Zhao Xin really couldn't understand how Liu Yong could say such words with confidence. If he hadn't seen the clear eyes of the other party, he would have thought Liu Yong was insane.
"Mr. Zhao, other people would think that I, Liu, are crazy, but I mean everything I say from the bottom of my heart."
Liu Yong put on a sincere look, and continued in a tone that was half kind and half stern: "The Emperor is a wise and wise ruler. He is a rare hero in the ages. He has the world's most powerful resources and billions of people under his command. How many people do you have in Beihai Town?
People? Even if you count those border people who have been favored by the emperor for generations, are there half a million? Even if you take all the living people of the Japanese country as captives, it will only be tens of millions. The so-called earthworm shakes the tree refers to the current situation between the two sides
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Destroying a country is different from seizing land. Now Mr. Zhao, from Yaksa to Ninggu Pagoda, and from the east of the sea to Heilongjiang City, seems to have conquered a large area of land, but it is just a small part of the world. Back then, the imperial court wanted to pacify the land.
Jinchuan has been fighting for nearly thirty years, and hundreds of thousands of troops have been raised. How does Mr. Zhao compare with Shaluoben and Sonomu? Can you afford to fight?
Even if your big iron ship is invincible across the sea, can you sail onto land?! If the imperial court issues a sea ban, where will you find food and supplies?! Where will you earn money to raise troops?! Our emperor is as kind as heaven,
For the sake of the people along the coast, we couldn’t bear to cut off their livelihoods by banning the sea, so you let your big iron ships take advantage of loopholes everywhere. But do you really think the imperial court wouldn’t dare?!”
After Liu Yong finished speaking, he saw that Zhao Xin and Cao Peng beside him were both stunned, showing a look of dementia, and thought that my words had spoken to Zhao Thief's heart.
The background of his words was an edict sent by Qianlong last month, which said that if it didn't work, he could only adopt a strategy of appeasement. In fact, Qianlong's conditions were far more than that. His upper limit was to raise the flag to become a county king.
, hereditary substitution, choose one of the princes to marry, at the cost of Zhao Xin guarding Yaksa for the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and fight to the death with Rakshasa.
Qitai stared at Zhao Xin intently, only to see that the other person was frowning and squinting, with an expression that looked as weird as possible.
At this time, Cao Peng, who was sitting next to Zhao Xin, finally couldn't stand it any longer and said with a sneer: "Mr. Liu, do you still remember the clothes of the Han people? The great mountains and rivers are now full of fishy smells. You scholars, if you don't act like good people,
If you have to be dogs for the Manchu Tatars, you Mr. Liu and his son are really role models for Han scholars! Throughout the ages, there have been so many heroes and patriots in Shandong who sang tragic songs generously and resisted foreign invasions. How could you come up with something like you?!"
As soon as these words came out, several Eight Banners generals, including Na Qitai, became furious, and some even drew out their swords and shouted harshly. To them, Liu Yong was the imperial envoy of the imperial court and represented Qianlong; Cao Peng
To insult Liu Yong is to insult the emperor.
"How presumptuous! Who do you think you are, how dare you say such arrogant words?!"
"Master Liu, what can you, a bastard with no hair on his head, talk about?! His old man, Qing Jie, holds the bow and is famous all over the country! Everyone in the world admires his kindness, even Bao Gong can compare with him!"
"Now that the Holy Emperor is on the throne, Manchu and Han are one family, and there is no longer any distinction between Yi and Di in the world!"
The soldiers of the Northern Navy behind Zhao Xin had been prepared for a long time. At this time, they took out the pistols from their waists, pointed at the generals and shouted: "Put down the knife! What about you!"
"I won't let you go. If you can, beat me to death!"
"How dare you! Put away your knives!" Liu Yong shouted sharply, looking back at the generals. The light from his triangular eyes made everyone under his command shudder.
When he turned around, his face was calm. He looked at Cao Peng and said calmly: "Your surname is Cao, and your speech has a Hui accent. Could it be related to the Cao family in She County?"
"Tch!" Cao Peng's mouth was crooked, thinking that this old fox really guessed it right. Cao Peng's ancestors were the Cao family in Shexian County, Anhui Province. They were the ones who had previously made a fuss about resigning and were taken advantage of by Liu Yong.
Cao Wenqi, the Minister of Household Affairs.
Liu Yong turned his attention to Zhao Xin and said: "Mr. Zhao, I advise you not to make a fuss about the distinction between Manchu and Han. Nowadays, even a three-year-old child in Jiangnan knows that the Manchu and Han are all one family, so how can there be a distinction between Yi and Di?"
If you try to use this to win people over, I’m afraid you will be disappointed.”
Zhao Xin smiled and said: "Cao Peng, it is too difficult for Mr. Liu to say this. Mr. Liu's moral articles are famous all over the world, and the incorruptible character of the two generations of father and son is admired by everyone in the world. Zhu Zi has a saying, what is the Doctrine of the Mean?
What? Zixi Zixia was worried about the loss of Taoism and wrote it. Since ancient times, the holy gods succeeded heaven and established the pole, and the transmission of Taoism has come naturally. It is found in the classics, and it is allowed to hold on to those who have passed it. This is why Yao taught it
Shun Ye."
After saying this, among the Manchu and Qing officials present, except for Liu Yong and a few civil servants, their expressions suddenly changed. None of the other generals understood what Zhao Xin was talking about. Cao Peng, on the other hand, looked even more confused, thinking, "What the hell are you talking about?"
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"You!" Liu Yong's eyes narrowed, and a cold light suddenly shot out from his eyes and pointed at Zhao Xin, and the muscles on his face jumped a few times unconsciously. Zhao Xin's words were like a whip, hitting the bottom of his heart hard.
Zhao Xin now understands the so-called three flavors of swearing without using dirty words. The first person in history to clearly put forward the concept of "Tao Tong" was Zhu Xi, and what Zhao Xin just said was his explanation of Tao Tong in "Preface to the Doctrine of the Mean".
Since ancient times, Chinese scholars have always upheld the spirit of who would give up the world! Mencius said, "In five hundred years, a king will rise, and during this period there will be a famous person... If you want to rule the world peacefully, in today's world, give up
Who else am I?"
Zhao Xin's words are both praise and criticism, meaning that although you, Liu Yong, are a so-called great Confucian, and your father and son are known to be incorruptible, you have lost even the most important orthodoxy of a scholar. What kind of integrity do you have? Scholars have lost their right to speak.
What is it if it's not a dog's leg?
It is said that the reason why Zhao Xin appears to be so "learned" actually stems from an in-depth conversation between him and Wang Zhong.
In Wang Zhong's view, since the Northern Song Dynasty, with the formation of the "Taoist View", scholars all over the world have been practicing the political ideal of "taking responsibility for oneself with Taoism", relying on the power of Taoist discourse to check and balance each other with the imperial power representing the rule.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Whether it is Zhu Xi or later Gu Yanwu, Wang Fuzhi, and Huang Zongxi, they all believe that Taoism has the superiority of existing independently of governance, and Confucian scholar-officials must consciously preserve "Taoism"
"sense of mission. In the minds of Confucians, it is a consensus that reason respects power. Since the Song and Ming Dynasties, Confucian scholars have all hoped to rectify the order of the world according to the ideal of "Taoism" and achieve the goal of incorporating "political unity" into "Taoism". This is
This is the so-called "To Jun Yao and Shun".
Wang Zhong asked Zhao Xin at that time, do you think it was the Literary Prison that scared scholars to death, so that they were willing to be slaves to the Manchus?
Zhao Xin's answer is of course yes; not only him, but almost everyone in Chuangzhong thinks so.
But what Wang Zhong said next completely refreshed Zhao Xin's understanding. He said that literary prisons have existed since ancient times and have been common in all dynasties. However, it was the most cruel and violent in this dynasty, and it has been distorted to the extreme since Qianlong succeeded to the throne.
In the Song Dynasty, which many Chinese people are proud of, there were countless literary inquisitions. The Prison of Zuo Di, the Wutai Poetry Case, the Tongwen Guan Prison, the Chegaiting Poetry Case, Hu Quan's Memorial Case, Li Guang's "Small History" Case, "
The "Jianghu Collection" case, etc., there are about dozens of cases before and after. Not to mention the Ming Dynasty.
Yes, the scholar-bureaucrats cannot be punished, and the emperor does not confiscate his family and exterminate his family, but he is exiled! He would rather be a dead ghost in the Central Plains than a wandering ghost in the border areas. The ancients did not fall sick when they arrived in the smog-stricken south, and few could survive the amnesty.
Return home.
However, during the Song and Ming dynasties, even though the scholar-bureaucrats were repeatedly persecuted due to literary inquisition, they still adhered to their orthodoxy and tried every means to decentralize power with the emperor. Why could they not do so in the Qing Dynasty?
Wang Zhong told Zhao Xin that the real reason was not the literary prison, but the "unity of governance and Taoism"!
With the establishment of the emperor's image of "governing and Taoism as one" during the Kangxi era, the lofty political ideal of "ruling the world with the emperor" based on Taoism that Confucian scholars relied on was finally shattered. The Taoist right and discourse power of scholars to criticize politics were lost.
Only then will he be manipulated by the Literary Prison to the point of death.
Those Confucian officials in the court who were worried that "the Tao was not working" played an important role in this. They tried to incorporate the foreign imperial power into the Taoism through "Jingfan Lectures", which accelerated the Confucianization of the Manchu aristocrats, especially the emperors of the early Qing Dynasty.
process, and finally completed the historic transformation of "the conqueror was conquered".
This is why the rules in many Banner families are stricter and more cumbersome than those of the Han people. Don’t you think we are barbarians? I follow more rules and etiquette than you Han people! In fact, it is the sinicization of the Manchu dignitaries that has accelerated
The pace of "unity of governance and morality".
In fact, during the Shunzhi period, the emperor's participation in Sutra banquets was not high. However, starting from Kangxi, as the frequency of Sutra banquets gradually increased, the studious Kangxi also gained a certain degree of confidence in his mastery of Confucian culture, and the nature of Sutra banquets gradually changed.
There has been a change - from Confucian officials teaching Han culture to emperors, it has been transformed into a means for emperors to express their own opinions and instruct Han courtiers, and the role of scholars as "imperial teachers" has gradually been lost.
Kangxi, who was as knowledgeable as a Confucian scholar, reconstructed the Huayi debate with "great unification" on one hand, and eliminated racial distinctions with cultural identity on the other. It was only in the Yongzheng period that "Dayi Jue Mi Lu" was perfected, and Qianlong built on this foundation
Coupled with the political and cultural pressure of the Literary Prison, it finally monopolized the right to interpret the "Orthodox".
This is not just the right to interpret culture, but the right to interpret "truth"!
In the feudal society of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, orthodoxy was the unbreakable truth.
The theory that traditional monarchy is restricted by Taoism has lost its basis for existence. The consciousness of imperial power has developed to the extreme. The emperor controls the common people as the "teacher of the world". Any thought and speech that poses a threat to the rule of the Qing court or is not in line with the rule of the emperor will be punished.
Crack down hard.
As a result, scholars consciously gave up their own right to criticize. Political ideals were gone, and spiritual freedom was gone, so scholars could only express their personal thoughts in a "private" way, which was also the Qing Dynasty.
Why did “textual criticism” arise in modern times?
The scholars tried to find an expression of principles in textual research, thereby forming a new right to speak. They could express their personal "private will" thinking outside of the "public will" through textual research. Through their understanding of Confucian classics,
Textual criticism is used to indirectly criticize real politics, and a relatively obscure way of expressing the right to speak is adopted in textual research. On the one hand, it can get rid of the control of cultural autocracy, and on the other hand, it is still related to real politics, playing the role of assisting, observing, and correcting real politics.
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So the mountains and rivers of the motherland, the clothes of the Han people, and so on are just superficial. Cao Peng used this to argue with Liu Yong, but it didn't get to the point at all.
In fact, so far, although the Beihai Navy has defeated the Qing army, defeated the Rakshasa, and ravaged the shogunate, many scholars, including Qianlong and Liu Yong, look down on Beihai Town, so no one has come to seek refuge.
In their eyes, Beihai Town is just a group of uneducated thieves!
At least the Manchus and Qing Dynasties had "unity of governance and Taoism", but Beihai Town didn't even have "Taoism". If they didn't talk about Taoism, they would simply be the enemy of the scholar class, and they were even more barbarians than the Manchus!
If Zhao Xin hadn't pulled the tiger skin of the descendant of the last King Zhao, no one in the Li Dynasty would even bother him.
Seeing that the fire was almost done, Zhao Xin decided to add more firewood. He stared at Liu Yong's eyebrows and said, "Master Liu, my wife asked me to say hello to you."
"What do you mean by this?"
"This time you are here to negotiate with Beihai Town on behalf of Qianlong. As far as I'm concerned, the two countries will not stop fighting until the two countries are at war, so I will be polite to you. Otherwise..."
"Mr. Zhao, if you have something to say, just say it. Why do you have to be so pretentious? Do you still want to arrest me and make me a prisoner?"
Zhao Xin took a deep breath and exhaled slowly, trying his best to make his tone less impulsive. "More than 200 men, women and children from Xu Chen's family in Dongtai have asked me to say hello to you. Your 'kindness' to them has been appreciated by my wife for more than ten years."
I won’t forget it for a day!”
In the flash of lightning, the well-read Liu Yong suddenly remembered the big scandal he had handled in Jiangsu's academic affairs eleven years ago. He suddenly stood up with a "swish" and pointed at Zhao Xin, with a look on his face.
An expression of disbelief.
"Yizhulou in Dongtai?! Isn't your wife the daughter of Shen Jingdan? What does she have to do with the Xu family in Dongtai..." Liu Yong suddenly reacted. He was half sure and half asked and said sharply: "No! She
Are they descendants of Shen Chengzhuo?!"
Zhao Xin smiled faintly, extended his thumb and said: "Mr. Liu, you have such a good memory! As an aside, everyone in the world says that you have had one wife and three concubines in your life, enjoying the blessings of everyone. But why are you in your sixtieth year?
, but still have no children?"
In another time and space, the modern historian Ma Zonghuo said in his "Shu Lin Chronicle": "Shi'an has three concubines, all of whom can ghostwrite, but they can be unreal and outsiders cannot tell." Needless to say about calligraphy, Liu Yong has three
The concubine was found out through research.
At this time, Liu Yong was still immersed in the memories of the old events in the 42nd year of Qianlong's reign, so he instinctively responded: "Huh?"
Cao Peng didn't wait for Zhao Xin to speak and answered directly: "Master Liu, the so-called evil man's immorality does not need to be used too much. One thing is so immoral that it is enough to wipe out his descendants!"
"Hmm~" Liu Yong felt a sweetness welling up in his throat, and there was already a trace of blood on the corner of his mouth.
Cao Peng shook off the biggest hidden problem in his heart. It was said that Liu Yong had no children after he was over sixty, which was Liu Yong's biggest regret in his life. He asked himself that he had lived a life worthy of others. Both generations of father and son were honest and honest, so why did he just choose to do so?
No son? My wife didn’t talk about it, and I married three concubines who could only crow but not lay eggs. Then I had no other choice, so I adopted my nephew Liu Xipeng. Unfortunately, he had no future, and he couldn’t even pass the Jinshi examination.
Cao Peng didn't think it was enough, so he added: "You vomit blood after being spoken to for a few words. Is this the virtue of a scholar? Hahaha! If I say a few more words about Qianlong's scandal, will you have to jump into the river?"
An Eight Banners general shouted angrily: "You guys named Cao! Don't be so arrogant! As soon as the heavenly soldiers from the imperial court arrive, you will all be turned into enemies!"
Cao Peng was also angry and shouted: "Bah! I really feel so good about myself! My men are short of hard labor, so you continue to fight!"
"That's outrageous!" A Manchu official sighed as he stamped his feet.
Zhao Xin laughed and stood up, turned to the confused Na Qitai and said: "I said before, you can take away more than a thousand prisoners from Ning Guta this time without ransom. They will be there in ten days
It will be delivered to you and you can take it away. There is nothing else to talk about!
Go back and tell Qianlong that the Northern Navy is not the White Lotus Sect or the Tiandihui that weighs gold and silver. In less than ten years, our red flag will be planted all over the mountains and rivers thousands of miles away!"
After that, he turned to Liu Yong, who was being supported by someone with his eyes closed, and said, "Master Liu, I won't be so polite next time we meet, so please do it yourself!"