Chapter 183: The End of Songun Economy
Zhao Gao refers to a deer as a horse, essentially to see who is his. Who is an outsider. In order to achieve the purpose of attacking dissidents.
For the same thing, He Xi attacked the Kong family to see who supported him in both the government and the public. Who is against the new law?
After all, the virtues of the Confucius family are not unique to today. It’s not something people only know today.
This situation has long existed. Why do so many civil servants and officials seem to be blind?
It is nothing more than that attacking the Confucian family will involve Confucianism, which is taboo for the venerable. The Confucian family belongs to Confucianism and belongs to the Eight Discussions. If the Confucian family's affairs are revealed, it will not be easy to deal with, and it will also affect many people's views on Confucianism.
Why bother mentioning it?
As if I don’t know, isn’t it just hello to me and hello to everyone?
He Xi was like this this time. Although Ding Xian did a lot in Nanjing, there were things He Xi wanted to do but did not dare to do. But does the influence of Confucianism on the Ming Dynasty cease to exist?
Of course not, thoughts cannot be killed.
When countless people read the Four Books and Five Classics, they embark on official careers step by step. It is impossible to completely end Confucianism until its roots are restored.
Not to mention the Nanjing side, there was also the Beijing court under He Xi's management. There may not be anyone who opposed He Xi's actions. However, since the situation was so strong, they didn't dare to take the lead.
He Xi took action on the Kong family just to show it to the world.
Who agrees and who opposes this matter?
Thereby adjusting one's own administrative methods and means. Strike when it's time to attack, and deal with it when it's time to deal with it.
And why did Zhu Xiongying use his own private seal? In fact, Zhu Xiongying was the most invisible supporter of Confucianism, and there was no other Confucian respecter. In He Xi's teachings, there is no such thing as teaching people to be emperors. But it is very contradictory in Confucianism. On the one hand, it talks about the integrity of scholar-bureaucrats, on the other hand, it also talks about the character of loyalty to the emperor.
But it didn’t talk about what to do if the two conflict?
Confucianism in the Song Dynasty said that the most loyal person is the superior.
That is to say, the emperor is disobedient, and the greatest loyalty is to make the emperor obedient.
Look and say.
He didn't believe it himself.
But no matter what, if Zhu Xiongying wanted to have real power, his last resort was to promote Confucianism. He immediately had a large number of supporters who could give He Xi a fight.
But at first, Zhu Yingxiong understood one thing very well, that is, reform was He Xi's bottom line. If He Xi's bottom line was touched, He Xi would not mind changing to another emperor. He and He Xi were both quite wary.
The two parties have been working together for such a long time, and they probably know what can be done and what cannot be done.
Zhu Xiongying can do many things, and He Xi does not oppose or even support him. Including Zhu Xiongying has certain powers, but he must not block the reform.
The same goes for He Xi. He Xi can do many things, but he must not affect the monarchy, interfere in the palace, or influence the throne.
These two points are not violated, and other things are easy to discuss.
By doing this, Zhu Xiongying was actually endorsing He Xi and also taking sides.
Of course, there is another reason, which is that these people took sides with Zhu Yunwen before, and Zhu Xiongying has not forgotten it. How can we show the difference if we do not punish those who make mistakes?
Therefore, Zhu Xiongying's original intention was to impose some punishment on the Kong family, but he did not want to be so heart-wrenching like He Xi.
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In this way, this couplet quickly reached the Kong family.
The Kong family never expected that such a thing would happen. It is said that Kong Ne, the head of the Kong family at that time, closed his door for several days and suddenly wrote a letter of apology. Then commit suicide to apologize.
This is something that the Kong family has no choice about.
The Kong family is determined not to lose the name of their ancestors. The imperial court no longer accepted congratulatory messages from the Confucius family, which meant that the Confucius family's mission as the mascot of Confucianism was over. Once the Kong family no longer has the privilege of Yan Shenggong.
So what will be left of the Kong family?
Maybe it won't matter for one or two generations, but after several generations, the Kong family will also
It will disappear like an ordinary family. It is simply impossible to pass down the family tree for dozens of generations without chaos.
Kong Ne, the head of the Kong family, must save the situation.
How to recover? He took the blame on himself, it was him who was guilty, not the Confucius family, and he tried to find ways to arouse the sympathy of the scholar-bureaucrats.
So, after Kongne did a lot of things, he finally chose this decisive method.
suicide.
It was both an apology to the court and a demonstration to the court.
News of the suicide of the head of the Kong family also came out, but in the context of the North-South War, it didn't seem too conspicuous. After all, although the overall situation in Beijing is now decided. After all, many things are not over yet.
Everyone's focus is not yet on the Kong family.
But I decided not to play with this matter.
It's still a beginning.
After all, the war will be over sooner or later, but the turmoil within the imperial court will never end.
He Xi also smiled slightly at the news, and just ordered to suppress the matter of Yan Shenggong's attack on the prince. I don’t know if there will be a Yan Sheng Gong in the future. There is no need to be too anxious about the matter of attacking the king.
At this time, He Xi and Zhu Xiongying had arrived in Xuzhou City.
Xuzhou City has not experienced much war.
In Xuzhou City, He Xi met Ye Chen again.
Ye Chen has organized his army and recovered from the Battle of Guangwu.
Although the battle of Guangwu was a victory. But Fu Youde persisted until the end, and the casualties of the Northern Army were also very heavy. Far more than the Battle of the River.
Ye Chen also gave some summary of the war.
It turns out.
Although firepower is already important. But it's still not enough.
The reason why Fu Youde broke through several lines of defense. In essence, it is to take human lives to fill it. His tactical principles were similar to those when the Japanese attacked Port Arthur. Of course. Before making such a decision, Fu Youde had already strengthened all the firepower he could.
Although the Northern Army's firepower was intensive, it did not have machine guns after all.
With heavy casualties, they were able to take advantage of their numerical superiority and catch the Northern Army by surprise.
Therefore, Ye Chen concluded after this battle that the army should either strengthen preparations for hand-to-hand combat and find ways to develop some close-combat firearms, or develop some continuous-fire firearms.
Of course, Ye Chen particularly emphasized the importance of equipping soldiers with muskets.
Before that, the Northern Army only had cavalry equipped with muskets, because it was inconvenient for the cavalry to use muskets on horseback. Therefore, the short-fire gun appeared, which was more convenient for immediate combat. This short-fire gun was probably the source of the carbine in later generations. .
Of course, many cavalry prefer fire guns. The wheel spinner can fire six rounds. Those with no wheels and double barrels can also fire two rounds.
But for the infantry, they were not equipped.
After all, even though the Northern Army far exceeds the South in terms of military supplies, it doesn't have everything. Each soldier was given a firecracker, and the imperial court had to produce at least millions of them. After all, you have to calculate losses, consumption, replenishment, etc.
This is a big number. At least hundreds of thousands of dollars, millions of dollars of expenses.
He Xi said: "I want to wait for this. After all, the war is over."
Ye Chen was stunned for a moment after hearing this, and suddenly felt a little disappointed.
He Xi's words represent that the era of rapid iteration of the military has passed. Previously, whenever Ye Chen proposed any new ideas or needs from the front line, He Xi would always meet them immediately.
But now, this is no longer the case.
Think about it too.
Although Fu Youde lost. But it does not mean that Fu Youde is weak. If Fu Youde is placed in any country of the same era, he will sweep away other existences. That's because the Northern Army is too strong.
It took Beijun more than ten years to complete it, and it took others nearly a hundred years to iterate.
Today's Northern Army is not much different from the British and French armies during the Anti-Japanese War. It's just that there are still flaws in some places. But for Ming Dynasty
Say, enough is enough.
Today's military structure and weapon system can be invincible even if no changes are made and maintained for hundreds of years.
Of course, He Xi didn't know whether his reforms would trigger a chain reaction and make the world's armaments history leap forward.
But anyway. There is no problem if you put it away first.
Because the Northern Army has no enemies left.
The war is not over yet.
But Songun politics is about to die out first. It is impossible for He Xi to devote all his resources to the military. It is not to give resources to the military, but it cannot be the previous rhythm.
