The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

While avoiding the "peace of the world" trend of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Qi also found that signs of warlike thoughts began to appear. Because the Song Dynasty achieved complete victories in foreign wars in recent years, especially in the Western Expedition to Gaochang and cross-sea.

The attack on the Seljuk Empire not only expanded its territory and opened up trade routes, but also plundered a large amount of gold, silver and wealth, enhancing national strength. As a result, the idea of ​​using war as a necessary means for the country to flourish.

Public opinion sometimes simply distinguishes between the enemy and us and blindly calls for military use. This kind of belligerent remark mainly appears among the new generation of young students and young officers. It has a very market in major academies and Imperial Colleges. They have knowledge and passion.

We hope to solve all problems by using war as a means. Once these people reach a high position, they will inevitably be influenced by public opinion and will continue to introduce the country into wars.

If a country is full of public opinion among the people for a long time, Zhao Xiao knows that something will happen sooner or later, and this is also necessary to be vigilant. While Zhao Xiao is building prefecture schools and county schools, he has put forward requirements and appointed him.

Those students who were trained in the early days served as prefectures and county school officials, spreading their own concept of governing the world. For the various colleges established by the society, he also supported the great scholars in his camp as the mountain palm through funding, expanding their influence.

Attract many elites from the school to join and form a public opinion foundation that is beneficial to oneself.

Zhao Qi also found that because he could always influence the direction of public opinion and established a good image, under normal circumstances, he mobilized the government and the opposition and the army to hate a country and guided the country toward war, which was easier than calling for peace, and such remarks were made.

It is very beneficial for maintaining internal unity of the country and unifying social will. Therefore, in order to strengthen the unity of the camp, it is also necessary to shape foreign enemies. Find a potential enemy and use this method to strengthen the rationality of your strategy.

Of course, as the decision maker of national strategy, Zhao Qiong must not wait for favorable or unfavorable public opinion to appear. For him, public opinion must first be beneficial to the grand strategy, so it must control public opinion, guide public opinion to serve his own strategy, and even have to

To shape public opinion to achieve goals, this requires blocking unfavorable truths and warning some radical remarks to make lies and make some mistakes. As for how to operate, it is the responsibility of your own intelligence department...

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While guiding and controlling domestic public opinion, Zhao Qiong did not relax using the power of public opinion to attack external enemies.

The era of Zhao Qi's previous life was the heyday of struggle between great powers. There were more soft attacks on public opinion competition among great powers, and more abundant forms. Their guidance on the direction of decision-making, the tendency of public opinion in a country and even the way people behaved.

The impact is quite large. The occurrence of the "color" revolution often involves external forces conducting a large number of public opinion and laying the foundation for the introduction. Once the relevant countries experience governance crisis, external public opinion instigates the attack and the attack will take the opportunity to expand, which will eventually lead to a political situation.

Dramatic changes.

As a strategic confrontation between countries, public opinion wars are not always criticized or verbal. They also include business wars of money, finance, and capital, which he is familiar with and has been doing. The difficulty is that there are no radio stations or television at this time.

The Internet and developed media are not difficult for Zhao Qi, who took another way to maintain public opinion attacks on other countries. Of course, he had to take out some real money.

Zhao Xia used the long border line between the Song and Jin countries and the relatively calm situation after peace talks, and invested a lot of money in the border areas to build a group of agricultural and animal husbandry towns, which could attract people from the mainland to settle and guard the border.

Let this create a sharp contrast with the border. People on one side live a wealthy life and are dressed brightly. They live in large tiled houses with bright halls and walk in the bustling towns; on the other side, they are desolate and live in simple and simple

The straw shed, the felt tent, and the beasts are all day long.

This material contrast will produce a strong visual contrast, which makes people envious, especially the people of the lower classes of all ethnic groups in the Jin Dynasty who are still living in dire straits, making them yearn for one day to rule the Song Dynasty.

This reduces the resistance from the civilian class after the invasion and gets their help. At the same time, it can also attract the population of the Jin Dynasty to migrate south, so that the Han people living in the Jin land have a strong desire to return, so as to weaken their strength and obtain intelligence.

The verdict built on the border can also be used as a battlefield for propaganda. Through their eyes and ears, the merchants of the enemy country will bring the prosperity and prosperity of the Song Dynasty back to their homeland. They can also give small favors and buy them through business exchanges.

Become the mouthpiece of singing praises to the Song Dynasty, and consciously compare the advantages and disadvantages of the Song and Jin sides together, which makes the Jin people feel disgusted with those in power, longing for them to be overthrown and to be liberation themselves.

The plan for the elites of the Jin Dynasty was also being implemented. The Song Dynasty used intelligence personnel to buy officials from enemy countries, and the nobles asked them to act as the swearing players of the Song Dynasty, which influenced the rulers' judgment of the situation. The Jurchen intellectuals who advocated Han culture went through special channels.

Received the 'adapted' Chinese classics. Zhao Qiong carried out a large number of sneaky and silent communication activities in this way, introducing the superiority of the Central Plains' self-organization and the universality of values ​​to them, thereby affecting their thoughts and thus making these people

He developed strong dissatisfaction with the current system of the Jin Dynasty, and spread this idea through their exchanges with each other, dismantling the enemy's will to resist from the upper class, and accepting the idea of ​​the rule of the Song Dynasty.

Back then, the United States used "Coca-Cola" as a medium to spread Western culture to the whole world, but Zhao Qiong did not have the ability to create that thing. But he had tea and wine, which were widely accepted by local cultures, so he used the Central Plains tea and wine culture.

The essence of the article is removed, the dross is left, and the luxury of the palace is added. It basically copies the set of Cai Jing's tricking his father, which was sent to the upper class of Jin through trade and private exchange channels, and cultivates them to learn to "enjoy" life.

The beauty.

In order to cooperate with this "cultural" output, Zhao Qiong did not hesitate to use the power of the country and repeatedly negotiated through diplomatic channels to open a "Song Pavilion" in the most prosperous place in Shangjing City in the Jin Dynasty, which is a collection of catering, entertainment and

A comprehensive commercial body integrating luxury goods sales not only has the architectural style from the Central Plains, but also all the staff from the Song Dynasty. Even a teacup and a pair of chopsticks used in it were made by the most famous workshop in the Song Dynasty. It is said that it is the main

The chef was an imperial chef who was once the Emperor Zhao Er of the Song Dynasty. The wines sold were all produced by Xiangyi Imperial Wine Firm. Perfumes, glass and other items sold in the store were hard to find in the Song Dynasty.

After a series of operations, the Song Pavilion was already famous in Shangjing, the Jin Dynasty, before it opened. After it opened, it immediately attracted the attention of many people. When exquisite dishes were delivered by golden cups and jade cups, the Jurchens had already conquered the Jurchens.

The heart, and the complicated and considerate service inside also let them know what aristocratic enjoyment is, and the huge and heavy gold chains and earrings they wear on weekdays are just the favorites of the rich, and they know what elegance is.

Being polite, I understand that this is the Song Dynasty life.

However, the Song Dynasty is no longer the Song Dynasty in the past, and she can shed horses to the south at will. Fortunately, there is also a Songguan that can provide a place for Jurchens to learn and enjoy. For a time, Songguan became the nobleman of the King of Jin, a scholar and a rich chief.

They not only enjoyed the place of nostalgia, but also followed the Songguan set of renovated the mansion, trained servants, and purchased clothing and utensils so that they could enjoy it every day.

Since the Jin Dynasty has always advocated Chineseization, this trend did not arouse the vigilance of the Jin Dynasty rulers. Instead, it is believed that this is a good opportunity to learn. It is said that the drunkard emperor Wanyan Tan also secretly visited him and spent two days in it. After drinking, he sighed.

Yan: I only learned the breadth and essence of Central Plains culture when I arrived at the Song Pavilion today. I have only learned the basics of it for many years!

After Hu Quan, the Minister of Rites of the Song Dynasty, went to the Jin Dynasty to go to the Jin Dynasty, he said: As soon as he stepped into the gate of Shangjing, he smelled the extravagant and decadent smell of the Xuanhe period of the Song Dynasty...

Zhao Jie freely manipulated public opinion weapons and achieved good results, while he also knew that the complete victory of "subjugating the enemy without fighting" was just an unattainable ideal state, and the pursuit of ideology was just a matter of unifying the world.

In a dream of yellow and beautiful women, all strategic problems need to be resolved by war as a means of ending. However, not all the people in the world are as high as Zhao Qi and so far. After his trip to Yanjing, several Confucian scholars met.

His remarks on "preparing for war" expressed dissatisfaction, and United wrote to him that it violated the Confucian concept of peace and 'governance with benevolence'.

Several Confucian scholars believed that the sage Confucius and Mencius advocated "not fighting" and opposed all wars. The emperor went to war without warning, which violated the purpose of the sages. In other words, Confucian culture advocated morality and harmony, and should not launch aggressive actions against neighboring countries.

, they can only focus on defense. Their view is that China has not launched offensive wars like the northern nomadic peoples in the past dynasties to seek hegemony, but rather has good intentions towards other countries and pursues benevolent politics.

Non-hegemony.

In addition, the core of Confucianism is "benevolence". Emperors of the Song Dynasty also advocated the rule of the world with benevolence. Now the Song Dynasty has revived its national strength and cannot repay grudges with grudges and seek revenge. Instead, it has promoted benevolent government and influenced the enemy's country and made it possible to

To understand things, be reasonable and right and wrong, transform into a benevolent and righteous country, so as to realize the ideal of unity in the world, is not to start a war to resolve problems.

Several scholars who didn't know the depth of the matter dared to write a letter to accuse the emperor, which caused a lot of controversy. Some ministers thought they should be severely punished, deprived of their fame, and sent to a distant place to reflect on others to serve as a warning. However, Zhao Qi thought that severe punishment was not a solution to the problem.

The method of suppressing public opinion is difficult to eliminate people's doubts. Punishing the writers who are not good at it will trigger a bigger trend and be condemned by the public, which is not conducive to the implementation of his own strategy, so he decided to reply to the letter and refute it himself... (Unfinished

to be continued..)