Qiming 1158

Chapter 569 Many people never thought that Su Yonglin was actually a follower of Xunzi
According to Su Yonglin's administrative order, the spring plowing sacrificial activity in Shaoxing for 31 years can be held by folks according to their own customs, but the official is not allowed to hold it in any name.

Officials must put all their financial expenditures into the construction of water conservancy projects. Anyone who dares to disobey and hold official sacrificial activities will be dismissed immediately without negotiation.

Su Yonglin claimed that "the sky is constant, not for Yao's existence, not for Jie's death", and he does not work hard to cultivate fields or build water conservancy, but only knows that praying to God and worshipping Buddha will not help agricultural production.

The war has just ended, the Central Plains has been severely damaged by the golden bandits, and everything is waiting to be rebuilt. It is the time when all officials need to work hard to restore production and ensure people's livelihood.

At this time, instead of devoting wholeheartedly to agricultural production and construction of water conservancy, but to spend money, grain, materials and precious agricultural time to hold meaningless sacrificial activities, is it not putting the cart before the horse?

No!

In the name of the General Affairs Bureau, Su Yonglin issued a clear order requiring all officials to participate in agricultural production activities.

The quantity and quality of construction of water conservancy projects will become an important criterion for judging the merits and promotions of local administrative officials by the Examination Division of the General Affairs Bureau.

Su Yonglin made public an important criterion for promotion to the public, which caused waves in the area occupied by the Restoration Army.

Of course, it's not because of the promotion criteria. The promotion criteria for officials are varied, and they always change according to the ruler's preferences. This is not important at all. What matters is Su Yonglin's idea of ​​governing the country and administration behind the promotion criteria.

Many people did not expect that Su Yonglin was actually a follower of Xunzi, who believed in the way of heaven.

Although it is said that Xunzi was also a great Confucian in the Warring States Period, a member of Confucianism, but his own people also have close and distant relatives, and with the development of the times, Xunzi's thinking is incompatible with the mainstream thinking of Confucianism today.

Today's Confucianism advocates the unity of nature and man, the induction of man and nature, and the combination of local superstition, combining imperial power and divine power into one, making the emperor become the son of heaven. .

After the slump of Sui, Tang, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Confucian school finally regained its official guiding ideology and even the status of the national constitution in the Northern Song Dynasty, relying on this set of rhetoric that theocracy and imperial power were combined into one, which was in line with the needs of the rulers of the Northern Song Dynasty.

However, Xunzi's thought is against the induction of heaven and man, and the unity of man and man. He believes that heaven and man should be viewed separately. Heaven is heaven and man is man, and the two are not related.

This kind of simple materialism is unacceptable to mainstream Confucianism today. It is an idea that shakes the foundation of Confucian hegemony since Dong Zhongshu, and is not in the interests of feudal rulers.

However, as the supreme ruler, Su Yonglin agreed with this idea.

What's happening here?
Many people are puzzled and feel that there is something wrong with Su Yonglin's head.

Without the title of the Son of Heaven for you, and without the righteous blessing granted by the monarch's power, the legitimacy of your power can be guaranteed by force, but what about your successor?

You don't consider these?

Some academic bureaucrats felt that Su Yonglin's ideological tendency would bring unpredictable risks to the future political situation, and it was even reflected in the imperial examinations to be held after he was proclaimed emperor.

After Su Yonglin became emperor, he was going to conduct imperial examinations to select scholars. If he insisted on using Xunzi's ideas to select scholars, there would definitely be people who would oppose it, and there would inevitably be speculators who would like him and sing against the mainstream of Confucianism.

At that time, a large number of these speculators will exist on the court, squeezing the living space of mainstream Confucianism, which will greatly damage the interests of mainstream Confucian believers.

That would bring unpredictable risks to the future world situation.

But Su Yonglin's power is here, his martial virtue is overwhelming, the army supports him, and his own subordinates also support him. No one can force Su Yonglin to change his opinion.

At the stall where Su Yonglin was about to destroy the Jin Kingdom and Wubu Zhonghua, the old bureaucrats and old gentry did not dare to debate this issue with Su Yonglin, and even forced him to change his thinking and return to mainstream thinking.

Therefore, although this issue is very serious in the eyes of many people, the controversy can only be put aside for the time being and cannot be discussed. Otherwise, if Su Yonglin gets angry and uses his invincible army to raise opponents, then the opponents will be the laughing stock.

To seek the country, but also to seek one's life.

Officials from all over the country did not dare to disobey Su Yonglin's orders and did not dare to hold sacrificial activities in their official name, so they had to give up.

In such an atmosphere, this year's spring ploughing was basically completed in mid-April.

After the spring ploughing is completed, the most important production activities of the year are over. Next, as long as the weather is not abnormal and there are no large-scale locust plagues, droughts and floods, generally speaking, the autumn harvest can be successfully carried out.

In response to locust plagues, droughts and floods, human subjective initiative is very limited, but it is not impossible.

The construction of water conservancy is the way that human beings can maximize their subjective initiative to deal with the hazards of nature.

Floods, droughts, and locust plagues have occurred in many places. The reason why they are out of control is often because the water conservancy projects have been in disrepair and cannot function due to local corruption and the inaction of officials.

In places where water conservancy is successfully built according to local conditions, even if natural disasters spread, losses can be minimized.

Therefore, Su Yonglin incorporated the quantity and quality of water conservancy projects into the official evaluation criteria and made it clear to the public to encourage local administrative officials to build water conservancy projects.

In the period after the end of the spring ploughing, Su Yonglin could take a break from the government affairs of agricultural production and start to make some arrangements for the actions in the strategy of Guanzhong.

In this raid on Guanzhong, Su Yonglin planned to attack in two ways, handing it over to Zhang Yuejing and Su Haisheng all the way.

The two attacked from Tongguan one by one, striving to conquer Tongguan and open the door to attack.

Another attacked from Hedong, aiming at Daqing Pass, an important pass of the Yellow River Ferry, and strived to break through Daqing Pass in the shortest time, cross the Yellow River, and enter the Guanzhong area.

Having said that, the two tasks of the two troops are not easy, and even difficult, and they are not so easy to achieve.

From the area currently occupied by the Restoration Army to Guanzhong, a big bend in the Yellow River lay in front of him, naturally building a solid line of defense.

Tongguan is next to the cliff and leaning against the river, surrounded by mountains and dangerous waterways. There is very little space for the attacking troops to play. Even if a hundred thousand troops attack together, as long as the defenders persist, it will be difficult to conquer Tongguan. make it harder.

Daqingguan guards the ancient and important ferry crossing of the Yellow River, and guards the entire river course, which is rarely conducive to crossing the river. As long as troops are arranged to defend here, it is difficult for the enemy to break through.

Elsewhere, the channel is either too wide or the current is too fast to force it across.

According to the investigation of the Restoration Army, Tongguan Pass and Daqing Pass are both guarded by the Golden Army. The Golden Army has prepared for defense in these two places and is waiting for the frontal attack of the Restoration Army. The army knew that Guanzhong was not so easy to come in.

After Su Yonglin got the information on the deployment of the Jin Army, he held a military meeting in the staff department. All the staff officers and officers looked at the two gates where the Jin Army was heavily defended, and their expressions were not very good.

Everyone knows that these two paths are not easy to take, but if there are other choices, they will not choose these two paths.

But they were given only these two choices.

Other roads are either too far away or too difficult and dangerous. Small groups of troops can break through and sneak attacks. Large groups of troops have too high logistical requirements. Without a wide road, it will not work.

It is precisely because of this military advantage that the ancients set up checkpoints in these two places to strengthen their defenses.

"There are not many paths left for us to choose, and what we can think of, and the enemy can think of, in such a situation, we only have one way, that is to fight with absolute strength and let the Jin people despair!"

Su Yonglin clenched his fists and said loudly: "The Guangfu Army is no longer the original Guangfu Army. The original Guangfu Army needed all kinds of tricks and racked its brains to survive, but today, the Guangfu Army has 40 troops, which is no longer the same. Back then that weak army!
Use crossbows, stones, firearms, and various siege equipment to do your best, even if you don't have the conditions to create the conditions!No one will help us for no reason, using external force recklessly will only make outsiders despise us!so!We have to rely on ourselves! "

(End of this chapter)