Chapter 403 Living and working in peace and contentment
"Why do those Confucian scholars talk about morality but not about morality, but secretly collect bribes to undermine the imperial court and bully one party in the fish and meat village?"
"Because they only have private morality, they only understand filial piety, loyalty and trust, and they only see their own interests and the interests of those who are good to them. But they don't understand what public morality is, and they don't know that they should follow the overall interests of society and do things that are beneficial to society.
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"If you only have the private virtues of filial piety, loyalty and trust, but don't understand social ethics, then if someone gives you money to help bad people and prey on the common people, why don't you do it? What does it have to do with the people you don't know and filial piety, loyalty and trust? Compromising the common people is not against the law.
The values of filial piety, loyalty and trust!”
"If those in power are Confucian scholars who only know filial piety, loyalty and trust, then who will uphold justice? Who will care about the efficiency of society? Who will distinguish right from wrong? Who will understand the responsibilities and responsibilities of society, nation and country?"
"No one in power cares about social justice, no one cares about social efficiency. Each one only knows how to honor the parents who raised him, and is loyal to the emperor who gave him power. In the end, how can the officialdom not turn into a miasma of party struggle for power, bribery and corruption?
Land? If officials only talk about Confucian private ethics and not public ethics, what is the difference between the traitors who bribed him with money and the parents who raised him? They are all benefactors!"
"Confucian scholars only talk about private morality but ignore public morality, and in the end they will turn into well-dressed beasts who hold power and want to sell it! A group of well-dressed beasts occupy the court, disrupt society, and when the slaves come to kill them, can we stop them?"
"If we continue to maintain this kind of society with only private morality and no public morality, the organizational capacity of the society will become worse and worse. The people will not be able to farm, the soldiers will not be able to fight, and we Han people will perish and become slaves!"
Li Zhi paused, looked at the ignorant young people sitting in the seats, and said loudly: "But in Tianjin, we want to build a society that respects public morality."
"We are future officials in Tianjin. The starting point of everything we do should be for the best interests of society as a whole, not for the best interests of ourselves or for those who are good to us."
"If there is a tax collector who bullies the common people, even if the tax collector is friendly with you, you must stand up and make decisions for the common people. Because the common people are bullied, the tax system will be chaotic. If no one stands up and speaks out,
No common people will have the motivation to dig wells and build water conservancy projects, and no one will fertilize their fields. The common people may even abandon their fields and go into exile and join thieves."
"If there is a traitor who bullies small traders who come to Tianjin to do business, even if the traitor is your friend, you should stand up for the small traders. Because only in this way can Tianjin's social order be intact and will
More people want to come to Tianjin to do business and make our city prosperous."
"These are small things around us. Looking at the big picture, if there is a war in Tianjin in the future, and someone kills good people and takes credit, should you abide by your filial piety, loyalty and trustworthiness and turn a blind eye? If you have public morality, you should stand up and punish those who kill ordinary people.
Military leader villain!"
"If you have a sense of public morality, you will not be like those Confucian scholars who only have private virtues, sitting back and watching the country's money being embezzled and exploited by officials at all levels, and remain indifferent."
"A family whose family members are not public-minded will continue to decline. A country whose leaders are not public-minded will sooner or later perish. The Ming Dynasty had tens of millions in land but could not afford hundreds of thousands of frontier troops and millions of guards.
The army could not defeat the tens of thousands of slaves. It was because the officials in the court had no moral integrity, so the country was in decline."
"You are my students, Li Zhi, and you are the future officials of Tianjin. In Tianjin, we can never build a society with only private morality but no public morality, only interests without right and wrong."
"From now on, in Tianjin, I, Li Zhi, will select officials based not on their ability, but on whether they have public ethics. People with public ethics may be less capable, but they can also supervise capable subordinates to make profits for society.
If a person without public morality has strong abilities, this ability will become a terrible weapon for his own profit."
"What we want to build in Tianjin is a Tianjin where everyone understands public ethics and discusses right and wrong everywhere. So that every farmer in Tianjin can safely build fertile fields with water conservancy and grow more food. So that every craftsman can
Improve your skills with peace of mind, and you can make a fortune based on your skills. Let every small business owner be able to plan purchases and sales with peace of mind, and fill the containers with various products without worrying about Qingpi extorting money or government officials exploiting them."
"What we want to build is a new society with a sense of public morality!"
The young people, who were like pieces of blank paper, looked at the eloquent Uncle Xing Guo, and their eyes shone with excitement. Building a society where everyone lives and works in peace and contentment without oppression or injustice has been the highest ideal of the Han people for thousands of years. These ignorant people
Young people also long to live in such a society.
Xing Guobo is now going to lead everyone to build such a society with their own hands. How can the students not be excited about this?
Li Zhi smiled and said: "Today is your first class. The teacher of the "Public Morality Class" will teach you about the 'Public Morality of Officials' and learn how, as a government official, you should lead by example to maintain the social order around you. Everyone.
Applause to welcome our teachers."
Amidst the applause of the students, a thin young man straightened his headscarf and walked onto the podium. "Students, I am your public ethics teacher. My name is"
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On August 25, Li Zhi was sitting in the second hall of the General Military Mansion, discussing various matters about the daily newspaper with Huan Yihua, the "newspaper manager" who was responsible for the founding of "Tianjin Daily".
Li Zhi wanted to publish the first official newspaper of the Ming Dynasty.
Speaking of which, there were newspapers in the Ming Dynasty, and Di Bao could be regarded as an early and crude newspaper. After various memorials were published in the Liuke Langfang every day, the clerks of the General Affairs Department of the imperial court would bring paper and pen to publish them.
Copy down the important memorials, and then organize people to copy these memorials into dibao.
However, the Di newspaper had to be copied and passed on layer by layer by "copycats". Obviously, every memorial could not be copied in time. Instead, it took several months to compile it into a volume and circulate it. Although during the Chongzhen period, the General Affairs Department began to print the Di newspaper with movable type.
, but Di Bao is still printed once every half month. And the number of prints is limited. Low-level officials such as county magistrates who want to read Di Bao still have to wait for higher-level officials to finish reading it before they can read another Di Bao.
This kind of Dibao can obviously no longer meet the needs of the times. Moreover, the Dibao only contains memorials from various places and does not include news from various places, which is also a major flaw.
Li Zhi wanted to publish a "Tianjin Daily" that would be published every day, include timely news from various places, and be written in vernacular so that anyone who could read could understand it.
