Xinshun 1730

Chapter 1039 Great Success ([-])

Lin Min's ability to suppress it with this reason is also related to some historical issues left over from the founding of Dashun.

Because Dashun talked about "big righteousness" or "small righteousness".

At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, some people said that if you Dashun equals the land of other people, it is not reasonable for them to shave off the tail of their money to welcome the "new dynasty and elegant government".There are also rumors that you slept with your concubine, and it is also a matter of surrender, right?You forced the father of the king to hang himself. It is normal for people to join forces with the Pingkou and even prepare to lead the Crusade to Japan's cut island.

Although Dashun only set up a mosquito prison like the red-maned horse at most, but still used various means to reverse the extreme liberalization trend since the end of Ming Dynasty and the middle period, and slightly reshaped the whole city. A little ideology.

One of them is to clarify the "big righteousness" and "small righteousness".

As for why the story of Xue Pinggui Wang Baochuan is not allowed to be sung, it is also related to the great righteousness and small righteousness brought about by Dashun-the Tang emperor collapsed, and his ministers usurped the throne. , break Chang'an, enthroned in the hall, what do you think of this problem?
The group of people who founded Dashun, when they were farmers and craftsmen, really liked this show, it was so lively, happy and happy.

However, after the incident, no matter how you look at it, you feel awkward and uncomfortable.

The debate about Dayi and Xiaoyi, or about Dashun's efforts to reshape ideology, is actually very interesting.

There is such an allusion in "Shuo Yuan", it is said that the king of Wei asked Yang Zhu, saying that you brag all day long and think that governing the country is very simple, but you have a wife and a concubine in your family and you don't understand it. The weeds you planted are wild, why do you feel that ruling the world is in the palm of your hand?
Yang Zhu said, this is the same as herding sheep. If you let a child herd sheep, hundreds of sheep, as long as you master the rules, let the flock go east, and let the flock go west.But if you let Yao lead the sheep and let Shun drive the sheep with a stick, the flock will be a ghost if it is not disordered.This so-called, will rule the big and not the small.

After the success of Dashun, the control of the ideological world followed almost the same idea.

They didn't send "Yao" or "Shun" to dictate where the sheep should go... Of course, the main reason is that Dashun couldn't find anyone who could confer semi-sainthood and come up with a complete set of ideologies.The key point of the Yongkang and Yongjia schools of learning is that they were full of combat and practicality when the Jin people invaded the south, but they were not systematic.

Dashun used the sheep-herding stick of the sheep-herding boy who was "almost perishing the world" to let the hundreds of sheep go in the direction the court wanted the flock of sheep to go.

When Dashun founded the country, he first sent a plaque of Wei Guanzhong to the Yanshenggong Mansion, and carried out the widespread humiliation of "being a Confucian scholar to the point of shaving his hair and changing his skirt, which is as interesting as a Catholic missionary getting a bayberry sore".

The result of this widespread humiliation is widespread reflection and cutting.

Li Laiheng used the idea of ​​"generally humiliating the entire group, and some of them will naturally stand up and stop cutting".

That is to say, deliberately ignoring the difference between the resistance faction and the capitulation faction among the scholar-bureaucrats, and not spraying the capitulation faction or specific people, but crazily humiliating the scholar-bureaucrat group.

This is an obvious and deliberate fallacy, but a deliberate one that is very effective.

A large number of scholar-bureaucrats took the initiative to draw a line with those people and cut them off.

Namely: If it were us, we would rather die than do that.It's just that you Dashun won the battle and didn't give us a chance to show our strength.You can't insult our group like this. If you want to criticize specific people and specific ideas, you can't criticize our group.

So, when you criticize specific people and specific ideas, which direction will you criticize?

These scholar-bureaucrats who were eager to make a cut took the initiative to criticize in the direction of righteousness and righteousness.

As a result, Dashun naturally "passively" picked up righteousness - you are good at criticizing, they don't have righteousness, so what we do is in line with righteousness, right?

Dashun didn't spend all his time arguing that he was righteous.

Instead, he spent most of his energy to humiliate the group of scholar-officials who drew a circle together. After several years of humiliation, he passively gained righteousness.

In fact, this is also Dashun's grasp of the temperament of scholar-bureaucrats: Dashun's humiliation to them, the subtext is that Dashun's world is different from you insects.

But the scholar-officials need to quickly argue, no, your Dashun can win the world precisely because you have practiced our righteousness, or we are guiding you, but you don't know it.

Why is it said that Dashun can build a country and succeed?It is not that you oppose our ideas, it is precisely because you are the ones who truly practice our Confucianism that you have succeeded, but you do not know it.You don't know, let me tell you.

Some people distorted Confucianism before, they were fake Confucians.

From this, a new concept of "winning the country's righteousness" was derived.

Then, Confucian scholars who miss the previous dynasty will spontaneously and actively fantasize and assume.If the previous court did so and so, if the previous court did this and that, if the previous court did this and that, then there would not be so many things.

The result of such fantasies and assumptions is the direction of "If you used more domineering at the beginning, although it is not orthodox and kingly, it is better than subjugation of the country and the world".

After extending the concept of Dashun's "the righteousness of the country" and redefining the discussion of the righteousness of the country, Dashun defined the righteousness of the Ming Dynasty with the ideology of Dashun's righteousness of the country.

Li Laiheng paid homage to the mausoleum of Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, and held a large-scale seminar. The purpose of the seminar was not to prove that the Dashun Dynasty was legal, but to let these scholar-bureaucrats talk freely about why the powerful Ming Dynasty became that late Ming Dynasty. It's like a bird.

This is a famous "repair" conference.Because the premise of "protecting the world" is to basically recognize the land contract of the previous dynasty, at most it can only reduce the rent permanently and not go to the land equalization.

So, what was the reason for the defeat in the late Ming Dynasty?Naturally, if scholars and bureaucrats come to discuss, the fundamental issue of land annexation will not be touched.

If you can't move your bones, you can only move your skin.

Move the skin, tinker with it.

That would be interesting.

Speaker?Eunuch?Jiang Zuo is arrogant?Song Ming Confucianism?Empty talk?Government collapse?Military system?Not centralized?Can't collect taxes?clear stream?Morality?Prince?Tax resistance?

Don't talk about the essence, just talk about the superficial, naturally think that everything may be the reason.

This mourning of the previous dynasty, under the premise that it is impossible to discuss the root cause of the periodic law and the land system, made many policy changes in Dashun reasonable.

For example, the change of officials, such as the change of the Ministry of Cleaning Officials, and other measures to strengthen the imperial power, became "It was not the emperor who took the initiative to do this, but after you reflected on the problems of the previous dynasty, I accepted your suggestions and advice, So it's done."

This is called "A person who is good at politics must be the servant of public opinion in the open, and the master of public opinion in secret, so that the husband's affairs can be accomplished".

And in this era, who is in the hands of public opinion?
After figuring this out, I also understand how Dashun basically reversed the almost completely chaotic consciousness at the end of Ming Dynasty when he made so many changes and actually didn’t use a butcher’s knife, only occasionally saying that he had a knife to scare people. form.

Including why the emperor chose to deliberately allow some new trends of thought to spread, why Dashun still allowed scholars to open up societies, and so on.

It also includes the divided crowd, the new knowledge is broken but not established, etc. Everyone who wants to stand up for three immortals is being pulled by others, and Dashun Imperial Power is happy to see this kind of pull.

Dashun doesn't want to be a living sage.Neither can half-saints.

Of course, this will also bring new problems.

That is to say, "great righteousness, great righteousness, how many crimes are false in your name".

Only from a moral point of view, there are only good and bad, there is no great good and bad.Dashun forcibly separated the great righteousness and the small righteousness, so who has the right to interpret the great righteousness?
In theory, in the hands of Confucian scholar-bureaucrats.

But actually?Through the widespread humiliation at the beginning of the founding of the country, the scholar-bureaucrats were forced to defend themselves, and the right to interpret righteousness fell into the hands of the court.

Because, the great righteousness of Dashun is based on the world, the country, the country, and the court.

This kind of moral empty talk, once there is a debate about "big morality, small morality", it means that it has fallen into utilitarianism.

And this happens to be in line with the reflection after the end of the Ming Dynasty almost fell to the world, meaning should be reflected in utilitarianism, not empty talk.

But again, who is the subject of utility?

Whose work?
Whose profit?
Since you have chosen to protect the world, you are protecting an abstract thing. It does not specifically refer to the merits of who or the interests of which class, so how abstract it is.

Therefore, in order to meet the interests of the imperial power, it was gradually distorted into the needs of the court, which is in line with the righteousness.

To put it bluntly, this is a deformed case of "starving to death is a small injustice and a big one", but Dashun adjusted the order of priority and size.

For example, many years before this salt administration reform, Dashun reversed the ideological confusion about "wrong salt tax" that had appeared since the [-]th year of Wanli.In the name of "Dayi", it was explained that the collection of salt tax is a great righteousness, and not collecting a salt tax is a small righteousness. The big righteousness must give way to the small righteousness, and it was magically explained.

Now that Lin Min said this to those who complained for the people, he was actually saying, "I admit that I have harmed their interests, but their interests, from the overall situation, can be sacrificed as a price."

It seemed that Lin Min was cornered by those officials, but in fact he was cornered by Liu Yu. It was Liu Yu who insisted on this question and kept forcing him to express his opinion.

What he said now was the statement Liu Yu needed.

Satisfied, Liu Yu decisively stopped her aggressive questioning, and followed Lin Min's words at this time: "Master Lin's words are quite reasonable, we still have to focus on the overall situation and the overall situation. We'll talk about the Huainan matter later. Just talking about Huaibei, it’s not that the saltworks don’t want to hire workers, if the small salthouses go bankrupt, they can come to the big saltworks to work.”

"Think about it, if you are a salt household, you still have to worry about the price of salt, the price of firewood, the wind and rain, the flooding of the sea, and so on."

"When you come to work in the Great Salt Factory here, all the risks are borne by the factory owner. Those who work, receive their wages on time, and don't have to worry about the future, and they don't need to worry about it. It's a great thing."

He even brought out such a rhetoric, and the rest of the people were speechless and could only remain silent.

But the members of the board of directors of the salt field hurriedly said: "The Duke of the state can appreciate our hard work, I am so grateful. When I open my eyes, there are thousands of people waiting to eat, drink, and scatter, and worry about the cold weather, short days, and floods." We are small, the official salary is not smooth, and the bills are unmanned. The sufferings of others cannot be understood by non-state officials."

Liu Yu, the general backstage of the emerging class, said with a smile: "You guys, your vision is still a little short-sighted. The official salary is not smooth, and there is no bill, so you have to focus on the country? Before returning to Beijing this time, there is something to be done. Let me tell you about it. In my opinion, your production needs to be expanded."

(End of this chapter)