Father Han Gaozu

Chapter 428 The Merit of the Son of Heaven

Now that he received Zhou Chang's full support, Chang Liu quickly started writing and wrote the mathematics textbook in person. As for Liu An, he was also called over to continue to write the other three sets of textbooks.

Liu An never thought that an article of that level would be recognized by hundreds of officials? ?

That can't be regarded as an article, and there is no way to determine what type he belongs to with today's classification.

Liu An also belongs to the category of broken jars, you can say whatever you want, and I will write whatever you want.

In Liu Chang's fabrication, four sets of teaching materials were quickly formed.

Just when Liu An walked out of the Hall of Houde, breathing the fresh air outside, glad that he would not be tortured any more, a few Shuzi surrounded him, Liu Xiang looked at Liu An with admiration, and praised: "I have been We all know that you are very literate, but I didn't expect that your level has reached the level of enlightenment for the world. It's amazing! I read your article, and it's really well written. Who said that our Liu family doesn't have everyone? You are!"

Liu Xiang's expression is very sincere.

If he hadn't known that this guy was semi-literate, Liu An would have almost thought that this fellow was mocking him.

He asked bitterly, "Do you even know that?"

"Yeah, when my grandfather is away, his concubines talk about these things all day long! He even asked me specifically, saying that he wanted to read the original text. The eldest mother has read your article and is full of praise for you, saying that you Something like a unicorn."

"You are famous in the palace!"

Liu Xiang said excitedly, but Liu An's expression became more and more desperate. He stretched out his hand and rubbed his eyes forcefully.

Liu Qi chuckled lightly. As a somewhat normal one among the vertical sons, he could see Liu An's embarrassment, and he said seriously: "Why are you ashamed? Laozi's book is placed in front of Xiang, and he disdains it. Gu, it was used to make fire and eat meat, but your article, Xiang actually sat down and read it carefully, after reading it for three or four days, he even memorized the reasoning in it, isn't this considered learning?"

"I feel that your book is more useful than The Analects. It can enlighten the world, and even people like Xiang can read it with relish. This is everyone!"

However, Liu An disagreed, "Anyone like me can write an article like me, but the Analects of Confucius is not something that ordinary people can write. How can it be compared?"

Liu Qi lacked some respect for sages and the like in his bones. He smiled and said, "Don't care who wrote it, it's best to be useful."

They are both outstanding disciples in the Han clan, and their personalities are very different.

Liu An originally thought that if he left the palace, the nightmare would be over.

However, the news of the new book has been rumored.

None of the second-generation sages that Liu An met when he went out did not know about this matter. It seems that this matter did cause quite a stir.Liu An is a little different. From Zhou Zuoche's mouth, Liu An learned the truth of the matter. It turned out that it was the sages who gathered in the palace that day who made this matter a complete mess.

Of course, these unscrupulous sages are not comparable to the real Changan sages. However, they are all masters of various schools. After the embellishment of Gongyangshou, the war has been directed in another direction. Gongyangshou proposed the past. The form of the article is no longer in line with the current situation of unification, and it must be innovated!
This has caused even more controversy, and today's newspapers of various factions are arguing about this matter.

Mainly in the field of literature, of course, it also involves ideological disputes within Confucianism.

Since the appearance of newspapers, the common people of Han have become more and more fond of listening to these gossips, especially the debates among them. A new profession has even appeared, which is to tell others about newspapers. However, they dare not tell about temples and palaces. Newspapers can only be about the newspapers of various factions.

After the prosperous and prosperous Dahan, the people gradually had the need for entertainment. At this moment, the Dahan, who is as energetic as the rising sun, also gave birth to many entertainment activities.People sit in restaurants, and the restaurant owner specially invites musicians to play. Because many music is aristocratic music, the common people do not understand, so they simplified it, and there are many common folk music and songs.

Even some less formal entertainment venues appeared in various places, which aroused Wang Tianqi's vigilance.

Wang Tianqi has written several times, hoping to make a standardized management of these industries to prevent chaos in Chang'an.

In addition to singing and dancing, there are also many large-scale sports activities, such as riding and archery, vertical chariots, cuju, horns, swords, chess competitions, and there are also boat races in the south.

Among them, Cuju is the most popular. There have even been gambling activities. Some dignitaries gathered to watch the game and placed bets on it. Ordinary people are also willing to watch. The most popular entertainment at the moment.

Because Dahan is fond of martial arts, many entertainment activities are born out of military training, so Dahan Temple does not prohibit these entertainment activities.

Not only is it not forbidden, a certain King Li also ordered the construction of these entertainment venues in various places, and also proposed to let each place select talented people and compare them.

Liu Chang is also a master of Cuju himself. With his excellent physical fitness, agile skills, and his temper to beat his opponents when he loses, he quickly became the invincible ball king in Chang'an, and no one could beat him.

The ministers hated Liu Chang's idea of ​​attaching importance to play.

General Qin Tong once wrote a letter to persuade His Majesty to play less and be more diligent in government.

But Liu Chang refuted him, "The people of my big man not only have to eat, eat, wear shirts, but also have to have fun, not only to live, but also to make them live happily!"

Many ministers thought that such an entertainment atmosphere would destroy the big man, but only Chang Liu disagreed.

In less than ten years, Liu Chang completely changed the style of Dahan's painting.

The original style of Dahan's painting was similar to that of the Qin state. It was depressing, heavy, and rigorous. When people walked on the road, they had to line up. There were no idlers on the streets, and they didn't even think about entertainment activities. Those people were just like Daqin. Like the gears of the machine, endless work, resting at home or ploughing the land, and war and corvée after the busy farming season.

There are no entertainment buildings in Chang'an City. The people in the restaurants are all eating quietly, and the restaurants are not allowed to gather and drink, and this is all government-run, so ordinary people don't even think about coming in.

With a dead air, with a chilling air, the people who are farming, when they hear the bird call, can alertly form a formation, and switch from the dual identities of farmers and soldiers at any time.

But today's big men are full of laughter and laughter, the streets are full of people, and the streets are full of the clamor of vendors, and the singing can be heard faintly. A few children run by playing Cuju, and the liquor store is full of drunkards, Liu Chang. abolished the crime of drinking together
The style of painting changed directly from Qin.

This bustling city and the bustling ancient style of painting are very ordinary to Liu Chang, but for those ministers who have witnessed the Qin state, and even the local old people, it is a bit too shocking.

The change of social atmosphere has affected literature.

The reform proposed by Gongyangshou is based on this great change in atmosphere.

Liu An flipped through the newspaper in his hand, and his expression gradually became serious.

He put away the newspaper and went to his teacher's mansion.

Sima Jizhu greeted him with great enthusiasm. The old man's attitude towards Liu An and the other disciples was completely different. When the two of them sat down, Sima Jizhu couldn't help asking about the teaching materials. Those things, Sima Ji Zhu also read it, but he couldn't imagine that it was written by his own disciple, but it was more like what His Majesty wrote.

"Cough, I'm just a ghostwriter."

"It's mainly your Majesty's dictation."

Sima Jizhu nodded, "No wonder, these articles are completely different from the style you usually write, I just thought that it was a big move for His Majesty to dictate, and this made the scholars all over the world boiling. Now, many people have begun to write new poems, and the new poems, each sentence is five-character, and they call themselves five-character poems.”

"Some of them are not bad, but they are criticized by everyone, thinking that they are not suitable for poetry, but the more criticized, the more and more such poems are written."

"Not only poetry, but also several novelists have compiled a book "Said of Yi Yin", mainly about Yi Yin, adding a lot of folk rumors, and a lot of fabrications, Shi Jia is angry, thinking that they are not just fabrications Allusions, but directly distort the sages, most people in the world are against it, but they put this book in the back of the bookstore, and many young scholars bought it to watch, and those few people became rich because of it.”

"Furthermore"

Liu An was already stunned.

He listened carefully to Sima Jizhu's words, and couldn't help but say, "Actually, this was not driven by my father alone."

"After the founding of the Han Dynasty, the governance of the people was very relaxed, and the people gradually became richer and had many desires. Therefore, the entertainment that originally belonged to the wealthy family was gradually decentralized to the people, and the people also began to listen to music and began to sing. Playing Cuju, as for literature, it would have been influenced by the thinking of the time, and the change from the bottom to the top will bring changes to the literature sooner or later, my father just advanced the process.”

"That's amazing too."

"Holy Son of Heaven, Holy Son of Heaven, this holy word is not wrong."

"The Son of Heaven is going to open up a new world. It's a fundamentally new world. It's not physical, but its role is even greater."

The two chatted, but Liu An agreed with this change, just like Liu Chang.

"When I studied with Liuhou, Liuhou once told me that power is better than currency. The currency is now circulating faster and faster, the people have more places to spend, and the taxes of the big man can also be It’s a good thing for the big man to get more money. If every household stays at home, there is no money in their hands, and the merchants everywhere can’t make any money, then it is not good for the big man.”

While the two were chatting, Chang Liu was considered to have completed this whole set of courses.

Not only Wen and Shu, but Liu Chang even set up a special course for shooting.

Among them are some simple military drills, Cuju, horns and other activities.

In the textbook of mathematics, he also arranged a lot of fun things, no longer cold lectures, such as addition and subtraction, but taking fruit as an example, trying to make it easier for children to understand.

Zhou Chang was very satisfied with these, stroked his gray beard and nodded to Liu Chang.

At that moment, Chang Liu couldn't tell who was working for whom.

It is not only Zhou Xiang who is satisfied, Zhang Xiang is also very satisfied.

Zhang Budo made an objective evaluation of the textbooks compiled by the emperor.Tell everyone that you are a pure passer-by and say something fair.

Then, he made the following evaluation:

"Ten Analects of Confucius and Tao Te Ching can't compare to one page of this book!!"

Such objective remarks naturally caused the ministers to be very excited, their faces flushed with excitement, and their whole bodies were trembling.

"Your Majesty, this book is truly the number one strange book in the world! The divine book of enlightenment, if Uncle Sun Tong could have read it at the beginning, the county school may have been completed and easy to understand by now, and I am planning to use this teaching material for my daughter. enlightened"

"But your daughter hasn't turned a year old yet."

"It's mainly the merit of Your Majesty."

Liu Chang waved his hand, interrupting Zhang Wuxuan's flattery.

Liu Chang said earnestly: "Enlightenment is a major event, and it can't be perfunctory. If it is true that the county school can be spread across every county in the Han Dynasty, I will be considered a bit of credit. When I meet my father in the future, I also have something to say. Not to be squeamish”

Zhang Budo was stunned for a moment, and asked in astonishment, "What are you talking about, Your Majesty?"

"Since His Majesty ascended the throne, he has defeated the Xiongnu, killed Modun, recovered the land of Henan, defeated the thieves in Hexi, swept away the Western Regions, defeated the remnants of Donghu, took over the land of Liaodong, conquered Korea, Fuyu, opened the land of Lelang, and pacified the land without bloodshed. In Nanyue, one person killed the king of Dian, causing the southwest to surrender."

"His Majesty's heavy industry, personally made spinning wheels, improved agricultural tools, reused Shangfang, papermaking, printing, gunpowder, salt wells, vehicles and ships can't wait to dismantle his palace and give it to Shangfang for research funds."

"Your Majesty is devoted to farming, exempting oral and calculating taxes, taking [-] percent of the land rent, returning food to the corvée in various places, distributing winter clothes and farm implements, lending cattle and livestock to the people, encouraging the people to reclaim the land, and using the frontier troops to settle the fields. Give land to peasants who have no land."

"Your Majesty loves the virtuous, sets up enlightenment studies, Taixue, Guoxue, and county studies. Your Majesty promotes loyal and good people, punishes misbehavior, reuses many talents, puts them in the most suitable place, and supervises their behavior. The world's officials are clear and bright. Don’t dare to make trouble, the people will not do evil, last year only 430 people were sentenced to death in the whole country!”

"Your Majesty loves the people, pardoned the vassals of the world, gave them land, lifted all restrictions on the people, allowed them to communicate normally, and abolished many criminal laws and corporal punishments."

"His Majesty repaired roads, built cities, opened canals, and fortified the Great Wall. He established a unified language, fabricated mathematical works, issued a unified currency, a unified track, and standardized language."

"His Majesty set up a medical clinic so that the poor in the world could afford medical treatment, set up a bookstore so that the common people could read books, set up newspapers, and spread the culture of various factions."

"His Majesty has opened the Tianlu Pavilion's collection of books for the people of the world to watch, allowing them to keep books privately, read and transcribe them."

"Your Majesty banned the restrictions on merchants, allowed them to do business freely, and allowed them to wear good clothes, ride in cars, and eat good meals."

"Your Majesty banned many useless and cumbersome sacrifices, and strictly controlled the winds of ghosts and gods in the local area."

"Your Majesty has abolished the crime of slander and allowed the people of the world to express their views. Your Majesty prohibits mass burials, and the style of opening funerals. Your Majesty attaches great importance to culture and education.

"And the most important thing is that your majesty is still young and strong now, and your majesty's merits, even if I stand here for three days, there is no way to finish it, but majesty says that he has no credit?? These are the credits, hundreds of them. If Yao and Shun are tied together, it is not as good as Your Majesty! If one day, our monarchs and ministers can go to Taiyi together and meet Emperor Gao, for personal reasons, you should bow to Emperor Gao, and if you are discussing merit, he should bow to you. !!!”

"Hahaha~~~~"

Liu Changda laughed.

Zhang Budo was very serious, and he didn't mean to be playful at all.

"Your Majesty is an emperor through the ages, and there has never been someone like His Majesty!!!"

"If you don't tell me, I don't even know that I have so much credit. You say that, I feel a lot better in my heart. Next time, if my mother scolds me again, I will call you over to refute!"

Zhang Budo is not afraid of the queen mother. He is the only ruthless man in the whole dynasty who dares to ride on the head of the queen mother's favorite and put the festival in his hand into others' mouths.

He is not afraid of drinking, because he is not afraid of dying for the emperor at all, and being able to die for His Majesty is perhaps the most anticipated and desired way to die.

Liu Chang got up and moved his muscles.

"Don't talk nonsense, let's go, go to the shipyard, the car and boat are ready, there is no snow, no ice today, it should be able to go into the water and see if this thing works!"

"only!!!"

At this moment, Tang Guo was also affected by the wind and snow.

In a village in Tang country, Zhaoping was stooping, cleaning the snow in the courtyard.

Not far away, his wife was pounding rice, and Shang Fang made a pedal-powered rice pounding tool. This tool was quickly popularized in various places because of its labor saving. Now even an old lady can easily do heavy physical work such as pounding rice. At this moment, it is really hard work, because the big man has a punishment for women, that is, let her go to pound rice.

But Shang Fang used his own technology to break the law of Dahan, and pounding rice was no longer so laborious.

"Why can't this door be closed again??"

Zhaoping pushed it a few times, the door creaked, and a few small heads appeared in the inner room.

"Father! Do you want us to help?"

"Go back! What are you doing out on such a cold day?!"

Zhaoping's words were harsh, but his face was smiling and kind. The children were not afraid of him, but they just started playing again.

Just when Zhaoping was laboriously repairing the wooden door, a person walking in the distance stopped.

The man was carrying some firewood and appeared to have just returned from cutting firewood.

Seeing the old man squatting in front of the door, the man put down the firewood and walked forward with a smile.

"Father! I'll help you!"

Zhaoping smiled and raised his head, the tortured face did not scare the person in front of him, because the man in front of him also had signs of torture.

Zhao Ping did not reject his kindness, the man quickly repaired it, and opened and closed the door a few times before clapping his hands.

Zhaoping looked at him suspiciously, how could this man become more familiar the more he looked at it?

"Why do I seem to have seen you?"

"What do you call it?"

"This old man, you can just call me Ge."

"grid??"

Zhao Ping nodded thoughtfully, "I haven't heard of it, and I haven't eaten yet, have you? We made dinner at home, why don't we go together?"

The man shook his hand and said with a smile, "Hahaha, the children at home are still waiting for me, I miss them so much, let's visit another day!"

Looking at the distant figure, Zhaoping didn't think much about it, he turned around and entered the room with a smile.

In the warm inner room, the three children were playing, and on the side table, the mist from the mutton soup slowly rose.

Zhaoping laughed.

so good.

(End of this chapter)