Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 781

"Ugh"

Liu Ci lowered his head and let out a long sigh.

"Why is your majesty sighing?"

Xia Houci couldn't help asking.

Liu Ci was very helpless and said: "The three kings of the Northwest will form an alliance, hunt in peace, the king of Xiting will make plans, the king of Hexi will coordinate the logistics, and the king of Beiting will take the lead and make outstanding achievements. The winemen are full of praise for them. The reputation of the virtuous king is known by the world. I hate Xia Guokong. I have millions of cavalry, but I can only watch their three kings make great achievements. What can I do?"

Xia Houci couldn't help but said: "Why don't your lord ask Ce and the sages?"

Liu Ci looked at the group of sages in front of him. Dong Zhongshu sat on the left, and Gondoro sat on the right. Compared with his father's group of sages, they were a bit shabby.

"Zhongshu, is there any way to benefit Xia Guo as well?"

Dong Zhongshu shook his head, "Your Majesty, at present Xia Guo does not have the strength to go on an expedition to rest in peace. Although nominally speaking, His Majesty granted you all the prairie abroad, the place where they are fighting now is also your territory. But , Xia Guoxin was established, and the ministries have not been completely appeased and gathered. There are many conflicts with each other and have not been integrated. Xia Guo has many cavalry, but the language is different and the contradictions are different. Even if you go out in person and lead such an army, you are not a Parthian. rivals"

"Wait until the Xia Kingdom has integrated the interior, just like the Xiongnu in the past. The various ministries cooperate closely, cooperate with each other, and are inseparable from each other. Then we can think about sending troops to Anxi. As for now, it is best to let Fu Xiang slowly integrate the place."

Liu Ci was a little annoyed, "Would it be possible to just watch the three kingdoms fighting on our Xia Kingdom's territory and remain indifferent? What a shame!"

Xia Houci was taken aback for a moment, and then said: "If the king insists on going out to rest in peace, I have a plan!"

"you say!"

"Let's name a small tribe Anxi. Get rid of him"

Liu Ci bypassed him directly and looked at Gondoro.

Gondoro hesitated and said: "Actually, it's not impossible to intervene. All the cavalry in the Xia Kingdom can come and go freely. If the king can organize a cavalry, the scale should not be too large. As long as there are three to 4000 people, they will fly from the Xia Kingdom to the battlefield. As reinforcements. The big man's army is fighting on the front line, and the body is definitely unstable inside. If Xia Guo's cavalry supports it, letting the body poison know that the big man has left a lot of spare power, it will still be very helpful to the battle on the front line, my lord You can also get some credit."

Dong Zhongshu shook his head, "This desire to compete for merit is too obvious, I'm afraid it will cause dissatisfaction among the princes and kings."

Liu Ci ignored this, "Those are my elder brothers, can they blame me? Besides, I will tell Fu Xiang about this idea. Whether to send troops depends on his own ideas. If Xia Guo doesn't come up with something Let the temple see if I can, and the temple will not value us. Facing Anxi, only our Xia Kingdom has the most advantage. When I inherit the throne and lead a million-strong army, why worry about Anxi not being destroyed?! Now I still have If you haven’t gone back, why don’t you let Xia Guo send four thousand troops, known as one hundred thousand cavalry, to frighten those poisonous people!!”

Just do what he said, Liu Ci wrote a letter on the spot, asking people to be sent back to his country.

After finishing this matter, Liu Ci just breathed a sigh of relief, and looked much better.

"Zhongshu, I heard that your life in Taixue is not very good, and you are often besieged by others, why don't you come to my military school?"

Dong Zhongshu was a little surprised, "How did Your Majesty know about this?"

Liu Ci said proudly: "As a king, you have to see all directions and listen to all directions. How can I hide the things in Chang'an? If I am willing, the speeches in Houde Hall in the morning can be heard in the afternoon." send it to me"

Dong Zhong narrowed his eyes slowly, staring at Liu Ci's face, Liu Ci felt a little terrified of being stared at by him, and said: "Brother told me, brother said that you caused turmoil in Taixue, let me persuade you Restraint, don't think you are invincible."

"What did you do? You alarmed my elder brother?"

Dong Zhongshu shook his head lightly, and said calmly: "It's nothing serious, it's just a small dispute with Baijia."

"Dispute?? Okay, okay, let's talk and listen!"

Liu Ci's eyes lit up, and he immediately transformed into the second most fun person in Chang'an.

Dong Zhongshu didn't continue to say, "It's not a big deal, it's just that they don't agree with my proposition, and the king wouldn't understand it if I said it."

Soon, Liu Ci and others returned to the military school again, and Dong Zhongshu also set off for Taixue to continue his studies.

When Dong Zhongshu just walked to the gate of Taixue, he met seven or eight students head-on, and surrounded him directly.

The head of the man's face is very ugly.

"You are Dong Zhongshu, right?!"

"It's down."

"You said that you want to abolish all miscellaneous learning, keep the six arts of a gentleman, and get rid of the chaotic learning of bewitching, right?!"

Dong Zhongshu's face was calm, "Exactly."

Those students of Mr. Huang gritted their teeth angrily, and yelled at him: "What a lowly Confucian! Without us Mr. Huang, how could we be a big man today? You regard us as miscellaneous learning, chaotic learning to confuse the people, What kind of thing is your Confucianism? Little Confucianism, how dare you be so arrogant?!"

"Today, the world is unified, but there are many disputes among counties and states. What is the reason? It's just because the countries are trapped by miscellaneous knowledge and do not understand each other. They have different opinions and ideas. It is because everyone wants to build a prosperous world, but this is a prosperous world in everyone's mind. Different, but much more. On the contrary, I studied hard for many years, and finally understood a truth, the great unification is not the unification of a narrow territory, the most important thing is, it is the unification of the hearts of the people. Different powers are not equal, local officials have their own ideas, and the top and bottom are different. The people don't know what school of truth to teach their children, and the policies of the temple are always changed because of the sages who hold different opinions. "

"People's hearts are not unified, how can a big man be unified? The so-called Kaiyuan unity, this one is the great unity of body and mind. I am not humiliating you, but today's big man must need a unified thought, otherwise, sooner or later the disintegration will reappear The chaos of the Spring and Autumn Period."

"Don't be ashamed! Why is it not me, Mr. Huang, who is talking about Kaiyuan? I am the source of a hundred schools of thought, and the six arts of a gentleman? How superficial!!"

The two sides encountered each other, and when they disagreed, a heated debate began.

For Dong Zhongshu, this is not the first time. With the increase of age, Dong Zhongshu's thinking has become more and more mature. After all, he is a person who has come up with a mature ideological system in his 20s. When the place is strong and the big man is taking off, he sees the hidden dangers, there is no unified thought, no unified ideology, and the officials pursue different things, and the power is not used in one place, and some opinions are simply the opposite , but the prevailing opinions in different countries are different. Sometimes, there are many conflicts and criticisms about the same decree in the temple.

The three views of different schools are different. Some schools think that those who can cherish the people and don’t torment the people are good officials. A good official is one who sets an example, educates one party, and spreads virtue to the countryside. There are even Mohists who think that those who can work with the common people and earn their own living are considered good officials.
In a broad sense, he wants to create a unified social concept, values, determine what is good, what is evil, what is worthy of praise, and what should be despised.

In front of the Imperial Academy, more and more students gathered, and the debate became more and more intense.

What happened here naturally soon appeared in Houde Hall.

"Arguing again?"

Liu Chang glanced at Liu Zhang in front of him, and then found out their debate, glanced at it a few times, and then left it aside helplessly.

At first he was very interested in these people's quarrels, but he couldn't help these people not to speak human words, what they said was a delusion, and Fu Qiubo was not around, so Liu Chang didn't bother to watch it anymore.

"Didn't fight this time?"

"I didn't do anything about it, but it had a great influence. Many newspapers of schools wrote about this matter. Even the Confucianists have great opinions on Dong Zhongshu."

Liu Chang gently stroked his chin.

"Among his propositions, apart from explaining the gap between the rich and the poor in society, the rest are a bit radical and crude. As long as you don't do it, let them argue. Wasn't it just for them to fight when I supported Baijia? ?”

"Besides, this guy doesn't even think about it. How could I abolish the Hundred Schools? Among other things, the Kanyu School has just made great achievements. Can Confucianism replace the Kanyu School?"

Liu Zhang said in a low voice: "Your Majesty, Dong Zhongshu is not asking for the abolition of other schools of thought, but for the abolition of the political views of other schools of thought, and only retaining practicality, using Confucian ideas to control the actual capabilities of other schools of thought."

"It's almost the same. There is no need to report these things in the future, unless you say something bad about me!"

"only!!"

Liu Chang gestured for Liu Zhang to sit beside him, and asked, "Where is that Shuzi Liu Bo? How is he doing recently?"

"Dai Wang didn't find any great sages in the south, and he has already returned to Chang'an from Nanyang."

"Oh? Is this guy coming back?"

"So fast??"

Liu Zhang replied: "The main reason is that all the sages in the world gather in the north, and the famous sages in the south are all officials, and they are busy with water conservancy. The Dai Wang has nothing to gain in the south."

Liu Chang nodded, "When he comes back, it's time for him to go to Dai to officially become the king. How about An?"

"The prince is still rectifying the administration of officials with great fanfare, and most of the ministers in the temple have been approached by the prince."

"What the hell is this stick trying to do?"

Liu Chang frowned.

Since you can't figure it out, the best way is of course to come to the door in person.

Liu Chang has been visiting Liu An's mansion more and more recently, not because of Liu An's son, but because of his eldest grandson Liu Qian.

Liu Qian grew up gradually, and his personality was completely different from his father.

Liu An is a relatively well-behaved child, but this little guy is going to make a lot of noise, and he can't calm down at any time, especially when he sees his elder father, just as Liu Chang hugged him in his arms, he was so excited. Liu Chang jumped up in his arms, slapped his hands wildly, and slapped the boss of the empire a few times, Liu Chang squinted his eyes and let the little guy mess around, but Tiying angrily said: "Don't be rude! !!"

Liu Chang laughed, "No problem! No problem!"

"This guy is more noisy than Ci, it's better to be more noisy, lively and powerful!"

Liu Qian would always show great curiosity towards this elder father. Facing this giant, he was not afraid at all, and he was extremely close. Once he caught Liu Chang, he would not let go.

When the grandfather and grandson were playing around, Liu An stood in the distance, looking at their warm family.

After a while, the boy fell asleep and fell asleep in Liu Chang's arms. Liu Chang handed him to his mother on tiptoe, and then signaled Liu An to go out and talk.

The father and son walked out of the inner room, and Liu An said helplessly, "This Shuzi is so naughty. I really don't know how to discipline him."

"At the beginning, my mother said, don't speak ill of people. If you speak ill of someone, the child will be like someone. Now think about it, I probably said a lot of bad things about Ci at the beginning!"

Liu Chang didn't care, "He's still young, so he might not be like this when he grows up. When Zi is so old, he's even more cute than Liang."

The two talked and walked to the front yard. Liu An's guests rushed to pay respects. Liu Chang just nodded in return. Liu Chang asked seriously: "I heard that you have lived in the Yushi Mansion these days?"

"That's right, my ministers dealt with the memorials in the Yushifu, introduced some new policies, and reminded the ministers to do things according to the law, and rectified some bad customs."

"What? I can't wait any longer? Suppress Naigong's ministers to make way for your confidant?"

Liu An hurriedly shook his head, "Father, don't scare me like this."

"Oh, it's just that the aunt gave me an errand, which really made me difficult."

"An errand for you? What errand?"

"She made me achieve more political achievements in Yushifu than Si Zhongfu."

Liu An looked at Father, and there was even some grievance in his voice, "What do you think I can do? Mother said it was easy, as if I could surpass him by just doing something, but Father Sizhong these days Li is in Yushifu, and he has done a great job, how can I surpass him?"

Liu Chang frowned, "Let you surpass your Sizhong father?? What did Mom think? So you have been running around these days just to do something big, right? I thought you couldn't wait to start Let's do it. It happens that the army is in the north, and Chang'an is empty."

"Father, don't joke anymore. I think I'm not as capable as Father Si Zhong, so I used my strengths to gather my guests and discuss important matters."

Liu An slowly expressed his plan. Liu An and his cronies came up with a set of "Equalization Law". , limiting the number of private land purchases, banning the private right to kill slaves, which is the so-called capital crime of killing slaves, opposing officials to do business, etc. As an academic, Liu An still has a set of things in this regard. The past governor of the state The system, as well as the system of not being an official in his hometown, were all created by Liu An.

Hearing Liu An's words at this moment, Liu Chang glanced at him, "Did you borrow other people's ideas?"

"No."

"Then why is this set of decrees somewhat similar to what Dong Zhongshu said?"

Liu An was a little displeased, "Father, if you talk about plagiarism, it is Dong Zhongshu who copied my ideas. I was the first to talk about Huang Lao annexing hundreds of schools, using Huang Lao's disputed ideas as the keynote, and using the capabilities of hundreds of schools to come. Assistant, I was also the first to talk about the balance adjustment, and even wrote a special article, his theory is after mine, so why should I imitate him?"

Mr. Liu waved his hand, "I don't care who imitates whom, but I have to take care of you if you want to use the Yushifu to implement the new decree. In any case, you must ask me, Luan Bu and others before implementing it. , and then proceed.”

"Don't think about surpassing your fourth father. Everyone is good at different things. In terms of writing articles and learning, can your fourth father surpass you? Your mother's words, you Just listen to it, I can probably figure it out, is she afraid that you won't be able to suppress my people, and wants you to take the opportunity to accumulate more fame? She is old, you know, her brain is not working, don't listen For her, just do your own thing."

Facing such rebellious words, Liu An didn't dare to agree, but just lowered his head.

At this time, a doorman suddenly rushed in excitedly.

"Your Highness! It's done! It's done!"

The man rushed in yelling, without looking up, he yelled, "Over there with Chao Cuo."

After talking about the beginning, when he raised his head and saw the emperor standing beside Liu An, the doorman's words stopped abruptly, and he looked dully at the emperor in front of him.

Liu Chang glanced at Liu An beside him.

"Still conspiring with the local officials? How about I go out first, and I will come in after you two have settled the important matter?"

Liu An smiled wryly, "Father, I don't have enough talent, so I can only seek help from others. No one in this world can compare to Mr. Chao in terms of making strategies, so I sent the policies I compiled to him. By the way, let him look at it for me and make revisions, it’s not intentional to hide it from my father.”

"Ann, just tell me, how many things are you hiding from me?"

"No, how dare you not have a son-in-law."

At this time, another doorman came in. It was Lei Bei who came. He saluted Liu Chang and then Liu An, and said in a low voice: "Your Highness, the list of Qingzhou tyrants, I have already sent it to Liu Jing, and he has already started to do it. He said that he hoped to get more lists of Liang Guo’s powerful men, and he said that there are too many strong men here, and we must die.”

Liu An looked at him blankly, and then looked at Liu Chang again, "Father, I almost forgot just now, but I actually helped Mr. Liu govern the powerful."

After finishing speaking, Liu An hurriedly explained again, "Father, I was with Chao Cuo to formulate policies. I have asked his opinions on many of my policies. As for Liu Jing, this is also to limit the powerful and make the powerful stronger. Yes. people."

Liu Chang said coldly with a straight face: "You are the one who hides everything. Liu Zhang didn't even find out about your affairs. These ministers have such close contacts in private, and they haven't left any traces. As everyone knows, even I was kept in the dark by you, it seems that you have indeed grown up."

The atmosphere suddenly became silent, Liu An's diners only felt the hairs on their backs stand on end, and their palms felt cold.

In this deathly silence, Liu Chang suddenly grinned.

A slap on Liu An's shoulder.

"Good job! Shuzi!"

(End of this chapter)