Chapter 4 Finally Ruled

Shi Le was born as a slave of the Qianghu, started from a rogue, has been parkour in the first half of his life, and has been fighting in the second half of his life, intellectuals certainly can't talk about it, but he admires Han culture very much. This can be seen from his attitude towards Wang Yan, a Han man who was "famous and gentle, and beautiful in the forest" in 311.

If the Xiongnu Liu Yuan is the pioneer of sinicization, and the later Northern Wei Xiaowen Emperor Tuoba Hong is the master of sinicization (later narrative), then Shi Le has taken over the baton of more than 100 years between the two.

It needs to be noted here that the Han culture here is different from the north and the south.

As mentioned above, during the Wei and Jin dynasties, Confucian culture was constantly rejected by the Han people, especially the upper class of scholars, and metaphysics with Laozi, Zhuangzi, and Zhou Yi as the research objects became the main culture of the Han people.

With the demise of the Western Jin Dynasty, most of the scholar class fled to the south and formed the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the so-called Baiyi Nandu. The white-clothed people crossed to the south and brought the metaphysical ideas in their minds to the south.

Most of the Han people who stayed in the north were dicks, or although they were scholars, they were also lower-class people in the scholars, and the social status and economic status of these people did not allow them to play chic and metaphysics, and most of them still admired Confucianism and took history as the object of study.

For example, Zhang Bin, the first strategist under Shi Le, was "well-versed in scripture and history" and was basically a Confucian student. The Hu people sent the Han people who played metaphysics to the south, and Confucianism was revived in northern China. Therefore, if Confucius has knowledge under the spring, he really has to thank the Huns Liu Cong and the Qianan Shi Le.

Shi Le realized that the strength of the Qian people was really limited, and in addition to being able to ride horses, shoot arrows and wield swords, in order to govern the country and consolidate the Later Zhao regime, it was necessary to strive for cooperation with the Han people and make use of the Han people's governance strategies. In addition to the chief strategist Zhang Bin, he also fell in love with another Han Chinese.

Deng You. If you sum up this person's life, it can be summed up in two words - hard life.

Deng You, the word Bodao, a native of Xiangling, Pingyang, was born in the scholar clan, lost his father at the age of seven, and then lost his mother and grandmother one after another, and served in mourning for nine years, known for his filial piety. This kind of family died early, and the fate is often wonderful, as if the luck of the whole family is concentrated on him, which may also be a manifestation of the law of conservation of all things.

Sure enough, in the Western Jin Dynasty, which was systematically selecting officials in the Nine Pins, this kind of filial piety reputation made Deng You recommended as the second rank of Zhuoran and the second rank of the Nine Pins when he became an adult. He successively followed Sima Yan, King of Wu, Sima Yue, King of the East China Sea, and Sima Tengming, King of Xincai, and later served as the Taishou of Hedong.

During the Yongjia Rebellion, Deng You was captured by Shile. Shi Le wanted to summon him to behead him, but Deng You thought that this was the end, and came to the gate of Shi Le's camp with his neck stalked. Coincidentally, he found that the doorman who stood guard for Shile was an old acquaintance of his own.

You can't just die silently, can you? Deng You wanted to bring pen and paper and wrote a speech to the doorman as a souvenir.

The doorman took the text and looked at it, then looked at Deng You, and said meaningfully: The Lord seems to be quite happy today, you can wait for a while. After speaking, let Deng You wait outside the door, and go in to report to Shi Le.

After half an hour's effort, Deng You was announced to see Shi Le, identity? From a lamb to the slaughter to a guest of honor.

It turned out that Deng You's character was good, and in order to save him, the doorman specially chose the moment when Shi Le was happy and handed the speech to Shi Le. As soon as Shi Le saw it, he left Deng You with a splendid article.

It can be seen that it is very important for the leader to have someone around him at a critical time, even if it is a doorkeeper or a driver. Deng You was temporarily settled, and after that, he felt the true meaning of distant relatives being inferior to close neighbors.

Next door to his residence, there lived a big man, Zhang Bin, Shile's chief strategist. The two often hang out and chatter. Through contact, Zhang Bin was surprised to find that this compatriot of his was a rare talent, so he vigorously recommended it in front of Shile. Shi Le appointed Deng You to join the army and directly left it under the account of the Chinese army. It can be seen that the driver of the door next to the leader can only ensure that you do not die, and if you want to be promoted, you must have a small leader to say good things in front of the big leader.

Shile governed the army strictly, banned fire at night, and violators were beheaded. Deng You's parking space is adjacent to the parking space of Yihuren's colleague, and the two cars are parked side by side. During the night, Hu Ren's car caught fire and both cars were burned. Hu was terrified, and shirked responsibility when he was investigated, saying that Deng You's car caught fire and caused him.

When Deng You was investigated, he believed that he was Han and the other party was Hu, and there was no argument against it, so he thought that he caused the fire when he warmed wine for his brother and daughter-in-law. Fortunately, when he reported to Shi Le, Shi Le thought that it was not worth killing a think tank for this, and Deng Yu was not punished.

People's hearts are flesh and blood, and those who cause fires are grateful for Deng Zhi's kindness and are uneasy. The Hu people didn't have any gifts to give, so they sent someone to give Deng You a horse and a donkey, and then tied himself up and went to see Shi Le to defend Deng You. This matter spread in the Shile military camp, and both the Han and Hu people were convinced of Deng You.

Noble character is the real universal value.

Deng You, after all, is a Han man who reads poetry and books, and comes from the scholar clan, although he is in Huying, he does not want to escape to the Jin court all the time. When Shi Lebing crossed Surabaya, he took advantage of the chaos to cut off the connection between the cart and the oxen and horses, and fled with his wife, son, and nephew. On the way, the cattle and horses were plundered by robbers and had to walk.

Deng You lost his father at the age of 7, that is, he depended on his younger brother for his life, and later his younger brother left a son, Deng Sui, who also died. Deng You regarded his nephew as his own and loved him very much, and his nephew was also by his side when he fled this time. The Hu people's pursuers are approaching, in order to escape quickly, the two children can only bring one, which one to bring? Which to lose?

Deng You quickly made a choice and discussed with his wife: if we take our two children to run for our lives, we will definitely be caught up by the pursuers, and our younger brother will die early, leaving only this bit of blood, so it is better for us to leave our son and run away with our nephew.

His wife Jia's heart was like a knife, tears were like rain, and Deng You's face was sallow: We are still young and will have children again.

The two left their son and took their nephew on the road, and the little guy was reluctant to give up his parents, crying and chasing all the way. The husband and wife had no choice but to tie the child to a mulberry tree, hastily left a letter of blood, and fled to the south with their nephew Deng Sui.

What happened to this poor child? Historical books cannot be examined, and it is estimated that there is more luck than luck.

Deng You fled to the Eastern Jin Dynasty court, although there were ups and downs in the sea from time to time, but the career was finally smooth, and he did Wu County Taishou, Shizhong, Shangshu of the Ministry of Shangshu, Protector General, Huiji Taishou, Shangshu Left Servant Shooting, and the official reached the deputy national level.

However, the sight of his own son crying and chasing all the way has always been like a thorn in Deng You's heart. Although the husband and wife are still young, the Jia family has never been able to get pregnant again, and Deng You has no choice but to marry a concubine and prepare to leave a queen for the Deng family.

However, when I checked the identity of this concubine, it was actually my niece. In troubled times, anything can happen. Deng You couldn't cry or laugh, and never took a concubine again, and he never had another child until he died.

Everyone sighed at the time: Heavenly ignorance made Deng Bodao childless. China is a country that is good at making allusions, and the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties are the peak period of the birth of allusions, so "Bo Dao has no children", "Deng You has no children", "Deng family has no children", "Bo Dao's worries", "Deng You abandoned children to protect nephews" and other allusions came into being, expressing the sigh of others having no children.

Yuan Zhen, a famous lover poet of the Tang Dynasty, also lamented in the poem that "Deng Yu has no children to seek his life, and Pan Yue mourns the death of a few words" ("Three Songs of Sending Sorrow").

Everything in the world is conserved, including human luck. Deng You lost his father, mother, and grandmother one after another in his early years, but he entered the officialdom because of his filial piety; After being captured, he was trapped in the enemy camp, but he was saved by an old acquaintance; lost his son on the way to escape, but he was prosperous all the way; married like a flower concubine, but by mistake did not leave any blood.

Some people admired his broad feelings of sacrificing himself for others, some people denounced it as a fame and reputation, and some people rose to the perspective of criticizing Chinese culture, believing that letting celebrities have no humanity to show greatness belongs to the dregs of ancient Chinese culture.

There are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people, let's let go of the evaluation of Deng You's behavior for the time being, and through Deng You's escape, we can spy on the mentality of the Hanchen under Shile's tent, that is:

Hanchen, who was born in the scholar family, did not want to return to the Jin Dynasty all the time, and continued to operate the royal paradise where the scholar family and the imperial power ruled the world together.

And Han Chen, who was born in the Shu clan, knew very well in his heart that in that so-called royal paradise, without their slightest stand, it was better to follow Chief Hu to work hard, break through the rising ceiling, and achieve glory and wealth.

is also Han, Deng You is the former, and Zhang Bin is the latter. Deng You ran away, and Zhang Bin followed Shi Legan with all his heart, and he assisted Shi Le in carrying out a series of reforms to the Later Zhao regime. Mainly:

1. Economically, envoys were sent to tour the prefectures and counties to persuade farmers and mulberries.

2. Politically, although it is still a dual-track system of Hu and Han management, and there are still a series of government agencies under Da Dan Yu and its subordinates, it has been obviously sinicized.

Zhang Bin, a Han Chinese, was the great law enforcement officer of Later Zhao, the head of the government, the head of all officials, and was responsible for selecting officials and absorbing Han landlord class elements to participate in the construction of political power.

Shi Hu is the captain (the gun is still in the hands of his family), Shang Shuling (the prime minister). Zuo Changshi Guo Ao is the left servant of Shangshu (Vice Premier). The right chief Shi Chengyao is the secretary of the book, and the right servant shoots the secretary of the ministry (deputy prime minister and organization minister). Kui An, Guo Yin, Li Feng, and Pei Xian are Shangshu (ministers). Xu Guang is the secretary and supervisor of the Zhongshu Ling (Director of the General Office and Director of the Policy Research Office).

What's the point? The names of official positions such as Taiwei, Shangshu Ling, Servant Shooting, Shangshu, and Zhongshu Ling are all titles in the Han regime. It can be seen that the Later Zhao Dynasty obviously adopted the official position system of the Han regime.

3. In terms of social and cultural construction, Shile built more schools (Taixue and Junguo Studies) to train talents including the children of the generals of the Confucianism and Confucianism, and established a system of showing talents and filial piety and testing the scriptures, and using Confucianism to select officials.

Exams, I believe that all Chinese are now unforgettable. From the ancient imperial examination to the current high school entrance examination, college entrance examination, college English level 4 and 6 examination, civil service examination, judicial examination, registered structural engineer examination, registered electrical engineer examination, registered construction engineer examination and other registered practice qualification examinations, after more than 1,000 years of Chinese history, the painful and happy examination, has even been industrialized.

However, who was the inventor of the exam? It is Shile, a member of the Qiang tribe.

In each of the counties of Later Zhao, Shile appointed a director of the education bureau (Xueguan), who was responsible for local education. It also set up local schools, with 150 students in each county, who had to pass three examinations before graduating, to train reserve cadres for the state.

What is even more commendable is that Shi Le deeply understands that education should start from the baby, and more than a dozen primary schools have been established (Le added more than ten primary schools in Xuanwen, Xuanjiao, Chongru, and Chongxun in Xiangguo, and more than 100 people from Zuohao's right children were taught by Jane).

It is hard to imagine that Shi Le, who has this kind of strategic vision of rejuvenating the country through science and education, is a member of the Qiang nationality who does not know a few Chinese characters in Douda.

In addition, Shile knew that in order to secure the throne in the north, how to alleviate national contradictions was an important issue at hand. Shi Le specially ordered that the Hu people should not insult the well-dressed Chinese (Han people); At the same time, a decree was also enacted, which strictly forbade the use of the word "hu" with discriminatory connotations in all speech and writing, and violators would not be punished.

Cucumber, brought back from the Western Regions when Zhang Qian of the Western Han Dynasty sent an envoy to the Western Regions, was originally called courgette. The reason why the courgette was later called cucumber was also Shile.

One day, Shile summoned local officials, and Fan Tan, the county guard of Xiangguo, was also among them. But this guy was a little unlucky, and he met a group of robbers on the way. These Hu people were also poor and crazy, and they couldn't grab anything else, so they snatched Fan Tan's clothes after giving him a while.

The disheveled Fan Tan came to see Shi Le, and Shi Le was very annoyed: Fan Tan, why did you come to see him when you were not well-dressed?

Fan Tan, who was angry, blurted out: It's all because a bunch of Hu people have no morality, they snatched all my clothes, and almost took off my pants!

As soon as the words fell, a biting chill hit Fan Tan's whole body - he had violated the ban and mistakenly said the word "Hu"! The old man hurriedly prostrated his head and pleaded guilty.

Shi Le knew that it was not intentional, so he did not blame it. When the court meeting was over and the monarchs and ministers had a working lunch together, Shi Le deliberately pointed to a plate of small artifacts with wine, pig's head and meat mixed with courgette and asked Fan Tan: Do you know what the name of this thing is?

Those who can enter the central government as an official naturally have two brushes, plus blood sugar has been replenished after eating, Fan Tan is very sober this time, and he has an idea: purple case delicacies, silver cup green tea, golden bottle nectar, jade plate cucumber.

It is worthy of a Confucian scholar who has read a rotten melon in the subset of classics and history, and in terms of choosing words and making sentences, if the ancient Chinese liberal arts intellectuals are called the second in the world, no one dares to call them the first in the world. Shi Le couldn't help but clapped his hands and laughed, praising Fan Tan's wit. Since then, the courgette has been renamed cucumber.

Here, it is worth pondering, if a certain minister changes the name of a certain melon to a white melon, what will happen to Shile? I thought, this minister will definitely be beheaded, why?

Because, the Qiang people are Caucasian Hu people, the only Caucasian Hu people in the Wuhu Chaos period. The rest of the Hu people are all yellows.

No matter what kind of Hu people they are, Shile's deep sinicization and extreme admiration and yearning for Han culture are a real hammer. Some scholars and self-media people use the fact that Shi Le did not know a few Chinese characters in his life to prove that Shi Le is a fake sinicization, which has aroused the approval of many people. In fact, this point of view is refuted by another fact.

That is, Shi Hong, the crown prince of Zhao Zhao, has completely transformed into a full Confucian who likes to write poetry. The personally selected successors to the imperial throne are all Confucians, and there is such a fake sinicization?

Occupying the prime location of the Central Plains, the cultural and martial arts and amphibious double cultivation, Shile is powerful in all directions, like the overlord of the north. Goryeo, Gaochang, Khotan, Shanshan, Dawan in the Western Regions, Zhang Jun of Qianliang, and even the Han people in the south of the Eastern Jin Dynasty sent envoys to send Fang Wu and make peace with them.

The wind is strong and the tide is strong. Flood totem dragon, fire nirvana phoenix. The power of Chinese culture is endless.