Even in modern times, there is a big difference between the Eastern cultural circle (generally referring to the sphere of influence of Chinese civilization) and the Western cultural circle, although the developed countries of the West and the Yankees have been importing culture to the East and assimilating the thinking of the Orientals, but the thinking that has been cultivated through hundreds of thousands of years cannot be offset in a short period of time.

What time is it? It's 207 B.C.E. A person may not have left his home fifty miles away when he dies of old age, and you can imagine what a closed era it is.

The closed nature of information can make people ignorant, and in the past 2,000 years in China, because of the national policies of successive dynasties and internal restrictions on population flow, there are many ignorant people. Of course, the reason why the successive dynasties "created" foolish people was naturally for better governance, and the more the people knew, the more ideas they would have, which was not a good thing for the rulers of the previous dynasties.

For those who have literacy because they read and can understand more information, the practice adopted by successive dynasties is to take out official positions to buy, so that literate people become part of the ruling class.

Yang Guang's implementation of the imperial examination system was not to get more talents at the beginning, it was that the gate valves and families of the Great Sui Empire swelled to the point of threatening the imperial power, and Yang Guang's old son Yang Jian was still difficult to use violence to smash those gate valves and families cleanly, and Yang Guang as the successor of the founding emperor must have been more suppressed, so the imperial examination was also made.

Yang Jian can be called the "Emperor of the Ages" in some senses, and he is definitely worthy of the name. The Yang family replaced the Great Zhou Yuwen family, and the process of replacing it was not so glamorous, but any change of dynasty never existed glamorous.

After a series of operations and intrigues, after Yang Jian became the emperor of the Great Sui, most of the ruling process was basically to eliminate the destruction of Han culture, including the Han people, in the Xianbei dynasties, and the most he did was to promote the revival of Han culture, and he has been continuously weakening the non-Han family. In addition to the revival of Han culture in China. During his reign, he even used his power and army to divide the Turks that had appeared to rise and weaken them.

Of course, no one in the world is perfect, and like many emperors, Yang Jian made a mistake in choosing an heir. Only the "Qianlong Emperor" of "I am in the Qing Dynasty" has the title of "Ten Perfect Old Men", and he still gives it himself.

Lu Zhe knew very well that Yang Guang, the Emperor Yang of Sui, was "tainted" by the Li Tang imperial family, and Yang Guang only made a mistake as an emperor, that is, he did the right thing at an allowable time, and it was because of his eagerness that his personality led to the collapse of the country. But Lu Zhe sometimes thinks. If Yang Guang had enough patience, could he succeed in weakening those gate valves and families that had been inherited from the Northern and Southern Dynasties period?

There will also be gate valves and families in the empire, which Lu Zhe has always known in his heart. As long as there is a ruling class, there will be a powerful person in any country, and this kind of thing can never be avoided.

Since it is a matter that will definitely happen, how to operate this matter within the controllable range is particularly important, Lu Zhe has been carrying out the operation the moment he became the king of Han, and he has never stopped all the way.

The reason why the gate valve and the family are the gate valve and the family is not that a few high-ranking officials or nobles can be formed. In addition to their own family heritage, it is more about the reputation of the people, and Lu Zhe has been implementing the strategy of firmly tying the interests of the new class to the imperial family, making it a group that has both prosperity and loss. This is just the first step. There will be a second step, a third step...... And even countless steps.

"Your Majesty, what to do with Starbamis?" Pang Lin said the name incoherently, and it sounded weird.

Lu Zhe glanced at Pang Lin strangely, but did not speak.

What else can be done? Cut off the head. Along with all the rioters, all the heads should be made of lime, and then it is time to send people to take those heads to the whole country for public display.

Pang Lin pondered for a while before he understood what the emperor meant. However, he still has some things for the emperor to decide.

Some of the slaves rioted, some watched coldly, and some chose to stand with the officers and soldiers to attack those rioters, Pang Lin did an investigation afterwards, and most of the Baiyue ethnic groups who stood on the side of the empire to attack the rioters were a small number of Hu people from northern Xinjiang.

"Those slaves can be rewarded well." Lu Zhe was not surprised that there would be slaves who chose to side with the Empire, and he said: "Focus on picking out a few of the most hard-working rewards. As for how to be rewarded, it doesn't need to be so clear at all.

Pang Lin deserved to be a civil official, and he immediately understood what the emperor meant.

The empire has a very, very large number of slaves, and the riot in the mines on the outskirts of Suiyang is the first, but it will definitely not be the last. Since it has already happened once, the necessary deterrence needs to be done, but what is more needed is to prevent it from happening.

Whether it is killing people or rewarding some slaves, it is to serve the prevention of accidents, and there are a lot of things that need to be done, and it is not that the county guard of Panglin County can be arbitrary, he needs to communicate well with the ruling government. If there is a good suggestion this time, it is equivalent to a stage for him to perform, and if he does a good job, it will be a good opportunity to enter the center as an official, and he can't let go of anything.

Since Lu Zhe came to Suiyang in advance, he naturally couldn't just leave. According to the usual practice, he checked the documents from all over the county capital, and then invited the three elders from the counties and townships nearby.

Before the unification of Qin, the ruler did not just walk around the place to see what was done, but also needed to feast the three elders in the locality, and Confucianism praised this behavior very much.

Now it is not long before the end of the pre-Qin era in ancient times, Lu Zhe sincerely thinks that this is also a good habit, and naturally he has no idea of not continuing to fulfill it. In fact, the ruler feasted with the three elders not only a great deal of buying people's hearts, but also knew what was happening in the countryside from the mouths of the three elders.

Naturally, the three elders spoke selectively, and what they said was basically some trivial or interesting things, but Lu Zhe could still hear some of the information he wanted from it.

"Huang always said that the women in the village have more children and less labor in the family?" Lu Zhe asked that, but he could hear some words just now, not only because of the problem of labor, but because of a series of things brought about by childbirth.

Giving birth in this year is not like the next generation, and giving birth to a child is undoubtedly a ghost for women, even if it is a painstaking effort to give birth to a child. Mother and child are also safe, but it doesn't mean it's over.

Huang Lao is an old man who is nearly seventy years old, his exposed skin is full of age spots, and he has silver-white hair, but he still looks in good spirits. He seemed to smile awkwardly, and after a moment of wording, he said, "Not exactly, mainly ...... The main thing is ......", and the "mainly" is repeated at least six times, and finally smiles bitterly: "It's good to have more children, but there are too many things." ”

Lu Zhe wondered in his heart. The empire has always been building a medical system, but it is not easy to imagine how difficult it is to build a medical system under the conditions of modern times, and how difficult it should be in these years.

"Your Majesty, the heavens have been wronged, it's not that the minister doesn't want to build more medical centers, but ...... But ......" Pang Lin didn't dare to learn from Huang Lao and repeated it six times in a row, he took a deep breath while wiping the cold sweat from his forehead. After calming down, he said: "The doctor has not been enough, how can the minister do ......?"

According to Huang Lao, with the construction and attention of the empire to the medical system, it is also to ensure the safety of production and subsequent cultivation brought about by encouraging childbirth. Dangjun has a lot more state-built medical centers than before, but most of these medical centers are in the county seat, and if you have a child in the countryside, you need to walk a long way to the county seat.

Lu Zhe was also smiling bitterly, in fact, it was not easy to have at least one state-built medical center in every county. I'm afraid it's impossible to cover every township with the Guojian Medical Center, but he can't tell Huang Lao bluntly that it's impossible, so he can only say a few more words on this topic. Then move on to something else.

"The lads worked very hard." Huang Lao opened his mouth and smiled, and the mouth with few teeth could be seen by Lu Zhe on the other side. He raised his hand and shook it, and finally said slowly when he talked about the seizures in the army: "There are often fast horsemen in the army who send back the trophies of the young men, and the guys who are useful to the family are naturally left behind, and the things that are not useful at home can be exchanged for money, and there will be merchants who come to the house to purchase." ”

Lu Zhe didn't smile bitterly this time, he said heartily: "The soldiers are very good, they won't be hungry and frozen in the frontier, and the guys in their hands are also the sharpest weapons, and they are wearing the armor with the best defense." ”

"Your Majesty loves the soldiers and the people, how can the villagers not know." Huang Lao hesitated for a moment, first looked at his companions around him, then looked at the officials in the township and the county, and finally said to Lu Zhe with a little hesitation: "It's good to be able to go home more." ”

It can be seen that Huang Lao also has children serving in the army, and he also expressed the voices of all family members who have relatives serving in the army.

Lu Zhe couldn't make any guarantees about this, just like he couldn't guarantee that he would be able to establish a national medical center in every township.

Compared to the previous countries, there are indeed many differences between the soldiers who served in the Imperial Army. The difference here is that the service in the Imperial Army is not the previous conscription system, and when it is time to take the conscription, you can end the journey home in the army. Imperial soldiers are a product of a recruitment system, which means that the state pays to hire them to fight, so there is no such thing as the end of conscription.

In addition to the difference in the origin of the soldiers, the situation of the empire and any other country is also different. After the empire fought the Central Plains in the south, and after recovering the Central Plains, it fought the grasslands and other places, and now it continues to advance towards the depths of the grasslands, and after fighting the grasslands, it will gnaw down the Western Regions, which shows how frequent the wars are.

Because the war has never stopped, the legions of the empire have so many main combat forces because of the cavalry, and there are only two phenomena of cavalry, one is in a state of war, and the other is in a state of preparation. In both states, even if there is a holiday, soldiers are not allowed to travel long distances home, and they can only have fun nearby.

"The old man is not complaining, it's just ......" Huang Lao saw the emperor's expressionless face, and seemed to be a little frightened, and it was six consecutive "yes", and he could continue to say just now, this time he was a little frightened and couldn't continue.

"Lao Huang, many of the villagers miss their relatives in the army, right?" Lu Zhe noticed the change in the mood of some people, stopped thinking and smiled, and when he smiled like this, those people's hearts were relieved.

"There are correspondence exchanges, it's okay, it's okay......" Huang Lao didn't dare to talk nonsense.

The next conversation was a bit boring, and Lu Zhe knew why.

The emperor, with Tianxian in his mouth, has the majesty of "the Son of Heaven is angry, millions of corpses are ambushed, and blood flows and pestles". Any change in the emperor's mood will affect an unknown number of people, so it is never easy to get along with the emperor.

After the banquet was over, Lu Zhe didn't do the kind of thing that personally sent the three elders away, if he did this, he was not close to the people, but would be scaring people, maybe it was not as simple as scaring people?

In fact, similar to medical care and the return of military sergeants to their hometowns, Lu Zhe would hear similar topics everywhere he went.

Medical care is not something that can be done comprehensively in a while, Lu Zhe thinks that the situation that has been slowly paved in more than ten years is already very good, and it is even more because he has been paying attention to it because he has been paying attention to it.

Things in the army have room for maneuver, but I am afraid that there is no way in the near future, even if they want to change this status quo, they can only wait for the war on the grassland to end.

After the end of the grassland war this time, there should be a few more cavalry legions in the empire, and when there are more cavalry legions, the things that can be rotated to participate in the war can be done, and the rotational legions will be given more holidays, and the soldiers on vacation will have time to go home.

The emperor stayed in Suiyang for two days without moving, and it was naturally impossible to stay in the team of a single father, and Lu Pheasant, who was supposed to return to her hometown to the extreme, was still smiling after she reunited with the emperor, and she didn't see any regrets or abnormalities, but Zhao Wan didn't think so.

"Sister Pheasant is very disappointed." Zhao Wan didn't want to speak ill of Lu Pheasant behind her back, she simply said teasingly: "She went to the mulberry tree where she used to play when she was young, and dug out the urn buried under the mulberry tree when she was a child, Your Majesty guess what's inside?" ”

Lu Zhe's mind was not on talking privately, and while thinking about things, he asked casually: "What is it?" ”

"It's a lot of copper and some shredded cloth." Zhao Wan didn't know what to laugh at, so she smiled slightly exaggeratedly and said, "It can be seen that Sister Pheasant is an ambitious person." ”

Lu Zhe was stunned for a moment, and thought: "Of course, Lu Pheasant is a person with small ambitions, and he is not married if he is a non-hero." I was also wondering if Lu Pheasant had done something to make Zhao Wan feel that she could threaten things, otherwise how would Zhao Wan, who was the queen, talk about it? (To be continued.) )