Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 1074 Han family's civil and military way

Walking and walking, the group of people walked peacefully and without incident, but Liu Xie couldn't be calm all the time. He thought over and over again about the previous scenes and words in his heart, but he still couldn't find some problems in the end. For the answer, someone had to call Fei Qian over again.

   Fei Qian sat on the back of the war horse, held the reins, and bowed his hands to Liu Xie: "...I have seen Your Majesty..." It can be seen that Liu Xie did not sleep well last night.

  Liu Xie nodded, looked at Fei Qian and said directly: "...Ai Qing is not polite. I have two questions that I can't solve..."

   "Please speak, Your Majesty." Fei Qian said.

   "Fei Aiqing once said, um, the Great Han Empire," Liu Xie frowned, "I understand the Great Han Kingdom, but what does the word 'Emperor' mean in it?"

  How old is Liu Xie now?

  Fei Qian is not too sure, maybe Thirteen? Or is it fourteen? This is vaguely the case in my impression.

  Thirteen and fourteen-year-old children, if they are in the later life, what will they usually do?

  What remains in Feiqian's memory seems to be not a very good impression, but now a thirteen or fourteen-year-old half-old child in the Han Dynasty has begun to think about his seemingly ambitious goals in life...

   "Huh?" Fei Qian suddenly realized that in this era, there is no such word as imperialism.

  In terms of political system, Fei Qian feels that feudal imperialism is more suitable for the current Han Dynasty, because firstly, the political system of the original Han Dynasty has some signs of this, and secondly, it is also a workaround that the current communication equipment is completely equal to zero.

The basis of centralization is strong central control. However, in the Han Dynasty, when communication was backward, it was often a month or two before a decision from the central government was transmitted to the border areas. Time stretches out longer.

  So the prefecture and county system with certain characteristics in the Han Dynasty, the prefect position of two thousand shi, if you look at it from another angle, isn’t it the local lord in the Western Middle Ages?

  Responsible to the superior and ruled to the subordinate.

  Although it is still flawed, it is still tolerable to a certain extent.

It's like small joint problems in the body, or mites on the skin. Perhaps one day, these small problems will develop to a fatal level, but before that, it is still an acceptable thing, at least better than The problems of being hungry and having no clothes to wear are much milder.

   "Empire" is a word derived from English words after a large amount of Western culture poured into China after the 19th century. Before that, no one mentioned it, nor did it appear in the pen...

"Emperor, only the Son of Heaven who is unified can be Emperor..." Fei Qian made a definition first. Anyway, this is almost what Fei Qian said. Prosperity, extremely developed commerce, and extremely advanced skills, all four of which are outstanding, is the empire!"

   "Region, culture, education, commerce, skills..." Liu Xie muttered for a while, then suddenly said, "There are scholars, commerce, and industry, why is there no agriculture?"

   Hey, Liu Xie understands this way...

   It’s okay to understand it this way.

   Fei Qian smiled and said: "How can there be no agriculture, the territory is huge, and farming is naturally huge..."

   "Well, so it is true..." Liu Xie nodded, and then said, "So what Fei Aiqing means, the four peoples of the world should put agriculture first, scholars and merchants second, and work last?"

Scholars, farmers, businessmen and commerce are not the concepts of later generations. As early as in "Guanzi Xiaokuang", there was: "Scholars, farmers, businessmen, businessmen and four people are the people of the country." Stone means pillar stone, that is to say, in the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, it It has been realized that the basic structure of a country is composed of such four major aspects.

   An empire.

  Nature is also composed of these four aspects.

"Agriculture is the foundation of the world..." Fei Qian said slowly, "If there is no agriculture, the people in the world will have no food and clothing, and they will inevitably rebel. Therefore, agriculture is undoubtedly the most important thing for the empire...Scholars, merchants, and workers are supplemented. Even top or bottom…”

  That’s what I said, but there must be problems in actual operation, but these problems can be gradually improved or adjusted according to the law. Fortunately, even in the Han Dynasty, Confucianism's suppression of business and industry was not as strong as that of the subsequent feudal dynasties. After all, at this point in time, Confucianism has only just risen.

  Liu Xie nodded half-understood, and solemnity was written on his immature face. A half-year-old boy of thirteen or fourteen began to plan the entire imperial court, and even began to plan and imagine something for the empire.

   "Aiqing Fei, there is one more thing..." Liu Xie said, "...Yesterday you said...well, when it came to the 'National Power Reserve', why did you say that grain, grass, and money are only part of it, and what is the other part?"

   Fei Qian thought about it, did you say this yesterday? Maybe I talked too much, and even I forgot, but luckily I didn't say anything about GDP, CDI...

   "...National power reserves are indeed two aspects," Fei Qian said while sorting out his thoughts, "...one is material and financial resources, that is, military pay and food, but in fact the other aspect is inheritance..."

   "Inheritance?" Liu Xie was puzzled.

What will happen to Liu Xie in the future, Fei Qian is not sure, but at least for now, Fei Qian wants to let Liu Xie know more, at least know how people lived in this ancient era, and the operation of a country requires something.

  So, let’s start with how poor the Han Dynasty was.

  Of course, this "poor" is not only reflected in food and other items...

Most people don't know much about the concept of poverty. They just think that poverty is the lack of things, but in fact this is only a small part of poverty, and real poverty is like an empty trash can. nothing.

  This is poor with nothing, even thinking.

   "Guzha... come, come here..." Fei Qian looked around, then waved and called a Qiang man over.

  During the Han Dynasty, the Qiang people also had their own language, but this language...

hehe.

   "Gu Zha," Fei Qian saw that Gu Zha had saluted Liu Xie, pointed to the sun in the sky, and said, "Sun, how do you say it in your language?"

   "@#…" Guza uttered a short syllable.

  Fei Qian didn't explain to Liu Xie, and said, "The moon in the sky at night, what should I say?"

  Guza didn’t know what was going on, but he still said quickly: “%@#…”

   "Where's the campfire for cooking?"

   "%%@#..."

   "Where's the torch?"

   “%%%@#…”

  Fei Qian looked at the bewildered Liu Xie, smiled, and said, "Well, well, Your Majesty would like to know something about your words, it's all right, Guzha, go down first..."

   Monk Gu Zhazhang was puzzled, but being able to show his face in front of the Han emperor was quite exciting, not to mention saying a few words, so he withdrew happily.

The language of the Qiang people and the language of the Huns, in fact, Feiqian can basically understand it, and there is not much difficulty. It's just that in this era, the language of the Qiang people and the Huns is too simple.

   To be precise, it should be barren, or backward.

In the research of many experts and professors in later generations, it has been proved that writing and language are tools for communication, especially for daily spoken language, the complexity of language is closely related to the development of society, without complexity Without a social environment, there is no developed oral language system.

  In the Han Dynasty, this universal law was also followed.

  Like most beginners who learn another language, they must start with simple words. The same is true for Feiqian. The first thing is to learn nouns in the Qiang language and the Hun language.

   And these nouns...

Fei Qian said to Liu Xie: "Just now, that person has been with me since Chenchu ​​came to Pingyang. It has been more than three years now. He didn't speak Chinese very much before, and now there is no problem in daily communication. ...the '@#' he said just now..."

  Fei Qian repeatedly uttered that weird syllable, and then said: "...in the language of the Qiang people, it means the sun, and of course, it also means heat and fire..."

"Then the moon means 'small' added to the sun, that is, '%@#'..." Fei Qian continued, "Then the smaller bonfire is the little sun,'%% @#'…”

   Liu Xie laughed and said: "Aha, so that's the case, so the torch is the 'Little Little Sun'?"

   "Your Majesty is wise." Fei Qian smiled and flattered casually.

   "This..." Liu Xie shook his head, laughed, and couldn't even find any words to describe it, "...it's just..."

Fei Qian was silent for a while, and when Liu Xie's freshness passed, he suddenly seemed to talk about an irrelevant topic: "Your Majesty, the old man in the village who was in the mountains yesterday, his ancestors were also officials in Guanzhong..." That night , Fei Qian sent someone to investigate the origins of that small village, because if it wasn't for a bit of self-cultivation and education, the hospitality and answers would not be so decent.

   "Oh?" Liu Xie didn't understand what Fei Qian wanted to express in this sudden sentence.

"Your Majesty...ordinary people from the countryside..." Fei Qian pointed casually in the mountains with his whip, and said, "...If the ancestors of the Han people did not have any inheritance, by now, I am afraid that their words may not be as good as those of the Qiang people and the Han people. How strong is the Xiongnu... I have met some ordinary Han people, some of whom are over half a hundred years old, but they can't even tell the value within ten... The Han people are stronger than the Hu people, it is the inheritance, if there is no inheritance, the Han people are also Hu people..."

It is not difficult for a person who has never had any vocabulary to understand the two words sun and moon, but it is not difficult to let him understand "the sun lives in the moon, shining down on the earth", or "looking at the sun and the moon, leisurely thinking" In other words, it would be better to simply ask for his life, maybe it would be simpler.

  Even in later generations, savages or wolf children appeared, and these people who were separated from social education basically lost the most basic language communication skills.

  The longer the Han Dynasty, the more Fei Qian knew the importance of the gentry. Always clamoring to promote the imperial examinations to overthrow the gentry in the Han Dynasty, and always talking about who is afraid of others with a knife, in Fei Qian's view, it is tantamount to idiotic dreams. Before cultivating a large number of people who have mastered the basic knowledge, hastily laying down heavy hands on the only inheritance. Is this a kind of progress, or a kind of retrogression?

  And these foundations, or in the eyes of later generations, are extremely shallow things, but in the Han Dynasty, they are not like the air or sunshine that everyone can enjoy...

   Liu Xie was silent.

  After a long time, Liu Xiecai said: "...is this the reason why Aiqing opened a school in Pingyang?"

   "...Your Majesty, that's exactly the case..." Fei Qian nodded and said. Of course, there are many purposes for Feiqian to open a school, but one of the obvious aspects is to teach and pass on knowledge in the name of a school. Compared with the current model of family inheritance in the Han Dynasty, the popularity will be wider .

   "... I'm going to take a look," Liu Xie turned to look at Fei Qian and said, "...After arriving in Pingyang, I'm going to visit the Taoshan Academy..."

   "I would like to follow your majesty's wish." Fei Qian nodded and said, "...However, there is one more place, I suggest that your majesty should go there too..."

   Liu Xie said: "Where?"

   "In Pingyang, there is not only a school, but also a Han family's Hall of Valor..." Fei Qian said, "From Weichen to Bingzhou, all blood-stained people, regardless of soldiers, entered the Hall of Valor..."

   "Regardless of soldiers?" Liu Xie raised his eyebrows.

   Fei Qian said: "That's right. Regardless of the soldiers and generals, they are all Han people, guarding the country for the country, and opening up borders for the Han, but they are all Han spirits..."

"Good. I will go too." Liu Xie nodded, then paused for a while, and suddenly said, "...I understand...Zigong once said, the way of civil and military has not fallen to the ground, but human beings, the sages recognize the great ones , those who are not wise know their little ones... Is that what Aiqing means?"

   Civil servants and military generals have always been a point of contention above the court. The stories that have to be told between civil servants and generals are actually consuming the national strength of the entire country little by little, and eventually lead to the country's decline.

Most dynasties used generals at the beginning, but after the founding of the country, they used the strategy of raising pigs to deal with and suppress generals. Often, when they needed these generals in the later stage, they suddenly discovered that these generals had been really cultivated. got a pig...

Fei Qian solemnly bowed his hands towards Liu Xie, and said: "Your Majesty is wise. Nowadays, the Han family seeks great sages, and also seeks not sages. The masters of the world are also masters. If the master does not learn, how can we be afraid?" If you learn from Handan, are you afraid of losing your footing?"

  Liu Xie nodded slowly, agreeing.

"Therefore, I have something to ask, please Your Majesty's permission..." Fei Qian said with a slight smile, "...If Your Majesty also thinks that the humble minister's statement is a little reasonable, I ask His Majesty to issue a 'Decree for Seeking Talents' after arriving in Pingyang, Seek the world's great sages, and also seek the world's unsages, so as to follow the Han family's way of civil and military..."

  (end of this chapter)