Chapter 1 The young marshal returns to the country in chaos
[The opening chapter of the fifth volume may be a bit boring. You are not interested in seeing Marshal Yun’s political ideals, so please subscribe with caution] On September 19th, the 18th year of Wanchang, the sky was clear in Tianjin Port, and the autumn breeze cooled the sweet-scented osmanthus trees on the hills.
The fragrance is wafting ten miles away, and the sea is sparkling. It is really a picturesque scene.
Marshal Yun Zheng of Northern Xinjiang, who "made an eastward journey and connected the two countries", will return to Northern Xinjiang today. In order to welcome Marshal Yun's triumphant return, it seems that even God has come out to please him.
Yunzheng returned to the army urgently this time. The Yingyang Guards who returned with him only had two defenders to defend Japan. However, Goryeo was truly defeated by force, and there were still so many regular troops and rebels that needed to be reorganized and demobilized.
, if all the Yingyang Guards are transferred back, God knows if those people will have any bad intentions again? Therefore, for the sake of safety, Yunzheng only has two guards accompanying him, and the rest of the guards are temporarily stationed in Goryeo until the reorganization is completed.
The meaning of transferring Yunzheng back in sequence is that in the end, four guards will be left in Goryeo and two guards will be left in Japan. In the end, the Yingyang Guards will still have a combat strength of 33,600 people. Basically... enough
After the war develops close to the era of hot weapons, the gap between cold weapon troops and hot weapons will become larger and larger with the development of science and technology, until there is no longer any comparison. The number of people is really nothing. The battle in Goryeo
This has begun to show. When it comes to fighting at that time, the real key is logistics.
The reason for Yunzheng's early return this time was the Jiangsu and Zhejiang Uprising.
To be honest, it is not accidental that large-scale uprisings broke out in the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas. There are three main reasons: First, the southeastern region, from the Tang Dynasty to the Wei Dynasty, has always been the most economically developed region in the country, and also has extremely sharp class conflicts.
The great wealth and income of the Wei Dynasty in this region mainly came from the southeast. As a prime minister of Renzong said, "the court's expenses include military food, coins, silk, tea, salt, spring goods, gold, copper, lead, silver, and even feathers, glue, and paint."
, all out of the southeast. The southeastern region, especially the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, is known as "A Thousand Miles of Beauty". However, "the custom of Zhejiang and Zhejiang" is that "the powerful are like tigers". The big landowners exploit the farmers viciously like tigers eating people.
Second, in order to build a new garden, Wanchang set up bureaus in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and sent corrupt officials like Zhu Mian to extort and enslave the peasants. The distorted implementation of the new law has already made the people in the southeast miserable, Huashi
Gang also extorted by-products such as lacquer, chun, bamboo, and wood from the folk, and "robbed and fished without paying for their hair." People in the southeast region suffered more cruel oppression than other regions.
Third, this area has a tradition of peasant uprisings, and the Qinglong Sect, whose mission is to oppose the Wei Dynasty, is distributed throughout the country. Long before the founding of the Wei Dynasty, the peasants in the southeast had used the sect to organize uprisings. The Wei Dynasty once strictly prohibited its spread, but the people were more
Later, due to other reasons, the imperial court gradually relaxed the development of the sect, but the development of the sect never stopped, but the Qinglong Sect occupied a dominant position.
In fact, Qinglong Sect is a well-organized cult. Its leader, Ouyang Rui, transformed some of the old teachings of Manichaeism, added new content, and worshiped Zhang Jiao, the leader of the Huangzhong Uprising in the Han Dynasty, as the founder of Manichaeism.
"Zong" (light, dark) and "three realms" (past, present, future), calling for overthrowing the dark present world and creating a bright future. He took advantage of Manichaeism's extensive popular base in the southeast region and called on everyone to worship the sun and moon.
The ancestors of gods and Buddhas rebelled against the Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism advocated by the rulers. Those who joined the religion were equal to men and women. They did not eat meat and wine, were buried naked after death, and usually shared wealth and helped each other. In fact, in the late Tang Dynasty, Manichaeism became popular in various parts of the south.
When the Wei Dynasty was first founded, Manichaeism was spread all over Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and other places. After the Qinglong Sect rewritten the teachings of Manichaeism, it worshiped the sun and the moon, offered sacrifices to the heavenly dragon, and took the name Qinglong, which gained widespread popularity and contributed to the outbreak of the peasant uprising.
Mental preparation and organizational preparation
Then, as various harms and disturbances intensified during the implementation of the new law, public dissatisfaction in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was almost boiling. On August 18, Yunzheng set sail for Japan, and an uprising broke out in Zhejiang.
The uprising on that day was originally an accident. According to the Qinglong Sect's plan, the uprising should have taken place in early September. Unexpectedly, the Qinglong Sect's weapons transport convoy was stopped by a group of drunken soldiers. They insisted on investigating the Qinglong Sect's escorting disciples.
The matter had been exposed, so they simply killed that small group of soldiers. Unexpectedly, they were very unlucky. Just after killing that group of soldiers, the military camp happened to send people out to catch the soldiers who had escaped from the camp and returned to be punished. They happened to bump into...
…
So, the uprising broke out unexpectedly
After the West Dongting Mountain received the news, they immediately gathered the nearby believers urgently, and a large-scale uprising of the Qinglong Sect officially broke out.
Although the Qinglong Sect's headquarters is in Suzhou, given that Jiangsu is the main base of the Jiangning Guards, the next major battles actually took place on August 22 in Zhejiang. The Qinglong Army rested in Qingxi County and annihilated one Wei army.
The guards, with more than 5,000 people, killed Cai Zun, the commander of the fourth guard in Hangzhou of the Wei Dynasty, and Yan Tan, the supervisor. On the 29th, they captured Qingxi County in one fell swoop. The county magistrate Chen Guang fled and the Qinglong Army took advantage of the victory and advanced on September 2.
, captured Muzhou with 20,000 people, occupied Shouchang, Fenshui, Tonglu, Sui'an and other counties. On the 20th, they captured Shuzhou and killed Wei general Guo Shizhong. Officials in Wuyuan, Jixi, Qimen, Qianxian and other counties were panicked.
The fleeing peasant army then captured Fuyang. When the Xincheng Uprising was launched, they "denounced Chengyu" and pointed the spearhead of the struggle at Emperor Wanchang. They then put forward the slogan "Kill Zhu Mian" and the goal of their march was directly at the Qinglong Army in Suzhou and Hangzhou.
Tonglu and Fuyang captured Hangzhou and fought fiercely with the Wei army. The other troops took advantage of the mountain road and arrived at the Hangzhou city on the 29th. Zhao Ting, the prefect of the Wei Dynasty, escaped and ordered the envoy Chen Jian. Zhao Yue was defeated by the honest visiting envoy. The Qinglong army rushed to Hangzhou city.
, a major victory was quickly achieved
The Yunlan summons that Yunzheng received only said that Hangzhou might have fallen, but it did not say that it had already fallen. It was only the 28th when Yunlan sent the summons, and it was too late because he had to go to Korea to go to sea.
As early as the time of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, a woman named Chen Shuozhen rebelled in Muzhou, the hometown of Qinglong leader Ouyang Rui (his ancestral home is in Anhui). She called herself "Emperor Wenjia" and started a rebellion in a decent manner.
The central government has a strong sense of justice. Although the uprising only lasted for a month before being put out, the locals in Muzhou have always remembered this woman, and there is a rumor that there is a woman in Muzhou.
There are "Tianzi Ji", "Wannian Tower" and other things that only the emperor will have. Leader Ouyang made good use of these resources, so when Ouyang Rui led the Qinglong Sect to raise the banner of rebellion, the people still believed in him.
However, don't think that the rebel army of the cult can be called a "rebel army". When the Qinglong Cult Army attacked Hangzhou, Ouyang Rui couldn't wait to ascend the throne as emperor, calling himself "Holy Duke" and Jianyuan "Yongle".
They began to rob homes and homes, and wherever they went, they burned, killed, robbed, and robbed a lot of everything. They burned down the houses of the people, killed all those who refused to join their ranks, and robbed all the wealth of others (rich and poor).
Take all), rob all the women, take off their clothes, let them walk naked in the jungle, rape is simply a common thing, and besides, he also recruits a few strong men into his team. So, these are what he did
That’s it, this team led by the Qinglong Cult can definitely not be called a “rebel army”, it is completely a rogue army.
But because their behavior is stipulated by doctrine, many people don’t think there is anything wrong at all. This is difficult to explain. If we can still see similar people in the real society, it is that those who engage in pyramid schemes are obviously not like human beings.
Unlike ghosts, who make money by defrauding relatives and friends around them, and think they have found a good way to make a fortune. Only when the money is gone and all relatives and friends hate them like maggots do they regret it.
But even such a rogue unit still caused a lot of commotion in places like the southeastern coast, which had not seen much fighting for more than a hundred years. Therefore, the Central Army defending the area was very weak and vulnerable to a single blow.
Some local officials were greedy for life and feared death. Every time the Qinglong Cult team arrived at a city, there was a new round of burning, killing, robbing, and robbing. Countless people were tortured. Not only the common people suffered, but also many who did not escape.
Officials also have to suffer. It is estimated that the great leader Ouyang Rui has a serious abnormal psychology and a strong tendency to abuse people. Once he catches the court officials, he will immediately dismember them, bury them alive, or put them in a frying pan to fry.
, after the explosion, you have to dig out the heart and throw out the lungs. The scene is extremely bloody.
Seeing this, local officials immediately reported the situation to Luoyang, the capital, and asked the court to send troops to exterminate the rebels immediately. The report was sent to brother Wang Fu. Wang Fu was a member of the New Party and was worried that the news would reach Wanchang's ears.
It would be detrimental to the new party in the future. He was so bold that he refused to report the seizure, which made the Qinglong Cult Army even more powerful. At the same time, Qinglong Cult commanders in other places in Zhejiang Province also continued to break out rebellions. Zhu Yan and Wu Bang of Lanxi,
Lu Shinang of Xianju, Chen Shishi of Fangyanshan in Yongkang County, Huo Chengfu of Jinyun County, Qiu Rixin of Shan County (today's Sheng County, Zhejiang Province), and Zheng Mowang of Quzhou all raised troops to respond to the rebellion of the general altar.
For a time, the anti-bandit situation in Zhejiang Province was very good.
But after all, paper cannot cover the fire, especially when many old parties are still in power. Wanchang finally knows about the great changes in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
There is no need to say that Long Yan is furious. The question is what to do after the anger is over? Is the new law really wrong? Is it wrong for me to change the law to become stronger?
Emperor Wanchang spurted out a mouthful of blood and fainted on the spot. The Jinluan Palace was in panic.
There is this sentence in Qu Yuan's "Chu Ci? Fisherman" - The whole world is turbid, I am alone clear, everyone is drunk, I am alone awake. If Yun Zheng remembers correctly, this should be the content in the high school Chinese textbook. I first read this
While saying this, he felt that Qu Yuan was very powerful, and he admired his character, cultivation, and talent so much that he sympathized with him for his misfortune. He also scolded the King of Chu by the way. As time went by,
A question appeared in Yunzheng's mind: Is what he said right?
What does it mean to say, "When the whole world is dirty, I am alone in my innocence, when everyone is drunk, I am alone in my sobriety"? To this day, people who say this will definitely be forcibly escorted to a mental hospital. The reason is very simple - who is the one who is dirty?
At this time when the whole world is in chaos, you are the only one who comes out to pretend to be noble, elegant, high-profile, and noble. Then who is drunk? Who gives you a look of bitterness and hatred?
Later, Yun Zheng learned that many "soaring heroic" words can be found in the poems and works of many political losers, such as what Fan Zhongyan wrote after the failure of the reform - Worry before the world is worried, and be happy after the world is happy.
; Another example is what Wang Anshi wrote before coming to Beijing for the second time and which Yunzheng plagiarized once in this life - the spring breeze turns green again on the south bank of the river, when will the bright moon shine on me again, and so on, if everyone just
If you think their words are beautiful and worthy of praise, then Marshal Yun will praise you - you are very wise. If you think what they say is reasonable, then Yunzheng can only advise you to recognize the true face of these people as soon as possible, otherwise you will
It is also very likely to become a loser in official circles and shopping malls.
In fact, before Qiu Linjiang officially carried out the reform, the DPRK and China had many major discussions on whether the reform was necessary. The discussions went back and forth. It seemed that the problem was complicated, but in fact it can be boiled down to one point: Why do you want to reform? This question,
In more professional terms, “Do you have a theoretical basis for reform?”
It was very unfortunate for Qiu Linjiang that although the culture of the Wei Dynasty was very developed, its ideas were not as rich as those of the hundreds of schools of thought in the pre-Qin period. It was impossible to just take one thought. At this time, the Wei Dynasty had only one ideological system -
Confucius also has another auxiliary ideological system - family law. These two things are very mysterious to talk about, but in fact they are not troublesome.
Let’s talk about family law first. Family law may be difficult for modern people to understand, so there is no need to understand it at all. Everyone only needs to know one thing - family law invisibly establishes the lofty status of the ancestors. This is very important, because it
The existence of the Qiu Linjiang Reform directly led to the theoretical weakness of the Qiu Linjiang Reform
To put it bluntly, this is very similar to a wrong slogan shouted by later generations when my country's Cultural Revolution was about to end. To apply it here, it is - everything created by our ancestors is a good thing; we will unswervingly implement all policies formulated by our ancestors. Go down, commonly known as "two whatevers"
This theory of "Two Whatevers" is very difficult to talk about. It directly poses a problem to Qiu Linjiang - why do you tamper with what your ancestors left behind?
Why? What exactly is this "what"? It's very simple. You need to give those old guys an explanation, a reason, and a high-sounding reason.
In order to find this high-sounding reason, Qiu Linjiang thought of Confucius
Who is Confucius? Confucius lived in the Spring and Autumn Period, but his thoughts have influenced China for more than two thousand years. The great sage also used this character to talk about it, and a question arose - did Confucius support the reform?
It's hard to say this question, but Yunzheng's opinion is that Confucius's theory contains content in favor of reform.
When Yunzheng was in college, he discussed this issue with his roommate again, and his roommate said: "Confucius approved of reform? Why didn't I know?"
Yun Zheng shrugged: "It's very simple. The thoughts of Confucius you see are the 'abridged version'. It's not that the original 'abridged version' talks about life, doing things, benevolence and righteousness, loyalty and filial piety, etc.
Moral things, so you don’t know that it is normal for Confucius to approve of reforms.”
Qiu Linjiang moved this guy out on the eve of the reform just to illustrate one point - that is, the saint Kong who we talk about all day long is also in favor of the reform, so don't always use your ancestors' family methods to squander me.
Got it
This statement is very interesting, and it makes sense to a certain extent. And obviously, in the Wei Dynasty, what Sage Kong said was definitely more convincing than the ancestors. Therefore, according to the normal development of things, the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty
The minister should agree with Qiu Linjiang's reform
It's a pity that such a thing is not that easy, because these ministers who opposed the reform have also read the works of Confucius, and these people are not so easy to fool. They also raised a question - the sage Confucius we know
The Saint Kong who you Qiu Linjiang knows should be the same person. He didn't mention anything in favor of reforms in the books we read, but why did you, Qiu Linjiang, support reforms?
Regarding this issue, Yunzheng only wants to say two points: first, they are right, the Confucius they know did not mention much in favor of the reform, but he definitely did not say that he had any objections; second,
Confucius did support the reform, and most of the cultures of the hundreds of schools of thought in the pre-Qin period agreed with the reform. Whichever vassal state could reform would become stronger. In those turbulent times, academic masters said they agreed.
Reform is very normal. Confucius and his elders went to lobby the princes and kings whenever they had something to do. In fact, the purpose was to get these princes and kings to accept their own views and their own set of theories, which is what we often call "reform"
In order to find some theoretical basis for himself, Qiu Linjiang had to bring out a person who had been dead for more than a thousand years to speak out. However, he unexpectedly found that the person he brought out was not recognized by others. So from this perspective,
Qiu Linjiang's reform was at a disadvantage from the beginning, because he had no
