Chapter 537: It's All That
Zhao Yu knew very well what Ying Jieyan wanted to express at this time, that is, let him follow the example of Zhou Gong Ji Dan to implement benevolent government, move people's hearts with morality, and complete the immigration, but not to use alarmist intimidation to achieve the goal. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info, however, he didn't know that the little emperor in front of him was not just listening to a few of their lectures and reading a few books, in fact, he had a lot of 'strange theories' in his mind that were difficult for people to understand at this time, and he had a different interpretation of Zhou Gong's governance methods.
In Zhao's view, Zhou Gong's so-called benevolent government is actually more like a modern political show, no different from the methods of politicians in the general election. The first step is to fool, to fool the common people, to fool the new subjects. As the saying goes: good wine is afraid of deep alleys. Your Zhou Dynasty wants to be benevolent, if you don't do a good job of publicity, how can everyone know? Therefore, the loudspeaker of the Zhou Dynasty began to broadcast.
Zhou Gong led a group of people to shout and scatter leaflets all over the streets, and publicized the progressive policies of the Zhou Dynasty on the land of the Shang Dynasty: "Ladies, gentlemen, old and young masters, brothers and sisters, our Zhou Dynasty Lao Ji's family is to serve the people!" Starting from our predecessors Gu Gong's father, Ji Li, and King Wen, he loves the people like sons, so that the world returns to his heart. You can follow us with confidence, eat fragrant food, drink spicy food, and you can live a good life! ”
Ji Dan can be a genius in this regard, and burying the king of the Su can be said to be unscrupulous, in addition to promoting himself positively, it is a ruthless blow to the king of the suo, and it is even more embarrassing for the king himself, and he will not give up if he is not buried as a stinky meat that dogs do not smell and cats do not look at. First of all, he spread gossip, saying that the big hooligan raped women, occupied the territory, scooped the old man, dissected children, sold pornography, took drugs, and made money.
Of course, it is not enough to just publicize it, but also to hold a big press conference and make a big move. At that time, the government and the opposition attached great importance to the sacrifice, which was equivalent to the large-scale religious ceremonies in some countries and regions now, so the Duke of Zhou led people to slaughter the livestock, held a grand sacrificial ceremony, and announced the crime of the king to the sky, saying that he was reckless, killed Bigan and other ministers, insulted the goddess Nuwa, pampered the goblin Daji, engaged in the wine pond meat forest, and carried out the punishment of cannon branding, how cruel and tyrannical it was, of course, it was also recognized by the Yin people.
In this way, Zhou Gong's propaganda worked, the reputation of the king became worse, and the image of the Ji family became better. Next, there is the second step, which is to give you a little benefit. Why do we need to be practical? It's very simple, just saying that not practicing is a fake style, just practicing is not a stupid style, and saying that practicing is a real style. The brothers of the Ji family are also really willing to make money, open the treasure warehouse, and send gift packages door to door. It is recorded in the history books that the Duke of Zhou and them "scattered the wealth of Lutai, made the millet of the bridge, and made a great fortune in the four seas." "This is in stark contrast to the king of Zhou, the king of Shang is a collector of wealth, the king of Zhou Wu is a scatterer of wealth, one is a robber, the other is a philanthropist, let you say, who should we support?
For this kind of method of relying on propaganda to smear opponents, Zhao Yu from modern times is very familiar, and it is similar to the way he has been secretly implementing, but the difference is just an official show of his own. Now it seems that he has done too much and said too little, so that the 'name of benevolence and righteousness' is only circulated internally, and is not known to the outside world. According to Ying Jieyan's meaning, in addition to holding a press conference, he also had to publicize the people of Quanzhou and even the people of the whole country, so that the people of the Great Song Dynasty and the people of all ethnic groups around the world could see the ugly faces of the Mongols and realize that they were their great saviors......
"Zhou Gong spit and feed, the world returns to the heart!" Zhao Yu suddenly remembered an idiom about Zhou Gong again, but at this moment, he had a different taste when he said it, he always felt that this was a good word, but his heart was very remarkable.
"Your Majesty understands, at this time, you should follow the example of Duke Zhou and call on the people of Quanzhou to move to Qiongzhou, one is to take refuge, and the other is to contribute to the restoration of the country!" Ying Jieyan nodded, very relieved.
"Sir, if I fall one day and become the king of the Great Song Dynasty, will what I do at this time also be listed as one of the crimes, and let future generations punish me?" Zhao Yu asked with a wry smile when he heard this. He knows that even if it's a show, it's good, and if it's a lot of show, it's no different from the real thing. Exactly: a hypocrite is better than a villain, and a lie repeated 10,000 times becomes the truth, but this can only be done on the basis of victory.
But problems also arise, and those who are interested will definitely find that the kings of all dynasties and generations are particularly bad. Historically, for their bad deeds, big books and special books, King Xia Wei, King Shang, and later King Zhou You, Emperor Yang of Sui, etc., are all so bad that they are smoking. But is that really the case? It is difficult for future generations to know what happened at that time, so they can only rummage through the pile of old papers to find the truth of what they did, but the answer they get is often that this guy is really bad and should have died a long time ago.
"Your Majesty, where do you say this, Your Majesty led the whole country to resist the Yuan Dynasty and restore the country in the year of the weak crown, and achieved great victories one after another, and it will definitely leave a good name in the history books!" Ying Jieyan's heart sank when he heard this, and he suddenly thought that in the eyes of the little emperor, those sages were not saints, and he must have doubts about the actions of this Zhou Gong, who didn't know much.
"Hehe, sir, don't have to comfort me!" Zhao Yu pursed his lips and chuckled, "I know that history is written by the victors, if one day falls, I will become the remnant thief of the Southern Dynasty in the history books, today's thing is that with the assistance of the puppet official Ying Jieyan and others, he led 100,000 foolish people to loot Quanzhou's property, killed hundreds of big merchants, and killed countless casualties among the residents. ”
In order to attack others and elevate themselves, the new rulers usually take the worthlessness of the old rulers, pour garbage and dirty water on their dead bodies, and say whatever it is ugly. The old ruler already had shortcomings and mistakes, and if the new ruler exaggerated and fabricated them, it would be impossible to listen. The masses don't know the truth, what the new leader says. Even if you understand the truth, you don't dare to expose it, and there is no need to expose it. Then the lie became the truth and the historical fact contained in the history books. These negative things may be despised by the current scholars and are ashamed to be written on paper, but it is not a secret in later generations.
"Your Majesty's intention, someone has tampered with the history books?" Ying Jieyan was surprised.
"Yes, I suspect that it was Duke Zhou who instructed the historian to tamper with the history books, so ...... Hehe! Zhao Yu took a sip of tea and nodded, laughing dryly.
"This is absolutely impossible, how can Your Majesty doubt the sages?" Although His Majesty did not say the second half, Ying Jieyan had already heard that the little emperor was suspicious of the Duke of Zhou, and he was a sage highly respected by Confucius and Mencius, and the etiquette advocated by Confucianism was also based on the Zhou rites formulated by him, if His Majesty completely denied the Duke of Zhou, it would be a fatal blow to Confucianism, and he resolutely denied His Majesty's statement at the moment.
"Hehe, Fei Yi is the only one who has doubts about this, and the historian Luo Mi must be familiar with it, and he once wrote: The sins of building palaces, building wine forests and meat ponds, pampering women, imprisoning sages, and mutilating the faithful are exactly the same as the sins of Ji, and all the sins of Ji are the sins of Ji, and there is no distinction between them, these are all out of imitation." Zhao Hao said with a smile.
He is not familiar with Zhou Gong, but he is very familiar with the king of Shang, in his previous life, he saw the "Romance of the Gods" since he was a child, and the characters are not familiar with it, but Shang Xun is very impressed, he was in the rebellious period when he also learned about it, he didn't know if he didn't see it, he was shocked when he saw it, it turned out that this guy and Cao Cao can be among the most wronged celebrities in history, but one of them was stained by the history books, and the other was pitted by a novel.
"Of course, Mr. Guiyu knows, and he has also read his book "History of the Road", but the world does not dare to completely agree with the account in it, and it can be said that the reputation is mixed, and Your Majesty cannot believe the words of one family!" Luo Mi has been dead for only a hundred years, of course Ying Jieyan knows him, his likes to travel, he has traveled to Yanling Mountain, and lived in Xiangyang for eleven years. Because the history books of the past dynasties rarely record the ancient history, in order to make up for the history of the ancients, he collected all kinds of classics, as well as the Taoist collection and weft books, accumulated decades of work, and wrote the "History of the Road" in the Song Xiaozong Qiandao period, describing the affairs of the Han Dynasty from ancient times to the Han Dynasty, among which there is a special volume to describe the affairs of Xia Wei and Shang. He just didn't expect the little emperor to actually read his monograph, so he hurriedly denied it.
"Sir, don't be in a hurry to deny!" Zhao Yu knew that his words touched the sore spot of Ying Jieyan and aroused his vigilance, but he himself did not want to turn the academic dispute into a political factional battle, so he poured tea for Ying Jieyan and said, "The Book of Shang and the Records of the Historians are all books that have been read and studied by several masters, and they are also classics recognized by Confucian scholars and historians throughout the ages, right?" ”
"Well, that's good." Ying Jieyan nodded, although he didn't know why His Majesty would ask this, but these two books are indeed classics, and they can be said to be must-read books for every scholar, and they can't be denied.
The earliest list of sins came from the "Book of Shang" written by the Zhou people, of which there were only six articles, and twenty-seven things were added to the Warring States Book, twenty-three things were added to the Western Han Book, one thing was added in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and thirteen things were added in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, so the Shang Dynasty became a cruel tyrant that had never been seen since ancient times. Right? Zhao Yu spread his hand and shrugged his shoulders and said. Of course, this data was not obtained by Zhao Hao's meticulous study of the previous versions of "Shangshu", but was mentioned in the materials he had read in his previous life, so he took it out and bluffed people.
"This ...... This minister didn't look into it! Ying Jie Yan Yan paused for a moment, and felt that he had studied hard enough, but he did not read as thoroughly as His Majesty, so he could only admit it embarrassedly.
"Zhong Zigong, a disciple of the Confucian sage, also once broke through the essence of the phenomenon of thousands of years of destruction in one sentence: it is not good, it is better to be worse. It is a gentleman who is evil and is indecent, and all the evil in the world is returned. Although this statement has other meanings, it also means that all the sins that people have ever seen and all the sins that people can imagine are attributed to the head of Dixin. Zhao Yu said again, he knew that this sentence was to warn those in power not to be losers, otherwise the result would be extremely sad, but in Chinese history, although the fate of the king of the dead country was extremely pitiful, there was no one like Di Xin who was wantonly smeared.
"Well, Zigong does have this, but why does Duke Zhou want to do this?" At this time, Ying Jieyan also had to admit that what the little emperor said was reasonable, and he was speechless to refute, and after so many years of education in Confucianism, seeing that there was a problem at the root, he still couldn't accept it, and said with annoyance.
"Sir, don't worry, a saint is still a human after all, what's so strange about using some means to achieve the goal!" Zhao Yu didn't care, "Back then, King Ji of Zhou expanded vigorously, successively attacking the Rong of the beginning and the Rong of the disciples, attacking the Cheng Cheng, and attacking the ghosts. aroused the vigilance of Emperor Wending and killed King Jili of Zhou; Zhou Hou Chang, who succeeded Ji Li as the king, conquered Da Rong, attacked Chong, and attacked Li, causing Di Xin's dissatisfaction, Shang and Zhou fought in Li, detained Zhou Hou Chang, and imprisoned him, although the history books all said that Di Xin conditionally released Xi Bochang, but I thought that Di Xin should have killed Zhou Hou Chang. Think about the death of two generations of Zhou kings at the hands of Shang kings, which has made Shang and Zhou mortal enemies, just as the current dynasty and Yuan are not different! ”
"Your Majesty thinks that Zhou is not invincible to Shang, so he fabricated rumors that Shang is cruel and unkind?" Ying Jieyan knew that this was indeed the case in the history books, but it was the first time he heard that King Wen died at the hands of Emperor Xin, the king of Shang, but he had learned from the past, but he didn't dare to argue about it, so he put it down for the time being. Compared with the current situation, there are real similarities, but it is more difficult and dangerous for oneself.
"Hehe, I want the king of Zhou Wu who succeeded to the throne to take revenge and prepare for the attack on Shang. However, Emperor Xin's accumulation of power was very heavy, which made King Wu of Zhou extremely afraid, so that the Zhou people did not go into everything to slander Emperor Xin, who was stronger than themselves and was like a god, in order to establish a strategic alliance, arouse the common hatred of the soldiers, and alleviate their own fear and panic. But the first time he watched the army Mengjin, the princes all said that they could be killed, but the king of Wu still did not dare to send troops because of fear, and on the eve of the Muye War, the king of Zhou Wu was still trembling, did not dare to fight, it was Lu Shang who forced him to fight, so he had to fight with the rest of the Jia. Zhao Hao analyzed with a smile.
"Well, saying that it is evil, exposing its deeds, and promoting its tyranny can indeed make people think about change because of fear in their hearts, so as to form an alliance to resist violence, but it is also a last resort, but this may not be what Zhou Gong did!" Ying Jieyan was unconsciously guided by the little emperor into the circle, stroked his beard and groaned for a while.
"However, as an important minister of the country and a model for the world, why should he do some things himself? He can do it with the hands of dummies, and those who are dissatisfied with the king of Zhou, not to mention the Zhou people, as long as they are guided a little, they will have their own people to do the precursor. Think about the shameless people like Liu Quan, Lu Wenhuan and so on, once they descended to the Yuan, they wantonly slandered the first emperor and attacked the government, why do you need that Kublai Khan to move his mouth! Zhao Yu pouted and said, he wanted to tell Ying Jie Yan that there is no difference between ancient and modern, good people and bad people do this...... (To be continued.) )