That master is still smart enough to build a pavilion instead of a temple, and there will generally be no problems.
If you really dare to build a temple, I'm afraid other physics disciples will kill Jia Yingchun before Wang Yuan takes action.
What is a temple?
Can a place for worshiping ghosts, gods, ancestors and sages be set up casually for strangers?
Even if Jia Yingchun built a shrine for the imperial edict, if it was passed around, it would become Wang Yuan's living shrine!
Then he said that the Xiangxian Temple can only be entered after death.
It's just that officials can do it. By pleasing the local gentry, they can first reserve a place in the Xiangxian Temple. After death, they can set up the eight scriptures and erect the memorial tablets. It is very important to reserve that location. Some patrols can save trouble by pressing the censor's map, just ask the gentry which official
You can enter the ancestral hall in the countryside and report it as a political achievement. Therefore, many local officials, for the sake of fame and political achievements, desperately try to win over the local wealthy families, and thus the officials and the gentry collude.
Magistrate Jia was busy building a pavilion, and Wang Yuan had already changed ships from the canal to the Yangtze River.
On the official ship, Wang Yuan asked: "How is the livelihood of the water workers?"
Liu Xi sighed: "That's it."
Wang Yuan asked again: "Where are the caoyin soldiers who were transferred to civilian households?"
Liu Xi said: "Those who dared to venture and fight went to the coast to make a living. I heard that some people made a fortune overseas. Those who were not so courageous went to work more and worked hard, and some became small traders. Generally speaking, life was good.
Be better than before.”
"As long as you can live a good life." Wang Yuan nodded and said.
Nowadays, the railway is built from Beijing to Huai'an. All water transportation in this section has been changed to railway transportation. The performance of steam trains has also been improved a lot. Some of the water workers and soldiers have been converted into road maintenance workers and road protection soldiers, and the rest have been converted into road transport.
Normal household.
To put it bluntly, the Caogong workers were laid off, and the Caobing army was laid off. Although it caused some chaos in a short period of time, it quickly returned to normal, and it was not as terrible as the officials thought.
The reason is that Cao workers and Cao soldiers were physically restrained in the past. Not only were their wages deducted all year round, but they also had to do private work for water transportation officials, and they were kept in a state of starvation. After they were transferred to other positions and laid off, whatever money they earned was theirs, except
Except for a few who are stubborn, most of them are actually doing better than before.
Wang Yuan said: "Brother Liu has made great contributions to the northern section of the canal railway. I have wronged you by being transferred to Nanjing as the right governor. When Ding You's term expires, I will definitely ask Brother Liu to be promoted to a third orphan."
Liu Xi smiled and said, "Master, this is really embarrassing."
Liu Xi, a rare and incorruptible military attache, was able to serve as the commander-in-chief of water transportation for more than ten years, all because of Wang Yuan's support at the center. Even so, when Wang Yuan promoted Liu Xi, he only dared to promote Liu Xi to Nanjing.
It is true that he has cut off too many people's financial resources.
Liu Xi knew this very well and had long regarded Wang Yuan as his benefactor, and even had the idea that "a scholar will die for his confidant."
If Wang Yuan was not a time traveler, he would have ended up like Zhang Juzheng. It is estimated that Liu Xi would have gone alone, repaired Wang Yuan's tomb with his own hands, and then risked his life to rectify Wang Yuan's name at the imperial court.
Liu Xi disembarked in Nanjing, but Wang Yuan did not stay and continued to take the boat up the river.
Hundreds of disciples of the Physics School, upon hearing the news that Wang Yuan and Ding You had returned to their hometown, came to the Nanjing Shuiyi Pier in shifts to squat. Seeing that Wang Yuan did not get off the boat, the disciples bowed and saluted the captain until the official boat completely disappeared on the water of the Yangtze River.
It was almost dark when they arrived at Taiping Mansion, and Wang Yuan once again took his family ashore to rest.
The prefect of Taiping was not a disciple of physics, but one of his colleagues and a general judge were. The prefect politely invited Wang Yuan to stay at the hotel. The two prefects and the general judge each took several disciples with them, and invited Wang Yuan to give lectures at the academy the next day.
Wang Yuan did not talk about physics, but his "Wealth of Nations", about how to enrich the country and strengthen the people, how to develop industry, agriculture and commerce, and always be wary of gentry and merchants harming the people. In the final analysis, it is the Confucian "debate between justice and benefit".
Chong, give up small righteousness for great righteousness, give up small benefits for great benefits, great righteousness and great benefit are definitely unified.
The disciples suddenly realized that this was the core concept of physics, and everything they studied was for the purpose of enriching the country and strengthening the people.
Physics has finally completely jumped out of Yangming's theory of mind, completely out of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, to the foundation of Confucian "benevolence and righteousness". And it does not talk about small benevolence and small righteousness, but about great benevolence and great righteousness. Great benevolence and great righteousness will lead to great benefits, and ultimately benefit all people and the country.
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In the class at Taiping Academy, Wang Yuan concluded: "Gather small gains to gain big benefits, gather small righteousness to achieve great righteousness. If it hurts big gains, small gains are not desirable; if it harms great righteousness, small righteousness cannot be achieved. Great righteousness must be achieved."
Great benefit, great benefit must be based on great righteousness. Gaining both righteousness and benefit is benevolence."
All the disciples were sincerely convinced.
Huangfu Zhi, the prefect of Taiping, asked: "I would like to ask the grand master, since the boom of commerce, people have become obsessed with pursuing profits and forgetting their righteousness. For the sake of mere money, father and son turn against each other, and brothers fight. Where is the benevolence, where is the righteousness, and where is the courtesy?"
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Wang Yuan asked back: "If business is not booming, then there will be no such thing?"
Huangfu said: "At least it should be better."
Wang Yuan said: "That is so poor that there is no profit to fight for, which is a very sad thing."
Huangfu asked again: "The Grand Master was the first to open sea in Hangzhou, and the younger generation is from Wuzhong. Although no one in the younger generation's family sailed to sea, they were still engaged in business and earned a lot of money every year. In order to make money, the elders of the clan changed their grain fields.
There are many rich households in the countryside who plant mulberry trees. After the rich households make money, they also purchase land and continue to plant those mulberry trees. Today, there are very few grain fields left in Wuzhong, and the fields of the poor are all taken over by the rich. The rich get richer, and the poor become poorer.
When people want to be poor, people abandon their homes and go overseas. Is this a benevolent policy of great benefit?"
Many disciples also became confused, something was obviously wrong with this.
Wang Yuan nodded and said: "This is also benevolent government."
Huangfu Zhi frowned and said, "Please clarify the confusion, Grand Master."
Wang Yuan asked: "Is it possible to stop the land annexation?"
Huangfu shook his head: "No, it has been the same since ancient times. But if we focus on agriculture and suppress business, the merger issue can be alleviated."
Wang Yuan asked: "What about in a hundred years? What about in two hundred years? What about in three hundred years?"
Huangfu was silent.
Wang Yuan said: "Even if we focus on agriculture and suppress commerce, after a hundred years, land annexation will still reach the point where it is difficult to deal with. We might as well let it happen faster, let industry and commerce flourish, let the landless farmers join the industry, and let the landless farmers go overseas to acquire
land!"
Huangfu asked: "If this is the case, the people overseas will be deprived of their land. How are we different from Mongolia?"
Wang Yuan sneered: "I am a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, I am an official of the Ming Dynasty. The people overseas are dead, so what does it have to do with me? Benevolent government is just the benevolent government of the Ming Dynasty. You can ask the people on the northern border and ask them
Are you willing to be kind to the Mongols?"
Huangfu Zhi cupped his hands and said, "I have learned a lesson."
Wang Yuan added: "Why did I create the science of physics? It was just to attract thousands of people and create hundreds of industries. You can read the history books of the Tang and Song Dynasties and see how many acres of land a farmer could cultivate at that time, and what the productivity per mu was at that time. Don't say
You can't find it out. As long as you make your own calculations, you can draw many conclusions from the "Shi Huo Zhi" of the past dynasties. In the Ming Dynasty, one person could cultivate land, and one acre in the Ming Dynasty could harvest far more grain than in the Tang and Song Dynasties. Why is this so?
Farm tools are easier to use, and there are more high-yielding grains. Not only agriculture, but also books. The cost of printing a book in the Ming Dynasty is also much lower than that of the Tang and Song Dynasties. Physics is what we do. From now on, all kinds of industries will be
Because physics is booming, it is possible to do the most things with the fewest people. What should the remaining people do? Give them more work to do, and give them more land to cultivate overseas. This also requires the development of physics knowledge.
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Huangfu was silent and thinking.
Wang Yuan asked again: "Do you know how big the world is?"
Huangfu said: "Juniors have seen the globe and know that the land of the Ming Dynasty is only a corner of the world."
Wang Yuan said: "My benevolent policy is that in a hundred years, Han people will be everywhere on the earth. All the arable land in the world will be the acreage of the Han people; all the industries that can be prospered in the world will be the livelihood of the Han people! You know my heart!
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Huangfu Zhi bowed in admiration and said: "I just found out today that this junior is willing to enter the physics gate!"
Huangfu Zhang had met Wang Yuan before, and Wang Yuan held a "literary symposium" at that time, which was attended by the three Huangfu brothers.
Historically, Emperor Jiajing was carrying out a large-scale construction project, and Huangfu Zhi happened to be a doctor in the Ministry of Industry. This man deliberately slacked off the work, resulting in a shortage of stone materials for the project, and was demoted to Huangzhou by Jiajing as a promotion official. He was finally promoted to a supervisor, but was dismissed because he offended the superior.
.After that, he traveled around the world, enjoying poetry and wine, and lived to the age of eighty.
Now, in a big circle, Huangfu Zhang seems to be putting down his poetry and writing, and instead devotes himself to the research of physics.