In the original historical timeline, the new policy of Jianyuan set off by Zhao Juan and Wang Zang is undoubtedly vigorous and mighty;

The three-year-long Jianyuan New Deal has indeed made the Chang'an court look new inside and outside, bursting with a little vitality.

But in this timeline, it is obvious that the 'pleasure' is greater than the 'use', or that the Jianyuan New Deal, which only wants to be happy for a while, but does not consider the consequences at all, but with the head of the Son of Heaven shaking like a rattle, it quietly retreats like an autumn wind sweeping away the leaves.

——The new policy of Jianyuan was strangled in the cradle by the combined efforts of the Empress Dowager Dou and the Son of Heaven Shengzu and grandson.

Also stifled are the lives of Zhao Juan and Wang Zang, two 'Confucian contemporary heroes' - either physical or political.

By the way, even Confucianism, a school with an ill-fated fate and a real lack of emotion, was hooked by Liu Sheng in front of the whole world.

I have to admit that with the only trace of superiority - education without class, Confucianism can occupy an indispensable and important position in today's Han academic circles.

Liu Sheng once roughly estimated that as of the sixth year of Emperor Liu Qi, the Han family's population of more than 30 million people could meet the requirements of 'being able to write and read' and do some record work, about 60,000.

In other words, today's Han family, on average, can find one intellectual who can read and write for every 500 people, and the remaining 499 are almost all purely illiterate.

For such a situation, Liu Sheng, as a descendant, was of course shocked;

After the investigation, I deeply felt longing and nostalgia for the compulsory education of future generations, and felt extremely desperate for the high cost of compulsory education in this era.

Liu Sheng has calculated an account;

If according to the standards of the new era in later generations, every school-age child is guaranteed to have compulsory education between the ages of seven and fifteen, then the Chang'an court will spend nearly 7,000 yuan on every child of the Han family.

Even the 7,000 yuan has taken into account the budget that can reduce the cost of teaching materials after the maturity of writing paper, engraving printing and other technologies.

If you don't consider these, let alone compulsory education - even to enlighten children, Liu Sheng has to mobilize officials all over the world to copy bamboo slips by hand for thirty or fifty years.

In addition, the impact on vulnerable smallholder families caused by school-age children taking time off work to receive education is also a factor that Liu Sheng has to consider.

Even if all other factors are put aside, such as social impact and impact on rural households, the average education expenditure of 7,000 yuan per person alone can make Liu Sheng shy away from compulsory education in this era.

——Today, there are more than 5 million households and more than 30 million people in the Han family!

Even if you calculate according to the calculation of 'there is only one child in every family': five million children, 7,000 yuan per child, that's 3.5 million yuan!

What is the concept?

The Han family's agricultural tax for the whole year last year was converted into money, and it was only 250,000 yuan!

Every 40 yuan is just over 100,000 yuan!

Taxes added together, the total financial income of the Han family last year was only 350,000 yuan, which was exactly one-tenth of the '3.5 million'.

Even if it is calculated according to 800 yuan per child per year, the financial income of the Han family for a whole year is not enough for the children of the world to study for a year.

What's more, this is 800 yuan a year and a total of 7,000 yuan in nine years, which is still Liu Sheng's most conservative estimate, and 'there is only one child in each family', which is almost impossible.

Through another reference, in fact, we can more intuitively judge what the concept of 3.5 million yuan is in this era.

——Liu Sheng's grandfather, Emperor Xiaowen of Han Taizong, and Liu Sheng's father, Emperor Xiaojing of Han, during their reigns, were called by later historians: the rule of Wenjing.

In the original history, in addition to the great improvement of people's livelihood and people's livelihood, the most brilliant and most talked about achievement of Wenjingzhizhi was that these two emperors successively relayed, borrowed raw food, and accumulated extremely huge wealth for the Han treasury as military expenses for the decisive battle with the Xiongnu.

So how much is this money?

Some time ago, Kaifeng Hou Taoqing 'retired from illness', and Liu She of Shaofu was worshiped by Liu Sheng as prime minister;

Since he was directly promoted to prime minister from Shaofu, instead of following the default line of internal history-imperial history-prime minister, step by step, after Liu She became prime minister, in order to convince the government and the opposition inside and outside, of course, it was inevitable to show off his political achievements.

So what is Liu She's political achievements, his political achievements in the Shaofu?

——From the first year of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen to the ninth year of Emperor Xianxiaojing, in these 33-year events, the 2.3 million yuan accumulated in Shaofu, as well as the official warehouses all over the world, it is impossible to count how much grain reserves there are.

Among the historical materials preserved in later generations, the Shaofu Inner Mansions of Wenjingzhizhi were recorded by historians in this way.

The ropes that strung the money had rotted, and the copper coins were scattered all over the place, but they couldn't pick them up, so they could only pile up a mountain of money indiscriminately;

The old rice in the granary was black and rotten, but before anyone could find it, the new rice was sent back into the warehouse.

It wasn't until the warehouse couldn't hold the grain that the barnsman discovered the old rice that had been stored for decades;

Please play the court, get the edict, pour all the rotten old rice into the river, and actually cut off the river directly······

In order not to cut off the river, it can only be poured into the river little by little, and it can be busy for many months·········

Knowing this--understanding that Emperor Taizong Xiaowen and Emperor Xianxiaojing successively relayed, and the 'rule of Wenjing' created only saved 2.3 million yuan and enough food for the war, it is not difficult to find out what the previous '3.5 million yuan' is.

——The wealth accumulated by the entire Wenjing rule is not enough for a generation to receive nine years of compulsory education!

It's just one generation, but it's not enough······

Understanding this, the conclusion is a matter of course: there is no essential difference between compulsory education in the feudal era and mushroom eggs in the era of slavery - it is all nonsense.

So, Liu Sheng accepted the reality.

Today's Han family, with a population of more than 30 million, has only more than 60,000 barely qualified intellectuals;

The ratio of 500 percent, Liu Sheng is very reluctant to admit it, but he can only accept this reality.

The reason why Confucianism has such a pivotal position in the academic world of the Han dynasty today is closely related to these 60,000 people.

- Among these 60,000 people, at least 30,000 are real Confucian students!

The so-called real is a firm supporter of 'Zi Said' and 'Zhi Ye'.

Among the remaining 30,000 people, except for the irons of Mo, Fa, Huang Lao, Zongheng, Yin and Yang, etc., who are in their early 10,000s, the remaining 10,000 or nearly 20,000 people are also 'not rejected' by Confucianism.

In other words, these more than 10,000 people are theoretically candidates that Confucianism can try to recruit;

As long as there is a great Confucian who is famous enough and prestigious enough to say a certain sentence that pokes at their point, these people are likely to quickly become Confucius's disciples.

This is also the reason why Liu Sheng dislikes Confucianism in every way, but he does not dare to act rashly.

Because in today's Han family, Confucianism in the academic world is by no means 'occupying half of the country', but occupies an absolutely dominant position in terms of numbers.

Perhaps in the eyes of today's Chang'an court, Confucianism has no class, but it is just a bunch of peasant children to read Cangjie, enlighten enlightenment, and recognize words;

But Liu Sheng has become more and more keenly aware that the power of Confucianism has invaded the court from the civil tribes and has begun to gradually expand its influence.

It is said that when Emperor Taizu Gao, the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty, except for a flexible Fengchang uncle Sun Tong, may find out the second Confucian student?

Empress Dowager Lu is in power, the minister of the Manchu Dynasty, but anyone dares to say, 'I think Kong Qiu is okay'?

Even in the time of Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, there was a young man who was interested in making contributions and ranking in the temple, and dared to bluntly shout a sentence of 'the disciple of the contemptible Zhongni'?

No.

Emperor Taizu Gao Liu Bang was the only Confucian who was not tricked by Liu Bang and mixed with what he learned in the court, but there was only one uncle and grandson;

Empress Dowager Lu has been in power for fifteen years, and no one dares to say the word 'good' in Confucianism at all;

Emperor Taizong Xiaowen was born, Jia Yi was born out of nowhere, and entered the government with the background of 'Beiping Marquis Zhang Cang's disciple', but in the end he was also excluded by the entire court, and finally died of depression.

But in the last years of Emperor Taizong, things began to take a turn for the better.

Confucianism, no longer everyone shouts and fights;

'Burning books and pit Confucianism' has been shouted for decades, and finally it has become a historical fact that most people default to;

Even the mistake of tabooing his Legalist background can put on a layer of Confucian skin openly and honestly, and become the teacher of the prince and prince as a doctor of "Shangshu"!

Although the 'Confucian student' of Chao Cuo eventually disappointed the entire Confucianism, it also made Confucianism gradually realize something.

By the time of Emperor Xiaojing, the Legalists who should have been popular stopped because of their wrong paranoia;

Huang Lao is self-contained, the Legalists are weak, and Confucianism is spreading in the corners that no one pays attention to.

Above the court, there are more and more important ministers with Confucian demeanor, and even Dou Ying, a relative, is inevitably 'eroded' by Confucianism.

In the proclamations and edicts promulgated by the court, in the part of quoting scriptures, Confucian allusions are also mentioned more and more frequently;

Now, looking inside and outside the court, it seems that there are few people who despise Confucianism.

And all of this was won by Confucianism for itself by virtue of the saying 'there is no class in education' and through the tactics of crowds.

-- There are 60,000 intellectuals, 30,000 Confucian students, more than 10,000 and nearly 20,000 Confucian scholars, and there are always a few talents who can show their hands.

Quantitative change leads to qualitative change, and nothing more······

"There is no class to teach······"

"Eh, Jiqing;"

"How can Confucianism teach without class, you Huang Lao, don't accept more disciples?"

"Especially the children of farmers, may not be able to produce talents for governing the world?"

"——Meng Ke once said in "Mencius": Shun is raised in the acres, Fu Shuo is lifted between the plates, Jiao is lifted in the fish and salt, Guan Yiwu is lifted in the Shi, Sun Shu Ao is lifted in the sea, and Baili Xi is held in the city."

"Although Meng Ke is also a Confucian student, these words are suspected of being sold for 'education without class', but the truth is still correct."

"You Huang Lao~"

"It's just too arrogant······"

Sitting on the royal chariot that drove to Wei Juan's mansion, looking at Ji Di who was kneeling diagonally opposite him, Liu Sheng had nothing to do, and he started to talk with Ji Di.

It's just that Liu Sheng asked casually, but Ji Huang suddenly lowered his head with a strange face, hummed and chirped for a long time, and finally reluctantly gave an answer.

"What Your Majesty said is not unreasonable."

"But the minister thinks that the reason why my Huang Lao is declining is not all because of what His Majesty said······"

···

"Teaching without class is the concept advocated by Confucianism, and I, Huang Lao, am not a Legalist, and I do not have much rejection of Confucian learning."

"But Your Majesty also knows when you think about it: Huang Lao's learning is too obscure, and the encompassing and encompassing it is too extensive;"

"I don't know how many people have cured Huang Lao, but they can't touch the threshold in their lives."

"The old man with white hair is called a 'child' by the old man Huang, and there are countless examples."

"As for the ministers, only His Majesty thinks: Ji Di is from Huang Lao, and he is 'Huang Lao Shizi'."

"Whether it is at home, or when I see my relatives and elders, or my friends, I never dare to call myself a person of Huang Lao and say that he 'cures Huang Lao'."

"Because at the age of the minister, let alone 'curing' Huang Lao, even 'knowing' Huang Lao is quite unbelievable······"

As for why Huang Lao didn't recruit disciples, Liu Shengben was just idle and asked casually;

But seeing Ji Di's stern face when he answered, as well as the bitterness and helplessness that were almost engraved into his eyebrows, Liu Sheng couldn't help but feel at ease for a while.

From the perspective of governing the country, Huang Lao is actually quite good governance ideas.

If the genes of 'lazy government' and 'slackness' can be removed, Huang Laoxue should be the crystallization of ideas among the hundreds of sons who are most likely to stand out from the encirclement and survive to future generations.

Even take a step back and say: Even if there is no way to remove the genes of 'lazy government' and 'slack government', Huang Laoxue's superiority in governing and governing the country is far from being comparable to Confucianism, law, ink and other theories.

After all, governing a big country is like cooking a small fresh;

Compared with inaction, inaction is not necessarily a 'relatively more acceptable' situation.

However, the decline of Huang Lao's theory is a historical inevitability.

As for the reason, Ji Di did not say it clearly;

Perhaps, it is the shame to say it······

"If you are a big family, you will have no one in your eyes;"

"If you think that you are the only ruling school, you will not look down on any other school or any doctrine."

"Even in order to boast that he 'does not associate with the opposition schools', he has to do the opposite - all the things advocated by the hundreds of schools of Confucianism, Law, and Mozi are not adopted or listened to."

"Whether it makes sense or not, as long as it is advocated by other schools, you must put on a big brother posture and preach a sentence of 'who you are and what do you know'······"

"If that's the case, Huang Lao won't be left behind······"

"Hey;"

"Hey······ hey"

(End of chapter)