Warm congratulations to Wanglai Rufeng for becoming the leader of "Ming Yang Tian Xia", may you be friends with him and enjoy the music of bells and drums!
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To take Fujian, for the Qin Dynasty at present, the eight mountains, one river and one piece of land in Fujian are secondary. The key is to take the Zheng family's powerful fleet that travels across the four seas.
If the Qin Dynasty could gain control of this powerful fleet, it would be even more powerful.
However, if you want the Zheng family to submit to you, it is not something that can be solved by force alone. You need to use some clever tactics.
There was a stalemate on whether to take Shandong or Guanzhong first. Of course, this was not urgent. Now the Qin Dynasty should first govern Sichuan and then deal with Fujian. Only when these two places were in order, it would be easier to decide whether to take Shandong or Guanzhong first.
Work hard to govern the country. Okay, now it's time to work hard to govern the country. Qin Mu then spent most of his time dealing with military and political affairs. He never kept the memorials submitted by the ministers until the next day. He always finished the day's affairs before resting.
In the imperial study, the air was filled with the aroma of incense and warm as spring. Han Zanzhou tried to walk as lightly as possible, for fear of disturbing Qin Mu.
Qin Mu picked up a memorial at random, which was a case reported by Yingtian Prefecture. The general situation was that there was a scholar named Huang Zongxi in Yuyao County, Shaoxing Prefecture, who spread his "extreme ideas" in Jinling, advocating the restriction of imperial power and denying the idea of a family-based monarchy. There was no doubt that this was a challenge to the imperial power.
Huang Zongxi's idea caused a great response. The Yingtian Prefecture could not sit still and sent people to warn him of his behavior of challenging the monarchy. Huang Zongxi ignored it and insisted on spreading his ideas everywhere.
The Yingtian Prefecture then imprisoned Huang Zongxi for the crimes of slandering the emperor and spreading false rumors to mislead the people.
Qin Mu couldn't help but smile after reading the memorial. Of course, he had heard of Huang Zongxi's name. But Huang Zongxi seemed to be only in his thirties, not yet forty. His family background was not simple. His father, Huang Zunsu, was one of the famous Seven Gentlemen of Donglin and was from Yuyao County, Zhejiang.
Yuyao County has produced many talented people since ancient times, including Yan Ziling, Yu Shinan, Xie Qian, Wang Yangming, He Liangchen, etc., all of whom are well-known figures.
Huang Zongxi was not bad either, although he failed the imperial examination in Beijing in the 15th year of Chongzhen. However, as the orphan of the Seven Gentlemen of Donglin, he participated in the "Liudu Anti-Rebellion Edict" incident and drove Ruan Dacheng out of Jinling, so he was very famous.
He came to spread his own ideas. Naturally, many people believed in them, and their influence must be considerable. No wonder Yingtian Prefecture was in a panic.
Qin Mu held the memorial from the prefect of Yingtian Prefecture and was silent for a long time. He needed to think carefully about how to deal with this matter.
Huang Zongxi was undoubtedly a master in academics, at least in history. But his identity was too sensitive. He was a descendant of the "Seven Gentlemen of Donglin" and one of the core members of the Fushe Society.
Qin Mu had always been very wary of the Donglin Party and Fushe members, and tried not to use them if possible. Last time, he raided the homes of hundreds of Jiangnan families in the name of purging traitors, most of whom were members of the Donglin Party.
The influence of the Donglin Party is not as great as before, but even so, there is still a lot to be done to completely eliminate the influence of the Donglin Party.
Not long ago, Wu Meicun, one of the oldest members of the Fushe Society, made a call at Tiger Hill in Suzhou, and immediately gathered hundreds of Fushe members. This is the best explanation;
Qin Mu was sufficiently alert about this matter and gave Huang Lianshan a severe reprimand for it.
To be honest, Qin Mu really wanted to use Huang Zongxi's crime to cast a wider net and catch another group of Donglin Party members to punish, so as to further weaken the influence of the Donglin Party.
Facts have proven that the Donglin Party was of little use to the country. On the contrary, if they had not disrupted the situation, the Ming Dynasty would not have fallen so quickly, and the Chinese culture would not even have been lost.
But Qin Mu was just thinking about it. If speech was used as a crime, once this precedent was set, it would not be good for the Qin Dynasty. People with a little bit of thought would become conservative and silent, and it would not be good for the development of the entire nation.
Moreover, Qin Mu is now counting on Gu Yanwu, Fu Qingzhu and others to work together to criticize the conservative trend caused by Zhu Xi and Cheng Yixue. Once people are convicted for their speech, it will be very detrimental to the development of such criticism.
Since we can't cast a wider net, there's no point in using Huang Zongxi as a scapegoat. Let's keep him. Maybe if we can provoke some disagreements, he can even come up with a set of democratic ideas.
Qin Mu picked up the red brush and was about to write his comments when he suddenly had a thought: Why not send all the Donglin Party members to Europe to "study abroad"... let them cause trouble in Europe, or learn some Western knowledge in Europe...
This thought lingered in Qin Mu's mind for a long time.
"Hahaha... ... ... "
Qin Mu suddenly laughed to himself, which startled Han Zanzhou, who was serving beside him. He quickly asked in a low voice: "King Qin, do you have any instructions?"
"Haha, there is something I need you to do. Have you heard of Wang Fuzhi?"
"Replying to the King of Qin, I have heard that the King of Qin wants to see this person?"
"Well, you go and arrange it..." Qin Mu said after a pause, "Let's arrange it first, and we'll talk about it after the New Year. I might have to go on a tour by then, so you can arrange for him to go with me. I want to have a chat with him."
"Don't worry, King Qin. I will definitely make sure this matter is properly arranged."
Qin Mu nodded, and then wrote on the memorial of the prefect of Yingtian Prefecture: Great Qin will not punish the man based on his words, so let him go.
Qin Mu had read some of the emperor's red comments. The wording used was very interesting. Simple spoken words like "got it", "the department knows", "the department discussed it", "read it", and "agree" were the most commonly used in the emperor's red comments.
If you think that the emperor's comments are all written in flowery, poetic language, then you are wrong. The emperor has to read countless memorials a day, so of course he would try to be as concise as possible in his comments.
Huang Zongxi was released to show his magnanimity, and secondly, what needed to be changed most now was not the political system but people's thinking.
Gu Yanwu and his group had just started a wave of criticism against Zhu and Cheng Yi's school of thought. If they were to suddenly accuse people of their speech, this wave of thought that had been so hard to start might end in vain. This was the last thing Qin Mu wanted to happen.
Why did the Ming Dynasty fall? The Ming Dynasty fell because of its rigid ideology and its complacency... Qin Mu was going to add more fuel to this ideology and keep it burning. He must not stop until a new era of ideological change was burnt out.
How to light the fire was a little tricky, and Qin Mu fell into deep thought again...
Wang Fuzhi, together with Hegel, was later called the Gemini of Eastern and Western philosophy, the epitome of China's naive materialism, and the pioneer of Enlightenment thought.
His thoughts are undoubtedly exactly what Qin Mu needs. Idealism such as "harmony between man and nature", "reason comes before qi", "reason comes before things", and the existence of spirit before matter must be ended as soon as possible so that China can have a bright future.
As long as we support him, this terminator may be called Wang Fuzhi, and his thoughts may shine throughout the world.
The late Ming Dynasty was actually an era of ideological change, with many master philosophers.
Unfortunately, after the Manchus came to control the Central Plains, they implemented a deformed rule, and the control over the Han people's thoughts reached an unprecedented level. Repeated literary inquisitions made scholars become yes-men, and the East fell behind the West in all aspects.
It doesn’t matter if you lag behind in anything, but you cannot lag behind in thinking.
Once your thinking is backward, everything will be backward - except having children.
Next, Qin Mu saw a memorial from Xu Yingjie, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Revenue, regarding the Great Qin Treasure Notes, which was mainly a report on the operation of the Treasure Notes.
It can be seen from his memorial that the operation of the Daqin Baochao is still not optimistic. So far, two million strings of Baochao have been printed, but less than one million strings have actually been put on the market, and once they are put on the market, they will soon flow back to Huitong Bank.
People's trust in Baochao is still very low, and although banks have been exchanging it, this has not been able to dispel people's doubts.
Reputation is like the hymen. Once it is damaged, it is very difficult to restore it.
Qin Mu didn't have any good ideas for this, so he could only take it slow.
However, the unification of currency is a matter of great importance, and its impact on people's livelihood is immeasurable. Qin Mu will never give up.
Even if it takes ten or twenty years, he will persist, releasing banknotes bit by bit and building up his credibility bit by bit.
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ps: Obama said: Monthly tickets are like menstruation, they are always annoying. But without them, flowers will wither and humans will become extinct... Therefore, although it is annoying, we must ask for it, come hard... Ask for menstruation... Uh no... Ask for monthly tickets!
.(To be continued..)
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