"My son, I pay my respects to my father!" Liu De walked to the hall and paid his respects.
"Get up..." Emperor Liu Qi nodded, pointed to an old man on the other side, and said to Liu De: "This is Uncle Tian, a senior minister during the reign of Emperor Gao!"
Liu De stood up, bowed his head to Uncle Tian and said, "I have met Mr. Tian..."
"Your Highness, please don't be too polite..." Uncle Tian also secretly screamed in his heart that it was a pity that Liu De came at the wrong time. As soon as Liu De came, the situation of the confrontation between the monarch and his ministers changed... Originally, according to his plan, it should be before Liu Dewei
Before arriving, he reported to the emperor in detail why Chao Cuo must be killed.
Uncle Tian has even thought out the steps for drafting and admonishing.
In his opinion, as long as the plan was carried out, even if the emperor did not accept his suggestion to kill Chao Cuo in the end, he would still be able to create some trouble for Chao Cuo and prevent him from having such smooth sailing.
Why did Uncle Tian admonish Chao Cuo to be killed?
To be honest, Uncle Tian and Chao Cuo had no grudges in the past and have no grudges today.
However, the policy of reducing vassal states implemented since Chao Cuo came to power has hit the sore spot of old-school officials like Uncle Tian.
Moreover, the most important thing is that Chao Cuo was the representative figure of Legalism in the world. Chao Cuo's pride and strength made Legalism's political power begin to recover. For veterans like Uncle Tian who insisted on and respected Huang Laoxue,
It's absolutely unacceptable!
In the past fifty years, politicians of the Huang-Lao faction have exhausted all means to prevent the restoration of Legalism!
When the late emperor was in power, he went to Shanglin Garden one time and found that there was a small official in Shanglin Garden who was in charge of the tiger enclosure. He had an amazing memory and excellent work ability. The Shanglin Lieutenant who was in charge of Shanglin Garden at that time, in front of that small official, was simply
He was an incompetent waste, so the late emperor immediately decided on the spot and issued an edict to worship him as Shanglin Ling.
However, the edict was rejected by Tingwei Zhang Shizhi.
Why did Zhang Shizhi deliberately target a small subordinate? Could it be that Zhang Shizhi's wisdom didn't realize that that subordinate was also a talented person?
Of course Zhang Shizhi knew that the junior official was very talented, but he also knew that the junior official was from the Legalist family.
"The Qin Dynasty appointed officials with swords and pens, and the officials competed with each other to examine the superiors of the ministers with urgency, but they concealed the disciples' writing skills and had no real compassion!" At that time, Zhang Shizhi used this reason to prevent the late emperor from expelling that minor official.
Is this reason tenable?
Of course it’s tenable! This reason was politically correct at the time!
All Legalists should be kept out of the officialdom and not allowed to slip in. This has been the consensus in the political circles of the Han Dynasty since Xiao He.
It's a pity that despite all the precautions, Chao Cuo was still unable to prevent him. Chao Cuo successfully sneaked to the side of the then prince and now the emperor, and from then on, the balance of power between the Huang Lao sect and the Legalists was profoundly changed. Even the Prime Minister
Retreating step by step under Chao Cuo's attack...
However, this cannot be blamed on the ministers who were on stage back then.
Chao Cuo is so cunning. He is actually the prince wearing a scholar's skin and sneaking into the palace!
By the time he discovered his true identity, he had already gained a firm foothold!
Thinking of this, Uncle Tian looked at Liu De with expectation.
As today's people are inevitably influenced by Legalism and become a supporter of Legalism, Liu De, who is expected to become the crown prince, must ensure that he can no longer be contaminated by Legalism's ideas and lead him back to the right path!
Thinking back to the news he learned after arriving in Chang'an, he knew immediately that the guard Ji An was by Liu De's side.
In the past ten years or so, the reserve talents of the Huang Lao School have been somewhat dry. Young talents like Ji An are already one of the few rising stars of the Huang Lao School, so Uncle Tian knows it.
But this is not enough!
Uncle Tian, who has been in the political arena for decades after going through three dynasties, knows very well that politics is all about keeping people together for warmth.
Not only that the future prince must be surrounded by people from the Huang Lao sect, but at least most of the assistant ministers must be from Huang Lao's background or people close to Huang Lao's school.
Only in this way can we ensure that the Huang Lao Sect will continue to occupy an absolute dominant position in the future, instead of being held down by the Legalists in the court like now and being unable to breathe!
Liu De didn't know that the old man in front of him actually had so much truth in his thoughts. He just upheld the most basic etiquette of a junior and treated Uncle Tian respectfully.
"Did Mr. Tian come to Chang'an to visit relatives or friends?" Liu De asked respectfully.
Old-school ministers like Uncle Tian still have many relatives and connections in Chang'an City.
But Liu De knows very well that the past few years are the last afterglow of the Huang Lao Sect.
With the rise of Chao Cuo, the Legalists began to occupy a place in the political arena and continued to expand their power. After Chao Cuo's death, Zhidu took over, followed by Ningcheng. Confucianism was also eager to try to achieve great success.
Have a fight.
Most of the future famous officials such as Dou Ying, Tian Fu, Zhao Wan, Wang Zang, Zhuang Zhu, and Gongsun Hong were pro-Confucian or were of Confucian background.
On the other hand, there is a huge talent gap in the Huang Lao School.
Except for Ji An, who is regarded as the future pillar of the Huang-Lao Sect, the rest of them have not done much. Most of them stick to the rules. At that time, the Huang-Lao Sect was really a decadent and conservative political force, and there is no more.
Politicians as talented and brilliant as Xiao He and Cao Shen appeared.
Therefore, after Jianyuan, the Huang-Lao faction actually gradually withdrew from the political center.
The gap left by it was filled by Confucianism and Legalism.
It was only later that Confucianism was abolished. Otherwise, if the court was still as it is now, with four or five people from the Huang Lao sect among the nine ministers, even if Liu Che was the emperor, he would not be able to really promote the movement to abolish Confucianism.
Respect Confucianism.
In his previous life, Liu De had no feelings about these things.
But in this life, Liu De cannot allow such a situation to happen again.
So how can we save Huang Laoxue, which is about to become synonymous with decay and obsolescence?
Liu De thought about it and felt that the key was to cultivate more talents from Huang Laoxue.
However, cultivating a scholar in this era is completely different from that of later generations in the Tang, Song and Ming dynasties.
During the Tang, Song and Ming dynasties, if a person wanted to study and make progress, his family needed to have certain assets to support his education.
In this era, in addition to having money, if you want to study, you also need opportunities.
Because knowledge is in the hands of a very small number of people, and most people have no chance to access it.
The future prosperity of Confucianism is due to the efforts of the generation of Dong Zhongshu and Hu Wusheng to spread and spread Confucianism. In order to spread Confucianism, Liu De heard that Dong Zhongshu and Hu Wusheng would even bear the living expenses of some poor disciples and provide them with three meals a day.
Compared with Confucianism, Huang-Lao School is much more closed-minded.
Because the knowledge of the Huang-Lao sect was in the hands of aristocratic ministers, like the representatives of the Huang-Lao sect in the past, Xiao He, Cao Shen, Chen Ping and Zhou Bo, which one did not have thousands of households in the city?
It is naturally impossible for such a high-ranking person to impart knowledge to a mud-legged person.
Therefore, in order to save Huang Laoxue, we must first do one thing - find a few people who have time and are willing to teach Huang Laoxue to the public.
And Uncle Tian is one of Liu De's targets!
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Well, 4 was not realized yesterday ~ I’m a little embarrassed, but you really can’t blame me for that, it should be considered force majeure ~
Well, not much else to say today, 3 updates first~
Then, I have to save my manuscript starting tomorrow~
If you don’t have any manuscripts saved like now, you can’t mess around at all~
Well, I will never look at those reminder tickets again!!!!!!
