New Shun 1730

Lin Min was able to suppress it with this reason, which was also related to some historical issues left over from the founding of Dashun.

Because Dashun talked about "great righteousness" or "small righteousness".

At the beginning of the founding of the country, some people said that you Dashun divided the land among people, and they shaved their money rat tails to welcome the "new dynasty and elegant politics". Isn't this very reasonable? There are also rumors that you slept with someone's concubine, so it is also reasonable for them to surrender with a piece of stone? You forced the king and father of the people to hang themselves, and they even prepared to cede islands to Japan to lead the Crusades. This is also very normal.

Although Dashun only had a mosquito prison like the Red Mane Fiery Horse, which was really too familiar, it still used various means to reverse the extreme liberalization trend since the late Ming Dynasty and slightly reshaped the ideology.

One of them is to make "great righteousness" and "small righteousness" clear.

As for why the story of Xue Pinggui and Wang Baochuan is not allowed to be sung, it is also related to the great righteousness and small righteousness created by Dashun. When the Tang emperor collapsed and the minister usurped the throne, Xue Pinggui, who was already the king of Xiliang, led the cavalry of Xiliang into the pass to take revenge, broke through Chang'an, and ascended the throne. What do you think of this issue?

When the group of people who founded Dashun were still peasant craftsmen, they liked this play very much. It was so lively and happy.

However, after the success, I felt awkward and uncomfortable.

The debate about great righteousness and small righteousness, or the mosquito prison created by Dashun to reshape ideology, is actually very interesting.

There is such an allusion in "Shuoyuan". It is said that the King of Wei asked Yang Zhu, saying that you brag all day long and think that governing the country is simple, but you have a wife and a concubine at home and you can't manage them. The few acres of vegetable fields at home are all overgrown by you. Why do you think that governing the world is in your hands?

Yang Zhu said, this is just like herding sheep. If you let a child herd sheep, there are hundreds of sheep. As long as you master the rules, the sheep will go east and west. But if you let Yao lead the head sheep and Shun drive the sheep with a stick, the sheep will be in chaos. This is what is called, those who govern the big do not govern the small.

After the Dashun was successful, the control of the ideological world followed almost the same idea.

No "Yao" or "Shun" was sent to dictate where the sheep should run... Of course, it was mainly because Dashun could not find someone who could be named a semi-saint and come up with a complete set of ideology. The key point of the Yongkang and Yongjia schools of thought is that they were in the time when the Jin people invaded the south. They were full of combativeness and practicality, but not systematic.

Dashun used the shepherd's stick, "almost destroying the world", to let these hundreds of sheep go in the direction the court wanted them to go.

When the Dashun Dynasty was founded, it first sent a plaque with a miniature Guan Zhong to the Yanshenggong Mansion, and launched a widespread humiliation campaign that said, "Being a Confucian scholar to the point of shaving your hair and changing your robes is as interesting as a Catholic missionary getting a waxberry sore."

This widespread humiliation resulted in widespread reflection and separation.

Li Laiheng used the idea of ​​"universally humiliating the entire group, and people among them will naturally stand up to brake and separate."

That is, he deliberately ignored the difference between the resistance faction and the surrender faction among the literati, and did not criticize the surrender faction or specific people, but madly humiliated the literati group.

This is an obvious and deliberate fallacy, but this deliberate fallacy is very effective.

A large number of literati took the initiative to draw a clear line between themselves and those people. limit, took the initiative to make a distinction.

That is: If it were us, we would rather die than do that. It's just that you Dashun won the battle and didn't give us the opportunity to show our character. You can't insult our group like this. You have to criticize specific people and specific ideas, not our group.

So, when criticizing specific people and specific ideas, in which direction will you criticize?

These scholars who are eager to make a distinction took the initiative to criticize in the direction of great righteousness and small righteousness.

Therefore, Dashun naturally "passively" took up the great righteousness - you are good at criticizing, they don't have great righteousness, so what we do is in line with the great righteousness, right?

Dashun didn't spend all his time to prove that he had great righteousness. Righteousness.

Instead, they spent most of their energy humiliating the scholar-officials who had drawn a circle together. After humiliating them for several years, they passively gained righteousness.

In fact, this was also because Dashun had figured out the nature of the scholar-officials: Dashun's humiliation of them was a subtext that the reason why Dashun won the world was different from that of you insects.

The scholar-officials needed to quickly prove that no, you Dashun could win the world precisely because you practiced our righteousness, or we were guiding you, but you just didn't know it.

Why was Dashun able to establish a country and succeed? It's not because you oppose our ideas, but because you are the ones who truly practice our Confucian ideas, so you succeeded, but you just don't know it. You don't know Tao, I tell you.

Some people distorted Confucianism before, they are fake Confucians.

From this, a new concept of "getting the country right" was derived.

Then, Confucian scholars who miss the previous dynasty will spontaneously and actively fantasize and assume. If the previous dynasty did this or that, if the previous dynasty did this or that, then there would not be so many things.

The result of this fantasy and assumption is that "if more hegemony was used at the beginning, although it is not the orthodox kingly way, it is better than losing the country and the world."

After deriving the concept of Dashun's "getting the country right" and redefining the discourse of getting the country right, Dashun defined the Ming Dynasty's getting the country right with the ideology of Dashun's getting the country right.

Li Laiheng went to pay homage to the mausoleum of Ming Taizu and held a large-scale seminar. The purpose of the seminar was not to prove that the Dashun Dynasty was legal, but to let these scholar-bureaucrats talk freely about why the powerful Ming Dynasty became what it was in the later period. Birdlike.

This is a famous "patch" conference. Because the premise of "protecting the world" is to basically recognize the land contracts of the previous dynasty. At most, they can only permanently rent and reduce rents instead of equalizing land.

So, what was the reason for the collapse of the late Ming Dynasty? When scholar-bureaucrats come to discuss it, they will naturally not touch on the fundamental issue of land annexation.

If you can't move the bones, you can only move the skin.

Just touch the skin and repair it.

That would be interesting.

Yan Guan? Eunuch? Is Jiang Zuo a delusional person? Neo-Confucianism of the Song and Ming Dynasties? Talking about xinxing? The collapse of officialdom? Military system? Not centralized? Can't collect taxes? Clear stream? Moral corruption? Domain king? Fighting taxes?

Don't talk about the essence, just talk about the superficial things. Naturally, everything you look at seems to be the possible cause.

This commemoration of the previous dynasty made many policy changes in Dashun reasonable on the premise that it was impossible to discuss the fundamental causes of the periodic law and the land system.

For example, measures to strengthen the imperial power such as changes in the official position, changes in the Qing officials, etc. have become "It is not the emperor who took the initiative to do this, but after you reflected on the problems of the previous dynasty, I accepted your suggestions and advice, So I did it."

This is called "Those who are good at politics must be the servant of public opinion openly, and the master of public opinion secretly, so that their affairs can be successful."

In this era, who controls public opinion?

Once you understand this, you also understand how Dashun basically reversed the almost complete chaos of the late Ming Dynasty despite making so many changes and actually not using a butcher knife but only occasionally saying that he had a knife to scare people. form.

Including why the emperor chose to deliberately allow the spread of some new trends of thought, why Dashun still allowed scholars to open societies, etc.

It also includes divided groups of people, new knowledge that is broken but not established, etc. Everyone who wants to establish the Three Immortals is being pulled by others, and the Dashun Imperial Power is happy to see this kind of pulling.

Dashun does not want the living Liyan Sage. Neither can a half-saint.

Of course, this will also bring new problems.

That is, "great righteousness, great righteousness, how many crimes have been committed in your name."

From a moral point of view, there are only good and bad, there is no great good or bad. Dashun forcibly separated the big righteousness and the small righteousness, so who has the right to interpret the big righteousness?

Theoretically, in the hands of Confucian scholar-bureaucrats.

But in reality? Through widespread humiliation at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the scholar-bureaucrats were forced to defend themselves, and the right to interpret justice fell into the hands of the imperial court.

Because the great righteousness of Dashunli is based on the world, the country, the country, and the court.

This kind of empty moral talk means that once the debate about "big morality and small morality" arises, it means falling into utilitarianism.

And this happens to be in line with the reflection after the world was almost destroyed in the late Ming Dynasty. Righteousness should be reflected in utilitarianism and should not be empty talk.

But again, who is the subject of utilitarianism?

Whose merit?

Whose benefit?

Since you have chosen to protect the world, you are protecting an abstract thing. It does not specify the merits of certain people or the interests of any class, so it can be as abstract as possible.

From this, in order to conform to the interests of the imperial power, it was gradually twisted into the needs of the court, which was in line with the righteousness.

To put it bluntly, this is a deformed "starving to death, a small matter, a big mistake", but Dashun has adjusted the order of priority and size.

For example, many years before this salt policy reform, Dashun reversed the ideological confusion about "the salt tax was wrong" that had begun in the 30s of Wanli. In the name of "big righteousness", it is explained that levying a salt tax is a big righteousness, while not imposing a salt tax is a small righteousness. The big righteousness has to give way to the small righteousness, and it is magically explained.

Now Lin Min uses these words to talk about those who cry out for the injustice of the people. In fact, he is saying, "I admit that I have harmed their interests, but from the overall perspective, their interests can be abandoned as a price."

It seemed that Lin Min was pushed into a corner by those officials, but in fact he was pushed into a corner by Liu Yu. It was Liu Yu who insisted on this issue and kept forcing him to express his position.

What he said now was the statement Liu Yu needed.

Satisfied, Liu Yu decisively stopped his aggressive questioning and followed Lin Min's words: "Master Lin's words are quite reasonable. We still have to put the overall situation first and the overall situation first. We will talk about Huainan later. Just talking about Huaibei, this salt farm does not require workers. If the small salt farmers go bankrupt, they can just come to work in the big salt farm. "

"Think about it, if you are a salt farmer yourself, you still have to worry about the price of salt, the price of firewood, wind and rain, flooding, etc."

"When you come to work in the Salt Factory, all the risks are borne by the factory owner. Those who work can receive their wages on time and have no worries or worries. It is really a great thing."

He even used such rhetoric, and the rest of the people were speechless and could only remain silent.

On the other hand, the board members of the salt farm said quickly: "I am so grateful that the Duke understands our hard work. As soon as I open my eyes, there are thousands of people waiting to eat, drink and relieve themselves, and they have to worry about the cold weather, short days and heavy tides. We are small, the official salary is not smooth, and the bills are not available. No one but the public can understand our suffering. "

Liu Yu, the main backer of the emerging class, laughed and said, "You guys are still a little short-sighted. Since the official salt is not flowing smoothly and there is no one to issue bills, do you have to focus on the domestic market? Before I return to Beijing this time, I have something to talk to you about. I think you still need to expand your production."