I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

On the day the rocket was launched, people gathered outside Xi'an to kneel down and pray for God's forgiveness.

The government law enforcement officers tried to dissuade her, but were beaten by unruly people.

This is a very small episode on the day of the rocket launch, but Chen Wenliao, the newly appointed Minister of Education, is ready to seize this opportunity to make a big splash.

As a person who received a new education, Chen Wenliao deeply hated the feudal superstitions in society.

Because there are some feudal customs that have greatly hindered the development of society.

For example, when building trains and railways, we often encountered unscrupulous people who said that the railways would destroy the local feng shui dragon veins, but they refused anyway.

Even if the government forcibly builds it, unscrupulous people will occasionally go to the railway to cause damage afterwards, forcing the government to increase patrols on the railway line, which adds a lot of expenses out of thin air.

At the same time, it is also a waste of human resources. These adult men can go to factories to grow products, and there is no point in wandering around on the railway line.

Another example is that some people among the people who have diseases do not use scientific treatment methods. Instead, they listen to some magic sticks to use talisman water and some strange treatment methods.

This puts people's lives at great risk, and tragedies happen from time to time.

Although there are not particularly many cases of such tragedies occurring in one place, the cumulative number across the world is a very scary number.

Chen Wenliao did not conduct detailed investigations and statistics. He could only make some estimates based on records from several places and concluded that at least 10,000 people died due to superstition every year in the world.

With tens of thousands of people, the court could not ignore them.

You must know that the current total population of Dahua, that is, the total population of the world, is only 1.25 billion.

Ten thousand people are almost one in 100,000.

Adding in other causes of death from old age, traffic accidents, illness, overwork, etc., a large number of people in Dahua die prematurely.

If the birth rate in Dahua hadn't been so terrible right now, the population wouldn't have grown much.

In short, the court cannot give up on these young people.

As a result, Chen Wenliao wrote a letter proposing to abolish feudal superstition and outlaw backward customs.

It seemed like a small thing, but it caused a lot of controversy in the court.

In particular, some officials strongly opposed the prohibition of backward customs.

Customs are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Regardless of whether they are outdated or not, they cannot be banned or changed rashly, otherwise it will easily arouse public anger.

Just like Dorgon's order to shave his hair.

No matter how they fought before, no one in the Jiangnan area resisted.

Once they want to change the people's customs and cultural traditions, the people will immediately quit and even risk their lives.

Minister Liu Dahua firmly opposed changes. He hoped that stability would be the most important thing in the world.

Steady development like now is good. The lives of ordinary people and the rich are getting better. There is no need to be so radical.

His views were defined as conservatism.

Chen Wenliao was defined as a radical.

The two groups started a heated debate in the DPRK, which almost turned into a party dispute.

Wu Changqing watched the performances of both parties silently at first.

In his view, conservatism has the virtues of conservatism, and radicalism has the virtues of radicalism.

This is a very complex issue, and we cannot simply say who is better and who is worse.

At this time, the leader's preference becomes a very important factor.

Wu Changqing is a radical activist, and he is not satisfied with his current achievements.

What's more, as a time traveler from later generations, he also particularly hates those feudal superstitions and backward customs.

In his opinion, those fortune tellers and feng shui practitioners on the street are simply a bunch of moths.

They cannot create any value for the world, but they continue to consume food and materials. They are simply more powerful than the government.

When the government collects taxes, it needs to create a prosperous and stable world for the people, and it also needs to provide various security protections for the people, so that the people can pay taxes willingly.

And those Feng Shui masters just rely on their words to cheat everywhere.

If there really is any Feng Shui treasure land in this world, what work would be needed to move the ancestral graves of people from all over the world there, and then everyone would just lie down and wait for the world to lose food.

There are also some backward customs, such as extravagant weddings and funerals.

Marriage is certainly a great event and should be celebrated.

However, if the intensity of the celebration exceeds the endurance limit of the two families and requires years of hard work in exchange for this moment of scenery, it is very unnecessary.

In some areas in the south of the Yangtze River, there is a serious phenomenon of extravagance and waste in weddings, and a serious comparison mentality.

Under this custom and trend, some families who were originally unwilling to be extravagant and wasteful had to follow the trend due to pressure from public opinion.

Humans are, after all, social animals, and it is particularly important to gain the approval of other people.

There are also some grand funerals that are difficult to describe in words.

He was not kind to the old man during his lifetime and let him suffer all kinds of torture. After death, they no longer have any enjoyment, so their children instead spend a lot of money on funeral arrangements, which shows that they are very conscientious.

"Some people are old, have lost a lot of vigor, have lost their enterprising spirit, and can no longer keep up with the times. And these people who can't keep up with me can only be eliminated by the times. Some people should go home to retire. "

Wu Changqing said when summoning Chen Wenliao.

What he said showed

My own attitude is to purge some conservatives and retire some elderly people in the court.

Some old people in the court have changed, just like Liu Dahua.

The former Liu Dahua was also passionate and full of adventurous spirit. He decisively defected to Wu Changqing when he first captured Nanjing. At that time, the most powerful forces in the Central Plains were the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the Nanming Dynasty.

Later, Liu Dahua also actively responded to various new reforms and rushed to the front line.

Then, he rushed all the way to the position of Minister of Land and Resources and Cabinet Minister.

At the age of sixty-five, there is no way he can be promoted.

Therefore, Liu Dahua's mentality has completely changed. He just wants the country to develop steadily and not be troublesome, so that he can continue to live a leisurely life and take care of himself.

In contrast, the young officials below him are all full of enterprising spirit.

They are still young and have relatively low status, and they all want to climb up.

If you want to climb up, you must either make contributions yourself or drive down the bad old man above.

There is no other way.

But now, the reform of getting rid of superstition can do exactly these two things.

Not only can we make contributions to the reform, but we can also drive some bad old men back home to retire during this reform.

For them, this reform was wonderful.

"I obey the decree."

With Wu Changqing's Shangfang Sword, Chen Wenliao can let go and start a big fight.