The big man is on the run

Chapter 23 The mission must reach Taishi Ci

"My concubine heard from Grandpa that the world is in chaos, and part of the root cause lies in the gentry and powerful people."

Sister Fu Yu's grandfather is also Fu Wan.

Fu Wan is the seventh grandson of Situ Fu Zhan, the founding father of the Eastern Han Dynasty.In the early years, he was a filial piety, and later he moved to the five senses Zhonglang, Shizhong, and now he is Zhijinwu.

Therefore, Sister Fu Yu is the real "Sister Yu" in the literal sense!
The relationship may be a bit messy, so let's take a look.

The great-grandfather of Liu Yi's body, that is, the grandfather's grandfather, was Liu Kai. Since his grandfather's generation, the two imperial lines have diverged.

Great-grandfather Liu Kai gave birth to Liu Shu (grandfather), then Liu Chang (grandfather), then Hanling Emperor Liu Hong (father), and finally to the body of Liu Yi.

At the same time, great-grandfather Liu Kai gave birth to Liu Yi (court grandfather), Liu Yi gave birth to Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty Liu Zhi (court grandfather), Fu Wan married Liu Heng's daughter, and finally gave birth to Fushou.

Cough, theoretically it is a cousin, but it is the kind that has been released in the fifth server, and does not involve ethical and moral issues.

There is no way, the wife issued by the state has it at the beginning.

Speaking of Fu Wan, Fu Wan is a well-known scholar, and he is also a relative. I think his insights should be beneficial to Liu Yi's thinking.

Liu Yi's expression froze, and Zhong Yao, who was more crooked than his ass, put the problem on his relatives and eunuchs, which seemed to be more in line with his view of history.

Dynasty cycle law!

The contradiction between man and land is the primary contradiction, and the first one is the powerful gentry who control land and politics.

Sister Fu Yu didn't know his dirty thoughts, so she said to herself.

"Since the resurgence of Guangwu, Confucianism has taken Jinwen as the mainstream, and Confucianism has been the foundation of Chaju."

"The imperial school system collapsed, and local private schools became popular. Scholars who mastered a classic can pass it on to their families and form a gentry."

"Students and small officials who want to be promoted to officials must study the classics and righteousness, and worship private learning as their teachers. This is how students and old officials are formed, such as the Yang family and the Yuan family."

"Even disciples have to keep filial piety for the teacher. If anyone insults the teacher, even killing people because of this will be recognized by the government."

Liu Yi was slightly absent-minded, and could even be called suddenly enlightened.

First, due to the increase in population, the central government cannot directly manage more than 100 counties. Therefore, the central government of the Han Dynasty must delegate power to the governor.

Second, because the examination and judging system needs to examine Confucianism, the scholars who serve as prefects and state shepherds are almost all the scholars and their disciples who passed down the family of poems and books.

The result is that as long as the world is in chaos, due to the limitations of communication conditions, productivity and other factors of the times, independent states and counties with strong internal circulation capabilities will appear to be divided.

This is not accidental, but inevitable due to the political system of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

If you want to crack, if there is no agricultural revolution, then there will be a big chaos.

It is still necessary to reduce the population to the point where the land can reasonably carry it, and the central government can command chaos at will.

"Your Majesty, do you know the folk saying, 'The records of states and counties are like thunderbolts, but the edicts are obtained but hung on the wall', what does it mean?"

Looking at Sister Fu Yu's bright eyes like Wang Qiushui, Liu Yi shook his head slightly.

"Minor officials in counties and counties are all controlled by local tyrants. They are only afraid of the Fujun (prefect). To them, the Fujun is their king. If the imperial edict is not in their interests, they will be hung on the wall at will. superior."

Liu Yi asked: "Your Majesty is a scholar, and a scholar will safeguard their interests, even if the interests of the court are damaged by this, right?"

"Your Majesty, in today's world, a prefect who is against the powerful cannot take office." Sister Fu Yu smiled wryly.

Since the root of the Han separatism lies in the gentry and local tyrants, the gentry occupied high positions in the prefectures and counties, and the tyrants almost hereditary the small officials in the counties and counties. As a result, once the central government was paralyzed, independent kingdoms could be formed in places that were naturally independent.

So is he going to fight against the gentry?
This is even more absurd, because right now in Chang'an City, the biggest support force for him, the emperor, is the gentry!

Because the eunuch who had controlled the court on behalf of the emperor for 20 years was overthrown by He Jinzhi's chaos, the two major forces of the eunuch's relatives disappeared, and the gentry family dominated.

Since he ascended the throne, the gentry has no checks and balances, and their power in the court has expanded rapidly, even to the point where they can act on their own without the need for an emperor.

The reason why there was no crisis was that it was covered up by the Xiliang Army's continuous chaos from Dong Zhuo to Li Guo.

The gentry controlled the government and official positions to solidify the class, and the Xiliang army destroyed people's livelihood by force and displaced the people.

Liu Yi's enemies seem to be everyone he sees with his naked eyes.

Except for a very few cronies, everyone is against him.

The generals were domineering, ignored the emperor, and indulged his soldiers to burn, kill, and loot, which made the wealthy Guanzhong Sansuke turn into the miserable state of hell on earth.

Li Jue and Guo Si, the chief villains, shouldn't they be killed? !

Civil servants rule the court, and children regard Liu Yi as a clay puppet, a stamping machine, a complete bureaucratic entity, capable of acting on its own, operating itself, and self-eliminating and promoting.

The monster-like civil service system that was born after the He Jin Rebellion seemed weak and coerced by the military leaders.

But if you think about it carefully, you can’t do without them when He Jin is around, you can’t do without them when Dong Zhuo is around, you can’t do without them when Li Jue and Guo Si are around. disease, the civil servant group is the malignant tumor parasitic in the body of the Han Empire!
It is precisely because the gentry and local tyrants joined hands to control all official positions and political power from the central to the local.

Talented people cannot be appointed or promoted, and the probation system pays more and more attention to family background, while talents from poor backgrounds do not even have the threshold to enter the probation system!

But this malignant tumor resists all changes under the crazy will to reproduce itself, preferring to suck up the last trace of nutrition and blood of the Han Empire.

Liu Yi is the head of the Han Empire, but he can't control his limbs (army), and he can't control his internal organs (gentry).

It is a despair that no one can share with.

Every day, as long as he thinks about it carefully, he will fall into this deep despair.

How can we break the game? !
Sister Fu Yu looked at his frowning, and held him in her arms lovingly.

Liu Yi lay down on the couch, resting her head on Sister Fu Yu's soft and smooth thigh, her temples were gently massaged by cold fingers.

Sister Fu Yu untied Wan Wan's bun in her bun, and three thousand black hairs hung down like a waterfall.

The jade hand stretched out the red silk tent and turned off the palace lantern.

The maids in Weiyang Palace tactfully left, lest they stand outside the palace, and the Empress "dare not raise her voice and frown secretly".

Meanwhile, thousands of miles away.

Yangzhou, Danyang County, Wuhu City.

Liu Yao, who was battered by Sun Ce, lost a lot of hair due to insomnia at night.

The poor 40-year-old middle-aged Liu Yao has completely lost the courage to break into the bandit's den at night when he was young, and he is just sitting in a lonely city.

Recalling that some time ago, he was still able to fight against Wu Jing and Sun Ben, but with the addition of that so-called Sun Ce and Zhou Yu, the battle situation began to deteriorate day by day, and Liu Yao couldn't help but sigh.

Sitting opposite Liu Zhoumu was Xu Shao, a famous key politician in the late Han Dynasty and host of Yuedan Ping.

Well, it is the one who commented on Cao Cao as "a capable minister in the world, a traitor in troubled times".

Xu Shao was originally a meritorious officer in Runan County. This is a fat job, and Runan County is the top county in the world.

It's a pity that with the Skeleton King Yuan Shu taking over, Runan County was soon overwhelmed, not to mention that no chickens and dogs were left behind, it could also be said that not a single blade of grass would grow.

Xu Shao resolutely crossed to the south and took refuge in Liu Yao, a good brother who was still the governor of Yangzhou at that time, not the shepherd of Yangzhou.

Two middle-aged men, one 40 years old and the other 45 years old, sat together at night, and had nothing to do except toast to the moon and drink away their sorrows.

The situation is very bad. Liu Yao is a dragon crossing the river, while Wu Jing, Sun Ben, Sun Ce, and Zhou Yu are all local snakes.

Wu Jing, the former governor of Danyang, was Sun Ce's uncle, and Sun Ben, the former captain of Danyang, was Sun Ce's cousin. After the two men couldn't fight Liu Yao, they started shaking people.

When Sun Ce and Zhou Yu's brothers-in-law were brought over across the river, Liu Yao couldn't beat him completely.

Sun Ce is as brave as Sun Jian, and Zhou Yu is even more resourceful. What is Liu Yao doing here?

Zhang Ying, Fan Neng, and Xu Shao are not at the same level at all. They can do enough to fight Wu Jing and Sun Ben, but they can't fight Sun Ce and Zhou Yu at all.

Originally, the defection of Tai Shici, a fellow villager, gave Liu Yao a little hope.

But facing Xu Shao, he was really embarrassed to speak.

Letting a ranger who is neither a nobleman nor a powerful man who ran errands for the county in the early years to be a general, Liu Yao must consider the attitude of Yangzhou's local forces.

With Tai Shici, a foreigner with no soldiers and no generals, to settle down, the resistance of the local generals in Yangzhou will definitely be great.

"Son, has the court's silk script been returned?"

The imperial court confiscated Yuan Shu's territory to Sun Ce. It was a disguised form of besieging Wei and saving Zhao, and giving Sun Ce and Yuan Shu some internal strife. This seemed to be the only thing that the imperial court, thousands of miles away, could help Liu Zhoumu.

Liu Yi didn't know that his unintentional actions would be like a butterfly thousands of miles away, bringing about a huge change in the fate of someone in the far east of Jiangdong.

Liu Zhoumu was very satisfied with the little help that the imperial court gave him when he was in distress, and he entrusted Xu Jiansheng to write a sincere reply letter to the Chang'an imperial court.

Looking at Liu Yao's dejected expression, he probably knew that Zhou Mu was in a poor state of mind and easily forgetting things, so Xu Shao took out a reply letter from the case table and showed him.

The imperial court sent it a few days ago. For Yangzhou in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the letter was received very quickly.

Because the imperial envoys can go directly to Xiangyang by following the Danshui River along the Wuguan Road, Liu Biao then sent the letter down the Hanshui River and the Yangtze River to forward it to Liu Yao.

From Chang'an to Xiangyang, it only takes two or three days if the messenger runs fast, and from Xiangyang to Wuhu, it flies even faster along the river.

Of course, it was slow to reply to the letter, and the only way to reply was to go up the river by land, and it would take a month or so to reach Chang'an.

Liu Yao checked that there was nothing wrong with it, and hesitated for a moment while holding back the letter.

Finally Liu Yao sighed and said, "I wanted my fellow villager Tai Shici to be a scout, forget it, let him send the reply to the imperial court. Luoyang, who helped the county settle the dispute with the prefecture, is an appropriate candidate."

Xu Shao didn't take it seriously, he pinched the wine cup with two fingers and said casually.

"Let's go, you're a knight-errant, what a shame."

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