Li Ming and Zhou Billy returned to Shenyang by airship, and during this time the two had been organizing various work in the Ming Dynasty in the Hetao base area.

At present, the operation in various parts of Daming is going very smoothly, so they will explain their work and then return to Shenyang. The next work will be in charge of Song Tao, commander of the Northwest Army, and Zhou Weifan, the Central Plains Intelligence Station of the Intelligence Department, to continue to organize operations in various parts of the Ming Dynasty.

The two of them got off the airship and came to the Military Commission, which was also very busy at this time, and all departments were preparing for the operation that would begin next year to go south to the Central Plains.

When they came to Gao Jianguo's office, they found that several members of the Standing Committee of the Military Commission were there, and the room was filled with smoke, and they didn't know how many cigarettes they smoked.

Everyone saw them and stood up to shake their hands. Gao Jianguo smiled and said, "Li Ming, how is the situation in Daming?" ”

Li Ming found a chair and sat down, then nodded and said, "Everything is going well, let Lao Zhou talk about the specific situation." ”

Zhou Billy smiled, and then explained the situation of Daming's actions in various places to everyone in detail. It includes the situation in various parts of Daming in Daming with more than a dozen armed forces of the Displaced People's Army, the special service units of the Central Plains Intelligence Station, the guerrilla detachments in various base areas, and the special operations teams sent to various places by the Military Commission.

Shi Mingfeng couldn't help frowning when he heard this, and said, "Your actions are a bit big, will it have any bad impact on the company?" ”

Li Yukun next to him also nodded and said: "Those leaders of the exile army who have joined us, they should understand the company's intentions, and they will leave hidden dangers in the future." ”

Zhou Billy smiled and said: "What hidden dangers can there be, as long as they lead the thief army to do something, no matter what they say, it can't be washed away." Anyway, we control the media, and we will write the history of the future. ”

"I don't think it's anything, how much did the Manchu Qing Dynasty do such atrocities as massacres, shaving hair, enclosures and literary prisons, and what happened in the end? Until we came, there were still people washing the floor for them, so that the common people only knew about the "prosperous era of Kangqian" and "the emperor of the ages", and did not know the fact that tens of thousands of Han people were just Manchu slaves. ”

Everyone listened to Gao Jianguo's words and didn't say anything more. Everyone knew in their hearts that once the company went south to the Central Plains, it would be inappropriate for the Far Eastern Army to do these things.

Qiao Haipeng smiled bitterly and said: "The problem is that there is not enough time now, the north of the Ming Dynasty is so big, before we go south, it will be too late for a few months." At that time, we will have to fight against the local forces of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Li Ming smiled and said: "Actually, it's simple, as long as we do a good job at the grassroots level and let the people at the bottom live a good life, all problems will be solved." ”

Gao Jianguo laughed and said: "Li Ming's sentence is well summarized, to put it bluntly, that's what it is." In the Han and Tang dynasties, the emperor and the nobles ruled the world together, and after the Song Dynasty, the emperor and the scholars ruled the world together. Since the Song Dynasty, the scholar class has been a staunch pillar of the traditional rule of the Central Plains Dynasty, and they have the idea of "worrying about the worries of the world first, and enjoying the joy of the world after the world". But Wen Yanbo, a famous minister in the Northern Song Dynasty, said a very famous sentence, but it pointed to the essence of the problem, that is, "to rule the world with scholars, not with the people", hehe......

At the end of each dynasty, the gentry class will become more powerful than ever, they will be the local squires, the ministers in the court, and the leaders of the clear stream in the public opinion circles, to put it bluntly, they are the actual rulers of China. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the agricultural tax was heavy, but the commercial tax was still one-thirtieth, but still no one increased the commercial tax, because the commercial tax was "competing with the people", in fact, it was competing with the scholars for profit, from the court to the opposition, and then to the clear stream, public opinion was opposed, but the agricultural tax was fine, because the scholars did not have to pay taxes.

Confucian societies like the Ming Dynasty pay the most attention to moral cleanliness, believing that an official with good morals is a good official, and all that he does is good, and those who are corrupt, and those who dare to talk to eunuchs, no matter how capable they are, are corrupt officials. Although political struggle was the main reason, there was also the fact that the eunuchs wantonly collected commercial and mining taxes in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, which touched the fundamental interests of the scholar class. At least in some respects, it can also be said that the scholars exploited the ordinary people at the bottom, while the eunuchs exploited the scholars class. ”

Li Ming also nodded, and said in a deep voice: "Eunuchs, military generals, and civil officials are the three political balance points of the Ming Dynasty. The Tumubao Change, the Ming Dynasty's military generals and nobles system suffered a devastating blow, so that the political forces of the imperial court were only civil officials and eunuchs, so that the political balance was broken, and the struggle between eunuchs and civil officials was greatly deepened.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Donglin Party was too powerful, and the emperor had to give the eunuchs a lot of power to maintain political balance. However, Emperor Chongzhen did a stupid thing, that is, to uproot the eunuch party at once, so that the Donglin Party lost its constraints, resulting in the dominance of the Donglin Party led by the Donglin Party in the Ming Dynasty.

Although the Donglin Party has a large number of talents, this group is too large, and most of them will only be full of articles, detached from the actual clear stream, and the demise of the Ming Dynasty is largely caused by the "literati misleading the country". The long-term luxury life of the upper class made many Donglin Party members unaware of the suffering of the people. When it comes to the general truth, there is no real practical action, and there is no policy to save the whole country, but the funny thing is that they hold the power of the whole country.

The imperial examination system of the Ming Dynasty, especially the Baguwen, made the status of scholars and doctors in society too high, and formed the extreme concept of "everything is inferior, only reading is high". The Shidaifu group had a particularly contemptuous attitude towards craftsmen and merchants, who enjoyed the fruits of their labor while despising them, which greatly hindered the development of society. It can be said that the scholar class of the Ming Dynasty has rotted from the roots, at least our Far East Company cannot count on these literati of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Billy Zhou also nodded, and said thoughtfully: "Because of my work, I often go deep into the territory of the Ming Dynasty, so I have more contact with the gentry and literati of the Ming Dynasty. In the few days when he was in Shenyang, I specially took him to a farmer's house on the outskirts of Shenyang to spend the night, which made me completely disappointed with the literati of this era.

Of course, Lu Xiangsheng's conduct is impeccable, at least in this era, loyal and patriotic, enough to go down in history. But it is undeniable that he is still a scholar after all, a member of the vast gentry class of the Ming Dynasty, and is inherently incompatible with us. He is not to blame for this situation, it is caused by the times. (To be continued.) )