Xuande

Chapter 769 Never had a family history!Only Chinese studies!

Before, Liu Bei had planned to transfer all the powers of the inner palace to the Shaofu, just like the normal big families in the outside world, and set up a system of big stewards.

But then he thought about it. After all, the royal family is different from the general family, and there will be problems if you apply it mechanically. If the eunuchs are not given any power, some bad phenomena will inevitably appear in the Shaofu.

Even if the Shaofu is the emperor's personal butler, he is still an outsider after all, and it is better for the eunuch to maintain a relatively independent position when it comes to matters at the level of the eunuch who is close to him.

Otherwise, even the people around the emperor would be controlled by the chief steward. Isn't the chief steward's authority too great?
So Liu Bei still took back the authority of the Shaofu, and handed over this authority to Zhang Rang, who asked Zhang Rang to form a House of Internal Affairs. Specific services are managed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs arranges and manages the food, clothing, housing, transportation, and clothing of royal members. All internal affairs of the royal family are handled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, including Liu Bei's own daily necessities. The Ministry of Internal Affairs will also be deeply involved in solving all internal affairs for Liu Bei trouble.

As a result, the main responsibility of the Shaofu to the Ministry of Internal Affairs is to provide funds, but not to participate in specific service operations.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs is in charge of all close service matters, but it does not hold financial power. The activity funds need to be provided by the Shaofu, and they must also be audited by the Shaofu in terms of funds.

In the middle, adding the special existence of the queen, who can interfere with the internal affairs, allows the three aspects to reach a more delicate balance in the palace's internal affairs, influencing each other and checking and balancing each other.

In this way, the stability of the inner palace can be maintained to a considerable extent.

Zhang Rang is excited about this appointment.

After handing over Dongyuan, he thought that he would completely change back to the super server who used to do everything for his position, and become a high-ranking servant who ran around serving tea and water, doing what he used to rely on. Survival thing.

After all, after becoming the emperor, Liu Bei obviously became different from the Liu Bei in his impression, and the identities of the two were completely unequal, from former allies to master and servant.

But what he didn't expect was that Liu Bei still had old feelings for him, and actually set up another House of Internal Affairs, and asked him to take charge of the House of Internal Affairs, in charge of the affairs of the eunuchs and maids in the palace. Even higher.

Because there were twelve regular servants in the middle school, but now, there is only one head of the House of Internal Affairs.

He was the only great eunuch, and he was also Liu Bei's close friend.

What is trust?
What is Lao Zhang?
Zhang Rang felt a sense of pride in his heart.

He even felt that he could proudly declare that he was the only eunuch in Liu Bei's heart.

Therefore, he decided to take care of the House of Internal Affairs and let Liu Bei see that there was a reason why he could become the "Father" Liu Hong said.

According to Liu Bei's request to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Zhang Rang divided the Ministry of Internal Affairs into several departments.

First-line service department, appliance repair and manufacturing department, small family canteen, and external procurement department.

The first-line service department is dedicated to serving Liu Bei himself and his family. Because they are personal service people, they hang around in front of the royal family all day, so no matter men or women, their appearance must be passable.

The little eunuch must be well-groomed, and the little palace maid must also be beautiful, and then receive at least three months of special training in the front-line service department, and have to pass the assessment and have a look at the old people in the palace before they can finally take up the post and serve the royal family. .

However, those who can serve Liu Bei need to go through Zhang Rang's personal assessment and review, and there is no chance at all. But if Liu Bei frowns, it is Zhang Rang's great failure.

And in order to ensure safety, the eunuchs and maids who can come to the front-line service department must find out the identity and background of the three generations of their ancestors. Anyone who has a little connection with Liu Bei's enemies will pass directly and be investigated.

Zhang Rang, who has been cooperating with Liu Bei in depth, knows how many enemies Liu Bei has, so it is really appropriate to entrust this matter to him.

The utensil repair and manufacturing department is dedicated to making or repairing utensils for the royal family. All they need are craftsmanship. Eunuchs must master carpentry, and court ladies must master weaving and embroidery skills, otherwise they will definitely not be able to enter.

Small family canteens are also important.

Because the inner palace is inconvenient for outsiders to enter, Zhang Rang decided to train his own cooks in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He will send a group of young eunuchs and maids with cooking experience to serve as apprentices to the master chef in the central kitchen in the imperial city. After a while, after finishing my studies, I will cook for the nobles in the inner palace.

The procurement department draws the operating expenses from the Shaofu every month according to the regulations, sends the pocket money of each palace first, and then purchases all the materials needed for each season according to the rules and regulations.

All in all, Zhang Rang built the Ministry of Internal Affairs as a miniature service court, and wrote a construction plan for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, found a spare time, and handed the plan to Liu Bei for review.

At that time, Liu Bei had just had lunch and was taking a nap. Zhang Rang handed the plan to Liu Bei to read. Liu Bei took it and looked at it, amused.

"Okay, Zhang, it seems that you really haven't improved after I told you about you back then. The plan is well-organized. After all these things are done, isn't it too much money?"

Zhang Rang's face immediately smiled like a chrysanthemum blooming.

"Your Majesty, isn't it right to spend a little money for you and the people around you? The Shaofu won't even be able to spend this little money. The old slave knows that you have always been frugal, and everything here is after frugality of."

"Is this all after thrift?"

Liu Bei was a little surprised: "Then what if you are not thrifty?"

"The money spent on preparing a West Garden for the late emperor back then is enough to build ten of your current House of Internal Affairs."

Zhang Rang said with a wry smile: "If you are really not frugal, you can spend all the money in the entire Shaofu, and it is not even enough. Because you have always been frugal, the old slave is very careful. If you really want to talk about it, even if the first emperor came from Jiangnan Introducing some cockfighting and lackeys will cost more than a small kitchen of the Ministry of Internal Affairs."

"Did the first emperor spend so much money?"

Liu Bei was a little surprised.

He knew that Liu Hong liked money and was good at making money, and he also knew that Liu Hong was good at spending money, but he really didn't know how much he would spend.

As an important participant in Liu Hong's making and spending money, Zhang Rang is of course well aware of this, so he calculated for Liu Bei how Liu Hong spent his money with his fingers.

When Liu Honggang became emperor, he was fine, and he didn’t spend a lot of money. When he really spent money like water, it was time to build the West Garden. The West Garden is really a super building built with money. The cost of going to Luoyang is enough to run a Ministry of Internal Affairs of this size for more than half a year.

"In fact, those big things are not worth much in themselves, but they are transported all the way, people on the road eat horse chews, a little delay, it is the cost of hundreds of people for a few months, and some people fill their pockets and so on. Running water is really not just talking.”

Zhang Rang said with an expression of someone who came here: "But your Majesty has always been simple and hates his subordinates spending money indiscriminately, so this old slave has paid more attention to this aspect, blocked some openings, and made it impossible for some people to corrupt from it." .”

Liu Bei nodded.

"Sure enough, professional matters should be left to professional talents. Lao Zhang, you are not as good as me in governing the country, and I am not as good as you in housekeeping. I don't ask for anything. I don't want to eat rare animals, flowers, birds, fish and insects. It’s enough to be full and warm, and for the rest, save a little more money, and I can give the soldiers a few more meals of meat.”

"Don't worry, Your Majesty, this old servant will do his best!"

Zhang Rang nodded.

The decision to leave Zhang Rang to handle internal affairs was also considered by Liu Bei, and now it seems that there is nothing wrong with this decision.

No one knows how to be corrupt better than a good corrupt man. Naturally, using him in reverse and reversing the corruption scriptures can also make corrupt people have nowhere to go for a while.

As for whether there will be new roads coming out after a long time, that is certain, but at least the old roads are blocked, and it will take time to open up new routes. This time is enough for Liu Bei to do many things.

There are many important things at present, both specific and cultural. The compilation and publication of "Jia De Tong Yi" is one of them.

This "Great Han Constitution" compiled on the premise that the ancient literature school was in power was in the process of being processed in an intense and orderly manner before the regime change, and about one-third of it was completed.

Then Liu Bei became emperor, and there were only one-third of the people who were in charge of compiling before, and two-thirds were killed by Liu Bei because of their involvement with Zheng Tai and others.

Now "Jade Tongyi" doesn't know how to proceed, so everyone looks at the new Minister of Rites, Ruan Yu, and asks Ruan Yu to make up his mind.

How on earth is the Constitution of the Great Han to be compiled, and how is the public opinion and ideology system of the newly born Third Empire of the Great Han to be constructed?

Do you, Minister of Rites, want to come up with an idea?
After Ruan Yu learned about it, she was also very tangled.

Ruan Yu can make up his own mind about general matters, but this matter involves too much, and he, the minister of the Ministry of Rites, cannot make a decision on his own.

After all, your old man has already wiped out the family that mastered the inheritance of "Zhou Guan Li", and you have thrown all the living people to the border areas. Now without their certification and endorsement, how can this "Jia De Tong Yi" borrow the content of other people's scriptures? To compose?

One day at the end of November, Ruan Yu came to see Liu Bei with a draft of Jiade Tongyi, which had already been compiled for one third, and asked him for "tactical guidance".

After learning about this matter, Liu Bei gave his own opinion.

"The absence of an inheritance family does not mean that there are no classic articles. The article itself is there. Can't you decide what to do? If the inheritance family is gone, it will be gone. The classic articles no longer need their explanations. The court will explain itself Can't you?"

Ruan Yu smiled wryly.

"General article classics don't matter, but this kind of family-inspired article classics, the content of the scriptures, in everyone's opinion, needs to be confirmed by the family classics to be more appropriate..."

"The man who passed on the family classics is dead."

Liu Bei sneered and said, "Do living people need to care about the thoughts of a group of dead people? Classic articles are originally the property of the court, and it was decided by the emperor. It was only because the previous emperors were young and unable to master the classics that they stole the classics.

Not only did they blatantly claim it as their own, but they were ashamed to say that it was their family heirloom?It’s inconvenient for you to get it, so show it to me, I’ll make the decision myself, family heirloom?What family history?There was never a family heirloom!Only Chinese studies! "

Liu Bei slapped the table, scaring the people around him.

Ruan Yu searched for Liu Bei's meaning, and suddenly had some bold ideas.

"Your Majesty, the main reason why classic articles are family studies is that some people's interpretations of the content of the scriptures are more appropriate, but in fact, each family has different opinions on the interpretation of the content of the scriptures, and only one of them has been obtained. Court approval.

In fact, the root cause, as His Majesty said, is the relationship with the approval of the court. If the court no longer approves, then such an interpretation will naturally not be recognized by the people of the world. Therefore, why doesn't Your Majesty take back the right to interpret the classics from the court?Return to the emperor? "

"Return to the emperor?"

Liu Bei was taken aback for a moment, but quickly realized it.

Ruan Yu is right.

The right to interpret the classics actually originated from the White Tiger Temple meeting during the period of Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty.

The power of punctuation and annotation of Confucian classics was really in the hands of Emperor Han Zhang himself from the very beginning. The entire "Bai Hu Tong Yi" was discussed by old Confucians, and then handed over to Emperor Han Zhang for his own decision.

How to explain the Confucian classics, how to explain the constitution of the Han Dynasty, was controlled by Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty. He inherited the greatly expanded imperial power that Liu Xiu handed over to the descendants of the emperor, and achieved the great cause of the emperor. Power is gradually fragmented and lost.

From official and emperor's to private and family.

After more than 100 years of evolution, people today have almost forgotten that the right to interpret Confucian classics was still in the hands of the emperor and the officials. The major families said that it was inherited, but they could only bow their heads and obey the emperor.

Few of the subsequent emperors of Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty lived to adulthood, and they could not hold the crucial right to interpret the classics, so the right to interpret naturally fell into the hands of the "highly respected" family heirs.

More than 100 years of practice have been passed down, and everyone has even assumed that these doctrines are private, not official.

That's why Liu Bei had such a big advantage before.

But as far as the current situation is concerned, Liu Bei, who has mastered this huge advantage, has become the emperor, and his imperial power has far surpassed that of the adult Han Huan Emperor and Han Ling Emperor, and is even more stable than Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu.

With the blessing of such a powerful power, coupled with his own extremely profound knowledge of Confucianism, why can't he work harder and return the right to interpret the classics of Confucianism to the Son of Heaven and the court?

This in itself is the power he should have.

This is the important power that Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty left to future emperors.

So Liu Bei slapped his head.

"Yuan Yu, you can be regarded as awakening the dreamer with just one word. You are right. It has always been a matter for the court to decide. How can it be regarded as the power that was stolen by these thieves all of a sudden? What about things that are taken for granted? This is absolutely impossible."

Ruan Yu showed a proud smile of making great achievements.

"Of course, you are the head of the Fanyue family. Now there are only three of the Fanyue families in the world. How to deal with it is a matter of your own words?"

"That's true, but if you really want to do this, you have to discuss it with my teacher."

Liu Bei said with a smile: "Let's not talk about other things for the time being. The teacher still needs to pay attention to it. Then this matter will be settled first. You postpone the compilation and wait for my notice."

"only."

Ruan Yu nodded and left.

After Ruan Yu left, Liu Bei thought for a moment and decided to call Ma Rixun first.

The persimmons should be picked softly, first start with the easy-to-handle Ma Rixun, and then discuss with Lu Zhi.

(End of this chapter)