Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 526
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The news of Yang Chao being named King of Ming soon spread all over the world. Countless old masters wept bitterly. In Nanjing, scholars went to the Xiaoling Mausoleum to cry in groups, and there were also crying temples in the Taimiao.

Among the officials, a group of resigned appeared again. Some were so angry that the last document scolded Yang Chao and waited to die. Some left immediately after writing the scolding letter. Some were less courageous and left immediately Go, don't make a sound, just be worthy of your own conscience.

But the vast majority of officials immediately wrote congratulatory letters. Even the Shandong Confucian family immediately sent someone to send congratulatory documents after hearing the news, and they were written in ancient official script.

Those officials who were dressed in white and wore filial piety, and sat in the middle of the yamen waiting to die, waited for several days, but no one came to arrest them. Instead, they blushed and left by themselves.

As for those officials who have been printed and resigned, Yang Chao immediately replaced them. Some of them were low-level scholars who had served in the army. , Ambitious, just to promote them to the top. Of course, they still have to pass the exam before being selected. After all, not everyone at the bottom is down-to-earth.

A wave of resignations actually rejuvenated Yang Chao's bureaucratic team.

As for Yang Chao's direct descendants, the officers and soldiers who had been looking forward to this day for many years naturally signed a letter of allegiance, and some even directly called His Majesty in the memorial.

Yang Chao immediately reprimanded him, saying that he was not the emperor.

That's right, not the emperor. After years of research on the Chinese political system, Chinese cultural system, and etiquette system, Yang Chao felt that a new system should be introduced.

The Huaxia system, to put it bluntly, is the Zhou Rites advocated by Confucianism.

Confucian culture, to put it bluntly, is Zhou culture, a culture formed by Confucius advocating the restoration of Zhou rituals when the rites collapsed and the music was broken in the Spring and Autumn Period.

The Zhou culture was naturally formed during the 800-year rule of the Zhou Dynasty. This culture is actually a slave-owner aristocratic culture, which is quite complicated and developed.

Taking rites and music as the core, rites refer to various ways and means of offering sacrifices, ranging from small weddings and funerals to large sacrifices to heaven and earth, with a set of self-contained procedures.

It was so complicated that when Zhou Tianzi ate, he had to be accompanied by music. The music officials at that time called it one meal, two meals, three meals, four meals, etc.

Later, the Zhou royal family declined, many Zhou officials fled, and many vassal states also mastered the etiquette of the emperor. Confucius also sighed: The emperor lost his official position and learned in Siyi.It's a pity.

Although Zhou culture is a slave-owner aristocratic culture, it has been inherited and carried forward by Confucianism for thousands of years, and has been integrated into the blood of China. If you want to abandon it, you must find a more suitable culture, but Yang Chao can't find it. This kind of culture is equally powerful, such as religious culture, Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, and Allah, but which religion is suitable for governing China?None!
After the Chinese themselves abandoned the Zhou culture, they suddenly found that their spirit had no sustenance, and they began to admire Western culture. They felt that they had learned to hate being colonized for hundreds of years. At this time, the Celestial Dynasty remembered traditional culture again. Come.

Yang Chao doesn't want to follow this old path. Barbarians conquer civilized people, and then they will be conquered by the culture of civilized people. If the Chinese don't give up their own culture, they will never be conquered by foreign cultures.

Yang Chao is not only unwilling to give up Zhou culture, on the contrary, he wants to advocate and carry forward her. Anyway, Confucianism has spread, at least it has received North Korea, Vietnam, Japan and Ryukyu. The cultural system has been promoted, and it has become a universal rule for the unimpeded movement of Chinese power wherever it reaches.

It's as if later generations of the West ruled the world with the Western diplomatic system.

As for whether Yang Chao should be emperor or not, it really doesn’t matter. Zhu Cihuan was pushed to the position of emperor. Yang Chao is only the king of Ming Dynasty. Like the king of Japan, the king of Korea, and the king of Vietnam, they are all princes under the jurisdiction of the emperor. It's like going back to the Spring and Autumn Period. At that time, I believe that Japan, North Korea and other congresses would welcome it very much.

At that time, the eastern world, and even the wider world, formed a social circle with the emperor as the core, allowing Zhou Wenhua to reach any place he could expand, allowing the power of Ming Dynasty to expand to the place where culture could reach, and letting the power of Ming Dynasty Wherever it reaches, in turn, it becomes the place where culture spreads, and blades and civilizations expand alternately, finally forming a huge and complex world system.

When the time comes to obey this system and accept this civilized country, that is a civilized country, that is a Chinese country, that is Zhu Xia, and those who do not accept it are barbarians. At that time, they will be like the Japanese acting in a play, raising the banner of respecting the king and fighting the barbarians. With a group of horse boys doing his shit, he is still confident.

Of course, Yang Chao can also play the role of the Son of Heaven, but Yang Chao’s prestige is not enough, and his background is not enough. Zhu Yuanzhang’s prestige as the Son of Heaven is enough. Zhu Yuanzhang started to expel Meng Yuan. From the perspective of North Korea and other countries in the Chinese cultural circle That is to fight against the barbarians. Emperor Zhu's success in the country is very righteous, and the Zhu family has been emperor for another 300 years.

Then push Zhu Cihuan to the position of the Son of Heaven, adopt the false monarch system, and hand over the real power of Daming to Yang Chao. In the future, whoever is not convinced will respect the king and fight against barbarians in the name of the Son of Heaven.

Of course, Zhu Tianzi is no longer the emperor of the Great Heaven, and there should be no objection to giving him a Huaxia Emperor.

Under this kind of system, Yang Chao felt that he didn't need to fight for the position of emperor. It would be nice to be the king of the Ming Dynasty. He only hoped that his future generations would be reliable. Don't give the Zhu family a chance. When the time comes, there will be a Meiji Restoration in Japan. The restoration of the royal government at that time was also broken.

But that day probably won't happen in Yang Chao's lifetime. Yang Chao is only in his twenties this year. He should live to be 50 or [-] years old. There should be no problem. It will be no problem to pass it on to the second generation. Afterwards, the political system stabilized, and at that time, Emperor Zhu could only be an emperor without rights, and no one would agree with him even if he wanted to seize the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, they want to borrow soldiers from Japan and North Korea. The two countries have to consider whether the Zhu family will seize Daming today and Japan tomorrow. It can only be used as a symbol like Zhou Tianzi.

Moreover, Yang Chao is still very confident that in his lifetime, civilization can develop to the level of peace and civilization. Even if the dynasty changes, he will not bleed, and he will not wipe out the roots of the previous dynasty, just like Yuan Shikai replaced Aixin after entering the civilized era. Jue Luo, did he not kill anyone?

It is too early to think about future generations. Yang Chao’s purpose is to use Zhu Tianzi as a banner to standardize the Chinese civilization circle and expand Chinese civilization, so as to obtain benefits for the Chinese people, just like Westerners use the banner of Christian civilization to expand Western civilization. All over the world.

At that time, China was isolated step by step because of its resistance to this civilization.If the Chinese can cultivate their own cultural circle when Western culture rises strongly, will there still be that sense of cultural isolation?
So: "Confer meritorious ministers?"

Yang Chao replied: "This king will invite the emperor!"

When the Huangfeng Mansion sent the python robes, it suggested that Yang Chao canonize Wang Pu and others, and Yang Chao replied accordingly.

"My lord doesn't need to spend so much trouble!"

Huang Fengfu sighed, he didn't expect Yang Chao to be so stubborn after accepting the canonization of King Daming.

Yang Chao said with a smile: "You don't understand. This is called righteousness. The power of the emperor belongs to the emperor, and the power of the king belongs to the king."

Huang Fengfu didn't understand.

Yang Chao said with a smile: "In the future, you will not be canonized as the son of heaven, and you will not be allowed to be a prince. This is the case in Ming Dynasty, Japan, and North Korea. The world in the future will be another world. We have to raise the banner of respecting the king and fighting barbarians. For example, in the Spring and Autumn Period Qi country!"

"overbearing!"

Huang Fengfu yelled out without thinking, feeling very excited inside.

Under the banner of respecting the king and fighting barbarians, Duke Huan of Qi was the first to dominate in the Spring and Autumn Period, commanding the princes of the world to conquer Yidi in the north and Chuman in the south.

But what excites Huangfeng Mansion is the story behind it. Duke Huan of Qi was able to dominate because of Guan Zhong's assistance. Fengfu, who else has this qualification.

Thinking of becoming someone like Guan Zhong, how could Huang Fengfu not be excited.

Yang Chao sighed: "That's right, the future world will be a world where domineering techniques are rampant."

Thinking of the later generations of American emperors using domineering techniques to dominate the world, Yang Chao wondered if they still had this chance.

"The emperor is still in Burma?"

Huang Fengfu couldn't help sighing.

Yang Chao said with a sneer: "I just took the Burmese to let them know what it means to respect the king. My Ming Dynasty first suppressed this barbarian! But I first ordered North Korea, Japan, and Vietnam to tell them that the emperor is in trouble in Burma, and the Burmese are disrespectful." Son of Heaven, I want to honor the king's soldiers and let them send troops to join in the grand feat!"

Huang Fengfu was stunned: "But if the king of Burma jumps over the wall in a hurry, what should he do if he kills the emperor?"

How Burmese King Ping Dali killed Zhu Cihuan was indeed troublesome, but it did not affect the overall situation. Zhu Cihuan is right, the earth is still turning, isn’t Zhu Cihong still there? Anyway, there are many people who want him to be the emperor.

"Isn't there still the old Emperor Hongguang?"

Huang Fengfu nodded vigorously, and sighed secretly in his heart, he really is a domineering person, his heart is so cruel, he can disregard the life and death of the emperor.

But he loves it.

Then Yang Chao asked Huangfeng Mansion to arrange some smart people to understand Yang Chao's political ideas, and then sent eloquent scholars to the Korean countries to explain the righteousness to them and told them to send soldiers to respect the king and fight against the barbarians.

As long as these countries accept it, the first step in politics will be considered. In the future, with the help of the banner of Hua Xia Zi, Yang Chao will have the absolute right to speak.

(End of this chapter)