People in the Ming Dynasty are lawless

Chapter 561 Let them fight like two vicious dogs!

In fact, everyone knows very well what this group of scholars are thinking, but they just don't say it out loud to save face for them. But in fact, they are still disgusted.

Especially those ordinary people who had been persecuted by this group of scholars. At this time, they were holding back their desire to retaliate through other means, so they were actually waiting to see how the Ming Dynasty would deal with it.

There were even quite a few ordinary people talking in low voices below.

"Why are you scared now? You scholars have never thought about it this way before. You have even been accomplices to the evildoers many times.

That’s right. We also learned this word from the Central Plains Dynasty, and it is fully reflected in you.

Don’t you like quibbling over words?
Well, today we will also give you some quibbles about words. "

Although the person who spoke was not a so-called well-educated and well-mannered scholar in the eyes of the old-school scholars, his words were very powerful and well-reasoned.

Those old-school scholars lowered their heads and didn't know how to refute.

They wanted to say that we were just doing the job for money, but they couldn't say that.

The truth is that even though some people do things for money, they are not that harsh on ordinary people.

Even if they have to implement the landlords' strategies, they will do things selectively.

Instead of being like some scholars who talk about benevolence and righteousness, and being kind, but in reality they always do things to add insult to injury.

We all know that the common people are extremely poor and have no money to pay the high rents from the landlords.

Originally, this group of scholars, who came from ordinary families, should be able to understand it.

After all, everyone has a headache or fever, and treating illnesses costs money.

Sometimes you really have no choice but to exchange food for money to treat your illness in order to survive. Everyone has a desire to survive.

However, in the eyes of this group of scholars, even under such circumstances, they did not let the common people go and they instigated the landlords.

The common people were asked to sign a so-called indenture.

On the surface, it means that if you work for the landlord for a certain number of years, you can take the contract away.

But most educated people are cunning and they bully ordinary people because they are illiterate.

They know that even if they want to cheat in the future, they will have to face the government. However, once the government sees the words in black and white, they will regard it as evidence, and then the common people will suffer a great loss.

The common people were afraid of the powerful orders held by these scholars, so they did not dare to resist.

This has caused some scholars to become even more extreme.

We know clearly that the people are having a hard time, and we know clearly that what the people need most at this moment is help.

But they were able to come and bully the whole family at this time and turn them into slaves of the landlord's family.

Because this can please the landlords.

Because only in this way can they get a reward from the landlords.

Only in this way will the local lords recognize that they are indeed reliable people.

In this way, they can be said to have done all kinds of bad things. Even if some scholars did not do so, most of the scholars are such people, so this is why they are now actively seeking asylum.

And this majority actually constitutes the majority in number six.

Although there is a reason why these scholars have to do this in order to survive.

But more importantly, it is because some scholars have bad character.

They use the little power they have to make things as difficult for others as possible.

Even though they knew that the common people were already living a miserable life, in their eyes, as long as they could get their financial backers to trust them a little more, they would do anything.

Such scholars are scum.

Wang Dahai and Liu Baihu watched the discussions below without saying anything.

Captain Liu was brought out to tell the scholars here and the ordinary people who wanted to go to school that in the future there would be some ways to allow their families to go to school as well.

In this way, you will be able to control the right to speak and public opinion like those educated people and will no longer be fooled by others.

So when Captain Liu himself didn't know what to say, he saw that the common people below had already begun to denounce those former scholars.

The old school scholars wanted to take advantage of this opportunity of the Ming Dynasty to seize the initiative again.

I even thought it would be better if the Ming Dynasty could gather its own people together and teach them a different set of skills.

In this way, when facing the imperial examination, you will have more chances than ordinary people.

In this way, even if those ordinary people had many complaints after being bullied by themselves.

But now all I can do is swallow those complaints once again.

To be honest, I have indeed made things difficult for the local people on many things.

But so what? In their eyes, all the previous actions were purely for money.

It was purely done by those landlords. We were just giving advice at most. Can we be blamed for this?

Is there any justice in the world if this can be blamed on us?

They even thought that with their eloquent tongues, they could at least make the people from the Ming Dynasty understand our suffering.

Then if they can tilt the policies more towards us, then it will be easier.

Even if those stinky common people clamor loudly, what can they do? They will have to crawl under our feet obediently from now on.

Even if you are bullied, you can only shut your mouth from now on.

It’s best not to say a word, otherwise what awaits you will be consequences that you cannot bear.

But what they didn't expect was that the Ming Dynasty didn't seem to intend to comply with their wishes this time.

He never said anything, but just stood there. Even though he saw them whispering to each other as if they were discussing something, they actually didn't produce any substantial results.

Instead, the common people seemed to realize at this time that in the future they would be able to study for the imperial examinations, pass the imperial examinations, and become officials.

In this way, the previous fear of being afraid of scholars disappeared at once.

Especially when seeing these old-school scholars at this time, each of them showed their expectation for reform on their face.

At the same time, they also show fear that ordinary people can also study, take the imperial examination and become officials. What are they afraid of?

Ordinary people are not fools, of course they know what they are afraid of.

In fact, they are just afraid and fearful that if the common people gain power in the future, they will retaliate against them and do to them the same things they did to the common people.

They feel horrified when they think about what they have done to ordinary people.

This shows how hateful the things these people did were.

Even thinking about it myself is horrifying, let alone making it even more frightening.

To a certain extent, these guys can even less withstand such a blow than ordinary people.

Because they used to be high and mighty, they thought that they could comment on others at will just because they had knowledge, that they could take the initiative, and that they could make others fear them.

Even if they were worthless in the village, if they could become landlords or government officials one day, they would be able to show off their power.

Even if everyone looked down on them before, once they put on that skin, they can become arrogant and domineering.

They haven't even put on that skin yet, they are just wearing the skin given to them by the landlords, but they can be so arrogant and domineering.

Not to mention that after the Ming Dynasty came, if the reforms allowed such a group of people to serve as officials in the new court, would people like me still have a chance to succeed?
Don't think about it.

Because many of the scholars here once stood on the side of the landlords and gave them many ideas to torture the common people.

These hatreds are like a brand deeply engraved on the chests of ordinary people. As long as they lower their heads, they can see the mark of humiliation.

This hatred cannot be avoided in any way.

Therefore, all those who were present and had served as staff in the landlords' mansions felt fear and dread at this moment.

So some scholars started to quibble, "Don't talk nonsense, when have we ever been afraid? You, a half-baked scholar, shouldn't talk nonsense.

Don't think that you understand everything. You are nitpicking, that's fine, and the words you used are not wrong.

But you have to remember, these are things that only we educated people can say. Can what we educated people do be called accomplices to the evil?

We scholars cannot farm in the fields like ordinary people, so we can only rely on our knowledge to enter the landlords' mansions.

On the one hand, we need to be clear about what they are trying to do.
On the other hand, I just want to make some money.

As for punishing you and oppressing you, you should go to the landlords and the rich people instead of taking it out on us."

These scholars may have their reasons, but the common people are not buying it.

Especially now. Seeing that the Ming Dynasty is coming here to set up a private school, my children can also go to the private school. Once selected, not only will they be exempted from tuition, but they will also receive subsidies.

Wang Dahai said it clearly that this subsidy may not make his family rich overnight, but it can maintain a normal livelihood.

What is a normal livelihood? At least you don’t have to worry about food, drink, defecation and urination.

With such convenient conditions, countless ordinary people would send their children to the private schools established by the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, it was no longer that group of scholars who read books and had the right to interpret classics.

It is even possible to refute the classics that were distorted by a group of scholars in order to show off their talents and consolidate their status through the interpretations of the poets and scholars from the Central Plains dynasties.

Not to mention the process of the spread of classics, whether it is politicians or those who interpret the classics.

Classics may be distorted for the sake of one's own ideas or some political purpose.

Why do this?

It's very simple. Maybe it's because they are not right or they don't have enough prestige, so they have to find some excuses in the classics to support their claims.

In order to glorify themselves, they can even say that the scriptures have said that people like me should be your kings and enjoy wealth and glory.

This is a gift from God or heaven.

It is not something that you ordinary people can get by simply shouting a few words of rebellion.

As the Central Plains Dynasty said, All under heaven belongs to the king.

Since the classics from the Ming Dynasty in the Central Plains have said that all the land in the world belongs to the king, you people should not have any unreasonable expectations.

Once you have these unreasonable thoughts, you will face disaster.

It is for this reason that they all rushed to interpret these classics, and each of them wanted to find reasons in the classics that would be beneficial to their own rule.

It is for this reason that they need scholars to help them even more. For their own interests, or to reflect their own value, scholars understand the urgent needs of landlords or monarchs.

So they began to make drastic adaptations to those classics.

The reason why they do this, or the reason why it is useful to do so, is because these classics have been precipitated over time and have long been deeply rooted in people's hearts.

Of course, this is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, but not every ordinary person can understand its meaning.

But at least I heard more.

When a group of people appear who distort the classics for their own purposes, ordinary people will feel that what they have heard before seems less credible, and thus they will be fooled by them.

They took advantage of this point and made large-scale adaptations and dismemberment of classics.

Let classics become the weapon in their hands and the slogan of their propaganda.

That is why these scholars are afraid now.

Because once you do that, you won’t even have the chance to explain these classics.

Doesn't that mean that the content that was once distorted in order to consolidate one's own position and demonstrate one's own value will hit one's head like a boomerang?

Because the more they explain at that time, the more people will ridicule them when they realize what is going on.

By then their dignity, their status, and their face will all be completely destroyed.

Liu Baihu looked at Wang Dahai and smiled, "You see, we don't need to do anything more. As long as we give them some guidance, the common people will spontaneously stand up and retaliate against those so-called scholars who have bullied them.

You were worried before that allowing the common people here to attend private schools would be a waste of our Ming Dynasty’s manpower and resources.

But that doesn't seem to be the case now.

Only when they fight each other like two vicious dogs can we stand on our high ground and watch.

Although they may not be able to come up with any new ideas in their fight, as long as the new and old factions keep fighting each other, we will be able to mediate between them with ease.

The process of reconciliation is the process of mastering power, and this is the real good method. "

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(End of this chapter)