Chapter 627: Tall
The defeat of the Yuan army and the suicide of Oluchi suddenly made Zhao Hao wonder if his reform plan was a little out of place. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 After coming to this era, whether it was out of self-preservation or the so-called restoration of the country, he regarded the development of the military as the first priority, but the biggest resistance in this process came from the scholar group, and the concept of emphasizing literature and suppressing military force made it difficult to implement his ideas.
At present, the country is in decline, and Zhao Yu knows that it is difficult to restore the country by relying only on the pen and mouth of the scholars, and everything needs a knife to solve the problem. The low status of the soldiers, everything must be elbowed by the soldiers, which will inevitably affect morale, so he plans to take the opportunity of victory to launch his own reforms after the defense of Qiongzhou to improve the political status of the soldiers, but it will inevitably touch the interests of the soldiers.
There is an argument in the Internet in the previous life that these scholars are just a group of sour Confucians who are powerless and can only be blind, and if they are disobedient, they will be killed and dismissed, just like Qin Shi Huang's burning of Confucianism and Zhu Yuanzhang's court staff. Under such a high-pressure policy, those sour Confucians don't have to obediently obey and honestly listen to greetings. But Zhao Yu came to the world to know that it would be simple if things were really like this, the Shiren Group was by no means so easy to mess with, although they did not have a knife handle, they still had the ability to control the world.
As we all know, the 2,000-year-old monarchy system in China is actually a centralized monarchy of 'heroic rule'. On the one hand, they implement a compulsory tax payment system, which is no different from the nature of robbers and plunder, but it is different from "rogues" and "sitting cowards"; On the other hand, the implementation of the licensing system and the government-run system, prohibiting citizens and the government from making profits, also has the humility of stealing and stealing.
The implementation of such a policy will inevitably lead to the contradiction between the government and the people rising to become the main contradiction, coupled with the administrativeization of power, the people will naturally fall into the status of slaves, and there is only one way to fight except to pin their hopes on the sunny day. There are only two ways to resolve class contradictions: violence and cultural and ideological stability.
Compared with violence, the cost of maintaining cultural and ideological stability is much lower, and it has become the only choice for the ruling class. Of course, Confucianism was not chosen as soon as it appeared, and during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, hundreds of schools of thought contended, including Taoism, Legalism, and Moism...... And so on, and Confucianism's ability to 'stand out' in the end is the result of the great waves and sands, and this process is a process of self-transformation.
We know that the respect for Confucian cultural thought began with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, when the ideological culture of the city-state alliance system was popular, and at the same time, a variety of cultural ideas coexisted, so the debate on the arrangement of the political system and the decision-making of policies could not be unified. the debate over whether to divide the feudal system or choose centralized power; the debate over whether to implement local or central coinage; In the development of industry and commerce, there is a debate over whether to take the road of state-run enterprises or the road of private enterprises.
This ideological difference must be unified, but what can be used to unify it? In Confucius's thought, the idea of hierarchy occupies a dominant position, and even if there is a small spark of equal rights, the special interpretation power of Chinese characters can be used to give the dialectical past. Forced by the need to reform the political system, the ruler elevated Confucian culture to a compulsory ideological culture to unify ideological and cultural understanding, so Confucianism has become the only magic weapon to promote the construction of a centralized political system, and there is no other way.
We know that "Confucian culture" is a non-institutional value judgment culture, and its role is to regulate and alleviate the contradiction between the governance of violent power and the demand for people's rights. And the content is quite extensive, when the economic development path of a nation is given special attention, it can be attributed to the result of the role of national culture, and sociologists also turn it into a panacea that can be touched everywhere.
However, Zhao Yu understands that from the viewpoint of modern materialism, the so-called national culture is actually a reflection of the development of a nation's social system. This kind of reflection has three core characteristics: first, the ideological culture that reconciles and eases the contradictions of the main social strata; second, the national culture of the dominant organization of production and labor in the economic structure; The third is an institutional culture that incentivizes reservists and non-payers to cooperate with each other to achieve the equalization of income streams.
Historically, the monarchy ruled the people's minds through the coercion of the ideology of "abandoning the hundred schools of thought and respecting Confucianism", which was not only conducive to the unity of culture and thought among officials, but also promoted the officials' respect for the monarch in terms of ideology and will. In addition, it is conducive to the promotion of the maximization of basic rights between the labor bodies with small-scale peasant families as the main body, and further alleviates the conflict between the government and small-scale farmers. At the same time, Confucian theory is also conducive to the domination of consciousness and religion by the monarch, thus facilitating the concentration of administrative, legal, financial and other powers in the exercise of power to the monarch, and has played an epoch-making role in consolidating the monarchy.
The law of history proves that in the thousand-year-long feudal rule, once the monarchy is established, the "Confucian culture" will appear in the period of transition to the development stage, from the Han and Tang dynasties, to the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties.
In addition to the fact that Confucian culture has not formed a logical and systematic nature like the Bible and Buddhist scriptures, the monarch's Chrysostom is sometimes ten million times stronger than the Analects, and the politicians' beautification of Confucius and the ideological will of the general public are sometimes too different, which also leads to the emergence of Confucius's thoughts from time to time, and the emergence of an alternating cycle of overthrowing Confucius and establishing Confucius.
However, most rulers also realized that in order to maintain social order and long-term peace and stability, the use of administrative and violent organizational forces alone would not only be unreliable, but also that the cost of maintaining stability would become increasingly large, making it difficult to overburden fiscal expenditures. However, the use of Confucian culture to complete the ideological domination of the people can minimize the cost of maintaining stability, and it cannot be the most attractive option for rulers. From a historical point of view, as long as the rulers do not make major mistakes in decision-making, they have achieved long-term peace and stability through the rule of "Confucian culture......
Zhao Yu is a 'person who has come over', and he has been mixed in this era for a few years, and he has to be told by three Confucian masters, and he feels that he may have a more alternative or deeper understanding than those so-called people in later generations. Therefore, he realized that the scholars, of course, could not be killed or expelled from the court, but they had to be used to serve the ruling class, that is, to themselves. And they can't serve the enemy, because the betrayal of these people is too terrible, and it is no less harmful than those generals who have defected. However, he also knew that war was not only to resist the invasion of the enemy's armed forces, but also to prevent the cultural invasion of foreign races, and only in this way could the roots and soul of the nation be preserved.
"Official, several deacons have arrived, waiting outside!" Wang De saw that the little emperor had finished handling official business, and he sat there for a long time without moving, and he didn't dare to disturb until he saw him move his buttocks.
"Ask them to wait in the side hall!" Zhao Hao woke up and said.
"Yes!" Wang De promised to go out and deliver the message.
Zhao Yu rested for a while before getting up and going to the side hall, of course the emperor had to go through the back door to meet the ministers, and he had to be a little late. He looked at the fact that in addition to Liu Huang, who accompanied the Queen Mother in Yazhou, and Zhang Shijie, who was in Haikou to deal with the aftermath, Lu Xiufu, Wen Tianxiang and Ying Jieyan all arrived, and the three of them hurriedly greeted each other.
"Minister Wen guarded the Queen Mother, and led the army to come again, hard work!" Zhao Yu said goodbye to Wen Tianxiang first, and said hard.
"Your Majesty, this is the duty of the minister, but Your Majesty has worked hard to command the army to repel the Tartars!" Wen Tianxiang heard this, and hurriedly got up and saluted.
"This battle is all planned by the left minister and the cardinal commander, I am sitting back and enjoying the success, it is good not to add to the chaos!" Zhao Yu pressed down his hand and motioned for him to sit down.
"The minister doesn't dare to take credit, His Majesty has already read today's battle report, please give me instructions!" Lu Xiufu got up and played, he knew that His Majesty must have summoned them for something to discuss.
"I have summoned all of you Aiqing to come this time to discuss the matter of sending troops to Guangnan West Road." Zhao Yu nodded and returned to the right and said, "This time, the enemy's Huguang Province has exhausted its troops, and now most of them have been annihilated, it is when the troops are empty, and I think it is a good opportunity to send troops." ”
"Your Majesty, our army's material consumption in this battle is very heavy, the accumulated rockets and flowering shells are less than thirty percent, and there are days of fierce fighting soldiers are sleepy and tired, and we still need to rest, in case the enemy invades Qiongzhou again, how can we resist the enemy. I thought it was better to be cautious. Lu Xiufu frowned and said when he saw His Majesty's old things brought up again.
"I think that the fighter plane is hard to find, and it is a good opportunity to restore the Guangxi states!" Wen Tianxiang's eyes lit up and he agreed to send troops.
"What do you think, sir?" Zhao Hao originally wanted to hold an enlarged meeting and let all the civil and military officials above the Shangshu level of the court and the central government participate, so as to win the majority of the people to support his proposal, but he thought that it was better to communicate with the rulers at home first, whether it was out of etiquette or procedural benefits, so as not to cause dissatisfaction among the monarchs and ministers. Seeing that Ying Jieyan did not show his attitude, he inquired.
"Your Majesty insists on attacking Guangxi, I'm afraid it has another deep meaning, right? Why don't you say it, it has solved everyone's confusion! Of course, Ying Jieyan knew the original intention of the little emperor to attack Guangxi, but it was difficult to convince everyone for this reason alone. Because everyone understands, including the little emperor, they all know that with the current strength of Qiongzhou, it is the same as fighting Quanzhou, it cannot be defended if it is captured, and this time it is too risky to go deep into the hinterland.
"Good!" Zhao Yu nodded, pondered for a moment and said, "Since the fall of Lin'an, many loyal ministers and righteous people have been scattered among the people, and there are still many Hongru people who still miss our dynasty, they refuse to accept the recruitment of the Tartars to take up false positions, and Ganyu is poor and hidden in the countryside. ”
"What Your Majesty said is that there are many people in Jiangnan who are loyal to our court, they do not forget the emperor's grace, lie dormant in the countryside, and when the king arrives, they will eat a pulp pot to respond to Your Majesty!" Wen Tianxiang nodded, thinking it was authentic.
"Wen Xiang has said this, but the reality is the opposite, not only did not eat the rice pot to greet him, but instead refused to send the king outside the city." Zhao Yu shook his head when he heard this.
"Your Majesty...... Your Majesty is Cai Jing, one of the six thieves of the Huizong Dynasty? Wen Tianxiang was stunned for a moment and thought for a moment, but he was still very surprised to compare himself with a notorious traitor.
"Wen Xiang guessed it!" Zhao Yu looked at the suspicious eyes of the three of them and smiled, "Back then, Emperor Huizong bewitched Tong Guan and Cai Jing, and united with the Jurchens to destroy Liao and recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, but in the end they were defeated and returned, and the Jurchens saw the truth clearly, so that Emperor Jing Kang both hunted north and lost the Central Plains. In addition to the traitors and power, those Yanyun and our people helped Liao to resist the Song Dynasty and abuse them. ”
"After I moved south, during the Shaoxing period, the people of Jiangbei risked their lives to follow the south, and Wang Shi would also help during the Northern Expedition. But today, those Jiangbei people who were once loyal to the Great Song Dynasty helped the Tartars to attack our dynasty, that Zhang Hongfan, Shi Tianze, Dong Wenbing, etc. are all Han people in the Central Plains, and the soldiers in the army and the northerners account for as many as half of the army. The contrast between the two boxes is very different, and why is that? ”
"These are all people who have forgotten the classics of several ancestors, and if they don't read the books of sages, their beard and hair are no different from barbarians!" Lu Xiufu said angrily when he heard this.
"The left phase is biased, I think it's not all like this, but after a hundred years, they have long forgotten the grace of heaven and succumbed to barbarians." Wen Tianxiang said gloomily.
"What the right minister said is true, not to mention several generations, since the enemy chief Kublai Khan said that our dynasty has died, there are those who have martyred themselves in Jiangnan scholars, and there are those who have avoided the world, but there are no longer a few people who should be edicted. There is also a Jin pseudo-Confucian Xu Heng who has reduced the Yuan to persuade Jiangnan scholars and the great Confucian Shiyuan in the name of 'entering the summer is summer', and let them turn their backs on our dynasty. Why did they seal officials and make wishes, and buy Jiangnan scholars with a lot of money? Zhao Yu agreed with Wen Tianxiang's reply, but then asked rhetorically.
"Our scholars not only have the responsibility of the auxiliary king, but also the responsibility of teaching the people, the Tartars want to use the Jiangnan scholars to make the people forget my grace, so that within a few generations, they will not know that there is a Song Dynasty!" Ying Jie Yan said gloomily.
"In the words of the sir, how vicious the heart of the Tartar!" Zhao Yu said hatefully, "Now that I live in a corner of the court, and there is a sea across it, under the bewitchment of those Shilin scum, the people think that our dynasty is dead, but they don't know that the court still exists." I insist on attacking Guangxi to tell the world that my Great Song Dynasty is not dead, I am still alive in the world, don't be deceived by the Tartars! ”
"Your Majesty's actions have deep meanings, and the ministers are ashamed of themselves." Lu Xiufu got up and saluted when he heard this, "Your Majesty ordered the Northern Expedition of the Wang Division at this time, and the people of Jiangnan will definitely know Your Majesty's prestige, and he will definitely be able to drive out the Tartars one day and make them regain their heavenly grace." And the loyal and righteous men heard that His Majesty and the court would come across the sea to vote in Qiong to assist His Majesty in recovering the Great Song Dynasty and Bianliang! Lu Xiufu got up and said passionately.
"Zuo Xiang is too modest, I still need Aiqing's full support to achieve this wish!" Zhao Hao said with a smile. And secretly relieved in his heart, it seems that his 'lofty' reason has been moved.