After some thought, Zhao Bing figured out that whether it was the prevalent Confucianism or the traditional culture of the Mongols that was compatible with ancestors, religions and foreign ideas, it was nothing more than a way to unify thoughts and maintain rule and eliminate the people's awareness of resistance. This can explain why the Mongols could ruthlessly massacre the conquering conquerors in the war of conquest, but they would rather sell their children than follow the order of conquest.

As long as you think through the connotations of the two cultures, you can find that the things advocated by the Yuan Dynasty were exactly what Chinese traditional culture opposed, and the collision of ideas in turn caused conflicts in reality. Zhao Bing understood that debates would produce truth, and war would also promote the integration of culture. Genghis Khan's later abandonment of the policy of massacre was influenced by the Changchun real man Qiu Chuji.

However, from a materialist perspective, Zhao Bing believed that although the Mongols killed half of the world, some of the contributions could not be erased and influenced the concepts and culture of later generations. The Yuan Dynasty's emphasis on commerce was contrary to the traditional Chinese culture. After large-scale conquests and massacres, the role of the Mongol rule on the vast Eurasian trade exchanges was irreplaceable, and its impact on the historical process of human beings was also very significant.

The Song Dynasty was called the most developed dynasty in the world, and no longer implemented curfews or suppressed industry and commerce. Zhao Bing's experience was not a comprehensive open business, but the policy of suppressing commerce was slightly less, but it was written by later generations. In fact, only the Yuan Dynasty not only did not suppress commerce, but instead encouraged it with great fanfare, truly realizing that business can benefit the world and make huge profits from it.

Let me put it this way, if the people of Song are petty bourgeois, then the people of Yuan are living a big bourgeoisie. Among the wealthy businessmen in the Yuan Dynasty, there are many wealthy businessmen who can rival the country. Their wealth is amazing. A little accomplished businessman had more than ten dollars of pearls in his family. Due to the prosperity of the market, it seems easy for merchants to make money. People often still are poor in the morning and have a lot of money at night, as if gold is everywhere. Therefore, the wealthy businessmen of Yuan Dynasty are no longer petty bourgeoisie, but big bourgeoisie, and they are all like big capitalists today, spending money like soil.

The influence of Chinese on Mongolian aristocracy is much weaker than that of other northern dynasties. Mongolian language is mainly used in the palace. Some Mongolian aristocracy went to local governments to serve as officials, and wrote the hook of the character "seven" without turning right but turning left, "whoever sees it laughs." Many officials signed documents, but because they did not understand Chinese, they were like police stations now pressing fingerprints and using three finger prints to replace signatures. For those who were slightly better, they used seals instead of signatures.

Zhao Bing used to think this was a legend of evolution of later generations, but he also saw it in the tabloids: Most of the officials in Mongolian semen cannot hold a stroke and write it, such as ivory or wood, and carved it. Those who are close to the first rank of prime ministers will use jade books to write it. However, for a few simple words on the seal, it is said that Genghis Khan himself did not know what it was.

As the ruler of the Han area, he was so unfamiliar with Chinese language, and his ruling effect was conceivable. Zhao Bing understood why literary inquisitions were very rare in the Mongol Yuan period. It was definitely not the "tolerance" and "kindness" of the Yuan Dynasty towards scholars as some trolls said. It was really a big mistake. The upper class of the Mongol Yuan rule was basically not Chinese. As for the senior officials, they only benefited and looked at people in many ways, so naturally they didn't care much about the things between the lines, so how could a group of illiterate people distinguish the mystery.

However, the upper class of the Yuan Dynasty was influenced by Western culture and liked easy-to-understand popular literature. Under the rule of the Mongolian Yuan, some scholars had to learn Mongolian. Therefore, a group of people who were familiar with Mongolian names appeared among the Han people, and those who had a tendency to become Mongolian were not uncommon. With the grammar of Mongolian and lexicons penetrated into Chinese, forming a very distinctive "Yuan Dynasty Vernacular" style. Therefore, popular literature such as novels and operas, which were difficult to enter the hall, were developed, and many works that made future generations realize enlightenment.

"Can history turn back?" Zhao Bing sat up suddenly and murmured. He suddenly felt that the culture of the Mongol Yuan had many similarities like the modern culture of his previous life.

Zhao Bing shook his head and quickly threw out the idea that the ruler of the Yuan Dynasty came from the modern world. After thinking about it, he also figured it out. From this perspective, it was not impossible. The Yuan Dynasty had only been around for a hundred years. Due to the Ming Dynasty's complete denial of the Yuan Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty had limited influence on China. However, those Westerners who had been doing business and traveling in China would also bring their experiences back to their country. Think about the "Records of the Eastern Views and Experiences" that Marco Polo must still be wandering around the territory of the Great Yuan Dynasty at this time!

However, the Yuan culture and modern Western culture have many interoperability. The reason is that the emergence of Western culture was stimulated by Marco Polo's travelogues, and the great discoveries of European geographical, Renaissance, and Industrial Revolution were closely related to Marco Polo's travelogues. However, the complete denial of the Yuan Dynasty culture by Chinese Han culture until the modern Western learning spread eastward, and people picked up the Yuan Dynasty things again. It can be said that history was a big joke with China, but in the end it was still integrated by the Han nationality's culture.

However, the Yuan Dynasty's cruel oppression of the Han people was unquestionable. The Mongols generally punished several sticks or sent military service to pay for their crimes. On the contrary, if the Han people killed the Mongols, they would be executed and punished without asking the reason at all, and their family property was confiscated and handed over to the Mongols for handling. After destroying all the Han capitals, the Yuan court ordered Han soldiers to control weapons in the army at ordinary times.

The Han people were ordered to ban the holding of bows and arrows. Even the real swords and guns in the hands of statues in temples in various places were recovered into the warehouse, and Master Guan in the temple changed his wooden swords. Soon, the Yuan Dynasty confiscated all weapons in the former jurisdiction of the Jurchens and the Southern Song Dynasty. Except for the use of good quality swords and swords by the Mongols and handed over to the Hyogau, the rest were destroyed. The Han people who recharged in the guards of the two capitals of the Yuan Dynasty were not allowed to "take the post" with bows and arrows to prevent changes.

In addition to not starting a scholar for a long time and cutting off the path of scholars entering the official career, the Mongols came to destroy the Jin and the Song Dynasty, and naturally made scholars who were the ruling subject useless, treated them like slaves, and even listed them with beggars in the industry rankings. The Nine Confucians and Ten Beggars became the best footnote for the declining civilization, the collapse of rituals and music, and also made them the name of the "Stinky Old Nine" passed down in later generations.

However, Zhao Bing also heard the implicit words of Qiong's scholars. After the Mongolian Yuan occupied Jiangnan, Kublai Khan quickly ordered the abolition of more than 100 levies and other heavy taxes, and issued several edicts to reduce and exempt land taxes and rents from the country or local areas, which can be said to be a broad policy of benevolence. What do the people seek? They are not just living and working in peace and having a wealth of food and clothing. As for whom they become emperor, they don't care much. The scholars and people in Jiangnan then moved, wandered, wait-and-see attitudes after the fall of the country, and gradually disappeared, and gradually moved towards the position of supporting the Yuan Dynasty.

So this time, thousands of scholars returned to the court and looked at the lively scenery. However, in the articles they sent in the newspaper, there were few articles that disclosed the tyranny of the Yuan court and reflected the fight against the Tartars. Most of them were jokes that made fun of the different living customs of the Mongolian people and discredited their bad habits. This showed that they had forgotten the hatred and family hatred in just a few years. If the Mongolian Yuan had not done too much, it would be difficult for scholars to show their ambitions. To put it bluntly, there would be no way to become officials. I heard that only when I went to the court to try my luck, I might be able to get the title of the gold list. Even if I failed the exam, the emperor would be able to give me a favor.

At this time, Zhao Bing did not dare to say that these scholars had this kind of luck mentality, but he thought they would not be in the minority. Zhao Bing understood this mood very well. After all, after all, due to this huge change, people's psychology was too normal. The king who had been loyal to surrendered, and the goal he had fought for for ten years disappeared. The Tartars, who were regarded as barbaric, became the new master of the country. They were inevitably lost, confused, and didn't know where to go.

Zhao Bing remembered two lines of poetry, "Who doesn't swear to sacrifice his life, it's not easy to kill himself." These two lines of poetry are from "Sighing" by the 16-year-old young man Xia Wanchun. He lived in the time when the G-Dings were alternating in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, which is very similar to the present. The poem was written in the third year of Shunzhi. At that time, Xia Wanchun's father Yunyi committed suicide by jumping into the water in August of the previous year. His legitimate mother Sheng also became a monk and nun. He and his biological mother Lu depended on each other for life, wandering around, which revealed his inner confusion.

From the perspective of the Han people in Guan, the change of the Ming and Qing Dynasties was a strange change in the family and country. For intellectuals who were deeply educated in traditional Confucianism, they had to endure the sufferings and psychological fears of displacement caused by the collapse of the country and the collapse of the system, and also endure the mental humiliation of the barbarians' force suppression, and they had to change their contempt and surrender. This made many people fall into a mental dilemma of being unaware of their own.

However, the situation changed so quickly this time that almost exceeded everyone's expectations. The scholars in Jiangnan soon discovered that the time for their own consideration was actually very limited, and many choices were made in a hurry. Although the result was nothing more than life and death, the process was extremely complicated, but those who had thought that they might not be able to die in the end, but those who died might not have planned to die at the beginning.

For many people, when the news of the country's demise came, the initial impulse might be to die. The higher the status, the greater the psychological pressure. Qian Qianyi, Wu Weiye and Gong Dingzi, known as the "Three Great Masters of Jiangzuo" in the poetry world, is a clear proof. Qian Qianyi's literary reputation is the highest among the three, and he was despised by later generations because of his fear of death. Wu Weiye also thought of death. He once "worn to hang himself" and later gave up under the cry of his mother. Gong Dingzi's experience was the most tortuous. When Li Zicheng entered Beijing, he "drunk the door and sent to the well for the residents", and as a result, he surrendered to Dashun and the Qing Dynasty.

After coming to this world, Zhao Bing, who had no money to do with this world chaos, experienced many tests of life and death, he knew very well that heroes were not born, and he had thought about escaping more than once, and even thought about death, but even thought about death, he could not think of death as cowardly as his substitute. However, when danger came, he couldn't help but think about living, so that he, with a heroic complex, could also experience the difficulty of life and death choice.

The experience of escape also made Zhao Bing truly feel the paradox of history and the unpredictable fate. Although the loyal and martyrs who died for their country had different ways of dying and their nostalgia for life, they could face it generously when they were exhausted and slaughtered their blades and necks, and they were worthy of being heroes. He would ask himself whenever he thought of this, but the answer always disappointed himself.

It is only once for everyone to judge others. When making choices, everyone's considerations will always be different. People in peacetime will never be able to understand the mood of people in troubled times. But we must understand that it is easy to write moral articles in peacetime, but it is difficult to kill in times of danger. This is the most easily overlooked issue for scholars. The times can not only create heroes, but also sometimes it will also become a mirror of human nature, reflecting the complexity of human beings and the embarrassment of some people.

Whenever social turmoil is in a state of turmoil, those with knowledgeable people who pay attention to the source of literature and practice and have the ambition to save the world will involuntarily think of death before the danger has occurred. But as time goes by, the Tartars who went south quickly stabilized the situation, and the resistance in Jiangnan gradually subsided. "The dead are gone, and those who survive live will live secretly." For most people, life has gradually returned to peace and entered the normal state. The choice of life and death has become a thing of the past, and the spiritual dilemma of the past no longer exists. Who would still think of dying for the country?

But for some people, another problem has begun to emerge, that is, under the rule of the new regime, those who become officials face the seclusion and those who live in silence face the silence, their indulge in embarrassment and guilt. After serving in the enemy, they were once regarded as the fundamental moral integrity and moral integrity by themselves and their friends as the foundation of their establishment became a heavy burden and weighed on their hearts. However, even if they had many unscrupulous efforts to commit to foreign races, their former classmates and friends resisted, either dead or hidden, which made them unable to doubt their choices and be eaten by pain.

However, as a veteran, Zhao Bing also knew that the scholars who had swear to die in the Han court, and after the fall of the Mongol Yuan, there were many people who committed suicide and buried him. In the early Qing Dynasty, under the leadership of many scholars, there were 100,000 people who died against the shaving order. However, when they were destroyed, there were countless scholars who died in order to keep their braids. But can you say that these people were unfaithful?

"Heart!" Zhao Bing thought about the things that happened all day long, and it made his mind confused, as if he couldn't grasp the point, but everything seemed indispensable, and all kinds of examples made him feel even more disheartened. Anyway, he couldn't sleep anymore. He put on his clothes and lit the candlelight, sat in front of the desk and spread out the paper and picked up the pen to write down his own feelings.

A few days before the opening of the vocational school, the front page of the Empire Daily published three articles signed by Huang Liu, "Only by Facing the Enemy to Resist the Enemy", "Talking about Loyalty and Treacherousness during the Dingchange", and "A Good Man Aspires to the Battlefield". It is known to the government and the public that the Empire Daily is the mouthpiece of the court, representing the official attitude, and the article is sharp in writing and bold in writing, pointing to the current current shortcomings, revealing the current mentality of the world.
Chapter completed!