Zhao Min read the entire "Hongwu Political Treatise" and realized very keenly that Su Yonglin's approach of eradicating cancer within the ruling class was not to enhance the monarch's power.
He did not do this to allow the monarch to achieve arbitrary dictatorship, achieve complete dictatorship, and enhance the power in his hands.
All his descriptions reflect a world-for-all attitude.
It is true that his eradication of corrupt officials is not for himself, otherwise there is no need for him to make the nature of this class public, and there is no need to announce why he is eradicating them when eradicating them, what are the benefits of eradicating them, etc. None of this is necessary.
Killing them directly and then showing the world that you are powerful and inviolable is enough, it is enough to show your power.
Why bother?
This method of completely displaying the mystery of imperial power and politics in front of the whole society made Zhao Hao feel like a baby who had been stripped naked and placed in front of the public for everyone to watch.
He is very insecure. He hates this approach from the bottom of his heart and will never accept it. It is absolutely impossible for him to agree with it.
Therefore, there is an essential difference between the Human Emperor that Su Yonglin wants to be and the Human Emperor that Zhao Min dreams of.
Zhao Yan felt unprecedented discomfort, which represented an even stronger sense of panic.
Emperor, how can someone see through his own thoughts?
Is this still considered an emperor?
What exactly does Su Yonglin want to do? To expose this unspoken political rule to the world, so that politics will no longer have a sense of secrecy, so that villagers in the countryside can talk about government affairs and political figures from now on. Why is this?
Does he really want to be emperor?
Zhao Min suddenly had this strange sense of déjà vu.
Zhao Min was silent for a long time until a familiar voice sounded.
"Your Majesty, it's already the first quarter of Haishi. Do you... want to have dinner?"
Wang Huan, the personal eunuch, had returned at some point and stood beside him, asking cautiously.
Zhao Min turned his head and looked at Wang Huan.
"You...did you find what I asked you to check?"
Zhao Min did not answer his question, but raised the question himself.
Wang Huan nodded.
"The files you want to access are all here."
Wang Huan stretched out his hand and pointed to Zhao Hao's left hand side.
Zhao Min looked over and saw a stack of documents.
It seems that he was so absorbed in reading that he didn't even notice the passage of time and Wang Huan's return.
Zhao Xin nodded, reached for the information, and turned it over.
The first is Su Dingguang’s information.
According to records, Su Dingguang was originally from Shandong. During the Jingkang period, he followed the Song Dynasty to the south. He once held an official position in the Jinghu area. He once transported grain and grain for Yue Fei and made some contributions.
Later, Yue Fei died unjustly. As the main militant, Su Dingguang was also attacked by Qin Hui. He was transferred from the front line and went to serve as an official in the southeastern prefecture where there was no threat of war. He made some political achievements, so he served as the governor of Wenzhou and Taizhou, Shaoxing. He died of illness in twenty-four years. He had a son who died young.
Zhao Min's heart sank.
Next is the information about Sun Yuanqi, a doctor in the Jinbu Division.
According to records, Sun Yuanqi once served as an auxiliary official under Su Dingguang. He also transported grain and fodder for Yue Fei and worked diligently.
Later, he made some connections and filled the central position instead of going to another state government with his old boss to serve as an official. Moreover, his official career was good and he took up the actual position of a doctor in the Ministry of Finance.
But in the twenty-eighth year of Shaoxing, he died mysteriously in a high-end tavern in Lin'an City.
As the emperor, Zhao Min naturally accessed the highest-authority files. This file recorded in detail that Sun Yuanqi's death was due to excessive use of medicine. It also recorded the court's investigation process, and finally identified the suspect involved in the case. On someone named Su Yonglin.
This person had dinner and drinks with Sun Yuanqi on the night before the incident, and Sun Yuanqi's wife also confessed that Sun Yuanqi had a close relationship with him, making him the most suspicious.
However, when they went to Dinghai County, Qingyuan Prefecture to arrest the suspect, the suspect had already escaped and disappeared, and the case was at a deadlock. Afterwards, Sun Yuanqi's corruption incident was revealed, and the court had no choice but to issue a local arrest warrant. Then let it go.
Su Yonglin.
Um.
Su Yonglin.
When Zhao Min was looking through the files, he also found a picture of a wanted order posted in Qingyuan Mansion, which contained an arrest order for Su Yonglin and a reward for informants.
Three pieces of money.
"Hehehehehehe..."
Zhao Xin laughed out loud, and his smile was a little oozing.
Wang Huan didn't know why the emperor smiled so charmingly.
"Guan Jia, why are you laughing?"
"Me? I laugh at these people for not overestimating their own capabilities. Three ounces of money. Three ounces of money just want to arrest the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty?"
After Zhao Yan finished speaking, he burst out laughing, laughing so hard that he couldn't stand upright and even gasped for breath.
Wang Huan quickly stepped forward and patted Zhao Zhen on the back, finally calming him down.
Zhao Xun took a few breaths, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, and laughed: "Even if the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty kills our officials, what can we do? Three ounces of money, three ounces of money, just want to catch him? Hahahaha ! Ridiculous! The most powerful person in the world! Hahahahahaha! Hahahahaha..."
Zhao Xin kept laughing until he was hoarse.
That night, Zhao Min ate nothing and stayed up all night. He developed a high fever and fell ill early the next morning.
The eunuchs in the chamber were in chaos and quickly asked a doctor to treat him.
Before Zhao Hao completely lost consciousness and fell into a coma, he gave Ye Yiwen and Shen Gai one last order.
The circulation of "Hongwu Political Treatise" in the Song Dynasty was completely prohibited, and this book was designated as a banned book. Once it was discovered that it was circulating, the book would be burned immediately. Private ownership and circulation were not allowed. If the book was kept privately, it would be executed immediately.
Then, no one, including the imperial officials, was allowed to talk about the contents of "Hongwu Political Treatise". Once discovered, all people could report it, and the whistleblowers would be rewarded.
All in all, it is a complete ban. Not only must the "Hongwu Political Commentary" be banned, but it must also be sealed, no one is allowed to speak out, and the content of the Hongwu Political Commentary is not allowed to continue to circulate in the Southern Song Dynasty to avoid irreversible consequences.
Even in a daze, Zhao Yan realized the huge hidden dangers this book might bring to him.
Su Yonglin's purpose of subverting the old system and creating a new system was true. He was really doing this and achieved considerable success. The strength of the Ming Dynasty is proof of this.
This made Zhao Xing particularly frightened.
Because according to this statement, he, Zhao Yu, will be the number one criminal in the world. Once captured by the Ming Dynasty, he will undoubtedly die.
The entire Zhao and Song royal family may not end well.
The Ming Dynasty will inevitably go south to destroy the Song Dynasty, and this war will be inevitable in the future. Now it only depends on when the Ming Dynasty will go south to destroy the Song Dynasty, rather than the subjective will of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Unfortunately, it was too late when he issued this order.
Because as early as the first day of March when this book went on sale, many businessmen from the Song Dynasty in the border areas of the Ming and Song Dynasties had already snapped up the "Hongwu Political Treatise" out of extreme curiosity. In addition, there were a series of books in Shuren Bookstore. Books on sale.
Because foreign sales do not require identity, Song businessmen can easily buy these books and bring them back to the Song Dynasty. Then when they return to their hometown, they start to publicize that they have obtained good things.
A book written by the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, everyone!
Come and take a look!
It is an eternal wonder that the emperor wrote a book so that ordinary people like us can read it!
So as "Hongwu Political Treatise" became a hit in the Ming Dynasty, within a month or so, the book also became a hit in the border areas of the Song Dynasty. Not only the local prominent people knew about the existence of this book, but also many rural people. Mr. Nomura already knows——
Did you hear that? The Emperor of the Ming Dynasty wrote a book for the common people to read!
I heard, what is the name of the Hongwu argument? I heard it looks great!
Come on, you’ll know right away that you don’t know, that’s called political commentary! Government affairs!
Um...see you later.
The common people in the Ming Dynasty were very gossipy, and the people in the Southern Song Dynasty were also very gossipy. This kind of thing about the emperor was even more gossipy. Everyone was very interested in it. They kept spreading it and spreading it, and soon it spread. Everyone knows about it.
Not to mention that the speed of information transmission at this time is full, but there are some things that people are really not interested in. Once you encounter something that you are really interested in, it can be transmitted as fast as possible without any obstruction.
On the seventh day of the fifth month of the fourth year of Hongwu and the third year of Longxing when Zhao Min saw this book and decided to ban it, "Hongwu Political Treatise" had spread in the border states of the Southern Song Dynasty and spread further south.
Because there are almost no purchase restrictions, conservative estimates suggest that three to five thousand copies of "Hongwu Political Treatise" were snatched up by Southern Song merchants and spread to the Southern Song Dynasty, arousing great interest among people.
For a time, paper was expensive in Luoyang, and a copy of "Hongwu Political Treatise" was sold for the price of gold in some places.
This attracted the attention of a large number of professional scalpers and professional piracy dogs in the Southern Song Dynasty.
These people don't care about their thoughts, and they are not even literate, but they know that money is delicious.
As another wave of replenishment began in early May, a large number of "Hongwu Political Treatises" poured into the Southern Song Dynasty as if they were timed, and headed crazily towards the southern states.
At the same time, a large number of pirated copies of "Hongwu Political Treatise" began to be circulated and sold in the Southern Song Dynasty. The asking price was relatively low and the content was incomplete, but it was enough to satisfy people's curiosity.
Therefore, even if the ignorant Ye Yiwen immediately ordered the banning of the book after reading the preface of "Hongwu Political Treatise", it was still the eighth day of May.
On this day, it is conservatively estimated that more than 20,000 authentic copies of "Hongwu Political Treatise" and 50,000 pirated copies of "Hongwu Political Treatise" were circulated in the Southern Song Dynasty.
As for the private copying, transfer, etc., the number is even more numerous.
According to the extraordinary efficiency of the Southern Song Dynasty bureaucrats, it was already May 11th when the order finally left Lin'an and headed to various places.
As for the complete implementation in various places, it will only happen after June or July.
As for the implementation, it depends on the benevolent and the wise.
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