New Shun 1730

As for why Quan Zheshen pretended to be surnamed Zhao and why he encountered this shipwreck, it all started from Liu Yu's attack on Japan, renting Busan, opening the port of Incheon, and the indecent and shameless "Huang Ming Tong Ji" that led to the Korean literary inquisition.

Although the outflow of rice and the collapse of traditional society did not appear on the first day.

After the Dashun attack on Japan, they actually appeared and constantly impacted the old system of the Korean state.

But the opening of Incheon a few years ago was different after all.

Before the opening of Busan... there was an impact, but the impact on the Korean court and the clans was not very huge, and the impact was not so immediate.

The losers of the political struggle and the marginal people of the court were mixed in the south.

There was trade with Japan before, and there was a certain commercial foundation.

It was easy to turn to industrial and commercial trade, but the object of doing business in Busan changed from Japan to Dashun; the trade volume was constantly increasing, and the frog was boiled in warm water, and the impact was not so immediate.

But after the opening of Incheon Port due to the murder and robbery of ginseng at the border, the problem really became apparent immediately.

Incheon is too close to Seoul, and the conservative scholar-officials are located within the scope of the "Gyeonggi" circle of Korea.

The impact of the opening of the port directly led to the collapse of the old rural economy in the areas around Seoul, land annexation, heavy taxes, destruction of the old land system, and people's livelihood.

A large number of cultural people, nobles of the two classes, and scholars who were excluded by the clans and could not enter the core layer witnessed the destruction of the old era and began to think about the various problems of Zhu Xi's philosophy.

Yi Ik and Li Xinghu began to reflect and founded the Practical Learning School after the slow impact caused by Dashun's lease and occupation of Busan.

In addition to these economic foundations, there is a more intuitive factor.

Korea is not a cultural motherland. China's tradition is self-evolved and self-developed. Korea, a secondary civilization, can only follow the cultural motherland and inherit part of the cultural motherland.

Its social structure also makes it impossible for new thoughts to emerge, even including the basis for reflection on Song and Ming Neo-Confucianism.

Therefore, if one is ignorant and only knows about Song Dynasty learning, and has little knowledge of different practices, he will regard it as a great change in the world.

In this case, with the opening of Incheon Port, the economic impact continued, and the books other than Song and Ming Neo-Confucianism had the greatest and most direct impact on the scholar-official class.

The economic impact still needs to be thought about by oneself.

How can the literate class directly read books and be affected quickly?

It is not just academic things such as reflections and debates of various schools.

It includes novels, miscellaneous notes, essays, satirical short stories...even things like Jin Ping Mei and Deng Cao He Shang.

Novels before Joseon were all aristocratic novels, and those who could read had to be nobles of the two classes.

The purpose of writing novels is to "use literature to convey the truth, persuade good and punish evil", and advocate things like the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues, ethics and morality.

But will this new group of people, or scholars who are not satisfied with their official careers, read this broken stuff?

The commodity economy developed along with the economic aggression of Dashun. The old era collapsed. Under the new economic foundation, would people be willing to read novels based on the past principles and moral principles?

Who are the people who write novels in Korea?

For example, the author of "Dream of Jade Unicorn" Liu Yu was the top scholar in Korea when he was still fighting against the Russians in Heilongjiang.

Who are the people who write novels in Dashun? Not to mention that he had to use a pen name to write a novel, which top scholar would write this stuff?

One is the "literature carries the truth, encourages good and punishes evil" of the aristocratic circle.

The other is the market culture, which flatters the businessmen and citizens.

One is the style of aristocratic priests.

One is the style of market customs.

As a result, a large number of Chinese market novels flowed into Korea like a flying stream.

After reading them, you must learn the style of market novels and short notes from Dashun.

The satire was learned to a certain extent, so that there appeared local satirical short stories in Korea, such as the tiger said that the Confucian scholars were smelly and disdained to eat, and the scholar-officials were eager to show off their skills when they saw the widow.

Then the reflection and reform of Confucianism in Dashun was also introduced to Korea, directly challenging the orthodox status of Zhu Xi's school of thought.

Then... then there was nothing else.

After the incident in Huangming Tongji about who Li Chenggui's father was, the Kingdom of Korea not only banned the book Huangming Tongji, but also banned all the novels, sketches, miscellaneous notes, and debates that were passed from Dashun.

Taking advantage of this mosquito prison, the "literary style reversal" movement was also launched, publishing and compiling books such as Zhu Xi Xuanyue, Tongjian Gangmu Lecture Notes, and Ming Taizu Liuyu Annotations, which were regarded as orthodox.

Correspondingly, the Confucian scholars of Korea went to sea and went to Dashun, which were also strictly controlled.

If you go there privately, who knows what you will learn. A serious envoy in history, an absolute member of the Joseon court, a true Confucian, went to the capital and converted to Catholicism directly after returning...

Reflection on Zhu Xi's philosophy is actually not a good thing for Dashun, especially for the vassal system.

At least in the Confucian cultural circle, Zhu Xi's philosophy is universally applicable in this "world" with its moralism and semi-religiousness. It is a religious knowledge that makes people lose themselves.

And the knowledge of Ye Shi and Chen Liang will lead to national awakening and even the collapse of the world system.

Even began to think about "who am I".

But Dashun has already reached this point.

Li Xinghu and others also felt firsthand that there was a problem in Korea. Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism and Xing Neo-Confucianism were empty talk and could not solve the actual problem.

In particular, the people at the bottom of North Korea are suffering from the double oppression of the country's feudal aristocracy and Dashun imperialism. They are really about to reach the stage where the people are in dire straits.

In this case, it would be strange if no knowledgeable person came forward. Coupled with the fierce party struggle in North Korea and the lack of opportunities for a group of scholars to become officials, this has accelerated the speed of reflection.

A small country is not big, and its economic foundation is not as diverse as Dashun - not to mention Dashun is so big. The differences between the northwest, northeast, and southeast, and the foundations of southern Jiangsu and northern Jiangsu are completely different - what should we do in this case? ?

Obviously, look to the mother country of culture for answers.

Before the literary inquisition of "Huang Ming Tong Ji", Li Xinghu had already seen various books written by Dashun over the years, and found that the set of things he was thinking about had already been thought about by someone in Dashun.

So, what is Dashun like?

Does Dashun have any of these problems facing North Korea, especially the violent disintegration of the old era?

If so, how did you survive it?

In the original history, with the introduction of Catholic books such as "Seven Grams", some people in the Xinghu School tried to find answers from Christianity.

Nowadays, religion is prohibited in Dashun itself, and it is strictly prohibited - some market novels are also prohibited, especially those that are full of words such as uh-huh, ah-ah, random pokes, etc., but these are just turning a blind eye. Having one eye closed is definitely not the same concept as holding a Catholic book in your hand.

There is a difference between prohibition and prohibition.

More importantly, because of the emergence of Liu Yu, Dashun successfully completed the separation between "Western learning" and "practical learning".

Catholic missionaries no longer had a monopoly on science and mathematics. The separation between "practical learning" and "Western learning" made by Dashun because of Liu Yu's appearance was perfect.

However, North Korea did not make this perfect cut.

In other words, the foundation of the country and the "Shizhou" doctrine that must be implemented cannot be perfectly divided.

The simplest point is that astronomy was introduced to North Korea, which directly led to many people knowing that the earth is round, that the earth is not the center of the world, and that there is even a concept of a broader universe.

The disintegration of Zhu Xi's entire ethical system and the system of principles and principles caused by astronomy, as well as the thinking about the positioning of Korea itself, were each a disaster.

Li Xinghu's disciples almost quickly divided into two factions.

His eldest disciple An Dingfu, a key figure in the split of the Xinghu School into the left and right factions, has said in history: "The boys in our party who usually boast of their talents usually return to the new school." It is said that the way is right, but follow it. However, the party’s plan is in full swing...]

That is to say, the young school of Xinghu School completely opposed Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism and accepted new learning and practical learning.

An Dingfu warned Quan Zheshen that young people should not be too arrogant. If you do this, you will kill the entire school.

If the party struggle is so serious, when the time comes, political opponents will say that our entire Xinghu School is a heretic. We will be attacked by political opponents in the party struggle, and we may suffer disaster. I can't stand by like this.

Quan Zheshen and other young people think that if you are not energetic, are you still a young person? Are you like you, sluggish, making all kinds of compromises, making the east not like the east and the west not like the west?

The country is now on the verge of destruction. If we don't be more vigorous, we will be completely ruined.

This also led to the split of the Xinghu School in history. Because the party struggle was too fierce, if we did not want the entire school to be affected, we had to make a cut, kick out the young faction, and even help political opponents to clear up the party.

Party and political opponents of the Practical School even directly warned An Dingfu: Quan Zhe is a smart man, but seventy-eight out of ten such smart people in the country have been bewitched by heresies and have begun to engage in Practical Learning and abandon Zhu Xixue. This is What a sign that the White Lotus and Yellow Turban Rebellion is about to happen!

Who can bear this big hat? Smart people have become heretics. What are they doing?

At this time in history, along with the Literary Inquisition Incident of "Huang Ming Tong Ji" and the resulting "Style and Style Anyway" movement, the Xinghu School made an early decision.

Li Yi himself made a clear judgment after studying the books circulated in Dashun.

The essence of Dashun's ability to engage in practical learning is that at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, in view of the lessons of the previous dynasty, they used honorable nobles and good family members to balance the civil servants in the imperial examination, and developed a system of practical learning in the Wude Palace, including geometry, astronomy, etc. This is all based on foundation.

There is no real party struggle in Dashun, because they are just pawns of the emperor.

Practical learning is not done by Confucianism itself, so there is no issue of factionalism among schools.

The essence of this issue in Dashun was the struggle between imperial power and scholar-bureaucrats and civil servants.

This is not a partisan fight.

But North Korea is different. North Korea cannot create a military group that relies on imperial power like Dashun, so it can only appear in the form of party struggle.

So, can North Korea fully learn from Dashun?

Nonsense, of course not.

Dashun is surrounded by potential enemies, including Rakshasa, Junggar, Myanmar, Snow Mountain, the Western Regions, Japan, and Nanyang. Naturally, it can maintain a meaningful officer corps as the basis of imperial power.

However, what does North Korea want to do by creating a professional military honors group? Are you preparing to cross the Yalu River, or are you preparing to regain Pusan ​​Port?

Self-defense? After Qianqiu usurped the throne and became a vassal, what threats were there in the surrounding areas? Western warships can't even pass Malacca. You are engaging in military nobles, aren't you preparing to "make the emperor come out of the shock"?

If you really engage in this kind of military nobles' checks and balances and strengthen the royal power, the suzerain country will immediately support the literati and replace someone to become the king of Joseon.

Then, Joseon, which is a completely civil service system, has fallen into a vicious circle.

If you don't engage in practical learning, Joseon will definitely be finished, and a comprehensive peasant uprising is only a matter of time.

If you engage in practical learning, there will inevitably be party struggles.

In party struggles, radicals will inevitably be destroyed.

Therefore, the Xinghu School must purge the party itself and throw out all the radicals in the school.

However, both Lee Ik and An Dingfu understand that the radicals are the last hope.

Therefore, Lee Ik proposed that the radical disciples go to Dashun to see where to find the answer to Confucianism.

Go and see how the real Dashun solved all these problems; go and learn those real practical studies; use the ready-made Confucian reformist studies in Dashun to find their own way to save the country.

The moderates and the mud-smoothing factions in the school stick to their homeland, fight party struggles with party struggles, do not let the old party kill them all, and maintain their power in the court.

And the radical young and vigorous faction went out and left this place of right and wrong, because the next party struggle is coming, which is almost a consensus in the court.

And because of the literary inquisition incident in "Huangming Tongji", the Joseon Dynasty was extremely vigilant about going out to see this matter, and it was impossible to take the normal route.

Therefore, the young and vigorous faction of the Xinghu School, such as Quan Zheshen, could only cross the border by smuggling - generally speaking, if the clerks of the Dashun trading house in Incheon, Busan and other places died of illness, they would replace their identities and take a cargo ship to Dashun.

There is a special industrial chain for this.

Some Dashun snakeheads who were engaged in this business directly paid for their lives, deliberately killed some people, and sold their identities for money. They were also dead souls with Dashun characteristics.

Those who could afford to spend money to benefit Dashun had to be scholars and officials at least, and they could afford the money. Where there was trade, there was killing. There were also people at the bottom who ran away, but they were all slaves, went to plantations, or spontaneously crossed the river to grow rice and soybeans in the northeast.

As for why they thought about change so smoothly, it was because Dashun was the cultural motherland.

As a vassal, the spontaneous changes of the cultural motherland were naturally unimpeded, and some knowledgeable people would choose to learn. This was different from the Western invasion, at least for the Kingdom of Korea.

Quan Zheshen took the black ship like this, and then something happened. He came to this passenger ship with the identity of Zhao who replaced him.

His first goal was not to see the Songjiang Prefecture that had been changed.

But to go to Huainan.

Because the Dashun School of Practical Learning, the remnants of the Taizhou School, and the southern disciples of the Yanli School, etc., jointly bought a large piece of land in Huainan during the salt administration reform.

I hope to rely on village covenants, schools, morality, ethics, education in separate rooms, enlightenment, and love to try a retro three-generation path that is completely different from Liu Yu's reform.

For Li Yi, that is his own people and the most worthwhile place to visit.