Chapter 701 Confucian Marx
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"The saint said, he knew all your hardships. If you have no food to eat, the saint will give you food to eat; if you have no clothes to wear, the saint will give you clothes to wear; if you have no house to shelter from the wind and rain, the saint will also help you live in the house. As long as you help the saints build canals and build Nanjing. The saints will not let you live a worse life than being a tenant in Jiangnan..."
As the Iron Man soldiers announced Chen Dexing's will over and over again in the most easy-to-understand vernacular, the south bank of Qiantang River suddenly heard the earth-shaking cheers. These poor and lower-middle peasants have now forgotten who led them to fight and let them find a way out, and there is no need to venture in the bitter and cold land.
"Long live, long live, long live!"
The joy was like thunder and it reached the official boat that Chen Dexing was riding on the bank of Qiantang River. Inside the cabin, there was an indescribable strange atmosphere. Chen Dexing, a saint of the Ming Dynasty, was sitting upright on a dragon chaise, listening to the cheers of poor and lower-middle peasants outside, and looking at the scholar Fang Kesi, who was leading the song "The Song of Datong" with a gloomy eyes.
"You really call me Fang Kesi?" Chen Dexing asked with a skeptical look. Fang Kesi, Marx! It seems that there is only one word difference. And this guy is using "Datong Thought" to explain things, which is directly from the way of Confucius and Mencius! Is this a coincidence, or... what's the inside story?
This person with the surname Fang would not have traveled through time? Could it be that a GC-speaking warrior would have traveled over to create his own reactionary emperor's rebellion?
Fang Kesi was stunned. What was his name not Fang Kesi? This name is the genealogy name. He is from the Ke generation, and his son (if any) is from the Xiao generation. What's wrong with his name Kesi?
"The saint, he is indeed Fang Kesi, and Ksi is the genealogy name. He is in the fourth generation of the Ke generation in Yimen Fang in Taizhou, so he is called Fang Si Xiucai." Yang Po'er whispered beside Chen Dexing, "Fang Kesi's name is Enke. There is also a name called Xianyou. In addition, although Fang Kesi is over 40 years old, he has never married and has no children. His parents have long been no longer alive, with only one younger brother and one younger sister. They are all missing now."
Yang Po'er talked about the investigation results of the Spyker Bureau. The background of more than 100 scholars, including Fang Kesi, participated in inciting tenants to cause trouble. The Spyker Bureau has already investigated it clearly, and this is all Bai Zhanji's credit.
Hearing Yang Po'er's words, Fang Kesi's face turned slightly pale. It was obvious that being a saint had to pay a price! Either he was as awesome as Chen Dexing and knocked down others, or he had to learn from Jia Sidao and kill himself...
"Oh, it's a coincidence." Chen Dexing breathed, it would be better if he was a time traveler. However, even a time traveler was nothing. Fang Kesi was about to die!
"Fang Kesi, I heard someone singing "The Song of Datong" on the boat. Are you the one who took the lead in singing?"
"That's right!" Fang Kesi said with sincerity, trying to suppress the fear in his heart.
His face was still a little pale, and his calves were trembling. Seven or eight steps away from him, the saint of the Ming Dynasty, the lord of the world. With just one sentence, he could be cut into pieces immediately, and maybe he could be killed by the nine clans of the Fang family!
"Why do you need to sing "The Song of Datong?" Chen Dexing continued to ask. In fact, he really wanted to ask this: The Ming Dynasty has not yet officially entered the hell of capitalism, so why are there people going to make trouble for Confucianism?
"The world is the wish of our scholars!" Fang Kesi said as if it was true.
"Is that true?" Chen Dexing sneered, "You Taizhou Yimen is willing to be with the tenant below?"
"I don't want to!" Fang Kesi replied with some loss, "But now there is no more Yimen. Our Confucian scholars... have no way to study and progress."
Without the way to study and progress, and without the Yimen, we can make a revolution in Datong!
This answer is the truth! In the history that Chen Dexing knows, there are many people of lofty ideals or reactionaries who embarked on the path of revolution or counter-revolution after the abolition of the imperial examination system.
From a certain perspective, the imperial examination is indeed a means to make the world stable. With the imperial examination, most of the wise elites in the world will not use other ideas. They will devote themselves to studying Confucian classics and encountering the imperial examination fortune that is not even one thousandth.
Without the fairest shortcut to ascending the imperial examination, it is the Eight Immortals crossing the sea and each show their magical powers.
Some people go to the army to make meritorious service, some go to business and make money, some go to study science, some go to Tiandaoism, some go to be a small civil servant to earn qualifications, and some people choose to go to politics.
The political routes naturally have upper and lower levels. Just like in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period in history, there were Confucian Legalists who lobbyed the princes to seek officials (in fact, these two families are the same thing), and there were also Moists who took the lower route to engage in terrifying assassination.
In fact, in the era when Confucianism was the only one, there were also upper and lower classes. The Ming sect power represented by Mo Yingniang was the lower-class revolutionaries of the Song Dynasty. Now that they came to power and became nobles, they naturally did not represent the hard-working masses. They became sects that served military aristocrats and commercial elites. Confucianism, which originally represented the interests of the landlord class, changed to the lower-level route after being knocked down from the altar and sang the "Song of Datong".
After the imperial examinations were abolished in the late Qing Dynasty, did not all the scholars and officials join the revolutionary party and fight against the Qing Dynasty? Now that Chen Ming has abolished the imperial examinations, he must be prepared to accept the consequences of some scholars and officials turning to the revolution.
After figuring this out, Chen Dexing sighed softly and looked at Fang Kesi, "It seems that I have miscalculated!"
This time, the snake was drawn out of the hole, which led to a Confucian Marx! The ghost of Datongism has already wandered on the edge of the East Asian continent. Even if more than 100 scholars who led the trouble, the Confucian Datong thought will probably continue to spread.
Because in the future, the Ming Empire will definitely have the soil for the breeding of Datongism!
Fang Kesi already knew that he would die, so he took a deep breath and said, "The saint can kill Fang and resume the imperial examination at the same time. As long as the scholars in the world have a way to be promoted, the saying of Datong is nothing more than a fantasy."
Chen Dexing shook his head, "The talented and intelligent people in the world have a way to be promoted! Although the imperial examinations are fair, they are still wise. For example, Fang Kesi, you clearly have the talent of a king and a martyr's courage, but you have misunderstood for more than 30 years! If I hadn't abolished the imperial examinations, who would have known Fang Kesi in the future? Who would have known the Datong Party?"
Chen Dexing's prophecy is not wrong! Everyone will know about the Datong Party and Fang Kesi... In this time and space changed by Chen Dexing, there is no gcism, nothing, and what is replaced is Datongism, and the Datong Party.
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"The great way is the way, and the world is the public. Choose wise and capable, and be faithful and harmonious. Therefore, friends do not only have relatives, but also have children, so that the elderly can have a place to live, and have a place to use them, and have few people. The widows, widows, widows, orphans, orphans, and sick people can all be raised..."
The song sounded on the east of Lin'an City and above the execution ground on the Qiantang River. It was naturally a tragic song, a generous tragic song, and a calm death!
It is now mid-April of the second year of Tiandao, and spring is already blooming on the banks of Qianjiang River. The movement of grievances a few months ago seemed to have a happy ending. The poor households who were withdrawn from the tenant had a new job that was enough to make a living and became workers of the public transportation business. Although the public transportation has not started yet, the workers can receive a salary of two jin (equivalent to one stone of white rice) per month, and also obtained a vacant land in the north of Jiangdu City to build shantytowns and settle their homes.
None of the military landlords who forced their lives were arrested. Most of them were preparing to go to Liaobei, Hetao, Nanfan, and Tianzhu. Of course, some "lucky people" were not ordered to stay in Jiangnan without being ordered.
Chen Dexing also got his wish and led the snake out of the hole... not only led to the remnants of the Jiangnan Yimen who conspired to subvert the Ming Dynasty, but also led to the Datong Party, Datongism and Fang Kesi, who was regarded as the founding leader by the Datong Party members in later generations.
And Fang Kesi... seemed to be seeking kindness and gaining kindness! Less than ten days after the "Aggression Movement" ended, the spies from the Spy Bureau found homemade bombs, privately printed flyers in his temporary residence, and a program of rebellion between the Datong Party. Of course, they were framed by Liu Yang, the leader of the Spy Bureau!
Then there was a major arrest throughout Liangzhe and Liangjiang. One hundred and forty-two Datong members were arrested and accused of conspiring to launch a rebellion! Some of these people soon confessed and turned into witnesses, accusing Fang Kesi together. As a result, all 108 people led by Fang Kesi were sentenced to death!
Today, April 12, the second year of Tiandao, is the day when the 108th National Congress members died generously.
The execution ground is located in the east of Lin'an City, and the execution will be carried out publicly. The execution method is to behead!
“Good!”
"Eighteen years later, I'm a hero again!"
"I have a big scar on my head..."
"Butterbread, human blood steamed bun, for treating tuberculosis, it costs 100 cents per person!"
Well, the execution ground was still very lively! There were tens of thousands of onlookers... Beheaded! The Ming Dynasty court seemed to not like killing people, and caught robbers, or exile. So few people could buy blood steamed buns. Today, 108 heroes were killed at one time. The idle men in Lin'an City were very lively. Some people at home were suffering from tuberculosis, but they refused to miss the opportunity. They all brought copper coins to buy blood steamed buns.
Fang Kesi was tied up and led to the execution ground. He was pressed to kneel on the ground with another 107 other martyrs, and behind him was an executioner holding a ghost-headed sword.
Chapter completed!