After recording the edict, the ministers respectfully presented it to Liu Che for reading. △￠
Liu Che read it once, and after confirming that it was correct, he ordered: "Please ask the Prime Minister and the Censor to have a look!"
So, a minister presented the imperial edict and showed it to Zhou Yafu and Chao Cao. When the two men nodded, Liu Che stamped the emperor's seal on it.
Prime Minister Zhou Yafu and imperial censor Chao Cuo used seals respectively.
In this way, the edict will have legal effect and can be promulgated nationwide.
Of course, in the Han Dynasty, the emperor could also directly issue orders to people to do things without asking the prime minister and the imperial censor.
However, this would break the rules.
It will also seriously damage the reputation of the prime minister and the imperial censor.
Usually, if the emperor bypasses the prime minister or the imperial censor, he directly orders the whole country to implement a certain policy.
So, given the staunchness of the Han people, the prime minister and the imperial censor had no other choice but to commit suicide.
Therefore, throughout the history of the Han Dynasty, it has been rare for an emperor to bypass the prime minister and directly issue an edict to implement a certain order nationwide.
Liu Che watched a minister holding the original manuscript of one of the edicts and going to Shiqu Pavilion for filing.
Then, Liu Che continued to look at Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo. He summoned Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo to the palace with such great fanfare, naturally it was not just for a big order.
Traditionally, every emperor of the Liu family would put forward an original political idea of his own six months after taking the throne.
Emperor Taizong Xiaowen advocated giving kindness to the world.
Therefore, in addition to Guan Liang, the people were allowed to make money. Corporal punishment was abolished and the burden on farmers was reduced.
Liu Che's father advocates virtue.
Even when Chao Cuo cut down the feudal vassals, he did so under the pretext that the princes had lost their moral integrity.
If he were still alive, then, judging from his past life experiences, he would probably continue to adhere to this philosophy.
Now, it is Liu Che's turn to choose his own political philosophy, implement it and deepen it.
Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo had already prepared for this kind of political statement that emperors of all dynasties would inevitably make.
At this moment, seeing Liu Che's solemn look on his face, the two of them hurriedly sat down, bowed their heads and listened attentively to the emperor's words.
Liu Che thought for a while in his heart.
Thinking about the future of the dynasty. From black cats and white cats to the Three Representatives, to the Eight Honors and Eight Disgraces, and then to the Chinese Dream.
The entire top-level governing ideology not only keeps pace with the times, but is also inherited from the same origin.
Referring to the experience of the Celestial Dynasty, Liu Che knew not to put forward some unrealistic slogans, but also to inherit the political concepts of his ancestors.
Since ancient times, the most respected moral values in China are loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, justice, and etiquette.
The concept of loyalty and filial piety has been used by Liu Bang, and the concept of benevolence, justice and morality was also used unceremoniously by Liu Che's grandfather and father.
Liu Che didn't want to use the rest of the gift.
Because advocating will lead to a consequence, that is, the solidification of class!
Don’t underestimate the bureaucrats’ old-fashioned and superior thinking!
Judging from what Liu Che saw and heard in the Celestial Dynasty, the higher ups have spoken. The lower downs will never do anything to undermine Shangfeng's spirit.
Many bureaucrats would rather be reviled by millions of people than do anything that might be contrary to the political views of the upper class.
In this case, if Liu Che makes a fuss about the word "ritual", then the people below will definitely have to use the word "ritual" in everything.
In today's world, what is etiquette?
Etiquette is order. To take it to the extreme, it means that farmers will always be farmers, businessmen will always be businessmen, officials will always be officials, and nobles will always be nobles.
Liu Che believed that if he proposed the strategy of governing the country based on etiquette, there is no doubt that the landlords, nobles and powerful people would happily shout "Long Live the Holy Emperor".
but……
After the carnival, what is left is a country of stagnant water.
Liu Che doesn’t want to do such a thing!
In addition to loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, justice and etiquette, traditional universal values include integrity and trustworthiness, etc.
However, honesty and trustworthiness are moral principles, and it is a bit exaggerated to use them as governance concepts, and the effect will not be great.
What's more, Liu Che has never believed that officials have such things as integrity and credibility! - There may be a small number of people who have such qualities, but most of them can only act haphazardly.
If even the emperor does not believe in something, if it is used as a basic concept of governing the country, how many people below believe it?
After thinking about this, Liu Che finally made up his mind. He opened his mouth and said: "I have been reading history books recently and saw that the three generations of kings were as bright as the sun and as bright as the stars. It is a pity that the unfilial descendants have caused the ancestral temples to overthrow and the country to collapse. I often say:
If you take history as a mirror, you will know the ups and downs; if you use people as a mirror, you will know the gains and losses. When I look at the demise of the Xia Dynasty, the Yin Shang Dynasty, and the Ji Zhou Dynasty, although each has its own reasons, they are basically the same!"
"Xia Jie was tyrannical because of the Tang-Wu revolution and Shang Zhou's lack of ethics. So King Wen attacked him and King You was ignorant, so that there were beacon fires to play with the princes. As for the fall of Qin, in my opinion, Li Si and Zhao Gao should be responsible for it!"
When Liu Che said this, his speech speed was deliberately increased. This is because mainstream public opinion believes that Qin's demise was due to its brutality. The Qin regime was the original sin. It is precisely because of this that the Han Dynasty has the successor to Qin.
The debate between the legal system and the Zhou legal system.
But as a time traveler, Liu Che knew that Qin's demise was actually due to Zhao Gao and Li Si destroying the foundation of Qin's rule. Li Si and Zhao Gao made even the core of Qin's native land, the Guanzhong people, abandon Qin. In this way, the Qin Dynasty would not
If it is destroyed, there will be no justice!
Liu Che didn't want to provoke a big ideological discussion now, so he quickly continued: "I believe that the fall of each dynasty is ultimately due to the lack of capable ministers to assist. If during the Shang Dynasty, Yi Yin was in the government
, During the time of Zhou You, Zhou Gong was in power, how could there be the overthrow of the ancestral temple?" This is a typical forum water test rhetoric in later generations. However, at that time, no one had ever encountered anyone who explained history from such a perspective.
Therefore, Liu Che's rhetoric had a miraculous effect. At least, both Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo felt that Liu Che did not say anything wrong.
If during the Shang Dynasty, Yi Yin was in power, King Zhou would have been imprisoned in the palace to study by Yi Yin before he started causing trouble.
As for the Duke of Zhou, he was the one who exiled King Li and founded the Republic of China!
Liu Che saw that the effect was good. So he sighed with compassion and said: "So, I think that the way to govern a country is to recruit people! How to ensure that all talented people can be used by the Han Dynasty. How to ensure that talented people can stand out.
I believe that this is a major matter related to the long-term peace and stability of the country and the stability of the ancestral temple. The ministers and officials are the prime ministers and the censors, and they are listed as the three ministers. They are the bones of the country and the pillars of the country. Please discuss this matter with me and summon all the officials to discuss it. All officials, civil and military, are wise.
A good scholar, who understands the affairs of kings in ancient and modern times, there must be someone who can solve my confusion!"
In fact, Liu Che already had an idea in mind.
However, as an emperor, there are many things that he cannot say in person and must rely on others to achieve this goal. Liu Che believes that there are still many smart people in this world. Someone must be able to guess his thoughts!
After hearing this, Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo both nodded and took off their hats to salute and said: "I, Yafu (Cuo), would like to obey the imperial edict!"
The two of them would not participate in this traditional Han Dynasty game of guessing what the emperor wanted to do.
Because they are San Gong, guessing correctly is a normal thing, but what if they guess wrong... Haha...
Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo were about to say goodbye. They went back to prepare and convey the emperor's instructions. Liu Che said again: "The examination is coming soon. Please prime minister and the censor to rule over the civil and military officials, ministers and nobles. Tomorrow, the announcement room will be held."
We will discuss matters in the palace, discuss examination arrangements, and the preparation work of each department!"
This is something that definitely needs to be discussed.
The specific affairs of the examination, it is easy to say, have long been left to the internal history and the Shaofu to arrange.
But the problem is how to distribute and arrange the scholars admitted this time. This is the key point that requires wrangling and discussion.
In this matter, the Yamen's interests will definitely be damaged.
Rather than waiting for the various yamen to argue after the examination, it is better to resolve the issue and distribute the tasks before the examination begins.
As long as things are decided after the court meeting, each yamen must implement it if they understand it, and if they don't understand it, they must overcome difficulties to implement it!
"No!" Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo bowed deeply.
Liu Che then stood up and said: "It's getting late, you two dears, please go back and prepare!"
That night, Liu Che issued another order. After it was sealed, it was sent from the Shaofu to the county governor's offices across the country.
This instruction is a supplement to the one issued by Liu Che during the day. However, it will not appear in front of the public. It will only appear in the office documents of officials above the county magistrate.
The content of this instruction is as follows: The marriage ceremony of a husband is the most important thing in human relations. It is a gathering of wine and food, so it is necessary to perform rituals and have fun. Today, two thousand stones may be a strict prohibition. It is forbidden for people to celebrate their marriages with wine and food. Therefore, it is abolished.
The etiquette of the township party makes the people lose their joy, and it is not the reason to guide the people! "Poetry" does not say, "If the people do not lose their virtue, they will do it to make mistakes." Do not implement harsh government.
The issuance of this order can be regarded as an end to the history that since the Qin Dynasty, people had to secretly hold weddings when they get married.
In the original history, the Han Dynasty had to wait until Emperor Xuan Liu Xun came to power decades later to lift the ban on civil weddings and banquets.
The next day, at the court meeting, Liu Che completed the crushing of the bureaucracy by joining forces with Prime Minister Zhou Yafu and the military.
The distribution plan for scholars after the examination was determined.
In this allocation plan, the Shaofu will be allocated 500 people to supplement various departments including ordnance supervision, engineering construction, garden management and other departments.
The army assigned 500 people to serve as civilian officers in various branches.
The Neishi Yamen assigned a thousand people to serve as junior assistants and officials in the counties in Guanzhong and the villages in Chang'an.
The remainder will be distributed equally among other yamen.
At the same time, at the court meeting, the principles for the distribution of scholars were also determined.
Liu Che learned from the advanced experience of later generations in the college entrance examination and proposed a volunteer plan.
That is, after the examination begins, all scholars must write down the name of the yamen they most desire on the examination paper.
After the examination, each yamen will get a list of scholars who have passed the examination and filled out the yamen.
In other words, if a certain yamen is too popular and the number of places allocated by the yamen is too few, then the yamen has the right to select the best among these scholars. To put it simply, this yamen will organize another examination.
As for those who were eliminated in this yamen examination.
Then we can only come again next year!
As for some less popular yamen, I'm sorry, but don't be picky.
This can be considered a compromise plan.
For Liu Che, passing such a plan is a huge victory!
Of course, behind victory are countless compromises and exchanges of interests.
For example, in order to get the army to accept 500 civilian officials, Liu Che had long talks with the generals of the army, either to win over them or to persuade them. With the dignity of the emperor, he personally went to court and finally convinced those who only looked at military merit.
The generals agreed to give it a try.
As for the Shaofu, Liu Che promised not to lay off employees or eliminate any current officials, which made the Shaofu feel at ease.
These two departments are also the systems of the Liu family, which has always been the most loyal.
Once this matter is settled, the examination can be held on time.
The day before the examination was held, Liu Che issued another edict: I heard that the king's governance is based on the convenience of the people. The calendar in this world is based on the heavenly stems and earthly branches, which has caused many inconveniences to the people. His order: In addition to the edicts, policy documents and official letters.
They are recorded from the first to thirtieth day of a certain month in a certain year so that people can remember things!
Liu Che has always wanted to do this.
What are the celestial stems and earthly branches calculation methods such as Gengyin, Jiazi, and Xinmao in April, let alone farmers.
If the emperor Liu Che hadn't been warned specifically by Wang Dao, he would have gotten confused sometimes.
Seasonal changes are crucial to agriculture.
For example, Xiaozhu later asked Sima Qianerkuan and others to develop the Taichu Calendar. Its greatest contribution was the emergence of the twenty-four solar terms. From then on, farmers had simple and popular guidance for sowing and harvesting.
However, the chronology of the heavenly stems and earthly branches that is popular in today’s world is a bit too high-end for ordinary people!
Think about it. Most people may not even be able to do simple arithmetic.
It is too much to ask them to rotate time every sixty days!
It’s still from the first to the thirties of the new year, simple and easy to understand.
At the same time, on the other hand, Liu Che took the opportunity of this edict to announce the abolition of the history of recording and preserving national archives and documents on bamboo slips since the Western Zhou Dynasty. From now on, all edicts and decrees will be preserved on white paper.
In addition, Liu Che also issued an edict to encourage the government to use white paper for office work. Except for certain matters that really need to be preserved and recorded on bamboo slips, it is best to use white paper for all other official documents.
Of course, Liu Che also knows that it will take a certain amount of time and technology accumulation to evolve the entire society from bamboo slip records to all-white paper offices - the current white paper still has many flaws, such as cost, paper quality, etc.
However, full paperization is the inevitable development direction in the future, just like electronic office replacing paper office in later generations, it is the general trend.
After finishing these things, it will be the sixth day of the seventh month in the summer of the first year of Yuande.
On this day, it was just dawn, and the sky was just showing in the east.
Chang'an City woke up.
Countless scholars from all over the world got up one after another, looked through the books they had read for the last time, and prepared various items for the examination.
Scholars with good conditions will naturally have servants and bookboys to help them.
As for most of the poor scholars who were self-reliant, they silently put away their letters and put the dry food into their packages.
Zhu Maichen is one of these people.
Zhu Maichen lived in Chang'an for more than a month, surviving in Chang'an by working for others, carrying groceries, and even selling his sweat on construction sites.
During these days in Chang'an, Zhu Maichen devoted almost all his time to studying, except for going out to work for daily necessities.
"It is said that as long as I can pass the second round of this examination, I can buy many books that I have always wanted to read!" Zhu Maichen clenched his fists to cheer himself: "Among them are even "The Art of War" and "Sima"
If I can pass the examination this time and buy back these treasured books such as "Xiangqie Art of War", which are heirlooms of the noble families, the Zhu family will have hope for generations to come!"
Like Zhu Maichen, most of the poor scholars have heard the news more or less at this moment.
Therefore, they understand that this examination will not only change their own lives, but may even affect the future prospects of their descendants.
For the sake of future generations, these people swear: they must pass the exam!
As for the children of noble officials, they have a different attitude.
Yan Zhu stood in the mansion his father prepared for him in Chang'an and stared at the palace in the distance.
Yan Zhu's father was Yan Ji, who was a confidant of King Liu Wu of Liang and was highly favored by Liu Wu.
However, Yan Zhu knew very well that although his father seemed to be favored and trusted on the surface, in fact, Yan Zhu could feel his father's loss and frustration every time they had long conversations at midnight - King Liang only regarded his father as a
Treat it as a literary person who writes poems and poems.
The only thing his father could do for Liang Wang was to write poems and rhymes.
For a Confucian scholar who is determined to help the world and the world, this is simply torture and even an insult!
His ambition is unknown, but he has to be like a juggler on the street, racking his brains in order to please the king. This kind of life is not what Yansuke wants.
Yan Zhu is only in his early twenties this year, and his world is still full of ideals and passion. He is eager to make great achievements, spread his reputation to all corners of the world, and become a famous official like Guan Zhong and Yanzi.
To your Majesty Rao Shun!
This is almost an inevitable ambition of every ambitious literary and artistic young man!
On the contrary, Gongsun Hong was slightly uneasy.
Before coming to Chang'an, Gongsun Hong felt that he was a sure shot in this examination.
But after arriving in Chang'an, he suddenly discovered.
He is not the only hero in the world.
There are countless outstanding people hiding in the wilderness!
He felt a little unsure.
What if I fail to make it to the third round this time?
Wouldn't it be embarrassing?
What made Gongsun Hong feel even more dangerous was that people from the Mo family lived next door!
They also came to take the exam!
Since ancient times, Confucianism and Mohism have been at odds with each other. Students of Mohism have never looked down upon Gongsun Hong, a Confucian scholar.
No, these Mohists are here for reference, not for fighting. Gongsun Hong is really worried that he may be beaten by them. Although Gongsun Hong thinks that his swordsmanship and physical fitness are good, in today's world, there is no school of thought.
, can fight with the Mohists.
These guys are perverts who can survive anywhere in the world on their own!
In such a tense and uneasy atmosphere, in the distance, the arsenal door near the North Gate of Weiyang Palace slowly opened, and groups of fully armed soldiers lined up. Correspondingly, each one was used as an examination room.
School grounds began to be closed one after another.
The grassroots officials in various huts in Chang'an took gongs and drums and started beating in their own huts. While beating, they shouted: "According to the emperor's edict: all scholars, please go to the corresponding examination room in an orderly manner. According to the internal history and The first round of the Bamboo Talisman Admission Examination issued by the Shaofu will be held today. All scholars are not allowed to bring any extra stationery except pen and ink. Each examination room will be inspected by dedicated personnel. Anyone found to have violated the rules will be punished. Cancellation of reference qualification!" (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster!
