"...you will be able to coerce the people and fight against the gentry. At that time, the interest tendency of 'to rule the world together' that seems to have accumulated for two hundred years will become a small problem that waits for it... This is the only possibility that you have a chance of winning today. …”
At Jianmen Pass at the end of May, Ning Yi's voice sounded halfway up the mountainside under the sun, and Zuo Xiuquan on the side had serious eyes and mixed feelings.
Among the Huaxia military forces at this time, the Zuo family has a special status, and therefore, Zuo Xiuquan can ask some slightly outrageous questions here. Of course, for their level, as long as they make their attitude clear and don't engage in substantive cross-border in private, these discussions can be regarded as gentlemen's debates. In his previous words, he actually had a little bit of aggression and progress, but what he couldn't imagine was that this discussion would come to this point in front of him, and even for a while, he felt a little regretful.
Ning Yi, who was in front of him, actually pointed out a path and threw out a framework, so that he would not accept it, nor would he accept it. As wise as he is naturally able to vaguely see some things that can be extended from this framework, if we consider the immediate crisis of Fuzhou Chaotang, this direction does indeed provide some possibility of breaking the game, but beyond that. The problem is, after the game is broken, the future they face may turn into something more terrifying and dangerous.
People's livelihood, civil rights, people's wisdom... This is what he did in the southwest, and it's only a small part...
You really shouldn't be clever, you shouldn't ask... and you shouldn't listen...
He sighed in his heart and was silent for a moment, before he smiled and said, "Mr. Ning is very calculating. If Fuzhou really promotes these things and fails in the future, it will be a dowry for Mr. Ning."
"If it fails, it will be like this." Ning Yi smiled openly and did not shy away from pretending, "But if it succeeds, it may be possible to find a way out."
Zuo Xiuquan thought for a while: "... The so-called handling of the emperor's identity and interpretation means... "
"One of the biggest obstacles to promoting human rights and equality is that the status of the emperor and ordinary people is definitely different. The only possible way to avoid it is to do two things well. First, the interests of the emperor must be aligned with that of the emperor for a certain period of time. The interests of the people are highly unified, just like today, Jun Wu told everyone, you lend me your strength, we will attack those big clans who have scattered the power of the country, and after concentrating the strength, we will defeat the Jurchen invaders. During the time, the imperial power has won the greatest favor, and can gain its legitimacy and sanctity..."
Ning Yi said, the two slowly moved forward in the mountains: "But such legitimacy and sanctity will not last, because once the external pressure is relieved, the emperor and the royal family will inevitably become the biggest interest class, and everyone will gradually realize it. This is unfair. Then you can start to try the second thing, let the imperial power retire, keep it sacred, let the bureaucracy become a firewall against the people, and the emperor should not directly participate in the struggle for interests…”
"How difficult is it for the people to deal with?" Ning Yi tilted his head and smiled, "In the foreseeable hundreds of years, even if human rights are awakened, they will definitely not be able to achieve 100% fairness, unless the world is truly harmonious, people Both are Yao and Shun, and everyone has exactly the same responsibility to resist, then everyone can get equal benefits, but this is impossible. As long as there is a gap in IQ and ability, the privileged class will always take the big head, and the people who take the small head will only need With food and drink, they wouldn't mind having a sanctified emblem of the emperor in their country."
When he said this, he paused with a smile: "Of course, unless it is a emancipation of the mind for decades or hundreds of years, and the ugliness of the emperor is determined, it is possible to reach another consensus. But not now, there is an emperor. It is inevitable for thousands of years. If today's emperor can hand over power to a relatively reliable bureaucracy, and he no longer weighs arbitrarily, he will be respected by everyone, and everyone will not mind supporting and respecting such a royal family. In this way, the game method of the sacred process of monarchy can be completed, which we can call, constitutional monarchy."
Zuo Xiuquan tilted his head and said, "That is to say, we will first centralize power today, and wait until the Jurchen is defeated, and then we will rule with a virtual monarch."
"Either I don't need my idea, the little emperor can directly kill a way, then I didn't say it." Ning Yi stated calmly, "If this method is used, the defeat of the decentralised scholar-bureaucrats and foreign enemies should be Possibly. But if after completing the initial public enlightenment, the emperor has to stay at the peak of his power to show that he is different from others, sooner or later he will be dragged out and beheaded, and Xu Jun will be the only self-sufficient man at that time. way of protection.”
Having said this, he smiled again: "Creating bureaucratic layers and watching fires from the other side, if something goes wrong in the future, it has nothing to do with the emperor, the emperor is so wronged, he is obviously the son of the emperor, and the country belongs to them, but for the people , he took the initiative to step back, unable to manage politics, and he has endured humiliation from generation to generation, you say, who will blame him?"
"The person in power at that time is..."
"The prime minister, the chief assistant... anything will do. Change it every few years. He is not an emperor, so he doesn't need to be an emperor for a lifetime. First set the rules and retire when the time comes."
"If you have the right to conspire against each other..."
"The basic enlightenment of the people has been opened, indicating that education has become a system, and the emperor's initiative to humiliate the king's difficulties and greatness, as well as the necessity of this system, are written into the textbooks for every child. As long as they do not encounter extreme extremes the situation, the system is sustainable for a long time…”
The two moved forward slowly, Zuo Xiuquan asked questions from time to time, and Ning Yi immediately answered. After a while, the expression on Zuo Xiuquan's face became more and more bizarre.
If it was said that his initial question could only be regarded as a little bit of careful thinking, and he wanted to give some piecemeal opinions on Ning Yi's side, Ning Yi's answer really made him feel complicated. But at that time, he still felt that the words were a casual counterattack of the demon. Who knew that at this time, he would deduce the entire framework one by one. The bewitching words of the demon, at this time, make people feel a little bitter.
Especially after I got there, I only heard Ning Yi say: "... about some ideas and difficulties about the constitutional monarchy, there have been many deductions in the Huaxia Army in recent years, and the information is still being recorded. Mr. Zuo is interested. I will ask someone to move to Chengdu for you.”
Zuo Xiuwen hesitated for a while, but finally said: "Mr. Ning... Could it be that you really want Wu Chao to find a way?"
"Easier said than done, with me and a bunch of kids just a few years of deduction, can it really be done?"
"But... Mr. Ruoning is really sincere, at least... the possibility is there."
Zuo Xiuwen frowned and cupped his hands. What he couldn't be sure of in his words was "Mr. Ning is really so open-minded?" But after all, he didn't ask, Ning Yi looked at him and smiled.
"Many people in the world now know that the purpose of our Huaxia army is to destroy Confucianism, to open up people's wisdom, and to achieve equality and awakening... From the core, the little emperor of Fuzhou now wants to use respect for the king to fight against the communists. Governing the world, this is a change in the underlying thinking." Ning Yi pointed his hand beside his head, "Mr. Zuo can imagine how difficult it will be, but in the Huaxia Army, we must try to fight the metaphysics of the past with the thinking of physical science. How difficult is it to think, to use the order of thinking as the first to oppose the way of thinking, reason and law, and to use human rights and equality to oppose the Confucian class concept of monarch, monarch, minister, subject, father, son and son? Can Mr. Zuo think of it?”
Ning Yi smiled, his eyes were calm, his eyes were as vast and cold as snow-capped mountains and the sea.
"About the opening of people's wisdom and the enlightenment of civil rights, we have considered many situations and methods in the deduction. Among them, there are openings without an emperor, and there are openings with emperors, and there are openings in times of peace and times of war. , these deductions and ideas are not necessarily useful, but Mr. Zuo, as long as you are interested, I will never hide it, because the deduction is just a fantasy, if there can be an experiment in Fuzhou to maximize the wisdom of the people, even if it is in the monarch mode Next, we can also get the maximum experience.”
"The basis of thinking in our place and this society is metaphysics. The characteristics of metaphysics are from the whole to the parts, and emotions are higher than the truth. For example, the universe is prehistoric. The truth has been passed down from generation to generation and thought to be the truth, but where is its starting point, who has observed it, and who can strictly prove it? Everyone is used to accepting some truth that sounds right, but why is it? Actually, we used to The thinking of physicists is not to imagine... and the thinking of physicology should be reversed, completely reversed."
"The thinking of Grid Wuxue should be from the part to the whole. We must first figure out what we can clearly understand at hand. If we assume that it has any laws and principles, we must make deductions strictly. Hedeng, we make iron plates and want to get a flat surface. What is a flat surface? To ordinary people, it is just like a table that looks flat. We press the water turbine to press the two iron plates and rub against each other, and the two iron plates are constantly moving In the process of friction, they become more and more slippery, and finally each of them tends to the most accurate plane, which can be proved by mathematics and geometry, which is the most primitive and the most accurate plane..."
"To go from metaphysics to examining things, what needs to be changed is the bottom-level way of thinking, not even a certain way of thinking. It's not a pat on the head to say, oh, this truth seems right, this sentence looks very philosophical, so you can think it's right Yes. Mr. Zuo, this is what the Huaxia Army is going to fight against. Today, Jinren's Dazao Institute is learning to check things, and Fuzhou is learning to check things. All over the world, I encourage them to learn about things. If they don't study, I will blast him with cannonballs. In this way, perhaps dozens or hundreds of years, we can truly understand the way of thinking of physics and materialism.”
When Ning Yi said this, Zuo Xiuquan frowned and said, "Why... the thinking of the study of physics is higher than the metaphysics?"
Ning Yi shook his head: "It's not higher than metaphysics. From some books passed down from the west, I found that their thinking is from the part to the whole, that is the extreme west, which may be separated by thousands of miles, the end of the Silk Road. I Using this kind of thinking to make various assumptions, these hot air balloons, telescopic mirrors, cannons, rockets that you see today appeared... Metaphysical thinking can only be used for some big and unreasonable philosophical thinking. The idea has come to this point, and I have chosen to castrate human nature. Confucius said that repaying grievances with directness, but now everyone knows that repaying grievances with virtue, why, this system of governing people, after another thousand years, there will be no real changes."
"There are countless possibilities in the form of thinking from part to whole. What you see today is just the beginning. Our innovation in papermaking has at least enlightened the people and hope that it will be time to understand this set of thinking. This set of thinking has also been eaten up, and combined with the philosophy and humanities under the metaphysics system, maybe we can really see the world one day."
He waved.
"It's hard for me to explain its necessity and urgency, but I've seen it, and I'm going to push it out. I can sprinkle the idea of physics all over the sky, and the concept of equality in the Chinese army was born. He Wen, a native of Jiangnan, learned to fight the landlords and divide the land. What kind of fair party is now established? Whether it is Lin'an, Liu Guangshi, Dai Mengwei, or Jindi, they will choose more or less reforms. These reforms Your attempts will become nutrients for the entire world.”
"The next thing that will succeed may not be our Huaxia Army. The old bullhead may go bankrupt. The Fair Party may become a fire and burn out. The Huaxia Army may be really strong and easy to break. One day I die, and all kinds of ideas are like a blaze. , but I believe that the seeds have already been left. If my idea cannot win, I am very happy to see Junwu of Fuzhou walk the path of a constitutional monarchy, because that will also open up people's wisdom to a certain extent. I wish him success, hope He succeeded."
After Ning Yi's words came to this point, the expression on Zuo Xiuquan's face was finally no longer complicated.
"Of course, in terms of various details, there are still many places to discuss. The first point is that Jun Wu throws out the little cleverness of my relationship with his master and apprentice. Don't continue. It is certainly beneficial to pass it on among the commoners, but in the In the middle and upper classes, there are some big figures who are loyal to the Wu Dynasty and willing to accompany the little emperor to break the boat. They may give up their support for him because of this rumor and his acquiesced attitude. So on the bright side, he must make a statement and show it. It is obvious that he is the orthodox posture of the Wu Dynasty."
"... On the other hand, I can open to him the ideas and books of Quantitative Physics, but if the results are not given to him, he must train craftsmen by himself, and cultivate qualified materialistic thinking among the craftsmen. I can also confess that he failed, This stall belongs to me, and I am uneasy."
"… Of course, I can provide convenience for the training of craftsmen, the establishment of factories, the operation of schools, the enlightenment of education, and some organizational methods at the bottom. For example, those children you stay here, Wen Huai has made great achievements in Tanzhou recently, if you wish, you can borrow them to go to Fuzhou to help establish some grassroots organizations, of course, whether you trust them, and to what extent, depends on you."
"There are still many things, which can be discussed in detail later. Next is the turbulent era. Prepare for a magnificent change."
Ning Yi smiled: "Chengdu welcomes you."
…
The sun fell from the sky, Zuo Xiuquan stood on the tower of Jiange, watching the clouds flying in the sky. This is a clear sky under the sweltering heat, the air is not stuffy, and there will be no rain, but there seems to be a burst of thunder passing by his ears.
Then came the turbulent years…
Ning Yi's words were still ringing in his mind.
…
A few days earlier, on the south bank of the Yellow River, the Lin'an envoy who went to the Jurchen East Road Army camp to lobby Zongfu Zongbi was kicked out of the camp by the Jurchen.
Afterwards, a fat man with a kind face but also with majesty crossed the Yellow River in a small boat. He entered the military camp and saw the two princes of Jurchen.
There have been intimidation and abuse between the two sides, and there have been verbal confrontations, but in the end, the two sides have initially reached a consensus that the rest of the day will be completed, and an upright head-to-head battle will take place.
The armies on both sides of the Yellow River began to operate with each other according to the agreed steps, and the mighty Jurchen East Route Army began to cross the Jiangbei. The Wanyanchang and Shuliesu troops in Jiangbei bypassed some fixed positions near Liangshan, and stopped burning, killing and looting nearby cities and villages.
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In Fuzhou, Jun Wu, Zhou Pei, and the others received a Confucian scholar and a dignitary every day, and the two sides tried each other, perfunctory, or simply figured out something. Some people leave, and of course some people stay.
Compared with Jun Wu's firm will, Zhou Pei's attitude is more gentle. Because Zhao Ding's granddaughter Zhao Xiaosong saved her life, many great scholars came to the eldest princess' mansion to ask if this situation could be solved. Turned around.
When she was in Lin'an in the past, she played a more conservative role, often discouraging Jun Wu, who was the prince at the time, not to be too radical and ruining the relationship with everyone. But by this time, she has also agreed to the policy of not repairing this broken ship.
"Go back, there is no way."
At the end of the conversation, she often sighs like this. She is young after all, and even though she has experienced many things, she is finally able to accept this road of breaking the boat and letting it go. In the end, some elderly people were willing to entrust their lives to them.
Reforms have begun to advance, ominous prophecies and speculations are entering her ears every day, and people are predicting their future self-immolation. Sometimes, she would wake up from a dream, and under the starlight, she would look out to the sea to the east.
"... You assist Jun Wu, Xiao Pei... You assist Jun Wu, pass down the Zhou family's world, pass it on... pass it on... ah?"
She remembered Zhou Yong's exhortation when he was dying.
oh father...
Can we still... get there...
It won't be long before boxes of things will be shipped from thousands of miles in the Southwest.
…
Not many people expected that in this vast world, the flames that were more fiery and complicated than the anti-gold war, actually began to appear after the fourth southern expedition of the Jin people.
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in the cloud.
The cause and effect of things are implicated from a very small place.
It was more than ten years ago, when the Jurchens made their second southward expedition, and invaded Bianliang, the capital of the Wu Dynasty. They kidnapped hundreds of thousands of Han people and went north as slaves.
The life of Han slaves was extremely difficult, especially the first batch of Han slaves captured during Jingping's Shame, nine out of ten had died in inhuman torture more than ten years ago.
In the middle, there was once a family of officials from Bianliang. The whole family was arrested and brought to Beidi. The men in the family became slaves and the women became prostitutes. Several members have died one after another in the few years after being arrested. In the tenth year of Tianhui, the head of the family, who was originally an official of the Ministry of Rites of the Wu Dynasty, had reported a message to the top in order to survive.
The news is: his son once abandoned literature and joined the military and served as an officer in the Wu Rui Camp of the Wu Dynasty. Later, he followed the Black Flag Army Ning Yi to rebel against the monarch and became the most core member of the Black Flag Army. His son is named Luo Ye. , in the future will inevitably send people to Jin Kingdom to rescue their family.
At that time, during the Xiaocanghe War, the God of War Lou Shi had already fallen to the northwest. The official surnamed Luo hoped that the Jin people could leave their family alive and go to the northwest to persuade them to surrender, or they could become bait in the future to trap black flag spies.
A Jin official took note of the incident, but did not take special care of it.
It was not until the end of the Xiaocanghe War that the Jin people who paid a heavy price in the northwest began to pay attention to intelligence warfare. Xi Yin ordered Wanyan Qingjue and others to organize forces and pay attention to the southwest. This record was found again, but at that time, Many people in the Luo family, including the official surnamed Luo, have already died, and due to the lack of news from all over the world, everyone in the cloud could not judge the authenticity of this information, and this information was shelved for a time.
Not long after, a general arrester named Mandu Daru noticed this information. At this time, only a half-mad little daughter of the original Luo family was still lingering.
This year is the fifteenth year of Tianhui. Not long after mid-May, someone came to report that during the recent investigation, the crazy woman had disappeared. At this time, the news of the disastrous defeat of the Nianhan army in the southwest of the Wu Dynasty had already spread, and many Han slaves in Jindi were killed innocently every day. It's not surprising that a mad woman died silently.
The law and order are already in chaos, and the resistance and escape of Han slaves will become fierce at any time. There are still many things in Mandu Daru at this time, but the intuition developed by the old head catcher made him pay attention to this matter.
On May 23, a convoy of business travelers drove to Yanmen Pass.
Lu Mingfang was in the convoy, looking back at the desolate Yanyan scenery.
He was actually a child who grew up in Bianliang. He was not yet an adult. Jurchen killed him. He went through the war and followed his father to Yunzhong to open up the situation. Not long after, his father died. He has been with Youyan for half his life.
In more than ten years, he only went south three times, twice in Xiaocang River, and once in the southwest, and all he saw were desolate scenes. Now that the Huaxia Army has won a big victory and occupied the Chengdu Plain, when he went to Chengdu, he could see the prosperous and prosperous southern city.
Think about it, the memory of the past has almost become distant, what kind of scene is the prosperity of the Han people? Thinking about it in his mind, only the scenery of the Northland was clear.
Lu Mingfang died on the evening of May 24th.
Soon after, his mutilated body was transported back to the cloud, and the Jurchens began to preach that they had killed Black Flag's fine-grained leader in the North.
Tang Minjie saw the almost unrecognizable corpse in the crowd. He recognized it for a long time, and his cheeks twitched several times.
It seemed to be the evening at the end of May. He walked into an unknown black alley and vomited once. In the Yunzhong Mansion, the killing of Han slaves was becoming more and more intense. At this moment, he was the real head of the Black Flag Army in the North.
"Old Lu... How did you keep yourself in control?" He was sitting in the alley, and the voice from not long ago sounded in his head, "I mean, you are much more measured than me..."
Lu Mingfang sat there and answered, what did he answer? Although I can't remember it anymore, maybe it is because of my comrades-in-arms, the corner of Tang Minjie's mouth still has a smile, which is hooked up...
…
When An Xifu led the team across the Jiange and followed the crowd towards Chengdu, the atmosphere in Jindi was becoming chilling.
Zong Han and Xi Yin led the small number of the West Route Army, and they were constantly planning the future direction on the way to the north. , I hope to complete the future power alternation in the most appropriate way, and I also hope that the senior elders in the Jin Kingdom can realize the threat of the black flag and reach a consensus on some aspect as much as possible.
This is an unprecedented fiasco. But at the same time, the long victories of Zong Han and Xi Yin in the past can still explain part of the problem. In the imperial palace in Beijing in May, someone read several letters from Zong Han and Xi Yin to the extremely weak emperor Wu Qimai. This emperor of the Jin Kingdom was extremely tenacious. Two years later, waiting for the end of the Southern Expedition War, on May 25, his consciousness rarely woke up, and he left a little decree for the result of this Southern Expedition.
He followed Agu to fight, and fought with Zonghan and Xiyin for half his life. At this moment, the dying emperor still used his last strength to respond to the help of his comrades thousands of miles away.
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The sun is falling.
Soon it will sink to the earth, and will stir the most fiery wave