Wanli Xinming

Chapter 147 Publicity
The so-called victory is not considered, and defeat is considered first. In a war that is close to destroying the country, the possibility of failure must be considered.Zhu Yijun first explained the purpose of the war to Liu Xian, and then asked how he would deal with the failure of the military operation.

Liu Xian echoed back: "This year in martial arts, the minister has earned more than the minister's half-life. The minister believes that the new army of three thousand is enough to sweep Burma. If you use it as the main force and gather a large army, a thousand people can be the opponent's number. Ten thousand."

"As long as the firepower is sufficient, I think that [-] new troops are not needed to fight Burma, but [-] are enough!"

When Zhu Yijun heard this, he felt relieved, but he said: "The governor should not underestimate the enemy. One is that our army is deep, and the land is not owned by me; Shared with both sides. If you underestimate the enemy, you may be defeated."

Liu Xian was a little superstitious about the combat capabilities of the new army, but he didn't think so in his heart.Zhu Yijun took out the story of the anti-British resistance in Sanyuanli in the late Qing Dynasty, and told it in a new face, exaggerating the victory tenfold, which attracted Liu Xian's attention.

Zhu Yijun said: "The most taboo thing about this kind of war is the vast ocean that is caught in the people's war - so when you arrive in Myanmar, you must pay attention to military discipline, and you must not fight indiscriminately." Liu Xian nodded and agreed loudly.

Zhu Yijun dismissed his thoughts of underestimating the enemy, and asked about the tactics of dealing with the elephant soldiers and some key points about fighting in the mountains. Liu Xian answered them fluently.Zhu Yijun finally heard him explain very clearly the response plan formulated by the Combat Department to deal with the failure of the war, and only then did he know that the name of Liu Xian was not a fortunate one - finally he was relieved.

The four years of Wanli ended after the imperial court arranged to go to Myanmar.In the summary edict at the end of the year, Zhu Yijun commended the second batch of double excellent officials.This time, a total of 68 county magistrates and [-] prefects were rewarded with a court official.

At the end of the third year of Wanli, there were only six county magistrates, and one prefect was rewarded as a court shaman.

The award-winning officials can choose one descendant, and they can go directly to the military attache's brocade and clothing for thousands of households or hundreds of households for real teaching; they can also go to the civil service route to study in Guozijian and directly choose the eighth-rank or below to be awarded an official position; a particularly excellent model is directly awarded by the emperor He was born in the same jinshi, and his son has not yet been crowned, and the seventh-rank official is directly in his hands.

The excitement was a bit severe, and officials at all levels who had been screwed up had experienced several cases of karoshi this year.Because of the Huanghuai Daxing industrial service, the number of lower-level officials who died directly on the construction site in the fourth year of Wanli reached eleven.

At this time, there was no concept of death from overwork in the Ming Dynasty. Officials all over the world thought that these sacrificed officials were unlucky and died of sudden illness.

Zhu Yijun knew this, and after conducting a detailed investigation, he arranged for someone to write a long newsletter about their deeds and publish it in the Beijing and Beijing newspapers.While calling on the world to learn from them, he also arranged for the Publicity Office of the Attendant Office to organize a "Lecture Group on the Advanced Deeds of Loyal Ministers in the Three Years of Wanli" to give lectures in various prefectures in the world.

What Zhu Yijun could not have imagined was that this old-fashioned method, which he would doze off every time he listened to the preaching-the effect of the Ming Dynasty in the imperial society was beyond the horizon.

The members of the propaganda group were composed of the family members and subordinates of officials who died of overwork.Where to lay, where to climax, where to tear off all arrangements.

As a result, the first speech in the capital made the officials of the capital and Shuntian Prefecture burst into tears.With tear-jerking speeches and touching stories, these officials' loyalty to the emperor, their love for the nation, their deep affection for the people, and their attachment to their careers brought a baptism of soul to the entire capital's officialdom.

Then, according to the feedback data of each report, the publicity group carefully crafted each manuscript again, and the lecturer was also trained by the publicity department to continuously improve the level of speech-after Beizhili, all the speeches All have reached the state of being transformed into a god.

Especially in the land of Huanghuai, because of the resonance and empathy, the venue was full and tears flowed into rivers.Officials at all levels in Huanghuai have said that if the two rivers are not managed well, they will be sorry to the gods and the emperor, and they will be sorry to the parents and the people. How can they afford to waste food?

If there is a drone shooting at this time, you will see the land of Huanghuai, and the large construction sites are everywhere.And almost all the construction sites have red flags fluttering and slogans fluttering.

For example, "Blood and sweat for three years, earning rations from the sky" belongs to the agitation type; "It is illegal to destroy water conservancy facilities" belongs to the legal type; and "Open the drains, the whole family will die" This belongs to the curse type. ——The imperial envoys who were inspected later let them go.

Of course, Zhu Yijun could not let the hero shed blood, sweat and tears. In the fourth year of Wanli, the imperial court issued a rule: For officials who sacrificed their jobs, according to their deeds, posthumous posthumous posts of up to seven grades will be granted, and generous pensions will be given.

One of the prefects who died of overwork, when the emperor's decree arrived, the family members directly pulled up the tombstone and replaced it with a form that can only be owned by a virtuous doctor - a sensation in the village.

This provision was later improved in accordance with the original court system and the actual situation.The court added a document to explain: In order to recognize contributions and encourage filial piety, the family members of the sacrificed officials can make a voluntary choice, and the highest official post posthumously awarded to the official is awarded to the father and grandfather who have been buried in the cemetery, and then posthumously awarded in descending order according to seniority - this so-called posthumous seal Three generations.

This act of rioting made officials in the Huanghuai region boil, and it also made the eyes of officials in other regions who couldn't make a good profit turn red with jealousy.

What Zhu Yijun didn't expect was that there were actually many officials who would rather not receive the political treatment of the "Yin Yizi" in the imperial court, and were willing to use this in exchange for the posthumous seal for three generations - what such a special plan, Zhu Yijun must have expressed incomprehension before crossing, but now it has been Fully understand and express that this is normal and harmonious.

A word of filial piety is not only the cornerstone of governance, but also a powerful tool for motivation, and it is also a shackle to imprison. At the end of the fourth year of Wanli, the capital opened another newspaper called "Xinmin Daily".

According to the conclusion after in-depth research by later historians, "Xinmin Daily" is likely to open up the situation as soon as possible, so it directly threw a big bomb in the first issue: "Ding You system, reasonable or unreasonable?"

This article directly hits the Dingyou system for civil servants that Zhu Yuanzhang had ordered.The clear meaning of the opening chapter is to explain "Ding You":
"Erya · Interpretation": "Ding, it is also." Encountered, encountered solution. "Shangshu Shuo Ming Shang": "Worry, living in mourning. When parents are mourning, they are also known as "Ding Di".

The article later said that the system of Ding You started in the late Han Dynasty and flourished in the Jin Dynasty.During the Jin Dynasty, not only the funeral of parents should go to the official Dingyou, but also the funeral of brothers and sisters.

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties and the Song Dynasty, the system of managing funerals was well prepared, and it was passed on to the dynasties.

After summarizing a few definitions and facts that everyone knows, the article begins to talk about the internal reasons of the Dingyou system: "The son has the death of his parents, and the emperor's life is not enough for three years, so it is also to teach people filial piety. Since the family is filial, loyalty can be transferred to the monarch, and there is no one who is a human subject who is not filial to his relatives but who can be loyal to the sovereign; no one who is a human ruler does not teach his subjects to be filial and can gain the loyalty of his subjects.”

The general idea of ​​this passage is that the Dingyou system is a system in which the emperor is teaching everyone how to respect their parents and keep filial piety. Loyal ministers can only be produced among filial sons, because they are filial to their parents in order to be loyal to the monarch; and the monarch cannot choose unfilial people, because he cannot be loyal to the monarch.

This passage goes on and on: "Scholar-official officials are the hope of the people. 'The gentleman's morality is the virtue of the villain'." This sentence means that the people's education and customs are honest and honest, and all the officials and scholars in the world take the lead to abide by it. For the sake of filial piety.

The first third of this article is full of serious words, very elegant and very positive.But then the author changed his style and began to be serious:

"However, if you count the chaotic ministers and thieves in China, the traitors and thieves of the Han Dynasty, have you ever sold the clan to seek glory without abiding by the rule of Dingyou? Then you will count the loyal ministers and good generals in China, who have been famous for all ages, but they have not seized love and created peace in the world, to the king, Yao and Shun. Who is it?"

After two powerful rhetorical questions, the article then threw out the main theme: "Looking at it from the truth, arguing loyalty and evil with Dingyou and deprivation of love is lost in fallacies!"

The article later mentioned Li Linfu and Qin Hui far away, and Yan Song and Yan Shifan in the near future, all of whom were honest and uphold the system, and their conduct has long been determined.

The article also cites Bigan, Duke Zhou, and Yue Fei as examples. The former two eras did not have the Dingyou system. Yue Fei’s mother asked for the funeral three times and was deprived of love. How they behaved has long been determined.

Immediately, the article counts the officials who seized love from the time of the Taizu of this dynasty. Up to now, there have been ten cabinet ministers; 13 ministers; 32 governors who have seized love; However, there are hundreds of times in large numbers.

The article said that among these people who take love, although there are people who seek good deeds and hold American jobs and are "maddened", there are also great politicians and writers such as Yang Rong and Yang Pu, as well as local officials such as magistrate Fang Suyi— These officials, after seizing love, either sort out the state affairs, or govern the locality, leaving a long-lasting reputation.

The discussion before and after is almost the same, and the article points out the theme again: "Meng Yizi asked about filial piety, and he said: 'No disobedience'. Not disobeying one's parents is filial piety. Servant? The system of Dingyou in later generations has long gone against the original intention of the sage, and there is a ridicule of carving a boat to seek a sword."

At the end of the article, there is another big rhetorical question: "Wanli's second year meeting, His Majesty asked the question of filial piety, and wanted to show the true and false of filial piety in the world. Would you rather not think deeply about the filial piety in the court?"

When the first issue of the "Xinmin Daily" was released, Shilin lost his voice for a while, and then turned to the sky. He regarded the "Xinmin Daily" as a beast of a flood, criticized it with words, and made the end of the fourth year of Wanli very lively.

And Li Zhi, who was in Nanjing for Chinese New Year, quietly ran to Feng Bangning's house on the fourth day of the New Year's Day in the fifth year of Wanli and hid.He repeatedly asked Feng Bangning, "No one knows that this article was written by me, does it? Isn't it?! Don't miss it, I'm so scared!"

Seeing him terrified, Feng Bangning said strangely, "Who would have thought that the "Xinmin Daily" would use an article from Nanjing? Besides, the eldest brother's deviant remarks are much more powerful than this. Why are you so afraid of it?"

Li Zhi listened to this with a wry smile and said, "It turned out to be a mouthful, how many people listened? Now once the newspaper is published, it will be known to the whole world within ten days, and under the finger of thousands of people, who is not afraid?"

Feng Bangning laughed and said, "I'm not afraid, just point at me, can't I go after the bird that bit me?"

Hearing this, Li Zhi's face turned blue and then white, and suddenly slapped his thigh and said, "Brother is right! I have decided to publish another article in our newspaper, titled "Confucianists, Governing with Funerals as Rites" The world is also", how?"

Feng Bangning heard this, his face was as wonderful as Li Zhi just now, he immediately knelt down with a plop, hugged Li Zhi's thigh and cried, "Brother, I shouldn't be bragging, please forgive me! I am old and young. Pointing at this point to buy and sell food!"

　Three thousand three hundred words is a big chapter for Lao Mo - do you have a ticket?

　　
　
(End of this chapter)