Qiming 1158

Chapter 939 Until the Last Moment of Life

After realizing that the traditional method would not work, Su Yonglin began to use some of his official relationships to study this system with great concentration, and finally came to some conclusions.

This system is based on loyalty, filial piety and righteousness, supplemented by the mysterious idea of ​​harmony between nature and human beings and the induction of nature and human beings, the army as the fundamental maintenance force, and the landlords and gentry in the society as the grassroots executors. The bottom of society.

As a result, it realized the three-level power system of [emperor-official-landlord gentry], which is also a three-level oppression system.

The emperor knew that he could only rely on his own strength. To complete this system of oppression would require too many officials, too much energy, too much money, and he might collapse anytime, anywhere, and he might also be punished by society. opposition from elites.

So Emperor Zhao Song decided to win over the social elites, rather than choose to fight them.

Emperor Zhao Song chose to transfer part of his power to the landlords and gentry below the officials, so that the landlords and gentry could enjoy certain political privileges and enjoy the imperial examination as a promotion channel, select the best of them to become officials, and give those who are promoted to the second level of oppression. Chance.

In order to make them more satisfied, Emperor Zhao Song also publicly shouted the political slogan "Share the world with the scholar-officers", raising the status and treatment of the scholar-officers to the highest level since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, so that they could not be dissatisfied.

In this way, the emperor can win over these social elites, unite these social elites, and use their strength to maintain local stability at the least cost.

The social elites own a huge group of fields, money and tenants, and this part of the power is enough to shake the dynastic system, but if they become the beneficiaries of the dynastic system, they will automatically maintain the dynastic system, so that the Zhao family can rest easy.

So they became the most loyal defenders of the dynastic system.

Sporadic opponents could not break through the first imperial power maintenance network composed of landlords and gentry, and could easily be eliminated in the bud.

If that kind of peasant uprising can develop and grow, it is indeed not something that the landlords and gentry can resist.

Of course, as the beneficiaries, the landlords and gentry were by no means honest.

While they helped the emperor maintain stability, they also grabbed benefits that did not belong to them as [salaries]. They regarded this as a matter of course and took it for granted.

Those who passed the imperial examinations to obtain fame and official positions would in turn use their power to escort this grabbing behavior.

This act of grabbing is land annexation.

And the suffering of the people begins here.

The behavior pattern of the past dynasties from ancient times to the present is nothing but the same.

If you can't break this system and re-create a completely new system that works, it will definitely not be successful.

If we want to eliminate this system and create a brand new system, the first thing we need to do is to blast the components of this system in a targeted manner.

Su Yonglin believes that to deal with this criminal system, we need to launch blasting from four aspects.

Expose the ideological skin of loyalty, filial piety and justice, and expose the evil nature of their males, robbers and female prostitutes.

It exposes the mysterious thoughts of the unity of heaven and man and the induction of heaven and man, and tells people that the emperor is never destined by heaven, and there is no heaven above his head, only his own efforts.

Resolutely attack the fundamental forces that maintain this system, wipe out all their troops, and make them lose the fundamental strength to maintain exploitative rule.

The most powerful and most numerous defenders of this system, the landlord and gentry class, launched a decisive blow to eliminate this group of people and gentlemen.

Attacking this system from these four angles can completely destroy this system and establish the world again.

If they just use the army to destroy the main force of their army, then they will establish just another oppressive imperial dynasty.

At that time, Su Yonglin didn't have the confidence to break through the first imperial power protection network composed of landlords and gentry in the Southern Song Dynasty, so he decided to find another way to go to the less mature Jin Kingdom where this system was operating, and go to Jin Kingdom to create a new world.

At that time, the Jurchens, who had just broken away from ignorance, could not operate the mature system of oppression and exploitation of the ignorant and weak people in the Central Plains Dynasty, and they had not even completed their own transformation.

For the rule, they used more brutal force to oppress, and the third oppressive class under the Zhao and Song Dynasty was suppressed and restricted, rather than shared interests.

Therefore, at that time, the contradictions within the Jin Kingdom were far sharper than those within the Southern Song Dynasty. Such sharp contradictions were exactly what he could exploit.

After figuring out who is the enemy and who is the friend, his start starts from there.

In this regard, he launched a decisive attack under Wanyanliang's eyelids, and on the road of constant attack, he gradually implemented his ideals into his rule.

He eliminated the landlord gentry and the Jurchen nobles, liberated the peasants, established peasant associations, distributed land, gained their trust and dependence, greatly liberated their enthusiasm for production, and made them take the initiative to send their sons to serve as soldiers in the army and support them. his fight.

His victory was driven by the peasants. The peasants let their sons go to him with the grain of their own family, and strengthened his army, so that he never ran out of grain from the beginning to the end, and could always feed the soldiers. , let them play a powerful fighting force.

He did not choose to support the oppressive existence of the landlords and gentry, but eradicated them all, established peasant associations at the grassroots level, and let the peasants organize themselves and manage themselves under his guidance.

Facts have proved that this is far better than supporting the landlords and gentry and treating the peasants with an oppressive attitude.

He won the heartfelt support of the peasants and their unreserved support, so in the wars before and after the founding of the country, he was always able to mobilize sufficient human and material resources.

Because he believed in the people, and the people also believed in him, they established a relationship of mutual trust and mutual benefit, which shattered the traditional oppressive system for thousands of years, and he also changed from a mysterious emperor to a real meaning. The emperor above.

He doesn't need to hide himself, he never needs to dress himself up with mystery and make people fear him.

The Ming Kingdom he established is such a country of hope that has been rebuilt after smashing the oppressive system.

Here, there will be no oppression and exploitation, no hunger and bullying, and he will do everything in his power to advance fairness and justice, that everyone will be fed, everyone will be literate, everyone will be able to live in a house, everyone will be Can wear thick winter clothes in winter.

There will no longer be the induction of heaven and man, the unity of man and nature, and the apparent loyalty, filial piety and righteousness.

He will completely abandon Confucianism as the official guiding ideology of the new kingdom and replace it with his own set of governing theories.

This will be what he will constantly strive for.

This kind of remarks and facts of the ideal country and the Great Harmony almost hypnotized the Confucian scholars. They couldn't believe that their ideal Great Harmony was actually being realized.

Still, they were hit in the head.

It is not just that Su Yonglin has simply and completely stated that he wants to dismiss Confucianism as the official guiding ideology of the country.

In the postscript to the first volume of "Hongwu Political Theory", Su Yonglin stated that the current Ming Dynasty has basically wiped out the members of the oppressive system with landlords and gentry as the main body, and basically successfully liberated the peasants.

A brand-new social system is being established, and the society of the Ming Dynasty is gradually breaking away from the imprint of the old system left by the Song and Jin people, and is striving to transform into a new era.

But what is clear is that, for now, there are still a lot of wicked people in Daming who try to resist the new era and try to bring the Ming kingdom back to the old era. It is also the common enemy of all.

Therefore, in the future, he will continue to push forward a comprehensive crackdown on the landlord gentry who are trying to reproduce the three-level oppression system, and continue to push forward the complete annihilation of the system of oppression and exploitation.

He wants to ensure that the great situation he and countless warriors have created will not be subverted and betrayed.

At the same time, he also warned all unruly people that he and the 50 Ming army will be the eternal defenders of this hopeful country. Anyone who tries to subvert this hard-won is his enemy, and he will fight to the death Fight until the last moment of your life.

(End of this chapter)