Chapter 1647 Subjugation and Subjugation

Bai Xiaowen thought to himself, Sister Chen Rong, you are worrying too much.

Interfering in the affairs of the world of mortals will dust the heart of the Tao and make it difficult to improve one's cultivation?

This is true for aboriginal ascetics, but not so for an evolutionary like Bai Xiaowen.

The Song-Mongol War should be the main line of the dynasty's struggle for hegemony on Shao's positioning plane. If you join it, you will have the opportunity to trigger a large number of tasks, and the task means to understand the light ball.

With the sphere of enlightenment, are you afraid that your cultivation will not improve?

Leaving aside the gains in terms of cultivation, if Bai Xiaowen can control an empire, he will be able to draw a steady stream of huge resources from it, and he will really devote the power of the entire plane world to help the development of the Baihuang collar.

The gains from the above two aspects are enough for Bai Xiaowen to lead the four heavenly kings under his command to join the historical situation of the dynastic struggle for hegemony.

Of course, as an upright young man with ideals and aspirations, Bai Xiaowen couldn't answer Chen Rong like that. Fortunately, regardless of the income theory, his reasons are still sufficient.

Bai Xiaowen turned to say: "I'm not worried about the subjugation of the Song Dynasty. I don't have any extra favors for Zhao Guan's family. It doesn't make any difference to me whether my surname is Zhao or Li or Wang."

Chen Rong frowned: "Then why..."

Bai Xiaowen interjected: "I'm not worried about the subjugation of the Song Dynasty, what I'm worried about is the Han people' subjugation of the world"!"

Facing Chen Rong's suspicious eyes, Bai Xiaowen said slowly:

"The subjugation of the Han Dynasty, Sui and Tang Dynasties is nothing more than a change of surname in the imperial court, which belongs to the change of dynasty. The systems of politics, law, scientific research and so on are all inherited in one continuous line, which can be said to be the continuation of the clothes of the Han people.

"However, it was different when Mongols destroyed the Song Dynasty. The Mongols were a nation on horseback. After they entered the Central Plains, they would implement the backward system on the grassland to the world, causing a devastating blow to the cultural inheritance of the Han people! There is a fault in civilization. This is 'the death of the world'."

What Bai Xiaowen said was not just nonsense, but was well-founded.

In the history of the earth, Chinese civilization has always been ahead of the West. Why was it overtaken later, with a history of humiliation in modern times for a century?

Because since Mongolia (Yuan Dynasty), Chinese civilization has started to reverse.

The first is the sharp decline in the thinking of the rulers.

Fang Tingshi, the censor of the Southern Song Dynasty, once warned Song Gaozong: "The world is the world of China, the world of ancestors, the world of officials, surnames, and the three armies, not the world of your majesty." In other words, the officials of the Song Dynasty believed that the emperor only managed the world on behalf of the people of the world, and he must always reflect on himself in order to be a good emperor.

However, the rulers from the Mongolian grassland brought the concept of the grassland to the Central Plains, regarded the population, land and other wealth as their own private property, and even began to implement the backward enfeoffment system! This is reflected even in the Ming Dynasty.

Second, the strict and rigid and insurmountable class divisions. The Yuan Dynasty abolished the recruitment system of the Song Dynasty, and divided the people into military households, artisan households, salt households, Confucian households, etc. according to their occupations. The status was passed down from generation to generation and could not be changed for life. This step backwards in history also affected the Ming Dynasty.

There is also the degradation of property rights: officials in the Yuan Dynasty could "confuse" people's property (including family members) at will, while the confiscation system was strictly restricted and rarely used in the Song Dynasty.

And the punishment was harsh again: the corporal punishment abolished from the time of Emperor Wenwen of the Han Dynasty was revived again.

The judicial system has been wrecked: the Dali Temple has been cancelled, the law school has been cancelled, the criminal law examination has been cancelled, and even the "jujiao division" (separation of trial and judgment) and "reversal of differences" (prisoners who overturn their confessions must be retried), etc. Good systems are all scrapped...

What did this series of reversing lead to?

The Chinese Empire, which had already produced the buds of capitalism economically and had a little "Renaissance" culturally, fell into a deep sleep.

One hundred years later, the West began the Renaissance, but the Chinese civilization, due to the arrival of barbaric rulers, fell into a dark regression that lasted for hundreds of years.

Scholars in the Ming and Qing dynasties could only imagine the noble character of the scholar-bureaucrats of the previous dynasties from Tang poetry and Song Ci.

Mongols captured Changsha, and hundreds of scholars in Yuelu Academy all died in battle. When Yashan destroyed the country in the Southern Song Dynasty, the ministers first drove their wives into the sea with their swords, and then jumped into the sea with the little emperor on their backs. Over a hundred thousand corpses floated out of the sea."

And what about when Chongzhen hanged himself in the Ming Dynasty? There was only one eunuch with him.

The reason is that the ruling class after the Yuan Dynasty was brutal (the Ming Dynasty was also brutal under the influence of the barbarians), ignoring the value of life and suppressing thoughts, so that most Han people were insensitive to foreign aggression and their spiritual backbone was taken away.

Bai Xiaowen couldn't say too much to Chen Rong, after all, there was no way to talk about the historical development process after the Yuan Dynasty.

Chen Rong was also difficult to understand, she did not have Bai Xiaowen's broad vision.

Bai Xiaowen said: "Master Chen, you come from a weaving family in the south of the Yangtze River, and the cloth is sold all over the world, right?"

Chen Rong nodded: "This family business is all thanks to the development of four generations of the Chen family's ancestors."

Bai Xiaowen said: "If one day, the eunuch takes a fancy to the property of the Chen family and arbitrarily arranges a crime, he can sentence all the money of the Chen family to be confiscated as an official, the men will be slaves, and the women will be sent to the teaching workshop... There will still be such a crime in the Chen family. Do you want to actively develop and expand the family business?"

Chen Rong said in a daze, "This...is it impossible? For such a big matter, a prefect can't cover the sky with one hand. Even if he is convicted of the crime, it is not his turn to pass the sentence. If the Chen family wants to overturn the case, there is Dali. What about the temple. Unless the prefect and the Dali Temple are colluding, will the magistrates and Beijing officials collude like this?"

Bai Xiaowen said: "You think too much. If the Mongols destroyed the Song Dynasty and the barbarians from the grassland ruled the Central Plains, let alone a prefect, even a county magistrate could destroy their families. Take a step back and say that the Mongols are brutal. Killing, I like massacring cities the most. Whether the Chen family can live to the end of the war is hard to say. Maybe the Mongols will not allow the Han people to continue farming and weaving, and they want to turn all the farmland in the Central Plains into pastures."

Pausing for a while, Bai Xiaowen concluded: "Changing the surname and changing the name is called the subjugation of the country. Benevolence and righteousness are full, and as for leading beasts to eat people, people will eat each other, which is called the subjugation of the world." (Gu Yanwu's "Rizhilu")

Bai Xiaowen started with Chen Rong's family, and finally made Chen Rong realize the difference between the so-called "subjugation of the country" and "subjugation of the world". She also seemed to understand why Bai Xiaowen wanted to devote himself to the world of mortals and reverse the general trend of the world.

For Bai Xiaowen, even if the Shao positioning plane is not an orthodox history, it cannot be equated with the earth. Changing the historical process of Mongolia's destruction of the Song Dynasty here has no meaning for the earth's Chinese history that has already happened, and nothing can be changed.

But for Shao's orientation, and for Bai Xiaowen, it is meaningful.