Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 618 Burial! ! !

Everyone who saw Liu Chang's body would subconsciously ignore his agility.

Because he is too tall, he is naturally regarded as clumsy, clumsy, and slow in response. However, no matter in terms of endurance, agility, or reaction speed, Liu Chang is not bad in any of them. It was impossible to kill the blood among the Huns. He easily caught up with the thin monkey in front of him. He ran like a chariot driven by Xia Houying. Not your Majesty.

Liu Chang didn't even cut him down, he just stretched out his hand, mustered all his strength, and punched the man in the back.

With a muffled sound, the man flew straight to the ground, with blood dripping from the corner of his mouth, and his whole body lay on the ground and twitched, like an animal with its throat cut.

His three accomplices who were about to come forward to support were also frightened and stupid after seeing this scene, and they froze in place, motionless.

But Liu Chang didn't stop because of this, and rushed towards the three people directly.

They didn't have bows and crossbows. The leader waved a shovel and slapped Liu Chang's forehead hard. Liu Chang directly reached out to catch the shovel. No matter how hard the man tried, he remained motionless. With a flash of the long knife, the man's head flew out, blood spattered, and the headless corpse fell to the ground shaking. The other two were frightened, and one of them turned around and ran away. Liu Chang threw the shovel at him, The shovel hit him from behind, almost into his back, and the man fell to the ground, the shovel still humming and shaking on his back.

The last person slumped directly on the ground, looked at Liu Chang in horror, opened his mouth several times, wanted to say something, but just babbled, unable to say anything.

The soldiers finally surrounded them, but the tomb robbers had already been wiped out. Liu Chang searched around and found out that there were only four of them.

Lu Lu finally followed, even if there was a real ghost, it would be much safer to stay by His Majesty's side.

Liu Chang was not surprised at all. He had already decided in his heart that this was a group of tomb robbers when he heard the strange tone and saw the white shadow.

Tomb robbers can be seen everywhere at this moment. There are even many ministers in the big man who are professional tomb robbers. Many rangers also do part-time jobs as tomb robbers, such as the one who was beheaded by Liu Chang not long ago. Even, there are some powerful Specially hire people to do this business. The rich burial tradition of the Han Dynasty is not only aimed at the nobles, but even some common people without titles. When they die, they will bring their little inheritance into the soil. They regard death as another beginning. extra attention.

The reason why the Han Dynasty sent people to guard the Mausoleum of the First Emperor was found.
Liu Chang has been advocating festival burial for more than ten years, but the folk atmosphere is not so easy to control.

"It turned out to be a gang of thieves! Naigong was scared to death!"

Lu Lu kicked the survivor over, cursing.

Liu Chang didn't stop because of this, instead he led his people towards Qu Nihou's tomb again. Fortunately, the target of the tomb robbers was not here, these people are not stupid, they will never be famous for these Although the harvest will be very high, the risk is too great. According to the law of the big man, if you steal a general tomb, you will be punished by corporal punishment. After the emperor abolished corporal punishment, it will probably be a lifelong corvee until death, but Stealing the tombs of these dignitaries is first of all the family members who pursue them with all their strength, and they can't stand it, and if they are caught, they may be sentenced to death, and even their entire clan will be implicated.

If their goal is Chen Ping, then the three clans may have to go on the road together, and maybe the five clans will go on the road together.

Moreover, there are usually guards in the tombs of the rich and powerful, and there will be many people who come to pay homage, which is easy to be discovered, so they will focus on ordinary tombs, anyway, they can get some accompanying burials.

Disturbed by this matter, Liu Chang didn't even have the thought of talking to Chen Ping about his troubles, and left in a hurry after worshiping.

On the way back, Liu Chang frowned, looking a little angry.

The thieves were tied up by the soldiers and dragged forward.

"Your Majesty, there is no need to be angry. Even when those wise kings were alive in ancient times, thieves did not disappear. There will always be such people."

Lu Lu comforted him, but his forehead was still dripping with sweat. The scene just now had obviously frightened him a lot. Even though he knew that someone was pretending to be a ghost, he still couldn't forget the fright.

"As early as when my uncle passed away, I gave an order to bury people all over the world, but these people promised publicly, but none of them obeyed secretly. Some people wished to tear down their mansions and bring them underground. I also have to thank father, thank you for not taking the big man with you when he passed away!"

A fierce light flashed in Liu Chang's eyes, "It's impossible to stop this situation. Tomb robbers are everywhere, and so many precious materials have been taken into the soil. If this continues, the big man may even find gold in the future." If not, they are all buried under the ground, we must take advantage of this to rectify the atmosphere in the country!"

But Lu Lu shook his head, "Your Majesty, I'm afraid it will be difficult to change this kind of folk customs. If you force the order, everyone in the world will blame you instead."

Liu Chang laughed, and he slowly looked at Lu Lu.

"Are you going to let me take the blame again?"

"Your Majesty, it's useless. It can't be stopped at all. There is no way in the short term."

Lu Lu understood Liu Chang's thoughts the first time he looked at him, but he shook his head very calmly. The emperor can order to change the politics of the temple, but this kind of folk atmosphere is really not what the emperor wanted. It can be changed, but Liu Chang didn't believe in this evil. He scolded: "The original King Zhou Li was able to make the people afraid to speak. I just wanted them not to be buried richly. Could it be that I am not as good as that King Li of Zhou?" ?”

"But... he seemed to be killed in the end"

"Don't talk too much!"

When Liu Chang returned to Chang'an, the first thing he did was to hand over the thief to Ting Wei for interrogation.

Inside Houde Hall.

"I've heard that those who govern a country must first learn how to govern the country. What makes Qi strong is Guan Zhong's knowledge, not himself; what makes Qin strong is Shang Yang's knowledge, not himself. The rich man is my father. After Guan Zhong and Shang Yang passed away, their knowledge still exists in the world. The princes use their knowledge to govern the country, so as to make the country stronger and stronger. First, there is the knowledge of great unity, and then there is In the unified world, first there was the knowledge of quietness and inaction, and then there was the prosperous world."

"Today's Taixue gathers all the knowledge in the world. Wise people come here from thousands of miles away. Everyone debates together, benefits from it, learns their own shortcomings in the debate, and then improves it, in order to defeat their opponents. And improve yourself, so as to draw up more new schools of thought, these new ideas of governing the country provide more choices for those who govern the world, so I privately think that you have to enforce the management of Taixue, which is not right. Very appropriate."

Liu An talked eloquently. In the final analysis, he still disagreed with the strengthening of restrictions on Taixue. As a person who pays attention to absorbing theories of a hundred schools of thought, Liu An most hopes to usher in a situation where a hundred schools of thought contend, so that his school has more choices right.

Chao Cuo sat calmly in front of Liu An. He is a well-known villain in the world. He has no friends. He is radical and sometimes cruel. However, few people would think of his other identity. Chao Cuo is also a scholar. , and his knowledge is also very good.

"In my opinion, today's debates in Taixue are chaotic. Instead of reflecting on their own shortcomings, they belittle their opponents' shortcomings. They believe in their own theories more and more blindly. Instead of improving their own theories, they use Packaging one's own theory with all kinds of fallacies, fanatical display of one's firm belief in the proposition, this is not promoting the development of the school, it is causing confrontation between each other, there are only disadvantages but no benefits, if your highness wants to see academic prosperity In this situation, it is even more necessary to see the essence, change the current chaotic situation, and turn meaningless fights into meaningful debates."

Chao Cuo did not directly refute Liu An, but extended Liu An's point of view, thinking that today's Taixue is not enough to meet Liu An's expectations, so he restricted it.

Liu An smiled wryly, Chao Cuo was much harder to deal with than the other hawks and dogs. Your knowledge is not worthy of your character.

When Liu Chang came back, the two still had no consensus.

Liu An didn't want to offend Chao Cuo. He really wanted to take Chao Cuo back, but he couldn't accept some of Chao Cuo's policies. Their teacher, and they want to increase the strength of the criminal law according to the number of people. This obviously grasps the lifeblood of Confucianism. For Confucianism, which emphasizes teachers, if it is because of you that there is no teacher, it will be impossible to survive. Direct suicide to apologize.

Don't think that this is beneficial to Huang Lao. Huang Lao does not respect teachers as much as Confucianism, and compares the teacher's status to his biological father. But, it can't stand the large number of them. Dozens of Confucian scholars and hundreds of Huang Lao live their hands. Confucian scholars The teacher was sentenced to 20 years of corvee, and Huang Lao's teacher could be executed immediately
The only thing about Chao Cuo is that he treats everyone equally, and never treats you differently because of which school you belong to, he even deals with the Legalists.

His legalist thinking is too radical. He believes that the king must never favor any ministers or get close to any ministers. Once he gets close to the ministers, the ministers will deceive the king. Therefore, the king should always be vigilant against the ministers and treat them as his enemies. But this was not proposed by Chao Cuo. The first person to say so was Han Feizi. The person who heard him say that was Emperor Shi Huang, and Emperor Shi Huang liked his ideas very much.

Han Feizi also would not tolerate princes and kings. He valued the centralization of power the most, and Chao Cuo was in the same line. He could even abandon his position as a minister and believe that the imperial power was supreme, and his ass went directly to the emperor.

He may be the first ruthless person to implement Han Feizi's thought in the Han Dynasty.

It's a pity that no matter in the Great Han or the Great Qin, those who have such opinions often die miserably.

The emperor was happy, but the ministers were definitely not happy.

You can see how much Han Feizi loves ministers and princes by reading Han Feizi's "Love Ministers". Left and right, they also proposed a series of management measures for the ministers, including prohibiting their personal relationships, not borrowing money from each other, not allowed to go abroad, not allowed to hide weapons, not allowed to carry weapons in the carriage, even if it is to deliver urgent documents, but if the car is Anyone with a weapon should be killed immediately.
Li Si probably felt his scalp go numb after seeing it.

Both Zhou Bo and his son couldn't help smiling when they saw it.

While they were still arguing, Liu Chang walked in hurriedly, and seeing Father with blood on his body, Liu An jumped up in fright, "Father?? What happened?!"

Liu Chang waved his hand indifferently, sat in his seat, and said cursingly: "It's also bad luck, I met a few cave thieves on the way."

Chao Cuo squinted his eyes, and his keen sense of smell played a role again, "Your Majesty! There are many tomb robbers today, but this is something that can be expected. His Majesty issued an edict calling for festival burials. There are three evils in funerals. First of all, it is Ding You's custom. People all over the world guard their parents' spirits, not out of filial piety to them, but to show their filial piety, and for their own reputation. Going to show off your own reputation. There is no real benefit, but it makes order chaotic, which in turn endangers the country."

"There are still traitors in the court who want to appoint and remove such people as officials. This is a huge harm."

"Ordinary people who don't have rich burials, don't arrange grand funerals, and don't spend a lot of money are scolded by these villains as unfilial, they are not allowed to be officials, and they have to be punished. Poverty, futility, waste of money."

"A large amount of money and valuables are buried, which weakens the national power. Some Confucians talk about filial piety, but their filial piety only stays on the surface. They didn't love their parents when they were still alive, but they paid attention to various things after their death. Etiquette, comparison and burial. This is the true face of a Confucian villain!"

"Your Majesty, please order another festival burial, to punish these villains who only care about their own reputation and have no real filial piety, and order the people everywhere to hold corresponding funerals according to their titles, and to plan tombs according to their titles. Put to death for the crime of usurpation! If the size of the tomb of Chehou dares to exceed that of the king, he will be executed for the crime of treason! If the tomb of the king is not in accordance with the etiquette, he will be executed for the minister who will manage future generations for him!"

"Practice the style of festival burial all over the world. To make the king's order be truly implemented, officials must be dispatched to supervise the burial. The funeral must be reported to the temple, and it can only be arranged after it complies with the regulations. For the tombs and funerals of various titles, They all made frugal arrangements, they were as expensive as the Marquis Che, and the clothes buried with them could not exceed three pieces, and the weapons could not exceed five pieces."

Liu An was dumbfounded, Father just complained, why did you say so much? ?

Chao Cuo said quickly, he is not a theoretical school, this guy is a practical school, what he talks about is execution, and his execution method is as radical and cruel as himself, directly drafting laws, exceeding the scale is overstepping.
Liu An hurriedly said: "Father!! If you make such an order, I am afraid that it will cause opposition from the people of the world, and you will bear the reputation of being unfilial. These things can be carried out gradually, and you can't be so eager. If someone is filial to their parents If you were executed, how will people evaluate you later?"

Liu Chang glanced at him, "They will thank me for leaving them a lot of good things."

Chao Cuo took the opportunity to say: "Your Highness... you just said that you are guilty of filial piety, but I think these people are guilty of unfilial piety. The tomb robbers your Majesty encountered today, the children in the tombs they dug, He should be arrested for the crime of unfilial piety.”

Liu An turned pale with shock, "What's your reasoning?? They didn't make a mistake, their parents' tombs were stolen, and you still have to ask them about their crimes?!?"

Chao Cuo stood up and said excitedly: "In my opinion, there is no one in the world who is more filial than Your Majesty. Those who pretend to be filial in the world should be arrested and punished!"

"These self-proclaimed filial sons, afraid that others would not know their filial piety, held a grand funeral, which allowed the tomb robbers to see their financial resources and find the right target. They used the best things for those false reputations. Come to bury your parents, which makes grave robbers even more rampant, and let the souls of your parents not rest in peace for the sake of your own reputation, is there any more unfilial behavior in the world than this?!!"

"Your Majesty has seen this situation. Your Majesty wants a festival funeral to let the dead rest in peace. This is true filial piety!! Those unworthy descendants are really hateful!!"

"My lord, please play! If there is another situation where you make your parents suffer for the sake of reputation, please punish them with death for disobedience!!"

Liu An was dumbfounded.

You are a typical victim blaming theory! !

He also said it clearly and logically!
But Liu Chang patted his knee fiercely, "Well said!! What Chao Cuo said is very reasonable! I absolutely can't just ignore such a thing!!"

"If someone dares to say that he was convicted because of filial piety, he will be punished for the crime of disobedience!"

"Wrong, I will leave this matter to you. You should carry it out as soon as possible. I want to see if I can stop this custom of burial! If I can't stop this trend, I will stop those who have it! "

The tyrant and courtier hit it off and were ready to give orders immediately.

Liu An pursed his lips and couldn't say anything. He didn't deny that the festival burial was correct, but wouldn't it be inappropriate to order such a forced burial with death? ?

Liu Chang was in a good mood, so he asked: "By the way, have you discussed the matter of the Tai students and reached a result?"

Chao Cuo hurriedly said: "The prince still has a few things that he is not satisfied with. I will try my best to improve and make the prince satisfied."

Mr. Liu waved his hand, "I can still trust you to do things, there is no need to change it, you just do it together!"

Liu An was a little helpless, and took a deep look at Chao Cuo.

Liu Chang said resolutely: "The wind of this funeral, let's start with Ann!"

"Um???"

ps: Today I took my child to get an injection and a checkup, so I am writing late, sorry everyone, but there is good news, the doctor said that the incidence rate of this kind of rare disease will become lower and lower as the child grows older. It can be severe for six months before the baby is born, and then it starts to get better, which is the opposite of other types of hemophilia. This is probably the best news I heard in the new year. Hope everything will be fine! !
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