Qiming 1158

Chapter 937 The Emperor's Honesty

Of course, running out of books is not a big deal.

With time and printing bureaus running at full force, the desire to buy cheap books will soon be satisfied, and the market for books will level off.

Su Yonglin felt that the most important thing was the public's opinions and reactions to the book after purchasing "Hongwu Political Theory", as well as the novels with strong stories such as "The White-Haired Girl" and "The Rooster Crows in the Night". what a reaction.

It all takes time to give him back.

At the same time, Su Yonglin was curious if someone from the Southern Song Dynasty would buy his books and bring them back to the Southern Song Dynasty to spread the word.

He is also looking forward to the Southern Song Dynasty's response to this matter.

The first volume of "Hongwu Political Theory" has been circulated internally within the Fuxing Association before its public sale, and the Fuxing members still know enough about this book.

Nonetheless, on the day the book was released, a large number of Fuxing members went to the local Shuren Book Club to snap up the first volume of "Hong Wu Zheng Lun".

They feel that this book is not only valuable for them to learn, but also to collect. They want to be closer to their leaders, and they will feel that the existence of this book is that the leaders are talking to them face-to-face.

For the majority of folk scholars or enthusiastic villagers who are illiterate, this is even more obvious.

Su Yonglin wrote the book in plain and easy-to-understand vernacular, with a friendly tone. The preface that came up was even the tone of a casual chat between friends, without the feeling of an emperor at all.

As soon as they came up, Su Yonglin greeted them and shared his background and general experience as if he were a family man.

Of course, this first part of the content surprised many people.

The emperor was not a native of Shandong, as everyone thought, but a native of Song.

His family background was not bad. His grandfather was a fourth-rank official in the Southern Song Dynasty. He also managed Yue Fei's Northern Expedition. Later, he was suppressed. In depression, he managed to sell private salt.

His family made a fortune because of the smuggling of salt, and he also had a good life because of this. However, this not only brought benefits, but also brought disasters.

His father died because of salt smuggling, and his mother died because of his father's death. He lost his father and mother when he was young, and he grew up relying on his grandfather's support. When he was 16 years old, his grandfather also died of illness.

He became a complete orphan.

The family property has been passed on to the 16-year-old him. Facing Sun Yuanqi, an official of the Southern Song Dynasty who acts as a protective umbrella, and his grandfather's old ministry who is eager to disobey him, he has experienced many dangers.

Finally, when he was 19 years old, he got rid of the Southern Song officials who tried to enslave him, and the group of old grandfathers who tried to seize his family property.

Then he chose to go north to Shandong and join hands with the Shandong rebels at that time to fight against the cruel rule of the Jin Kingdom and retake the Central Plains.

But it needs to be clear that this is not a helpless choice for him, but something that he started planning a long time ago.

He decided very early on to break away from the Southern Song Dynasty, open up the situation from the slightly less oppressive Jin Kingdom, overthrow the Jin Kingdom's rule by violent means, destroy the Jin Kingdom, and then restore the Central Plains.

This is his long-cherished wish, so before the Ming Army became the Ming Army, it was called the Guangfu Army.

Of course, all this is not without its roots, the root lies in his growth process.

From here, Su Yonglin tells about his growth process, how he was born ordinary, grew up ordinary, and grew up without any disaster, until fate came.

He thought about why the people were so miserable.

He thought about why he could eat big fish and big meat, while some people can only eat the salt that comes out after the urine is dried.

He pondered why the landlords and gentry could own thousands of acres of fertile land, while the peasants had no place to stand, so they could only become refugees and die in random places.

He didn't understand why the tax collectors levied tyrannical levies, and why they levied excessive taxes in various names after the tax was stipulated, as if they would not stop without starving people to death.

He didn't understand why salt, which cost only five cents, could be sold for one hundred cents, so people couldn't even afford salt.

There are too many things he doesn't understand, and too many things make him feel very incomprehensible. He tried to seek answers from his father and grandfather, but his father and grandfather just wanted to be indifferent bystanders, not wanting to Deep down, don't let him delve into it.

But he finally understood why.

So he knew that there was no hope for the Southern Song Dynasty. The Southern Song Dynasty was powerless not only for the Jin Kingdom, but also for the interior. They could not solve the problem of the common people being hungry, and it could even be said that they existed to make the common people hungry.

If you don't have enough to eat and you don't know how to read, you can easily rule, but you can't resist and allow exploitation.

Only in this way can the landlords, gentry and gentlemen live a life of brocade clothing and jade food, and can let his Su family live a life of brocade clothing and jade food.

Su Yonglin felt that the former Su family was evil, so he gave up everything and went to find a way to solve the problem, which was also his own way of redemption.

If it succeeds, it is the best, if it fails, it is the atonement.

Fortunately, he succeeded, so he vowed to build a country that is completely different from all the countries in the past, guided by the highest goal of a country where no one will go hungry, and do his best, even if one person is hungry, he goal has not yet been achieved.

He wants to abolish extortionate and miscellaneous taxes, so that people can live more easily.

He wants to get rid of the high price of salt so that the people can eat cheap salt.

He also wants to let the cultivators have their own fields, so that the people can live and work in peace and contentment, and have enough to eat without having to become refugees.

He wants the common people to be able to read, read, and reason, so that they will not be easily bullied by the government.

This is his redemption, and it is also the redemption of this land that has inherited the old methods and laws for thousands of years. The road to parting with the past, the road to breaking with the old era, starts from this moment.

This is what Su Yonglin wrote in his own hand to everyone who can read this book. He opened his heart to talk to everyone without any cover up.

He told everyone about his entire experience and the process of changing his mind, so that everyone could know why he changed and why he decided to leave the Southern Song Dynasty and embark on a new path.

Many people think that the emperor's writing will be very high-level, but Su Yonglin's writing is surprisingly easy to understand, there is nothing inscrutable, there is no rhetoric, grammar, length and parallelism, it is all the words from the heart, without any modification.

Including even his own origin and starting process, saying that he was not a son of destiny, his background was very ordinary, when he was born there was no red light in the house, his body was not yellow, and there was no fragrance in the house, just an ordinary person. baby.

And now he is king.

(End of this chapter)