Chapter 156 What the monk touches, but I can’t touch?
Everyone is conscientious and will definitely not make things up!
If not, then hell.
This kind of thing will definitely be fabricated.
Driven by profit, there is nothing these unscrupulous guys can do.
Five hundred strings!
A few dozen strings would be enough for them to bribe some of the target people's fellow villagers to make up stories. A hundred strings would be enough to bribe a bunch of these gangsters and then together they would make up an unofficial history about how everyone would win money. This is the Hongwu Dynasty, not Wan Wan's.
In the past dynasties, most of the local people were unruly people who crawled out of the mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Those aristocratic families could not control the situation. The aristocratic families that really had the ability to control the place had long been eliminated by Zhu Yuanzhang. Therefore, as long as the local unruly people have money to make, they will never
If there is any burden, of course it must be exposed. It’s okay if you don’t make it up...
Uh, why are you editing?
I obviously listened to what my grandfather said, and of course what my grandfather said is right.
As for asking my grandfather to testify?
He has been dead for more than ten years. If you have the ability, go and prove it!
But this has nothing to do with Yang Feng. So what if what he records is forged by these unscrupulous people? What is true and false, false and true, these are all gone in the past. Ambassador Yang is just out of personal curiosity and it is purely private.
Hobby is not an officially recorded history. Even if it is really given to a great Confucian ancestor, he has collected some anecdotes that are not recognized by him...
Then just collect it.
There are many anecdotes and unofficial histories, but none of them are short of Yang Feng's.
Those literati’s notebooks even contain fantasy anecdotes!
They can record fantasy and unofficial histories, add ghost stories to a famous official, and will not be responsible for the truth or falsehoods. Why can't Ambassador Yang record some unofficial histories that are different from what his descendants said? Even the imperial censor can hear about it.
Why can’t Ambassador Yang get wind of the scandal?
Private act!
It's purely a private act!
No need to be responsible for authenticity!
Besides, this is the usual method used by Confucian scholars to make certain people look bad.
Why, the monk touched it but I couldn’t?
"Your Highness, we are indeed not here to settle anything.
It's about letting future generations remember what should be remembered.
Everything that happened back then is indeed in the past.
However, it cannot be covered up, let alone annihilated in history. It is real and should not be forgotten. We had a saying at that time that forgetting history means betrayal, betrayal of conscience, and betrayal of those true loyal ministers and righteous men. His Majesty the Emperor imprisoned
Liu Mengyan, Huang Wanshi and other families demoted the Pu Shougeng family to a low status. These are enough to set an example for generations to come, but were they the only ones back then?
Look at these names.
Qian Shuoyou, the prefect of Pingjiang, presented the city to surrender, Wang Jiweng, the envoy to Fujian, presented Hu Yuan with pictures and books as his internal response, and Zhao Mengchuan, the envoy to the coast, knew Qingyuan Prefecture.
These are all high-ranking officials and dignitaries.
Zhao Mengchuan was still a member of the clan.
And what did they get in exchange for betraying the Zhao family and surrendering?
Wang Jiweng's son Wang Duzhong served as Hu Yuan's minister, and Kublai Khan granted him 8,000 acres of land at one time.
If the traitors all have rich descendants, how can those who die in peace rest in peace?
Indeed, a hundred years have passed, and the Ming Dynasty is not the Song Dynasty. It has no obligation to punish the traitors for the Zhao family, but at least let the people know and let future generations remember their names. Instead of letting their descendants who inherit Confucianism,
They use selfish motives to beautify their actions, cover up their despicableness, and even turn traitors into loyalties, allowing future generations to forget the truth. The most powerful weapon in the hands of these Confucian families is the pen in their hands. You have to understand that the history we see now is not true.
history, but a history described in words.
It is the so-called history that the people who wrote history let us know.
Whoever masters this pen will master the ability to influence the cognition of future generations.
I have mastered this pen.
I can turn loyal ministers into treacherous ministers, and treacherous ministers into loyal ministers. If I master this pen, I can turn Qin Hui into a loyal minister who takes the overall situation into consideration and has foresight for the country and the people, and turn Yue Wumu into an ambitious warlord.
Then when my distorted history is passed down from generation to generation and no one remembers the real history after a hundred years, people will believe that Qin Hui was a loyal minister and Yue Wumu was a warlord.
And now this pen is in the hands of those Confucian scholars.
And how many of those Confucian scholars are the descendants of these rebellious ministers? Many of the people who died in the festival had no descendants left behind. What they took away from the cliffs and mountains and seas was the vast majority of the moral and loyal people in the Song Dynasty, and even if not all of them survived,
There are also a large number of people who betrayed the Zhao family. They had power and wealth in Hu Yuan, so it was easy to continue their family and the knowledge passed down by their family. When the Ming Dynasty was established, their descendants could easily become Jinshi by taking the imperial examination.
.So they became a family of officials in the Ming Dynasty, continued to master this pen, and continued to record the so-called history they wanted to let future generations know.
Isn't it terrible?
The history we know is not history, but the history that others have fed into our minds.
They govern our perceptions."
Yang Feng bewitched the emperor's grandson.
His harvest is still very rich. There are already dozens of people in the Erchen Lu. After all, there are many records in the official history books. However, his 500 Guan is to find out the situation of his descendants, so I only gave him a few names.
It's of no use, the most you can get is a few dozen strings.
If you want to get 500 guan, you still have to keep digging.
Dig deep.
Dig up all the descendants of these people, compile the records of Erchen into a book, and give them to schools all over the country for free.
"So the imperial court wants to master this pen?"
The emperor's grandson said with great awareness.
"Then who will form the imperial court? Isn't it the same as Confucian scholars?
Aren’t the historical results of Confucianism the same?
The History of the Yuan Dynasty was compiled by Song Lian.
Tuo Tuo is exaggerated as if Tuo Tuo is immortal and the Yuan Dynasty is immortal, but in fact the real reason is that Song Lian’s teacher is named Wu Lai, Wu Lai’s father is Wu Zhifang, and Wu Zhifang’s student is named Tuo Tuo.
Yuan's hope lies. But in fact, it was him who did all the banknote changes and the opening of rivers that finally ignited the chaos in Hu Yuan's world. As for the defeat of the siege of Gaoyou, it only proved that he did not understand military affairs at all, and he had never been involved in military affairs, including in the Western Regions.
Four hundred thousand troops were raised from all over the country, and the last person to do this was Fu Jian. The real reason for Hu Yuan's demise was that a conquering power lost its ability to rule due to the weakening of its military force after a long period of ease.
The Red Turban Army penetrated the entire north!
Even the top was burned.
Is this still the invincible Mongolian cavalry back then?
A group of farmers with no backup were driven thousands of miles from Shandong to Henan to Hebei to Shanxi and then all the way to North Korea?
Even if they could not stop the Mongolian cavalry, what would happen if they gave Hu Yuan ten Tuituo? How many Mongolians would fight for Hu Yuan later? Is Chen Youding a Mongolian? Is Li Siqi a Mongolian? Is Zhang Liangbi a Mongolian?
Really? When more than half of Hu Yuan’s defenders were Han Chinese, what basis did they, a conquering power, have for their rule?”
Yang Feng said.
The fundamental reason why Tuotuo was praised by Yuanshi is that simple.
He is a student of Wu Zhifang.
Wu Zhifang's son was named Wu Lai, and he was the teacher of Song Lian, the editor-in-chief of the History of the Yuan Dynasty. Confucian scholars only praised the virtuous ministers they had trained, but Tuotuo himself was actually a typical example of great ambition and talent, a bit like Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty.
He actually accelerated the demise of the Yuan Dynasty.
Including the subsequent defeat of the siege of Gaoyou, it was not because he was captured. It was simply Zhang Shicheng's persistence that lasted too long, which led to the complete collapse of the Yuan Dynasty's finances. The reason why the Yuan Dynasty collapsed in three months was because he mobilized too many troops.
.As for why the 400,000 allied forces of various ethnic groups could not open a Gaoyou city in three months, Fu Jian had already told him this. If you put together a bunch of conquered ethnic groups and cannot fight an overwhelming battle, the result will be their own collapse.
.Do the allied forces summoned from the Western Regions, Tubo, Goryeo, etc. hope that the Yuan army will win? What they really hope is that the Yuan army will be defeated! Only if the Yuan army is defeated can the people behind them have a chance to get rid of slavery.
I don’t even understand this, the only thing that can prove it is that I am stupid!
Then he gathered so many conquered peoples with evil intentions and sincerely showed them the weakness of the Yuan Dynasty, telling them that we Mongols are now so weak that we cannot even conquer a city.
Tell them without reservation that the Mongolian cavalry that once suppressed everything has been abolished.
Not even the salt seller can be beaten.
Even the rebellious peasants could not be suppressed.
At this time, of course those guys with evil intentions are happily adding insult to injury?
Otherwise, what if you know your shame and then become brave, and everyone enthusiastically rushes to be the first to put down the rebels for the Yuan Dynasty?
Why?
Just because your Yuan Dynasty loves us so much?
Then just like Fu Jian, what followed was the disintegration of various armies, and these disintegrated armies of various ethnic groups became an important driving force in disrupting the north and destroying order. This is the real escape, when the empire collapses
On the downhill road, there must be someone who steps on the accelerator, and he was the one who stepped on the accelerator on the downhill road when the Yuan Empire collapsed.
"You see, Confucianism not only controls our understanding of history, but also controls our assessment of capable ministers, mediocre ministers, and even loyal traitors.
It can be said to dominate our thoughts.
What we think of as a conscientious civil servant is actually just serving his ass. He will speak for whichever side he sits on. Similarly, we cannot expect the history books compiled by Confucian scholars to not describe history from the perspective of Confucian scholars. We
It is impossible to know what they tampered with in the history books, what they deliberately omitted, or even what they made up. After all, Confucius had already written about the Spring and Autumn Period, and this was their basic operation."
Yang Feng said.
"Then who can compile history?"
The emperor's brain was already a little overloaded.
"It's very simple, anyone can do it.
As long as you are literate, you can write history. This is a matter of written records. As long as you are literate, you can write down what you know has happened. This is history.
Anyone can write!
As long as you can write.
So what we need to do is to open up the people's wisdom, educate the people, so that everyone can read and read. When the people's wisdom is opened, they will naturally learn to distinguish. After all, there are some things that will be discovered as long as the people can think about them. But the content of education can no longer be about teaching Confucianism.
Those, our purpose of educating the people is to open their minds and let them learn to think, not to cultivate a new group of Confucian students.
We teach them literacy, arithmetic, basic scientific knowledge, and even teach them physical fitness and simple medical knowledge.
Then choose those who are good at learning in a certain area.
Then let them learn more advanced ones.
Supplemented by the reformed imperial examination, they became Jinshi outside of Confucianism.
At that time, we didn’t need to take care of it. They would naturally think about it, discover the problems of the past, and then figure out how to solve these problems themselves. Recording history is just the simplest, it can be said to be the most trivial one. It doesn’t even need to be specialized.
History books, the words they record daily things can be used as part of the history books and become the basis for future generations to understand the history they experienced. Now we really can't change those controlled by Confucianism. After all, we don't even have many literate people now, but we
What we have to do is to take back control of education from now on."
Yang Feng said.
"But today's schools are all filled with Confucian students. From the rural society to the Imperial College, they are all filled with Confucian students. How can we take it back?"
The emperor's grandson said.
"It's very simple, we do it alone.
The Daxia Kingdom and the Ming Dynasty jointly ran schools, and then the Daxia Kingdom funded private schools. The Ming Dynasty recognized their academic qualifications. For example, just like the official schools, they gave each such school a quota of scholars every year, and those who passed the exam were scholars.
The rural examinations are also divided into subjects, and those who take the miscellaneous imperial examinations go to the capital to take the general examination and are selected as Jinshi in miscellaneous subjects. Regardless of whether they are Jinshi in miscellaneous subjects or Confucianism, they are all Jinshi and are awarded the same officials."
Yang Feng said.
This is the most cruel.
At best, Erchen Lu is disgusting to the Confucian scholars.
But this is the root cause.
The biggest bargaining chip in the hands of Confucian scholars is actually the right to education, because they control all educational institutions from the local government to the imperial court.
At most, there is medicine, but medicine is not open, it is local medical households, which have nothing to do with the real education system. Medical households go to medicine to become doctors, follow the path of Huimin Pharmacy, and eventually go to Taiyuan Hospital.
This is a separate system.
But at the local level, from rural social studies, to county schools, to the Imperial College, everything is controlled by Confucian education. This is the biggest support for Confucian students. Behind them are all over the country, which can provide a steady supply of fresh troops. We can't defeat it in one generation.
As long as you are the enemy of Confucianism, you will not have to wait for the next generation, or the next generation. As long as you have the right to educate, we will win from generation to generation. In a sense, Zhu Yuanzhang lost this way. He was a Confucian scholar when he was alive.
He couldn't fight him, and after he died, he tried to rely on Zhu Yunwen to stand up but failed.
But Confucian scholars have plenty of time.
Generations of new Confucian scholars will take over their tasks, and they will be the winners in the end.
So if you want to win, you have to start with education.
Of course, the real changes Yang Feng wanted began with the establishment of these schools.
Open up people’s wisdom...
Could it be that after the people's wisdom is opened, they will only deal with Confucian scholars?
At that time, Confucian scholars were nothing, and imperial power was the most intolerable thing after the people's wisdom opened up.
Of course, this is just to coax the emperor's grandson, and it probably won't coax Zhu Yuanzhang. He can already see the real danger of this plan at a glance, so he will definitely not agree to it. But fortunately, he only has three years left.