The family of the Han Dynasty has more or less some inheritance of scriptures, and the big families have higher attainments in scriptures, and even have very high authority in some classics, such as the Yuan family in Meng's Yi, and the Yang family's attainments in Ouyang Shangshu, which are obvious to all, and those inferior families may not have such a status in scriptures, but there is no doubt about their scriptures. If they have no academic achievements, but only money and power, then their status will never be passed on for a hundred years, even if it was once brilliant in a certain period.

Although there was no such scholarly heirloom in the state, there was no doubt that most people were familiar with Confucianism and believed in Confucianism, even if it was verbal, but this created a contradiction, that is, the contradiction between the teachings of the sages and the use of the scriptures.

The strength of Confucianism lies in the unity of thought, in the respect of the imperial power, the interests of the whole above the interests of the individual, reasoning, that is, the interests of the country above the interests of the family, emphasizing the subordination of the individual to the family, and the family is subordinate to the monarch, loyalty is derived from filial piety, that is, the so-called loyal ministers out of the family of filial piety.

However, there is a major flaw in the Confucian theory, the basis of his set of ideas lies in blood relations, and within the family that is related by blood, this theory is not too problematic, once it is extrapolated outside the family, and when there is a relationship with interest groups that are not related by blood, this set of theories seems incompatible, and there will even be contradictions.

For example, in the conflict of interests between the country and the family, if we follow the teachings of the sages, of course, it is the country before the family, but when it comes to real work, most of them still put the interests of the family first. If it is said that in the patriarchal society of the Western Zhou Dynasty, which was based on the feudal system, the princes and the Son of Heaven still had a common interest orientation, then in the imperial era of the county system, there was no blood bond between the empire and the family, and the interest relationship between them became conflict-based.

What is the essence of the Shang Martingale Reform? It is to fight against the nobles who rob the country's wealth and concentrate all the financial and material resources in the hands of the king, which is like tightening the five fingers and squeezing them into a fist, so as to make more effective use of these financial and material resources and gain an advantage in the competition with the other six countries.

The Battle of Changping was a life-and-death battle between Qin and Zhao, and both sides exerted their greatest strength, but Qin won in the end, why? On the one hand, it is because of the famous general Bai Qi of the Qin State, but the Zhao State uses Zhao Kuo, on the other hand, the Qin State vividly concentrates all its strength, and King Qin Zhao conscripts all the men under the age of fifteen in the country into the army, and exerts all the national strength to fight to the death.

What is Zhao Guo doing? Zhao Guo is fighting in the house. How can he be undefeated?

Qin because of this policy swept the world, the fight against the strong, strong and weak branches became the most instinctive choice, the Qin State died, the Han Dynasty rose, but this policy has not changed, starting from the Han Gaozu Liu Bang, the strong and powerful around the concentration near the capital, is a basic policy, under the unremitting blow, the Western Han Dynasty, the power of the strong has not been vigorously developed, and has not formed a family that has an impact on the imperial power.

This situation had a fundamental change in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu started with the support of powerful landlords and won the world, his heroes are basically Haoqiang, the Eastern Han Dynasty, Haoqiang and the struggle for wealth has not stopped, in fact, when Emperor Guangwu himself reigned, the imperial power has been powerless against Haoqiang. It's just that Emperor Guangwu, Emperor Ming and Emperor Zhang are still capable, and the population was not large at that time, and the contradictions in the struggle for land had not yet reached the point of being irreconcilable, so it was not revealed. With the multiplication of the population, the strength of the powerful landlords became stronger and stronger, and this contradiction gradually became prominent.

This contradiction is highlighted by the split in the thoughts and actions of these families, who believe in the teachings of the saints who are loyal to the monarch and patriotism, and on the other hand, who are insatiably competing with the state for population and land, hollowing out the foundations of the state. In fact, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the economic situation of the royal family has always been a big problem, and Emperor Guangwu himself could only subsidize the royal family's own wealth to Dasi Nong because of the lack of state in charge of Dasi Nong.

This problem is manifested in the merger of states, that is, everyone knows that if the merger states fall into the hands of the barbarians, none of them will have good fruits to eat, but it is even more difficult for them to spit out the excess land they occupy and take out the wealth they have embezzled. It's like everyone knows that this ship is already in danger, but no one dares to take out the board in their hands to fill the hole, on the contrary, they have to scramble to grab the little board left, lest they suffer a loss.

When the ship sank, everyone was unlucky, but if you didn't grab the ship's board, it would be someone else's advantage, and I would be unlucky alone.

In this case, the looming crisis will only make them more crazy, not make them sane.

Wang Yun felt that he was one of the few sane people, but now he had to face countless crazy people.

The negotiations were very arduous, and they spoke beautifully, each one more impassioned than the other, but as soon as they talked about specific interests, they immediately changed their faces, crying poor and crying poor, pretending to be stupid, and refusing to take the initiative to bleed.

Wang Yun was very angry, his mouth was blistering, Liu Xiu gave him through the hole cards, if the negotiation failed, then Liu Xiu would use force, and his own ability would be greatly questioned. But in the face of the opposition of other families, he couldn't tell the difference, because even his Wang family was unwilling to easily spit out the benefits he had already obtained, and supported Liu Xiu unreservedly.

Liu Xiu now wants to reorganize the army, to Tuntian, and is still running Jinyang Academy, this is not something that can be solved by tens of millions, and a rough estimate shows that there are no five or six hundred million yuan.

Is five or six hundred million or not? It's really not much, although it's a little difficult, but these families can still make it together. The problem is that Liu Xiu wants to fight a war and start a war with the Xianbei people, and this war cannot be solved by three or five hundred million, and in a year, there is no two billion to talk about.

won the war, the credit belongs to Liu Xiu, and what can the people of Bingzhou get? What else can the Xianbei people have except a little cattle and sheep, if they have money, they will not go to the Central Plains to rob them. Their land could not be cultivated, and it was useless to occupy it, and the little booty was not enough to compensate for military expenses. Lost? Needless to say, it must be bloodless.

In that case, then why should we pay to help you fight?

In the past few days, Liu Xiu has not been to attend the meeting, he is busy with the opening of Jinyang Academy, the first phase of students is less than 100 people, and most of them are the protons of the Huns, which makes Cai Yong very unhappy, busy for a long time, I was originally a Mr. for the Huns? He was angry and went back to Jinyang City to hug his daughter. Duan Cheng didn't want to give lectures to the Huns, so he simply hid in the Longshan camp and trained those soldiers every day.

Fortunately, the Lu family did not pick a child, she took on the task of lecturing these students, but this lesson is not so easy to teach, the Huns are still easy to do, they respect the Lu family like a god, more respectful than the great wizard, those Han students don't think so, listen to a witch lecture? Are you kidding. They dispersed in a hurry, ran to Liu Xiu and said, if this is still the case tomorrow, we will quit school. I'm not interested in listening to a witch talk about Taoism.

Lu Shi was very embarrassed and said to Liu Xiu, I'm really embarrassed, I have lived up to the expectations of adults.

Liu Xiu scratched his head, he thought for a while, and then said to those students, let's do it, I'll give you a lecture, what do you think? When those students listened, they were a little interested, they still remembered what Liu Xiu had told about the earthquake in the square that day, and they really wanted to hear what new things Liu Xiu could tell them.

Liu Xiu prepared well, and stepped on the large lecture hall of Jinyang Academy the next day.

"What are you going to tell us today, my lord?" A student in his twenties shouted below.

"The Relationship Between Preaching and Technique." Liu Xiu smiled slightly, and waved his hand to those students who were scratching: "Don't be in a hurry, anyway, I only need half an hour, and this half an hour is finished, if you want to leave, I will not stop you, and I will give you a passage fee to ensure that you will not be delayed to go home." ”

Those who were originally very disgusted by this topic listened to it, and then sat down patiently.

Liu Xiu walked slowly on the podium with his hands behind his back, and talked eloquently: "I know, when you hear the word Taoism, you think of witchcraft and curse, which is contrary to the teachings of the master. But I want to say to you, in fact, this Dao is far more than witchcraft and curses, it includes the Great Dao. The Son of Heaven doesn't talk much about heaven and surname, why is that? It's not that the master doesn't understand it, it's that these truths are too complicated for ordinary people to understand. ”

"Since the master doesn't talk about it, can the adults talk about it?" A student stood up and shouted.

"Just because the Master doesn't talk about it doesn't mean I can't talk about it." Liu Xiu was neither angry nor frustrated, and said calmly: "When I finish speaking, everyone only needs to judge whether it is right or wrong, and it doesn't seem to matter with the master." ”

"The Master is naturally intelligent, and what he doesn't understand, can an adult understand? Is the Master wiser than the Master? ”

"I don't dare to say if I am smarter than the Master, but I dare to say that there are some things that I understand, but the Master may not understand." Liu Xiu's attitude was very modest, but he said very confidently.

There were boos below, these students, who were more or less educated in Confucian classics and regarded the master as a saint, obviously disagreed with Liu Xiu's self-righteousness.

"That's good." Liu Xiu took a ring knife next to him and shook a knife flower in his hand: "Does the master know that a hundred tempers are made into steel?" ”

The students who were expressing their disdain stopped abruptly and looked at each other, as if this was not mentioned in any of the scriptures.

"You don't have to doubt it, I can guarantee he doesn't." Liu Xiu smiled, and with a wave of his long knife, he cut off a corner of the table, and his accuracy and strength were perfect. "As we all know, copper is called US dollars, and iron is called evil gold, and for a long time, iron could not be used to make weapons at all, but only to make agricultural tools. But even a three-year-old child now knows that the sharpness of iron weapons is far from being comparable to that of copper weapons. ”

The students looked at each other and had to admit that Liu Xiu's words were right.

"So, who invented the principle of making iron into steel?" Liu Xiu held the knife and put away his smile: "The iron ring knife is a sharp weapon for my Han cavalry to defeat the Huns, but which saint has said these truths?" ”

The students were silent.

"I once asked Mr. Chen Jifang of Yingchuan to go to Xianbei and use the sage's classics to educate the Xianbei people, if he can succeed, I don't need to lead thousands of generals to lie on the ice and swallow the snow, throw their heads, spill blood, countless soldiers froze their fingers in the ice and snow, and hundreds of people fell on that land forever, but he said to me, against the Xianbei people, the saint classics are useless, only with a knife." He patted the knife ring: "Use an iron ring knife that the saint does not know at all." ”

"I don't dare to say that the saint scriptures are useless, but I can at least say that if you want to live in this world with dignity, it is not enough to have only the saint scriptures, but also to know more knowledge. Whoever doesn't admit it, well, I'll stand here with a knife, and whoever can beat me with the classics will go down the mountain. ”

The faces of the students suddenly became very ugly, take the classics to deal with the ring knife? What's the difference between this and looking for death. This is clearly a scoundrel.

Liu Xiu glanced at it majestically, and then continued: "Heaven and earth are humane, how vast they are, how can they be explained clearly in a few books of poetry, books, rites, and music, and the Spring and Autumn Period?" The Master's determination of the Six Classics is the merit of the Master, and our descendants have read it for hundreds of years, but it is our shame to still spin in the Six Classics. Shouldn't we be ashamed that when we reach adulthood we are as ignorant as a child, and that we have not made much progress in academics for hundreds of years? ”

"The Master said, "To know is to know, and not to know is not to know, and it is wisdom." And he said, A gentleman is ashamed of his ignorance. And you clearly don't know anything about Taoism, but you denounce it as a strange force and confusion, don't you have to study it, and you are satisfied with chewing words, looking for chapters and sentences, and being a parasitic silverfish, don't you feel ashamed? ”

"My lord, why are we silverfish?" A student with a flushed face suddenly stood up and retorted angrily.

"What good do you have but to consume food?" Liu Xiu asked unceremoniously: "You can speak a few scriptures, but those few scriptures are not clichés that have been chewed up by predecessors?" What insights do you have in mind, or what kind of wealth have you created? With you and without you, what's the difference? ”

The student was so dumbfounded by him that he stood there awkwardly, neither sitting nor walking.

"Think about it, you live in this world, in addition to clothing and eating, what contributions do you have to your family, what contributions do you have to this world, do you have unique insights, or what kind of wealth have you created."

"Do you want us all to be farmers or craftsmen?"

"If that's the case, why should I spend so much effort to build Jinyang Academy and spend so much money to support you?" Liu Xiu smiled slightly: "There are two kinds of wealth, one is material wealth, which is the grain grown by farmers and the utensils made by craftsmen, and the other is spiritual wealth, which is the exploration and research of the Great Road." He raised the cold glistening knife again: "For example, if we discover the secret of turning iron into steel, we can turn a piece of evil gold into a sharp war knife, which seems to be a very inconspicuous discovery, but it can sweep away the shame that the Huns inflicted on my Han, which is more useful than planting a few acres of land and building a few cars." ”

"That's what the adults say?"

"It's this, but it's not just this." Liu Xiu shook his head: "There are still many things you have to study, and the professors will gradually teach them to you in the future." I would now like to raise the most practical question, how much arable land is available in the prefecture, how much population can it support, how many troops can it support, and how can these troops block the incursion of the Xianbei people on our Han people. What problems are involved in this question, you can think about it carefully, if anyone can give me a satisfactory answer, I can say, you don't need to study in Jinyang Academy, you are a real talent who is useful for the country and the family, not a scholar who can only talk empty words. ”

Liu Xiu put his hands on the case and looked around: "Can anyone tell me?" ”

The students are silent, although they are from the state, but they may not have a comprehensive understanding of the situation in the state, they know a little, and it is obviously not enough to answer Liu Xiu's questions.

"Ladies and gentlemen, when I'm done, if you want to leave, you can leave now. If a person wants to become a talent, he must first have the desire to benefit others, and for people who are content to be a silverfish, all this is empty talk, and Jinyang Academy will not spend precious funds on these people. You have to remember that Jinyang Academy is a place to cultivate real talents, not a place to flaunt each other's reputation, if anyone has such thoughts, please leave here as soon as possible. He said word by word: "I hope that the students who go out of Jinyang School will become the pride of Jinyang School, not the pride of Jinyang School." ”

None of the students in the audience spoke, they carefully smacked Liu Xiu's last sentence, and were silent for a long time.

Liu Xiu let them think for a while, and then took out a few large and small metal balls, and began to explain the truth contained in the free fall movement, however, this knowledge of natural science was put on a layer of Taoist skin by him, and became the relationship between Tao and number and art, he said, Tao is not an empty understanding, but a specific knowledge, and most of them can be expressed by mathematical methods. For example, the trajectory of these metal balls can be described by the mathematical relationship between several quantities.

The students began to be a little repulsed, but after Liu Xiu's in-depth explanation, they all expressed their interest more or less, and even the Lu family, who was watching from the sidelines, was very surprised.

Outside the lecture hall, Wang Yun and others, who had a headache because of the quarrel of the meeting, stood quietly in the corridor, listening to Liu Xiu's explanation, and were a little distracted for a while. After a while, the lecture hall resounded with the sound of arguing one after another, and they came to their senses and walked forward slowly.

"I can't see that Lord Liu is so patient, although his knowledge is a bit complicated, but he has his own set of lectures." Guo Yi praised and said admiringly.

Wen Shu laughed and taught him as an elder, "You only see his gentle side, but you don't know what he looks like when he is violent. Mingji Mountain, he captured Huai Zong alive, and in order to prevent him from escaping, he knocked off two of his legs alive. and Zhang Fei rode step by step, and killed dozens of elite knights of the Dou family in one go. It is said that later in Luoyang, a person broke into Cao Jie's mansion and prepared to kill the Quartet, but Cao Jie didn't expect him to do this, and he didn't even prepare at all, and he was scared to death. ”

"Is there such a thing?" Guo Yi was very surprised, "I can't see this at all." ”

Wang Yun's heart moved, and he said with a smile: "Both of you only see the side of Lord Liu, which is far from comprehensive. I have been with Mr. Liu for a few months and have a little understanding of him. He is quite patient with his own people, that time in order to attack the Xianbei people, he decided to take advantage of the heavy snow to leave the big city fortress, jump out of the Xianbei people's encirclement, several of us disagreed, Lord Liu in order to explain us, but it took a lot of thought, that long-winded energy is more than today. However, for the Xianbei people and the Huns, he was not so kind-hearted, he was abducted, threatened and lured, and did everything he could, why was he able to subdue the Huns in the end? It was because he took advantage of the meeting of the Huns to mobilize the soldiers of the surrounding counties to surround Meiji. ”

Guo Yi understood this, and he hesitated for a moment: "Isn't that a military exercise?" ”

"Exercise? Yes, the Huns obeyed, that is, the military exercise. But if the Huns are not convinced, it will not be a military exercise. Wang Yun sneered and waved his hand vigorously: "The order we received at that time was that once the attack began, we would drive out all the leaders of the Xiongnu tribes in Meiji, and then integrate the army and kill all the way to kill all the Huns who could get on the horse and control the strings, so as to ensure that the Xiongnu could not pose a threat to the Han Dynasty within twenty years." ”

Guo Yi gasped, a chill appeared in his spine, and Wen Shu was also taken aback, and looked at Wang Yun in disbelief. He was more experienced than Guo Yi, and when he heard Wang Yun's subtext, he couldn't help but be shocked.

Liu Xiu gathered them here for a meeting, would he do such a thing?

"To tell the truth, although Lord Liu is young, he lives up to the name of his parents." Wang Yun pretended not to see it, and then said: "He told me that keeping the state is to save the armpit of the Han, which is beneficial and harmless to the state and the Han. We want to protect our family, he wants to defend the country, our goal is the same, and we should unite and help each other to overcome the difficulties in front of us. Some problems accumulated in the past are best solved in a relatively gentle way, and try not to cause trouble. ”

Speaking of this, he deliberately stopped, although Guo Yi did not have much experience, but at this time he also heard the meaning, the other meaning of 'try not to cause trouble' is the last resort, he does not rule out that there will be trouble, there is some bloody smell in it. He thought of his father and what he had penetrated, and couldn't help but say: "Since the adults have such good intentions, we people in the state can't sit idly by, after all, keeping the state is certainly a merit for him, and it is also a great merit for us." ”

Wen Shu nodded and agreed, "I just don't know what means the adults have to make up for our losses." ”

"Don't worry, although the adults are not merciful to the enemy, they have always been very caring for their own people." Wang Yun breathed a sigh of relief and showed a smile, "I have drawn up a plan, and I want to discuss it with you and study it."

(To be continued)