Chapter 310 If you don’t care for yourself, you will be punished by heaven and earth.

Zhu Gang calmed himself down a bit, then said in a cold tone: "As long as you are loyal to the court, I will definitely make you get what you want.

If you have nothing else to do, go down and claim your reward."

After Fang Wenyao turned around and left the study, Xu Miaoyun, dressed as a guard, walked out from behind the screen.

"Your Highness, why didn't you tell Fang Baitang where his sister is now?"

Looking at Xu Miaoyun with confusion in her eyes, Zhu Gang sighed.

"Fang Shuxiu is now the candidate designated by my father and mother to marry in surrogate marriage. If I tell Fang Wenyao the truth now, wouldn't that put you in danger?"

Xu Miaoyun heard this and said firmly: "If my lifelong happiness is to be exchanged for the life of an innocent woman.

Then even if I can stay with His Highness forever, I will live in guilt and self-blame for the rest of my life."

Seeing this, Zhu Gang said to comfort him, "If Fang Wenyao had come to your house yesterday to tell you about this, there might have been some room for mediation.

After all, there is still some time before the wedding ceremony, so it might be a good idea to find someone to rehearse again.

However, after noon today, envoys and representatives from various countries will come to attend the wedding, and it is obviously too late to change people now.

Besides, Yao Guangxiao had already arranged our people among the assassins sent by the Jiangnan Aristocratic Family Alliance to carry out the mission.

With this person's support from both inside and outside, plus the elite breakthrough troops trained by my fourth brother, we will definitely be able to do it without any mistakes."

In fact, the inspiration for Zhu Gang and Yao Guangxiao to formulate the "luring the enemy into a trap" plan mainly came from the "Yang Zhu Theory" of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

This school of thought was loved by many people during the monarchy era, except for the rulers of successive dynasties.

Because in "Yang Zhu's Theory", one of the core values ​​is "self-esteem" and "working for myself".

Yang Zi believed that personal life was the most precious and that one should do everything possible to preserve one's own life.

Don't harm your own life for external things.

He opposed the Confucian ideas of "loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness", believing that sacrificing one's own interests to obey others was a constraint on personal morality.

In addition, Yangzi also opposed the Mohist idea of ​​"universal love". He believed that people should love themselves first rather than others.

Besides, how can a person who doesn’t even love himself be willing to love others?

At the same time, Yang Zi also believes that human life and happiness are supreme, and one should work hard and strive for it.

The most important thing is that Yang Zi believes that people should be self-centered.

He feels that instead of being bound by social norms and moral constraints, it is better to enjoy life to the fullest.

While not exhausting himself for fame and fortune, Yang Zi advocated that people should bravely pursue their own ideals and desires.

However, he proposed the idea of ​​"light on material things and heavy on life", believing that material things are only a means of maintaining health, and encouraged people to control their desires.

When Zhu Gang first heard Yao Guangxiao mention the relevant concepts of "Yang Zhu School of Thought", he almost thought that the other party was a reborn person.

In order to cover up the later ideas that he spread, he just made up an academic school.

But later, when he visited the residence of Duke of Korea Li Shanchang, the other party told Zhu Gang that "Yang Zhu's theory" was real.

In order to verify what he said, Li Shanchang gave away the only authentic copy of "Lüshi Chunqiu" that he had treasured.

Only then did Zhu Gang understand why the versions of "Lüshi Chunqiu" that were passed down to later generations were all handwritten or printed copies by later generations.

After all, all later historians know that the courts of successive dynasties were not able to create value, they were merely redistributing it. When the power to amend laws, enforce laws, and supervise is concentrated in one person, the ruler's principle of distribution must be to prioritize himself.

They will also package themselves as heroes through history books.

In such an environment, how could the rulers of successive dynasties allow the "Yang Zhu School of Thought" to spread rampantly?
After all, under the imperial power, what is needed are people who are willing to do anything for the court.

Without the sacrifices of these people, how could the rulers ensure that they and their descendants would have a good life?
In comparison, Confucianism is different. Dong Zhongshu has a lot of hierarchical concepts.

Let ordinary people know that as long as they are born as cattle and horses, they will be cattle and horses all their lives.

Coupled with the Legalist's "Five Techniques of Shang Yang to Rule the People", the bodies and minds of the lower-class people were bound by an invisible shackle.

In order to change all this, Zhu Gang formulated a series of interconnected "Overseas Resettlement Plans".

The most crucial part of his plan was to bring as many of the Ming royal family and nobles as possible to the camp of the Prince of Jin's Mansion.

In this way, Zhu Gang could seize the resources from those powerful gentry bit by bit.

It would be much easier for him to implement reforms at that time.

Zhu Gang firmly believed that he could form a huge monopoly in his own hands.

In the future, he can use countless methods to divest himself and let those "noble shareholders" who are too powerful to be removed take the money and leave.

However, Zhu Gang did not expect that his plan would be exploited by the shopkeeper Li.

In a feudal society centered on private ownership, education is a sensitive topic.

Because for most people, building a college is equivalent to cultivating their own power.

After all, among heaven, earth, monarch, relatives and teachers, teacher ranks fifth, second only to "monarch" and "relatives".

From this, we can imagine the respect that students have for their teachers. We must know that since ancient times, if a large family wants to remain prosperous, it is basically maintained through its own disciples.

Fortunately, Zhu Gang had already planned to send all the talents trained in these private academies to overseas countries along the fleet for various reasons to be responsible for the future overseas work of the Ming Dynasty.

The little cleverness that Manager Li has been trying so hard to use can only serve to contribute to the "Overseas Resettlement Plan" formulated by Zhu Gang.

What he is most worried about now is Zhao Hu, the deputy commander of the Hidden Dragon Guard, who is inside the enemy.

After all, this person was a distant relative of Nanxiong Marquis Zhao Yong, and he had promised the other party that he would do everything he could to protect Zhao Hu.

If it happened in later generations, Zhu Gang would definitely not care about a distant relative of a fallen marquis who was within the fifth degree of mourning.

But the clan consciousness of the ancient people is already engraved in their bones.

Besides, not everyone can be the deputy commander of the Hidden Dragon Guard.

However, according to Fang Wenyao's previous report, the assassins sent out by the Jiangnan Aristocratic Family Alliance to carry out the mission had apparently been attracted by the Ming Dynasty money house's policy of exchanging silver for salt.

This was originally a stopgap measure that Zhu Gang came up with to promote the Ming Dynasty's treasure notes.

Taking advantage of the natural disasters that hit the four prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River last year, he and his elder brother Zhu Biao instructed the Governor-General of Southern Zhili, Li Jinjin, to carry out the plan.

The original intention was to take this opportunity to absorb the silver in the hands of powerful gentry and put it into the Ming Dynasty money houses as reserves.

After all, the Ming Dynasty does not produce much silver nowadays, and only the powerful gentry hold this precious metal currency.

Although the Ming Dynasty had strictly prohibited the use of gold and silver as currency since the Hongwu period, due to the continuous depreciation of banknotes in history, the "money ban policy" would sooner or later fail to be implemented.

(End of this chapter)