Eight hundred and ninety-first chapter transformation of the stone family (1)
Shifu, like its owner, is low-key and restrained.
It is located on the edge of Shangguanli.
More than 70% of the residents near the entire house are ordinary citizens.
There is not even a serving official with more than a thousand stones.
The gate and exterior walls of Shi Mansion are no different from those of its neighbors.
There were even seven or eight children on the flat ground in front of Shi's house, chasing each other and playing Cuju.
"A true elder..." Liu Che quietly praised, his voice neither low nor high, just enough for the attendants to hear clearly: "If all the ministers in the world are like Shi Gong, why worry about the three generations not coming? The phoenix bird will not come?"
Liu Che has never been stingy with this kind of free praise and praise.
But in reality...
"If they were all bureaucrats like Shi Fen..." Liu Che shook his head in his mind: "Perhaps, it is true that three generations can be expected, but the Phoenix Bird will definitely not come..."
Before Shi Fen became an official, he had achieved the position of Taizhong doctor.
This is a noble and aristocratic position of thousands of stones, just like the Huangmen Shilang or various ministers currently in Liu Che's court, it is a position that literati, noble scholars and officials are eager for.
For example, Dou Ying and Yuan Ang both served as Taizhong officials.
In the end, Shi Fen finally returned home as a senior doctor.
The rank of a senior official is equivalent to two thousand stones, which is the pinnacle that a subordinate officer of Lang Zhongling (Guang Luxun) can achieve.
From this aspect, Shi Fen seems to be somewhat capable...
However, looking at Shi Fen's resume, you can easily find that this tumbler in the political arena of the Han Dynasty, the famous "Wan Shijun" in history books, has only two words as the key to his success.
As Tai Shigong said, it's just "respect".
This means that the most active person is to kneel and lick the emperor, always keeping in line with the emperor's thoughts.
From Liu Bang to the present, Shi Fen has gone through Taizu, Empress Lu, Taizong, Renzong and Liu Che. During the five dynasties, he has served five official emperors and two emperors who even smashed the gods. (Emperor Hui had a prince, although
He ascended the throne, but was secretly assassinated by Empress Lu, and then Empress Lu supported the younger brothers, but these were not recognized. The younger brothers were even deprived of their rights to have the surname Liu, and were considered to be the sons of Lu and fakes)
He actively implemented and practiced the Taohou family's motto: Always support the Holy Emperor, whoever the Emperor supports.
It has always been a grass on the wall, and the wind blows it to both sides.
Forget it.
After all, if we really want to be honest, among the founding heroes, except for a few people such as Wuhou of Anguo and Zhou Chang of Fenyin, who could give up their picks when facing Empress Lu and go home to study behind closed doors, the others basically kneeled down and licked her.
These princes, and even the clan surnamed Liu, were like this. Naturally, they could not demand too much from a small official who only had a few hundred dan at that time.
But the problem is
Shi Fen served as a powerful bureaucrat in the central government for almost fifty years, and his status rose from Zhongjuan to Taizhong doctor.
It is equivalent to someone in later generations working in ****** from a section member to the director of a certain department.
But he didn't do anything practical...
What he did most was that the emperor said, this is good, and Shi Fen shouted: Your Majesty, the Holy Ming Wu Guo...
It's not just him.
His sons, together with him, formed the four sons of two thousand stones of the famous Wanshijun family in history books.
He is basically modeled after him.
The most famous one is Shi Fen's disciple Shi Qing, who now serves as an admonishment official in the Langzhongling Yamen.
This gentleman is a man of great character, and his morality is praised by everyone.
The only problem, and the biggest problem, is that like his father, he has no subjective initiative, let alone any enthusiasm for doing things.
If you can put it off, put it off. If you really can't put it off, leave it to others...
Historically, Shi Qing's official position even reached the level of prime minister.
However, he, the Prime Minister, is more like a clay statue placed by Emperor Wu than a Prime Minister.
Shi Qing had been prime minister for nine years and had done nothing.
As the Prime Minister, he even became the Prime Minister with the least power in history. Emperor Wu would not let him interfere in anything. When it came to government affairs, he would directly give him leave and let him go home to stay...
And Shi Fen's other three sons, who had officials up to two thousand shi, were basically carved from the same mold.
In Liu Che's previous life, there was a joke in Emperor Wu's political circles.
It is said that when Shi Fen's second son Shi Qing was serving as the imperial servant, Emperor Wu asked him: Imperial servant, how many horses are there in my chariot?
Shi Qing then picked up his whip and counted the horses in front of the cart one by one. He counted three times and then said: Six!
So, some people in the market laughed and said: How about the servant? It’s just a few horses...
In Liu Che's eyes.
This family is the most typical bureaucratic family.
Moreover, it is a bureaucratic family that is more terrifying than corrupt officials and is harmful to people.
If those typical members of their family were placed in high positions, they would even gain the reputation of the 'Wan Shijun' family in history.
In Liu Che's eyes, this is a crime.
And it is an unforgivable crime.
It is tantamount to telling the people of the world: What I want, the emperor, is an official who is so cautious and prudent, who does not seek merit but seeks no faults, and is even willing to waste time for the sake of no faults.
It is equivalent to telling the ministers: Do more and make more mistakes, do less and make fewer mistakes, and do not do better. Learn from them. As long as you don't make trouble, sooner or later you can become two thousand stones, become a family of ten thousand stones, and produce a prime minister!
Therefore, bad money drives out good money.
The court hall is full of mediocre people.
Everyone shirks when things happen and doesn't dare to use force.
Even, in order not to make mistakes, they forcibly suppressed the subjective initiative of the officials below.
Therefore, after Liu Che came to the throne, in addition to respecting and showing his attitude of respecting the elderly, he gave Shi Fen the treatment of a special elder.
So far, no one from the Shi family has been promoted.
They are the same as four years ago, and they are all idle idlers with about 400 to 600 dan.
It was like Liu Che spent money to raise four petty officials who did nothing but were just frontmen.
However, today, four years later, Liu Che looked at the past, traced back to the root cause, and was shocked to find that it seemed that they were all the same.
The prestige and reputation of the Shi family did not decline just because their children had been entrenched in low-level bureaucrats.
On the contrary, with the improvement of the doctoral system and the establishment of Taixue, more and more literati, scholars and ideological giants are advocating and praising the Shi family.
It is said that their "family tradition is rigorous, even if the gentlemen of ancient times are not as good as them."
The conduct and morality of the children of the Shi family were commented upon one by one, saying that they were "the most filial and sincere, and can be regarded as a model for the world."
The Lu-Ru sect and the Huang-Lao sect even openly publicized and asked their disciples and children to learn from the conduct of the Shi family brothers.
Some people even called for the emperor to promote people as appropriate and praise them for their filial piety, so that the world would know the way of a filial son.
This made Liu Che a little embarrassed and even a little difficult to deal with.
This world today is not the world to come.
The values and public opinions of the world all have a deep-rooted formula: morality = talent = ability.
Even in the eyes of some die-hards, morality and conduct are greater than ability and talent.
As long as a person has a high moral level and a pure character, even if he does nothing, he has no ability at all.
The emperor should also be promoted and reused.
He was even placed in the position of Jiuqing or even the Third Duke.
Let the people of the world see this person's moral cultivation, and then under his inspiration, everyone will act like the Duke of Zhou, and do everything as ancient rituals, and the world will be natural, and it will be traced back to 'the mountains will not collapse, the rivers and valleys will not be blocked, and the phoenix and bird will come to perform rituals.
With the three generations of Heluo Chutu's rule, all problems will naturally no longer be a problem.
Although Liu Che knew that this was just like the calls of later generations to learn from Lei Feng and Kong Fansen every year, it was all empty and weak propaganda.
The facts of later generations have proven that the level of moral cultivation of the people or the country has nothing to do with a few role models whose moral level exceeds that of ordinary people, but is closely related to the economic strength and prosperity of the people or the country.
Only when people's pockets are bulging and their families are free of debts and heavy burdens can they have time to think about right and wrong, good and evil.
Just like **** the residents of some villages and towns next to the railway.
In the 1960s, the Three Proposals and the Five Unifications suppressed everything, and people lived in hardship.
On the local railway, things get lost from time to time.
Regardless of the police or the railway bureau, no matter how they publicize and mobilize.
All to no avail.
But in the new century, the economy began to take off, and people's pockets were bulging. The railways became peaceful. Many places were even piled with steel and bolts. Most pedestrians passing by just said "Oh" and recalled that they sneaked in in the middle of the night.
Here I point to the years when "scrap iron" was used to subsidize the family's income, and then told the children: Be sure to pay attention to safety when crossing the railway!
As Confucius said: If you have enough food and clothing, you will know the etiquette; if you have enough food and clothing, you will know the honor and disgrace.
You can't expect or even ask people to think about benevolence, justice, morality, right and wrong, good and evil when they can't even fill their stomachs and their children are crying from hunger.
but……
In this day and age, in this world.
The nobles and gentry are too lazy to consider these issues.
They are simply using their own thinking and logic to force the people to be like them.
But the problem is that ordinary people don’t have the carefreeness and freedom of these fresh little things.
They have to run around for two meals a day.
No matter how many great principles you preach, it will not fill their stomachs.
and……
"What's the difference between this and Emperor Min of Jin's 'why not eat minced meat'?" Liu Che shook his head and sighed in his heart.
Why didn't Emperor Min of Jin eat minced meat? It was because he had meat to eat, so he thought that since the people didn't have corn to eat, why didn't they eat meat?
In fact, his starting point cannot be said to be wrong, it is just ignorance.
The same is true for today's scholar-officials and nobles.
They are not all bad guys, or they just want to do bad things. They are just ignorant. They are just out of touch with the masses and unaware of the sufferings of the people. They just think that since I can do it, why can't you? It must be because of insufficient moral cultivation!
"Wan Shijun's family..." Liu Che looked at the Shi family's door getting closer and closer, thinking in his heart: "I want to reform you!"
In this world, there is no one who cannot be transformed, and there is no one who remains unchanged.
Where there is a will, there is a way.
As long as the Shi family is willing to work hard and shift from being pragmatic to pragmatic, Liu Che feels that they can still make a difference.
And as long as the Shi family can take the road and move from being cautious and cautious to taking proactive actions, it will be like Liu Che bending his bow and shooting a sharp arrow into the hearts of today's conservatives and fresh-faced people.
There will be a huge ripple and butterfly effect.
It will enable young fresh-faced people to at least face the problem squarely, and even allow them to pay a little attention to reality.
But how to convince the Shi family is indeed a problem.
"The key lies in Shi Fen..." Liu Che thought in his heart.
The Shi family can be what it is today, and the Shi family's style can develop to what it is today.
All because of Shi Fen.
In Liu Che's impression, Shi Fen was a loyal, reliable and extremely respectful elder.
Every time Shi Fen met Liu Che in court, he would perfectly present the full set of etiquette and every detail in front of Liu Che in accordance with the regulations of court etiquette and system.
Even his walking posture and speed have their own rhythm.
From Simamen to Xuanshi Hall, from the steps of Xuanshi Hall to the gate of Xuanshi Hall.
Every step he took was extremely accurate, and the time he took every time was exactly the same.
From one aspect, Shi Fen is the specimen of a minister that all emperors like.
For him, the emperor's will was the destiny and divine decree.
But from another aspect, such a veteran is extremely conservative and stubborn.
Their brains are like granite. They would rather die than give up on something they believe in.
As the saying goes, "Although there are thousands of people, I will go."
I want to persuade him to give up his previous education methods and teaching methods, and instead ask and urge his sons and grandchildren to take the initiative and take responsibility.
This is more difficult than convincing a public intellectual in later generations.
It’s almost a hell level of difficulty!
If Liu Che is not the emperor, he is not the emperor who proves that he is indeed "ordered by heaven".
Then the possibility of success is almost zero.
Even so, Liu Che estimated in his mind that the possibility of success was only half and half.
"I don't believe it anymore. I even defeated the Huns and asked them to kneel down and sing "Conquer". I can't even handle a mere Shi Fen!" Liu Che thought in his heart.
At this moment, the door of Shi's house slowly opened.
The doctor, Shi Fen, and his family walked out of the door respectfully. Then, like robots, they bowed three times and bowed nine times with a neat but orderly etiquette.
"Old minister, I respectfully welcome your majesty. May my emperor live forever!" Shi Fen took the lead and kowtowed three times and said respectfully.
His sons behind him immediately followed up and said: "I respectfully welcome your majesty... my emperor's holy life is boundless!"
Liu Che stood up, lifted his ribbon, and then paid attention to the emperor Guan Liu, then stepped off the cart and said to Shi Fen: "Young sir, I have always valued you, there is no need to be like this..."
After saying that, he stepped forward to help Shi Fen up, and then he said to the others: "Please forgive me..."
"Your Majesty loves you so much..." Shi Fen leaned on crutches and said with a smile, "But in my opinion, the king is the king and the minister is the minister. Even if the veteran is ninety or one hundred years old, he should still serve the king."
As mentioned above, the avenue of etiquette cannot be abandoned!"
The corner of Liu Che's mouth twitched and he said with a smile: "The real elder Shi Gong is..."
At the same time, he was a little unsure about whether he could get the Shi family to change their work and official methods. (To be continued.)
