In the study room of the Ganlu Palace, Qin Wan and Pei Xi sat on both sides of the desk, silent.

On the way to Pei Xilai, he had a stomach full of words to say in his heart, but the moment he saw Qin Wan, he found that he didn't have to say anything.

Because Qin Wan has made up his mind.

For some reason, Pei Xi suddenly felt an indescribable loneliness.

Although Qin Wan admires personal wisdom, she attaches more importance to the strength of the group, but whenever there is a major event of the family and the country, she always has to discuss one or two with important ministers and listen to everyone's opinions before making a final decision.

Pei Xi has known her for so many years, and Qin Wan has only gone his own way twice on major matters that affect the world.

Once she wanted to seize power and ascend the throne as emperor;

Once is now.

"Why?"

I don't know how long it took for Pei Xi to ask.

Why did you suddenly make such a decision?

Hearing his question, the boulder hanging high in Qin Wan's heart finally fell, she didn't hesitate any longer, and said to Pei Xi very calmly: "I suddenly figured it out, control is never really powerful. ”

She knew that Pei Xi could understand.

Of course, Pei Xi understands the feeling of being suppressed and never coming out. But he understands that Qin Wan has always been far-sighted in his work, especially this matter. So instead of nodding, his face became ugly: "Do you know that the imperial examination is the national policy of this dynasty!" ”

It is also the best strategy used by the royal family against the family.

He didn't say that.

Qin Wan's expression gradually relaxed, in stark contrast to Pei Xi.

She was happy, very happy.

Pei Xi really knew her as well as before, saw through her intentions at a glance, and thought about her wholeheartedly. Therefore, she said with a little ease: "I heard a rumor in the market, saying, 'Everything is inferior, only reading is high'? ”

"If the atmosphere is like this, what can be done?" Pei Xi said coldly, "Everyone wants to be an official, but there are very few Qingyun Avenue. Fighting a war is a good one, but not everyone has the life to earn military merits, and when they return triumphantly, there is no shortage of arms and legs. More are buried in the sand and returned to their hometowns with disabilities. In contrast, the imperial examination only needs to ******** study, even if it is difficult, in the end it is a road with a visible future and relatively stability. ”

His words were very unkind, and they were true.

In Great Xia, the common people and the landlord class wanted to change the fate of their own and even their families, and they had to be officials. It's just that there are too few ways to become an official, and Daxia has finally opened up the imperial examination, which can barely be regarded as opening up a road. If in the previous dynasty, the family monopolized everything, and the birth was determined to win or lose, and there was no other way to go.

The original intention of the Qin royal family to open the imperial examination was of course not purely for the country and the people, but to win over the Han Shu and deal with the family.

The reason why the subjects obtained in the imperial examination are mainly literary is also exquisite--they all say that they are poor and rich in martial arts, and martial artists who have worked hard since childhood, not to mention anything else, just food, a day is indispensable for six large bowls of chestnut rice, as well as all kinds of meat and sauces. This kind of consumption, how can the small landlord's family, which only has more than 100 acres of land and lives on rent, be able to sustain it? Unlike a scholar, even if you have a meal of porridge and side dishes, at most you are hungry and panicked, your body is a little worse, and your brain is not bad!

In fact, the families of the warriors who were able to support them belonged to the very wealthy category in the local area. These families are often inextricably linked to the family, and the Qin royal family is not at ease with them, and would rather always use the nobles who follow them to fight the world, rather than use those people willingly.

Probably because of the improper position of the founding emperor, in addition to Xu Ran's enthusiasm for expanding the territory and promoting his prestige abroad, his heirs liked infighting more than one another, and all their energy was focused on stabilizing the domestic situation.

Such a cycle has led to the family becoming more and more powerful day by day, the style of writing becoming more and more prosperous day by day, and the martial artists are declining day by day, and even the aesthetics have been greatly affected, from "pure men and real men" to "good men with powdered faces".

The previous dynasty also had hundreds of years of national fortune and hundreds of years of customs and habits, and it is not that they can be changed. Besides, rulers love to see that, too!

A good citizen should stay at home in peace, read and write all day long, and finally become a nerd who is powerless and thinks about how to be an official all day long; Instead of practicing martial arts every day, strengthening the body, going out on patrol with a sword when there is nothing to do, traveling the world, seeing a wide range of elites with their own thoughts.

Young people are very enthusiastic, in case when they travel the world, they see a certain place and kill them in anger. If it is not handled well, it may cause a big mess.

In the pre-Qin and Western Han dynasties, there have been countless examples of this kind.

The more heroes in the world, the more unfavorable the rule of the royal family will be, and the exploitation of the people by the family will also be very unpleasant. Therefore, in two successive dynasties, the people in power led the people in a further direction, which led to the intensification of the trend of emphasizing literature over military force in the world.

This is also very easy to explain, a nerd, with a blade, is dead, and there is no trouble; Change to a heroic hero and want to deal with him? I don't know who will kill whom!

Qin Wan didn't think there was anything wrong with such an atmosphere before, her father was a pure literati, and he was very good in her heart. But she also understands the consequences of allowing this trend to continue.

"Raising a son to study, not for reason, but for being an official." Qin Wan said.

Although her assessment is a little mean, it is not without reason.

Since you can become an official if you read well, then of course the people in the world are reading books one after another, and it doesn't matter what you can get and understand from books.

These people study in order to be officials; When he became an official, he wanted to be promoted, not for his family and country, and to do something practical for the people.

Just like what Qin Wan saw in Peng Ze when he was a child, the county magistrate named Liu Kuan, he treated the people leniently and suppressed Haoqiang, not because he wanted to do this, but because the eldest son of the emperor was here, and he wanted to show the eldest son of the emperor, even if the eldest son of the emperor no longer had a prince. But on such a day, Liu Kuan was obviously very unhappy, so he scattered all his family wealth and bribed Deng Jiang, hoping that he could leave here and go to a place where he could scrape the ground freely.

"If there is a hundred acres of fertile land in the family, one of the children will study, and he will not produce or take care of housework. There are even clouds in the community, 'two ears do not hear what is going on outside the window, and only read the books of sages and sages'. Speaking of this, Qin Wan sneered, "With such a move, even if you get the position, how can you put it into a heavy responsibility?" ”

"Many people talk about their family and the world, and they are impassioned. If you want to ask the geometry of the harvest per acre, how the crops are irrigated, and how to calculate the household registration, you don't know anything. ”

Qin Wan's point of view, Pei Xi agrees.

A person who has been studying ******** since he was a child, and who doesn't care about anything else, may not be a good parent.

On the contrary, if you are in charge of a strong army, fight with the enemy in blood and fire, and become a strong soldier in a hundred battles, you can definitely govern the place well!

No matter how strong Haoqiang is, in front of the army, he must prostrate and be a subordinate;

No matter how noble the family is, it is still vulnerable in front of the army.

A general who fights on the front line, no matter how bad he is, he also understands how to win people's hearts and command soldiers. More importantly, it is impossible for them not to know how much food a person needs in a day, how much food a cart and horse can carry, and even less that they cannot deal with a few petty officials!

Of course, there are no downsides to this, and the most obvious point is that it is difficult to control.

For the royal family, even if there are a thousand, ten thousand advantages, it is not comparable to this one disadvantage.

The people are being exploited, and the people are not able to make a living? If you die, you will die, and it won't affect the royal family's food and clothing anyway;

The family shows off its power in the local area, and the rent tax is eighty or even ninety? It doesn't matter, as long as the local taxes are paid on time and in quantity, the family will not work against the royal family in the court, turn a blind eye!

The army is not strong and is easily captured by the enemy? It doesn't matter, aren't the people of the frontier who are suffering? What does it have to do with the hinterland of the Central Plains? Anyway, the Central Plains is protected by natural hazards, and if you can't keep it, you just attribute the responsibility to the guards. Besides, the barbarians are nothing more than burning, killing, looting, and feeding them. Is it possible to become a barbarian, and still want to win the Central Plains? Even if it is robbed, the barbarians govern the country well, then it is called a joke.

Qin Wan thought that she was working hard for the country and the people, but only now did she realize that no matter how much she bothered households, cut taxes, and repaired rivers, she was just tinkering.

In this country, what really needs to be moved is not the bones and bones, but the soul.

Gradually weaken, live up to the hard soul of the past!

To be commanded by heaven is nothing but a lie to deceive oneself and others.

Since you are born as a human being, you will have your own thoughts, what are the kings and ministers, masters and slaves, genders, worldliness, rules, and etiquette...... It's just a cage built by people for various purposes.

Qin Wan had broken out of a cage that almost suffocated her, but she almost followed the same old path.

Fortunately, she was sober.

In this world, there is no reason why anyone can control whom, right?

Pei Xi was silent for a long time, and he didn't know how long it took before he frowned and said, "This road is too difficult." ”

The premise of being a martial artist is to be supported by one great battle after another, and one victory after another. And every war is a huge drain on the population, on the food, and on the money. If it doesn't work well, it can tear the empire apart.

National strength and people's power have never been just words.

Not only that, but the gradual change of magistrates from literati to military generals was a unique project, and if you want to act as little as possible without touching the interests of the inherent class, you can only continue to expand your territory, as was the case with this great victory over Goguryeo.

Only the successive victories and the continuous expansion of the territory, while improving the prestige of the king and the status of the military generals, also caused a huge gap in the number of officials in Great Xia.

Qin Wan looked at Pei Xi and said with a smile: "I thought that for you, there was nothing in the world that you couldn't do. ”