Liu Song Hanque

Chapter 535 The Reign of Great Harmony
Cui Hao looked a little embarrassed after hearing Liu Yizhen's evaluation of himself.

"Cui dare not accept this evaluation."

"You deserve it."

Liu Yizhen's tone didn't have the slightest hint of ridicule, that strong tone made Cui Hao uneasy again.

At this moment, he was a little confused about Liu Yizhen's intentions, so he didn't dare to speak any more.

Liu Yizhen closed his eyes: "Cui Hao, tell me about the second question."

"Family?"

Cui Hao sighed: "Cui comes from a family, and the authorities are obsessed with it. His Majesty wants me to comment on the family... It's a bit difficult for others."

"Don't dare to say it, or don't want to say it?"

"I don't dare to His Majesty, but I don't want to do it to my clansmen."

"You are quite honest."

Liu Yizhen didn't feel angry, at least Cui Hao didn't insist on talking about the benefits of the aristocratic family. From this alone, Liu Yizhen knew that the two sides could still talk.

"You dare not say it. Okay, let me tell you."

"The aristocratic family is neither good nor bad, it is just a force that reasonably exists in the world."

"It's like the barbarian king's court will inevitably appear outside the Great Wall beyond the control of the Central Plains, and there will inevitably be aristocratic families in places beyond the control of the Central Plains."

Cui Hao raised his eyebrows after hearing Liu Yizhen's words, showing a strange expression.

Liu Yizhen naturally saw Cui Hao's expression in his eyes: "Why? Do you find it strange?"

"It's just that it's a little strange that His Majesty can say such a thing even though he has repeatedly targeted the family."

"Nothing strange."

Liu Yizhen picked up the teacup and took a sip: "The aristocratic family has never been my enemy."

"Because the appearance of the aristocratic family has never appeared to oppose me alone, but a product that will inevitably appear when things develop to a certain stage."

"Strong stems and weak branches. This Qin method is used in both the Han and Jin Dynasties, and it never changes from its origin."

"But the development of everything does not change according to human will."

"The Western Han Dynasty established the country in Guanzhong, and every time the powerful people moved to the Guandong to enter the Guanshou Mausoleum, they wanted to use a corner of Guanzhong to check and balance the world."

"However, 200 years later, the places in the Kanto region are not just withering than in Guanzhong, but even more prosperous. Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu used Hebei as the basis to pacify the world and restore the Han Dynasty."

"Later, the Eastern Han Dynasty, Cao Wei Dynasty, and Western Jin Dynasty all wanted to strengthen the weak branches, but the more they did so, the stronger the local power became, and finally they created such a monster as the aristocratic family."

Cui Hao was shocked by Liu Yizhen's words again: "Your Majesty thinks so?"

"Is not it?"

Cui Hao was silent.

He thought that Liu Yizhen would say that the family was a cancer, a bad species, or a partner who could cooperate, but he didn't expect Liu Yizhen to give such a novel explanation from such a strange angle.

"Then why does His Majesty keep targeting the family?"

"I said that the existence of the aristocratic family is reasonable, but I didn't say that their actions must be correct."

"Hoarding land, hiding population, all of these are cutting flesh from the country, how can I let it go?"

Cui Hao was somewhat confused by Liu Yizhen.

If you don't hoard land, hide the population, and occupy a lot of resources, is the aristocratic family still called an aristocratic family?
Liu Yizhen asked Cui Hao at this time: "What do you think the family wants to do?"

Cui Hao became confused again.

What does the family want to do?
Change of dynasty?

Not really.

To increase power and protect oneself?
Liu Yizhen nodded: "At the beginning, the members of the aristocratic family just wanted to eat an extra piece of meat in the bowl and wear an extra piece of cloth on their bodies."

"It was only later that they began to be unwilling to be content with these things, but wanted more and more..."

Cui Hao frowned at this time: "Your Majesty is saying that it's all because the family is too greedy?"

"Not at all."

Liu Yizhen denied this: "A person wants to pursue a better life, why should I blame him?"

"But it's their fault when they build their good lives on other people's misery."

Liu Yizhen asked again: "Cui Hao, what did you live for when you were born?"

For this point, Cui Hao has his own standard answer: "Regulate the family, govern the country, and bring peace to the world!"

"What if everyone wants to govern the country and the world?"

"This……"

"This will lead to power struggles, losing the original intention in the battles, and becoming only fighting for the struggle."

Liu Yizhen also gave the answer directly.

"Nowadays, all the scholars in the world aim to govern the country and the world, and the people all over the world aim to have wealth and ten thousand hectares of fertile land, so it is inevitable to struggle with others."

"The method of struggle is nothing more than elimination and oppression. At this point, we have fallen into a strange circle."

"That's why I don't want everyone in the world to cultivate themselves and rule the world with their families."

Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, Confucian classics collapsed, and the Chinese nation fell into a period of extreme ideological confusion.

Metaphysics and Buddhism both took advantage of this and took root in this land, falling into a tug-of-war with the Confucian rituals and music for thousands of years.

The Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties were not only chaotic in war, but also chaotic in thought.

During this period, countless people tried to relight the beacon of thought and awaken the soul destroyed by the times, but all of them ended in failure.

Tuoba Tao, Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, exterminated Buddhism and advocated Taoism to rule the country, but failed.

Emperor Wudi Xiao Bodhisattva studied heaven and man, wanted to unite the three religions, and advocated Buddhism to maintain his rule, but failed.

Gao Huan of the Northern Qi Dynasty revised the law and launched the "Northern Qi Law", trying to rule the country by law, but it still failed.

It was the efforts of Yuwentai, Yuwenyong and other generations of Sinicized Xianbei monarchs and countless civil servants and Confucians in the Northern Zhou Dynasty who promoted the road of Confucianism as the mainstay and sealed the way of Taoism and Buddhism, which reunited the loose spirit and ended the troubled times.

As for Yang Jian picking the peaches, that's another story...

In the chaotic world, countless heroes are constantly trying and making mistakes, trying to find a way out.

Of course, this road was found in the end, and it created the prosperity of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the prosperity of the Song and Song Dynasties, but Liu Yi really wondered if there was another road for everyone to move forward.

One, you don't need to be cruel to your own people, you can still walk the road!
When it comes to which nation is the most ruthless to itself, it is only China.

Destroy everything I have accumulated over hundreds of years of hard work time and time again, and start all over again...

Again and again, like reincarnation.

What kind of tenacious vitality and willpower is it that can be reborn in suffering again and again?

Even though suffering should not be sung, but every time thoughts come to my mind, it is still like a stick in my throat, with tears in my eyes...

Liu Yi really looked at Cui Hao: "I don't want the aristocratic family to be a poison internally, but a sharp sword externally!"

"And all of this requires two things to support it!"

"What is it?"

"Spiritual, material."

Liu Yizhen raised his arms high: "The spirit is extremely high! Don't oppress others with selfish desires."

"Materials are extremely prosperous, and you don't commit crimes because of embarrassment."

"In this way, the last item can be achieved—"

At this moment, Liu Yizhen seemed to embrace the heaven and the earth in his arms: "All people in the world act freely, do what they do, and do what they do! In this way, the rule of Great Harmony will come naturally!"

Cui Hao stared blankly at Liu Yizhen.

At this time, what he saw was no longer a person, but an emperor.

It's a kind of belief that is so strong and dazzling!

(End of this chapter)