Xuande

Chapter 778 To Nichinan County
In order to let the schools in each state reach a balanced state as soon as possible, Liu Bei ordered the Ministry of Education to send special personnel to supervise the construction of the schools in each state, give some guiding opinions, and supervise them to complete the construction.

In terms of the source of enrolled students, a principle of voluntary registration should be followed, that is, accepting applications, organizing examinations, and then enrolling students according to the regulations. Regardless of the level of background, regardless of the wealth of the family, as long as they pass the examination, they should be accepted.

Based on what happened in Liangzhou Zhouxue, Liu Bei is not worried about the source of students, because the number of scholars is firstly limited, and the number of powerful landlords is also limited. After all, the largest number is still the children of farmers.

In the first few years, there will be more children of scholars and powerful landlords, and soon after that, as long as Liu Bei is willing to spend money on education subsidies, the number of children from farmers will catch up.

And judging from the current changes in the educational content, in fact, everyone has almost reached a unified starting line, and the advantages of the children of scholars in the past have basically disappeared.

It's not that no one had any objections, but in Liu Bei's mode of boiling frogs in warm water, it was already too late when they found out that they had lost everything and had to return to the mode of King Juan.

At present, Liu Bei has not announced that he will formally change the method of selecting officials, and the inspection system is still maintained in name.

But this is only a phase.

After education is fully rolled out and school education is able to provide a stable supply of high-quality graduates, it is only natural to change the existing talent selection model based on the prosecution system to an examination model.

The examination system will finally bid farewell to the history of the Han Empire, and the era of selecting talents through examinations will come.

At present, everyone is still immersed in the series of reform actions made by Liu Bei and cannot extricate themselves, not realizing that an unprecedented comprehensive change is slowly coming.

Even though Zheng Xuan had already learned enough information and already knew a considerable part of Liu Bei's ambitions, he did not draw a more direct conclusion.

It's just that with the passage of time, all of this has become a matter of course and unchangeable.

When the last heavy snow fell in the fifth year of Jian'an, the news of Empress Dowager Dong's death spread throughout Luoyang. The life of this lucky Empress Dowager finally came to an end.

When she left, her grandson Liu Xie was by her side.

Liu Xie hasn't left Luoyang for several months, and has been serving her as a grandson, serving her soup and medicine, hoping that she can recover, but this expectation is still in vain. After walking through Jian'an for five years.

Of course, she didn't see the official completion of the "Jia De Tong Yi", which has a lot of fate with her.

When Liu Bei was intensively promoting the implementation of various reform bills, and when the whole world was facing major changes, the old lady left.

Liu Bei personally presided over a grand funeral for the old lady, kept a vigil for her in white clothes, and announced that he would stop for seven days to express his condolences.

According to the old lady's last wish, her body will be buried in her hometown. Wherever it came from, it will go wherever it came from. Luoyang is cold and has no temperature. Basically, her most important people are in her hometown. She wants to Back home, fallen leaves return to their roots.

Liu Bei fulfilled the old lady's wish. Seven days later, he ordered a large-scale funeral procession to start from Luoyang, go all the way to Jizhou, and return to the old lady's hometown for burial.

When he returned this time, Liu Xie followed suit. He would return to his hometown as a county lord, return to his fief, and spend the rest of his life there.

After observing the filial piety for the old lady, he can do whatever he wants, as long as he does not violate the provisions of the "Han Law", he can have maximum freedom.

Moreover, although the title is not high, his salary is the only one among the clan members of the Han Dynasty in the world. This is what Liu Bei promised, so Liu Xie can use that money to do many things.

As a person who lost the throne, Liu Bei didn't know whether Liu Xie's fate was better or worse than that of him in the original historical trajectory. The will is completely controlled by others.

In Cao Wei, after his Zen throne, he lived for 14 years and died in the same year as Zhuge Liang. He survived Cao Pi but never Cao Rui.

How he lived during those 14 years, what kind of mood he was in, and what kind of feelings he felt, no one knows.

It's just that there are rumors that after he became Zen, he stayed away from politics and devoted himself to medicine.

However, Liu Bei feels that his life here should be better than that of Cao Wei. At least he can stay away from the political vortex before he truly understands the dangers of the world, and he will receive Liu Bei's most comprehensive care and protection, and he will be prosperous for a lifetime.

Then, he should be happy and happy, he should not feel ashamed of losing the throne, dreaming back in the middle of the night, and he should not feel anxious about being sorry for his ancestors, making it difficult to sleep.

For him, this should be the best ending.

After the death of the old lady and Liu Xie's return to the fief, the first year of Zhenguan is coming.

The Year of Jian'an will pass away completely, and the last symbol belonging to the Second Empire of the Han Dynasty will be replaced by the reign title representing the Third Empire of the Han Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty will completely enter the next era.

Two days before this New Year's Eve, Liu Bei had a holiday by himself to accompany his family. He accompanied his wife, concubine and children out of Luoyang City, and found a secluded place outside Luoyang City to eat barbecue and hot pot.

The children gathered together for a snowball fight, and the fun-loving Gong Qin and Gong Ling also joined in and became the king of the kids. They led the children to play snowball fights in two.

But he didn't participate, just sitting quietly in the pavilion and grilling meat.

As the main wife, Han Ning is naturally qualified to sit next to him and help him skewer the meat. The other concubines can only gather around the stone table behind, toss the hot pot, and then talk about women's topics.

"To be honest, until now, I have no real sense of being an emperor."

Liu Bei turned over the skewers, and said slowly: "I just feel as if I am still the general, and nothing has changed. Being an emperor or not being an emperor has little effect on me personally, but it does affect other people. It has a huge impact on people."

Han Ning sat next to Liu Bei, helping him skewer the meat while giving him a blank look.

"Didn't you say you were very happy before? Now you don't feel anything?"

"Happy to happy, but that's just for a while."

Liu Bei shook his head and said with a smile: "When the joy is over, you will find that it is all complicated and embarrassing things. There are more things to do than before, and the troubles will increase accordingly. In the future, I don't think there will be a few good days. You can pass."

"Look what you said."

Han Ning said with a smile: "If you, an emperor, say such things, people in the world don't know how to evaluate you. Every day, you have rich clothes and jade food, and you have someone to take care of everything. Are you still not satisfied?"

"There are a lot of people who can be served by others, and there are a lot of people who are more comfortable than me."

As Liu Bei said this, he remembered the doggerel written by Zhu Yuanzhang.

It is said that Baiguan has not gotten up yet, but he has already woken up, and Baiguan has already gone to bed, but he has not yet slept, so he is particularly envious of the rich man in Jiangnan, who can sleep until the sun is three poles before getting up every day, unlike him, who handles government affairs every day until midnight.

This matter, it is true that the public is justified, and the mother-in-law is justified. The rich people also envy Zhu Yuanzhang's monopoly and kill whoever he wants.
Everyone has problems...

"I now hope not to be an emperor until I die, then I will be satisfied."

"Huh? That's not easy. If you don't want to do it, just go to the Zen position."

Han Ning said with a smile: "Whenever you don't want to be the emperor, just give up the throne to Shen, isn't that all right?"

When Liu Bei heard the words, he turned his attention to the eldest son Liu Shen who was happily having a snowball fight.

He is already ten years old this year, and his academic performance depends on his mother's strict supervision, so he is very good. After transferring to Sili Academy, he has won the No.1 grade in the junior grades many times, competing with several other hard-powered opponents, and the competition is fierce.

To say that he is excellent, he is absolutely excellent. Whether it is Confucianism, agriculture, mathematics, astronomy, geography, etc., he is very good at learning, and he is also good at equestrian and some basic martial arts. Under the elite education, he Not trash.

The same is true of Liu Shen, and the same is true of Liu Ze. His grades are not much worse than his brother's. He is also a player in the first echelon of the junior class. The two brothers often compete with each other for No. 1. They are both very good children.

Trained in this direction, Liu Bei feels that Liu Shen can definitely be trained as a second-generation successor, and Liu Ze will not be a playboy. As long as they can get a suitable position, they will definitely be able to make some careers.

But in the royal family, many things are beyond one's control. Now their brothers are close, but there is no guarantee that they will still be close when he is about to abdicate in the future.

There is only one person on the throne, but they have several brothers and sisters. Although Liu Bei identified Liu Shen as the heir to the throne from the very beginning, who knows what will happen in the future?
But Liu Bei is not very worried about this issue.

If he followed his planned route, it would be a matter of course for Dahan to turn his career to the outside. In any case, he would turn his attention to the outside to open up more new territories and prevent the Third Reich from going inward.

In this way, he can also try to entrust the outstanding children to the outside, to open up the territory, to share the population, power and opportunities, to learn from the enfeoffment system of the Zhou Dynasty, and to embark on a new route.

No matter how difficult and dangerous this route is, he must go on.

Liu Bei can also get a glimpse of how the first and second generations of children who were entrusted by the Zhou royal family risked their lives to open up territories and build land from ancient books.

Leading a group of people in an unfamiliar and dangerous environment to start a business, build a country from scratch, and the average age of the people at that time, it was really hard work to develop.

Not to mention the second and third generations of monarchs who feuded the country, the first generation of monarchs might not be able to live in decent cities and houses until they died, and slept in tents with poor conditions from birth to death.

Therefore, exploring unknown territories has always been an extremely dangerous thing. If you are a little careless, you will be killed by natives, beasts, poisonous insects, or epidemics. The high mortality rate may also prevent people from pioneering. One main reason.

Nature has never been gentle, and human beings have never been weak. It takes not only money and sweat, but also blood to turn a barren land into a thousand hectares of fertile land.

But this road must be followed. If this road is not chosen, the cruel involution will not only turn the royal family into a Shura field, but the Han Empire will also become a huge Shura field sooner or later.

Everyone is introverted and in pain.

So after going back that night, Liu Bei called Liu Hui, and asked Liu Hui to form an elite expedition team to carry out the external development route to the end, and to start action from the end of the fifth year of Jian'an. Not a single second should be wasted.

"To Nichinan County?"

Liu Hui was very puzzled by Liu Bei's sudden proposal to form a sea expedition team and asked them to go to Rinan County to build a base in the first step.

At present, the focus of the work of the East Garden under the leadership of Liu Hui is to the northwest and northeast, and the southwest and southeast are also being arranged, but for overseas, that is really not on the agenda.

But Liu Bei asked Liu Hui to immediately send people to organize a sea expedition and build a stronghold in Rinan County.

"Yes, Rinan County, this is the southernmost county of the Han Dynasty. It was founded by Emperor Wu when he opened up the territory. I read the court documents before. Although Rinan County is located in a barren land, the business exchanges with overseas people are not very Quite prosperous.

When Emperor Xiaohuan was in power back then, the envoys of the Great Qin State landed from Rinan County, then entered the Han territory, and went to Luoyang to meet Emperor Xiaohuan. Therefore, I think we must control everything in Rinan County, and then control many overseas countries. The situation of the country and the sea trade route. "

Liu Hui said "Oh" and nodded slowly.

"It's no wonder that there is still such a relationship in it. Then, Your Majesty, how many people should be organized to go there?"

"At least 500 people. You can also choose some officers and soldiers who are good at fighting in the army to join the team. There are many barbarians in those places and they don't accept civilization. If you want to stay in the local area, you must have strong force."

"only."

Liu Hui nodded: "After gaining a foothold locally, do you want to contact overseas countries? If so, wouldn't it be better for Da Honglu to send people to accompany you?"

"No need for now, the main purpose is to scout out information and find out where they are and where they are going."

Liu Bei said slowly: "You just need to send someone to investigate the information. Don't worry about the rest."

"only!"

Liu Hui took the order and left quickly.

(End of this chapter)