C1427 a covenant

In just a single day, the Suzhou stock market had traded for over 30 million in the first tier market while the second tier market had traded for over 7 million. This explosive scene had ignited the dreams of all the people in Jiangnan, and countless people's accumulated wealth had been mobilized.

The Ceng Guofan brothers were extremely knowledgeable, how could they not understand how strong the stock market was? In the eyes of outsiders, this was just a place for merchants to exchange funds and exchange shares.

But in the Marshal's eyes, this was the secret alliance between Xiao Letian and the Jiangnan merchants. Xiao Letian had invested into the stock market, split the profits and collected taxes, this was equivalent to the Jiangnan merchants supporting Xiao Letian.

And what did Xiao Letian report to the listed companies? It was a promise of security, a promise of military protection. Once a certain company was attacked by a malicious attack, and this attack was by a non-commercial means, Xiao Letian had the obligation to protect him.

Not only that, Xiao Letian himself was the founder of the Chinese clan, and the Chinese clan had a complete system of lord. He could even give these merchants a new identity, a noble identity that they wouldn't be able to obtain from the Qing Dynasty.

If things went on like this, a corner of the four class of businesses and scholars that made up the Great Qing would be dug out alive by Xiao Letian.

Ceng Guofan let out a long sigh. Xiao Letian has steeled his heart to dig a clean wall, once the Jiangnan Merchant has eaten something sweet from him, then all the merchants in the country will be tempted. The people in the field have let him dig a pillar, do you think this building will be able to hold on? "

Jiu Shuai tapped his thigh and said, "Scholars and farmers, actually the ones with the most power are the scholars and merchants, each having the right and the money, while farmers and labourers will always follow behind the scholars and merchants, and even those who are greedy for small profits will naturally become closer to the merchants. After all, the merchants control their jobs!"

"But what Xiao Letian is doing, is completely breaking through the ranks of the industry and commerce! This was akin to offending a scholar to the death! What was the point of this? Without the support of all the scholars in the world, how can he continue to climb? "

Ceng Guofan nodded his head, "You are right, this is also a problem that I have been thinking about hard. If you know that the old farmer's subordinate brought this form here, you can take a look for yourself."

A form was written on it using the common Chinese format. It showed the basic situation of the ten civilian universities in Ryukyu, including the simple conjectures of the four military academies.

"Ryukyu, not counting the primary and secondary schools, just this university, currently has a four-year system, with a total of twenty-eight thousand students. This year, the number of graduates is estimated to reach three thousand, and this number will increase year by year!"

"My brother, the civilian university that Xiao Letian is building has already nurtured over five thousand graduates. We don't even know the military academy's numbers, I think it should be one or two thousand …"

"How terrifying! "These are the talents that he has nurtured himself. If placed in a place, he would be a Prefecture Overseer. If placed in the army, he would be a General. If placed in a school of science, he would be an engineer that would even cause foreigners to be envious …"

"Also, it can be predicted that the number of graduates will increase as time goes by. Only those who graduate this year will have 3,000. Perhaps next year will be 4,000, and the year after that will be 6,000 …"

"What about Nanyang? Wherever they went, there would be a lot of Chinese immigrants. If every Chinese reclamation area had a comprehensive university, then the number of talents that came here to nurture wouldn't be less than the number of Chinese immigrants! Even the imagination is scary, ten years later, Xiao Letian will have over ten thousand top-notch talents, and the Elementary Intermediate talents will be over a hundred thousand. "

At this moment, the old farmer suddenly interrupted, "This isn't even considered a literacy rate..." Xiao Letian's plan is to use ten to fifteen years to abolish all illiteracy among the Chinese! "

"How is this possible!" Jiu Shuai immediately stood up, "Illiteracy is zero? "He can deal with the young people. Don't tell me those older middle-aged people can also force them to read and write?"

Ceng Guofan smiled lightly: "What's impossible? What if one day, all the high-paying Chinese jobs require literacy? What do you think of those people? Right now, Ryukyu and Tanggu District already have people organizing night schools that are cheap and good. Among them, there are literacy classes.

"Awesome!" Jiu Shuai was completely flabbergasted. He was going to start anew. Was he going to abandon all the other Confucian Scholars and start anew? If he truly has a hundred thousand books trained by himself, he might actually be able to replace Confucianism! "

"But? But is that China still China? Will the words of a saint become useless? "

For a moment, the entire room was dead silent, it was only after a long while that Ceng Guofan finally spoke, "When did Xiao Letian say he wanted to abolish the saint? Look at this! " With that said, Ceng Guofan took out a letter from under his pillow and handed it over to his brother.

Jiu Shuai realized that the envelope was extremely worn out, meaning that brother would frequently look through it whenever he had nothing to do, when he opened the letter he discovered that it was a letter written by a foreigner with a pen, he could tell at a glance that it was Xiao Letian's notebook, and was very familiar with it.

"This letter is actually a contract between Xiao Letian and I. Do you still remember when Xiao Letian came to Jiangnan with his majesty in secret? I had a secret meeting with him once again, and none of you knew about it … "

Xiao Letian needs my protection. Before his forces are unable to protect him, he needs me to shelter him from the elements of wind and rain, his many big plans, especially the financial arrangements of Jiangnan, need my approval. Otherwise, do you think that he will be able to deal with this financial crisis so smoothly?

"But there are conditions to everything, Xiao Letian must give me some promises with black paper and white words, and the first condition is that I cannot abolish the Confucianism!"

"Since ancient times, academic disputes have been very cruel. An academic is a kind of thought. In order to instill one's own thoughts into others, humans would not hesitate to kill others if they thought the same way!"

"Confucianism is indeed old, and there are many that are out of place, especially in the natural sciences... However, Xiao Letian could not completely deny the Confucianism. He could abolish the platitudes of women and children, but the justice, etiquette and intellectual trust that the Confucianism revered was the root of Chinese civilization and could not be destroyed! "

"You can't just throw away benevolence and righteousness because Wang Shizheng and the others don't believe that the earth is round, right? It can't be that just because those Confucian Scholars don't accept the natural sciences, you've lost your respect, your filial piety, and your integrity, right? "

"You can innovate Confucianism, but you cannot overthrow it! You can even cancel the political treatment given to the Qufu Kong Family from previous generations, but you can't kill their people, and destroy the temple of Confucius. This is my bottom line, you, Xiao Letian, must write a contract for me! "