Chapter 36: The Rule of Officials
In the special field of politics, it is really not worth wasting your life to fight for a future that is likely to be a bamboo basket.
In this life, when you close your eyes and leave, you feel that this life is worth it.
Then I didn't reincarnate in vain.
But if you say, you still chose this field without hesitation. The margin for error is extremely low, the winner takes everything, and the loser has no bones.
You're going to have to accept the rules of some particular area.
On the first day of going into the water, I had to tell myself that this life was very bearable and I couldn't bear a future in the end, but in order to see if I had a script, I accepted the price!
Give up happiness and hatred, throw away the flowers, and abandon the joy of family, just to finally gamble on the roulette wheel of fate! Then you have to be patient with opponents who you can't win for the time being, or even for the rest of your life.
It wasn't until today that Liu Xun realized how ridiculous his previous actions and thoughts were. thinks that Huo Guang is the same as Zhou Bo and Chen Ping is generally easy to deal with, and he will be able to subdue Huo Guang in two or three years, because his ancestor Taizong Han Wen Emperor Liu Heng won the victory in this way. Reality is the sharpest knife of murder ideals, and it will wipe out all your illusions.
Liu Xun, who was sitting on the jade chariot and figured out everything, said: The first emperor was kind, Ze was admired by the Quartet, and all the people admired. I, Debo, am afraid of ruining the great cause of the first emperor. I decided to keep filial piety for the first emperor for three years, and prayed for the first emperor day and night in the ancestral temple in the palace. All matters between the DPRK and China will be handed over to the prime minister for handling.
Huo Guang, who was in the same car, heard the words of the Son of Heaven, and hurriedly knelt down to thank him: The minister is despicable, thanks to Emperor Xiaowu, the first emperor and His Majesty's trust, so he waited to sit in a high position. Today, His Majesty entrusted this heavy trust to the minister, and the minister could only bow and die as hard as he could. But the minister is stupid and doesn't know how to govern the country, so as to live up to the trust of the world, and ask Your Majesty to make it clear.
Hearing Huo Guang's words, Liu Xun understood that this was Huo Guang's politeness. However, after nearly 20 years of cultivation and recuperation, the people have gathered a large amount of wealth. But all this wealth is concentrated in the hands of a small number of people, who have aggressively annexed land, and Liu Xun himself has been visiting the people in recent years. The problem of land annexation began to be serious again, and the first emperor reigned for more than ten years, but because of the sequelae of many years of foreign conquest, he did not move widely to enter Guanzhong to enrich the mausoleum area. As a result, the local Haoqiang has become bigger again, and the homesteaders' policy of cultivating hundreds of fields has reached the brink of bankruptcy. Even in areas where the land in Guanzhong is not fertile, farmers work hard for a year, but instead owe money to make a living, and have to sell their children to pay off their debts.
This is the case in Guanzhong, and the south, Hedong, Qilu and other counties in the world are even more unorganized. How to solve the land problem must be the biggest problem facing the monarch of the entire Chinese feudal society.
Thinking of this, Liu Xun asked rhetorically: Prime Minister, what are your unique insights on the rule of five husbands and hundreds of fields?
Huo Guang was not surprised to hear Liu Xun's question, as long as the elite of the empire had already seen this drawback. As the de facto ruler of this empire for more than ten years, Huo Guang understood the extent of the crisis better than anyone else on the issue of land annexation. In the moral land of Qilu, ordinary people who own more than ten acres of land are in the minority. If it weren't for the abundance of handicraftsmen in Qilu who made 60% of the cloth in China, the city would have been destroyed in ruins by the popular uprising. The report of the poetry collection group and the inspection of the imperial history in the southeastern counties said that the time of collapse had reached the time of collapse. There are already more than 100,000 displaced people in various counties, and it is not that he Huo Guang does not dare to deal with this group of Xiaoxiao, but the power disputes within Chang'an City have only subsided in recent years. And when the son came to power, the edict of never giving more money also gave the poor people a chance to breathe. This is also the reason why Huo Guang conceded to Liu Xun on the appointment of the empress, but the implementation of any policy requires a large number of officials. Every year, there are only a few filial piety people recommended by each county, and most of them are moral gentlemen who are full of benevolence and morality, but cannot do practical things. Huo Guang thought of this and said: Your Majesty, it is difficult to maintain the Han family in today's Han Dynasty. There are thousands of rich people, and there are many poor people who have no place to stand. Civil uprisings in the south, Qilu and other places occur every day. Minor repairs for headaches and foot pain are out of date. The southeastern refugees have reached a point where they are out of control, and marching into encirclement and suppression is the only way. Even in Guanzhong, there are countless sons-in-law rangers in various counties. More crucially, there were no competent officials in the DPRK and China to appoint them. When they go to various places, they use local powerful people, the law is unclear, and the people are resentful. Local officials, in collusion with local clans, took advantage of their power to gamble and wantonly annex land, violating law and discipline. The history of the assassination of each county was repeatedly reported, but because people could not control it, they reported it to the county guard, and it was not resolved later. Your Majesty, the rule of officials is fundamental!
Hearing Huo Guang's answer, Liu Xun immediately fell silent, he knew the difficulties of the common people in feudal society. In recent years, Liu Xun himself has been visiting various places, but he never thought of it. The world has come to this point, and Liu Xun does not doubt the authenticity of Huo Guang's words. Chaotic government and land annexation are the most fatal wounds of every feudal dynasty, and they will lead to the continuous blood loss of the dynasty. Later, it became an outcastic rebel army, completely overthrowing all the members of the ruling class to the ground, and this is the famous historical cycle. To solve this problem, a large number of officials must be needed, but a balanced number must be maintained, and the civil service examination in later generations can solve this problem.
Liu Xun immediately spoke: Prime Minister, how many people are there in the Baishi Yamen of the Jiuqing Yamen in Chang'an, and there is no need to report it to me immediately. After returning to Chang'an, the prime minister made statistics, and then registered and kept a record. I have an idea that I don't know if it works? , gather the hundred stone officials in Beijing and admonish them. Assigned to the southeast, Hedong, Hexi and other places, he was appointed as the chief official of a county.
Keep the remaining positions, hold an examination in Chang'an, gather people of insight from all over the world, and use the remaining official awards to take the exam and score high. The prime minister, the imperial historian and the Jiuqing can formulate examination questions according to their positions, such as law, civil affairs, arithmetic and other questions, which must be the knowledge required by civil affairs. In this way, the problem of lack of manpower in the DPRK and China can be solved. Filial piety and honesty do have the problem of talking clearly. However, our Han family has ruled the country with filial piety, and we also need filial piety to preach it. Prime Minister, what do you think?
Huo Guang immediately began to think after listening to the words of this young genius, this method is very good and highly operable. In this way, the problem of manpower was solved, and the monopoly of local officialdom by local clans was put an end to it. It is okay to cultivate sentiment through the collection of poems, but there are too many disadvantages of being an official in the court. There is no way to solve the complicated situation in the local area, how many filial and honest officials ran back to the bus in disgrace, and the rest are also in the same stream with the local clans. After thinking about it for a long time, Huo Guang found that there was no drawback to this method and immediately said: Your Majesty, far-sightedness is not comparable to the ministers, but I don't know who is responsible for this matter, and whether there is a distinction between schools.
In the face of Huo Guang's temptation, Liu Xun smiled slightly and didn't care, Liu Xun knew that the biggest magic weapon in his hand was the memory of his previous life, and his familiarity with the shortcomings of history as a student of the history department. In his previous life, Liu Xun understood the difference between the advantages and disadvantages of the imperial examination and the civil service examination, and which one was more suitable for governance. If you want Liu Xun to be in charge of specific things, you don't have any governing experience, and you also need to think that Huo Guang, a top master who has been immersed in officialdom all the year round, can be implemented smoothly, and it is good to check the general direction yourself, since this is the case, it is better to let Huo Guang implement it. Liu Xun looked at Huo Guang in front of him and said: "I am still too young to learn such a major national event. It's just that there is an immature idea, and it needs to be implemented together with hundreds of officials. This matter was supplemented by the prime minister and Jiuqing and others, and was jointly formulated and reported to me. There is also the prime minister, the first emperor's Pingling is sparsely populated, when the local clans are migrated to increase the population of Guanzhong, the backbone is weak, that is the national policy of Emperor Gao, and the descendants of the Liu family should be respected together. As for the surplus population in Guanzhong, in two days, the prime minister of the DPRK and China must come up with a practical plan for everyone to discuss. Zheng Jili Western Regions Protectorate is the time of lack of manpower, if the Guanzhong officials are willing to go together, those who do not enter the stream will be rewarded with 100 stones, and those who will be promoted to 1000 stones, and the Western Regions will be protected by 2,000 stones, and the officials of the same people will be divided according to Emperor Gao's Juntian Order. The three dukes of the court, the nine kings, the clan, the relatives, the liehou, the feudal monarch, and the big and small martial lords can all go to the subject country for the record, and the sect is divided. According to the size of each household, each family gets 3,000 acres of land, and so on according to the position, and the rewarded land shall not be wasted, and the prime minister's mansion shall check it once a year, and the wasted person will take back the fief. Prime Minister, this matter will be discussed together with the examination in the Shuowang Dynasty, but the affairs of the Western Regions must be promulgated immediately and the officials and people will be summoned.
Chang Hui and Fan Mingyou must immediately rush to Hexi to take charge of the overall situation, and Fan Minh You must quickly sort out the Shengqiang in Liangzhou and other places, and explore the land that can be settled and establish villages in the mountains of Hexi. Wuhuan and other departments have a tendency to become bigger, and Wuhuan's routine annual gifts have not arrived in Chang'an for more than ten years, and the Wuhuan captain has not reported combat training. Prime Minister, so Hou Huogong, the champion of the Great Sima, allowed them to graze in Hexi, and also allowed them to serve as soldiers and generals, but he was completely ungrateful at all, which made me very angry, and asked the general Fan Mingyou to take back my gifts, and by the way, he asked me to ask Captain Wuhuan if he was still the people of the Han Dynasty and my courtiers. And Chang Hui needs to rush to Juyan City immediately to sit in the town to prevent the Huns from moving. After the establishment of the post-establishment matter, the prime minister also needs to pay attention to one or two, understand the opinions of the ministers, and listen to the instructions of the queen mother. Tonight, I am going to hold a banquet in the Qingliang Hall to entertain the envoys of Wusun, and the prime minister and other relevant people must arrive to explore the reality of Wusun together.
Things are complicated in the court, and the prime minister has worked hard, so someone came to give the prime minister a sword to the palace to show the prime minister's hard work.