My life skills in Daming Liver

Yan Jun looked at the people listening below and said:

"As I said before, we must also raise a banner before fighting. That is, what is the identity of the fight?"

"Before fighting, we must first understand who are our friends and who are our enemies."

"After clarifying this point, we need a slogan of 'fight'."

slogan?

Yan Jun's words reminded Tong An of the time when he wrote a letter on the bus.

At that time, they, the Imperial College students, wrote a letter to Zuoshunmen, and their slogans were very clear.

The purpose of the letter was very clear, which was to ask the emperor to take back the mine supervisors and restore the prime minister system to restrict the imperial power.

Yan Jun continued: "Going back to the first point, after understanding who are our friends and who are our enemies, when fighting, we must reduce our enemies and increase our friends."

Tong An once again united with the people she had attended to write a letter to think about it.

Asking the emperor to take back the mine supervisors was a way to give a voice to the grassroots officials and people who were being tortured by the mine supervisors, so only by writing a letter on the bus could it gain widespread support from ordinary people in the capital.

The restoration of the prime minister system was supported by the court ministers and won the support of powerful local officials.

What the bus letter attacked was the imperial power whose prestige had been weakened by the defeat of Shandong.

Only then did Tong An understand that the reason why the letter on the bus was successful was not because the emperor suddenly realized that he was the emperor of the sage, but because they happened to use the right method to "fight".

Yan Jun continued: "The next step is the slogan."

"Slogans are very important."

"The slogan is the program, the goal of the struggle, and the banner of the struggle."

"For example, during the water transport strike I organized in Shandong, the slogan was to improve the wages of water transport workers. This was the slogan that united the water transport workers in Shandong. Anyone who hears this slogan will know who we are fighting for."

"This slogan is also for the imperial court. This is the goal of our strike. As long as the imperial court can improve the pay of the water workers, we can reach an agreement."

"A clear slogan is very important. Only with a slogan can we unite more partners, and it is equivalent to directly shouting out our demands."

Everyone present nodded. Yan Jun did not talk about any big principles, but actually talked about the method of "fighting".

Tong An participated in the bus petition, but at that time he was just passionate. The content of the petition at that time was actually summarized by several Imperial College students based on topics that were often discussed among scholars at that time.

But they succeeded in writing a letter on the bus by mistake.

After listening to Yan Jun's lecture, Tong An gained some insights.

After everyone digested it, Yan Jun continued:

"This dispute is also divided into several types. According to my explanation, it can be divided into 'small dispute', 'medium dispute' and 'big dispute'."

"The first is 'small disputes'. In fact, small disputes are everywhere. For example, in a workshop, work is done but no efforts are made. This kind of struggle is not a fierce struggle, but a state of struggle expressed through a non-cooperative attitude."

Yan Jun looked around and said:

"But a small dispute also has conditions."

"This kind of struggle requires core and critical positions, such as the waterworks strike organized by me in Shandong."

"Shandong's water transport is the key to the imperial court. If Shandong's water transport is affected, the ministers in the capital will have no food to eat, and the soldiers on the Shandong frontline will have no ammunition. Therefore, as long as there is a small dispute, the court cannot afford it."

"Or maybe you are the backbone of the workshop responsible for maintaining the machines. As long as you insist on a small dispute, the entire workshop's machines will be shut down, and the workshop owner will naturally increase your salary."

Yan Jun looked around and said, "But in some businesses, there is no way to argue."

"If you are just an ordinary employee in the workshop and it is not easy to get this job, if you argue a little, you are likely to be fired by the workshop owner and find someone to replace you."

Xiangzi nodded repeatedly. What a green taxi driver like him sells is his physical strength. Although life is worse than before, there are still a large number of people who want to rent green taxis.

If Xiangzi goes to fight, he may starve to death in a few days.

He listened carefully as Yan Jun continued:

“If small disputes don’t work, there will still be ‘intermediate disputes’.”

"The struggle in the middle is not simply non-cooperation and work stoppages. At this time, we must clearly express our slogans, create momentum in public opinion, and try to let everyone know that you are fighting."

“This includes methods such as distributing leaflets, secretly posting slogans, publishing demands in newspapers, and even promoting slogans on the streets.”

"This requires everyone to organize and form a big momentum."

Yan Jun said:

"As I said before, as individuals, we are all weak and powerless, and many demands cannot be met."

"But as a group, our power is enough to make people fearful, and our slogan is loud and cannot be ignored casually."

“When we put forward our slogan and expand our influence, other groups will become our supporters.”

"For example, I held a labor strike in Shandong. After we started the strike with slogans, all factory workers in Shandong supported our strike, because improving the wages of employees is everyone's goal."

"In addition to the water workers, Shandong Station also supports our strike, also because the salary at the station is too low."

"And the imperial court will not ignore our voices at this time, because the greater the impact we have, it will be an ever-expanding 'abcess' for the imperial court."

Now Tong An and Xiangzi couldn't help but applaud. Yan Jun was able to sum up the method of resistance to the point.

Everyone looked at Yan Jun, waiting for him to say what a "big fight" was.

Yan Jun paused and said:

"For the 'small disputes' and 'medium disputes' mentioned earlier, we mainly use mild means, and at most they are strikes and rallies."

"What we fought for at that time was to create greater momentum, win over more comrades, and express our demands."

"But in fact, whether it is a small or medium dispute, we still place our hopes on the other party."

"The success of the Shandong Cao workers' strike is because there are not many Cao workers, and they cannot replace them all for the time being. More importantly, it does not cost much to improve the pay of the Cao workers."

"Almost at the same time, similar strikes occurred in several government-run workshops in Shandong, but the Shandong government suppressed them forcefully and fired all the leading employees."

The employees who were so enthusiastic about what Yan Jun just said were poured cold water on them one after another.

Xiangzi thought to himself, if the drivers of their green chartered cars went on strike, this would probably be the result.

Those car owners who rent green chartered cars don’t care about their drivers at all. Anyway, if you don’t rent a car, there will be people who will.

If these coachmen organized a strike, at worst it would be better to replace them with a new group of people.

Xiangzi listened carefully and waited for Yan Jun to say the final "big fight".

Yan Jun said:

"The great struggle means resolute struggle."

"This is no longer about shouting slogans, it is about organizing and letting others see the power of the entire group."

Now even Xiangzi understood what Yan Jun meant. The so-called great struggle meant resorting to armed struggle.

This is no longer an ordinary struggle, but a thorough use of destruction to gain benefits.

This kind of thing is not suitable for lectures in public. Yan Jun just briefly talked about the concept of great struggle and skipped the topic.

When Yan Jun's lecture ended, Tong An asked Xiangzi to drive the car and left Nancheng, but he went to find Yan Jun in the backcourt.

It can be said that Yan Jun gained huge fame during this lecture, and the entire backcourt was surrounded by water.

Yan Jun was escorted by several Shandong Cao workers who accompanied him northward and squeezed out of the crowd.

Tong An still persevered and continued to follow Yan Jun until he was about to leave the city, and then Tong An sent a greeting card.

Yan Jun stopped walking after receiving Tong An's greeting card. He stopped and called Tong An to his side.

The two of them sat down on the road bridge next to the city gate. Yan Jun took Tong An's greeting card and asked.

"But Tong Ziyuan, who took the lead in writing the letter to Zuo Shunmen that day?"

Tong An quickly raised his hands and said, "You are a student, please pay homage to Mr. Yan."

Yan Jun said: "You are not my disciple, so you don't need to call me sir. Just call me Mr. Yan."

Yan Jun is already over sixty years old. He is a follower of Wang Gen in Taizhou. He is Tong An's elder in terms of age and seniority.

Saying "Yan Lao" doesn't mean relying on one's support.

Tong An took out the article he had read to Wang Shizhen last time from his clothes, handed it to Yan Jun and said:

"Mr. Yan, this is an article written by Xiaosheng. Please correct me!"

Tong An handed the article over to Yan Jun to read.

Yan Jun read the article very quickly. He sat on the roadside and read Tong An's article leisurely, and then said:

"Zi Yuan, your article is indeed good. Your view that the problems in the Ming Dynasty are due to the internal changes in the upper echelons of the Ming Dynasty led to the lack of long-term stable rule, resulting in laziness and tyranny of middle and lower-level officials. There is no problem with this view."

"This is the same reason why officials in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty responded to the eunuch politics of foreign relatives in the Eastern Han Dynasty, which caused violent turmoil in the political arena."

He is indeed a great scholar!

Yan Jun immediately pointed out the similarities between the problems in the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty today. This is also Tong An's summary of the Ming Dynasty problems today after reading the history books.

But Yan Jun quickly said: "But this is not a new point of view, and I want to ask a question, even if the Ming Dynasty can follow what Tong Ziyuan said, there is a sovereign and holy ruler who can eradicate the current Ming Dynasty. All the shortcomings of Ting?"

Tong An was stunned.

Yan Jun continued: "In other words, even if Taizu Ming is reborn and Emperor Wu of Han is reincarnated, will they be able to clean up the mess that Ming court is now?"

Tong An thought for a moment and admitted that what Yan Jun said made sense.

Zhang Juzheng is already the best ruler that the Ming court can choose.

Even a tough guy like Gao Gong Zhang Juzheng was at a loss when faced with the mess of the Ming court. He had to make various compromises. If he wanted to completely solve the problems of the Ming court, Tong An could only rely on a powerful Zhongshu court. This is just an unrealistic fantasy of this young scholar.

Yan Jun saw Tong An thinking and said:

"Like I said, if we want to fight, we have to see who is our enemy and who is our friend."

"The more basic thing is to see who is who."

"Who is who?"

Tong An was confused.

Yan Jun said: "Why are there fights in the Ming court?"

"You can say that there are eunuchs and relatives in the court, and court ministers fight with their relatives and eunuchs. But the fights between ministers are sometimes more common than with the eunuchs and their relatives. Why is this?"

Tong An was stunned. He had never thought about this problem.

Yan Jun said: "Because in your opinion, civil servants are a whole, but the groups represented by civil servants are not exactly the same."

"Most of the ministers who opposed Zhang Juzheng's new policy were rural landowners who owned large amounts of land. They could have become powerful by relying on land income and exploiting the people through land taxes. However, now that rural land has lost its value, the most profitable people are those in the city. Workshop, then they will naturally be dissatisfied with Zhang Juzheng."

"Li Chengliang and Zhang Juzheng had conflicts during the Battle of Shandong, but the two are now close allies."

"The New Army group represented by Li Chengliang needs the imperial court represented by Zhang Juzheng to provide supplies and organize production, and Zhang Juzheng needs to help him protect him from wind and rain, so personal hatred can be put aside."

"And because of the rise of the new army, the old army, which was marginalized in the imperial court, was generally hostile to Zhang Juzheng. Even the Jiubian army, which had not undergone military reforms, has now become the group most opposed to the New Deal among the imperial military officers."

"The problems in the Ming Dynasty cannot be suppressed by a strong Zhongshu. If the underlying contradictions are not resolved, the suppressed problems will explode one day."

"How do you think Ming Ting can save such a person?"

Yan Jun looked at Tong An again and said: "There is no great harmony in the world, even in the southeast."

"How can we save this turbid world?"