Su Yonglin said that when he was a child, he and his family sold smuggled salt together, traveling all over the country and traveling to many places.
He was surprised to find that people in many places in the Southern Song Dynasty had no food, water or clothing, and many of them starved to death. Some people even had to eat the salt precipitated from dried urine.
He didn't know why at first, but later he realized that the reason why these people were so miserable was because the system of the Southern Song Dynasty was a sinful and hopeless system of oppression and exploitation.
From Zhao Guan's family down to a mere petty official, everyone is doing their best to oppress and exploit the people.
Taking all the money and using it like sand, Qin Shihuang was considered frugal compared with them.
Their mausoleums are indeed luxurious, but at least they built the Great Wall to protect the Central Plains, and their merits outweigh their faults. But what about the officials of Zhao and Song Dynasties?
Hey, the mother river became a stepmother river. Tens of millions of people were displaced, and hundreds of thousands of people died in the flood and fed the fish.
Su Yonglin sympathized with those poor people and wanted to change this situation, but was shocked to find that his enemy was actually the entire Southern Song Dynasty and all the rulers.
He was breathless and realized that he would never be able to defeat them with his own strength at the time, so he decided to find another way and go to Shandong to overthrow the Jin Kingdom first, and then turn around and deal with the Southern Song Dynasty.
The reason for this choice is that the rule of the Jin Kingdom is relatively rough, and it has not yet completed the strict oppression system like the Southern Song Dynasty. The strong force only shows its own strength. As long as the army is defeated and the capital is breached, the huge Jin Kingdom will immediately fall apart.
At that time in the Southern Song Dynasty, there were only class conflicts, and the Jin Kingdom also had an additional ethnic conflict. He seized the weakness of the Jin Kingdom's internal conflicts that were more acute, and decided to go north to Shandong to rebel and destroy the Jin Kingdom first.
And it turns out, he got it right.
He defeated the Jin Kingdom, regained the Central Plains, and established the Ming Kingdom. He fulfilled his promise and fulfilled his original intention on this land. He was creating an unprecedented system.
In his Ming Dynasty, no one would starve to death, there would be no excessive taxes, no heavy corvee or military service, and no arbitrary humiliation. It was an ideal country.
He is leading his people toward a new era.
After reading the preface, Zhao Hao looked at the last word blankly and couldn't react for a while.
Although this preface is only a few thousand words long, it contains a huge amount of information.
Su Yonglin is from Song Dynasty.
Su Yonglin's grandfather was a Song official.
Su Yonglin killed Song officials.
The reason why Su Yonglin established the Ming Kingdom was to turn around and deal with the Song Kingdom.
Su Yonglin wanted to subvert the entire Song Dynasty system.
With his remaining rationality, he almost condensed these elements, and then found that any combination of these elements could allow him to break through the defense.
What is Su Yonglin doing?
What does he want to do?
Does he know what he is doing?
When he wrote this, was he declaring war on the Song Dynasty?
Are you declaring war on him and the entire ruling class of the Song Dynasty?
Declaring war does not require an edict or an envoy, but a book for sale to the outside world?
What way?
Zhao Min was confused.
With deep confusion and strong unexplainable panic, Zhao Xi decided to continue reading the rest of the text, wondering if there would be something different in the text since the preface was so exciting.
He really guessed it right.
Su Yonglin broke apart the contents in the preface and explained them clearly.
Starting from the time when I was born, I chatted with readers in the tone of old friends, telling my past experiences bit by bit, and then shared my understanding and analysis of history, politics, reality, and the system.
He explained bit by bit how he viewed the world, how he analyzed the oppression system of the Southern Song Dynasty and its completely devoid future, and how he saw at a glance why the Jin Kingdom would be destroyed.
Finally, he also talked about how he engaged in mass movements during the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, how he established people's political power, and how he built a wartime economic system.
And now he is implementing all-round revolutionary policies in the Ming Dynasty.
He introduced what a peasant association is, how to liberate farmers through peasant associations, how to make farmers have strong enthusiasm for production and move closer to the Ming regime, how to restore and develop a broken economy, and how to use limited human, material and financial resources to do meritorious deeds that will benefit the future generations. things.
Of course, none of this is smooth sailing, and many people will oppose him out of their own interests.
These people, for their own interests, completely disregard the interests of the country, and must be eradicated, otherwise the establishment of the new system cannot be truly realized.
Revolution is a violent action, not a gentle and courteous exchange of cups and cups like inviting guests to dinner.
So bloodshed is necessary and no tenderness is tolerated.
Therefore, he systematically eliminated the Jin people, eliminated the old bureaucrats and landlords and gentry, suppressed the Confucian scholars who opposed him, and removed the Confucian classics examination from the imperial examinations, completely deposed Confucianism, and never used Confucianism as the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. Official guiding ideology.
He wants to replace Confucianism with his own ideas and establish a "Datong Society" that truly exists rather than being a castle in the air.
Although this road is not easy, he has already made up his mind. If anyone tries to resist or block him, he will crush them all into pieces together with the 500,000 Ming army. The army is in his hands. The most powerful weapon.
The arrival of the new era is unstoppable, and the departure of the old era is inevitable. The sun is rising in the new era, and its path is already bright.
[Comrades, let’s go together! 】
After turning the last page, Zhao Zhen raised his head blankly and found that a bright light had been lit on his desk at some point, and the lights in the study were also bright. He looked out the window in shock and found that it was already dark, and it was obviously evening.
It was obviously still morning when I got this book.
Did I look at it for that long?
Looking at the "Hongwu Political Treatise" that had been read through, Zhao Hao was stunned for a long time.
He originally thought he would be extremely angry about the content in this book, but after reading it, he felt inexplicably calm.
He felt that he should be angry, but he was inexplicably not angry.
Perhaps, it was because Su Yonglin's description of their class was a bit too straightforward, so that the admissions staff had to admit that they were like this.
They deceive superiors and deceive subordinates, use their status to gain power, use power to obtain economic benefits, and then hold on to this benefit tightly. They will never give in to each other, even if it harms the interests of the collective, and do not let their own personal interests be harmed.
Even if they grovel and be servile to the outside world, as long as they can protect their own personal interests, it doesn't matter if the entire country suffers losses or even collapses. Anyway, the country is just a tool for them to make profits.
As long as you are good, nothing else matters.
That's the nature of this group of people.
Therefore, Su Yonglin was extremely dissatisfied with this group and advocated the physical means of annihilating them all, leaving no one behind, and then working simultaneously from both the institutional and ideological aspects to prevent this class from reappearing.
The emergence of this class is the beginning of the country's downfall. If this class cannot be restricted, suppressed, and eliminated, the country will inevitably run downward irreversibly.
After reading it, Zhao Min remembered many things that happened during the reconstruction period after the wars of the Ming and Song Dynasties.
He thought about how when he was eager to resume military construction, the money allocated was being plucked out by bureaucrats, big and small, and the money that was enough to do things was divided among them. In the end, according to Shi Hao's judgment, , less than 40% is actually used for services.
Zhao Min was very angry and wanted to punish these corrupt officials, but was dissuaded by Shi Hao, saying that if he wanted to save the country, he must first save the officials. Without officials to help him, he could not do anything, so he had to feed these officials.
"When the country is in danger, they will embezzle even military expenses. Aren't they afraid that Su Yonglin will come and catch them all?"
Zhao Min asked Shi Hao sadly and angrily.
Shi Hao was silent for a long time and replied in a low voice: "When the steel knife is not cut down, everyone will feel that they will not die. Before death, everyone will be lucky and unavoidable, so regret is the most meaningless behavior. .”
Zhao Min remained silent and did not punish corrupt officials harshly in the end.
He admits it, he admits the existence of corrupt officials and their erosion of the country, as long as they can still do things, he admits and accepts the rest.
But Su Yonglin didn't.
He directly set out to eliminate these corrupt officials on a large scale. According to his theory, this is called "revolution".
The so-called "revolution" is not to change the destiny, but to use violence to launch a final decisive battle against the entire rentier class and completely eliminate them. Violent actions can also be described as "liquidation".
Su Yonglin never accepted the idea that saving the country should first save officials. He believed that saving the country required revolution and liquidation, and wiped out all the rentier classes. Even with their vitality severely damaged, they had to be wiped out to create a bright and prosperous world.
He succeeded, and the Ming Dynasty got rid of the pull of the old bureaucracy and began to forge ahead and sprint with all its strength.
On the other hand, looking back at the Southern Song Dynasty...
Zhao Hao had to admit that all these things confirmed that what Su Yonglin said was right.
It is true that we cannot compromise when dealing with those corrupt officials. Once we compromise, the country will be finished. We must punish them with a revolutionary mentality, get rid of them, and risk self-revolution at the risk of national subjugation.
From the perspective of a supreme ruler, Zhao Min felt seriously torn in his perception of this book.
On the one hand, the internal situation of the ruling class and the necessity of eliminating the "upper class" described in this book deeply touched Zhao Min's self-feeling.
He was deceived by this group of bureaucrats. Like Su Yonglin, he deeply felt the bureaucrats' backlash against imperial power and felt the emperor's powerlessness in the face of group behavior.
But Su Yonglin succeeded. Su Yonglin solved this problem with his determination and super ability. He eliminated all the corrupt officials in the Ming Dynasty, executed and exiled tens of thousands of people. The scale was unprecedented and shocking. The world.
Therefore, Zhao Yan was extremely envious of Su Yonglin for surrendering those bureaucrats and reorganizing the bureaucratic system to make it more clean and efficient. The strength of the Ming army directly reflected the superiority of the Ming system.
This is where Zhao Min and Su Yonglin resonate, as the supreme ruler.
But other than that, Su Yonglin's other thoughts gave Zhao Yan a serious sense of crisis.
An extremely strong sense of crisis.
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