Guide to Traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty.

Chapter 89 0084 [Son, you are in a hurry today]

at night.

The father and son started a discussion.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "Today, you are in a hurry again."

"I'm not in a hurry." Ju Ming firmly denied.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "You are too eager to show your talent. The eight poems are directly sold wholesale, and the quality is very high. This does not match your current age. Some things cannot be written at the age of 15."

However, Zhu Ming said: "I have thought carefully about which poems to copy. Except for the three poems of Xin Qiji, Zhu Xi and Yang Shen, which require more experience, the rest are very suitable for young people to write. Even their three poems are very suitable for young adults. It can be accepted. Moreover, the quality of these eight poems varies from high to low, and their thoughts are rich and deep, which are very in line with the reality of literary creation."

"I still think it's too urgent. Three songs are basically enough, and five songs is the limit. After all, these are all famous sentences." Zhu Guoxiang insisted on his opinion.

Zhu Ming said: "Three songs can't make any scene, five should be fine, but why can't we have eight? We need fame and influence, not only among the low-level people, but also among the scholars. No matter how bad the scholars are, the They must be allowed to govern the local area, otherwise the local area will fall into an anarchic power vacuum, and the gentry and powerful will take the opportunity to seize local control. This state, which appeared in the Wanli period, became one of the key factors for the demise of the Ming Dynasty."

Zhu Guoxiang did not speak, he lacked research on history.

Zhu Ming continued: "Dean Zhu, do you think I copied so many poems just to show off? No! I'm preparing for a rebellion. Only by gaining fame and influence, and rebelling in the future, are you willing to join us?" There are more scholars."

"I think you are a little too optimistic. The traditional thinking of scholars is to be loyal to the emperor. You will not take the risk of beheading to join you just because you have written a few good poems." Zhu Guoxiang objected.

Zhu Ming said with a smile: "In Liao Kingdom and Xixia, there are many scholars from the Song Dynasty who voted. The Juren in the Song Dynasty had no privileges, and some even came from poor families. This is a very large group. The more famous I am among the scholars, the better I am. The more it can attract more scholars. Otherwise, why should I go to Taixue? Just to travel to Kaifeng?"

Zhu Guoxiang asked: "Have you ever thought about what kind of system will be established after the successful rebellion?"

Zhu Ming didn't answer directly, but asked instead: "Have you ever heard of Zhong Xiang Yang Yao's uprising?"

Zhu Guoxiang nodded: "I have an impression that it was calmed down by Yue Fei."

Zhu Ming said: "This uprising happened at the beginning of the founding of the Southern Song Dynasty, and it is of great reference value to us."

"In the first stage, the leader was Zhong Xiang. He took three hundred archers Qin Wang, and was sent back halfway. Because the money and food were cut off, and he was always discriminated against, he simply brought those archers to rebel and count the ball."

"Although Zhong Xiang rebelled under the slogan of Mingjiao, he took the path of mutual aid society in the early stage. Farmers paid money to join the society and helped each other to resist natural disasters, landlord oppression and government exploitation. The rebellion slogan was 'Equal the rich and the poor, equal the noble and the humble' , kill officials, kill scholars, kill monks and Taoists, kill enemies, beat local tyrants and divide the land. Therefore, the speed of development is extremely fast, but it destroys the order at the grassroots level, seriously damages economic production, and the people at the bottom are living even worse!"

"In the second stage, the leader was Yang Yao. Yang Yao learned his lesson and only killed the notorious landlords and confiscated their properties. For the enlightened landlords, they continued to farm and pay taxes. They also burned Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian temples and looted them. The land is distributed to the poor people. Then the means of production are dispatched uniformly, such as cattle, water canals, etc. External development of trade, internal food control. Officers and soldiers are equal, collective labor, fair distribution, and Yang Yao himself eats fish, shrimp, snails and mussels with the soldiers .Even set up schools to let the children of the rebels go to school.”

The more Zhu Guoxiang heard it, the more familiar it became: "This Yang Yao is really talented!"

Zhu Ming said: "When Zhong Xiang led the uprising, all the food was robbed, and he was often hungry. When Yang Yao led the uprising, it only took two or three years to develop enough to be self-sufficient in food."

Zhu Guoxiang said: "No wonder the officers and soldiers have been unable to quell the uprising, and finally had to send Yue Fei over."

"Yue Fei succeeded in suppressing the rebels. Apart from his own strength, he also had a bit of luck," Zhu Ming said. "Yang Yao's rebel army encountered a severe drought, and their food reserves were gradually depleted. And Yue Fei led the army to control the fortress. In addition, the former generals who suppressed bandits burned a large number of wealthy villages in the uprising area, which also made Yang Yao’s food insufficient. And these were not the key to Yang Yao’s failure! "

"What's the key?" Zhu Guoxiang asked.

Zhu Ming said: "When the food was not enough, Yang Yao ate and slept with the soldiers. But when the food problem was solved and the officers and soldiers were repelled many times, Yang Yao became extravagant and lustful, and his life and death depended on his preferences. He betrayed the original intention of the uprising , is already unpopular. Other officers and soldiers are more vicious than Yang Yao when they go to suppress the bandits, so naturally they cannot succeed. The Yue family army did not commit any crimes, and won the approval of the people in the uprising area, and a large number of Yang Yao’s tribe chose to join Yue Fei. The story of a boy who eventually becomes a dragon, Yang Yao was only 27 years old when he died."

Zhu Guoxiang sighed: "It's the same as those leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom."

"From this uprising, what lessons can we draw?" Zhu Ming asked.

Zhu Guoxiang thought carefully: "First, guard against arrogance and impetuosity, keep your original aspirations, and don't get carried away. Yang Yao did it for himself, and he died unjustly. Second, ensure the production order in the uprising area, especially grain production, not like Zhong Xiang. Recklessly……"

"How to keep the production order?" Zhu Ming interrupted.

Zhu Guoxiang said: "Landlords can't kill randomly, but they can't kill none of them. The gentry class is the maintainer and executor of the grassroots order. Random killings will make a mess. If you don't kill, you can't do things. You have to find a balance. Moreover, it is difficult to control the balance point. It is okay to say that the territory is small, but it will definitely lose control when the territory is large. The low-level peasants who participated in the rebellion will pour their hatred on all the rich. And the generals will gradually become corrupt, leading the peasants to rob the rich Helping the poor ends up killing and looting indiscriminately!"

Zhu Ming said with a smile: "So, to set up a target of hatred, that is the court and the government. Scholars, landlords, businessmen, farmers, all have enough reasons to hate the court and the government! Exploitation by the court and government is the main contradiction, and the rest are secondary. Contradictions. The conflict between peasants and landlords can be resolved after the establishment of a new dynasty.”

"Can you solve it?" Zhu Guoxiang questioned.

Zhu Ming said: "It's nothing more than Zhu Yuanzhang's set, enacting strict laws and severely punishing officials. The Dengwen drum is not a decoration. The food chief can also meet with the emperor and allow the people to kill corrupt officials. In the early days of Zhu Yuanzhang's rule, there were a lot of rebels in the country. He In the process of suppressing the rebellion, they took the opportunity to attack the landlords."

Zhu Guoxiang couldn't laugh or cry: "What kind of solution is this?"

"Otherwise? You still divide the land by the local tyrants, and push all the landlords to the Song court?" Zhu Ming said, "This may still be feasible in the late Ming Dynasty, but it is absolutely impossible in the Song Dynasty. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there are a bunch of people who can't eat. They don’t care about the landlords, they can rely on them to implement policies. However, the number of scholars in the Song Dynasty was far less than that in the late Ming Dynasty, and no matter how poor they were, they couldn’t be poorer. When we attacked the landlords, all the scholars ran away. Don’t know how many peasants go to collect taxes?”

"Let's take one step at a time. It's not certain whether we will rebel or not," Zhu Guoxiang said, and then realized, "No, today we are discussing the random copying of poems. Why are you talking about these rebellious contents with me?"

Zhu Ming said with a smile, "I told you, the purpose of copying poems is to rebel and improve my reputation among scholars. I also plan to go to Tangyin County, maybe I can find Yue Fei, and instill in him the idea that the people are more important than the emperor, so that he will be more respectful. He is loyal to the people, don't be foolishly loyal to the royal family of the Song Dynasty. Maybe the world will be in chaos, and Yue Fei can be abducted to rebel."

"How old is Yue Fei?" Zhu Guoxiang asked.

Zhu Ming said, "About ten years old."

……

At this moment, Lu Tixue, Xiang Zhixian, and Professor Qian were also discussing the eight poems.

"This song "Linjiang Fairy" (Rolling Yangtze River to the East)," Professor Qian savored carefully, "doesn't seem to be written by a young man, but more like it was written by a middle-aged or old man who has read all the world."

Lu Tixue said: "Why can't young people do it? Wang Bo wrote "Preface to the Pavilion of King Teng" when he was only 26 years old."

Professor Qian said: "But Zhu Chenggong is only 15 years old."

"Prodigy too!" Lu Tixue believed in Ju Ming very much, and believed that there are strange people and strange things in the world.

Xiang Zhixian suddenly asked: "Could it be... his father Zhu Yuanzhang did it?"

Professor Qian said: "This Zhu Yuanzhang even got the three-character order wrong several times."

Xiang Zhixian said: "It's just Tibetan clumsiness. Because the three-character order is simple, anyone who has learned a little bit of Ci Ling can easily follow it, and it's just that they can't rhyme. Zhu Yuanzhang didn't answer a word, just drank directly, and Tibetan clumsy can do it well." It's so obvious."

"Very likely!" Professor Qian echoed.

Now, even Lu Tixue is not sure, is it really Zhu Guoxiang's poems?

Lu Tixue suddenly said: "No, Zhu Chenggong has real talent and learning. I set the question with 'doing learning' to test and teach all students' poetic talents, and Zhu Chenggong immediately wrote excellent works for the occasion. Such a talent is extraordinary. Average. If you can write one poem, you can write eight poems!"

Xiang and Qian stopped talking.

Borrowing the study of Bai's family, Lu Tixue wrote a letter that night, recommending Zhu Ming's poems to Qian Chen.

Qian Chen is the son of a son-in-law, who served Song Zhezong around, was thrown by Song Huizong to Luzhou as a military governor, and was recalled to Kaifeng as an official in the past two years.This person has another identity, he is the uncle of Lu You and Tang Wan.

The Qian family, the Lu family, and the Tang family were all married, and they were all in an embarrassing situation at this time, and they didn't know which party they belonged to.

Take Lu Dian (Lu You's grandfather) as an example. Although he is a direct disciple of Wang Anshi, he thinks that although the new law is good, it is difficult to implement, so he was thrown by Wang Anshi to become a local school official.The old party came to power and recalled Lu Dian as one of his own.Lu Dian tried his best to protect Wang Anshi's reputation, so he was labeled as a new party.When the new party came to power, Lu Dian was labeled as the old party.

Lu Zai (Lu You's father) is an official in the capital at this time, and Cai Jing regards him as a new party for the time being. Because the line is rather vague, he may be labeled as an old party at any time.

Qian Chen's situation is not bad, after all, he has a mother who is a princess.

Lu Tixue praised it to the fullest in the letter, hoping that Qian Chen could help build momentum and spread the eight poems of Ju Ming.

He was almost desperate for the current situation, and he was in a half-lying state.What can be done now is nothing more than training a few juniors and promoting new crops.

(End of this chapter)