Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 408 Is there a two-year prince in the world?
"Your Majesty! It's right to leave this matter to the minister!"

"Zhou Chang's old dog will only slander Zhongliang. What can he do? He is old-fashioned and confused. If someone cuts corners, he may not be able to find out!"

Zhang Budo was very excited when he learned that Liu Chang wanted him to replace Zhou Chang to be responsible for the construction of Luoyang.

Zhang Budo never thought too much, just the opposite of Zhang Cang, he wished Liu Chang could give him more things to do.

He is not afraid of being tired, as long as he has the opportunity to perform in front of His Majesty, even if the credit is not worth it!
Looking at Zhang Budo's appearance, Liu Chang probably understood why his mother asked him to take charge of this matter.

Legalists are usually more rigid and can’t be too flexible in their work, and things like engineering need someone who is a little more rigid and rigorous, and this kind of person does things and cuts corners. Don’t think about it, just worry. This guy will go a little too far.

Liu Chang couldn't help but said: "Luoyang doesn't need to build such a large-scale construction as Chang'an, as long as you can store food, the palace is built enough to accommodate me, and the city can accommodate hundreds of officials. Done, don't abuse the people's power, don't delay Nong Sang, don't make the sky angry and resentful!"

"Your Majesty, don't worry, how can I do something that will damage your reputation?"

Speaking of which, after being released from the outside world, the big bosses of the legal family are still very good to the common people. These people are sharpening their knives to the noble and powerful, but they are quite good to ordinary people. The cruel officials in these rumors are leaving When the time comes, the wealthy clan celebrate with their crowns, while the commoners will send each other off along the road. In some places, they will spontaneously build sacrificial halls for them to worship them after they pass away.

Liu Chang nodded and said, "I know your wife is about to give birth, so don't rush to Luoyang, just wait for your child to be born."

"No problem, Your Majesty, even if I stay, I can't help her give birth to a child."

"No, it's better to wait until the birth is over."

"Your Majesty's benevolence! Your Majesty's heart of benevolence and righteousness"

"Okay, don't brag for now. Today Zhou Chang asked you about business and Zhou, but you didn't answer. What did you want to say at the time?"

Liu Chang asked curiously.

Zhang Budo pursed his lips and said immediately, "I said that Your Majesty is the evil man of the Shang Dynasty, Meng Ben of the Zhou Dynasty, Wuhuo of the Qin State, and Yang Youji of the Chu State!"

Liu Chang was stunned for a moment, and then said: "I know these people! When I was young, my eldest father often held me to tell me stories, and he liked to talk about these people. My father always disagreed. , saying that they are not really real men, I have once."

Liu Chang said for a while, then suddenly stopped and sighed.

Zhang Budo hurriedly said: "The emperor must be very happy to learn of your bravery."

The great emperor that Zhang Budo mentioned is also Liu Chang's eldest father. His posthumous title is "big". In fact, Liu Chang quite likes this posthumous title, but his grandfather is different from his grandfather. He is very fond of him, and it is impossible for him to grab the posthumous title of "big", but this "high"
Zhang Budo was talking to Liu Chang about his grand ideals when Lu Lu walked in and interrupted their chat.

"His Majesty!"

"Shang Fang ordered to see you!"

"Chen Tao?"

Liu Chang asked Zhang Budo to go back first and Chen Tao to come in.

Chen Tao was actually quite neutral in the court, and even in the disputes between schools, he was very neutral. After all, he was not Qi Mo, and he was definitely not an opponent of Confucianism and Taoism in this regard. Under the influence of Liu Chang, the entire Mo family They have already started to move fast in Qin Mo's direction, gradually giving up their political propositions and starting to focus on their weapons.

Several new propositions they have recently put forward are all about utensils, the reuse of utensils for the country, and the emphasis on craftsmen and technology. This has no academic differences with other schools of thought. In the eyes of many scholars, the Mohist school has perished. , after all, he couldn't even hold his own political opinions, and he completely became a craftsman of the emperor's family. He talked about utensils all day, not even a school, but a group of craftsmen gathered together.

When Chen Tao was invited by Uncle Fuqiu to go to Taixue, some Confucian scholars mocked him and said, "We are here to talk about academics, and we have no use for your place."

All sects no longer regard the Mohist school as a school, and completely ignore it.

Of course, Chen Tao has long since lost his recklessness. Now, even in the face of such ridicule, he just answered calmly: "If academia can't be applied to reality, why bother to study it?"

Huang Lao was overjoyed and hurriedly invited this person to his side.

In fact, Huang Lao has always emphasized practicality. They oppose the Confucian practice of poor first and poor scriptures. They think that it is not enough to cultivate yourself. Self-cultivation is for the purpose of governing the country. If you use it in the governance of the country, then you are useless and useless!

And this new generation of Mohists has completely become a pragmatist, and many ideas coincide with Huang Lao.

Besides, Confucianism hates Moism so much, and Huang Lao just doesn't like Confucianism either.

Chen Tao boldly stated many of his ideas in the exchange of knowledge, focusing on practicality, craftsmanship, technology, etc., he retained Mozi's ideas of non-music, frugal use, funeral, and honoring the virtuous, thus forming a new concept. A set of Mohist theories.

Except for Huang Lao, there is no other school that sees his new ideas.

Last time, because of Wu Zui's incident, Chen Tao was implicated and was almost killed.

He was implicated because of three aspects. The first is that he has a lot of alchemists under his command. The second is that Shang Fang's current nature has changed. He often conducts various experiments and is mistaken for witchcraft. Because of the Mo family, a ghost, right?There are ghosts, right?Come, send you to see the ghosts!
Fortunately, he was deeply loved by the prince Liu An, and Liu An came forward to keep this one.

Not only the Mo family, but also the Huang-Lao School, were also greatly implicated in the last Wu Zui case.

Each school has its own way of divination, and Huang Lao has always had more fortune-tellers.

For example, there is a Sima Jizhu in Chang'an, who is proficient in divination. Whether it is "Yi" or "The Book of Yellow Emperor", he is very proficient. As a result, the bad thing is that he is very proficient in this matter. He was immediately taken away as an alchemist, and he has not been released so far. He is still in the Tingwei prison. As for why he was not let go, it is because he is really an alchemist and lives in Chang'an on weekdays. divination.

Shang Fang's alchemists can come out because they have "organizations", and wild alchemists like Sima Jizhu obviously don't have this treatment.

Liu Chang quite liked that Chen Tao came to see him, because every time Chen Tao came to find him, he would bring himself some surprises.

He never came empty-handed.

Sure enough, when Chen Tao walked in, his clothes were very messy, but his face was full of smiles.

"It's done?"

"Yes! Your Majesty! It's done!!"

Chen Tao couldn't help laughing.

Liu Chang got up immediately, followed Chen Tao and went out, the two chatted while walking, Lu Lu followed behind them, confused, Chen Tao said seriously: "After improving according to the method envisaged by Your Majesty, it is really great. To make it, choose a salty source, use an iron cone to dig a well as big as a bowl, connect it with four or five bamboo poles to make it grow, use a bamboo branch to tie the iron cone into it, and chisel it in the bamboo.”

"The skill of the casing can penetrate dozens of feet."

Lu Lu has been following Liu Chang all these days, and he knows what Liu Chang and Chen Tao are doing.Previously, someone in Shangfang had improved the Yanjing and wanted to improve it on the basis of Li Bing, but it failed. Liu Chang learned about this and went to Shangfang in person, chatted with Chen Tao for a whole night, and left a lot of drawings. This is probably something to do with the salt well.

Although he knew what they were doing, Lu Lu couldn't understand a lot of what they said.

It's just that Tianzi and Chen Tao look very excited.

"Okay, great!"

The two got into the car and drove out of the city.

Experiments like this are definitely not possible in Chang'an.

The experiment conducted by Chen Tao this time is the improvement of the brine mining technology in large shallow wells. Li Bing of the Qin Dynasty discovered brine during the construction of the Dujiangyan project, and then "Crossing Guangdu Salt Wells" opened the prelude to the history of well salt development in China. , and the craftsmen of Dahan have always wanted to improve, but the technology can never reach this level.

In order to make a breakthrough, Chang Liu personally designed several of the most important parts, such as the valve designed by Chang Liu, which will play a huge role in the drilling of salt wells. Chang Liu doesn't know why, but he seems to be right These things are very skilled, and there are always a lot of impressions about these things in mind when designing hands-on.

Chen Tao took Liu Chang to the edge of their newly dug salt well.

Lu Lu couldn't understand it, he just watched from a distance.

Just as Liu Chang and Chen Tao were happily talking about something, Lu Lu actually saw another six-horse horse-riding Tianzi frame.

Lu Lu wiped his eyes and saw that the carriage had stopped, and a few stubbys jumped off the carriage and ran towards it.

They rushed a few steps, and then they noticed the surrounding soldiers, Lu Lu not far away, and even the emperor in the distance.

Liu An exclaimed and turned to flee.

However, it is not easy to go.

Soon, the group of five stood in front of Chang Liu, each with their heads bowed and pitiful.

Liu Chang's eyes swept across them one by one, and finally fell on Liu Xian.

"Xian, I know what kind of virtue they are, but I always think you are the most well-behaved, why did you start making fun of them?"

Liu Xian blushed, lowered his head, and was speechless in shame.

Liu Qi suddenly asked, "Father Zhong, did you really lift a cow and slam it on the ground?"

"Hahaha, yes!"

"Father Zhong's divine power! None of us have seen it, Father Zhong, please tell us about it."

"Okay, at that time, I."

Liu Chang reacted immediately and scolded: "We'll talk about these things later! Now it's about you going out of the city without permission! Who allowed you to go out of the city?!"

Liu An answered cautiously, "It's the eldest mother."

Liu Chang stopped abruptly and asked again, "Even though she allows you to go out, you stole my car!"

"The car is also given by the big mother"

Liu Chang was silent for a moment, then scolded: "A loving mother is a loser!"

"But Father, you are the son, and I am the grandson."

"I'll let you talk back!!!!"

No matter what they say, these Shuzi will still be happy because of the success of Yanjing. Although no one except Liu An knows the use of this thing, they are very happy when they hear that Dahan has done something again.Liu Chang stroked his chin and chatted with Chen Tao about the promotion. Liu An listened very seriously.

"Father."

"what?"

"You set up the Tian Lun Palace, let the Confucians discuss, and let the princes sort out the classics of Huang Lao, only this Mo school, you have the most credit, but you have no reward. What you are doing now is not the same as what you taught me."

Liu Chang glanced at him disdainfully, and then said to Chen Tao, "I want to raise all the craftsmen involved in this matter by one rank!"

"In addition, I want to ask all places to recommend the most capable craftsmen, let them come to Shangfang, upgrade their titles, and let them all work under your command."

"Father! You are a reward to Shang Fang, but not to the Mo family!"

"Then what do you think we should do?"

"Please set up a mansion specializing in the study of the ink classics, and call on the ink practitioners in the world to study it."

Liu Chang squinted his eyes. The changes in the Mo family were deliberately promoted by him. He didn't need a Mo family who shouted and loved non-attack every day. He needed a Mo family who could do practical things and bring him more surprises. An's words conflicted with Liu Chang's plan.

Almost all of the propositions of the Mohist school are the opposite of those of the Confucianists, commonly known as naysayers.

You say kiss, I say love.If you say thick burial, I will say slender burial.You say ritual music, I'll say festival music.If you say fate, I will say non-fate.You say righteous warfare, I say non-offensive.You say far away ghosts and gods, I will explain ghosts and gods.If you say the difference between upper and lower, I will say that there is no distinction between high and low.

This resulted in a very poor relationship between Confucianism and Mohism, to the point of quarrelling when they met.

However, he believed that the emperor should come down to farm with the people and support his own early wzfzy farm family. He was also a mortal enemy with Confucianism.

Confucianism does not seem to have a very good relationship with Fa, with Huang Lao, and with all theories.

It is said that at the Jixia Academy in Qi State, Confucianism was often besieged by various schools of thought.

However, these propositions of the Mo family are not used by Liu Chang yet.

"This matter, you can go back to the palace to talk about it."

Liu Chang bent down and rubbed Liu An's head, taking this matter over.

On the way back, Liu Chang asked five Shuzi to sit with him.

At this time, Liu Chang was a little rude.

"Shuzi. Do you know what you were talking about just now?!"

Facing Father's questioning, Liu An said calmly, "Father, what I said about studying the Classics of Ink Painting is not about "Shang Xian", "Universal Love", etc. What I said is to let They came to study the "Jing", "Jing Shuo", "Da Qu" and so on."

Hearing Liu An's explanation, Liu Qi snickered in a low voice and said to Liu Xiang who was beside him:

"How can Father Zhong understand what he said."

Liu Xiang also looked blank at the moment, and nodded in a trance.

But then, Liu Chang said thoughtfully: "You want them to come to study ink debate."

"Yes, Father, you know this truth. The reason why the Mo family can make so many things is because of Mo Bian. Now you want them to keep making them, but you neglect Mo Bian. This is not right. "

"What you said also makes sense. It's okay to forget the scriptures. As the scriptures say, the size can be taken. In addition, there are prepared chapters, which can also be used."

Liu Chang and Liu An actually discussed it.

This scene gave the Shuzi a great shock.

what's the situation? ?Why did Father Zhong start to say things that he didn't understand? ?
Liu Chang didn't beat Liu An again, and after returning to the palace, he left thoughtfully.

After Liu Chang left, several people immediately surrounded him, and Liu Xiang asked, "What did you just say?"

"It's just a few chapters in the Mohist books."

"How could Father Zhong know?"

"Oh, those chapters are all about debate, numbers, strength, light, etc., so my father is very interested. The rest of the chapters are probably what I knew when I was studying the art of war."

The chapters that Liu An mentioned were about mathematics, mechanics, optics, philosophy, logic, optics, etc. What he meant was not that the Mohists should gather to study political ideas, but to study these things.Liu An has many hobbies, and he is basically good at these things he likes. In history, there have been thousands of sages around him. These people are capable people from various fields, but they are very good. I admire Liu An's talent.

Liu An took the lead in writing the book. If it wasn't for the rebellion, he would not be King Li of Huainan, but Liu Anzi, the master of the Huang-Lao School. Even, for a long time, his book was called "Liu Anzi". , just like "Han Feizi".

Descendants have a lot of conjectures about him, and there are even rumors that he became an immortal, and even his chickens and dogs became immortals.

Of course, this chicken and dog ascends to heaven, it is very likely that the chicken and dog ascends (bu) to heaven (liu) in the physical sense after the failure of the rebellion.

Whenever Liu An told his brothers about these things, these husbands always looked at him enviously.

Of course, not all of them are husband and wife. Liu Qi's knowledge is not bad. Although Liu Qi doesn't like reading, he has an excellent memory. He can remember many, many years ago things clearly, including the content of the book, just take a look It can be remembered that Liu Xian is also alright. He has read a lot of books and can answer them, but Liu Xiang and Liu Wei are not as good as their father Zhong!
"Brothers, we were young in the past and could not be successful, and were always looked down upon by others. Now that we have grown up, shouldn't we do something big?"

Liu An asked seriously.

Liu Wei was shocked.

"An! You've only been a prince for two years, can't you wait?"

(End of this chapter)