Chapter 1074: May the Emperor Protect You!

The book Li Li Yashi took out was called "Production Illustrations." This book was written by Geng Dingding and his disciple Jiao Hong, based on the "Labor Value Theory" proposed by Qiu Jun, a scholar from the 5th year of Emperor Jingtai and a Grand Secretary of the Zhang Wenyuan Pavilion in the Xiaozong period, in his "Supplement to the Meaning of the Great Learning."

Qiu Jun was a native of Hainan and the idol of Hai Rui. In the "Supplement to the Meaning of the Great Learning," Qiu Jun first proposed the basic concept of productive forces, that is, man's ability to change nature. Labor is the process of transforming nature, and this process of labor endows all goods with value.

Geng Dingding went a step further, proposing that value is divided into exchange value and use value.

Subsequently, exchange value quickly expanded to include the concept of "emotional value." People will pay for their own emotions. It is not only those who are well-fed and well-clothed and live in prosperity who pursue emotional value; everyone pursues this value.

For example, after craftsmen finish work, they like to listen to storytelling in teahouses, and some commoners who can read and write will also buy various books in bookstores to enrich their spiritual world.

The emotional value proposed by the doctors of investigation of things is based on the level of spiritual needs.

In "Production Illustrations," it mainly discusses the ownership of means of production, the classification of relations of production, and the contradictions in the production process. This book is already an old book, written in the 5th year of Emperor Wanli, and was reprinted three times in the 9th, 14th, and 19th years of Emperor Wanli.

Geng Dingding, Jiao Hong, and Xu Xu Guangqi all re-analyzed and supplemented "Production Illustrations." Although this "Production Illustrations" does not have as big a name as the theory of contradiction, its content is a book that every Great Ming scholar and provincial graduate must read.

Its circulation is far beyond the "Class Theory" that His Majesty likes very much.

Li Li Yashi held the book in his hand and said loudly: "Wisdom tells me that in the process of contradiction evolution, one side's interests will inevitably be damaged, but the other side will not necessarily benefit. This sounds a bit grotesque, but this is contradiction. Interests are consumed in contradiction and conflict."

"This fundamental characteristic of contradiction has caused a very common phenomenon, that is, people refuse to change, because change does not necessarily lead to profit, but if it does not change, interests will not be damaged."

"Holy Maiden of Light, after the failure of the march on Paris, she chose to turn her eyes to the vast countryside. She was very anxious. She clearly knew that people were living in suffering. They were people, but they existed as slaves, not as people."

"Even they themselves did not realize this point. They are people, not appendages naturally belonging to others!"

"She chose the most cruel means to forcibly destroy the original relations of production. However, the liberated Falanxi serfs became free people but did not thank Ma Liang."

Ma Liang's death looked like an extreme curtain call, but when she died, even the liberated Falanxi serfs still did not thank her. Her death was the cruelest setback for the Great Brightness Sect, and all efforts were like futile struggles.

In fact, it is difficult for Great Brightness priests to explain clearly why the liberated serfs did not thank Ma Liang.

And Li Li Yashi, based on the basic characteristics of contradiction, explained the key.

The total benefits of interests, output, etc., are not transferred from one side to the other in violent social change, but are consumed in the process of transfer. This is the pain of change. The greater the stride of change, the more painful the pain.

People naturally hate change and conflict because they don't know whether they can benefit from the struggle.

Seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages is human instinct.

"But soon, after these free people became serfs again, they began to kill those nobles and feudal lords!" Li Li Yashi looked at the priests who were lost in thought and talked about the follow-up. These efforts were not meaningless.

The free people didn't understand what they had gained. When Ma Liang left and the feudal lords rode on their heads again to make trouble, the free people finally understood what they had gained.

This is the reason why the Great Brightness Sect can still operate in Falanxi. Henry IV, a man like a lion, has extremely strong military talent. Even Philip's large phalanx is helpless against Henry IV, but Henry IV is helpless against the widespread spread of the Great Brightness Sect.

This thing is like wild grass, growing again with the spring breeze.

Henry IV cannot fail even once. As long as he is no longer invincible, it will be a scene of holy fire starting a prairie fire.

Li Li Yashi held the book in his right hand, raised it above his forehead, and said loudly: "In the ways of changing relations of production, Great Ming wisdom has three methods: equalizing fields, confiscating land and distributing it; land return, providing certain interest compensation to recover land and distribute it;"

"Camp farm, organizing farmers into collective farms, collective labor and collective farming, using the power within the collective to build bridges and repair roads, dredge ditches, and complete things that individuals cannot complete."

"These three are not progressive relationships, but to choose a method."

"The West is only suitable for camp farms, because these liberated serfs have absolutely no ability to protect themselves. If they are kneaded into a whole under the leadership of Great Brightness priests, they will have enough power to protect their own rights!"

"The Great Ming will also choose different methods according to different places. In rich coastal areas, choose land return; in places where gentlemen are lawless and even confront the Imperial Court, adopt equalizing fields; in poor hinterlands, choose camp farms."

"And the environment of the West is completely different from the Great Ming. You cannot copy the Great Ming experience, otherwise, you will inevitably fail."

This remark by Li Li Yashi actually criticized Ma Liang. Ma Liang gave these serfs freedom but did not give them the power to protect their own rights. Ma Liang, who regarded Great Ming experience and Great Ming wisdom as holy scriptures, decisively adopted the method of equalizing fields.

"Dogma is a mistake that we priests must avoid when spreading light." Li Li Yashi explained the blueprint for the future of the Great Brightness Sect.

It is not strange that priests are dogmatic. They are already priests. If they are not dogmatic, are they still priests?

Li Li Yashi's requirement for them is not to completely and rigidly imitate Great Ming experience, because the Great Ming experience is that the Great Ming has the main contradiction of regional development imbalance. The natural endowment of each place is different, and the humanistic environment of each place is different. The result of copying and applying Great Ming experience rigidly and dogmatically is complete failure.

Li Li Yashi understood this point clearly. He lived in the Great Ming for twenty years and did not live in vain.

But living in the West, Great Brightness priests who are trapped in the concept of Great Ming wisdom always feel that it is a serious mistake to be different from the Great Ming, and even a practice that violates faith, which hinders the development of the Great Brightness Sect.

The priests began to whisper. They looked at Li Li Yashi with strange eyes because a very contradictory thing appeared: the Great Brightness Envoy sent by the prophet actually said that Great Ming experience and wisdom are not necessarily right, but they are discussing this point of view based on Great Ming experience and wisdom.

For ordinary people, these logics became strange, but for Great Brightness priests, they soon accepted the concept of not being dogmatic. The symbol of the Great Brightness Sect is a Huang Taiji Yin-Yang fish. Yin and Yang represent contradiction, and contradiction is like this.

The basic concept of the theory of contradiction is that all things are contradictory and unified contradictory bodies, contradicting, yet unifiedly embodied.

Li Li Yashi saw that the priests gradually stopped discussing and showed a smile. After looking around, he opened his mouth again and said: "This road is full of thorns. Everyone, many of us will die on this road, but our death is not meaningless. We have turned into torches, illuminating the darkness."

"This is the meaning of light. Although the torch is weak, it is still light itself. I encourage everyone, for the sake of light!"

What breaks through the dark clouds is thunder, and what illuminates the darkness is light.

China's history is extremely long. In the long river of history, there are too many sages who illuminate the path of those who come later. Those who come later follow one after another and step on this road, becoming torches.

"For the sake of light!" Li Li Yashi's words resonated with the priests. Although Li Li Yashi and Ma Liang were not quite the same, everyone was for the sake of light illuminating the world.

"I will stay in Lisbon for seven days to explain the wisdom from the Great Ming. I brought many books. These books will be kept in the Light Temple for priests to borrow. There are my annotations in them."

"Please cherish these books. The carrier of wisdom is knowledge, and the carrier of knowledge is books." Li Li Yashi concluded his speech in the holy hall.

This is his personal gift to the entire West.

When Li Li Yashi was talking to the priests, a figure left the holy hall and walked to the backyard that had not been built yet. This was a construction site, and the personnel composition was very complex. This figure walked to the wall, took out a small copper hammer from his arms, and tapped three times lightly on a brick.

Soon, an echo came from the opposite side of the wall.

"Li Li Yashi is leaving the holy hall immediately. The road from the holy hall back to the China Hall is the best opportunity. May God protect us, it must succeed." The priest said in a low voice.

"Good." A new echo came from behind the wall.

This priest was a fanatic of Catholicism who had infiltrated the Great Brightness Sect and even became a priest qualified to participate in the holy hall speech. He disguised himself very well, and he himself couldn't tell if he was disguising, as he was almost persuaded by the theory of contradiction and Great Ming wisdom.

God cannot be falsified, and of course, cannot be verified.

Reading the theory of contradiction too much makes it easy to open wisdom. Once wisdom is opened, some confused problems in the past will get answers. The characteristic that god cannot be verified made this fanatic's faith waver.

And the way this priest consolidated his faith was to kill Li Li Yashi, so that he would have no way back.

And behind the wall were the assassins sent by Philip to Lisbon. Philip could not tolerate Li Li Yashi's betrayal. If he returned to Madrid and acted as a strategist for him, it would be fine, but Li Li Yashi was a Spaniard who wanted to go to Falanxi to help Falanxi, these enemies. This was something Philip could not tolerate.

Assassination is a common means used by Philip to eliminate the leaders of resistance forces. Philip assassinated the resistance leaders of the Netherlands more than once, and succeeded three times.

Sword Saint Marcus died under Philip's assassination, and Antonio had no choice but to send envoys to Madrid to seek peace after personally defeating the Spanish large phalanx. This was a humiliation, but Antonio could only endure the humiliation.

When the assassin began to act, Li Li Yashi finished the holy hall speech and met the Portuguese King Antonio, who was listening, in the back hall of the holy hall.

"Thanks to the Great Ming Emperor's benevolence, I am a secular king. Managing the sect is a bit too difficult for me. It's really great that you can come back. However, I want to remind you that Philip wants to kill you. In Lisbon, I can protect your safety. If you go to Falanxi, I cannot protect you." Antonio reminded Li Li Yashi with a complex face. He was very dangerous now.

Philip is a very domineering monarch. Li Li Yashi was in the Great Ming, and the West treated him as a legend, thinking he was already dead, but now he is back, so Philip cannot tolerate it.

Regarding the fact that spies had infiltrated the priests and were plotting assassination, Antonio was aware of it, and even sent the palace guard to clean it up several times, but there is an old saying in the Great Ming: there is only a thousand-day thief, how can there be a thousand-day defense against a thief? It simply couldn't be prevented.

"I know, I thought of it when I was in the Great Ming." Li Li Yashi was not particularly concerned. It was not that he didn't care about his own life. "Even if there are thousands of people, I will go" means knowing all kinds of dangers and still continuing. This is courage, this is perseverance.

"If I die, I die. Dying is also a weak torch." Li Li Yashi explained his reason.

"Your Great Brightness Sect is really too strange. Other sects talk about souls after death. You are good, dying and turning into a torch, like a moth to a flame." Antonio was a master of Han studies in order to please the Emperor. The state letters he gave to His Majesty were all written by himself in Han characters, just to ensure that Lisbon always had the power to distribute Great Ming goods. This power allowed Portugal, a small country, to lie down and enjoy happiness for two hundred years.

Small countries have the way of small countries, and big countries have the dignity of big countries.

"And it's very strange, you actually don't allow priests to be dogmatic. I have never heard of it. I have never heard of any Grand Pastor having such a requirement. The Cardinal in Portugal at the beginning wished I would kneel to him and obey him!"

"What kind of thing is he, letting me kneel to him and listen to the orders of the Holy See!"

"So that's it." Li Li Yashi returned to the West and only then knew why Antonio made such a decision.

"As for not allowing priests to be dogmatic." Li Li Yashi's face was full of words that were hard to describe. He found a Miscellaneous Gazette from the book box he brought: "This is a series of articles on 'Light' hosted by the Great Ming Hanlin Academy, arguing why the Great Ming is the Heavenly Dynasty."

"Does this still need to be argued? This is a matter of course. If the Great Ming is not the Heavenly Dynasty, where is it? As the most orderly place, it is the well-deserved earthly divine kingdom." Antonio looked puzzled.

He felt absurd. The Great Ming Global Trading Fleet doesn't stop in Lisbon, and Portugal immediately loses its cohesion. It wouldn't be strange to be merged into Spain. The Great Ming needs to argue that it is the Heavenly Dynasty, ah?!

Obviously, there is a need, so it must be proven. It must be that group of scholar-officials in the Great Ming who are as stupid as pigs forced the Majesty to this point. Things that are self-evident still need to be proven.

"This is one of the articles I wrote. This matter is really very important. It is the core interest of the Great Ming. Rome returns like lightning, and it also needs to prove that Rome is a transcendent existence." Li Li Yashi didn't explain it so clearly because Antonio didn't live in the Great Ming.

Like Rome, the Hu Yuan entered the Central Plains, and civilization actually died once. China has Zhu Zhu Yuanzhang, but Rome does not.

The Civilization Series is a system construction for national construction, increasing cohesion, and maintaining high morality, not what Antonio thought—making trouble out of nothing.

"This article of yours is too flattering. I'm afraid it will make people feel that you are deliberately paralyzing the Great Ming's vigilance. How many days did His Majesty lock you up?" Antonio asked curiously.

Li Li Yashi's brows twisted into a knot, looking at Antonio with disbelief: "You heard about me sitting in jail in the Great Ming in the West?"

"That is the Heavenly Prison. Of course I know. Many, many people in the West know. Envoy Li, imperial favor is prosperous." Antonio said very affirmatively: "Living in the Great Ming is a great luck. You insist on returning to the West."

"I stayed for ten days." Li Li Yashi said with a smile: "I told the truth. His Majesty won't do anything to me. I am His Majesty's minister."

"It's only the Great Ming." Antonio pointed to himself and said again: "I can't tolerate it anyway. You must be careful in the West. This is not the Great Ming."

In the West, most of the time, you can't tell the truth.

Li Li Yashi's article was extremely flattering. The content of the article was discussing the idioms of the Great Ming.

Li Li Yashi believed that the Great Ming's idioms have extremely high practicality, are unique, are an unrepeatable miracle, and their uniqueness and subtlety are an important part of China's eternal existence as a natural phenomenon.

For example, "raising a pole to rise," just four simple words, the Great Dao is simple. Why cut wood to make weapons and raise a pole to make a flag? Because Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, who raised the pole to rise, had no weapons, but they used wooden poles to resist the existence of tyranny.

In "punishing the unrighteous," resistance itself is naturally just.

Han language itself is a language with very dense information, and the idioms that have undergone secondary compression have the characteristics of "extreme compression and rapid invocation."

When suffering severe setbacks, one will think of "fortune and misfortune depend on each other"; when there is no way back, one will think of "breaking the cauldrons and sinking the boats"; when clumsily imitating others, one will think of "Dong Shi imitating a frown"; when overestimating one's own ability but unable to do it, one will think of "praying mantis blocking the chariot" and "overestimating one's own strength";

This system of idioms is based on China's long history as a database. With just four words, one can quickly mobilize historical experience and lessons, explain clearly, and explain the logic, guiding people to do things.

It is the wealth left by the sages of the Great Ming to future generations after repeatedly compressing their wisdom, the laws of world operation, life experience, etc. Just four words can allow people to complete the most complex logical operations. The output is not necessarily completely correct, but it is definitely not the worst result.

For example, someone attacked Zhang Zhang Juzheng, and His Majesty said "devoted to the utmost," which blocked everyone's words. As long as Zhang Zhang Juzheng did not clearly rebel, he was "dying and then stopping."

And this system, the most terrible thing is that it is still repeatedly accumulating, passing these experiences to future generations through this method.

Just this one thing is something that the West using Latin can never do.

Li Li Yashi once tried to translate "playing with fire and burning oneself" into "Sodom's Heavenly Fire," but he still translated "playing with fire and burning oneself" according to the original meaning, because it didn't express the meaning at all.

In fact, the Great Ming's idioms were almost the biggest difficulty Li Li Yashi encountered in the translation process. No matter how he translated them, they didn't taste right.

"Great Ming people live in the Great Ming. They don't know the preciousness of this wealth. I, a barbarian, can see it more clearly, because this thing is really hard to learn. His Majesty kept me just to make the friendly nations surprised." Li Li Yashi was very emotional. Great Ming people didn't feel deeply about this and even felt that Li Li Yashi used exaggerated rhetorical devices.

Li Li Yashi was not exaggerated at all, and even many times, he was very conservative in his arguments. After all, there was a widespread conservative public opinion in the Great Ming that opposed arrogance.

"Can Portugal adopt camp farms first? My dear friend, you can practice in Portugal first. I, the Great Brightness Sect priests, the seven thousand Light Left and Right Protection Army, and the Freedom Fleet ensure the smooth administration of Minister of State Li Li Yashi!"

"You know, I have long been tired of those nobles who don't listen to my orders, but after Minister of State Xu Fan passed away, I lacked the means to deal with them." Antonio finally showed his cards. Li Li Yashi was not a Westerner at all now; he was a scholar-official.

The position of Minister of State, which had been vacant for a long time, finally had a suitable candidate. But any scholar in the Great Ming with some ability would not come to Portugal.

"I still intend to go to Falanxi to finish what Ma Liang left unfinished." Li Li Yashi shook his head, his attitude firm.

Antonio sat up straight, let the secretary bring the seal of the Minister of State, and said: "The theory of contradiction tells me that theories that have not been verified by practice are all empty talk. Only by combining with practice is it the way of the Great Dao."

"You haven't even tried it, how do you know if the Camp Farm Law is suitable for our West? In the West, can you still find a monarch who supports your reform? Stay, I can protect your safety and realize your ambitions and wild hopes."

"The unfinished business of the Great Brightness Sect can also be realized in Portugal."

"I will consider it carefully." Li Li Yashi was really moved.

"Lion Henry is too strong in military affairs. It's too dangerous for you to go. And if you stay in Lisbon, it will make Lion Henry afraid to really exterminate the Great Brightness Sect believers in Falanxi, because he has scruples. The killing he creates will definitely be widely known." Antonio continued to state the reasons.

Li Li Yashi is the Great Brightness Envoy canonized by the Emperor. He has a transcendent status in the Great Brightness Sect. If Henry IV really exterminates them, the Great Ming will definitely know, and the matter will become known to everyone. Not to mention anything else, during the Great Ming's opening of the seas, Falanxi would not even think about eating this bowl of sea trade.

This bowl of sea trade is so rich that it is enough to make the Great Ming scholar-officials fight with imperial power.

"I will think about it carefully." Li Li Yashi had also considered this choice. He felt that he was a Spaniard, and Antonio might not be willing to keep him, so Li Li Yashi didn't open his mouth at all.

But now Antonio is warmly inviting him, making Li Li Yashi feel that this is also a possibility.

Li Li Yashi chose to leave. He walked out of the holy hall and thought about Antonio's suggestion on the way to the China Hall. As he walked, he suddenly became solemn. His gait was normal, but his hand touched the flintlock musket at his waist inadvertently. He smelled the smell of danger.

Li Li Yashi has very rich combat experience. He is the founder of the Philippine Governor's Mansion and has served as the Governor of the entire Far East.

He has been fighting with people at sea since he was eighteen. The smell of death has been carved into his bones and has become one of his instincts.

Two different killing intents, footsteps from two different directions came. Although very light and imperceptible, Li Li Yashi still captured them.

This is indeed a suitable time point. He arrived in the West, and the sea defense inspectors have to protect the merchant ships and have no duty to protect him. Moreover, the Portuguese palace is very easy to infiltrate, otherwise Marcus would not have died, and Antonio did not send anyone to protect him.

This is the West, a place where barbarism grows wantonly.

"Bang!" Li Li Yashi's figure flashed, hiding behind a big tree, and fired the flintlock musket in his hand.

He didn't shoot in the direction of the assassin, but in the place between the two groups of people.

Li Li Yashi's sudden action startled both groups of people preparing to assassinate Li Li Yashi, and also discovered each other's existence. A strange balance appeared, and no one dared to act rashly.

The gun went off, and the palace guard would soon arrive. The time left for the assassins was not enough.

Deep winter and early spring, the first day of the New Year in the 23rd year of Emperor Wanli, Li Li Yashi encountered his first assassination since arriving in the West. Although he had been prepared for a long time, he didn't expect it to come so quickly.

He hid behind the big tree, his mind highly concentrated, analyzing information from the various sounds coming from the environment.

"May the Emperor protect!" Li Li Yashi prayed to the Emperor while loading the flintlock pistol in his hand.

This pistol was bestowed upon him by the Emperor before his departure. A total of five were bestowed upon him, and now they are all inserted at his waist.

His gun loads fast, fires faster, and the gun is also more accurate. The assassin's musket is not accurate enough, nor fast enough. These five flintlock guns in his hand are his only hope for survival.

As long as he uses these five flintlock guns to suppress the two groups of assassins, he only needs to delay for a few minutes, and the palace guard will arrive, and he can live.

His hand was very steady, his ears were trembling slightly, analyzing the surrounding environment, occasionally firing a shot, occasionally firing two shots, always suppressing the two groups of assassins from leaving the cover.

Soon, the two groups of assassins reached a tacit understanding. Li Li Yashi was only one person, and they had a full six people. As long as someone contained Li Li Yashi, others could move quickly and find a shooting angle.

"May the Emperor protect!"

Li Li Yashi took out a stick-like object from his arms that was thick at the top and thin at the bottom. This was also a firearm, a kind of hand grenade, an invention of Qi Qi Jiguang, named "Hand-held Thunder." He opened the safety fire door, pulled the fire rope, the fire rope pulled the fire sickle, and ignited the primer in the fire door.

"Sending you to see the Great Ancestor!" Under the condition of high tension, Li Li Yashi kept speaking Han language, threw the hand-held thunder in his hand toward one of the assassin groups, and the roaring explosion and screams sounded at the same time.

Li Li Yashi didn't know if gods existed, but the firearms bestowed by the Emperor could really protect him. ===== CHAPTER 1075 =====

He hid behind a large tree, his mind highly focused, distinguishing information from the various sounds coming from the environment.

"May the Emperor protect me!" Li Li Yashi prayed to the Emperor while loading the flintlock pistol in his hand.

This pistol was bestowed upon him by the Emperor before his departure; a total of five were given to him, and they were all tucked into his waistband now.

His gun loaded quickly, fired even faster, and was more accurate; the assassins' matchlocks were not accurate enough, nor fast enough. These five firearms in his hands were his only hope for survival.

As long as he used these five flintlock pistols to suppress the two groups of assassins, he only needed to stall for a few minutes until the palace guard arrived, and he would live.

His hands were very steady, his ears twitching slightly as he analyzed the surrounding environment, firing a shot occasionally, sometimes two, always suppressing the two groups of assassins so they could not leave their cover.

Soon, the two groups of assassins reached a tacit understanding; Li Li Yashi was only one person, while they had a full six. As long as someone pinned Li Li Yashi down, the others could move quickly to find a shooting angle.

"May the Emperor protect me!"

Li Li Yashi reached into his bosom again and pulled out a mallet, a span long, thick at the top and thin at the bottom. This was also a firearm, a type of hand grenade invented by Qi Qi Jiguang, called a "hand-held thunder." He opened the safety flash pan, pulled the fuse, and the fuse pulled the flint, igniting the priming powder in the flash pan.

"I'll send you to see the Taizu!" Under extreme tension, Li Li Yashi kept speaking in Chinese, throwing the hand-held thunder in his hand toward one of the groups of assassins. The roaring sound of the explosion and the screams rang out simultaneously.

Li Li Yashi did not know if God existed, but the firearms bestowed by His Majesty the Emperor could truly protect him.