sweeping the world

Chapter 709 There is a lot to do
In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the various schools of thought from Zhuxia were either annexed by Confucianism, or they played the trick of "Confucian skin x bone". In fact, there is really no inheritance.

Liu Yan wants to have a theory to unify the thoughts of the whole country. Apart from searching among various schools of Confucianism, he can only create a theory by himself, but he is not specialized in this, and he does not have so much energy.

In order to develop the internal affairs of the Han Dynasty, the pursuit is not simply to restore people's livelihood. According to Liu Yan's vision, the progress of science and technology should also be carried out gradually.

Liu Yan only knows how to use science but does not have much hands-on ability. What he can do is to encourage people to discover and study science.As the ruler of a country, especially a founding king, he has the ability to encourage.

As early as the third year of Yuanshuo, Liu Yan was already making arrangements, that is, to open as many schools as possible to increase the literacy rate. Only when there are more literate people can there be a scientific basis, otherwise there will be no big characters. And how to explore science?
In today's Han Dynasty, the military has the highest literacy rate. Liu Yan, who was born as a PLA, is very familiar with certain routines of the army, but he did not learn the spirit of XX, but simply taught Literacy.

There are so many retired military personnel who can enter the villages and become grassroots officials because they are literate. Otherwise, they can't even read the documents, and they can't record anything. How can they be officials?

At this stage, it is even more difficult to popularize folk education.After all, Dengtian can choose a cliff to play gliding, but he can't turn out teachers if he wants to popularize folk education.

Since ancient times, there have always been students but no teachers who have troubled the promotion of education. Liu Yan has copied so many homes of aristocratic families and collected countless classics, but the books of aristocratic families can be obtained by copying the homes, but teachers cannot snatch them.

"Those who can be called giants now are all masters of calligraphy, poetry, and metaphysics." Sang Yu was talking about the embarrassing status quo of Zhuxia civilization: "This generation is a generation of empty talkers, eloquent but incapable of governing the world."

There are capable people in Confucianism, and there are quite a few, especially after the Western Han Dynasty, there were more capable people in Confucianism. It was the integration period after Confucianism continuously eliminated other theories and merged them, which is what Confucianism calls "integration and universality".To put it bluntly, even the Confucianists know that they are not suitable as a "ruling party", and understand that they can't do anything practical except talk about it. They can only kill other schools of thought and use the knowledge of these schools to govern.

After the history of the Western Jin Dynasty, Confucianism, which has undergone countless "rectifications", really no longer has a giant of the practical school.The various schools of Confucianism are left with only one mouth, which can speak well but has no practical and beneficial talents.This was the bane that existed in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Confucianism had no opponents and fell into constant civil strife. While scolding and fighting, they all desperately studied the famous sayings of "Zhuzi" and wanted to use "ancestors" to suppress people. As a result, Confucianism became more and more rigid.

In fact, Sang Yu is still afraid. When it comes to culture, the north of the Yangtze River is not as good as the south of the Yangtze River.Fortunately for him, the cultural people in the south did not live up to their expectations, and almost lost all the useful knowledge of governing the country, playing the "invincible mouth" model, and the research on calligraphy is more than the enthusiasm for governing the country.

"Calligraphy can be used for edification, but it is of no benefit to governing the country; poetry and prose can be used to explain history, but it is also of no benefit to governing the country; metaphysics...haha." Sang Yu didn't hide his sarcasm at all: "It's the theology that the king said."

Don't forget that the Zhuxia civilization has always been dominated by royal power over theocracy, that is, the Sima family became a puppet to make metaphysics flourish. Otherwise, no matter how stupid the ruler is, he would not just watch metaphysics become the mainstream of intellectual research.

After the ravages of the Hulu, all parts of the north fell into a state of cultural poverty, but there are definitely many more intellectuals who can do things than the south.

After Liu Yan founded the country, there was an extreme shortage of local officials. A large number of scholars in the north were recruited as officials. If they came from the south, they could also get their own positions.Facts have proved that those who dared to be officials during the founding of the country were a bit expected, and it was also at that time that the Han Kingdom had not yet shown its strength to swallow the world, and official fans did not dare to bet for the time being.

After the Han Dynasty showed its ability to dominate the world, the number of people seeking official positions increased sharply, but the quality at this stage was really not very good, especially the quality of the southern scholars was the worst.How bad is it?They were literate, could speak quite well, and knew what to say and what not to say. However, when they became local officials, they received their salaries and all the filial piety certificates at the bottom. Then they began to make sculptures and put them there to prove Their own existence allows them to examine how they should develop under their rule... Hey, don't be ridiculous.

"That's true." Ji Chang didn't add insult to injury because he was born in the north. He said matter-of-factly: "'Clay sculpture officials' have to abolish a large number of people every year. Although there are both in the north and the south, the south is the most."

Liu Yan is still aware of this phenomenon, and even knows that those guys defend themselves as engaging in "government by Huang Lao".If he hadn't studied the theories of Zhuxia civilization before, he really thought that the so-called "Huang Lao governing the world" means that officials don't do anything and let the people play freely, but he really understands how "Huang Lao governs the world" After the incident, I knew that "Huang Lao governing the world" didn't care about anything at all. On the contrary, there are quite a lot of places in charge.

The real "Huang Lao governing the world" talks about "governing by doing nothing", but also emphasizes "doing nothing and doing everything".

What does that mean? The core idea of ​​"Huang Lao Governing the World" is to follow the laws of the world, respect people's individuality, and after formulating a big framework, "each show their own talents" to move forward with this goal.The first stage talks about "doing something, but acting rashly", which is the first step in making a plan.Then there is "something to do, something not to do". Since there is no deviation after the plan is made, officials should not let their own temper blindly do what they should.The third is "doing nothing, but doing everything". If you realize that the development does not conform to the plan, don't ignore it. No matter what means you use, you will correct the deviation.

The so-called "Huang-Lao Theory" means doing nothing, which is a kind of smearing of Confucianism.If the Huang-Lao School, as the "ruling party", really did nothing, the rule of Wenjing in the Western Han Dynasty would have been impossible.However, the "Huang-Lao Theory" was abandoned by Emperor Xiaowu Liu Che of the Han Dynasty. It was purely because the Huang-Lao School at that time believed that the war against the Huns should be postponed, and that they should be fully prepared before going to war against the Huns. However, the impatient Liu Che couldn't wait that long at all. It's also Liu Che's extreme dislike of the step-by-step (everything has a plan) of the Huang-Lao School.

Any kind of prominent theory will not be useless, it is a means of governing the world that is suitable for the contemporary times, such as the prosperity of the Legalists in the Warring States Period, the Huang Lao became a prominent school in the early Han Dynasty, and even the rise of Confucianism is also the call of the times.

Liu Yan is not strict with unqualified officials. What he adopts is to relegate to the lower level for training. There are really many officials who become capable officials after training, and those who are rotten are repeatedly demoted.He is not tolerant to officials who break the law at all. The lightest thing is to go to a certain border to repair the earth. It would be cheaper for those guys to cut them off directly.

The current state of Han is not so short of intellectuals to be officials. This is a common phenomenon after a country has risen. There will be a shortage of people who grow peach trees, but there will never be a shortage of people who pick peaches.

"Ahem..." Lu Yi didn't dare to let Sang Yu "take the rhythm" and quickly changed the subject: "The construction of the new Chang'an is very fast, and it can be completed by next winter at the latest."

New Chang'an will not build city walls, only the Miyagi area needs to have palace walls, and the construction speed is indeed very fast under the overtime work of a large number of laborers.

The Han Dynasty has now completed the expulsion of the Hulu, but Liu Yan has not been enthroned for a long time. He himself seems not too eager, but some people are anxious, not only the officials, but the common people are actually more anxious.

The Zhuxia civilization is a nation that needs a leader. For 2000 years, the need for the emperor has almost penetrated into the bone marrow. I am really not used to the days without the emperor.

There are millions of laborers sweating for the construction of New Chang'an, some of them are from corvee, and more are hired.

Corvée is a kind of obligation, including serving as a soldier and working. In the pre-Qin period, you also need to prepare your own dry food. After the pre-Han period, food and drink were provided by the state, and even some corvee workers had wages (beginning with Liu Che, a good-natured boy).

In the Han Kingdom under the rule of Liu Yan, the people were conscripted into corvée, and only when the period was extended could they get wages. Food and drink were taken from the country as in the early Han Dynasty, but clothes were added. It is still under construction, and the uniforms are uniform, making the diplomatic missions of various countries mistakenly believe that the working people are also members of the army.

The people responsible for building roads are actually like that, but those who build new Chang'an are different. They have already learned that after the city is completed, they can move in and work as their own home.The people who were in charge of repairing the palace city were even more enthusiastic. They had been looking forward to an emperor for an unknown amount of time, knowing that the new Chang'an would be the time for the king to advance to the emperor, and they were working hard.

"It's almost a year faster than expected..." Liu Yan originally planned to spend three years building the new Chang'an, but he didn't know how enthusiastic the people were, so he said, "Don't squeeze people's power. Who did this..." He glanced at the officials with cold eyes.

The people Liu Yan glanced at all looked like they had a clear conscience. They were urging, but they were not squeezing, which can be judged from data such as work-related injuries.

Sang Yu knows that some things don't need to be explained at all, and it is more appropriate to look at the data than a thousand words.He first talked about the data on work-related injuries, and then brought the topic back: "Your Majesty, when it comes to theory, can I say a few more words?"

Recently, Liu Yan has talked about where his "beauty" is more than once. Not one of the central officials is deaf, and they still intend to spread it to more people. Every one of the theories and schools that are still alive is excited.

What Sang Yu was talking about was a routine that existed in all dynasties: "Why doesn't your majesty issue an edict to recruit talents?"

The official name should actually be called "Order of Seeking Talents". The first "Order of Seeking Talents" in history came from Qin Xiaogong, and subsequent kings or heroes of various dynasties who wanted to make a difference have done so.Every time the "Order for Talents" comes out, people with ambition will go to apply for it, and there have been quite a few people with great abilities.

For a moment, Liu Yan was in a daze, not for anything else, but surprised why Sang Yu brought this up.

It has been said that the north has long been a culturally barren land after the ravages of the Hulu, and all educated people fled to the south. If the recruitment order comes out, the south must benefit most. Sangyu, the northern department Isn't one of the leaders going to sit on wax?

"Recruiting talents? Only after Confucianism is respected, the only ones who can be called sages are great Confucians." Liu Yan was more or less motivated, but he had his own worries, and said: "Confucian disciples have lost their original intention of governing the world and benefiting the people, and have become What's the point of summoning a bunch of officials who can only climb up?"

Everyone's expressions were different after hearing this. The generals who thought they were disciples of the military family didn't even hide their laughter. Some people who thought they were legalists also laughed, and only some people who thought they were Confucian scholars looked embarrassed.

"This..." No matter what he was before, Sang Yu became the chief judge of the country anyway, and began to feel that he was a member of the Legalist family, and he was not afraid of causing trouble at all: "All scholars look forward to it like nectar, why doesn't your majesty follow it?"

In fact, Liu Yan now understands that Confucianism has not been pure Confucianism for a long time, especially in the Eastern Han dynasty when politics prevailed. Many, that's why there were so many Confucian scholars in the melee among the princes in the late Han Dynasty, but they didn't do Confucian "good work". Even the Confucianism after the Western Jin Dynasty also went further and further away.

Lu Yi always felt that Sang Yu had a conspiracy, but there was no conspiracy at all.He knows very well that compared to the number of scholars, the northern scholars do not know if there are more than [-]% of the southern scholars.And Sang Yu, who has been suppressing the south, would have such a proposal?If Sang Yu had no conspiracy, he would never believe it.

[As Sang Yu said, the southern gentry focused on calligraphy, poetry and metaphysics, and had little talent in the world...] Thinking of this, Lu Yi subconsciously looked at Wang Xizhi who was sitting in the corner. This talent must be there, but It is Fengya's talent, Wenlue can't govern a county, and martial arts can't make a team of soldiers: [Could it be... Sang Yu wants to let the king see the southern gentry? 】

In fact, there are also scholars who can do things in the south, but too many famous "everyone" belong to elegant people who can only talk. Lu Yi is too clear that Liu Yan only talks about practicality, otherwise Wang Xizhi who was summoned would not be just a writer. Secretary Lang should be a local official like Wang Meng who is released to do practical things.

Liu Yan was also guessing what Sang Yu wanted to do. He recalled the gap between scholars in the North and the South in a very short time. At the same time, he had to think about whether there was any hidden "power" in the North who was going to come out of the mountains, so there was Sang Yu Use the incompetence of the southern gentry to embellish the ability of the "mighty".

"Your Majesty, I agree with the words of the imperial envoy." Ji Chang did not have too many beautiful rhetoric, and said clearly: "Only by thinking broadly can we gather benefits. There are many people who come and have many opinions. The essence that can be taken is the dross that is discarded. "

"That's it..." Liu Yan looked at Wang Xizhi, the imperial literati, and ordered: "The order can be issued."

(End of this chapter)