“…… You will be able to coerce the people and fight back against the scholars, and when the time comes, the interest tendency of 'ruling the world together', which seems to have accumulated for two hundred years, will become a small problem that will wait for the next thing...... That's the only chance you have a chance of winning today......"

At the end of May, at the Jianmen Pass, Ning Yi's voice sounded halfway up the mountain in the sun, and Zuo Xiuquan on the side had a serious gaze with mixed tastes.

Among the forces of the Huaxia Army at this time, the Zuo family has a special status, and because of this, Zuo Xiuquan can ask some slightly out-of-the-ordinary questions here. Of course, for their level, as long as they have a clear attitude and do not engage in substantive cross-border in private, these discussions can be regarded as gentlemen's arguments. He actually had a little bit of excitement and precision in his previous words, but what he didn't expect was that this discussion would come to this point, and even for a while, he was a little regretful.

Ning Yi in front of him actually pointed out a path and threw out a framework, so that he couldn't accept it, and he couldn't accept it. Wise as he could naturally vaguely see something that could be extended from this framework, if we consider the immediate crisis of the Fuzhou court, this direction does indeed provide some kind of possibility of breaking the situation, but the problem beyond this is that after the breakthrough, the future they face may become something more terrifying and dangerous.

People's livelihood, civil rights, people's wisdom...... This is the kind of trick he did in the southwest, and it's only a small part......

You really shouldn't be clever, you shouldn't ask...... Shouldn't be heard......

He sighed in his heart, was silent for a moment, and then smiled: "Mr. Ning is calculating, if Fuzhou really promotes these, if it fails in the future, it will be a dowry for Mr. Ning." ”

"If it fails, it will be like this." Ning Yi smiled openly, and did not shy away from it, "But if you succeed, you may be able to find a way." ”

Zuo Xiuquan thought for a while: "...... The so-called certain treatment of the identity and interpretation of the emperor refers to ......"

"One of the biggest obstacles to the promotion of human rights and equality is that the status of the emperor and ordinary people must be very different, and the only way to avoid it is to do two things well, first, the interests of the emperor and the interests of the people should be highly unified in a certain period of time, just like today, Jun Wu said to everyone, you lend me strength, we will fight those big clans that disperse the power of the country, and after concentrating the strength, we will defeat the Jurchen invaders, so that in a certain period of time, the imperial power will win the greatest favor, It is possible to obtain its legitimacy and sanctity ......"

Ning Yi said as the two of them slowly walked through the mountains: "But such legitimacy and sacredness will not last, because once the external pressure is reduced, the emperor and the imperial family will inevitably become the largest interest class, and everyone will slowly realize the unfairness above." Then we can start to try the second thing, let the imperial power retreat, keep it sacred, let the bureaucracy be a firewall against the people, and the emperor should not be directly involved in the competition for interests......"

"How hard can the people deal with it?" Ning Yi tilted his head and smiled, "In the foreseeable hundreds of years, even if human rights are awakened, they will definitely not be able to get 100% fairness, unless the world is really the same, everyone is Yao Shun, and everyone's responsibility is exactly the same, then everyone's benefits can be equal, but this can't be done, as long as there is a gap in IQ and ability, the privileged class will always take the big head, and the people who take the small head will never mind having a sacred emperor symbol in their country." ”

When he said this, he paused with a smile: "-Of course, unless it is a decades or hundreds of years of ideological emancipation that determines the ugliness of the emperor, it is possible to achieve another consensus." But not now, the existence of an emperor is inevitable for thousands of years, if today's emperor can hand over power to a relatively reliable bureaucratic system, and he himself is no longer arbitrarily weighed, he will be respected by everyone, and everyone will not mind providing for and respecting such a royal family, so that the process of sanctifying the monarchy can be completed - this game mode, we can call it, constitutional monarchy. ”

Zuo Xiuquan tilted his head: "That is to say, today we will centralize power first, wait until we defeat the Jurchens, and then rule by the hypocrisy." ”

"Either you don't need my thoughts, the little emperor can directly kill a way, then I didn't say it." Ning Yi stated calmly, "If this method is used, it should be possible to defeat the scholars and foreign enemies who have divided power. But if after completing the initial enlightenment of the people, the emperor still has to stay at the peak of power to show that he is different from others, sooner or later he will be dragged out and beheaded, and the hypocrisy is the only way to protect himself at that time. ”

Speaking of this, he smiled again: "Create a bureaucratic layer and watch the fire from the other side, even if there is anything to mess up in the future, it is not the emperor's business, the emperor is so wronged, he is obviously the Son of Heaven, and the country belongs to theirs, but for the sake of the people, he took the initiative to retreat, he couldn't manage the government, and he endured humiliation and burden from generation to generation, you say, who would blame him?" ”

"Then the person in charge will be ......"

"Prime Minister, Prime Minister...... Anything is fine, change it every few years, he is not an emperor, he doesn't have to be a lifetime, set the rules first, and then retire. ”

"If you have the power to plot against ......"

"The basic enlightenment of the people has been opened, which shows that education has become a system, and the hardships and greatness of the emperor's initiative and hypocrisy, as well as the necessity of this system, have been written into the teaching materials for every child. As long as you don't encounter very extreme situations, this system can be sustained for a long time......"

The two walked forward slowly, Zuo Xiuquan asked questions from time to time, and Ning Yi immediately answered. After a while, the expression on Zuo Xiuquan's face became more and more weird.

If his question at the beginning may only be regarded as a little bit of careful thinking, and he wants to set some fragmentary opinions on Ning Yi's side, Ning Yi's answer really made him feel complicated and unspeakable, but at that time he still felt that those words were a casual counterattack by this demon, who knew that at this time, he also deduced the entire framework completely, if he said that the things thrown out were like the confusing words of demons, at this time, it simply made people feel a little bitter.

Especially after arriving, I only heard Ning Yi say: "...... Some ideas and difficulties about the constitutional monarchy, there have been a lot of deductions in the Huaxia Army in recent years, and the information is still in storage, Mr. Zuo is interested, and this time I asked someone to move to Chengdu for you. ”

Zuo Xiuwen hesitated for a while, and finally said, "Mr. Ning...... Could it be that he really wants the Wu Dynasty to find a way? ”

"It's easier said than done, but with a few years of deduction with me and a bunch of kids, can we really get things done?"

"Yes...... Mr. Ruoning really told him sincerely, at least ...... There are possibilities. ”

Zuo Xiuwen frowned and arched his hand, what he couldn't be sure in his words was "Mr. Ning is really so open-minded?" But after all, he didn't ask, Ning Yi looked at him and smiled.

"Many people in the world today know that the purpose of our Huaxia Army is to destroy Confucianism, to open up the wisdom of the people, and to achieve equality and awakening...... At the core, the little emperor of Fuzhou now wants to use the king to fight against the common rule of the world, which is a change in the underlying thinking. Ning Yi's hand pointed next to his head, "How difficult it will be, Mr. Zuo can imagine, but in Huaxia Army, we have to try to use the thinking of Gewuxue to fight against the metaphysical thinking of the past, to use the thinking order of reason first to fight against the way of thinking of reason and law, and to use human rights and equality to fight against the class concept of Confucian monarchs, ministers, fathers, sons and sons, how difficult is this?" Can Mr. Zuo think of it? ”

Ning Yi smiled, his gaze was calm, and his eyes were as vast and cold as snow-capped mountains and the sea.

"There is an openness to the people's wisdom and the enlightenment of the people's rights, we have considered many situations and ways in the deduction, among them, there is no emperor's openness, there is also an emperor's openness, there is an openness in the era of peace and there is an openness in the war era, these deductions and ideas are not necessarily useful, but Mr. Zuo, as long as you are interested, I will never hide my selfishness, because the deduction is just a fantasy, if there can be an experiment of opening the people's wisdom in Fuzhou to the greatest extent, even if it is in the monarch mode, we can also get the greatest experience."

"The basis of thinking in our place and this society is metaphysics, and the characteristics of metaphysics are from the whole to the parts, and emotions are higher than the truth, such as the heaven and earth, the Xuanhuang universe, the flood of the universe, the infinite birth of two rituals, two rituals, and four elephants, which sounds very reasonable, and everyone has passed it down from generation to generation, and thinks it is the truth, but where is its starting point, who observes it, and who can prove it strictly? We are accustomed to accepting some truths that sound right, but why is it right, in fact, our thinking in the past is not imaginary...... And the thinking of Gewuxue should be reversed, completely reversed. ”

"The thinking of Gewuxue should go from part to whole, we must first figure out every minute that can be clear at hand, assume what laws and principles it has, and make strict deductions. Gewuxue doesn't say anything about the heaven and earth, the Xuanhuang universe, the wilderness, in Hedeng, we make iron plates, want to get a plane, what is a plane? To ordinary people, it is like a table that looks flat, we press two iron plates with a water turbine and rub against each other, and the two iron plates become more and more slippery in the process of constant friction, and finally each of them tends to the most accurate plane, which can be proved by mathematics and geometry, which is the most primitive and accurate plane......"

"In order to move from metaphysics to gewu, what needs to be changed is the lowest way of thinking - not even a certain way of thinking, not patting the head and saying, oh, this truth seems right, this sentence seems very philosophical, you can think that it is right. Mr. Zuo, this is what the Huaxia army wants to fight, today the Jinren's Great Courtyard is learning Gewu, Fuzhou is learning Gewu, all parties in the world, I encourage them to learn Gewu, if they don't study, I will blow his head with a cannonball. In this way, perhaps for tens or hundreds of years, we can truly understand the way of thinking of Gewuxue and materialism. ”

When Ning Yi said this, Zuo Xiuquan frowned and said, "But why...... Is the thinking of Gewuxue higher than that of metaphysics? ”

Ning Yi shook his head: "It's not higher than metaphysics, I found from some books from the west that their thinking is from the part to the whole - that is the extreme west, maybe thousands of miles away, the end of the Silk Road." I used this thinking to make all kinds of assumptions, and these hot air balloons, clairvoyants, cannons, rockets that you see today appeared...... Metaphysical thinking has come to the present, and can only be used as some big and inappropriate philosophical reflections, and Confucianism has chosen to castrate human nature from the original idea of educating the world to the present. Confucius said to repay grievances with directness, and now everyone knows that they repay grievances with virtue, why, this set of governing people, if you go for another thousand years, there will be no real changes. ”

"From the part into the whole form of thinking, there are countless possibilities, today you see is just the beginning, our innovation in papermaking at least to educate the people to see hope - then it's time to eat through this set of thinking, and wait until this set of thinking is also eaten, and then combined with the philosophy and humanities under the metaphysical system, maybe we can really see the world one day."

He waved his hand.

"It's hard for me to explain the necessity and urgency of it, but I've seen it, and I'm going to push it out. I can sprinkle the idea of Gewuxue all over the sky, the concept of equality in the Chinese army gave birth to the old bull head, a He Wen in the south of the Yangtze River, learned to fight the landlord and divide the land, and now what kind of fairness party has been created, whether it is Lin'an or Liu Guangshi, Dai Mengwei and others, or Jindi, they will choose more or less reforms, and these reform attempts will become the nutrients of the whole world. ”

"Maybe it won't be our Huaxia Army that will succeed next, the old bull head may go bankrupt, the Fairness Party may become a fire and then burn out, the Huaxia Army may be really strong and easy to break, one day I die, all kinds of ideas are like lights bursting, but I believe that the seeds have stayed. If my idea does not prevail, I would be happy to see the Junwu of Fuzhou take the road of a constitutional monarchy, because that will also open up the wisdom of the people to a certain extent. I wish him success and hope he succeeds. ”

When Ning Yi's words came to this, the expression on Zuo Xiuquan's face was finally no longer complicated, his expression was solemn, and he waved his hand towards Ning Yi, Ning Yi held his hands and patted them on the back of his hand.

"Of course, in various details, there are still many things that can be discussed, first of all, Jun Wu threw out these little cleverness of my master-apprentice relationship with him, don't continue, of course it is good to spread it among the commoners, but in the middle and upper classes, there are some big people who are loyal to the Wu Dynasty and are willing to accompany the little emperor to break the boat, and they may give up their support for him because of this rumor and his acquiescence. Therefore, on the bright side, he must make a statement, and he must make it clear that he is the orthodox posture of the Wu Dynasty. ”

“…… On the other hand, I can open up the ideas and books of Gewuxue to him, but if he does not give the results, he must train craftsmen by himself and cultivate qualified materialist thinking among craftsmen. I can also be honest that if he fails, this stall will be mine, and I am uneasy. ”

“…… Of course, I can give convenience to the cultivation of craftsmen, the establishment of factories, the operation of schools and the enlightenment of education, and some organizational methods at the bottom, so that they can have some reference. For example, those children you left here, Wen Huai has recently made great contributions in Tanzhou, if you wish, you can borrow them to go to Fuzhou to help assist in the establishment of some grassroots organizations, of course, whether you trust them or not, and to what extent, depends on you. ”

"There are many other things that can be talked about in detail later, and then there will be a turbulent era, so let's prepare for a magnificent change."

Ning Yi smiled: "Welcome to Chengdu." ”

……

The sun was shining from the sky, and Zuo Xiuquan stood on the tower of the Sword Pavilion, looking at the clouds flying in the sky. It was a clear sky under the scorching heat, and the air was not stuffy, and there would be no rain, but there seemed to be bursts of thunder in his ears.

What followed was the turbulent years......

Ning Yi's words were still ringing in his mind.

……

A few days before this, on the south bank of the Yellow River, the Lin'an envoys who went to the camp of the Jurchen East Route Army to lobby Zongfu Zongbi were kicked out of the camp by the Jurchens.

Later, a fat man with a kind face but also a majestic man crossed the Yellow River in a small boat, and he entered the barracks and met the two princes of the Jurchens.

There have been intimidation and abuse between the two sides, and there have been verbal confrontations, but in the end, the two sides have reached a preliminary consensus that the rest will be completed in the coming day, and another dignified head-to-head battle will be held, and the other party's head will be removed.

The armies on both sides of the Yellow River began to operate with each other according to the agreed steps, and the mighty Jurchen East Route Army began to cross the river to the north. The Wanyanchang and Shuliesu armies in Jiangbei bypassed some fixed positions near Liangshan, and stopped burning, killing and looting nearby cities and villages.

……

In Fuzhou, Junwu and Zhou Pei and others received a great Confucian and dignitary every day, and the two sides tested each other, perfunctory, or simply picked out some things. Some people left, and of course some remained.

Compared with Jun Wu's resolute will, Zhou Pei's attitude was more gentle, because Zhao Ding's granddaughter Zhao Xiaosong saved her life, many Confucians found this relationship and came to the eldest princess's mansion to ask if the situation could be turned around.

In the past, when she was in Lin'an, she played a more conservative role, often dissuading Junwu, who was the crown prince at the time, not to be too radical and ruin relations with everyone. But by this time, she had already agreed to the policy of not repairing the broken ship again.

"Go back, there's no way out."

At the end of the conversation, she also sighed like this, after all, she was young, and even though she had experienced a lot of things, she was finally able to accept this kind of road of breaking the kettle and letting go. In the end, there are also some elderly people who are willing to entrust their lives to them.

Reform has already begun, ominous proverbs and speculations are entering her ears every day, and people are predicting their future self-immolation. Sometimes, she would wake up from her dreams, and under the starlight, she would look out to the sea in the east.

“…… You assist Junwu, Xiao Pei...... You assist Junwu and pass on the world of the Zhou family...... Pass it on...... Yes? ”

She remembered Zhou Yong's entrustment when he was dying.

Father......

Can we still ...... Where do you go......

It won't be long before there will be boxes and boxes of things, transported thousands of miles to the southwest.

……

Not many people expected that in this vast world, the flames that were more blazing and complex than the war against Jin began to appear after the fourth southern expedition of the Jin people.

……

in the cloud.

The cause and effect of the matter are implicated from a very small place.

More than ten years ago, the Jurchens' second southern expedition invaded Bianliang, the capital of the Wu Dynasty, and they abducted hundreds of thousands of Han Chinese and went north as slaves.

The life of the Han slaves was extremely difficult, especially the first batch of Han slaves captured during the disgrace of Jingping, nine out of ten of them had died in inhuman torture more than ten years ago.

In the middle of this, there was once a family of eunuchs in Bianliang, whose family was arrested in the north, and the men in the family became slaves and women became prostitutes, and in the few years since they were arrested, several members have died one after another. By the tenth year of the Tianhui, the head of this family, who was originally an official of the Ministry of Rites of the Wu Dynasty, had reported a piece of news to his superiors in order to survive.

The news is: His son once abandoned literature and followed the martial arts, served as an officer in the Wurui battalion of the Wu Dynasty, and later followed the Black Flag Army Ning Yi to kill the monarch and rebelled, and became the core member of the Black Flag Army.

At that time, it was during the Xiaocanghe War, and the god of war Lou had fallen to the northwest, and the official surnamed Luo hoped that the Jin people could leave their family alive and persuade them to surrender to the northwest, or they could become bait in the future to trap the black flag spies.

A Jin official took note of the matter, but did not take special care of it.

It wasn't until the end of the Xiaocanghe War that the Jin people, who had paid a heavy price in the northwest, began to pay attention to intelligence warfare, and Xi Yin ordered Yan Qingjue and others to organize forces and pay attention to the southwest, and this record was found again, but at that time, many people in the Luo family, including the official surnamed Luo, had already died, and due to the poor news from the south and the north, the people in the clouds could not judge the authenticity of this information, and this information was once put on hold again.

Soon after, a chief arrester named Mandu Daru noticed this information, and at this time, only a half-crazy little daughter of the original Luo family was still surviving.

This year was the fifteenth year of the Tianhui, and shortly after mid-May, someone came to report that the mad woman had disappeared during the latest inventory. At this time, the news of the defeat of the Sticky Han army in the southwest of the Wu Dynasty had spread, and many of the Han slaves in Jindi died innocently every day, and the order originally issued by Wu Qimai to pay a fine for killing the Han slaves could not be implemented for a while, and it was not surprising that a mad woman died silently.

The law and order were already in chaos, and the Hannu's resistance and flight were about to become fierce at any time, and Mandu Daru still had a lot to do at this time, but the intuition he had developed over the years made him pay attention to it.

On 23 May, a convoy of business travelers headed for Yanmen Pass.

Lu Mingfang was in the middle of the convoy and looked back at the desolate scenery of Youyan.

He was actually a child of Bianliang who grew up, not yet fully adult, the Jurchens were killed, he experienced the war, and soon followed his father to the clouds to open up the situation, and not long after, his father died. He has been with Youyan for half his life.

In more than ten years, he only went south three times, twice in Xiaocanghe and once in the southwest, and all he saw was a desolate scene. Now that the Huaxia army has won a great victory and occupied the Chengdu Plain, he went to Chengdu and could see the rich and prosperous southern city.

Think about it, the memories of the past have almost become distant, what kind of scene is the prosperity of the Han people? In his mind, he only knew the scenery of the Northland.

Lo Ming Fong died on the evening of May 24.

Soon after, his mangled body was transported back to the clouds, and the Jurchens began to spread the word that they had killed the Hosaku leader of the Black Banner in the Northlands.

Tang Minjie saw the almost unrecognizable corpse in the crowd, and he recognized it for a long time, and his cheeks twitched several times.

It seemed to be dusk at the end of May, and he walked into an unknown dark alley and vomited once, and in Yunzhong Mansion, the killing of Hannu was becoming more and more intense. At this moment, he is the real person in charge of the Black Flag Army in the Northlands.

"Old Lou...... How do you keep yourself in measure? He sat in the alley, and the voice of the recent one ringing in his head, "I mean, you're a lot more measured than I am......"

Lu Mingfang sat there and answered, what did he answer? Although he can't remember it anymore, maybe he thinks of his comrades-in-arms, the corners of Tang Minjie's mouth still have a smile and hook up......

……

When An Xifu led the team over the Sword Pavilion and followed the crowd in the direction of Chengdu, the atmosphere in Jindi was becoming solemn.

Zong Han and Xi Yin led the small number of the Western Route Army, on the way back to the north, constantly planning the future direction, their letters have been sent back to the Jin State one by one, on the one hand, to express their attitude, on the other hand, to clarify the facts, hoping to complete the future exchange of rights in the most appropriate way, but also hope that the high-level elders in the Jin State can realize the threat of the black flag and reach a consensus on some aspect as much as possible.

This is an unprecedented fiasco. But at the same time, Zong Han and Xi Yin's past victorious records can still explain part of the problem. In the imperial palace in Beijing in May, someone read several letters sent by Zong Han and Xi Yin to the extremely weak emperor Wu Qimai, the will of the Jin Emperor was extremely tenacious, he gritted his teeth after suffering a stroke hemiplegia and persevered for two years, waiting for the end of the Southern Expedition, on May 25, his consciousness was rarely awakened, and he left some will for the results of this Southern Expedition.

He followed Ah Gu to fight and fought with Zong Han and Xi Yin for half his life, at this moment, the emperor who was nearly dying, still responded to the request for help from his comrades thousands of miles away with his last strength.

……

Daylight is setting.

Soon after, it will sink to the earth, and it will stir up the most blazing waves—