The dignified Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, an important minister of the Three Gongs and Nine Qings, looked at the angry ordinary people in front of him at this moment, and he was frightened to death.
He has never encountered such a situation. No matter where he went before, everyone treated him with respect. As for these common people, it goes without saying that some are timid and even want to
Shiver.
It's better now. Each one of them seemed to have a grudge against him and wanted to tear him apart alive. Some of the shrews said something so unpleasant that Wang Hao couldn't help but feel so angry that his beard stood straight.
"People in the market are short-sighted, how can they know the great events of the ages."
"It is impossible to talk about insects in the summer. The teachings of Confucius and Mencius are the foundation of the founding of our country in the Ming Dynasty. The new-style schools do not teach the true meaning of Confucius and Mencius, but specialize in teaching heretics. They put the cart before the horse. If this continues, there will be endless disasters."
"How can you people understand? You are just blinded by the small profit in front of you."
Wang Hao's face turned red with anger. Looking at the ordinary people in front of him, he felt that iron was not as good as steel. He felt that he was playing the piano to others, but he had to stand up and defend himself.
"We are short-sighted. We only know that this new school does not charge our tuition fees, gives our children food to eat, teaches our children to read and write, and can still have a good job in the future."
"If you really want to achieve great things for a long time, can you use your family property to run a school?"
"Can you?"
When shopkeeper Zhang heard this, he immediately sneered and mocked.
"Yeah, can you?"
"If you are able to run a school and let our children go to school for free, you have the final say on what they study."
"I'm still beeping here without the ability. It sounds like you care about the country and the country. It sounds like the Ming Dynasty will perish without you."
"On the left is the way of Confucius and Mencius, and on the right is the true meaning of the philosophers. We ordinary people do not have such high pursuits, and our children do not want to be officials. They just want to read some books and learn some skills, so that they can make a good living in the future.
, just like this, you still want to cut off our hope."
The people next to me also shouted.
"I...I~"
Wang Hao was speechless. He asked himself to spend millions of taels of silver every year to run the school. That was impossible. He was not Liu Jin, the God of Wealth. How could he have so much money?
"Old man, get out of here now~"
"I get angry just looking at you."
"Why don't you eat minced meat? That's what you people do."
"Every one of you has a lot of money, so naturally you have the money to hire your husband to teach. We common people, if it weren't for Mr. Liu's great charity, we and other ordinary people in the city would be illiterate for generations to come. Now it's not easy for my son to enter a new school."
"If you can read and write, and have excellent grades, the teacher has said that you will definitely be able to get into middle school. Not only will you be proud of your ancestors, but at least you will have a good living in the future."
"Of course you don't understand how we ordinary people want our children to study. You don't understand our difficulties. Only Mr. Liu understands. They understand and are willing to help us."
"Yes, because Mr. Liu, like us, comes from ordinary people and understands our difficulties."
"What does this Wang Hao know? He only knows how to talk eloquently and talk about Confucius and Mencius. It's all bullshit~"
Seeing Wang Hao's appearance, the people around him became even more angry. Everyone said something that made Wang Hao's face turn red and his beard crooked.
"You...you~"
When Wang Hao heard someone saying that the teachings of Confucius and Mencius were bullshit, Wang Hao was so angry that he pointed at the other person and didn't know how to refute him for a moment.
"Summer insects cannot speak of ice, summer insects cannot speak of ice~"
"go back!"
He was so angry that he got on the carriage directly. He really had nothing to say to these ordinary people.
How do they know the importance of the teachings of Confucius and Mencius, and the importance of the true meaning of the philosophers in governing the country and the country. New-style schools put the cart before the horse, which will inevitably lead to turmoil in the country and the instability of the country.
"I'll smash you to death~"
When he saw Wang Hao getting into the four-wheeled carriage and about to leave, he didn't know who threw a rotten egg at his carriage, and everyone around him immediately followed suit.
Rotten eggs, rotten vegetable leaves, small stones, broken bricks, smelly salted fish, etc. all flew towards Wang Hao's carriage. Although Wang Hao was fine, he was still scared to death and quickly asked Wang Xuan to drive away in the carriage.
I can't stay any longer. If I stay any longer, I might be beaten to death by each of these people with a fist.
The story that Wang Hao was severely humiliated by ordinary people in Shijing spread quickly, and some people kept applauding and saying that it was very satisfying.
But for Confucian people, this makes people very angry.
Wang Hao was the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, and his disciples and former officials were spread throughout the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, he was a great Confucian scholar with high knowledge and a high status in the Confucian sect.
When they learned that Wang Hao had been humiliated, the scholars at the Imperial Academy in Beijing immediately went into a rage, shouting in groups, and at the same time contacted the candidates who were rushing to take the exam in Beijing.
These people gathered together, and some people went to the palace in the capital to request orders and wrote a letter, asking Emperor Hongzhi to severely punish the lawbreakers who humiliated Wang Hao, and at the same time immediately close all the new schools opened by Liu Jin.
Some scholars rushed into a new-style school run by Liu Jin and made trouble inside the school, demanding that the school be suspended immediately and that all teachers and students must go back immediately.
As a result, the trouble did not happen, but instead aroused the anger of the students in this school, and a melee broke out. Each of these scholars was beaten with bruises on the nose and face.
The story that the scholars from the Imperial College and those who came to Beijing to take the exams were beaten because they went to the new school to cause trouble spread quickly.
All of a sudden, things got louder and louder, and more and more scholars went to petition outside the palace gate. At the same time, various impeachments against new schools were made from all over the Ming Dynasty, and even the memorials to impeach Liu Jin were like snowflakes.
Fly to the desk of Emperor Hongzhi.
However, things did not end like this.
These Confucian people were extremely angry, and they continued to write letters demanding the closure of new schools, which continued to arouse public outrage.
The common people in the Beijing-Tianjin area have stopped working. In the Beijing-Tianjin area, there are factories, trading houses, and big ships here. The workers do not go to work and gather together. The guys from the trading houses stop working and also gather together. The crew members also gather together.
Even if they don’t go to sea, they still gather together.
Together, everyone wrote a letter to Emperor Hongzhi to express their demands, hoping that Emperor Hongzhi would listen to their voices.
Ordinary people like them don't have any big pursuits. We just want to live our lives in peace and stability. We hope that our children can read and read, and understand some basic common sense such as arithmetic, so that they can be successful in the future.
If you can have a good job, you won't be easily deceived.
We don’t think that our children can take the imperial examinations or become officials. We don’t want to study the true meaning of the philosophies, and we don’t need to understand the teachings of Confucius and Mencius.
We are just ordinary people, we are just ordinary people, we have such a simple wish.
Finally, there are free schools that can teach children some useful things. At the same time, they also teach children to be loyal to the emperor and patriotism, to be well-educated, to be self-reliant, to love themselves, and to be polite, righteous, and honest.
that's enough.
As for the Tao of Confucius and Mencius and the true meaning of the philosophers, let them read it. Our request is very simple.
But such a simple and simple wish will be extinguished by others, and our hope will be cut off. Please ask Your Majesty to uphold justice for all people.
The first large-scale strike in history in the Beijing and Tianjin areas of the Ming Dynasty was not due to the oppression of capitalists, long working hours, poor factory environment, etc., but it was to fight for the right of their children to study and receive education.
's general strike.
Wang Hao had already been recognized by others, including some smelly and rotten factories, trading firms, merchant ships, etc. Soon, these people's factories, trading firms, merchant ships, etc. were completely shut down.
Angry workers and people quit working. No matter how high the salary you give me, I won’t work for you anymore. I can work for whomever I like.
The large-scale strike soon spread to the entire Beijing-Tianjin area. A large number of factories, businesses, workshops, etc. began to suspend work. Workers gathered on the streets of the capital, shouting slogans and holding books of all peoples.
Although scholars and candidates have the right to speak and have direct access to heaven, angry citizens are not easy to mess with. Tens of thousands of citizens poured into the streets to express their demands and pour out their anger.
For them, it doesn't matter if life is hard or tiring.
In the factories and workshops of the Ming Dynasty, if you enter any factory or workshop now, you have to work for at least six hours a day. Some even have to work there all day long in addition to eating and sleeping.
The environment is very poor, life is very hard, and the food is not good, but it doesn't matter. It's just a little hard and a little tiring. It doesn't matter. We are all poor people. We are not afraid of hardship, as long as we have a bright future.
When I get my salary every month, these white silver dollars are the most real. All the hardships and tiredness disappear at once. When I go home for the New Year every year, I take home the big and small bags and look at the new house at home.
A fat child who eats for nothing.
Everything is worth it.
But you can't deprive us of hope. If there is no hope, then everything will naturally have no meaning. And their hope is their children. Children can read and write, go to school, and have hope of getting ahead. This is the greatest thing.
hope.
For this reason, no matter how hard it is, I have no regrets.
This is how the first strike in the Ming Dynasty occurred. Unlike the strikes in history before Liu Jin traveled through time, the people on strike were not fighting for their own labor rights, but for the right to educate their children.
For the people of this land, everyone clearly understands the role of knowledge and education.