The fate of history and the wisdom of the nation - a little thought of reading "Ming"

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The brief description talked about the lack of political wisdom in the upper class of southern rule. In the words of the book, "Zhu Biao adopted Huang Zicheng's proposal to support officials with a high salary, rely on Neo-Confucianism to govern the government, and rely on miscellaneous studies to develop private industry and commerce. The effect was also good at the beginning, and Zhu Jiangyan once doubted whether his original opinions were too extreme. As a result, it took only five or six years to get better, and the drawbacks of this strategy gradually emerged. The officials who received a generous salary did not satisfy their greed, but gradually extended their hands to emerging industry and commerce. Illegal encroachment on other people's property, and cases of collusion between officials and merchants are everywhere."

The book also said, "President Zhu Er hopes that both the north and the south can achieve the same goal. He is too proud of the political wisdom of the corrupt officials in the court. The existence of old ministers like Zhu Er and Cao Zhen is actually the cornerstone to ensure that the Jianwen court survives. With them, King Yan Zhu Di dared not raise an army easily. But the wise bosses who thought they were very cooperative in dismantling these cornerstones one by one, waiting for the collapsed building to crush him to death."

He also said, "If the corrupt officials in the south can invest in factories and mines and stop corruption and abuse the law, their wealth accumulation process is no less dirtier than those slave traders and blood-seared factory owners in the north. If Zhu Yunwen could see the current situation clearly, he might become an unprecedented great emperor in Chinese history. Unfortunately, they would not do that..."

Please note that there is no fundamental conflict between the southern bureaucrats and the industry and commerce in the north and the south. Emerging industry and commerce actually provide new sources of wealth for the bureaucrats. The economic problem in the south is only that the southern bureaucrats are too greedy and only pursue short-term personal interests. What they do not only harm the southern economy, but also harm their own long-term interests. Dig their own graves.

It seems ridiculous, but the fact that the upper class lacks political wisdom does run through most of Chinese history. In history, even when facing external invasions and peasant riots and their own class life and death, the ruling group still struggles in the internal struggle. In the late Western Jin Dynasty, the Eight Kings Rebellion was an example. The Fu King’s wealth at the end of the Ming Dynasty was as rich as a mountain but refused to use money to resist the King of Chuang is another example. From this perspective, the upper class, not to mention political wisdom, may not even be able to make a decision.

From this point of view, the crisis of the Antai Dynasty and the Jianwen Dynasty was first and foremost a spiritual crisis. It was not only a moral crisis, but also a spiritual crisis in intelligence.

Not only in the south, but the same crisis is also brewing in the north, but it is just covered up by appearances.

The book says that the six northern provinces have newspapers and jazz supervision systems, and the administration is quite clear and clear.

But "In Guo Feng's eyes, he saw many shortcomings of the new policy and the dark side of the new policy implemented by Guo Pu Yili. Most of the early factory owners and businessmen of Lao Zhangwu were born from craftsmen and poor people, suffered some hardships, and knew how to understand the difficulties of the poor. At the beginning of the development of the new policy, there were few workers in employed, and the salary paid by factory owners was high. Night schools in various places were also in full swing under the personal inquiries of Wu'anguo and Guo Pu. With the development of the current situation, the number of refugees entering the northern provinces gradually increased, and the salary of workers was lower. Night schools in various places where professors and workers were literate and literate gradually shifted from free to charging. In the past ten years,

Especially after the relationship between the north and the south is on the verge of breaking, the emerging factory owners are even less polite to the workers. The refugees who were forced by corrupt officials to relocate their families into the northern six provinces. They have nothing but physical strength, so they are not qualified to speak with local factory owners. They have to work for more than ten hours a day to earn three meals. It is common for workers to go bankrupt next to the machine. Bai Zheng and others scold some factory owners as vampires, which is quite reasonable. The most intolerable is the Liaomeng Lianhao, the largest and oldest business group in the northern six provinces. Although they provide higher wages to each worker and buy insurance, the business group is currently mainly economically

However, the source is the plunder of the natives of Oceania and the trafficking of women from the Western Regions to the Central Plains. Guo Pu knew about these shortcomings of the new policy, but he put the overall situation first and did not do his best to make up for it. At least Guo Feng, the son, did not feel that his father had done his best."

Not only that, the big business groups in various places have officialdom as the background. The King of Yan in the north, the King of Qin in the northwest, and the Mu family in Yunnan are the largest shareholders of the business names in their jurisdiction. They make huge profits every year, not only engage in legal business, but also operate illegally. Based on this calculation, the new policy may eventually evolve into a deadly monopoly economy. Small enterprises can only compete with privileged monopoly capital, and monopoly capital continues to stifle the vitality of the market and will soon enter decline after reaching its peak.

Therefore, the mental crisis reflected by the short-sightedness of the southern bureaucrats is a microcosm of the country and a crisis of traditional Chinese culture.

Greed is part of human nature. Capitalists have to be profit-oriented, so it is probably not practical to expect officials from the north and south to not be greedy. The problem is that people must always have vision and wisdom. Only with vision can they develop their banks, insurance, credit, environmental protection, and labor protection. Only by investing in the development of spiritual culture. These systems that involve long-term interests of the country often conflict with the short-term interests of merchants and bureaucrats.

Please note that all the books that involve common interests, such as the stock market, were mostly first created by Wu'anguo and supervised by Guo Pu. If Zhou Chongwen had been replaced by the history of the six northern provinces, he would have collapsed long ago.

The social crisis in the book is also here. Before the spiritual crisis is resolved, one has to rely on man to rule.

In the Antai Dynasty, Wu'an Kingdom has been repairing bridges and roads to engage in water conservancy. Wu'an Kingdom works hard alone, but the society is still far from mature in the manual. Too many people are used to having an emperor to rule, and too many people are eager for quick success and instant benefits, and only think about it.

As for why people lack political wisdom?

Political wisdom (promoted by others, business wisdom) can only develop in the continuous development of many generations. Even if there are capable people from generation to generation, they must be inherited by people in person... And the Ming Dynasty was a dynasty developed from a poor and blank world.

In Chinese history, only the founding emperors of the Han and Ming dynasties were from lower classes, which cannot be attributed to the conquest of the Qin and Yuan dynasties in the previous period. Qin conquered the six kingdoms, destroyed the original ruling structure of the six kingdoms and replaced it with a brand new set. The Yuan dynasty conquered the Southern Song Dynasty and completely abandoned the rule dominated by Confucian literati. In a sense, the fall of Qin and Yuan left a vacuum of power. The subsequent Han and Ming dynasties almost started from a piece of white paper. Without the large number of talents left by the previous dynasty, we can only refer to the ancient system in ancient books.

Qin and Yuan were both dynasties that advocated extreme martial arts. From this point of view, the two were definitely not models of a commercial society. Compared with Qin and Yuan, the scores of people were worse, and they could not even be considered a society with good organization and good management. This environment, coupled with the turmoil at the end of the dynasty, left a profound mark on the spirit of everyone in the early Han and early Ming dynasties. The establishment of the imperial system could not be without a profound mark on the personal experience of Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang.

The impact of unrest on a country and society is quite negative. Unrest makes people struggle for their own survival, unrest makes people accustomed to cruelty and turn a blind eye to other people's pain. Unrest has also cultivated countless people who are ambitious and are always ready to step on others. Unrest makes people lack mutual trust and make people short-sighted. After receiving this legacy, both the Han and Ming dynasties killed their meritorious officials and were all granted the title of kings. They tried to recreate a new country on the basis of princes and literati and bureaucrats. They created a new ruling culture on the basis of Confucian culture.

That's why Ming Dynasty has a mental crisis.

And this is a cycle of fate. Without generations of stable progress, it is not easy to have true mutual trust and political wisdom. Without political wisdom and mutual trust, there is no continuous and stable development.

Therefore, countries around the world, the most stable and honest development are Iceland, Finland, and Switzerland, which have never been conquered or have never been civil strife.
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