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Chapter 957 Is everything written in Su Yonglin's book true?
After the fourth year of Hongwu and the third year of Longxing in July, when another wave of flood peaks appeared in the Yellow River Project of the Ming Dynasty, when Su Yonglin urgently went south to center and dispatched, the ban on the "Hongwu Political Theory" from the Southern Song Dynasty has also spread to all parts of the country.

As for the implementation...

It's really hard to say.

But this is not important. Even if the book "Hongwu Zheng Lun" is completely banned, the contents of the book have long been passed down by people's word of mouth. It is meaningless to ban this book. Instead, it is a bit self-deceiving a feeling of.

Nobody really cares about this ban.

For example, although the bureaucrats in Lin'an City handed in the Hongwu Political Theory according to Ye Yiwen's request, they had already read it, some even read it several times, and already remembered the content firmly.

Banning or not means little to the bureaucrats.

On the contrary, most of the bureaucrats in the entire Lin'an City fell into inexplicable panic because of Su Yonglin's remarks in the book.

There is still a trace of delusion in their hearts, hoping that this matter is fake, not real, this is a fake book, a meaningless fake book, just a huge lie.

But with the clear answer from Prime Minister Ye Yiwen, everyone's heart sank, and they screamed badly.

Really.

After the court's investigation and evidence collection and field visits, the authenticity of what Su Yonglin said was basically confirmed, and the authenticity of this book was also confirmed.

It was really written by Su Yonglin, and everything else was also true.

It is normal to deceive the common people, but there is no need for the imperial court to deceive its bureaucrats, because they are all a community with a shared future.

The court called up the dossier, confirmed the existence and death of Su Dingguang and Sun Yuanqi, determined the identities and origins of the two, and visited their family settlements on the spot, where they found more exact evidence that they existed.

As for Su Dingguang's sale of illicit salt and Su Yonglin's killing of Sun Yuanqi, it has basically been confirmed, and a long-standing unsolved case has finally been answered.

The founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Su Yonglin, was born in the Song Dynasty. His grandfather was an official, and his father was a scholar who had achieved fame. It was just that the family did not want to repay the court. They sold illicit salt and committed a blatant crime. Later, they killed the court officials. , north to Shandong, and finally...

He also became an emperor, the founding emperor, and he fought with Da Songgan, put Da Songgan on the ground, recognized him, and called his father.

The court officials fell into a very embarrassing mood.

On the one hand, they want to call Su Yonglin a traitor and a traitor, but now his identity is over there, he is the emperor of the Great Song suzerainty, and when the Great Song emperor ascends the throne, he needs to be canonized, so you call him a traitor. , The thief behind the master, it seems not so appropriate.

And if you really want to shout like this, I am afraid that tomorrow the Ming army will go south to Lin'an to find them to settle accounts.

The strengths of the two countries are not equal. The Song Dynasty gave people a lot of buns, and now they dare not fight against the Ming Kingdom. They are loading quails. As a result, they suddenly learned that the emperor of the other party used to be his own.

Are you going to destroy yourself?
Su Yonglin's brain circuit and movement trajectory are beyond everyone's understanding.

For example, Ye Yiwen couldn't understand what Su Yonglin was thinking.

Leaving other things aside, Ye Yiwen mainly couldn't understand how Su Yonglin was able to see through such political secrets when he was less than 20 years old, and how he understood the country's political regulations to this extent.

Just because you sympathize with the people, can you peek into their secretive political mysteries on your own?Can you see the basic logic of the political operation of the entire Song Dynasty at a glance?
Or... is it his grandfather's credit?

No, his grandfather was only a fourth-rank official. He had never been exposed to the operation of the central government, nor had he been exposed to real high-level politics. Obviously, only the high-level can understand things, how could his grandfather understand?
His grandfather really wants to understand, it can't be just a state governor,

If that's the case, how could Su Yonglin know all these insights clearly when he was a teenager.

What kind of contradiction theory is this? Why is the internal contradiction in the Southern Song Dynasty less than the internal contradiction in the Jin Kingdom, so the conclusion that the success of the rebellion in the Jin Kingdom is relatively high is completely a fantasy in Ye Yiwen's view. He can't imagine how Su Yonglin relies on such a little analysis. They decided to go north to Shandong to rebel.

But he was a success, a great success.

He recaptured the Central Plains, established the Ming Kingdom, became the emperor, and possessed a powerful armed force. This armed force supported him in his efforts in the Ming Kingdom. Not only did he not abolish the Ming Kingdom, but instead made the Ming Kingdom abolished. stronger.

Civil strife in the Southern Song Dynasty continued, but the Ming Kingdom was always stable, no civil strife broke out, or the civil strife was suppressed by Su Yonglin with an iron fist.

On this basis, the Ming Kingdom became stronger and stronger, and it became more and more like the hegemon of the world.

Ye Yiwen felt inexplicably frightened.

He realized a problem.

If the Ming Kingdom continues to be strong, to an unbelievable level, and continues to suppress the development of the Southern Song Dynasty, wouldn't it prove that everything written in Su Yonglin's book is true?
He did not govern the Ming Kingdom according to the traditional model, but the Ming Kingdom did not perish, but became stronger and better.

His country had no Confucian students, and the official ideology of the Ming state was not Confucianism. It did not govern the country in a familiar way, but it developed so well, no one died of starvation, no one was frozen, and there was such a strong military force.

Then Su Yonglin's fallacy and heresy, dismissing Confucianism and suppressing Confucian scholars, are they all right?
So Confucianism is not the only suitable political thought?

Shouldn't they have monopoly status and power?
Ye Yiwen was very panicked. He felt that once this fact was realized and widely noticed, it would have a huge impact on the current system of the Southern Song Dynasty and a huge impact on the Confucian school. Every vested interest would be affected. risk of loss.

This can't be done!
So Ye Yiwen immediately conveyed his hope as the prime minister.

He hoped that the official offices of the court and even every court official would not talk about the content of Su Yonglin's "Hongwu Political Theory", just treat it as non-existent, never seen it, business as usual, and don't mention anything.

The rest will be discussed after Emperor Zhao Tan's condition improves and he wakes up.

Ye Yiwen hopes that everyone will be ostriches together and bury their heads in the sand pit, so that things they don't want to see and hear will not happen.

However, his orders can be conveyed, and they can stop people's mouths, but they can't stop people's lively thoughts.

The bureaucrats of the Southern Song Dynasty generally understood the content of Hongwu's political theory more deeply and thoroughly than the common people. They not only understood the content of Su Yonglin's confrontation with Zhao Kuangyin, but also knew how Su Yonglin explained the criminal system of the Southern Song Dynasty and the new system he guided.

In his book [full of malice], he compared the huge factual gap between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, leading people to think about the difference between the two systems and the specific effects they showed.

Everyone is not a fool, there is no need to hide what you can see.

What is right and what is wrong will be reflected very intuitively. As long as people are not stupid, they can naturally find clues.

Moreover, those who can become officials are all elites in the system, and all of them are smarter than the average person. Ye Yi asked this kind of behavior to them as meaningless, but rather a bit of self-deception.

They don't have to discuss it publicly, but in private, it's hard to say.

In private, three or five friends get together to drink, drink, and chat. It's hard not to talk about this topic.

For example, when Lu You and his friend Han Yuanji were drinking together, they chatted a lot.

(End of this chapter)