Shifu, like its owner, is low-key and reserved.

It is located on the edge of Shang Guan Li.

More than seventy percent of the residents in the vicinity of the entire house are ordinary citizens.

Not even a serving official of more than 1,000 stones.

And the gate and exterior wall of the stone house are also the same as those of its neighbors, no different.

Even, on the flat ground in front of the Shi family, there were seven or eight children, chasing each other and playing a game of juju.

"The real elders are also ......" Liu Che quietly praised, his voice was not low or high, just enough for the left and right attendants to hear clearly: "If the ministers of the world are all like Shi Gong, why worry about the three generations not coming?" The phoenix bird is not coming? ”

This kind of praise and praise that doesn't require money, Liu Che has never been stingy.

But in reality......

"If they are all bureaucrats like Shi Fen......" Liu Che shook his head in his heart: "Perhaps, it is true that three generations can be expected, but the phoenix bird will definitely not come to ......"

Before Shi Fen was in Zhishi, he once achieved the position of Taizhong doctor.

This is a noble position of a thousand stones, and it is the same as the Huangmen squire or various things in Liu Che's court, and it is a position that literati and nobles and doctors are eager to pursue.

For example, Dou Ying and Yuan Ang have all served as doctors in Taizhong.

And Shi Fen finally 'returned to his old home'.

The rank ratio of the upper doctor is 2,000 stones, which is already the pinnacle that Lang Zhongling (Guangluxun) can achieve.

From this point of view, Shi Fen seems to be somewhat capable......

However, looking at Shi Fen's resume, you can easily find that this tumbler in the Han family political arena. The famous 'Wan Shijun' in the history books, the key to his success. Just two words.

As Tai Shi Gong said, only 'respectful'.

Meaning: Kneeling and licking the emperor is the most active, always in line with the emperor's thoughts.

From Liu Bang to the present, Shi Fen has gone through Taizu, Empress Lu, Taizong, Renzong until Liu Che, Fan Five Dynasties, and served five official sons of heaven plus two sons of heaven who even smashed the main card of the gods. (Emperor Hui had a crown prince, although he ascended the throne, but was killed by Empress Lü, and then Empress Lü supported the younger emperor's brothers, but these were not recognized.) The brothers of the young emperor were even deprived of the power of the surname Liu, thinking that they were the sons of the Lu family, impostors)

He actively implemented and practiced the famous words of the Taohou family: always support the Son of Heaven, who is the Son of Heaven who supports.

It has always been a grass on the wall, and the wind blows on both sides.

That's it.

After all, if you really want to be more serious, among the founding heroes, except for Anguo Wuhou and Fenyin mourning Zhou Chang, a few people can pick and choose when facing Empress Lu and go home to study behind closed doors. The others are basically kneeling and licking.

These princes, and even the clan surnamed Liu, were like this, so naturally they couldn't be harsh on a petty official who was only a few hundred stones at that time.

But the problem is --

Shi Fen has been a powerful bureaucrat in the central government for almost 50 years, and his status has been from Zhongjuan to Taizhong's doctor.

It is equivalent to someone in the future who is working in ****** from a section member to the director of a certain department.

But he didn't do anything......

The most he did was—the emperor said. This is good, Shi Fen followed and shouted: Shengming has no fault with Your Majesty......

It's not just him.

His sons, together with him, formed the four sons of the famous Wan Shijun family in the history books.

It is also carved out of the same mold as him.

The most famous is Shi Fen's subordinate Shi Qing. Now he is serving as a counselor in Langzhonglingyamen.

This gentleman is overflowing with character. Morality is praised by all.

The only problem, and the biggest problem, is that it's the same as his father. There is no subjective initiative, and there is no enthusiasm to do things.

If you can put it off, if you can't put it off, you will leave it to someone else to do......

Historically, Shi Qing's official even became prime minister.

However, he, the prime minister, is not so much a prime minister, but a clay statue placed by Emperor Wu.

Shi Qing has been the prime minister for nine years and has not done anything.

He, the prime minister, even became the least powerful prime minister in history - Emperor Wu didn't let him interfere in anything, and when he encountered government affairs, he directly gave him a vacation and let him go home to stay......

And Shi Fen's other three officials to the sons of 2,000 Shi are basically carved out of a mold.

In Liu Che's previous life, there was a joke in the political arena of Emperor Wu.

It is said that when Shi Fen's second son Shi Qing served as a servant, Emperor Wu asked him: "Servant, how many horses are there in my chariot?"

Shi Qing then picked up the whip, counted the horses in front of the cart one by one, counted them three times, and then said: Six!

So, some people laughed and said: What is the servant? Just count the horses......

And in Liu Che's eyes.

This family is the most typical bureaucratic family.

Moreover, it is a bureaucratic family that is more terrible than corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and it is also harmful.

If they let those typical members of their family be in a high position, they will even make the prestige of the 'Wan Shijun' family in history.

In Liu Che's eyes, this is a crime.

And it is an unforgivable sin.

It is equivalent to telling the people of the world: What the emperor wants is such an official who is cautious, does not seek merit but seeks no fault, and even would rather waste time in order to have no fault.

It is equivalent to telling the ministers: Do more wrong, do less wrong, don't do well, learn from them, as long as you don't make trouble, sooner or later you can become two thousand stones, become a family of ten thousand stones, and produce a prime minister!

As a result, bad money drives out good money.

Above the court, there are mediocre people.

Everyone shirks the blame and does not dare to exert force.

Even, in order not to make mistakes, forcibly suppress the subjective initiative of the officials below.

Therefore, after Liu Che ascended the throne, in addition to respecting and showing his attitude of respecting the elderly, he added a special veteran treatment to Shi Fen.

The children of the Shi family, so far, no one has been promoted.

As they did four years ago, they were all noble and idle jobs of about 400 to 600 stones.

It is equivalent to Liu Che spending money to raise four petty officials who do not do things and are purely face-to-face.

However, four years later, Liu Che examines the past and traces back to the roots. I was stunned to find that it seemed to be a merger.

The prestige and reputation of the Shi family did not decay because their children had always been entrenched in low-level bureaucrats.

Instead. With the improvement of the doctoral system and the establishment of Taixue, more and more literati and scholars. The ideological giants are all advocating and praising the Shi family.

It is said that they have a strict family style, although the ancient gentlemen are not as good. ’

The conduct and morality of the children of the Shi family were even commented on one by one as 'filial piety and sincerity, which can be called an example in the world.'" ’

The Lu Ru faction and the Huang Lao faction even openly publicized and demanded that their disciples and children learn the conduct of the Shi brothers.

Some people even appealed: The Son of Heaven should be promoted as appropriate, so as to praise his filial piety, so that the world knows the way of filial piety.

This made Liu Che a little difficult. Some are even difficult to dispose of.

Today's world is not the afterlife.

The values and public opinion of the world have a deep-rooted formula, that is, morality = talent = ability.

Even in the eyes of some diehards, morality and character are greater than ability and ability.

As long as the moral level is high and the character is pure, even if they do nothing, they have no ability at all.

The emperor should also be promoted and reused.

even put him in the position of Jiuqing and even Sangong.

Let the people of the world see the moral cultivation of this person. Then under his inspiration, everyone did their best, everything was like ancient rites, and the world was natural. It will be traced back to 'the mountains do not collapse, the rivers and valleys do not collapse, and the phoenix birds come to the ceremony.' With the rule of three generations, all problems will naturally no longer be a problem.

Although Liu Che knows. This is the same as the call for learning from Lei Feng and Kong Fansen every year in later generations, which are all empty and powerless propaganda.

The facts of later generations have been proven. The level of moral cultivation of the common people or the whole country has nothing to do with the example of a few people whose moral level exceeds that of mortals, but is closely related to the economic strength and affluence of the people or the country.

Only when the pockets of the common people are bulging and there are no debts and heavy burdens in the family can they have time to think about right and wrong, good and evil.

It's like the residents of the villages and towns next to some railways.

In the eighties and nineties, when the three mentions and five unifications were overpowering, and the people were living in hardship.

On the local railway, there are always things that are lost from time to time.

Whether it is the police uncle or the railway bureau, no matter how propaganda and mobilization.

It's all useless.

But in the new century, the economy began to take off, the people's pockets bulged, the railway was peaceful, many places were even piled up with steel and bolts, and the pedestrians who generally passed by just sighed, recalling the years when they secretly came here in the middle of the night to subsidize the family with "scrap iron", and then told the children: you must pay attention to safety when crossing the railway!

As Confucius said: Knowing etiquette when you are full of food and clothing, and knowing honor and disgrace when you are full of food and clothing.

You can't expect or even ask people to think about benevolence, righteousness, morality, right and wrong, good and evil when their stomachs can't even fill their stomachs, and when their children are hungry and crying.

But......

This is the time and the world.

The nobles and doctors didn't bother to think about these issues.

They are purely using their own thinking logic to force the common people to be like them.

But the problem is that ordinary people don't have the freedom and freedom of these little freshnesses.

They have to run for two meals a day.

No amount of truth is said, it will not fill their stomachs.

And......

"What's the difference between this and Emperor Jin's 'why don't you eat minced meat'?" Liu Che shook his head and sighed in his heart.

Why didn't Emperor Jin Chu eat minced meat, because he had meat to eat, so he felt that since the common people didn't have corn to eat, why didn't they eat meat?

His starting point, in fact, cannot be said wrong, it is just ignorance.

The same is true of the current scholars and aristocrats.

They are not all bad guys, or they just want to do bad things, they are just ignorant, they are just detached from the masses, they don't know the suffering of the people, they just think that if I can do it, why can't you? It must be that the moral cultivation is not enough!

"Wan Shijun Family ......" Liu Che looked at the gate of the Shi family that was getting closer and closer, and thought in his heart: "I want to transform you!" ”

In this world, there is no one who cannot be transformed, and there is no one who does not change.

Where there's a will, there's a way.

As long as the Shi family is willing to work hard and shift from retreat to pragmatism, Liu Che feels that they can still make a difference.

And as long as the Shi family can go to the Tao and move from the previous cautious and cautious situation to taking the initiative, it is equivalent to Liu Che bending his bow and shooting a sharp arrow into the heart of today's conservatives and Xiaoxin.

There will be huge ripples and butterfly effects.

It will make the little freshmen at least face up to the problem, and even, let the little freshmen pay a little attention to the reality.

But how to convince the Shi family, this is really a problem.

"The key is still in Shi Fen...... Liu Che thought in his heart.

The Shi family can have today, and the Shi family's door wind energy has developed to what it is today.

It's all because of Shi Fen.

In Liu Che's impression, Shi Fen was a loyal, reliable, and respectful elder.

Every time Shi Fen met Liu Che, he must follow the rules of the court etiquette and the system, and perfectly present a full set of etiquette and every detail in front of Liu Che.

He even walks in a way and at a pace that has his own beat.

From Sima Gate to Xuanshu Palace, from Xuanroom Hall steps to Xuanroom Hall door.

Every step he took was extremely accurate, and the time it took every time was exactly the same.

In one respect, Shi Fen was a specimen of ministers that all emperors liked.

The emperor's will, with him, is the mandate of heaven, that is, the will of God.

But on the other hand, such an old minister is extremely conservative and stubborn.

Their brains, like granite, would rather die than give up on what they believe.

The so-called 'although there are tens of millions of people, I will go'.

I want to persuade him to give up the previous way of education and teaching, and instead demand and urge his sons and grandchildren to take the initiative and take responsibility.

This is more difficult than convincing a public knowledge in later generations.

It's almost hellish difficulty!

If Liu Che is not the emperor, he is not the son of heaven who proves that he is indeed 'ordered by heaven'.

Then the probability of success in this matter is almost zero.

Even so, Liu Che estimated in his heart that the probability of success was only half and half.

"I don't believe it, I have even fallen down the Huns, let them kneel down and sing about conquest, just a stone Fen, I can't do it!" Liu Che thought in his heart.

At this moment, the door of the Shi family slowly opened.

Doctor Shi Fen, with the whole family, walked out of the door respectfully, and then, like robots, with neat but full of orderly etiquette, three bows and nine bows, bowing and bowing.

"The old minister greets His Majesty's holy drive, and my emperor has a long life!" Shi Fen took the lead in three kowtows and said respectfully.

The sons behind him immediately followed and said, "Your Majesty greets you...... My emperor's holy life is boundless! ”

Liu Che stood up, lifted the ribbon, and then straightened out the crown of the Son of Heaven, and then stepped off the car and said to Shi Fen: "Elder Gong, I have always been important, so there is no need to be so ......."

As he spoke, he stepped forward to help Shi Fen, and then he said to the others: "Zhuqing, excuse me......

"Your Majesty is very fond of you......" Shi Fen leaned on crutches, bowed his body with a smile and said: "But in the eyes of the old minister, the king is the king, the minister is the minister, even if the old minister is ninety years old or one hundred years old, he should serve the king as above, the road of etiquette, and it cannot be abandoned!" ”

The corners of Liu Che's mouth twitched, and he said with a smile: "Elder Shi Gongzhen is also ......."

At the same time, in his heart, he was a little unsure about whether he could make the Shi family change his way of doing things and being officials. (To be continued.) )