Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 386
Zhao Xin really didn't understand how Liu Yong would say such a thing with confidence. If he hadn't seen the clear eyes of the other party, he would have thought that Liu Yong was insane.

"Mr. Zhao, other people would think I, Mr. Liu, is crazy, but what I say is from the bottom of my heart."

Liu Yong put on a sincere look, and continued in a half-kind and half-severe tone: "The emperor is a hero, and he is a rare hero in the ages. He has a lot of money in the world, and he has billions of people under his command. How many people do you have in Beihai Town?" People? Even if you count those frontier people who have been favored by the emperor for generations, is there 50? Even if you capture all the living people of the Wa Kingdom, it is only ten million. The so-called gnats shaking the tree is talking about the current situation between the two sides.

Destroying a country is not the same as seizing land. Right now, Mr. Zhao, you seem to have laid down a large piece of land from Yakesa to Ningguta, from the east of the sea to Heilongjiang City, but that is only a small part of the world.At that time, the imperial court fought back and forth for almost 30 years in order to pacify Jinchuan, big and small, and raised hundreds of thousands of troops.May I ask how Mr. Zhao compares himself to Sha Luoben and Suo Nuomu?Can you fight?

Even if your big iron ship is invincible across the sea, can you drive it on land?If the imperial court issues a ban on the sea, where can you find food and supplies?Where can I earn money to raise soldiers?My emperor is as merciful as heaven, and for the sake of the people along the coast, I can't help cutting off their livelihoods, which is why your big iron boats are taking advantage of loopholes everywhere.But do you really think the court dare not? "

After Liu Yong finished speaking, he saw that Zhao Xin and Cao Peng beside him were stunned, showing a demented look, thinking that my words had reached Thief Zhao's heart.

The background of his words was an edict sent by Qianlong last month, which said that if it was impossible, 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 and raise the county king, hereditary succession, and choose a daughter from the prince to marry. It's up to you.

Na Qitai stared at Zhao Xin intently, only to see that the other party was frowning and squinting, with as weird an expression as possible.

At this time, Cao Peng, who was sitting next to Zhao Xin, couldn't hold back anymore, and said with a sneer, "Master Liu, do you still remember the clothes of the Han people? The great mountains and rivers are everywhere now. You scholars don't want to be good people. If you insist on being a dog for the Manchu Tartars, you Master Liu and his son are really role models for scholars of the Han nationality! Throughout the ages, there have been so many heroes and nobles in Shandong who have generously sung songs and resisted foreign invasions, how could you be such a thing?!"

As soon as this remark came out, several Eight Banners generals including Na Qitai were furious, and some even drew their knives and yelled harshly.For them, Liu Yong is the imperial envoy of the imperial court, representing Qianlong; Cao Peng's insulting Liu Yong is insulting the emperor.

"Presumptuous! What are you, how dare you speak wild words?!"

"Master Liu is also something you can talk about, a bastard who has no hair yet?! He is an old man, and he is famous all over the world! Everyone in the world admires his kindness, even Bao Gong compares him!"

"Now that the Holy Son of Heaven is in power, there is no difference between barbarians and diners in the world!"

The Beihai soldiers behind Zhao Xin had been prepared for a long time. At this time, they all took out their pistols, pointed at the generals and shouted: "Put down the knife! It's you!"

"I won't let you go, if you have the ability, beat me to death!"

"Presumptuous! Put away all the knives!" Liu Yong shouted sharply, looking back at the generals.The light from his triangular eyes made everyone in his subordinates shudder.

When he turned around, he looked at Cao Peng calmly and said calmly, "Your Excellency's surname is Cao, and he speaks with Hui accent. Could it be related to the Cao family in She County?"

"Cut!" The corners of Cao Peng's mouth twitched, thinking that this old fox really guessed right.Cao Peng's ancestor was the Cao family in Shexian County, Anhui Province, that is, Cao Wenyu, the Minister of the Household Department who was used by Liu Yong after resigning from office.

Liu Yong turned his gaze to Zhao Xin, and said, "Mr. Zhao, I advise you not to make fuss about the distinction between Manchu and Han. Now even a three-year-old in Jiangnan knows that Manchu and Han are all one family in the world. How can there be a distinction between Yi and Di? If you want to use this to win people's hearts, I'm afraid you will be disappointed."

Zhao Xin smiled and said: "Cao Peng, it is too hard for Mr. Liu to say that. Mr. Liu's moral articles are famous all over the world, and the integrity and integrity of the father and son are admired by everyone in the world. Zhu Zi has a saying, what is the mean? Yan? Zi Si Zi Xia worried about the loss of Taoism and wrote it. Since ancient times, the holy gods have succeeded to the sky, and the tradition of Taoism has its own origin. It is seen in the scriptures, and it is allowed to be held in Juezhong. The reason why Yao taught it Shun also."

After saying this, the faces of the Manchu and Qing officials present, except Liu Yong and a few civil officials, suddenly changed, and the other generals did not understand what Zhao Xin was talking about.And Cao Peng was even more confused, thinking what the hell are you talking about?

"You!" Liu Yong's gaze was fixed, and a cold light shot out of his eyes and pointed at Zhao Xin, and the muscles on his face jumped a few times unconsciously.Zhao Xin's words hit him like a whip.

The so-called swearing without dirty words, Zhao Xin now has three flavors.Zhu Xi was the first to clearly put forward the concept of "Orthodoxy" in history, and what Zhao Xin said just now was his exposition on orthodoxy in "The Doctrine of the Mean".

Since ancient times, Chinese scholars have been adhering to the character of who can give me the best!Mencius said, "In 500 years, there must be a king, and there must be a famous person in the world. If a husband wants to rule the world, in today's world, who else but me?"

Zhao Xin's words are clear praise but derogatory, which means that although you Liu Yong is a so-called great Confucianism, although your father and son are known as clean and honest, but you don't even have the most important morals of a scholar. What kind of character is you talking about?Scholars have lost their right to speak, so what is it if they are not dog legs?
It is said that the reason why Zhao Xin can appear 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 “Orthodoxy view”, scholars all over the world have been practicing the political ideal of “responsible for themselves by the Tao”, relying on the power of the orthodox discourse and the imperial power representing the rule of law to check and balance each other.

Whether it was Zhu Xi or later Gu Yanwu, Wang Fuzhi, and Huang Zongxi, they all believed that orthodoxy had the superiority of being independent of governance, and Confucian scholar-bureaucrats must have a sense of mission to consciously preserve "orthodoxy."In the minds of Confucians, it is a consensus that the principle is respected by the situation.Since the Song and Ming Dynasties, Confucian scholars have all hoped to rectify the order of the world according to the ideal of "orthodoxy" and achieve the integration of "political orthodoxy" into "orthodoxy". This is the so-called "To Jun Yaoshun".

Wang Zhong asked Zhao Xin at the time, do you think it was the literary inquisition that frightened the scholars, so you were willing to be a slave to the Manchu Qing?

Zhao Xin's answer is yes.Not only him, but almost everyone in the cross-travel community thinks so.

But what Wang Zhong said next completely refreshed Zhao Xin's understanding.He said that literary inquisitions have existed since ancient times, and it has been common in all dynasties, but it is the most cruel and tyrannical in this dynasty, and it has been distorted to the extreme since Qianlong took the throne.

In the Song Dynasty, which many Chinese are proud of, there were countless literary inquisitions.There are about dozens of cases such as the Prison of Zuodi, the Case of Wutai Poems, the Prison of Tongwenguan, the Case of Chegaiting Poems, the Case of Hu Quan's Memorials, the Case of Li Guang's "Little History", and the Case of "Jianghu Ji".Not to mention the Ming Dynasty.

Yes, the punishment is not for the scholar-bureaucrats, the emperor does not commit family raids, but he plays exile!I would rather be a dead ghost in the Central Plains than a wandering spirit in the borderlands.The ancients did not get sick when they went to the south of the smoky land, and they seldom survived the amnesty to return home.

However, even in the Song and Ming Dynasties, even though the scholar-bureaucrats were repeatedly persecuted because of the literary inquisition, they still adhered to the orthodoxy and tried various methods to separate power from the emperor. Why couldn't they play it in the Qing Dynasty?
Wang Zhong told Zhao Xin that the real reason was not the literary inquisition, but "the unity of governance and morality"!
With the establishment of the image of the emperor in the Kangxi era who "governed Tao as one", the lofty political ideal of "ruling the world with the king" that Confucian scholars relied on orthodoxy was finally shattered, and scholars used to criticize politics. Only then will he be desperate to die by the literary prison.

Those Confucian officials who worried about "the Tao would not work" played an important role in it. They tried to incorporate the foreign imperial power into the Tao through the "Jingyan Lecture", which accelerated the Confucianization of the Manchu nobles, especially the emperors in the early Qing Dynasty. process, and finally completed the historic transformation of "the conqueror is conquered".

This is why the rules of many Banner families are stricter and more cumbersome than that of Han people.Didn't you say we are barbarians?I am more polite and polite than you Han people!In fact, it was the Sinicization of the Manchu dignitaries that accelerated the pace of "unity of governance and morality".

In fact, during the Shunzhi period, the emperor's participation in Jingyan was not very high. However, starting from Kangxi, as the frequency of Jingyan lectures gradually increased, the studious Kangxi also gained a certain degree of confidence in the mastery of Confucian culture, and the nature of Jingyan became quiet. There has been a change—from Confucian officials teaching Han culture to the emperor, it has been transformed into a means for the emperor to express his own opinions and instruct Han courtiers, and the role of scholars as "teachers of the emperor" is gradually lost.

Kangxi, whose knowledge can be regarded as a teacher of Confucianism, reconstructed the debate between Hua and Yi with "great unification" on the one hand, and dispelled racial differences with cultural identity on the other. The political high pressure finally monopolized the right to interpret "orthodoxy".

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 an irrefutable truth.

The traditional theory that monarchy is restricted by orthodoxy has lost its rationale for existence, and the consciousness of imperial power has developed to the extreme. The emperor used the role of "master of the world" to control the common people. Strike hard.

In this way, scholars also consciously give up their own right to discourse criticism.Political ideals are gone, and spiritual freedom is gone, so scholars can only express their personal thoughts in the "private" aspect, which is why "textual research" emerged in the Qing Dynasty.

Scholars tried to seek an expression of righteousness in textual research, so as to form a new discourse power, and express their personal "private will" thinking outside of the "public will" with the cloak of textual research.They use textual research on Confucian classics to criticize real politics indirectly. In the textual research, they adopt a relatively obscure way of expressing their discourse power. The role of observing and correcting realpolitik.

So the mountains and rivers of the homeland and the clothes of the Han people are just appearances. Cao Peng took this to argue with Liu Yong, and it didn't make sense at all.

In fact, so far, although the Beihai Navy has defeated the Qing army, defeated the Rakshasa, and ravaged the shogunate, Qianlong and Liu Yong, including many scholars, look down on Beihai Town very much, so few people come to seek refuge.

In their eyes, Beihai Town is just a bunch of uneducated thieves!
At least in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, "governance and Taoism were unified", and Beihai Town didn't even have "Taoism".If you don't talk about orthodoxy, you are simply the enemy of the scholar class, even more barbarian than the Manchus!
If Zhao Xin hadn't pulled the tiger skin of the descendant of the last King Zhao, the people of the Li Dynasty would not even have a bird for him.

Seeing that the fire was almost ready, Zhao Xin decided to continue 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 that?"

"This time you are here to negotiate with Beihai Town on behalf of Qianlong. As far as Yu Gong is concerned, the two countries will not fight each other, so I will be polite to you. Otherwise."

"Mr. Zhao has something to say, why bother to be hypocritical? Could it be that you still want to arrest this old man and make him a prisoner?"

Zhao Xin took a deep breath and let it out slowly, trying his best not to speak impulsively. "More than two hundred people, men, women and children from the Xu and Shen families in Dongtai asked me to say hello to you. My wife will never forget your 'kindness' to them for more than ten years!"

In the blink of an eye, Liu Yong, who is well-known and well-remembered, suddenly remembered the shocking case he handled in Jiangsu Xuezheng 11 years ago.He got up suddenly with a "swish", pointed at Zhao Xin, with an expression of disbelief on his face.

"One Pillar Building in Dongtai?! Isn't your wife the daughter of that Shen Jingdan? What does it have to do with Xu's family in Dongtai?" Liu Yong suddenly reacted, half sure and half asking sharply: "No! She is a descendant of Shen Chengzhuo ?!"

Zhao Xin smiled faintly, stretched out his thumb and said, "Lord Liu, you really have a good memory! Just to make a digression, everyone in the world says that you have married one wife and three concubines in your life, and enjoy the blessings of everyone. But why did you reach the age of [-]? , but still childless?”

(In another time and space, Ma Zonghuo, a modern historian, said in his "Shu Lin Chronicle": "There are three concubines in Shi'an, all of whom can write on behalf of others, but they are fake, and outsiders can't tell." Needless to say, calligraphy and so on, Liu Yong has three concubines It was verified.)
At this time, Liu Yong was still immersed in the memory of the old event in the 42nd year of Qianlong, so he instinctively responded: "Huh?"

Cao Peng didn't wait for Zhao Xin to speak, and answered directly: "Master Liu, the so-called villain's immorality is not to be used too much, one thing is so immoral that it is enough to kill off children and grandchildren!"

"Hmm~" Liu Yong felt a fishy sweetness welling up in his throat, and there was a trace of blood on the corner of his mouth.

Cao Peng shook out the biggest hidden disease in his heart.It is said that Liu Yong's biggest regret in his life is that he has no children under his sixties.He asked himself that he was worthy of others in his life, father and son were both upright and honest, why did they have no sons?Let alone the wife, even if the concubine marries three, she only crows but does not lay eggs.Later, there was really nothing to do, so he adopted his nephew Liu Xipeng, but unfortunately he was not promising, and even failed the Jinshi examination.

Cao Peng still didn't feel satisfied, so he added: "I vomit blood when I say a few words. This is the cultivation of a scholar? Hahaha! If I say a few more scandalous things about Qianlong, will you have to jump into the river?"

A general of the Eight Banners yelled angrily: "Cao's surname! Don't be arrogant! Once the imperial court soldiers arrive, you will be ashamed!"

Cao Peng was also angry, and slapped the table and said: "Damn! I really feel good about myself! My subordinates are short of hard labor, you continue to fight!"

"It's outrageous!" A Manchu official stomped his feet and sighed.

Zhao Xin laughed and stood up, turned to the bewildered Na Qitai and said: "I said before, you can take away more than 1000 prisoners of Ninggu Tower this time, no ransom is required. Ten days later people will Send it here, you take it away. There is nothing else to talk about!

Go back and tell Qianlong that the Beihai Navy is not the White Lotus Sect and the Tiandihui, which divide gold and silver on a large scale. Within ten years, our red flags will definitely be planted all over the mountains and rivers! "

After finishing speaking, he turned his head to Liu Yong who was supported by others with his eyes closed and said: "Master Liu, I won't be so polite next time we meet, please take care of yourself!"

　Daotong and Zhitong are two sets of political systems represented by scholars and monarchs in ancient Chinese society, and the two are interdependent. "Government" refers to the tradition of "Mandate of Heaven" inherited by the monarchs of the past dynasties; "Taoism" refers to the spiritual tradition passed down by sages and Confucians such as Zhou Gong, Confucius, and Mencius.

　　
　
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