The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 206 Liu Kun’s sincerity

Liu Tai's feelings towards the aristocratic family are of course complicated, and Liu Tai naturally wants to sweep the aristocratic family into the garbage heap of history.

But the problem is that the strongest class in this era is the aristocratic family. The aristocratic family has its own land, its own servants, its own fortress, and some even has its own army.

It can only be said that the chaos of these years has made many aristocratic families instinctively struggle to survive in this troubled world.

Although the aristocratic family has experienced its most glorious period and is gradually declining, as far as the entire class is concerned, this decline has just begun. It is far from the point at the end of the Tang Dynasty when it could not compete with the imperial examination candidates in essays and could not withstand Huang Chao's sword in martial arts. .

Liu Tai believes that all the aristocratic families in this world should be destroyed, and he will not cooperate with the aristocratic families at all, because Liu Tai is basically a Han rebel, and he is also a lower-class Han citizen. In the future, he will come up with slogans such as equalizing land and not paying grain. , at least it can force Youzhou, Jizhou and Qingzhou into territories without aristocratic families.

All the aristocratic families will flee to Shi Le, eager to devour themselves and take back their fields and wealth.

After all, working for Shi Le, they all still have a chance to survive, and they can even continue to maintain their high-ranking positions and generous salaries.

And if you continue to stay in Liu Tai's territory, it will be extremely difficult to survive.

There is no need to go to this point. After all, whether Liu Tai is willing to admit it or not, the poor family is the elite of the Han family in this era.

As long as the knowledge has not reached the level of ordinary people, it is impossible for him to abandon the aristocratic family.

Therefore, I drew two lines for the family: land tax collection and knowledge sharing.

Whether the former family can do it depends on how far Gou Chun's tax bureau can investigate. Otherwise, how can we expect the family to fail to investigate on their own?

As for knowledge sharing, use the educational resources of aristocratic families to establish schools. As long as I am still alive, Confucianism, Taoism, Art of War, and Mo will be ranked second to history and mathematics. These two subjects are the main subjects, and the other subjects are elective subjects. .

In the final exam, history questions and mathematics questions will be tested, and work will be arranged based on the results of these two subjects.

Liu Tai didn't believe it anymore. As long as the various projects of various schools of thought are not on the exam questions, let's see if Confucianism can continue to dominate the world.

After all, Confucianism is not the only one in this era. Metaphysics and Buddhism are also beginning to rise.

In the past few years, the school has created an atmosphere of contention among a hundred schools of thought, allowing students entering it to develop novel ideas.

When people are familiar with the emerging theories of one discipline after another, they will be able to throw out theories such as productivity.

As for where this theory came from?Naturally, Ge Hong has to suffer a lot, and he needs to polish his theory.

Of course, apart from the teaching of the school itself, it is actually not easy to find the right students to enter the school.

Because of the school built by Liu Tai and the family, the people who can study in it are naturally not even ordinary people.

At least if aristocratic families want to enter, it is basically a matter of showing their faces. Even Chu Fuyangman and others cannot stop some friendly aristocratic families from saying that they want to send outstanding disciples in the family to study.

As for ordinary people, no matter what Liu Tai took the exam, they were already at the starting line and could not enter this school because basic education was not systematic and they had no means of selection.

But Liu Tai has also prepared students for this academy, and that is the reservists trained by military historians.

No matter how you say it, the military is the best channel for ordinary people to cross class in this era.

The young people who can successfully enter it will have to spend several years in the military to establish complete values. Then when they are about 20 years old, outstanding talents will be selected to enter institutions of higher learning for similar education to broaden their horizons.

At least during this period, they were a more suitable way to select talents than the imperial examination system.

Because even if the imperial examination system is implemented in this era, at least within 50 years, basically everyone in it will come from aristocratic families.

The reason is very simple, that is, the spread of knowledge is not widespread enough, and the common people simply do not have the strength to fight against the aristocratic families.

Liu Tai was not in a hurry to introduce the imperial examination system. Instead, he tried to cultivate channels for the common people to rise, waiting for the historical knowledge and arithmetic knowledge in his hands to be spread bit by bit.

Not to mention reaching the common people at the bottom, even if these things reach the hands of Liangjiazi and pass them on, it will take time and precipitation. Why should I rush to the ripening era in a hurry?

Therefore, Liu Tai chose to reach out to the family and choose to cooperate with the family.

This is because this era has truly undergone major changes that have not happened in a century. China was invaded by foreigners, the Jin Dynasty was destroyed by the Xiongnu and Han Dynasty, and the legitimacy of the family dynasty was negated to the greatest extent by national justice.

The aristocratic family has really suffered from the losses of the aristocratic dynasty, and they are in danger of annihilation of their country and genocide under the invasion of foreign tribes... No, it should be the risk of annihilation of their family and genocide.

Under such circumstances, I put forward the limitations of land and knowledge, but at the same time I hope to cooperate with them to build the Grand Canal to win over them. With a slap in the face and a sweet date, the aristocratic families can barely eat it.

If I had made this request during the Three Kingdoms era, let alone Yuan Shao's territory now, even if I had it all, believe it or not, these aristocratic families would cause destruction in various ways within their own borders, and those outside the country would share the same hatred.

A scumbag like me who is hostile to aristocratic families and destroys them inhumanely is a disservice to society.

But there is no way. Society is developing. As the Chinese nation has detailed historical records and is the nation that best learns from history, the next dynasty will reflect on the mistakes made by the previous dynasty for 5000 years.

As for all the dynasties in history, let’s not mention the Qin, Han, Tang and Ming dynasties. Even if they bully other orphans and widowed mothers like the Jin court to gain the Han family, their reputations are better than those of the Jin court of the Sima family. Ten thousand times.

It can be said that in the Jin court represented by the Sima family, if anyone could do any serious thing during his reign, he would never do anything serious. Even the emperor with the highest moral character was actually the "why not eat minced meat" Emperor Hui of Jin Dynasty.

Just like this, before the Jin Dynasty, the imperial court never took the initiative to attack the aristocratic families. It only tried to deal with the aristocratic families. But after the Jin Dynasty, no matter who came to power, they would attack the aristocratic families.

Even a family like the Li family and the Yang family, who were born into the same meritorious noble family, were merciless.

It is enough to see how much influence the Sima family's Jin Dynasty had on later generations.

These aristocratic families in Youzhou, Jizhou and Qingzhou may not be able to see that far, but they have personally experienced wars and disasters, and even witnessed the destruction of the Jin Dynasty with their own eyes.

It was obvious that the big man at the beginning was just like a dog when he attacked the surrounding foreigners. Why did it become so difficult for him and others to fight against the foreigners when he and others wanted to fight against them, and even the country was destroyed by them?

As long as they are members of the aristocratic family, they will think about this issue. At least in this special time of Wuhuanhua, the etiquette of the nobles, the arrogance of the nobles, and the knowledge of the nobles all appear particularly fragile in front of the shining sword.

Liu Tai watched a famous family leave their name in front of Xun Chuo, and he didn't care about the final decision of these families.

Because for Liu Tai, as long as he leaves his name on it, he can always find them.As for cooperation in building the Grand Canal, if they are willing to join, they will not refuse. If they are unwilling to join, they do not care.

At most, I can just extend the construction period of this project a little longer and make the plan more perfect.

After all, I don't want to build the Grand Canal from Youzhou to Hangzhou in one go. At least my current goal is to build the section from Youzhou City to Jinkou first.

Now that these aristocratic families have joined in, it will take at least three to five years to build the section from Youzhou to the Yellow River, and it can take more than ten years.

After all, my thinking is different from that of other people of this era. In their eyes, the consumption of various manpower and materials in the process of building the canal has completely disappeared.

But in my own eyes, the resources consumed in this process did not disappear completely, but turned into another situation, becoming thriving villages, busy factories, and even shipping ships with people coming and going after the opening of navigation in the future. .

These are far more important than the simple materials consumed.

Especially for ordinary people who have been baptized by the flames of war in this era, if they can have a stable job, they can survive by selling their labor, and they can even have money and food left over to buy clothes during the New Year. fulfilled.

This kind of treatment can be considered a prosperous era in any feudal era, and as long as this project does not stop, the people will be able to enjoy the benefits brought by the large infrastructure. Even if the profits are so insignificant, but for the people of this era But very precious.

And Liu Tai watched everyone sign his name one by one, and asked everyone, "Who is the Fan Yanglu who just spoke? Communication among the aristocratic families!”

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help but look towards the head of the Fan Yang Lu family, with a bit of envy in their eyes.

Obviously, what Fan Yanglu said just now reached Liu Tai's ears, and it seemed that Liu Tai admired the descendant of Fan Yanglu who just spoke. This made other people from the aristocratic family understand that the Fan Yanglu family was lucky. .

After all, Liu Tai's dislike for the aristocratic family is clearly shown, but his appreciation for talents is also fully revealed.

However, after hearing Liu Tai's words, the head of the Lu family in Fan Yang showed no trace of joy on his face.

Because although Lu Chen belongs to the Fan Yang Lu family, he is not controlled by the Fan Yang Lu family. Now Lu Chen belongs to Liu Kun!

"My lord, my cousin Lu Chen and I have been ordered to pay a visit!" Wen Qiao appeared in front of Liu Tai, but it was to rescue Fan Yang and the Lu family.

"He came with you!?" Liu Tai looked at Wen Qiao's arrival and looked at Lu Chen with some pity.

To be honest, Liu Tai didn't expect this. After all, he thought that Lu Chen came with Fan Yang's Lu family, so he might be able to get a talent. But if it was Liu Kun's person, to be honest, he was not Zhuge Liang, and he didn't know What kind of performance can he have in history, where will he go all out to recruit people.

Wen Qiao came here on behalf of the Taiyuan Wen family. He knew this, but he didn't expect that the two of them were in the same group:

"Forget it, today's meeting has made things clear. If you have anything to do with me, let's move to a separate room to discuss it in detail!"

"Thank you, Duke!" Wen Qiao bowed slightly to Liu Tai, and then Liu Tai and Chu Hui took Wen Qiao to another place to talk.

But Liu Tai didn't follow Wen Qiao in any way, and said:
"Taizhen, you were fine last time when we were apart. Liu Bingzhou sent you to find me this time. Why?"

"First of all, congratulations to Duke Liu for defeating Wang Jun. Secondly, I want to deliver the last transaction and guarantee it in the name of Liu Bingzhou. After the general is King Cheng Yangjing, there is a document here that will be sent to the world's famous families. I also ask the general to read it. "

Wen Qiao took out a document and put it in front of Liu Tai respectfully.

At this moment, Chu Hui looked at the document in front of him and felt quite excited.

As long as this document passes Liu Kun's seal and is then delivered to the hands of aristocratic families all over the world, especially the aristocratic families under Liu Tai's command, it will definitely promote the relationship between Liu Tai and the aristocratic families.

After all, Liu Tai promoted cooperation with the aristocratic family as a prince of the Xiongnu and Han Dynasty and as a self-help member of the aristocratic family. The communication costs and trust costs brought by this were completely different.

It can be said that although this document is light, the value it brings to Liu Tai is very heavy!
At least from this moment on, Liu Tai became the orthodox descendant of King Chengyang recognized by both the Xiongnu, Han and Jin Dynasties.

This is probably the same as when Liu Bei went to Luoyang and was actually called uncle by Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, and even left his name in the family genealogy.

It doesn't matter whether you are a real emperor's uncle or not, but having the status of this emperor's uncle is important.

For Liu Tai, who was becoming more and more independent, getting this document from Liu Kun was equivalent to being regarded as the legal heir of the Han Empire.

Of course, whether you can inherit it or not depends on whether you are strong enough and whether you have a strong fist!

However, Liu Tai did not open the ultimatum, but looked at Wen Qiao seriously and said, "What are the conditions?!"

"There are no conditions. I just need you to accept this ultimatum yourself. Liu Bingzhou will inform the family of the change!" Wen Qiao looked at Liu Tai naturally.

"Free..." Liu Tai instinctively said these two words, and the malice he remembered in his previous life was really coming back.

"Free." Wen Qiao nodded after hearing Liu Tai's words, "It's not free. After all, didn't Duke Liu Tai show his sincerity last time? In this case, Liu Bingzhou will naturally show his sincerity, so that we can communicate with each other. Nothing!"

"To be honest, what does Liu Kun want to do!" Liu Tai was really afraid of free things. He looked at Wen Qiao and said solemnly, "If the matter is not made clear, then I will accept this ultimatum very hard!"

"..." Wen Qiao showed some emotion when he heard Liu Tai's words, but he said seriously, "Liu Bingzhou just hopes that you don't do anything. He has nothing else to ask for."

At this moment, Wen Qiao remembered Liu Kun's words when he left Bingzhou.

"Although Liu Tai has a high position among the puppet Han, the higher the position, the more he will feel the difference between Han and Hu.

When we look at him marching and fighting, he emphasizes that he is Han more, and his officers and soldiers study more Chinese books, which shows his heart towards the Han Dynasty.

It's just that when he was young, he had no choice but to follow Wang Mi, which is why Mingzhu secretly betrayed him now.

So what we need is not to force Liu Tai to choose.But give Liu Tai a choice.

As long as he doesn't have to follow the Huns all the way to the dark side, he will eventually walk on the sunny road of the Han Dynasty!

If he really has the chance to restore the Chinese attire, the sacrifices of the Chengyang Jingwang lineage may not start from him in the future! "

(End of this chapter)