Chapter 945 The text is worth a million soldiers
Zhao Xing dispatched troops on the periphery of Luoyang, gathered a large army and launched a huge war of reunification, and the emperor and the minister of civil and military affairs in the Luoyang court now even if they pretend not to know, it is impossible, because the newspaper issued by the Jin State has officially published the signed article "Letter to the Han Compatriots" by Zhao Xing, the king of Pingxi, and put forward the slogan of unifying China and building a new country in a grand manner, and completely occupied the initiative in public opinion.
Zhao Xing's statement made it very clear that the unification war he launched this time was not for the purpose of changing the dynasty, nor would it exterminate the descendants of the Han family, but because the new statecraft of the Jin State that had been tried for many years had been verified, and the facts showed that the Jin State's system was completely superior to the current rigid system of the Han Dynasty and could be extended to the entire territory of the Han Dynasty.
Zhao Xing also said that since ancient times, the position of the emperor has always been held by a saint like Yao Shunyu, not hereditary, but later it became a "family world", such a succession system is actually an important culprit for the change of dynasties, and it is also a degenerate practice, which should be completely abolished!
After all these years of partition, Zhao Xing pursued a completely different political philosophy from the imperial court in the Jin State and the areas under his control, but there is no doubt that Zhao Xing's set of theories and policies were obviously superior to the backward and decadent system of the Han court, and won the strong support of ordinary people all over the world.
Of course, not everyone supported Zhao Xing's policy, especially the big families who owned a lot of private land, because the policy of unified nationalization of Zhao Xing's land alone cut off the rights of these people who gained for nothing. There are also those scholars who want to be filial piety and become officials, and they also hate Zhao Xing's so-called compulsory education and official selection examinations.
What makes these scholars even more uncomfortable is that the officials in the Jin system do not care about their backgrounds, but only focus on practical ability and popularity, which makes the previous family background and nepotism of the scholars in the world useless. Quite simply, as long as you pass the examinations for the selection of grassroots officials, and then eat, live and work with ordinary people for a period of time, you will completely wear off the sour and rotten atmosphere in your body, forget your innate sense of superiority, and treat yourself as an ordinary citizen in every move, congratulations, you can become a qualified grassroots official!
As for Zhao Xing's mention in the "Letter to the Han Compatriots" that he would not change the title of the country "Han", he has won more widespread support. Because Zhao Xing's subsequent proposal that the position of the emperor should actually follow the practice of the Zen concession system in ancient times, it could resonate and agree with the society at that time, especially in the hearts of people of insight.
Although Dong Zhongshu castrated Confucianism ruthlessly in order to curry favor with the Han family, and the centuries of Han rule also promoted and recognized the decadent idea of "family and world", as long as Zhao Xing dared to stand up and question loudly, it would arouse the reflection of the people of the world, and finally make everyone realize the great harm of unrestricted monarchy to the country and the nation.
Zhao Xing's "Letter to the Han Compatriots" is actually a battle essay against the wealthy families and the feudal landlord class, in which he counts the bad things that the Han court has done since the Second Emperor Huan Ling, and shouts that the ordinary people stand up and pursue the right to survive themselves, and never be fooled and exploited by the ruling class again. As soon as this chapter was published, it immediately caused monstrous giants all over the Han Dynasty, and its power was even no less than the million-strong army that the Jin Kingdom had already assembled!
In order to cooperate with Zhao Xing's article, the teachers and students of Taihang Academy immediately launched an unprecedented academic discussion. The teachers and students focused on "whether the monarch's power is granted by God or the people", "whether the son of the emperor can assume the responsibility of the emperor", "how to divide the social classes", "the great harm of the local tyrant and landlord class to the development of the country", "the accurate positioning of handicrafts and commerce in various industries of the country", "the far-reaching influence of opening the people's wisdom on the country and the nation" and other very profound topics launched a fierce debate, and various newspapers of the Jin State will report the whole process of the debate.
As the debate in Taihang Academy deepened, the people involved in the relevant industries and grassroots also enthusiastically joined in this national thinking and debate. In order to guide ** and public opinion, Zhao Xing came out from time to time to analyze and answer the problems that the people could not reach a conclusion, because of the extra 1,800 years of political and historical experience in his mind, so those problems that plagued the people and scholars at that time will be more deeply analyzed when they come to Zhao Xing, and of course there are feasible solutions.
Although Zhao Xing was not an omniscient immortal, it was not too difficult to put forward some practical improvement plans based on the social stage and productivity level at that time. As long as Zhao Xing always grasps the two aspects of improving social productivity and promoting culture and education, and has loyal troops behind him to maintain his rule, then many seemingly sharp contradictions will not be a problem.
Just imagine, as long as everyone can eat, and in the future, they can even eat meat and live in big houses, who of the ordinary people will risk killing their heads to rebel and cause rebellion? As long as Zhao Xing firmly controls the military power and puts his foundation among the ordinary people, how much wind can those elites whose interests have been damaged be able to stir up?
With the continuous popularization and deepening of the education that opens up the wisdom of the people, when the people of the Han Dynasty know that the real law is formulated by the whole people and restricts the whole people, rather than the whimsical decisions made by the emperor on the throne, who will shout such stupid nonsense every day, "The whole world is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's ministers" every day?
Zhao Xing's reforms, from the very beginning, followed a gradual path, he did not encourage the use of too drastic measures to directly cause the confrontation of all social strata, but tried to unite all social strata together, so that everyone can work together to live a happy life, rather than in order to achieve personal political ambitions regardless of the interests of all strata, or even through large-scale slaughter to reach the ultimate peak of power.
Zhao Xing himself has always believed that as long as human society still exists, then such a thing as class will not disappear, and if we blindly pursue the world of great harmony and engage in absolute egalitarianism, it will actually cause huge obstacles to the development and progress of human society. Since birth, people are in nature to be indulgent and hard-working, that is, to be greedy for enjoyment, that is, to be self-interested first and foremost, if there is no such thing as class imprinted on the body, who will fight hard and change fate?
The most important thing is to build a system that ensures that people can change their destiny through hard work and struggle. This kind of opportunity to change fate is hope and motivation, and if the elite class completely blocks this opportunity, the country and society will be in chaos.