Zhang Haogu was stunned for a moment, and then said: "I don't dare to be a saint. I just want to do something, to change some unreasonable things, and to completely reverse these things mentally!"

"Unreasonable things?" Zhu Youxiao became interested: "Master, can you explain it in detail!"

Zhang Haogu pondered for a moment, and then said: "The people are suffering, and the poor sell their sons and daughters. However, the gentry who are only separated by a wall can have a lot of fish and meat. What they eat is the land that the common people have worked hard to cultivate."

The food that came out, they wore clothes that were knitted stitch by stitch by the common people, but in the end, they became a despicable person!"

Zhu Youxiao fell into deep thought, recalling Lu Cheng's words, but felt particularly uncomfortable in his heart.

People's support is destiny!

Once he accepted this idea, Zhu Youxiao's thinking changed.

The common people are the root, but these scholar-bureaucrats are like moths.

Zhang Haogu continued: "Your Majesty, Zhao Nanxing has used more than 100,000 acres of fertile land, and he keeps talking about the teachings of saints. He would rather educate slaves than educate the people. He feels that the people are stubborn and cannot be educated. What's more,

Lu Cheng, who keeps talking about destiny and superiority, treats the people like grass and grass, saying that they are only worthy of plowing the fields, dare to ask the emperor, is this reasonable? "

Zhu Youxiao was silent for a moment, and then said seriously: "This is unreasonable!"

"Your Majesty, you have worked so hard to design steam engines, textile looms, and looms. Everyone can say that Your Majesty, you are just playing with things and losing your mind. Your Majesty, is this reasonable?!"

Zhu Youxiao coughed, and suddenly felt as if his soul was being tortured. He said in a low voice: "This seems reasonable?"

Others don't know, but he seems to be unable to deceive himself.

I feel that I am indeed a little ignorant of national affairs and focus on engaging in strange and obscene techniques.

In short, I feel like I did something wrong. As an emperor, I don’t care about national affairs, but I put my mind on this kind of place. Is this good? This is not good!

"This is something wrong with the emperor's thinking!"

Zhang Haogu said seriously: "Your Majesty, are you deceived by these corrupt Confucian theories?"

Zhu Youxiao was stunned: "Is there something wrong with my thinking? Have I been deceived by these corrupt Confucian theories?"

Zhang Haogu continued: "The textile machines and looms designed by the emperor have reduced the burden of many people."

Zhu Youxiao was slightly stunned, and Zhang Haogu continued: "With the emperor's looms and textile looms, how many women can work in factories? Let them make money to subsidize their families, so that the soldiers of the three armed forces can afford to wear sweaters.

It can keep the people warm from the cold. Your Majesty doesn’t know how many people it has benefited. Now, I want to ask Your Majesty, are you just playing with things to lose your ambition?”

Zhu Youxiao was stunned. For a moment, he didn't know what to say.

After thinking about it carefully, can this be considered as playing with things to lose one's ambition? It is obviously to benefit the common people, okay?

"The emperor himself thinks that this is just playing with things to lose one's ambition. This means that the emperor has been brainwashed and brainwashed by wrong doctrines. The emperor is obviously carrying forward the past and opening up the future for the sake of the people and the common people. However, the emperor himself thinks that he is wrong!"

Zhang Haogu said seriously: "Your Majesty, do you still feel that you were wrong?"

"But, I am really addicted to it. I am a little, a little happy and don't miss Shu!" Zhu Youxiao opened up his heart in a rare way and talked about his inner conflicts.

"Your Majesty, you don't care about your deeds but your heart!" Having said this, Zhang Haogu smiled slightly: "Mencius once said that the monarch of a country must first ensure that the people have enough food and clothing and can live and work in peace and contentment. This is the most basic livelihood issue." Five

"Those who are ten years old can wear silk clothes" and "those who are seventy years old can eat meat". That is to say, people over fifty years old can wear silk coats; people over seventy years old can eat meat. If you are below this

The standards are just unqualified.”

"Your Majesty, now look at the capital and Shandong. They don't need to be fifty years old to already have clothes made of silk cotton on board. They don't dare to have meat to eat every day, but at least for a month, they can also eat it during the holidays.

With some meat, the emperor felt that he was playing for fun and indulging in it, but it was precisely because of the emperor's playfulness and indulging in it that the people became rich!"

"Huh?" Zhu Youxiao was stunned. Before this, Zhang Haogu had never explained this issue to him from this perspective.

Now……

Zhu Youxiao suddenly realized that what Zhang Haogunima said was absolutely right.

I'm just too playful, so what if I indulge in it?

Did it allow the people to eat meat? Did it allow them to wear good clothes?

Thinking of this, Zhu Youxiao suddenly felt that he was an unparalleled wise king. In the past, he still felt a little ashamed, but after hearing Zhang Haogu's analysis.

What's your fault?

Seeing Zhu Youxiao lost in thought, Zhang Haogu continued: "

The emperor did the right thing, but there is only one real evaluation criterion, whether it is for the sake of the world and whether it truly promotes the development of productivity!"

"I believe that the way of a saint is to put the people first. This is the core and unshakable. With this background, the rest will be simple!"

Zhang Haogu said: "When the court enacts laws, it must carefully consider whether it is for the people, whether the emperor's deeds have liberated productivity, whether it can make the people live better, and what the price is.

?”

"A simple criterion is whether the things created by the emperor will ultimately make the people's lives better or better? Or will they make the people's lives worse and worse?"

Zhu Youxiao suddenly realized, looked at Zhang Haogu and said: "What the master said is really true. It turns out that it was not me who was wrong. There was something wrong with my thinking. I was brainwashed!"

Zhang Haogu nodded with deep understanding: "Your Majesty, if you have a benchmark for evaluation in your mind, then when your Majesty implements any policy, you might as well ask whether it is people-oriented and whether the laws of the court take care of the people!

"

Zhu Youxiao pondered for a while, then nodded and said: "Master is right. When we talked today, I just felt like I was seeing the sun through the clouds. Some things that I couldn't understand before suddenly became clear!"

Zhang Haogu smiled and said: "Your Majesty, the Holy Ming!"

Having said this, Zhang Haogu paused slightly and continued: "Besides, I still plan to do something!"

Zhu Youxiao said: "What happened?"
Chapter completed!