Chapter 752: Contemporary

From the moment Confucianism was born, it was designed to please people, and while it was extremely targeted, it was puzzling that there was no consistent position. There are contradictory doctrines in any school, and Confucianism is no exception, but there has never been a school of thought that adapts itself to be more pleasing to others, not to say that it is increasing the knowledge of its own school.

Throughout the history of thousands of years, some knowledge about Confucianism is mostly in the study of how to be an official, it can be said that the birth of this school is to run to be an official, so some of the shining points are stored at the same time, more are what they do what is beneficial to themselves, the result is that most people born in Confucianism do not have the discipline, surrender and rebellion is like drinking water and eating, that is, so a few people with virtue are written in the big book, as a model and example of the existence of the zài.

To be honest, it is because there are too few people that need to be promoted, if they are really all such characters, why promote it? Think about the fact that some people who did good deeds in the Celestial Empire era had to be deliberately promoted, you can imagine what kind of social environment it should be, isn't it because there are too few people like that?

Even now, Lu Zhe is not suitable for the social environment he is in today, so that he will always use the "Celestial Empire Thought" to guess the surrounding people, for which it is not without mistakes, but he also knows how to admonish, so the timely reversal of his thoughts did not cause a greater impact.

Parents always hope that their children can receive the best education, but Lu Zhe pondered for a long time and really didn't think of anyone who was suitable as a teacher for his children, so the selection of the prince teacher has been delayed.

There are too many people who snoop on the position of the prince's teacher, but the person who is most eager to get this position is none other than Shusun Tong, and the reason why he wants to get the prince's teacher is also very clear, he wants to influence the princes.

In the pre-Qin era of ancient times, there was no soil for the development and growth of Confucianism in the world of endless wars, and seeing that the world was about to form a great unification, Lu Zhe, as the ruler, seemed to be interested in Confucianism. It is best to make the next successor of the ruling party pay attention to Confucianism, so that Confucianism can usher in the spring of development.

The eldest son Lu Yi is five years old this year, and the eldest son Lu Qi is six years old.

In addition to Lu Qi and Lu Yi, Lu Zhe also has many heirs, such as the eldest daughter of Lu Pheasant's first child and the fourth son of the second child, the second son born to Yang Zi (the ninth princess of the first emperor), the third son born to Xiong Nu (the daughter of Xiong Xin), and the second daughter born to Zhao Xin (the daughter of Zhao Xie). The third daughter born to Tian Lin (the daughter of Qi Wangdan), and the fifth son and fourth daughter of Han Yan (Han Cheng's daughter). As for Wei Shuang and Ji Dan, they did not give birth to a son and a half daughter.

Among the many heirs, the children of the Korean royal princess are currently the youngest, the eldest Lu Qi is already six years old, and the age gap between the ten royal children is not too large. Previously, the prince's division was chosen because the Northern Expedition was imminent and delayed, but as Lu Zhe led the army closer and closer to the national capital Nanling, such a matter was brought up again.

"Is there a suitable candidate for the sir and the captain?"

"This ......" faced Lu Zhe's question. Kuaitong and Sima Xin, who came together, hesitated directly.

Because of the emergence of pinyin, it is no longer as difficult to learn characters as before. Before the advent of pinyin, the books of enlightenment were not fixed, and now there are no surviving zài of the "Three Character Classic" and the "Thousand Character Text". So much so that initiation has become quite a difficult thing, and the process of learning literacy is rote memorization, and there will be a bunch of students whose accents are fixed because of the teacher's accent.

Lu Zhe's "Three Character Classic" is also limited to knowing that "at the beginning of man, nature is good". After that, there was no after, but I remembered a few more words for "Thousand Words", "Heaven and earth are yellow." The cosmic desolation" also forgot about the back. In fact, it is because Lu Zhe doesn't remember "Three Character Classic" and "Thousand Character Text", otherwise it is estimated that at the beginning, he would have "created" these two earth-shattering masterpieces like other time-traveling novels, and would not directly engage in something maverick like pinyin.

Enlightenment is much simpler to learn words because of pinyin, but it is not easy to choose what to teach the royal children, and what knowledge the royal children should learn is not something that the subordinates can decide, in the face of Lu Zhe's question, how to let the two important ministers answer?

Lu Zhe will not say anything about the fact that the child is still young, it is the age of happy play, etc., many times it doesn't matter if he is a maverick, but if he shows such an attitude in cultivating heirs, it will inevitably be regarded as not paying attention to the education of his heirs, and there will be many follow-up chain reactions.

Isn't it? The ruler does not pay attention to the education of the successor, and how should a group of ministers come to associate it, it is estimated that they feel that the king is extremely unreliable, and there will also be the idea that the king does not pay attention to educating the next generation of inheritors, and even thinks that the king does not think that the existing heirs have people who can inherit the cause, which is in vain to make the ministers feel sorry. So, you can joke about everything and don't pay attention to it, but you can't be sloppy about the education of the children of the royal family, let alone play willful.

"Your Majesty, the prince is now studying "Spring and Autumn"?" After being stunned for a while, Kuaitong finally spoke up.

"Spring and Autumn" is not a good enlightenment book, it is simply a series of historical biographies, which record the history between the various vassal states after the division of the Zhou Dynasty, which is full of all kinds of deceit, and more about wars.

In fact, from Lu Zhe's choice to let the slightly older Lu Qi and Lu Yi read "Spring and Autumn", we can see a little clue. Of course, there is no such sentence as "taking copper as a mirror can be dressed, taking the ancient as a mirror to know the rise and fall, taking people as a mirror can know the gains and losses, and taking history as a mirror can know the rise and fall", but the meaning can be more or less understood. Not only Kuaitong, but many people can see that Lu Zhe has relatively high expectations for the older two princes, and the first step after literacy is to let the two princes learn from history, and they are also understanding war, which is obviously cultivating as a way to rule a place inevitably.

The ministers had reason to rejoice at Lü Zhe's attitude towards cultivating heirs, which was enough to prove that Lü Zhe did not want to follow the path of absolute centralization of power by the first emperor, and would continue to implement the feudal system that had lasted for many years, otherwise there would be no need to teach every heir to govern the country and know about war.

Everyone has hope. Who doesn't want to have a piece of land that they can develop and deal with by themselves? The royal men who are princes can get a fief, and the courtiers can also get a fief according to the size of their merits, and for many people there is nothing more ideal than this.

The closer he got to Nanling, the more excited the many ministers who accompanied him to the north, just because Lu Zhe would be rewarded according to the size of his merit after returning to the national capital. And from the more or less news, it is speculated that Lu Zhe's reward this time is far more generous than any previous one, except for the consolation prizes of King Qin, King Zhao, King Han, King Wei and other kings after the merger, only the nobles above the fifth rank marquis will give birth to at least ten people, and the number of the rest such as uncles, sons, and men should not be less than 100 people.

How long has the Han Kingdom been in power? It's been nine years. During this nine-year period, there were more than fourteen nobles, including the lords, that is, thirty-two nobles, in fact, the number of such nobles is unreasonable, and it is not that no one has complained about this.

According to Lu Zhe's idea, of course, the aristocracy should control the number within a certain number, but the process of history has made it difficult for him to control the number of nobles. The name of being mean and unkind is estimated to be immediately detained on Lu Zhe's head, and it is not excluded that some people will do something stupid because of dissatisfaction.

The timetable for merging into an empire is approaching, and there are still hundreds of thousands of Han troops fighting the Hu people in the steppe outside the Saiwai, and the Central Plains and Northland, which are newly incorporated under Lü Zhe's rule, are not so stable. How could there be internal chaos in this situation, so no matter how stingy Lu Zhe was, the title reward should not be at this time.

A qualified ruler must not only know how to make trade-offs, but also be able to meet the expectations of most people, that is, Lu Zhe asks the ministers who rely on him. What is the reason for the education of the children of the royal family. As for letting his eldest son read "Spring and Autumn", partly because he hopes that his children can learn from history, but more because there are really not many things that can be taught in today's era.

"Except for "Spring and Autumn". "The Book of Shang Jun" and "Lü's Spring and Autumn" are also watching. Lu Zhe uses the word "watching", just like modern children reading fairy tales, not purely learning.

Then again, history books can be regarded as a masterpiece of fiction, and every historical process in it is a wonderful story, the difference is that there is no absolute protagonist in it who can produce a sense of substitution.

"When they grow up, I hope they can still read the Tao Te Ching, Zhuangzi, Liezi, Han Feizi and other works of the hundred schools of thought." Lü Zhe did not mention the Analects, Mencius, and Xunzi, not because these three works do not exist at present, but because they are not mainstream at all, and they are more redundant books than miscellaneous subjects.

Oh, and the current version of the Analects is by no means the version after the Han Dynasty, the current version of the Analects was first compiled by Confucius, and Meng Ke (Mencius) and Xun Guo (Xunzi) have also sorted out and written successively.

The reason why the Analects of the Sui, Tang, Song, and Ming dynasties after the Han Dynasty is different from the version of the Analects of the ancient pre-Qin Dynasty is because of the war in the late Eastern Han Dynasty and the chaos of the Five Hu Dynasty in the Two Jin Dynasty. The real version of the "Analects" has long been destroyed in the war, and what remains is only some fragments, Yang Sui and Li Tang, who did not attach importance to Confucianism or even rejected it, did not care about some Confucian books, or when it came to the Zhao and Song Renaissances, some great Confucians reorganized, and it was inevitable that some "private goods" would be mixed in, and what kind of scholarship such as Zhu Cheng Lixue would be extended.

History changed because of the appearance of Lu Zhe, the arsonist Xiang Yu failed to burn and loot all the way into the pass, and the books collected after Qin unified the world are still on display in Zhongshan (where the Qin State collected classics) west of Xianyang. Lu Zhe has communicated with Jiang Lu, after merging into the empire, those classics Zhao surnamed Ying royal family will dedicate those classics, and some of the classics donated by other countries will be put into the imperial library in Nanling, which should be maintained, copied and printed, and it is even more necessary.

At this moment, Kuai Tong and Sima Xin, who listened to some of Lu Zhe's ideas, only felt speechless, they didn't think they had heard it wrong, Lu Zhe seemed to want his heirs to "fully blossom", it seemed that they had to learn a little bit of everything, and then study professionally according to their interests and hobbies.

"Of course, there will be no change in the fact that the prince will enter the army when he becomes an adult," Lu Zhe smiled on his face, but his tone was very firm: "We have established such a country in the midst of war, and I hope that future generations will not forget what is the foundation of their own existence." ”

For Lü Zhe's decision, Kuaitong, Sima Xin and other ministers naturally strongly agreed, and only by mastering force can the dominant position be guaranteed, and the basic national policy set by Lü Zhe is also constantly expanding. One can imagine what the status of the military would have been like before the national policy was changed, and the vassals who had nothing to do with the military would have no room for development, and only the families that actively participated in the expansion could prosper in the empire for a long time.

Lu Zhe does not expect that his generation can complete the ideal of conquering the "world island", so the education of the next generation is really the top priority. If there is no way to complete it in the hands of their generation, he hopes that the descendants of future generations can uphold the wishes of their ancestors, have a firm will to continue to expand, and directly control the entire "World Island", and in their generation, it is inevitable to establish a solid foundation for the conquest of the "World Island", so it has been exploring and discussing.

"Dr. Uncle Sun asks to see you."

A soft voice interjected.

Kuai Tong and Sima Xin immediately looked at each other for a while, but they knew very well that Shusun Tong had been peeping at the location of Wang Zishi, and Shusun Tong did not lobby for them. This time, the two of them came to look for Lu Zhe to find out the wind, if Lu Zhe showed some tendencies, they didn't think that they could sell their uncle and grandson a favor.

When Shusun Tong came in, he seemed to be stunned for a moment when he saw Kuai Tong and Sima Xin present, and after seeing the salute, he said: "Your Majesty, there is an urgent battle report sent from outside the Saiwai. (To be continued......) R1292