Imperial Master of the Ming Dynasty

From September to November this year, a mission headed by Li Jinglong was sent to Japan to investigate and prepare the intelligence, baggage, troops and horses needed to eliminate the Jurchens.

Jiang Xinghuo will be released from prison in January next year.

In February next year, Gu Cheng led his troops to wipe out the Jurchens. From April to May, Chen led troops to Changbai Mountain to force North Korea to return Jeju Island. From June to July, he set off from Ningbo by sea to transport troops to Jeju Island and captured Tsushima Island with a thunderous force. Pirate den.

In this way, the northwestern corner of Japan can be clamped down like a pair of giant pincers.

During the storm period from August to November next year, Ming Dynasty will not make the same mistake as the Mongols. It will train troops on Jeju Island and Tsushima Island to prepare for cross-sea landings.

When the training is completed and the spring of the year after next comes, the Ming Dynasty Navy will seize the remaining three islands with absolute superiority, complete Gu Cheng's strategic concept of "island lock-up", and then use exploration and trade as inducements to force the Japanese shogunate to cede or lend Japan 'China' region.

If the shogunate does not agree, Zhu Di will not be merciful.

After all, Gu Cheng's concern was only about one possibility. As long as he could avoid the storm period in the sea around Japan as Jiang Xinghuo said, Zhu Di believed that his elite soldiers would definitely be able to sweep through Japan!

At that time, we have no choice but to humiliate the Japanese general who conquered the barbarians and come to Nanjing to perform a prisoner parade.

As long as he got Japan's gold and silver, Zhu Di planned to let Jiang Xinghuo lead the Ming Dynasty's "Silver Banknote" project.

As for the wishes of Jiang Xinghuo, who is determined to die as an equal.

Um.

That can only be said at that time.

On the other side, the topic continues.

"As you said, the biggest reason why Prince Yue, my hero and his enemy, was able to build a temple in Liaodong is probably not because he defeated the Jurchens hundreds of years ago. This is untenable. But Emperor Gao, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, pursued Prince Yue as the Martial Saint, so this phenomenon occurred."

Jiang Xinghuo imagined: "Then let's assume, just assume, that if another alien race similar to the Mongols appears in the future and rules China, do you think that for this alien race, Prince Yue is a national hero?"

As soon as this question came up, Jiang Xinghuo didn't need to speak at all, and the two of them started discussing it on their own.

Zhu Gaoxu said straightforwardly: "Prince Yue belongs to us Han people. If there are foreign races that rule China in the future, they will be foreign races. Since they are not from the same nation, for them, Prince Yue is definitely not their national hero."

Li Jinglong asked: "Then they rule China, how will Prince Yue be treated at that time?"

"Think about it."

Li Jinglong must have been mentally disturbed due to the excessive joy and sorrow recently. He has lost his mind and dared to speak sarcastically.

"At that time, will Yue Fei be slandered as a sinner who opposed the integration of Huayi? Will Qin Hui be praised as the prime minister who saved the world for his hard work and is not understood by the world? Will there be a play for Qin Hui to make "" "Man Jiang Hong" signed with Qin Hui's name, and let Qin Xianggong recite it in public?"

"Who dares to do this?!" Zhu Gaoxu said angrily, "Prince Yue is a great hero that I have respected all my life, and he is a great hero. How can he be slandered and teased like this? I will twist his head!"

Li Jinglong smiled again and said: "You would have been dead by then, could you still crawl out of the coffin?"

Zhu Gaoxu was so angry that he punched the leaves of the new crooked neck tree.

They are flying one after another, like catkins flying, and like snow swirling down.

Jiang Xinghuo silently patted the yellow leaves on his head.

He couldn't deny this speculation. Although Jiang Xinghuo had not seen any film and television works related to Qin Hui's obscure verdict at the time of time travel, he actually knew that what Li Jinglong said would definitely appear in the future.

When the wrong culture spreads to the extreme, it has formed a deformed and even sickly distorted concept.

Just like the robber countries of later generations, they will always use this or that word to flaunt themselves.

At the same time, various methods will be used to discredit and distort China's heroes.

In cultural circles, this kind of thinking has begun to spread and has penetrated into the bones of some people.

As long as one person takes the lead and speaks out, there will be countless paid wimps who will echo his voice, trying to confuse right and wrong and call a deer a horse.

The contradictions and controversies caused by this difference are difficult to completely resolve, no matter in which era.

In the Jin and Yuan dynasties, weren't there many literati who discredited Yue Fei's achievements and historical significance?

Therefore, Jiang Xinghuo could not deny Li Jinglong's speculations. After all, these things were not groundless, but had been traced for a long time.

At the same time, Gu Cheng, who was next door, suddenly said to Zhu Di.

"Your Majesty, when you welcomed the old minister at the post station on the outskirts of Nanjing, the old minister was inspired by something on the second floor of the post station and recited a poem. Do you still remember?"

Zhu Di just said: "I only heard the second half of it, 'The dragons and tigers are scattered, the wind and clouds are destroyed; eternal hatred, who can say it?' I think it is quite good."

Gu Cheng said in a deep voice.

"Your Majesty, the name of this poem is"

"——"Man Jiang Hong"!"

Zhu Di was instantly surprised that there was such a response. There was no greater coincidence in the world than this.

"This poem was written after the Yuan army invaded Lin'an and plundered three thousand palace people before returning north. When Qinghui, the king of Zhaoyi, passed by the Yishan Station in Bianliang, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, he thought of the shame of Jingkang and the majestic poem "The Mountains and Rivers" by Prince Yue. "The River is Red" evoked the deep pain of the country's subjugation, so I used blood as ink on the wall of the inn and added another inscription "The River is Red"."

"Taiye hibiscus, the color is not the same as that of the old days. I once remembered the spring breeze and dew, the jade tower and the golden tower. In the back of the famous concubine Lan Xin, the dizzy lotus face was on the side of the king. Suddenly, there was a sound of drums and drums lifting the sky, and the prosperity stopped.

The dragons and tigers are scattered, the wind and clouds are gone. Eternal hatred, who can say that. Facing mountains and rivers, tears fill my skin with blood. The guest house is full of dusty dreams at night, and the palace carriage rolls over the mountains and the moon at dawn. Ask Chang'e, are you willing to take it easy on me? "

After singing the song "Man Jiang Hong", Gu Cheng's white beard was wet with tears, and he seemed a little unbearable.

"My father's father was a boatman. He worked hard for many years and had little savings. He took his family to settle in Yangzhou. At that time, Yangzhou was prosperous. When I was young, I could afford to read, and my life was relatively stable. I even had a successful career with Ding. A happy marriage. Later, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the war broke out, and the old minister traveled abroad. When he returned home, he only saw horses roaring, and the whole city of Yangzhou was really like what Baishi Taoist said, 'the clear horns and the cold blowing are all in an empty city.'"

"When the old minister found her house, it had already been burned to the ground, and in the end only half of the painting "Man Jiang Hong" was scattered on the table."

Zhu Di and others also remained silent.

No one expected that the old general would still have this past event when he was a boy. Zhu Di thought about the time when Gu Cheng was on the second floor of the inn, looking north towards Yangzhou in the north of the Yangtze River, and he recited this poem emotionally, and suddenly he had something different. Same state of mind.

"From that time on, the old ministers defected to Emperor Taizu Gao, holding a large banner and carrying a sand boat. Every time they fought, they would have the ambition to die. This is the reason for this knot in their hearts."

"The barbarians will not be destroyed, and the old ministers have nothing to comfort the spirits of their relatives and relatives in heaven."

"But when I heard the question raised by Jiang Xinghuo today, I thought that maybe hundreds of years from now, if I work hard all my life, I will be distorted and smeared like Prince Yue, I feel unwilling to do so! If I become a ghost, I will not Be willing!”

Gu Cheng, the old general with white beard and hair, looked at Zhu Di almost with a kind of pleading look.

"Your Majesty, is there nothing you can do?"

"Mr. Jiang, is there nothing we can do?"

Zhu Gaoxu asked dejectedly.

"There is a way." Jiang Xinghuo said, "But I have to tell you first why Yue Fei is a national hero."

Both of them looked a little surprised. Yue Fei is a national hero. Is there any reason for this?

Seeing the surprise of the two of them, Jiang Xinghuo said slowly but firmly.

"The reason why Yue Fei is a national hero is that what Yue Fei represents is by no means him personally, but the thousands of Han people who were unwilling to be enslaved and humiliated by the Jurchen invaders at the turn of the Song Dynasty."

"Yue Fei's Northern Expedition against the Jin Dynasty was not his own Northern Expedition against the Jin Dynasty."

"Ten years of work were destroyed in one day, and it was not Yue Fei's work that was destroyed."

"Do you know that Yue Fei has been working hard to connect Heshuo for ten years? Behind this, how many efforts, sacrifices, and contributions of the Han people in the two rivers are there? It is precisely because of their perseverance in resisting in difficulties that Yue Fei vowed to serve in the Northern Expedition. , the response to uprisings across the Central Plains was like a prairie fire."

"Wanyan Gou and Qin Hui, it's so hateful that they surrendered together!"

"As soon as Yue Fei died, the morale of the Han people in the North was broken. This means that even if the general trend and the people's will are the same, even if they have the strongest commanders in the world, the most disciplined, the highest morale, and the most powerful army, they will still If we can't recover Heshuo, we will go straight to Huanglong."

"Looking forward, Prince Yue's Northern Expedition failed, and the Jurchens took over the Central Plains. In just a few hundred years, not to mention the Sixteen Youyun Prefectures in the North, the Han people in Lianghe, Shandong, and Henan all recognized the Jin Kingdom as Zhengshuo. Do they think Prince Yue is a national hero?"

Zhu Gaoxu didn't want to admit it, but he had to admit: "No."

Seeing that Zhu Gaoxu was so depressed and angry that he was about to explode, Li Jinglong was afraid that he would pull out the crooked neck tree again, so he quickly dissuaded him.

"Liu Bowen once said that since ancient times, the barbarians and the Di people have not been able to control China. However, in the Yuan Dynasty, the barbarians took over China. The customs of centuries of fishy smell are disgusting to nature. Barbarians are barbarians after all. The Jurchens, like the Mongols, will not enjoy the country for a long time. , it’s just a temporary change.”

Jiang Xinghuo retorted sternly: "It's not a question of how long it will last. This kind of matter involves great rights and wrongs. It can't be changed in a year, a month, a day, an hour, a moment, or a breath!"

"Prince Yue is a national hero, no one can change him, no one can change him!"

Zhu Gaoxu struck the joints with his hands and said in a muffled voice: "It's just like when Zu Ti crossed the river to go to the north. He bowed in the middle of the river and said that Zu Ti couldn't clear the Central Plains and restore it. It's like the big river!"

Jiang Xinghuo stood up solemnly and said directly.

"The reason why this is so ridiculous that the Han people living in the Jin Kingdom think that Prince Yue is not a national hero is because, from ancient times to the present, the concept of a 'nation-state' has not appeared in China, and it has always been nothing more than a private enterprise. .”

"And since it is a private project, and since the right to speak out the ideas of the common people is in the hands of the landowners who have inherited the land, who will give these landowners greater benefits? In other words, when principles cannot withstand the interests and threats of aliens, Naturally it won’t be important, and the people will be indoctrinated into wrong thinking.”

"Thinking about this position, if the correct ones don't occupy it, the wrong ones will occupy it. We must not give it up."

Jiang Xinghuo recalled that when he was in his sixth life, the man who once wrote "The man who leads the sword into a quick success will live up to his youthful head" was promoting his theory of "saving the country through curves" on the radio station, and he couldn't help but feel deeply that he really should Do something.

A scholar only has a pen and a mouth.

Eight time-travel journeys have made Jiang Xinghuo understand that the possibility of changing the trajectory of history with his own power is not only slim, but also almost impossible.

but,

but,

After he is released from prison, he has to do something, right?

Do you have to be shameless and rely on a big beard to support you, and your main task every day is to sleep like you are in prison?

Or should I go on to sell lyrics on the Qinhuai River to make a living, and my main task every day becomes sleeping with good girls?

Too decadent, too decadent.

The most important thing is that Jiang Xinghuo really got enough sleep.

So, is there any good way to find something less tiring to do while lying down, and try to make some changes, so that you can be killed by motion without deliberately seeking death?

Of course!

Just start spraying.

What are the bad feudal habits, what are the debates between Chinese and Yi, and what are Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism.

No matter how many pens you bring, I will refute it with one of my own.

In this way, not only did Jiang Xinghuo achieve his goal, but he was also able to travel through the past and express the resentment accumulated in his heart directly.

It’s hard to calm down.

Why are you, a bunch of insects, pointing the finger at the top, using your rules to do things that appear to be polite but are actually dirty?

Why can you describe squeezing the people as farming, studying and inheriting the family?

Why should people suffer when something happens?

Why should national heroes be discredited?

The truth becomes clearer with more debate.

In a few months, I will let you know what is called scholarly anger and what is meant by scolding Fang Qiu.

As for the defenders who are annoyed by themselves and want to play something real, that would be even better.

It's best to kill me and let me travel back home quickly, please.

Just when Jiang Xinghuo was having a rare moment of vivid thoughts, Li Jinglong beside him said, "This is the difference between Huayi and Huayi."

The distinction between Hua and Yi, or the distinction between Yi and Xia, is used to distinguish between Huaxia and barbarians. In ancient times, the Chinese ethnic group lived in the Central Plains and was the center of civilization, while the surrounding areas were relatively backward. In the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, when the princes were hegemonic, Confucius advocated the great righteousness of the Spring and Autumn Period, and proposed the great righteousness of respecting the king, repelling barbarians, and promoting culture. For example, the state of Chu claimed to be a barbarian, but as civilization progressed and the princes of the Central Plains allied with it, they no longer regarded it as a barbarian; while the state of Zheng was originally a state of Xia, and if its behavior was inconsistent with justice and etiquette, it was also regarded as a barbarian.

In other words, during the Spring and Autumn Period, the distinction between barbarians and Chinese was based on etiquette.

This is because China attaches great importance to clothes and etiquette. "Chun Qiu Zuo Zhuan Zhengyi·Ding Gong Ten Years" says: China has great etiquette, so it is called Xia; it has the beauty of clothes and seals, so it is called Hua.

"The Mongols are Yi Di." Zhu Gaoxu said it respectfully without hesitation.

Li Jinglong said: "The definition of Yi Di should be the most accurate in the Han Dynasty. That is to say, Yi Di have disheveled hair and slits on the left. They are all people with human faces and animal hearts. They are different from the Chinese books, clothing, classics, customs, food and language. They live in the In a corner of the north, I chase water and grass and make a living by shooting and hunting.”

Seeing that the two of them basically understood what they meant, Jiang Xinghuo felt that things were much easier to explain.

In fact, there are roughly three standards for measuring the distinction between Huayi and Huayi in Chinese history, namely, the blood relationship standard, the geographical measurement standard, and the cultural measurement standards such as clothing and etiquette.

The main criterion for distinguishing between Huayi and Huayi before the Qin Dynasty was the presence or absence of Chinese etiquette. After the Han and Jin Dynasties, the main criterion for distinguishing between Huayi and Huayi was based on distance of blood and geographical origin.

This is because after the Han and Jin Dynasties, when China faced serious threats, this division could protect the survival of the Chinese ethnic group.

In Jiang Xinghuo's previous life, many scholars were still influenced by modern Western ethnic theories and believed that there was no nationalism in ancient China. However, in fact, the most prominent expression of the national consciousness of the ancients was the distinction between Huayi and Huayi. There is a deep sense of nationalism.

When the Chinese regime in the Central Plains was unstable and barbarians invaded, the call for Hua-Yi differentiation would become louder, and Hua-Yi differentiation became a powerful ideological weapon used by the Han regime to resist foreign regimes. Of course, the distinction between Chinese and foreigners in troubled times is just like the respect for kings and the rejection of foreigners in the Spring and Autumn Period. It is not caused by big nationalism, nor is it discrimination against foreigners.

From a deeper level, the concept of Huayi distinction promotes a dignified and persistent national cohesion and centripetal force, which condenses into a powerful spiritual force to tenaciously resist the conquest of foreign races.

"The debate between Hua and Yi, the hidden meaning here is, what is China? If the Yi and Di take over China, then as long as they follow the Chinese etiquette and law system, will they be China?" Jiang Xinghuo asked.

As a soldier with simple patriotic enthusiasm, Zhu Gaoxu was naturally unwilling to admit this.

Otherwise, what is the point of their fight against the Mongols? Is it to overthrow China?

Jiang Xinghuo asked another more difficult speculative question.

"In other words, let's take a counter-example of the Tang Dynasty Guiyi Army. When the Chinese Dynasty was invaded, the Han Chinese general who was alone on the border led a small group of Han people and a large part of the local barbarians to resist the invasion of other foreign races. Who is he? national hero?"

"To take another example mentioned just now, when the Jin Kingdom took over the Central Plains and the Mongols invaded the Jin Kingdom, the Han people fought against the Mongols in order to maintain their orthodoxy. Whose national hero is he?"

Probably because they thought the two of them were not confused enough, Jiang Xinghuo continued to ask.

"The people I just talked about are Han people. If this person is a Chinese-style alien who can't even speak the alien language, and he leads Han people and aliens to resist the invasion of other alien races, then who is he a national hero?"

Three questions have already caused Zhu Gaoxu's brain to shut down.

However, Zhu Gaoxu thought of another question at this time.

"Emperor Gao, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, recognized the Yuan Dynasty as Zhengshuo."

"That's just to show that the Ming Dynasty was Zhengshuo." Li Jinglong retorted: "Emperor Taizu Gao also said that when Hu Yuan took over China, the barbarians and barbarians were poisoned, polluting China, schools were ruined, and human discipline was in ruins."

Look, some people are dead, even if they are lying in a coffin, but their influence is still everywhere.

Zhu Gaoxu's brain was completely overloaded.

"Mr. Jiang, please tell me directly, how are you going to solve this problem? It can't really be true that thousands of years later, Prince Yue will become a sinner who hinders the integration, right?"

"The way to solve this problem is to set a standard."

Jiang Xinghuo said slowly: "This standard is called nation-state."