The reason why Liu Hou values Chen Qun is because this Chen Qun is the main founder of the "Jiupin Zhongzheng System" of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties election system and the Cao Wei Law "Wei Law". In other words, this guy is a genius who can establish institutions and laws.

This is fundamentally different from those nerds who can only read dead books~. People like Hua Xin, Zhong Xuan, and Wang Lang are all great Confucians, all of them are erudite and talented, and Zhong Xuan is still a calligraphy master, but in Liu Hou's eyes, these people are not as good as Chen Qun.

These people are people who only talk about what they know and can't do practical things. The key is that their little knowledge is also synonymous with ignorance and backwardness in Liu Hou's eyes. These people are bound by the Confucian classics, and their vision is too narrow, too rigid, and too limited.

With Liu Hou's insight and vision leading them by nearly two thousand, he could completely blow up several of their highways, so Liu Hou didn't need to listen to their way of governing the country at all. They are not even as good as Sima Yi.

Sima Yi is scheming, and he is not eclectic in his actions~ things, and he will not be bound by a set of benevolent and moral things, but Sima Yi can solve practical problems. Ask him what problems he encounters, he can often give a highly enforceable solution, and the solutions he gives are often imaginative, which ordinary people may not be able to imagine, but these solutions can indeed solve the problem.

In Liu Hou's eyes, as long as he can solve practical problems, it is enough, as for the ideas he sometimes comes up with are a bit cheeky, Liu Hou doesn't mind very much, in fact, in essence, Liu Hou is also such a person. It's just that his status as an emperor makes him pay more attention to the impact when he does ~ things.

On the other hand, these "three princes" quoted scriptures every time they spoke, but Liu Hou listened to them for a long time and felt that what they said was nonsense and could not solve any practical problems at all, so he had to send them to the college to teach.

Liu Hou felt that since they were great Confucians and cultural people, it was better to do learning, teaching and educating people, as for being an official, it was simply a professional mismatch. Especially Zhong Xuan, he is obviously a calligrapher, and his achievements in calligraphy can affect the ages, so it would be a waste for him not to study calligraphy.

In fact, not only Confucianism, but also Legalism, Moism, Yin and Yang, etc., have some people studying, Liu Hou is determined to restore the situation of a hundred schools of thought, and re-prosper the academic circles of ancient China, Liu Hou called it the Chinese Renaissance.

It's a pity that these three "three princes" who used to live in the court have all been reduced to teaching craftsmen. Wang Lang and Wang Su, father and son, had a deep study of scriptures, so they were responsible for proofreading Confucian classics. Later, Wang Lang wrote anthologies such as "The Biography of Zhou Yi", "The Biography of the Spring and Autumn Period", "The Biography of the Book of Filial Piety", and "The Biography of Zhou Officials".

Wang Su annotated classics such as "Shangshu", "Poems", "Analects", and "Zuo Chuan", and both father and son made great achievements in academics. Hua Xin's achievements are not as high as Wang Langgao, but he also wrote thirty volumes of anthologies, which can be regarded as quite an achievement.

Zhong Xuan is quite accomplished in calligraphy, is the founder of regular script (small Kai), and is respected as the "originator of regular script" by later generations. He had a profound influence on later generations of calligraphy, and later generations of calligraphers such as Wang Xizhi had devoted themselves to studying Zhong Xuan's calligraphy. Zhong Xuan and Wang Xizhi were called "Zhong Wang" in later generations.

This is also a rare talent, of course, Liu Hou can't waste this kind of talent in vain, so Liu Hou asked him to teach calligraphy in the academy. He also made him the head ~ seat of the National Calligraphy Association.

Of course, the three of them were unwilling to change from being extremely human ministers to teaching craftsmen, but as ministers of the dead country, it was good to be able to save a life, so they didn't dare to show any dissatisfaction.

In the end, Liu Hou also took care of their face and gave each of them the title of sacrificial wine, which is equivalent to the status of the principal. However, this sacrificial wine is only honorable, or just enjoyable, but it does not have much power and cannot participate in the management of the academy.

Compared with the indifference to the "three princes", Liu Hou is of great use to Chen Qun, and he needs Chen Qun to help him establish a new political system and revise the law. Therefore, as soon as Liu Hou came up, he directly sealed Chen Qun the official position of a "Shangshu" and asked him to start researching and formulating a new political system.

Shangshu's official position is actually very large, especially for a subordinate of an enemy country, and looking at the fate of the "Three Princes", Chen Qun is even more grateful. He swore that he must die for the Han Dynasty and Emperor Jianxing.

Chen Qun, who was moved, wanted to dedicate his invention of the Jiupin Zhongzheng system to Liu Hou, but Liu Hou had no interest in it. As mentioned above, the probation system of the Han Dynasty had great flaws, and the discovery of talents was highly dependent on the recommendation of local officials.

This can easily breed corruption, and at the same time, it will also cause more and more people to become officials in those big families, and eventually the power of the whole country will be controlled by the big families. Chen Qun's invention of the Nine Grades Zhongzheng System selects talents based on the criteria of family background, morality, and talent.

At the same time, the implementation of the Jiupin Zhongzheng system also deprived the governors of prefectures and counties of the power to appoint their own subordinates, and the power to appoint and dismiss officials was brought back to the central government, which was conducive to strengthening the power of the central government. However, the Jiupin Zhongzheng system has not gotten rid of the shackles of relying on people's recommendation, that is, the criteria for selecting talents still rely on the subjective judgment of the Zhongzheng officials to a large extent.

In the long run, the Jiupin Zhongzheng system will definitely be used by the family clans like the inspection system, and finally the national politics will still be controlled by these family families. It is true that after the implementation of the nine-product Zhongzheng system in the Wei and Jin dynasties, it did play a positive role at the beginning, but with the passage of time, the selection criteria began to change.

First of all, most of the central officials who select talents are second-rank officials, and most of the selected talents are from major families above the second rank, and they often serve as high-ranking officials. Over time, the right to select officials was monopolized by the clans, forming a gate valve of "no poor people in the upper grades, and no scholars in the lower grades", and finally became a tool for the landlords of the clan to manipulate political power.

As the master of this country, Liu Hou absolutely does not want this to happen, and must break the monopoly of the family on the regime. Later emperors thought of many ways to do this, and the more effective ones were the imperial examination system and the three-province six-ministry system.

The imperial examination system can make the selection of talents completely based on the objective conditions of individual talent and knowledge, and has nothing to do with their background. In particular, the examination papers are scribbled or even copied before being read by the examiner, which basically eliminates the possibility of cheating with the examiner.

This made it impossible for those ministers who held important positions in the court to extend their hands to the imperial examinations, that is, those who were from the great families could not interfere with the country's talent selection ceremony. In this way, the common scholars will have a bright future, and after a long time, more and more scholars from poor families will flood the court, and those big families will no longer be able to monopolize the country's government affairs.