Chapter 175 Stupid, the problem is the economy
The Science Races down the vast Yangtze River, leaving countless scenery far behind.
Facing He Xinyin's question, Mr. Zhao smiled and asked, "Mr. Fushan, if Juhetang can develop according to your ideal state, what do you plan to do next?"
"Of course it is to be promoted and tried in the whole county, and then promoted to the whole prefecture, province and even the whole country." He Xinyin said for granted.
"What about the end?" Zhao Hao asked afterwards.
"In the end, the world will naturally be in harmony." He Xinyin said.
"So what is the harmony of the world?" Mr. Zhao asked again.
"The Book of Rites is clearly stated. Do I need to repeat it?" He Xinyin curled his lips.
"What do you need?" Mr. Zhao smiled.
He Xinyin was about to get angry when he remembered that he was the one who asked for advice, so he had to patiently recite the long section of "The journey of the great way is the world for the public..."
In fact, this is also his highest guiding ideology when he first started the Juhe Hall. After many years of memorization, he felt a unique feeling in his heart.
After hearing this, Mr. Zhao asked with a smile: "I wonder what Juhetang did at the beginning?"
"This..." He Xinyin pondered for a moment and said, "Only within the Juhe Hall, I think I have done a good job. 'Select the virtuous and capable, and keep faith and harmony. People do not only have relatives, but also have children, so that the elderly can have a place to live, the strong can have a place to use, the young can have a place to grow up, the widows, widows, orphans, orphans, orphans, and sick can have a place to support them. Men have a place to stay, and women have a place to return.' These are basically done."
"For a long time, I even achieved the goal of 'the goods are abolished on the ground and not hiding them in one's own way, and the strength is abolished on the body and not for one's own sake. I don't pick up the leaves on the road and don't close the door at night'." After a pause, he said proudly again: "Even my teacher praised, 'In a few years, there have been three generations of several places'."
"But why is it difficult to sustain?" After saying that, he fell into deep confusion again. "Not only the income from the accounts is insufficient, but what makes people despair is that people have gradually become perfunctory and numb from the original style of ethics and faith, and they are no longer serious in their work. A large amount of rice was left out in the fields and did not return to the warehouse. It has become 'the goods do not have to be hidden in oneself and abandoned in the ground, and the strength does not have to be used for themselves and then hate them'. As a result, the harvest of the fields has decreased year by year, and the shortage of materials in the hall is still wasted. Every family is poor and only knows to reach out to the hall..."
This was the first time Luo Rufang and Li Zhi heard He Xinyin reveal their shortcomings. He thought to himself, how could he raise everyone to be an old man? No wonder Lao Liang's family can't stand it even if he has a wealth of money.
"So something must have happened, but what was wrong?" He Xinyin looked at Zhao Hao again, confused and helpless like a child.
"Mr. Fushan's practice is almost perfect. If you still cannot see the hope of realizing the world of great harmony, it only means that this path itself is wrong. Moral education alone cannot achieve great harmony in the world!" Then Zhao Hao heard every word like a bell.
"Only by moral education can we achieve harmony in the world?" The three of them repeated in unison, and Li Zhi smiled and said, "I didn't expect that you are still a legalist."
"It is even more impossible to rely on severe punishments and laws." Zhao Hao turned the railway line: "If you are not careful, you will be broken and cut in half. What does it have to do with the world?"
"Then are you Taoist?" Li Zhi asked again: "Govern it without doing anything until he retreats to a small country where chickens and dogs hear each other, but he never interacts with each other until he dies?"
"Who thought about that kind of life?" Zhao Hao laughed and said, "Everyone relies on farming for a living, no department store, no writing and poetry, everyone has become primitive people. At least we are afraid that they are all very sad. What kind of harmony in the world?"
"Then are you?" Li Zhi didn't understand.
"I am a scientist." Mr. Zhao said with an idiotic expression on his face, "Science's pursuit is to make people's lives better. Science is always suspicious of any unemployment statement, so we don't know if the world's harmony will be realized, but I am very clear that the beauty achieved by suppressing human nature is false beauty. No matter how beautiful it is, it is just an illusory bubble, and it will be broken with one click!"
"Is the beauty achieved by suppressing human nature a false beauty?" Luo Rufang repeated again, and this time he praised without any compliments: "As my teacher said, 'A person's preference for money and sex are all born from his own nature. What he does at the moment is the secret of heaven, and he should not be blocked.' It seems that we are indeed a fellow practitioner."
"Look, if Mr. Fushan talks to your senior brother, he will know the problem." Zhao Hao spread his hands and smiled playfully: "What I think is the most interesting thing is that the Taizhou School adheres to the 'natural theory of lust,' and your Mr. Fushan even criticizes Confucius for being worthless and treats Cheng and Zhu like a pig or dog. Why can't he break out of the ruling of Neo-Confucianism and destroy human desires and preserve the laws of nature when doing things?"
"This..." He Xinyin's face turned red. Mr. Zhao criticized him at his roots, so it was naturally difficult to accept. "I never said that I wanted to destroy human desires, but I just hope that people's morality can be improved through education. Once morality is improved, I will naturally be restrained in terms of desires. What's wrong with being pure and having few desires?"
As he said that, he couldn't help but feel silent when he thought of Zhao Hao's words, "The beauty achieved by suppressing human nature is a false beauty."
Yes, you can be clear about your heart and few desires, but you can't ask everyone to be clear about your heart and few desires. Otherwise, what's the difference between you and Cheng Zhu?
He Xinyin was silent for a long time, and Fang murmured: "Is moral education really wrong?"
"Of course moral education itself is right, otherwise what is the difference between humans and beasts?" Zhao Hao said seriously: "However, moral education can only determine the lower limit of a society, but not its upper limit. Otherwise, how could our Han Dynasty be defeated by the Five Barbarians, Liao, Jin and Yuan dynasties? No matter how bad our morality is, it is far better than them, right? What's the use of scholars' education at that time? They were different from being destroyed, slaughtered, and treated as two-legged sheep?"
"This..." He Xinyin and the other two showed admiration, thinking that this kid is even more crazy than us. No matter how rebellious the Taizhou School rebelled, it did not break out of the category of Confucianism, Taoism and Law. The conflict with Neo-Confucianism is still a dispute over the line between studying.
Well, when it comes to science, it directly denies the role of scholars, and even scholars themselves...
Luo Rufang couldn't help but retort: "The dynasties of all dynasties can win the world immediately by relying on horseback, and they can still govern the world immediately? In the end, they can't govern the country and pacify the world by relying on scholars?"
"Of course, because governing the country is a complex and meticulous matter, it is absolutely impossible not to rely on scholars." Mr. Zhao said with a sneer: "But it is just a general who draws the general in the slaughter. The so-called accumulation of soil makes a mountain and water makes abyss. As long as there is enough time, even a pile of soil can be piled into a mountain; even a slap of water can be piled into a big lake. However, scholars have governed dynasties for two thousand years, but China has still stagnated. I dare not say that it is much better than the pre-Qin period, and even many places are far inferior to that!"
"..." The three of them could not refute that they favored the past and the present because they, together with most scholars, even Confucius, were still pursuing Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties. They always talked about the three generations, hoping to return to that era before the collapse of rituals and music.
Thinking of this, scholars are indeed failures.
"So I said that scholars govern the country, that is, they just maintain a lower limit. If they want to let China get out of the cycle of governance and chaos and truly move forward, they will definitely not be able to do it. They still want to achieve a more distant world harmony? Don't dream." Zhao Hao sneered and said: "Our Chinese people are the most responsible. As long as they have food and clothing, no one will rebel. Scholars have been struggling for two thousand years, and they can't even achieve this minimum requirement, and they still have the face?"
The three of them blushed and even felt that everything they did was meaningless.
"Then can you let everyone have food and everyone have clothes to wear?" He Xinyin retorted.
"I can, at least I know how to do it." Zhao Hao raised his eyebrows and said shamelessly: "Since you have worked in my Jiangnan Group's farm for a year, you should know that through scientific management and scientific planting, our Kunshan farm has achieved a high yield record of 2 ripe a year and a yield of seven stones per mu."
"You might as well reveal in advance that the yield per mu of Kunshan farms has steadily exceeded eight stones this year." Mr. Zhao has practical results to base his words, so he is naturally confident. "What about Kunshan? He can only grow one season of rice a year, and sometimes even in Kunnan can't harvest it in one season. Well, let alone Kunshan, just like other counties in Susong, at most, rice a season of rice a year. The highest yield is two stones and five stones, and that's all."
"We can use the same land to plant at least twice as much food and feed twice the population. And this is just the beginning. In the future, with the continuous improvement of production technology, the output will continue to increase. Do you think I have the confidence to say that I have a way to let everyone have food and everyone have clothes to wear?"
"There is..." He Xinyin nodded in convincingly. If he was not convinced, he would not have been able to ask for advice.
"I'm not saying that scholars are not good, but that scholars are not good at reading." Seeing that he was convinced, Mr. Zhao also slowed down and said: "Mr. Zhuo Wu said that Confucius and Mencius's theories were just medicines and stones that were produced at the moment, and were not the theory of the great times of the ages that "Tao is the ancient and modern times". It cannot be regarded as a dogma that has never been changed forever, so it is very scientific."
"Hahaha, I understand." Li Zhi suddenly patted his thigh and smiled: "What you mean is that scholars must study science in order to govern the country, get out of the vicious circle of governance, and make the Ming Dynasty strong forever until the world is harmonious, right!"
"The so-called confidant is nothing more than this." Zhao Hao nodded without blushing and said: "Since the daily use of the people is Tao, science is a science to study how to make the people live better. Therefore, our two families are indeed fellows and can support each other."
"Don't say that far away." He Xinyin raised his hand and frowned, "Let me go first. Mr. Zhao means that only by following human nature can one last. Therefore, the responsibility of scholars should be to satisfy people's desires, so that the organization can last, the country can be strong, and ultimately achieve great harmony?"
"At the same time, morality must set limits for desires," Zhao Hao said in a deep voice: "Desires that are not subject to moral constraints are poisonous, and will eventually make the country evil, make the people not distinguish between right and wrong, and eventually destroy themselves."
After a pause, he blinked and smiled, "Of course, this is the matter of your Taizhou School."
Only then did the three of them fully understand what Zhao Hao meant, "morality is the lower limit of society." Whether it is Confucianism, Taoism, or law, morality is regarded as the upper limit of society, so generations of readers will repeatedly seek morality.
But in fact, it is just that they cannot satisfy people's pursuit of a better life, so they can reduce people's desires by using moral ethics to maintain social stability. This reverse operation of cutting feet and fitting shoes can of course only maintain the operation of society at most and cannot bring a better life to the people.
Although He Xinyin's Juhe Hall relaxed the constraints of the ethics of famous religion on the tribe, it still did not change the way to restrict people's desires to maintain the operation of the system. How could there be no problem?
So in the final analysis, idiot, the problem is economy!
Chapter completed!