Don't think that the ancients were stupid. On the contrary, they are very smart, but they are limited by their vision and the times.

In this era, it makes sense not to promote people with the ability to govern, but to promote filial piety.

Whether it is the inspection system or the imperial examination system, it is actually for the rule of the country. In a sense, it's for brainwashing.

Think about it, what is the example of filial piety? It is the Confucianism of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness.

If you want to be an official, you have to know and do these four words. As long as you do these four words, then things will be easy to do. No matter what your management ability is, at least ensure that your thinking is correct and that you can obey the management of the central government, and that is enough.

The rulers do not care what happens to the people below, they only care about their country and status. These officials, who have been brainwashed by Confucianism, are unlikely to rebel in any case.

As long as you don't rebel, there is nothing wrong with your brain, and you can toss in the place. As long as there is no boiling of public resentment or revolt, the central government will not care about you at all.

Because the Han is too big, if you want not to split, you have to ensure the unity of thought and the obedience of the people under your command. And the system of filial piety and honesty has done this brilliantly. It not only made the officials in various places obedient, but also made the orthodox ideas of the Han Dynasty deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Isn't this what Liu Bei can make a fortune by? In the whole world, the people who don't know a single big character know that the Han family is orthodox and know what loyalty is.

The purpose of inventing the method of promoting filial piety and honesty is to better manage the country and unify thinking, not to develop national strength or the like.

Therefore, this system is actually very good in this era. A very noble social atmosphere has been formed. Countless scholars and even the common people attach great importance to loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness, and all kinds of righteous people, filial sons and loyal ministers emerge in endlessly.

And the appearance of the recruitment order is because in the troubled times, if you want to win the world, there is a lack of truly useful talents.

However, unlike guarding the world, which focuses on stability, what is needed to fight the world is really useful talents.

Defending the world is because he thinks that there are no threatening opponents around, and he just needs to keep all this. It doesn't matter if you don't make progress, you're already alone anyway.

It's like taking an exam, you just need to be able to get the first place out of everyone. Does it make sense to have more?

When you find that you have the foundation, you can get 70 or 80 points if you don't study, while everyone else has less than 40 points. Then you basically have no interest in learning anymore, because it is tiring and meaningless.

Without a sense of crisis, how can progress be made?

Now that Yuan Shu has crossed over, he knows what a sense of crisis is.

Dahan can score 80 points now, but there are still three people who can score more than 70 or even 80 points squatting in the west.

What's more, now that the world is in turmoil, I'm afraid that the strength of the big man is almost gone.

In troubled times, the princes pursued a unified world. Therefore, a large number of talents are needed, and the recruitment order comes into being.

As for the later imperial examinations, it was created by Emperor Yang of Sui in order to break the monopoly of the family on politics and to cultivate and enable the Hanmen.

In fact, the imperial examination is also very interesting. Similar to Confucianism, which embraced all things, the imperial examination was also a policy that embraced filial piety and recruitment.

When the country encounters a crisis, it can have more current political problems. Raise a group of capable officials to govern the country and develop national strength.

And when the country is strong, it can produce some poems and songs, four books and five classics, and so on, and cite some incompetent people with correct thinking to stabilize the country.

After all, in ancient times, when transportation and communication were inconvenient, if you wanted to manage a remote place, it was the safest to send a leader with correct thinking and insufficient ability.

Correct thinking ensures that he will not easily rebel and rebel. And the lack of ability ensures that even if he rebels, he will not pose much of a threat.

This is also a policy of fooling the people in a sense. Aren't the Ming and Qing dynasties the best at this trick! Use the eight strands to fool the officials and cultivate a group of loyal servants to consolidate the imperial power. I don't care that this restricts the minds of the scholars and hinders the progress of society.

If you think about it, is it appropriate to let a group of rotten people who only know how to take exams and study scriptures run the place? Even if he does a good job in doing the questions, it can only prove that he reads the scriptures and books well, and he can't see the actual governing ability at all.

So don't think that the imperial examination is really so glamorous. In addition to breaking the monopoly of the family, in essence, he just combined filial piety and recruitment orders, and then put on a more beautiful skin.

There are really not many people who can really do meritocracy. Later, there was even a subdivision of the imperial examination.

For example, in the Qing Dynasty, the Manchus and Han people conducted the imperial examinations separately, and the common people and officials conducted the imperial examinations separately.

Why? Because the Manchus were no better than the Han Chinese, the officials hoped that their descendants would have a greater chance.

Both the probationary system and the imperial examination system are essentially for the purpose of stabilizing the rule, and there are many cats. However, the latter is beneficial to the rulers and the children of the poor, and it is also more mature.

Why did Confucianism become the orthodox ideology that has influenced China for thousands of years? It's because it's inclusive of all things. You can tolerate all the sons and hundreds of schools. The imperial examination, similar to Confucianism, also achieves this very well.

On the surface, it seems to be a meritocracy, how lofty and justifiable, but in fact, who is not following the emperor's thoughts?

It's the same as Confucianism. In times of peace and prosperity, filial piety is preached, and the country's crisis is in Confucianism.

Ancient Chinese rulers always believed that the only place suitable for the Han people to live was so large.

The north is the grassland, the east is the sea, the west is the Gobi, and the south is a miasma.

Even if we know that there are many powerful countries and suitable environments in the farther West, so what? It's too far!

The Emperor of Han could not manage such a large territory at all, and he was unwilling to seal these places to others, so as not to cause a situation like the late Zhou Dynasty, where the master was weak and the servant was strong.

In the eyes of Han Tianzi, it is useless to knock down these places and seal them out. After all, nothing can threaten the big man, and those who threaten are killed.

Like the Northern Huns, they jumped for a while, and the result? was chased all the way to Europe by the Great Han. In this way, the Northern Huns, who fled in a hurry and suffered a great loss of vitality, also defeated the Roman Empire.

How can you make Han Tianzi not confident? There is no country to fight in the world! More is better than less, and if these places are sealed out, something may happen!

When it comes to power planning and development, who can compare to the Han people? Maybe after a few decades, it will become a big enemy.

If you talk about attacking alien races, the whole country will be united. But if it is a country ruled by the same Han Chinese, then it is not good.

If you fight with your own people, don't say anything else, there's nothing wrong with throwing yourself into the enemy or anything like that. Zhang Liao and Jiang Wei in the late Han Dynasty defected to the enemy, and what was the result? There is no hair. Because the so-called loyalty, the biggest concept is loyalty to the nation and the country, followed by loyalty to one's own lord.

As long as you don't go too far, no one can say anything about you. Liu Bei has sent people under the fence many times, recognizing people as the master, doesn't he still have the name of benevolence and righteousness?

Only Lu Bu is more miserable, and at the same time violates the two universal values of loyalty and filial piety, and it is again and again, so his reputation will stink on the street.

The infighting between the Han Chinese was much more troublesome and difficult than the fighting with the aliens. The greatest righteousness is the Han people, and everything else can be covered up.

For example, you can use the guise of the Qing monarch's side, isn't that what the princes do to ask for Dong? For another example, you can say that the Son of Heaven is incompetent and supports a puppet surnamed Liu.

These things are easy to discuss, but the general interests of the nation cannot be discussed at all.

Li Ling in the Western Han Dynasty is a prime example. Even if you pretend to defect to the enemy and surrender to the Huns. But no matter whether you really pretend to defect to the enemy or not, no matter how successful you have been in the previous battles, as long as there is one fact: you surrendered to the alien race and attacked the Great Han. (The latter article may be that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty misunderstood Li Ling at that time)

The result is not to say, the three tribes were wiped out.

Maybe there was a lot of it in it, but it turned out to be so cruel. If you dare to defect to a foreign race, you must be prepared to bear the infamy of eternity and never turn over.

Who would dare to do this? The universal value of this era is that reputation and family inheritance are the most important, more important than life.

No matter how poor the family is, even if there is only one valuable thing left, as long as the parents die, this valuable thing must be buried with them.

I'd rather starve to death than let my ancestors die a little more beautifully. This kind of thinking of taking fame and loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness as universal values, although it is a bit off in Yuan Shu's view, is generally very good.

I don't know whether the rampant materialism and the supremacy of interests in later generations are the progress or backwardness of the times.

At least in Yuan Shu's view, the people of this era are full of discipline.