Weiyang Palace, built on the site of the original Qin Dynasty Zhangtai Palace, has become the place where all the political affairs and rights of the Han Dynasty flowed out since the beginning of Gaozu Liu Bang.

The emperors of Wen and Jing reigned in this palace and shepherded the people of the world.

Today, in this palace, there is a lot of noise.

Without him, the Xiongnu sent three soldiers and horses to the south to plunder the Central Plains, and everyone needed to discuss a countermeasure.

This is the situation that Liu Che encountered after returning to Chang'an from Pingyang City.

"Do you send the princess to kiss again?"

Liu Che heard eighty percent of the voices from the court, all of whom advocated that he, like Emperor Hui, Wen, and Emperor Jing, adopt a policy of concession to the Xiongnu.

In contrast, there is a huge gap between the main battle faction led by Daxing Ling Wang Hui and the main peace faction led by Han Anguo, the imperial historian.

In the end, even his teacher, Yan An, who grew up with him, advocated restoring peace and sending a princess to the Xiongnu.

"Shame!" Wang Hui said loudly: "My Han dynasty has been established for a hundred years, and I have paid tribute for a hundred years, has it really become a vassal of the Huns?" ”

"If you don't get along, what will you do? Emperor Gaozu was so powerful that he waged war against the Xiongnu, and there was also the siege of Baideng, which is still today...... The Hun army is stronger than back then, and there is an invincible military god like Tuoba Ye, who can have the strength to counterattack? ”

The officials of the Lord and the Church were distressed:

"One carelessness is a big mistake for the shaking of the country, who can afford this responsibility?"

Liu Che listened to the voice of the one-sided lord and faction of the Manchu Dynasty.

There was a fire in his heart.

Could it really be that the Han could only be bullied by the Xiongnu like this, let them come and go, and plunder the wealth of the Han people, and after their captivity, send the princess to stop the war?

But he also knew that before the Empress Dowager Dou Yifang handed over the military and political power to him, he did not have any right to speak.

"You fight, it's better to fight for a result, I'm tired."

Liu Che ran out of patience.

The ministers did not care about him, but only greeted His Majesty, and continued to fight in the main hall, refusing to give in to each other.

Liu Che walked out of the main hall.

Looking at the direction of Pingyang, he said to himself in his heart: "Did Qin Shi Huang Yingzheng also experience these difficulties and ups and downs? ”

and Li Ling walked to the Jiaofang Hall together, at this time, an internal official trotted over and said: "Your Majesty, the little sage Zhuang Dong Fuzi is waiting for His Majesty to summon him in the northwest corner tower." ”

"Dong Zhongshu!"

Liu Che's eyes lit up.

This Confucian master, who has instilled in himself the idea of great revenge since he was a child, is the most famous main battle faction, and at the same time, he is also one of the top ten strange people in the world.

He wanted to know what kind of advice this Confucian master could give him.

"Swing!"

The southwest corner tower is located in the southwest corner of the palace wall of Weiyang Palace, ascending high and looking into the distance, you can see the endless smoke clouds of the Qinling Mountains in the distance.

After Liu Che arrived here, he saw a literati wearing a high crown and a wide Confucian robe, with a temperament like a mountain, standing there.

Dong Zhongshu.

He stood with his hands in his hands, looked at the smoke and clouds of the Qinling Mountains in the distance, and said: "Your Majesty, you can know that it was on this corner tower that the Great Qin Emperor Jiang Tai took out a sword and asked Xiangguo Lu Buwei to return the government to the First Emperor Yingzheng. ”

Liu Che's eyes moved slightly, and said: "You also know that I have met that Mr. Jiang, do you want to invite me to be the emperor like the first emperor Yingzheng back then?" ”

I have to say that after he came back from Pingyang, he had this thought.

Especially when I heard that Mr. Jiang only made a sword and let Lu Buwei return to power, I couldn't wait......

"Your Majesty has been wise since childhood, if you can get the help of that person, it will naturally be like a tiger with wings, however, relying on the mountains and mountains, relying on the flow of water, Your Majesty needs to think about how to govern the whole world, this is not the one who can help you." Dong Zhongshu's voice said slowly: "This is the business of the people in the world themselves, it is true that he has the power to level the world, but he can govern and create, but it is not what he is good at." ”

Liu Che thought for a moment and said, "Dong Zhongshu, what do you mean, what should I do?" ”

Dong Zhongshu said slowly: "Your Majesty wants to counterattack the Huns, I support it, this is a national enemy, and the division of revenge is the division of justice, but this alone is not enough......

Liu Che asked: "Why is it not enough, I already have the fifty years of national capital accumulated by my father and ancestor, which is enough for me to fight with the Huns for ten or even twenty years!" ”

Dong Zhongshu asked: "Fight for ten years, fight for twenty years, if you can't defeat the Xiongnu in one fell swoop, destroy their country, annex their territory, what can you do after 50 years, the steppe people have no place to live, and wait for another 50 years, they will grow like weeds again, and treat the symptoms but not the root cause." ”

Liu Che said: "Then what good plan do you have?" ”

Dong Zhongshu said: "The reason why the Qin Dynasty was able to annex the countries and dominate the world was not only the national capital accumulated by six generations of virtuous monarchs, but also the legal system that was born in response to the times, and it was these legal systems that made the Qin Dynasty the most powerful country in the land at that time, and the army was also the most powerful army. If the legal system is right, it can be open source, and the cycle will continue, making the country stronger and stronger. ”

Liu Che was taken aback and said, "You mean, you want to change the law?" ”

Dong Zhongshu said: "Ying Zheng is a good example, if Your Majesty wants to become a male lord, then you must learn from him and grasp all the power in your own hands, so that the country will follow your will to advance your goals, just like this time, if you want to go to war against the Xiongnu, then just with your words, you can make the whole world prepare for war for this, instead of having so many constraints." ”

Liu Che took a deep breath and said, "But you also said that the reason why Lu Buwei was able to return to power back then was because of Jiang Taiyi, and now, if I don't rely on this Mr. Jiang as well, how can I ......?"

Dong Zhongshu said: "Ying Zheng can hold all the power of the Qin State, Jiang Taiyi did help him, but only a few times, only when Ying Zheng encountered a strong foreign enemy, he made a move, the reason why he was able to turn the entire empire into his own body and arms, as easy as an arm, is mainly because he successfully grasped the power of the world into his own hands through the imperial technique and the legal system of Legalism, so that the person is the country." ”

Liu Che's eyes were not moved, and he said: "Then in today's world, how can we change the law so that I can concentrate all my power in my hands like Yingzheng?" ”

Dong Zhongshu said: "Before asking this question, I must first answer, who is in the hands of today's power, does Your Majesty know?" ”

Liu Che pondered: "The Empress Dowager? ”

Dong Zhongshu said: "No, the power in the hands of the Empress Dowager will return to Your Majesty's hands sooner or later, I'm talking about the power that you can't get even after Your Majesty's pro-government." ”

Liu Che's heart was shocked, and he said, "The power I can't get after I become pro-government?" ”

Dong Zhongshu said: "The power of the vassal kings is one of them, and they are hereditary and divide the power of the emperor. ”

Liu Che's face was even more shocked: "You mean to continue to cut the domain?" ”

How many years has it been since the Rebellion of the Seven Kings broke out?!

These princes and kings had already been swept by his father back then, and if they continued to clean, I am afraid that it would not cause a terrifying backlash.

"Your Majesty can listen to me first." Dong Zhongshu said unhurriedly: "The splitting power of the hundred schools of thought in the classics is the second. This is equivalent to the Warring States period before the Qin Dynasty, a 'sword' character, but there are twenty-one ways to write it, which do not recognize each other, are different from each other, and attack each other. ”

This example is the Taoist Heaven and the Two Sects of Man, the Yin and Yang of the Yin and Yang Sects, the Legalist Method, the Technique, and the Potential. The situation of soldiers and soldiers, and the eight Confucianism and three ink are equally divided, varied, and the division is a mess, which finally leads to the entire Chinese inheritance in internal strife, which can be seen everywhere from the court to the rivers and lakes. ”

When Liu Che heard this, he couldn't help muttering to himself: "I have seen it in the book, and Han Fei said this in his letter to the First Emperor Yingzheng, but unfortunately, although the First Emperor unified the world's writing tracks, weights and measures, he was not able to unify the thoughts of the hundred schools of thought. ”

"Split is the root and seedling of all disasters, and the great unification of the universe is the long root of heaven and earth." Dong Zhongshu said calmly: "Yingzheng has obtained this principle, and only then can there be a thousand great achievements of the Qin State, inherited for hundreds of generations, although Qin is dead, the Han inherits the Qin system, which shows the immortality of the concept of great unification." ”

Liu Che asked, "How should I ...... then?"

Dong Zhongshu did not hurry to the third root, and said: "The power that Your Majesty needs to get is the power of money, money is the foundation of national strength, but today, the power of money does not belong to the country or to the emperor. ”

This point is simple and clear, and it completely makes Liu Che understand what to do.

He pondered for a while, nodded and said, "It's just that this edict can only be promulgated when I have considerable power. ”

You don't have to think about it to know how big the benefits are in the money, and it is too difficult to collect all the money into the national treasury.

At this time, Liu Che had already vaguely understood why Dong Zhongshu wanted to throw out these three cruxes one after another, and the order was very important.

You must first gain power, and then consolidate power, so that you can display your ambitions and expand your power.

Liu Che looked at Dong Zhongshu with great emotion, and said, "These three powers, dare to ask the master to teach me, how to get them back?" ”

Dong Zhongshu said: "This is the reason why I want to invite Your Majesty to come here today, for these three questions, I have brought two people for Your Majesty, who can answer the first and third questions respectively. ”

Liu Che was pleasantly surprised: "What person? ”

"The first person, called 'Master Father Yan', he is the second disciple of the previous generation of sword saint Gai Nie, who was awarded the vertical and horizontal strategy given by Gai Nie forty years ago, and is a great material who has studied the doctrine of the Zongheng family, and not long ago debated with me in Songhai and came up with a solution to this problem."

Dong Zhongshu said softly:

"Brother Yan, come out and see Your Majesty."

After speaking, a man dressed in a blue shirt and a simple appearance came out from the corner, like a well-mannered scholar.

"Father of the Zongheng family, please meet Your Majesty." The man bowed.

"Zonghengjia?" Liu Che was pleasantly surprised: "Are you from the Guigu faction?" ”

The master father said calmly: "It can only be regarded as half, the family teacher sword saint Gai Nie, who lived in the East China Sea back then, because he was weak in the lower physique, he was not a talent for martial arts, so he only passed on the strategy of vertical and horizontal slashing, but did not teach martial arts. ”

"Half of the Guigu faction is also from the Guigu faction."

Liu Che said happily:

"Do you know that I met Mr. Jiang Taiyi, the patriarch of your faction, in Pingyang City not long ago, and even, there will be a junior disciple of your Guigu faction called Wei Qing, who will come to Chang'an."

Master Father Yan was slightly stunned: "Ancestor Jiang? Is his old man still alive? ”

He didn't seem to have heard the news of Jiang Taiyi's reappearance in the rivers and lakes in recent days, so his expression was very surprised.

When Liu Che saw his appearance, he knew that the other party was indeed not involved in martial arts secrets, but was just a scholar. (End of chapter)