Chapter 8: Stargazing (I)

Confucianism can be inherited for more than 2,000 years in the land of China, and it has affected more than a dozen surrounding countries, which naturally has its essence and wonders. Although it has been tampered with repeatedly since the Han Dynasty, in the Mengyuan Dynasty, it was ruined beyond recognition by Xu Heng and others. But whether it is in the integrity of the theoretical system, or in the social fit of Zhu Chongjiu's time, it is still unparalleled in the world!

In other words, in an era where people can read and write their names and surnames in their entirety, the illiteracy rate is still more than 90 percent. Those who can afford to read are almost all ordinary people. And whose children speak to whom, when these scholars hold power and participate in the day-to-day operation of a regime, they will naturally speak for the class from which they originate.

Therefore, no matter what Confucianism looked like when it was first born, in the process of continuous evolution for thousands of years, it is bound to open up the eyes of the scholars and the families behind them, and for the entire gentry class. The children of the gentry class will instinctively choose the theoretical system that is most beneficial to them when they study and do their studies. After more than 1,000 years of mutual choice and adaptation to each other, the two sides have long become an inseparable whole, with both losses and prosperity.

When such a large, complex, and entrenched system feels threatened, the urgency and strength of its counterattack can be imagined.

Fortunately, Zhu Chongjiu and his Huai'an army have always occupied the national righteousness, and they have played the banner of expelling the Tartars early. And in previous battles, it has shown enough strength. Otherwise, when the "Declaration of Equality" is issued, the intensity of the counterattack will at least triple.

Fortunately, the war reserves of the Mengyuan Imperial Court were exhausted by Toto, Xuexue and others in the protracted battle last time, and they have not recovered their vitality so far. Otherwise, the land of Xu Huai, who had just been born for a year, would definitely be involved in the war again.

Fortunately, Han Lin'er and Liu Futong and others were all born in Mingjiao, and they are different from the Confucian disciples. Otherwise, I am afraid that Bianliang will quickly discover and take advantage of this rare opportunity to try to put Huaiyang under his absolute control again.

Fortunately, there is a huge difference between Zhu Chongba's strength and Zhu Chongjiu, and the former has always acted cautiously and is unwilling to take millet from anyone, otherwise, a tragic and abnormal civil war of the Red Turban Army will start along the Yangtze River.

Fortunately, the vast majority of the middle and high-ranking generals in the Huai'an Army were old brothers who had fought side by side with Zhu Chongjiu, and in the past year and a half, the Huaiyang Grand Governor's Office has conducted rotation training for low-level officers through the Yangtze River Lecture and Martial Arts Hall, which has greatly strengthened the control of the army. Otherwise, unforeseen things will inevitably happen within your own home.

Fortunately, the stubborn gentry in various parts of Huaiyang have been almost "consumed" in recent years, and those who are not too stubborn have made several times more money than before by taking shares in the Huaiyang firm and various industries under its name, and their attitude towards the Grand Governor's Office has changed from hostile to supportive, otherwise, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not make any outrageous moves.

Fortunately, a great flood in the year of Toktok made the people of Lianghuai completely see clearly the true attitude of the Mengyuan court towards the Han people. Otherwise, under the full power of the Confucian scholars, maybe someone will really be on their side. Fortunately, since the beginning of Huai'an three years ago, the Grand Governor's Mansion has been through the Guò School, the Imperial Examination and the Jixian Hall, and strives to recruit and cultivate like-minded readers. At the same time, the future of the Grand Governor's Office is becoming more and more attractive to participants

fortunately

I don't know how much luck and coincidence overlap to get the luckiest result.

The probability of this luck is so small that many historians in later generations often sweat over a certain hypothesis when studying the history of this period.

Assuming that Zhu Chongjiu did not rely on a pig-killing knife to kill the position of the great sect manager of Huaiyang;

Suppose Zhu Chongjiu did not prove in the previous series of events that his vision was indeed extraordinary;

Assuming that Liu Ziyun, Wu Liangmou, Wu Yongchun, Xu Da and others were not the generals he brought out;

Suppose that Hu Dahai, Ivanov, Aslan, Geng Zaicheng and others did not receive his favor;

Assuming that Zhu Chongjiu did not distribute the dividends of the firm at the end of each year, most of them were distributed to his subordinates;

Suppose Lu Luzeng, Su Mingzhe, Robben and others are ambitious;

Assuming that Meng Yuan's side was not in charge of the unstable foundation of Hama, but still the liberation of the government and the opposition

If any of the above assumptions are true, the Huaiyang Governor's Mansion, which has just grown horns and teeth, will probably fall directly into the abyss of no return.

However, history cannot be assumed after all.

Although, later, it was clearly recorded in the history books that Wu Guogong, the chief manager of Huaiyang, and Zhu Chongjiu, the pig slaughterer, were forced by Liu Bowen to have no way back at a very inappropriate time and in a very inappropriate place, so he made an imprudent decision.

However, it was this imprudent decision that led the Huaiyang family to embark on a completely different path from the previous rebels, and finally left a brilliant scroll in the history of mankind.

However, there are also some conscientious historians who disagree. Because they made bold assumptions and came to the conclusion very directly, 'When Zhu Chongjiu publicly announced his Declaration of Equality, it was completely opportunistic'. This manifesto was not much different from the program upheld by the peasant rebels of all dynasties.

Chen Sheng and Wu Guang once proposed, "The prince will have a kind of Xiangning"; Wang Xiaobo and Li Shun once proposed, "Equal to the noble and the low, both rich and poor"; Even Xu Shouhui, who was blackly calculated as a puppet by Zhu Chongjiu, also proposed, "Destroy the rich and help the poor"; The other Red Turban princes, including Liu Futong, Peng Yingyu, Bu Wangsan, Zhu Chongba, and Zhang Shicheng, also announced very similar decrees on their respective territories and at different times. Because in the basic teachings of Mingjiao, there is a creed that "all those who worship the Ming Venerable are brothers and sisters, and they are equal to each other". ”

It's just that none of these people are as bold as Zhu Chongjiu, and they do it so simply, and they directly regard "all people are created equal" as the foundation of all the decrees of the entire Huaiyang Governor's Office.

Before and after the issuance of this order, not only Su Mingzhe, Wu Yongchun and others had a lot of money, but the government made slaves and maids. Zhu Chongjiu's own family is still a wife and eight concubines, plus maids, servants, long-term workers, and countless soldiers.

In other words, Tong guò boldly assumes that some conscientious historians have proved very lightly that Zhu Chongjiu did not really want "all men are created equal", but wanted to be different and prove that his Huaiyang red scarf was different from other rebels. This opportunistic way attracts the attention of the world, and then achieves the ugly purpose of blinding more gangsters and providing them with guidance one after another.

Of course, there is no shortage of conscientious historians in any dynasty or generation. When they finally restored the true face of Zhu Chongjiu, the "generation of traitorous males", the subjects of the study had been dead for hundreds of years. No one would have refuted him from the coffin. Maybe it's disdain to refute.

In short, history is the result of countless accidental collisions.

As for whether the collision process was tragic, bloody, or beautiful, I am afraid that only the people themselves at that time knew.

Maybe the people at that time didn't think about it so carefully. I wanted to do it, so I did it. As for the result, whoever can be sure that if you don't do it, you will go further than if you do it.

In fact, I'm afraid this is Zhu Chongjiu's true thoughts.

When he said the words "all men are created equal", he never thought that he would stand on the opposite side of the Confucian disciples in the whole world.

Under the dual influence of Zhu Dapeng and Zhu Laofu, he just felt that it was a sin for people to enslave each other. The tragedy that once happened to Zhu Tuhu's family should not happen to anyone. And if it weren't for witnessing too much unfairness, and then being quite disappointed in the entire social environment, Zhu Dapeng would not have quickly changed from a technical backbone to an otaku.

The memories of these two lives are not exciting, and there are too many regrets to make up. And the only thing that can fundamentally change this, or rather, to amend it, is probably the word "equality".

It is only human beings who have reached equality in many aspects, both spiritual and legal. Only then will there be no children of officials who rely on their father's shadow to take advantage of it. Only equality can curb the absurdity of "grass people deserve to endure labor pains", my son's annual salary of 10 million. Only with equality can the bizarre theory that "a great professor should be given a light sentence if he kills a migrant worker" will not have a room for survival in the 21 st century. Only equality, "because the Japanese national civilization was higher at that time, so North China should accept Japanese rule, and any sacrifice can be made for this" will not appear in the Chinese courts after World War II and resonate with countless "public intellectuals".

Zhu Chongjiu, who fused two souls and also remembered all the injustices of two different time and space, did not want to see the tragedy and ugliness repeated over and over again.

So he said what he really thought. He began to try to change the world according to his true thoughts. At that moment, he may have mustered up enough courage, but he definitely did not expect to cause such a strict result.

To his great delight, when he made his thoughts public, he found that his eyes suddenly became much brighter.

To his delight, Liu Bowen finally chose to stay.

What made him even happier was that most of the civil and military forces present expressed their support for his idea. Everyone has just escaped from suffering for a long time, and they are all unforgettable about what happened in the past.

Although in the following months, there were still some noises and backlashes within the Grand Governor's Mansion. But in the Huaiyang region as a whole, the noise and backlash have had little impact. Zhu Chongjiu's prestige was enough to suppress them, and the financial resources of the Grand Governor's Office, as well as the ability of Lu Luzeng, Su Mingzhe, Liu Bowen, Feng Guoyong, and others, were also enough to contain the damage caused by opponents to a minimum.

However, the backlash and noise from the outside world, Zhu Chongjiuguang could not completely suppress it with his prestige and financial resources.

Lu Luzeng, Su Mingzhe, Liu Bowen and Feng Guoyong and others tried their best to ensure that no surrounding forces dared to take the initiative to provoke a war against the Huai'an army.

However, some scholars and gentry acted spontaneously, but the governor's office was a little powerless to deal with them. They even played a role that was not as good as that of the Mengyuan court. At least the Mengyuan court didn't want the gentry and scholars to get involved, so they could be tossed to death on charges at will. However, the Great Governor's Mansion did not dare to set a precedent for sinners because of their words.

What made Zhu Chongjiu, the chief manager, feel even more helpless was that the Mengyuan court had obviously abused the scholars and gentry like pigs and dogs, but the latter still stood on Meng Yuan's side willingly and continued to attack Huaiyang.

The end is that Da Yuan has abused me thousands of times, and I treat Da Yuan like my first love.

What's more, he even sold his family property, dismissed his wife and children, and went south alone. I am going to go to Yangzhou in person and ask the Huaiyang Governor's Mansion in person why they are perverse? !

It is an honor to die for a thief.

Confucianism has been inherited for thousands of years, and how many of them are unscrupulous children who forget their righteousness, and how many are willing to go to the soup for the sake of the great road.

Although, in their avenue, the etiquette is often the first.

As long as you accept the etiquette guidelines, it doesn't matter if the alien rule doesn't rule over China, and it doesn't matter how much the people suffer.