First Minister of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 892 Fusion

As Zhang Ximeng said, Zhu Yuanzhang at this moment does not know his existence and how much influence he has on the world, especially those poor people, who are struggling on the verge of death, are even more encouraged and inspired .

Something called hope began to spread.

Charles V hoped to emulate Daming and form a powerful army, but he did not intend to be completely like Daming. After all, he obtained the throne through inheritance, which was completely different from Zhu Yuanzhang who started from scratch.

Doesn't he praise Zhu Yuanzhang to encourage the people below to rebel!

And Charles V also experienced several civil uprisings and was very afraid of this.

But unfortunately, there are some things that cannot be decided by the king.

With Ming's administrative ability, there are still many places that cannot be controlled, let alone in a country with weak rule like France.

Charlie just let go, and couldn't control it anymore.

Totally messed up.

To understand the reasons for this, let’s take a look at the history of Europe. The Black Death is still raging, plagues are prevalent everywhere, and countless people died.

And the old enemies of Britain and France actually fought, and the fight lasted for decades. If nothing happened, they could still fight for decades, and then provide the world with a term-the Hundred Years' War!

I have to sigh that the matching mechanism in the European region is really powerful.

There is no one who can give birth to such a pair of crouching dragon and phoenix chicks at the same time.

The plague is raging, wars are frequent, coupled with the greed and extravagance of the nobles... the entire French people are completely struggling to die.

They are poor, hungry, and walk like corpses.

Cities like Paris, full of shit and shit, full of hungry poor people, naked, sitting on the side of the road, expecting handouts.

They also steal, if circumstances allow, and rob ... beggars, thieves, robbers ... Paris is hard to find a good man.

This is Europe today, an almost hopeless world.

At this juncture, news about the East spread to the West one after another.

That impact force is unimaginable.

And a very interesting thing. Many people think that the traditional and conservative Holy See must be very resistant to theories from the East. This is not bad.

But the Holy See does not represent all clergy.

After all, at this moment, the vast majority of scholars are still priests.

In their hands, there are popular oriental works, such as The Romance of the West Chamber, Outlaws of the Marsh, The Match of the Immortals, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, etc., as well as Zhang Ximeng's expositions on Juntian, which naturally include Zhu Yuanzhang's trilogy.

These books were spread to the West one after another, and gathered in the hands of some priests through various channels.

For example, a priest in the Diocese of Lyon spent a lot of money to get more than a dozen volumes of oriental books from a Venetian merchant... He spent more than half a year studying and rereading, never letting go of any useful things .

Then this guy starts to wake up.

For example, when Zhang Ximeng analyzed the issue of equal land, he proposed that every person living in the world has a fair right to survive, and land property is the prerequisite for a person's survival.

This person does not distinguish between men and women, the rich and the poor... Everyone must get their share fairly.

This claim constituted the foundation of Ming Dynasty.

In the biography of Lao Zhu, Zhu Yuanzhang lashed out at the monks of Huangjue Temple, accusing the monks of occupying the land, charging high rents, treating the people like fish and meat, and mercilessly, which is even more hateful than those powerful landlords.

The priest was about to cry after reading it. The behavior of the monks of the Ming Dynasty can be regarded as a saint in France.After all, in terms of not being human, they never disappoint.

After thinking for a period of time, this person was completely reborn, and he figured it out.

In the East, it's not that they don't believe in gods, it's just that they think that personal efforts can be compared to gods.

Through their own efforts, they created a heaven on earth in the living real world...

In this country, His Majesty the Emperor is a god, and those officials, headed by the Taishi, are angels. They uphold the emperor's will, guard the world, and bring the emperor's blessings to ordinary people.

Let everyone live in heaven and enjoy fairness, abundance, and health...to be guarded, respected, educated, rich in knowledge, and capable of self-improvement.

This is the life that only people in heaven can have!

In contrast to the West, wars, plagues, excessive taxation, hunger and killing... This is hell!

Literally hell.

According to their teachings, they have to wait for the end to come and accept God's judgment. Only those who are chosen can be saved and ascended to heaven.

But according to the knowledge from the East, they are already living in hell. In this hell, everyone can rise up and do justice for the sky!

Those who exploit the common people and suck the bones to the bone are the devils.

Use your own strength to unite all people, destroy the devil, and establish the kingdom of heaven on earth. Isn’t that what you are saved?

Don't believe the vain deceptions of those aristocratic clergy.

If you have to show your strength, even if you are just a beggar, you can become the greatest emperor.

As it said in that book, when the road is injustice, let out a roar!

France needs to wake up!

Although the priest was not imprisoned, he also completed the Longchang Enlightenment... He began to preach his theory to the poor, and donated his property to help the poor.

Soon, he became famous and gathered a large number of poor people around him.

Then they began to make demands on the nobles and lords, forcing them to hand over the land, and to distribute the land fairly to all.

There is no doubt that this kind of thing is against the law in Europe, and it is impossible to succeed at all. The nobles from all over the world will definitely unite and forcefully suppress it, and it is impossible to realize it.

But don't forget that this is the Hundred Years' War!

Due to the plague and fighting, the nobles in many places suffered serious losses, and their knight corps also suffered heavy casualties.

The plague took away many clergymen, and a huge power vacuum appeared in the local area.

At this time, the poor people who gathered put forward the request of equal land, and some small nobles really couldn't bear it!

Just in the south of France, some peasants began to get their land.

Although it was only such a small piece, the shock it brought was earth-shattering, and the effect was astonishing.

Even the priest who proposed it did not expect such a result.

He was already riding on the tiger's back, and he couldn't get off at all.

What should I do?

Continue to hold up the cross and preach his learning?

I'm sorry, it's too bad. Those who got the land are no longer satisfied with God. They think that the Hongwu Emperor in the East is much more powerful than God.

Books from the East are also more valuable than the Bible.

Don't talk about those old stories, we don't care how two pies and seven fish feed a group of people, we just want to know how they treat their own people in the East, how can they govern the country without nobles?

Then the priest could only tell them that in the East, there is a wide range of education, so that everyone can read and write, and then take a fair exam, pass their own skills, become an official, and manage the people.

After reaching the age of 70, the official will retire and return to civilians.

Someone asked, what about the officials' children?

Will he continue to be an official?

The priest told them, no, if you want to be an official, you must pass the exam, without any exceptions!

When they learned of this, the people were overjoyed.

Even including some scholars, they also began to fall into deep reflection.

No wonder the East is more advanced and civilized than the West... They respect everyone, give everyone a fair opportunity for development, they are pragmatic and free, they are rational and objective, and they treat everyone equally and fraternally.

In contrast to France, greed, cunning, killing, deep-rooted distrust, clear barriers, rich and poor, high and low, passed down from generation to generation, unbreakable.

Compared to the east, this is a pool of hopeless backwaters. If you don't completely smash everything, you won't have any chance!

At a rally, someone held up a banner. According to Daming's habit, they used scarlet red. In addition, on the banner, there were no irises, crosses, and the like, but a round of sun and moon instead.

Because according to the description in the book, Ming characters include the sun and the moon, and have the ambition to encompass the world, which proves that under the sun and the moon is the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

In France, everything else is different, but they can also see the sun and the moon, and they hope that this flag can protect them.

Charles V never dreamed that he was playing off.

Following the example of Ming Dynasty did allow him to obtain a very effective army, but behind the Ming army was the equalization of land, and Charles V did not have so much land, so he had to switch to the recruitment system.By spending money, hire soldiers.

But the problem is that he doesn't have that much money in his hand, so he can only resort to painting big cakes, saying that to drive away the British, he can grant them land on the recovered land.

Finally, it managed to win over the hearts of the people, and achieved some victories on the battlefield, and recovered the port city of Bordeaux.

But the next problem arose. These soldiers strongly demanded that Bordeaux be handed over to them, that they be given land and real estate, and let them do business in the port.

This request made Paris go crazy.

You shameless bastards dare to ask for land, do you deserve it?

He turned his back on his promise, let the soldiers seriously disappointed, and the anger after being deceived filled everyone's chest... At this time, the new doctrine from the south began to quickly win the support of the soldiers.

Take our weapons and build a heaven on earth!

They also fashionably unfurled the banner of "Walk for Heaven".

They even made a stone tablet with the name of the leader of the rebel army engraved on it.

On this land of France, more and more people are coming forward.

They killed nobles, captured castles, freed slaves and criminals, and granted land... Like a snowball, they grew rapidly and violently impacted the Western order.

Chapter 893 Casting the Golden Cauldron

From the south of France, to the commercially developed Netherlands, and then to the south of Germany, the whole of Europe is in the midst of the wind and rain, and the mountains and rivers are shaking.

The reason why there was such a big commotion was naturally due to those books, but the problem was not limited to those books.

In fact, if you comb through the cultural exchanges in history, you will find some very interesting rules... For example, the typical Master Xuanzang went to India to learn Buddhist scriptures.

At that time, it indeed brought great Buddhism to the Central Plains... But there is a premise that it is the Central Plains Dynasty, which is still far ahead of Tianzhu.

Moreover, the local Confucianism and Taoism strongly resisted, and the struggle between the three religions lasted for thousands of years. After several dynasties, a situation where the three religions merged finally formed.

In other words, if there is a strong resistance force in the local area, it will be difficult for this kind of spread to work all at once.

But look at the Wa country again. When they sent Tang envoys to learn from Datang, it seemed that there was no decent resistance in the local area, so they accepted it smoothly.

That's because the Wa country was still stable at that time, and it was far from the end of the dynasty. The country had the strength to inherit this advanced culture and promote reforms.

Another example is the eastward spread of Western learning at the end of the Ming Dynasty... It was still the same. Although the Ming Dynasty had faded to the west at that time, the prestige of the upper kingdom was still there, and it did not regard Western learning as a life-saving cure at all. People of insight feel that Western learning also has merits, and it can be regarded as filling the gap.

But at about the same time, the knowledge of the East was spread to the West, and the governance methods of the East were spread to the West, but it directly gave birth to a large group of "spirits". They are all ashamed.

To put it bluntly, the East they speak of does not exist at all.It is entirely their own needs, with the help of the East, to elucidate their own ideas.

This thing, to put it another way that is easier to understand, is called "Tuozhong Yanzhi". For the same reason, there is also "Tuogu Reform", which naturally includes the "Tuoxi Yanzhi" of some people in later generations. None of them are objective interpretations of the facts, but are all under certain banners to achieve their own goals.

Even Zhang Ximeng's revision of Song history can be attributed to this system.

But human society is not like this.

A trend of thought that can spread rapidly cannot be separated from the background at that time.

For example, in Europe today, the Black Death is prevalent, wars continue, and the common people suffer unspeakably... Naturally, a group of scholars played the slogan of the Renaissance and played the trick of reforming the ancient system.

Then they opened up a new route, and they got out of the crisis by wantonly plundering... But what they did was too wicked. In order to cover up their crimes, they fiddled with ideological enlightenment to whiten their sins.

Afterwards, it developed to the stage of the Industrial Revolution, when the West fully mastered industrial civilization and could look down on all other regions and nations.

Then came the idea of ​​the supremacy of the West and the superiority of the human race... In the Middle Ages, Westerners only regarded themselves as the chosen people of God, but in later generations, they directly regarded themselves as God!

This is the general process of the development of the entire Western society.

They are now in the early stage of the Renaissance, struggling in the darkness, unable to find any way out.

And at this moment, a large number of Eastern books, ideas and propositions from Ming Dynasty, poured into the West, and it is not surprising what will happen.

After all, the West is extremely weak at this moment, the original order has collapsed, and it is completely in ruins. It is difficult to organize effective resistance.

And Daming is indeed leading by a large margin, and has a huge and unparalleled advantage over the West.

The West has not expanded overseas on a large scale, and it does not have so much colonial wealth to support it. It is at its weakest and least confident.

There is a bowl of medicine from the East, which claims to cure all diseases, how can it be refused.