The Ming Dynasty Arms Dealer

I skipped and read a chapter. The protagonist told Xu Guangqi that Confucianism was useless and false, and it harmed the country and the people. It is true that Xu Guangqi likes Western learning, but he is also a Confucian master and a Jinshi. He has been studying Confucianism for most of his life. Is it appropriate for you to tell him this?

No development, wretched development, looking for trouble all day long, I don't understand what the author is thinking. If you don't develop and recruit people with millions of dollars, and tens of thousands of people with muskets and artillery, who else will you be afraid of outside?

A seventh-grade official dares to collect millions of cars of silver? Are you serious? Is there such a big bank for exchange of banknotes? It's so poisonous that I can't stand it anymore

The introduction is well written, but the content is really speechless. It's better than most new books, but that's all.

Is it serious to shoot potato chunks out of a cannon to grow potatoes? ? ? ? ?

Holding the stinky foot of modern Western philosophy to slander Confucianism. Such people are either followers who have never read Confucian classics, or they are Western lackeys.

In the Tianqi year, the value of money has not depreciated so much. In the Chongzhen year, the bribe to the elders was only 10,000 to 20,000 taels. How dare this salt transport envoy accept 300,000 taels from his family?

Confucianism has no knowledge and no specific thoughts. Confucianism is a set of ideas. What it pursues is conservatism, but it wants others to be conservative, that is, ordinary people. Same as the Indian caste system, it is a set of weapons designed to rule others. When it starts to be advocated, it begins to decline. Industrialization is inherently destructive, and it is a dimensionality-reducing blow to everything in agricultural society. You have to be careful when you advocate traditional culture and so-called virtues, because they are about to start eating people.

Confucians are politicians. They have studied internal fighting for thousands of years and have rich experience in internal fighting. If you want to fight them, how can you do it without studying Confucianism? So Confucianism is useful. Don't tell me that your descendants will be well-informed and have high IQs, but the Confucians will bring your IQ to the same level as theirs, and then defeat you with their rich experience.

When I saw Shang as the title of the book, I got curious and looked at the catalog. It turned out to be pretty much what I thought. Guess why he has been focusing on agriculture and suppressing business for thousands of years. It must be because he is stupid and doesn't know how good business is.