Zhao Xin really didn't understand how Liu Yong could say such words with confidence. If he hadn't seen the other party's eyes clear, he would have thought that Liu Yong was mentally insane.

"Mr. Zhao, if someone else changes me, I, Mr. Liu, are crazy, but every word I say is heartfelt."

Liu Yong looked sincere, and his tone was half kind and half stern, and continued: "The emperor is a wise and powerful lord in the world, and he has a wealth of 100 million people under his command. How many people are there in Beihai Town? Even if you count the border residents of various tribes who have been deeply favored by the emperor for generations, is there a 500,000? Even if you have captured all the Japanese people, it will be only tens of millions. The so-called "shocking of a swaying tree" refers to the current situation between the two sides.

Destroying a country is different from seizing land. Now, Mr. Zhao, from Yaquessa to Ningguta, from the east of the sea to Heilongjiang City, seems to have captured a large piece of land, but that is just a small piece of the world. In order to pacify Jinchuan in the United States, the imperial court fought for nearly thirty years and raised hundreds of thousands of troops. How did Mr. Zhao compare with Sharobin and Sonom? Can you fight?

Even if your big iron ship is invincible across the sea, can you drive on land?! If the court issued a ban on sea, where do you go to find food and grass supply?! Where do you go to earn money to support soldiers?! My emperor is as kind as heaven. For the sake of the coastal people, he cannot bear to ban the sea and cut off his livelihood, which makes your big iron ship take advantage of loopholes. But do you really think the court dare not?!!”

After Liu Yong finished speaking, he saw Zhao Xin and Cao Peng beside him all looked shocked and looked demented, thinking that my words were about to be said to Zhao Thief.

The background of his words was a royal sent by Qianlong last month, and if it really didn't work, he could only adopt a strategy of pleading. In fact, the conditions offered by Qianlong were far more than that. His upper limit was to raise the flag and promote the prince, and he inherited it. He chose a daughter to marry a prince, and the price was Zhao Xin to guard Yaksa for the Qing Dynasty and fight to the death with Rakshasa.

Na Qitai stared at Zhao Xin in a flash, and saw the other party frowning and squinting, with a weird expression.

Cao Peng, who was sitting next to Zhao Xin, finally couldn't hold back and sneered, "Mr. Liu, do you still remember the clothes of the Han people? The mountains and rivers are so beautiful that they are now fishy. You scholars don't want to be good people and insist on being dogs for the Qing Dynasty. You, Lord. Liu and his son, are really a role model for Han scholars! Throughout history, many heroes and patriots in Shandong have generously sang to resist the invasion of foreign races. How could you have such a thing as you?!"

As soon as this statement was made, several Eight Banners generals, including Naqitai, were furious, and some even pulled out their swords and scolded them sternly. For them, Liu Yong was the imperial envoy of the court, representing Qianlong; Cao Peng insulted Liu Yong, which was insulting the emperor.

"Rareless! Who are you? How dare you speak wildly?!"

"Mr. Liu is also a bastard who is not even a good person who can discuss it?! He is a well-known figure in the world! Everyone in the world is convinced of his character, and he is even more comparable to Bao Gong!"

"Now that the Holy Emperor is in power, the Manchu and Han family are all, and there is no difference between barbarians in the world!"

The soldiers of the North Navy behind Zhao Xin had already prepared for a long time. At this time, they took out their pistols from their waists, pointed at the generals and shouted: "Put down the knife! Tell me what about you!"

"I won't let go. If you have the ability, you can beat me to death!"

"Random! Put away the knife!" Liu Yong shouted sternly, looking back at the generals. The light from his triangular eyes made everyone under his command shudder.

When he turned around, he looked calm and looked at Cao Peng and said calmly: "Your surname is Cao, and your words are Hui-like. Is it related to the Cao family in She County?"

"Tsk!" Cao Peng's mouth tilted, thinking that this old fox was really right. Cao Peng's ancestor was the Cao family in She County, Anhui Province, Cao Wen-tiao, the Minister of Revenue who had resigned from his post and was taken advantage of by Liu Yong.

Liu Yong turned his gaze to Zhao Xin and said, "Mr. Zhao, I advise you not to make a fuss about the difference between Manchu and Han. Now even a three-year-old child in Jiangnan knows that Manchu and Han are all in the world, so how can we distinguish between barbarians? If you want to use this to win people's hearts, you may be disappointed."

Zhao Xin smiled and said, "Cao Peng, it's too difficult for Lord Liu to say this. Lord Liu's moral articles are famous throughout the country, and the integrity of father and son and the integrity of the world admire them. Zhu Zi said, "What should I do to do the mean? Zi thought of Zixia and worried about the loss of Taoism and wrote it. It is because the holy spirit inherited the heaven and established the extreme, and the Taoist tradition has come from the beginning. When it is seen in the scriptures, it is the reason why Yao gave it to Shun."

After saying this, the Qing officials present, except for Liu Yong and several civil servants, their faces changed, and the other military generals did not understand what Zhao Xin was saying. Cao Peng was even more confused, thinking, what are you talking about?

"You!" Liu Yong's eyes narrowed, and a cold light suddenly shot out from his eyes and pointed at Zhao Xin. The muscles on his face beat unconsciously. Zhao Xin's words were like a whip, thrusting hard into his heart.

The so-called swearing without swearing is now deeply rooted in three flavors. Zhu Xi was the first person to clearly propose the concept of "Taotong", and what Zhao Xin just mentioned was his explanation of Taotong in "Preface to the Doctrine of the Mean".

Since ancient times, Chinese scholars have always upheld the character of no other than me! Mencius said, "In five hundred years, there will be a king's prosperity, and there will be a famous world... If you want to rule the world, who will be the only one in this world?"

Zhao Xin's words are a clear and criticized person, meaning that although you, Liu Yong, are a so-called great scholar, and although your father and son are called honest, you have lost even the most important Taoist tradition of scholars. What kind of character do you have? The scholars have lost their voice, so what if they are not a bad person?

By the way, the reason why Zhao Xin seems so "learned" is actually due to a deep conversation with Wang Zhong.

In Wang Zhong's view, since the Northern Song Dynasty, with the formation of the "Taotong Concept", scholars all over the world have always practiced the political ideal of "self-responsible with Tao", and have checked and balanced the power of the Taoist discourse and the imperial power representing the rule.

Whether it was Zhu Xi or later Gu Yanwu, Wang Fuzhi, and Huang Zongxi, they all believed that the Taoist system had superiority independent of the rule, and Confucian scholars and officials must have a sense of mission of consciously preserving the "Taotong". In the minds of Confucians, it was a consensus that reason was respected by power. Since the Song and Ming dynasties, Confucian scholars all hoped to rectify the order of the human world according to the ideal of "Taotong" and to incorporate "political system" into the "Taotong", which is the so-called "to be the king Yao and Shun".

Wang Zhong asked Zhao Xin at that time, do you think the literary inquisition was afraid of the scholars, so you were willing to be a slave to the Qing Dynasty?

Zhao Xin's answer was of course yes; not only him, but almost everyone in the time traveling through the crowd thinks so.

But Wang Zhong's next words completely refreshed Zhao Xin's understanding. He said that literary inquisition has been around forever and has been common in all dynasties, but it was the most cruel and tyrannical in this dynasty, and it has been even more distorted since Qianlong ascended the throne.

In the Song Dynasty, which made many Chinese proud, there were countless literary inquisitions. The prison in Zudi, the Wutai poem case, the prison in Tongwenguan, the poem case in Chegaiting, the memorial case in Hu Quan, the Li Guang's "Little History" case, the "Jianghu Collection" case, etc., there were about dozens of cases in the Ming Dynasty. Not to mention it.

Yes, if the punishment is not good at the sect and the emperor will not encircle the family, but he will be exiled! He would rather be a dead ghost in the Central Plains than a wandering soul in the border areas. There was no one who did not get sick when he went to the south of the smoky land, and he rarely could endure the amnesty and return home.

However, even when scholars and officials were repeatedly persecuted for literary inquisitions in the Song and Ming dynasties, they still adhered to the Taoist tradition and used all kinds of methods to separate power from the emperor. Why couldn't they play around in the Qing Dynasty?

Wang Zhong told Zhao Xin that the real reason was not literary inquisition, but "integration of governance and the way"!

With the establishment of the image of the emperor's "governing the world with the king" in the Kangxi period, the lofty political ideal of "governing the world with the king" by Confucian scholars was finally shattered. Scholars lost their power to criticize politics and their right to speak, which was why they were so eager to die by literary inquisition.

Those Confucian scholars in the Neo-Confucianism who were worried that "the Tao would not work" played an important role in this. They tried to incorporate the imperial power of the alien race into the Tao through the "classic lectures", which accelerated the Confucianization process of Manchu nobles, especially the emperors of the early Qing Dynasty, and finally completed the historic transformation of "the conquered conquered".

This is why the rules of many bannermen’s families are stricter and more complicated than those of the Han people. Didn’t you say that we are barbarians? I am more polite and etiquette than you Han people! In fact, it is the sinicization of the Manchu powerful and powerful that accelerated the pace of “integration of governance and Taoism”.

In fact, the emperor did not participate in the imperial lectures during the Shunzhi period. However, since Kangxi, as the frequency of imperial lectures gradually increased, the studious Kangxi also gained a certain degree of confidence in the mastery of Confucian culture, and the nature of the imperial lectures quietly changed - from teaching Han culture to a means for the emperor to express his own opinions and teach Han ministers, the role of the scholars as "imperial teacher" was gradually lost.

Kangxi, who was a teacher of Confucian scholars, used "great unification" to reconstruct the debate between China and the barbarians, and used cultural identity to eliminate the racial differences. It was not until the "Dayi Jue Milu" of the Yongzheng period that it was perfected. On this basis, Qianlong also accompanied the political and cultural pressure of literary inquisitions, and eventually monopolized the right to interpret the "Taotong".

This is not just the right to interpret culture, but the right to interpret "truth"!

In the feudal society of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Taoism was an irrefutable truth.

The traditional theory of monarchy was restricted by the Taoist rule lost its rationale for existence, and the consciousness of imperial power developed to the extreme. The emperor controlled the common people with the role of "the master of the world". Any thoughts and remarks that posed a threat to the rule of the Qing court or were not in line with the rule of the emperor were severely cracked down.

In this way, scholars consciously abandon their own right to criticize discourse. The political ideals are gone and spiritual freedom is gone, so scholars can only express their personal thoughts in terms of "privateness", which is why "textual studies" emerged in the Qing Dynasty.

Scholars hope to seek a kind of expression of meaning in textual research, thus forming a new discourse power, and can express personal "private intention" thinking outside of "public will". They use the textual research on Confucian classics to indirectly criticize real politics, and adopt a relatively obscure way of expressing discourse power in textual research. On the one hand, they can get rid of the control of cultural autocracy, but on the other hand, they still involve real politics and play the role of assisting, observing, and correcting real politics.

So what about the mountains and rivers of the homeland, the clothes and clothes of the Han people are just appearances. Cao Peng talked about this with Liu Yong, and he couldn't say anything at all.

In fact, so far, although the Beihai Army defeated the Qing army, defeated the Rakshasa and ravaged the shogunate, whether it was Qianlong, Liu Yong, and many scholars looked down on Beihai Town, so no one came to surrender.

In their eyes, Beihai Town is just a group of uneducated thieves!

The Qing Dynasty at least had "governance and Taoism", and Beihai Town did not even have "Daotong". If it were not preaching the Taoism, it would be an enemy of the scholar class, even more barbaric than the Qing Dynasty!

If Zhao Xin hadn't been tying the tiger skins of the last King Zhao, the people of the Li Dynasty would not even be able to bird him.

Seeing that the temperature was almost done, Zhao Xin decided to continue adding firewood. He stared at Liu Yong's eyebrows and said, "Mr. Liu, my wife asks me to say hello to you."

"What does this mean?"

"This time you are representing Qianlong to negotiate with Beihai Town. Yu Gong said that the two countries will not be killed when they fight, so I'm polite to you. Otherwise..."

"Mr. Zhao has something to say, why bother pretending? Could it be that you still want to arrest me as a prisoner?"

Zhao Xin took a deep breath, slowly exhaled, trying his best to make his tone less impulsive. "More than 200 men, women, young and old men in Xu, Shen, Dongtai, asked me to say hello to you. My wife dare not forget your 'kindness' to them for more than ten years!"

In the flash, Liu Yong, who was well-informed and remembered, suddenly remembered the huge case he handled in Jiangsu academic affairs eleven years ago. He suddenly stood up with a "swish" and pointed at Zhao Xin with an incredible expression on his face.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! "Yizhulou of Dongtai?! Isn't your wife the daughter of Shen Jingdan? What do you have with the Xu family of Dongtai..." Liu Yong suddenly reacted, and he was half sure and half asking, sternly: "No! She is a descendant of Shen Chengzhuo?!"

Zhao Xin smiled faintly and stretched out his thumb and said, "Mr. Liu, you are so good at memorizing! To put it bluntly, everyone says that you have married a wife and three concubines in your life and enjoy the blessings of all people. But why do you still have no children in your sixties?"

In another time and space, the modern historian Ma Zonghuo said in his "Shulin Chronicles": "There are three concubines in Shi'an who can write on their behalf, but they can be confused by the truth, and outsiders cannot distinguish them." Needless to say, Liu Yong has three concubines, but they have been verified.

At this time, Liu Yong was still immersed in his memories of the old incident in the 42nd year of Qianlong, so he instinctively responded: "Hmm?"

Cao Peng did not wait for Zhao Xin to speak, and directly answered: "Mr. Liu, the so-called evil people do not need to do too much. One thing is so immoral that it is enough to lose its children and grandchildren!"

"Um~" Liu Yong felt a fishy sweetness surge in his throat, and a trace of blood was already hanging on the corner of his mouth.

Cao Peng shook off the biggest hidden disease in his heart. Speaking of the fact that there is no son at the age of 60, Liu Yong's biggest regret in his life. He asked himself that he is worthy of being a man in this life. Both father and son were honest and honest, so why did he have no son? His wife stopped talking, and his concubines could not only fight for three. Later, there was no way, so he adopted his nephew Liu Xipeng, but unfortunately he had no future and failed to pass the Jinshi exam.

Cao Peng felt that he was not satisfied, so he added: "If you are said a few words, you will vomit blood. This is the cultivation of a great scholar? Hahaha! If I say a few more words about Qianlong's scandal, would you have to jump into the river?"

A general of the Eight Banners shouted angrily: "The surname is Cao! Don't be arrogant! When the imperial soldiers arrive, you will be full of powder!"

Cao Peng was also angry and slapped the table and said, "Bah! I feel good about myself! My subordinates are short of hard labor, so you can continue fighting!"

"It's so unreasonable!" A Qing official stamped his feet and sighed.

Zhao Xin stood up with a smile, turned to Na Qitai, who was confused and said, "I said before that you can take more than a thousand prisoners of Ningguta this time, and don't have a ransom. People will send them here in ten days, and you will take them away. There is nothing else to talk about!

Go back and tell Qianlong that the Northern Navy is not the White Lotus Sect and the Heaven and Earth Society that divides gold and silver. Within ten years, our red flag will definitely be planted throughout the mountains and rivers!"
Chapter completed!