Since there are no people inside and outside, Chen Xi can only consider Hui Niang's personal safety.

If you hate it, hate it!

Chen Xi sighed secretly that this might make the two more distinct and at the same time make himself more completely cut off his thoughts.

Chen Xi was not going to use official power to suppress the Fujian Association, because that would be a real thing. He only needed Song Xiaocheng to secretly sabotage, and before that, he had sent Ma Jiu back to Tingzhou Prefecture to temporarily disband the carriage and horse gang. He calculated that by the end of the year, the Tingzhou Chamber of Commerce would almost become the past Yunyan.

Originally, in Shen Xi's view, since the budding of capitalism in the middle and late Ming Dynasty had emerged, commercial exhibitions had a breeding ground. Even if business had risks and twists and turns, it was a means to change destiny. Chen Xi made certain efforts to do this and achieved phased results, which changed Hui Niang and her own situation.

But with the repeated suppression of the government, Chen Xi finally understood one thing: without a strong political background, any effort is futile!

No matter how big the business is, it is not as good as the words of the court officials.

"Now it seems that this road is not working. Let's try it when you have power in the future." Chen Xi sighed in his heart, "I just don't know if Hui Niang can wait until then? Maybe we will be strangers long ago!"

Chen Xi wanted to help Hui Niang in his heart, but the general environment of the times did not allow it. He could only give up his business plan temporarily and be his court official with peace of mind.

Chen Xi plans to summarize the gains and losses of doing business since childhood in his spare time.

The reason why capitalism cannot develop rapidly in the Ming Dynasty is because most business people have conscious disadvantages. With money, they do not expand their operations and carry out technological innovation, but invest in real estate and fields, which makes the scale slow to rise.

But Hui Niang has basically no such flaw. She is very willing to invest in business, such as opening printing workshops, pharmaceutical factories and bank accounts, and creating chambers of commerce. The rewards are quite generous. However, because of success, Hui Niang becomes paranoid and likes to put everything on a fixed set of rules. At present, the environment has changed and many merchants have been dismissed as warnings, but they do not know how to restrain themselves, which leads to unknowingly being in danger.

It can be seen that consciousness is really a double-edged sword. If one is not good, it will hurt yourself by mistake.

Chen Xi felt that it would be best if there was a new Ming that could greatly promote the development of productivity and lead to a class appearing soon. By the time the court reacted, there was no way to control it.

The 14th year of Hongzhi, the early 16th century, was two centuries away from the European Industrial Revolution. Although Chen Xi asked himself that his mind might not be as good as the reformer of the steam engine, some things had to be done, so it was necessary to let the Chinese nation win at the starting line.

When Chen Xi was studying world history, he studied Watt's improved steam engine.

The principle of the steam engine is very simple. In later teenagers often saw Watt in reading books on the teapot when water was boiling water, and the steam pushed the teapot lid to jump and then Ming steam engine. Although the truth is easy to understand, the story is completely fabricated. The original steam engine was a steam-turning ball in the Ming Dynasty in the first century AD. Now many books in the Ming Dynasty have records from the "strange skills and tricks" from the West.

Before Watt, the steam engine had been used for coal mine drainage. Watt's improvement was to add an independent condenser chamber, a mechanical linkage with gears and pull rods, a double-motor, a centrifugal controller, a pressure gauge, a counter, a power indicator, a throttle valve and many other instruments that automatically adjust the operation of the steam engine. Chen Xi felt that it was possible to replicate Watt's process.

As long as the steam engine is activated, it can create a rapid development of business and capitalism can flourish, rather than staying in the so-called budding state forever.

Before he truly grasped his own destiny, Chen Xi did not plan to continue doing business. If he felt that he had the opportunity, he could start the research of the steam engine first.

This is also the first time Chen Xi tried to use the popular technology in later generations to change this feudal backward era after coming to this world.

Unfortunately, it is still on the road to success.

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After serving as the chief examiner of the Shuntian Prefecture Township Examination, Chen Xi's mansion became the most respected place among scholars in the capital.

There are gradually more and more legends about Chenxi among the people.

Many people have only a little understanding of it and boast about Chen Xi so amazingly.

Of course, there are many things that have indeed happened, such as the court fighting against the Tatars expose the lies of the book of heaven, attacking the Florida Fleet at night and forcing them to pay tribute to the court, arresting the corruption and abuse of power of Quanzhou Zhang Lian, etc., and even many details of the war in Beiguan were spread to the capital. In the story, Chen Xi's performance on the battlefield is remarkable, as if he was a capable minister who could bring his pen to peace and stability in the world, and his martial arts could be used to make a horse to determine the universe.

The common people believed it from the beginning to the fact that they heard too much later.

Three people become tigers, this principle will work in any era.

There are many rumors outside, and it began to spread in the palace later. Chenxi seemed to have become a topic of conversation for people in the capital overnight.

At this time, from the emperor to the dawn, there is no entertainment in life, and I always like to sit down and say something new. Since Chenxi has been so popular recently, the topic always falls on him unconsciously.

Because what they are talking about is not a Cabinet Grand Secretary or a Six-Minist Officer, it is not considered a criticism of the government affairs, which makes the court adopt a disregardless attitude towards this rumor and does not publicly "dispel the rumors".

In fact, the court also "builds momentum" for Chen Xi according to the orders of Emperor Hongzhi Zhu Youzhang.

Chen Xi presided over the Shuntian Prefecture provincial examination at the age of fifteen, which was somewhat unwilling to convince the public. However, since the emperor had issued an imperial edict, the people must feel that this was not an ordinary 15-year-old young man, but a Wenkui from the Daming who passed the third year of the year, a bachelor of Hanyuan, a lecturer of the Eastern Palace and a Japanese general, and a great contributor who made great contributions to the long-term stability of the Ming Dynasty!

So much so that after hearing the story of Empress Zhang saying that Shen Xi killed the Tatars in Yulin Guard and became a defeated army, Zhu Youzhang waved his hand to express his disbelief, because Emperor Hongzhi knew that Chen Xi could not even ride a horse, so how could he kill all directions on the battlefield?

Emperor Hongzhi adopted a default attitude, and the court officials would not take the initiative to break things up, so Chen Xi's reputation spread little by little.

At the same time, it is Chen Xi's "mind learning", which is popular among the scholars around the capital.

This is also related to Chen Xi becoming the chief examiner of the Shuntian Prefecture Provincial Examination. By studying the study of the mind, you can study the preferences of the examiner. Who told this young top scholar to bring out the place of the heart study when he was ten years old?

Everyone knows that Chen Xi is a little narrow-minded in his studies. Now that Shen Xi's knowledge has been recognized by the court, his mind will naturally rise.

In the minds of those great scholars, Xinxue is simply a nonsense that a naughty boy put forward, and even a teenager like Chen Xi would feel embarrassed.

So at the beginning, even if the study of mind was spread on a small scale, no one stopped it. However, as the study of mind was widely circulated in the capital, those great scholars who advocated Neo-Confucianism could no longer sit still.

A great scholar lives by others' respect. Today, the official gives some gifts, and tomorrow that friend comes to offer some tea. Many great scholars do not have land or real estate. They rely entirely on their thoughts and knowledge as weapons, and rely on others' help and lectures to the outside world.

In the past, young students highly praised Neo-Confucianism and often listened to their lectures. They were busy every year during the provincial examination. But since Chen Xi's mind study rose, those scholars began to "reverse" and didn't even like to listen to Neo-Confucianism, such as Neo-Confucianism. Now that the provincial examination is approaching, all the lectures are still deserted, so how can the parties involved feel?

Young people like novel things, and the emergence of mind learning happens to have its own background. Although there were many talented people and strangers in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, there was no idol-level figure in history. Wang Shouren stood out in history. At this time, Wang Shouren had not yet formed a climate, but Chen Xi took advantage of the loopholes.

The theory of mind proposed by Chen Xi is more solid than that of Wang Shouren, because Chen Xi himself adopts a systematic and complete theory.

The mature mind study did not fall at all when fighting Neo-Confucianism. In terms of conscience, the thoughts were much more advanced than Neo-Confucianism, and even rulers were more inclined to move closer to the direction of scholars' study.

Because Neo-Confucianism allows people to study things and become aware, but the most important thing about Mind Learning is to achieve conscience. They advocate gentleness, kindness, respect, frugality, and ingenuity. They learn idealism, which is closer to Taoism's return to nature.

In the 14th year of Hongzhi, the trend of scholars in the capital was rising. A large number of Northern Zhili candidates gathered in the capital to prepare for the provincial examination. Miscellaneous studies were prevalent during this period. Not only were there any knowledge of the Amitabha and the Heart, but also the Confucianism of various schools of thought. The court adopted a tacit and tolerant attitude towards the controversy of a hundred schools of thought.

Forums can be seen everywhere in the capital, and the most people are going to the forums in the center. In addition to this is an emerging science, it is mainly rumored that the examiner of this provincial examination praised this.

Chen Xi was a little smart. After he proposed that Xie Pi was obsessed with the mind, he immediately changed his propaganda policy. When he praised the mind, he first stated that this was a praise and in-depth study of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, which was equivalent to a hypocritical packaging. After careful research, he realized that the mind and Neo-Confucianism are two different theoretical systems.

Many people were deceived to the forum of Xinxue. They thought this was just a kind of Neo-Confucianism idea proposed by the chief examiner of this provincial examination. Everyone sat down to study it together to see if it was helpful to the imperial examination. Unexpectedly, after listening to a few lessons, they felt that the content was very different from the previous I studied, but after careful consideration, it made sense.

If you listen carefully, you will be addicted to it without realizing it. Like Xie Pi, you will highly respect the study of the heart and bring others in.

Chen Xi was like a bewitch. He used his mind-study with the cloak of Neo-Confucianism to "go astray". When these people reacted, they were already deeply trapped in it and could not extricate themselves.

However, these forums were formed without the consent of the main master Chen Xi. Now Xie Pi was detained by Xie Qian at home and could not come out. Chen Xi's loyal preacher was not there, but relying solely on Xie Pi's friends and those who listened to Xie Pi's preaching of the Heart Learning, they unconsciously promoted the Heart Learning.

"It was a lot of news. Should I go and listen to it myself?" Chen Xi learned from Xie Duo that even someone in the Imperial College began to preach the study of the Heart, and was quite helpless.

It is already very obvious that the top scholar in his teenage years old. If he preaches the study of mind at a young age, it is equivalent to standing opposite to the entire Confucian community, and others will criticize him day by day. Those great scholars who became famous by Neo-Confucianism will never allow the existence of heresy because they cannot let go of Neo-Confucianism and study Mind learning again.

Only when the disciples of the Heart School rise and occupy the commanding heights of the court and the Confucian community can the Heart School flourish.

ps: The second update is here!
Chapter completed!