Qiming 1158

Chapter 954 Serious sense of crisis
Su Yonglin said that when he was a child, he and his family sold smuggled salt together, going south and north, and went to many places.

He was surprised to find that people in many parts of the Southern Song Dynasty did not eat, drink or wear, and starved to death. Some people even had to eat the salt that was precipitated after the urine was dried in the sun.

He didn't know why at first, but later he realized that the reason why these people were so miserable was because the system of the Southern Song Dynasty was a sinful and hopeless system of oppression and exploitation.

From Zhao Guan's house down to a mere clerk, everyone is doing their best to oppress and exploit the people.

Taking as much money as they can and using them like sand, Qin Shihuang is considered thrifty compared to them.

Their mausoleums are indeed luxurious, but they have at least built the Great Wall to shelter the Central Plains, and their merits outweigh their demerits, but what about the Zhao and Song officials?
Hey, the disaster of the mother river has become the stepmother river, tens of millions of people have been displaced, and tens of thousands of people have been buried and the flood has fed the fish.

Su Yonglin sympathized with those poor people and wanted to change the status quo, but was stunned to find that his enemies were actually the entire Southern Song Dynasty, all the rulers.

He was out of breath and realized that he could not defeat them with the strength he had at the time anyway, so he decided to take a different route, go to Shandong, first overthrow the Jin Kingdom, and then turn around to clean up the Southern Song Dynasty.

The reason for this choice is that the Jin Kingdom's rule is relatively rough, and it has not yet completed the strict oppression system like the Southern Song Dynasty. It is only a powerful force that shows its own strength. As long as the army is defeated and the capital is broken, the huge Jin Kingdom will immediately collapse.

At that time, there were only class conflicts in the Southern Song Dynasty, and there was another ethnic conflict in the Jin State. He seized the weakness of the more acute internal contradictions of the Jin State and decided to go north to Shandong to rebel and destroy the Jin State first.

And it turns out that he was right.

He defeated the Jin Kingdom, recovered the Central Plains, and established the Ming Kingdom. He fulfilled his promise and fulfilled his original intention on this land. He is creating an unprecedented system.

In his Ming Dynasty, no one would starve to death, no extortionate taxes, no heavy corvée and military service, and no arbitrary humiliation. It was an ideal country.

He is leading his people fast into a new era.

After reading the preface, Zhao Tan stared blankly at the last word, unable to react for a while.

Although this preface is only a few thousand words long, the amount of information it contains is simply too great.

Su Yonglin is from Song Dynasty.

Su Yonglin's grandfather is Song Guan.

Su Yonglin killed Song Guan.

The reason why Su Yonglin established the Ming Kingdom was to turn around and clean up the Song Kingdom.

Su Yonglin wanted to subvert the entire Song Kingdom's system.

With his remaining sanity, he almost condensed these elements, and then found that with a little combination of these elements, no matter which combination, he could break the defense.

What is Su Yonglin doing?
What does he want to do?
Does he know what he is doing?

When he wrote this, was he declaring war on the Song Dynasty?
Are you declaring war on him, on the entire ruling class of the Song Dynasty?

Declaring war without edicts or messengers, with books sold to the outside world?
What way?
Zhao Tan was at a loss.

With a strong sense of incomprehension and a strong sense of incomprehensible panic, Zhao Tan decided to continue to read the content of the text after that, thinking to see if the preface is so exciting, whether there will be something different in the text.

Really guessed him right.

Su Yonglin broke apart the things in the preface and smashed them into pieces to make it clear.

Since his birth, he used the tone of old friends to chat with people who read books, and talked about his past experiences bit by bit, and then analyzed and analyzed his own understanding of history, politics, reality and system.

He explained bit by bit how he viewed the world, how he analyzed the oppressive system of the Southern Song Dynasty and the ending with no future at all, and how he could see at a glance why the Jin Kingdom was bound to collapse.

Finally, he also talked about how he engaged in mass movements during the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, how he established the people's political power, and how he established the wartime economic system.

As well as the full range of revolutionary policies he is now implementing in the Ming state.

He introduced what a peasant association is, how to liberate peasants through peasant associations, how to make peasants have a strong enthusiasm for production and move closer to the Ming regime, and how to restore and develop the broken economy, and use limited human, material and financial resources to do meritorious deeds. thing.

Of course, all this is not smooth sailing, and many people will oppose him out of their own interests.

These people, for their own interests, completely disregard the interests of the country, are the objects that must be eradicated, otherwise the establishment of the new system cannot be truly realized.

A revolution is a violent action, not a gentle, courteous, courteous exchange of cups like a dinner party.

Therefore, bloodshed is necessary, and no warmth can be tolerated.

Therefore, he systematically eliminated the Jin people, eliminated the old bureaucrats and the landlord gentry, suppressed the Confucian students who opposed him, and removed the Confucian classics from the imperial examinations, completely dismissed Confucianism, and no longer used Confucianism as the foundation of Ming Dynasty. official guidelines.

He wants to replace Confucianism with his own ideas, and establish a real [Datong society] that does not exist as a castle in the air.

Although this road is not easy, he has already made up his mind. If anyone tries to resist or block him, he will join with the 50 Ming army and crush them all to pieces. The army is the most powerful army in his hands. powerful weapon.

The arrival of the new era is unstoppable, the departure of the old era is inevitable, the rising sun of the new era, and its path is already bright.

[Comrades, let's go together! 】

Turning the last page, Zhao Tan raised his head blankly, and found that a bright light had been lit on his desk, and the study was also brightly lit. He looked out the window in amazement, and found that it was already dark, obviously it was night.

It was still in the morning when I got the book.

Did I watch it that long?
Zhao Tan was stunned for a long time when he looked at the book "Hong Wu Zheng Lun" that had already been read.

He thought he would be extremely angry with the content of this book, but after reading it, he was inexplicably calm.

He felt that he should be angry, but he was inexplicably not angry.

Perhaps it was because Su Yonglin's description of their class was a bit too straightforward, so admissions had to admit that they were like that.

Deception, use your identity to gain power, use power to gain economic benefits, and then firmly hold on to this benefit, never give up, even if it damages the interests of the collective, don’t let your own personal interests be harmed.

Even if they are servile and servile to the outside world, as long as they can protect their own personal interests, it doesn't matter if the entire country suffers losses or even perishes. Anyway, the country is just a tool for their profit.

As long as you are good, nothing else matters.

That's the nature of their group.

Therefore, Su Yonglin was extremely dissatisfied with this group, and insisted that all of them should be eliminated by physical means.

The emergence of this class is the beginning of the country's decline. If this class cannot be restrained, suppressed, and eliminated, the country will inevitably run all the way down, irreversible.

After reading it, Zhao Tan remembered a lot of things that happened during the reconstruction period after the Ming-Song War.

He thought that when he was eager to restore the army building, the money allocated was used by the big and small bureaucrats, plucking the wild goose. , less than [-]% are actually used for work.

Zhao Tan was very angry and wanted to punish these corrupt officials, but was dissuaded by Shi Hao, saying that if he wanted to save the country, he had to save the officials first. Without officials to help him, he couldn't do anything, so he had to feed the officials.

"When the country is dying, they will even embezzle military expenses. Aren't they afraid that Su Yonglin will come and wipe them out?"

Zhao Tan asked Shi Hao angrily.

Shi Hao was silent for a long time and replied in a low voice: "When the steel knife is not cut down, everyone will feel that they will not die. Before they really die, everyone will be lucky and inevitable, so regret is the most meaningless act. ."

Zhao Tan was silent, and in the end he did not ruthlessly punish corrupt officials.

He admits it, he admits the existence of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, admits their erosion of the country, as long as they can still do things, the rest, he admits, he accepts.

However, Su Yonglin did not.

He directly wiped out these corrupt officials on a large scale. According to his theory, this is called a [revolution].

The so-called "revolution" is not to change the destiny, but to use violence to launch a final decisive battle against the entire rentier class and completely eliminate them. It can also be described as "liquidation".

Su Yonglin would never accept the saying that saving the country first saves officials. He believes that to save the country requires revolution and liquidation, sweeping away the rentier class in one go, and swept them away by the serious injury of vitality, replacing them with a bright future.

He succeeded, and Ming Guo got rid of the pull of the old bureaucracy and began to forge ahead and sprint with all his strength.

On the other hand, looking at the Southern Song Dynasty...

Zhao Tan had to admit that all of these things proved that what Su Yonglin said was right.

When dealing with those corrupt officials, it is true that we cannot compromise. Once we compromise, the country will be finished. We must punish them with a revolutionary mentality, destroy them, and take the risk of subjugating the country to revolutionize ourselves.

From the point of view of a supreme ruler, Zhao Tan had a serious tear in the book's perception.

On the one hand, the internal conditions of the ruling class and the need to eliminate the "high class" as described in this book deeply hit Zhao Tan's self-feelings.

He was being harassed by this group of bureaucrats. Like Su Yonglin, he deeply felt the bureaucracy's backlash against the imperial power, and felt the powerlessness of being an emperor in the face of group behavior.

However, Su Yonglin succeeded. Su Yonglin solved this problem with his determination and super ability. He eliminated all the corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty, executed and exiled tens of thousands of people, and the scale was unprecedented and shocking. world.

Therefore, Zhao Tan envied Su Yonglin incomparably envious of the group of bureaucrats who subdued and reorganized the bureaucratic system to make the bureaucratic system more clean and efficient. The strength of the Ming army directly reflected the superiority of the Ming system.

This is where Zhao Tan and Su Yonglin resonate, as the supreme ruler.

But other than that, Su Yonglin's other thoughts made Zhao Tan feel a serious sense of crisis.

A very strong sense of crisis.

(End of this chapter)