I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 365 Build walls high, store grain widely, and slowly become king

In the original historical timeline, the Jianyuan New Deal launched by Zhao Wan and Wang Zang was undoubtedly vigorous and mighty;
The Jianyuan New Deal, which lasted for three years, did once make the inside and outside of the Chang'an court a new look, bursting out with a little vitality.

But in this timeline, it is obvious that "pleasure" is greater than "use", or that the Jianyuan New Deal, which is only for a moment of pleasure, but does not consider the consequences at all, follows the head of the emperor's victory like a rattle, and it seems The autumn wind quietly recedes like fallen leaves.

——The Jianyuan New Deal was strangled in the cradle by the joint efforts of the Empress Dowager Dou and the Son of Heaven Sheng, his grandfather and grandson.

The lives of Zhao Wan and Wang Zang, two "Contemporary Heroes of Confucianism" who were strangled at the same time—either physical life or political life.

By the way, even Confucianism, a school with a lot of ill-fated fate and people who really don't have much emotion, was ticked off by Liu Sheng in front of the whole world.

It has to be admitted that with the only slight advantage — teaching without discrimination, Confucianism has been able to occupy an indispensable and important position in today's Han academic circles.

Liu Sheng once roughly estimated that by the end of the sixth year of Emperor Xiaojing Liu Qi, among the more than 6 million people of the Han family, there were about [-] cultural people who could meet the requirements of "writing and reading" and could do some record work. about.

In other words, in today's Han family, on average, out of every 490 people, only one literate intellectual can be found, and the remaining [-] nine are almost all purely illiterate.

For such a situation, Liu Sheng, as a posterity, was of course shocked;

After the investigation, I feel longing and nostalgia for the compulsory education of future generations, and feel extremely desperate for the high cost of compulsory education in today's era.

Liu Sheng made a calculation;

If according to the standards of the new era of later generations, every school-age child is guaranteed to receive compulsory education between the ages of seven and 15, then the Chang'an court will spend nearly [-] yuan on every Han child.

Even the [-] yuan has been considered a budget that can reduce the cost of teaching materials after the technologies such as writing paper and engraving printing are mature.

If you don’t consider these things, let’s not talk about compulsory education—even to enlighten children, Liu Sheng has to mobilize officials all over the world to copy bamboo slips by hand for three to fifty years.

In addition, Liu Sheng also had to consider the blow to vulnerable small peasant families caused by school-age children receiving education out of production.

Even ignoring all other factors, such as social influence and impact on farmers' families, the average education budget of [-] yuan per person alone can make Liu Sheng daunted by the compulsory education in this era.

——Now there are more than five million households and more than 3000 million people in the Han family!

Even if it is calculated according to "every family has only one child": 500 million children, each child is 350 yuan, which is [-] million yuan!

What concept?
The agricultural tax of the Han family last year was converted into money, which was only 25 million yuan!

An oral tax of [-] yuan per dime is just over [-] yuan!

Adding up the taxes and taxes, the Han family's financial income for the whole year last year was only 35 million yuan, which was exactly one-tenth of the '350 million'.

Even if calculated on the basis of [-] yuan per child per year, the financial income of the Han family for a whole year is not enough for all the children in the world to study for a year.

What's more, the [-] yuan per year and the total of [-] yuan in nine years are Liu Sheng's most conservative estimate. "Each family has only one child", which is almost impossible.

Through another reference, it is actually possible to judge more intuitively what the concept of 350 million yuan is in this era.

——During the reign of Liu Sheng's grandfather, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen of the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Xiaojing of the Han Dynasty, Liu Sheng's father, they were called the rule of Wenjing by later historians.

In the original history, in addition to the substantial improvement of people's livelihood and the people's livelihood, the most brilliant and most talked-about achievement of Wenjing's rule was that the two emperors successively relayed and borrowed raw food to save money for the treasury of the Han family. He raised a huge amount of wealth as military expenses for the decisive battle with the Huns.

So how much is this money?

Some time ago, Tao Qing, Marquis of Kaifeng, 'retired from illness', and Liu She, the Shaofu, was worshiped by Liu Sheng as prime minister;
Since he was promoted directly from the Shaofu to the prime minister, instead of following the default route of internal history-censor doctor-prime minister step by step, after Liu She became prime minister, in order to convince the government and the public, he had to show off his political achievements .

So what are Liu She's political achievements—his achievements in his tenure in the Shaofu?

——From the first year of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen to the ninth year of Emperor Xian Xiaojing, during this 33-year event, the 230 million yuan accumulated in the Shaofu and the official warehouses all over the world are simply unclear. of food reserves.

In the historical materials preserved by later generations, the internal funds of the Shaofu under the rule of Wenjing were recorded by historians in this way.

The ropes that stringed the money were rotten, and the copper coins were scattered all over the place, but they couldn't be picked up, so they could only pile up a mountain of money indiscriminately;
The old rice in the granary was black and rotten, but before anyone found out, the new rice was sent into the warehouse again.

It wasn't until the warehouse couldn't hold the grain that the warehouse officials discovered the old rice that had been stored for decades;

Please play the imperial court, get permission to pour all the rotten old rice into the river, and actually cut off the river...

In order not to cut off the river, it can only be poured into the river bit by bit, and it takes several months to be busy...

Knowing this—understanding that Emperor Taizong Xiaowen and Xian Xiaojing successively relayed power, and created the "Wenjing Rule", and only saved 230 million yuan and enough food for war, it is not difficult to find that the previous '350 Tens of millions of money', what is the concept.

——The wealth accumulated during the Wenjing Reign is not enough for a generation to receive nine-year compulsory education!

Just one generation is not enough...

Once you understand this, the conclusion will come naturally: there is no essential difference between doing compulsory education in the feudal era and doing mushroom eggs in the slavery era—it is all nonsense.

So Liu Sheng accepted the reality.

Today's Han family has a population of more than 3000 million, but there are only more than 6 barely qualified intellectuals;
Liu Sheng is very reluctant to admit the ratio of [-] in [-], but he can only accept this reality.

The reason why Confucianism has such a pivotal position in the academic world of the Han Dynasty today is closely related to these 6 people.

——Among the 6 people, at least 3 are real Confucian scholars!

The so-called real deal is a staunch supporter of Zhangkou'Zi Yue''Zhe Ye''.

Among the remaining 3 people, except for the early 1 diehards of Mo, Fa, Huang Lao, Zongheng, Yinyang, and Novels, the remaining 2 or nearly [-] people are also "disgusted" by Confucianism. Repulsion'.

In other words, these 1 people theoretically belong to candidates that Confucianism can try to recruit;
As long as there is a well-known and prestigious Confucian who utters a certain truth that hits their point, these people are likely to quickly become disciples of Confucius.

This is also the reason why Liu Sheng disliked Confucianism in every possible way, but did not dare to act rashly.

Because in today's Han family, Confucianism not only "occupies half of the country" in the academic world, but occupies an absolute dominant position in terms of numbers.

Perhaps in the eyes of today's Chang'an court, Confucianism has no distinctions, and it is just a group of peasant children who read Cangjie to enlighten them and recognize characters;

But Liu Sheng has become more and more keenly aware that the influence of Confucianism has invaded the court from the folk ministries, and has gradually expanded its influence.

Let’s say that during the time of Emperor Taizu Gao, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, except for a flexible Fengchang Shusuntong, could they find a second Confucian scholar?
The Empress Dowager Lu is in power, and the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty dare to say, 'I think Kong Qiu is okay'?
Even in the reign of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, there was that young hero who aspired to make contributions and rank in the temple, who dared to bluntly call out "my son Zhongni's grandson"?
No.

In the reign of Emperor Taizu Gao Liu Bang, the only Confucian scholar who was not teased by Liu Bang and used what he learned in the court was only one Shusun Tong;
Empress Dowager Lu has been in power for 15 years, and inside and outside the court, no one dares to say that Confucianism is "good" at all;

In the reign of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, Jia Yi was born out of nowhere and became an official with the background of "a disciple of Zhang Cang, Marquis of Beiping". In the end, he was also excluded by the entire court, and finally died of depression.

But in the last years of Emperor Taizong, things began to turn around.

Confucianism, everyone no longer shouts and beats;

"Burning books and burying Confucian scholars" has been shouted for decades, and it has finally become a historical fact that most people acquiesce to;

Even Chao Cuo, who was jealous of his Legalist background, was able to put on a layer of Confucianism in an open and honest manner, and became the teacher of the prince and prince as a doctor of "Shangshu"!
Although Chao Cuo, the "Confucian scholar", disappointed the entire Confucianism in the end, it still made Confucianism gradually realize something.

During the reign of Emperor Xiaojing, Legalism, which was supposed to be popular, stopped because of Chao Cuo's paranoia;
Huang Lao is self-styled, Legalism is weak, and Confucianism is spreading branches and leaves in a corner that no one pays attention to.

Above the court, there are more and more important ministers with a Confucian style, and even Dou Ying, a relative, is inevitably "eroded" by Confucianism.

In the announcements and imperial edicts promulgated by the court, Confucian allusions are mentioned more and more frequently in the part of citing scriptures;
Now, looking inside and outside the court, it seems that there are not many people who despise Confucianism.

And all of this was won by the Confucianism for themselves through the tactics of crowds of people by relying on the phrase "teaching without discrimination".

——There are only 1 intellectuals in the world, [-] Confucian scholars, more than [-] and nearly [-] who may become Confucian scholars, and there are always a few talents who can show their talents.

Quantitative change leads to qualitative change, but this is the case...

"There is no distinction between teaching..."

"Hey, Ji Qing;"

"How can Confucianism teach without discrimination, you Huang Lao, why don't you recruit more disciples?"

"Especially the children of peasant households, might they not be capable of governing the world?"

"—Meng Ke once said in "Mencius": Shun was raised among the farmers, Fu Shuo was held among the boards, Jiao Ke was held among the fish and salt, Guan Yiwu was held among the scholars, Sun Shuao was held among the sea, Baili Xi held it in the city."

"Although Meng Ke is also a Confucian student, these words are suspected of selling for "education without discrimination", but the truth is still correct."

"You Huang Lao~"

"It's just too arrogant..."

Sitting on the imperial chariot driving to Wei Wan's mansion, looking at Ji An who was kneeling on the diagonally opposite side of him, Liu Sheng had nothing to do, so he began to chat with Ji An.

It's just that Liu Sheng's casual question made Ji An suddenly lower his head with a strange expression, and he groaned for a long time before finally barely giving an answer.

"What His Majesty said is not unreasonable."

"But I believe that the reason why I, Huang Lao, is declining day by day is not all because of what His Majesty said..."

···
"Teaching without discrimination is a concept advocated by Confucianism, and I, Mr. Huang, am not a Legalist, and I don't have much rejection of Confucian learning."

"But His Majesty also knows that Huang Lao's study is too obscure, and it contains too much and contains too much;"

"I don't know how many people have cured Huang Lao, but they couldn't touch the threshold in their whole life."

"There are too many examples of a sixty-year-old man with gray hair, who is called a 'children' by the old man Huang."

"As for the subject, only Your Majesty thinks that Ji An is from Huang Lao, and is a 'Huang Lao scholar'."

"Whether it's at home, or meeting relatives and elders, or friends who have learned from teachers, I never dare to call myself a scholar of Huang Lao and say that I 'cure Huang Lao'."

"Because at Chen's age, let alone 'ruling' Huang Lao, even 'knowing' Huang Lao is quite unbelievable..."

As for why Mr. Huang didn't recruit more disciples, Liu Sheng was just having nothing to do, so he asked casually;
But seeing Ji An's stern face when he answered, and the bitterness and helplessness almost etched into his brows, Liu Sheng couldn't help feeling at ease.

From the perspective of governing the country, Huang Lao is actually a pretty good political thought.

If the gene of "lazy government" and "slack government" can be eliminated, Huang Laoxue should be the most hopeful crystallization of thoughts among the hundred schools of thought to stand out from the encirclement and survive to future generations.

Even take a step back and say: Even if the genes of "lazy governance" and "slack governance" cannot be eliminated, the superiority of Huang-Lao School in governing politics and state governance is far beyond the comparison of Confucianism, Legalism, Mohism and other theories.

After all, governing a big country is like cooking small fish;

Compared with acting indiscriminately, inaction may not necessarily be a "relatively more acceptable" situation.

But the decline of Huang-Lao theory is a historical necessity.

As for the reason, Ji An did not say clearly;

Perhaps, it is shameless to say...
"Relying on the dominance of one family, there is no one in the eyes;"

"If you think you are the only school in power, you will not look down on any other school or any theory."

"Even in order to advertise that I'm not in league with the opposition schools', I have to do the opposite—everything advocated by Confucianism, Legalism, and Mohist schools will not be adopted or listened to."

"Whether it makes sense or not, as long as it is advocated by other schools, you have to put on a big brother attitude and preach, 'Who are you, what do you know'..."

"If this is the case, Huang Lao will not fall..."

"Hey;"

"hey-hey······"

(End of this chapter)