In the main hall of Shouchun Palace, Zhang Xiu lives on the upper seat. There are several cases on the left and right under the main hall, and Zhang Xiu's important advisers and ministers are all present.

There is another person at the bottom, making a bow gesture, facing Zhang Xiu.

That person was naturally the messenger sent by Yuan Shao - Xun Chen.

Xun Chen, a famous man who moves the world, does not have to be so formal. After all, he was born in the most influential and prestigious scholar clan in the Central Plains, the Yingchuan Xun clan, and he was respected wherever he went.

Not to mention that the ancestor of the Yingchuan Xun clan is the famous Xun Qing of the Warring States - the Xunzi who is second only to Confucius and Mencius in Confucianism, and the Xunzi who is the teacher of the Legalist Han Feizi. It is Xun Chen's previous generation of Xun's Eight Dragons, the top of which is the best among scholars and scribes. Not to mention that this generation also has Xun Chen and Xun You, a pair of top first-class celebrities in the world who are both capable of assisting the world, as well as Xun You, who is a generation lower, that is also a character with Wang Zuozhi's talent!

If the old Yuan family is the giant of the clan, then the Yingchuan Xun clan is definitely the leader of the Shi clan. The transcendent status leads to the fact that even if it is an ordinary child of the Xun family, wherever he goes, he only needs to show his identity, and there are a lot of Taishou assassin histories vying for it. Not only does it value the high quality and high quality of the Xun family's children, but also because the Xun family's status in the Confucian Legalists of the scholar clan is too important.

How to say, what the Yingchuan Xun clan said can represent at least half of the scholars in the Central Plains! You must know that at the end of the Han Dynasty, because Taixue was affected by the party ban launched by the eunuchs, official learning declined, while private learning flourished. There are two most important private teaching places in the whole world, which are in Qingzhou and Yuzhou. Qingzhou because of the Taishan Qufu Confucian Temple, Confucianism has always been prosperous. Since the beginning of this year, Zheng Xuan, the most accomplished Confucian since Confucius and Mengxunzi Dong Zhongshu, has taught classics, and private learning is extremely prosperous.

However, because Qingzhou is located in the northernmost easternmost part of Shenzhou, and the students in the west or south of the Han Dynasty are far away and remote, many people still choose Yuzhou, another birthplace of Confucianism in the center of the Central Plains, to study Confucianism. And because Zheng Xuan's ideology is not re-educated, more young scholars still choose the Yingchuan private school that focuses on the world.

And Xun is the representative and helmsman of the Yingchuan School!

Therefore, the status of Xun's scholars is transcendent.

But today, why did Xun Chen go against the norm and let go of his indifference and contemplation to meet other princes, but put on a posture that an envoy should have when meeting a prince?

This is all because Xun Chen came to Shouchun all the way and found that Zhang Xiu did not regard the family as a family at all in Huainan, even if it was the most tenacious clan force in the local township, most of them were uprooted by Zhang Xiu by violent means!

You must know that since the beginning of history, the theocratic sacrifice of Xia and Shang has declined, and the powerful nobles and slave owners of Shang and Zhou have also disappeared on the stage of history, but the clan power in the local township has always existed and developed. Central government decrees tend to prevail at the county level at most, and further down there is often room for local clans to exert themselves.

Take the article that you must not kill people in vain, since the pre-Qin period, there has been a saying that the murderer resists his life. Gaozu Liu Bang's original "Three Chapters of the Law" also inherited this article. Later, this was a law that had never been changed.

However, in many rural villages, although the villagers and mountain people share this concept, in many cases they prefer to listen to the judgment of the prestigious patriarch of the local clan rather than follow the law. And in many cases, they often decide the life and death of innocent people based on some customs. For example, the cheater dips in the pig cage, the widow who does not abide by the woman's way sinks into the river, and so on. Regardless of whether the life and death of these people can be conveyed to the yamen, even if they do, the local parents and officials will only turn a blind eye out of respect for local customs.

It is all too easy to turn a blind eye to this, because feudal society is fundamentally governed by man rather than the rule of law, and the law is in most cases just a tool used by bureaucrats to defend their own interests or to maintain the rule of the ruling class.

Fundamentally speaking, the economic foundation of the small-scale peasant economy and the natural economy determined that China's clan power was deeply rooted and could not be eliminated.

However, Zhang Xiu did it, and did it to weaken the clan power as much as possible.

Of course, because of natural disasters and man-made disasters, Zhang Xiu's congenital conditions for dealing with clan problems are excellent, but Zhang Xiu's acquired efforts are also indispensable.

When the basic survival of all people in a society is greatly threatened, the social relations and order of the society are the weakest.

When a person's daily hunger is bark and grass roots, where can he still take care of the preaching of the patriarch of the clan who has land and grain in the village.

The people of the Great Celestial Empire could not predict when and how natural and man-made disasters would occur, and the underdeveloped productive forces and feudal mentality made them unable to cope with droughts, locusts, floods, ice and snow disasters in most cases. But our wise ancestors have their unique cunning, this place is not allowed to be mastered, and there is a place for them to stay!

Whenever there is an irresistible disaster, people who can't bear it often drag their families and go to other places. The famine in Huainan increased the drought, but at least half of the people became part of the army of tens of millions of displaced people.

In this case, many of the originally entrenched clans no longer exist. And the measures taken by Zhang Xiu afterwards were also about the clan, and the strength was weakened to a minimum.

In fact, Zhang Xiu's first step was also to copy the policy of weakening the clan power of the previous dynasties, which was to disperse and resettle the displaced people, so that they would no longer return to the original state of one surname and one village, but live with multiple surnames, and cancel the tradition of using the surname to name the village and the name of the township on a large scale, so as to reduce the possibility of these residents with mixed surnames to change their surnames as much as possible.

The second step is the armor protection system pioneered by Zhang Xiu. Ten households are one guarantee, and the chief of the guarantee is established. Ten guarantees are a first, and a long is set up. The chief of the security department is responsible for public security and the implementation of county-level decrees, and the chief of the security chief must be elected by each household, and then must be reviewed by the county government. Zhang Xiu further stipulated that there should be three first-class villages and three first-class chiefs in turn. In this way, some small villages and large villages were assimilated, further weakening the proportion of local surnames and clans.

In fact, the armor protection system was not created by Zhang Xiu, but was the first to be formally implemented by the pre-Qin Shang Dynasty, with the purpose of strengthening the government's control over the grassroots and better implementing the joint sitting system. And Zhang Xiu's current direction of governance is gradually biased towards the Legalists represented by Shang Ying, and Zhang Xiu dares to restore the system of even sitting in Shang Ying to a certain extent, why does he not dare to restore the armor protection system?

Moreover, in later generations, the Northern Wei Dynasty has affected the stability of the central power because of the expansion of the powerful power of the clan, and the armor protection system has been used throughout the country. In the Song Dynasty and beyond, the armor protection system became a basic political system of the feudal dynasty.

Now Zhang Xiu, in order to achieve the goal of stabilizing Huainan to a solid point, the means are already exhausted!

The reason why Xun Chen took a different look at Zhang Xiu was not only because Zhang Xiu dared to do things that the world did not dare to think, but also because Zhang Xiu's current direction of governance was really in line with Xun's doctrine and concept.

Back then, Xunzi, the ancestor of the Yingchuan Xun clan, was famous among the princes and hundreds of schools because of the collection of Confucian legalists. As the inheritor of Xunzi's bloodline and doctrine, Yingchuan Xun has always insisted on emphasizing Confucianism and Legalism.

This concept of governance has reached the most obvious practice in the hands of Xun Chen's brother Xun Yu! Xun Yu, who attached importance to Confucian benevolence, righteousness, loyalty and filial piety, paid attention to the maintenance of the last dignity of the Han Dynasty and won the greatest political capital for Cao Cao. For example, the strict criminal law made the people in the area controlled by the Cao clan right, and supported Tuntian to stabilize the military and civilians, etc.

And now in Zhang Xiu's politics, Xun Chen has seen more than Xun Yu's practice. Although this young prince also attaches great importance to the Confucian set of benevolence, righteousness, loyalty and filial piety, it seems that he only wants to use Confucian things at the ideological level. In terms of building the army for the government, this heroic-born general has applied more Legalist things.

However, it is precisely because he has grasped a certain degree that he seems to know more deeply that if he practices the things of the Legalists too much, he can see great benefits in the short term, but he will not be beneficial in the long run. So I just organically borrowed some things, added my own measures, and divided the limits to implement them.

The southernmost part of Yuan Shao's sphere of influence was Qingzhou. The closest place to Huainan embroidered by Zhang is still Qingzhou. But there is also a Mount Tai and a whole Xuzhou obstacle in the middle.

At present, the defense of Qingzhou to the north of Xuzhou is in charge of Zang Ba, the governor of Qingyan appointed by Cao Cao, who is extremely familiar with the terrain of this border. Since he took over the integration of Cao Jun in Yanzhou and Xuzhou, Yuan Jun's scout spies have been unable to go deep into Yanzhou and Xuzhou to investigate secrets.

And Xun Chen came here to bring 300,000 pieces of grain and grass, and he didn't take the land route. Instead, it started from the coastal port of Qingzhou, bypassing Xuzhou under Cao Cao's control directly by sea and reaching Guangling County. When he came, because he heard that Liu Bei had already established himself in Guangling, Xun Chen gave Cao Cao the order and brought an extra 80,000 grains and grass to Liu Bei. Then cross the Huai River through Guangling and arrive at Shouchun, Jiujiang County.

Yuan Shao, who has been in Qingzhou and Jizhou for a long time, has a powerful sailor in his hands. Although Yuan Shao himself was a Continental Armyist, Hebei's unique geographical location required Yuan Shao to build a reliable naval division that could transport troops and supply logistics when crossing the Yellow River to the south in the future.

Although Yuan Shao only planned to treat the sailors as grain ships and troop carriers, and rarely made warships to be launched, Xun Chen came to the vast hundreds of huge ships, and only a few ships escorted them, but Yuan Shao and Xun Chen never worried about safety.

Because there was really no enough threat along the way, although Cao Cao dominated the Central Plains, he never had the conditions and spare strength to forge a sailor. Moreover, it was only this year that Xuzhou was occupied, and finally there was a coastal harbor in Xuzhou, which could break away from the low-level level of training sailors only by relying on the Yellow River. But the time was too short, and there were no ships available to cruise the sea at all.

To put it bluntly, the reason why Xun Chen's grain ship is also equipped with a warship is not to consider the threat of Cao Cao's sailors at all, but to deal with the pirates and water thieves who are rampant in the sea!

http://www.17k.com/zhuanti/chongzhi201511/h5/?key=h5lb

【Countdown】Recharge up to 60% rebate, recharge quickly to participate in the event, miss out on a year of regret! Click here to participate