my days with tyrants

Chapter 156 The monk touched it, but I can't touch it?
Everyone is conscientious, and they will definitely not make up!
To hell with it.

This kind of thing is sure to be made up.

Driven by profit, these unscrupulous guys can't do anything.

Five hundred guan!

A few dozen pens are enough for them to buy some target characters and fellow villagers to make up stories. With a hundred pens, they can buy a bunch of such troublemakers and together fabricate unofficial stories that are popular.Now it is the Hongwu Dynasty and not the Wanli Dynasty. Most of the people in the local area are unscrupulous people who crawled out of the sea of ​​corpses and blood. Those aristocratic families can't control the situation.Therefore, as long as the local thugs have money to make, they will never have any burdens. Of course they will be exposed, and it’s okay if they don’t make up one...

Uh, how is it edited?
I obviously heard what my grandpa said, and of course what my grandpa said is right.

As for confronting my grandfather?

He has been dead for more than ten years, if you have the ability, go and confront him!

But this has nothing to do with Yang Feng, even if what he recorded was forged by these unscrupulous people, so what?Whether it is true or false, or false or true, these are all things of the past. Ambassador Yang is just out of personal curiosity, which is purely a personal hobby, and it is not an official record of history. Some unacknowledged anecdotes...

Then collect it.

There are a lot of anecdotes and unofficial histories, and they are not inferior to Yang Feng's.

Those literati's notes even have anecdotes and unofficial histories in the direction of fantasy!
They can record fantasies and unofficial histories, and add ghost stories to a famous official, and they will not be responsible for the truth. Why can't Ambassador Yang record some unofficial histories that are different from what the posterity said, even the censor can hear about it, Why can't Ambassador Yang hear about the record of second officials?
Private behavior!

Purely private!

No need to be responsible for the authenticity!

Besides, this is originally a common method used by Confucian scholars to discredit certain people.

Why, the monk can touch it, but I can't touch it?

"Your Highness, we are indeed not here to settle anything.

It is to let future generations remember what should be remembered.

Everything that happened back then is indeed in the past.

However, it cannot be covered up, let alone annihilated in history. It is real and should not be forgotten. We had a saying at that time that forgetting history meant betrayal, betrayal of conscience, and betrayal of those true loyal ministers and righteous men.His Majesty the Emperor imprisoned Liu Mengyan, Huang Wanshi and other families, and degraded Pu Shougeng's family as lowly. These are enough to set an example for generations to come, but were they the only ones back then?
Check out these names.

Qian Shuoyou, the magistrate of Pingjiang, surrendered to Xiancheng, Wang Jiweng, Fujian Zhizhi envoy, and presented Hu Yuan with pictures and books as his internal response, Zhao Mengchuan, coastal Zhizhi envoy, knew Qingyuan Mansion.

These are all dignitaries.

Zhao Mengchuan was still a clan.

And what did they get in exchange for betraying the Zhao family and surrendering?
Wang Jiweng's son, Wang Duzhong, has always been Hu Yuan's minister, and Kublai Khan gave [-] acres of land at a time.

If the rebels are all descendants of wealth and honor, how can those who die at the festival rest in peace?
Indeed, a hundred years have passed since the incident, and Ming Dynasty is not Song Dynasty, so it has no obligation to punish the rebels for the Zhao family, but at least let the people know and let future generations remember their names.Instead of letting their descendants who inherited Confucianism beautify their behavior with selfishness, cover up their despicableness, and even turn adultery into loyalty, so that future generations will forget the truth.The strongest weapon in the hands of these Confucian families is the pen in their hands. You must understand that the history we see now is not the real history, but the history described in words.

It is the so-called history that the writers of history let us know.

Whoever masters this pen will master the ability to influence the cognition of future generations.

I have mastered this pen.

I can turn loyal ministers into treacherous ministers and treacherous ministers into loyal ministers. Once I have mastered this pen, I can turn Qin Hui into a loyal minister who considers the overall interests of the country and the people, and Yue Wumu into an ambitious warlord.Then when my distorted history has been passed down from generation to generation, and no one remembers the real history after a hundred years, people believe that Qin Hui is a loyal minister and Yue Wumu is a warlord.

And now this pen is in the hands of those Confucian scholars.

And how many of those Confucian scholars are descendants of these traitors back then?Many of the people who died in the festival had no descendants left behind, and those who were taken away by Yashan crossing the sea were the vast majority of loyal people in the Song Dynasty, and even if not all of them survived, a large part of them betrayed the Zhao family.They have power and wealth in Hu Yuan, and it is easy to continue their aristocratic families and the knowledge passed down by their families. After the Ming Dynasty is established, their descendants can easily use these imperial examinations to become Jinshi.So they became the family of officials and eunuchs of Ming Dynasty again, continued to master this pen, and continued to record the so-called history that they wanted to let future generations know.

Isn't it scary.

The history we know is not history, but the history instilled in our minds by others.

They dominate our cognition. "

Yang Feng bewitched the emperor's grandson.

His harvest is still very rich. Now there are dozens of people in the Erchenlu. After all, there are many records in the official history books, but his [-] Guan is to find out the situation of his descendants, just give him a few names It's useless, at most you can get dozens of guan.

If you want to get five hundred guan, you have to continue digging.

dig deep.

Dig out all the descendants of these people, compile the bichenlu into a book, and give it to schools all over the country for free.

"So the imperial court wants to master this pen?"

The emperor grandson said very consciously.

"Then who will form the imperial court, isn't it the same Confucian scholars?

Isn't the historical result of Confucian scholars still the same?
Yuan History was compiled by Song Lian.

It is as if Tuotuo is immortal and Dayuan is immortal, but in fact the real reason is that Song Lian's teacher is Wu Lai, Wu Lai's father is Wu Zhifang, and Wu Zhifang's student is Tuotuo. Yuan's hope lies.But in fact, he was responsible for changing banknotes and opening rivers that finally ignited Hu Yuan's world chaos. As for the defeat of the siege of Gaoyou, it only proved that he didn't understand military at all, and he collected 40 yuan from various places including the Western Regions. Dajun, the last one to do this was Fu Jian.The real reason for Hu Yuan's demise was that a conquering power had lost its ability to rule because of the weakening of force after a long period of comfort.

The Red Scarf Army penetrated the entire north!

Even the top was burned.

Is this still the invincible Mongolian cavalry back then?

By a group of farmers without backing, thousands of miles pierced from Shandong to Henan to Hebei to Shanxi and then hit North Korea in one breath?

Even the Mongolian cavalry that they couldn't stop, so what if Hu Yuan was given ten Tuotuo?How many Mongolians fought for Hu Yuan afterwards?Is Chen Youding a Mongolian?Is Li Siqi a Mongolian?Is Zhang Liangbi a Mongolian?When more than half of Hu Yuan's defenders were Han Chinese, what basis did they have for this conquering power? "

Yang Feng said.

The fundamental reason why Tuotuo was touted by Yuan Shi was as simple as that.

He is a student of Wu Zhifang.

Wu Zhifang's son is Wu Lai, who is the teacher of Song Lian, editor-in-chief of the Yuan History.

He actually accelerated the demise of the Yuan Dynasty.

Including the defeat of the siege of Gaoyou later, it was not because he was taken down, it was simply because Zhang Shicheng stayed on for too long, which led to the complete collapse of the Yuan Dynasty's finances, and the reason why it collapsed in three months was because he mobilized too many troops .As for why the 40 allied forces of various ethnic groups could not open a Gaoyou city in three months, Fu Jian had already told him that if he could not fight a smooth battle with a group of conquered nations, he would collapse himself in the end. .Did the coalition forces convened from the Western Regions, Tubo, Goryeo, etc. hope that the Yuan army will win?What they really hope is the defeat of the Yuan army!Only when the Yuan army defeated the nation behind them would they have a chance to get rid of slavery.

Even if you don't understand this, the only thing that can prove it is to be stupid!

Then he gathered so many conquered nations with evil intentions, and sincerely showed them the weakness of the Yuan Dynasty, and told them that our Mongols are now so weak that even a city cannot be conquered.

Tell them unreservedly that the Mongolian iron cavalry that once suppressed everything has been abolished.

Not even a saltmonger.

Even the peasants who rebelled could not be suppressed.

At this time, of course those guys with ulterior motives will happily fall into trouble?
Otherwise, how about knowing the shame and then being brave, and everyone eagerly striving to be the first to put down the rebels for Dayuan?

Why?
Just relying on your great Yuan Dynasty's full love for us?

Then just like Fu Jian, it was followed by the disintegration of various armies, and these disintegrated armies of various ethnic groups became an important driving force for disrupting the north and destroying order.This is the real Tuotuo. On the downhill road of the collapse of the empire, there must always be someone who stepped on the gas pedal, and he was the one who stepped on the gas pedal on the downhill road of the collapse of the Great Yuan Empire.

"You see, Confucian scholars not only dominate our understanding of history, but also dominate our evaluation of capable ministers, mediocre ministers and even loyal traitors.

It can be said to dominate our thoughts.

We think that a conscientious civil servant actually only serves his ass, and he will speak for that side wherever he sits. Similarly, we cannot expect the history books compiled by Confucian scholars to describe history without the standpoint of Confucian scholars.We have no way of knowing what they falsified in the history books, what they deliberately omitted, or even what they made up. After all, Confucius has already written the spring and autumn, and this is their basic operation. "

Yang Feng said.

"Then who can write history?"

The emperor's brain is already a bit overloaded.

"It's easy, anyone can do it.

As long as you can read and write, you can write history. This is a matter of written records. As long as you can read and write, you can write down what you know has happened. This is history.

Anyone can write!
As long as you can write.

So what we need to do is to open up the wisdom of the people, educate the common people, so that everyone can read and write. When the wisdom of the people is opened, they will naturally learn to distinguish. After all, there are some things that people will find problems as long as they can think.But the content of education can no longer teach Confucianism. The purpose of our education is to enlighten the people's wisdom and let them learn to think, not to cultivate a group of new Confucian scholars.

We teach them literacy, arithmetic, basic scientific knowledge, and even teach them physical fitness, simple medical knowledge.

Then pick those who have learned well in a certain aspect.

Then let them learn more advanced.

Supplemented by the reformed imperial examinations, they became Jinshi outside of Confucianism.

At that time, we didn’t need to take care of them. They would naturally think, discover the problems of the past, and then figure out how to solve these problems. Recording history is just the simplest, and it can be said that it is the most insignificant among them.It doesn't even need to be a special history book. The words they record daily events can be used as part of the history book and become the basis for future generations to understand the history they experienced.Now we really can't change those controlled by Confucianism, after all, we don't even have many people who can read and write, but what we have to do is to regain control of education from now on. "

Yang Feng said.

"But today's schools are full of Confucian students, from rural society to Guozijian, all of them are Confucian students. How can we regain them?"

The emperor's grandson said.

"It's very simple, let's do one alone.

The Great Xia Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty jointly run schools, and then the Great Xia Kingdom pays for the establishment of private schools. The Ming Dynasty recognizes their academic qualifications. For example, like the government schools, it gives each such school a quota of scholars every year, and those who pass the exam are scholars.The rural examinations are also divided into subjects, and candidates for miscellaneous subjects are tested. These candidates then go to the capital to take part in the general examination and test for miscellaneous subjects. "

Yang Feng said.

This is the worst.

The record of the second official is at best to disgust Confucian scholars.

But this is the root.

The biggest bargaining chip in the hands of Confucian scholars is actually the right to education, because they control all educational institutions from the local government to the imperial court.

At most there is medicine, but medicine is not open, but local medical households. They have nothing to do with the real education system. This is a separate system.

But at the local level, from rural sociology to county schools to Guozijian, all are controlled by Confucian education.We cannot defeat you in one generation, as long as you are the enemy of Confucianism, then the big deal is waiting for the next generation, and if not the next generation, as long as the right to education is in hand, we will win from generation to generation.In a sense, Zhu Yuanzhang lost in this way. When he was alive, Confucian scholars could not beat him, and after he died, he tried to rely on Zhu Yunqi to stand up and failed.

But Confucian scholars have plenty of time.

Generations of new Confucian scholars will take over their tasks, and they will be the winners in the end.

So if you want to win, you have to start with education.

Of course, the real change that Yang Feng wanted began with the establishment of these schools.

Open the wisdom of the people...

Could it be that after the wisdom of the people is opened, it will only deal with Confucian scholars?
At that time, Confucian scholars were nothing, and imperial power was the most unbearable thing after the enlightenment of people's wisdom.

Of course, this is just to coax the emperor's grandson, probably not Zhu Yuanzhang, he can already see the real danger of this plan at a glance, so he will definitely not agree, but fortunately, he has three years left.

(End of this chapter)