Chapter 623: All-Out Struggle

PS: Well, I said I didn't do it on purpose, do you believe it?

"Although the country is big, the warlike will perish, I think the great head of state will definitely understand this truth."

Yang Hao's speech at the banquet quickly spread throughout the capital and beyond, and by the next day, basically important people from all over the country had heard about it.

Since he was regarded as the representative of the will of the Great Führer, what he said was naturally instructive, and no one disputed whether he was honest or not. In major national affairs, no matter how young a person is, as long as he is a counselor of military aircraft, he must not talk nonsense.

If it is true, it is necessary to evaluate the pros and cons from its own interests. The results are good or bad, and it is related to how much benefit they can end up with.

As a group of old masters who are conservatives, of course they don't agree with Yang Hao's remarks. Isn't the use of war to promote the process of national reform tantamount to drawing a bloody wound in the country's economic body and bleeding all day long? No matter how strong a country is, can it withstand such a toss? It's not proper, it's quite inappropriate!

In a war, people will die, and even if the quality of weapons and equipment and the number of soldiers are superior in all aspects, unforeseen disasters occur from time to time, and it is not a fortunate thing after all. The best thing is to cultivate the martial arts, lock them up to live their own lives, the so-called kings and ministers, and the four seas are served, which is also said.

Traditional Daoist gentlemen have now learned to use newspapers to propagate their ideas, stubbornly holding their ground, and resolutely refusing to compromise with the government's campaign to organize the new Chinese culture. In their view, it is very undesirable to break the good customs of the Convention that have been popular in the world for thousands of years.

There are quite a lot of such people, and those who quote scriptures are very capable of making some flowery articles.

However, this seems to be the old man's words. Immediately provoked an advanced counterattack by a large group of young people. Liang Qichao. Zhang Taiyan. Tan Sitong, Liao Zhongkai, and Song Jiaoren, countless emerging scholars are like knives, and they refute them fiercely.

There is even a young critic surnamed Zhou pen name Lu Xun, who scolded unceremoniously and directly: "Through the ages, have you ever cultivated a saint monarch?" The so-called monarchs and ministers are not the right of the Northern Song Dynasty, but the Song Dynasty was destroyed twice. The emperor was dragged to play a monkey show, the concubine and princess became a military prostitute, and the bones of the ancestors had to be dug up to be used as a night pot, this is the four-sea guest clothes you want? Didn't you break your head under the pressure of the Manchurians? I won't talk about how a bunch of sour Confucians grovel and pretend to be grandsons, don't you only need to have officials to do it, even your ancestors can sell it? ”

Hitting people without slapping their faces, scolding people without revealing their shortcomings, this kind of words obviously can't be used on Mr. Zhou, his happy revenge is like a rafter with a huge pen, which is full of lethality, causing a piece of public dung to splash when it lands. Eighty percent of the firepower was immediately aimed at him to kill the general, which was a means of pulling hatred. It can be called the world's first-class.

He was not wrong at all, the Confucian scholars throughout the ages, as long as there were officials, they didn't really care who was the ruler, or how the common people below lived. Bending down and bowing his head to the barbarians, that's nothing, anyway, Lao Tzu has an official position, and if you work together to piece together a "so-and-so prosperous world", you can have an explanation for Sage Kong and your own family, why not?

Today's new dynasty has changed the system, and if you study well, you may not be able to become an official, and you have to be tired all day long like a third grandson, how can this work? It has to be changed!

In addition, this new wave of the great head of state does not have a system of titles, which obviously does not conform to the general trend of the world -- the monarch does not see the great powers and countries, most of them are monarchs in the hall, and the more powerful they are, such as Britain, Germany, and Russia, the more typical nobles assist the virtuous emperors, and China has thousands of years of traditions, how can it be changed casually!

It's just that there are some things that can't be done, and the fig leaf still has to pull a horse. If it is revealed at once, is this a personal vendetta?

Newspaper politics has turned into a war of words, because the vernacular is implemented throughout the country, and the younger generation, who are inherently dominant, are particularly familiar with it. The old masters can't keep up with the changes of the times, and many new words don't know their meanings at all, let alone how to use them.

So, once the battle began, Mr. Zhou himself withstood at least half of the artillery fire, and other young scholars took action one after another.

As always, the head of state did not directly participate in the war, nor did he give any arbitrary instructions on this, except for asking the propaganda and supervision departments to conscientiously do a good job of controlling and screening them, and let them quarrel in the dark, and do whatever they should do.

However, this time it was different from the past, and even surpassed the fierce collision of forces under the leadership of the Manchu Qing court, especially the full-scale development of the national newspaper industry, the widespread promotion of radio broadcasting, the opening of magazines, and the growth of the complexity and influence of the public opinion position by thousands of times. It can be said that more than half of the people will be affected.

This is a far cry from the pattern in the late Qing Dynasty, where only tens of millions of literate people could be influenced.

Tan Sitong and Yan Fu, the two party leaders, are both masters in the debate, and after paying attention to a period in person, they couldn't sit still.

They knew very well that the key to such an unprecedentedly drastic state was to infer from Yang Hao's words that once the cultural consolidation and reform of the new dynasty were promoted by the whole people, the old theorists' theories of learning to be an official, becoming an official and becoming a superior person, and being an official would prosper and make the family rich would be dug out from the roots. In particular, the criticism of pragmatism, retreat, and the failure to do things in government directly poke at their privacy.

Since ancient times, hasn't all officials been in office to be less tired? If you really want to be an official and make decisions for the people, that is also Lao Tzu to be the master of the people, I said let you do whatever you want, the truth and justice are all my iron mouth, and I will decide the whole thing.

Yang Hao really wants to turn officials into public servants, this cliff can't bear it!

Even think deeper, with the implementation of the system of the new dynasty, it is very likely that the Taoism and science since Song Confucianism will be completely overthrown, and whether it is Zhu Xi or Wang Yangming, they may be invited down from the altar at that time.

The Great Führer admired Mencius's doctrine and hoped that the officials of the world would live up to the standards given by Mencius. This is in line with the requirements of Confucianism, and it is all said by your sage anyway. Similarly, Mencius also directly expounded Confucius's good intentions, and directly pointed out how scholars seek to become officials. The saying that has been passed down through the ages, "The people are precious, and the community is secondary." Jun is light". In fact, it is telling the Confucian scholars. How to gain influence, how to settle down!

In the words of Xu Tong, a scholar at the end of the Qing Dynasty, as long as he reads books well and does well in the imperial examination, his character and morality will naturally be high, and he will naturally be a good player to be an official. It is natural to ride on the heads of the people and do mischief -- this is not to say that they prey on the common people, but that they are simply bullshit and blind commands, and toss around.

Since ancient times, there have been countless such officials, and what can really be done well is recorded in historical stories. There are so many dynasties with a history of thousands of years, and there are only so many clean and good officials, which shows how difficult it is.

The first thing in Dayuan is to change this seriously backward system at the root and to reverse the stubborn and conservative thinking at the cultural level, not to mention how troublesome it is. The magnitude of the resistance is probably unprecedented.

However, the environment he faced was much better than that of the Taizu of this world.

The same founding leader. Yang Da Fuhrer did not have many people to restrain him. The million-strong army he commanded in his hands was absolutely loyal to him, and no matter how much trouble was made in various places, no one could rebel.

At the propaganda level, the vernacular text is promoted by him, and the title of great master is not given in vain, and the younger generation of students all regard him as a spiritual leader, which is definitely a response. No, it's just that Yang Hao, the "special envoy", said a few small words to stir up disputes. He himself didn't give a word of instructions, so naturally there were countless young talents rushing to roll up their sleeves and go into battle.

The struggle was rapidly expanding, and some bureaucrats who were watching from the sidelines also tried to get started, and when they found that the Führer had no objection, they immediately increased their input and pushed the polemic to a new height.

As a result, when governments at all levels convene meetings, they often can't say a few words about the matter, and then they start-for-tat quarrels. In addition to radio and newspaper publications, many public places have also become places for heated debates and even fist fights.

The head of state ordered all the military systems not to participate, and their families and children were also honest, and whoever dared to come forward would immediately close the small black house.

As long as there are no "Red-Guards", he is not worried about the situation getting out of control.

Yan Fu and Tan Sitong were worried that the head of state was in too much of a hurry, which might bury the current good situation and make it difficult to clean up the civil strife.

The Great Führer smiled calmly and comforted them: "The reason is not clear, we have to let everyone say what is in their hearts, and then let the people of the whole world be judged, and the final choice is made, so that no one can criticize and regret it." We must always be firm in our belief that the eyes of the people are clear and they know how to choose what is good for them. ”

When the two party leaders heard this, they said, let's not worry about it, the head of state has a chance to win early. In terms of the aspirations of the people, who else in the world can compare with him? The defeat of the conservatives is doomed.

For more than 10 years, with the help of the general trend of national land reform, the simultaneous promotion of literacy and broadcasting has allowed the influence of the head of state to directly enter the rural grassroots. After the roads were dredged, the people who had been honest to the point of numbness for thousands of years gradually became "wild", and it was very difficult for ordinary rural gentry and landlords to flicker and intimidate. The part of the people's great resentment has been killed, and the rest have been honest people for more than ten years, and they don't dare to try whether the iron fist of justice of the new dynasty is strong enough.

The controversy that spread throughout the country made the landlords and gentry everywhere perceive a glimmer of opportunity, and the agents they launched also tried to get involved, and at this time they had not yet discovered the hidden murderous motives inside.

The new bourgeois forces, mainly businessmen in the fields of industry and commerce, finance, and mining, also began to seek political marriages, to find an umbrella for their enormous wealth, and to try to conclude a collusion between officials and businessmen and the formation of a network of local privileged forces.

This time, they also took advantage of the chaos to mix in and see if they could occupy part of the position in advance.

All of them did not notice that this was actually a bold attempt to lure the snake out of the hole, starting with the connivance of the old master's conservative remarks, quietly pushing the hidden elements of all classes to jump out, and then recording it all in a small notebook.

Just as Yang Hao said to Zhu Erdian, China needs to take advantage of the opportunity of the European melee to resolve its internal contradictions as soon as possible. Without foreign mixing interference, it is more convenient and faster to do.

It's just that the words of the two of them in the first half of the sentence are only a few, and besides, those who can be invited to the banquet also know what to say and what not to spread indiscriminately. Therefore, many people who take things out of context do not know why, and act rashly, and the result is that they just fall into the pit!

In private, the two Yang Hao had a conversation more than once. The more I have experienced in the tide of this era, the more I can understand the various measures taken by Taizu at the beginning, and it is really a last resort.

When the new dynasty was at its peak, China had just experienced a half-century of turmoil, and the whole country was on the verge of tossing. After a long and brutal struggle and test, it stands to reason that the rest of the people should have a high enough ideological consciousness, right?

But as a result, the front foot had just entered the city, and the bureaucratic ideas that had been in place since ancient times immediately germinated naturally. Regardless of the role played by some of the remnants of feudalism in it, those time-tested leading cadres, loyal and reliable party members, did not fall under the guns and torture of the imperialists and reactionaries, but were easily carried away by the idea of privilege.

Taizu's repeated emphasis on "serving the people" and "the people being the masters of the country" soon became a slogan, but it was difficult to put it into practice. When he wanted to change all that, the resistance was simply unexpected!

The new dynasty of the second plane has been in place for ten years, and the stubborn conservative forces naturally have more stubborn and conservative forces, and the power they have accumulated is even more not to be underestimated. That is to say, the needs of all strata were taken care of, and they did not lose the opportunity to become officials and make a fortune, and because of the suppression of the army's strength, they did not immediately make a fuss -- in the years before and after the 20 th century, all countries in the world did not feel that there was anything wrong with suppressing those who made trouble, and all countries used guns to shoot people who dared to run into the streets to make trouble, no matter what way you go.

Democracy, human rights, freedom, the rule of law, are both new and alien all over the world. The power suppresses everything, and the will of the great head can be carried out so smoothly.

However, now that it has reached its limit, people are not satisfied with the previous gains, they have to take a step further and re-create a privileged network that covers the sky and the sun, and Yang Hao will push the boat down the river and lead the snake out of the hole.

After figuring out the true thoughts of the Great Führer, Tan Sitong, Yan Fu and the others could only secretly shake their heads and sigh, those blind guys were counting on fooling people with the name of a "Holy Monarch", but they didn't know that they had just lured out the knife that the Great Führer had been hiding behind him.

The Holy Monarch must not have it, but the Tyrant is ready to come to power!

Zhu Erdian and other ministers of various countries faithfully fed back Yang Hao's remarks and the controversy set off in China to the top of their own government as quickly as possible.

After the gentlemen of the British Empire saw it, they were relieved. As long as China does not directly enter the war, it is the best news. As for how much power they may have erupted after completing the internal ideological integration, everyone said: "There is no need to think about it at all, even if China can't deal with it now, it's useless to think about it in the future." Perhaps, they themselves tossed their own house down? ”

If China tries to use external wars to divert contradictions, gather internal forces, and take the opportunity to suppress dissidents, then countries will do the opposite, and if they don't give him this opportunity, won't it be over?

Britain, France and other countries sent people to Russia one after another, suggesting that the government of Nicholas II accept China's demands for peace talks, stop the plan to increase troops in the Far East, and concentrate on packing up the German alliance.

Zhu Erdian was deeply worried about such a decision, but he did not know how to convince the big men who were overwhelmed by the German rectification.

When the news came back to China, the head of state and Yang Hao breathed a sigh of relief, and the matter was settled. (To be continued.) )