There is a lot of wealth in the world, but it is not in the official position, but in the people. This is a curse of Xu Ping. To solve this problem, we must start with the creation of wealth by labor, and then commercial exchange can increase wealth.

However, what wealth is, this question must be answered clearly first. Xu Ping took political classes in his previous life. Many concepts were learned from textbooks when he was a child, and he continued to understand them little by little. He moistened things silently, and unknowingly he dissolved many complex academic concepts into his thoughts and became an instinct.

However, if you really want to explain these concepts to people who have not learned systematically, you will be at a loss. When talking about labor creating wealth in the previous life, many people took it for granted and did not need explanation, but this era was not good.

All things are born to nourish people, and everything comes from heaven. How can it be created by people? Chinese people, especially scholars, do not believe in God, but they believe in God and destiny.

The two schools of Confucianism and Mohism were studied in the pre-Qin period. Mozi talked about the ghosts of heaven and the ghosts, and Confucius talked about keeping away from God. Traditionally, they did not regard heaven and God as omnipotent and personalized religious gods. The Book of Documents said, "Heaven sees oneself, the people see, and the people listen." They connect the heart of heaven with the heart of the people, and go further to replace the heart of heaven with the people. But no matter what, the omnipresent heaven is there, just for others to dress up.

Li Wei came from Confucian classics and believed that etiquette is human instinct. First, food satisfies human survival, and then it is natural for men and women to reproduce and descendants, which is also called food and sex.

This opened a door for Xu Ping. As long as it explains people's basic needs, then all things that meet people's needs are wealth. And this kind of wealth can be created by labor.

The biggest danger of such a theoretical basis is to reach the opposite of Mencius's school. Gaozi said that human nature has no goodness and no badness, and food and color are human nature. It was through refuting Gaozi's view that he proposed the theory of good nature.

Li Wei hated Mencius extremely, and even traveled thousands of miles to Yongzhou to study for Xu Ping's past life, which was a fundamental conflict with Mencius' thoughts based on theory.

Xunzi advocated the theory of evil nature, saying, "The nature of people today is hungry and want to be full, cold and want to be warm, and labor and want to be restless. This is the nature of people." It is precisely because food and sex are human nature that fighting for evil nature is also human nature. If you deal with evil nature and do not allow them to do evil, you must have etiquette and rules.

This is the source of the Legalist thought, and to suppress the people's original desires and satisfy the monarch, so strict laws and torture are used to force the people under the ruler to obey and have to obey the king. It is also the source of Confucian ethics of the principles of Confucianism. Because human nature is evil, we must establish a principle, establish etiquette, suppress human evil nature. Every move and even thought are restricted by the Three Bonds and Five Constant Persons until the laws of heaven are preserved and human desires are destroyed.

Even in Confucianism, Mencius' status was not high until Han Yuyuandao formally proposed the theory of Taoism and regarded Mencius as the only one who attained Taoism after Confucius. By the time of Xu Ping, the so-called Taoists respected Mencius's school, and Taoism originally meant Taoism. Instead of Taoism, most of them belittled Mencius.

For most people, either Meng or Xun is the extreme manifestation of the ideological struggle between these two factions in history is party struggle.

Wang Anshi was the true rise of Mencius' status, and his thoughts were listed as classics, which was in his hands when he was the Shenzong period. Sima Guang was not Meng Zunxun, and he talked about the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues, but his thoughts were incompatible with Wang Anshi's power.

Ironically, Li Wei was the one who worked hardest, but in history, it was his thoughts that became the forerunner of Wang Anshi's reform. It was Li Wei who vigorously advocated that enrich the country and strengthen the army.

The ideological struggle between the two Song dynasties was basically entangled between respecting Meng and Fei Meng. Until Zhu Xi became mixed up, he led Buddhist thoughts into Confucianism and formed a unity. While Zhu Xi said respecting Meng, he preserved the principles of heaven and destroyed human desires. Since human nature is inherently good, why should he eliminate human desires? In fact, he used Mencius's flag to wrap Xunzi's bones inside.

Rather than saying that the thoughts of the rulers after the Song Dynasty were Confucian skin and legal bones, it was better to say that the bones of Meng and Xunxun were more accurate. The increasingly severe Three Bonds and Five Constant Controls of Society and the ethics of cannibalism, the root of the thoughts was actually Xunzi's theory of evil nature.

Li Wei opposed Mencius's theory of good nature and proposed that the essence of etiquette is the foundation of human beings, and that survival and reproduction are all born from here. But he is not from Xunzi's theory of evil nature, but in fact he is the theory of simple nature, on the Gaozi side.

If it does not belong to the Mencius school or the Xunzi school, it is destined to be a niche.

As a latecomer in his previous life, Xu Ping had already had prejudice against the society where ethics planned everything, so he naturally would not support Xunzi's thoughts. Whether it was the harsh punishments of the Legalists, the rule of one person in the world, or the establishment of the Three Bonds and Five Constant Permanences of ethics, the maximum limit of people's behavior and thoughts, Xu Ping could not accept it.

What Xu Ping liked was that Li Wei was not good at nature and was not bad at nature. Survival and reproduction were the foundation of human beings. After satisfying the foundation, there would be more advanced things. "ritual" was the promotion and limitation of these. This kind of thought was the thought that Xu Ping was used to in his previous life. However, he did not have the ability to read poetry and books like Li Wei and was proficient in classics. He could integrate this thought into mainstream Confucianism and become a different family.

After Li Wei solved the basic problems, Xu Ping could complete the later advanced ideological construction.

Xu Ping has always been very cautious about writing books and promoting his own ideas. He knew his own weight, and he had only a little understanding of the classics and explained them casually, which would easily make himself a public enemy of Shilin. Once he reached that step, he would not think about doing anything else. He did not care about other people's opinions like Ding Wei. He had that kind of skill, but Ding Wei had only held power for more than two years.

Now that Li Wei has arrived in Fangcheng and has really begun to govern, his thoughts have begun to emerge. With such a student who can be regarded as his own, Xu Ping can consider starting to make a statement and bring his thoughts from his previous life to this world.

Picking up the pen, Xu Ping wrote a reply to Li Liu seriously.

For the first time, Xu Ping systematically proposed that labor can create wealth, the improvement of labor efficiency and the use of labor tools can create more wealth, and he systematically proposed to another person. As long as this is established, how to improve labor efficiency and create better tools becomes the top priority of economic development. With this, giving craftsmen and scientific and technological workers a higher status, there will be theoretical basis.

Knowledge is nothing more than physical life. As long as this is established, the study of physics will have an equally important position as the study of life. From then on, science and technology can be promoted legitimately and used as an important national policy.

This is also the first time that Xu Ping had high hopes for Li Xu, hoping that he could lay a solid foundation for his thoughts in this era when various academic factions emerged like a blowout, making it irrefutable.

In a thousand years, there may be no longer any theoretical cause of preserving the laws of heaven and destroying human desires. What exists can only be that human nature is originally simple, with no good or bad, and human beings have no evil.

Xiuxiu occasionally raised her head, looked at Xu Ping at the desk with a sacred face, and was writing with concentration, and couldn't help but smile and shook her head. Thinking about the days when the two had just met, Xu Ping was frowning as soon as she picked up the book, and asked Xiuxiu to supervise herself, bit the bullet and ate the classics and passed the Jinshi. Years passed, and the official was no longer the somewhat naughty rural boy back then. He really became an official and became a scholar in her mind.

Emperor Zhenzong wrote a poem that encourages learning, "A rich family does not need to buy good land, there is a thousand chunk of grain in the book. There is no need to build a high hall in the house, there is a golden house in the book. Don't regret no one follows you when you go out, there are many carriages and horses in the book. Don't regret no matchmaker when you get married, and there is a beauty in the book. If a man fulfills his life's ambition, he will read the Six Classics diligently in front of the window."

In the eyes of scholars, this poem is so vulgar that it is no longer as vulgar. It is full of mercy from the inside out, far less than Yan Zhenqing's one. "The lights are on the third day and the fifth day is when a man is studying. He doesn't know how to study early, but Bai regrets studying too late."

The emperor's tone of poetry is like a polite person, and Yan's poems are inspirational.

But isn't this the case in this era? The whole country is full of philanthropy from the inside out, and the emperor is the one who truly understands the world. In Xiuxiu's eyes, what Emperor Zhenzong said was the truth. Scholars should look like scholars, and naturally they should have the rewards that scholars should have.

There are all good fields, cars, horses, golden houses, and officials now. Aren’t they all earned by studying so much?

Xu Ping wrote his previous experiences carefully and combined them with his experiences and knowledge in this life. He felt that he could write a thousand words and could never stop.

Why did sugar commerce become a omnipotent monster, making countless money and feeding hundreds of thousands of people? Because the organization improves labor efficiency, various new agricultural tools improve labor efficiency, and using the same amount of labor, more wealth can be created. The most valuable sugar commerce is not the valuable sugar, but the organizational form, and the clever use of various new agricultural tools. If Li Wei wants to start a farm in Fangcheng, he must know this clearly, learn the organization of sugar commerce, and use new agricultural tools, and do not blindly.

Moreover, it is not only necessary to learn and apply it, but also to combine these with classical theories, make innovations, and make one's own opinions, which will make Xu Ping's cultivation for so many years.

Combining theory with practice, using practice to test theory, using theory to guide practice, complement each other, laying a good theoretical foundation that Xu Ping wants to propose. This is Xu Ping's expectation for him, not only to be a good magistrate.

The immortality of words can be called a wise man, inspire future generations to achieve immortality in their thoughts and achievements, and be a god, protect a land to establish immortality in their virtues, and be a lover of the people and set an example for the ages. This is the most saint.

Xu Ping set a small goal for himself, starting with making words, being a human being for two lifetimes, at least being a wise man. To be continued.
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