national surname chiming

Chapter 43 The rise and fall of the world is the responsibility of every man

After setting up the banquet to celebrate the promotion, and cooking those officialdom welcomes and sent off.Shen Tingyang will continue to stay in Beijing, take charge of the transportation department of the household department, and promote the reform of water transportation, all of which needless to be mentioned.

On Shen Shuren's side, there is more than half a month's work handover, and it's time to go south to Huangzhou.

For this result, Shen Shuren was also quite emotional, and he still felt a little unreal, and he was also grateful for his choice.

If last August, when you first entered the Guozijian to buy officials, you would directly buy a magistrate from the enemy-occupied area.At best, it can only be at the deputy county level, and maybe the head has been given away to the thieves in vain.

It dragged on for another nine months, until May of the next year. During this period, I had made so many meritorious deeds, and even passed the general examination. The one-pass bonus brought me to the sixth rank, and the resources of a mansion.Only then did he truly have the strength to wrestle with a powerful party.

Of course, before leaving Beijing, he still has one last job to hand over——

Gu Yanwu, the gunman's staff member, has been invited to Beijing by Shen Shuren for a month.During this period of time, Gu Yanwu has been writing books and writing according to the theoretical ideas provided by Shen Shuren.

Now, Shen Shuren wants to seize the last opportunity to publish this political theory work while he still has the title of Hanlin editor.In the future, it will also be able to better inspire morale and inspire the people of Ming Dynasty to pay attention to the will to resist.

Since the beginning of time travel and decided not to save Chongzhen in the future, Shen Shuren has raised this task to a very high level.He knew that if the North fell in the future, it would be a big blow to the people.Something has to be done to plug the leaks to turn this around.

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It was late April, and Shen Shuren, who had been busy for a long time for the acceptance of water transportation and celebrating his promotion, finally had time to go back to work in the Imperial Academy.

Gu Yanwu was also there, and when Shen Shuren entered, he was still busy writing.

As an official staff member hired by Shen Shuren, of course he also has the right to work in the duty room of the Hanlin Academy, and he can consult all the historical materials and works collected by the Academy.

Gu Yanwu is very satisfied with the working environment here. Although he has decided not to take the imperial examination for the rest of his life, it is very enjoyable to be able to work in the Imperial Academy, even if it is an "internship".

There are so many miscellaneous books here, and there are many books that the Gu family in Kunshan has never seen before.Gu Yanwu is famous for his fondness for reading messy books, he can be said to be addicted to books, so he is very active.

Going to work every day is like being beaten with chicken blood, and reading at night by candlelight.After a month, Gu Yanwu lost more than ten catties, and his eye sockets and cheeks looked sunken.

He knew very well that the Hanlin of his master would not be long.After his boss was transferred, he couldn't use the Hanlin Collection anymore, so how could he not seize the opportunity.

"Brother Gu, didn't you say you finished writing the day before yesterday when you were drinking? Why are you still busy? Can you lend me the manuscript?" Shen Shuren casually sat down beside him and picked up a few manuscripts.

"Keep improving, you can continue to revise if you have time. You can publish it anytime you want." Gu Yanwu didn't look up, and was still thinking about it.

Shen Shuren looked at it for himself.

The manuscript in his hand has quite a few details, which are similar to those in the "Rizhilu" written by Gu Yanwu himself in history, which involves "the righteousness of the nation, the rise and fall of the world".

For example, Gu Yanwu proposed many years in advance that "the rise and fall of a surname is determined by those who eat money. Everyone is responsible for the death of the world."

The specific wording in the article is of course different from the "Rizhilu" in another time and space. After all, Chongzhen is still alive and the Ming Dynasty is not dead. It is not easy to say "rise and fall", but only "rise and fall".

There are many other adjustments like this, and the general principle is to make them more tactful to ensure that they do not violate the prohibition.

Gu Yanwu systematically expounded the significance of the imperial court resisting foreign enemies, protecting race, defending civilization, and preventing barbarism and cannibalism.So no matter how difficult the situation is, the people of the world should do their part for the nation, not for the ruler.

Shen Shuren looked at it very carefully and was quite satisfied with this part.

Gu Yanwu's level of political philosophy was very good in history, and now relying on the Hanlin collection to consult with him, it is very gratifying to be able to reach such a theoretical height so many years in advance.

In addition to the materials that Gu Yanwu thought of, there are some contents in this book, which are propositional compositions assigned by Shen Shuren.

The main issues involved are to demonstrate the difference in the degree of martial arts in the north and south, and the historical success experience of the Northern Expedition to restore our country.

Shen Shuren felt that it was very necessary to face up to this question.Because as a person who traveled back in modern times, he knew that there were many remarks in later generations attacking the Ming dynasty, and he said that "it is difficult to unite the north with the south, so it is appropriate for the Qing Dynasty to destroy the Ming Dynasty and the Jin and Yuan Dynasty to destroy the Song Dynasty".

After coming to the Ming Dynasty, Shen Shuren discussed with some friends who like to talk about history, and also noticed this tendency.This kind of thinking inertia is of course a poisonous weed for the future will of the nation to resist, and it must be rectified.

Therefore, he asked Gu Yanwu to systematically sort out the successful examples of "conquering the north from the south and successfully recovering the Central Plains" in history, and summed up their common points, explaining that "under what conditions are met, the expedition to the north from the south can be successful."

The most familiar example to Ming Dynasty people is naturally Zhu Yuanzhang, who successfully expelled the Tartars and restored China.Needless to say, it is enough for people to praise Taizu's achievements directly.

If you are a modern person, you can use the "expulsion of the Tartars and restoration of China" in the late Qing Dynasty to talk about it again, but now these things have not happened, so there is no way to mention it.

Ever since, there is only Zhu Yuanzhang as an isolated certificate, which seems to be not very easy to use.

Fortunately, Shen Shuren himself is very good at summing up. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the end of the Qing Dynasty, those were the times when the national attention and cohesion were strongest. To put it bluntly, it is not that the south cannot fight, but if they carry the banner of national righteousness, they will be able to go anywhere unfavorable.

If you don't carry the banner of the nation and just fight for the emperor's family, it will be extremely difficult.

After summarizing this principle, and applying it to ancient history, you can more or less find a few examples that are not so rigorous, but can also be used.

After Shen Shuren and Gu Yanwu discussed each other, they used Liu Bang and Xiang Yu for a while——When Qin destroyed the six kingdoms, the national identity of the people in the world was not unified, and they didn’t think they were from Qin or Zhou. own country.

Therefore, it can be generalized that Qin's destruction of the six countries was a war of national conquest, and it was "the process of the integration of the Western Rong and Southern Barbarians and the Central Plains Huaxia".

And Xiang Yu and Liu Bang are both from Chu. To destroy Qin with Chu, of course, to conquer the north with the south, is also to overthrow the "tyranny of Western Rong and Shangyang with a lower level of civilization".

Liu Bang took the Wuguan Road to break Xianyang, and entered Xianyang from Nanyang to Shangluo. This is of course the Northern Expedition.Later, he was named the Queen of Han Dynasty, and took the Chencang Road from Hanzhong to return to Guanzhong. This was also a Northern Expedition.

It can be said that Liu Bang succeeded in the Northern Expedition twice in a row, and killed Qin Ziying and Xiang Yu's newly named Zhang Han and other three Qin lords.

Therefore, hold up the banner of national justice, prevent the "destruction of the world" and prevent the war of "barbarism defeating civilization", not for the sake of the emperor's family, the Northern Expedition can be successful!

In addition, Gu Yanwu also added oil and vinegar to his own textual research, and going back further, he wished that King Wu's defeat of Zhou could also be added——

After all, looking strictly at the map, whether it is the Yin Ruins or Chaoge in the Shang Dynasty, they are all near Anyang in later generations, which is a long distance north of the Yellow River, and they are all close to Zhangshui.In contrast, the Zhou people's base is a bit southerly in terms of the latitude of Diqi Mountain (Chencang/Baoji).

Of course, in order to apply this argument, it is not enough just to have the victory and defeat and the north and the south. It is also necessary to prove that "Zhou punishing merchants is the victory of civilization over barbarism."

This is difficult for Shen Shuren, because as a modern person, he does not feel that the superstructure of the Shang and Zhou economic systems has obvious advantages and disadvantages.

But for a great Confucian like Gu Yanwu, this kind of argument comes at his fingertips—when Confucians first worshiped saints, they did not worship Confucius, but the Duke of Zhou.The greatest achievement of the Duke of Zhou was the creation of rites and music, which transformed the "worship of ghosts and gods" of merchants into the "worship of saints" of the Zhou Dynasty.

Regardless of the pros and cons of the economic system of the Shang and Zhou dynasties, the number of human sacrifices and human sacrifices in the Zhou people was much less than that in the Shang Dynasty. It is always a great progress to reduce sacrifices to ghosts and gods and to worship sages instead.

Gu Yanwu came prepared, and based on these points, he conducted rigorous textual research and wrote a special book, and finally explained the ancient and modern national righteousness and various measures to counter barbarism with civilization, and finally proved that:
Today's Jiannu is no exception, and the final victory must belong to Daming!Resist barbarism with civilization, for the civilization of the world, the Northern Expedition can also succeed!
The last few sentences were, of course, necessary to add this point of view so that this point of view can be published smoothly under the current 13-year Chongzhen situation, so as not to be investigated by the emperor.

Although the rhetoric "it's not to protect the surname Zhu" will be harsh to Chongzhen, it is also beneficial to the emperor to try to downplay this aspect and emphasize the belief that "the Ming Dynasty will win the establishment of slaves".

As long as the overall benefits to the emperor outweigh the disadvantages, the emperor will acquiesce in the publication of this stuff.

Shen Shuren read through this pamphlet several times, which was instructed by him on his creative motivation and talent selection ideas, and written by Gu Yanwu, and he was quite pleasantly surprised.

Gu Yanwu's political philosophy skills are really good, and there are many arguments and arguments that Shen Shuren himself never thought of.

"Brother Gu is really a learned scholar, and my younger brother, a second-class Jinshi, is ashamed of himself. This book, my younger brother also has no face to sign alone, so why don't you and I co-author it for engraving."

After reading it, Shen Shuren sincerely stated that he would not take away Gu Yanwu's right to sign.

After hearing this, Gu Yanwu was also impressed by Shen Shuren's comprehension, and was already very satisfied with it.

He didn't think of signing it alone, because he is only a scholar, and engraving it with his name alone will only greatly reduce the popularity and appeal of this book.Shen Shuren has a reputation compiled by the Imperial Academy, so he doesn't stand by him in vain.

It's like a Yeluzi net article author in later generations, even if he thinks he is very talented and has a strong foundation in political philosophy works.But if an academician of the Academy of Social Sciences is willing to co-sign the book he wrote with him, then the author of the online article will definitely want to hug his thigh.

"This matter is according to what Brother Xian said, brother Yu can't ask for it." Gu Yanwu responded directly.

"Since that's the case, I'll let someone carve out the pages in the past few days." Shen Shuren said, after collecting the manuscripts, he immediately went to a book engraver in the capital to do woodblock printing.

Scholars in the late Ming Dynasty still valued being able to carve a manuscript of their own in a lifetime, even if there was nothing to publish, it would be good to publish their own collection of poems.

If you don’t consider the sales volume, engraved books are very expensive, and you need to hire craftsmen for a long time. A thin poetry collection can cost 500 taels, and you have to sell at least thousands of copies to barely amortize it.

But to Shen Shuren, this was not a problem. In order to speed up the progress, he even specially hired a large number of craftsmen at the same time, and each of them only carved a few pages to ensure the fastest completion of the book.

The cost of hiring a large number of temporary workers is of course more expensive than hiring one or two permanent workers.In the end, Shen Shuren spent a total of 2000 taels of silver in order to engrave this "Rizhi Shijian".

The advantage is that the sample magazine was printed in just ten days, which can be called spending money to buy construction progress.

In a blink of an eye, the day when Shen Shuren, the Hanlin editor, will leave his post, he submitted the sample draft of this book, which can be regarded as the result of his two months of work.

I also learned from Sima Guang's writing of historical records, and "reviewed" the historical battles of national justice and the success rate of the Northern Expedition.

Chongzhen personally read this manuscript, and it is said that when he first read it, he couldn't help but want to slap the table and angrily reprimand.But after seeing it later, I found that it was indeed a deliberate effort to encourage the will of the Ming army and the people to resist the Qing Dynasty, and even a little disobedience was tolerated.

The emperor didn't say anything, and the other Hanlin editors who didn't deal with Shen Shuren couldn't make any waves for the time being.

Wei Zaode and Gao Eryan criticized Shen Shuren behind his back, but there was no more to say after scolding.

This "Rizhi Shijian" soon began to spread and spread, and a large number of courtiers and scholars heard that it was written by the tough Hanlin Xiuzhuan who dared to remonstrate, and they all gave it a look.

Shen Shuren packed his luggage and went south by boat.After walking without talking for more than half a month, I finally arrived in Hefei. After meeting with Shangguan Shi Kefa, I entered the Yangtze River and went upstream to Huangzhou to take up my post.

(End of this chapter)