After Guo Zhiqi returned to Beijing, Zhou Shixianghara wanted to cross the river to Yangzhou to inspect the situation of the refugees in Jiangbei, but received a memorial from Guangdong Governor Liao Ruixiang to resign. .

Zhou Shixiang was very worried and thought that Liao Ruixiang was sick and could not take office, so he resigned. Therefore, he wondered whether he would take Liao Ruixiang to Jiangnan to recuperate. He remembered that the old man who was imprisoned for "anti-poetry" was Shaoxing, Zhejiang.

Last year, Duke Xiang of Song got an acute illness, which really made Zhou Shixiang worry for a while. Now Liao Ruixiang is sick again, which also makes him anxious.

Zhou Shixiang was a nostalgic person. Duke Xiang of Song and Liao Ruixiang were two literati who had been respected since he started his army. Now, one is the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and the other is the governor of Guangdong. He is working hard and can't be said to have no intention of doing anything. No matter which of the two people is wrong, Zhou Shixiang is uneasy.

However, after opening Liao Ruixiang's memorial, Zhou Shixiang was stunned for a moment and was immediately surprised. Because Liao Ruixiang's resignation from the governor of Guangdong was not because of his physical reasons, but because he admitted that he had followed Zhou Shixiang for several years and was tired of being in a large amount of government affairs every day, so he did not want to be an official anymore, but wanted to do academic research.

What Liao Ruixiang said about doing knowledge was to propose that he organizes people to re-revise the "History of Yuan Dynasty".

This is really a big deal.

However, Zhou Shixiang was a little confused because "History of Yuan Dynasty" was edited and compiled as early as the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, so why should I re-revise it? Isn't this a feast? Moreover, studying history is not a matter of vain, it is actually an extremely large project. Liao Ruixiang puts a good governor and wants to devote himself to this major project with an old age. Compared with the study of history, the government affairs that the governor has to deal with is probably as easy as it can be.

Zhou Shixiang was extremely confused, but after carefully reading Liao Ruixiang's memorial, his brows frowned deeply.

After a long time, he put down Liao's memorial, but what he thought about was still the big problem mentioned in this memorial. A big problem that was deliberately forgotten or ignored at the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, which was deliberately forgotten or ignored by the Yuan Dynasty, could the Yuan Dynasty be used to revise history for it and be regarded as the orthodox dynasty of China.

Liao Ruixiang believed that when Emperor Taizu Hongwu raised an army, he used the slogan of "expelling the Tartars and restoring China", and regarded the Mongol Yuan as a barbarian. The manifesto said that the way of heaven is good and China must be extended. Then the Ming Dynasty, based on "expelling the Tartars", inherited the orthodox status of the Song Dynasty, while the Mongol Yuan was an alien regime and could not be regarded as a traditional Chinese dynasty at all. Therefore, there were major mistakes in the "History of Yuan" compiled in the early Ming Dynasty and must be re-written, and the Yuan Dynasty was regarded as a foreign regime such as Liao, Jin, and Xixia, rather than a unified traditional Chinese dynasty.

In order to prove his point of view, Liao Ruixiang took the "Red Turban Army Song" which is now a Taiping Army military song. The song bluntly said that "holding a steel knife with ninety-nine steel knives, killing Hu'er before stopping." The Ming army was the group and successor of the Red Turban Army. So obviously, in the eyes of the Ming army, the Mongolians were Hu'er. A dynasty founded by Hu'er was regarded as orthodox by the Han dynasty that overthrew their history and sacrificed their emperors. Isn't this a big deal about the world!

Liao Ruixiang believed that this was not the original intention of Emperor Taizu, because Emperor Taizu bluntly said in his letter to Goryeo that "Yuan is not my kind, and he has been in charge of China for more than a hundred years. Heaven is disgusted with his misfortune and lust, and he also dies of life. China has been in chaos for eighteen years. When the heroes first arose, I was a commoner in the right hand of Huai, and the violent soldiers suddenly rose up to chase Hu Jun from the north, cleared Hua Xia, and restored the old border of China."

In the letter to Japan, he also said: "God loves life, but hates unkind people. He has lost control of China since the Zhao Song Dynasty, and the northern barbarians entered and occupied it. He spread the Hu customs to make fishy smell, and the Chinese style of the earth is still unsuccessful. Who would not be angry for a hundred years?"?

The letter from Chameng State said: "In the past, our China was stolen by the Hu people for a hundred years, and then the barbarians spread all over the world and abolished the Yiquan of our China."

The letter from Java was given to the Javanese: "China is orthodox, and the Hu people have been under control for more than a hundred years. After the rules and regulations are exposed, the crown and shoes are reversed. I will raise an army to fight against it."

During the Hongwu period, the edict of revitalizing culture and education issued in the world even said: "Since Hu Yuan entered China, the barbarians and barbarians were fishy and polluted China, and the schools were abandoned, and people were distracted. Since the war and chaos have led to people's practice of struggle, they have rarely known etiquette and morality."

When the Ming army launched a large-scale northern expedition, Emperor Taizu also stated in the "Edict of the Central Plains" that "Since ancient times, emperors came to rule the world, and all Chinese were in the inner world to control barbarians, and barbarians lived outside to serve China. It was not known that barbarians lived in China and controlled the world."

Liao listed many edicts from the Hongwu period to prove to Zhou Shixiang that Emperor Taizu had always regarded the Mongolian Yuan as a Hu people and barbarians. But why did he still need to compile the Yuan Dynasty in the early Ming Dynasty, recognize the Yuan Dynasty as the orthodox dynasty in China, worship 16 Chinese emperors from Fuxi to Kublai Khan, and also worship Mongolian generals such as Mu Huali, Boerhu, Borshu, Chilaowen.

Zhou Shixiang was also strange about this question. Why did the Ming Dynasty, which was upright to overthrow the Tartars and restore China, recognize the object of their overthrow after its founding, regard the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty as a normal change of dynasty, rather than the racial resistance at the beginning.

The results of the two are the same, but the essence is completely different. Compared with the Han people's rebellion due to a century of oppression, the nature is different from heaven and earth, which seriously undermines the sufferings suffered by the Han people and beautifies the invaders of foreign races.

Liao Ruixiang's understanding of this is the fault of the literati and Confucian thought. In his opinion, the civil servants who majored in "History of Yuan Dynasty" were different from the Ming army generals who rose up and resisted. They were close to the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty. During the Ming Dynasty's attack on the Yuan army, a large number of Han people only respected the Yuan Dynasty as orthodox and refused to recognize the legitimacy of the Ming Dynasty.

For example, Zhang Chang, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue of the Yuan Dynasty, accepted the position of the Ming Dynasty after being under house arrest by Emperor Taizu. However, this person was in Cao's camp and was in the Han Dynasty. He had been secretly colluding with the Yuan Dynasty. Later, the matter was exposed and Emperor Taizu sent someone to interrogate him. Zhang Chang calmly wrote eight big words: "Being in the south of the Yangtze River, the mind is blocking the north."

For example, Wang Baobao, the general of the Mongolian Yuan who was called "a strange man" by Zhu Yuanzhang, also had a Han bureaucrat named Cai Ziying under his tent. This man was loyal to the Yuan Dynasty. Cai Ziying was captured by the Ming army, but he vowed not to surrender to the Ming Dynasty and did not kneel down to Zhu Yuanzhang. Instead, he cried day and night, missing the old master of the Yuan Dynasty.

Even founding civil officials such as Li Shanchang, Liu Ji, and Song Lian all affirmed rather than denied the Mongolian Yuan. The entire civil officials group in the court had this attitude, so what could Emperor Taizu? Only by acknowledging the orthodox status of the Yuan Dynasty, could the large number of officials who had served in the Yuan Dynasty clear away the stains of the past in the early Ming Dynasty, and the Confucians who were extremely flattering to the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty continue to sell their ideas in the Ming Dynasty and continue to live a good life of superiors.

Liao Ruixiang believed that the Mongol Yuan was extremely cruel to the Han people, but was extremely tolerant to Han scholars. This was also the reason why so many Han scholars swear to serve the Yuan Dynasty to the death at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. This was very similar to the beginning of the Qing Dynasty's entry. It was precisely because the Qing army completely collected the officials of the Ming Dynasty and recognized the status of the gentry of the Ming Dynasty, so that they quickly occupied most of China. Even after the fifth year of Shunzhi, the expedition against the Ming army in the south was entirely dominated by these surrendered Han gentry.

Therefore, after learning from the pain, Liao Ruixiang deeply realized why the world quickly fell into the hands of the alien race in Manzhou after Jiashen, which was entirely due to the incorrect understanding of the Mongolian Yuan in the first half of Yuan Dynasty.

If the Mongol Yuan had firmly settled the Mongol Yuan in the early Ming Dynasty, there would never be the situation today. Acknowledging the Yuan Dynasty means recognizing that the foreign race had a legal occupation of China, and that the Han bureaucrats who served the Mongol Yuan were not traitors, and that the rise and fall of the Ming Dynasty was a normal change of dynasty. Then, Han scholars influenced by Confucianism can accept another foreign race invasion again, so as to be psychologically stable and be traitors with confidence.

A country can be destroyed, but a religion cannot be destroyed. This is the basis and theory of Confucianism for two thousand years.

Liao Ruixiang said a lot in his memorials. Zhou Shixiang saw the criticism of Confucianism from it. Although Liao did not fully propose the concept of nationalism, it was obvious that he had reached the threshold, but there was still a big gap from the inner world. After all, Liao was still a traditional literati of this era, and was not a later generation who accepted the view of nation-state like Zhou Shixiang.

But it is extremely rare for Liao Ruixiang to see this as a traditional literati of this era. In the Ming Dynasty, no one dared to doubt the orthodox nature of "History of Yuan Dynasty" and dared to deny the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty. In this regard, Liao was the first person.

The times shape a person and also shape human thoughts. Zhou Shi believed that Liao Ruixiang dared to propose the theory of Mongols and Yuan Dynasty and demanded the revision of "History of Yuan Dynasty", which was entirely the influence of the Chinese rebellion since the Jiashen period on him.

Why is the situation today? Why are those gentry rushing to surrender to the Qing Dynasty and scrambling to shave their hair first? The reason is not because the Ming Dynasty recognized the Yuan Dynasty, so the Qing Dynasty, a foreign race, could also be an orthodox dynasty.

However, Liao's views have great limitations of the times, such as the revision of the Yuan Dynasty in the early Ming Dynasty and the recognition of the Yuan Dynasty as the orthodox dynasty in China, and the civil servants who were close to the Mongolian Yuan or enjoyed the benefits under the Mongolian Yuan rule, rather than Emperor Taizu.

If Zhu Yuanzhang did not agree, with the founding king and his decisive methods, Zhou Shixiang would not think that Song Lian and other officials who majored in "History of Yuan Dynasty" would dare to admit the Yuan Dynasty. This matter ultimately comes down to the embodiment of power and conspiracy, or a reflection of Confucianism.

This Confucianism is a typical ostrich idea. If you have no way to resist, you will bury your head and pretend that you have not heard anything or seen it. As long as this outsider recognizes Confucianism and continues to respect Confucius, thousands of Confucian scholars will regard it as their own people.

When the Qing Dynasty entered the pass, this idea was once again in use.

Perhaps, Zhu Yuanzhang himself did not realize the legacy of the official history of the Yuan Dynasty, and the sacrifices to the Mongols such as Kublai Khan. He might simply want to use this method to win over the gentry in the north, or he really thought that he was following the will of heaven, or he might be really confused by the thousands of scholars. This is the flaw of the times. In an era of "prosperity" of Confucianism, even the founding kings could not break free from the influence of Confucianism, but instead wanted to win over and use Confucianism.

Zhu Yuanzhang, no matter how powerful he was, was also a feudal ruler.

The edicts he gave to various countries and the edicts to his subjects all said that the Mongol Yuan was a Hu people, a foreign race, and it was probably because of his nature. It was said directly according to his thoughts. However, the official admitted that the Mongol Yuan Yuan was compiled. In Zhou Shixiang's opinion, the grassroots emperor did not take the historical review seriously. The 331-day completion of the "History of Yuan" is probably a portrayal of the true thoughts of the founding emperor. However, he did not take it seriously, but Confucianism seriously, and those gentry and landlords who forced to worship whom were the ones were taken seriously.

Re-revising the Yuan Dynasty is the best way to clear the thoughts that Liao Ruixiang understands. He simply linked the situation in China today with the "History of Yuan Dynasty". Zhou Shixiang summarized his views, that is, the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty is not China, or the Yuan Dynasty is not China.

The Mongol Yuan was definitely not China, there is no doubt about this. The Yuan Dynasty was founded by the barbaric nation of Mongolia. Since its inception, the Yuan Dynasty has never regarded the Han people as their people, but regarded the Han people as people who destroyed their country. They wantonly massacred, plundered, and committed all evil, and completely regarded themselves as conquerors of the Han people. This kind of regime, that is, those Confucian scholars can shamelessly call it China. If it were the oppressed people, they would be just a fucking fuck.

The Qing Dynasty and the Mongolian Yuan were not similar, but were exactly the same. They both oppressed and enslaved the Han people and attracted Han scholars. Scholars were natural elites of the Han people. They had all the resources and the right to speak. If these people studied history, the consequences would naturally be to praise the foreign races. Otherwise, how could they settle down?

However, it is a hard time for the people. A small number of people have the privilege of massacre most people and enslave most people, but their own scholars call it the unified dynasty. What do the people think and do?

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, thousands of Han people gathered on the edge of the Yellow River, making the strongest voice of China's decline for a century. Now, thousands of Han people gathered under Zhou Shixiang's command and also made a sound of revenge.

Neither the former nor the latter are scholars, but people they regard as ants.

Even if Zhou Shixiang became an emperor, he would never be an emperor in the feudal era. Therefore, unlike Zhu Yuanzhang, he decided to revise the "History of Yuan" and completely deny the Mongolian Yuan. Not only did he revise the "History of Yuan", but he also moved Kublai Khan from the imperial temple and moved Mu Huali's group of Mongolians from the temples that worshipped famous officials of all dynasties. In addition, he decided to promote the theory of the Mongols and Yuan Dynasty and the theory of the Qing Dynasty, in order to deny Confucianism and Manchu.

Only by letting the people of the world know that the Mongol Yuan and the Qing Dynasty were not China, the next question would be simple and clear. Those Han gentry who continued to serve the Qing Dynasty would either return to China's arms or die with the reputation of a traitor.

As for the so-called denial of Yuan and Qing in the previous life, it was equivalent to separating Mongolia, Northeast China, Xinjiang, Tibet and other places. In Zhou Shixiang's opinion, these places have never belonged to any ethnic group in history, nor are they private property of any regime. Although the Yuan and Qing dynasties ruled these places, the Han, Tang and Ming dynasties in China also ruled these places. Why do you think that Yuan and Qing are not China, which is equivalent to admitting that these places are not Chinese?

Whether it is the Mongolian Yuan or the Qing Dynasty, they are all the history of the fall of the Han people. History has happened and the facts cannot be changed. So we should be brave enough to admit it, rather than not facing it, not being ashamed of it, but being proud of it.

Failure is not scary, conquering is not scary, what is scary is that our civilization is interrupted and our inheritance is interrupted. What is scary is that facing the conquerors' butcher knife, our scholars are praising it loudly.

We must take back what we have lost.

Zhou Shixiang couldn't bear the emotions in his heart for a moment, so he wrote a pen to reply to Liao Ruixiang, asking him to go to Beijing today to preside over the revision of "History of Yuan Dynasty". Later, in the name of the Grand Commander, he ordered Yangzhou, Jiangyin, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Ganzhou, Nanchang, Taicang and other places who were once massacred by the Qing army. He investigated the names of the victims who died in the Qing army's massacre, and unified the book and erected a monument to commemorate them.

In the Nandu, the personal army also received an order to "organize" officials from six ministries, big and small ministers to visit the atrocities of the Qing army in various places. Books such as "Ten Diaries of Yangzhou" and other books that record the atrocities of the Qing army were also collected from the public in large quantities, and were uniformly printed and published by the official, becoming a must-read book for students at all levels of schools.

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