Four hundred and ninety-sixth chapter beautiful times
Liu Che asked Wang Dao to arrange for Zhuo Wangsun and Cheng Zhengying to live temporarily in the villa in the original Sixian Garden. At the same time, he sent someone to invite Zhuo Wenjun and Cheng Zhengying to reunite with their respective families.
After completing this matter, Liu Che began to wait for the arrival of his younger brothers Liu Yan, King of Jiangdu, and Liu Jia, King of Yankang.
The distance between Yan State and Chang'an is undoubtedly much closer than that of Guangling.
On the last day of October, the fourth son of King Yankang entered Chang'an.
At the same time, documents about the evaluation of the four sons of King Kang of Yan and the related behavioral morals of the four sons from the Yan State's prime minister, internal history, censors, and officials who were sent by the imperial court to the Yan State to collect information also came into Liu Che's hands.
I have to say that Liu Jia is very popular.
Some time ago, Liu Che asked Zong Zheng, Taichang and other civil and military officials to discuss his posthumous title.
All the officials agreed that Liu Jia was in charge of the Yan State, educated the people, subsidized the soldiers, and contributed to the country. He was peaceful in government, did not build construction projects, did not pursue a luxurious life, did not turn into a bulldozer, and did not participate in the rebellion of Liu Xingju, Liu Bi and others.
, he is simply a model prince of the Han Dynasty!
Therefore, everyone believes that posthumous title Kang is a correct evaluation of him.
As the saying goes, the people's peace and happiness are the result of the smooth flow of origins!
However, Liu Che got a headache when he took the relevant documents of Liu Jia's fourth son.
Origin circulation?
Haha, the incense of Yan State can only be passed down to one generation, right?
Liu Jia's fourth son, the eldest son Liu Dingguo, the second son Liu Dingyuan, the third son Liu Dingyi, and the youngest son Liu Bao, none of them can hold up the wall!
Let’s not talk about the boss Liu Dingguo. This expert German orthopedic patient was notorious as early as Liu Che’s previous life and was shunned by everyone in the clan!
This person's integrity has no lower limit and his actions have no bottom line.
Not only his sisters, but also his biological daughters are not spared!
Among all the beasts and princes of the Han Dynasty, this man ranks first, and he deserves it!
The other three princes were no better.
The second son Liu Dingyuan, according to the reports from the imperial censor and officials who had gone to Yan State to collect news, was that he had a violent temperament and was feared by the people like a tiger, so he could not be worshiped in the ancestral temple.
Liu Dingyi is okay and has no bad deeds, but...
The prince once suffered from polio...
Even if he is established as King of Yan, I'm afraid he won't be able to serve for a few years.
The youngest son Liu Bao is too young, only eight years old this year. At such an age, he can still be nurtured and educated.
But the problem is that Liu Che can't help him to the throne at all, and he won't help him!
If you don't stand up to the emperor, you will adopt childish policies instead?
Liu Che didn't want to risk his reputation for Yan State, so he couldn't do this!
Besides...
"Actually, it might be a good thing for Yan State to eliminate heirs..." Liu Che held his chin and thought about it.
Yan State is not a small country!
And the strategic location is very important!
In later generations, the imperial capital, Tianjin, and Shanhaiguan were all within the territory of the Yan Kingdom, relying on the Great Wall to defend and attack. In the previous life, Huo Qubing often relied on the Yanji area to launch attacks on the Xiongnu.
The Huns often came back from Youbeiping, Yuyang and other places to take revenge.
Isn't it unusual for the six dynasties of later generations to have their capitals at Yanji?
Looking at it this way, it is actually a good thing that Yan State's current line of heirs is extinct.
Therefore, Liu Che decisively put aside his moral integrity and just took a cursory look at Liu Jia's four sons. Without any surprise, he chose Liu Dingguo as the heir to the Yan Guo Temple. As for the other three sons, the second son Liu Dingyuan was named Guangyang.
The king ceded three counties from Yan State as a consolation prize to him. The third son Liu Dingyi was granted the title of Marquis of Fangcheng, with a settlement of 1,100 households. However, Liu Che estimated that he would not live long, and neither the government nor the public, including Liu Dingyi, had any objections.
, after all, the story of extinct one generation after being crowned king is too sad.
Not to mention other people, Liu Dingyi himself couldn't accept it.
As for the youngest son Liu Bao, he was too young, and there has never been a story in the Han Dynasty where a non-prince son was granted the title of king at an early age.
Even when the Lu family was in power, the Lu family never dared to do that.
So Liu Bao was finally named Marquis of Yinxiang.
As a result, the large Yan State was immediately dismembered into four pieces, and the territory of the Yan State inherited by Liu Dingguo shrank by more than half compared to that of his father Liu Jia.
There are only five counties left within the territory of Yan State...
The Yan State, a powerful vassal in the north, turned overnight into a small country that was almost as far away as abroad.
So the government and the public cheered, and countless ministers came to the table to celebrate this great victory.
Practical actions have shown that the extension order has better curative effect and fewer side effects than the crude vassal reduction order, and the parties concerned are willing to accept it.
After Yan Guo took this step, the order of favor turned from paper into a real thing.
Everyone can see and touch the princes, princes and brothers.
Who doesn’t want to be called a loner and a widower, and be called the king of the south?
Worst of all, the consolation prize is a prince with at least a thousand households in the city!
For a time, before the princes and kings could think of how to deal with the rumors about the Yantie government camp in Chang'an, their own harem was the first to cause trouble.
As soon as he left the palace, fights broke out one after another.
However, Liu Che's pressure has not diminished.
In the first few days of November alone, several wives of the late emperor went to the East Palace to cry.
Both the Empress Dowager and Empress Dowager Bo were extremely troubled, but there was nothing they could do.
After all, that's where the story of Empress Lu and Mrs. Qi lies.
Even if it was just for the reputation of the two queen mothers, Liu Che was called to reprimand them for two days.
This casts a shadow over the prospects of Yantie Guanying.
If several of the late emperor's concubines cried and complained, the two empress dowagers in the East Palace would call the emperor to reprimand them. If the late emperor's sons and princes and uncles went to the East Palace to cry and even went to Gaomiao, Taimiao and Renmiao to cry.
Can the emperor still withstand the pressure?
Countless people watched indifferently, their calculations rattling in their hearts.
The merchants and their related households who got the news also shuttled back and forth and lobbied hard.
Although the emperor's official salt and iron policy did not prohibit merchants from selling salt and iron.
But any businessman who has seen the grain price protection policy implemented in Guanzhong will regard the Yantie government camp as a scourge!
The grain price protection implemented in Guanzhong under the leadership of the Shaofu has forcibly reduced the profit of grain to the point of meager profit or even small profit!
Less than two years after its implementation, several large families in Guanzhong have already withdrawn from their family's traditional grain trading and selling business.
It has also made a large number of knights, rogues and loan sharks who used to be parasitic in this industrial chain become unemployed!
When the merchants from Guandong saw this, it was really sad that the rabbit died and the fox died, and I felt sad!
So, gradually, public opinion began to stir up a trend that the Holy Emperor would not compete with the people for profit.
Although it has only spread in a small circle, and mainstream public opinion does not agree with it at all.
Originally, Liu Che would never know about such a trivial matter if he stayed in the palace.
However, the loyal Xiu Yiwei immediately reported the matter to Liu Che.
It’s also strange that in this era, no one knows what spy politics is, let alone the power of the Imperial Guard and the KGB.
Many people discuss matters, and even plot major matters such as rebellion, and they do so carelessly and in broad daylight.
Just like the year before last, Liu Bi connected with the princes and kings.
Not to mention the emperor, even the children in Chang'an City know it...
Therefore, the content of these people's discussion, the process of the discussion, and even who advocated that the Holy Emperor should not fight for profit were all laid out in front of Liu Che's case in detail.
Liu Che just glanced at it casually and didn't pay much attention to it.
Don’t compete with the people for profit? Is this a magical thing? Is it delicious?
Nowadays, the Han Dynasty, let alone competing for interests with the people, a concept derived from Confucianism for its own interests after taking control of the right to speak, does not have the basis for theoretical disputes such as the dispute between justice and interests that can break the head of later generations.
At best, it can only be regarded as a question of moral character.
It has not yet risen to the level of national ideology.
During the Zhaoxuan period, after the landlord class and the scholar-bureaucrat class became powerful, all the virtuous people from all over the country who claimed not to compete for profit were spurned back by Sang Hongyang alone.
In the current Han Dynasty, there is no taboo against talking about interests or even exchange of interests.
Lobbyists shuttled back and forth to persuade courtiers and dignitaries, basically the same thing as during the Warring States Period, first intimidating and then making suggestions.
Therefore, Liu Che knew that if this trend was in the Qilu area where Confucianism had the upper hand, it would probably have some influence and influence public opinion, but in Guanzhong...
This is the headquarters of the Huang-Lao School and the Legalists!
Although the Huang Lao Sect has faded away, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. The traditional inertial force will continue to influence for at least ten or twenty years. However, the new generation of Guanzhong people are more or less Legalists.
Theoretical attraction.
The spread of Confucianism in Guanzhong has a long way to go.
If it weren't for the little pigs in history, they wouldn't have been able to become big!
This is Liu Che’s intuitive feeling more than a year after he ascended the throne.
Confucianism's dominance and dominance are actually accidental, not inevitable.
Among the hundreds of scholars, there are not a few who have the strength to compete with them and make gestures with them.
The only advantage of Confucianism is that it has strength in numbers and can rely on its voice to speak.
In addition, if the actual ability is used as the criterion, not to mention the Huang Lao School and Legalism, even the now withered Mohist School, it is estimated that they can compete with Confucianism.
But then again, Confucianism's adaptability and evolutionary speed are indeed the first among hundreds of scholars.
According to the report of Xiuyiwei and the report of Zhidu, the governor of Henan County.
In the past six months, a brand new Confucian sect has emerged in the Luoyang area.
This faction combines some of the theories of the Gongyang faction, advocates tough foreign policy, and respects a gentleman's revenge. It is not too late not to mention ten years, but ten thousand years!
In terms of the dispute between Huayi and Huayi, they still copied Guan Zhong.
But regarding the positioning of the Emperor, it is quite interesting.
This is what they advocate: Since ancient times, the holy kings have ruled the world, their virtues have been punished by the people, and they have been punished all over the world and within the sea. Today, the holy emperor is on the throne, tending hunting on behalf of heaven, and all the people of Yuanyuan regard the emperor as their parents, and the emperor is ordered by heaven.
The parents of the people are the ninety-five honors. They act as Kun and Kun, and combine Yin and Yang. They are born sacred. Therefore, since ancient times, when the Holy King is in power, the common people will be healthy. The rule of the Holy King is based on the people. When Jie and Zhou are in power, the world
When the princes rebelled due to resentment, Xunzi said: Heaven's behavior is constant, and it does not exist because of Yao, nor does it perish because of Zhou. This is what he said.
This is quite a simple theory of kingly responsibility.
It can be regarded as a variant of heavenly induction, right?
It’s just that we no longer try to lock the imperial power in that paper cage made of God and heaven.
They seem to be planning to build a wooden cage similar to the emperor's responsibility to rule the people of the world and run towards a beautiful society governed by three generations.
It seems that God is more solid and more realistic than the illusory God.
Of course, this faction still retains many bad habits of Confucianism, such as excessive pursuit of the so-called Zhou rites and admiration of the well-field system.
And because it is a new faction, it has a small number of people. It probably only has a few dozen people in total now. It is roughly equivalent to a private internal Confucian study group and has little influence.
It seems that many of the theories and slogans of this school were influenced by Liu Che's edicts last year.
Facts have proved that Confucianism never lacks adventurists, opportunists and smart people.
Among all schools of thought, Confucianism is always the faction that changes the fastest and has the strongest ability to accept new things!
Of course, this is based on the existence of the Huang-Lao sect and other factions such as Legalism and Mohism.
Natural selection, survival of the fittest, this theory is not limited to living things, but also applies to countries, nations and even thoughts and ideologies!
To put it bluntly, without the Soviet Union in later generations, Western capitalism and capitalists would probably not have evolved into a welfare society and a people's society in ten thousand years.
This can be seen from the fact that after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the West has stagnated and old Europe has continued to degrade.
As the ancestors said: if there is no one at home, there will be no soldiers, and if there is no enemy outside, the country will perish.
After Liu Che heard about this new faction, he laughed and cursed on the surface: "The second and third sons are so ridiculous!"
But privately, Wang Dao was instructed to send two reliable Legalist scholars who were selected after the examination last year to Luoyang to infiltrate the small school.
Liu Che planned to support and cultivate this school of thought.
In the future, Legalism will inevitably flourish, which is the inevitable result of Liu Che's forge ahead.
However, if no one in the Legal family holds him back, God knows what crazy things he will do!
Nowadays, the Huang-Lao sect is declining, and we can no longer count on the Huang-Lao sect to put the brakes on Legalism in the future.
Moreover, without competition, there would be no evolution.
The top predators in nature are all the winners after millions of years of evolution and elimination.
If a country wants to maintain vitality, it cannot be a pool of stagnant water internally.
As for the worry about ideological confusion, after Liu Che became emperor for more than a year, he finally confirmed that this was an excuse given to him by later generations of Confucian disciples.
Although there are hundreds of schools of thought, different ideas, different behaviors, and different policies.
But in terms of ideology and core values, there are many striking similarities.
For example, the debate between Huayi and Huayi, the sense of loyalty to the emperor, the emphasis on filial piety and brotherhood, the discrimination and suppression of businessmen, the yearning for the rule of three generations, etc.
In other words, in fact, it doesn’t matter whether you only respect Confucianism or Legalism.
Just like the rotation of political parties in later generations, the details may have changed, but the general direction and core values will not change!
Have you ever seen the Democratic Party of America roll back all the policies and measures of the Republican Party when they came to power?
Hundreds of schools of thought have been fighting each other for hundreds of years, and I have always been among you, and you have been among me for a long time.
The Xiaozhu Dynasty only respected Confucianism, not so much to unify thoughts, but rather because some people took this opportunity to squeeze out political opponents, suppress dissidents, and settle old scores.
In essence, no matter whether before or after Confucianism was solemnized, debates and quarrels in the ideological circles will always exist.
It's just that Xiaozhu's exclusive respect for Confucianism has a negative consequence: academic arguments and political differences can turn into personal attacks and even endless political strife!
From then on, everything that the victors of the political struggle had about the losers, including their thoughts, books, and speeches, were put into separate books, burned and banned at every turn, and the literary inquisition entered the political stage.
The behavior and tone of these people are surprisingly consistent.
So much so that Liu Che automatically made up a picture in his mind.
The winners stepped on the flesh, blood and words of the losers and said triumphantly: "Shut up! We are talking about the way of benevolence and forgiveness of Confucius and Mencius!"
Liu Che walked out of the palace gate and stood on the high platform of Xuanshi Palace, overlooking the entire Chang'an City.
I saw scholars from various schools including scholars, businessmen, legalists, Huang Laojia, Confucians, strategists, Mohists, peasants and even novelists, living quietly and peacefully in this city, this country, and this land.
There are no slogans about not talking about state affairs, nor are there any charges of criticizing state affairs, and no one will have their whole family killed or their books deleted because of a sentence, a book, or even a poem.
"This is truly a wonderful era!" Liu Che opened his hands and said, "I will protect this era!"
Then, he turned around and told Wang Dao: "The minister ordered Ji An, and today I want to hear the story of Emperor Taizong's edict to eliminate slander!"
Half an hour later, a deep and depressed voice sounded in the Xuanshi Palace: "In March of the fourth year of Emperor Xiaowen's reign, the edict said: The ancients governed the world, and there were signs of good deeds and trees of slander in the dynasty, so those who know the way to rule come to remonstrate.
, the current law has the crime of slandering and evil words, which makes the ministers dare not indulge as much as they want, and the superiors have no reason to hear the faults. How can the virtuous people from far away come from far away? They will be eliminated. The people may wish and curse each other by making a pact and then quarrel with each other. The officials think
It is a great treason, he said something else, and the officials thought it was slander. I will not take the stupidity and ignorance of this small people to death. From now on, anyone who commits this crime will not be punished!"
After Ji An finished reciting it once, Liu Che ordered him to repeat it three times.
Liu Che was actually familiar with Emperor Taizong Xiaowen's edict, and his core ideas were naturally already clear to him.
That is to say, ministers and illiterate people can discuss state affairs and even the emperor himself without any taboos.
Of course, the ministers did not have the courage to really criticize the emperor.
But the common people wanted to say whatever they wanted from now on, not to mention scolding the officials, even scolding the emperor in front of the emperor. As long as it was reasonable, the emperor could only listen obediently.
The Han Dynasty, especially the people in Guanzhong, secretly criticized the emperor's policies and even complained, not just one or two.
Liu Che even heard in his previous life that after the failure of the Jianyuan New Deal, the little pig hunted and played in Shanglinyuan. As a result, he trampled on the people's seedlings and was yelled at by the farmer's uncle in front of him. The little pig could only hide his face and run away. In the end, he even
Order me, King Qiu Shou, to take charge of the expansion of Shanglin Garden, so that I can avoid being sprayed during future hunting trips.
Liu Che asked Ji An to come to the Xuanshi Palace to read the edict of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, which was naturally not boring.
Every move of a political figure, especially an emperor, has a special meaning.
Liu Che ordered the minister to recite the imperial edict of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen. Liu Che wanted to tell the world that I did not understand every word of Taizong's edict and I will obey it sincerely.
This was not only a response to what some people in the government and the public claimed that the new emperor wanted to change Taizong's edict and take advantage of the mountains and salt ponds, but also an attitude to further tighten the rope.
I have already made this statement, and the one who is still nagging must be a traitor!
Although the crime of slandering lies is gone!
But in the Han Code, there are many clauses for crimes such as disrespect and treason!
