The first thousand three hundred and ninety-eighth disappointment
Looking at Zhu Maichen, Liu Che suddenly felt something in his heart and asked curiously: "Who is your disciple?"
As soon as Liu Che's question came up, countless people's eyes gathered outside the venue. Tianlai Novel | 2
Before this moment, Zhu Maichen's performance, not to say it was particularly excellent, at least deserved a good rating.
What's more, he also aroused the emperor's interest.
This condition alone is enough to give him extra points.
Although such a person is a bit old, if he is a disciple of my family, he can still appropriately allocate some resources for training. He has the attention and favor of the emperor. What will happen in the future?
The giants of the Confucian, Legalist and Huang-Lao schools all thought so.
They can't help but think this way.
Today's world situation is that Confucianism, Legalism, Huang and Lao stand on a tripartite footing to govern together.
The Mo family and the Za family were watching with eager eyes.
Any school of thought will be pulled down if it doesn't work hard enough.
If you want to win in this biggest ideological competition and orthodoxy battle since the Warring States Period, every ounce of strength needs to be cherished and every talent needs to be grasped.
Otherwise, someone will poach you!
"Reporting to Your Majesty..." Zhu Maichen bowed, straightened his chest, and said proudly: "I originally studied "Spring and Autumn Gongyang", but after arriving in Anton, I deeply believed that if the country is prosperous,
State, it is better to use the learning of miscellaneous families to reconcile..."
As soon as he said this, there was a buzz of discussion throughout the venue.
Miscellaneous family?
Which school of thought did Lu Buwei start?
Hasn't it disappeared long ago, or at least has declined to the extreme?
Only well-informed people look cautious.
Naturally, they have heard about the fact that the Miscellaneous Family has revived and flourished in Anton.
Especially the Confucian schools have all heard that the descendants of Confucius moved to North Korea and were ordered to educate the people of North Korea. However, they were defeated by the local Pyongyang Academy, so that Kong Anguo, the third grandson of the emperor, hid in the mountains.
Obsessed with alchemy and immortality...
The good descendants of Confucius actually learned from the Lao-Zhuang School to escape the world.
It's really dumbfounding.
And this Pyongyang Academy is the base camp of the Za family in Andong.
He is said to have three thousand disciples and seventy-six sages.
The influence spread throughout the Andong Protectorate, and even penetrated along the ocean routes to Liaodong, Liaoxi and Yanji.
The reason why it has not been widely known in the world is that Liu Che once gave Xu Jiu an instruction: build walls high, accumulate grain widely, and slowly become king.
Obviously, the Zajia family also listened to it, so they have been promoting themselves unintentionally, creating an illusion for the vast number of people south of the Yellow River and north of the Yangtze River.
However, everyone who has been to Andong and North Korea will definitely not ignore the terrifying potential of Zajia.
Now, this school of thought is almost the undisputed overlord in the whole territory of Anton.
Both Confucianism and Legalism failed miserably before it.
Although this is related to Anton's special environment, it also illustrates the strong vitality of the Za family.
Liu Che felt more interesting after hearing Zhu Maichen's answer.
"Zajia...hehehe..." He laughed in his heart.
In this life, the whole world has been changed beyond recognition by him.
Just like Zhu Maichen, he was a Confucian master in his previous life.
In particular, he framed Zhang Tang, which led to the collapse of the last Legalist giant in the central government, and Confucianism has had an absolute advantage since then.
But now, this person has joined the Za family and has become good friends with Zhang Tang.
It is really difficult to describe how the situation in the world will change in the future.
However, no matter what Zhu Maichen's personal ethics and conduct are.
This person's business ability and skill are not bad.
Moreover, if Liu Che remembers correctly, Zhu Maichen is also an expert on Fujian and Vietnam issues.
After thinking about it, Liu Che made a decision and said to Zhu Maichen: "I heard that Zhu Aiqing is from Kuaiji?"
"Your Majesty, my ancestral home is Wu County. When Wu rebelled against his master, I moved to Fuchun, Kuaiji to avoid the war..." Zhu Maichen paid his respects.
"Is that so..." Liu Che paused and asked, "Since you are from Kuaiji, do you know the bad government in Kuaiji?"
"Your Majesty, I believe that there are disadvantages of Kuaiji..." After thinking for a moment, Zhu Maichen replied decisively: "There are three main reasons! The first one is: the people are not intelligent, the technology is backward, and there is no advantage of the Central Plains equipment!
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As a native of Wu, and born at the lowest level, Zhu Maichen spent most of his life in the Kingdom of Wu.
He is very aware of the shortcomings of the old Wu land.
The Wuyue Plain has open terrain and dense water networks. Unlike the north, the main cultivated crop here is rice.
Most of the land is paddy fields.
The people's farming method is the so-called "fire plowing and water plowing".
The fire cultivators set fire to burn the grass and burn the weeds in the rice fields to fertilize the fields; the plow cultivators, after sowing the rice, wait for the weeds to grow in the fields and immediately pour water into the fields to drown the weeds.
So that there are no competitors for the rice in the field.
This extensive farming model is somewhat similar to the slash-and-burn cultivation practiced in the Central Plains hundreds of years ago.
In short, it’s just a matter of watching the weather and eating.
Therefore, even though the land of Wu and Yue is said to be 'a land of fruit, cockroaches, and clams, there is always enough food. Therefore, there are many squirrels living there, but there is no accumulation of food. There is enough food, and there is no need to worry about coldness or hunger.'
However, the actual situation is that famine often occurs.
Unlike the north, where the famine was caused by drought, the famine in Wuyue was caused by floods.
Because the local water network is dense, there are countless lakes and swamps.
Therefore, every time there is a flood, it will immediately cover thousands of miles of ocean.
The number of victims is often measured in hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands.
The victims of hunger stretch for hundreds of miles!
What’s even more frightening is that epidemics are rampant and people have no health protection!
However, various agricultural technologies and equipment developed in the north have almost no use in the Wuyue area.
This resulted in the fact that although the imperial court had sent a large number of officials there in recent years, the local economy had been slow to develop.
"The second one is: witches, goddesses, and prostitutes are rampant!" When Zhu Maichen said this, he almost gritted his teeth.
Most of the misfortunes in his life were caused by the witches and goddesses.
His father and his brothers all died because they listened to the lies told by the witches and goddesses and delayed their illness.
He hated the Gu Goddess with deep hatred.
"The third one is: the powerful families are annexing each other, and the small people have no place to stand!" Zhu Maichen bowed again.
In the Wuyue area, in the past, when King Wu Liu Bi was there, mergers and annexations were already rampant.
It was just that at the beginning, the King of Wu often organized landless people to reclaim wasteland, so that he could barely maintain the situation.
However, once King Wu died, there was no organizer, and the local annexation situation became very bad.
What's even more troublesome is that without the financial support of King Wu Liu Bi, the local water conservancy system gradually collapsed. Moreover, due to continuous floods for years, the newly reclaimed land was constantly taken back by nature.
More and more farmers are losing their land.
In the Andong region alone, immigrants from Wuyue already account for the majority.
Liu Che also nodded after listening to Zhu Maichen's words.
In the Wuyue area, Liu Che parachuted thousands of officials over the years, and even sent Yan Yi to take charge.
It's just a pity that apart from some achievements in combating adultery and controlling schistosomiasis, it has done very badly in other aspects.
Especially in Kuaiji County and Yuzhang County, due to Yan Yi's Confucian thinking, the local wealthy families continued to grow, eroding and robbing the living space of the people at the bottom.
Faced with this situation, Yan Yi was so anxious that he was sweating profusely, but he was helpless.
They can only keep asking Liu Che to allocate funds from the central government, or organize landless people to migrate to Andong.
Last year alone, more than 30,000 landless people migrated to Anton.
Although it can be said that the powerful landlords in Wu and Yue objectively played a role in helping Liu Che open up Anton.
But, in the final analysis, the Wuyue region and the Jiangnan region are also Chinese soil, and they also need a large population.
If they continue to play like this, once the population of Kuaiji and Yuzhang drops to a certain number, the Yue tribes in the mountains will come out to grab territory.
Moreover, as a ruler, Liu Che could no longer tolerate the local situation deteriorating.
Originally, Liu Che was planning to send Wang Wenshu or Yin Qi over to behead a wave of people.
Now that Zhu Maichen jumped out and said that the nose has eyes, Liu Che decided to listen to the opinions of experts.
"In your opinion, how should we eliminate these three disadvantages?" Liu Che asked.
Liu Che's question immediately caused a stir in the whole audience, and Zhu Maichen was even more excited.
Since ancient times, it has not been a trivial matter for kings to ask questions about government affairs!
Duke Xiao asked about the political affairs and business affairs of the state of Qin, and King Chu mourned for Wu Zi about the shortcomings of Chu, and the art of war in the state of Chu...
Even if the king doesn't use it in the end, such questions can still affect national policy.
Just like the disputes between Jia Yi and Taizong, Chao Cuo and the late emperor.
"Your Majesty, although I am dull, I am deeply loved by Your Majesty. I dare not be disrespectful. I would like to report my humble opinion to you!" Zhu Maichen bowed deeply, and then said: "If you want to enlighten the people's wisdom, it is better to use this method. Enlightenment, enlightenment is worse than declaring a decree. I would like to ask your majesty to send a censorship group to inspect the counties of Wu and Yue, go deep into the villages, proclaim the imperial decree, and your majesty's pardon, so that everyone will know the majesty of the Han family!"
As for things like education... Even in the Zajia family, which has always claimed to be the spokesperson of the poor and the lower class people, they deeply feel that it is the power of scholar-bureaucrats, at least the small and medium-sized landlord families. People with muddy legs do not need to be literate, they only need to know.
National majesty is enough.
Liu Che was a little surprised when he heard this: "Wu people don't know Han law?"
"I don't know..." Zhu Maichen bowed deeply: "Since ancient times in Wu and Yue, clan law has been greater than national law..."
This is also a natural thing. Since Chu, Wuyue has been the most powerful place.
Even King Wu Fu Chai and King Gou Jian of Yue could not conquer these grass-headed kings.
The Chu State annexed this area in the late Warring States Period, but had no actual control at all - besides, the Chu State itself could not protect itself at the time.
When Qin conquered the world, he killed a number of people with knives.
But the effect is...
If you look at the chaos at the end of the Qin Dynasty and the grass-headed kings who emerged here, you will know that it is actually just like that.
Since the rise of the Han Dynasty, the city has been decorated with the King's Banner several times.
Although the power of local clans had been dormant due to the iron-fisted attack by King Wu Liu Bi, as soon as King Wu died, they immediately revived and made a comeback.
In recent years, there has been no trouble in the Wuyue area.
Firstly, because the Han Dynasty was powerful and Mitsukoshi surrendered, especially the attachment of Donghai Kingdom, the dividends brought eased the local social conflicts. Secondly, with Anton as a sponge, it continued to absorb landless people. Otherwise, this would
The place is a powder keg.
Nowadays, in Kuaiji County and Yuzhang County, due to the differences in appearance, the local Confucianism is very strong.
This has advantages - the local culture is very rich, and both the Chu School of Poetry and the declining Lu Confucianism have entered the area, opened schools, and recruited the sons and nephews of the landlords and nobles.
But the disadvantage is that the scope of Confucianism is too strong, so the power of the clan expands.
After all, Yan Yi is a gentleman.
And a gentleman certainly doesn't like killing people.
Now, Liu Che suddenly heard that the Wuyue region had not even popularized Han law, and he frowned.
The Legalist ministers and nobles also looked at each other in disbelief, and the Huang Lao sect was also quite dissatisfied.
Only Confucians are worried.
There is no way, one of the universal values in the world today is - enlightenment.
Among the country's requirements for officials, the most important one is to read out laws and decrees.
And this tradition is not unique to the Qin and Han Dynasties.
During the Warring States Period, the first act of reform in various countries was to declare the decree!
Even the first article of Wu Qi's failed reform was that the laws must be made public and made known to all officials and citizens.
And this is also the key to the success of the reform.
After all, if no one else knows about the laws you enact, what kind of reform is this?
Do you entertain yourself behind closed doors?
Nowadays, in Guanzhong, every new law and amendment must be announced in the village pavilion and read out by officials for three days. Every possible effort is made to let the people know that the country has promulgated/amended the law, so be careful.
Therefore, it is difficult for people to imagine that in a place where the laws are not known to the people, what authority can the government have?
This is also where Confucianism is embarrassed.
Confucianism attaches great importance to the gentleman. The meaning of a gentleman is that since he is a gentleman, he is a good person. Since he is a good person, his morality must be maximal. Since his morality is maximal, there is no need for supervision and urging.
"Alas..." Liu Che sighed deeply: "I just realized today that there is something beyond the reach of the king..."
"Please continue..." Liu Che waved his hand.
In his heart, Liu Che had decided to send an investigation team to Kuaiji and Wuyue to investigate.
If this is true, then Yan Yi can come back.
Seeing Liu Che's expression, the giants of various Confucian schools immediately hated Zhu Maichen deeply in their hearts.
Because, if the emperor is disappointed with Yan Yi, then Confucianism will suffer a heavy blow!
"In addition, I foolishly thought that the young master should also send good craftsmen. As for the land of Wuyue in the south of the Yangtze River, because of its location, its power, and its weapons..." Zhu Maichen had no idea that he was already being laughed at by the crowd.
He was full of confidence, and the more he spoke, the more confident he became.
Because he was born in Wu, grew up in Wu, and came from the lowest level.
