"How will the emperor deal with me? Is it beheaded, imprisoned, or exile?" Xu Guangqi thought anxiously.

He knew deeply that if he wanted to make changes to the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, it would definitely touch the interests of vested interests. Emperor Chongzhen sitting opposite him and the royal family headed by Emperor Chongzhen were the biggest vested interests in this era.

As the greatest vested interest of this era, how could he betray his own class and become a gravedigger of his own class?

Zhu Youjian was deeply touched by Xu Guangqi's truth. The trouble with the Ming Dynasty lies in land annexation, which can be seen by any bureaucratic and gentry with some IQ.

However, as vested interests, bureaucratic gentry cannot serve as gravediggers of bureaucratic gentry. If there are, they will be saints who will shine for generations.

Is there such a saint in the Ming Dynasty?

There is really, that is, Zhang Juzheng, the chief minister of the cabinet who was promoted by the Wanli Dynasty, who was promoted by his own efforts, but what was the fate of Zhang Juzheng?

It was because of the fact that the tea was cold. Zhang Juzheng had just passed away, and the family copied it to Emperor Wanli. The eldest son was even forced to death and the second son was exiled.

If you look at the reformers in history, it can be said that no one can have a good ending and his actions will die. This is a true portrayal of the final outcome of the reformers.

Zhu Youjian believed that in order to save the Ming Dynasty, he would no longer repeat the mistake of Emperor Chongzhen's self-dressing Southeast, and it was necessary to launch a reform that was more thorough than any reform in history.

However, reform is not to treat guests to dinner, to make articles, to paint and embroidery, to be so elegant, so calm, gentle and respectful.

It is a life-and-death battle. In this life-and-death battle between the interests class, countless like-minded people need to stand up, contribute, fight, and even sacrifice without hesitation when necessary.

In short, Zhu Youjian needs enough martyrs to ignite himself and illuminate others.

Now, Xu Guangqi has become the first martyr, and he needs more.

Zhu Youjian said openly and honestly: "The teacher's words are deeply loved by me. You must know that the world has never been a family of one family, but a world of people.

History has taught them to be human beings who ignore the interests of the people and even prevent them from living. What about the strong Han and Tang dynasties? The palaces have been made into earth in thousands of places!"

Xu Guangqi was shocked when he heard this. He couldn't believe that such a rebellious word was spoken by the emperor. It was just that, and the emperor's determination to save the Ming Dynasty and initiate reforms.

Taking a few deep breaths, Xu Guangqi forcibly eased the turbulent waves in his heart and said word by word: "Your Majesty's heart is known. No matter what you want me to do, your Majesty will speak, I will die without hesitation, and I wish you to follow your Majesty's wings!"

"Excellent!" Zhu Youjian smiled and said, "Any reform must be obtained. Although our Ming Dynasty had the imperial examination system to select talents, the talents obtained were all the gentry class, which became the biggest obstacle to reform. What I did not take.

Therefore, my reform starts with selecting talents. I need a group of like-minded people to charge for reform and shout. I have issued an order to change the Imperial College to Yenching University, and my teacher is the first president of Yenching University that I have appointed.

What the teacher has to do is to remove the drought and preserve the essence from thousands of students in the Imperial College, select a group of people who are in reform and like-minded, and teach practical studies that are in line with the new situation, such as mathematics, astronomy, geography, and other courses, so that they can be distinguished from corrupt scholars.

And I will also insist on the new policy in the court, open maritime trade, build workshops, develop business, and reform the imperial examinations to allow more practical studies to enter the scope of scientific examinations to select practical talents suitable for the new policy.

This group of talents will become the backbone of the new interest class. This so-called new interest class, I call the emerging bourgeoisie. As long as the emerging bourgeoisie flourishes, I don’t need to do anything. As long as they are good at guiding them, they will bury the corrupt feudal landlord class by themselves!”

Xu Guangqi originally thought that Zhu Youjian, the emperor who was good at the hands of women in the deep palace, would not be able to come up with any decent reform plan. Even if he could come up with it, he would follow Zhang Juzheng and become enemies with the gentry class in the world. Even if the reform was successful, he would inevitably die and end up with the political failure. The Ming Dynasty was hopeless in the end.

However, the reform plan brought out by the emperor made Xu Guangqi see some possibility of success. Compared with Zhang Juzheng's reform plan, the emperor's plan may be far inferior in terms of timeliness, and in just a few years it was just a pure investment and no results were seen.

But the emperor's plan is the most likely plan to continue once and for all, because if the emperor's plan is successful, a new interest class has been cultivated.

Although this new interest class will eventually exploit the people, it will not annex the land that the people regard as life, but will instead liberate the people from the land.

In this way, it would be no problem to extend the life of the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years.

This is the first time that Zhu Youjian revealed his ambitions to others: to cultivate the emerging bourgeoisie and replace the feudal landlord class!

Perhaps this emerging class was cultivated and it was likely that in the future, it would overthrow his Zhu family dynasty and establish a capitalist state on the body of the Zhu family dynasty, but that would happen at least a few hundred years later.

Moreover, no matter what the capitalist country is, it is better than our Qing Dynasty. At least it does not have to bear the shame of the Eight-Nation Alliance invading Beijing.

After all, Zhu Youjian has been living in modern times for decades and has received materialist education. He does not believe that there are immortal feudal dynasties in the world.

In his opinion, if the Zhu Ming Dynasty had really reached the point of hopelessness, he would rather be replaced by an anti-king like Li Chuang than by a barbaric and backward civilization like the Later Jin Dynasty.

After all, compared with the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty was a serious regression in Chinese civilization, and a situation that every conscientious Chinese would not want to see.

During the Qin, Han, Tang and Song dynasties, Chinese civilization was always ahead of Western civilization for hundreds of years, and the GDP of the Middle-Turkey Dynasty often accounted for more than half of the world's total GDP.

Even when the Han people became fourth-class Yuan Dynasty, when Marco Polo came to Middle-earth, he believed that China, the foundation of the Mongol Khan regime, had a civilization far above Europe.

By the Ming Dynasty, although the GDP of the Middle-earth dynasty was still the world's largest, Western civilization, which woke up from the dark medieval era, had risen and caught up. The opening of the Age of Discovery directly smoothed the gap with Chinese civilization, and even took a slight lead.

However, when the Chinese were still immersed in the dreams of the Kangxi, Yongle and Qianlong periods of prosperity, they did not know that they had been left behind by Western civilization for hundreds of years. It was not until the two Opium Wars that the Chinese people woke up from the dream of the Celestial Kingdom.

Westerners who were once regarded as barbaric by the Chinese became superior in the eyes of the Qing Dynasty; while Chinese people, who were praised by Westerners countless times in history, became the ugly race in the eyes of white animals.

As a time traveler, Zhu Youjian would never let it happen again in such a humiliating history. Even if the Zhu Ming Dynasty was overthrown by a peasant uprising, it would never be cheaper for me.
Chapter completed!