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"Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's employment standard was meritocracy. During his reign, he issued two edicts to seek talents in the first year of Yuanguang and the fifth year of Yuanfeng."

"He discovered and tapped many outstanding talents through these two consultations."

"The most typical representatives are Gongsun Hong and Dong Zhongshu."

"Gongsun Hong, who was born in poverty, participated in the first policy examination of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. His article was not taken seriously by the examiners at first, and he was ranked at the bottom."

"But when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty personally reviewed the papers, he found that Gongsunhong's views were in line with his wishes, so he ranked Gongsunhong's articles first."

"And he immediately issued an edict to meet Gongsun Hong. After the two met, they had a very harmonious conversation. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty valued Gongsun Hong's talent and did not dislike him as he was getting older. He kept him in an important position from then on."

"Gongsun Hong fulfilled his mission. In the fifth year of Yuanshuo, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he proposed and formulated measures to set up disciples for "Doctors of the Five Classics", and formulated methods for promotion and replacement of officials based on Confucian classics and etiquette for serving officials. condition."

"That is to say, it is mainly based on those who are proficient in Yi Yi and have practiced many recitations first. Among them, those with higher grades can be appointed as the internal history of the left and right, and the history of Taihang's death. Those with lower grades can also be appointed as the history of the death of the prefect of the county or the history of the prefect of the border counties."

"Gongsun Hong also put the sufferings of the people on the border first, because he was born in a poor family. He proposed to stop the Southwest Yi and Canghai County projects many times, and finally got Emperor Wu's consent."

"He believes that cruel officials are too cruel. If they are appointed as county guards, they will inevitably treat the people unkindly."

"Therefore, he opposed Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's promotion of Ku Li Ning to become the county governor. He also put forward many good suggestions on the establishment of a central official school, the official assessment system and the selection of talents."

"Because of Gongsun Hong's contribution to the Han Dynasty, he later became the prime minister of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and served until he was nearly eighty years old before he died in office."

"Let's talk about Dong Zhongshu. He only appeared on the scene when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty issued the second edict for seeking talents. Because the Empress Dowager Dou, who favored Huang Lao and hated Confucianism, was still alive during the first time. He believed that the time was not ripe."

"Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty asked Dong Zhongshu three times about his policy. The basic content was the relationship between heaven and man, so it was called "Three Strategies of Heaven and Man".

"In his countermeasures, Dong Zhongshu elaborated on the interaction between heaven and man, discussed the relationship between divine power and monarchy, and put forward the suggestion of "deposing hundreds of schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone."

"Dong Zhongshu's theory from the perspective of the ruler was deeply liked by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and was gradually implemented in his subsequent governance practices."

Moreover, "deposing hundreds of schools of thought and respecting Confucianism alone" has a particularly profound impact on national culture. The cultural thought represented by Confucianism has always been the mainstream culture of our country, and this is entirely due to Dong Zhongshu. "

"Besides, I don’t need to say anything about the generals. They are too famous. Wei Qing and Huo Qubing are famous heroes who fought back against the Xiongnu war. They conquered the Xiongnu Empire for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, which the Han Dynasty had always feared, and opened up silk for the expansion of the Han Dynasty's territory and its later period. He has made outstanding contributions.”

"What is particularly noteworthy is that some of the generals appointed by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty were Yue and Huns."

"A prisoner of the Huns like Jin Rixi, a slave who had previously raised horses in the palace, was selected as an important minister of Tuogu together with Huo Guang and Shangguan Jie."

"In short, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che, who reigned for fifty-four years, adopted an eclectic method of delegating talents, so that there were many talents during his reign, thus creating the most prosperous and prosperous period of the Western Han Dynasty."

"It's true that those who win talents win the world! Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's talents, general strategy, culture and martial arts made the Han Dynasty the most powerful country in the world at that time."

"Inwardly, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also issued a decree of favor, allocating a large number of fiefdoms to the children of princes and kings in order to weaken their power."

"Secondly, centralization of power was strengthened and two political institutions, the Inner Dynasty and the External Dynasty, were established, controlled by the emperor and the prime minister respectively."

"Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty also established a censorship platform and a supervisory agency to strengthen the supervision and management of officials."

"These are all political policies, and of course there are also economic ones. The word "武" (武), a strong man, means that this country cannot do without war, and war requires money! This cannot be separated from economic development. ” ˆ ˆ “During the “Government of Wen and Jing”, the Han Dynasty government accumulated a lot of wealth after decades of recuperation.”

"During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, due to the continuous foreign conquests, many large-scale projects were built internally, which cost a lot, thus triggering a serious financial crisis."

"But Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty could not stop the construction of these wars and major projects, and could not take measures to recuperate and recuperate to solve financial problems."

"In response, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty carried out a large number of economic and fiscal reforms to expand the sources of fiscal revenue."

"These fiscal measures brought abundant financial resources to the Han government, but they also caused some social problems."

"In the early Han Dynasty, the state allowed counties to mint currency, and private citizens also minted currency privately."

"At that time, counties, powerful people, wealthy merchants, etc. occupied copper mines to make currency and make a lot of money."

"The quality of these currencies varies, and some quality is seriously insufficient for their corresponding value."

"Profiteers even used files to scrape off copper shavings, making the four-baht coin in the Han Dynasty thinner and thinner, causing serious devaluation."

"In response to these phenomena, Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty ordered a ban on private currency production, but the currency minted by the private sector was still in circulation when Emperor Wu came to power."

"After Emperor Wu of the Han came to power, he standardized the minting of currency."

"In the first year of Jianyuan, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty abolished the four-baht coin and implemented the three-baht coin."

"In the fifth year of Jianyuan, the four-baht currency was restored."

"In the fourth year of Yuanshou, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered that the princes, princes and clans must use leather coins for pilgrimage in order to obtain gold and silver from the hands of princes and kings."

"The skin coin is the skin of the white deer in the royal forbidden garden. The princes and clans must buy it from the royal palace. Each piece of deer skin is worth [-] yuan."

"This measure can indeed increase financial resources, but it makes the currencies circulating in the market more confusing. In addition to the four-baht and three-baht coins in the past, platinum and leather coins have also appeared."

"Less than a year after the order was issued, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty ordered the implementation of the five-baht coin to unify various currencies."

"These measures taken by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty still failed to prevent private currency creation."

"The "Book of Han" records that within five years after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty implemented the five-baht currency, he pardoned hundreds of thousands of people on death row for private coinage, and countless others were not pardoned."

"In order to completely monopolize currency production, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty established Shuiheng Duwei in the fourth year of Yuanding, with three officials: Junshu, Zhongguan and Biantong."

"This agency mainly collects copper mines across the country and transports them to the center for casting."

"In the same year, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty issued an order prohibiting the county's right to mint coins."

"This reform has put local copper resources in the hands of the central government, causing local governments to lose their resources for private currency production, and fundamentally stopped the proliferation of counterfeit money."

"After that, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty changed the phenomenon that the weight of currency did not match the prescribed value in the past, and improved the technology of currency manufacturing, so that people who made currency privately gained more than they lost." (End of this chapter)