The Head of the Ming Dynasty Spared His Life

Yan Song said lightly: "Everyone is a scholar. Have you read "Book of Rites"?"

Xu Jie said impatiently: "The Book of Rites is the words of the sages, one of the Four Books. Who doesn't memorize it backwards? Yan Song, what do you want to say?"

Yan Song said indifferently: "There is an article in "Book of Rites: Under the Bow of Sandalwood" that says "tyranny is fiercer than tiger". It records the story that Confucius and his disciple Zilu met a woman with a miserable life experience when they passed by Mount Tai. The local tiger is seriously affected, but it is Because of the harsh tyranny of the monarch in other places, she and her relatives preferred to live here all the time, so that many people, including her relatives, were killed by tigers, and she was left alone crying at the graves of her relatives. But when When the sage asked her why she didn't go down the mountain, the woman replied that the only way to survive on the mountain is the tiger, which may kill a few relatives, but if you go down the mountain, the tax and corvee will be too heavy, and the whole family will not survive!"

The prince's face suddenly changed, and he stood up and shouted: "Bold Yan Song, how dare you compare me in the prosperous Jiajing period to the troubled times of the warring states! What kind of tyrannical government is fiercer than a tiger? Are you attacking and slandering the Ming court?"

"Isn't it?" Yan Song had no fear, and sneered: "Prince, you are also a person who has read the books of sages. Ask yourself, why did the tens of thousands of people in Bansheng leave their hometown, Daming, and go to Mongolia, the country of the enemy? Survive in the territory of the country? The elders of this pavilion said that the people in Bansheng are the women in the story, the tiger is the Mongols, and the government at the foot of the mountain is the government in a certain place in my Ming Dynasty!"

He made a final decision: ". I, the people of the Ming Dynasty, none of them are fools! How could they go to Mongolia, the country of wolves and tigers, when they can survive in their own country? They were all forced to go to Mongolia to live on their last days."

"According to you," Xu Jie said angrily, "Then why did they attack Daming?"

"Because of being coerced by Han Han!" Yan Song said sternly: "When we interrogated Han Han, this traitor had already explained how to control these kind people with the White Lotus Sect in Bansheng, and force them to provide for the Mongolian invasion together with the law of Baojia. Financial and material resources, and even organizing a puppet army to assist the Mongols. These are not what the people of Bansheng (Modehao) are willing to do. Even Han Han killed thousands of people who did not want to join the army to attack Ming Dynasty!"

Xu Jie sneered: "According to what you said, instead of punishing the people who left Daming and attacked Daming, we should welcome them back respectfully?"

"Exactly!" Yan Song said sternly, "But it's not that they will not be held accountable. After welcoming them back, the Jin Yiwei will conduct screening and investigation. All spies who are willing to degenerate, willing to be Mongolian lackeys, and Han Han's loyal dogs, must be dealt with one by one. According to the law of Daming, the punishment is severe. Criminals who have committed crimes in Daming before and fled to Bansheng will also be screened out one by one, and they will be punished according to the Ming Dynasty. But generally, ordinary people who fled to Bansheng because they cannot pay taxes and their families are ruined The common people must accept them again and restore their status as common people of Ming Dynasty!"

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Chapter 754 The greatness of the country lies in...【2】

Yan Song said loudly: "This is the people of Ming Dynasty, the people of Ming Dynasty with dignity! No matter where they are in the world, they can get the asylum and protection of our Ming Dynasty! Whether a country is asylum and tolerant to its own citizens reflects the country's identity. Greatness!"

Yan Song finally threw down a sentence: "My people in Ming Dynasty, only I, Ming Dynasty, have the right to punish them! No one has the right to kill them! If our Ming Dynasty just sit back and watch these 20 people be killed, even if Ming Dynasty won the war, it will be the same in the hearts of the people. Undefeated and defeated!"

The prince and Xu Jie all looked sideways.

This is the first time they have heard that a country has such a responsibility to its own citizens.

The court officials were also whispering.

"The greatness of a country depends on whether it protects its own citizens? This is the first time I heard it!"

"I am a citizen of Ming Dynasty, only Daming has the right to deal with it? It sounds very reasonable."

"If Daming just sit back and watch the people being massacred, will he be undefeated and defeated?"

Yan Song sat down and remained silent.

In the long feudal 660 society, common people were called "grass people"!

They are all at the bottom of society, a group of people who are extremely despised and despised by the ruling class.

The so-called disregarding human life, human life is as cheap as a dog!

Do you value the value of people?It is the biggest difference between feudal society and modern society.

Whether to value people, to value human nature, is the core of the bourgeois enlightenment movement!

It is also where capitalism is more progressive than feudalism!

Yan Song is not a traitor who doesn't hate Bansheng, but for hundreds of thousands of ordinary people, he is much more enlightened than the high-ranking feudal defenders like the prince.

This time, the reason why Yan Song was so high-profile and asked Daming to carry out the rescue operation was to set a moral standard for the future Daming!

Whoever offends my strong man will be punished even if he is far away.This is only one aspect.

Another aspect is that my people of Ming Dynasty, even if they are far away in the sky, if there are invaders, they will be punished even if they are far away!

This is the pride of a big country, and also Yan Song's belief.

In Yan Song's philosophy, if the people of my Ming Dynasty commit (bfea) crimes, Ming Dynasty can kill them, but other countries don't even think about it!

Even the criminals have to be taken back to Daming, and the Ming Dynasty will punish them. If other countries dare to kill our Daming people, they must be killed!

This court meeting, due to the serious conflict of ideas between the crown prince and Yan Song, they broke up unhappy and had no results.

But the conflict between Yan Song and the crown prince in the court meeting spread quickly.

In the streets and alleys of Beijing, the imperial courts on the roadside began to circulate heated discussions.

In a tea house, a group of elders discussed while having morning tea.

"Have you heard? Something happened again!" A big fat man blew on the heat of the haggis soup and said loudly, "Old Man Yan Ge and the prince are fighting again!"

"Why this time? Is it for the official position, or for the money?" Everyone next to him was delighted to hear about Yan Song's plot against the prince, and asked one after another.

For these ordinary people like Shengdou, the confrontation between the big figures in the court is like a fight between gods and gods. They just need to take it as a joke from a book and listen to it to have fun.

"Neither!" The big fat man said vividly: "You all know that the Mongolian massacre is on the rise!"

"Where is Bansheng?" The common people who eat melons express that they don't know each other.

"Bansheng doesn't even know?" The big fat man was very proud, and cursed: "You bunch of turkeys! The first one, who helped the Mongols invade Daming and even sent [-] troops, is Bansheng!"

"Ah? Isn't that a bunch of dog traitors?"

"Slaughtered by Mongolia, deserve it!"

"These people deserve to be unlucky! They have forgotten their ancestors!"

"Oh, you can't say that all the time." The big fat man said with emotion: "These people are mostly the people of Daming who couldn't survive in the northern Shanxi and Shaanxi areas. Where did they go to escape the exorbitant taxes. For the enemy."

"Why did Yan Ge get into a fight with the prince?" You asked impatiently.

"Because of the urgent report from the border, Bansheng was massacred by the Mongolian tribe, and tens of 10 people died or were taken away. Another 20 people escaped and went straight to the border of Ming Dynasty." The fat man said vividly.

"what?"