Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

These common people!

Only when those in power treat them sincerely can they gain their sincere support.

They are taciturn and rarely show off their abilities.

As long as they can live, they will not seek any more benefits.

They save money in their mouths and save money in their bellies. They are reluctant to eat and drink. They risk their lives to support the country for free...

but!

They are not stupid!

King Li of Zhou Dynasty was more fond of guarding the people than guarding Sichuan...

When the ancestors shut their mouths, King Zhou Li's problem became serious.

Throughout the ages, who made the common people shut up, become cold-hearted, and ignore everything...

Soon, the people will shut him up too!

finally……

The people of the country launched a riot and drove King Zhou Li to the pig.

……

What does 彘 mean?

In the pre-Qin period, there were not many texts and the vocabulary was extremely concise.

Pig refers to a large pig, that is, a wild boar.

In other words, King Zhou Li, who did not want to listen to the common people and chose to gag, was eventually driven into the deep mountains and old forests where wild boars were everywhere——

Only wild boars can hear his voice...

……

Seeing the emperor and the people in the market mingling happily, Song Yingxing seemed to understand something...

The people are like water.

water……

Gentle and calm, he was so ordinary that no one wanted to take a high look at him.

However, water moistens things silently, nourishing spring flowers and autumn fruits everywhere.

There are also rough waves, and there are rolling torrents that tear everything apart!

As the saying goes between Wei Zheng and Tang Taizong——

Water can carry a boat, and it can also overturn it!

Whoever ignores water will end up being washed away and drowned!

……

Zhu Youjian took Song Yingxing and strolled up to the top floor of Zuiman Building.

Standing against the railing, Zhu Youjian looked at the town of Laohekou under the night.

long silence.

Song Yingxing followed the emperor's gaze and saw lights all over the city.

Whether it is a low thatched hut or a garden of pavilions, everything is brightly lit as far as the eye can see.

Song Yingxing's eyes froze. How could this small, humble market town be so wealthy?

Not to mention market towns elsewhere, even in other cities, except for those places in the south of the Yangtze River that are rich in merchants, even in big cities all over the world, at night, every room cannot be lit. A light!

However, the small town by the dock in front of us is so brightly lit?

Can every household here afford lights?

……

Zhu Youjian pointed at the row upon row of Laohekou Town and said slowly:

“Laohekou is an important commercial port town, with many business travelers traveling from south to north.

Rich people opened restaurants and warehouses, and some even bought their own boats to walk on the Miaohan water.

The money they earn in a year is far more than the harvest from hundreds of acres of land!

Poor people either worked as shop boys, worked as coolies on the docks, or worked as sailors on ships...

For these poor families, it is not a problem for one laborer to support the whole family.

Look at the houses in the city. The lights of the wealthy households are bright, illuminating the courtyards like daylight.

Even poor people's homes are illuminated by lights..."

"Song Qing's family, if I can see Laohekou everywhere in the Ming Dynasty in my lifetime, I will be satisfied!"

"There are eighteen people in the world, including Hankou and river mouths. The whole world is a place with such commercial ports. This is my greatest hope!"

Zhu Youjian sighed deeply.

Can we get rid of poverty by relying on the three to five acres of land in the hands of ordinary people?

Can't get rid of it!

Not to mention getting rid of poverty, even the livelihood of the family is a problem!

If you want to get rid of poverty, if you want to be well-off, the only way is to work...

When the reward for a month's hard work is enough food to feed the family for a year, you have escaped poverty!

……

We still have to enter the industrial age!

Zhu Youjian took a deep breath.

There are three to five acres of thin fields, two rows of green melon ridges, seven or eight chickens and ducks, and small bridges and flowing water.

When I’m busy, I’m planting rice and harvesting wheat; when I’m free, I’m leaning against the wall to look at the flowers, with my wife beside me...

This leisurely dream of pastoral life will be fantasized by everyone in future generations.

However, none of the migrant workers can do it!

why?

Where do the poetry and distance come from in pastoral life?

Some are just the sadness of not having enough to eat, and the sun above my head, which has peeled off layers of skin on my face!

Everyone wants to be Andy Lau, but in the end ninety-nine percent of them end up being Lan Jieying...

……

Zhu Youjian looked at the dark night ahead and made up his mind. Industrialization must appear on this ancient land!

Let this nation, which has suffered so much, suffer less...

……

Song Yingxing was shocked.

That scene comes to mind:

When the Jiangnan gentry held a gathering, the entire Jiangnan gentry heard the news. At every gathering, the gentry donated at least one million in cash to prepare the venue.

All the high-ranking officials, famous monks and scholars who were "high in moral character and respectable" and "not moved by money" gathered together to pave the way for the scholars to build momentum.

There were even big bosses who personally spoke out, scolding the emperor for his mistakes in governance...

Every call from the big boss can be met with a response like a landslide and tsunami!

A prostitute with a world-famous reputation, she was all flamboyant and showed off her ethics of not loving money but loving talents.

Behind these, there is gold and silver flowing like a sea...

……

It has only been 15 years since Fushe was established.

However, there were four large gatherings attended by more than ten thousand scholars!

As for the small gatherings attended by thousands of people, there were more than [-] times.

As for the Fushe branch meetings in various places, there are countless...

In those rallies that were famous all over the world, all the participants talked loudly, belittled the emperor, and satirized the government...

The tremendous power of the Restoration of Society has left a deep impression on everyone from the princes and nobles to the traffickers and footmen!

How much desire, trembling...

Such a scene, let alone the emperor!

Even craftsmen like Song Yingxing have deep memories!

however……

At this moment, everything disappeared without a trace.

Everyone can talk casually.

As for whether you have too much ambition and too little ambition - don't even think about it with your toes. Even if you think about it with your toenails, you already know the answer.

……

Emperor Taizu set the rules. The pros and cons of the Ming Dynasty's affairs - farmers can discuss it, military households can discuss it, traffickers and foot soldiers can discuss it, and ordinary people can discuss it...

The only thing that cannot be discussed is the students and scholars!

Taizu, an emperor who was born as a beggar, knew very well that talking alone harmed the country!

However, by the end of the Ming Dynasty...

How could Emperor Chongzhen dare to touch them if he didn't have the courage to "smash the stall and start all over again"...

Volume 78 of "Da Ming Huidian": "Anything that can benefit the army and the people, and the sick people are not allowed to comment. If there are any things that can benefit the army and the people, there should be officials, wise men in the field, ambitious men, simple farmers, merchants and skills, all can say it." . No one is allowed to stop it. Only the students are not allowed to do it."