After July of the fourth year of Hongwu and the third year of Longxing, another flood peak occurred in the Yellow River Project of the Ming Dynasty, which made Su Yonglin urgently go south to make arrangements. The Southern Song Dynasty's ban on "Hongwu Political Treatise" had also spread to all parts of the country.
As for execution…
It's really hard to say.
But this is not important. Even if the book "Hongwu Political Commentary" is completely banned, the contents in the book have already spread everywhere with people's word of mouth. There is no point in banning this book. On the contrary, it is a bit self-deceiving. a feeling of.
No one really cares about the ban.
For example, although the bureaucrats in Lin'an City handed over the Hongwu Political Treatise as requested by Ye Yiwen, they had already read it, some even read it several times, and had a firm memory of its contents.
Banning or not means little to bureaucrats.
However, most of the bureaucrats in Lin'an City fell into inexplicable panic because of Su Yonglin's statement in the book. They wrote to the court to inquire about the authenticity of the matter and whether the book was really written by Su Yonglin.
There is still a trace of delusion in their hearts, hoping that this thing is fake and not true. This is a fake book, a meaningless fake book, and just a huge lie.
But with Prime Minister Ye Yiwen's clear answer, everyone's heart sank and they secretly screamed that it was not good.
real.
After investigation and evidence collection by the imperial court and on-site visits, the authenticity of what Su Yonglin said was basically confirmed, as well as the authenticity of this book.
It was really written by Su Yonglin, and everything else is also true.
It is normal to lie to the people, but there is no need for the court to lie to its own bureaucrats, because they all share a community of destiny.
The imperial court retrieved files, confirmed the existence and death of Su Dingguang and Sun Yuanqi, determined their identities and place of origin, and visited their family settlements, where they found more concrete evidence that they existed.
As for Su Dingguang's selling of illegal salt and Su Yonglin's killing of Sun Yuanqi, they have basically been confirmed, and a case that has been pending for many years has finally been solved.
Su Yonglin, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, was born in the Song Dynasty. His grandfather was an official, and his father was a scholar who had achieved great fame. However, the family did not want to repay the imperial court, and actually sold private salt, committing a blatant crime, and later killed an official of the imperial court. , heading north to Shandong, and finally...
He also became the emperor, the founding emperor, and fought a battle with the Song Dynasty. He brought the Song Dynasty to the ground, gave in, and called him daddy.
The officials of the imperial court fell into a very embarrassing mood.
On the one hand, they really want to call Su Yonglin a traitor and a thief who betrayed his master, but now his identity is over there. He is the emperor of the Song Dynasty suzerainty. When the emperor of the Song Dynasty ascends the throne, he still needs others to canonize him. You call him a traitor. , The thief who betrays his master seems not so appropriate.
And if they really shouted like this, I'm afraid the Ming army would go south to Lin'an tomorrow to settle the score with them.
The strength of the two countries is not equal. The Song Dynasty has been beaten hard by others. Now it does not dare to go against the Ming Dynasty. It is pretending to be quail. As a result, it suddenly learned that the other emperor was once one of its own.
Do our own people want to destroy themselves in turn?
Su Yonglin's brain circuit and action trajectory are incomprehensible to almost everyone.
For example, Ye Yiwen couldn't understand what Su Yonglin was thinking.
Leaving aside other things, Ye Yiwen mainly couldn't understand how Su Yonglin could penetrate such political secrets and understand the country's political regulations to this extent when he was less than twenty years old.
Just because you sympathize with the people, can you voluntarily peek into their closely guarded political secrets? Can you see at a glance the basic logic of the political operation of the entire Song Dynasty?
Or...is it due to his grandfather?
No, his grandfather was just a fourth-rank official. He had never been exposed to the operation of the central government or real high-level politics. It was obvious that only high-level officials could understand things. How could his grandfather understand?
If his grandfather really understood, he couldn't be just a state governor.
If this is the case, then how could Su Yonglin understand all this clearly when he was a teenager.
This theory of contradictions, the conclusion that the internal conflicts in the Southern Song Dynasty were smaller than the internal conflicts in the Jin Kingdom, so the probability of success of the rebellion in the Jin Kingdom was relatively high, seemed to Ye Yiwen to be completely fantasy. It is impossible to imagine how Su Yonglin could rely on such an analysis. So he decided to go north to Shandong to rebel.
But he succeeded, a great success.
He recaptured the Central Plains, established the Ming Kingdom, became emperor, and had a powerful armed force. This armed force supported him in carrying out special operations in the Ming Kingdom. stronger.
Civil strife continued in the Southern Song Dynasty, but the Ming Dynasty was always stable, and no civil strife broke out. In other words, the civil strife was suppressed by Su Yonglin's iron fist.
On this basis, the Ming Dynasty became more and more powerful and looked like the overlord of the world.
Ye Yiwen felt inexplicably frightened.
He realized a problem.
If the Ming Dynasty continued to be powerful, incredibly powerful, and continued to suppress the development of the Southern Song Dynasty, wouldn't that prove that everything written in Su Yonglin's book is true?
He did not govern the Ming Kingdom according to the traditional model, but the Ming Kingdom did not perish. Instead, it became stronger and better.
There were no Confucian scholars in his country, and the official ideology of the Ming Dynasty was not Confucianism. The country was not governed in the familiar way, but it developed so well. No one died of hunger, no one suffered from cold, and it still had such a strong military force.
So are Su Yonglin's fallacies and actions of deposing Confucians and suppressing Confucian scholars right?
So Confucianism is not the only appropriate political thought?
Shouldn't they have monopoly status and power?
Ye Yiwen was very panicked. He felt that once this fact was realized and widely noticed, it would have a huge impact on the current system of the Southern Song Dynasty and have a huge impact on the Confucian school. Every vested interest would be affected. Risk of loss.
This is not possible!
So Ye Yiwen immediately conveyed his hopes as Prime Minister.
He hoped that all government offices and even every official in the court would not talk about the contents of Su Yonglin's "Hongwu Political Treatise" and treat it as if it did not exist and had never seen it before. Let everything continue as usual and do not mention anything.
Everything else will be discussed after Emperor Zhao Xi's condition improves and he wakes up.
Ye Yiwen hoped that everyone would be like ostriches and bury their heads in the sand pit, so that nothing they did not want to see or hear would happen.
However, his orders can be conveyed and can block people's mouths, but they cannot block people's lively thoughts.
Bureaucrats in the Southern Song Dynasty generally had a deeper and more thorough understanding of the contents of Hongwu's political treatises than the common people. They not only understood the contents of Su Yonglin's confrontation with Zhao Kuangyin, but also how Su Yonglin explained the criminal system of the Southern Song Dynasty and the new system he guided.
In the book, he "maliciously" compared the huge factual gap between the Southern Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, leading people to think about the differences between the two systems and the specific effects they presented.
Everyone is not a fool, and there is no need to hide things that they can see.
What is right and what is wrong will be reflected very intuitively. As long as people are not stupid, they will naturally be able to discover the clues.
Moreover, those who can serve as officials are all elites in the system, and all of them are smarter than the average person. Ye Yiwen's behavior is meaningless to them, but rather a bit self-deceiving.
They don't have to discuss it publicly, but in private, it's hard to say.
In private, a few friends gather together to drink and chat, and it is difficult not to bring up this topic.
For example, when Lu You and his friend Han Yuanji had a drink together, they had a lot to talk about.
