Qiming 1158

Chapter 273 Zhao Zuoliang is Reflecting

Su Yonglin knew a truth.

In matters of national affairs, laziness and evasion are absolutely not allowed. Any tricks to be used will definitely bury a huge pit for the future empire, and bring disaster to future generations.

Relying on the clan to maintain stability and reduce administrative costs will inevitably face the clan’s appropriation of local tax revenue and the erosion of mobilization capacity.

Su Yonglin has a very clear understanding of this after in-depth investigation of the social ecology of the Southern Song Dynasty.

He knew that it was difficult for his revolution to start under the social ecology of the clan, and if the start was very difficult, it was very likely that it would be snuffed out before it developed and expanded.

Likewise, this social ecology is unfriendly to any aggressive state action.

It desires stability, it desires peace, and it is willing to pay any price for stability and peace.

In this state, the Northern Expedition in the Southern Song Dynasty was doomed to fail.

Its economic and political foundations do not support its successful Northern Expedition. Even if it relies on politics to force people to push it, unless the enemy is so rotten that it is unspeakable, as long as it encounters a slight setback, it will inevitably be destroyed from the inside by a powerful resistance force. .

In the future, Su Yonglin must fight against this traditional social governance model, and ultimately destroy it.

If this set of rigid social ecology is not destroyed, the society cannot be reorganized, and the downward trend of China cannot be fundamentally reversed.

Even if he re-established a dynasty, no matter how strong he was in the early days, he could not avoid going the old way of the Jin Kingdom.

As soon as it appeared, it destroyed the sky and destroyed the earth. As a result, after the land was obtained and the land was turned into a landlord, the entire country quickly became decadent, and people lost their enterprising will and quickly degenerated.

The final fate of the Jin Kingdom was no different from that of any feudal empire. It collapsed under internal and external troubles.

Su Yonglin didn't want to follow in the footsteps of the Jin Kingdom at all, nor did he want the country he established to follow in such footsteps. In this way, his hard-working revolution would be meaningless.

It's just that he didn't expect that Zhao Zuoliang actually began to question the existence of the clan at this time because of this kind of thing, and had a faint disgust towards the clan.

Wouldn't it be embarrassing to question it at such a time?

Have you not used the power of the clan to oppress the members of the clan and profit from it in the past?

As a result, it has now been targeted in turn, only to think that this set of rules is unreasonable and cruel?

Su Yonglin didn't feel sympathy for this at all, only that Zhao Zuoliang deserved it.

"I'm more straightforward, so don't be angry. I think you deserve it and suffer for yourself. I don't sympathize with you at all, and you don't deserve sympathy."

He was very straightforward in expressing his emotions.

Zhao Zuoliang didn't seem to be surprised by this, he just froze for a moment, and then showed a bitter smile on his face.

"What General Su said was exactly the same as what the little girl said. They were all saying that I deserved what I deserved."

Su Yonglin raised his eyebrows.

"Ling Ai? You can actually say such a thing? You don't think that your maid is rebellious?"

"Before I had a little girl, I had two sons, and my wife spoiled them too much, making the two sons unruly and not very caring, so I wanted a daughter very much. I got this daughter very late, and regarded her as the jewel in my hand. , very loving."

Zhao Zuoliang smiled and said slowly: "The little girl is well-behaved and sensible, lively and cute, I like it very much, I have taught her to read and write since she was a child, I have taught her to read all Confucian classics, and wild essays. The ability to never forget, talk to me and cite scriptures, sometimes I am not her opponent."

Saying this, Zhao Zuoliang suppressed his smile and sighed again and again.

"So after I came home from this accident, the little girl talked about my fault in person. When I was depressed, she also said that I deserved it. Others may be angry, but I didn't. I just felt more and more ashamed and depressed."

Zhao Zuoliang looked at Su Yonglin and said, "Even my daughter can see that I deserve what I deserve, but I don't want to admit it myself. How can I blame her like this?"

Su Yonglin noticed that Zhao Zuoliang showed the tenderness of his father when he talked about this daughter, and knew that this was true.

Feeling his remorse and shame, Su Yonglin was basically sure that this had really happened.

If so, this woman is indeed extraordinary.

So Su Yonglin smiled.

"Dare to point out his father's mistakes in person, and dare to reflect on his own mistakes in front of his daughter. Such a woman and such a father are rare in contemporary times."

Zhao Zuoliang smiled bitterly.

"What General Su said, are you complimenting me, an old man?"

"Just because you can raise such a daughter, I think at least your mind and tolerance are enough, but that's all, otherwise you wouldn't let your son do that kind of thing, seriously, that kind of thing. If things happened under my rule, people would die."

Su Yonglin said with a smile, "And it's definitely not just one death, no matter who he is."

Zhao Zuoliang was silent for a while.

"I don't make a mistake twice about the same thing."

"A lot of people who make second mistakes have said the same thing, but they didn't make it."

"I'm different from them."

"is it?"

Su Yonglin smiled noncommittally: "But you can reflect on the relationship between clans and individuals, which surprises me a bit."

"I also don't think I'll ever reflect this way, but it is."

Zhao Zuoliang said seriously: "The clan raises the individual, and the individual needs to give everything for the clan, and once there is a conflict between the individual and the clan, no matter right or wrong, innocent or not, the clan will always be higher than the individual.

But is this really true?If there is one thing, the clan makes a mistake, but the individual can find the correct solution, then the clan does not listen to the individual, is it okay? "

"Of course it's wrong."

Su Yonglin shook his head: "There is a person who can decide what is right or wrong for an individual. There is, and only the law, the law of the state. Under the law of the state, all beings are the same. If a clan tries to oppose the law of the state with the rules of the clan, it is a sin!"

"........."

Zhao Zuoliang looked at Su Yonglin in surprise and asked, "Is this the general's truth?"

"of course."

"Generals don't follow Confucian classics? Generals like Legalism? I have heard that there was such a statement in Legalism in the pre-Qin period, but I haven't heard of it since the Han Dynasty."

"It's not important, the important thing is that I can't accept the lynching under the law of the state. I don't allow anyone to compete for authority with the law of the state!"

Su Yonglin's expression suddenly became very stern: "The only thing that can punish an individual is the state's law, only the state's law that is public, without any secrets. The state's law cannot be violated by any private law!"

Zhao Zuoliang blinked, as if he was a little surprised, or he was a little afraid of Su Yonglin's sternness.

"As the saying goes, there is a state law, a family has family rules, and there are family rules under the state law. That is something everyone agrees with. If a general wants to change, isn't he afraid of the world's opposition?"

"Do you support it?"

Su Yonglin asked Zhao Zuoliang to stop.

Zhao Zuoliang didn't know how to answer for a while.

"Look, there are a lot of people who are against it, but there are more people who support me, and as long as I pool their strengths together, it's easy to solve the problem."

Su Yonglin came to the conclusion: "Of course there are many people who benefit from this set of rules, but only more will suffer. Since most people are suffering, it proves that this is wrong. Since it is wrong, change."

"Is this the general's long-cherished wish? But unless one day the general will rule the world and rule the world, such a thing will never be possible."

Zhao Zuoliang reacted.

"Since you said it was possible, then of course I will do it! If you don't do it, how do you know it's impossible?"

Su Yonglin punched the tabletop, and the thick tabletop shook, which made Zhao Zuoliang feel that Su Yonglin was not joking.

He really has a lot of ideas to implement.

And there are some ideas that can surprise people anytime, anywhere.

If he can defeat the gold master Wanyanliang and destroy the Jin Kingdom, then, it is really possible to achieve, if he can't beat...

It was a joke, of course, or a joke that no one would know about.

(End of this chapter)