New Shun 1730

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However, the struggle among the students in Songjiang Prefecture did not stop.

With the rich experience accumulated in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, as well as the new experience summary in the new era, the students in Songjiang Mansion can be said to be pressing forward step by step.

Although they no longer take action, in terms of public opinion, the students in Yangzhou Prefecture have completely lost.

The previous political hooligans, working with professional thugs, have won a victory in public opinion in this salient area.

And these students, relying on this good foundation, further consolidated their victory after winning with their fists.

The students in the Jiangnan area have become more and more mature in how to control public opinion and how to incite public opinion during the struggles in the middle and late dynasties of the previous dynasty.

For example, if you want to incite public opinion or spread rumors, you need to understand a truth.

It is to create public opinion, but do not target it without looking at the target.

If you really want to incite public opinion or spread rumors, you must think about who your articles, speeches, conversations, and writings are intended for, or who you want to hear. Otherwise, you are determined not to be read or listened to. When you shoot an arrow, you need to look at the target, and when you play the piano, you need to look at the audience. When writing an article or making a speech, can you not look at the readers or the audience?

These things were really not taught by Liu Yu.

But it was really the students who realized this on their own during the struggles of the previous dynasty.

For example, the classic case of "civilian copying Dong Huan" incident.

The first step is, if you want to incite public opinion, spread rumors, and gain an advantage in public opinion, you need to understand what the people really like to hear and see, and can they accept it?

Obviously, no.

Therefore, we need to write a play first, called "The Story of Black and White".

The various crimes and ugliness of Dong Qichang who was about to be attacked were written into a drama.

People like to watch theater.

Put public opinion in operas that people like to hear and see, and spread quickly.

Pay money to perform performances everywhere for people to watch.

In just a few days, the entire Songjiang Prefecture and Suzhou Prefecture knew that Dong Qichang, at the age of seventy, was robbing civilian girls.

By the time Dong Qichang waited for his reaction, the deal was already done and public opinion was no longer on his side.

As for whether this thing is true or not, it doesn't matter.

People who have watched the show all know that Dong Qichang is a shameless person.

Not only was it made into a play, but it was also written into a novel.

He also specially asked storytellers to talk about this book everywhere.

It is somewhat similar to the pornographic tabloid run by Liu Yu in the Netherlands, and these scholars who control public opinion also know very well what types of people like it.

So it is said that in "The Legend of Black and White", including the drama, there are words such as "How to loosen her buttons".

When things got serious later, the subsequent public opinion went to the lower third route. The people liked to hear about it, and it spread quickly.

It is said that the author of this play and novel was killed in revenge by Dong Qichang because he spoke uprightly and recorded the truth.

And Dong Qichang also asked his domestic slaves to go to other people's homes and beat the author's mother. He also took off the old mother's pants and tied her to a chair.

Many details are as lifelike as if they were seen in person.

So much so that a very special vocabulary was left behind. It was said that when he was later sued in court, there was a saying of "peeling off his pants and smashing his vagina".

As for authenticity...

This is no longer important. The important news of this color matching spreads extremely fast.

Of course citizens like to watch such plays, novels and stories like this.

And more professional novels such as "Facts of Civil Copies of Dong Huan", "Miscellaneous Notes of Jingchuanzhai", "Talking about Dreams", etc. have also been circulated and become more and more legendary. From the beginning, how a seventy-year-old man raped a sixteen- or seventeen-year-old girl, to how the evil slave in the family tied up the righteous old mother, how to take off her pants, etc., became more and more detailed.

Facts don't matter.

Importantly, these previous struggles have proven to be effective.

You must understand that the audience is citizens, ordinary people with a sense of justice, and ordinary people who like to hear and see Xia Sanlu.

There is no point in getting some 4 or 6 parallel couples.

Just act.

storytelling.

This is a good way to incite public opinion, control public opinion, and reach the masses at this time.

These talented people in Songjiang Prefecture are all veteran fighters.

Spread rumors.

incite.

Create hatred.

spread.

Wait, they are all quite professional, and they really don’t need anyone to teach them.

The same tricks Liu Yu played in Amsterdam were no longer rare for this group of people to play in the 43rd year of Wanli.

Just a little timid.

In the Zhou Shunchang incident that year, before Jin Yiwei was beaten to death, the house was full of guests and friends, because the crime was just corruption and it was not a big deal.

When the trouble really got big and Jin Yiwei was killed, directly challenging the bottom line of the imperial power, and almost being accused of "all Wu people rebelling", the favor was cold and warm, and he immediately "stopped three or five people" from visiting, for fear of getting involved. .

Therefore, although these students were beaten with rubber batons by Liu Yu in Jiangnan, they did not dare to do anything to Liu Yu, for fear of being caught or that Liu Yu would deduct their tax refunds.

But now they are dealing with some students of the same level as them, and behind them is a salt merchant who they think will definitely decline, so what are they afraid of?

For a time, various plays, novels, and storytellers that satirized salt merchants, Yangzhou students, and described the miserable lives of salt households spread rapidly along the Yanhe River.

Including but not limited to, how these Confucian scholars made their wives dress up to seduce the salt merchants in order to please them; and how those salt merchants were forced and deceived by these people.

At this time, the classic dramas that are more popular here can be known by looking at the titles.

In fact, folk dramas are not very elegant.

In itself, things like "The Monk's Fast", "The Young Widow Goes to the Grave", and "Yingying Wipes the Red Handkerchief" are endless.

For these things, many scholars also have pen names and make a living from them. Nowadays, writing such scripts and storytelling is as easy as a rabbit chewing celery.

Soon, under the simple concept of good and evil of the people.

Salt merchants are bad people.

Salt households don't want to cook salt.

Those who speak for salt merchants are bad people.

Such simple views spread quickly, and storytellers tell new jokes every day.

However, sandwiched between these jokes, there are also some professionals' private goods about politics and economy.

Although Lin Min had heard about the broken boots formation in Jiangnan, he really didn't expect it to be like this.

Now that Liu Yu has led his troops into the city, Lin Min is completely relieved, knowing that things will not get out of hand.

After meeting Liu Yu, he couldn't help laughing and said, "They all say benevolence and righteousness, but they only think about business."

"The previous Hongwu Emperor had twelve regulations for students. The first one is that students are not allowed to discuss politics. Students are not allowed to speak about the benefits and problems of the world. Students are also strictly prohibited from suing. If they sue someone who has nothing to do with them, their official titles will be revoked."

"That's why Mr. Lizhou wants to implement the ancient method of discussing politics in schools, which is actually a violation of this regulation. After all, you still have to correct your heart first before you can do things."

Liu Yu thought to himself, what does this have to do with whether your heart is right or not? The premise of doing politics and the premise of political ideas is that people's hearts must be right. Isn't this bullshit?

Students have been like this for a long time. Isn't this a normal routine of manipulating public opinion and throwing dirty water on opponents?

It's normal for local councilors to fight, isn't that normal?

"Lord Lin, I have invited some great scholars from Jiangnan to come here for this matter. It is normal for the students to make a fuss about this matter."

"After the fuss, after the real judgment, how to characterize this matter still needs to be controlled. It can be regarded as a grand event for the Confucian community to have these things written down and bound into a book by the prestigious great scholars."

"By then, if there are those who are not convinced, they will be given a period of ten years. After ten years, let's see whether life in northern Jiangsu is good or bad."

"No further discussion within ten years. What do you think, Lord Lin?"

Lin Min knew that if Liu Yu did not know the attitude of the invited great scholars in advance, he would definitely not invite them. As for whether they were bribed or bought, it was not something he could know.

There must be many true, righteous, and sentimental Confucian scholars in this world.

It seems that Liu Yu is ready to make this matter a big discussion.

At that time, those Yangzhou students will definitely be humiliated.

But after the humiliation, there will be a debate.

This debate is quite necessary.

It is a bit similar to the Salt and Iron Conference, but it did not take place in the center of the court.

It can also be regarded as a general settlement of some ideological confusion in the middle and late Ming Dynasty on issues such as economy and taxation.

Especially the issue of salt industry.

Including whether private salt should be allowed to be mined at will, whether salt should be taxed, and whether the salt permit system should be abolished.

After all, the court has established an attitude since Emperor Taizong that the knowledge of the Yongjia and Yongkang schools is relatively good. This can also be regarded as ancestral precepts.

In Liu Yu's opinion, if the economic thought issues involved here can be guided through this discussion, some new thoughts can be formed.

Through the debate and records of great Confucian scholars, they will be sorted out and published.

Political things must not be touched. It is too early to touch them now. Without an economic foundation, doing these things is like a tree without roots.

Even Huang Zongxi's school political thought, let alone whether the feudal semi-autonomy of local sages can work, it is certain that the emperor is not happy to see these things.

It is surviving and developing in the cracks, so it is better to bring the topic to pure economic issues.

It is mainly from some economic thinking of Wang Fuzhi, Huang Zongxi, Gu Yanwu, Tang Zhen and others, combined with some discussions on industry and commerce extracted from the Yongjia and Yongkang schools of Ye Shi and others.

It is nothing more than whether wine should be taxed, tea should be taxed, salt should be taxed; the role of merchants in the country, what aspects of taxation should the country control, etc.

It can also be regarded as setting a good tone for Jiangsu's next comprehensive tax reform and industrial and commercial tax system.

Of course, the most important thing is to "remove the dross and take the essence" of some reflections and economic thoughts in the late Ming Dynasty.

Liu Yu is still full of respect for those thinkers in the late Ming Dynasty. It's just that the economic reform plan they proposed was an overcorrection for the special situation in the late Ming Dynasty.

Whether it is the head tax that sounds ridiculous now to replace the land tax, the comprehensive liberalization of the control over merchants, the abandonment of the use of gold and silver, etc.

They are all reflections on the special situation in the late Ming Dynasty.

It's not all nonsense, but the thinking is very profound, but not universal.

It is a reflection on the specific circumstances of the late Ming Dynasty's chaotic politics, the magical Jiangnan, the feudal lords occupying the land, the excessive clerks, the fraudulent surrender, and the land and population yellow book.

Now that the key labor problem has been solved in southern Jiangsu, the entire logic of taxation has changed. In this case, continuing the reflection of the previous dynasty's specific circumstances to think about economic issues will definitely go astray.

Therefore, this time, the main thing is to solve this "carving a boat to find a sword" problem. Don't let those great scholars think about economic issues based on the reflections of the late Ming Dynasty. Many things have changed.

Through the issues of salt administration, land reclamation, enclosure, etc., we should guide them to think about what the economy is all about.

Since there are already some ideas such as "rich merchants are the fate of the country"; "market regulation, salt prices are self-stable"; "the rich feed the poor", we should try to guide them to think about something deeper.