In the Southern Song Dynasty, every disaster relief was a time for officials to make a fortune, so the bureaucrats in the Southern Song Dynasty were actually very enthusiastic about "disaster relief."
Of course, their approach often makes disaster victims more miserable and leads to more deaths.
But, they don't care, as long as they make more.
If you die, just die. Anyway, peasant thieves can live, and they also pay attention to the fact that one child will lead to happiness. If one dies, two more will be born. Never worry that there will be no more people to continue exploiting and squeezing.
This was originally the "since ancient times" of the Southern Song Dynasty, but if the Ming Dynasty intervened and rescued all the victims according to their method of doing things, wouldn't those victims be moved to death?
At that time, as long as those Ming officials say with great fanfare that this is the relief food given to you by the Ming Emperor, then the money spent in the Southern Song Dynasty will become money spent by the Ming Dynasty. Didn’t the Southern Song Dynasty lose their wives and lose their troops?
Lu You could imagine that scene.
The bureaucrats of the Southern Song Dynasty will definitely work hard to hold back the situation and destroy the good situation.
In the end, there will definitely be an international dispute, which will surprise the friendly countries. Then the Ming army will march to the Yangtze River again, and it will be the bureaucrats of the Southern Song Dynasty who will feel uncomfortable.
Lu You had a basic understanding of those people who would not shed tears without seeing the coffin. Even if he knew how the Ming Dynasty would react, he would still not be soft when it was time to make money. Anyway, the emperor was in front of them.
When the emperor is gone and the steel knife is across their necks, they will still have the illusion that they can survive and continue to enjoy.
I won’t shed tears until I see the coffin, and my heart won’t die until I see the Yellow River. .
Lu You understands his colleagues so well, let alone Chen Kangbo.
He immediately understood that the conditions proposed by Su Yonglin were simply impossible to accept.
Let alone whether Zhao Xun would agree to it, even if Zhao Xun agreed, the civil and military officials of the entire dynasty would resist with all their might and would never accept it.
Chen Kangbo himself would not agree.
But Chen Kangbo was very confused.
Because the basis for his judgment of whether the Ming Dynasty will go south in the near future is whether Su Yonglin relents and slows down the collection of new year coins.
Now Su Yonglin relented, but added such harsh conditions that he didn't know how to judge the time limit for the Ming Dynasty to go south.
After thinking about it, Chen Kangbo felt that if Su Yonglin relented, even if he proposed conditions, even if there was a one in ten thousand chance that Southern Song Dynasty would agree, the annual coin income would be reduced, and he must be willing to accept this matter.
He took the initiative and the Southern Song Dynasty agreed, but then he regretted it. This kind of thing did not seem like something that the Ming Dynasty could do. Seeing that Su Yonglin set such harsh conditions, it obviously didn't look like child's play, but rather like a very formal event. discuss.
Therefore, Chen Kangbo has reason to believe that Su Yonglin is not joking. He is serious, seriously considering this matter, and seriously agrees with it.
Chen Kangbo had the confidence in his heart, and immediately decided to give in and wait until he returned to the Southern Song Dynasty to reject the matter with a certificate of credence, as if it had never happened.
Isn’t it beautiful?
With this thought, Chen Kangbo knew what he should do.
"What your Majesty said involves a wide range of matters and exceeds the maximum decision-making authority of the foreign minister. Therefore, the foreign minister cannot give you a definite answer. You can only give your majesty the final answer after returning to Lin'an and asking the emperor of our country for instructions. Please forgive me."
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Su Yonglin nodded.
"This matter involves a lot, and it is indeed beyond your ability to make a decision. I can understand it. You can wait until you go back and discuss it with the Southern Emperor before making a decision. Apart from that, is there anything else you want to say?"
Chen Kangbo had basically gotten the answer he wanted, so he didn't want to say more to stir up Su Yonglin's emotions, so as not to irritate Su Yonglin and the Ming Dynasty's civil servants and military generals.
"Your Majesty's heavenly grace is so great that my country has deeply felt it. I dare not have any other extravagant hopes. I only hope that the Ming Dynasty will prosper."
He resumed his low posture, shrunk into an ostrich, uttered joyful words, and stopped making unnecessary troubles.
In this regard, Su Yonglin didn't say anything, just nodded and announced a banquet to entertain the Southern Song envoys - although they did some rude things and said some rude words, as a superior country, you must be magnanimous after all.
Although he thought that he would be able to go south to destroy them and unify the Han Dynasty soon, but for now, he still had to give them some treatment so that they would not be so anxious.
But no matter what they did, no matter how they tinkered with the Southern Song Dynasty, at most they were no more than Li Hongzhang, a craftsman who had experienced hardships all his life.
At this moment, when Su Yonglin looked at Chen Kangbo, he felt like Li Hongzhang.
I just don’t know whether he is a weakened or strengthened version of Li Hongzhang, nor do I know how far he can repair the Southern Song Dynasty, and how long he can withstand the attacks of the conservative bureaucrats of the Southern Song Dynasty.
The visit of the Southern Song Dynasty envoys has almost ended here. The next step is to let them rest and play for a few more days out of politeness, and then go back and forth wherever they want. Hurry up and don't let us waste money here. .
Su Yonglin also has a lot of things to do. Not only must he govern the country and handle military and state affairs, he must also find time to write articles, lead social changes, and break feudal ethics.
Not only did he want to wrest political power from the hands of feudal bureaucracies, but he also wanted to take a comprehensive approach to culture and transform the feudal culture that served the ruling class into the people's culture that served everyone.
Therefore, he not only pushed Zhao Xirui to develop his literary talents and write many excellent articles, but also relied on royalties and internal commendations to encourage those who were good at literary creation among the members of the Fuxing Association to create a series of people's literature.
Of course, he would also do it himself.
In addition to "Hongwu Political Treatise", he would also write some vernacular articles with storylines to lead the trend, and personally lead the literary trend as an emperor.
For example, what he is preparing now is "The Scholars" which he adapted according to the characteristics of the times.
The original version of "The Scholars" was written during the Manchu and Qing Dynasties, and the setting was the Zhu Ming Dynasty. If Su Yonglin wanted to ridicule the Confucian scholars, of course he had to set the background in the Song Dynasty.
This book is called the peak of Chinese satirical literature, but in Su Yonglin's view, this book is more than satirical and not progressive enough.
It focuses on exposing and ridiculing social ills and mercilessly criticizing those with low moral character. However, the solution is not revolution, but the hope that scholar-bureaucrats with "noble character" will lead the moral trend and carry out social reforms. Transformation.
This book satirizes social ills and people with low moral character, while at the same time enthusiastically praising scholar-bureaucrats with high moral character. It is the peak of satire and the peak of people's mentality of upright officials at that time.
Irony is irony, dissatisfaction is dissatisfaction. After all, the imperial examination system was not completely negated, so Su Yonglin decided to change it.
On the one hand, the theme was changed from reform to revolution, on the other hand, it was decided to adapt the original book's model without a consistent main character and story frame, and determine a clear protagonist.
He placed the historical background in the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty when the imperial examination system was basically formed, and described the protagonist's journey from a supporter of the imperial examination system to a great enlightenment, embarking on the path of destruction and then establishment.
It is said to be Scholars, but it cannot be regarded as Scholars, or it can be said that both are Scholars, but one cannot get out of the circle, and one resolutely decides to break this rule and find a new path. Completely end this irreversible cycle.
The irony of the original makes perfect sense.
Once a person wins the imperial examination, even if he was just a poor old Confucian scholar, he will immediately become an upstart in the feudal society. A large number of people who cannot be compared with others will quickly come up to build relationships and gain relatives, and they can do anything.
However, candidates from the Song Dynasty were not as valuable as those from the Ming Dynasty.
In the Song Dynasty, due to the widespread recruitment of scholars and the expansion of imperial examinations, the only ones of real value were Jinshi, while the candidates were just a status and did not have the qualifications to be an official.
Moreover, the imperial examination is completely a game for the rich. It is very difficult for a family to support a scholar who is studying full-time. Basically, Jinshi scholars are from wealthy families, and a very small number of poor people like Fan Zhongyan are not pure of poor people.
Eating porridge with pickles every day can be considered a wealthy person. Eating porridge requires rice, and pickles require salt. If nothing else, with the price of salt in the Song Dynasty, if you can eat porridge with pickles every day, you are not considered poor. You have to be considered a person at that time. Middle.
Imperial examination, where are the games that the real poor can afford?
