After realizing that traditional methods were not working, Su Yonglin began to use his official connections to study the system and finally came to some conclusions.
This system is based on loyalty, filial piety and justice, assisted by the mysterious ideas of harmony between man and nature, and the connection between man and nature, with the army as the fundamental sustaining force, and the landlords and gentry in society as the grassroots executors. The bottom of society.
As a result, it realized a three-level power system of [emperor-officials-landowners and gentry], which was also a three-level oppression system.
The emperor knew that relying solely on his own strength, to complete this oppressive system would require too many officials, too much energy, too much money, and it could collapse anytime and anywhere, and it could also be criticized by society. opposition from elites.
Therefore, Emperor Zhao and Song decided to win over social elites instead of fighting against them.
The emperor of Zhao and Song Dynasty chose to transfer part of his power to the landlords and gentry below the official level, allowing the landlords and gentry to enjoy certain political privileges and enjoy the imperial examination as a promotion channel. The best ones were selected to be officials and promoted to the second level of oppression. Chance.
In order to make them more satisfied, Emperor Zhao and Song also openly shouted the political slogan "share the world with the scholar-bureaucrats", raising the status and treatment of the scholar-bureaucrats to the highest since the Sui and Tang Dynasties, leaving them no way to be dissatisfied.
In this way, the emperor could win over and unite these social elites, and use their power to maintain local stability at the minimum cost.
The social elite owns a huge group of land, money and tenants. This power is enough to shake the dynastic system. However, if they become the beneficiaries of the dynastic system, they will automatically maintain the dynastic system so that the Zhao emperor can sit back and relax.
As a result, they became the most loyal defenders of the dynastic system.
Scattered opponents could not break through the first imperial power protection network composed of landlords and gentry in the first place, and could easily be nipped in the bud.
If a peasant uprising really develops and grows, it is indeed not something that the landlords and gentry can fight against.
Of course, as beneficiaries, the landowners and gentry were by no means honest people.
While they help the emperor maintain stability, they will also seize benefits that do not belong to them as [salary]. They regard this as a matter of course and take it for granted.
Those who obtained fame and official positions through the imperial examinations would in turn use their power to protect this grabbing behavior.
This act of grabbing is land annexation.
And the suffering of the people began from this.
The behavior pattern of all dynasties from ancient times to the present is nothing more than this.
If we cannot break this system and create a new functioning system, it will definitely not be considered a success.
If we want to eliminate this system and create a new one, the first thing to do is to blast the components of this system in a targeted manner.
Su Yonglin believes that to deal with this criminal system, we need to launch blasts from four aspects.
Expose the outer layer of their ideology of loyalty, filial piety and justice, and expose their evil nature of male thieves and female prostitutes.
It exposes the mysterious thoughts of the unity of heaven and man and the connection between heaven and man, and tells people that the emperor is never destined by heaven, and there is no God above his head, only his own efforts.
A resolute attack on the fundamental force that maintains this system, annihilating all their armies, and depriving them of the fundamental force that maintains their exploitative rule.
Launch a decisive blow against the most powerful and numerous defenders of this system - the landowning gentry class, and eliminate this group of noble men.
By attacking this system from these four angles, we can completely destroy it and rebuild the world.
If they just use the army to eliminate the main force of their army, what will be established is just another oppressive imperial dynasty.
At that time, Su Yonglin did not have the confidence to break through the first imperial power protection network composed of landlords and gentry in the Southern Song Dynasty, so he decided to find another way and go to the Jin Kingdom, where the system was not so mature, to create a new world in the Jin Kingdom.
At that time, the Jurchens, who had just emerged from ignorance, were not yet able to operate the mature system of oppression and exploitation of the ignorant and weak people in the Central Plains Dynasty very well. They had not even completed their own transformation.
For rule, they used more brutal force to suppress, and suppressed and restricted the third oppressive class under the Zhao and Song Dynasty, rather than sharing benefits.
Therefore, at that time, the internal contradictions in the Jin Kingdom were far more acute than those within the Southern Song Dynasty. Such sharp contradictions were exactly what he could take advantage of.
After figuring out who is his enemy and who is his friend, that's where he starts.
He launched a decisive attack under Wan Yanliang's nose, and on the road of continuous attack, he gradually implemented his ideals into his rule.
He eliminated the landlord gentry and Jurchen nobles, liberated the peasants, established peasant associations, distributed land, gained their trust and dependence, and greatly liberated their enthusiasm for production, allowing them to actively send their sons to serve in the army and support His fight.
His victory was promoted by the farmers. It was the farmers who allowed their sons to bring their own food to him to strengthen his army, so that he never lacked food from beginning to end and could always feed the soldiers. , allowing them to exert their strong combat effectiveness.
He did not choose to support the oppressive existence of landlords and gentry, but eradicated them all and established peasant associations at the grassroots level, allowing farmers to organize themselves and manage themselves under his guidance.
Facts have proved that this is far better than supporting the landlords and gentry and treating the peasants with an oppressive attitude.
He received the heartfelt support of the farmers and their unreserved support, so he was always able to mobilize sufficient manpower and material resources in all the wars before and after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Because he believed in the people, and the people believed in him, they established a relationship of mutual trust and mutual benefit, thereby shattering the traditional system of oppression for thousands of years, and he also changed from the emperor who had to maintain the mystery to the true meaning of the emperor. The human emperor.
He doesn't need to hide himself, he never needs to decorate himself with mystery and make people afraid of him.
The Ming Dynasty he established was a country of hope that was rebuilt after smashing the system of oppression.
Here, there will be no oppression and exploitation, no hunger and bullying. He will do his best to promote fairness and justice, so that everyone can eat, everyone can read, everyone can live in a house, and everyone can live in a house. You can wear thick winter coats in winter.
There will no longer be any connection between heaven and man, no more unity between heaven and man, no more superficial loyalty, filial piety and justice.
He will completely abandon Confucianism as the official guiding ideology of the new country and replace it with his own set of governing theories.
This will be the goal he continues to strive for.
Such remarks and facts about an ideal country and a world of great harmony almost hypnotized the Confucian scholars. They could not believe that their ideal world of great harmony was actually being realized.
However, they were hit head-on.
It is not just Su Yonglin who has simply stated his intention to depose Confucianism as the official guiding ideology of the country.
In the postscript to the first volume of "Hongwu Political Theory", Su Yonglin stated that the Ming Dynasty had basically eliminated members of the oppressive system dominated by landlords and gentry, and had basically succeeded in liberating the peasants.
A new social system is being established. Ming society is gradually breaking away from the imprint of the old system left by the Song people and the Jin people, and is working hard to transform into a new era.
But what is clear is that for now, there are still a lot of people with evil intentions in the Ming Dynasty who are trying to resist the new era and try to bring the Ming Dynasty back to the old era. The existence of these people is a common hidden danger for the entire country. It is also everyone’s common enemy.
Therefore, in the future, he will continue to promote a comprehensive attack on the landlords and gentry who are trying to reproduce the three-level oppression system, and continue to promote the thorough eradication of the system of oppression and exploitation.
He wanted to ensure that the great situation he and countless warriors had created would not be subverted or betrayed.
At the same time, he also warned all those with evil intentions that he and the 500,000 Ming army will be the eternal defenders of this hope country. Anyone who attempts to subvert this hard-won is his enemy, and he will fight against them. Fight to the death until the last moment of life.
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