Chapter 498: Shooting oneself in the foot
In the memorial, Ling Yunyi described the misery of Zhao Juan at length, in order to tell the emperor that the production relations of personal bondage and strong personal dependence should not be changed. , these tragedies in the world will only continue to be staged, so we need engineering and corps battalions, government and factory formations, and then create a kind of equality.
Even a relative equality with inequality is better than the current situation.
The idea of equality is not imported. Even Confucianism, which emphasizes hierarchical and patriarchal order, also pursues equality.
Filial piety is the order of officialdom in which everyone, high and low, has their own proper place, so it shows that future generations will have the order of respecting the elder and the younger. Under the ritual system, the division of labor is clear and everyone has his or her own position. This is the Confucian utopia and the world of great harmony. , Confucianism pursues the equality of noble and inferior, and the order of elders and younger ones.
Confucianism talks about filial piety, but also equality.
For example, Confucius said: Those who have a country and a family will not worry about inequality but poverty, and will not worry about poverty but insecurity; He also said: Love everyone universally, and teach without distinction; Mencius said: Saints are like me. , Yao and Shun are the same as everyone, and everyone can be like Yao and Shun;
The benevolent government advocated by Confucianism is that people without distinction should love each other and be benevolent.
Even Confucianism, which advocates strict hierarchy, contains equality at its core, let alone the opinions of other schools.
For example, Taoist Lao Tzu said: Sages often have no heart and take the hearts of the people as their heart; Zhuangzi said, looking at it from the perspective of Taoism, what is noble and what is cheap? All things are one, which one is short and which one is long?
The Mohists say: People are no longer high or low, they are all ministers of heaven. Officials are not always noble, and the people are not always low. If they are capable, they will be promoted, and if they are incompetent, they will be demoted.
The Legalists say: Officials do not have personal relationships. , the law never leaves behind love. Nothing matters at all, only the law;
As a representative of Legalism, Shang Yang placed more emphasis on the equality of laws and clearly proposed one punishment in the reform. The so-called one punishment has no hierarchy, from ministers to ministers and generals. Officials and common people who disobeyed the king's orders, violated national prohibitions, and rebelled against the superior government were punished with death. This gradually evolved into princes breaking the law and committing the same crimes as the common people.
Every school of thought talks about equality and equality. This is the top building. Over the past dynasties, there have been more discussions on equality, and they are more intuitive, more direct, and more violent.
The people of Zhenbo (the capital of the Xia Dynasty) pointed to the sun and cursed Xia Jie: The days are mourning, and you will all perish;
The roar of Daze Township, the princes and generals, Would you rather have the seed?
The inner treasury of Chang'an City was burned to ashes, and the bones of the princes were trampled in the sky streets;
The golden toads fought for their eyes, turning Caozhou's world against the sky's replenishment;
In Sichuan and Shaanxi, I am sick and the rich and poor are not equal, but now I will equalize it for you;
The Dharma by the Dongting Lake divides the high and the low, which is not a good law; I practice the Dharma to equalize the rich and the poor;
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If we wait a few more years, there will be Li Zicheng's words, wait for wealth, equalize the land and avoid food;
Or even more egalitarian, Zhang Xianzhong proposed: All things are born with people, and people have nothing to do with heaven, kill, kill, kill !
From top to bottom, from bottom to top, the idea that all things are one and that there is no high or low is one of the backbones of the Central Plains and one of the cultural connotations.
Do we really have to wait for Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong to appear and shout those two sentences to make the world change color before we do it?
The concept of equality is not imported. Whether it is the metaphysical class of scholar-bureaucrats or the metaphysical poor coolies, it has a broad basis for existence. This was discussed when Lin Fucheng mentioned the word equality.
So Ling Yun relied on the Holy Family on the upper side and the 1,500 guest soldiers who had experienced hundreds of battles. On the lower side, he relied on the hard work of the poor people who had been oppressed and deprived of their lives, and then supported by the officials who had been tested for a long time in practice. The institutional experience of factory corps manufacturing and engineering corps battalion quickly opened up the situation in Henan.
Even so, Ling Yunyi still had to wait until the emperor built the Ten Kings City and moved the princes and princes of Henan back to Beijing before he could take action.
Zhang Juzheng himself proposed returning the land, but immediately denied it because of insufficient strength. The only forces belonging to the imperial court were the Beijing camp, and Jiubian was responsible for guarding the border, mainly defense, and did not have the ability to conquer. Whether Tian Zhan can be mobilized is also unknown.
Weapons of criticism cannot replace criticism of weapons, and material power can only be destroyed with material power.
If Ming Dynasty wants to complete the return of the land, it needs more strength. Your Majesty has been accumulating strength.
Qi Jiguang returned to Beijing, and the slight noise became quiet as the army returned to their nests. An imperial edict from the Ming Emperor was suddenly transmitted from Tonghe Palace to Wenyuan Pavilion. The ministers of Wenyuan Pavilion went to the imperial study room and palace of Tonghe Palace. After deliberation, His Majesty the Emperor wrote six chapters of the imperial edict and began to implement it.
The focus of the imperial edict is to encourage farmers to grow mulberry trees.
Incorporate land abandonment into the examination. There are divisions at all levels. If the land has been abandoned for more than five years and will not be cultivated next year, the cadastral will be abolished and returned to the public. If it has been abandoned for three years, the cadastre will be redeemed by the division, and if it has been abandoned for one year, a tax will be increased. This was the first time that the Ming Dynasty conducted relatively detailed management of acres after the Qing Dynasty.
The implementation of this will be very difficult, so the focus of this imperial edict is still to encourage farmers and mulberry trees, that is, to encourage landlords and rural gentry not to let their land be abandoned for a long time, and to collect less land rent from tenants. If the landowners and rural gentry refuse, then they will confiscate it, turn it into official land, and summon tenants to rent the land.
The core content of the entire imperial edict is that leaving the land uncultivated is a sin!
The emperor was slowly but firmly promoting the return of the land, using various methods.
The powerful right-wingers, rural gentry and gentry naturally erupted in great dissatisfaction, and this dissatisfaction was intuitively reflected in the rise of the theory of complete freedom. Originally, when Lin Fucheng and Legaz exposed the true Taishi, After Ling Yunyi's punch, the doctrine of complete freedom fell into silence.
But after the 6.15 million acres in Jiangxi were redeemed at the price of "one tael", the theory of complete freedom made a comeback again.
Is this redemption? This is clearly a robbery! One tael of silver buys an acre of land, why did the Ming emperor rob it openly and openly? !
Wan Shihe reported this change very promptly. Several poetry societies that advocated complete freedom appeared in Songjiang Prefecture, Nanya Shishifu, and Jingtang, and these poetry societies published various The volume of the article immediately overshadowed Lin Fucheng's "Xiaoyao Yiwen" and quickly swept across the country.
Lin Fucheng, the leader of the liberal faction, was no longer in name only. At this time, Lin Fucheng realized that his fame was not an accident at all, nor was it a gift of fate, but that the price had been secretly marked long ago.
After becoming the emperor's lackey, and losing the support of the influential local gentry, Lin Fucheng was just a talkative scholar.
There were many scholars like this in Ming Dynasty.
Just when the Ming Emperor was about to take a heavy blow, directly using the name of the evil demon book and prophecy to seduce the completely free school of thought, an unexpected news came to the capital, causing an uproar.
The Jiangnan Slave Rebellion broke out in Nanya Shishifu, Zhejiang, Huguang, Jiangxi and many other places. It was a slave revolt that took up arms and demanded body deeds.
There were 70,000 people in the Jiading area alone. They gathered in the mountains, forests and water villages, and raised the banner of "Eradicate the masters and servants, the noble and the humble, the rich and the poor and level them all", and swept across Kunshan, Taicang, In the Jiading area, if you refuse to hand over the land deeds, you can imagine the consequences.
Songjiang Governor Shen Shixing and Songjiang Town Navy responded quickly and are now in a confrontation.
"Is this like shooting yourself in the foot?" Zhu Yijun looked at Shen Shixing's memorial and said with a bit of laughter and tears.
The administrative power of the Ming Dynasty has not yet exerted its force. The trend of absolute freedom set off by the Zheshe households has already reaped the consequences. Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Juzheng and frowned and said: "It turns out that Lin Fucheng was not an alarmist at the beginning. Ah.”
Zhu Yijun thought that Lin Fu had become the Songjiang School to promote himself, so he deliberately exaggerated the scale and scope of the Jiangnan slave rebellion. Isn’t this what scholars like best? After selling anxiety, you can sell your own theories and then put a stamp on your thoughts.
But now it seems that Lin Fucheng was not exaggerating at all! But he was too conservative, or because of his status as a scholar-official, he was unable to fully understand the misery of slave life in Jiangnan, and lacked an understanding of the scale of the slave rebellion.
The slave uprising that swept through Jiading, Taicang, and Kunshan in Suzhou, if it were not for the quick response of the navy, would probably have broken through Fuzhou County.
At that point, no one can be dignified and there is no way to end it.
Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and said: "The Susong area is rich and slave-holding is common. Especially after the opening of the sea, a large number of people poured into Susong, which made the slave-holding trend intensified. The Jiangnan incident in Gosochi, It has always existed, but it has not become so serious."
"After Shen Shixing abolished his humble status and destroyed his deeds in Songjiang Prefecture, it directly led to the slave rebellion in nearby Jiading, Taicang, and Kunshan. It’s because the trend of absolute freedom has not spread downwards so quickly.”
“The top priority now is to calm down the slave rebellion in Jiading area. Once the slave rebellion evolves into civil unrest, it will be very dangerous. "
Zhu Yijun immediately said: "No, is it wrong for Shen Shixing to implement the imperial decree? The abolition of the slave status was approved by the Wenhua Palace. It is a true imperial edict. It is Ming Gong's decision. Shen Shixing did nothing wrong. It is the solution to problems when they arise, rather than passing the responsibility down to the governor who executed it."
"I agree with part of what you said, but I don't. He was not wrong in criticizing Shen Shixing. "
"Your Majesty is wise." Zhang Juzheng thought for a while and said immediately, Shen Shixing was not wrong in this matter. Jiading, Taicang, and Kunshan are the boundaries of Suzhou.
Zhang Juzheng is not being alarmist. Now he is fighting Sochi. The place where the conflict has intensified to the most intense level is Suzhou Prefecture, and many other places are sitting in Sochi. It is the slaves who heard that Songjiang Prefecture was abandoned. They immediately stopped working on the contract, gathered together, sat on the ground, and waited for the result.
If Jiading is not handled well, civil unrest will spread throughout Nanya, Zhejiang, and Jiangxi, and it is about to break out.
"Sir, do you think there is a possibility that if the people are in chaos, the people will be in chaos." Zhu Yijun tapped his fingers on the table and asked calmly.
"Your Majesty." Zhang Juzheng knew it! I read it right at first!
Your Majesty is that indescribable monster!
This sentence is not based on the perspective of a fun person who is watching the excitement and is not afraid of big troubles. Rather, it is based on His Majesty’s desire to speed up the return of farmland, speed up the redistribution of production means, and speed up the strengthening of personal dependence. To get rid of it, we will not hesitate to use the power of civil unrest!
"Your Majesty, the prosperity of the people is miserable, and the destruction of the people is even more miserable. People in troubled times are not as good as peace dogs. If the people are in chaos, the people will wither and mourn." Zhang Juzheng solemnly advised: "Really take advantage of the chaos of the people. It is the common people who suffer the most instead of the engineering and military forces and the government and factory groups.” It is disorderly, without any organization, and even with a simple slogan, how to eradicate the master and the servant, the noble and the humble? What is the specific method to equalize the rich and the poor? Can even the capital camp not do it? To Junping, the generals and generals will still be rewarded this time.”
“Empty and empty slogans will only bring harm! Chaos will only turn into destruction in the end. After the production is completely destroyed, the people will bear the price."
Seeing Zhang Juzheng getting more and more excited, Zhu Yijun hurriedly sat up straight, smiling brightly, and said gently. : "Sir, don't be anxious, don't be anxious, what you said is very reasonable, just follow what you said."
"That's what I said. Sir, you don't need to care so much. The world belongs to me. How can I make him mess up?" Only those who don't care or get excited are stupid. Believing in your emperor's words is stupid!
If Master Dao, after despairing, hid in Xiyuan to cultivate and destroy himself, then after His Majesty despaired, he would definitely turn into an indescribable monster and intensify the most fundamental contradiction. Use a single spark to set off a prairie fire, burn the entire world to the ground, and start over again!
Zhang Juzheng’s judgment is not unfounded. He knows Your Majesty very well! Look at the practical implementation of the unity of knowledge and action, look at the theory of contradiction, look at the theory of public and private, look at the production diagram, look at the first two volumes of the theory of class, these were all made under the leadership of His Majesty, and in despair. , I will definitely make up for the last two volumes, I will definitely do it!
Definitely!
"What should we do about the riot in Sochi in Jiading?" Zhu Yijun looked at Zhang Juzheng and asked with a smile.
Zhang Juzheng bowed his head and said: "Leave it to me to do it. This matter is actually very simple, not that complicated. The slaves are fighting for Sochi, and what they want is nothing more than a physical contract."
In comparison, is civil unrest a big deal?
In the early years of Jiajing, Longqing and Wanli, were there not enough civil unrests?
All you need to do is calm down the excited slaves, make a promise to conduct a census of the population within a time limit, complete the abolition of lowly status, and complete the commitments of deeds, and then use the army to organize engineering regiments, camps, and government factories to build and resettle them within the deadline. To fulfill his promise, this slave change is really nothing. In the past, Zhang Juzheng could handle it without these tools. Now that he has these tools, it is even easier.
Zhang Juzheng said that His Majesty would rest and let him settle the matter. If His Majesty were to take action, it would probably not be settled.
He briefly stated his idea to the emperor. The specific implementation would be carried out by Governor Yingtian, Governor Songjiang, and the Songjiang Town Navy. The officials of the Suzhou Prefecture should all issue orders together and be demoted to three levels until they wait. After completing the census and abolishing the slave registration, we can do the restoration.
"Mr., you are an official of the country." Zhu Yijun approved Zhang Juzheng's handling method. Zhang Juzheng was a conservative and did not intend to use this matter to expand his affairs.
Zhu Yijun has no plans to further intensify the conflict. The power in his hands is not strong enough. When the day comes when the engineer regiment camps are everywhere, Zhu Yijun wants to see who dares to threaten the people's self-respect.
After Zhang Juzheng left the Imperial Study Room of Tonghe Palace, he really wiped away a cold sweat. He once again successfully sealed the monster. Although he was happy, he was a little worried. After he left, who would seal it? ?
There is no one left.
But actually thinking about it carefully, His Majesty is not the kind of person who pursues disorder and uses the most drastic means to resolve conflicts. As long as His Majesty is not plunged into complete despair, everything is easy to talk about.
Zhang Juzheng's processing speed is extremely fast. The time limit for arrival from Shuntian Prefecture to Yingtian Prefecture is fifteen days, while the limit time for arrival from Shuntian Prefecture to Songjiang Prefecture is two days. The rapid delivery of Daming Coastal Defense inspections has made the coast The transmission speed of government orders exceeded that of land. This was one of the results of the Ming Dynasty's simultaneous development of sea and land.
Shen Shixing's hand is stretched a bit too long. He is the governor of Songjiang. Kunshan, Jiading, and Taicang are the territories of Suzhou, and they are the jurisdiction of Governor Li Le of Yingtian. Although they are all under Zhang Juzheng's sect, the competition is Ubiquitous.
When Li Le arrived in Jiading, Shen Shixing had already restrained the further expansion of the slave rebellion and even opened a porridge shed to prevent the contradiction from further intensifying.
"Governor Shen really wants to make progress." Li Le felt strangely angry when he saw Shen Shixing.
Shen Shixing's hand stretched too far, and because Shen Shixing wanted to make progress too much, he abolished the slave status in front of everyone. Don't you be envious of the slaves of Suzhou Mansion?
So Li Le was a little resentful towards Shen Shixing. Like Zhang Juzheng, he felt that Shen Shixing's move to abolish the status of slaves was too fast and led to slave rebellion.
Shen Shixing didn’t say much, but took out a volume and handed it to Li Le. After reading it, Li Le vomited and said, "Fortunately, the governor arrived in time, otherwise it might have caused a serious accident." What a disaster.”
At this moment, Li Le could only feel lucky. The problem was more serious than Li Le imagined.
Going to Sochi, but in the armed struggle, if you are not careful, the world will collapse. Civil unrest spreads very quickly, and it is easy to cause responses from surrounding states and counties. There are already seven virtuous gentry in the hometown who refuse to hand over the deeds of betrayal. Households being broken down, this kind of disordered movement will spread rapidly. When sticks come into contact with the fire, they will catch fire. The slaves of Sochi are the sticks, and houses and houses are broken down, which is the flames.
Once the slave revolution turns into civil unrest, I am afraid that Li Le will also have to go to Beijing to plead guilty. Shen Shixing was close, and there was a navy stationed there, who reacted quickly and eliminated a catastrophic disaster invisible.
Li Lede thanked Shen Shixing.
"I want to inherit Mr. Sir's legacy." Shen Shixing said calmly: "So, I must do everything well and not embarrass Your Majesty and Sir."
It is a pity that the mantle of Mr. Xiang was never intended to be passed on to his disciples, but to His Majesty. This was already determined after Gao Gong was dismissed and Zhang Juzheng issued the No. 1 Order on Matters of Suiwei. Of course, the mantle of the New Deal will be passed on. I don't want to come here, but my husband's position as chief assistant can still be plotted.
Shen Shixing really wants to make progress.
“I didn’t realize you had such great ambition before.” Li Le said with some doubts: “What about your previous attitude of not fighting or fighting and being content with the mud?”
Shen Shixing has The nickname is Master Duanshui, which is another way of saying He Xini.
"People can change." Shen Shixing said with emotion: "If you can do it, who wouldn't want to do it?"
Shen Shixing's character, compared with Zhang Dang, Among them, he is conservative and moderate, and he is somewhat indifferent, but the opportunity is right in front of him, and Shen Shixing has to change. He really wants to make progress.
No scholar can escape the temptation of leaving a lasting legacy.
“I originally thought that the reason that catalyzed the Jiading Slave Rebellion was that Songjiang Mansion completed the abolition of slave registration, which stimulated the already tense situation. But in fact, this was not the case at all. It was the Poetry Society and Bookstore that advocated absolute freedom. , the chaos caused." Shen Shixing took out another miscellaneous newspaper, printed by Jiading Jingyuan Bookstore, which completely intensified the conflict.
"It's your own fault! It's your own fault!" After reading the newspaper, Li Le immediately slammed the table and said angrily: "It's your own fault! You deserve it!"
Li Le finished reading the newspaper. , I almost jumped up, the content inside was too outrageous.
This miscellaneous newspaper is the core of the intensified contradictions. It is not at all what Zhang Juzheng thought that the abolition of the slave status in Songjiang Mansion stimulated the Suzhou slaves.
The opinions in the newspapers included the unfaithful remarks that had led Ling Yunyi to beat people before, and the three unfreedoms of abolition of slave status, especially the fact that slaves lost the freedom to choose to live as a slave.
In the eyes of the gentlemen, giving a slave a mouthful of food is a reward. The slave should kneel on the ground to be grateful. Is it humiliation to take off his clothes and kneel down as a punishment? This is enlightenment!
In addition, the contents of the miscellaneous newspapers also advocated the abolition of official factory regiments and engineer regiments, because they interfered with the freedom of trade.
The official factory regiments became craftsmen, and the engineer regiments became engineers. This was the last hope for the slaves in the Jiangnan region.
This miscellaneous newspaper advocated that all official factories of coal and steel, woolen cloth, weaving, shipbuilding, tongyuan, Chidao, plantations, etc., be immediately sold to the private sector because of the existence of these official factories It seriously undermines the fairness of trade and uses the advantage of scale to forcibly stabilize market prices, causing private companies to lose all their investment, private companies are unwilling to invest, and the fairness of market transactions is destroyed, etc.
Moreover, the craftsmen are tempted and want to enter the official factories instead of working in private workshops, destroying the production of private workshops. The solution is to attack the official factories, the source of all this original sin. By selling it to the private sector, all problems can be solved.
"No, are they planning to rob His Majesty's money?" Li Le immediately became a little unbearable, pointing at the newspaper and said: "Who are they robbing? Your Majesty's? These are all His Majesty's. The money saved by frugality and the fruits of a large investment can be eaten as much as they want."
The Ming Dynasty is an era where there is no separation between the king, the country, and the master, and there is no separation between public and private affairs. It’s not completely clear. His Majesty still feels that the state funds have been invested too much this year and the internal funds are still sufficient. He plans to make a wave of gold coins. These guys who advocate absolute freedom actually want to rob your Majesty’s fixed assets? !
Half of the profits of all official factories must go into internal funds. To sell the official factories is to rob His Majesty’s fixed assets!
At this point, Li Le completely understood why these slaves suddenly revolted, even before the decree was implemented. If he acted according to the contents of the miscellaneous report, he would cut off all the slaves. The hope in their hearts completely shattered their expectations, and it would be strange not to cause trouble in Sochi.
In the eyes of the slaves, becoming an engineer in the engineering regiment is like becoming His Majesty's domestic slave. The difference is that the Emperor's domestic slaves can have enough to eat.
Slaves don’t know about official factories. They don’t know that their children can still go to school. They don’t know that they can receive reasonable labor remuneration. They don’t know that they can freely choose their jobs. If they don’t want to work in official factories, they can also join private workshops. .
The slaves cannot understand the transformation of production relations. What they can understand is that being His Majesty's domestic slaves means that they can have enough to eat.
Even so, there is enough temptation.
"It's not like we haven't grabbed it. Emperor Cheng Zuwen's craftsmen were living there, so many shipyards, industries in the long industrial chain of shipyards, and official factories relying on maritime trade on the Western Ocean, weren't they all The people in Zheshe continued to stir up public opinion and used the power to coerce the government. Did they finally get it? " Shen Shixing's expression was quite calm. The seniors have done it, so the juniors will just follow in their footsteps.
Using the power of wind to coerce the government, this kind of thing happened again and again, just to steal your emperor's fixed assets.
Benevolence talks about people without equal differences who love each other, but they have never done it.
"The large sailing ship arrived at Songjiang Port on the first day of June. Many envoys from Europe and the West expressed surprise at the Jiading slave rebellion and asked whether it would affect the large sailing ship's maritime trade." Shen Shixing talked about another incident. , this matter is embarrassing to Taixi.
The moment Shen Shixing was asked, he wanted to hack all the Taixi envoys to death, so that no friendly country would be surprised.
If Shen Shixing's radical behavior and the abolition of the slave status caused the slave revolution, Shen Shixing would have endured it. The feelings were these miscellaneous reports printed everywhere and finally intensified the conflict. This really made Shen Shixing Xing was furious.
This is indeed shooting oneself in the foot. The right-wing insistence on absolute freedom has intensified the contradiction to such an extent.
"The imperial court sent an imperial edict to warn us of our incompetence. Since it is your territory, Governor Li, what should you do?" Shen Shixing talked about the follow-up measures. The Ming Dynasty Navy is going to return to its nest, so how to arrange it? ?
After reading the imperial edict, Li Le gritted his teeth and said: "Of course it's the engineering regiment's camp. Let these slaves be busy first, and things will change when they are idle. I will go to ask for the body deed in person, and I won't let him copy the house. Before the end of the year, all the fourteen prefectures of Nanya will conduct a census and abolish the status of slaves!"
"The food provided for these slaves will be shared by all households in Nanya. The servants went to his house to ask for the deed! "
"A bunch of idiots who can't do anything but cause trouble!"
Shen Shixing approved of Li Le's handling methods and talked with Song Jiang. After in-depth communication, Commander-in-Chief Chen Lin began to withdraw his troops and prepare to return home.
We haven’t left yet. As soon as they heard that the navy was leaving, the Zheshe households in Suzhou went to the Jiading County government office to cry for their fathers and mothers. They were crying and making trouble, and more and more people gathered together. This is for fear that after the navy is gone, these slaves from Juxiaoshanlin will come back and continue to attack Sochi, destroying families.
Shen Shixing was too lazy to pay attention to them. Chen Lin began to organize troops to return to Songjiang Town. The governor of Songjiang and the navy chief, as well as the admiral and minister Zhang Cheng, etc., each wrote a memorial to the capital and sent Jiading to the capital. The causes and consequences of the slave rebellion, as well as the handling methods, were reported to the court.
This year, the Thai and Western envoys on the large sailing ship also began to arrive at Tianjin Wei on the hydrofoil sailing ship.
(End of this chapter)