In Su Yonglin's plan, he hoped to use the achievements of river control as the foundation of the revival society.
The success of river control, not to mention the birth of Buddhas in thousands of families, can be regarded as a great achievement, enough to shine in the annals of history and leave a name in history.
For the evil done by the rulers of Zhao and Song Dynasties, Su Yonglin led the Fuxing Society to help them clean up their behinds. This was an absolute good thing for the people in the entire Central Plains region.
If this achievement is used as the foundation of the revival society, then the revival society will not be easily defeated and discredited.
After the Renaissance was on the right track, Su Yonglin continued to increase the power of the Renaissance. Taking advantage of the fact that the country was not unified and the regulations were not yet clear, more and more members of the Renaissance were promoted to important official positions, competing with the disciples of Confucius and Mencius.
Anyway, the disciples of Confucius and Mencius have no intention of seeking refuge with Su Yonglin at the moment. They are still waiting to see the situation. In this case, Su Yonglin will not shyly ask them to be high-ranking officials.
But don't think that everyone is Zhuge Liang, and Su Yonglin is Liu Bei, and you don't want to see if you have 100% of Zhuge Liang's ability.
As time goes by, the number of members of the Fuxing Society will continue to increase, and the power they control will continue to increase. Coupled with Su Yonglin's interference, in the end, the Fuxing Society will be another court different from the current court.
If Confucian disciples want to bargain with Su Yonglin to gain power, they must also have their scarcity and irreplaceability. If this scarcity and irreplaceability disappear, they will have no bargaining capital.
By that time, the model of studying Confucianism, taking the imperial examination, and entering the court will be slowly replaced by the Fuxing Society and its affiliated models.
If you want to truly participate in national politics, you must join the Renaissance.
If you want to join the revival meeting, you must pass the revival meeting's examination, pass the test of the revival meeting, and gain the trust of the revival meeting.
The Fuxinghui examinations were certainly not based on Confucian classics.
In Su Yonglin's plan, the Fuxing Society's examinations would include all the humanities and natural science knowledge currently available, excluding boring Confucian sectarian disputes and boring moral disputes, and be based on practicality.
Use a new examination model to replace the imperial examinations filled with Confucian classics, change the way of talent selection, and modify the content that intellectuals need to learn.
Once we really reach that point, the deformed world constructed with Confucian power will almost come to an end.
This is Su Yonglin's fundamental purpose.
Pull out the roots of this deformed world.
It is better for Confucianism to exist as a doctrine. Once it is used as a ruling power, even its original value will no longer exist.
"The Renaissance Society is a very good name. It is a river management organization that looks harmless to humans and animals, but inside it can be done by anyone. We can not only cultivate talents ourselves, but also attract truly smart people to join. There is a young An , there can also be a second and third Youan.
I believe that not everyone firmly believes in this set of Confucian power, and not every scholar will turn a blind eye to the suffering of the common people. They just have no organization and no strength to resist, so they dare not.
If there is an organization that provides them with communication channels and provides them with a certain degree of safety and protection, allowing them to gather together and gather everyone's strength to resist together, then their courage will also be inspired. "
Su Yonglin described the future grand occasion of the Renaissance, described how to attract new members into the Renaissance, how to build the organizational structure of the Renaissance, etc., which made Xin Qiji and Tian Guizi fascinated.
While talking, Xin Qiji suddenly asked a question that had been hidden in his heart for a long time.
Originally, he was not in a hurry to ask, but the fact that Su Yonglin wanted to establish a revival meeting suddenly increased his questions, and he needed to get a suitable answer.
"Commander Su, we in the army and in the peasant associations we control everywhere promote the oppression of the people by the superiors. Do the landlords, gentry, and bureaucrats know that we are doing this? How do they view this matter? About something?"
Tian Guizi was stunned for a moment, and then looked at Su Yonglin curiously.
Su Yonglin was a little surprised and pleasantly surprised.
Xin Qiji was obviously thinking more and thinking more deeply. At this stage, he had actually begun to consider the conflict between Su Yonglin's regime and the superiors.
That's good.
If his regime wants to go further and be more practical, it needs many people who are good at thinking to consider many different paths and possibilities for the regime. Without leaders who are good at thinking, it will be difficult for the regime to continue.
So Su Yonglin decided to explain to Xin Qiji the secrets here.
"If you say I don't know, I don't believe it. We are not a paradise, nor are we completely closed off. There is a huge momentum for public trials. Although they may not know everything and do not understand my teachings, they must know some."
Xin Qiji suddenly became worried.
"Then...if they know that we are always hostile, won't they have some thoughts towards us? I think this will definitely create a gap between us and them."
"You'an, why didn't I launch an uprising in the Southern Song Dynasty? Why did I have to launch an uprising in the Jin Kingdom? Isn't it just to avoid this kind of conflict when we were still weak?"
Su Yonglin shook his head and sighed: "If there is an uprising in the Song Dynasty, we will directly run into these landlords and squires. We have no other common enemies to deal with, and we cannot cooperate with each other. We can only be completely hostile and conflict.
Are just a few hundred of us going against the entire Southern Song Dynasty landlords and gentry? Isn't that asking for death? But it's different in the Kingdom of Jin. We have a common enemy and can cooperate with each other to deal with the Kingdom of Jin. To put it bluntly, we can use each other.
Contradictions always exist, but they may be big or small, urgent or slow, and are not completely consistent. Therefore, there is a sequence of facing and dealing with contradictions. If you want to solve all the contradictions in one go, you will often No conflicts can be resolved. "
Seeing that the two of them were still a little confused, Su Yonglin made another analogy.
"For example, if you are a villager, you have had some unpleasantness with your neighbors, and there is a gap between you, but you have a blood feud with a person from the next village, and the people from the next village have come to chop you with a knife, you Say, do you choose to quarrel with your neighbors first, or find a way to deal with the enemies in the next village first?"
"Then naturally it is more important to save your life first."
Tian Guizi answered this question before Xin Qiji answered.
Su Yonglin nodded.
"This is what I call the main contradiction and the secondary contradiction. Although they are both contradictions that need to be resolved, which one is the main contradiction and which one is the secondary contradiction needs to be clearly distinguished. There are of course idiots in this world who will make enemies on all sides. But there are also smart people who join forces to join forces.
For us, and for the landlords and gentry who followed us in rebellion in Hebei and Shandong, the main conflict is the life-and-death conflict between us and the Kingdom of Jin, followed by the secondary conflict over political power between me and them.
To carry out the struggle for political power, the prerequisite is to stay alive and save one's wealth and life. Without wealth and life, everything is nothing, meaningless, and of no value to talk about.
Wan Yanliang is a knife placed on our necks. As long as he doesn't put the knife down, or he simply dies and the knife disappears completely, then there is nothing we can't talk about. "
"I see."
Xin Qiji nodded: "To put it this way, Wan Yanliang is really our great benefactor."
"It really is."
Tian Guizi smiled and said: "For so long, I haven't heard of anyone he has recruited or promised to be promoted to an official position. There is no news at all. He just looks like he wants to fight us to the death. This really helps us a lot."
"He helped us a lot."
Su Yonglin also smiled and said: "Wan Yanliang has really helped us a lot. He will not accept peace or surrender. He will kill those who betray him. Once he rebels, it will be difficult to survive and he will be liquidated.
The reason why I initially appointed Zhao Kaishan as the leader was so that Zhao Kaishan, as the leader, could call on the landlords and gentry to rise up in rebellion, and use his banner to cover our actions and pretend that we were just like them.
When the rebellion got bigger and bigger, more and more Jurchens and Jurchen officials were killed, and more and more land was occupied, the situation between the rebellious landlords and gentry and Jin Ting was already in a fight to the death.
The more Jurchens we kill, the less likely we are to reconcile with the Jurchens, and the less Wan Yanliang will accept any form of reconciliation. In this way, we are like grasshoppers on a rope, and they can't live without us. "
