By the end of June, Chang'an finally began to feel a little cooler. △
Especially after a light rain.
The air also became fresher.
Liu Che flipped through the memorial sent by Chen Jiao, read it, and then laughed: "Chen Jiao, does this count as digging up Nihong's ancestral grave?"
Although later generations have deep doubts about whether Xu Fu's fleet went to Neon.
But Chen Jiao's discovery proved that Xu Fu's fleet was the ancestor of Neon people's culture and politics.
When they were found by Chen Jiao, they were arrested.
This means that it is almost impossible for the Neon Islands to produce any local civilization.
It is even possible that there will be no neon lights in the future.
From the root, the country and nation of Neon will be declared dead before they are even born.
"Perhaps I should consider who to send to Neon King!" Liu Che smacked his lips and started planning in his mind.
Although the Neon Islands are prone to earthquakes, they are also barren.
However, this archipelago is of great significance to China.
Geographically speaking, the Neon Islands are the only way for China to access the Pacific Ocean.
It is also the first island chain covering China.
In later generations, the Japanese emperor locked up this island chain, and how uncomfortable it was for China.
So, how wonderful it will be after China controls and masters this island chain!
Once Neon and its archipelago were controlled by China.
Then, any enemy at sea can no longer threaten China's homeland.
Moreover, the fleet sets sail from Neon to Alaska and Kamchatka, which is closer and more convenient.
Therefore, this place must be completely and thoroughly Chineseized.
Therefore, the Neon Islands must seal off a member of the Liu clan!
It's just that the name of this country is difficult to come by.
First of all, Neon, a rebellious name, will be excluded.
Secondly, Fuso Kingdom was also excluded.
Because, in Liu Che's heart, fusang is not neon.
But Mexico.
As long as a ship arrives in America, Liu Che will immediately announce that it is Fusang, the country of the survivors of the Yin Shang Dynasty.
Then, the area was declared to be Chinese territory.
As for whether the Mayans will agree?
Liu Che didn't want to talk to them and threw a bunch of "The Analects of Confucius" and "The Classic of Filial Piety" at them.
The indigenous people of America should believe that they are the descendants of Xuanniao after the Yin and Shang Dynasties.
But, whether it’s neon things or American things.
It doesn't matter now.
Even when Chen Jiao wrote a letter saying that he had recovered the golden treasures given to Xu Fu by Qin Shihuang, Liu Che was not very concerned.
Now, Liu Che's attention was completely attracted by another thing.
A month ago, Liu Che ordered Chao Cuo, the imperial censor, to inspect the various lands in Andong.
On behalf of him as the emperor, he expressed condolences to the soldiers and civilians of the Reclamation Corps who visited the Andong Protectorate, as well as the monarchs and ministers of North Korea, South Korea, Zhenfan and other countries.
This was also the first time that an emperor's representative went to inspect the territory after the Han Dynasty acquired Anton's territory.
Chao Cuo arrived at Xinhua City, the seat of the Andong Protectorate, half a month ago.
After staying there for three to five days, we headed to Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea.
Four days after arriving in Pyongyang, Chao Cuo sent back his first memorial.
In the memorial, Chao Cuo vividly described to Liu Che the customs and customs of North Korea under the rule of King Liu Ming of North Korea.
Then, he changed the subject and fiercely attacked Chen Jiao and the whaling culture he had started.
Chao Cuo said in his memorial: "Long considered the emperor's orders and did things that disrupted the laws of the country... If things continue like this, the country will not be a country."
Liu Che didn't pay much attention to it at first and just ignored it.
But, who knew, Chao Cuo would be in a good mood.
There is almost a momentum of one memorial a day, and the number of memorials keeps increasing.
Chao Cuo even demanded that Liu Che must handle or even ban commercial whaling. If whaling must be carried out, it can only be organized by the state and the army.
All private capital and power must withdraw from the whaling industry.
Chen Jiao's whaling fleet must be disbanded immediately.
The same is true for Weixin’s whaling team in Qilu!
Liu Che finally realized that he had made a huge mistake.
He shouldn't have let Chao Cuo go to North Korea!
If Chao Cuo goes to North Korea, it is equivalent to throwing Lu Lu into a pig pen, and extremely terrible things will definitely happen.
There is no need to say much about Legalism’s hostility to businessmen and capital.
Legalism, with the doctrine of maximizing the power of the earth as its core, abhors any person or event that attempts to remove the population from the scope of agricultural production activities.
The whaling industry is an industrial chain that may absorb a large number of people.
Now, just in the beginning, there are already thousands of people relying on this industry.
Historically, the rise of the whaling industry was even the main driving force behind the birth of Western capitalism.
Without whaling, there would be no great voyages. Without great voyages, there would be no great geographical discoveries. Without great geographical discoveries, there would be no industrial revolution.
Moreover, the various whale resources in whaling stations were an indispensable driving force for the industrial revolution.
Without the high-quality lubricating oil produced by those whales, the industrial progress of the West would not be so fast.
For Liu Che, the only good news now is that Chao Cuo has met a challenger in North Korea.
I don’t know when it started, but the Zajia quietly transferred its main force to Anton.
Now, in North Korea, South Korea, and Xinhua, many young scholars have become children of miscellaneous families.
The Zajia family opened four or five schools in the local area.
Among them, the ‘Pyongyang Academy’ founded by Wu Bei had the greatest momentum and the highest influence.
Chao Cuo, who was a Legalist, entered North Korea and saw that the local business was booming due to the whaling industry. Many merchants from Qilu and Zhao Yan were attracted to this place because of the whales.
Many people were hired and became off-the-job workers.
How can Chao Cuo tolerate this?
Therefore, on the one hand, he continued to brief Liu Che and state the changes brought about by the whaling industry; on the other hand, he began to spread remarks in Pyongyang such as "the farmers are eliminated and the farmers are eliminated" and "whaling harms the farmers".
Therefore, Chao Cuo directly bumped into the Zajia family, which had already taken root and thrived in Pyongyang.
Wu Bei stood up bravely and had a public debate with Chao Cuo, the imperial censor.
Wu Qui’s eloquence is beyond words!
He actually had a half-hearted fight with Chao Cuo!
You read that right!
Chao Cuo, a powerful man who has always been famous for his eloquence and eloquence, was defeated by a group of unknown heirs in Pyongyang.
According to Xiu Yiwei's report, Chao Cuo and Wu Qui had three public debates in Pyongyang.
However, Chao Cuo could not refute Wu Qui three times.
So much so that in the past two days, Chao Cuo forgot to educate Liu Che and continued to talk about the dangers of commercial whaling.
Instead, he concentrated on devoting all his energy and energy into the debate with Wu Fei.
Debating among scholar-bureaucrats is a very common thing among Chinese literati.
The famous famous allusion, White Horse is not a Horse, is a pinnacle in the debate on Chinese thought and philosophy.
In the Han Dynasty, debates were also very common.
History books record a debate between Yuan Gusheng and Huang Sheng about the Tang-Wu revolution.
The later Shiquge Conference and Baihuguan Conference brought related debates to their peak.
Generally speaking, as a scholar-official in the world, he is still very accustomed to defeating his opponent in theory.
At that time, Jia Yi and Jia Changsha killed countless giants with just one mouthful, and made many well-known scholars eclipse and bow out in despair.
Basically, if it is an academic dispute, the scholar-bureaucrats and nobles will use academic methods to resolve it.
Using violence and force to solve problems is generally a last resort.
Confucius killed Shaozhengmao, but was often criticized by the Legalists and the Huang Lao School.
But Liu Che knew that Chao Cuo's attention was diverted only temporarily.
Once Wu is unable to resist or is defeated by Chao Cuo.
Then, with the power of narrow victory and the pursuit of victory, the Legalists will be quite terrifying.
"I must end!" Liu Che told himself in his heart.
The power of the Zajia family is still too weak now.
The momentum is too small!
It is impossible to be the opponent of Legalism, let alone the Confucian ally behind Legalism!
The fusion of Confucianism and Legalism, let alone mixed schools.
Even the old-school Huang people have to kneel down and sing Conquer.
Watching Xiu Yiwei sort out the debate process and main arguments between Wu Qui and Chao Cuo.
Liu Che nodded slightly.
I have to admit that the Zajia family, which was reborn from the ashes and took root in Anton, has undergone many changes and modifications compared to the past. Its thinking, also because it is located in Andong, is in order to adapt to the local gold rush and the prosperous development of Anton.
Industry and commerce, with more discussion.
Under the guidance of "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals" and "Enriching the People", they integrated the development of Confucianism and Legalism, absorbed the ideas of the Huang Lao School in Qin Dynasty, and adapted to the local social environment and humanistic customs.
This gave Wu Bei a fighting chance against Chao Cuo.
Chao Cuo first proposed "emphasis on agriculture and eliminating the end of the economy", believing that except agriculture, everything else was insignificant.
Then, Wu was slapped on the forehead with an article titled "Scholars, peasants, industry and merchants all fulfill their duties".
It was this Wu Quilt article that triggered the debate between the two that continues to this day.
This article was written very well by Wu.
It has more than 3,000 words, quoting "Lu Shi Chun Qiu", "Tao Te Ching", "Book of Zhou", "Hong Fan", "Shang Shu" and many other classics. Finally, it uses a famous saying of Lu Buwei: There is no pure white fox in the world, but there is pure white fox.
The white fur is taken from all the white ones. As a conclusion.
Then, the two got up and started a public debate.
Like most debates among Chinese scholar-officials, debates always go wrong.
The same is true for the debate between Wu Bei and Chao Cuo.
Now, the focus of the debate between the two people has changed from whether agriculture is the highest, or whether scholars, farmers, industry and commerce have equal status, both of which are beneficial to the country and the people?
It has become an argument about whether the seven emotions and six desires are beneficial or useless to a gentleman's virtue.
It seems that it has nothing to do with the previous argument.
But in fact, they are still closely connected.
Chao Cuo, who advocates that the seven emotions and six desires are "harmful to people," and who advocates that "all six desires are appropriate," believe that greed and selfishness are human nature and should be treated normally. There is no need to avoid or resist. You only need to stick to your original intention.
In fact, it is already a close fight.
Once Wu was refuted and overthrown by Chao Cuo from an academic level.
Then according to the tradition of Chinese debate, all views in the entire argument will be overturned.
In the eyes of Chinese scholar-officials and traditional public opinion, the failure of one idea equals the failure of all.
And Wu Bei will definitely be refuted by Chao Cuo.
His failure is only a matter of time.
because……
Confucius executed Shaozhengmao, and Mencius expelled Xuzi.
The scholar-bureaucrats who had gained power were already in an invincible position.
Liu Che had no doubt that Wu Bei continued to resist and persisted in his obsession.
Chao Cuo, who became angry and angry, may not ignore tradition and use force.
What's more, there is no local arbiter.
Liu Che didn't want to see the Zajia's recovery interrupted by power, nor did he want to see a large-scale ideological debate break out now.
The time is not yet ripe.
Let’s wait until China dominates the world for such extravagant matters as ideological debates!
When the time comes, gather all the scholars together and hold an alternative Shiquge meeting to resolve the differences in the ideological world.
As for now?
Liu Che picked up his pen and wrote a sentence on the paper: Only the people under the sky are in harmony with each other, and I don't know how the Yi and Lun are related! I can only obey my ears!
Then, Liu Che stamped his emperor's seal on the piece of paper, handed it to an attendant beside him, and ordered: "Give it to Song Zihou, and order Song Zihou to send this book to Pyongyang, North Korea, to the imperial censor.
Chao Cuo's journey!
Liu Che believed that Chao Cuo would definitely come back after seeing the letter.
The reason is very simple. The beginning of this sentence comes from the mouth of King Wu recorded in "Hong Fan".
The meaning is: God protects the people of the world and enables them to live together in peace and harmony, but I do not know the conventional methods of governing the country.
If Chao Cuo can't even understand the meaning of this sentence and Liu Che's hidden order, then he is not worthy of being a censor!
Just recalling Chao Cuo temporarily suppressed the troubles and hidden dangers.
Liu Che believes that after North Korea witnessed the prosperity of business and the changes brought about by the whaling industry.
Chao Cuo will definitely turn his attention to Linqiong.
Keep an eye on this place that Liu Che has always protected and covered up very well.
If the events and changes in Linqiong were discovered by Chao Cuo.
That would be great fun!
because……
The changes taking place now in Linqiong and the things with unusual characteristics.
To the Legalists, it was simply a heinous crime.
It is even more unbearable for Confucianism and Legalism, and even the Huang-Lao sect.
Even the emperor Liu Che felt uneasy in his heart.
Even Liu Che couldn't understand what was happening there every day, and was a little confused.
Because the story unfolding there has never happened before in human history.
A capital model different from the West seems to have emerged.
This hungry monster has opened its eyes and begun to look at the world.
However, as long as Chao Cuo investigates carefully, he will definitely be able to find out the evidence of its existence and its impact.
As long as it is found out, Chao Cuo will definitely try to extinguish it and obliterate it at all costs!
Even if you sacrifice yourself for it!
Fortunately, if Chao Cuo went to investigate, it would take at least half a year to get the results.
However, the Han family was about to engage in a war with the Xiongnu.
In order to win the war, everything must be put aside first.
In this way, at least, this problem will not be detonated while the war is ongoing.
In other words, Liu Che still has time to make arrangements.
