Chapter 2: Like the Abyss, Section 11, Li Hong was silent. I always thought that as long as the northern Xinjiang was stable and there was enough money and food, I could lead an army of 100,000 to save Sheji, but now it seems that my idea is really naïve and ignorant.

The scholars believed that the warriors did not have the ability to govern the country, and it seemed that they did have a reason. Zhao Qi's words suddenly woke him up, and many vague things suddenly became clear.

Saving the community is not a success that can be succeeded by using strong force to eradicate all the best people. After stabilizing the community by force and quelling the war, will the national policy be correct?

The rule of the officials is clear? And the people will be rich? Can the national honor be continued? Without a good national policy, no one respects the law, there will be endless braids, social turmoil will continue, wars will continue, and national glory will be completely cut off.

Saving the community is only the beginning of the revitalization of the community. The ultimate goal of saving the community is to revitalize the community and promote the community.

If you want to revitalize the society, it is not enough to rely on force alone, you need to promote the academic thinking of the society, you need to enrich and strengthen the country's governance strategy, and you need the law that dominates the world.

However, he has no other skills than strong force. I may be able to save Sheji, but if I want to ZTE, it is obviously a fool's dream.

I know what I can do. Except for fighting, there is nothing to show off and be proud of and respected and convinced.

Although Northern Xinjiang has made some achievements under its own rule in recent years, this is mainly due to the achievements of a group of Northern Xinjiang officials such as Zhao Qi, Zuo Yan, Li Wei, Zhu Mu, and Yu Peng.

After he was ordered to lead the army into northern Xinjiang, he first appeased the Yellow Turban Army, and then implemented the resettlement of displaced people in Tuntian, liberalized the operation of salt and iron, established Jinyang University Hall, developed the market of goods and colony, and implemented the policy of attaching equal importance to agriculture and industry, and so on.

The success of all these things depends on the advice and hard work of these officials in northern Xinjiang.

He is just one of these officials in northern Xinjiang, and he really can't talk about any proud achievements and outstanding knowledge.

He has no sole authority, nor does he have the ability to govern the country, and he is even more afraid of becoming Dong Zhuo's second, harming the society and the common people, and being spurned by the people of the world and leaving a thousand infamy.

Therefore, before leaving Hedong, he also discussed the distribution of power in the imperial court with Xu Rong, Lu Yi, Zhu Mu and others.

If the eldest princess and the imperial court are determined to eradicate Han Fu and Yuan Shao and other state and county officials, then they will be in charge of state affairs, because the imperial court will now have Northern Xinjiang and Youzhou left.

No one is qualified but themselves. However, with his own ability, he must follow Dong Zhuo's old path.

There is an essential difference between taking charge of state affairs and monopolizing state authority and commanding the military and political affairs of a state. You can govern a state well, but you may not be able to govern a country well.

I can command the army of a state and the officials of the county and county, and I can get their loyalty and support, but can I lead the army of the thirteen states and the officials of the county and county?

Can you get the loyalty and support of the people of the world? Dong Zhuo is an example. What happened to Dong Zhuo may be repeated to himself.

In addition to the identity of the samurai, there is also the distrust and confrontation of the ministers. The successive failures in the national policy and the armed conflict between the states and counties have been overturned because of Dong Zhuo.

If you add chaos to chaos because of your own reasons, it will collapse immediately. I am not willing to take on this heavy responsibility, and I do not have the confidence and courage to take on this heavy responsibility.

I now miss the days when I conquered the four seas under the command of the first emperor and the imperial court. When I think about it, it was my most lifeliest time, and I didn't have to think about anything except fighting.

Zhao Qi and Li Wei looked at Li Hong very intently, waiting for his answer. Li Hong's reply is too important, if Li Hong sticks to the old rules because of Dong Zhuo's previous experience and is unwilling to change the existing national policy strategy, Zhang Wen and Cui Lie and other ministers are ready to give up the idea of Zhongxing Sheji, abolish the Jinyang court, re-respect the Chang'an court, return all the power that should have been Li Hong to Li Hong, and a few people go to Jinyang University Hall to teach and quit.

This can not only help Li Hong avoid the crime of holding the eldest princess and the court hostage, but also avoid the scourge of the court's aiding and abetting.

Because the result is obvious, even if Li Hong stabilizes the society with his strong strength in the future, the Han will still not be able to escape the fate of defeat, and the extinction of Guozuo is inevitable.

A big tree that begins to rot from the roots to the top, no matter how much you fertilize the soil and cut the branches and leaves, it is impossible to revive it.

The only way is to cut down the dead tree, replant the seeds, and protect it from the roots until it grows into a giant tree.

What Emperor Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Gaozu, Emperor Xiaowen, and Emperor Xiaojing could do, we can also do.

But the problem is that now that Liu Yu is gone, Master Taifu, who can be in charge, can command Li Hong and can firmly reform the system, is gone, and now there is only one Li Hong who no one can control.

If Li Hong is unwilling to reform the system, without firm determination and indomitable courage, nothing can be done.

Li Hong controls the most powerful army of the Han Kingdom, and this army can only be controlled by Li Hong, if he doesn't do it, even if others want to do it in the future, they will be cut by Li Hong on the charge of rebellion against the Han Dynasty.

Zhao Qi looked up at Li Wei and winked. Li Wei coughed lightly and whispered: "These three things that the boss said are the foundation of Sheji Zhongxing, and they are directly related to the success of Sheji Zhongxing. "Because of the difference in academic thinking, the statecraft strategy is also very different, and what kind of academic thought determines what kind of statecraft.

For example, Legalism governs the country with heavy law and light courtesy, while Confucianism governs the country with virtue. The difference in statecraft directly leads to the difference in national laws and specific national policies.

For example, some sages advocated people-oriented, some sages advocated king-oriented, some believed that a rich country and a strong people should pay equal attention to agriculture and industry, and some believed that agriculture should be emphasized and business should be suppressed.

From the perspective of this dynasty, from Emperor Gao to Emperor Xiaowen and Emperor Xiaojing, they all believed in the learning of Huang Lao, and in line with the principle of people-oriented, they adopted the governance strategy of governing by inaction, being quiet and law-abiding, lightly dispensing with the meager endowment, and recuperating with the people.

Specifically, in terms of laws and policies, it is to govern the country according to law, separate imperial power from relative power, flexible and free financial policy, low taxation, little government intervention, and laissez-faire.

Therefore, during this period, the country was rich and the people were strong, and it was an unprecedented prosperity of this dynasty. By the arrival of Emperor Xiaowu of this dynasty, things had changed.

Emperor Xiaowu advocated martial arts, and after attacking the Xiongnu from afar, he then expanded his territory and conquered the world. But his idea did not meet with the support of the ministers, and the treasury was becoming more and more depleted, so he immediately began to reform the law.

Emperor Xiaowu first started from academic thought. The great Confucian Dong Zhongshu wrote a letter, asking for respect for Confucianism and the implementation of education.

Emperor Xiaowu immediately revered Confucianism and deposed the Hundred Schools, ending the dominance of Huang Laozhixue in the academic thought of this dynasty.

Then Emperor Xiaowu recruited a large number of Confucian scholars, based on Confucian scholarship and monarch-oriented, and vigorously revised the law and French policy, and then ended the era of quiet and law-abiding in this dynasty.

"Governing the country by virtue" was immediately replaced

"Rule of law". Specific to the imperial court, it means that the imperial power is above the relative power, and the inner court is weighted.

The emperor monopolized the authority and was no longer subject to any law, he did whatever he wanted, and the emperor's will became the law, realizing the extreme rule of man.

As far as the fiscal policy is concerned, it is to emphasize agriculture and suppress business, increase taxes, salt and iron official management, equalize losses, and even levy and calculate money, and hit merchants hard.

From the Spring and Autumn Period, the Warring States Period, to the Qin Dynasty, to the current dynasty, whenever the power struggle was the most brutal and intense, it was related to academic thought and statecraft.

For example, during the Warring States Period, although the power struggle of Qin during this period was the bloodiest, Shang Ying's reform successfully helped Qin to turn from weak to strong, and it did not determine the foundation for the first emperor to unify the world.

On the other hand, our Emperor Xiaowu, his restructuring made the Han Kingdom from prosperity to decline, and created the disaster of Wang Mang's usurpation of the country two hundred years ago, and the disaster of today's social defeat.

If we want to save Du Ji and revitalize the society, we must first start from the root of the society, that is, academic thought.

Now it is necessary to respect the study of ancient scriptures and take ancient scriptures as official learning. The academic thinking changed, and the governing strategy changed immediately, that is, Confucianism and law were integrated, and morality was the main punishment and the punishment was supplemented.

Academically, this strategy of governing the country is to no longer respect Confucianism alone, but to study law, Huang Laozhixue, Xun, Mengzhi, and other schools of thought.

As far as the legal policy is concerned, it is to change the old rule of virtue, but to pay attention to the external and internal laws, and pay equal attention to the law and the law.

It will take some time for academic thinking to change, and then it will happen when most people can accept it

The words "moral master and criminal auxiliary" were changed

"Rule of law". Putting the people first and ruling the country under the rule of law is our ultimate strategy for governing the country. The emperor, like the common people, must obey the laws of the Han Dynasty, so that they can rebuild the prosperous era and rejuvenate the society.

The strategy of using the rule of law to be specific to the imperial court is to separate the imperial power from the prime minister, and the imperial family from the imperial court.

Specifically, the financial endowment policy is to pay equal attention to agriculture and industry, liberalize salt and iron, and recuperate with the people.

"The official learning, national policy, and official system that the boss said are the key to ensuring the prosperity of the society, and they are also the foundation for the continuation of the Han Dynasty. The road to Zhongxing is very long and very difficult, which requires the concerted efforts of the monarchs and ministers, and it cannot be completed overnight. Li Wei paused slightly, and said in a low tone,

"Today's demise of Sheji is an opportunity for the reform of Zhongxing, but maybe we will fail, maybe we will all die like Shang Ying, so please be cautious, fear and be cautious." Li Wei's explanation made Li Hong completely understand the root cause of the turmoil in the society in the past year, understood the real reason why the first emperor wanted to protect the eunuch and use the battle for imperial control to attack the scholars, and understood the original intention of the first emperor to send the eldest princess to the next two edicts before his death.

The first emperor wanted to defend the imperial power and defend the supreme authority of the emperor and the imperial family. Unknowingly, he was caught in the struggle between imperial power and relative power, in the struggle between two diametrically opposed statecraft strategies, and in the struggle of academic thought.

The first emperor favored himself, saying that he had defended Sheji, and the scholars wanted to kill him, saying that he had threatened Sheji.

Now it seems that both of these statements are true, because their strong military force has had a completely different effect on their respective ideas of governance.

The struggle between the first emperor and the scholars seemed to be for power on the surface, but behind the struggle for power was actually the Jiangshan Sheji.

Whoever has the authority to govern the world is the real ruler of the country. In the emperor's eyes, the emperor is the ruler of Sheji, and everyone else is my subject.

In the eyes of the scholars, the emperor was just a symbol, and loyalty to the emperor was the same as loyalty to the Han Dynasty, and the scholars were the real rulers of the society.

Emperor Xiaowu reformed the supremacy of imperial power, Emperor Xiaoxuan's reform failed, the imperial power is still supreme, Emperor Guangwu has intensified the imperial power, in fact, the emperor told the scholars, I am the Han, the Han is me, I am Sheji, Sheji is me.

However, the scholars of the Han Dynasty did not sell this account, and they constantly challenged the imperial power tenaciously from various aspects such as academics and national policies.

Ancient scriptures have been produced for about 200 years, and the development of ancient scriptures is a period of turmoil when Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty and the society was turbulent.

The development of ancient scriptures is very fast, and later in order to maintain the imperial power, the ancient scriptures and scriptures fought openly and secretly, and reached the peak when Emperor Xiaozhang's White Tiger View was discussed.

Since then, the controversy between ancient and modern classics has quickly turned into a struggle between imperial power and relative power in the court.

More than a hundred years have proved that this is also the beginning of the rapid decline of the Great Han Kingdom. In the Dynasty of Emperor Xiaohuan and Emperor Xiaoling, the struggle between imperial power and relative power became bloody and cruel.

The two disasters of the party caused a heavy blow to the scholars, but at the same time, they also destroyed the worship and respect of some scholars for the imperial power, and strengthened the determination of the other part of the scholars to reform the system by force.

The Luoyang Rebellion in the sixth year of Zhongping (189 AD) provided an excellent opportunity for the scholars to reform peacefully, but this excellent opportunity was fleeting, and the sudden appearance of Dong Zhuo completely shattered the scholars' dreams for hundreds of years.

They were furious and fought back, which finally led to the catastrophe that overthrew the society. Today's fact is that Dong Zhuo holds the Son of Heaven hostage and occupies the benefits of Guanzhong, and the longer it drags on, the more difficult it will be to defeat.

Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu, Han Fu and other state and county officials were forced to a dead end for various reasons, and now they have only one way to stand after the break, so they simply made up their minds to tear down Sheji and rebuild the Han River.

The chaos in the world gave the Yellow Turban Army a chance to make a comeback, and the overwhelming Yellow Turban Army swept through the prefectures and counties, and no one could stop it.

Without a strong court and a unified command, the pacification of the rebellion was out of reach.

The catastrophe of the collapse of the Great Han is finally inevitable. How do I choose.

"If I agree, will it be considered a betrayal of the first emperor?" Li Hong asked. Zhao Qi shook his head,

"As long as the Han Society is here, as long as the descendants of the Liu family are the emperors of the Han Dynasty for generations, the general will fulfill his promise to the first emperor and live up to the trust of the first emperor." Li Hong hesitated for a long time, and then asked, "What about the Son of Heaven?" ”

"If the restructuring is not completed, the general will not be able to serve the king." Zhao Qi said categorically,

"This is the general's commitment to the imperial court, and it is also the condition for the imperial court to support the general's authority and the revitalization of the society." Li Hong asked in great surprise: "Boss, this is not the revitalization policy formulated by the imperial court before, Lord Taifu......"

"Neither Master Taifu nor we have told you." Zhao Qi interrupted Li Hong's words and said,

"Because the general is in charge of the military, it has nothing to do with the restructuring for the time being. After defeating Luoyang, we will naturally explain this matter in detail to the general. ”

"We have always respected the present day and firmly occupied the righteousness." Li Wei explained,

"But the Son of Heaven has been in the hands of rebellion for a long time, and his prestige is completely lost, and he will definitely abdicate after returning to the dynasty in the future, which is an unwritten law of the Han Dynasty, so ......" Li Hong suddenly understood.

He felt like he really was an idiot, an idiot who didn't know anything but war. Li Hong shuddered.

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