In order to allow the state schools to reach a balanced situation as soon as possible, Liu Bei ordered the school department to send special personnel to the states to supervise, see how the construction of the state schools is, give some guiding advice, and supervise them to complete the construction.

In terms of the source of students, they should follow a voluntary registration principle, that is, accept registration, organize examinations, and then admit students in accordance with regulations, regardless of their origins or the wealth of their families, as long as they pass the examinations, they should be accepted.

Based on what happened in Liangzhou Prefecture, Liu Bei was not worried about the problem of students, because the number of scholars was limited in the first place, and the number of landlords was also limited, and the largest number of people were still peasant children after all.

In the first few years, the number of children of scholars and landlords will be larger, and soon, as long as Liu Bei is in place in terms of education subsidies and is willing to spend money, then the number of children of peasant families will catch up.

And judging from the current change in the content of this education, in fact, everyone has almost reached a unified starting line, and the advantages of the children of scholars in the past have basically disappeared.

It's not that no one has any objections, it's just that in Liu Bei's mode of boiling frogs in warm water, by the time they found out that they had lost everything and had to return to the King of Volumes mode, it was already too late.

At present, Liu Bei has not announced that he will officially change the method of selecting officials, and the probation system is still maintained in name.

But this is only a phase.

After education is fully rolled out and school education can provide stable high-quality graduates, it is a matter of course to change the existing talent selection model with the probation system as the main body to the examination model.

The probationary system will eventually bid farewell to the history of the Han Empire, and the era of selecting talents by examination will come.

At present, everyone is still immersed in a series of reform actions made by Liu Bei and cannot extricate themselves, and they do not realize that an unprecedented comprehensive change is slowly coming.

Even if Zheng Xuan had learned enough information and already knew a considerable part of Liu Bei's ambitions, he did not deduce a more direct conclusion.

It's just that with the passage of time, all this has gone for granted, to the unchangeable.

When the last heavy snow fell in Jian'an for five years, the news of the death of the Empress Dowager Dong spread throughout Luoyang, and the life of the lucky Empress Dowager finally came to an end.

When she left, her grandson Liu Xie was by her side.

Liu Xie did not leave Luoyang for several months, and has been serving her as a grandson, serving her decoction, hoping that she can recover, but this expectation was still disappointed after all, and the old lady did not bear it, and she did not even finish Jian'an for five years.

Of course, she didn't see the official completion of the "Guardian Tongyi" that had a lot of fate with her.

When Liu Bei was in full swing to promote the implementation of various reform bills, and when the whole world was facing major changes, the old lady was gone.

Liu Bei personally presided over a grand funeral for the old lady, dressed in white to hold a vigil for her and announced a seven-day boycott to show mourning.

According to the old lady's last wish, her body will return to her hometown for burial, where she comes from, she will go somewhere, the sun is cold, there is no temperature, her most important people are basically in her hometown, she wants to return to her hometown, and the leaves will return to her roots.

Liu Bei fulfilled the old lady's wish, and seven days later, he ordered a large funeral procession to set off from Luoyang, all the way to Jizhou, and return to the old lady's hometown for burial.

This time he returned, Liu Xie also followed, and he will return to his hometown as a county marquis, return to his fiefdom, and spend the rest of his life there.

After the old lady's filial piety is over, he can do whatever he wants, as long as he does not violate the provisions of the "Han Law", he can have the greatest freedom.

And although the title is not high, his Yulu is the only one of the Han clansmen in the world, which Liu Bei promised, so Liu Xie can do a lot of things with that money.

As a person who lost the throne, Liu Bei didn't know whether Liu Xie's fate was good or bad compared to him in the original historical trajectory, although he had never held any real power, and he had no will of his own from ascending the throne to the Zen throne, and was completely controlled by others.

In Cao Wei, after he took the Zen throne, he lived for fourteen years and died in the same year as Zhuge Liang, who lived Cao Pi but not Cao Rui.

No one knows how he spent those fourteen years, what mood he had, and how he felt.

It's just rumored that after his Zen throne, he stayed away from politics and devoted himself to medical skills, and did not charge money for the common people in his fiefdom to see a doctor and treat the world.

However, Liu Bei felt that in his own place, his life should be better than in Cao Wei, at least he could stay away from the political whirlpool before he truly experienced the dangers of the world, and he would receive Liu Bei's most comprehensive care and protection, and he would be rich for a lifetime.

Then, he should be happy, his mood should be cheerful, he should not have any shame of losing the throne, dream back at midnight, and he will not be worried about being sorry for his ancestors, and it will be difficult to sleep.

This should be the best ending for him.

After the old lady died and Liu Xie returned to the fiefdom, the New Year of the first year of Zhenguan was coming.

The year of Jian'an will pass completely, and the last symbol belonging to the Second Han Empire will also be replaced by the era name representing the Third Han Empire, and the Han will completely enter the next era.

Two days before this New Year's Festival, Liu Bei took a holiday to accompany his family, he accompanied his wife and concubines and children out of Luoyang City, and found a secluded place outside Luoyang City to eat barbecue and hot pot.

The children got together to have a snowball fight, and the playful Gong Qin and Gong Ling also joined in and became the king of children, and took the children to split into two and have a snowball fight.

And he didn't participate, just sat peacefully in the pavilion and barbecued meat.

As the main wife, Han Ning naturally has the qualifications to sit next to him and help him skewer meat, and the other concubines can only gather around the stone table behind to toss the hot pot, and then talk about some topics between women.

"To be honest, until now, I don't have much real sense of being an emperor."

Liu Bei flipped the kebab and said slowly: "I just feel as if I am still being that general, everything has not changed, being an emperor and not being an emperor has little impact on me, but for others, it has a great impact." ”

Han Ning sat next to Liu Bei, helping him skewer meat while giving him a blank look.

"Didn't you say you were happy before? Don't feel anything now? ”

"Happy is happy, but that's only for a while."

Liu Bei shook his head and said with a smile: "After the joy has passed, I found that it is all complicated and difficult things, there are many more things to do than before, and the troubles will increase. ”

"Look at what you're saying."

Han Ning said with a smile: "You are an emperor who says this kind of thing, and the people of the world still don't know how to evaluate Ling, every day is full of fine clothes and food, and there are people to serve everything, are you still not satisfied?" ”

"There are more people who can be served by people, and there are more people who are more comfortable than me."

When Liu Bei said this, he remembered the limerick poem that Zhu Yuanzhang had written.

It is said that the hundred officials have not gotten up yet, but he has already gotten up, the hundred officials have already slept, but he has not slept yet, so he is particularly envious of the rich man in the south of the Yangtze River, who can sleep until three o'clock in the morning before getting up, unlike him, who deals with government affairs every day until late at night.

This matter, it is really public to say that the public is reasonable, and the mother-in-law is reasonable, and the rich people also envy Zhu Yuanzhang's monopoly on power, and he can kill whoever he wants, who would have thought that Zhu Yuanzhang would still envy these rich men who can sleep until three o'clock in the sun and then get up?

Everyone has troubles, right......

"I hope now that I don't want to be the emperor and die, then I'll be satisfied."

"Huh? That's not simple, if you don't want to do it, just Zen. ”

Han Ning said with a smile: "When don't you want to be the emperor, just give up the throne to Shen, isn't it?" ”

When Liu Bei heard this, he set his eyes on his eldest son Liu Shen, who was happily having a snowball fight.

He is ten years old this year, and his academic performance depends on his mother's strict supervision and is very good.

To say excellent, absolutely excellent, whether it is Confucianism, or agriculture, mathematics, astronomy and geography and other aspects of knowledge, he has learned very well, equestrian and some basic martial arts are also well mastered, under the elite education, he is by no means a waste of firewood.

Liu Shen is like this, and Liu Ze is the same, his grades are not much worse than his brother, and he is also a player in the first echelon of the kindergarten grade, and the two brothers often compete with each other for the first place, and they are both very good children.

According to this direction, Liu Bei feels that Liu Shen can definitely be trained as a second-generation successor, and Liu Ze will not be a gentleman, as long as they can get a suitable position, they will definitely be able to make some careers.

But being in the royal family, many things are involuntary, and now their brothers are close, but there is no guarantee that their brothers will remain close when he is ready to abdicate in the future.

There is only one person on the throne, but there are several of their brothers and sisters, although Liu Beida was sure that Liu Shen was the heir to the throne from the beginning, but what will happen in the future, who knows?

However, Liu Bei is not very worried about this problem.

If he follows his planned route, it is a matter of course for the Han to turn his career to the outside in an all-round way, and he will turn his eyes outward no matter what, to open up more new territories, and avoid the Third Reich from going down the old path of involution.

In this way, he can also try to divide the outstanding children to the outside, to open up the territory, to share the population, power and opportunities, to learn the Zhou Dynasty's feudal system, and to embark on a new route.

No matter how difficult and dangerous the route was, he had to keep going.

How the second generation and second generations of the Zhou royal family risked their lives to expand the territory and engage in construction, Liu Bei can also get a glimpse of it from ancient books.

In a strange and dangerous environment, he led a group of people to start a business, built a country from scratch, and the average age of people at that time, it was really a life to pioneer.

Not to mention the second and third generations of monarchs who were feudal states, the first generation of monarchs could not live in decent cities and houses until they died, and slept in tents in poor conditions from life to death.

Therefore, the exploration of unknown territories has always been an extremely dangerous thing, and if you are not careful, you will either be killed by the natives, or by wild beasts and poisonous insects, or by epidemics, and the ultra-high mortality rate may also be a major reason that prevents people from expanding their pace.

Nature has never been gentle, and human beings have never been fragile, and turning a wild land into a fertile land requires not only money and sweat, but also blood.

But this road must be followed, if you don't choose this path, the cruel involution will not only make the royal family a Shura field, but the Han Empire will also become a huge Shura field sooner or later.

Everyone is involuted and in pain.

After returning that night, Liu Bei found Liu Hui and asked Liu Hui to set up an elite expedition team to carry out the route of external development to the end, and to start acting from the end of the fifth year of Jian'an, seize the time, and not waste a minute or a second.

"To Ninan-gun?"

Liu Hui was very puzzled by Liu Bei's sudden proposal to form a sea expedition team and ask them to go to Rinan County to build a base as soon as possible.

At present, the East Garden led by Liu Hui is inclined to the northwest and northeast in terms of the focus of work, and the southwest and southeast are also being arranged, but for overseas, it is really not on the agenda.

However, Liu Bei asked Liu Hui to immediately send people to organize a sea expedition and build a stronghold in Rinan County.

"Yes, Rinan County, this is the southernmost county of the Han Dynasty, it is a county created by Emperor Wu during the expansion of the territory, I read the palace documents before, although Rinan County is located in a wild land, the trade with overseas people is quite prosperous.

When Emperor Xiaohuan was in power, the envoys of the Great Qin Kingdom landed in Rinan County, and then entered the Han Realm and went to Luoyang to meet Emperor Xiaohuan, so I think we must control everything in Ninan County, and then master the situation of many overseas countries and maritime trade routes. ”

Liu Hui let out an "oh" and nodded slowly.

"It's no wonder that there is such a relationship in it, so Your Majesty, how many people should be organized?"

"At least five hundred people, you can also choose some officers and soldiers in the army who can fight well to join the ranks, those places are many barbarians, do not obey the indoctrination, if you want to stay in the local area, you must have strong force."

"Yui."

Liu Hui nodded: "Then after gaining a foothold in the local area, do you want to contact overseas countries?" If that's the case, wouldn't it be better for Da Honglu to send someone with him? ”

"Not for the time being, the main thing is to probe the intelligence and figure out their location and route."

Liu Bei said slowly: "You just need to send someone to investigate the information, and don't worry about the rest." ”

"Yui!"

Liu Hui received the order and left quickly.

(End of chapter)