Section XVI
Of course, Gu Yanwu's policy proposal was fiercely opposed by the government and the opposition, but although it was "fierce" opposition, this matter was completely in accordance with China's traditional political steps.
The first scruple of the ministers is Lin Feng's attitude, Lin Feng's attitude on this matter is quite unpredictable, as far as China's political tradition is concerned, the political proposal on delegating the power to mint coins and control the world's ticket number money to the Jin Hui consortium can be called "perverse absurd", many people can't believe it when they see it at first sight, so out of public opinion considerations, although it was put forward by Gu Yanwu, His Royal Highness the King of Han did not express his position on it, but everyone knows very well that if the King of Han does not have a certain idea in his heart, So no matter how it is, it can only hang in the study of Zhongnanhai forever, but now that these things have been reported to the public through the imperial palace, it means that the King of Han must have been very interested in this matter.
In the court style, Lin Feng is a "hero". What is Male Master? From the point of view of historical allusions, this word is more praise than depreciation, and it is considered a good name on many occasions, the characteristics of this kind of king are to have a deed, be good at controlling the subordinates, have strong political ability, and at the same time the overall concept is very sober, people are often very stubborn, once they have their own opinions, other subordinates are generally very difficult to change, this is the good side, and the bad side is unpredictable, moody, and the most feared thing is that the male lord is the least afraid of killing.
This evaluation is really not a mistake, as far as the situation of the Lin Han Empire is concerned, since Lin Feng exterminated the pseudo-Qing Dynasty and entered the Central Plains, expelled the Tartars, restored the clothes, revered the religion, gave relief to the exiles, persuaded farmers to help the Sangsang, encouraged industry and commerce, after several years of efforts, the northern region of China has generally come out of the state of war, showing a thriving scene, the emergence of this situation has proved Lin Feng's political ability - however, attached to this appearance is the Beijing City of several massacres and purges, Liaoyang slaughtered the city, Shanxi pit prisoners, hundreds of thousands of people who obstructed him fell in a pool of blood, after so many wind and rain, Lin Feng has now become quite indifferent to life, this kind of personality distortion is not the result of a day or two, it should be regarded as inevitable in this political environment, so now if in order to strive for political success, he definitely doesn't care about killing hundreds of thousands, millions of people.
The scruples of the Han officials are also here, in Chinese society, figuring out the will is the first priority of being an official, it is the most basic and the most important, in this context, what kind of clean officials, love the people and the like can only be a political show of successful bureaucrats - imagine if the officials can't do it, how can they have the conditions to take care of the people under their own governance?! Therefore, before understanding Lin Feng's intentions, Li Guangdi, Chen Menglei and other central bigwigs kept silent for the first time.
The first weighty voice came from the Nurgan region of eastern Liaodong. This is also a very strange thing, Gu Yanwu played, Lin Feng and Zhu forwarded the newspaper for nearly a month, Beijing, Zhili and neighboring Shanxi did not speak, but the most distant border provinces questioned this, which seems a little funny anyway, but at this time is not the time to rectify this unspoken rule, everyone's minds are focused on this policy related to the direction of the Han Empire.
Shang refuted Gu Yanwu's Nuergan governor Zhang Shu 'jade'. Zhang Shu 'jade' is a native of Zhenjiang, Jiangsu, the word is sucun, the number is Runpu, the eighteenth year of the pseudo-Shunzhi Jinshi, originally the pseudo-Qing Kangxi Dynasty Hanlin bachelor, the Ministry of Rites 'waiting' Lang, Lin Feng was captured after entering Beijing, and surrendered eight months later. This is not a very strange thing, since Lin Feng defeated Tuhai and completely eradicated the Eight Banners of Manchuria, many Qing court officials who were originally on the sidelines realized that "the mandate of heaven changes, the situation is easy to turn, and it is irretrievable by manpower", so they surrendered to the Han court one after another, because at the beginning of the founding of the Lin Han court, most of the divisions of this dynasty were still wandering around the prefectures and counties, so now the mainstream officials of the empire are these "anyway" pseudo-Qing officials. At the very beginning, these officials were still apprehensive, because from a traditional point of view, no matter how capable the "relict ministers of the former dynasty" were, no matter what kind of great achievements they made, they could be beaten to death by the word "second minister".
They are completely different from Zhou Peigong, Li Guangdi, Chen Menglei and others, Li Guangdi and Chen Menglei were small officials when they took refuge in the King of Han, and they were unknown, according to the rules, this situation can be regarded as "hidden in the court", so when they met with Lin Fengjun's ministers, they immediately served loyally and undoubtedly, made many vigorous events, and finally "became famous in one fell swoop", and no one said that they were unlucky.
The Chinese's concept of integrity also has a potential weights and measures, responsibilities and obligations are clearly defined here, and the rebellion of petty officials is not a traitor seeking glory, so Xiao He is not a villain, but on the other hand, being an official to be a governor, a political secretary, etc., that is, "the gentleman is deeply gracious", and he cannot easily betray, otherwise he will definitely be condemned by public opinion, and even after a hundred years, the top of the history will inevitably be blamed by the historian.
Zhang Shu 'jade' belongs to this situation, he was a puppet Qing minister before he took refuge in the Lin Han court, he was born in Shujishi, successively served as a cabinet bachelor, a banquet speaker, a bachelor in charge of the Hanlin Academy, a 'servant' of the Ministry of Officials, a serious court member, and the Qing court was indeed benevolent to him, his official road was a very traditional "prime minister's road", and the two generations of emperors of the Qing court regarded him as a preparatory prime minister to cultivate. So in the social context at this time, his betrayal is very criticized, and he should be under a lot of pressure as a man.
But now he jumped out of the first to question Lin Feng's transfer of the twists, this is very abnormal, when Lin Feng saw the twists and turns, he did feel very strange in his heart, in all fairness, Lin Feng treated these former Qing ministers very well, as far as the current point of view, the officials left by the Qing court and willing to surrender, as long as they have the ability, they are basically already a high authority, the recent imperial court restructuring group, the leader Li Fu is a demote, in addition, the current household secretary Chen Tingjing, the Ministry of Rites Xu Xueqian and other members are also demoted, What's more, people like Zhang Ying and Zhang Shu 'Yu' with high ability and local governance experience have also been awarded the title of feudal officials, who believe in it and have no doubts, and it is very rare to have such a degree of courtesy and grace throughout Chinese history.
After carefully browsing the full text, Lin Feng came back to his senses and found that he had indeed thought wrongly, and the reason why Zhang Shu 'Jade' dared to go on this letter was indeed a struggle. Zhang Shu' Jade is the governor of Nuergan, and as we all know, the Nuergan region is barren, the people are fierce, and there are many ethnic minority tribes, as far as the current territory of the empire is concerned, it can be said that it is the first difficult place to govern, originally according to Lin Feng's idea, this area has always been one of the sources of China's war, he planned to transfer Tang Bin, a cadre, to do a big job, but the consequence of this is to pour a large amount of silver into the border construction, but the current country has not been unified, so the situation does not allow, so under the persuasion of the ministers, he put this plan on hold temporarily, and selected a capable old-school minister to go over to appease and recover。
This is how the governor of Zhang Shu 'Yu' came, the situation in his jurisdiction is very complicated, and because it is the relationship between the border provinces, his power is also very large, because the war 'chaos' has not been appeased, and the Nuergan general Ma Ying is often ordered to transfer troops to go out to fight, so basically the civil and military personnel in a province have to be controlled by this governor, and now in addition to managing the people's livelihood and government affairs of a province, he can also assign three brigades of 'elite' troops to go out to suppress bandits, which can be described as both civil and military, and is a veritable "minister of the feudal town". is so honored and trusted, Zhang Shu's 'jade' feels 'excited', so he works very hard after taking office.
He himself is known as the old-school minister, here is a reason, since Lin Feng entered Beijing, the implementation of a series of liberalization of industry and commerce, push through the local 'exchange' policy, have canceled a lot of road guides, roads, official licenses and other policies to bind the population, so in the Lin Han Empire's ruling area, commercial activities are extremely prosperous, population flow is frequent, to a large extent to activate the local economy at the same time, but also attracted a large number of scholars to criticize, for Lin Feng's policy, China's north and south Shilin have different views, The common people in the north of the Central Plains have received many benefits under this policy, so most of the northern Shilin praise more than depreciation, thinking that "the sage rules the world, and the people benefit me", this consciousness means that although it is contrary to the tradition, but the sage's thinking is broad and profound, not a person or two people can understand it thoroughly, but the central meaning is only one, that is, as long as the people get the benefits, the country is rich and the people are safe, that is, it meets the requirements of the Confucian holy scriptures, and it is "to get its god and not to be formal", This view has been vigorously advocated by the officials of the Lin Han Empire, and it is very realistic, focusing on recognition and practice.
But the southern Shilin disagreed with this - this is also what Lin Feng felt very strange in his heart, in his understanding, southern China, especially Jiangsu and Zhejiang during this period was the place with the strongest commercial atmosphere, the textbooks boasted, the self-proclaimed so-called "capitalist sprout" was carried out here, from the perspective of material determination consciousness, the southern scholars should be more open and 'radical' than the northern Confucian students, how can they be more conservative?! He has not yet found an answer to this question, but through his attention to public opinion, he still understands some of the evaluation of him by Southern Shilin.
Southern Shilin believed that such an act of the Lin Han Empire was an act that violated the teachings of the sages and sages, and that it belonged to "worshipping the last and suppressing the roots," causing the common people and readers in the Central Plains to "pursue fame and fortune, and the world was declining day by day," thus causing the originally simple village husbands and 'women' to "speak more and compete for money," resulting in "the work of my name and religion for thousands of years, and the loss of the night and the pain," and the crime against the behavior norms of the Chinese who have been doing things at sunrise and resting at sunset, plowing for food, and weaving for clothing for thousands of years, making them feel bitter.
These two views have been divided into factions, the northern Shilin faction is headed by Gu Yanwu and others, and is called the "new faction", while the southern Shilin faction is based on the old man of the former "Fushe" as the backbone, called the "old school".
Zhang Shu's 'jade' belongs to the old-school camp, is very hostile to the new school of thought, and thinks that he is on the side of tradition and justice, and the Confucian students of Gu Yanwu's faction who have forgotten their ancestors and betrayed their ancestors are no different from Zhuo'er 'Jing' Ling in his eyes. As far as Lin Feng is concerned, he is the kind of official who particularly admires "his own self-sufficient small-scale peasant economy", opposes large-scale business, opposes population movement, and opposes any form of change in the four-character ranking of "Shinong Industry and Commerce", is very stubborn, and sometimes even seems unreasonable, this kind of "spiritual" spiritual attachment even exceeds his respect for the laws of officialdom as an official, and he even does not hesitate to argue with his boss Li Guangdi for his own position.
Of course, the disunity in concepts did not prevent Lin Feng from promoting and using him, as an official, his administrative ability was still quite good, and the reason why he was transferred to the governor of Nuergan was due to another consideration.
As we all know, Nuergan is barren and has many tribes, in the entire Han Empire, it is the most remote and poorest province, and the productivity is particularly low, most of the tribes are either hunting for a living or slash-and-burn, lack of food, lack of clothing, lack of salt, lack of knowledge, in short, Lin Feng hopes to be able to make some changes to this embarrassment, of course, half of this is out of responsibility for the people of all ethnic groups under his rule, but also for national defense and security considerations, because from the perspective of historical precedents, The reason why these ethnic minorities are making waves and waging war is not the driving force behind it, but it is just a piece of clothing and a mouthful of food.
So Lin Feng transferred Zhang Shu 'Jade' to Nuergan, he thought that this position was very suitable for this old-fashioned member, Lin Feng believed in industry and commerce to save the country, but in the end he also knew that although the small peasant economy was relatively backward, it was always much more advanced than hunting and slash-and-burn cultivation anyway, so he transferred Zhang Shu 'Jade' to that side, one of the imperial court centers was less of an eyesore, and the other asked Zhang Shu 'Jade' to teach those tribes to farm and reclaim, and grasp the basic economy fiercely, so that they could pick peaches after wealth accumulation and market conditions.
Because the combat effectiveness of the Han army is the first in the world, General Ma Ying is violent and cruel, and the tribes around the country are also terrified some time ago, so Zhang Shu 'Yu' has a good life for a few years, after Ma Ying's efforts, the vast majority of the Nuergan region is now very obedient, basically do whatever you want, if you don't obey, gather the surrendering tribes to send troops, and destroy the rebellious tribes together, and kill all the men. The women and the children are separated, and under this terrorist policy, the orders of the governor are basically implemented, and no chief or head man dares to say much, and in fact they are not against farming, although there is a small group of fools here who advocate the ancestral system, saying that the XXX tribe is the son of XXX mountains or XX rivers, and cannot farm like the Han people, but this voice is basically ignored, because for the imperial government, the current situation is very simple - either do what I say, Either die, and because of Lin Feng's attention, the household department of the imperial court has a lot of inclination towards the Nuergan area, and has allocated a lot of money and grain for reclamation and land reclamation in the past two years, so the resistance to this matter is very small, because from the perspective of the tribe, there are money and grain seeds to share, so why not plant a perfunctory land? Moreover, Zhang Shu 'Jade' did not blindly prohibit the migration of tribes, but only stood in the perspective of the rulers, divided the territory for each tribe according to their population and power, and carried out the most preliminary disguised settlement.
In the first year of the Han army's conquest of Liaodong, Nuergan was still lined with mountains and wars were continuous, and the grain and cloth could not be self-sufficient, and in the second year, all kinds of rebellions were suppressed, and most of the tribes lurking in the mountains and forests were "forced" out of the mountains by bloody means such as mountain closure, search, siege, and hunting, and gathered and reclaimed according to the orders of the government. The fleeing nomads were purged, all the tribes had sweet potato fields, hillside 'jade' rice fields and wheat fields, and the grain was basically self-sufficient, and the 'women' and 'women' of many tribes learned the wooden loom and were able to process hemp and cotton, and the caravans from other provinces were easily accessible, and the special products such as 'medicine' materials, leather goods, livestock, and timber produced in the province were exchanged for many wealth.
Zhang Shu's 'jade' harvest is of course not small, the official department is excellent in the annual performance evaluation, and Lin Feng even in the commendation edict affectionately called him "national scholar", in the Han Dynasty under the wide publicity, Zhang Sucun because of the "three years of Liao" and spread all over the north and south of the river, even his old father in Jiangsu Yiyan and Rongyan, his friend, the famous poet Wu Meicun even wrote a long poem for him, calling Nuergan this place is "white mountains and black water, the wind is fierce, heroes through the ages, empty hands...... and Zhang Shu 'jade' can "light robe and slow belt, talk and laugh, The Yan Ya bows his head, the Qiankun is set ......" (note), its words and sentences are magnificent, the literary style is flying, and it is directly chasing Su Dongpo's "Red Cliff Nostalgia", the people of the world are vying to recite, and the people of the time are all amazed, and Zhang Shu 'jade' also enjoys the great name, so as to be as famous as Tang Bin and Wang Shirong, and is called "the three heroes of Xinghan".
In view of this, his opposition to Lin Feng and Zhu's criticism of the palace is surprising and reasonable. Unexpectedly, this person is a pseudo-Qing minister, and it stands to reason that he wants to be a man with his tail between his legs, but he didn't expect him to be the first to jump out and "touch the dragon's face"; And of course, he himself is an old-school official, and he is well-known in China, he is a famous politician known to everyone in the world, he has enough capital to confront Gu Yanwu's reputation, and at the same time, the policy he pursued has achieved unprecedented success in Nuergan, and this practical result can definitely become the cornerstone of his political philosophy to verify himself.
Therefore, when Zhang Shu's 'jade' arrived in Beijing in an urgent manner from Nuergan's 800 miles, it was like lighting a fuse, and after more than a month of gathering momentum, the political storm finally broke out.