I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

"Your Majesty has done too much..."

The next morning, outside Weiyang Palace.

Waiting in front of the Sima Gate early, quietly waiting for the palace gate to open, finally some people couldn't bear the loneliness and began to whisper with someone they had made friends with.

Everything that happened in Chang'an yesterday was like a zombie virus in the last days, spreading in all directions with Chang'an as the center at the speed of light.

People whispered to each other, and all kinds of opinions emerged in an endless stream;

But to distill everything into the most popular and easy-to-understand vernacular, that is: the current emperor issued an edict to let the heroes who died in the battle of Mayi be buried in his own imperial tomb, and ordered the entire country to mourn.

For the people who were cheered by the victory of Mayi, this news is obviously no less than that after the first examination in Chinese history, people have seen what kind of scenery the number one scholar is like, and how much reading can help change their fate.

——Just like the unprecedented examination in later generations, let the world understand that "there is a golden house in the book, and there is Yan Ruyu in the book": from this day on, the Han family has officially entered a new era.

A new era that was based on the martial arts, but was further promoted by the supreme ruler, and valued the martial arts to an astonishing degree.

The common people are happy about this, naturally because this matter is closely related to the vast majority of the low-level people.

The reason is simple: According to the laws of the Han Dynasty today, except for a few noble children with extremely high titles and excellent family backgrounds, as well as clan relatives and relatives, every male in the world must undergo three years (formerly) military skills training and two years of compulsory military service.

The three-year military training was arranged between the ages of 17 and 20, and the two-year compulsory military service began at the age of [-]. The numbers were drawn on a county-by-county basis.

This means that in today's Han Dynasty, unless you are a relative of the Liu family, or a relative of the emperor who is related to the queen or queen mother, as long as you are a male, you will definitely go through such a life in the army.

——Two years of military service, one year of guarding the capital, and one year of guarding the border wall.

To put it more bluntly: Nowadays, in the Han Dynasty, every household has soldiers/has had soldiers/is about to appear.

Under the military system that can be described as 'all people are soldiers', any changes to the army and the military are of course closely related to the people of the world.

If the treatment of warriors is reduced, it means that everyone in the world will suffer;
The treatment of warriors has been improved, which means that everyone in the world can benefit from it.

Therefore, even if it is not out of national hatred and family hatred, or out of resentment for past experiences, but only for their own personal interests—for their own children and grandchildren, they can get better treatment in the army.

Because in the Han Dynasty, treating warriors favorably is equivalent to treating people in the world favorably.

In the Han Dynasty, warriors were basically equal to the people of the world.

However, the cheers of the people at the bottom did not resonate with the aristocracy.

Especially those 'pure civil servants' who don't have martial arts, and don't plan to go to the army for training, just want to live on a salary, don't mention how uncomfortable they are.

Let's just say that at this moment, there were more smiles and laughter outside the Sima Gate, but there was still one person—a veteran of the Nine Qings, who had gone through the Taizong, Xiaojing, and the present three dynasties, and played an important role both inside and outside the court, appeared beside Liu She rather unhappily.

As for the appearance of this person, Prime Minister Liu She didn't seem to be surprised...
"It's a servant..."

Pretending to greet Yuan An indifferently, and bowing his head with a meaningful smile, Liu She looked at Yuan An with more playfulness.

Liu She is different from Yuan Ang.

To be precise, the current Han Dynasty, and even the vast majority of ministers and ministers since the Han Dynasty, are different from Yuan Ang.

Take the distance between the positions of prime ministers that Liu She is currently sitting on: from Xiao He, the first Marquis of Bingwen, the first Marquis of the Han Dynasty, Cao Can, the second Marquis of Pingyang Yi, to Zhang Cang, Marquis of Wen of Beiping in the reign of Emperor Taizong, and Shen Tujia, Marquis of Anzhenwu, and Zhou Yafu, Marquis of Tiao in the reign of Emperor Xiaojing.

Full of fights and calculations, Xiao He, Cao Can, Wang Ling, Chen Ping, Shen Shiqi, Zhou Bo, Guan Ying, Zhang Cang, Shen Tujia, Zhou Yafu - nine of the first ten Han ministers since the founding of the Han Dynasty were based in the temple by virtue of martial arts.

And among these nine people, except for Zhou Yafu, who is a model for the children of Gonghou to establish their own family, the other eight are all founding fathers!
The only Marquis of Piyang who was born as a non-Gonggong Marquis tried Shiqi, and it was also because of the Empress Dowager Lu that he was able to win the monkey bathing crown in that special era.

And Tao Qing after Zhou Yafu, and Liu She today, although they were not founding fathers themselves, they are also undoubted children of meritorious service.

To put it bluntly: Although I have no martial arts, my father is the founding father of the country!

The reason why the prime minister is like this is naturally because of the unspoken political rule of the Han family that "you must not be a prince".
But even so—even though there are no similar unspoken rules for other positions except the prime minister, in fact, in the past few decades, only a very small number of people can serve as the ministers of the Han family as "pure civil officials".

Xiao He, the Marquis of Fengwen, who compiled the laws of the Han Dynasty and laid the foundation for the construction of the rule of law in the Han Dynasty, should be regarded as a civil servant, right?
——The first hero of the founding of the country, "Han was able to establish a country and a temple, and Xiao Heju was the first to make the first contribution" recognized by the great ancestor Gao Emperor Liu Bang!

The old giant Huang, Cao Shen, the Marquis of Pingyang, who carried out "governance by doing nothing" to the end, is finally an academic master, right?
——At the turn of the Qin and Han Dynasties, the enemy's heads were chopped off more than the days when he was not drunk when he was prime minister!

Established the etiquette system for the Han Dynasty, and even during the reign of the man who caught Confucian scholars and made fun of them, kicked them into the ditch when he saw Confucian scholars, and urinated in them after grabbing Confucian crowns, he went to Jiuqing as a Confucian scholar—Shu Suntong is finally a "literati", right?
——I'm sorry, the gentleman is proficient in all six arts, but he is partial to the direction of better personal force. Riding and archery are both excellent!
It is no exaggeration to say: in that era when the generals were like clouds and the famous ministers were like rain, Shusun Tong was a Confucian scholar and capable official to Jiuqing. It was really the word "virtue" faintly showing on the muscle lines on the back that made those proud soldiers and founding fathers obediently shut up when the country was founded.

It can be said that apart from the four ex-Qin doctors who the Empress Dowager Lu found for Prince Liu Ying, Liu Bang Yichao, the great ancestor of the emperor, there has never been a "pure civil official" or a "pure literati" in Liu Bang's palace.

The same was true during the reign of Empress Dowager Lu.

This situation did not begin to undergo some subtle changes until the death of Empress Dowager Lu and Emperor Taizong Xiaowen's succession to the Datong.

Because in the year when Emperor Taizong joined the Datong, there were two national scholar-level talents who were rare in thousands of years to become officials at the same time.

——Jia Yi, doctor of "Spring and Autumn".

——"Shangshu" Dr. Chao Cuo.

what's the result?

At the age of 20, as a postdoctoral fellow of "Spring and Autumn", Jia Yi has repeatedly presented good strategies, even famous strategies and famous articles that have been famous in history;
Unexpectedly, this move was not adopted by Emperor Taizong, nor did it bring substantial help to the Han Dynasty. On the contrary, it attracted the disgust and dissatisfaction of Zhou Bo and other founding fathers.

An extremely absurd "crime" of "recklessly discussing state affairs at a young age" forced Emperor Taizong to hide Jia Yi in the snow. He wanted to recover after many years, but died of depression because Liu Yi, King Huai of Liang, fell off his horse.

Although Chao Cuo's life was slightly better than Jia Yi's, it was not much better.

——Initially only because of 'literacy' as a clerical post;

Afterwards, by virtue of a quick mastery of Zhou Yayu, he went to teach the "Shangshu" to Fusheng in Jinan, and was able to become the doctor of "Shangshu" with only a false name.

After the official worship of the doctor, Chao Cuo, like Jia Yi, offered good advice to Emperor Taizong one after another at the beginning.

It was the same as Jia Yi's experience: Chao Cuo's memorials were all highly praised and recognized by Emperor Taizong, and even the entire court and field, but not even one of them was adopted.

After gradually understanding his own situation, Chao Cuo finally came to his senses, and began to shift his attention from the doctor's own job: advising, to the next generation of the family in charge of Sheji: Prince Liu Qi.

Because after witnessing the experience of "Soldier of the Same Year" Jia Yi and experiencing the same thing himself, Chao Cuo finally understood: it is not the time yet.

The Han family has not yet reached the time when civil servants rule the country.

Therefore, Chao Cuo began to invest in the future, focusing on the future of the Han family.

Chao Cuo was right.

After the death of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen and Emperor Xian Xiaojing's succession, the general environment really ushered in a turning point.

——Chao Cuo, the prince's family order, after Emperor Xiaojing Liu Qi succeeded to the throne, he was able to "ascend the chicken and dog to heaven" as the confidant of the hidden mansion, and quickly worshiped the internal history;
For a while, Chao Cuo, a mere Jiuqing, not even Yaxiang Yushi doctor, was able to rely on Tianzi Qi who was behind him to support him, and he was helpless to fight back against the prime minister.

While beating the prime minister with one hand, Chao Cuo was even able to free up the other hand, and the representative of the "civilian" who was also in power at the time: Yuan Ang played a trick!
It can be said that from the death of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen and the ascension of Emperor Xian Xiaojing to the pacification—this short period of a few years is the most comfortable and most beautiful period for civil servants in the Han court since the beginning of the Han Dynasty.

It's just that Wu Chu's rebellion, the group of founding fathers who had just been worn out by the years, was replaced by the group of heroes who quelled the chaos of Wu Chu and the Seven Kingdoms.

Up to now, the group of Wu Chuping heroes has not completely faded away, and there is a group of national heroes and emerging military nobles from the Mayi campaign...

"Maybe if I say this, the Prime Minister will think that I, Yuan An, can't tolerate others, and can't understand others who live better than me."

"But even if you want to despise me, please don't forget to think about it: Is your majesty really right?"

"—As the saying goes: a lonely yin does not grow, a lonely yang does not grow, and the harmony of yin and yang is the way of heaven and earth."

"In civil households, yin and yang are male and female; in Sheji, yin and yang are civil and military."

"Your Majesty puts so much emphasis on martial arts and suppression of writing, how can it be a good thing for the country to help the yang and suppress the yin?"

···
"During the Warring States period, Zhang Yi went to Qin and met King Huiwen of Qin and said: Qin Feng once had the beauty of "Jianjia", but now only the fierceness of "No Clothes" remains. The countries in the Guandong only hear about Qin's masters and tigers, but they don't see Qin's envoys know how to be polite. This needs to be changed."

"Qin became strong through reforms, won the world with a strong army, and eventually lost the world because of a strong army."

"—Isn't this just because Yingqin Sheji's 'yin and yang are not in harmony', the yang is too prosperous and the yin is too weak, and Yingzheng only acts domineering but not kingly?"

"Isn't it precisely because of this that Emperor Taizu Gao said: My Han family has its own system, and it is based on tyrants and kings?"

"My previous emperors of the Han family tried their best to lock Qin's twentieth-level military meritorious lord Ming Tianzhai into a cage, and lock that man-eating beast in a cage. Isn't it just to correct Qin's mistake of being too heavy on martial arts and too restrained?"

···
"My Han family was established in the Qing Dynasty, and the capital is located in the middle of Qin. The folk customs are always upright and strong, and the martial arts are quite strong;"

"Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, Emperor Xian Xiaojing—the whole rule of Wenjing, isn't it because these two former emperors spared no effort to make my Han family 'reconcile yin and yang', so that civil and military complement each other?"

"As a result, His Majesty rushed to the stall where the Crown Ceremony was about to take place and was about to take charge of the government. He abandoned all the efforts of Emperor Taizong and Emperor Xiaojing, and even added fire to the already prevalent martial arts of the Han family!"

"As the prime minister, Taohou doesn't plan to do something?"

The words seemed to be full of worry, and even a little sad, which only caused Liu She to raise his eyebrows in surprise;

However, Yuan An only frowned, and met Liu She's inquiring gaze without dodging, as if what he said just now, Yuan An really had no selfish intentions.

——Actually, Yuan An still didn't make his words too harsh.

What Yuan Ang really wanted to say was not, "Isn't the prime minister doing something?" ', but 'Why didn't the Prime Minister stop His Majesty earlier about what happened yesterday? '.

Yuan An gave himself a bit of dignity, and also left enough leeway for this topic, so Liu She naturally couldn't tear himself apart;
But after thinking about it again and again, Liu She finally decided to break his own principle—break his principle of being loyal to the emperor and not caring about other people, and give Yuan Ang a piece of advice.

It wasn't because Liu She was really kind and wanted to help Yuan Ang see something clearly.

But as the prime minister, Liu She, really needs the harmony between the public and the ministers, and the whole court is united...

"Duke Yuan, haven't you seen Chao Cuo for many years?"

"——I don't mean 'I haven't visited Chao Cuo for many years', but Chao Cuo has been away from Chang'an for many years."

"Yuan Gong didn't think about it: why would a person like Chao Cuo go to the bitter cold of the northern border, instead of being comfortably in Chang'an as his sub-prime censor?"

···
"Ugh······"

"Yuan Gong, I'm afraid I haven't figured it out..."

"—Han family, the world has changed~"

"Hey······"

···
"Emperor Taizu Gao entered Guanzhong first, and made three chapters with the people of Guanzhong, so everyone in the world knows: Liu Ji, the Duke of Pei, loves the people with benevolence."

"Emperor Xiaohui is Han Guozuo, and he slept and ate with Confucian scholars day and night, so people in the world understood: Emperor Xiaohui, Confucian weak and benevolent."

"The Empress Dowager Lu was in power and used all the nephews and nephews of Lu's relatives, so the people in the court and the public knew that if the Empress Dowager Lu was here, the Lu family would be strong..."

"Emperor Taizong Xiaowen entered the Datong, but handed over the power to Chen Ping, Zhou Bo and other veterans, and only occasionally stood up to care about the lives of the people in the world, so everyone in the world said: Emperor Taizong Xiaowen is a living saint."

"Emperor Xiaojing has been the crown prince for more than 20 years, and even when he became the crown prince, it is the same as when the prince supervised the country. People in the world will think: as long as Emperor Xiaojing is around, the big guy will feel at ease."

"And now..."

At the end, Liu She looked at Yuan Ang one last time with a gaze full of deep meaning.

"Now, His Majesty has issued an edict to the world: Where I am in power, a martial artist will rule..."

"Yuan Gong, don't you understand?"

···
"Yuan Gong, it's really time to wake up..."

"This Han family is no longer the Han family when Emperor Taizong and Emperor Xiaojing were there, and it is no longer the time when the 'Government of Wenjing'..."

"The sky has changed, if Duke Yuan remains the same, I'm afraid I can only go to Baling and Yangling, and accompany Emperor Taizong and Emperor Xiaojing..."