In addition, no matter whether they are traders and footmen or kiln sisters in the old courtyard, what they discuss in casual conversations is the equality of personality. There is no essential difference between scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, and even practitioners with low status have equal personality.
An atmosphere of public opinion is gradually forming among the people, calling for the abolition of discrimination against those with low status.
Speaking of this, the initiator was still Chongzhen, because Chongzhen abolished the migration restrictions on craftsmen with low status and broke a small hole in the solid embankment of class consolidation.
At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang spent a lot of effort to fix the class of scholars, peasants, workers, merchants, and lowly people. From then on, the children of farmers' households could only be farmers, the children of military households could only be military households, and the children of lowly registered households could only be
It is a lowly status, and only the sons and daughters of scholars are eligible to change their class through the imperial examination.
But now this class-solidified embankment has been pried open by Chongzhen.
Then it has developed to the present, and it has gradually begun to burst. Folk public opinion has gradually begun to demand the abolition of the class division of scholars, peasants, industrialists, merchants, and lowly people. It is further proposed that all people with Ming household registration, regardless of whether they are scholars, peasants, industrialists, merchants, or lowly people, enjoy the same rights.
All children can take the imperial examination and are eligible to serve as officials.
The kiln sister from the old courtyard even called for equality between men and women, demanding that women enjoy the same rights as men.
Among these kiln sisters, the three famous Qinhuai prostitutes Liu Rushi, Dong Xiaowan and Kou Baimen were the pioneers, while Li Xiangjun, who had transformed from a prostitute into a female general of the dynasty, became a role model.
In short, Ming Dynasty was already on the eve of the great ideological liberation.
In this regard, Neo-Confucian scholars like Huang Daozhou seemed worried, lamenting that the world was declining and people's hearts were not as old as before. However, open-minded officials like Zhang Shenyan were deeply encouraged. Zhang Shenyan even published an article in the Huangming Times, claiming that the Ming Dynasty was undergoing a transformation.
It is the first of its kind to create a new science, and it will soon usher in an unprecedented prosperous age.
In short, the current ideological level of Jiangnan Shilin is extremely active.
Chongzhen took a stand-by attitude, neither deliberately suppressing Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, nor openly trying to support Yangming's Neo-Confucianism, because if Yangming's Neo-Confucianism could not defeat Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, it would not be able to conquer the people of Jiangnan.
If it is liberated from the confinement of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, it will be even more impossible to withstand the invasion of Western culture.
Only warriors who fight hard on the battlefield can have fighting power.
"I will see you, Your Majesty." Lu Zhenfei, Huang Daozhou and other four people walked up to Chongzhen and bowed.
"Oh, the four pavilion elders have arrived." Chongzhen quickly put down the hammer in his hand, stood up and said, "Please ask the four pavilion elders to wait for a while in the thatched hall in front. I will go there shortly."
Lu Zhenfei, Zhang Shenyan and Meng Zhaoxiang actually went to the thatched cottage in front.
However, after walking halfway through Huang Daozhou, he excused himself to go to the toilet and returned. He came to Chongzhen who was washing his face and admonished him, "Your Majesty, I have something to say, and I won't be happy if I don't say it."
As soon as Huang Daozhou spoke, Chongzhen knew what he wanted to say.
However, Chongzhen still said patiently, "What does Mr. Huang Ge want to say to me?"
Huang Daoyi said with a solemn expression on his face on Monday, "Ritual is the one who consolidates the country, regulates the country, and ensures that the king does not lose his people. The ruler of ministers is the correct etiquette; the power and virtue of the king are divided into different etiquettes; the superior, the inferior, the small, the strong.
If you are weak, you must be polite. Therefore, your majesty should not mingle among the craftsmen in Guizhou. This would be disrespectful to the king."
Chongzhen's face immediately fell. "I dare not agree with what Mr. Huangge said. As a rule, if the state has hungry people, the owner will not enjoy them; if the state has frozen people, the owner will not take care of them. On the day of retribution, the owner will not celebrate. Today
The capital has fallen, and all the slaves north of the Yellow River are under the iron heel of the slaves. Tens of millions of common people in China are eagerly waiting for the king's army to go north to rescue them. In this critical period, as the king of a country, I have been working hard to restore our Ming Dynasty.
If you care about your homeland, why not do everything personally?"
Huang Daozhou was immediately speechless. Originally, he wanted to advise Chongzhen not to mix with cheap craftsmen, but Chongzhen retorted that I did this to regain my homeland. Faced with this biggest political correctness, Huang Daozhou had no way to refute.
Because if he retorts, he is against the political correctness of the Northern Expedition.
You can’t directly say that we won’t go on the Northern Expedition, right?
Of course, Huang Daozhou really thinks so in his heart.
This is also the idea of a large number of people in Neo-Confucianism.
What's the benefit of fighting and killing? It's actually cleaner to keep half of the south of the Yangtze River.
However, through this incident, Chongzhen's perception of Neo-Confucianism became even more negative.
Neo-Confucianism is really a bit too much. You really have to take care of everything, including eating, walking, and even setting rules for you on how to laugh. Isn’t this nonsense?
Where do so many broken rules come from?
It’s also important to place the food on the left or right side when you want to eat quickly, why do you just have so much time?
It doesn't matter whether you clasp your thumbs with your thumbs crossed or not, with your left fingers in front or your right fingers in front. Isn't it tiring?
There are rules in all aspects, including a complete set of rules for eating, drinking, having sex, and sleeping. It is true that order is maintained in this way, but it is also severely constrained mentally. The entire society is like a pool of stagnant water, without vitality. China has a five-thousand-year civilization.
However, it failed to give birth to brilliant natural science, and the constraints of Neo-Confucianism are probably to blame.
But fortunately, the foundation of Neo-Confucianism is gradually showing signs of loosening.
Watching Chongzhen's back walking quickly away, Huang Daozhou shook his head and sighed.
From Huang Daozhou's perspective, it was Chongzhen's appeasement and connivance that led to the proliferation of Yangming's Psychology and made Neo-Confucianism difficult. Huang Daozhou has reason to believe that if it is not controlled, Yangming's Psychology will be allowed to continue.
If it continues to spread, the Confucian etiquette that has lasted for more than a thousand years will fall apart.
Scholars, peasants, industrialists and merchants are equal in personality to the untouchables. This is the most ridiculous thing in the world!
Doesn't this mean that scholars need to bow to untouchables when they meet them on the street? How can there be such a truth in the world?
If this trend of thought is allowed to spread, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, in which rituals collapsed and music collapsed, will repeat themselves in China. Unified China will become a thing of the past, and China will inevitably fall into fragmentation in the future.
Thinking of this, Huang Daozhou felt even more anxious. At the same time, he also had a sense of lofty and great mission: "Even if his body is shattered, he must prevent the collapse of rituals and music, and he must prevent China from falling back into the chaos of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Just when Zodiac Zhou was moved by himself, the sound of "Master" sounded in his ears.
Looking back, it was Prince Zhu Cixiang who was bowing to him respectfully.
In the ninth year of Chongzhen's reign, Huang Daozhou served as the Young Master of Zhan Shifu, and served as an official for two years, including Prince Zhu Cihong and Prince Ding Zhu Cijiong. Therefore, Zhu Cihong deserved the title of master Huang Daozhou.
"See you, Prince." Huang Daozhou quickly bowed in return.
After Zhu Cihong bowed, he straightened up and said, "Master Rong, since the fall of the capital and the northern provinces, my father has been lamenting all the time. He is always thinking about launching an expedition to the north and regaining his homeland. He is afraid that my craftsmen will not be able to do things well, so they will have to do everything themselves.
, so it’s not that my father doesn’t respect etiquette, it’s just that he doesn’t care about it during this critical period.”
"So, the prince also thinks that His Majesty's behavior is contrary to etiquette?"
When Huang Daozhou heard this, he immediately became energetic. As long as the prince agreed with Confucian etiquette, the Ming Dynasty would still be saved.
Zhu Cixiang's handsome face fell instantly, and he thought to himself, Master Huang, you are so ignorant. You just said that, why did you provoke it? How could your father hear this?
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At that moment, Zhu Cihong stopped paying attention to the Zodiac Zhou and moved on by himself.
When the two of them entered the thatched cottage, Chongzhen was already discussing business with Lu Zhenfei and the other three.
Lu Zhenfei said, "Your Majesty, this is what happened. Because Concubine Li is involved, I don't dare to take charge of it. I would like to ask Your Majesty to confirm the next terms first."
Chongzhen asked, "What does your cabinet mean?"
Lu Zhenfei said, "The intention of our cabinet is to simply take this opportunity to return Shuixi Xuanweisi and other chieftains to their native land, and eradicate all the chieftains in the southwest once and for all."
I bet An Kun, Shuixi's comfort envoy, came to complain.
It is said that Concubine Li is Li Xiangjun, deputy commander-in-chief of Huguang, who maliciously abducted native people from Shuixi Xuanwei Division.
The cause of the matter was that Li Xiangjun first exempted himself from the imperial grain for five years in Zunyi Mansion and then continued to equalize the land.
As a result, after the news spread, native people from hundreds of miles around flocked to Zunyi Mansion.
In a word, the Han people in this era lived a difficult life, but the native people in the southwest had even more hardships. It is not an exaggeration to say that they were like ants.
When tourist attractions in later generations talked about the toast system in the Southwest, they only told tourists the beautiful aspects, but never mentioned the cruel aspects of the toast system.
To put it bluntly, the chieftain system is actually serfdom.
The vast majority of native people are slaves of the chieftains, big and small, and their status is far inferior to that of tenant farmers.
At least it is illegal for a landlord to kill tenant farmers, but it is no different for a chieftain to kill local people than to kill an animal.
So after hearing the story of Li Xiangjun in Zunyi Prefecture, local people from hundreds of miles around fled to Zunyi from their place of origin. After all, human beings have the same yearning for a better life.
No matter how ignorant they are, no matter how uneducated they are, no matter how stupid they are by religious brainwashing, they always hope that they and their children can live a prosperous and beautiful life.
However, the flight of these native people affected the interests of An Kun and other southwestern chieftains.
"It's good to be able to deal with the southwestern chieftains once and for all, but I'm afraid that good intentions may lead to bad things." Chongzhen sighed softly and said, "Old Luge, you also know that Hua Xia and others are still fighting hard against the wolf soldiers in Guangxi until now."
In October last year, Chen Bangyan, Chen Zizhuang and Zhang Jiayu led 3,000 new troops into Guangxi. While clearing and dividing the cultivated land under the name of the Jingjiang Prince, they reorganized the land and returned it to the land. As a result, dozens of chieftains in Guangxi rebelled.
Because Chen Bangyan and three others were exhausted, Chongzhen ordered Huaxia to lead 5,000 new troops to assist Guangxi.
As a result, seven months have passed now, and the Chinese have not yet put down the rebellious Guangxi chieftains.
Lu Zhenfei, Zhang Shenyan and Meng Zhaoxiang had expressions of surprise on their faces: "The Holy One doesn't know?"
"What do you know?" Chongzhen looked confused.
"This is because I have lost my mind."
Lu Zhenfei said hurriedly.
[Things are getting better, but I still have a low fever, and I feel sweaty just sitting down. These two chapters are drafts I wrote before I got sick. I will revise them and post them now. I’ll see if I can write one or two chapters today and post them tomorrow.]
