sweeping the world

Chapter 992 Things Are Getting Interesting
After all, the Han Empire was a country that attacked everywhere. Not to mention how many countries and nations were destroyed, it is an indisputable fact that its territory expanded rapidly.

The newly conquered land is generally under military control by the army. In some places, there are not many waves of resistance from wars, while in other places, riots continue to occur.

However, regardless of whether the resistance is fierce or not, areas under military control have never been so-called calm.

Jurisdictions where there is not much resistance do not mean that they will become the masters of the country if they do not resist. They have to be recorded in the household registration.

Without household registration, they are just sojourners, paying heavier taxes than anyone else, and receiving none of the benefits and treatment they deserve.

In this case, even if they accept to become a member of the Han people, they can tolerate it for a while and bear heavy taxes again and again, but they will not get any reward at all. They will either flee quickly or riot if they dare.

Alien escapes or riots are exactly what the army wants, and they can take up their duties, capture hordes of fugitives and make them slaves, and suppress riots by force to make prisoners of war slaves.

Don’t talk about benevolence, righteousness and morality. Even if there is benevolence, righteousness and morality, it depends on who it is for. Even saints do not practice indiscriminate fraternity. We are just a bunch of rough people.

The world is only so big, and there are only so many lands and resources. If I am stronger than you, it is natural that I should have more. If you don't have the ability to hold on to your own things, don't just squander it.

Purchasing more property for your children and grandchildren is a principle that makes sense no matter where you go.

There are so many principles in the competition between countries and between nations, there are only so many rules: If you have done it, I will do it for you; if you can't do it, I will listen to what you want to say.

Only a fool would make irresponsible remarks when the country is tough and tyrannical to the outside world. They don't even understand the principle of taking more for themselves and less for others. How can they be moral defenders?

"Your Majesty, Zhuxia has been a land of etiquette since ancient times. There is a distinction between Hua and Yi. People of foreign races living in the land governed by Your Majesty are already Your Majesty's subjects."

The speaker was Fan Xuan, a famous Confucianist and a very good painter.

In the forest garden of Miyagi, there is a group of famous or somewhat famous people sitting around. Without exception, they all have amazing or good achievements in some fields.

Most of them are either calligraphers or painters, and a few of them can be called familiar with Confucian classics. A few days ago, they jointly signed a letter to the Ministry of Rites, begging to see Liu Yan.

Chang'an is now the capital of the Han Empire, but anyone with ambitions will choose to live in Chang'an. Later, there were relocation orders based on family background. It can be said that people who were noticed by the central government were forced to move to Chang'an to settle down.

From a location point of view, Chang'an is too far away from Jiankang, not just Jiankang alone, but also the entire south of the Yangtze River. Due to the "clothes crossing to the south", most aristocratic families fled to the south, especially Yangzhou with the largest number. .

Even if it is only for the purpose of keeping the south safe, certain people must not be allowed to stay in the south, and the best choice is to migrate and keep them under their noses.

It’s not that there is no bloodshed due to disrespect for the migration order. Some people are used to it and think that they are living in the era when they can ignore all powers with a reputation. In the end, they paid a heavy price for their own .

Those who should be relocated to Chang'an, those who were not dead or missing, all came, and those who died died, and missing was equal to death. Even the reputation of the old Liu family among literati was to a certain extent.

As long as he didn't have a reputation among the people, Liu Yan wouldn't care what the literary circle thought of him.

If you have talents but don't know how to serve the country, even if you want to benefit the family, you can't do it without the privilege of power.What is knowledge learned for? Is it just for lip service?

In fact, it is like that. Some people are talented and capable, but if they lose the power to open the door to convenience, nothing can be done.I really don’t know whether what they call ability is power or talent.

Not all literati are proud, they study desperately and hard, and at least 99 out of [-] are just to become officials.This is a bit funny, scolding Liu Yan in his mouth or in his heart, but hoping that he can be appreciated so that he can become a member of the system.

Liu Yan only knew who the speaker was and what achievements he had made after being reminded by Wang Meng next to him.

The Fan family is a big family, or a first-class big family. There have been people who have been high officials for several generations, and each generation has at least one famous person. The difference is that the name is passed down to the whole county, the whole county, the whole state, or the whole country.

The person sitting on the left side of Fan Xuan is Dai Kui, and the person on the right side is Liu Bin, and the seats in the same row are all literati of similar rank.

Liu Yan looked at Fan Xuan who was still talking expressionlessly, but his eyes became colder and colder.

When the Ministry of Rituals conveyed the requests of these celebrities, they had to figure out in advance what they were seeking for an interview. They were talking about the prosperity of literature, but they talked about it on the spot.

Fan Xuan didn't play cards according to common sense, but he was so surprised that Lu Yi who accompanied him wanted to stop him several times, and the one who stopped Lu Yi with his eyes was Liu Yan.

As the Son of Heaven, it is not natural for anyone to see him whenever he wants, but he can't be closed-mouthed either. Many famous people in the world jointly ask for an audience, no matter how much they don't want to see them, they have to see them. Otherwise, I don't know what it will be like.

What Liu Yan did not expect was that when these celebrities entered the talks, the first thing they talked about was to fight for treatment for the conquered foreign races.He wanted to hear what the celebrities wanted to fight for the foreigners.

"Zhong Ni said, 'When barbarians enter China, they will come to China. It does not belong to China."

Liu Yan was still expressionless, just seeing different comments from the same visitor, he could see that things might be more complicated.

Compared with Fan Xuan, the difference in reputation between Qian Bao and Fan Xuan is not at 01:30. At the same time, the former has some aspects that have been criticized by the literary circle.

Fan Xuan is a Qingliu, even the emperor of the Sima family refused the invitation to become an official.

Qian Bao responded to the invitation of the emperor of the Sima family to serve as an official. Furthermore, this man had a very special hobby. He not only liked reading, but also especially liked reading history books. In addition to history books, he read miscellaneous books and strange stories, and used the things he saw Come and write your own book.

If the other literati are not convinced by the book, they will at most scold it. The key is that Qian Bao writes a novel, or a novel about gods and monsters. Then he will not only be scolded, but also be thoroughly scolded by some literati. Bottomless contempt.

"I really like "Sou Shen Ji" written by Qing." Liu Yan didn't care about the angry expressions of those literati, and continued with a smile: "Qing must have studied and read "Shan Hai Jing" well?"

"Your Majesty, I am familiar with it." Qian Bao smiled so much that wrinkles formed on his face: "Ordinary people think that the predecessors who wrote "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" should record what they saw and heard outside the region. If ordinary people are not like this With my old body, I really want to go out on a boat and see sights that I have never heard of or seen outside the country.”

Although they are all Confucianists now, they may be onmyojis, novelists, Huang Lao, etc. under the brand of Confucianism. Ganbao began to advertise himself as a novelist in the 11th year of Yuanshuo.

In fact, Gan Bao's fate has changed as history has been changed. Admitting that he is a novelist is just one of them. He would have died in the tenth year of Yuanshuo, but he is still alive and well now.Judging by his ruddy complexion and bright eyes, it should be no problem to live for a few more years.

It should be said that the fate of everyone living within the territory of the Han Empire was changed by Liu Yan.

Not only the living, but also the dead were influenced by Liu Yan.

Broadly speaking, Liu Yan is not only a person who changed the old land of the Han family, he even changed the fate of many people in the distant Europa.

Confucianism has become the only one, and it has annexed many schools of thought, which means that Confucianism has actually become a complex of schools of thought. .This is also the reason why there are so many factions in the Confucian Society, and they have completely contradictory theories.

Confucianism has undergone repeated changes a long time ago. By the end of the Western Jin Dynasty, Confucian disciples were constantly doubting themselves. Entering the Eastern Jin Dynasty, they were moving further and further in the direction of metaphysics.

Liu Yan has never shown any importance to Confucianism, and of course he has not shown any hostility.In his eyes, there are only two types of Confucian scholars, one is those who can only open their mouths, and the other is those who can't even open their mouths.

It's not that Liu Yan looks down on Confucianism, it's that more than [-]% of contemporary Confucian disciples are useless, and the remaining [-]% either wear the skin of Confucian scholars, or simply don't recognize themselves as Confucian scholars from the heart.

Even if the great Confucians in the Western Jin Dynasty did not make any commendable achievements, they still had some achievements in ideology and academics.

After the Eastern Jin Dynasty, only those who surrendered to the barbarians were called Confucian scholars, and those in the south began to be called celebrities.

The Confucian scholars who surrendered to the Hulu lived to prove to the Hulu that they would not show any mercy when killing their comrades. All the celebrities living in the south were either calligraphers, metaphysicians, philosophers... This family and that family were arrested. Those who really want to conquer the Central Plains through the Northern Expedition will be killed. If they can't be killed, their reputation will be ruined.

Biting him to death is to prove that everyone is a waste, not just himself.

If it can't be bitten to death, it proves that the guy who didn't die is a different kind.And there are always very few heterogeneous people, and normal people are the majority.

Throughout the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Confucianism only had one or two shining points, but it is not their fault. Most of the barbarians only believed in force and did not want to listen to more talk.

Those who are willing to listen to Confucian scholars are Tuoba Xianbei, and then Tuoba Xianbei is Sinicized independently.This can be said to be one of the few achievements of Confucianism that can be shown off. Compared with it, it is probably the inheritance of Zhuxia culture, but Zhuxia culture is basically deleted and modified in the hands of Confucianism.

"Your Majesty, I have seen a lot of turmoil among the people recently, and the trend of killing slaves is increasing." Dai Kui is a director of the Ministry of Industry, so he is naturally qualified to call himself a minister.Since he got involved in today's turmoil, it was because of his family background, and other reasons: "The public opinion is raging, and the big man has more than a thousand servants of foreign races. If this continues, disaster may happen."

It's not that Liu Yan likes to talk about "Sou Shen Ji" with Gan Bao, it's that he would rather talk about novels than listen to those people talking about benevolence towards foreigners, for fear that he will vomit if he listens to it, and even wonder if he has the stomach If you don't get angry and kill people, you will kill famous celebrities.

I was definitely out of my mind before I came to talk to Liu Yan about the topic of aliens being human beings, especially when I suggested that Liu Yan should treat everyone equally.

Just now Liu Yan wanted to throw the wine bar on the table at Fan Xuan several times, but he worked hard to endure it.He had to admit that some ministers were right. If they didn't do anything, maybe they wouldn't have to wait for their lifetime to die. Everything they created should be a wedding dress for a foreign race.

Liu Yan had no impression of Dai Kui. Seeing that Dai Kui was not wearing an official robe, he naturally couldn't recognize what rank he was and which department he was an official in.

"Your Majesty..." Wang Meng lowered his voice and introduced: "Dai Kui is the director of the Ministry of Craftsmanship."

Director?That is the fifth rank official, which is not low anymore.It's still a craftsman, that is, a person who has superb skills in at least one technology.

Liu Yan looked at Dai Kui a few more times calmly, and couldn't help but wonder how a really capable fifth-rank official would make such a fuss with a bunch of idlers when he was full?
Every time Dai Kui was glanced at by Liu Yan, he felt like a whole mountain was pressing on him, and he tried his best to keep calm on his face.

"I also heard about the affairs of the people in the palace." Liu Yan glanced at everyone, and his eyes stopped on Dai Kui: "You are the director of the Ministry of Industry, are you Xiu Mu today?"

Unless something is to be promulgated, otherwise Liu Yan will not give any definition to a matter.What he said next can be seen as a warning.

Dai Kui trembled all over.With a respectful expression on his face, he replied that it was Xiu Mu.

"Your Majesty." Liu Tun was smiling all the time. He was dressed in a good body and had a personable temperament, showing what a celebrity looks like: "Your Majesty is destined to be a promising king through the ages, and your kindness will surely spread." Shi Wandai. What Lingsheng (Ganbao) said is right, but if you can also show your kindness to Yidi, it will definitely make your reputation spread farther and longer."

"Yes, Your Majesty." Fan Xuan continued the topic: "Sassanid, which is adjacent to the Han Dynasty, and Rome, which is tens of thousands of miles away, also need to be illuminated by your glory."

It must be admitted that Liu Yan was stunned for a moment.

In contemporary times, except for Liu Yan, the rest of the people call Rome "Daqin", which is the name that was decided at the beginning when the Han people met the Romans.

Liu Yanhui was a little stunned. After realizing how much nonsense these people talked, he finally revealed a little bit of what he wanted to express.

The glory of the Han emperor is not so easy to inherit. Those who are protected will naturally get rid of the cold and enjoy the warmth brought by the sun.But those who are not protected by the emperor will be burned to ashes by the light.

Liu Yan recalled for a while, they talked about alien races, and they also talked about slaves.

So what did they perceive, thinking that they could serve the emperor in this matter?

(End of this chapter)