sweeping the world

Chapter 708 Where is my "beauty"?

Today's Han Dynasty actually needs a unified voice, like Emperor Xiaowu Liu Che of the Han Dynasty, before going to war with the Xiongnu, so that the whole country has the same thinking.

What Liu Yan did before was to follow in the footsteps of the former Han, and only then did he have the slogan of restoring the old land of the Han family.After waiting for the old land of the Han family to be gradually taken back, the previous unified call for "restore the Han land" is slowly losing its effect, which is one of the reasons why civil and military disagreements began to appear.

The Western Regions is also one of the old lands of the Han family. Liu Yan has not entered the Western Regions for a long time. In addition to worrying about a collision with the Central Asian powers, he is more or less worried that once the Western Regions are taken back, the country will lose the same goal and fall into a period of confusion. Will it fall into internal consumption like the past dynasties?
"Prime Minister, you know that it's not just mediocrity."

The palace city of old Chang'an only had a few palaces restored, except for the Yizheng Hall, which was part of the harem, which really looked quite shabby.

For a king who rules a vast territory, there is really no one who knows how to enjoy things more than Liu Yan. In many dynasties, even the king’s temporary residence must be beautifully built. Liu Yan’s temporary residence not only restored the palace Very few, and no expensive decorations can be seen.

Ji Chang looked at the worried Liu Yan, what else could he express besides nodding?

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the center and the localities were indeed doing things with the same idea. The goal was to avenge the Hulu who had oppressed them. No matter how poor or poor the army was, there was no shortage of supplies.It is precisely because there is such a consensus that when the officials attack the aristocratic families and powerful people, even if there are aristocratic families and powerful people who want to make troubles, they fail to get the people to follow them, so that the country cannot be chaotic at all.

For contemporary people, revenge against the Hulu is a "great righteousness", and anyone who hinders revenge against the Hulu will be crushed by the general trend and become scum, which is the so-called general trend.

The Han people are about to complete the great cause of revenge against the Hulu, and only the remnants of Murong and Tuoba who have retreated to the Xianbei grassland are left to be completely eliminated. Holding high the banner of revenge is about to lose its greatest effect.

Contemporary Han people need a clear goal after the great cause of revenge is completed. It is not a general goal, but a planned and substantive plan that can withstand scrutiny. Undoubtedly, the new round of expansion is what Liu Yan wants.

"The widows agreed to go to war against the Gupta Dynasty not only because they could get food from the Gupta Dynasty."

"I know."

"The widow is not fueling the arrogance of the warrior, but the big man cannot be without a goal."

"I... know about the king's worries, but... the big man needs to restore his internal affairs..."

"Internal affairs must be restored, but military personnel should not suppress them too much."

"I never thought of that."

Liu Yan looked at Ji Chang deeply.He has his own eyes and ears. Too many people think that the military is too belligerent, and they want to use the opportunity of building internal affairs to stop the military's belligerence, but it doesn't match his big expansion strategy!
It's not that the traversers don't know how many times the Zhuxia civilization has lost the opportunity to become the global hegemony. In the current year, it is not the best opportunity for the Zhuxia civilization to dominate the world, but it is also a rare opportunity to seize.

Now in AD [-], not to mention other continents, the Eurasian continent on the world island, every country is in its own trouble.

If history had not been changed by Liu Yan, East Asia would have fallen into a dark period for nearly 300 years. First, it would go through the chaos of China, and then the Northern and Southern Dynasties would stand side by side. It would have to wait until Yang Jian replaced Zhou before unifying China.

In Central Asia, the Sasanian established by the Persians also experienced repeated turmoil. First, there were endless uprisings by the Serbians and the Guishan people, and the Arabs also joined in the fun and kept making troubles.The war between Persian Sasanian and Rome was also on and off. Every time the Persians were dragged down by domestic turmoil and the front line could not support it.In addition to the Persian Sassanid, others such as the Huns, Alans, and Dayis were also entangled with each other, and even the northern Huns were fighting left and right.

Europa is not much better. First, a second "co-government of four emperors" disturbed Rome's external affairs. Later, because of the death of Constantine I, his three sons were killed by Augustus. The throne was engaged in a civil war, and Constantius II, the victor, died before he could restore Rome to prosperity. Julian, the successor, went on an ambitious expedition to Persia again, and really killed Julian with his army. Entered the Persian Sassanian Ctesiphon, but there was a victory and then a defeat. Even Julian himself died in that expedition to the Persian Sassanian battlefield. Julian's death directly ended the Constantine family During the rule of Rome, the second "officer succession incident" occurred, which reopened the prelude to the continuous turmoil in Rome.

It can be said that for a long period of time, the countries that can be counted on the World Island are not very safe. At this time, if there is an old empire with internal chaos, it will be a natural period of expansion, or it will not suffer much. Expansion of resistance.

Liu Yan originally only had a vague impression of the current era, but hasn't the Han Kingdom "connected" with the world?The news has been gathered again and again, and it is possible to have more judgments on the current situation of the major powers in the world island.

There is no doubt that as long as the Han Dynasty recovers from its weakness first, there will be absolutely no problem in extending its expansion to Central Asia. If it is done properly, it can even be done by scrubbing military boots in the Mediterranean.

"The prime minister has already seen the 'world map', tell the widow, what did you see?"

"I fully support your majesty's national expansion policy!"

Liu Yan knew that Ji Chang would say that, and he could only say that.

It must be expanded, otherwise, as a traveler who knows the current situation, he should be cast aside. It is how to expand, whether the occupied land can be used after expansion, and how to make the people willing to be driven. It is really not the army for military merit. Go out and kill and occupy the land and it's over.

If the army went out to expand the territory, the Central Plains dynasties in the past dynasties really did this, but every time they were defeated, they either left the new territory and went back to the dynasty immediately, or they couldn't manage the newly occupied land and lost it again, resulting in The only thing is that the country consumes but does not gain, at least there is no bonus other than prestige.

After too many examples of gaining nothing but fame, more and more dynasties have a phobia about expanding abroad. What they are afraid of is that they will spend the country's money and get nothing in the end, and they will cause domestic mourning because of the war. Sheng Zai said, maybe there will be a "peasant uprising" or something.

"Your Majesty... this is to..."

"The Ram school is a good school."

At present, there is a trend of thought of great revenge in the Han Dynasty, and it is under this trend of thought that the revenge against the Hulu was completed. After the Gongyang School of Confucianism was suppressed in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it showed signs of recovery, and other schools of thought also began to become active. .

The most glorious period of Confucian Gongyang School was when Dong Zhongshu obtained Liu Che’s approval, but the most glorious period was after Dong Zhongshu’s death.

Whether any school can get official recognition means the rise and fall.

The countries in the pre-Qin and Warring States emphasized the law, and the Legalists became the prominent schools in the Warring States. For hundreds of years, except for the necessary military strategists, no school of thought could compare with the Legalists.

After the early Han Dynasty, the Han Dynasty respected the Huang-Lao theory, and the result was that the Huang-Lao theory was the same for a while.

When Emperor Xiaowu Liu Che of the Han Dynasty was in power, Dong Zhongshu brought the "beauty" of the Confucian Gongyang School to present, but it was the entire Confucianism that benefited. After that, the various schools of Confucianism took turns to be the boss.

Confucianism is more domineering than any school of thought. Other theories gain power because they suppress other theories, but I really don’t want to eliminate other theories, but Confucianism is different.

What Confucianism wants is "only myself and respect".This kind of hegemony is not so obvious in the Gongyang school, they prefer to hold high the "big vengeance 1 doctrine" and clarify the importance of "spring and autumn punishment", but other Confucian schools are not like this Something happened, especially the Guliang School, Zuozhuan School, and Mao Poetry School (not the Taizu of this dynasty) who were at odds with the Gongyang School.

Seriously speaking, the Gongyang School of Confucianism did not last long. It was only recognized by Emperor Xiaowu of the Han Dynasty, followed by the rise of the "peace-loving" Guliang School, and then the Zuo Chuan School, which took tampering with history as its mission. After a while, even the Mao Poetry School, which embraced the "Book of Songs" as the core of its school, had a good time.It’s just that Lu Ru has always been miserable. When Confucianism was the only one, there was nothing wrong with Lu Ru. It can even be said that there was no room for Lu Ru to jump around in the Western and Eastern Han Dynasties.

There is a deep reason why Lu Ru was not valued in the early Han Dynasty. It was not because Lu Ru firmly stood on the side of the Xiang Clan when the Chu and Han were fighting, but because they shouted to be loyal to the Xiang Clan after the collapse of the Xiang Clan. In the end, you can wait for Liu Bang to send troops to the past, but when he comes, he kneels and licks immediately.

You can't be like that!Roaring so loudly, I wanted to go all out, I was so startled that my heart was jumping up and down, and I tried my best to fight for my life, but Nima said that I would do my best for Mrs Xiang, and I haven’t drawn out my sword yet, why are you kneeling and licking immediately? up! ?
The ancients...at least the ancients in the pre-Qin and pre-Han periods paid great attention to the word "loyalty". They can do bad things, and they can also be bad, but they can't lose the integrity of those they are loyal to.While Lu Ru's kneeling and licking made everyone dumbfounded, they immediately looked down on Lu Ru's integrity. This is the reason why Lu Ru was always looked down upon in the early Han Dynasty.

What Lu Ru lost was not his own face, but the face of the entire Confucianism. At the same time, it also made the people of Shandong completely lose face again.Originally, Shandong people were not highly regarded by people in other regions. It was Han, Wei, Zhao, Yan, and Chu in the pre-Qin period who at least fought their lives to be defeated, but Qi had hundreds of thousands of armored troops and surrendered without a fight. , Since then, people in Qidi (Shandong) have been unable to hold their heads up.

Originally, the reputation was not good, but if Lu Ru did it again, the Shandong area has since then gained the reputation of being "able to stretch and bend". Harder.After nesting for three or 1 years, the notoriety was finally cleared up, but at the end of the Han Dynasty, it was tricked again... It was a tragedy!
In today's Han Dynasty, 1% of the high-level people come from Qingzhou (Shandong), which was originally divided into administrative regions, and more than 1% of the middle and low-level people come from Shandong. Liu Yan's people are of course from Shandong.

For contemporary Shandong people, if Liu Yan was defeated and destroyed at the beginning of his army, it would be fine. He worked hard but did not wash away the shame left by his ancestors.The problem is that Liu Yan gained power and established the country, and got a rise. It can be said that the Shandong people have never been proud of themselves for the first time since the pre-Qin and Qi Dynasties.

Ji Chang is also from Shandong. As a native of Shandong, he should wash away the shame of his ancestors, so he had to support the national policy of great expansion.

"The king means..."

"The widow seems to be very obvious, right?"

What Liu Yan meant could not be more obvious, that is, the Han Dynasty needs a theory to prosper, just like when Emperor Xiaowu of the Han Dynasty needed it, Dong Zhongshu brought his "beauty" to present it, no matter what it is , anyway, it is to unify the voices of the whole country.

"This……"

Ji Chang considers himself a member of Confucian disciples, but he can’t even tell which faction he belongs to. This is one of the things that most poor families can’t figure out by themselves. Isn’t it just what books they read and what books they don’t receive? The door wall!
In fact, Liu Yan really wanted to directly promote the Gongyang School. After he learned about it, he really liked this school.

The big idea of ​​the Gongyang School is "big vengeance 1 doctrine" and adhering to justice and daring to sacrifice one's life for justice, but it is weak in "commentary", and secondly, it likes to engage in "prophetic theology". Not good, very bad.That is also the reason why the Gongyang School gradually declined after Emperor Xiaowu of the Han Dynasty, and then it was suppressed by the deadly enemies Guliang School and Zuochuan School, and it was almost cold in the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The Confucian school of the Eastern Han Dynasty also had new branches, such as the "Zi Xue (also known as the Free School)" was developed, but this school actually likes to engage in theology, and also likes to occupy the commanding heights of public opinion. The pursuit of profit and wealth is its powerful driving force for development, and a lot of cumbersome interpretation of scriptures and the style of writing scriptures have caused the study of classics to become rigid.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, Legalism re-emerged, but they didn’t dare to show their names directly. They played the trick of "Confucian skin and legal bones". A branch of the doctrine is characterized by an extreme fondness for metaphysics.

"I worry about one thing. As long as Confucianism seizes the opportunity, I don't have to do anything else. It doesn't matter what the country is. It's the most important thing to please the king." Liu Yan didn't care about Ji Chang's expression, and continued: "The second is the character of Confucianism."

Ji Chang was in a daze. He climbed to his current position but he didn’t forget to replenish his knowledge base. He really knew that Confucian scholars think that the most important thing is to take advantage of the king’s liking for him and seize the opportunity to kill schools that don’t like him, even To make governing the country no longer have anything to do with other schools of thought, kill those who can be killed quickly.

"Ai Qing told me, if there are no giants in the Gongyang school, can I still find the school I want?"

(End of this chapter)