"Guan family, this is an opportunity for us to fight back against General Tiance..."
Geng Nanzhong wore a purple military uniform and followed Zhao Huan with his back turned, walking step by step on the Yuejiang Tower. In the huge Yuejiang Tower, there were only the monarch and his ministers. The accompanying royal belt, internal guards, and palace ladies were all guarding the city walls and the entrance to the horse path on both sides of the Yuejiang Tower to prevent anyone else from approaching.
Zhao Huan still looks like that, a little chubby, always with his hands behind his back and his head hanging down, like a wilted eggplant. He walks unsteadily, always making people worry that he will fall. But his health is actually very good. Although he looks sickly, in fact, he hasn't even had a cold or cough all year round. He just has a heart disease... not a heart disease, but a mental illness. I always worry that one day I will be captured by the third child, Zhao Kai, and drink the drug that will lead me to death!
Moreover, he was also worried that after he ran away, his charming wife Zhu Lian would be harmed by Zhao Kai. But she had to take Zhu Lian with her... First of all, she was still pregnant, how could she withstand the storm on the sea?
Secondly, if she leaves, then Zhao Huan will not be able to leave a group of sons in the Song Dynasty to enjoy the benefits of the law of favor.
Because of this matter, he was really worried to death these days.
Early this morning, the Yintai Division sent him an imperial edict from Shuntian Prefecture. In this edict, Zhao Kai told his brother that he would leave Shuntian Prefecture on the first day of February to tour south to Shandong to worship. Confucius will hold a Confucian conference at the Confucius Institute in Qufu, and will invite famous Confucian scholars from all over the world to discuss doctrines and theories in the Confucius Institute.
After reading Zhao Kai's imperial edict, Zhao Huan immediately knew that Zhao Kai's crusade against him was about to begin.
The so-called arguments and arguments are nothing more than a public opinion war and a political war before the military crusade begins!
Although Zhao Kai's military strength is strong, the military strength of the Wu Kingdom in the southeast is not weak. There is also the danger of the Yangtze River, as well as the fortresses of Jiangdu and Jinling... There are also two to three hundred thousand water and land elites, and countless others. There are several scholar-bureaucrats who control a lot of land and wealth.
As long as these 200,000 to 300,000 land and water elites and countless scholar-bureaucrats are firmly opposed to Zhao Kai... then the southeast defense war will be fought.
On the contrary, if the southeastern scholar-bureaucrats and the officials of the Jinling court were all won over by Zhao Kai, then Zhao Huan would really have no choice but to run away to Lingnan or even Vietnam!
The so-called Confucius Conference was undoubtedly the conference used by Zhao Kai to directly contact the representatives of the southeastern scholar-bureaucrats.
Once all the influential representatives among Jiangnan scholar-officials were won over by Zhao Kai, then Zhao Huan would lose the ability to resist Zhao Kai... No matter how dangerous the Yangtze River is and how strong the city walls are, once the people's hearts are scattered, everything will be lost. empty.
So after reading Zhao Kai's imperial edict, Zhao Huan no longer even thought about going to court in the morning, and immediately sent someone to invite his mentor Geng Nanzhong to Yuejiang Tower in the name of "viewing the river view."
"Counterattack?" Zhao Huan's eyes flashed, and he looked back at his mentor who was wearing a purple military uniform, with a hint of warmth in his eyes.
Nowadays, the officials of the Jinling court are also divided into two factions: the main war faction and the main peace faction. Among them, the main battle faction mostly wears purple robes and military uniforms. Geng Nanzhong is a scholar, he is so old, and he is still wearing a purple robe... He is really getting stronger with age!
"Teacher, do you think we can still keep the hearts of the people in the southeast?" Zhao Huan asked a little uncertainly.
Geng Nanzhong took a sharp breath and nodded: "Officials and General Tiance are knowledgeable, but the people in the southeast are not interested in knowledge, but in interests!
The hustle and bustle in the world is all for benefit; the hustle and bustle of the world is all for benefit! What General Tiance wants to get from Southeast is also a word of profit! But he only wanted to benefit the southeast, but he was unwilling to rule the world with the scholar-bureaucrats. If we can't rule the world together, how can the southeastern scholar-officials maintain their family fortunes for a long time?
Haven't the officials ever heard of county magistrates who broke down their families and prefects who exterminated their families?
As long as the scholar-bureaucrats understand this clearly, they will definitely follow the officials and resist to the end. And once they got on the official ship, they could never get off again. Even if the officials go to the ends of the earth, they can only follow them. "
It has to be said that Geng Nanzhong, an old bureaucrat, is still proficient in accidents... Whose property rights are fully protected behind who is co-ruling the world?
Now Zhao Kai is co-ruling the world with Fu Bing, so he simply declared the land in Yingtian Road to be state-owned and prohibited the transfer... In other words, the land owned by Fu Bing can only be passed through the "Serving in the Military for Father" law. Pass it down. Whoever undertakes military service owns the land; whoever owns the land must undertake military service!
At the same time, the government soldiers, starting from the lowest rank of corporal, have achieved fame! In theory, you can become an official, which is equivalent to the meritorious service of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Who has ever heard that county magistrates and magistrates can break down Juren's doors and seize Juren's inheritance? Even if a county magistrate or magistrate does this, he will become a public enemy of Shilin.
Zhao Huan looked at the teacher, "Teacher, what do you mean is that I don't have to stop the Confucian scholars from the southeast from going north?"
Geng Nanzhong shook his head, "No need, and can't... I say no, because it is impossible for General Tiance to abandon his soldiers and share the world with the scholar-bureaucrats. His soldiers are too big to lose, and Beijing Road, Hebei Road, Most of the land and population of Hedong Road, Henan Road, Shaanxi Road, Hexi Road, and Datong Road were controlled by the government soldiers.
The reason why I say no is because General Tiance is the nominal leader of the world after all, and worshiping Confucius is a grand event for Confucianism. If the officials openly oppose it, it will not only give General Tiance an excuse to attack, but also make the southeastern scholar-bureaucrats think that they can share the world with General Tiance. "
Zhao Huan frowned deeply, "What if General Tiance can share the world with the soldiers and the scholar-bureaucrats?"
Geng Nanzhongxin said: Then just run away! It's all over if you don't run away... You can't handle Zhao Kaiguang and the government soldiers sharing the world. If you drag the scholar-bureaucrats into the circle again, you're going to give a shit!
Of course, these inner thoughts cannot be told to Zhao Huanming... The truth is always too cruel!
"Guan, don't worry, General Tiance can't find such a good way... Not even Taizu and Taizong can do it!" Geng Nanzhong said with a smile, "If Taizu and Taizong have a way, Yan Yun It has been recovered long ago, and the Western thieves can no longer cause trouble, so how can there be any difficulty in declaring peace?"
"That's right!" Zhao Huan nodded heavily, "Then...teacher, who should we send to Shandong Konglin? And who should take the lead?"
Geng Nanzhong thought about it and said with a smile: "We can't just let anyone go, otherwise there will inevitably be people who want to take advantage of the opportunity to join General Tiance, so we have to select the Confucian scholars who go north to Shandong to worship Confucius.
The distance between Guangnan and Guangnan is too long, and there are not many great scholars, so I won’t take them with me. For the remaining seven roads, ten Confucian scholars were recommended along the way, and thirty Confucian ministers were selected from among the officials of the imperial court, and Lao Zhuo led them north. "
This method seems good! Zhao Huan made some calculations and found that all seven routes had representatives going to Shandong. In this way, once Zhao Kai's true face is exposed, all the seven gentry will know it. Moreover, Geng Nanzhong leads the team to control the overall situation, so it is not easy to be led astray by Zhao Kai.
Zhao Huan nodded, "That's it... By the way, Zhao Wenzheng's widow, Yi An, is a scholar, but she has learned a lot. It is said that she also has a lot of knowledge about General Tiance, so she can make She’s coming along too.”
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When Zhao Huan and Geng Nanzhong discussed using the Qufu Confucius Conference to expose Zhao Kai's true face, Zhao Kai was also busy preparing to convene the Confucius Conference.
However, the focus of his trip was not actually to win the support of the Southeastern scholar-officials... Of course, he was also prepared to discuss this issue with representatives of the Southeastern scholar-officials.
For Zhao Kai, who shared the world with soldiers and warriors, how to protect the southeastern scholar-bureaucrats, oh, it was actually the interests of southeastern industry and commerce, was indeed a problem.
Because Zhao Kai knew very well that he could not rely on a bunch of feudal soldiers to lead the Song Dynasty on the road of no return to capitalism. This matter mainly depends on the gang of profiteers and evil gentry in the southeast!
So he must protect their interests to a certain extent...but he doesn't know how to protect it? But that’s not a problem, just let those people figure it out for themselves!
The main problem that Zhao Kai wanted to solve through this Confucius-Lilin Conference was how to make Confucianism serve the colonialism of the Song Dynasty!
Equivalent to Catholicism, Tianfang Sect and even Buddhism, the diffusion ability of Confucianism is obviously not good!
Catholicism, Tianfang Sect, and Buddhism can spread throughout most of the world, but Confucianism cannot even hold on to its basic foundation - yes, it just can't hold on! Confucianism has lost a lot of its basic foundation to Buddhism, which is really a bit of a scumbag!
The army alone can fight, but if it cannot preach, it will be difficult to consolidate the territory it conquers!
Therefore, Zhao Kai planned to solve this problem before starting global colonization.
In his previous life, he was just a "sophomore" in high school. How could he have the ability to carry out major changes in Confucianism? With this ability, he would not consider going to Shanghai to sell pancakes after graduating from college... With such a college degree, how can he become a philosophy teacher at a prestigious university, right?
However, Zhao Kai's memories in this life told him that this was a critical period for Confucian reform.
Neo-Confucianism, which was famous in later generations as "starving to death is a small matter, being unruly is a big matter" was born in this era. However, the thought of Neo-Confucianism has not yet been fully formed, so there are still many Confucian scholars studying this matter.
For Zhao Kai, this is an opportunity to guide the reform of Confucianism!
Of course, it would definitely not work to kill Confucianism with a stick and bring out the Legalists who were very popular in later generations... If Zhao Kai had just come here, he might have had such an idea. But after he completely integrated the memory of Zhao Kai, the champion king, and gained a deep understanding of Confucianism, Legalism, and Taoism, he knew he couldn't do this.
Because Legalism has no religious component at all... it does not solve the problem of worldview. It is just a political science and cannot "preach" at all.
Taoism is combined with Confucianism to a certain extent. In fact, the group of Neo-Confucian scholars are busy working on this right now, and Zhao Kai also wants to take this opportunity to join in and transform Neo-Confucianism to be closer to natural science and more effective.
