"Zuo Chuan said: The major affairs of the country are in worship and war." Liu Chehuan looked at the courtiers around him, slowly organized his language, and said the true purpose of his trip.

If you just want to fight corruption, do you need the emperor to end up in person?

Not at all, a small official is enough!

Does anyone else dare to oppose the monarchy?

Only when it is necessary to redefine the earth, water, wind and fire, and rewrite the rules of the game, it is necessary for the emperor to personally go down to the battle.

"In the past, when the world was first decided, Emperor Gao, Emperor Gao, ordered Xiao He, the prime minister, to set a law for the purpose of calculating the wealth for the country's treasury, soldiers, chariots and horses, and Emperor Taizong, the grandfather of Emperor Taizong, was in power, and investigated the loss of the previous generation of Ma Zheng, and issued a 'horse reinstatement order', which clearly told the world that 'if you raise a horse, you will reinstate three people. The five doctors and above are used as officials'. Why is Taizong like this? Riders, national armaments, too! ”

The Fuma Order is one of the guiding ideologies of the national horse administration that has always been implemented throughout the reign of the Western Han Dynasty.

According to this order, if a common man raises a horse (war horse), he can be exempted from military service, and if the common man has the title of five doctors or above, he can automatically be elected as a low-level official such as a local servant or a government official.

Of course, in the event of war, these men had to bring their own dry rations and horses and go out with the army.

This was the most important strategy of the Han dynasty in order to encourage the people to raise horses, and at the same time strengthen the construction of civilian reserve cavalry.

Today, the privileged class in the Northland and Longyou regions, the Northland Knights, was born under this order.

These knights, basically from families above the small landlord, have been nutritious, well-developed, physically strong, and good at riding and archery since childhood. It was the backbone of the cavalry unit of the Han army.

And the Han family treats them very highly.

In addition to enjoying the preferential treatment of the Fuma Order, they were also given a higher social status than Shandong.

So. The landlord class in the north competed to raise horses. Train your children and nephews to be a Knight of the Northlands as a family honor.

This is normal.

In the future, if the government of the Celestial Empire issued an announcement one day saying that if someone could buy a XX machine and master the use of this machine at the same time, then it would immediately be recruited into the army, and at the same time give the old Red Army treatment, you see. Will the whole country break its head?

However, the limitations of this reinstatement order are also very large.

Families who can afford to raise expensive war horses know with their butts that they must not be small families.

In this era when it was difficult for a homesteader family to support a full-time scholar, if you want to support a full-time martial arts knight and his war horse, you must at least have a landlord family with a few tenants.

Therefore, more than 20 years after the resumption of the horse order, the upsurge of folk horse breeding has never arrived.

Instead, it restricts the path for people at the bottom to climb upwards.

The mud-legged people don't have the money to buy horses. Not to mention learning to ride.

Therefore, it can only be mixed in the material officer and the strong crossbow army.

The sons and daughters of rich and powerful landlords, with their excellent family background and sufficient resources, have developed superb riding skills, and they directly entered the cavalry unit after enlisting in the army. If you perform a little better, you will be promoted immediately, and then you will be promoted in a rocket.

The typical representative is Li Guang.

It's only been more than ten years. From a knight of the Northland who joined the army, he quickly became a feudal monarch of the Han family. One of the Nine Qings.

Over the years, the Han family has been an excellent young senior officer. They are basically well-born landlord families like Li Guang.

For example, Bai Qi was born in the army, the infant was plucked out of the butcher, and Han Xin was born as a ranger, and such examples have almost disappeared from the Han army in the past 20 years.

All high-level military positions basically flow in a small circle.

The aristocracy and the landlords were so powerful that they did not need to play conspiracy tricks at all, and easily excluded the mud legs from the ruling class.

This is unacceptable to Liu Che.

Even animals know not to inbreed.

As early as the barbarian era, human beings already knew that they should accept fresh blood and improve the genes of the race.

If we can't let the upper and lower levels flow, the people at the bottom can also be promoted to the ruling class by their own efforts.

Sooner or later, this country, this nation, and this regime will be terminally ill and hopeless.

Liu Che had previously broken the monopoly of the aristocracy on civil politics with the examination.

Now he decided to break the monopoly of the northern landlord aristocratic class on military generals.

And this entry point is Ma Zheng.

As in the examination, Liu Che at least asked yeoman farmers and small landlords to join the competition.

Yes, Liu Che changed his words and said: "The resumption of the horse order, since the implementation of the order, Gu Duoliang will come out from it, Wei Weiguang and others, it is proof!" However, I still feel that this is not enough, the number of horses kept by the people is still too small, and even the horses are very few. I don't even want to take it! ”

The ministers were immediately frightened and kowtowed to apologize.

Yuan Ang buried his head even more, and he didn't dare to see anyone.

The problems pointed out by the Son of Heaven are indeed facts.

"I want to make the people raise more horses, and if there are more horses, there will be more knights, even if there are inferior horses, they can also cultivate the land and sow seeds, which is conducive to agriculture and mulberry, and Qing and other scholars are virtuous and virtuous, and they are well known in the allusions of documents, and I don't know if there is anyone who can teach me?" Liu Che stretched out his hand and asked in all directions.

Although he already had a plan in mind.

But as emperor, he could not bring it up personally.

The emperor himself proposed a certain policy, which would lead to one consequence - if something went wrong, the pot would have to be borne by the emperor, and in the process, if something discordant happened that hurt the interests of certain classes, then these classes would vent their anger directly at the emperor.

Liu Che is not afraid of these problems.

However, it is better to have a backpot than to stand up and bear the grievances from below.

At the very least, in this way, there is a benefit, it is Your Majesty's Shengming, if something goes wrong and provokes resentment, it is the fault of the traitorous minister.

From ancient times to the present, Chinese emperors have played like this.

Liu Che didn't want to break the rules of the game.

Moreover, Liu Che had already arranged the actors, and he was not afraid of the suggestions and opinions put forward by the courtiers. deviated from the scope he delineated.

And Liu Che's exit has long been gearing up. The officials, who were waiting for such an opportunity, immediately became excited.

Of course. For most officials, they do not have the right to the king.

Until the Son of Heaven named or allowed them to ask questions, they did not dare to move.

I can only look at the giants who have the right to move forward, and they all pray in their hearts that these guys must not answer to the satisfaction of His Majesty, so that everyone can get a chance to come out.

And the experience of the past, tell these people.

They have a great opportunity to brush their faces in front of the Son of Heaven.

The reason is simple, on such a sensitive issue. Jiuqing and the two thousand stone giants, if they are not completely sure, otherwise they will not easily express their stance - if they don't guess Tianxin, wouldn't it be lifting a stone to shoot themselves in the foot, and it will be extremely humiliating!

Therefore, Jiuqing and the two thousand stones usually remain silent on such occasions, but let the people below be cannon fodder to test the heart of heaven. When they test the heart of the Son of Heaven, they will make a move.

Cannon fodder, of course, know their status.

But first of all, the Son of Heaven will talk nonsense because of Jiuqing. And he was displeased, but he would never be blamed on him because of the whimsy of a small shrimp of about a thousand stones.

Secondly, so many people. There are always one or two clever ghosts who can hit the heart of the Son of Heaven.

So. Although the cannon fodder is all bowing their heads, everyone is gearing up. Eager to try, waiting for their own opportunity.

Everyone understands that as long as they can accurately scratch the itch of the Son of Heaven, then their future will be smooth from now on.

Many people seemed to see Zhang Shizhi and Chao Cuo waving to them.

As a result, a strange scene appeared in the field.

Jiuqing and the two thousand stones, bowed their heads, remained silent, and did not speak.

And more middle- and low-level officials blushed, their brains running at full speed, retrieving all the information and knowledge they could imagine.

Liu Che looked at this scene and laughed.

He knew that Jiuqing and the two thousand stones would not speak.

Therefore, after waiting politely for a while, he walked straight to the front of the middle and low-level officials and asked everyone, "Do you have any gains?" ”

Countless people are waiting for Liu Che's words.

As soon as Liu Che's words fell, many courtiers immediately shouted: "The ministers have a play!" ”

"The minister has a shallow opinion!"

In just one second, there were more than a dozen officials, scrambling to be the first to play.

Liu Che saw it and nodded.

The horse politics of the Han Dynasty is a major national policy.

There are a lot of people who know about it, just like the national policies of the Celestial Empire, that is, the people in the market, they can also say one, two, three, four, and even if it is not good, they can also hear about it.

Nowadays, although it is not as good as the Celestial Empire in later generations, information is developed and information is explosive.

However, the officials here are not the people of the Celestial Empire.

All of them are the elite of the ruling class.

Insight, ideas, and knowledge are all at the top of society.

Compared with the Jiuqing giants and the two thousand stones, what many of them lack may be qualifications and status.

In terms of vision, insight and ideas, as well as ability, some of these people are not necessarily inferior to Jiuqing.

For example, the late Han Prime Minister, Beiping Wenhou Zhang Cang, in the Qin Dynasty, was only a librarian who managed books for the Qin court, but he was in the Han Dynasty, but he was in charge of the country for fifteen years, and he governed everyone up and down obediently.

The so-called times create heroes, but heroes also create the times.

Therefore, Liu Che still has some expectations for his talents in the court.

If it is not necessary, Liu Che is not willing to let the actors appear, but hopes to find a few insightful, visionary, and carved Puyu and even Baoyu that has been formed from these people.

"Don't worry, come and ...... one by one," Liu Che waved his hand and said.

Liu's Tianzi has always been more keen on similar scenes.

Because in this way, it can brush up on prestige, spread it, and establish the image of the Son of Heaven who is broad-minded and can enter the courtiers.

Therefore, the emperors of the Liu family in the past generations would find some middle and low-level officials every once in a while to ask each other about their views on national policies.

On the one hand, it is to learn from others' strengths, pick up and fill in the gaps, and also prevent yourself from being deceived and empty, on the other hand, it is to brush up on prestige, so that people in the world, especially the scholar class, know that when today, he has a generous personality. Be kind to scholars, especially to listen to advice.

And this is in China. It is one of the symbols of Mingjun.

Now, Liu Che has gradually awakened his talent in this area.

He smiled gently. He said to an official who was close to him: "Let's talk about it first!" ”

The official was about thirty years old, slender but not thin, with a square face that was characteristic of a northern scholar, with sharp edges and a full beard.

He insisted on Yugui, solemnly bowed to Liu Che, and then said: "Prime Minister Shi forbids death to play Your Majesty: Your Majesty is benevolent and wants to make the people raise more horses." If the people raise more horses, the country will be strong, and your majesty's sacredness will be able to see thousands of miles, and the ministers will not be able to reach it! ”

As soon as it came up, it was a standard courtier's sycophant, and Liu Che was still more comfortable to shoot.

At the very least, people are not afraid of stage fright, and they can speak freely in front of Liu Che. Just because of this psychological quality, Liu Che felt that he should be promoted.

So, Liu Che asked Ji Di beside him in a low voice, "Who is this?" ”

The Prime Minister's Mansion of the Han Dynasty. It is a huge organization with thousands of employees. There are hundreds of bureaucrats, big and small.

Most people, Liu Che has never even seen them.

It has been three years since he ascended the throne. Liu Che still can't recognize the Prime Minister's emblem! (Prime Minister's Emblem, more than 600 stones.) The long history of the prime minister)

Not to mention the history of the prime minister with 400 stones, and the compilation of dozens of people.

It's like the Celestial Empire boss. Generally, you will not recognize a researcher at a research institute under the State Council.

However, as a scholar, Ji Di must recognize every clerk in the prime minister's office, especially the prime minister's history, who is responsible for specific policy research and copywriting.

Therefore, Ji Di replied almost immediately: "Your Majesty, this is Prime Minister Shi Wenban, from Hedong!" ”

When Wen Ban saw this scene, he only felt as if his heart had been hit hard, and his mouth was a little dry for a while.

Making one's name heard by heaven is the dream of countless middle- and low-level officials like Wen Ban.

At the beginning, Zhang Shizhi was a lang, serving Emperor Taizong for ten years, unknown and unknown.

But once he reached the sky, his official position was like riding a rocket, and in just a few years, he completed the N-level jump, from an unknown official to a captain of the Han family and a famous minister in the world.

Wen Ban's psychological quality is still good, he took a deep breath, swallowed his saliva, and then played: "Your Majesty asked, although the minister is dull and does not know about etiquette and music, however, there is a foolish opinion, I would like to play with Your Majesty, a little reference!" ”

Seeing this, Liu Che laughed, don't mess around, this person can still keep his face unchanged and not change the speed of his speech after Liu Che deliberately asked his name, just this alone can promote him to Lantai to be a scholar.

Liu Che has never been afraid to give respect and preferential treatment to talents, so Liu Che also said with a straight face: "Please try it!" ”

A complete corporal of courtesy, a virtuous gentleman.

In fact, in the Han Dynasty, when facing middle and lower-level officials, the emperor would often put down the emperor's shelf, be kind and pleasant, and even have a dialogue with them on an equal footing, honorifically calling them 'Ming Gong', 'Mr.', 'Your Excellency' and so on.

For example, Liu Che's grandfather, when Liu Heng was in power, he called the middle- and lower-level officials 'Ming Gong' more than once, even if the other party said something that smacked his face as the emperor a few times, he was not angry.

However, once this middle- and lower-level official was promoted to more than 2,000 stones, he immediately changed his face.

The reason is simple.

The old Liu family knows very well that giving respect and even tolerance to subordinates, especially lower-level officials who are likely to communicate once or twice in their lives, can gain the loyalty of the people of the world and establish their own image.

For example, Taizong and Feng Tang played against each other, Feng Tang was stunned, and even bluntly said: Although Your Majesty has Lian Po and Li Mu, Fu can use it!

And Taizong was just 'angry, and after two days, he couldn't hold back in his heart, and sent someone to invite Feng Tang over and say: Why should the public insult me, and there is nothing to do?

Meaning, sir, why are you humiliating me in public? If you want to slap your face, you can tell me in private......

Feng Tang's stunned young man replied directly: Contemptible people don't know taboos.

In any other dynasty, it would be difficult for Feng Tang to die!

But in the Han Dynasty, his name went down in history and was immortalized through the ages.

Immortal with him, there is another protagonist in the story - Emperor Xiaowen of Han Taizong.

Therefore, the emperors of the ages, if you talk about acting skills, who can compare with Han Taizong?

As an emperor who aspires to learn from his grandfather's good example, Liu Che naturally doesn't care about unrealistic and illusory things like discipline and face.

The attitude of the Son of Heaven immediately brought tears to the eyes of countless courtiers, including the ban on literature, what is the Holy Son of Heaven? That's it!

In the spirit of the simple scholar who died as a confidant, Wen Ban bowed his head and said: "Fortunately, Your Majesty Longen, the minister is forbidden to dare to say: If Your Majesty wants to make the people raise horses, it is first, so that the people can raise, and now a horse is worth tens of thousands, if you get a good horse, it is worth 100,000, and the fine people are a man with a narrow family of five, and the annual income is not more than 1,800 stones, and the money is more than 10,000. It is because the ministers think that the people are not willing to raise horses, but they can't raise horses! ”

Listening to these analyses, Liu Che nodded and made a look of great joy.

In fact, these things are well known.

Knowing a problem is not the same thing as knowing how to solve it.

However, looking at this person's appearance, Liu Che thinks that he should have a solution.

So, Liu Che smiled and encouraged him to continue, as the emperor, Liu Che knew very well that most of the courtiers were not without ideas, nor without brains, throughout the ancient and modern times, in the annals of history, officials and doctors who saw the country's shortcomings and policy loopholes at a glance were like carp across the river, and they knew how to solve them.

But why, can't they bring it up to the top?

The reason is very simple, one, they have no channels, and two, they do not receive encouragement from the rulers, especially from the supreme ruler.

And as an emperor, he wants to make his rule stable.

In fact, the method is also very simple.

First of all, you have to find a group of officials who can help you find the problem, and second, you have to let these officials solve the problem.

This is called soul winning and employing souls. (To be continued.) )

PS: I'm ready to go home for the New Year, the ticket on the 27th, so, the day after tomorrow is automatically renewed, and then, on the 28th, it is probably also automatically renewed