues. All issues are issues of stance, and issues of stance are naturally issues of the human heart, so as long as the problem is solved from the human heart, everything will be solved
< p>But Confucianism cannot give medicine for the heart. Although Yan Jun made some attempts, it is only useful for individuals to improve their mood and mental outlook. If the method cannot be promoted.After understanding logic, Yan Jun knew that people's hearts are conditional. Only by focusing on both people's hearts and conditions can it really be effective.
Therefore, where this condition or wedge is is critical.
From Gao Hanwen's point of view, it is actually relatively simple to find this condition.
Confucianism is based on the logic of human nature, which is good, evil and even erratic. However, it is indeed very unified in the assumption of social wealth, that is, the wealth of the world is fixed.
In other words, Confucianism is a knowledge used to regulate the heart while social wealth remains unchanged.
However, social wealth remains unchanged, and population growth means that per capita wealth is decreasing, which means that society is not far from collapse. Therefore, according to Confucian logic, social collapse is an inevitable and normal phenomenon. And accepted the self-deceptive nonsense about the rotation of five virtues.
Since it is inevitable, then on the eve of collapse, these wealthy scholar-bureaucrats will of course indulge in sexual activities. Because after this point in time, later on, it’s time to let others slaughter you.
This is also the reason why from the Han Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, there were fewer and fewer scholar-bureaucrats willing to accompany the dynasty to die for the country, and the dynasty became shorter and shorter. Because as time went by, more and more scholar-officials realized this key point.
“Business girls don’t know the hatred of their country’s subjugation, but they still sing the flowers in the backyard across the river” and “The warm wind makes tourists drunk, and they call Hangzhou Bianzhou” are not the most true reflections of these
< p>At the same time, emperors were also taught by great Confucians. Of course, the emperor also knew that although the celestial dynasty was long-lived, it would still have its end. Therefore, there are fewer and fewer kings who are willing to die for the country. No matter how bad it is, like Liu Chan, it is not bad to fight for an An Le Gong. Even a smart guyWhen the dynasty was stable, the king would deliberately amplify the losses caused by disasters and slow down the growth of the population, thereby delaying the end of the dynasty. If there is still a king who is dead to the country in the future, he will have to wait for a king who either despairs of Confucianism or has never been systematically brainwashed by Confucianism.At this point, the king is not willing to die for the country, so why should he ask his ministers to die for the country? So the logic is closed, just enjoy yourself quickly and don't live too long.
After hearing this, everyone in the audience was basically shocked. You must know that everyone who talks nonsense in private has no official status. In addition, although the Ming Dynasty court has strict regulations, such a poor court can basically not control the people.
But Gao Hanwen has an official status, so this is almost treason. Although the treachery is somewhat reasonable.
"Mr. Gao, do you think there is a certain amount of wealth in the world?" Yan Jun had gone through the previous intracranial roller coaster and was now able to ask questions calmly.
"When discussing whether the wealth of the world is certain, it depends on how to define the wealth of the world. Mr. Yan and other students, what do you think?" Gao Hanwen did not answer directly, but asked the same question.
For a time, some were talking about gold and some were talking about silver. Some talk about copper, some talk about cloth, some talk about grain, some talk about objects, and some talk about land.
There are so many different opinions, so lively.
"Mr. Yan, what do you think?" Gao Hanwen was still not in a hurry to express his position, but wanted to elicit Yan Jun's attitude first.
“From what everyone just said, gold, silver, and copper can be attributed to precious metals. There may be a certain amount of these metals buried underground, but we have never been able to completely dig them out. As If the dynasty is stable, new mineral deposits will always be mined. If wealth refers to the precious metals mined, there should be no fixed amount."
"Similarly, daily necessities such as food and cloth, etc. It was made by people. As long as we can continue to open up wasteland for planting and add more manpower investment, there should be no definite number."
"The problem may be stuck in the land. I have two capitals and thirteen provinces in the Ming Dynasty. There is a certain amount of land. There are billions of people in the Ming Dynasty, and there is not much wasteland.”
After talking about land, Yan Jun realized the crux of the problem, that is, the land is limited. It can be changed by studying and cultivating the mind.
"Since the existing land is limited, do you think Mr. Yan has any countermeasures?" Gao Hanwen is still not in a hurry to express his thoughts. He now only feels that the brain circuit of this Ming talent is complex enough. Perhaps future posts People in this dynasty have already seen the clues to the controversial issues, but they just lack the opportunity to make changes. But the land issue is really a mess. The reform that used land and real estate as a means of storing wealth in later generations only lasted 20 years. In an era when production was so developed, it could tear society apart and lead to a dead end, not to mention the ancient times when the only way was land.
"Could it be that Mr. Gao wants to expand the territory?" Yan Jun asked doubtfully, but he was also somewhat self-denial. Because the combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty's frontier troops has shrunk to the point of despair. Even if I went to Hu Zongxian a few days agoWhen the counselor saw that the Ming Dynasty elites in Hu Zongxian's hands were mixed, they were both good and bad. If you can prevent it, you will burn high incense, let alone expand the territory.
"What do other people think?" Gao Hanwen still didn't answer.
For a long time, Shen Guanyi saw that the teacher was going to be quiet, so he quickly started to say something about coordinating the crops, planting more grains and less other things.
Immediately afterwards, Zhu Geng added a sentence about studying high-yielding crops and increasing the development of Lingnan.
With these two supports, the atmosphere at the scene was lifted. Various theories are also emerging one after another.
Some even say that we should open up the sea for fishing and trade, go overseas to farm, learn from the countries in the West, and encourage people to go to sea to build territories to share the pressure.
Although there was no solution to the problem at first, it suddenly seemed like there were many solutions.
Gao Hanwen made a brief summary, looking at the sky getting dark, and when the discussion was about to end, a student asked timidly, "This move by the two teachers can indeed lower the price of grain, but has it not been the case since ancient times?" Does cheapness hurt farmers? How can this be explained? In addition, if grain is cheap, the gentry will need higher land rents to exchange for the same money. Will they not increase land rents?"
This time it was not Gao Hanwen's turn to speak, Yan Jun replied, "Firstly, there is no chance for poor peasants to sell grain for money for consumption. Secondly, if the grain is cheap, the gentry will have no intention of annexing the land, so that the farmers' land can be preserved. Third, if the grain is cheap, it means that even if they don't farm, They can also buy grain to live on, but if the gentry increases the land rent, the peasants can choose to do something else, and they will not be worse than before. Many of the various workshops and restaurants in the big cities have been short of labor since ancient times. Harming the peasants actually confuses the landless gentry with the landless peasants. The premise of this logic is wrong."
"Cai, in the past political commentaries often did not clarify the premise. So much so that cause and effect are confused, and all the opinions are confusing." Gao Hanwen quickly agreed and walked out of the academy together.
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