When Liu Che returned to the palace, the eunuch reported: "Your Majesty, Yan Changshi wants to see you!"
Yan Yi's official position is now the chief historian of the Young Mansion, with a salary of one thousand dan.
This official position was invented by Liu Che after he ascended the throne.
The main purpose is to prepare for the future division of the Shaofu and reform, so the power is still relatively large. Yan Yi can basically intervene in matters that the Shaofu Ling can intervene in. Even when necessary, Yan Yi can make decisions on behalf of the Shaofu Ling.
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Correspondingly, Ji An's current official has also become Shangshu Zuopushe.
This official position is equivalent to that of the Director of the General Office of the Central Committee in later generations, and he has obviously entered the ranks of the Nine Ministers in the future.
Among the former ministers who were hiding in the palace, Ji An's future was recognized as the one with the greatest prospects.
So this guy recently married the granddaughter of Dou Guangguo, Marquis of Zhangwu, and truly became a winner in life!
However, in Liu Che's heart, he still preferred Zhang Tang.
Zhang Tang served as the magistrate of Xinfeng County. Since taking office, he has managed the powerful landowners and nobles of Xinfeng in a submissive manner.
With a stick in one hand and a carrot in the other, people in Xinfeng were able to stop picking up lost things overnight, and the bandits disappeared.
This guy is also very good at using resources. He hardly bothered Liu Che and managed to get a lot of support funds and policies on his own.
Relying on the funds and policies he obtained, Zhang Tang flexed his muscles in Xinfeng, giving full play to the expertise of Legalist bureaucrats, carrying out water conservancy projects, repairing roads and bridges, and comforting the orphans and widows.
Not long ago, Zhang Tang had even prepared to take advantage of next winter's leisure period to organize the people of Xinfeng to erect waterwheels on a large scale.
Now, it is said that Zhang Tang has raised the funds needed to erect the waterwheel himself - God knows how this guy got the money out of the pockets of those stingy landlords and nobles...
Anyway, in the entire Han Dynasty, Zhang Tang is probably the only one who can extract money from the landlords, nobles and merchants through peaceful means.
Liu Che has now decided that starting from next year, he will send Ji An and Yan Yi to work somewhere.
"Xuan!" Liu Che thought about these things and said casually.
Not long after, Yan Yi followed suit and came to Liu Che, kowtowed and said: "I, my lord, pay my respects to my emperor..."
"Pingshen..." Liu Che sat on the royal couch, waved his hands and said, "Wang Dao, give the chief minister a seat!"
After Yan Yi sat down, Liu Che asked: "You have come to see me. I guess the Confucian sages have already given the answer, right?"
"Your Majesty, the Holy Ming Wu Guo..." Yan Yi bowed his head, then took out a stack of white paper from his arms, held it in both hands and presented it: "This is your Majesty's policy as answered by the elders and wise men..."
Wang Dao immediately took it and forwarded it to Liu Che's case.
Liu Che took it and looked through it.
Basically, Confucianism was pretty much what he expected, and there was no moral integrity at all.
In the historical Yunlongmen issue, Ban Gu even had to show off in front of Liu Zhuang.
These guys don't even bother with the pretentious process.
I just knelt down and licked Liu Che...
Liu Che didn't know whether to say that the world was declining, or to lament that people's hearts were not as old as they used to be.
However, if you think about it for a moment, Confucianism is probably already scared to death when faced with the current situation. There is no need to worry about being pretentious or not. There is no such condition for being pretentious!
But this is fine. Since Confucianism has already hinted that he is willing to listen to him as the emperor and be a good boy.
Then Liu Che wouldn't be polite.
He directly took out three answers from the stack of white papers that Yan Yi brought to him, and said: "The answers given by these three gentlemen are very to my liking. Yan Qing will make arrangements and let them enter the palace in two days."
Come and talk to me in detail!"
Yan Yi took it and kowtowed: "No!"
Liu Che sighed, feeling a little pity.
It is a pity that there are no real giants of Confucianism like Hu Wusheng and Dong Zhongshu on these white papers. Therefore, if you want to use these three people to integrate Confucianism, you are still unable to do it and lack the appeal.
However, the answers given by these three people were quite to Liu Che's liking.
In particular, what one of them wrote, Lin Xun, has some hints of nationalism.
Among the hundreds of scholars, Confucianism is actually the strongest in nationalism.
In the Confucian ideological system, Yi and Di are treated in two words - beasts!
Some radical Confucian scholars do not even regard Yi and Di as human beings.
Of course, within Confucianism there are also characters like rotten Confucians and bastards who specialize in being cruel internally and tolerant externally.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Manchu Qing Dynasty must bear more than 80% of the responsibility for the reason why Confucianism in history embarked on the final path of decadence, decadence, isolation and self-containment.
Liu Che has always believed that what kind of ruler there will be will have what kind of bureaucracy and ideological system.
"Nationalism...hey..." Liu Che held his hands, but was struggling in his heart.
If there is anything that China's rulers fear most, it is undoubtedly nationalism.
Later generations of the Chinese dynasty strictly guarded against this and suppressed it forcefully.
He even went so far as to act as the referee himself and try to sidestep the situation.
How can the ruling class of the Chinese dynasty be of the same generation as Yi Yu?
Now, with Liu Che's butt sitting on the emperor's throne, and using himself to save others, Liu Che can almost understand the ruler of the Celestial Dynasty.
Nationalism is indeed a terrible thing.
Especially in peacetime...
but……
A sneer appeared on Liu Che's lips: "We are about to compete for world hegemony. Nationalism is a good thing..."
There was another sentence that Liu Che didn't say.
That is - he doesn't have a bunch of old men's feelings to take care of.
He only needs to take care of the feelings and interests of the Han people.
As for those so-and-so uncles?
Who are you?
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Two days later, all 1,500 soldiers of the Yulin Guards and 2,000 civilians recruited from Guanzhong to provide them with logistical support took the oath from Baqiao, Chang'an, and embarked on the journey.
Liu Che personally built a platform to worship the generals near Baqiao, and went up to the platform to worship Yi Zong as the captain of the Korean Protector, and promised Yi Zong the power to act expediently.
Then, all the soldiers of the Yulin Guards and the accompanying civilians got on the newly completed track carriage and set off from Chang'an to Xiaoguan.
Six hours later, the Yulin Guards and their equipment all arrived at the gate of Xiaoguan City.
"This rail carriage is really fast and convenient!" Yi Zong got out of the car and couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the peasants who were busy unloading.
In half a day, all four thousand men and their equipment were delivered hundreds of miles away.
Such speed is indeed surprising, but it is a pity that there is only one such rail carriage in the world.
"When I return to court, I will definitely write to His Majesty to roll out the track carriage system to the entire border counties and connect the fortresses in various places with tracks. From now on, the Huns will no longer be able to cause trouble!" Yi Zong thought in his mind.
However, the amount of this project is too large!
Back then, Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall and recruited millions of civilians. If this rail carriage were to be launched, it would probably require at least one million more manpower.
I'm afraid the imperial court won't agree to such a large project...
Thinking of this, Yi Zong couldn't help but sigh. (To be continued...)
ps: I am not feeling well today, and I am in a bad mood. I feel so lonely, as if the whole world has abandoned me. It’s tragic~
