Qiming 1158

Chapter 935: Daming State-run Shuren Book Club
To be honest, if Zhao Tan had just eaten his stomach and was in a good mood, he would have almost killed Shen Ging who made this suggestion on the spot.

Zhao'an, a group of big thieves who directly attacked Lin'an and slapped me in the face?

Is there something wrong with your brain or is there something wrong with my brain?
Is it really the crouching dragon and the phoenix, the crowd is Ying Chao?

"They raided Lin'an and put me in a state of dying, but you still want to recruit them? How will the world see me? How will Da Song be seen?! Ridiculous! Extremely ridiculous! Give up the throne to them?"

Shen Gai hurriedly knelt on the ground to plead guilty to Zhao Tan, but he still didn't want to give up his proposal.

"The Ming army displayed the frontier and threatened the northern defense line. The army of the Song Dynasty was not enough, and the clones were ineffective. It was impossible to deploy enough troops to deal with it. Even if it was temporarily formed, it would take a lot of time and money. .

If Your Majesty is unwilling to recruit security, and wants to pacify the rebels on Jiangnan West Road in a short period of time, unless the Sichuan and Shu army is sent to the south, it will be possible, but the Sichuan and Shu army must also guard against the Ming army in Guanzhong, and cannot be called.

So the only way at the moment is to allow the local government to recruit troops to fight the rebels, let them solve the problem of food and weapons, and send troops to fight the rebels. "

Zhao Tan's pupils shrank, pointed at Shen Gai and said furiously, "Am I stupid or you are stupid? Allow them to recruit troops on their own, the world is still in chaos? How did you come up with this method? minister?"

"I know, so this is a helpless solution!"

Shen Gai said eagerly: "This minister also knows that this will not work, but in order to exterminate the rebels, there is no other way, otherwise once the Ming Kingdom becomes my enemy and the army goes south, the Song Dynasty will not be able to fight back, and the land of Jinghu will be fast. After being broken through by the Ming army, then the Song Dynasty will be cut off by the Ming army, so how should I deal with it? Your Majesty, take the lesser of two evils."

Zhao Tan was silent for a while, then looked at Ye Yiwen and Zhou Linzhi again.

"What's your opinion?"

Ye Yiwen and Zhou Linzhi looked at each other.

"Your Majesty, the old minister is incompetent, but he also knows that allowing local self-recruitment of troops will lead to endless disasters. Unless it is absolutely necessary, it cannot be allowed."

"Your Majesty, the old minister also thinks so."

Zhao Tan held his forehead and sighed deeply.

"Should I kill Shi Hao...you can't really share my worries at all! If Shi Hao is still there, you can definitely share my worries, if not, Zhang Jun can also say that please leave it to him! Not like you. , do nothing! What do I want you to do!"

The three of them stood at the bottom of the steps with a helpless expression.

On the one hand, the ability is indeed limited, and I don't know what to do.

On the one hand, I really don't dare, the ghost knows what Zhao Tan will do next, what if they kill them all?
Especially Zhou Linzhi, who is now afraid of death, for fear that he will become the third Privy envoy to be killed.

That would really be over.

After lamenting for a long time, the helpless Zhao Tan could only send Shen Gai as a representative of the Song Dynasty to recruit the peasant army on Jiangnan West Road to fight for this trivial possibility.

If you can successfully recruit security, it is better than allowing local recruits to recruit troops. You can also get an army with good combat effectiveness, and you will have some confidence in dealing with the Ming Kingdom, right?
This incident happened in March of the fourth year of Hongwu. Zhao Yucheng of Jiangnan West Road was pushing for spring ploughing.

At the same time in the north, in addition to promoting the establishment of the firearms force, Su Yonglin was also paying attention to another matter.

On the first day of March in the fourth year of Hongwu, with his order, the capitals of every province and capital of every state in Daming began to officially sell the works written by Emperor Su Yonglin.

The first volume of "Hongwu Political Theory".

Since the second half of the second year of Hongwu, Su Yonglin has planned to comprehensively promote the cultural undertakings in Daming.

As the forerunner and leader of this policy, Su Yonglin demanded that a state-run book club of the Ming Dynasty be established in every provincial government office and every state and prefecture government city in the country when the financial situation is not very good.

Su Yonglin named it [Shuren Book Club], and entrusted it with his dream of promoting the cultural and educational cause of Daming throughout the country. Even if he struggled for a hundred years, he would not back down.

He personally wrote the four characters [Shuren Book Club] as the signboard of each newly opened book club, and the four characters [Da Ming State-run] beside it to show the basic attributes of the book club.

After that, Su Yonglin spent half a year, taking time out of his busy schedule to select books he thought were more meaningful from the palace collection as books that could be sold in the Shuren Book Club.

Among them are the history books of the dynasties and dynasties, not only the official history books, but also some private history books that Su Yonglin thinks are very valuable.

For example, "Heroes Fighting", "Huayang Guozhi" and other private cultivation history books are on the list for sale.

In addition to history books, there are also agricultural books, geography books, astronomy books, mathematics books, literature books, and some strange novels, such as "Sou Shen Ji".

In addition to these, some legendary novels of the Tang and Song Dynasties have also been included in the list for publication and sale by Su Yonglin, and even some traditionally deviant novels about love have been included in the list by Su Yonglin and allowed to be published for sale.

Because in his opinion, most of these legendary novels have the color of resistance to feudal ethics, and the content they advocate free love, confrontation with parents, etc., is very suitable for his needs.

He wouldn't expect the common people to turn to academia on a large scale, and their orientations to become elegant in an instant.

In his opinion, even if all the people go to school, read books, and receive enough education, most people will still like "vulgar works" in the eyes of traditional culture.

Something that requires a barrier to entry, no matter how low the barrier is, someone will always be stopped.

But [vulgar works] that are in line with human nature are not needed, so this type of work is always the most popular.

It may be more meaningful for the general public to hide their goals in it, and then promote them to the people, and spread their new ideas in a popular way.

However, in the end, traditional novels only have a simple concept of resistance, and to completely defeat the feudal ethics that bind people’s hearts and fully oppose the existence of landlords, gentry, etc., not only the government needs to realize it through educational means, but also needs to be popularized by the public. .

Therefore, Su Yonglin has also conceived the content of some novels in the past few years.

Then he wrote down the outline and asked Zhao Xirui to write it, and presented stories such as "The White-Haired Girl" and "The Rooster Crows in the Midnight" in a simple and easy-to-understand vernacular format with a background that fit this era.

But when he read the finished product, he didn't feel inconsistent at all. On the contrary, he felt all this was inexplicably familiar.

After thinking about it for a while, he remembered that the general content of these two stories, he had seen and heard with his own eyes when he lived in the Southern Song Dynasty.

What is art from life?
Su Yonglin couldn't help but smile bitterly.

Under his suggestion, Zhao Xirui signed these novels under the pseudonym [Xixin], and then Su Yonglin circulated these novels within the Revival Society, which received a warm response.

These novels were passed down from the center of the Renaissance Society in Zhongdu to some local departments of the Renaissance Society, and were also introduced into the army, where they were known to the soldiers in the army.

In the end, I don't know who took the lead, and sent a lot of letters to Zhongdu from all directions, all of them praising the author of the Zhongdu Revival Society who wrote these works.

Many people expressed their gratitude to the author, saying that they felt very sad when they saw their former self in these works, and said that he portrayed some characters very well, such as Zhou Papi and Huang Shiren, which were really bad and just right.

They hope to see more excellent works by the author to warn the world that the suffering they have suffered will never be forgotten.

Zhao Xirui read the letters from these readers, her face flushed with excitement, and she clenched her fists tightly, feeling that she had found something very meaningful.

"Lang Jun is right, even if you can't go to the battlefield, you can still make a revolution. In addition to condolences to the people, I also have a lot of things that I can do. I can write articles, so that these articles can be seen by more people and let more people know about Lang What a great thing you have done!"

(End of this chapter)