The World (9)

In July of the third year of Xiangxing, a fleet returned from the South China Sea. The four merchants of Quanzhou, Li, Tian and Sai donated 20,000 stone of japonica rice purchased from coastal countries to the Fujian Metropolitan Governor's Mansion. Du Gui, the head of the household, felt his virtue and asked the four surnames what they wanted. The four surnames said: "I want nothing more than to get a place in the Dharma Conference!" ”

Song Cheng Prime Minister Wen Tianxiang Yunzhi, the world was in an uproar.

The old and young Confucian scholars who had just blocked the door of the Fujian Metropolitan Governor's Mansion and made trouble gathered again and loudly criticized Wen Tianxiang's move as destroying the Chinese thousand-year-old literary system and causing disaster to the lives of their descendants.

The Metropolitan Governor's Mansion did not respond, but Chen Hangyan, who had just recovered from his illness, came forward and urged the Confucian Sect to change places to make trouble, and not to interfere with the daily operation of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion.

Chen Hangyan is notorious and once contracted the plague. The Confucianism avoided it for fear of it, how could they risk their lives and theorize. So the battlefield was transferred from outside the walls of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion to the newspapers, starting from the beginning of the Qi Gong's heavy business and mourning the country, until Pu Shougeng lived up to the Great Song Dynasty, and singled out the evil deeds of the Shang ** country and the people for more than 2,000 years, and called on people of insight in the world to recognize the faces of these people and boycott them from participating in the Dharma Conference.

This time all the merchants in Fuzhou, Quan, Zhang, and Guangzhou were angered. Wealthy businessmen followed the example of You, Li, Tian, Sai and others and donated food and materials to help the Fujian Metropolitan Governor's Office for disaster relief, in exchange for their right to speak at the upcoming Dharma meeting. Small and medium-sized businesses, on the other hand, had less financial resources than they could, so they hired a large number of literati to counter the rhetoric of the corrupt Confucians in the newspapers. From Xuan Gao's master and Lü Buwei's Xingqin to the contributions made by merchants in the nearly four years since the establishment of the Dadu Governor's Office, it shows that merchants are not only not people who bring disaster to the country and the people, but also have a conscience more than Confucianism. Please pat your chest and calculate, whenever the country is in danger, among the celebrities who surrender to foreign races, are there more businessmen or Confucians?

The two sides were very happy, and under the suppression of Chen Hangyan and Wan Yan Jingyuan, they did not dare to use force, and could only try to demean the opponent with words. In just a few days, the "ugly deeds" of the big businessmen who privately bought and sold the women of good families, bullied the good with their financial resources, and hoarded the strange ones by taking advantage of natural disasters, and played right and wrong with the great Confucians, went to Qin and Chu, betrayed the country to seek glory, and said one thing and did another. Although most of these things are far-fetched and have no evidence, they still open the eyes of the people who watch the excitement.

In recent years, the number of literate people in the cities has gradually increased through the training of workers' night schools and military academies. Many people are usually not interested in newspapers, but when they saw that the two sides of the argument were arguing so hotly, they turned their attention to celebrities. As a result, the sales of some privately run tabloids have skyrocketed, and there is a faint momentum approaching the government-run "Old News of China."

"It turns out that those well-dressed people also have such an unbearable side!" In the roadside shop, the young men who do chores for others hold oily newspapers in one hand and hot steamed buns for lunch in the other, thinking while eating.

In order to make more people stand on their side, newspaper articles invariably use semi-vernacular. This is just in line with the characteristics of the people in the market who are not literate.

"Hurry up and eat, and when you are done, hurry up and help the tent to catch up. At the end of the month, the owner is in a hurry to get the settlement details for the first half of the year! The shopkeeper poked his head out from behind the counter and shouted dissatisfied.

"Hey!" The young man agreed, stuffed half of the bun into his mouth, and threw the old newspaper wrapped in the bun into a ball and threw it into the garbage basket that had just been made not long after the door.

"Loser stuff, throw it away after reading it. Could it be that the wind is blowing? The shopkeeper didn't know whether he felt sorry for his new garbage basket or the half of the newspaper, and scolded loudly.

"Old, old, three days ago. The Wang's bun shop is used to wrap the buns! When the young man saw that the shopkeeper was angry, he quickly muttered an explanation.

"You can't throw away the old ones, the paper with words is Sven! Pick it up, read it to me when you have time, let me hear how Zhu Dasheng forced Liang to become a prostitute, and how Xu Daming asked for officials thousands of miles! These guys, full of benevolence and morality, are actually not a good bird! The shopkeeper's scolding gradually lowered, and he inadvertently revealed his true intentions.

These guys, none of them are good birds! This sentence has gradually become the consensus of the common people on Confucianism and businessmen. After the aura and mystery on the head disappeared, the true colors of some people gradually became real in the eyes of the people. In the eyes of many people, businessmen do whatever it takes to seek personal gain, and their image is certainly hateful, but they are consistent with their words and deeds, and they never hide their desire to pursue profits. And those Confucians, what they say is for the country and the people, and they are all saint-like truths, but they secretly pursue their own selfish interests but do it more directly than businessmen. From the perspective of being a frank person, it is obvious that the personality of a businessman is more noble than that of Confucianism.

After studying the history of the Southern Crossing of the Great Song Dynasty, some people suddenly found that the original businessmen and Confucians were originally one family. Since King Kang crossed to the south, every time the palace tested, there were big businessmen who went to the gold list to "catch their sons-in-law". Those Confucian scholars who happened to be named on the gold list and were shy in their pockets often won the Jinshi and immediately married the merchants. With the financial resources of businessmen, they have risen through the ranks. And after they rose to the top, they often "rented" the power in their hands to seek more wealth for the merchants. (Note to alcoholics: Catching a son-in-law under the Jin Bang was a way for merchants in the Song Dynasty to seek spokespersons for their interests.) Modern scholars believe that this marked the initial formation of the merchant class in the Song Dynasty and the first time to participate in politics**. ）

This view was immediately voiced, questioning the legitimacy of the participation of businessmen and Confucians. The mouth frame in the newspaper changed from the Chu and Han rivalries to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, and the more they fought, the more chaotic they became.

"Can these Confucian scholars with mouths harder than ducks and bones softer than water snakes, as well as black-hearted businessmen who forget their righteousness and dare to sell anything, can they formulate a strategy for rejuvenating the country?" In mid-July, someone shouted in the newspaper.

The noisy merchants and Confucian scholars froze, and suddenly they felt that their previous behavior was very stupid. Patronized and poured dirty water on each other, but forgot that the most powerful in Fujian and Liangguang at the moment was not the merchants, not Confucianism, but the soldiers and local officials under the extreme leadership of Wen Tianxiang.

The soldiers defeated the Mongols and restored Liangguang and Fujian. The first group of local officials who were elected also shared the hardships with the Broken Army, and sacrificed their lives for the sake of the people. This ruined country was fought down by them, and they defended it, and no one is as big as them in terms of merit and popularity.

If they propose that those who have no merit in the country have no right to participate in the covenant, then the Confucians, who are currently clamoring the most, will be the first to be expelled from the covenant assembly. Their reasons for participating in politics cannot even be compared with those of merchants, who even donated a sum of money to the country in the name of disaster relief, while the Confucian scholars did nothing good except to cause chaos in the Metropolitan Governor's Palace.

Almost overnight, newspaper articles shifted the tone. Gone are the sharp words attacking each other, replaced by compliments to each other. There are several unsigned articles that praise the role of merchants in the fight against the plague and the relief of the victims, arguing that although there are lawbreakers who raise prices and hoard, most of the merchants as a whole are still doing well. As for all kinds of unscrupulous behaviors in the past, they are all in the past, and now they can change their mistakes, and they are very good.

The mouthpieces hired by the merchants also reciprocated, believing that although there were many unscrupulous characters in Confucianism, many of the great sages and sages in ancient and modern times also came from Confucianism. Even Wen Tianxiang, the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, who was quietly expelled from the ranks by the Confucians, and Chen Longfu, the pacification envoy of Fujian, were also quietly put on the name of the great Confucianism of the time and became the new leaders recognized by Confucianism.

The Confucian scholars immediately wrote an article, arguing that the development of the Fujian Metropolitan Governor's Office to this point has been done by scholars, workers, farmers and businessmen. Although some people's role is very prominent, and some people's role is not visible for the time being, after all, everyone has contributed to the country. The policy of governing the country should take into account the ideas of all those who have contributed to it, and it should not be based solely on the opinions of those who have made outstanding contributions.

Didn't Wen Tianxiang once ask the question of whether everyone who fights the world must have the authority to govern the world? The Confucians couldn't wait to quote the scriptures and give a very positive answer, "Politicians, the affairs of the people are also." Therefore, the country is people-oriented, and the government is convenient for the people, rather than the dividends of martial arts! ”。 They believe that fighting the world mainly depends on martial artists, but governing the world and leading troops to fight are not the same science, and there is no inevitable relationship between fighting the world and governing the world. In order to govern the country better, the country should open the door widely, select the best and the most capable, and should not reward the authority of the world for meritorious deeds. Otherwise, it would be no different from the Northern Yuan's robbers' method of governing the country like sharing the spoils.

Confucianists claim that throughout the ages, Confucianism has done the most successful job in governing the country and continuing the fortunes of the country. Therefore, the Covenant Assembly should establish the status of Confucianism and take the emerging science as the foundation of governance. At the same time, give some power to the businessmen and let them collect money for the country. Protect part of the interests of the generals, so that the generals can recover the lost territory of the Song Dynasty under the guidance of the Confucians, and drive the Northern Yuan back to Mobei.

"The world Confucianism does not notice, and the industry and commerce are the end, and they are vainly discussed. The husband and the worker solidify the holy king's desire, and the merchant makes him want to come out of the way, all of which are the same. The spokesman of the merchants immediately wrote an article to refute this argument, and this time, the text was written very calmly, no longer digging into the other party's **, but quoting scriptures to show that since ancient times, governing the country has not been a single kind of knowledge. It is true that the Confucian Analects is a classic, and the truth expressed in the Spring and Autumn Period of the Lü Family is not necessarily worse than that of Confucianism, and there are more application examples in it.

In line with the principle of seeking the greatest allies, businessmen affirmed in the newspapers the achievements of the elected officials over the past two years. They think that they come from the people, think what the people think, and have much more ability to govern the place and the effort they spend than those scholars who think they have everything in control after a few days of study. Although the generals did not know how to govern the country, they worked hard and made great achievements, shedding blood and sweat for Fujian and Liangguang, so they naturally had the right to speak at the meeting, just like the businessmen who had contributed money and efforts to the country. Otherwise, who will be willing to contribute to the country in the future, and who will be willing to contribute money to the country. After all, there are few saints in this world, and it is impossible to ask everyone to be without the slightest selfishness.

The businessmen quoted the ancient admonition of Jiang Taigong in the Art of War and said that it is precisely because everyone has selfish intentions that everyone has the same interests. In the case of the same benefit, the strength of all people can be gathered together as much as possible. It will take hundreds or thousands of years for the people to understand the way of the saints, but it is enough for the people to understand that their own interests are in line with the interests of the state, and it is enough for the rulers to do a little bit to protect private property. It is much simpler than educating the common people to understand the Confucian classics, and it is also much closer to reality.

The Confucian scholars were dissatisfied and wrote articles to refute it. thought that the businessman was short-sighted, and moved out the words advocated by Chen Longfu before: "The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of the husband".

The gunmen of the merchants wrote an article to retort: "If there is no benefit of the people, the so-called world is the world of the monarch alone, and the world of the people who are not the people of the world." If the world is prosperous, the monarch will reap the benefits; If the world dies, the monarch will suffer alone, and Li Shu will be incomparable. The so-called Li Shu, spring ploughing and summer work, autumn harvest and winter hiding, do not eat without their strength, do not benefit from it, and have no quarrel with the world. The world is prosperous, what is the benefit of the horseman? If the world dies, what harm does it do to the puppet? ”

A new wave of controversy was set off again, and due to the deliberate connivance of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, various opinions sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, rushing into people's minds to bear the limit.

In response to this situation, the Metropolitan Governor's Office decreed, "Those who speak are not guilty, and everyone has the right to speak, regardless of right or wrong!" He also reiterated that it is okay to debate in the newspapers, and it is not allowed to attack the relatives of the other side with insulting language. You should not use your strength to force your opponent to comply. Otherwise, the Metropolitan Governor's Office will use extraordinary means to maintain order under the precedent of precedent.

The so-called extraordinary means, according to everyone's understanding, are the army. According to the news from the intelligence department, a large-scale plague also broke out in the Northern Yuan army on Jiangnan West Road, and the old thief Dachun harmed others and eventually harmed himself, and he had no strength to go south in a short time. And Chen Jiaoyan, who was most severely attrition under the command of the Fujian Metropolitan Governor's Office, was transferred back to Fuzhou and Quanzhou by the Metropolitan Governor's Office, on the one hand, recruiting and training displaced people to join the army and replenish the number of soldiers. On the other hand, it is responsible for maintaining local law and order to prevent people from causing trouble for the Covenant Meeting.

The crime of troublemaking is something that no one on the sides of the debate is willing to bear. The debates in the newspapers became more and more intense, and the arguments and arguments became more and more incredible, but the personal attacks that occurred between the writers became more and more restrained, and even the main forces of the two sides met in the street and greeted them politely, as if they had not seen each other for many years. Chen Hangyan, who was training in Fuzhou City, was so angry by the performance of the businessmen and Confucian scholars that he scolded his mother. "His grandmother's, Lao Tzu has opened his eyes, he has seen shameless, but he has never seen such shameless!" The rude voice, accompanied by his emaciated back, echoed in Fuzhou City all day long.

"You haven't seen it, my old man has lived for more than seventy years, and he has only recently gained knowledge, feelings, and all the sages in the world have mentioned it, but we are stupid and don't understand that depth!" Old man Lynn rode a blue and white mule, followed behind Chen Hangyan's horse, and laughed and teased.

With the strong muscles and bones made by striking iron, he finally escaped the catastrophe of life and death. Although his body and bones were much weaker than before, and he could no longer hold the sledgehammer, the old man was still unwilling to spend his old age in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion. He has his own health regimen, which is to desperately find things to do for himself. As long as he can keep busy, he thinks he can live forever until the day he watches the Broken Army sweep across the world.

Wen Tianxiang gave the task of instructing Chen Hangyan Officer Corps to learn the skills of musket shooting to Old Man Lynn. The performance and methods of use of this new weapon are more familiar to no one than its makers. As the first general to command the musket team, Chen felt very proud. He secretly swore that as long as he still had a breath of air, he would absolutely uphold Wen Tianxiang's authority, and no matter what decision the prime minister made, no matter how many people objected, he would implement it to the letter.

The unruly Chen Hangyan will not easily impress others, but once he admires someone, he will follow that person for the rest of his life. He believes that although Wen Tianxiang, the prime minister of the Great Song Dynasty, rarely quotes scriptures when he speaks, his vision is longer than everyone at present. From the first battle of Shaowu to the present, which step is he not ahead of everyone? Which trick is not out of sight?

With this, those Confucians and court officials wanted to compete with Wen Tianxiang for power, that is, fireflies and the sun and the moon competed for glory. To put it mildly is to kill yourself.

"Letting those guys make a contract is simply suing the Lord of the Stove and finding the wrong face. Those boneless guys will also follow the strong to coax. It's better for the prime minister to make a covenant first, and then ask them face-to-face if they agree or not. You look, if you call them out one by one and ask them face to face, everyone must say yes. Even if the Prime Minister said that all Confucians in the world should be killed, some people immediately changed their words and wrote hundreds of articles that proved that the Prime Minister was right to kill people! Chen turned his head and said loudly to Lynn. He was not afraid that someone would hear it, so he spread this word and attracted the condemnation of Rulin for himself. Right now, if Wen Tianxiang is willing, he can even carry the infamy of eternity, and arrest all those corrupt Confucians, profiteers, rogue literati and officialdom gangsters who are looking for a dark night and dig a pit and bury them. Save them from the edicts of the capital next to them, and everyone can be clean up.

"Hehe, let them toss, the more messy the better. Anyway, the Prime Minister said that after three months from the start of the meeting, if everyone can't come up with a temporary agreement, everything will be decided by the Metropolitan Governor's Office, and no one will complain at that time! Lynn replied with a low chuckle.

Old man Lynn believes that this is Wen Tianxiang's cleverness. Knowing that merchants, Confucian scholars, military officers, petty officials, big families, and people of all colors had a great conflict of interest with each other, and it was impossible to reach an agreement, he gave them a chance. Once three months have passed, after that, the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion will say anything, and others can only listen.

Who told them that when they were given the opportunity, they would not cherish it, and would patronize the fight?

In the middle of July of the third year of Xiangxing, more than 400 ships gathered in the north and south of the Yangtze River, and 200,000 stones of grain entered Quanzhou. The last group of delegates who were eligible to participate in the festival arrived with the ship.

On 20 July, the Legislative Council, which was attended by more than 600 people, including pirates, profiteers, corrupt people, ignorant officials, reckless heroes, and barbarian warriors, was convened. At that time, it was 1280 AD, just 65 years after the signing of the Magna Carta of Liberty by England, a small country in the West.

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