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Chapter 358
Shandong's resistance was very fierce, and it was unwilling from the heart, thinking that Liu Heng was going too far.

Since ancient times, I have never heard of the principle of treating a noble person harshly because of a lowly person.

We are the ones who maintain the emperor's rule, and it's us who do the generals and ministers, and even the ones who contribute money and strength to the people during the war are also us.

The result is that now they want to cut our flesh to feed those lowly people. What's the reason?
This is what most people think from the bottom of their hearts, and this kind of thinking is not the consciousness of a certain individual, but the consciousness of a whole group, and even this consciousness is extremely difficult to change.

Even today's passionate and righteous students, many of them will join this group one day as they grow older, accumulate wealth, and increase land holdings. powerful.

Someone wrote to ask: "Your Majesty has always governed your world with benevolence and virtue, but now that you have made great achievements, why do you abandon the practice that made you prosperous?

If Mrs. Liu cannot obtain the honorable status, how will you demonstrate your majesty?
If the nobles cannot protect the family, then in what ways will your grace be manifested?
I am really worried about your world. Since ancient times, have there been unpopular but long-lasting dynasties? "

These people's petitions are not only their own thinking, but also many people are promoting it. Even in Chang'an City, there are some people who support Liu Heng on the surface, but secretly arrange people to hinder the implementation of the policy.

When Liu Heng found out, he said angrily: "The life and death of ministers are determined by the heavens, but the honor and disgrace are determined by the monarch.

My kindness is not only applied to you, but also to the people, even birds and beasts. This is the bright road to the holy king.

Received the monarch's salary, accepted the monarch's gift of soil, enjoyed the monarch's bestowed power, but said such words to slander the monarch.

It hinders the monarch from becoming a holy king!
Is it what courtiers should do?
How shameless this is.

Are you people without virtue worthy to stand under the sky with me? "

Having said that, many staunch people committed suicide directly because of the humiliation.

After all, he didn't want to live under the sky, and it was impossible for the emperor to commit suicide, so he had to be heroic by himself.

These people would rather die than admit that they were wrong, that they were immoral.

This kind of action made Liu Heng recover from his anger. Liu Heng felt unbelievable about the stubbornness in the depths of these people's thinking, which was completely different from the bottom-level thinking of him after receiving Luo Xin's teaching.

Liu Heng then said: "I heard that the ancient sages supported the poor when they saw them, gave them food when they saw the hungry, and added clothes to the cold when they saw them.

When the sage king did this, there would no longer be poverty, hunger, or cold in the world, and the world would be governed in this way into a prosperous world.

You have countless gold, silver and beautiful jade, many of which are filled with your secret rooms. Copper coins are piled up in the cellar like hills, and you wear precious silk and satin. You have to change your body every day, and then throw it away at will. , What a luxury.

Look at the people in the fields again. They work hard all day in the farmland, and their skin turns dark when the sun shines on them.

The mud and sweat were mixed together, so the face could not be seen clearly, and he was wearing the sackcloth that could be seen everywhere, with many holes in it, and he was reluctant to throw it away.

You have to face taxes and corvees, and the surplus food you can save throughout the year is nothing more than your food for one meal.

I am really disappointed.

This is not royal government, but atrocities, and the crisis of the overthrow of the great Han society is among them. "

The country is overthrown!

What Liu Heng said was too serious, and his determination was shown in it, and the world suddenly fell silent.

Confucian scholars shouted that Liu Heng was the holy king who came down from heaven to bring peace, and they were even more motivated to have such a backbone to support them.

Students from Legalism and Xun Confucianism also made great progress in this operation, and the action power of these two schools of students was simply beyond the charts.

From the officials sent by the imperial court to various places, the methods of supervision and governance are naturally different. The methods of the Legalists have always been brutal. Although their thinking has changed a little, their methods will not change. They start law enforcement with the Han law.

A few years ago, Luo Jing gathered the world's most powerful people in Handan, and then moved most of them to Guanzhong. Many of those powerful families became the court's Lang, and then followed Shangguan back to his hometown in the process of clearing the land. .

When the most powerful tycoons leave the local area, the remaining inferior tyrants will naturally occupy their original ecological niches.

Whether they are Legalist students or Hao Qiang who voluntarily left the local area, they feel uncomfortable seeing these people.

In addition, there are no tyrants with a clean fortune in this world. These people must have violated the law of the Han Dynasty, so the situation quickly developed to the point where the officials sent by the imperial court used the law of the Han Dynasty to make these local tyrants go bankrupt. the point.

Qingzhang's land has become a copy of the house!
This matter quickly reached Liu Heng's ears, and he immediately summoned Luo Jing and Jia Yi to discuss.

"This kind of atmosphere must not be encouraged!"

The three of them quickly set the tone, that is, they cannot let this atmosphere continue.

Liu Heng said with a little recollection: "When King Luowen taught me, he specifically told me that unless it is a last resort, you must not use cruel officials politics.

On the surface, cruel official politics seems to be able to quickly remove some harmful tyrants, but in fact, the consequences are endless. It will completely deteriorate the political situation and bottom line of the entire country. Once it is destroyed, it will be extremely difficult to recover. "

Will the cruel officials clean up the tyrants soon?
fast!
This is obvious to all. As long as the emperor supports it, killing those powerful people is like killing pigs. It is easy to kill them all, and then divide the land and wealth, and the counties will be governed.

It sounds really good.

and then?
A new tyrant is born, and absorbs the previous experience, becomes stronger, kills again, and falls into this reincarnation forever and ever.

Now Liu Heng has enough ability and prestige to do these things, what if the prestige of the next emperor is not enough to kill those tyrants?
At that time, the place was full of people who were born hostile to the imperial court!

As long as Liu Heng thinks about it, he feels that the scene is too scary, which is one of the reasons why he changed the compulsory mausoleum.

The initiator, there is no future?

The imperial court used those out-of-the-box tricks again and again, and the damage to politics was too great.

As for Haoqiang's own law, so it is only natural to clean them up, just listen to this sentence.

If it is really possible to act in accordance with the law, Luo's attitude towards the Legalists may change a lot.

But what the facts are like, the emperor has the final say on whether to sit or not, and what to do with the emperor after sitting.

In real history, Huo Qubing killed Li Gan. According to the previous cases, this should be a capital crime, but Emperor Wu of Han didn't take it seriously.

Even Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who was able to stand on top of five in history, treated the law like this. One can imagine the attitude of the rest of the monarchs.

In this era of absolute monarchy, talking about the rule of law is like telling wolves not to eat sheep. Ridiculous is not enough to describe it, it can only be described as absurd.

It is precisely because of this that the Rock family has complied with the situation. The rule of man is the main priority and the rule of law is supplemented. At least the Rock family is confident in its own character.

In terms of the country, Rockwell hopes to form a form of "how to do" through a balance between morality and the rule of law, somewhat like "customary law", to determine how to do according to the actual situation according to local conditions, rather than simply A simple way to kill.

Liu Heng was deeply influenced by this kind of thinking, so since he took office, even though he exiled so many officials, he didn't have much resentment against him. Even those officials who were exiled cried bitterly thinking that they were wrong and that Liu Heng has given them the highest grace.

Not to mention the other officials, they didn't hurt their kind, and they didn't feel sad when a rabbit died or a fox died. Instead, they secretly warned themselves not to touch the bottom line of His Majesty the Emperor.

Liu Heng has benefited too much from this way of doing things, and he is the last person who likes confrontation with real swords and guns.

"How can we use the law to clean up these people?

Apart from the Luo family, are there any officials in this world who do not sit in the law?

Immediately send envoys to Jiaodong Kingdom to pass on my order to stop ransacking the house, really looking for something for me. "

Liu Heng quickly made a decision. First, he had to make an example to other court officials and tell them that they could not use the pure reason of sitting to clear the land.

Even if you want to kill these people, let the world know that killing you is because you defy the general trend. The imperial court has known about your affairs for a long time, but it has always given you a chance. , His Majesty the Emperor killed you out of desperation.

Liu Heng's order was quickly sent to Shandong with the messenger. Those tyrants who were inexplicably sad and angry gradually calmed down in the face of Liu Heng's comfort. Those officials who were eager to try restrained their thoughts of killing.

I began to slowly advance the land inventory according to the normal process. After this incident, many people who were trying to stop them before were a little more cooperative.

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Emperor Taizong of the Han Dynasty was a highly respected emperor in ancient China. He represented a literati ideal emperor, that is, the emperor himself was smart and wise, and he was good at listening to the advice of his courtiers. For those who are disadvantaged, he can always understand the embarrassment of his courtiers, and does not require them to be morally perfect. The courtiers all know his bottom line, which is not to trample on the lives of the people at will. ——"Global History · Qin and Han Volume III"

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