Changle Palace.

Liu Heng's eyes were shining, and he looked at Luo Xin with admiration: "Uncle, are you the most powerful person in the Han Dynasty, at the banquet yesterday, those ministers listened to you." ”

Luo Xin heard Liu Heng Wuji's words, and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, the courtiers don't listen to the ministers, they listen to Your Majesty's words." ”

Liu Heng tilted his head and said strangely when he heard this: "Uncle, Heng'er doesn't understand." ”

Luo Xin touched Liu Heng's head and said softly: "The minister is the regent, what is the regent?"

This world was originally ruled by Emperor Renzong Xiaohui, but your father collapsed, and the master of the world became you, but you are still young, and Emperor Xiaohui asked his ministers to manage the world for you, this is the regent.

Therefore, the courtiers did not listen to the words of the ministers, but to the words of His Majesty.

It doesn't matter if you don't understand it now, when you do, you will be the real emperor, as long as you study the governance of the country and the classics, you will definitely become a holy king praised by everyone in the world. ”

When Liu Heng heard this, he instantly felt that he was very powerful, and said highly: "Uncle, my father asked you to manage the world for Heng'er, not other ministers, it must be because you are very powerful, you must teach it all to Heng'er, and Heng'er also wants to be like you." ”

Luo Xin laughed loudly: "Okay, today I will talk about "Zhou Li" for Your Majesty." ”

"Zhou Li?"

Liu Heng was puzzled: "Several other Confucian gentlemen have talked about this course, and there are rules in it, which is very boring. ”

Luo Xin smiled: "Yes, the pure Zhou Li is indeed very boring, but do you want to know the story behind the Zhou Li?"

These stories are known only to Luo's family, and now there are no records in this world, even in the records of the hundred schools of thought. ”

"The story behind it?"

Luo Xin had a look of memory on his face, and his memory seemed to go back to the time when he was studying family history, and too much time had passed.

Luo's family history is too long, especially the early Luo's family history is almost the history of Bangzhou, and countless characters and events make it very difficult for Luoxin and other juniors to learn.

Fortunately, Luo's does not have the kind of person who is stupid, at least in terms of memory, there is no major problem, otherwise it is estimated that he will not even be able to remember the name of his ancestor.

"Zhou Li was established by King Su, but each of these articles, it is not so simple to implement, you look at the article of Lile, 'the Son of Heaven, the princes, the king, the doctor, the scholar, can not be overcome'.

This sentence seems to be very prosaic, but there are no less than ten princes who died on this article alone. ”

Liu Heng was so shocked that he almost jumped up, he never expected that there was such a bloody incident behind this sentence, but he didn't have the slightest fear, but asked with interest: "Uncle, tell me quickly, Heng'er is very curious." ”

Luo Xin naturally had a useful intention in telling Liu Heng about this paragraph, he wanted Liu Heng to understand the logic of political operation, these are what the hundred schools of thought will not teach Liu Heng, it can be said to be imperial art.

Zhou Li has long been completely abandoned in the chaotic times of hundreds of years of ritual collapse, and Zhou Li's set is in line with the feudal system, which cannot be fully applied to the current Han Dynasty.

But is it useless to have a good time?

Of course not!

The essence of Lile is not the kind of hierarchy on the surface, after all, he is a traverser, although he is not as tireless as his children and grandchildren, but after all, he is an advanced youth.

Although the system of etiquette and music created by Ji Zhao is equally distinct, it also sets corresponding responsibilities for the Son of Heaven and princes, secretaries, and doctors at all levels.

The Son of Heaven is supreme, but the restraints he is bound by are also supreme.

The essence of this ritual system is to give a person a social identity, to build a set of social systems that can accommodate people all over the world, and at the same time, this is a complete set of distribution systems.

What is even more wonderful is that there is only one way to really break this system, and that is the progress of the productive forces, the progress of the productive forces will destroy the original mode of production, and the new mode of production will in turn act on the progress of the productive forces.

In society, it is to break the feudal system and enter a new political system, causing a series of drastic changes in the superstructure.

In the early Spring and Autumn Period, on the surface, it seemed that the ritual music had collapsed, but in fact, it was just the result of the loss of control of the entire order simply because of the sluggishness of Zhou Tianzigang, so after the princes of Qi Huan and Jiuhe, once the world was restored, once the social order was restored, the new ritual and music system around the overlord country was established again.

In other words, it was only when Zhuxia developed to the point where the primitive feudal system was no longer needed that system would fail.

For example, Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, the population of Zhuxia has reached the level of 10 million, and within the visible range, almost everywhere is the land of Zhuxia, and the speed of passage between various regions has been greatly accelerated, this is a completely different world from the Zhou Dynasty.

But at this time, the most terrifying part of the ritual system has come, when the ritual system is broken and enters a new era, the smartest people will find that what is broken is only the extremely strict etiquette system.

This system has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow and in the blood of the entire civilization, and no matter how the system is formulated, it cannot jump out of this circle.

The new system still has to set an identity for all the people in the world, among these identities are merchants, farmers, craftsmen, nobles, and nobles.

The proportion of this must be determined according to the etiquette system, and the matching benefits must be distributed to these statuses, if a dynasty cannot do it, any class will make the dynasty chaotic, and if the majority of people are not satisfied, then it will die.

As early as a thousand years ago, in the time of Luo Wengong, Luo Su tried some of the more radical reforms, and achieved great success, but also suffered huge failures, and those reforms that really touched the root failed.

Luo Su of course summed up the reasons for this, and finally silenced him.

Because no matter how strong he is, he is not a god, he is the biggest nobleman of the Zhou Dynasty except for the Son of Heaven.

All his allies were big nobles, all big slave owners, and all the people he promoted became the new big nobles, the new big slave owners.

This is his basic plate, and this is also the basic plate of Bang Zhou, so even if his reform temporarily harms the interests of some nobles and slave owners, in the long run, it must maintain the main system of this aristocratic slave in order to succeed.

Even the heavenly and wealthy Wen Gong can't change this iron law, from that time on, Luo Shi understood one thing, it is not a good thing that the ideological progress is too advanced, and it is the best for everyone to go further, if you want to directly connect another hundred feet at the top of the hundred feet, it will only be cut off directly.

The family can force everyone once, twice, but eventually the anger and resentment that accumulates will burn the family to ashes.

So Rockwell chose a different path.

Luo Xin told Liu Heng vividly about the scene of the princes being killed, he naturally ignored the blood, but told this matter very funny, Liu Heng could even laugh, but when Liu Heng grew up, if he could still recall it, I am afraid that he would think about it very scary.

This is Luoxin's education method, through a subtle way to let his words and deeds affect Liu Heng, and when Liu Heng grows up, whenever he does something, he will remember what he once said to him, and he will remember how he used to do it.

Especially this person is his idol and the spiritual pillar of his youth, and he will unconsciously follow in Luo Xin's footsteps.

Of course, if you want to achieve this ending, Luo Xin himself must be upright, in the future, when Liu Heng grows up, he sees the warmth and coldness of people, sees the cruel reality, and when he is disheartened, when he sees Luo Xin, he is really a saint, and if his illusions are not shattered, he will cheer up more and more, it turns out that my uncle did not lie to me at the beginning.

The story came to an end, and when it was time for Liu Heng to exercise, all of Liu Heng's education was arranged by Luo Xin, not as cruel as Luo's son, after all, Liu Heng was not blessed by his ancestors, and Luo Xin was worried that something would happen.

"Uncle, what are we going to do today?"

Liu Heng asked in a hurry, Luo Xin took Liu Heng's little hand and walked out of Changle Palace, on the wide square, the figures of the two people were stretched very long under the reflection of the sun.

Count nine cold winters, dog summers.

Three years passed like this.

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In the previous article, I described the continuity of ancient Chinese culture, and this chapter deals with the continuity of the political system, in ancient Chinese history, there were three states of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties.

It is ridiculous that some people try to prove that older dynasties are orthodox, that older mythological figures are orthodox, and that the Shang and Zhou dynasties are the actions of later generations, and that they do not hesitate to denounce the invasion of Rome by their own ancestors by their Germanic descendants.

Undoubtedly, after thousands of years of rule by the Zhou Dynasty, Xia and Shang had little influence on future generations, while the Zhou Dynasty was the source of Chinese culture in all aspects, not only the existence of the supreme god, but also the influence of the cultural system.

As we all know, every advance or regression of the productive forces will lead to a change in the social system, because the economic base determines the principle of the superstructure, and this change is usually drastic and cruel, and the old forces will always resist stubbornly, and finally achieve the change through bloodshed.

This was not the case in ancient China, and it is true that the changes in ancient China at the time of the change of dynasties were far more drastic than in the Western countries, but the new dynasty was always able to choose a more appropriate political system according to the economic situation very quickly, and it was unreasonable to be able to propose a high-level system construction every time in a short period of time during the alternation of the old and the new.

But the author found the source of everything, that is, the ritual system, which is a universal system that can adapt to any economic base, as long as you grasp the essence of ritual music, and then label all people in society, estimate the strength, the contradictions in society will be suddenly clear.

Next, please let the author tell me in detail how this system worked in the Han Dynasty - "The History of the Rise and Fall of the Han Dynasty"

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