Three Kingdoms New Emperor

Chapter 201 Scholar Donkey Carrot

It was also Liu Xie's brilliant idea to let Yufulo's Huns rangers escort merchants from other places.In the current situation, it is simply unrealistic to talk about fifty or sixty ethnic groups and 56 flowers.But just spending money to support the more than [-] cavalry of the Xiongnu, how can a person like Liu Xie be willing to be taken advantage of?

Moreover, the military discipline of these Huns has always been lax. If they are stationed in the outskirts of Chang'an, they will inevitably conflict with the common people who are farming.After thinking of attracting investment, Liu Xie automatically thought of the idea of ​​using the Huns as mercenaries.In any case, this army is currently in the Han Dynasty, and it is essentially such a non-embarrassing, unclear existence.

Give these Huns a free hand, and they will naturally not be idle.

Moreover, among the scholars, farmers, businessmen, which kind of person has the liveliest eyes, the best at talking about people, talking nonsense?

There is no doubt that it is a businessman.They traveled north and south just for the sake of profit. They didn't care whether the troops who came to guard were Han or Huns. As long as they dared to fight and rush and could protect their wealth, they would be regarded as honored guests.

It is conceivable that by allowing the most active group of Han people to take the lead in dealing with the Huns, it will gradually lead to changes in the entire social atmosphere.Especially after actually encountering the robber Roadhog, the contrast will make the merchants feel even more deeply.

After all, when the time comes, it will be the Huns who can block a knife for them without blinking an eye; but it will be the Han who will grab their goods with a knife. In this way, how can they not speak well of the Huns?
A thing like information has no feet, but it can run faster than things with feet.

The news of the restoration of the five plants of money in the Han Dynasty, the opening of the market, and the promotion of investment spread to every corner of Guanzhong.In particular, the measures to restore the five baht coins have given great confidence to the merchants everywhere in Dahan.

In this era, the government that uses five baht coins containing copper is the trustworthy government of the people everywhere.With Liu Xie's move, he invisibly gave a heavy blow to the princes who did not have much business knowledge, forcing them to follow the pace of the Han court and began to promulgate the decree on the circulation of five baht coins.

As for the third edict of the imperial court, it was not promulgated until the end of August.This edict has little to do with ordinary Li Shu and merchants, but it made some gentry's powerful minds come alive.Because in the past month, they found that the carriages passing through Chang'an Avenue became lively, and there were also guards in helmets holding banners and advocating, majestic and extraordinary.

With the issuance of this edict, everyone knew that in order to repay the favor of the Han emperor, all the court officials began to destroy their families and donate a lot of money to the imperial court for the imperial court to recuperate.In order to encourage these courtiers, the emperor granted them many privileges that ordinary people could not even imagine.

The guard of honor advocates these, but they are the most common preferential treatment.And the privileges of entering the court and not being named, and worshiping without being named, have also begun to be gradually opened to officials with two thousand shi.Not only that, these ministers, whose residences, official uniforms, and all aspects of life have undergone great changes, are full of insurmountable strict levels.

For example, the imperial edict stipulates that only senior officials with two thousand stones can be allowed to be rich and green.If the mansion of an official whose rank is lower than two thousand stones is painted with red vermilion paint, it is an act of overreaching, which is not tolerated by the court law.In addition, in terms of travel, there are more clear and detailed regulations on single and double four horses and canopy emblems.When a low-level carriage encounters a higher-level carriage, the high-level carriage must pass first to show respect.

Of course, there are so many regulations like this.For the common people who work at sunrise and rest at sunset, it doesn't make much sense at all.Anyway, they would detour when they saw any carriage, so as not to collide with the nobleman and cause trouble.But for those gentry ministers, the meaning became very different.

Think about it in your shoes, after all, this is a feudal society that relies on hierarchical norms.In the past, the gentry and gentry were almost in the same class by virtue of this intricate network of relationships.But when the imperial court implemented such a strict system, there was an indescribable fault in the tenderness and warmth among the gentry and gentry.

If a person is based on the blood relationship of his disciples, he was once his own junior.Because this person was an official in the court, and he was favored by the dragon for making suggestions for the Han Dynasty court, and he became the queen of the dragon in one step. This was originally a good thing for the entire relationship network. Young people pay their respects, how can the ancients, who have always paid attention to the dignity of the elders and the younger, be able to balance their minds?
It was also for this reason that it was not until the end of August that the edict was finally posted on the imperial list with the strong support of vested interests amidst the chaotic debates among the courtiers.Liu Xie even remembered that because of this incident, the eunuch Zhao Qi directly slapped Pang Xi on the face at the court meeting, and scolded Pang Xi for being a treacherous minister who had no father and no king.

After completing the first and second edicts, Liu Xie only played the role of a teapot's ear at the court meeting of the third edict.He took the imperial edict drafted by himself and Zhong Yao to the court meeting, quietly watched the courtiers in the hall blushing because of this, and unconsciously laughed foolishly in his heart.

Today's Han Dynasty court has been played and applauded by Liu Xie.As far as the establishment of the division system is concerned, during the final discussion, he did not say any tendentious words or do any reminiscent actions at all.Before August, he just wrote down the list of courtiers who donated money and food to the court one by one, and made the privileges clearly written in the document. These two things were perfect.

For the rest, he silently watched how those vested interests justly attacked those ministers who did not show their loyalty to the Han Dynasty.At the same time, I also watched how those tangled, angry and helpless ministers racked their brains and carefully tried to prevent the issuance of this edict by citing scriptures.

In the end, he saw Master Zhao Qi slapping Pang Xi's face with a wat.

So, next, those courtiers who neither donated much money to the court nor made any good plans were slowly divided into two factions: one faction hurriedly reined in the precipice, changed their minds and followed Liu Xie's direction wholeheartedly. Loyal ministers; while the other faction clamped their tails tightly, trying to brush up their sense of presence on any occasion and any event.

Of course, if you think about it with your toes, you know that the situation of the latter group is very miserable.Under the harsh decrees of the imperial court, any time they tried to fight back, they were either beaten to the ground by vested interests, or shocked by the more iron-blooded laws, and they couldn't let go of their hands and feet at all.

What's even more pitiful is that they have lost the most basic ability to judge in this kind of battle of righteousness.They completely ignored the mastermind behind this conspiracy, and turned to the courtiers at the front desk as targets of attack—or, they were fully aware of this, but they no longer had the courage to challenge the person sitting on the dragon chair. Any suspicious challenge by a teenager.

"Your Majesty, since ancient times, respect and respect have been orderly, seniors and young have been respected, this is a natural relationship and humane. But you are acting like a disaster by arbitrarily disrupting the ancestral system and disrupting the courtiers. I hope that Your Majesty will take back the order and reshape the Confucianism." Cai Yan, who was in charge of teaching etiquette in the palace, was the first time to ask Liu Xie to see him since he wrote Wang Yun's secret letter for Liu Xie.

However, the moment he first entered Xuanshi Hall, he knew that his request would be in vain.Because, at this time, Liu Xie was drinking chilled wine and enjoying Leng Shouguang's exquisite massage, and he looked like a king of subjugation.

"Is it your father who entrusted you to persuade me with this sentence?" Liu Xie's half-closed eyes slightly opened, and he glanced at Cai Yan, who was as blue as a chrysanthemum, and couldn't help curling his mouth: "You Look at what your old man is like now? Knowing that I don’t like him eating and drinking for free in the palace, and I can’t save face to come here to remonstrate in person, so I sent you to use beauty tricks on me. Hey... the one who was famous all over the world A great Confucian, unexpectedly... the human heart is not ancient!"

"This is indeed the intention of my father, but it is also the intention of my humble minister." Hearing Liu Xie's casual ridicule, Cai Yan's quiet cheeks turned red, with an indescribably coquettish aura: "What's more , my father is already tired of being an official, why does Your Majesty insist on pressing him so hard?"

"I don't like to talk to scholars, and I don't like to talk to smart women, but you take both of them." Liu Xie shook his head, knowing that Cai Yan also has a soft-hearted personality, so he simply sat up straight Get up, and explain to Cai Yan Haosheng:
"From a general point of view, the so-called Confucian etiquette of the three cardinal principles and five constant principles, such as the monarch, the minister, and the father and son, is actually a habit. It's just that because of the existence of the dynasty, this habit has a political meaning. Once human beings form If you are used to it, you will not break this shackle easily. You and your father are nothing more than prisoners imprisoned by this shackle."

"I actually haven't broken this habit now, but I have subdivided some special meanings in this habit to make it more suitable for this troubled world. In such a troubled world, from my point of view, since I can't give It is already a vested interest and other benefits of the gentry class, so they have to use these flashy privileges to satisfy their short-sighted and stubborn concepts.

"Fundamentally speaking, what I have done seems to be inconsistent with the superficial appearance of the ancestral system, but it is absolutely in line with the deep meaning of the ancestral system. Do you understand?"

Cai Yan nodded with a vague understanding. Liu Xie's words seemed to be very straightforward, but together they had very complicated meanings. , good to think about it.

However, Liu Xie is no one who will give Cai Yan this opportunity.Seeing that the words he didn't understand really covered Cai Yan, he smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth, and said evilly:

"Actually, to put it bluntly, by doing this, I want all the princes in the court to understand that as long as they follow me wholeheartedly, I want them not only to have meat to eat, but also to live a life superior to others. Only in this way, I will Only then can a trend be established and the empty atmosphere of big men talking about Confucian classics be reversed. You didn’t see that after I put a carrot in front of you gentry and gentry, you all scrambled to become dedicated to the Han Dynasty. Are you a donkey doing business?"

"Your Majesty!..." No matter how well-mannered Cai Yan was, he couldn't help getting angry when he heard that Liu Xie was so arrogant that he compared a scholar-bureaucrat who thought he was extremely proud to a donkey.

However, Liu Xie seemed to have been on guard for a long time. He waved his hand in advance to stop Cai Yan's next words, and then changed the subject and said: "Go back and tell your father, don't just think about not being a grinder. Learn from this millstone, and leave a place for him, so that he can be mentally prepared to take office earlier, so that he can bite the carrot sooner..."

(End of this chapter)