For a long time, Liu Bei was very dissatisfied with this series of ideological theories, and he believed that the oppression and imprisonment of the imperial system on the theoretical system of natural sciences was very bad.

The imperial system that pursues stability has a natural aversion to the system of natural science theories, and it will do everything to suffocate it, which is not something that can be solved by one person or two.

Therefore, in the new "Guardian Tongyi", he intends to set this idea of despising the development of science and technology on a politically incorrect position, and fundamentally criticize it.

Then, the great significance of the natural sciences was determined from both the military and agricultural aspects, and then the theoretical system of the natural sciences was propped up, making it a necessary existence for the development of military strength and agricultural production, and making it politically correct.

Still, he didn't dare to guarantee that it would really last long, but no matter what, he had to do it, and it was better to do it than not to do it.

"If a worker wants to do a good job, he must first sharpen his tools, and this must not be caught up in the discourse of ingenuity and ingenuity, which will guide the meat eaters to deliberately fail to develop useful tools in order to exploit the physical strength of the people, and in the end they will not care even if the people starve to death.

Although the Mohists have many bad ideas in politics, they pay attention to the development of Karakuri and the progress of technology, which I think is very reasonable.

The weapons used by our army are sharper than those of the enemy, the armor used by our army is stronger and more durable than that of the enemy, and the number of them is larger, and the bows and crossbows used by our army can shoot farther and faster than the enemy's bows and crossbows.

At the same time, the grain production of Dahan has been rising steadily over the years, and each year is more than the previous year, and the reason for this is that the development of Karakuri has enabled us to produce more high-quality steel.

These steels can not only meet the needs of the people for the construction of ordnance, but also meet the needs of the people for iron farming tools, and what was not possible in the past can now be done, so that it will be of great benefit to agricultural production, and the grain production will continue to increase, and it is also a great improvement for the reclamation of wasteland. ”

This argument was supported by Zheng Xuan.

Ruan Yu is also the staunchest supporter.

Ruan Yu was very concerned about agricultural production, and he knew that from the Liangzhou period, Liu Bei began to provide a large number of high-quality farm tools to farmers, so the farmers in the area ruled by Liu Bei could always get a relatively abundant supply of farm tools.

After becoming an official in Luoyang, Ruan Yu will also pay attention to the issue of annual grain production.

He learned that in areas where there is an adequate supply of agricultural tools, the output of grain production far exceeds that in areas where agricultural tools cannot be supplied in sufficient quantities, and that the number of famines is also a state in which the number of areas with sufficient agricultural tools is far less than in the areas where agricultural tools are scarce.

It can be seen that the regions with adequate agricultural tools are far superior to other regions in terms of food production and disaster resilience.

Therefore, he believes that the development of ingenuity can greatly increase grain production, increase the grain reserves of the Han Dynasty, and enhance the ability to resist disasters.

For a country, the significance of grain reserves is simply too great.

The triumvirate of compilation all expressed absolute support, and there is no doubt that this exposition was added to the Guardian Tongyi.

Paying attention to the development of ingenuity, denying the remarks of ingenuity and ingenuity, and determining the great significance of ingenuity to military and agricultural production, this kind of exposition was written into the constitution of the Han Dynasty, and it was recognized and became politically correct.

Finally, Liu Bei also mentioned the diplomatic skills of the Zongheng family, and thought that the combination of vertical and horizontal that the Zongheng family paid attention to in diplomacy was very meaningful.

In the process of foreign exchanges with the Han Dynasty, because he did not make good use of the technique of combining vertical and horizontal, he was too arrogant and blindly confident, so that he was stolen by the Xiongnu several times, resulting in several setbacks in the operation of the Western Regions, and the losses were very serious.

When the projection of one's own forces cannot be achieved in a timely manner, the number of actions to achieve the goal by using the technique of combining vertical and horizontal forces to obtain the troops of various countries in the Western Regions is relatively small, and there are even fewer talents who are good at using this kind of diplomatic technique, and they cannot give full play to the strategic deterrent power of the Han Dynasty.

The art of the Zongheng family must not lose its inheritance and significance because of the unification of the Han Dynasty, and the Zongheng family should exist for a long time to serve the diplomacy of the Han Empire, whether it is the countries of the Western Regions, or the Guishan, Rest and even the Great Qin States further west.

All in all, the basic national policy of the Han Dynasty's foreign development requires the participation of the Zongheng family.

Therefore, the royal literati began to say good things for the art of the Zongheng family in the "Jiade Tongyi", record good stories, and record Liu Bei's quotations, so as to establish the basic status and significance of the art of the Zongheng family in the future Han Dynasty.

After some deliberation, the main thing was to follow Liu Bei's orders, and the basic tone of "Jiade Tongyi" was determined.

Drawing on the strengths of others, he did not take Confucianism as the only way to govern the country, but chose to adopt the excellent doctrines of the hundreds of schools of thought for reference, and formulated the spirit of the constitution of openness, pioneering, enterprising, legal system, strictness and justice, as the guiding ideology of the governance of the Third Han Empire.

In addition to the guiding ideology of this general policy, Liu Bei also personally guided and made arbitrary decisions on some relatively specific and detailed issues.

For example, Liu Bei ordered to change customs and remove bad customs, and the typical ones that came out were the customs at marriage and funerals.

The marriage customs of the Han Dynasty began to pay attention to large-scale operations from Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, and the more luxurious the better, and the more people involved, the better.

Even if you don't have money, you have to borrow money to do it, otherwise it's a faceless thing.

For this reason, whether it is a commoner or a wealthy family, they often have to worry about holding a wedding.

In addition, in terms of funeral customs, the Han Dynasty also paid attention to thick burials, and was eager to bury all the family property in the ground when the funeral was carried out, as if it did not reflect the filial piety of children to their parents.

Even if the living people can't even eat after a funeral, they can't help but let the deceased family members bring rich funeral goods to the ground.

A marriage, a funeral, both of which cost a normal family a lot of property, in this way, can greatly control the growth of private wealth, starting from Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty This series of magical operations, it can be said that the common people have suffered enough.

Liu Bei's own family is like this.

The successive deaths of his grandfather and father sent almost all of his family's property underground, making his family plummet from a middle-class eunuch family to a family of weaving mats and selling shoes.

The Han Dynasty's tradition of thick burials was so terrifying.

And the meaning of the existence of this custom is just like the art of rule, which is to make the ruler's rule more stable and longer.

Other than that, it doesn't make much sense.

So Liu Bei ordered that all local officials should give more publicity to the local people, and it was hard to stipulate that marriage does not have to be a big banquet to invite relatives and friends of both parties, and the funeral does not have to be a big deal, so that future generations will go hungry because of the funeral, which is by no means the wish of the deceased.

Changing customs is not a simple matter, and if you want people to comply with the rules that they are used to, then the impact on the local community should be great.

It will even involve the root of filial piety, and Liu Bei has no idea of challenging this root at present, so he took a compromise path.

Hierarchical restrictions on customs.

Ordinary families can only hold weddings and funerals with the lowest level of regulations, and handle them in a low-key manner, and no one other than relatives and friends is allowed to participate.

Generally, landlords and powerful families are allowed to hold weddings and funerals in the middle and lower ranks, and they are properly organized, and villagers can participate in them in addition to relatives and friends.

Wealthy local families of wealthy families and families of petty officials can use the rules of the middle and upper ranks to organize weddings and funerals, and they can be organized well, and in addition to relatives and friends, county people can participate.

The family of officials is not restricted, and they can do it in a big way, and the weddings and funerals are as luxurious as they are, how lively they are, how they like to spend money, and they can do as much as you want.

As long as you have money, even if you can take over all the streets of Luoyang City, you can do as you like.

In order to make detailed regulations, Liu Bei was deeply involved in the formulation of the rules, and made detailed provisions on the identification standards of the four levels, as well as the process and content of weddings and funerals, and even the cost, so as to avoid anyone from taking advantage of loopholes.

This is, of course, the basic spirit of the previous version of "White Tiger Tongyi" of "Jiade Tongyi".

"White Tiger Tongyi" also has detailed regulations on some details, such as the frequency of having sex with a fifty-year-old concubine......

If they can be meticulous, then I can be meticulous too.

In fact, in addition to the cost of marriage and funeral, what Liu Bei wants to do most is to change the custom of keeping filial piety.

The matter of keeping filial piety is really a bit funny, parents were not filial piety during their lifetime, and after death, they went home and worked the air for three years, except for performing for others, what is the point?

This kind of mass moral kidnapping, and even the coercion that rose to the national level, was one of the biggest malpractices of the Han Dynasty, and Liu Bei hated it.

It's just that now is not the time to fire at the rule of [ruling the world with filial piety], so Liu Bei has somewhat restrained himself.

Despite this, as a result of his efforts, the guiding ideology of the Han Empire had deviated far from the direction of Confucianism, and the status of Confucianism had been changed from the official level of the Han Empire from this moment on.

Since "Jiade Tongyi" is to be written in this way, Zheng Xuan feels that the education level also needs to be innovated simultaneously.

Anyway, he is also the secretary of the school, and he is also in charge of education, and he is clear about how much Liu Bei attaches importance to education, so he thinks that Liu Bei must have imagined this problem.

"That's natural, since the Han Dynasty no longer governs the country with Confucianism, then there are naturally some changes to be made at the level of education, which has been going on all the time, agriculture, astronomy and geography, and the like, Taixue and various universities are also being taught.

As for the next step, we should do more compilation of textbooks in the fields of law, Moxue, and vertical and horizontal studies, and in Confucianism, we should use the "Five Classics of Justice" that is currently being compiled as a textbook, and in other disciplines, we need to organize people to compile textbooks as soon as possible. ”

Zheng Xuan nodded.

"Law is easy to do, please Guo Shangshu, Man Lingjun and others take some time to compile the "Han Law" as the main body, but in terms of ink and vertical and horizontal studies, what should be used to compile textbooks?"

"If you want to study ink, let's focus on the "Book of Ink"."

Liu Bei thought for a while and said slowly: "I have read the Book of Ink, and there are a lot of important contents in it, about the number of techniques, about some other knowledge, and there are many tricks of tricks, but you need to make some deletions, delete the likes of love and non-attack, and keep the tricks of tricks." ”

"Understood, I'll take care of this."

Zheng Xuan nodded and said, "What about Zonghengxue?" Does "Guiguzi" need to be taught in its entirety? Do I need to make some cuts? ”

"Just proofread the words and make punctuation breaks."

Liu Bei looked at Zheng Xuan and said: "As for the deletion, I don't think it's necessary, Zheng Gong thinks that there is anything in this book that is inconvenient to pass on to future generations?" ”

"That's not true, it's just that there are many cunning and deceptive techniques in his books, although there is also a necessity, but ......"

Zheng Xuan was embarrassed: "If these tricks of deceitful people are taught in a grand manner, I am afraid that it will cause criticism and bring some bad consequences, right?" ”

"Vertical and horizontal, how can you be vertical and horizontal without the art of deceiving people?"

Liu Bei said with a smile: "Judging from the morality of Old Master Confucius, of course he doesn't like vertical and horizontal arts, but this world is not the world of Old Master Confucius, nor the world of Confucianism, but the world of people in the world. ”

Zheng Xuan understood what Liu Bei meant.

He asked this question, just out of the instinct of a Confucian student, after hundreds of years of high-intensity moral education, instinctively disliked the trickery in the vertical and horizontal arts, thinking that it would make people's hearts unancient, but ......

The world is going to be changed, it is no longer the world of Confucian moral gentlemen, the era of deposing the family and respecting Confucianism has passed, and the hundred schools of thought may return to the society of the Han Empire, and everything will be different from the past.

Under the Confucian discourse, vertical and horizontal numbers are tricks, and from other perspectives, vertical and horizontal techniques can bring benefits to the country, in this case, as a ruler, why not?

A moral gentleman can't play real diplomacy.

Moreover, following the political thinking of the new era, the concept of "the ancient is not the present" will also become politically incorrect, and no one will use it as a basis for criticizing others.

And what will happen if people's hearts really go back to ancient times?

Do you guess how the ancients came to be so many reproductive taboos and human ethics such as [no marriage with the same surname]?

Therefore, with Liu Bei's permission, the revised version of the "Five Classics of Justice", the deleted version of the "Book of Ink", the revised version of "Guiguzi", and the "Han Law", as well as the original textbooks of agriculture, astronomy and geography, mathematics and other textbooks will be included in the first series of textbooks of education in the Han Empire.

The next task of the printing office is to prepare the printing tools, ready to print these books at full speed, and strive to print hundreds of thousands of copies of each volume for use as teaching materials.

Next, there is the work of the school.

According to Liu Bei's request, Zheng Xuan needed to make a comprehensive revision of the teaching content of the fifteen higher education institutions, including Taixue and the other fourteen schools, and convey it to Taixue and the fourteen schools in a timely manner, regardless of whether they had completed the school-running work or not.

As far as Zheng Xuan knows, the imperial court's requirement that every state have a state school has been fulfilled.

It's just that Yangzhou's schools have just opened, and Jiaozhou's schools have not yet opened, some states have absorbed more students, some states have absorbed fewer students, and some states have been running schools for a year or two, and some states have even been just a grass platform team with experience.

In the past, Liu Bei was busy fighting for power and dealing with conspiracies, but now that he has some time to spare, he decided to personally supervise the construction of schools in various states.

Limited by funds and resources, it is not possible to further build more schools at present, but by concentrating resources in fifteen specialized schools, it is still possible to train a group of outstanding students for the affairs of the imperial court, so these fifteen schools are his own son projects in his eyes.

At present, in addition to Taixue, Liangzhou State School and Sili School are the best, Yizhou University, Qingzhou University and Xuzhou University are second, Youzhou University and Jizhou University and Yanzhou University and Yuzhou University are the third tier.

The remaining Jingzhou and Yangzhou schools are again, not to mention Jiaozhou schools.

A lot of things are being built and developed, but the current state, because of the limitations of time and operating experience, is really a bit primitive.

But it doesn't matter, the development of new things always has to face some bumps, and it is good to get past it.

(End of chapter)