Xun Yu thought about this problem and said seriously: "Ming Gong, you should make a choice now, whether to continue to side with the wealthy nobles who came with you, or to side with the millions of Izumo people. This kind of
There is no middle way in this matter. If you stand on the side of the people of Izumo Country, you must not continue to deduct their working expenses like this to attract people's hearts, and then use these millions of people of Izumo Country to suppress them.
The power of the powerful gentry."
"But if you are on the side of the noble clan, you can only turn a blind eye to their luxurious living habits and use their power to suppress the millions of people in Izumo Country! You want to use the noble clan to suppress the people but miss them.
It is simply impossible to live a simple life."
Cao Cao was a little hesitant when he heard this and said: "Xun Yu, you are also a descendant of a noble family. It seems that you don't want to stand with the noble family?"
Xun Yu smiled bitterly and said: "They have had their backs broken by Lei Gong a long time ago. Now they are no different from trash. They are no longer enough to be the pillars of Ming Gong. And Lei Gong has already taught us how to organize the power of the people. Ming
If you give up this power, our Izumo country will have no way out in the future. When the time comes, Okan's strength will become stronger and stronger, and Izumo country will become more and more declining. Sooner or later, these people will flee here. The island is not ours.
The only reliance."
Xun You also followed up and said: "Ming Gong, you have also seen the power of industrialization. The silk industry alone is already comparable to other industries in Izumo Country. What the silk industry needs is workers, students like the eldest son who can learn mechanics.
We are not the nobles of the Han Dynasty, nor are we the scholars who study the Six Classics of Confucianism. At the same time, the development of industrialization also requires the accumulation of funds to buy machinery. Like now, if we make some hard work, all the money will be enough to buy luxury goods. In this way
It is impossible to complete the accumulation of industrialization. If Ming Gong wants to embark on the road of industrialization, the wealthy nobles will not only not help Ming Gong, but will hinder Ming Gong."
Then he said sadly: "The clan system has really fallen behind, and the Confucian classics cannot deal with the problems we are encountering now. We have to adapt to the times, and some things must be abandoned. Lei Gong has a saying that is good, who is it?
Our friends and our enemies must be clearly distinguished, so now it is your turn to choose your friends."
Before Cao Cao made a choice, the Xun family had already begun to make a choice.
Although they followed Cao Cao to Izumo Country, it does not mean that they will stay in Izumo Country forever. Xun Yue is the guarantee left by the Xun family.
After all, the Xun family has been passed down since the Warring States Period, and has produced great sages like Xunzi. They cannot accept that the Xun family has been living on this desert island like this, and they want to return to Daqian in order to inherit the family.
Therefore, even when Xun Yu and others were on the island, they were extremely concerned about what happened in Daqian.
The unprecedented prosperity and power of Daqian are worth their study. Although Lei Gong is a complete enemy of Confucianism, Confucianism took more than 300 years to establish a complete system of the world. In these 30 years,
In no time, he was completely beaten to pieces.
But they also admire Lei Gong's ability. Even now, Daqian is not supported by Confucian concepts. If you really want to say Daqian's current governing philosophy, it can be said that it is to govern for the people. Even they, enemies of Lei Gong, have to Admit it, Lei Gong is the best person who practices the principle of putting the people first, the king first, and the country second best.
After so many years, even though Lei Gong took over the power, his love for the people has not changed at all.
At the same time, Lei Gong's industrialization process also allowed them to see the strong potential of industry, and the workers and knowledge needed by industry were obviously not provided by the clan.
So they have already planned to jump out of the broken ship of Confucianism and embrace the new world. Even if their generation cannot enter the top leadership of DaQian, they want their next generation to join the senior leadership of DaQian.
If they want to integrate into the social system of Daigan, they must make Izumo Country an industrialized country like Daigan. If they still learn the political philosophy of Confucianism, their family will never be able to integrate into Daigan. Not being able to return to mainstream society is something that Xun Yu and others find difficult to accept.
Therefore, they resolutely abandoned their ancestral knowledge and studied the mathematics and mechanical knowledge of Daigan. They wanted to reintegrate into the normal society of Daigan through this method. Therefore, Izumo Junior High School based on foreign students New forces’ opinions emerged.
After hearing this, Cao Cao pondered for a long time. This choice was not easy to make, because the Cao family was also the top clan in the Han Dynasty. Just like when he complained about the corruption of the noble clan, it was just as serious in his Cao family.
He actually doesn't know much about the process of industrialization, and a tycoon like him instinctively feels repulsed by things he doesn't understand.
Now his close advisers have decided to give up their own family studies, which made Cao Cao start to ponder. With the progress of the times, is it really necessary to give up these previous knowledge? Isn't it true that he has begun to lag behind the times?
At this time, Cheng Yu said: "My lord, now is the best time to carry out reforms. Because Lei Gong wanted to find rubber trees, he offered a reward of ten thousand taels of gold and a country's land, attracting tens of thousands of sailors to search for the unknown continent. Rubber tree on the tree.
During this period, hundreds more ships passed through our Izumo country, and because these ships had to sail thousands of miles, their consumption was extremely huge. During this period in our Izumo country, food, all kinds of meat and alcohol were sold. All are extremely good and earn us a lot of profits and taxes.
So if you give up this income now, you can completely rely on these sailors with big money to make up for it. If you miss this period, it will be extremely difficult to find an industry that can make up for the income of hundreds of millions. In the future, you will want to win over the hearts of millions of people. It’s going to be extremely difficult.”
"An overseas continent?" He also saw the world map announced by Lei Gong. The overseas continent announced was actually three or four times larger than the Han Dynasty. Cao Cao couldn't believe it was true. But in his heart, he couldn't believe it. Hope this thing is true.
Because for Cao Cao, Izumo Country is his prison. If there is such an overseas continent, he would rather go to that unknown continent to re-establish his own business.
However, Cao Cao smiled bitterly when he looked at his hands. Now that he was over 60 years old, no matter how ambitious he was, he couldn't stand the beating of the waves.