sweeping the world

Chapter 635 Everything Is For The Country
Everyone has selfish desires, and there are few people who abandon their selfishness for the sake of the public, especially if there is a family behind the official, it is even more difficult to distinguish between public and private.

To put it bluntly, everyone has the seven emotions and six desires. When people do things, they first look at whether things are beneficial or harmful to them, and only when the benefits outweigh the harms will they do it.If that person is an official, he will think more before doing something. First of all, he has to add points to his official career before he thinks about whether it will be good for the people. It is beneficial but it will endanger yourself. Unless the officials really serve the people wholeheartedly, otherwise they really won't do it.

Everyone will have their own family. In many cases, even the officials themselves do not want to break the law, but some family members can't bear to use the name or prestige of a relative who is an official to do some profit-making things.

So, as long as one is an official, it is really difficult to have an innocent person. The difference is that the officials themselves or their family members do not go too far, how many people are harmed, and how big the harm is.

There has always been a saying in officialdom that "when the water is clear, there will be no fish". As long as officials can do what they need to do to the greatest extent, crossing the line is not too serious, and some things are simply tacit.What I am afraid of is that officials do nothing in a certain position in order to keep themselves clean, so there is a saying that corrupt officials who handle affairs are far more valuable than officials who are comparable to memorial tablets.

Officials of the feudal dynasty, who is not behind a big family, more family members need to have more income, and then to be able to form a family will inevitably require more income, so it is inevitable for the ruling class to set some rules that are beneficial to officials Yes, even the supreme ruler thinks it is a very good thing, such as exemption from taxation, corvee, and other privileges with fame.

In today's society, it is a consensus that as an official, you should consider the interests of your family. The plans are usually extremely far-reaching, but they don't just focus on the immediate interests, they take a long-term view.

Liu Yan rose from the humble beginnings. At first, most of the people who followed him were from small families, a few of them could be called families, and very few were from aristocratic families.

After people develop, it is a kind of nature and instinct to want to make themselves stronger.

Sang Yu himself is the son of a big family. The education he received since he was a child is to put the family first. Being able to grow the family while taking into account the interests of the country can be said to be moral.

Some people like Cai You, even if they didn't reach Sang Yu's level before, they have been in high positions for so many years anyway, no matter what level of thought they have reached before, they should be clear now and no one will catch them blind.It was precisely because they were in it that they scoffed at Sang Yu's statement.

Now, of course, there is no such phrase as "there is no dynasty with a thousand years, only a family with a thousand years", but after the influence of the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the effect of the family management in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, any family is rushing to become the second Yuan family in Ruyang. go.

Isn't the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms the years when the aristocratic families rose?They summed up the predicament of the previous dynasties, and they were not strong enough to protect themselves under the rule of the Hulu. It was the time when their ambitions were the greatest.

So far, the Central Plains has only been ravaged by the former Zhao of the Huns and the later Zhao of the Jie people, and has not experienced the replacement of Murong Qianyan, Diren Qianqin, Murong Houyan, Qiang Houqin, etc., However, it has already happened that Hou Zhao, Murong Qianyan, Tuoba Daiguo, Li's Chenghan, Zhang's Liangguo, and the small courts of the Eastern Jin Dynasty established separate regimes side by side.

The states of the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods were too far apart. The collapse of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the coexistence of the feudal lords were only 82 years ago when the Han State destroyed the Jie people Hou Zhao, Tuoba Dai State, Li Shi Cheng Han, Zhang Shi Liang State, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty Small Court. It was really too close, and one had to see how strong a family could be as long as it was strong enough.

Strong enough to separate one side and strong enough to establish a country of their own. Today, when the Han Dynasty is so powerful, not many families dare to separate, let alone try to establish a country, but they have already seen the benefits of being strong.

"Under the whole world, is it the king's land, and the shore of the land is the king's minister." Cai You quoted a sentence from "The Book of Songs. Xiaoya. Gufeng Zhishi. Beishan". He looked directly at Sang Yu, who was smiling at the corner of his mouth, and said: " Too much is too late, Zishen."

In fact, the original meaning of "Is it the king's land under the whole world, and the king's subject on the shore of the land" does not mean that everything in the world belongs to the king, but that the king has the responsibility of the king, and the ministers have the responsibilities of the ministers. The emphasis is still on the divisions. its job.

Everything belongs to the king's family, country, and world. From the beginning of Liu Bang's establishment of the Han Empire, the most famous thing is that Liu Bang asked his father, saying that his father always disliked his idleness and didn't know how to run a family. After he became emperor, he asked his father. He said that the family business he bought was not big.

That was an entire country, and how could the family fortune not be huge? With this question, it became a fact that "the country is the emperor's family property". At that time, none of the ministers of the Han Dynasty objected to Liu Bang's statement, so Liu Bang, who was called proud.

In the pre-Qin period in ancient times, even if the first emperor swept the world and once again formed a great unification, the first emperor would not dare to say that the country is the private property of the Zhao family. The Zhao family has the greatest management power. Officials at all levels are managers at all levels. What belongs to the people belongs to the people.

Even more ancient times, such as the Warring States period, at that time, the kings also did not dare to say that the entire country was their own private property. Compared with the Qin Empire after the unification, the vassal states continued the "subjects are the subjects of the king, and the subjects of the subjects" The tradition of not being a minister of a king".To be transparent, the king has the right to manage, but if it belongs to me, as long as I don't break the law, it should be mine or mine. Even the king can't say anything, and my things will become the king's.

According to the socially recognized rules of the pre-Qin period in ancient times, the king is only the leader, and the nobles serve him, and the people of the country have the right to make suggestions for the country.

After arriving in Liu Bang, the country is the property of the emperor, and everything is the property of the emperor. Doesn’t it mean that everyone can speak and give whatever they want?In this regard, the emperor is the slave owner, officials at all levels are employees of the slave owner, and everyone in the country is a slave.

Now the state of Han is following the path of the Qin Empire, following the line of strict law enforcement, but it has also done a lot to destroy some families and return their property to the state. The milder one is to invest in the recovery of land under the name that exceeds the limit.How about a fig leaf?That is, those people who were "broken" were not considered to be under the rule of the Han Dynasty.

Some people, including Cai You, don't want to see Sang Yu go too far. They discovered from some of Liu Yan's actions that Liu Yan is not leaving the country of the Han family with the surname Liu, but is going to return to a normal country. The law that should be governed.

The king didn't think about treating the whole country as his own private property, he didn't set up a family, he took the route of public world.The latter one, as long as they are not slaves, enjoy the right of "private property, unless it violates the law, and property cannot be deprived without reason". This system benefits the nobles the most, and the common people will not suffer any disadvantages. Only the king can no longer do whatever he wants.

In fact, Cai You only had to yell at Sang Yu, "The king is trying his best to limit his selfish desires. Are you stimulating the king so that everyone has no fun?" It took a lot of effort to endure it.

Among the three lords and nine lords of the Han Dynasty, the majority were from aristocratic families. Sang Yu’s family was a real family in the north, while Lu Yi could only be said to be from a third-rate family in the south, and the rest were at most from big families. .

The original background will determine their thinking. People from non-traditional families such as Cai You are absolutely unwilling to see the allocation of resources at the beginning of the dynasty, but most of them feel that they cannot compete, and it is not true. Out of consideration for the country.

Everyone's starting point is different, and most people are willing to see restrictions. If you really rely on your background to fight, no one in the north can compete with Sang's one-on-one except Cui.As for these two clans, the Sang family has long been working to incorporate the families for their own use, while the Cui family is relying on Cui Wan's queen status.

"It is an indisputable fact that the Han Dynasty lacks officials." Sang Yu did not dare to cause public anger and said, "Where do the officials come from? They come from various families."

That is an unavoidable situation. Knowledge is held by well-established families, and it is difficult for ordinary people to obtain knowledge. Being an official has nothing to do with ordinary people.Such a situation was determined from the moment the country was established, unless the channels for obtaining knowledge were opened, otherwise monopoly was inevitable.

Cai You and the others realized that the facts were there, and Sang Yu also hinted that the Sang clan would not go too far.

What they want is for the Sang family not to go too far. Too many officials in one family will only make the king wary, and if one family has too many resources, it will not make the rest of the family feel at ease, and the interests will be shared to the greatest extent. Only then can you be good, I am good, everyone is good.

Sang Yu made a promise, and everyone was assured that they would no longer be emotional, and they could talk about some meaningful things peacefully.

"Your Majesty intends to cancel the recommendation system and fully implement the assessment system." Yu Yi didn't say much just now. Given the embarrassing situation the South is currently facing, those things don't have to be mixed up.He said that this topic once again attracted everyone to concentrate: "The system of assessment, what is the method of assessment?"

Sang Yu gave the correct answer: "What the king said is the imperial examination system."

In fact, assessments existed long ago. The filial piety system in the early Han Dynasty had related assessments. For example, one must be a son of a good family, and then it is about the size of reputation. There is also a related promotion system after entering the officialdom.One of the keys to the filial piety system is that there must be a recommender. If the recommended person commits any crimes, the recommender must take responsibility together.Therefore, a person who is qualified to recommend will not dare to recommend anyone at will.

Because of his concern, Yu Yi asked urgently, "What is the imperial examination?"

Sang Yu didn't want to say it at first, the current knowledge is priceless, knowing what others don't understand is the greatest wealth.Seeing that everyone was staring at him, he reluctantly explained a little bit: "A person with an innocent background and knowledge can participate in the selection of examinations and finally become an official."

It doesn't sound complicated, but everyone has their own understanding.

What most people understand is that as long as they are knowledgeable and clean, anyone can become an official after the imperial examination is formally adopted as the national talent selection system.What they immediately thought was that from then on, powerful families, aristocratic families, and rich families would suffer from the impact of poor families, and even poor families would be able to become officials even if they were not ordinary people.

"It turns out that promoting education has this purpose." Zhang Shi should be one of the most insignificant people among the three gongs and nine ministers, but it does not mean that there is not a group of people behind him. He said: "That Zishen also proposed If a relative of an official who has not yet become an official should be admitted to the palace to teach?"

"The general trend, who can stop it?" Sang Yu could see clearly that after the country entered the stage of health and rest, Liu Yan would devote a large part of his energy to the dissemination of knowledge. What he said was to remind those who did not understand this level: People in the family still have schools of thought that survive."

The words really couldn't be clearer, and if they don't understand, they are not qualified to sit here. They don't believe that Liu Yanzhen can't find teachers, give benefits to various schools, and some schools want to cheer up and go to work.

"If I can't do my best, how can I repay the king's kindness..." Yu Yi didn't know what he thought of just now, but dense beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, and he saluted Sang Yu: "It's still the imperial envoy!" The doctor will see."

After the monopoly of Confucianism, the Hundred Schools did not really disappear completely. There are still many schools that survived with difficulty, and some schools even mixed well, including Legalism, Military School, and Farming School. These Confucian Schools cannot be eliminated at all.

Confucianism was determined to have a high status in the early Han Dynasty, but it is difficult to have the power of the early Han Dynasty today. After all, Confucianism played a limited role in times of war. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the princes stood side by side and suffered heavy losses. After the Central Plains land sank, there was no soil for growth. Today's Confucianism only has its name but no power.

Seeing that Liu Yan wiped out all the barbarians, all the separatist regimes were also eliminated, and a brand new unified country will stand again, it is not only those who feel that the good days are coming, but those who feel that they can fight big Just hope to see through the school.

"Once the imperial examination system is implemented..." Cai You glanced at Yu Yi, looked at Sang Yu and said quietly: "The writing style in the south is very popular."

After the Yongjia Rebellion, so many families fled south, and most of the handed down families left in the Central Plains were destroyed. It is reasonable to say that there are not as many scholars in the north as in the south.

There is also a corresponding subsidiary effect of traveling south in clothes. The aristocratic families who fled to the south took away too many classics, but most of the classics in the north were destroyed in the flames of war.

"So Yu is thinking about the big man..." Sang Yu saw the key from the ugly look on many people's faces, and said slowly: "It is imperative to migrate the population!"

(End of this chapter)