Chapter 412 He is a great emperor, and I am also a great emperor
The new mansion was built on the edge of the Wei River.
It is still some distance from Chang'an, and the area of this mansion is quite large. However, both the courtyard walls and the buildings inside are a bit simple and not very luxurious.
Shipbuilders from Wu Chu and other places in South Vietnam were sent here.
Currently, Chu State has the best shipbuilding technology, because Chu State was the first to form its own naval force, and many types of ships used by the Han Dynasty today are inherited from the original Chu State Navy, but the different countries
Each ship has its own characteristics and is not the same. Experienced fishermen can tell which country the ship sailing in the distance was made by looking at it from a distance.
When these people were brought to Chang'an, they looked at this strange place with some fear in their eyes.
Many of them had never even left their own county, and were suddenly brought to Chang'an. Looking at the strangers around them and the soldiers in the distance, their eyes were full of fear. They just felt that they
They have to do corvee work here, and they don't know when they can go home.
Ji Bu looked at the craftsmen in front of him. There were about three hundred of them, all of whom were recommended shipbuilders from various places.
Before Liu Chang, the status of technical talents like this was not very high.
This is probably due to the influence of the Qin State. In the Qin State's corvee projects, the number of craftsmen called in was second only to the son-in-law. The main reason for these criminals was because the Qin State did not want to delay too much farming, so it only
Of course, the Qin State did not despise craftsmen that much. If they made good things or had new inventions, they could be promoted to nobility. This was better than later.
However, as Liu Chang came to power, many inventions and technologies that changed the world appeared, causing the status of craftsmen to rise rapidly.
The most obvious change is that the power of craftsmen officials is increasing, and the number of craftsmen households is constantly increasing.
Liu Chang is also intentionally improving the living space of the craftsmen. In Shangfang, several craftsmen have even been promoted to marquis through their own inventions. It is still very difficult to obtain such high-level titles, even though the Qin State allows promotion through inventions.
Although he is a knight, it is absolutely impossible to rise to such a high title through invention.
This greatly encouraged craftsmen all over the world, and the titles of great craftsmen from all over the world were slowly rising. The average title has exceeded that of ordinary people.
If this development continues, sooner or later these master craftsmen will be able to hold positions of dignity and become a new "noble class".
Ji Bu saw the fear of these people. He didn't say anything more. He just ordered his soldiers to bring prepared meat to entertain these shipbuilding masters from all over the world.
These people were confused. They thought they came here for corvee service.
The corvee service in the Qin and Han Dynasties definitely required craftsmen. Many things required craftsmen to design and explore. The treatment was better than that of serving criminals, but it was not much better. They heard that the navy was going to fight in Liaodong, so they all thought that
The temple called itself to work day and night to build ships for the navy.
At present, it seems that this is not the case.
When everyone began to eat, Ji Bu just read out the emperor's edict.
After hearing Ji Bu's words, everyone understood that the emperor wanted them to be officials and responsible for designing ships, not to do hard work. When they heard that Ji Bu was going to conduct an assessment and only the successful ones would stay and hold official positions, they saw that
There were sparks in them, and there was some hostility in their eyes when they looked at each other.
Fortunately, it is much more convenient to deal with craftsmen than with scholars. When craftsmen from all over the country gradually became familiar with each other and began to exchange their skills, the atmosphere became much more lively. Their love for their profession made them very happy.
Anyone who is willing to communicate and can be recommended by the local government in this position is not a mediocre person. He still has his own ideas about shipbuilding. As for design, the same is true.
Ji Bu first arranged a place for them to live, and after three days, they conducted an assessment.
Ji Bu's assessment method was also very special. He directly asked everyone who came to come up with a set of ship design drawings, and he would hand over these design drawings to the officials who were originally responsible for shipbuilding and designing ships for the Yellow Head Army for identification.
, find out those who are in name only.
While Ji Bu was busy with this matter, Mao Chang finally got his wish and met the rumored tyrant.
The moment she met the tyrant, Mao Chang already felt the strong sense of oppression.
Mao Heng is taller, while Mao Chang is not like Zhongfu in that he is shorter in stature.
Liu Chang sat in front of him, like a little giant, his sharp eyes looking at him, his face serious, as if he was about to rush up and beat him up at the next moment, which was particularly unsettling.
"Are you Mao Chang?"
"Exactly."
"The people I sent out said that you are not very willing to serve as the crown prince's minister. Is this the case?"
"Your Majesty... I don't have much talent and virtue, so I'm afraid I won't be able to shoulder such an important task."
"Oh, your father-in-law often tells others that your talents have surpassed his own. Isn't your father-in-law less talented and virtuous than you?!"
Mao Chang was stunned and said quickly: "Your Majesty, this is my father-in-law's self-effacing statement."
"If you have no talent, then your father-in-law has deceived me. Anyone who deceives me should be cooked and killed!"
Hearing the deep threat in Liu Chang's words, Mao Chang was also a little angry. He said seriously: "When Emperor Gao and Xiang Ji fought, Emperor Gao used benevolence to get the wise people to assist him, while Xiang Yu used kidnapping.
He used intimidation to force wise men to do things for him. Xiang Yu finally committed suicide. Isn't this the reason why he lost the support of wise men?"
"As a descendant of Emperor Gao, how can your Majesty use Xiang Yu's method to appoint talented people?"
"Hahahaha~~~"
Liu Chang was not angry, he just laughed and motioned for Mao Chang to sit next to him.
"I have never done anything like this. Your father-in-law was sent by me to lecture the Confucian scholars. If you want to see him, Lu Lu can send you there at any time. Don't think that I am
I caught him to scare you."
"I didn't want you to be the minister, because I heard that you can only study classics and have no other talents... But the Queen Mother told me that today's princes are good at literature, and most of them are Huang Lao.
There is a lack of a true Confucian scholar, so let me call you to be the crown prince’s minister!”
"I never thought that the Queen Mother thinks highly of you. Just because the prince loves Mr. Huang and is afraid of becoming an enemy of Mr. Huang, you dare not come to serve as a minister. Can a Confucian scholar like you really assist the prince?"
Liu Chang's face was full of disdain, and he almost pointed at Mao Chang's nose and scolded: You are a coward who is afraid of Mr. Huang.
After all, Mao Chang was young. She blushed when Liu Chang provoked her, "I'm not afraid of anyone! I'm just afraid that I don't have the talent."
"Okay, okay, okay, you're not afraid, okay, I understand. You can go see your father-in-law. After meeting, remember to go back and continue studying."
Liu Chang waved his hand disdainfully, without even looking at him. He just smiled and said to Lu Lu beside him: "No wonder the prince prefers Mr. Huang so much."
Mao Chang was furious and stood up suddenly, "Your Majesty!! Assisting the crown prince is a state matter, and meeting Father Zhong is a private matter. How can you abolish public service for personal reasons?! I am going to see the crown prince now!!"
Seeing Mao Chang leave Houde Hall angrily, Liu Chang just put away the disdain on his face.
"Lu, I haven't used this method of stimulating generals for a long time. Are you familiar with it??"
"No, no, I almost couldn't bear it after hearing this, let alone a young guy like him."
Liu Chang nodded with satisfaction, "As a king, you don't have to know every way to control ministers. You only need to be proficient in one... If you are greedy and want to learn everything, you will be like King Zhao, accomplishing nothing.
, know nothing... This time all the countries sent troops to attack Liaodong, and this guy only sent 8,000 troops. The Zhao State, which could compete with the Qin State at the beginning, is now governed like this by him. This is because he does not know how to control the ministers!
"
Lu Lu hesitated for a moment and said: "Your Majesty, today's Zhao State... is still different from the original Zhao State. There are not as many vast counties as before..."
"That's because he didn't hold on to it, and someone else took over the county. Who's to blame?"
Didn’t your Majesty steal this yourself?
You have ceded the State of Zhao to only the two counties of Handan and Qinghe. How can you explain this?
"Are you Mao Sheng?"
The prince sat comfortably on his throne, sitting in the ancestral way, and looked at the young man in front of him with disdain in his eyes.
Feng Tang cleared his throat and said: "Your Highness, you are not allowed to sit down."
Liu An was very unhappy and asked: "When my father is sitting like this, why can't he see you admonishing me?"
"Because this is not how a wise king should sit, and you want to be a wise king."
Liu An was immediately overjoyed and adjusted his sitting posture slightly.
After a long period of contact, Feng Tang also mastered some methods of treating Prince An.
This guy is very similar to Liu Chang. They both take the soft side rather than the tough one. At the same time, he can't argue his case through debate, because this guy has read books, and he has read a lot. If he really debates based on quotations from classics, no one will criticize him.
Who is it? Sometimes, Feng Tang couldn't understand Liu An's curse words, which he quoted from classics. This made Feng Tang sigh with emotion. He was really old, and he couldn't even speak to a child.
Mao Chang looked at the little tyrant in front of him, who was almost carved out of the same mold as that tyrant, with deep disappointment in his eyes.
Does this Han world really have a future?
Unexpectedly, Liu An suddenly asked: "You are studying the Book of Songs. I heard that Confucius said that poetry should be used as speech, so studying poetry is to advise people today through the principles of the past, right?"
Mao Chang nodded.
"Are you from the Song Dynasty?"
Mao Chang looked at Liu An in astonishment, and Liu An said with a smile: "If not, why bother standing by the tree stump, hoping that a rabbit will rush over and kill it?"
Mao Chang narrowed his eyes. This allusion came from Han Feizi. Han Feizi thought: In the Xia Dynasty, people still lived by building shacks on trees and drilling wood to make fire. They would definitely be ridiculed by Gun and Yu. If they arrived in the Yin Dynasty,
During the Zhou Dynasty, if there were still people who wanted to dig rivers and drain floods as a priority, they would definitely be ridiculed by King Tang and King Wu of Shang.
In this case, if there are still people today who admire and implement the politics of Yao, Shun, Yu, Chang, and Wu, they will definitely be ridiculed by modern saints.
After saying this, he told a story about waiting for something to happen, and said that those who use the principles of the past to govern the contemporary people are all such fools.
And Mao Chang responded: "The screen is the Han, and the hundred pictures are the constitution. How does Your Highness think it will be used today?"
"Min Tian is so majestic that he has nothing to worry about. If he is guilty, he will be punished. If he is innocent, he will be reduced to a humble one... Your Highness, do you think he can still exist?"
"The sound of virtue is a virtue, and the virtue is a virtue. It is a virtue, it is a kind. It is a virtue, it is a virtue. It is a virtue, it is a king... Your Highness, do you think this principle is suitable for today?"
"The vastness of the sky is not worthy of its virtues. It brings down famine and beheads the four kingdoms... What do you think of this, Your Highness?"
Mao Chang said seriously: "The poetry we govern not only has the principles of self-cultivation, but also the principles of governing the country. Even though the times have changed, the principles will not change. As long as those who cherish the people's strength and value the people will
It will definitely be strong, but those who do not know rewards and punishments and brutally bully the people will definitely be destroyed."
"There are countless truths contained in the poem. How can Your Highness treat it with such contempt?"
Liu An smiled and said: "The principles you said are very superficial, and there is no reason to be surprised. However, you are here to assist me under the order of my eldest mother. I cannot refuse, so just stay with me."
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"His Majesty!"
When Fu Qiu Bo entered the Xuanshi Hall, he saw his Majesty playing with a very strange flower.
The flower had a faint yellow color and looked very soft. His Majesty was rubbing the flower thoughtfully, not knowing what he was thinking.
"Mr. Fuqiu, you came just in time!"
"Come, help me see what kind of flower this is?"
Liu Chang handed the thing in his hand to Fu Qiu Bo. Fu Qiu Bo picked it up and looked at it carefully. Fu Qiu Bo was very knowledgeable, but looking at the thing in his hand, he couldn't figure out what it was.
What was it? He hesitated for a long time before returning it to Liu Chang and asked: "May I ask, Your Majesty, where did this thing come from?"
"It was sent by Luan Bu."
"Luan Bu sent people to check the situation of the Huns. The people he sent brought back these flowers. According to them, people living there use these flowers to make clothes..."
Fuqiubo looked at the flower in his hand in surprise, "How can this be made into clothes? Is it possible..."
Fuqiubo pulled gently, and sure enough, the flower was pulled out into a silk-like object.
This thing is obviously Indian cotton. Cotton was introduced to China very late. It was introduced from India in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and it did not become popular until the Song and Yuan Dynasties. However, cotton cultivation and cotton textiles in ancient India were very early. Currently, archeology
The earliest cotton textiles discovered are three cotton fabric fragments from ancient India five thousand years ago. This proves that ancient India had cotton cultivation and cotton textile technology very early. The first cotton in India was light yellow, and it was not until later that it was
With that pure white cotton.
After being defeated by Han Xin, the Huns entered Central Asia from the Western Regions, and then went south into ancient India, where they massacred everyone.
If the Huns had come fifty years earlier, they might have encountered the most powerful dynasty in ancient India, the Mauryan Dynasty. The Moon Guardian of the Mauryan Dynasty drove away the remaining power of the Greeks in the Punjab and gradually conquered most of northern India.
region, and later repelled the invasion of the Seleucid Empire and gained control of Afghanistan.
By the time of Ashoka's reign, the Mauryan Dynasty had a vast territory and a powerful political power. Buddhism flourished and began to spread outwards. When Ashoka was in power, the Mauryan Dynasty was extremely powerful and almost unified the entire India. However, Ashoka was four years older than Ying Zheng.
When he was more than ten years old, he was no longer alive.
After Ashoka's death, his sons became independent, and the empire immediately began to fall apart and lost its original glory. When Liu Chang was ten years old, the originally powerful Mauryan Dynasty was ended.
The Greeks also resumed their invasion, and the divided vassals of India were no longer able to fight against the powerful enemies around them.
The house was leaking and it rained all night. It was at this time that the Huns also came.
If King Ashoka was in his prime, they might still be able to compete, but in today's situation, they can hardly defeat anyone. In history, after the Mauryan Dynasty was ended, the Greeks, Parthians, Saga people, and Yuezhi
People came one after another to carve up this good piece of fat. The Huns were much more powerful than these forces.
Of course, the Han Dynasty at this moment did not forget to divide the meat. In the Dian Kingdom in the south, under the leadership of Chai Qi, they had defeated the Pyu people who occupied Burma. These people historically controlled the trade route between China and India.
, after defeating them, Chai Qi entered South India from Burma, and South India has maintained a very loose state of multiple vassals after the Mauryan Dynasty and has never been able to unite.
But unlike the Huns, Chai Qi's expedition was just an exploration, not a clear strategic idea.
But at this moment, this small piece of cotton attracted the deep attention of a terrifying demon king.
"This thing is great...I heard that there are treasures everywhere over there...the Huns can easily defeat them...then if we go..."
Liu Chang slowly raised his head, his eyes seemed to be flashing with red light.
Fuqiubo was startled at this moment, and he hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, if your Majesty needs this thing, you can let the merchants go to trade, bring these things back, and then plant them in the Han Dynasty. There is no need to send troops.
.The Huns all have cavalry and live on grass, so they can travel long distances to attack, but the Han Dynasty is different. Your Majesty, if Your Majesty wants to send troops out of the Western Regions, it will cost a lot of food, and it may even destabilize the country!!"
“Are the Huns the only ones with cavalry??”
"Your Majesty! Nowadays, the Han Dynasty is fighting everywhere... The wars for many years have taken a lot of money. If Your Majesty continues to pursue the Xiongnu, I am afraid something big will happen!!"
Fuqiubo was so frightened that he almost threw the flower in his hand on the ground and stepped on it a few times. If this flower caused the big man to go on an expedition, what would he do? The world finally settled down, how could it withstand such a situation?
fighting.
Liu Chang chuckled, "Don't worry, how could I launch an expedition just because of a little flower?"
Fu Qiu Bo left Houde Hall with doubts.
That night, when Liu An walked in, Liu Chang patted him on the shoulder and said seriously:
"You have to grow up soon..."
ps: Hahaha, can you guess who the emperor in the title is?