Chapter 62: The Clash of Civilizations
"Weichen got the grace of the saint's acquaintance, and was promoted from a storyteller with no merit to the Taizhou governor of today's six products. Weichen has a sense of guilt within five, and he can't repay the saint unless he does his best. Gou Hongshe knelt on the ground and said excitedly.
"You don't have to be loyal, just do your job. Let's talk about how to do it! Zhao Wei knew that Gou Hongshe was taking a vaccination, and the next estimate was to advise.
"Shen Qi Shen Zhi County discovered a saltpeter mine in Mingzhu County and reported it to Weichen to release those slaves and return them to their homes and recruit them to open mines. The workshops in Shangjing made a large amount of gunpowder, which required more saltpeter raw materials. Wechen thought it was feasible. Gou Hongshe said lightly.
Although Gou Hongshe avoided the important and was reluctant to take sides on political positions, he was not wrong in considering that there is indeed the largest saltpeter mine in Asia in the Ryukyu Islands. Japan has high-quality gold, silver and copper mines, and there is also a lot of sulfur. The government hall sent Su Shi to Japan not only because of the hundreds of millions of gift lists, but for the Great Song Dynasty to be able to produce high-quality gunpowder and steel.
"The saltpeter mine in Mingzhu County can recruit miners from Taizhou. If those slaves were released and returned home, chaos would inevitably ensue. There are nearly 200,000 people in Mingzhu, and once there is no chaos, Mingzhu County is afraid that it will not be guaranteed. Zhao Ji shook his head and said.
Zhao's mind was to reduce the number of natives in the Ryukyu Islands and assimilate them as quickly as possible.
"Since Mingzhu has been established as a county, the people of Tiansun Kingdom in the past are the people of the Great Song Dynasty, why does the Holy Lord treat the people so harshly? This is against the way of the Chinese people to educate the barbarians! The Great Song Dynasty is still a model for the civilization of various Chinese countries, and such evil deeds are detrimental to the kindness of the saints and the prestige of the Great Song Dynasty. Gou Hongshe really didn't agree with Zhao Ji's barbaric behavior.
"Not killing them all is already the greatest kindness. Do you want me to put them alongside the people of the Great Song Dynasty? Zhao Ji said angrily.
Zhao Ji's thinking is obviously the kind of thinking of later generations, even the kind of thinking of the Mongols' expansion, and the kind of thinking that the Europeans colonized the Americas. Zhao Ji saw too much worship of the Mongols in later generations. In the worship of the history of the strong, the bloody slaughter of the Mongols has instead become the oxidant of that great feat. The Indians of the Americas did not receive real American citizenship until later generations, and the first Europeans who colonized North America even regarded the slaughter of Indians as God's will, and even the skulls of the Indians were clearly priced. Today, Zhao Ji is the mentality of the Mongols, the mentality of the Western colonizers.
However, after all, Zhao Ji is from the 21st century, and he does not agree with the way of colonial expansion of the Mongols and Europeans, so he did not bloody the barbarians of the Ryukyu Islands, but just broke them up and completely assimilated them. The Huayi concept of Chinese civilization is not based on blood. Even if Zhao Ji in later generations is a Han Chinese, it is difficult to guarantee that there is no blood of foreign people after thousands of years of ethnic integration.
"Shengshang, Tang Taizong said: "Since ancient times, they have all been noble China, cheap and cheap, and I love them as one, so their species are all dependent on me like parents." "Tang Tai was religiously kind to the barbarians, and with the barbarians attached, he eventually became a khan. And thus established a great cultural and martial arts, creating a prosperous era in China! Tang Taizong can be an example of the saint! Holy Mingjian! Gou Hongshe advised.
"To this day, where is Tang Taizong's martial arts? Treat barbarians well, that is to raise tigers for trouble. Without An Lushan's rebellion, would the Tang Dynasty have perished? Today, the Great Song Dynasty sends New Year's coins to the Western Xia and Northern Liao every year, when did the Western Xia and Northern Liao be attached? Zhao Ji did not recognize his so-called kindness, and then asked rhetorically.
"Holy Lord, the Great Song Dynasty cannot recover the homeland of the Han and Tang Dynasties today, not because the soldiers and armor are not rich, but because of the national policy. The saint can change the old and harsh old and strict of the Great Song Dynasty, why can't he let go of this part alone? Gou Hongshe couldn't understand Zhao's nationalist notions.
The reason why Western Xia and Northern Liao can become the fierce rivals of the Great Song Dynasty today is inseparable from the founding policy of Song Taizu. In view of the rebellion of the five dynasties of feudal towns, Song Taizu has always pursued the national policy of guarding the inside and the outside. Because Song Taizu was dressed in a yellow robe, he was proclaimed emperor by the soldiers. If the soldiers can support him, they can also abolish him. For this reason, Song Taizu adopted the method of using literature to control military force and advocating literature to suppress military force in the national policy, and the weak soldiers and weak generals were weak people. It can be said that Song Taizu only has his throne in his eyes, and he has completely lost his ambition to open up to the outside world.
Song Taizu once said: "On my couch, how can I allow others to sleep soundly?" And he didn't think about the fact that outside his door, there were many people staring at him. What Song Taizu paid attention to was just his own couch. The reason why the entire Great Song Dynasty became such a nest is this. When the Han Dynasty and the Tang Dynasty were established, the founders had the lofty ambition of unifying the world and making the world peaceful, but where did the founders of the Song Dynasty have? In the end, the Song Dynasty fought a war for three hundred years, and the more it fought, the weaker it became, and the more it fought, the more peaceful it became.
If Song Taizu can continue to use Zhou Shizong's army to pacify the feudal towns for a hundred years, it is estimated that not only the sixteen states of Yanyun have been recovered at that time, but also the Northern Liao will have to be destroyed. It was not difficult for the Song Dynasty to inherit the mantle of the Tang Dynasty! However, Song Taizu was afraid that the generals would establish meritorious deeds and overshadow the masters, so he was busy weakening the generals, and he thought of pacifying Northern Liao. Since then, Northern Liao has become invincible. In the history of the Great Song Dynasty, there was no failure in dealing with internal peasant uprisings, and no failure in dealing with foreign invasions.
Perhaps there are many people who praise Song Taizu and praise his national policy. However, he was a figure like Chiang Kai-shek after all.
Let's talk about Western Xia. During the period of Song Taizong, the party was forced by the pressure of the Khitan to take refuge in the Great Song Dynasty, but Song Taizong, Zhao Pu and others inherited the idea of Song Taizu, to deprive the party of the power of the generals and raise them in Bianjing, and then the party of the party clan of the military and financial resources were collected by the central government, so that the party people who were good at conquest had no way to rise, and finally the party people fended for their own livelihood and relied on conquest to defeat the Khitan, defeat the Great Song Dynasty, defeat Tubo, and establish Western Xia. Li Yuanhao relied on his strong force to find a place between the Khitan and the Great Song Dynasty.
However, the Song people did not think about introspection, but thought: If you are not of my race, your heart will be different. The increasing hatred of the surrounding ethnic groups aggravated the ethnic contradictions, and thus the long-term confrontation between the Xia, Song and Liao kingdoms was born. The consequence of the confrontation is the shrinking of Chinese civilization. The Song Dynasty lost the Western Regions for 300 years, and the Western Regions were reduced to the heavenly world for thousands of years, and they were not recovered until the Qing Dynasty. And the Chinese are also becoming more and more introverted, less and less open to the outside world, and becoming timid and comfortable. From the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, this great change in national character was because of the national policy of Song Taizu.
Zhao Ji once discussed the above with Bao Shou. There is also an intention to change this ethos. However, in the treatment of foreign races, Zhao still has the nationalist mentality of the Han people. This kind of mentality is very incompatible with the Chinese civilization's view of the world of educating all the people and transforming barbarians. This made his supporters very incomprehensible.
However, Zhao did not respect the Tang Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty was not comparable to the Han, Song, and Ming dynasties at all. For no other reason, there were no thinkers in the Tang Dynasty, and most of his achievements were naturally inherited from the mantle of the Sui Dynasty. If you just worship his martial arts, what is the difference between worshipping the Mongols?
Zhao Ji is proud to have traveled to the Song Dynasty because there are such great thinkers as Zhou Dunyi, Cheng Hao, and Cheng Yi. Even Wang Anshi, if there were no different opinions on changing the law and his new learning was admired, he would be a great thinker. But the Tang Dynasty could not find such a person, even if Tang poetry was very popular, but the Tang Dynasty, which did not have a thinker, really could not sublimate him.
The Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty can be said to have their own advantages, however, the Song people did not see the advantages of the Tang Dynasty, only his shortcomings. In the end, the delusion was corrected, and many good things were lost. I'm afraid the sorrow of the change of dynasty is here!
The Song Dynasty pushed the Wenzhi that the Tang Dynasty did not have to the peak and created a large number of thinkers, however, the martial arts possessed by the Tang Dynasty were castrated by the Song people. Even though the martial arts of the people of the Song Dynasty were even hotter than those of the Tang Dynasty, the suppression of the national policy prevented him from transforming into the country's combat power.
The civilization concept of Zhao Ji's later generations, the current civilization concept of the Great Song Dynasty, and the residual civilization concept of the Tang Dynasty collided together, completely making Wang Anshi's reform in history without a shadow. Zhao Ji served as the emperor for several years, and won the support of the army with the remnants of the Tang Dynasty's concept of civilization, but he promoted his own concept of civilization in later generations. The whole thing is messed up. Compared with Wang Anshi's changes in history, the current changes have become nondescript.
This clash of civilizations caught Zhao Ji by surprise. Zhao Ji figured it out at this time, why did the scholar push him off the throne? Because he's so offbeat. And why did Wang Shao, Kumamoto, Xiao Yiyuan and other military factions begin to acquiesce in Zhao Ji's removal from the throne, and later support Zhao Ji to regain the throne? Because there is a gap between the concept of the military faction and Zhao Ji, but there are also points in common. And Wang Anshi and Shang Meng, the two forces that appeared at the time of change and were pushed to the foreground by Zhao Ji, were a kind of mind that neither opposed nor agreed. Which side to support, to which side to squeeze.
Imperial power, scholars, soldiers, and businessmen have common interests, but there is a huge gap. Compared with the disputes within Wang Anshi's Dharma Doctor in history, the disputes over the Dharma changes are even more chaotic now.
Zhao Ji pondered for a long time, figured out a lot of things, and then said: "In this way, forget about the natives of Mingzhu County as slaves." Now there are 20,000 natives who have arrived in Liuqiu, right? Bring their families and all the tribesmen over and settle them in Red Iron City, and settle them with the Liuqiu tribes. There are 200,000 natives in Mingzhu County, and half of them must be immigrated to Chitiecheng. In Mingzhu County, the number of Han Chinese must be more than half. This is my bottom line, you can arrange it! ”
"The political hall has demoted Bai Bolang, has a new general been re-dispatched to command the troops?" Zhao Ji continued.
"Yes. The government hall did not send anyone over. Gou Hongshe stood up and said. But in his heart, he was happy, if he did this, he would not have to be difficult to be a person between Zhao Ji and Zhengshitang.
"Holy Lord, Wang Anshi, Cai Jing, and Bao Shou are asking to see you outside the camp." Li Xiang'an said.
"What? Is the sir coming? Zhao Ji didn't understand why Wang Anshi came here, but he didn't dare to hesitate, and hurriedly ran outside the camp to greet him.
Perhaps because of the influence of later generations, Zhao Ji admires Wang Anshi very much, and can be said to be a die-hard fan of Wang Anshi.
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