It is precisely because of his awe of Wang Yangming's spiritual learning that Zhou Chong did not dare to disturb Wang Yangming before, but now it is different. Wang Yangming has been transferred to Nantaipu Temple to be a Shaoqing, and Nantaipu Temple is located in Chuzhou.

The responsibility is to breed cattle and horses. Zhou Chong felt that it would be a bit useless to let a talent like Wang Yangming raise horses, and only a person like Wang Yangming could shock Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai, so he wrote to Zhengde

After a memorial, Wang Yangming soon received an imperial edict to be transferred to the Governor's Office of the Four Seas.

"The lower official Wang Shouren greets the Governor!" In the spring of the ninth year of Zhengde, Wang Yangming, who was just over 40, bowed to Zhou Chong deeply. Yangming was his nickname. Wang Yangming's real name was Wang Shouren, whose courtesy name was Bo'an. Today,

I arrived at Shuangyu Port, so I was the first to pay my respects to my Shangguan.

Zhou Chong was also looking up and down at Wang Shouren who could compete with Confucius. He saw that the other party was a tall middle-aged man with a long face, a tall forehead, a straight facial features, and a thick beard under his jaw. Maybe it was

The reason for working in the Ministry of War for many years made him look more heroic than ordinary civil servants. Even if he had changed into armor, no one would believe that he was a civil servant.

"Mr. Wang, don't have to be too polite. This time, this governor will ask Your Majesty to transfer Master Wang from Taipu Temple to serve as the censor. It is precisely to use the power of Master Wang to rectify the administration and justice under the governor of the Four Seas, and by the way, you can also

Help me share the pressure." Zhou Chong smiled and asked Wang Shouren to sit down and speak politely. Although he had just met, he was already impressed by the temperament shown by Wang Shouren. I believe that someone like Wang Shouren, who is both literary and martial, serves as the supervisor.

The censor of the official administration and his position are higher than that of Jiao Fang and Zhang Cai, he should be able to temporarily suppress their arrogance.

Wang Shouren is actually a little strange. He was originally his Shaoqing in Nantaipu Temple, and he went out to give lectures and promote his own knowledge in his spare time. Now he has a certain influence in the southern sailin.

, and even took in a few students. But unexpectedly, His Majesty suddenly issued an imperial edict to go to the Governor General's Office as a censor. Everything was followed by the arrangements of Governor Zhou Chong, which made Wang Shouren really confused.

Before Wang Shouren, the Shaoqing was the fourth rank, but now the censor has been promoted from the second rank to the third level. Moreover, it was the imperial edict issued by His Majesty himself. This was a very rare holy family member. Even the day the imperial edict arrived,

Wang Shouren could see envy and jealousy from his colleagues, but the Censorate is a branch of the Censorate in the local area. Since he entered the official career, he has only served in the Ministry of War and Taipu Temple, and has never been an imperial officer.

Official positions such as Shi have no experience in this, and they were a third-rank official censor at the beginning, which puts a lot of pressure on Wang Shouren.

However, although Wang Shouren was full of questions, he did not ask in front of Zhou Chong. After all, his official duties in recent years were not in vain. He was still very clear about some taboos in the officialdom, and as a subordinate, he only

You just need to do your own job well, instead of asking why you have to transfer yourself to the Governor's Office.

Wang Shouren did not ask, and Zhou Chong did not take the initiative to tell him the situation of the officials in the Governor's Office. He would soon know anyway, so Zhou Chong would just briefly introduce the situation in various places under the Governor's Office in Sihai, including Taiwan

The government is vast and has many officials under its jurisdiction, and most of them are newly promoted officials. It is inevitable that there will be mixed quality, so Wang Shouren needs to focus on rectification. In addition, there are Malacca and the old port, which is too far from the Ming Dynasty, so its binding force on officials is low.

Some, so it is easier to have problems.

In addition to the official affairs, Zhou Chong also briefly introduced the situation in the three places of Taiwan, such as population, economy and property. Wang Shouren had heard of some actions of the Governor's Office overseas, but he was also affected.

Some traditional scholars do not attach much importance to the influence of their thinking, nor do they have an in-depth understanding. However, now I heard Zhou Chong talk about the impact of overseas immigration on the Ming Dynasty, especially alleviating the problem of refugees caused by land annexation,

It is a place in Taiwan that can actually accommodate millions of refugees. Such a huge number shocked Wang Shouren, and he couldn't help but respect Zhou Chong, because he knew that the entire Sihai Governor's Office was built by this young man in front of him.

stand up.

"Governor General, although immigration to overseas can alleviate the problem of land annexation, overseas land will not be endless. If one day our Ming Dynasty population will occupy all overseas land, how can we solve the problem of land then

The question of merger?" Wang Shouren asked a question that Zhou Chong was very familiar with because he had been asked by others more than once.

"Lord Wang is worried. You may not know the overseas world. I can tell you now that the overseas world is much larger than we imagined, and our Ming Dynasty is not the center of the world. I won't say anything else.

Just the Southeast Ocean and even further away Australia and other places, the total land area will not be smaller than that of our Ming Dynasty. In addition, there are two American continents on the east side of the sea, which not only has extremely rich resources, but also has land area.

It is several times more important than our Ming Dynasty. The above places alone are enough for us to immigrate for hundreds of years, and the world has been changing. Perhaps we are extremely important to see the land now, but people in hundreds of years later

It seems that land is not the only important wealth!" Zhou Chong smiled and explained.

"Oh, land is not the only important wealth?" Wang Shouren looked at Zhou Chong with some confusion. He felt that Zhou Chong seemed to have nothing to say. He asked again, "Governor General, listen to what you mean,

It seems that you have some other physiognomy. The lower official took the initiative to ask, can you tell me and let the lower official learn a little?”

"This" Zhou Chong was also hesitant about Wang Shouren's request. His overseas immigration policy can indeed only alleviate the problem of land annexation, but it cannot fundamentally solve this problem. If you want to solve land annexation, the most important thing is to solve the problem of land annexation.

We must liberate most of the people from the land, in other words, we must vigorously develop industry and commerce. After all, only when industry and commerce are developed can we accommodate those who are liberated from the land. At that time, people will find that land is not

The only means of production is that most people can rely on industry and commerce to support themselves, and even live a more exciting life. At that time, the profits of production on the land will become very pitiful compared to industry and commerce. At that time, the court may encourage others to annex the land.

After all, if no one cultivates the land, the land will be abandoned.

However, although Zhou Chong knew that industry and commerce could solve the problem of land annexation, he had never mentioned this to anyone. After all, in the Ming Dynasty, industry and commerce were still a low business, and the social status of craftsmen and merchants was still extremely low.

The first thing he said was that he would have to improve the social status of craftsmen and businessmen, which would probably attract many people's hostility. With Zhou Chong's identity, there was no need to establish too many enemies for himself. Now he

We only need to vigorously develop maritime trade. As long as trade is prosperous and there is demand for commodities, industry and commerce will naturally flourish. When industry and commerce develop to a certain level, people will naturally take the initiative to jump out and cheer for industry and commerce.

"Okay, since Lord Wang wants to hear it, I will say what I think, but I have never told anyone about these things, and if these remarks are spread, I may get caught in the criticism of others.

So please keep it a secret for Lord Wang!" Zhou Chong thought for a long time and finally nodded.

Although Zhou Chong had never told others about vigorously developing industry and commerce, he could speak out the Wang Shouren in front of him as he was because there was an important philosophical idea in Wang Shouren's study, that is, the "New Four Theory of the People".

The so-called new theory of the people is that Wang Shouren believes that scholars, farmers, workers, and merchants "the key is to benefit the way they live, and that is only one", and further explains that "the four people in ancient times had different careers but had the same path, and they were dedicated to their hearts.

The view of "Yan Yi" can be said to have placed the industry and commerce, which has always been regarded as a "lower career" in traditional concepts to the same level as scholars.

It was because he knew Wang Shouren's new Four Theory of the People and he knew that he did not regard industry and commerce as a cheap career as traditional scholars, so Zhou Chong opened his mind and expressed his idea of ​​vigorously promoting industry and commerce.

Wang Shouren also attracted him a lot when he heard these novel theories of Zhou Chong. Combined with his previous experience, he found that Zhou Chong's ideas were not just fantasy, but extremely operable. Even Zhou Chong was

In order to strengthen his persuasion, he also took the Song Dynasty as evidence. After all, the land area in the Song Dynasty was much smaller than that in the Ming Dynasty, and the population was not as good as the Ming Dynasty. However, the treasury income of the Song Dynasty was several times that of the Ming Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty was the only one.

A dynasty that did not suppress land annexation, but there were only a few peasant uprisings in the entire Song Dynasty. In contrast, the Ming Dynasty was simply a negative example. Not to mention anything else, the peasant uprisings alone almost went from the beginning of the Ming Dynasty to the beginning of the Ming Dynasty.

Now, it has never stopped. The most critical reason for this difference is the attitude of the two dynasties towards industry and commerce.

Wang Shouren is well-versed in history and knowledge, so he naturally knows that what Zhou Chong said is true, and what Zhou Chong said today also shocked him. After all, what Zhou Chong said was all the knowledge explosion era in later generations

The concepts produced, and Wang Shouren represents the concepts of the top figures in the Ming Dynasty. When two completely different concepts meet together, they will naturally cause collisions and frictions. I just don’t know what these collisions and frictions can produce.
Chapter completed!