Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 356 The First Five-Year Plan
"Our majesty is really bold. I heard that he wants everyone to be literate. I just listened to it at the time, but I didn't expect that this would actually be implemented." Zhu Yongrong said with emotion.

Zhou Congwen and Zhu Yongrong are here, and the library is not busy at this time, so we chatted.Zhou Congwen pointed to a line of words in the newspaper and said: "This article is even more powerful. In order to eliminate illiteracy, the Council decided to promote the use of simplified Chinese characters while retaining the existing glyphs, and gradually convert official documents, newspapers, school books and other printed materials into Printed version in simplified Chinese characters.”

Zhu Yongrong is not an old pedant, and he doesn't have a strong desire to resist. At this time, he can only exclaim in admiration: "It's a big layout. Simplified characters have been used in Australia for a long time, and they are often used in parallel. When Your Majesty captured Guangdong At that time, the newspapers and academic circles began to spread rumors about simplified Chinese characters. At that time, not many people paid attention to it. Later, this trend blew up and caused some literati to criticize it, but it was eventually suppressed by the progressives. ah."

Zhou Congwen studied new things and had little obsession with these things. He gradually became infected with the pragmatic spirit of Bai Mingxiu. He added: "Even the way of writing has been changed to horizontal rows from left to right. Although the traditional writing method is not banned, once things like books, newspapers and official documents are changed, gradually people will no longer use the traditional writing method.”

Zhu Yongrong sighed: "I'm afraid this matter will cause a big backlash."

Zhou Congwen was very optimistic about this. He said: "Are you afraid that those literati will be dissatisfied? Can you give a few reasons? Is it just that the ancestral methods are immutable? Besides, since the advancement of 'Xin Chou', some literati have His face has long been torn apart by the emperor. Those who surrendered to the Tartars, those who refused to change the past, and those who brought disaster to the country and the people were punished and exiled. In addition, with the spread of new learning since Xin Chou, many progressive literati have accepted it. All kinds of new ideas, everyone welcomes changes, and some of them will really cling to the old laws. Do you think that the Guangfu Emperor will reward them with imperial sticks in the court hall like Emperor Hongwu? Hey, Not really, this group of people can't even enter the door of the court. Those idiots from Xinfushe were all taken into custody because they involved the White Lotus Sect."

Zhou Congwen sometimes looks dull and taciturn, and he is generous and honest, but inside he has a very fighting heart, and he especially likes to complain and sarcasm.

After hearing Zhou Congwen's words, Zhu Yongrong couldn't help but smile, and said, "Maybe you are right, Brother Zhou."

He is also very clear that the authority of the current imperial court and emperor can be said to be unprecedented.There has never been an emperor like the current Bai Mingxiu. Although he has transferred a lot of power, there are countless people in the world who support him.Perhaps in ancient times, many emperors were also loved by the people, but none of them was so worshiped by farmers almost all over the world like the Emperor Guangfu.

This may be the first time in history that the land is divided into the heart of the peasants to become the emperor. He does not occupy the ranks of the gentry class, but claims to be people-oriented. Many measures have been implemented, and almost everyone has benefited.Coupled with his great achievements in restoring the Han Dynasty, people admire him even more.

The most powerful thing is that the emperor controls an extremely loyal and capable administrative, military and political force.His will can reach the grassroots level, and it has a good development at the grassroots level, thanks to his new Guozijian system, and the political awareness and loyalty of the newly cultivated civil servants are reliable.The loyalty of lower-level officials in successive dynasties is often attributed to their teachers and party members, and few of them are directly loyal to the emperor.This also allowed the Emperor Guangfu to do almost anything no matter what he did.

"Also, the First Five-Year Plan calls for the basic realization of agricultural cooperatives in rural areas across the country, allowing farmers to own production materials, allowing the country's advanced agricultural production technology to be connected to rural areas, and making grassroots organizations healthy and powerful, becoming the cornerstone of national stability. .”

Zhu Yongrong commented: "Of all the government in the current dynasty, only the agricultural cooperation has achieved more than half of the credit."

Zhou Congwen also smiled when he heard Zhu Yongrong say this. He was born in the countryside, so he naturally knew how powerful and terrifying the rural cooperatives that Daming is promoting now is a grassroots organization.He is now studying Marxian political economics, and the more he learns, the more he feels that the agricultural cooperative is a wonderful design.

Rural cooperatives not only ensure that farmers obtain private property, but also have the right to directly allocate production materials, and seize production materials from the landlord and gentry class, thereby directly destroying the traditional landlord class and changing the feudal economic model; and, as a grassroots organization, agricultural cooperatives Connecting the masses and the regime, this ancient country realized the economic management of the numbers of the whole people for the first time.The population of Ming Dynasty and the amount of taxes collected were immediately clear.And through grassroots organizations, Ming suddenly derived more ways to manage the people. For example, this time the national literacy campaign was launched from the level of rural cooperatives.

And going one step further, the government’s planned economic model can also be smoothly launched at the level of agricultural cooperatives. For example, through agricultural cooperatives, the cultivation of certain cash crops is popularized. For example, Jiangnan, Shandong and other places have begun to plant large-scale crops. Cotton, which can provide raw materials for industry.

At the same time, a series of facilities surrounding rural cooperative medical care are effectively promoting economic operation and development.For example, under the unified purchase and marketing policy, the county-level agricultural production companies and the national-level Daming Grain Company have eliminated the original private grain merchants, and the state has full control over strategic resources such as grain.As a result, the country obtained surplus agricultural products, which was tantamount to realizing the accumulation of primitive capital and further promoting industrialization.At the same time, a stable food supply not only guarantees the basic interests of farmers, but also realizes the effective allocation of resources, alleviates disaster years and mediates urban and rural food problems.

Coupled with the supply and marketing cooperative system that has become indispensable in many places, Daming directly transformed the new peasant class with property into consumers who need to consume and have the ability to consume, which also promoted the development of industry, because industrial products must be consumed Only when there is demand can we further develop and improve technology.

The more he studied, the more Zhou Congwen felt that the rural cooperative medical system was an unparalleled top-level design of genius.Of course, it is not enough to have a genius top-level design, it must have strong execution.At the beginning, Daming relied on his own national restoration army to go to the countryside, and the young cadres trained by the Guozijian system went to the countryside to complete it. Both coercive and management capabilities were available, and it was finally realized initially.

Up to now, Daming has begun to challenge the deeper and wider agricultural cooperatives.

(End of this chapter)