Chapter 395: Unexpected
Whenever he thinks of these things that happened in the original history, the Chongzhen Emperor will now be heartbroken, and this is also the fundamental reason why he insisted on advocating nationalist ideas in the military aircraft department, as well as in the military hall and the guards. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
The establishment of the Ming Dynasty was largely based on the success of nationalism.
The inscription of Ming Taizu's crusade against Meng Yuan is the most concentrated and vivid expression of the nationalist proposition of the scholar class in the early Ming Dynasty, and the famous phrase "expelling the Tartars and restoring China" resounded in later generations, and was the first to be put forward.
It is a pity that after overthrowing the rule of the Mengyuan alien race, after more than 200 years of evolution, especially in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, the scholars in the north and south of the Ming Dynasty no longer pay attention to the Huayi debate, nor do they emphasize the defense of Huayi, but only focus on the success of individuals and their families, and the wealth and glory of individuals and their families.
These scholars, who should have been the backbone of the Chinese nation, have replaced the nation with their families, putting their own family's interests above the interests of the nation.
It is not surprising that once a group loses the most basic sense of nationalism spiritually, then it is absolutely impossible for this group to have any more national integrity, and finally become the leading party and lackey accomplice of the Manchu Dynasty.
However, now the situation is changing to the place that Emperor Chongzhen wants to see, although he has not been able to turn the atmosphere of the whole world around, but at least he has been able to influence and change the people around him.
Li Xin, who was originally one of the leaders of the displaced people in history, has already jumped out of the rut of the past understanding, the Central Plains has many people and little land, and the land annexation is serious, but what does it matter, isn't there a more vast land outside the Great Wall, and there are countless fertile fields on the Liaodong Peninsula and the Korean Peninsula?
If you would rather starve and starve to defend your drought-stricken native villages, than take the slightest risk and trek to the frontier to cultivate and cultivate, then you deserve to starve to death!
The imperial court opened the frontier, encouraged immigrants to reclaim, a large amount of fertile land did not give you money, and at the same time opened the coast, encouraged to go abroad to make a living, as long as you are willing to contribute, there is always a bite to eat, in this case, you will burn and loot because of famine, and gather people to make trouble, occupy the mountain as the king, which is absolutely heinous in the eyes of Li Xin, the official of the court today!
This is the idea that Li Xin, one of the leaders of the original historical rebel army, came to his heart after hearing about the northwest thieves on the way to Korea!
After learning about some of Li Xin's words and deeds, Emperor Chongzhen was sincerely gratified by Jiang Yueguang, the deputy envoy of the Li Fan Yuan, and Qiao Qitai, the deputy of the Jinyi Guard, who accompanied him, and learned some of Li Xin's words and deeds.
Not only did Li Xin's vision and insight change greatly because of his career in the Military Aircraft Department and his trip to North Korea through Dongjiang Town, but even Zhang Pu, the new generation leader of Donglin who Emperor Chongzhen had always been on guard, had undergone unexpected changes.
In the official report received by Jiang Yueguang recently, Jiang Yueguang asked the imperial court for instructions, saying that Zhang Pu, the deputy envoy of the Korean envoy and the editor of the Hanlin Academy, requested to be stationed in the Korean State to give lectures at the opening altar of the Korean state, and asked Emperor Chongzhen to give the DPRK a batch of four books and five classics and Zhuzi Daquan newly engraved in the first year of Chongzhen.
It turned out that after Zhang Pu followed Jiang Yueguang to the Korean state, he was soon sought after and worshiped by the Korean Confucian scholars because of his multiple identities as Enke Tanhua in the first year of Chongzhen, the editor of the Daming Hanlin Academy, the new leader of the Jiangnan Shilin in the Ming Dynasty, and the envoy of the Great Tomorrow.
In recent decades, the various academies that have become popular in North Korea have also invited him to give lectures, preach, teach, and solve doubts, and Zhang Pu is different from ordinary people's ideas, he feels that he shoulders the sacred mission of spreading the way of Confucius and Mencius, that is, "to establish a heart for heaven and earth, to establish a life for the people, to continue to learn for the saints, and to open peace for the people."
Since the disciples of the Korean scholars welcomed themselves so warmly and admired Confucianism, then as a disciple of the Holy Gate who was interested in "continuing the study for the sake of the saints", he naturally had the responsibility to carry forward Confucianism in the DPRK, teach the Korean Shilin the orthodox Confucianism of China, improve the level of Confucianism among the disciples of the Korean Confucianism, and correct their biases and mistakes in the way of Confucius and Mencius.
It can be imagined that now that Emperor Chongzhen received this report from North Korea in mid-April, how surprised and happy he must have been in his heart!
Emperor Chongzhen was not too wary of Donglin leaders like Qian Qianyi, who were just political opportunists and chameleons, and at best they could only be regarded as relatively accomplished literati, and they did not have much political talent and ability.
But people like Zhang Pu are not very different.
Historically, Zhang Pu did not take the Jinshi of Enke in the first year of Chongzhen, but he has been active in Jiangnan Shilin as a lifter, first participated in the organization of the Ying Society with a group of unwilling Donglin disciples, and later went to Beijing to participate in the examination, but did not get admitted to the Jinshi, but on the basis of the Nanying Society, he extensively contacted other candidates in Beijing, and initiated the organization of a Beiying Society.
In the second year of Chongzhen, Zhang Pu returned to Suzhou, contacted Sun Chun, Yang Yi and others from Nanying Society, and then sent a large number of invitations again, inviting celebrities from all over the world to gather in Suzhou.
Under the organization of Zhang Pu, these Shilin celebrities swore an oath to establish a Shilin Alliance in Suzhou, and named it Fushe.
After the establishment of the Restoration Society, Zhang Pu went to various sources to raise funds for the Restoration Society, and then organized meetings, published anthologies, and publicized political ideas, gradually putting the public opinion of the entire Jiangnan in the hands of the Restoration Society.
Although Qian Qianyi and other "four money" were the bigwigs of the Donglin Party in the court in the later period, their various activities in the people were mainly coordinated and organized by the Fushe presided over by Zhang Pu, Sun Chun, Zhou Zhong, Yang Yi, Chen Zilong, and others.
It is conceivable that if this Zhang Pu is not taken away, what kind of negative role this person will play in the process of purging the Donglin Party.
This is also the reason why Emperor Chongzhen broke up Zhang Pu and asked him to follow Jiang Yueguang and others to North Korea to deliver the decree before he started to clean up Qian Qianyi, Hui Shiyang and others.
Now, no matter what the considerations are, Zhang Pu invited himself to stay in North Korea, build a academy in North Korea, open a pulpit, and spread orthodox Confucianism, which is a great thing that Emperor Chongzhen is happy to see it happen.
Therefore, after receiving the report sent back by Jiang Yueguang from Hanjing, Emperor Chongzhen quickly issued an order for the cabinet, the Ministry of Rites, and the Imperial Court to discuss the issue of sending permanent envoys to foreign vassal states by the Ming Dynasty, and decided to start with the Korean state.
Then, on the day before the military report from the Shanxi Suppression Front arrived in Beijing, a team of Jinyi guards left Beijing with a message to Jiang Yueguang, Zhang Pu, Li Xin, and the Korean lord Li Liang, as well as several large boxes filled with Confucian classics such as the Four Books and the Five Classics and the Great Works of Zhuzi, and headed for Dongjiang Town and Korea via Tianjin.
In his will to Zhang Pu, Emperor Chongzhen not only appointed him as the permanent envoy of the Ming court to the Korean state, but also agreed to his request to allow him to establish an academy in the Korean state, recruit disciples, and spread orthodox Confucianism.
In particular, Emperor Chongzhen also specially reminded him and allowed him to recruit famous Confucian teachers from the Jiangnan Shilin who volunteered to go to Korea to give lectures and preach to teach and solve doubts for the Confucian children in Korea.
For Emperor Chongzhen, he wished that these people would all go to North Korea as soon as possible.
In this time and space, because Zhang Pu was admitted to the Jinshi, and because of the expansion of this branch of Jinshi, Zhang Pu did not participate in the initiation and organization of the Beiying Society, so the activities of the Ying Society were still limited to the Southern Zhili, especially within the scope of Ying Tianfu.
Without the historical Beiying Society, there would naturally be no so-called Fusha that was originally organized by Shilin celebrities among the people of the north and south of Beijing.
This also made Emperor Chongzhen feel a lot more relieved.
Because the organizational form of the Restoration Society in history is not a real modern political party organization, but it also looks very terrible.
Under Zhang Pu's planning, a group of literati doctors from all over the country, at the appeal of several bigwigs of the Donglin Party, went to Suzhou to meet publicly, fill in the list of members, jointly elect leaders, and then jointly signed on the announcement sent by Zhang Pu and others to the whole country to express their academic and political opinions.
This is no longer a local poetry club or a local literary society in the traditional sense, this is already a new form of political movement, once they are really developed and promoted, this is much more powerful than the traditional sense of party struggle!
Fortunately, in this time and space, because Zhang Pu was appointed by Emperor Chongzhen as the Tanhua of Enke in the first year of Chongzhen, he suddenly had a feeling of being complacent and ascending to the sky in one step, and was arranged to transcribe and revise the actual records of Emperor Xizong in the Hanlin Academy every day, so his fate also changed, and he didn't have the time, energy and interest to organize a group of people who had fallen into the first place to engage in any association.
Therefore, in this time and space, the Beiying Society, which was crucial in the history of the development of the Restoration Society, did not appear, and the subsequent change was that the Restoration Society did not appear.