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Chapter 108 The Origin of the Dao of Heaven (with political philosophy content, you can skip this chapter if you don’t like it)
Why are Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong more threatening than Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying?
When first hearing this question, Shen Shuren's first reaction was that he didn't really want to answer it.

As a senior scholar of political philosophy and diplomatic theory in his previous life, Shen Shuren knew very well that history is composed of macroscopic necessity and microcosmic accident.

This is a bit like quantum mechanics: at the microscopic level, where each photon lands after passing through the double slit is indeed truly random, and you can't predict it at all.

But no matter how random each photon and quantum is, the final macroscopic world must be in line with the expectations of the macroscopic laws of physics.After hundreds of millions of photons pass through the double slit, interference fringes must be formed macroscopically.

When history has reached a certain stage, such as the end of the Ming Dynasty, there will definitely be a violent iteration of the regime, and various social contradictions in land annexation will definitely have an earth-shaking catharsis.

Everyone knows where the outlets and opportunities are, but there is still a lot of randomness about who will come out in the end.

The inevitability and tortuousness of history that Ma Zhe said largely meant this, which is why historical materialism requires the prohibition of cults of personality.

History is created by the people as a whole, and heroes just follow the trend of the times and enter fields and teams that cater to the trend.But in the end, whoever survives to sit in that position, who happens to be on the brightest interference fringe at random, has at least [-]% luck.

Now that Shen Shuren entered the game himself, causing so many butterfly effects, even if Chongzhen still had to die in the end, would he definitely die in the hands of Li Zicheng or Zhang Xianzhong?

Historically, after joining forces with Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying, Li Zicheng suddenly attacked and killed Luo and Ma, and annexed their men and horses. Is it possible that Luo and Ma will counter-kill them now?
Shen Shuren ate the supper in front of him, thought about this question for a long time, and finally gave a fair answer.

"The lower official has something to say about the family, and Aunt Fang Futai listened to it." Shen Shuren sorted out his thoughts, and said eloquently,
"I thought that in terms of killing people and plundering land, it is true that the four thieves who ran into horses were all brothers. If it was a battle with no eyes, anyone could die at the hands of the officers and soldiers. If they survived, it would be natural. Will take the opportunity to annex the old department of comrades-in-arms.

However, if one does not look at the fighting in battle, but at winning people's hearts, manipulating orthodoxy, mediating and inducing rebellion, then Zhang Xianzhong and Li Zicheng have their own advantages that Luo Rucai and Ma Shouying do not have.Therefore, the four are tied in the military, and Zhang and Li win in terms of winning people. "

Shen Shuren's tone was very confident and calm, with a sense of vitality.

After Fang Kongzheng heard his words, he also inexplicably felt a wave of trust.

That kind of feeling, people who don't really believe that what they say is the truth will not be so confident.

"My nephew is very confident about his high opinion. How dare you be so categorical? Since you want to talk about the ability to win people over, then Luo Rucai is cunning and cooperating with others, and he is able to tolerate others' hypocrisy and obedience, no less than Isn’t Cao Cao even worse than Zhang and Li? All scholars and bureaucrats in the world think so, why does my nephew stand alone?”

Fang Kongxuan's cognition is really not nonsense.

In the mainstream cognition of scholar-bureaucrats at the end of the Ming Dynasty, they all felt that among the thieves, Luo Rucai was the number one in terms of being able to win over the civil and military and gather the hearts of talented people.

Luo Rucai did it a few times, and it was almost as good as Cao Cao's "I didn't even read the letters that my subordinates had with Yuan Shao and burned them on fire". His nickname of Cao Cao was not for nothing.

Crude embryos like Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong don't have this level of strategy to win people's hearts.

However, Shen Shuren immediately pointed out the one-sidedness of this view: "Forgive me for saying bluntly, this view is just the opinion of literati. Scholars speculate on the strategy of war, and they all like to look at it from the perspective of literati.

In their eyes, the people who are worthy of winning over are the hearts of people with civil and military talents.As for the heart of the incompetent Qianshou, the civil servants of the Manchu Dynasty did not take it seriously at all——

However, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are much better than Luo Rucai in terms of winning over the head of Guizhou.Luo Rucai's little cleverness is not blessed by the blood status of Cao and Mang in history.One positive and one negative, one ebb and flow, only the inference I just made. "

"Oh? I'd like to hear more about it!" Only then did Fang Kongxuan's expression become serious.

Shen Shuren discussed the matter by situation, divided it into such details, and analyzed it one by one, no matter how you look at it, he is very sure.If it wasn't for the people who can see the fire clearly, they would never dare to speak like this.

Shen Shuren talked deeply and eloquently: "Since ancient times, the bandits have been unable to achieve success. Is it because they can't fight? Of course not! As long as the bandits have been honed in military affairs, their combat skills and tactics are by no means inferior to those of the officers and soldiers of all dynasties, and their morale is still low." There is victory, after all, in the last years of the dynasty, the morale of the officers and soldiers is often low.

But since the Qin Dynasty, in the thousand and 800 years, there has never been a thief who has been able to establish a dynasty stably in the long run. Why?It's because the thieves don't know how to operate orthodox.Ever since Chen Sheng and Wu Guang yelled 'The princes and generals, Ning Youzhong', although they were happy when they yelled, there was also a drawback:
A prince is seedless, and he is also seedless.Therefore, after Chen Sheng raised his troops to capture the land of Chu, he sent out his generals to attack the land of Zhao, who won the land of Zhao and made himself the king of Zhao, and the ministers sent Han Guang to attack the land of Yan.

Chen Sheng also sent Zhou Shi to attack the land of Wei. Although Zhou Shi didn't claim to be the King of Wei, it wasn't necessarily because he didn't want to. It's just that after reading the lessons of Wu Chen and Han Guang, he finally understood that "the emperor and general Xiang Ning has a kind" A double-edged sword, while making it easier for you to turn against others, it also makes it easier for your subordinates to turn against others.Only then did he change course and go back to support Wei Jiu, the descendant of King Wei, as king.

Was Chen Sheng's final death a result of being defeated militarily by Zhang Han?not necessarily!Assuming that Wu Chen, Han Guang, and Zhou Shi's soldiers still obey Chen Sheng, how confident is Zhang Han in defeating the united rebel coalition?

Fan Zeng used this to persuade Xiang Liang, Liu Bang used this to respect Emperor Yi, and Taizu used this to respect King Xiaoming. They all valued orthodoxy, so they were able to conquer the world from poverty and draw a clear line from bandits.

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, when there was an uprising in Lulin and Chimei, the warlords of all walks of life learned the lessons of Chen Sheng. From then on, they dared not call the emperors and generals Xiangning to be kind, but only dared to find someone surnamed Liu as a puppet in order to be orthodox. Let your subordinates dare not oppose themselves.

For the next thousand years, all the rogues who fought in the usual way, as long as they didn't remember Chen Sheng's lesson and didn't seek orthodoxy, were all destroyed by civil strife in the end, without exception.How similar is Huangchao at the end of Tang Dynasty to Chen Sheng at the end of Qin Dynasty?
Huang Chao went further in the military and captured Chang'an, but he didn't care about the orthodoxy. In the end, he was betrayed by his subordinate Zhu Wen and turned to Tang.

In today's situation, everyone doesn't pay attention to orthodoxy, and Luo Rucai's generation, even if they have Cao Cao's cunning, but without Cao Cao's birth, and even a little bit of running around, they can't build orthodoxy, so there is nothing to be afraid of.

Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are not the same. Although they are not orthodox and come from a humble background, they have found a different way and followed the path of another type of thieves in history. horrible! "

Fang Kongxuan was completely shocked when he heard this.

This Shen Shuren has a reading vision that is different from others, and he can analyze problems in such a wide range.

In fact, if some later generations of Internet writers Qin fans read this passage, they will probably be surprised. How many later generations spread their articles crazy to hype conspiracy theories, saying that Chen Sheng and Wu Guang are the restoration of the nobles of the Six Kingdoms, and the old and young of the Six Kingdoms are dissatisfied with Qin. , not because of Qin's tyranny...

Bullshit!

The aristocrats of the six countries are basically the lessons learned by Chen Sheng and Wu Guang in the first wave of blood. After discovering that "princes have no seeds", they will also be "raceless", and traitors like Wu Chen and Han Guang will appear.Then when Zhou Shi started, because he was afraid that his subordinates would turn against him, he had to invite the descendants of the Six Kingdoms out.

In the 20th century, because modern history textbooks emphasized the progressive significance of "there is no species", they took out of context and cut off the role of military official Han Guang, which gave the soil for the propaganda of the Six Kingdoms conspiracy theory.

Shen Shuren is well versed in political philosophy theory. After he returned to the Ming Dynasty, the reason why he made up his mind to "steal" rather than directly overthrow Ming Dynasty was also thinking about this level——

If the force is strong enough to be able to succeed in hanging silk, he can be superior and others can oppose him.What about after you die?Did the second generation die?
If he has real skills and can rely on strategy and martial arts to win, that's all.

If he needs to rely on technology to win, it will be easier to die in the second generation - because after he unified China, the technologies he invented were available in all regions of China.

At that time, if the fence is not firmly planted, and in his son's generation, some provinces outside can use the weapon technology of the same era as the center controlled by his son to make trouble, won't they still die in the second generation?

Isn't that how the Qin Dynasty died?When Qin was still the state of Qin, the bow and crossbow weapons may have technical advantages over the six countries, and the military service system also has advantages in the reward and punishment mobilization system.

But after having the whole country, the former lands of the six countries have been leveled with Qin native in terms of weapon technology, and the advantages of the system have also been leveled, and the whole country has adopted advanced systems.If the Six Kingdoms still want to oppose you, it will be five or six times the scale and volume to counterattack.

Therefore, when Shen Shuren read novels in his previous life, he always found it ridiculous: how could a group of people who had no other tactics and skills and relied on technology to win battles have the courage to completely destroy orthodoxy, and then establish a new dynasty with empty words? (After the orthodoxy is destroyed, it is still a bit debatable to engage in democratic pig politics. Here we only discuss the rebuilding of the dynasty without orthodoxy.)

When you are unified and dead, these technologies and systems are available in all provinces in the country. By then, you have not worked hard to establish orthodoxy, and you still expect your son to control the market?
The death of the second generation is considered good.If the emotional intelligence of the first generation is relatively low, it is possible to die in one life.

Therefore, Shen Shuren never worried that the unorthodox thieves could really establish a dynasty. They could at most destroy the country, but they could not establish it.It is possible to eliminate the previous dynasty militarily, but it is impossible to keep the industry.

Li Shimin said, "It is difficult to start a business, and it is even more difficult to maintain a business." Entrepreneurship is about military victory and overthrowing the previous dynasty.
Let the people of the world believe that "the rebellion can only be successful under special circumstances in a special period. The current emperor is the last successful person who has won the destiny, and it will stop here."For the rest of his life, Li Shimin worked hard for the words "so far", to get rid of the evil thoughts of "I can do it myself" in the world.

Therefore, it is not that Shen Shuren looks down on Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong if he thinks that thieves can't do anything.Unless you met Liu Bang authorized by Emperor Yi, or Zhu Yuanzhang who was inherited by King Xiao Ming.

There is no "Emperor Yi" and no "King Xiaoming", and Liu Bang and Zhu Yuanzhang alone are not good enough!

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Fang Kongxuan was shocked for a long time, and roughly understood the ideal of this level of Taoism, but he still didn't understand why Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong were more dangerous than Luo Rucai, so he had no choice but to continue to ask without shame, insisting on finding out the essence of the Taoism inside.

Shen Shuren had no choice but to continue to analyze: "The reason why Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong are more threatening is because they do not belong to those thieves who belonged to the world in history, but are more like Zhang Jiao, Wudoumi, and Bailian."

Fang Kongzheng was taken aback, and immediately retorted: "Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong didn't engage in any heresy!"

Shen Shuren: "They really didn't do it, so we just said 'similar', not exactly the same, but the pros and cons are the same.

Futai, please listen quietly to the analysis of the officials: Since Chen Sheng and Lulin Chimei, all the thieves in the world know that without orthodoxy, they cannot win the world, and without orthodoxy, they will be backlashed by their subordinates, so naturally some people want to improve all this.

Zhang Jiao at the end of the Han Dynasty was the earliest explorer of this route. Why did Zhang Jiao engage in the Taiping Road?Because with Tao, there will be immortal masters, people who are ordered by heaven, and with the blessing of heaven, there will be orthodoxy.The people under him can only obey him and organize them with ghosts and gods.

The apostles of ghosts and gods cannot betray the immortal master like Wu Chen and Han Guang betrayed Chen Sheng. The internal unity of the Shinto soldiers and horses is stronger than that of the bandits.

And I don’t know if you have noticed, Master Futai. Since ancient times, the immortal masters who founded Shinto, established their own religion, and were carried forward by a certain political power all have one characteristic, that is, they have no descendants and no descendants.

The Buddha of the Buddhist school had a son, but his son became a monk to follow the practice, so the Buddha had no grandchildren.The Western Hongyi people had Nestorianism, and their first ancestor was also killed and martyred, and had no heirs.On the side of Dashi in Black, there are also only son-in-laws and no sons-in-law.

The founder of Dao has no heirs. One of the biggest advantages is that everyone is willing to contribute to their promotion. Everyone has an ambition. They think that I have contributed the most to this cause, and the master may pass on the mantle to me in the end. .

Even today, those disciples in Buddhist temples and Taoist halls show filial piety to the abbot, abbot, and temple master, even more than the love between father and son in lay people. Why?Because they know that the abbot presides over the death of children and grandchildren.

If they can be the one who serves the master the best among all the disciples, the entire temple and monastery can be passed on to him in the future!When everyone collects firewood, the flames rise up, everyone works hard, and the foundation prospers!
When Zhang Jiao created the Taiping Dao, there were more than 36 people in [-] directions in the world. Everyone respected the great virtuous and good teacher, and they did not openly stand on their own. A 'god envoy'.

And how many times has this kind of thing been repeated in the thousand and 400 years since then?Why in the past dynasties banned evil ways and cracked down on white lotus is more ruthless than cracking down on thieves?Because the imperial court also knows that this kind of thing is more dangerous than thieves.

It's a pity that the imperial court only saw the surface, but didn't see the inside—the danger of the evil way, the essence is not the danger of the evil way itself, but the model of 'passing on from master to student, cutting off children and grandchildren', which is too tempting to the people below, everyone lives their lives!

Now Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, is called a thief, but he is actually a eunuch who has no heirs. Although he had a wife in his early years, he died of injuries and illnesses. Li Zicheng's wife, Xing, also ran away with his general Gao Jie.

These two people also took in a lot of adoptive sons, and everyone in their subordinates used their lives to run, "If you help King Chuang and the Eight Great Kings conquer the world, the two will have no children in the future, and they will not be able to inherit after all. Why don't they have to choose credit among the generals?" The highest one will share the world, or be accepted as a foster son'?
In contrast, although Luo Rucai is good at Cao Cao, he is also as lustful as Cao Cao, with dozens of wives and concubines, and countless other one-night daughters. Such a person imitates Cao Cao to win people's hearts, but he has no noble blood to provide him with orthodoxy.

If he wants to conspire against Li Zicheng in the future, Li Zicheng's subordinates may not rebel.But if Li Zicheng wanted to assassinate him and ask Luo Rucai's subordinates to rebel, it would be much easier.In the final analysis, if a person with a humble status wants to succeed, the last key is to cut off his children and grandchildren if he can't borrow Emperor Yi and King Xiaoming to be orthodox!Give more thoughts to those around you, and work hard together! "

The reason Shen Shuren said was not only correct until the end of Ming Dynasty, but it will repeat itself in history.

Didn't the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the Qing Dynasty also learn the lessons of the thieves in the late Ming Dynasty?So knowing that we need to prevent the problem of "you can destroy the previous dynasty, but you can't build a country by yourself", you have embarked on the old road of building a country by faith.

Hong Xiuquan claimed to be the king of heaven and established an oracle system, so no one dared to oppose him openly.However, people who claim to be "possessed by the heavenly father" like Zhang Jiaoshi called "the envoy of the gods" are repeatedly banned.

Even in the 2020s, before Shen Shuren traveled through time, when Shen Shuren saw Bitcoin, he felt that it was similar to all the existence of faith-based nations in history——

Cutting off sons and grandchildren, in the currency system, is equivalent to "the currency-issuing unit abolishes the centralized management authority", using technical means to slash the back door of its own money printing.

Let me tell you how many coins you can get from now on, it depends on how much you contribute to this system, no one can tamper with the widely recognized distributed ledger.

From a philosophical point of view, it is a logic to cut off children and grandchildren from Buddha and other founding prophets in exchange for disciples to feel at ease in exporting filial piety.

The boss doesn't have any heirs anymore, and if you do a good job, it's all yours, so why don't you beat yourself up?Sun Kewang, Li Dingguo, are you still willing to die?

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After Fang Kongzheng heard this analysis, he was so shocked that he couldn't believe it.

But rationality told him that this insight is definitely very profound, if it is really accurate, it is enough to be called an insight into the origin of the way of heaven.

The 21-year-old person in front of him who has achieved Taoism must have the talent of Wenqu star. Did he really come down from the sky to save Daming?
Although Shen Shuren's official position was lower than his, but he saw the problem so thoroughly that he didn't dare to argue with the other party based on his status.

Of course, all of this is worth waiting to see.Fang Kongxuan decided to keep his mouth shut.

He wanted to see, after this year's bloody battle, several thieves would definitely leave the arena. At that time, if the exit methods of Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, and Ma Shouying were really like Shen Shuren's deduction...

That's nothing to say!Even if Shen Shuren is lower than his official, he is going to accept his head and worship!This is the deduction ability of a god-man, and Zhang Liang and Zhuge Liang may not have surpassed this!
Perhaps, after a few months, we will be able to find out.

Some parts of these remarks are a little bit outrageous, but you can also cut the head and tail, remove the overly sensitive parts, and remind Mr. Yang Ge of the rest.

Fang Kongxuan felt that if Shen Shuren's opinion could make some contribution to the focus and disintegration of Mr. Yang Ge's work in the following months.Then, Mr. Yang Ge should also use up all his political resources, and must find a way to push this young man with such terrifying knowledge to a high position as soon as possible!
People who see contradictions so thoroughly have real power, and their talents will be great!This is for the world!
Of course, everything depends on the results of the acceptance test, whether it is as Shen Shuren expected after the war!
"My nephew has extraordinary knowledge. I think that I can see the way of heaven clearly after studying the "Book of Changes". But I don't want to learn everything in my life, which is mixed and impure. Instead, I am not as clever as my nephew when I see things.

I really admire it!This time, I will do my best to help the nephew to break the thief, and we will wait and see who will collect the remnants after Erhe is broken!For the recent defense arrangements, the old man also listened to his nephew first, and focused on guarding against the most terrifying Zhang Xianzhong. As for Luo Rucai, when the strength of the army is really insufficient, the old man can only let it go. "

Fang Kongxuan left with great shock and admiration. No one could overhear the whole conversation between him and Shen Shuren.But the master's admiration also fell into the eyes of his family and staff.

The next day, everyone in the governor's yamen knew that the young subordinate who came to visit the master last night, the Daotai master who was only in his early twenties, definitely had the ability to see the world and was amazingly talented.

But Shen Shuren didn't care what others thought of him.

He was just happy to see the guard officers sent by Fang Kongzhang to deliver the letter. He also heard that Master Futai valued Shen Bingbei very much, so he must go all out for Shen Bingbei.

As for the opinions of other passers-by, they are not worthy of Shen Shuren's concern.

He didn't go to bed last night because he was so busy that he didn't have enough energy, so he rode back to Xiaogan in the middle of the morning.

The people in the governor's yamen treated him respectfully, and even made food for his entourage on the road, and sent him out of the city.

The treatment of Shen Shuren himself was particularly good. Some of the female family members of the governor's yamen got up early in the morning and made him some shortbread stuffed with mutton. He can open a tube every half a day on the road and throw it away after drinking.

Shen Shuren was ashamed of receiving it, and thanked him politely, the maid in the governor's yamen only said that she admired Shen University's talent and learning, and was able to subdue her master, so she deserved this courtesy, and had no other intentions.

After more than two days of traveling, Shen Shuren finally returned to the Xiaogan Army on April 22nd. He also immediately told his generals about the two reinforcements he had found and when they would arrive. vibration.

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PS: Sorry, I know it's not good to mix half of the war with drama.

But there are some words that really need to be calculated and deduced before the decisive battle.After a few months of this wave, the answers to the mysteries will be revealed, and it will be impossible to show off the protagonist's ability to predict the enemy at the strategic level.

Apologies to readers who don't like logical analysis of political philosophy.

Today there are [-] words, and I gave [-] more words, which can be regarded as passing the part involving political philosophy in one go, and it can be regarded as compensation for everyone.

(End of this chapter)