The entire Lang Son has entered the orbit, and what this correct track brings is the unstoppable torrent. Once the pool filled with water has opened its opening, the rushing water flow will immediately leak out like a surging momentum.

There are many reasons for the situation today. On the one hand, this is a borderland. From the perspective of the Central Plains and Jiangnan, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is wilderness. It is because it is not developed, but there is no burden or burden, and there are no outdated scholarly families and aristocratic families.

In addition, Lang Son was an important channel for the Ming Dynasty to enter Western countries. In essence, it can be called the Silk Road towards the West on land.

The most important thing is the enlightened policy of the Hao family and the capital accumulated by the Hao family over the years.

So, the snowball began. This was a positive cycle. Because the money could be made here, and the merchants would not be discriminated against like others. Therefore, merchants who traveled from south to north were attracted to make a decision to do business. Countless funds were piled up here, and countless goods flowed back and forth from here. Coupled with the emergence of large-scale workshops, the cost of production was getting lower and lower. It was also cotton. If a small household bought ten or eight kilograms, it might cost six or seventy yuan. However, a large-scale production workshop ordered as much as 100,000 kilograms at a time. The price was not retail, but wholesale money, and thirty or forty cents were enough. The source of goods alone was close to the difference of dozens of cents, in addition to this,

Small households who produce the doors themselves close their doors, naturally they are reluctant to buy looms. Most of them are simple and can't be more simple. Such things will not only produce a lot of waste, but also have extremely low efficiency. However, large-scale production often uses the latest looms, and the labor used is also familiar female craftsmen, and the same pound of cotton. Perhaps in self-sufficient farmers, the fabric that can be produced is only one foot. But in workshops, it can be two feet tall. Moreover, the cloth pulled out often has better colors and more symmetrical textures. On the other hand, the cloth produced in self-sufficient is not only vulgar, but also expensive, and wastes countless manpower. I won't talk about it for now.

The price is low, the colors and quality are better. Such cloths quickly defeated the local cloth, so that Lang Son cloth became more and more popular in the Ming Dynasty, the thirteen provinces, Jiaozhi, and Western countries. Merchants along the way were also happy to purchase goods here. Take the goods back to their hometowns for sale. Even if the journey is long, the price is often more than several times higher than Lang Son's price, and it is still very popular.

As the transactions grow, the scale of this workshop is naturally getting bigger and bigger, so there is no need to mention the labor required. Therefore, Lang Son is recruiting all kinds of craftsmen and labor everywhere, and in order to compete for manpower, he often does not hesitate to promise higher salaries. In this way, not to mention the refugees nearby, even ordinary tenants have left the landlords’ wealthy land to look for opportunities in Lang Son.

The more people there are, and most of them are working, the more money they have, the consumption power will naturally increase. So what Lang Son lacks the most is various consumption places. From the beginning, the more monotonous teahouses, wine shops, and brothels, and later, it was even more diverse, and all industries were prosperous.

This kind of prosperity is hard to feel if it is not deep inside. This place seems to be different from anywhere in the world. The biggest difference is that everyone is in a hurry here, and the pace of life is very different from other places.

Because of its prosperity, it has attracted many scholars.

Most of these scholars are not proud of them, and the meaning of the scriptures may not be their strengths. Since the career is not successful, they must understand some business methods. There are also some famous scholars who do not want to be officials and would rather be public servants. They heard that the prosperity here is prosperous and there are many schools. Even the rich families are willing to recruit some Western banquets at high prices. Therefore, the scholars here are in a very good market and have a wide range of knowledge. Many scholars come here and are shocked by the prosperity. They would rather settle here. Some of them find their careers here and study books and let their families come together. They have a lot of ink. In this era when most people are ignorant, they are in the wealthy Langshan, and their lives are lazy and comfortable.

Therefore, not only the schools, but also many libraries and poetry clubs here, most of which are sponsored by big merchants. Merchants need to put gold on their faces. Moreover, they are willing to spend money every day. However, scholars come here to sit for a while, exchange discussions, or compete with each other, but it is also quite interesting.

Recently, some people have set up bookshops, which include all the high-level theories or poems of scholars, print them out and sell them out.

In this era, books are expensive after all. Fortunately, the bookstore is large in scale and prints are not small, so it can reduce costs as much as possible. In addition, although Lang Son is illiterate, the population is increasing, and many business travelers have passed by. Most of the literate people are rich and are willing to buy a few books. The business travelers along the way will bring dozens of books back to their hometowns to sell, so the transaction has become more and more prosperous.

The acceleration of the pace of life can easily make people nervous, so many people rely on books to talk to themselves to relieve their mental fatigue.

There are even some merchants who sold silk from Suzhou and Hangzhou, who brought the goods, but returned empty-handed, and were willing to go back hundreds or even thousands of book books. There are many scholars there, but they took them along the way and took them back for sale, which also made small profits.

Therefore, the printing industry gradually began to flourish, and the books printed were also diverse, including special articles on scriptures, stories of talented men and beautiful women, poems, and even miscellaneous studies such as Zhou Gong’s interpretation of hexagrams.

The best-selling one is the classics of Chen Xue. The appearance of Chen Xue was due to a man named Chen Kaizhi, who was a Jinshi and had become an official, but because of his father's death, Ding You returned to his hometown in Guangxi. After Ding You, the court ordered him to enter the court, but he refused. Most of the past two years, he stayed in Lang Son, and because he was very famous, many schools invited him to give lectures.

This life was actually very good. Everyone respected him as a god. He went to attend two classes every now and then the school offered the silver. He was not polite at all because he was well-instructed and invited him everywhere.

So he had a sudden idea and even set up a school called Lang San Academy. With the academy, he started teaching. Although what he was talking about was the Four Books and Five Classics, it was not the Noble Studies.

So Chen Xue appeared. The foundation of Chen Xue, of course, is also Confucianism, but it is very different from Neo-Confucianism. He listed many allusions of ancient sages and reinterpreted the Four Books and Five Classics, thus forming a school of its own. Among them, Chen Xue’s most central idea is the so-called virtuous person and scholar. He also questioned theories such as women’s virtues and criticized the classics of Neo-Confucianism very severely.

If these rebellious remarks were in Jiangnan, they would have been beaten to death a hundred times long ago.

However, in Lang Son, Mr. Chen was not only not persecuted, but was in an uproar from the beginning, gradually, and was accepted. Chen Xue began to prosper.

The reason for this is not that Mr. Chen has any special tricks of seducing people. The root of the problem lies in the soil.

For example, in the western land, the Bible is the supreme scripture, which lasts thousands of years. Does anyone doubt it? There are naturally some doubts, but very few. The reasons are nothing more than two reasons. One is that most people at that time were ignorant, and they had no knowledge of the vastness of the world, and their thinking had great limitations. Therefore, when encountering any incredible affairs, they are often attached to the Bible. If they encounter plague, they are punished by God, and they are suffering from floods, and they are tested by God. If they are sick, they are not pious enough.

Although Neo-Confucianism is not theology, it just fits the social characteristics of the Ming Dynasty. The society where men farm and women weaves requires the establishment of the order of Neo-Confucianism, but this soil has now changed.

What scholars here see and hear is very different from other places. Everyone here works and does business, and they are engaged in "low-handed business". Among scholars, farmers, industry and commerce, they are the last ones. However, in Lang Son, because of the industry and commerce, everyone lives in peace and contentment. Whether it is gentry or ordinary people, their lives are much better than those dominated by scholars and farmers. At this time, many knowledgeable people inevitably became suspicious. Is this light industry and low-handed business really good? Compared to this, although Lang Son is not the land of imperial deeds,

However, it is much better than other places in the two capitals and thirteen provinces. If you have enough money, even the workers at the bottom of the class have begun to receive education and are willing to read and write, because this can bring them the most direct benefits. On the one hand, learning to read and write can increase their value and receive more salary. On the other hand, there are many entertainments nowadays, such as Shixin’s many quick books and stories, which are excellent tools for passing time. After learning calligraphy, entertainment is much better than before.

The most important thing is to have a salary, and you will have spare money in your hands. After you have free money and can eat and wear a good meal, you will inevitably have more pursuits. This reading is the same.

Although this is a simple question, it is an extraordinary event in the eyes of these great scholars and scholars in Lang Son. Throughout the years, all dynasties have been called for education every day...education... But what has been taught after thousands of years? However, in this place where merchants and craftsmen are everywhere, education is so smooth that there is no need for the government to write or encourage the court. So, countless night classes and countless reading schools have been spontaneously born?

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