For the ruler, in addition to his own emperor ceremony, any ceremony is not so absolutely important, many times even have nothing to do to let many courtiers pinch each other, anyway, the more powerful the ministers fight, the more the ruler feels that his rule is stable, after all, if all the ministers are harmonious as relatives, the united civil and military ministers are not a good thing for the ruler, and it should feel that the status is unstable is the ruler.

But what? The current ruler is Lu Zhe, who has never thought the same way as the traditional dictatorship.

It's not that Lu Zhe doesn't exercise dictatorship or doesn't like to be in power, it's that he knows very well that he lacks ability, and the country can't be governed well by relying on a single ruler. In fact, even if the ruler is strong enough to be able to make judgments and decisions on big and small matters, it is only to make himself more tired and want to die earlier.

You have to do everything yourself, so what does the boss ask employees to do, isn't the same reason?

"Govern," Lu Zhe called in a low voice, calling Xiao He closer: "What do you think of Confucianism?" ”

Xiao He thought that Lu Zhe was going to give orders, but he didn't think that he was asking his opinion on Confucianism, he was stunned, and his face finally restrained himself without showing a strange expression, hesitated slightly, and said: "There is always a good and a bad side to any doctrine, Your Majesty attaches great importance to any faction of the hundred schools, and can always see the good side of the hundred schools, and then reuse the good side." ”

If you say it, you don't say it, but on this occasion, the atmosphere is like that, how dare Xiao dare to go out and judge a school?

Every era has its own social values and morals, and it is precisely the values of the present era that are being challenged by old and new theories. The so-called new theories are some of the ideas disseminated by Lu Zhe, and the old theories are naturally some ideas from all over time.

Morality has existed since the free spirit of human beings, and it is used to distinguish between good and evil, but not everyone has morality, and not everyone maintains good or evil all the time. People's thoughts are fluctuating, and any thing and occasion will affect a person's thoughts at that time, and good people sometimes do evil. There are times when the wicked do good deeds, and this is the complexity of human nature.

A person's cognition is limited, and morality is not constant, Xiao He is not a person who thinks highly of himself, even if he is an imperial consul, he does not dare to judge what a school is like with his personal views and cognition, and if he wants to conclude a school, he needs to know all the knowledge of the school, not relying on the size of the official position to judge a school.

"Yes, people are good and bad, how can there be no good and bad learning in a school." What Lu Zhe said. It is impossible to judge what kind of attitude he has in such an event that is happening now.

"Your Majesty!" Sima Xin was wearing armor, perhaps because of the weight of the armor or because of his mood, and the steps under his feet looked a little heavy. He walked in front of Lu Zhe, raised his right hand and touched the chest of the armor with a "bang": "Your Majesty, please let the armor on duty enforce the law and take down these people?" ”

Zhuang Qing and the others, who were kneeling on the ground, raised their heads suddenly, and everyone looked at Sima Xin.

"Holy Son of Heaven, the generals are truthful. The empire did not prohibit the ministers and commoners from petitioning the Son of Heaven, nor did it block the way to consult the Son of Heaven," Zhuang Qing slowly straightened his waist: "I waited for the permission of the Son of Heaven to come here, and we did not violate any laws. The hussar general was a retainer. Regardless of the blazing eyes of the civil and military, regardless of the millions of Li people on the scene, you actually acted like this, you have seen it with your own eyes! It can be seen that the military attache is outstanding because of his military merits. It has already shown its magnificent side! ”

The conscience of heaven and earth, Sima Xin used an interrogation sentence just now, and his attitude towards the king was also very respectful.

"You wait for everyone. Do you know what kind of day it is? Sima Xin seemed to have a calm attitude, and he didn't appear angry because of Zhuang Qing's words.

Zhuang Qing, who was still kneeling on the ground, first saluted Sima Xin, which made Sima Xin dodge away.

"That Confucian kneeling posture and saluting the hussar general is really too insidious!" Ji Bu gritted his teeth: "Fortunately, the hussar general saniently avoided it. ”

Some of the military attaches around Ji Bu nodded in understanding, but it was not that no one looked dazed.

Sima Xin's dodge and refusal to accept the salute made Zhuang Qing feel very regretful and disappointed, how could Zhuang Qing be wearing the official robe of the empire, and doing a kneeling salute was not an identity as a criminal minister, otherwise not everyone could bear it.

Seeing this scene, Lu Zhe's eyes narrowed imperceptibly, and his brows were also wrinkled, but they soon returned to normal.

It's really funny to say, didn't the first emperor centralize power before? At that time, the Confucian scholars who were officials in the Qin State used countless reasons to prevent the First Emperor from exercising the centralized system, and advocated the feudal system.

Recent...... In other words, a few years after Lü Zhe founded the empire, Confucianism seemed to have "opened its mind", first some Confucian scholars put forward their own ideas, and then some Confucian scholars followed, and they turned to think that the centralized system was very good, and that the feudal system would become a scourge, and the rapid change in attitude and speech was only three or five years after Confucianism strongly opposed the implementation of the centralized system by the First Emperor.

Some Confucians in the past believed that the centralization of power was destroying the ancient law and planting the scourge of the Qin Empire. Others in the latter part of Confucianism believed that it was advantageous for the rulers of the empire to implement a centralized system, which was borrowed from the example of the division of the Zhou royal family.

In the early period of the division of the Zhou royal family, more than 3,000 princes still obeyed the orders of Zhou Tianzi, but in the middle period, they fell into constant friction and war among the vassal states, and in the later period, the vassal states frequently launched wars of annexation and annihilation, resulting in the people's misery. Some Confucian scholars believed that the central government of the empire should have absolute power, no longer follow the "wrong path" that the Zhou royal family had taken, and not carry out feudal divisions so that people and vassals have fiefdom autonomy, which would prevent the vassal lords from growing until they were strong enough to set aside the Son of Heaven, and finally strong enough to replace the Son of Heaven.

In fact, it is not the same thing, the same sentence is spoken by different people...... Even if it comes from the same person, there will be different arguments because of the different times.

Carefully discern what kind of system is absolutely good or absolutely bad? In fact, it is not because of the needs of the times, but also because of the demands of social change.

Lu Zhe did not implement absolute centralization of the emperor's power because of his own considerations, and he did not choose to implement absolute centralization and implement feudalism, because within their group, and because the way of expansion was a little different.

"Before the roads of the country are completely clear, or before there is a means of transport that can reach somewhere at high speed. If you want to expand your territory endlessly, it is not to see whether the army can fight anywhere, but whether the army can effectively control that territory after it is defeated. Lu Zhe's voice was not low, Xiao He and Sima Xin, who were relatively close, listened carefully, and some people around them, including Zhuang Qing and other Confucian scholars and some civil and military scholars who were relatively close, heard it.

Because Lu Zhe's words were a little abrupt, the words in the words did not seem to be directly related to what was happening at the scene, and the people who heard Lu Zhe's words were basically in a state of confusion.

Lu Zhe greeted Zhuang Qing and the other Confucian students: "Wait, let's get up first." ”

Zhuang Qing and the others looked at each other for a moment and stood up obediently.

"Holy Son of Heaven......" After Zhuang Qing stood up, he didn't wait to say something. But the hand raised by Lu Zhe cut off the words behind him.

Centralization? Divided vassal system? Confucianism wants to rely on this to find a breakthrough, and it also wants to use some public opinion extended by related topics to target some people, Lu Zhe thinks that Confucianism is really stupid if it really does that.

It can be said that if Lu Zheruo pursues a completely dictatorial strategy, it is absolutely impossible for him to conquer the "world" within ten years, let alone use troops outside after conquering the "world".

Why is that? It is because of Lu Zhe's origin, you must know that in the ancient pre-Qin era, the emphasis was on family origin, and the bloodline was used to determine whether a person was a "noble", and the royal family had the blood of the royal family. The nobles have the blood of the nobles, and the common people have the blood of the common people, and what kind of blood unity is born is most destined to what a person looks like.

In the era of the rampant theory of blood, bloodline is far more important than imagined. That not only affects the social values of a person's life, but also condemns a person of what kind of blood, how many things he can do in his life, and the level of bloodline is not at that level. No matter how great the talent is, it can only be mixed at the bottom, and the effort of thousands of times is only a vassal of some high-level bloodlines.

The common people can rely on hard work to become nobles, although it will be extremely difficult for the common people to become nobles. But there is always a chance for the common people to become nobles, even if only one of the ten thousand struggling commoners can become a nobleman, that is also an opportunity. The children of the nobility must have occupied a favorable family background as soon as they were born, and they were born with an "innate advantage" in some competitions.

In addition, I have to tell the truth, at the end of the pre-Qin period in ancient times, the factors that limited the productive forces and the imperfect state apparatus were all from more than 2,000 years later, and Lu Zhe did not know where he was in the productive forces...... Or is it that before the development of science and technology to a certain extent, the government ~ government under the high degree of centralization will not be able to rule too vast a territory at all?

Yes, the size of the territory ruled by each government~government has its own degree of restrictions, and it depends on whether the government~government can effectively use or supervise the administrative units within the territory. In layman's terms, how far the central sense of touch can be extended, how large the national territory of the feudal era will be, and whether it can be effectively controlled or uncontrollable, will also determine whether a certain territory is a "map on a map" or "a map that can really be used." ”。

Under the centralized system, it is destined that every territory must be under the control of the government ~ government, even if it cannot be completely controlled, it cannot make that uncontrollable territory become the "cradle" of turmoil, many times under the premise of uncontrollable. It is not a strange thing for the government ~ government to give up a piece of territory, as an example, the Western Regions that have been lost or regained by successive dynasties, and even a considerable number of territories on the border have always been in a state of loss and regain.

"Holy Son of Heaven, Weichen has something to say."

A young scholar standing on Zhuang Qing's side, he seemed to be trying his best to control his body, trying to stabilize his body, which was constantly trembling due to certain emotions.

"Tsk, isn't that guy a goat madman?" Ji Bu didn't lower his voice at all: "Look at him shaking, it's about to collapse the city tower." If the tower really collapses, not only will we suffer, ......Your Majesty?"

That was really hurtful, and Ji Bu also attracted Lu Zhe's attention.

Zhuang Qing saw Lu Zhe warning Ji Bu with his eyes, the corners of his mouth hooked, and he thought in his heart: "Hehe, it's better to have more military attaches like Ji Bu!" As everyone knows, the words just now have offended the Son of Heaven in some ways, and even said that the city tower will collapse, isn't that cursing the Son of Heaven? ”

Ji Bu is in an extremely unhappy mood, I guess he didn't think about it that much at all?

The soldier, who had been shaking his body, almost fell to the ground when he heard Ji Bu's words, and he looked at Ji Bu angrily, and Ji Bu responded with a fierce expression. After he finished reading Ji Bu, his body trembled even more when he turned his eyes to Lu Zhe, and his stuttering became not so fluent, and he stammered a little: "Holy ...... The Son of Heaven, the small and small people have something to say...... There is a petition to the Son of Heaven, the Son of Heaven. ”

Lu Zhe was too nervous to be a young scholar, and as a ruler, he had to look a little bit, so he tried to use a gentle tone and asked, "Speak slowly, don't be in a hurry." Where did you study, and do you have a name? ”

The young scholar's head was kept lowered, perhaps because he was too nervous to hear Lu Zhe's question, he only looked at his body and trembled, and did not answer Lu Zhe's question...... Restless, fortunate to be out ...... Out of the saint, the Holy Son of Heaven to end the war...... War-torn ......"

"Oh mom, who understands what's being said?" Ji Bu had already been warned by Lu Zhe with his eyes, and he didn't dare to speak loudly so unscrupulously, but he was still laughing in a low voice: "Confucianism wants to argue with us, except for that Zhuang Qing, is there no one who speaks sharply?" How do you get such a stuttering person into battle? ”

is to go into battle, on an inappropriate day and occasion, Confucianism directly challenges many people, those people are not only military attachés, but also Legalism and other schools, and even some groups of Confucianism itself are being challenged, all because the audience of people who want to be knighted is very wide.

“…… War," it was like a stuttering young scholar took a deep breath, and the next words were finally less choppy: "The Son of Heaven ended the war, stopped the invasion of the Hu people, and ...... the nation"

No one came out to interrupt the young man's words, and the more the young man spoke, the more he spoke, and finally slowly expressed what he wanted to say, but it was nothing more than how great Lu Zhe was, and it was impossible for the military to achieve so much without Lu Zhe's leadership. Then, the conversation changed to the importance of civil governance, and even more so to the balance between civil and military affairs...... (To be continued......)