Of course, running out of books is not a big problem.
As time passes and the printing office operates at full capacity, people's desire to buy cheap books will soon be satisfied and the book market will level off.
Su Yonglin feels that the most important thing is the public opinion and response to the book after buying "Hongwu Political Treatise", as well as the opinions on "The White-Haired Girl" and "The Rooster Crows in the Midnight" and other stories with strong stories. reaction.
All this takes time to give him feedback.
At the same time, Su Yonglin was curious whether anyone from the Southern Song Dynasty would buy his books and bring them back to the Southern Song Dynasty to spread them.
He was also looking forward to the Southern Song Dynasty's reaction to this matter.
The first volume of "Hongwu Political Treatise" had been circulated internally within the Fuxing Association before it was released to the public. Fuxing members still knew enough about this book.
Despite this, on the day the book was released, a large number of Fuxing members went to the local Shuren Bookstore to snap up the first volume of "Hongwu Political Treatise".
They feel that this book not only has learning significance for them, but also has collection value. They hope to get closer to their leader. They will feel that the existence of this book means that the leader is talking to them face to face.
This is even more obvious for the majority of folk scholars or illiterate enthusiastic villagers.
Su Yonglin writes in plain and easy-to-understand vernacular, with a friendly tone. The preface from the beginning is even the tone of a casual chat between friends, without the feeling of an emperor at all.
As soon as they came up, Su Yonglin greeted them and told them about his background and general experience as if he were chatting.
Of course, this first part shocked many people.
The emperor was actually not a native of Shandong, the Jin Kingdom, as everyone thought, but a native of the Song Dynasty.
His family background was not bad. His grandfather was a fourth-rank official in the Southern Song Dynasty. He had also been in charge of Yue Fei's Northern Expedition. Later, he was suppressed. In desperation, he took up the business of selling smuggled salt.
His family made a fortune by selling smuggled salt, and he also had a good life, rich in food and clothing. However, this not only brought benefits, but also brought disasters.
His father died because of smuggling salt, and his mother died of depression because of his father's death. He lost his father and mother when he was young, and he was raised by his grandfather. When he was sixteen, his grandfather also died of illness. .
He became a complete orphan.
Such a large property was passed down to him at the age of sixteen. Faced with Sun Yuanqi, an official of the Southern Song Dynasty who acted as his protective umbrella, and his grandfather's old subordinates who were eyeing him and disobeying him, he experienced many dangers.
Finally, when he was nineteen, he got rid of the Southern Song official who tried to enslave him, and the group of his grandfather's old men who tried to seize his family property.
Then he chose to go north to Shandong and joined forces with the Shandong Rebels at the time to fight against the brutal rule of the Jin Kingdom and recapture the Central Plains.
But what needs to be made clear is that this is not a helpless choice for him, but something he has planned a long time ago.
He decided to break away from the Southern Song Dynasty very early, start from the less oppressive Jin Kingdom, overthrow the Jin Kingdom's rule through violent means, eliminate the Jin Kingdom, and then restore the Central Plains.
This has been his long-cherished wish, so before the Ming Army became the Ming Army, it was called the Guangfu Army.
Of course, none of this is without roots. The root lies in his growth process.
Su Yonglin starts from here to talk about his growth process, how he was born in an ordinary way, grew up in an ordinary way, and grew up without any disasters, until his fate came.
He thought about why the people were so miserable.
He thought about why he could eat rich meat and fish in fine clothes, while some people could only eat salt from dried urine.
He thought about why the landlords and gentry could own thousands of acres of fertile land, but the peasants had no place to stand and could only become refugees, dying in random places.
He didn't understand why tax collectors imposed excessive taxes, and why they levied excessive taxes under various names after setting taxes, as if they would not stop until people were starved to death.
He didn't understand why salt that cost only five cents could be sold for one hundred cents, making people unable to even afford salt.
There were too many things that he didn't understand, and there were too many things that made him feel very incomprehensible. He tried to seek answers from his father and grandfather, but his father and grandfather just wanted to be indifferent bystanders and did not want to Don't let him delve into it.
But he finally understood why all this was happening.
So he knew that there was no hope for the Southern Song Dynasty. The Southern Song Dynasty was not only powerless against the Jin Kingdom, but also powerless internally. They could not solve the problem of people not having enough to eat. It could even be said that their existence was to make the people not have enough to eat.
If you don't have enough to eat and don't know how to read, you will be able to rule easily, and you will not be able to resist and will be exploited.
Only in this way can the landlords, gentry, and gentlemen live a life of fine clothing and fine food, and only in this way can the Su family live a fine life of fine clothing and fine food.
Su Yonglin felt that the former Su family was evil, so he gave up everything to find a way to solve the problem, which was also his own path to atonement.
If you succeed, it's best. If you fail, consider it as atonement.
Fortunately, he succeeded, so he vowed to build a country that was completely different from all the countries in the past. Guided by the highest goal of a country where no one would go hungry, he would do his best, even if there was still one person who was hungry. The goal has not yet been achieved.
He wants to abolish exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes so that people can live a more relaxed life.
He wants to abolish the high price of salt so that the people can eat cheap salt.
He also wanted to allow the tillers to have their own land, so that the people could live and work in peace and contentment, and have enough to eat without having to become refugees.
He also wanted the people to be literate, able to read, and understand the truth, so that they would no longer be easily bullied by the government.
This is his salvation, and it is also the salvation of this land that has inherited old methods and laws for thousands of years. The road to bid farewell to the past, the road to breaking with the old era, starts from this moment.
These are Su Yonglin's personal words written in his heart for everyone who can read this book. He openly talks about his inner words to everyone without making any cover-up.
He told everyone all his experiences and the process of ideological change, letting everyone know why he changed and why he decided to leave the Southern Song Dynasty and embark on a new path.
Many people thought that what the emperor wrote would be so lofty, but what Su Yonglin wrote was unexpectedly easy to understand. There was nothing mysterious, no rhetoric, no long and short parallel prose, it was all from the heart, without any embellishment.
Including even telling his own origin and rise, saying that he was not a child of destiny, but had a very ordinary background. When he was born, there was no red light in the room, his body was not yellow, and there was no fragrance in the house. He was just an ordinary person. baby.
And now he is the emperor.
