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Chapter 353 The Book of Rites (11)

Gao Pang was surprised that his teacher had taken the Qing Dynasty's skin so seriously. However, he really didn't dare to say this, so he could only sigh: "If these things were sent to the court..."

"It's useless at all." Chen Mingtai replied.

"Ah?" Gao Pang couldn't understand what the teacher meant.

Chen Mingtai sighed: "I said it's useless to send it. This book is something for future generations to study, not something for today's people. If you say this, it's better to find a few storytellers and arrange it for the Qing Dynasty."

"The teacher is too modest." Gao Pang said something in a sincere manner.

"Gaopang, you don't have to be so stupid. These gentry don't care about what we have made at all. If the world changes its ownership, they will naturally run fast. Those who have changed their minds because they hear something, are people who have never seen the world and have no industry. I think what is said in the teahouse and the wine shop is more useful. They say that since Wanli, who has lived for decades, all those who have become emperors have died casually. What these people say is more useful."

"Oh? How do you say it?" Gao Pang finally sincerely faced what the teacher said.

"It was changed to these people who died casually. Because there was no real emperor, these people were pushed to the table and naturally died casually. If they were born casually, they would be fine. After these people became emperors casually, no matter how they tormented, they would be in great pain. Well..., just say that they jumped up and down like a cage and ended rat, and it would be useless to do their best."

The teacher's words were too lethal, which made Gao Pang feel uncomfortable. Especially the metaphor of the rat in the cage even made Gao Pang feel a sense of sympathy.

After hesitating for a while, Gao Pang tentatively said: "Teacher, are you a little harsh?"

Chen Mingtai shook his head, "You have to make the people look down on those people."

Gao Pang was a little shocked in his heart. He had a bad comment. He said that scholars were like swords, but he killed people without blood. He thought the teacher was a very humble person, but he forgot that the teacher was also a scholar.

But when I turned back to think about what the teacher said, it was indeed a very useful feeling. The people who heard this did look down on the Qing Dynasty.

However, Gao Pang was still a little uneasy and tentatively said: "It's okay to talk about the Qing Dynasty like this, but have you passed the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty like this?"

"If I don't say that, if some of the people ask, why did the Qing Dynasty destroy the Ming Dynasty, how should I explain it?"

Gao Pang thought for a while before answering: "That was Li Chuang who destroyed the Ming Dynasty."

"Why did Li Chuang destroy the Ming Dynasty? He only sat on the dragon throne for three days?"

"Uh... so too." Gao Pang found that the internal logic here was very complete. It was indeed necessary to start defaming the emperors after Wanli of the Ming Dynasty.

Chen Mingtai looked at Gao Pang's appearance and smiled bitterly, "Gaopang, you are my son-in-law who rides the dragon. Our family doesn't need to say those useless words. After you join Your Majesty, you are valued by Your Majesty, and I am promoted by Your Majesty, and I am given a noble official like the Salt Administration. We have to do more for Your Majesty. What the people in Jiangnan want is not what happened in history, but what they want is a reason to join Your Majesty. Land reform is certainly one of the reasons, but these are not enough. You must use words that the people can understand to let the people understand. Your Majesty is the one who destiny belongs to."

Gao Pang also felt that it was right when he was said this. So he stopped talking about anything else, but asked Chen Mingtai to summarize the "history" of how to convince the people of Jiangnan.

Although he admitted that the teacher and father-in-law were right, Gao Pang secretly read the information he brought. After all, he was a literati and was far more interested in the history of the text than in the streets and alleys.

At this glance, I felt that the writing skills of the teachers and others were different. I fled to the Later Jin that the Qing Dynasty once claimed to be. Since there was Later Jin, there was naturally Jin. I went straight to the Jin Kingdom.

Jin clearly stated that there are 7 indigenous peoples in Northeast China: Jurchens, Han, Mongolians, Korea, Khitans, Bohai, and Xi.

There is a record in "Yan Yunlu": "If you have military power, you will use Jurchen first, Bohai, Khitan, and Han'er; although the Han'er Liu Yanzong and Guo Yaoshi have no military power." The so-called "Haner" here is actually the Han people in the north, but these Han people still find it difficult to obtain actual military power. Even in the rewards of the court in the Jin Dynasty, there is such a difference. There is a record in the historical materials of the Jin Dynasty: "As for the infantry and the court, the silk given by the court is divided into fifty-five tiles... Although the numbers are the same, the objects are different. The Jin people get brocade, the Bohai gets silk, the Khitan gets silk, and the Khitan gets silk, and the Jiuzhou gets a variety of colors."

Chen Mingtai's research conclusion is that Jin fully recognizes that the Han people are one of the indigenous peoples in the Northeast.

In the late Yuan Dynasty, some Jurchens moved south and arrived in Jilin Province and northern and eastern Liaoning Province to settle down. At this point, the Jurchens were roughly divided into three parts, and were called "Jianzhou Jurchen", "Haixi Jurchen" and "Savage Jurchens". Among them, the Jianzhou Jurchens were the main members of the Manchus later. Under the policy of implementing the Yuan Dynasty, "If the girl is Zhi, the Khitan is born in the northwest and does not speak Chinese, they are the same as the Mongols; if the girl is Zhi, she grows in the Han area, and is the same as the Han people", these Jurchens, who account for about three-fifths of the total population of the Jin Dynasty, are not treated as Jurchens.

Chen Mingtai also listed some other contents. One of the statements was that during the Jin Dynasty, some women moved south to Henan, and later returned to the northeast, which was Jianzhou.

But these can only prove that the history of the Savage Jurchen is clear, but the origin of the Jianzhou Jurchen has always been unclear.

Gao Pang was immersed in the ocean of history. Chen Mingtai jumped out of it. It was precisely because he studied the historical achievements that he knew very well that these achievements were not very tenable. After thinking about it, Chen Mingtai wrote a letter to Huo Chong, asking Huo Chong to send troops to the capital and seize the historical materials that were not taken away. If he could study those historical materials, there should be a lot of close combat.

In this letter, Chen Mingtai also told Huo Chong about his ideas on two propaganda routes.

Soon, the rap gentlemen in the teahouse began to sing stories about the emperors in the past two hundred years. In recent years, because Yongzheng was harshly punishing court officials, the entertainment stories about the Qing Dynasty had a market for the people. At the beginning of the rap gentlemen, the people also reacted a little after hearing this.

It turned out that the emperors died casually and tragically because they were not the "real emperors" at all.

As Chen Mingtai expected, as soon as such publicity came out, the people quickly gave an explanation.

However, with an explanation, there will naturally be a question. Many people are curious whether Huo Chong, the emperor who ruled Jiangnan, is a real emperor?

It was already cold at this time, and the people in Jiangnan had a rare opportunity to rest. Although it was during the war, Huo Chong did not impose excessive taxes among the people, and the lives of the people were much easier in this war era.

In addition, the Chinese army has strict military disciplines, just as the military songs sang, pay attention to the three major disciplines and eight points. The people have become accustomed to such an army, so the streets have become much better.

In such a peaceful Jiangnan city, there were suddenly many studios, and many new plays were staged.

The actors do not have any great singing skills, nor are they bright actors. However, the studio does not charge, and the people who are fine at home will go to watch it.

The dramas performed are all dramas, with many narratives, and the singing style is probably less than half. However, the content of the dramas is mainly based on the lives of the people. "White-Haired Girl", "A few more dou", "Let Down Your Whip", "The Waves Washing the Sand", these tell how the people were exploited by landlords and gentry, how the government supported the landlords, and how the mankind oppressed the Han people.

Jiangnan has a tradition of anti-Qingsu, and dramas make the people empathize with it. Seeing Xier's father Yang Bailao was forced to death at the end of the year, many people couldn't help but feel sorry for him. After seeing Xier being snatched away by Huang Shiren, she was forced to be a cow and horse every day, and finally escaped into the mountains and was forced to become a white-haired woman in a difficult environment. The audience burst into tears.

The white-haired girl is the story of the current era. So naturally no one would think that after Xier was tied up by Huang Shiren, she would serve as a mistress in the Huang family who would open her mouth and get out of her clothes. No one would think that Xier would be seen as a person. A lonely woman would fall into her hands, but she would not be bullied by others.

What human rights, what law? In the same era as the white-haired woman, it is something that does not exist at all.

Because of seeing these and understanding these, the audience saw Dachun joining the Chinese Army and returning to the countryside with the troops. All of them had hope.

Sure enough, Brother Dachun first solved Huang Shiren's backer. Huang Shiren knew that the Qing Dynasty could not defeat the Chinese court because of his cunning, so he had a long time to get up with the Qing officials who had colluded with Huang Shiren to oppress the people. He pretended to be a good gentry and wanted to get through it.

The audience saw Huang Shiren suddenly arresting the Qing officials who fled to him because of defeat in order to make a profit and giving them to the Chinese army who pursued him in exchange for his personal peace. They were all shocked by such evil and shrewd human nature and did not know how to react.

Brother Dachun asked Huang Shiren where Xier went. Huang Shiren said that Xier was released by him, and later lived alone and eventually died of illness. He was deceived by Huang Shiren for a while. The Chinese army here was strict in military discipline, so they could not hurt people, nor could they come up and kill people.

Huang Shiren actually successfully speculated and was not liquidated.

At this time, the army heard the legend that a monster, White-haired girl, led a wolf insect and wild beast on the mountain to threaten the people, so they asked Brother Dachun and the locals to lead the team. The army brought weapons to the mountain to wipe out these disasters.

The beasts were indeed driven away along the way, and finally they were able to enter the mountains and find Xier who became a white-haired woman.

When they saw the two met, they recognized each other. The audience couldn't help but applaud.

Not only ordinary people were watching the show, but also some people from gentry families. Seeing this, their reactions were different. A girl gently pointed her feet. She had been putting her feet for more than a year or two years. Although the weather was much better when it was warm, her feet were still uncomfortable when it was cold.

Even so, the girl still sighed. Her companions around her couldn't help but turn their heads and look over, and asked in a low voice: "Qingqing, what are you doing when you sigh?"

"This is life." said the woman named Qingqing, and then sighed.

Sure enough, Xier was rescued, and when she went back, she exposed the collusion between Huang Shiren and the Qing officials. One of the scenes was very cruel and realistic. That is, when the officials came to Huang Shiren, Huang Shiren himself occupied Xier, but forced Xier to sleep with the Qing officials to satisfy the animal desires of the Qing officials.

At the end of the drama, Huang Shiren, who forced the people and colluded with officials, was dragged away and shot, and all the land was confiscated.

Seeing Huang Shiren denying everything, he was convicted in the face of facts. When he was dragged away and shot, Huang Shiren showed his true face and shouted loudly, "You traitors, the Eight Banners will come back to kill them." However, no matter how Huang Shiren struggled to death, he was dragged away and shot in the end.

There was applause and cheers in the audience. The people were not scared by Huang Shiren's threat, but were happy to get rid of bullies like Huang Shiren.

Qingqing, who was in the audience, looked at Huang Shiren on the stage with contempt, and then looked at her companions beside her. The companions on the left frowned slightly, while the one on the right sighed. Qingqing didn't say anything and continued to watch the drama.

The drama did not end with Huang Shiren's destruction. As soon as Huang Shiren died, his tycoon Mu Renzhi exposed the viciousness of other gentry he knew in order to survive. Based on the evidence, the troops eliminated the remaining gentry together.

Brother Dachun was with Xier, whom he had never forgotten, and became the captain of the village work team. He and the local people participated in the land reform of the court, destroyed the old land deeds, and made a new contract. He became the people of the new era.

At the end of the drama, the storyteller, who has been appearing in this new drama mode, and has been speaking from the past and the next, stood up and said loudly to everyone watching the drama: "This is, in the old era, people were forced into ghosts, and in the new era, ghosts were turned into humans. If you think that collusion with the government can cover the sky with one hand, then underestimate the will of heaven. The way of heaven is good for reincarnation, and the heaven will spare who? Once the wise king comes out of the world, all the ghosts and monsters will scatter!..."

Listening to the cheers of the people below, the young companion who was already sighing sighed again and wanted to get up and leave.

Qingqing didn't move. Seeing that Qingqing and others were not leaving, the young companion sat back in the seat and asked, "Why don't you leave?"

"I want to watch the big waves wash away the sand." Qingqing replied.

"I want to see that I have collected three or five dou more," replied the companion on the other side.

"What's so good about it? You'll kill the gentry." The young companion replied unhappily.

Qingqing looked at her companion like this, suddenly stood up and pulled the two of them, "Go out and have some breath."

Although this studio does not charge, it is also a ticket. After the young people came out, they went to the newly built public toilet first. Then they came back to wash their hands in the sink on the bottom floor of the newly built fountain pool, so that they could buy some snacks cleanly and refreshedly, and talk while eating.

"Siyu, you're taking the show seriously," another male companion advised.

Qingqing chewed the snacks made from malt sugar, without saying a word, just looking at Wang Siyu who was annoyed.

Wang Siyu nodded, "We have to rely on officials, we should be with the court. Just watching this play, I'm angry."

Qingqing couldn't help but chuckled, but didn't say anything. Wang Siyu turned around and looked at Qingqing, "What are you laughing at?"

Qingqing couldn't help laughing again, "Haha, do you think if you were asked to lead the team to the village, would you let Huang Shiren go?"

The two men were stunned. They thought Qingqing would say something else, but they wanted Qingqing to throw out the most realistic problem directly. Yes, what would they do if the two became officials now?

Qingqing looked at her two companions and felt that men were really unreliable. She was obviously going to be someone else's official, but she was still so pretentious. What was going to make a fuss? Now the drama is being staged, and she is going to tell everyone in Jiangnan that the Chinese imperial court is going to do this!

If you don’t follow the court’s intention, do you really think the Chinese court is a waste? Do you really think that the Chinese army, which relies on the army to create such a large territory, will let go of traitors who are scattered?

But since the men don’t work, there is no way to borrow money. Qingqing did not continue to say anything, but pointed to the venue, "Listen, it’s the beginning!"

The three of them returned to the theater with their own thoughts, and the performance was "The Great Waves Washing the Sand". Qingqing had heard of this drama for a long time and wanted to watch it very much, so she watched it very carefully.

It must be said that this drama is obviously not as popular as the white-haired girl. Although the story is also tortuous, it completely tells the affairs of the upper class, at least the scholarly class.

What Qingqing cares about is not such a simple story, but the part about the upper floor building mentioned by the lecturer.

It is not clearly stated. The inner foundation of this story is the choice of young people who have learned literature and martial arts and bought from the imperial family.

These young people all have the same labor force that can be sold.

Labor is an indispensable condition for any social production, but labor becomes a commodity only under certain historical conditions. On the one hand, the owner of the labor force must be a free person, so that he can freely sell his labor force; on the other hand, he has lost all means of production and has nothing freely. He must sell his labor force to live. These two conditions did not exist in the process of human society, nor did they appear with the emergence of commodity production. In the late feudal society, due to the polarization of small producers, especially through the primitive accumulation of capital, a large number of hired workers who sell their labor force were formed, and the relationship between capital and wage labor was formed. Therefore, capital is a historical category, and it is prerequisite for labor to become commodities.

In "The Great Waves and Shas", the main characters are scholars, so they have labor force to sell them. Although the purpose is to sell them to those who are powerful, they exchange labor for the opportunity to gain power.

People who don’t understand these things are just watching the performances, and Qingqing is really interested in watching the content of the drama.
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