No matter how much they complain, the hard study of the supervisory students has begun. They are willing to sacrifice themselves for official positions. However, daily study is hard and they are in the political center of the whole world in the capital. Naturally, these students also like to talk about politics.

.

They received very little news from the imperial court, so naturally, the object of discussion was the news in the Imperial Daily News.

No, three young students were eating in the cafeteria inside the Imperial College at noon. This is the regulation of the Imperial College. During study time, you can only eat inside and are strictly prohibited from going out.

As soon as we sat down, one of them, who was well-dressed, started to complain, "It's a meal like this again. There are only a few pieces of meat. How can we eat it?"

The other one looked at the food with a slightly shabby look and said with a smile, "Brother Fan, this dish is pretty good. Look at it, it's all fresh vegetables. And isn't this fish also meat?"

"The problem is, the scales on this fish have not been scraped off, so how can we swallow it?" After Brother Fan complained, he obediently put down his rice bowl, sat down with the other two, and ate slowly.

Suddenly, there was a sound of reading from a table next to them. The three of them turned around and saw that someone was reading a newspaper.

This is the most popular activity nowadays. Not only the common people like to listen to it, but also some literati and businessmen, and they also like to argue in public.

Sometimes a debate can attract hundreds of people to watch. Perhaps this is what Confucius said, the trouble with people is that it is good to be a teacher.

No, this kind of daily program of reading newspapers and then arguing has begun to be performed inside the Imperial College.

The students who read the newspaper read the article and read it as "Justice Under the Blood of Iron", and the contributor used a pseudonym, "Master of the King's Way". The students glanced at it, and their original casual attitude suddenly disappeared and they became excited.

"Stop arguing, it's an article written by the Master of Kings." The student holding the newspaper shouted loudly. As soon as the name was mentioned, many students began to discuss it.

Including Brother Fan's table, those at the table looked at it with interest. Apparently, the name "Master of the King's Way" was very famous in the Imperial Daily. Nowadays, with the hairstyle of the Imperial Daily, there are many such people. They call it a pseudonym. They want to be in the Imperial Daily.

This is what people do when they publish an article in a newspaper that attracts worldwide attention and do not want to reveal their identity.

Not to mention, there are several famous pen names, such as the guy called Master of the King's Way, who often make some righteous remarks and cause uproar.

Of course, when it comes to the most famous author, it still has to be the name Zhu Youxiao. Everyone was like a dragon before, but many young students burst into tears and cried in public.

""Justice Under Blood", author, master of kingly law." The scholar read the name of the article loudly, and then read the pen name. The students fell silent one after another, chewing bad food in their mouths, which made people feel

The article shines in front of my eyes and I swallow it with relish.

"Cui Mingji was appointed Governor of Korea by His Majesty the Emperor in the second year of Tianqi. After taking office, he used bloody and thunderous methods to wipe out all resistance forces in the Korean province. Under the guillotine, hundreds of thousands of people were killed or arrested.

After that, North Korea’s land reform work progressed rapidly, with rapid progress. After March, all North Korea’s land reform was completed.”

At the beginning, it was a vernacular that no Confucian scholar could criticize. However, the student who read the newspaper recited it very contagiously, vividly expressing the smell of blood and killing, which made Brother Fan feel that he was extremely sleepy.

The fish meat has a fishy smell.

"Cui Mingji's iron-blooded and tough tactics became known to the world after being reported in daily newspapers. Then there was an uproar, with some denouncing, some reviling, and some cursing. It even spread, implicating everyone in the world at that time.

Above all the saintly kings praised by people, the great scholar Liu Zongzhou wrote an article to refute it, condemning the current majesty, saying that he is not worthy of being the holy emperor of this world."

Hearing this, the students' faces became serious. Naturally, they also read the newspaper the day before yesterday, and they also read Liu Zongzhou's article. Most people thought it was reasonable. As an emperor, how could his hands be full of blood?

, it is not the emperor of barbarians who wants to kill so many people.

For the common people, education should be the main priority.

Many students agree with this statement. Isn't that what Confucius did in the beginning? He taught the world and had three thousand disciples.

"However, Liu Zongzhou and others only saw the justice on the surface, but could not see the true justice inside. Everything in the world comes from the land, including food, cotton and linen, cloth, meat, spices, etc. All human beings

Everything we need originally comes from the land, and through human labor, it becomes something we use."

"Therefore, land is the foundation of everything and the lifeblood of the survival of our Chinese clan. Therefore, the Holy Emperor Tianqi drove the Mongols to the north, destroyed the Jurchens in the east, and then went south to destroy the Li family of Korea and bring the land under the control of the Ming Dynasty."

"The land of Mongolia produces cattle and sheep, which is of great benefit to China. The deserts of the Western Regions are rich in fruits and are also good soil for growing cotton. Even the deep mountains and old forests in the Northeast are full of black soil, which is a fertile land. It can be seen that

There is no barren land, but there are people who don’t know how to explore it. Therefore, there is no wasted land in the world, only uncontrolled land.”

"What the Holy Emperor Tianqi did should be the most benevolent act in the world. How can it be, as Liu Zongzhou said, an unethical act of attacking and destroying the country without authorization? Your Majesty's people are your subjects, and the people who are outsiders are not your Majesty's people.

They cannot be equalized."

"Okay, well said." After hearing this paragraph, the students cheered one after another. The master of Wangdao was indeed very skilled in writing. Although he used the vernacular that they disdained, in just a few strokes, he wrote down the reasons why the emperor expanded his territory.

It is clear that this is not a great achievement for His Majesty, but to leave a lifeline for the survival of the people under his command and even future generations.

Moreover, a standard was quickly set. Confucian benevolence is not used in this way, but is internal. It is only imposed on one's own country and His Majesty's people, not externally.

However, there were also students with quick thinking who immediately discovered a loophole and shouted loudly, "At that time, North Korea had become a province of the Ming Dynasty, but Cui Mingji was still carrying out mass killings. Wouldn't it be the opposite?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the voice of the student who was studying newspaper rang out, "Zong Zhou may have said that North Korea has become a province, so why should he go on a mass killing spree and massacre his people? Wouldn't it go against what His Majesty has said?"

"This..." All of a sudden, the yelling student suddenly blushed. His lover had already considered it and was waiting behind him.

"Haha." There was also a burst of good-natured laughter next to him, making the student want to crawl into the cracks in the ground. Fortunately, the following article diverted everyone's attention, otherwise he really didn't know whether he would hide his face.

And escape.

"However, I also want to refute and distinguish between Chinese and barbarians, domestic and foreign, His Majesty's people and non-His Majesty's people, and then within the Ming Dynasty, the Chinese clan and His Majesty's people must also be divided into one or two."

"It is said in the original teachings that everyone is equal before Your Majesty. I think this is the truth. This is also the basic principle of the Hanlin Academy's split and revision of the Ming Dynasty. Everyone is equal, so everyone can live and work in peace and contentment under His Majesty's leadership.

, scholars, farmers, industry and merchants each performed their duties to maintain the stability and prosperity of the Ming Dynasty."

"People are divided into groups. Before Your Majesty, everyone is equal and cannot avoid the division of different groups of people. For this division, I call it class. From this point of view, the people of the Ming Dynasty can be divided into the peasant class.

The business class, the bureaucratic class, the working class.”

As soon as the word class came out, the students present felt a little uneasy. They always felt that this was not a good word. It was just that they couldn't explain what was wrong with it, so they had to listen patiently. Moreover, they felt that it was not a good word.

Next, they also disagree with the class classification of the royal masters. You clearly divide them according to scholars, farmers, industry and merchants, so which class are the local landlords and gentry divided into?

As the chanting continued, Yexue gradually reached the core, and even the student's voice couldn't help but feel a little heavier.

In the cafeteria, almost no students were eating. They all listened carefully with their ears bent. A teacher passed by. Originally, he just smiled and wanted to leave, but after listening to a few words, he also stopped.

Stay and listen carefully.

"It's just that I think this division is not appropriate enough. It obviously ignores some people." This sentence made the students who were landowners jump in their hearts. They had a vague hunch that this king's master would definitely do it.

Bringing the topic to land reform.

"Therefore, I have defined a division and divided the classes according to the owners of the means of production. So, what are the means of production? The resources and tools that workers need for production are the means of production."

"For example, the food we eat requires land seeds and cattle, which are the means of production. For example, the clothes we wear require cloth, textile looms, and factories, which are the means of production. Generally speaking, land, houses, machines, etc.

They are the means of production, and according to this classification, there are the following classes."

Many students heard what they heard was very difficult and involved a lot of concepts and definitions. After reading this, the students holding the newspapers stopped and gave others some time to digest.

"Class, means of production. It's such an interesting concept." Brother Fan muttered, "If I divide it according to this, what class will it be?"

"That must be the merchant class. Your family employs so many weavers to produce cloth, has factories, machines, and land to grow cotton. What is it if it's not the merchant class." The shabby-dressed man next to him joked, "

Those who think of me must be the peasant class. Both my parents are sharecroppers. If I were not appreciated by others, I would not even know where to open the gate of the Imperial College."

The topic at their table spread quickly, and many students speculated on what class they would belong to according to the division of kingly masters. Of course, it was said that it was based on themselves, but it actually came from the occupations of their parents. The students
Chapter completed!