"Exactly."
"Before I leave, I came here to say goodbye to the master, and by the way, I brought you a jar of old wine."
Xu Qin talked eloquently.
"Is it the old wine buried by the God of War himself?"
"certainly."
Seeing Xu Qin nodding in agreement, the old monk smiled happily.
It seemed that this old wine stimulated his spirit better than anything else.
The main reason is Yao Guangxiao's respect for the military god Xu Qin.
Xu Qin sneered and said:
"Junior heard that the master seemed to be in poor health after celebrating the New Year. It must be due to mental reasons."
Yao Guangxiao smiled bitterly and did not directly answer Xu Qin's inquiry, but talked about a few small things.
"Young Master Xu should still remember that I told you years ago that I plan to go back to my hometown to visit relatives this year and celebrate the New Year there."
"Of course I remember that your hometown is in a county under Suzhou Prefecture."
Xu Qin nodded slightly and replied.
"well…"
Yao Guangxiao sighed and said in a muffled voice:
"My only biological sister in the world is already seventy-one this year."
"What? Isn't her body strong?"
Xu Qin didn't take it seriously when he heard this.
"Master, your seventy-one-year-old sister is already quite old now. I wonder how happy I will be to see your brother in my lifetime."
"is not what it means."
Yao Guangxiao shook his head.
"On my way home, I heard children on the roadside singing nursery rhymes, saying, "Yannan is flying south, the country is in chaos, and the people are suffering, who can feel sad..."
"Also, my elder sister actually didn't let me sit in the main hall of my house and threw out the gold, silver and New Year items that I brought."
"My sister called me a traitor and a treacherous traitor who helped the emperor to do evil."
"I went to see an old local friend again, but he refused to see me, saying, 'The monk is wrong... The monk is wrong...'"
"Do you think I will be in a good mood when I return to the capital from my hometown in disgrace?"
The old monk frowned with a painful expression.
He kept turning the rosary beads in his hand, "I have been asking myself these past few days, did I do something wrong in the first place?"
Xu Qin replied directly without thinking too much:
"No...no, the master has not done anything wrong, it is just the so-called orthodox thinking of many people at the moment that is causing trouble."
"In my humble opinion, whether an emperor has legitimacy depends on whether he can benefit the people, reduce the occurrence of natural disasters, expand territory, strengthen the country and enrich the people."
"If His Majesty does not seize the throne, Zhu Yunwen may not be able to secure the throne, nor may he become a good emperor with a great reputation for a lifetime."
"The reincarnation of heaven and earth, the cycle of cause and effect, has its own destiny."
Xu Qin's views are heresy at the moment.
But Yao Guangxiao was shocked.
Isn't this just in line with his destiny, and he still cares about public opinion? 'the opinion of.
"Master Xu said it well."
Yao Guangxiao stroked his long beard and said with a smile:
"You are indeed different. I didn't miss you."
"The area around Nanli has been blessed by Emperor Taizu Gao for many years, especially the wealthy gentry and prominent families in various places. They pay attention to the Three Cardinal Guidelines and Five Constant Rules, and recognize their ancestors and return to their clan."
Having said this, Yao Guangxiao's eyes suddenly became extremely gloomy, and the cold light seemed to condense into ice flowers.
The gentry class in Jiangnan controlled the right to speak in most cities and vast rural areas.
Forced by Zhu Di's military attack, they ostensibly obeyed the new dynasty, but behind the scenes they used various nursery rhymes, storybooks and other obscure methods to slander and insult the new dynasty.
This was used to belittle the legitimacy of Zhu Di's rule.
This is a battle without smoke outside the battlefield.
Zhu Di can kill all the officials in Jiangnan, and their heads will be rolling.
It can be said that he can kill anyone he wants.
But killing cannot kill one's heart.
As long as the Jiangnan scholars who cultivated and studied the ancestral family cannot be killed cleanly, Zhu Di will always face this problem.
A scholar does not use a sword to kill, but he can slander your reputation, military exploits, etc. to nothing.
Let the history books of later generations write about Zhu Di's various faults.
Of course, there is also the demon monk Yao Guangxiao.
In short, they don't kill people but they kill people's hearts.
Xu Qin understands this history.
But I don’t know exactly how to do it.
This is not a court debate on paper, it can be done with a little effort of words.
This is a real weapon to confront these powerful gentry forces.
Well done, this is a wise decision made by His Majesty the Emperor.
If something goes wrong, I'm sorry, but you are the scapegoat.
Therefore, Xu Qin went to Tianjie Temple before leaving Beijing. On the surface, he came to say goodbye, but in fact, he came to ask for advice.
In any case, the Prime Minister in Black is a contemporary master and an outstanding figure. His practical experience and knowledge are much better than mine.
I am nothing more than a time traveler, able to foresee and understand this history in advance.
However, the specific deduction process of this period of history and the methods of deduction are ignorant.
Xu Qin raised his head and looked at the prime minister in black, "Master, what do you think should be done for this junior to go this time?"
The attitude is very sincere.
Yao Guangxiao still did not answer directly, but asked:
"When Mr. Xu went to Yangzhou and Huai'an this time, he brought 5,000 soldiers and horses to guard him, right?"
"In that case, are you planning to use force to suppress opposition?"
Xu Qin nodded and replied in the affirmative.
"Yes, whether it is the policy of cutting down vassal vassals or promoting the policy of dividing labor into households, His Majesty's ultimate goal is to eliminate internal opposition forces, secure the throne, and then pursue development."
"The Yongle Dynasty's broadsword will kill him in the Jiangnan area with his head rolling and blood flowing like a river!"
When Yao Guangxiao said this, he suddenly changed the topic and asked with a glare:
"Then what if all the wealthy gentry in the south of the Yangtze River cooperate extremely well?"
"Isn't that more..."
Xu Qin suddenly came to his senses, "Master is saying that the Jiangnan gentry will cooperate on the surface and avoid the heavy pressure of the court. After we leave, they will continue to be like this, and will continue to use soft knives to slander the New Deal? "
Yao Guangxiao nodded and said in a deep voice:
"Excellent intelligence, sharp to the point, this is the situation. What does Mr. Xu think we should do?"
"This is also a question that this junior would like to ask you, Master."
Xu Qin didn't hide it too much and bowed his hands.
Yao Guangxiao seemed to have guessed it.
He smiled and pointed to the other end of the desk, where neatly stacked manuscripts were stacked.
"If you are familiar with historical records, you still remember that Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian, marched southward, destroyed Nanchen, and sent the second prince Yang Guang as the governor of Jiangnan."
"Yang Guang's Jiangnan Governor's Mansion is located in Yangzhou, but the local Jiangnan gentry, represented by the Xie family and the Langya Wang family, and the remaining forces of the Nanchen royal family have united with each other and rebelled repeatedly in the past few years."
"Yang Guang sent troops to suppress it several times, which achieved some results but could not eradicate the root cause. The local gentry violated the law openly and secretly, and the people were in panic. Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty could not implement the new policy."
"Someone proposed Zen teaching and asked a respected Buddhist monk from the south of the Yangtze River to explain the sutras and resolve doubts."
"Jin Wang Yang Guang agreed to this method, set up an altar in Daming Temple in Yangzhou for seven days and nights, and invited two masters to give lectures. Finally, people's hearts aspired to it, and the Sui Dynasty completed the true unification of the north and the south."
Xu Qin suddenly realized after hearing this, "Master, do you plan to use this method to eliminate ideological dissent with Buddhist scriptures? Suppress the Jiangnan gentry?"
