When he returned to the palace, as soon as he settled, a Shang Shulang came over to report: "Your Majesty, the Imperial Historian Chao Gong has just entered the palace, and he is ...... outside Sima Gate at this moment."

Liu Che nodded and ordered: "Pass the edict!" ”

Liu Che was not surprised by Chao Cuo's arrival.

Because the duty and responsibility of the imperial historian is to receive the emperor's edict, promulgate and supervise the implementation.

Liu Che mobilized the Tiger Benwei today, blocked the vicinity of Hongguyuan, and arrested so many people.

Doctor Yu Shi is not deaf, of course he has to ask.

Not to mention......

Behind the families behind those workshops, there is no shadow of error.

Speaking of which, among the hundreds of princes, in addition to the Mohists, the one who is most interested in industry and machinery and has the most friendly attitude is the Legalists.

Although the main focus of the Legalists is on agriculture, they advocate the teaching of doing the best of the earth.

Shouting slogans, it is also a businessman who does not have a good thing, all of them should be damned!

At least half of the Confucian policies of anti-business and discriminatory business were inherited from the Legalists.

But......

In China, slogans and reality have always been two different things.

It's not uncommon to shout 'the way of a gentleman' and a man steals and prostitutes behind his back.

For Legalists, the process is not important, but the result.

In order to achieve their goals, they don't even care about their lives, and they don't care about any discipline.

The fact that Liu Che is aware of is that among the Qin laws dominated by Legalism, there is even a separate "Gong Law" set for craftsmen and machine manufacturing

There are several core laws and regulations in the industrial law.

Speak out and scare people to death!

For example, in the fragments of the Sleeping Tiger Land Qin Jane unearthed in later generations, several key work law slips have been cleaned up.

One of them says: For those who are the same thing, their small and large, short and long, and wide must also be equal.

After a few vague slips, another recognizable slip is recorded: for the sake of calculation, those who have different processes do not come out of the same way.

The law that followed was even more blood-striking: the county and the workshop listened to the officials for the Zhengheng stone to win (tired), bucket buckets, liters, and no more than the age of the pot (one). Those who have workers are not positive, and the flaws (false) tests are positive.

The meaning of this article translates to this: when the government and state-run workshops calibrate their meters, they should do so at least once a year! If you have a calibration craftsman, you don't have to do it on your behalf. These artifacts must be corrected before they can be used!

Taken together, these stripes reveal that Qin's workshops and manufacturing industries had reached and approached the level of management and institutions at least in the early twentieth century.

All government and state-run workshops and manufacturing workshops in the country, regardless of type, military or civilian.

Unity is ordered to produce the same product, it must be of a uniform size, in accordance with the same specifications and in a unified production method.

In order to ensure accuracy, the error is reduced.

The Qin people stipulated that all measurement tools must be corrected regularly.

These sources revealed that the Qin people had a set of standards that were set by the state and promulgated by the world.

And this whole set of systems and systems is personally adjudicated and approved by the emperor at the highest level.

Therefore, when Qin Shi Huang Le Shi Langya boasted of his exploits, he juxtaposed 'a measure of instruments' with 'the same writing'.

Unlike Qin, after the establishment of the Han Dynasty, it only inherited Qin's 'one amount of equipment' system in Shaofu, and released restrictions and constraints in the civilian field.

Now, Guanzhong and Kanto, even the standards of acres are different!

Liu Che has made a lot of effort, and until now, he has not summarized the two systems together.

Why......

Of course, the various Confucian factions in the Kanto region, especially in the Qilu region, have a natural resistance and antipathy to machinery, equipment, and technology.

The two reasons of 'mechanical transformation' and 'strange skills and ingenuity' are enough for Confucianism to reject this change.

On the contrary, Legalist politicians and bureaucrats have been working for decades to restore Qin's 'one instrument' system.

Chao Cuo has always advocated this.

Because, for the Legalists, the amount of equipment is linked to the unification of the whole and the domination of the world.

In the eyes of the Legalists, everything in this world is carved out of a mold.

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Along the steps of the palace, Chao Cuo climbed the stairs step by step.

Then, under the guidance of two attendants, enter a side hall.

The head of the temple took his seat, and the Son was already waiting for him today.

"Doctor Shi is wrong, please see Your Majesty, and respectfully ask Your Majesty St. Ann!" Chao Cuo bowed slightly.

"Bow down!" Liu Che stood up and said, "Doctor Yu Shi has important business to enter the palace at this time?" When he said this, Liu Che had a wicked smile.

Because it's really funny.

To be reasonable, now, among the hundreds of princes, the most hostile and hateful to businessmen is actually not Confucianism at all, but Legalism.

But what the saying is - I hate merchants, but I can't hate merchants' money.

In fact, the rise of every Legalist giant will give birth to a huge official and business family.

This legalist magnate relied on the funds and resources of a certain businessman to rise step by step in the officialdom and realize his ideals and ambitions, that is: to fight the businessman, to do his best to teach the land, and to enrich the country and strengthen the army.

And which businessman, with his back to this giant, stepped on the corpses of others, and continued to grow.

Li Kui has a Bai Gui, and Shang Jun also has a big businessman behind the scenes.

As for who is behind Chao Cuo?

Liu Che didn't bother to care.

But one thing is certain: at the beginning, when Chao Cuo was in the first emperor's hidden residence, he relied on helping the first emperor to take care of all internal and external affairs in an orderly manner and was reused.

If Liu Che is not mistaken, at the beginning, the jurisdiction of the nine cities of Chang'an was assigned to Chao Cuo's internal history yamen.

And not the previous lieutenant or lieutenant or something.

"I heard that His Majesty ordered the mobilization of the Tiger Benwei and blocked the road in the Honggu Plains, I don't know if there is such a thing?" Chao Cuo groaned slightly, and then asked.

"Oh, it's nothing, it's just a few profiteers, exploiting the people, knocking on the bones and sucking the marrow, and I have been caught......" Liu Che waved his hand lightly: "Don't ask about this matter!" ”

Although Liu Che knew that this matter could not be hidden.

So, preemptively set the tone for it.

As long as the situation is controlled and Confucianism is not known, this matter will not be a big trouble.

As soon as Chao Cuo heard Liu Che's tone, he had the bottom in his heart.

He bowed slightly and said, "Since Your Majesty has already made a decision, the minister will not ask any more, and the minister will order the imperial history to strictly prohibit discussing and discussing this matter!" ”

Hearing this, Liu Che nodded.

There's no way around it!

But......

Chao's wrong reaction convinced Liu Che beyond doubt.

This imperial historian of the Han Dynasty must have a certain connection with those merchants in Hongguyuan.

It's normal to think about it.

Since the Han family set up the imperial capital in Chang'an, it was inevitable that the position and tendency of the courtiers would be influenced and co-opted by the wealthy clan in Guanzhong.

Even, in fact, even the Liu royal family is also affected by the mentality and ideas of the people in Guanzhong.

The key is that the impact is deep.

"Qing and Meng, it's too close...... Liu Che suddenly said: "Stay away!" ”

When Chao Cuo heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then bowed his head and bowed: "I am hereby ordered!" ”

The Meng family was his friend when he was lowly, and he is also his rare confidant now.

But what is funny is that, like many predecessors, his confidant happened to be born as a businessman.

Liu Che took a deep look at Chao Cuo, he knew very well that for his order, Chao Cuo would inevitably be executed 100%.

Confucianism is a source and a whole.

In essence, Confucianism is two branches growing from a single vine.

It's just that the direction of growth has completely changed.

Confucianism has the same characteristics on many issues, but it is completely different.

For example, the core concept of loyalty and filial piety.

Han Feizi, in his immortal masterpiece "Five Worms", gave two examples to show that Confucianism is different.

The first example is that the people of Chu found out that their father had stolen sheep and sued the government, which then reported to Ling Yin, who ruled and ordered the whistleblower to be killed.

Another example is that the ancestor of Confucianism, Kong Zhongni, was the ruler of the Lu State, and the Lu State was defeated in all three wars with the diplomatic war.

At that time, there was a man who went out into the army every time, but every time he escaped.

The man was captured and sent to Conjunny.

Kong Zhongni asked him why he wanted to run away.

This person has a heart-wrenching voice: I have a father, and I can't raise him when I die.

So Kong Zhongni 'lifted him up' and appointed him as an official.

In response to these two things, Han Feizi lashed out.

thinks that 'if you look at it, you will be the direct minister of the husband, and the violent son of the father...... The filial son of the father, the back of the king. ’

Of course, no one dares to preach Han Feizi's words as truth anymore.

Legalists never openly talk about and discuss this passage of the Five Worms, as if they have forgotten it.

But, in fact, in the eyes and hearts of the Legalist ministers.

That's what they've always thought.

Confucianism also advocates loyalty and filial piety, and respects loyal ministers and filial sons.

However, in the actual execution process.

Confucianism is filial piety before loyalty, while Legalism is loyalty before filial piety.

The change of the position of a word eventually becomes two completely different schools, and even in the eyes of people, today's Confucianism is completely two schools of thought that contradict each other.

But, dig deeper into the history and you'll find out.

The Taoist tradition of Legalism comes from Mr. Zi Xia, who is one of the seventy-two disciples of Confucius.

And Chao Cuo, without a doubt, is the most orthodox Legalist minister.

Historically, he once sat back and watched his father commit suicide for the sake of ideals and ambitions.

Therefore, Liu Che knew that since he, the king, had given the order, then Chao Cuo would definitely keep his distance from the merchants.

"Taixue, do you know the news?" Liu Che asked again.

"Haven't ...... yet," Chao Cuo lowered his head and asked, "Have you informed the Taixue princes?" ”

"No need!" Liu Che waved his hand and said: "Professor Taixue, teaching students has been very hard in the past, so there is no need to alarm them for such trivial matters!" Let them study with peace of mind! ”

Now, Uncle Tian is still sitting in Taixue, so Confucianism should not be able to make waves under Uncle Tian's suppression.

But the problem is that Liu Che didn't dare to let Uncle Tian know about this matter at all.

Otherwise, with his violent temper, he would have been the first to jump up and kill those merchants.

"After Qing returns, I will summon the scholars who hold the book on behalf of me, and ask them to refer to the Gonglu of Qin and the teachings of the previous kings, and draw up a draft of the Gonglu, and submit it to me!" Liu Che finally said.

"No!" Chao Cuo nodded, then bowed and slowly walked out of the hall.

It wasn't until he walked out of the temple that he felt that his back was soaked.

However, after breathing a long sigh of relief, Chao Cuo smiled: "Sure enough, it is not bad as I expected, Your Majesty, you also intend to reproduce the grand occasion of 'one amount of equipment'!" ”

"It's just ......" Chao Cuo shook his head inwardly as he set his eyes to the east.

Confucianism is now the biggest stumbling block on the road to the first amount of equipment.

Moreover, this problem cannot be achieved by tackling Confucianism.

For decades, the smear and attack on Qin, as well as the fixed impression in the hearts of the people of the world that Qin = tyranny, Qin law = harsh law, and Qin law = harm to the people.

After the propaganda of Confucianism, now, the people of the world, even a peddler and pawn, know that the Qin law must not be resurrected - even in reality, at least eighty percent of the terms of the Han law are copied from the Qin law, and the remaining two percent are mostly extended and improved from the Qin law.

Therefore, there is a long way to go.

Even the Son of Heaven must be cautious on this issue.

This time, the Son of Heaven proposed to ask for the draft of the "Law of Work", I am afraid that he also had the intention of throwing stones to ask for directions and temptation. (To be continued.) )