Chapter 4 Rebellion is to Beheaded
It is now the fifth year of Wanli, the revival of Wanli, and the last glory of the Ming Dynasty. The most famous things during the Wanli period are the "Three Major Conquests of Wanli" and "Wanli's ignorance of politics".
The three major expeditions of Wanli pointed out that during the Wanli period of Emperor Shenzong, three large-scale military operations were carried out in the northwest, southwest borders and North Korea.
The battle of Li Rusong to pacify the rebellion of the Mongols in the 20th year of Wanli was the battle of Ningxia, which was rebelled by Li Rusong and Agui to fight against the invasion of the Japanese Toyotomi Hideyoshi regime; and the battle of Li Hualong to pacify the rebellion of Yang Yinglong, the commander of the Miao territories in the 27th year of Wanli. These three battles consolidated the territory of China and maintained the dominance of the Ming Dynasty in East Asia.
In fact, the large-scale military operations during the Wanli period also included the Ming and Myanmar War in the 11th year of Wanli, and the Battle of Sarhu with the Later Jin Dynasty in the 47th year of Wanli, but both of them were the failures of the Ming Dynasty.
The Wanli dysfunction refers to the fact that the Emperor Shenzong of Ming Dynasty was seriously dysfunctional from the late autumn and early winter of the 14th year of Wanli. He did not receive ministers for a long time, did not attend ministers in person, did not attend imperial lectures for a long time, and did not handle ministers’ memorials in time.
The reduction in the efficiency of handling government affairs in the later period of Wanli was also closely related to his health. In the later period of his reign, he often sent instructions to assist the ministers because they were unable to handle the government affairs due to illness. In addition to being careless due to illness, they were mainly greedy for comfort, minor illnesses and major care, and even without illness.
During the Wanli period, foreign wars continued, which seriously consumed the national strength of the Ming Dynasty. In addition, Wanli was flawed in politics, the national strength of the Ming Dynasty plummeted. Coupled with natural disasters and man-made disasters, the country was lost in just a few decades.
Fang Nan didn't know how many of the historical materials were true or how many were false. They were all compiled by later generations. Even the content compiled by this dynasty may be false. However, Fang Nan can now experience the real history personally.
There are always children and even young people in the village who want to know what the outside world looks like. In the mouths of the elderly, the outside world is a world where people cannibalize people.
The landlords were trying to encroach on the land of farmers. The farmers who lost the land became tenants and could only rent the landlords' land or work for the landlords, and were exploited by the landlords in various ways.
A good harvest is better, and even if you can't eat enough, you can survive. Once the disaster year comes, it is common to starve people to death. In order not to starve to death, ordinary people can only sell their children and daughters.
Although life in Qingshan Village is poorer, at least in a good year, we can have enough food for everyone, and we can barely survive in the disaster year.
No one wants to live a life isolated from the world, but reality allows them to escape into the mountains with their families. At least they can survive if they hide here. Staying in the outside world will only be squeezed out bit by bit.
Thinking about the history of the Ming Dynasty and recalling the past twelve years of life, Fang Nan knew what he should do. For himself and for nearly a hundred families in Qingshan Village, Fang Nan wanted to make himself and the people in Qingshan Village live a good life.
Fang Nan has not yet set his goal on the whole world. Even if he is an extraordinary person, he cannot reach the top and the people of the whole world can obey his call and overthrow the powerful Ming Dynasty.
However, reality only leaves Fang Nan with no household registration. If the people in Qingshanzhai want to live a good life, they can only embark on the path of rebellion.
It was very difficult to overthrow the Ming Dynasty from nothing to something, but for a time traveler, rebellion had the possibility of success. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, natural disasters and man-made disasters and various peasant uprisings, Li Zicheng's army attacked the capital and destroyed the Ming Dynasty.
The people in the late Ming Dynasty had a bad life, and now the people's lives were also bad. The people who occupy the largest population in the world had the largest number of people. As long as they opposed the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty would not need to exist.
However, how to get the people to rise up and resist the Ming Dynasty is a big problem. Even as the leader of Qingshan Village, Fang Nan said, "We must live a good life if we want to rebel." There is no one in the village who is willing to rebel with Fang Nan, but instead thinks that Fang Nan is crazy.
Grandpa Fang Nan led a group of people who could not survive to escape into the mountains. If Grandpa Fang Nan wanted to rebel with them at that time, there would not be many people following Grandpa Fang Nan.
The common people don’t know words and don’t understand any great principles, but they all know that “rebellion is a must”, and Grandpa Fang Nan also knows this sentence, so Grandpa Fang Nan chooses to lead this group of people into the mountains.
Now the people in Qingshanzhai can at least survive, and no one is willing to rebel with the crime of "beheading".
Fang Nan thought about it and thought of a way to let Qingshanzhai rebel with him: enlighten the people!
The most popular thing for feudal dynasties is to make the people under their rule become foolish people, foolish people, and ignorant people. For feudal dynasties, it is best to manage foolish people who lack knowledge. As long as you let the foolish people know that "rebellion is to behead", only by giving the foolish people food to eat, they will be quiet, which is conducive to the feudal dynasty's rule of the world.
To enlighten the people is to let the foolish people understand various knowledge and principles, so that they can understand that "water can carry a boat and can also overturn the boat". They are water, and the monarch is a boat; to let them understand that everyone is born equal, and they should not be oppressed and exploited by the landlords and sovereigns.
Text is a method of recording knowledge and principles. Obviously, to enlighten the people, first of all, you need to let the people read and read. In the process of reading and reading, you can learn a lot of knowledge and principles.
Fang Nan wanted to teach Qingshanzhai people to read and read. The key is that Fang Nan had never been exposed to books and texts in this twelve years of his life. No one taught him, nor did he show the talent of "being born to know" at a very young age.
At this time, the role of "fooling the people" was revealed. Compared with modern people, even scholars, powerful people and monarchs in the Ming Dynasty were "fooling the people" and were very easy to fool them.
The simplest example is the "gods descend to the earth". In ancient times, there were endless emergence. The most famous one was the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. It doesn't matter if the top leaders of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom don't believe it, as long as the people at the bottom believe it, it's fine. This method is used to fool the people, gather the people together to fight against the Qing Dynasty.
Fang Nan can say that during the three days of fainting, he followed his grandfather to another world for 30 years and learned a lot in that world, including words.
Now Fang Nan told the people of Qingshanzhai about this, depicting another world and writing words. The people of Qingshanzhai easily believe this. While believing in this matter, because of Fang Nan's "experience", Fang Nan is no longer an ordinary person in the eyes of others, and has some prestige in the village.
After thinking about the matter, Fang Nan began to become abnormal in the eyes of other people in the village, who could fly in the sky, what would be a car that didn't need to pull a cattle and horse, and what would be a tool that could transmit voices from thousands of miles away.
Chapter completed!