The Struggle of the Reborn Prince

The emperor's personal letter was delivered to those Confucian scholars five days later, causing another sensation. Those Confucian scholars were actually uneasy these days, and were under pressure from teachers and classmates. Who is the emperor? He can attack with just one word.

Destroying a country and killing them is not like killing an ant. Furthermore, even if the emperor has given them mercy, the crime of disrespect is inevitable. He has been ruined for ten years and will have no future in the future.

Now the emperor personally replied to the letter to refute their views, wrote down his own understanding, and asked them to continue discussing and controversy together. Not to mention whether the emperor's statement was reasonable, but this kind of mind immediately conquered the hearts of the vast number of Confucian scholars.

Think about it, the emperor was a busy man who was busy with all kinds of things, and there were thousands of Confucian scholars like them in the Song Dynasty. But not only did he personally review their letters, but he also replied to them by himself, which shows that respecting the wise and the inferior are truly benevolent and righteous kings!

The emperor's reply quickly spread in Shilin. If he said that his literary talent was really not good enough to make people compliment it, the whole text was full of vernacular, but it also had benefits. Even those who could read it can understand it as soon as they could read it, which made people even more likely to make people understand it.

What was surprising was that the emperor also used various symbols to make the whole article more convenient and smooth. He did not need to make a word by word, and he would be wrong if he was accidentally, which made everyone sigh at the emperor's intelligence.

Zhao Qi is now the emperor and is noble. Not only did no one mention the things that he hates studying in his early years, but he was angry that he was involved in countless tutors. Instead, he became a process of the emperor's intelligence since he was a child, so the tutors he hired were consciously knowledgeable and careless.

, without any guidance, he left the house ashamed. However, Zhao Qiong and all his trusted ministers knew that he was jealous of this half bottle, and he was just a concise and number when reviewing the memorials. In order to avoid showing timidity in front of the scholars, he thought hard.

After many days, I could not write a paper that shook the past and the present in any case. I simply completed this article in the vernacular language that I am best at.

Zhao Qiong first refuted the "no war" theory about the sages Confucius and Mencius. He said that the study of Confucianism has always assumed that it is peaceful in nature and does not advocate starting a war for any reason. This assumption is actually not

Correct. In fact, Confucianism’s high attention to morality does not exclude the use of war as a tool for governing the country. Instead, the sages believed that they advocated launching a 'good war', that is, only oppose unjust wars and support just wars.

In the long history of China, the war has never stopped. Whenever possible, all dynasties have launched wars against neighboring countries with the goal of punishing and expanding borders. It has always been regarded as the orthodox dynasty of the Central Plains, and the Han Dynasty has

It was also found in the Tang Dynasty. The Han attacked the Huns and the Tang Dynasty drove the turmoil by Confucians of all generations as classic wars that strengthened me and promoted the power of China. Even in the Song Dynasty, they worked hard for more than a hundred years to recover Yan Yun.

, It has always been the wish of the gentry, and it cannot be regarded as warlike.

Regarding the understanding of "Ren", Zhao Qiong believed that "Ren" should be divided into "Da Ren" and "Xiao Ren". For the interests of the country and the people's harm, wars were launched to eradicate evil forces, even if they bleed thousands of miles away, they should be regarded as slaughtering everywhere.

For justice, one acts as a gentleman; on the contrary, he turns a blind eye to the evil people who infringe upon our country and interests and kills our people, and just wants to influence them through his own actions of benevolence and righteousness. It is like raising a tiger to be a disaster, that is a woman

Benevolence……

In fact, Zhao Qi knew very well that China's history is a history of war, with constant military conflicts. Even the establishment of various Central Plains dynasties that regarded themselves as orthodox are inseparable from war, and their behavior in war is no different from other countries.

They are just as cruel and arrogant. In fact, dynasties that claim to govern the country with benevolence do not exclude war. In the long-term implementation of foreign policy, violence is also preferred over benevolence. In reply to the book, Zhao Qiong has already spoken very tactfully in order not to stimulate them.

The difference between justice and injustice is so vague. As we all know, when all ruling wars start, they must be famous and find a reason for arbitrary wars. This is a ruling who can master politics and master politics.

It is not difficult for those to do. They can always find clever ways to define the behavior of the enemy country as injustice or violation of moral codes.

Therefore, with appropriate public opinion orientation, Confucian remarks can be used to prove the legitimacy of defensive behaviors and also to prove the legitimacy of aggression. This is not a difficult thing for Zhao Qiong. Take the Jurchens'

'Brother dies and brother', let's talk about it. When the father and brother die, the brother can put his mother and sister-in-law in his arms in a noble way. This behavior is a ** in Confucianism in Central Plains, and is not tolerated by morality and the world.

.This alone can treat the Jurchens as a model of moral depravity, and sending troops to conquer these "beasts" is completely reasonable and without any difficulty.

Zhao Qi highly appreciated the assumptions of an theorist in his previous life about offensive realism. All countries in the world will list survival as the most important goal, although not the only goal. But at a critical moment, survival will defeat all other goals and survive.

The meaning goes beyond just maintaining a country's territorial integrity. Although this goal is fundamentally important, survival also means maintaining the autonomy of a country's decision-making process and not being controlled by other countries or others.

Now Zhao Qiong's expeditions and struggles are actually to maintain the survival of the Song Dynasty. He knew that the stronger a country is compared to its competitors, the less likely it is to be threatened. The primary goal that a great power can achieve is regional hegemony, and once it is achieved

Regional hegemony, it has a further purpose for a country: to prevent other major powers from controlling their geographical areas, and the best way is to become the only regional hegemon. East and Central Asia now have the potential to become a hegemon, now only Jin Kingdom, so he

He must be conquered. What he did was to eliminate all internal and external obstacles to achieving this strategy...

After Zhao Qiong was released, he was still a little uneasy at first. After all, his theory violated the scholars' understanding and cognition of "no war" for many years, and broke the inherent conclusions, which might cause a situation.

He had a great debate against ten thousand. He thought of facing a group of scholars and scholars who were citing classics and were full of passion and spitting, and he had a headache, but all of this was his own fault.

, Who made him not take decisive measures to stand on the commanding heights of public opinion?

In order to welcome the possible debate, Zhao Qi really put away his heart and went into seclusion in the palace for a few days, which surprised everyone. However, this debate did not happen until he returned to Tokyo. Instead, it was those few

The Confucian scholar once again wrote a letter to admit his recklessness and short-sightedness, and misinterpreted the thoughts of his ancestors. This made Zhao Qi, who had been worried for a long time, relieved him, and no one mentioned the "no fight" incident. Zhao Qi was in the incident.

His good performance once again won the respect and support of Shilin, and public opinion began to support the emperor's Yanjing speech one-sidedly...

At this time, the mourning envoy who went to the Western Liao returned to report something to Zhao Jie, because after Yelu Dashi's death, his son Yelu Yilie was young. According to the Khitan tradition, "regime the empress's power," and Empress Xiaota Buyan was regent.

.But this woman is not simple. Not only did she change the era to Xianqing, she also called the system and was known as the Queen of Gantian. Zhao Qi didn't think anything was wrong. The Central Plains also had the tradition of the emperor being young and the queen being in charge of the rule behind the curtain, but Xiaota was not smoked.

The 'steps' have taken a little bigger.

Besides, Zhao Qiong doesn't care who is in charge of the Western Liao Dynasty. As long as he can defend the national gates for the Song Dynasty and resist Western invasions, as well as he knows, Xiao Tabuyan himself also has considerable ruling ability. During her governance, the Western Liao society was

The stability and economic development continued, and did not go downhill due to Dashi's death. But he knew that the Western Liao, which had lost Yelu Dashi, had no ambition to continue conquering the world, and returning to his hometown eventually became a dream.

What interested Zhao Jie was another interesting thing brought back by the mourning envoy. After the Emperor Wanyan Dan of the Great Jin Dynasty learned of Yelu Dashi's death from the Uighur merchant, he suddenly felt that this was a good opportunity and immediately sent an envoy to him.

Western Liao, but not to pay condolences, but to persuade surrender. Otherwise, mentally ill people like to be whimsical, Western Liao just defeated the Seljuk Empire Sultan last year and conquered Khwarezm. It was in full swing, and it was also a very impressive one.

The powerful Central Asian overlord is definitely not a stray dog ​​at the time of the fall of Liao, but he wants to surrender him to reduce the threat from the Song Dynasty.

But the envoy chosen by Wanyan Dan is also a funny man. This person was named Nishi Hannu. He arrived at the territory of Xiliao. When the queen of the god Xiao Tabuyan went out to ride a horse, Nishi Hannu said, "I'm here."

The envoy of the state came to summon you at the order of the emperor, and you immediately took the horse to obey the edict." He used to specialize in the activities of missions, but because he had successfully sent to the Uighur state many times, he was entrusted by Wanyan Dan to persuade the surrender of the West.

Liao's mission.

However, this time the luck of Han Nu was very bad, because although the other party was a woman, he was a very strong woman. Xiao Tabuyan was furious and ordered someone to pull him off the horse and ordered him to kneel down.

Han Nu, who was still alive and did not know how to live or die at this moment, cursed Xiao Tabuyan's rebels and said, "I am the envoy of the emperor, and humiliated him and would attract a conquest." He did not think that the Jin Kingdom and the Western Liao Dynasty were thousands of miles apart, and there was also

Isn't it a joke to go through Gaochang and Mobei occupied by Song? Xiao Tabuyan giggled and cut off Han Nu's head.

Zhao Qi thought that Xiao Ta Buyan had done something to kill Jin Envoy angrily. She did not see the international situation clearly. If she had handled this matter herself, she would never have killed Han Nu, and at most beat him up and drove him away.

Killing the Jin envoy was equivalent to sending a letter of war to the Jin Kingdom, and the two countries completely turned against each other. Without considering that the Western Liao was also facing the threat of Song, they broke off diplomatic relations with Jin and lost a force that could restrain Song.

However, Zhao Qi took advantage of the situation and launched a public opinion war, which completely lost room for maneuver... (To be continued...)