Chapter 684 Destruction and Change
"Confucius said rituals, and Mencius said benevolence."
"What is etiquette?"
"Respecting heaven and law of earth is called etiquette! It is called way!"
"What is benevolence?"
"Heaven, earth and man are called benevolence!"
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Cai Yan took a deep breath, calmed down his mood, and said, "The Eight Virtues of Literature. As a literati who inherited the saint's way, he has placed himself above the world from the beginning, and has regarded his interests more than the country from the beginning. Why do you make the children in the school and make hundreds of millions of people regard national interests as superior to everything?"
"You only have a sense of belonging to yourself and a sense of money and interests. It is precisely because you don't have a sense of belonging to the country that you are unwilling to fight to the death, nor will you '******, ******'."
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Looking at Fang Jinzhi, Lu Tao and the children were sitting next to him silently, Cai Yan smiled bitterly again.
"The Song Dynasty was not a dynasty that came out of the broken world, but was obtained by Zhou Shizong's young death and usurping the throne with a yellow robe. A dynasty that came out of the broken world did not deeply think about the gains and losses of the previous dynasty, nor did it have the courage to change the shortcomings and disadvantages of the previous dynasty!"
"At the end of the Tang Dynasty, countless governors, countless princes, and in the era of war, there are many types of taxes, and the weight is unimaginable. Zhou Shizong died young even before his great cause, and did not truly unify the world. He was just afraid of the Northern Han, Sichuan, and Southern Tang. Just like his husband forced Zhao Gou into Chang'an, he only needed a slight push and the Song State would be destroyed."
"When Zhou Shizong was about to unify the world, ending the turmoil in the world... Unfortunately, the world did not meet people's wishes, and the world was jealous of talents... Zhou Shizong died young even though his great cause was not achieved, and Zhao Kuangyin usurped the throne in his yellow robe."
Cai Yan sighed, "Maybe Zhao Kuangyin is really a kind king, but my husband doesn't mind thinking about people's hearts at the worst, especially when the world is turbulent and people's hearts are unstable."
"In the eyes of my husband, it's not that Zhao Kuangyin doesn't want to kill the old and young Chai family, but that he doesn't dare! Once he kills the old and young Chai family, his Zhao family will inevitably be chopped up by the generals below! This is the case in a turbulent world. No matter how good you say it, once you kill someone, the people below will be confused. Just as Zhao Gou killed Qu Duan of Jingyuan Army, no matter whether Wu Jie is a member of the Western Army or not, he will still be chopped up by countless Western Army!"
Cai Yan looked at Yu Liyan and smiled bitterly: "My husband is not stupid or stupid. I know what my father-in-law is thinking. Don't look at his father-in-law's wife and children, don't look at us now, but if my husband is guilty and chopped off his father-in-law's head, do you believe it or not, the good situation will collapse in an instant! The world will be divided in an instant!"
Yelu Yanxi was shocked, but when he heard the words behind him, he couldn't help but nod.
"You kid are pretty smart! You know you can't cut off my head!"
"father!"
Yu Liyan was annoyed in anger and was about to speak up, Yelu Yanxi glared at him and said dissatisfiedly: "Do you really think this little bastard is a good old man? Kill me for Wujue... You don't even see how that damn Zhao Gou died!"
Another hand pointed at Cai Yan with a bitter face.
"This little bastard promises to be the king and the country, and kill me... Do you think his subordinates are as stupid as you, do you think they don't want to be the lord of a country? Do you mean you are a fool, don't you want to have your own children as the lord of a country?"
"Kill me without guilt..."
"Unless he wants to die!"
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Everyone was frightened, and Cai Yan smiled bitterly, but he also knew that Yelu Yanxi was right. Looking at the silent people, he sighed: "As my father-in-law said, if you want to stabilize the situation in a turbulent and chaotic world, you cannot easily kill people without guilt."
"Zhao Kuangyin put on a yellow robe and took advantage of Zhou Shizong's accidental death to seize power and usurp the throne. Although it seemed to end the troubled times, in fact, the Northern Han, Sichuan, and Southern Tang were all beaten by Zhou Shizong. The Western Xia, Liao, and Song dynasties were not defeated so far."
"If a strong man who has come out of a chaotic world, he will not have the confidence to eradicate some disadvantages and can only continue some bad habits in turbulent times, such as heavy taxes that do not pay taxes except farts, such as forced arresting the squadron who stamps a large seal, such as 1% of people occupying 99% of the land, such as countless people who have no sense of belonging..."
Cai Hua mentioned his youngest son who could not live in his arms, put it on his legs and thrust his butt twice, then he placed the more honest Xiao Liuzi on his thigh and sat down.
"Sima Yi, Sima Zhao and his son usurped the throne, Cao Wei, and did not have the ability to change the nine-rank Zhongzheng system, the fiefdom system, the influence of famous families, and finally the world was in chaos due to the Eight Kings Rebellion."
"Zhao Kuangyin is wearing a yellow robe, and he is also unable to change some bad habits and disadvantages in times of troubled times."
"It is not the world that was killed by one sword and one shot by one. How could there be the ambition of 'Zhou Gong vomiting and the world return to his heart'? How could there be the ambition of 'the old horse in the stable, and the ambition of a thousand miles'. What those who conspire to usurp the throne are just to preserve the things stolen. The Song State cannot get closer and cannot regain the territory of thousands of miles during the Han and Tang dynasties.'
Cai Yan patted the head of the eldest son who was sitting beside him and smiled and said, "Li'er, you must remember, what you stole will always be stolen, and what you stolen can never be yours!"
"Well, Li'er remembers it!"
Zhu Wanli nodded and agreed. Cai Huang patted the eldest son's little head as if encouraging again, and looked at everyone with a serious look on his face.
"After saying so much, I just want to tell you one thing. In a sense, the Ming Empire is no different from the Song Kingdom, and it was also stolen from the yellow robe!"
"Since Daming Island landed on Jiangnan, our elite troops fought against Song and Jin countries for several battles, but you can calculate it. In addition to Yue Fei's strong attack on Xiangyang and our army was forced to resist and kill some people, how many more did our army kill?"
"No!"
"Our army did not kill a few people! It did not destroy everything that was originally in Song State."
Cai Yan said: "Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, famous families have continued to the end of the Tang Dynasty. Although there were turbulent times in the world during the East and West Jin Dynasty, and although there were no one Han people in the north, the land in Jiangnan could enjoy peace alone, and it was not as good as the entire world in the late Tang Dynasty and Five Dynasties."
"The chaotic times in the late Tang Dynasty destroyed everything and destroyed the wealthy families that had lasted for thousands of years. This allowed poor scholars to enter the house, and only those who were poor scholars could live in the temple and rule the world."
"However, our Ming Empire did not destroy everything that Song State had originally, but this does not mean that our Ming Empire inherited the bad habits of the previous dynasty like the Song State that usurped the throne. The disadvantages do not mean that our Ming Empire does not have the confidence to change everything."
"The mercenary-like imperial guards who had nothing, the Xiang army changed the system of military field garrisons, Shaanxi and Gansu, the entire north of the Yellow River belonged to me, and distributed equally to everyone, and others were not allowed to invade the land of the people. They used the children of martial arts schools to serve as local officials, and used the eight virtues of "benevolence, righteousness, loyalty, trustworthiness, wisdom, courage, strictness, and wisdom" to replace the eight virtues of literati, filial piety, brotherhood, loyalty, trustworthiness, courtesy, righteousness, integrity, shame" to turn the Song people who had no sense of belonging into the people who went to the country to join the country and the loyal and brave people, and picked up the lost "those who offend me will be punished even if they are far away"..."
Cai Yan looked at Yelu Yanxi and said solemnly: "A cowardly and incompetent person cannot suddenly lose his domineering attitude. His father-in-law is the master of Liao. He should know how to avenge eagles and train dogs."
Looking at Yelu Yanxi with a sharp change in expression, Cai Huang smiled again.
"Now I killed Liao Kingdom and Xixia, how can my son-in-law behave and train a dog?"
Chapter completed!