[Historical Heralds] Tian Jiaying: Views of a Minion

Minion Insights

Author: Tian Jiaying

December 8, 1941

This work was included in the " Liberation Daily " and published in the fourth edition of "Liberation Daily" on December 8, 1941

After reading the Chronicle of the First Emperor of Qin, I feel that the views of slaves often have their own unique features.

In Qin Bingyu, the feudal lords died after swallowing two weeks. The world belongs to our family, so a group of gangsters, accomplices, lackeys, etc., were busy and mighty. In addition to shouting "Your Majesty's gods and sages" three times, waving whips, and supervising slaves to carve stones to sing praises for merit, these slaves who only promise or chatter are busy "making the world without objection", planning "the technique of tranquility", reforming the official system, and severely punishing them. Strengthen the grass-roots activities of spies and use the monitoring network of minions. Here, the most famous ones are naturally "burning books" and "pitting Confucians".

Burning books, this is the earliest in China, "there is no book" Yes, this is to turn the world's scholars into "doctors" and "alchemists". For this reason, everyone should read the approved books, and everyone should be slaves. However, despite the intention, the world is full of eloquent people, doesn't it show that the status of slaves is not noble? Therefore, the best thing to stand on the position of slaves is not to enslave the thoughts of all living beings, but to directly dig a big hole and push him go down.

So there is an objection. Qin Shi should have remarks, but unfortunately he did not have enough time to examine them in detail. Fortunately, there are similar claims at present. The Hongwen is:

"...the first emperor who ever cheated on Confucianism... The students who were pitted were not the so-called "true Confucianism", but the people who violated the ban at that time. Although the so-called ban now has no "Publishing Law" or "Procuratorial Regulations" at that time to be verified, but "Or use chaotic leadership for demons." It must be "chaotic parties and reactionaries." If the chaotic parties and reactionaries are not trapped, is there still a state discipline?

Further speaking, the so-called "Confucianism"...should be to understand the general trend and understand the general situation - to understand the first emperor's desire to seek unity from division, at least to be pure and self-love, to obey the law, and not to spread rumors and offensive "propaganda of reactionary ideas"... ( "Public Opinion" No. 168)

These words give us a lively look of anger and a mouth that eats blood. Why don't these "disorganized parties and reactionaries" "know the general situation and understand the general situation"? We see a basic spirit, that is, they look up Bright, to struggle, uneasy to be seen as a slave.

There were many such servants in Qin Shi Huang's time. Just looking at Qin's punishment names, there are more than 20 kinds of punishments, such as robbery, ghost salary, dysprosium, abandonment of the market, car slaughter, slaughter, and scolding. Is this not surprising? It’s the same case in ancient and modern times, in China and abroad. A arrogant minion who blows his whip will feel that cruelty is morality, flattery is learning, and slaughter is his instinct. If there is no one for them to kill, they will lose their jobs. These people are the chief stewards who lie under the crotch of their masters, lick the blood of others, and make themselves fat.

However, standing in the position of the master is not always like this. If one kills one person and settles the world, the ruler will naturally do it, but who will become a slave after the slaughter is complete? Therefore, the main method needs to be different. In this way, another kind of slave will come out swaggeringly.

Liz is one. "Shi's anti-exploration of the second emperor's heart is not because he is not good enough for the extravagant king and Zhang Wu's favor, but because he abandons the learning of his teacher Xun Qing, and is the learning of Shang Yang." People without principles have different methods, "divide the world and consider it thirty-six counties", "receive all the soldiers of the world and gather them in Xianyang, and sell them as Zhonglu and Jinren twelve." Instead, it is based on "system", which is "rectifying the style of study" in modern terms. The method is as follows: regulated professors "have learned decrees, and take officials as teachers", secret agents are rampant, there are many undercover agents, and there are hundreds of scholars who have words, poems and books. "Removal of punishment", "Scholar's study law ban", is to achieve "permanently eliminate students' interference in the administration of the wind." In short, all the facilities are only for the purpose of keeping all beings away from the truth and reality. In the future, the ideal society is naturally not allowed to imagine, that is, "learning from the past without learning from the present", and loving the past is also prohibited by law. To create a great cause, to build the achievements of all ages, is not known by ignorant Confucians.” If all living beings think about how much “knowledge” they need? Of course not. At the same time, he also prepared a set of things in case he thought about it, and he had to follow his own logic to avoid making mistakes.

Naturally, there is also a blind thinking, which is supplemented by the first kind of slaves, expulsion, ideological test, disappearance, occasional abandonment of the market, "those who are old and not the present, clan"...

The First Emperor succeeded in using these two types of servants. All beings were deceived and suppressed, unable to touch the new reality, unable to hear new voices, "from deaf to dumb", speechless, at best. But secretly engraved on the stone "the first emperor dies and the land is divided", the hearts of people in the world were conquered by the emperor, prime minister and the like.

But Li Si et al did not see that there was another power.

This is by no means the country's rule of the world. The actual merits of perfection are contrary to the original intention. The control is for the purpose of "two generations and three generations will be passed on to all ages," but it is too late to "change 'all beings' to a new term", but the second life will die. "Xianyang, where the soldiers of the world gather together." Burning books and pitting Confucianism are courageous, but it is not Confucianism who caused the incident - Ting Chang, the pawn, the son of Weng Wu Shengshu, the disciple of Tian Shili, the fundamental People who don't read poetry. Without weapons, they will cut wood into soldiers and raise poles into flags.

If you ask Qin to join the sea, the princes, and the emperor in the south, the martial arts are unprecedentedly prosperous, why is the Qin regime destroyed by a group of rabble, a group of death row prisoners, a few wooden poles, and the chaos of the four?

Jia Yi said that "if benevolence and righteousness are not applied, the offensive and defensive potential is different"!

"Benevolence and righteousness are not enforced": preventing dissidents, oppressing culture, restraining ideas, suppressing public opinion, using torture as a prestige, taking the inclusion as the task, trampling, enslaving, taking bribes, greed...

The world is in chaos, and what's more often these are the minions who plan and plan, only agreeing to promises, or chatting.

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