Chapter 537
Zhao Bing knew very well what Ying Jieyan wanted to express at this time, that was to let him follow the example of Zhou Gong Ji Dan to implement benevolent politics, move people's hearts with morality, and thus complete immigration, but not to use dangerous and intimidating methods to achieve his goal. However, he did not know that the little emperor in front of him was not just listening to their classes and reading a few books. In fact, he had many "strange theories" in his mind that were difficult for people at this time, and had a unique interpretation of Zhou Gong's governance methods.
In Zhao Bing's opinion, Zhou Gong's so-called benevolent politics is actually more like a modern political show, and it is no different from those politicians in the general election. The first step is to fool, fool the common people, and deceive new subjects. As the saying goes: If you drink well, you are afraid of deep alleys. If you want to do benevolent politics, and if you don't do some publicity, how can you know? Therefore, the Zhou Dynasty's loudspeaker began to broadcast.
Duke Zhou led a group of people to shout and spread leaflets on the land of the Shang Dynasty to promote the Zhou Dynasty's progressive policies: "Ladies, gentlemen, old men and women, brothers and sisters, our old Ji family in the Zhou Dynasty serves the people! Since our predecessors, Gu Gong, Father of the Father of the Father of the Ji Li, and King Wen, they have loved the people as much as their sons, so that the world will be restored. You can follow us with confidence. Those who eat delicious food and drink spicy food can live a good life!"
Ji Danke is a genius in this field and is useless to eliminate King Zhou. In addition to promoting himself directly, he is a ruthless blow to King Zhou. He also makes King Zhou so embarrassed that he will not stop until he is destroyed. He will not stop even if he is not a dog or a cat. First, he spread rumors that King Zhou, a gangster, rapes women, occupys territory, harms the old man, dissects children, sells yellow, takes drugs, and makes money in absent mind. He digs out the graves of the household, kicks the widow's door, beats the blind and scolds the mute, and bullies the honest man. He is a big bad guy!
Of course, small publicity alone is not enough, and there is also a big news conference to make some big noise. At that time, the court and the country attached great importance to sacrifices, which was equivalent to the large-scale religious ceremonies in some countries and regions. Therefore, Duke Zhou brought people to slaughter animals, held a grand sacrificial ceremony, and declared King Zhou's crime to the heaven, saying that he was a military force, killed Bigan and other ministers, insulted the goddess Nuwa, favored the fairy Daji, created wine pools and meat forests, and carried out large-scale gunfires and baking. How cruel and tyrannical he was, of course he was recognized by the Yin people.
In this way, Duke Zhou's propaganda worked, King Zhou's reputation became worse, and the Ji family's image became better. Next, the second step is to give everyone some benefits. Why do practical things? It is very simple. Just talking but not practicing is a fake style, and practicing just practicing is a fool style. The brothers of the Ji family were really willing to book, open the treasure warehouse, and send big gift bags from door to door. Historical books say that Duke Zhou and his "scattered wealth from Lutai, millet from Kuoqiao, and big money from all over the world." This is in sharp contrast to King Zhou. King Zhou of Shang made money, King Wu of Zhou was a scattered wealth, one was a robber, and the other was a philanthropist. Let you tell me who should we support?
Zhao Bing, who is from the modern era, is very familiar with this method of smearing opponents by propaganda, and is similar to the way he has been secretly implementing it. The only difference is his own official show. Now it seems that he has done more and said less, so that the "name of benevolence and righteousness" is limited to circulating internally and not known to the outside world. According to the intention of Jingjieyan, in addition to holding a press conference, he also has to promote the people of Quanzhou and even the people of the whole country, so that the people of the Song Dynasty and all ethnic groups around the world can see the ugly faces of the Mongolians and realize that they are their great saviors...
"Zhou Gong vomits and feeds, the whole world returns to his heart!" Zhao Bing suddenly remembered an idiom about Zhou Gong again, but it felt different when he said it at this moment. He always felt that this was a good thing, but he felt very disgusted in his heart.
"Your Majesty understands it. At this time, you should follow Duke Zhou and call on the people of Quanzhou to move to Qiongzhou. One is to take refuge, and the other is to contribute to the restoration of the country!" Ying Jieyan nodded and said with relief.
"Sir, if I one day lose and become the king of the fallen country in the Song Dynasty, will my actions be listed as one of the crimes and let future generations punish you?" Zhao Bing asked with a wry smile after hearing this. He knew that even if you make a show, it would be good. If you make a show too much, it would be no different from being a real one. It is precisely: a fake gentleman is better than a real villain. If you repeat a lie ten thousand times, it becomes the truth, but this can only be done on the basis of victory.
But the problem also comes. Those who are interested will definitely find that the kings of the fallen country in various dynasties and generations are particularly bad. In history, their bad deeds, such as King Jie of Xia, King Zhou of Shang, and later King You of Zhou, Emperor Yang of Sui, etc., are all so bad that they are so bad that they are smoked. But is it really true? Later generations have no way of knowing what they have had at that time, so they can only search for the truth of their actions from the pile of old papers, but the answers they get are often that this guy is really bad and should have died long ago.
"Where is Your Majesty saying this? Your Majesty is in his prime, and he is the leader of the people to fight against the Yuan Dynasty and restore the country. He has won great victories one after another. He will definitely leave a good reputation in the history books!" Ying Jieyan's heart was sank after hearing this. He suddenly thought that in the eyes of the little emperor, he must have doubts about the existence of those sages who were not like saints, and he must have doubts about what Mr. Zhou, who knew little.
"Haha, sir, don't comfort me!" Zhao Bing curled his lips and chuckled, "I know that history is written by the victors. If it falls one day, I will become the remnant thief of the Southern Dynasty in history books. Today's affairs are to lead 100,000 people to plunder Quanzhou's property with the help of the pseudo-official officials Ying Jieyan and others, and kill hundreds of Da Shang, and countless residents were injured and killed. Afterwards, Emperor Yuan sent troops to recover the city. His evacuation and coercion of tens of thousands of people to move away, destroying the city of Shitong Port, a city of prosperous trade for hundreds of years, resulting in the decline of people's livelihood and the grand occasion will not be restored for a thousand years!"
In order to attack others and to raise themselves, new rulers usually waste the old rulers worthless, throw garbage and splash dirty water on their bodies. How can they be said unpleasant? The old rulers have shortcomings and mistakes, and then they are exaggerated and fabricated by the new rulers, and then they cannot listen. The masses do not understand the truth, and what the new leader says is. Even if those who understand the truth, they dare not expose it, and there is no need to expose it. New officials take office for three reasons, and be the common people, follow it and get some benefits first! So lies become facts and become historical facts recorded in historical books. These negative things may be despised by current scholars, and therefore are ashamed to write down the paper, but it is really not a secret in later generations.
"Your Majesty's intention is that someone tampered with the history books?" Ying Jieyan said in surprise.
"Yes, I suspect that it was Duke Zhou who instructed the historian to tamper with the history books, so...hehe!" Zhao Bing took a sip of tea and nodded, and said with a dry smile.
"This is absolutely impossible. How can Your Majesty doubt the ancestors?" Although Your Majesty did not say the second half, Ying Jie Yanye had heard that the young emperor had doubts about Duke Zhou, and he was a sage highly praised by Confucius and Mencius. The etiquette advocated by Confucianism was also based on the Zhou rituals he formulated. If Your Majesty completely denies Duke Zhou, it would be a fatal blow to Confucianism. He now firmly denied His Majesty's statement.
"Haha, I am not the only one who doubts this. Mr. Luo Mi, a historian at that time, must be familiar with it. He once wrote an article saying: Zhou built a large palace, built a wine forest and a meat pond, favored women, imprisoned wise men, and abused loyalty. These are exactly the same as Jie's crimes. Any Jie's crimes are Zhou's crimes, and Jie and Zhou do not distinguish between them. These are all imitations." Zhao Bing said with a smile.
He was not familiar with Duke Zhou, but he was very familiar with King Zhou of Shang. He saw "The Romance of the Gods" in his previous life since he was a child. He was familiar with the characters, but Zhou of Shang was very impressed. He was in a rebellious period and he also learned about this specifically. He didn't know it if he didn't read it. He was shocked when he saw it. It turned out that this guy could be ranked among the most unfair celebrities in history, just like Cao Cao, but one of them was deceived by history books, and the other was cheated by a novel.
"Mr. Guiyu's minister certainly knew about it, and he had read his book "History of the Road", but he did not dare to agree with the descriptions of it. It can be said that it has mixed praise and criticism. Your Majesty should not believe the whole story of his family!" Luo Mi passed away for only a hundred years, and Ying Jieyan certainly knew about him. He liked to travel. He once traveled to Yanling Mountain and lived in Xiangyang for 11 years. Since historical books in history rarely recorded ancient historical events, in order to make up for ancient history, he learned various classics, and even Dao Collection and Wei Book, and accumulated decades of achievements. During the Qiandao period of Emperor Xiaozong of the Song Dynasty, he wrote "History of the Road" to record the events of ancient Han Dynasty. Among them, there was a special volume of the story about Jie of Xia and Zhou of Shang. He just didn't expect that the little emperor had read his monograph and hurriedly denied the Tao.
"Sir, don't be in a hurry to deny it!" Zhao Bing knew that his words touched Ying Jieyan's pain point, which aroused his vigilance, but he himself did not want to turn academic disputes into political factional struggles. He poured tea for Ying Jieyan himself and said, "The Book of Documents and Records of the Grand Historians are all for me to read and study by several masters. They are also classics recognized by Confucians and historians in the past dynasties. Is it right?"
"Yeah, not bad." Ying Jieyan nodded. Although he didn't know why His Majesty asked, these two books were indeed classics. They can be said to be a must-read book for every scholar, and they cannot be denied.
"The first to list Zhou's crimes came from the "Shangshu" written by the Zhou people. There were only six of them. In the Warring States Period, twenty-seven things were added, twenty-three things were added, the Western Han Dynasty, one thing was added, and one thing was added in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and thirteen things were added in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, so Zhou Shang became a cruel tyrant that had never been seen since ancient times. Right?" Zhao Bing spread his hands and shrugged. Of course, this data was not obtained by Zhao Bing carefully studying the version of the "Shangshu" from previous dynasties, but mentioned in the materials he had read in his previous life, so he took it out and bluffed people.
"This... this minister didn't look at it in detail!" Ying Jie was stunned for a moment, and realized that he had studied hard enough, but he didn't read as thoroughly as His Majesty. He could only admit it awkwardly.
"Zhong Zigong, a disciple of Confucius, also used one word to explain the essence of the phenomenon of destruction over a thousand years: Zhou's badness is not as good as that. Therefore, a gentleman is evil and a downer, and all the evils in the world are returned. Although this statement has other meanings, it also means that people attribute all the sins they have seen and all the sins that people can imagine to be imaginary to Emperor Xin." Zhao Bing said again, he knew that this sentence was to warn those in power not to be losers, otherwise the result would be extremely tragic. However, in Chinese history, although the end of a king who lost his country was extremely pitiful, there were unique things like Emperor Xin who were wantonly smeared.
"Well, Zigong did say this, but why did Duke Zhou do this?" Ying Jieyan had to admit that the little emperor was right. He refuted silently. After so many years of education in Confucianism, he still couldn't accept it, so he said in annoyance.
"Sir, don't worry, the saint is still human after all, how strange is it to use some means to achieve his goal!" Zhao Bing said unconsciously, "When King Ji Li of Zhou expanded greatly, attacking Shihu Zhirong, Yitu Zhirong, attacking Cheng, and attacking Guifang. It aroused the alertness of Emperor Wending and killed King Ji Li of Zhou. Zhou Houchang, who succeeded Ji Li as the king, conquered Darong, attacked Chong, and attacked Li, which aroused the dissatisfaction of Emperor Xin. Shang and Zhou fought against Li, detained Zhou Houchang and imprisoned Zhou Houchang. Although the historical books all say that Emperor Xin had the conditions to release Xibochang, I thought Emperor Xin should have killed Zhou Houchang. Thinking about the two generations of Zhou kings who died at the hands of the Shang king, Shang and Zhou became dead enemies, just like the current dynasty and Yuan Dynasty!"
"Your Majesty thought it was Zhou who was defeated by Shang, and thus fabricated rumors that Zhou Zhou of Shang was cruel and unkind?" Ying Jieyan knew that this was indeed recorded in history books, but it was the first time he heard that King Wen died at the hands of Emperor Zhou of Shang, Emperor Xin, but with the lessons of the past, he did not dare to argue and let it go. Compared with the current situation, there are really similarities, but his side is more difficult and dangerous.
"Haha, I think the successor King Wu of Zhou was preparing to avenge revenge and attack Shang. However, Emperor Xin accumulated great power, which made King Wu of Zhou extremely afraid, which made the Zhou people not go in everything to slander King Zhou, who was stronger than him, who was like a god, to establish a strategic alliance, aroused the common hatred of the soldiers, and relieved his fear and panic. However, when he first visited Mengjin, the princes all said that they could attack, but King Wu still did not dare to send troops because of fear. On the eve of the Battle of Muye, King Wu of Zhou was still trembling and did not dare to respond. It was Lu Shang who forced him to fight, so he had no choice but to fight the rest." Zhao Bing analyzed with a smile.
"Well, saying that evil, exposing his actions, and promoting his tyranny can indeed make people think of change because of fear in their hearts, and thus forming an alliance to fight against violence, but this is also a last resort, but this may not be what Duke Zhou did!" Ying Jieyan was unconsciously guided by the little emperor and crawled into the circle, stroked his beard and pondered for a moment.
Chapter completed!