Qiming 1158

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Zhou Linzhi was shocked by Zhang Shi's aura and did not dare to speak.

As the saying goes, those who are ruthless are afraid of being horizontal, and those who are horizontal are afraid of dying. Zhang Shi is now this desperate lunatic. In everyone's eyes, Zhang Shi can do anything.

He was willing to guard even the city of Hangzhou. His family lived in the city of Hangzhou, and he made up his mind that the whole family and Hangzhou would coexist and die together. Basically, they were loyal and fierce.

At this point, what else is he afraid to do?
Annoying him, the ghost knows what he can do?

Maybe it is possible to draw a knife on the spot and let blood splatter for five steps.

Zhou Linzhi still has wishes and plans to live, as well as his imagination about his future life.

His family is prosperous, and the third generation of children and grandchildren are waiting to be fed. He also plans to do something in Japan after he arrives in Japan, and achieve something that cannot be achieved in Jiangnan.

So, he didn't want to die.

He heard from some businessmen who traveled between Japan and the Jiangnan country that the current situation in Japan is not stable, the contradiction between the local and the central government is very acute, and the central government is also restless.

It seems that a powerful figure is trying to unify the authority of the government and is preparing to crack down on local forces that do not obey orders, and has made a lot of efforts to this end.

But I heard that there are many opponents of him, so there are many people in Japan who are in physical communication, fighting with each other endlessly, and the domestic political situation is unstable, so Zhou Linzhi feels that Japan must be very weak at this time.

In the face of a weak and small country, they rushed over, couldn't they do something?

Needless to say, most of these people who are going to travel from Korea to Japan are planning to hold a group for warmth, and some people have even discussed to gather everyone's strength to tear up a piece of land in Japan and make it their own, and then maybe there are more The possibility of a dove occupying a magpie's nest.

As long as they stay away from the Ming Kingdom, they think they can be king and hegemony in Japan.

If there is still the possibility of becoming king in the future, why provoke a lunatic now?
Seeing Zhang Shi who was furious and was about to attack him, Zhou Linzhi was discouraged and chose to back down.

He turned like the wind and retreated, fully embodying the "fine tradition" of Song Zhongliang, and escaped from Zhang Shi's official residence.

Then he said to the outside world that this was an order from Zhang Shi, the Pingzhang military and state affairs. He tried his best to resist and persuade him, but Zhang Shi made up his mind and even threatened him with a knife.

There was nothing he could do.

After Shen Gai abdicated, he devoted himself to preparing his own escape plan, and had no interest in this matter. Zhang Jin and Zhou Linzhi's dog biting a dog was a matter between them, and Shen Gai would not interfere.

So this matter is settled.

The [-] Song troops who were originally under the command of Zhou Linzhi's cronies were placed on the front line of defense against the Ming army garrison. Facing the Ming army who had been training all day for combat readiness, they shivered and had nothing to do.

The middle and upper-level officers of this army are very troubled by this. While speeding up the preparation of their own escape plan, they continue to appease and deceive their soldiers and grassroots officers, making them mistakenly think that this change of defense is just a trivial matter and does not need at all. worry.

Because the Ming Kingdom and the Ming army really did not move, there was no turmoil in the army for the time being. The senior officers also tried to show their faces in the army, saying that they were still there and that they had not left, in exchange for the soldiers' peace.

But in private, they are also seriously preparing their escape plan, so they don't want to live and die together with the big bosses. The big bosses only have the value of buying time for them to escape, and have no other value.

The city of Hangzhou remained largely stable throughout Zhang Shi's move to take over power.

The bureaucrats made escape plans, and the personnel changes in the army were quite drastic, but there was no way for the people to know about it in advance.

Everything is very calm before the storm.

In May of the eighth year of Hongwu, the Ming Kingdom was in the preparatory stage for the war, and there was no actual action. From June, the Ming Kingdom began to have actual actions.

The first was on the second day of June. Considering that the country was about to complete the basic reunification, Su Yonglin ordered the court to study the national flag and put the matter of the Daming flag on the agenda.

He first laid out his thoughts at a cabinet meeting.

"In the past dynasties, there was only a country name, but no national flag. At best, the country name was written on the flag, and it became the national flag, but this is too hasty and inappropriate. It needs to be known that since ancient times, flags and various signs have always been very important.

Since ancient times, there has been a totem theory. The ancient emperors will choose powerful birds and beasts as totems of their own power to rally and inspire people. Waving the flag forward can enhance the morale of the battle.

In the successive dynasties and dynasties, some individuals or organizations have used a unified flag as their respective symbol to unite people's hearts and initiate rebellion, but the unified flag across the country does not seem to have appeared.

This is not good for our unified country. A country should have a unified consciousness and a unified flag to symbolize this consciousness. Use this as a national flag and spread it all over the country so that every citizen can see it. The national flag generates the consciousness of being in this country and the president is in this country, and naturally identifies with me, Daming. "

Su Yonglin believes that at this critical moment when China is about to be unified, a banner is needed to unite people's hearts.

Daming needs this banner to declare that there is no distinction between Henan and Hebei, that Jiangnan and Jiangbei are solidly integrated, that there is no distinction between the north and the south, and the people are not divided between Han and barbarians.

The importance of a common flag is something that many people have never realized. Su Yonglin brought it up and handed it over to discussion, which caused some discussions within the court.

But after all, this is not a serious matter, so no one raised any objections, but there was a lot of debate on how this flag should be designed.

Some suggested words, some suggested patterns, some suggested mountains and rivers on the flag, and some suggested heroic characters on the flag.

Su Yonglin handed over these discussions to the State Council, including the entire imperial court and the entire revival organization into the preliminary discussions, and then quickly came to some meaningful conclusions.

For example, most people agree that patterns are used on flags instead of words. The reason is that patterns have a more intuitive visual impact than words. They don’t need people to think about the meaning after reading the words, and they can directly recognize the meaning through the patterns.

Moreover, the use of characters has great limitations. The most direct limitation is that there are not so many literate people with the ability to read, write and think in China, and literacy is still the most difficult cultural mission of the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, there are not many people in the world who know Chinese characters. They may not understand the flags with the characters on it, but the pattern is clear at a glance. Tell them that this is the flag of Daming, and they will understand naturally when they see it, and it is very convenient. spread.

As a result, the State Council quickly reached an agreement that the national flag should use patterns as the basic composition and not use words.

Then there is the content of the pattern on the flag, which is also the core discussion point.

Some people hope it is the magnificent beauty of mountains and rivers, some people hope it is a hero from ancient times, some people hope it is a symbol of some kind of animal, and some people hope it is some kind of embodiment of history.

In this regard, the discussion was very intense. There were many people arguing with each other at the State Council, and the views from various places were also very intense.

For example, there are so many magnificent mountains and rivers, which one or which should be put on the national flag?Moreover, the beauty of mountains and rivers is mostly regional, should we use the Yellow River or the Yangtze River?Taishan or Songshan?
After more than an hour of debate, everyone took the lead in rejecting this proposal.

Then there are the images of heroes and heroes. Everyone argues differently, but the only one that everyone can agree with is the image of Su Yonglin, and Su Yonglin directly waved his hand and refused.

"I can't represent Daming by myself. You don't need to worship me like any other god. You don't need it at all."

Su Yonglin refused, so this suggestion was also rejected.

The symbols of animals, the embodiment of history, etc., were also quickly denied and not accepted.

And the further back, the discussion direction of the meeting began to move towards the national attributes of the Ming Kingdom. Many people asked whether it is possible to find some special existences in the process of establishing the Ming Kingdom as a symbol of the Ming Kingdom.

This direction is well recognized by Su Yonglin.

(End of this chapter)