'The prince is a good Confucian', in Chang'an, and even in the whole world, it is not a new thing.

As early as the establishment of the Han Dynasty, when Liu Ying was established as the prince of the Han Dynasty at the age of nine, the gossip about 'the prince is a good Confucian' has never been cut off in Liu Bang's ears.

Some people say that the prince, as a member of the society, should not show too obvious a preference for a certain doctrine; Instead, we should treat everyone equally, with the principle of 'heroes do not ask where they come from', and recruit sages from all over the world for the use of the community.

Some people also say that the prince is a good Confucian, which is a sign of benevolence and righteousness and kindness to others; For the world that is in ruins, the founder of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, a benevolent prince is really a blessing for the community.

But Liu Bang knew very well in his heart: these people were not expounding the facts, but starting from their own ass and saying what was most beneficial to them.

——Those who say that the prince should not like Confucianism alone, but should be 'evenly stained with rain and dew', must be those rising stars who were born in Huang Lao, and even the Legalists and Zongheng families!

The same way: saying that the prince is benevolent and kind, all of them are meritorious and meritorious people who are beneficial to the society and harmless, and they are deeply afraid of the future 'high merit and shock the lord'.

In addition to these people who happen for their own vital interests, Liu Bang is more often seen in silence;

is taboo;

It's a secret.

The reason is nothing more than a thing that is known to the world.

- Son of Heaven Evil Confucian!

In the eyes of the people of the world, Liu Bang, the Son of Heaven, is an old stubborn who was born from his mother's womb and cried to kill Confucianism!

In the eyes of the courtiers and officials who knew a little more and were more specific, Liu Bang hated Confucianism and Confucianism, because when Xiang Yu died in Wujiang and the world was decided, the Confucian students of Ludi had united and threatened to 'wear linen and filial piety for King Xiang'.

But only Liu Bang, as well as several close ministers including Xiao He and Cao Shen, knew that Liu Bang's dislike of Confucianism was not 'born like this' in the people's perception at all, and it was not just because of the black history of Lu Ru.

The reason why Confucianism really made Liu Bang feel disliked, and even repeatedly made humiliating moves, was that the group represented by Confucianism was precisely the great danger that the Liu Han regime strictly guarded and did not dare to relax its vigilance at any time.

- Haoqiang!

To be precise, it's the clans, especially the big clans.

As a grassroots who climbed step by step from the bottom to the supreme position, Liu Bang is too clear about the reason for the death of Qin II.

The heavy burden of forced labor and the complexity of taxes may be one of the reasons, but they are definitely not the main reasons;

The conquest of Baiyue in the south, the pursuit of the Xiongnu in the north, and even the attempt to form actual control over the barren mountains and wilderness of the southwest Yi are even more meritorious in the present and beneficial in the future, and it is not at all possible to talk about 'Qin died because of this'.

Take 10,000 steps back and say: Even if the heavy hard labor, taxes, and expeditions on the north and south fronts, and the construction of infrastructure in the Central Plains, it really shook the foundation of Yingqin, but it was categorically not to the extent that the first emperor had just risen and the world was in chaos.

Therefore, in Liu Bang's view, the reason why Qin perished so quickly and did not even have the slightest tendency to return to the light is due to two reasons.

- Too merciful to the big clans, but too harsh to the low-level commoners······

But when the first emperor was the first emperor, the burden on the shoulders of the people of the world was lighter, and the taxes and hard labor were less, and by the time of the second emperor, how could it be that the three or two great men raised their arms and shouted, and several surrounding counties rose up and obeyed?

Moreover, when the first emperor died, if there was no 'old nobleman of the Six Kingdoms' like Xiang Yu, and a righteous banner like King Chu Huai, even if Chen Sheng and Wu Guang raised troops in Daze, how much waves could they stir up?

The answer to this question is undoubtedly simple.

said that in the past few years, although the Han family kept saying that 'light taxes and rest with the people', the burden on the shoulders of the people in Guanzhong was not much lighter than that of the time of Ying Qin!

Not to mention anything else, just the people and soldiers recruited by Liu Bang from Guanzhong every year in order to pacify the eastern part of Guandong have drained the mobilization potential of the entire Guanzhong almost every year!

Moreover, even if the Han family is poor and white, Liu Bang's Changling has never stopped the process of construction.

Judging from the two points of the emperor's mausoleum and the transfer of the people: today's Han family is basically no better than the former Ying Qin!

But there is only one difference between the two, which is precisely the key reason why Qin II died and Han Sheji was as stable as a mountain.

- The first emperor transferred the people to the strong, for the purpose of conquest and expansion; And Liu Bang recruited and transferred the people of Guanzhong in order to pacify the Kanto region and for peace.

The first emperor built the Lishan Emperor's Mausoleum for the luxury and enjoyment after death; And Liu Bang's Changling is to justifiably move the world's powerful and wealthy families to the feet of the Son of Heaven, so that the people will be less oppressed.

What's the difference?

The only difference is that Ying Qin mobilized the people's power and put on a proud posture of 'I bullied you to give you face';

And Liu Bang, and even Liu Ying's recruitment of the people half a year ago, was a 'How can this work?' ''What's so embarrassing?'' 'A gesture of humility.

This is the clear proof that 'Qin treats Qian's head too harshly'.

As for 'treating the wealthy over benevolence', it's even simpler.

As we all know, the death of Qin II began with the uprising of Chen Sheng and Wu Guangze Township.

But what the vast majority of people, including those in the world, have not noticed is that Chen Sheng and Wu Guang alone did not cause much trouble to the Yingqin regime at all.

Even Chen Sheng, the founder of the Zhang Chu regime and the leader of the rebel army who was posthumously called the 'King of Chu Yin' by Liu Bang, went from the uprising in Daze Township to the defeat in only six months.

And the Qin general who went out to quell the rebellion, and easily led the righteous army to death Chen Sheng, was also defeated by Xiang Yu's Qin Shaofu Zhang Han under Julu City later······

Whenever he recalls this past, Liu Bang can't help but think: If after Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebelled, there was no nobleman of the Six Kingdoms like Xiang Yu, and there was no temporary commander like King Chu Huai, would Qin still die?

In the past few years, whenever this question appeared in his mind, Liu Bang could always come to a conclusion that he had to accept even if he didn't want to accept it.

- If there is only Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, then a single Qin Shaofu Zhang Han is enough to pacify!

If there were no remnants of the Six Kingdoms like Xiang Yu, the commander of the righteous army like King Chu Huai, and even Liu Bang himself, it was very likely that he would not be able to make any waves, and he would be exterminated by Zhang Han, Wang Li and others in a certain mountain and forest in the eastern part of the country.

This is precisely where Liu Bang's conclusion that 'Qin treats the Hao clan too benevolently', where does it come from.

——If Yingzheng cuts down these nobles of the Six Kingdoms and eradicates the roots of these nobles of the Six Kingdoms, the second Hu Hai is very likely to die!

Even, now recognized by the world as 'tyrannical and unreasonable, far worse than the unruly', Ying Qin Sheji is likely to enjoy the country for hundreds of years!

With such a vivid lesson as 'Qin', the Han family naturally has no reason to continue to be wrong.

Agriculture-oriented, business-oriented, a narrow family of five to cultivate 100 acres of land, men are forced to separate households after adulthood, and even specifically to suppress the powerful clan, and carefully built the Lingyi system, which came into being under the impetus of Liu Bang.

But as the saying goes: the past is not forgotten, and the future is the teacher.

Even if he learned the lesson of Qin's 'treating the Hao clan too benevolently and the head of the Qian' and Fang II dying, Liu Bang also needs to figure out: where did Qin's lesson come from?

Qin Ming has a royal family background of hundreds of years, why does he have this kind of cognition of being kind to the wealthy and powerful, and treating the people at the bottom as grass mustard?

After the previous life experience, combined with the knowledge learned later, the answer to this question finally came to Liu Bang's heart.

- Only Confucianism!

Only among the hundreds of sons, the Confucianism who speaks for the landlord and runs for the interests of the landlord!

Only when the first emperor was unified, he shouted all day long, 'We must teach Your Majesty how to be the Son of Heaven', and after the death of Qin, he cried about Confucianism, 'tyrannical Qin has no way, burning books and pit Confucianism'!!

This is the reason why Liu Bang, the founder of the Han Dynasty, hated Confucianism so much!!!!!

Even, when the saying 'Qin died in the cool law of the Legalists' sounded in his ears, Liu Bang's first subconscious reaction was often to refute it out loud: Qin's death, the crime of not being a family, is the fallacy of Confucianism!!!!!

But so far, Liu Bang has never exposed this idea to anyone.

Because of the death of Qin, the Han Dynasty was ······

"Hmmm······"

With a low sigh of praise, Liu Bang looked at Liu Ying's gaze, and it became more and more complicated.

The prince is a good Confucian, is it good or bad?

In the past, Liu Bang did not think carefully about this issue.

Because under the public opinion of 'the son is not the father' that fills the entire court, the prince is a good Confucian, which has only become one of the evidences that Liu Bang is more sure that Liu Ying is 'not a few like him'.

It was not until now, when Liu Ying respectfully knelt beside him and mentioned to himself the doctrine of the hundred schools of thought, that Liu Bang finally understood: What he was worried about was not that Liu Ying liked Confucianism.

What is Confucianism?

Doctrine only!

Looking at today's Chang'an, on the surface, every household hangs the banner of 'Huang Lao', but in whose family, there are few unconventional children and nephews?

Shan Liu Bang knows: Especially in recent years, in the circle of the second generation of Gonghou, there is quite a trend of resurgence!

What is Liu Bang's attitude towards this?

- A bunch of bastard boys, who don't do their jobs all day!

So much for.

In the final analysis, since the Spring and Autumn Period when hundreds of schools of thought contended, Confucianism, Law, Huang Lao, and even the Mo family, which was nearly extinct, have long been you and me, and I have you.

Regardless of the outliers like Yang Zhu, the values of the hundred schools of thought are basically you say one or two, and I say owo.

Speaking of which, in the end, I still can't get around the word 'Dao', as well as a sentence: follow the actions of the ancient saint kings to reproduce the prosperity of the ancients.

The difference in views of the hundred schools of thought is often limited to: you think that the emperor should promote the prosperous era, I think the minister should work hard, and he feels that the people need to farm the land well.

In the final analysis, the difference between the hundreds of schools of thought is only in the ass.

In the past, Liu Bang's concern about the saying that 'the prince is a good Confucian' was precisely this.

Thinking of this, Liu Bang only took a deep breath and immediately sat back on the couch generously.

Compared with before, Liu Bang at this moment has almost all his attention locked on Liu Ying's body.

"I heard that yesterday's Xuan Room, the prince seems to use "Zuo Chuan" to respond to the saying that 'it is useless to go on the expedition'."

"If the skin does not exist, the hair will be attached to ······"

As if muttering to himself, Liu Bang looked at Liu Ying's gaze, which was only sharper.

"Suitable talents, the prince talks about the strengths of a hundred schools, and says that Yang Zhu can be used by the Son of Heaven; Huang Lao can be used for rest; Legalism can be temporarily used in troubled times; and the Mohists, they can contribute the power of instruments to the community. ”

"I just don't know: Yang Zhu, Huang Lao, Fa, and Mo Zhuzhu, what is the 'people' they advocate?"

Speaking of which, Liu Bang's face finally became completely grim.

"Why did the prince only say Yang Zhu, Huang Lao, Fa, and Mo, but didn't mention anything about Confucianism?"

Dropping this sentence in a calm tone, Liu Bang didn't dare to blink with his eyes, and invested all his senses on Liu Ying's body.

What Liu Ying would never guess is that every action she makes, including blinking, pursing her lips, and even the fluctuation of her breath, is likely to become a reference for Liu Bang, the son of heaven, whether he is worthy of the trust of the society!

But soon, Liu Ying also realized the seriousness of the atmosphere, and only pretended to think for a moment, and put all the drafts that had been typed in front of Liu Bang.

"Father."

"Yang Zhuzhi said that the main word 'self-reliance' advocates the selfishness of human nature, and is more than benevolence and righteousness; according to what we have seen in this world, the 'people' that Yang Zhu said should be or businessmen, or more suitable."

With a calm expression, Liu Ying only paused for a moment, and then continued: "Huang Lao governs the country, and advocates 'if the law does not prohibit it, there is no blame', and it can be used to save the wealth of the government treasury and live with the people. ”

"However, its governance is too lazy, and it can only be used when the world is decided, and everything is waiting to be revived; When people's livelihood recovers and the treasury is full, the bento plan will be abolished. ”

"And the 'people' advocated by Huang Lao, although he did not say it explicitly, he heard it: Huang Lao's pioneer is not accepted as a disciple of the prince······

Stopping the conversation pointedly, Liu Ying shook her head with a smile again, and threw a 'everyone who understands' look at Liu Bang.

"Another Legalist, with the three sayings of 'law, art, and potential', is well-known in the world."

"Those who have the law are strict and the law is harsh; The sorcerer discerns the treacherous and the good, and manipulates the power of the arts; The powerful will help to seize power and self-respect, so as to gain power. ”

"These three are more severe than the law; Practitioners, more people are fighting with different parties, which is not good for the country. ”

"Only 'potential', with what he has learned to strengthen the majesty of the monarch, and to gather the power of the world and return to the Son of Heaven, is the so-called: centralized power!"

The words 'centralization' were said with great vigour, and Liu Ying's eyes flashed with a strange light!

"Therefore, I think that the study of the Legalists, the 'law' can be used by the court captain, the 'technique' can be learned by the Son of Heaven, and only the 'potential' can be practiced in the court!"

"With the theory of 'centralization' and the prestige of the Son of Heaven, the 'people' as the Legalists say is insignificant······"

Hearing Liu Ying's concise and extremely profound argument, Liu Bang's face was already a little strange.

When he heard the words 'centralization', Liu Bang's face finally appeared with a look that was the same as Liu Ying's.

Expectation, reverence, apprehension······

And, excited!

When Liu Bang was deeply immersed in these very magical words and couldn't extricate himself for a long time, Liu Ying finally took a deep breath and bowed solemnly to Liu Bang.

"Ink and Confucianism······"

Raising her head with a calm face, Liu Ying looked at Liu Bang's face, only quietly surging with a touch of solemnity.

"If you say these two things, I am afraid that you should not say them."

"I still hope that my father and the emperor will forgive my son first!"

------Off topic------

And also

Originally, it was violent, but these two chapters need to be written more cautiously and rigorously, so they are written a little slower.

There is one more chapter, which will be released about a little bit.

Three watches will start tomorrow.

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