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Chapter 1495 Just tell me whether he is an official or not

"There's actually not much to talk about. It must be the next dynasty after the Tang Dynasty!" A reader said confidently after the discussion began.

"That's right. What you said is like asking me what will happen tomorrow and I said the sun will rise tomorrow. It's pure nonsense!" a reader complained.

"That's not necessarily true. Maybe the sun would explode the next day?" someone objected.

"That makes sense, so there was no next dynasty after the Tang Dynasty, right?"

Seeing that the group members were about to continue arguing about this extremely boring question, fortunately, someone pulled them back on track. "Actually, I think there may really be no next novel. After all, the Tang Dynasty has become so strong under my Erfeng's leadership. I really don't know how the Tang Dynasty will perish!"

"What you said seems to make some sense. Our Tang Dynasty is now rich and powerful. The Turks have been beaten and fled, and Goguryeo is barely surviving. Internally, the country is in great order, and the people are terrifyingly strong. I can't say that such a Tang Dynasty will not perish, but it should be able to survive for another five or six hundred years... at least longer than the Han Dynasty!"

"Haha, you Tang fans upstairs can brag all you want, but please don't drag us Han people into this, okay? We Han people are nothing that your damn Tang Dynasty can mess with."

"Please, there are still people who support the Han people these days. The Han people have nurtured so many aristocratic families, causing chaos in the world for three hundred years. If it weren't for our Tang Dynasty cleaning up the world and reuniting it, you would be the biggest sinners in the entire China!"

"Hahahaha, this is almost making me laugh to death. It was obviously the Sui Dynasty that reunified the world. How can you, the rubbish Tang Dynasty that stole the throne from your own relatives, compare with our Han Dynasty? Our Han Dynasty stole the world from the tyrannical Qin Dynasty. To use the words of the rubbish author in the history book, it is ranked first in the official history of the country. How can you, the rubbish emperors of the Tang Dynasty who killed all their own relatives, compare with our Han Emperor Gaozu?"

"..." This remark caused a total silence at the scene. Many Tang fans who were shouting just now immediately shut their mouths. Then a cute newcomer asked curiously, "Brother above, can you explain why the Han Dynasty is the most legitimate country? Didn't everyone conquer their own country with their own swords and knives?"

I don't know whether this cute newcomer is playing a role in a cross-dressing role or is just trying to create chaos in the world. Anyway, the Huanghan fans above immediately found an opportunity to crazily say, "Based on the current history of China, the dynasty that can be inferred is the Xia Dynasty. After the Xia Dynasty, there are Xia, Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han, Jin, Sui, and Tang."

"It's hard to say about the Xia Dynasty. The rubbish authors didn't write about it very clearly in the history books, and there are no special novels to describe it. There are no novels about how the Shang Dynasty, Zhou Dynasty, and Qin Dynasty were founded, but in the past decade or so, countless fan fiction authors have read almost all the history books and have probably figured out some of the situations."

"For example, the Shang, Zhou, and Qin dynasties were all vassal states of the previous dynasty. They were ministers of the previous dynasty, and then they gained the throne through rebellion and established a new dynasty."

"The same was true for the dynasties after the Han Dynasty. The founding emperor of the Jin Dynasty, Sima Zhao, was a minister of the Wei Kingdom. The founding emperor of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian, was not only a minister of the Zhou Emperor, but also his maternal grandfather. He directly snatched the throne from his grandson."

"This was even more true during the Tang Dynasty. Li Yuan was Yang Guang's eldest cousin, and Li Shimin was Yang Guang's good son-in-law, but they both managed to seize the throne from their relatives. And Li Shimin, the great Khan you all call the greatest emperor of all time, even killed his own elder and younger brothers to seize the throne."

"To put it bluntly, these dynasties all committed treason and seized the throne of their former monarchs as subjects. It's like you are the boss of a company, and one day your employee suddenly snatches all your shares, and he becomes the boss of the new company. However, the position snatched in this way will be cursed in history books, and this is an unjust way of gaining the country!" "On the contrary, our Han Dynasty did not have this problem. Our Han Emperor Liu Bang was not a subject of the Qin Dynasty, nor did he enjoy the benefits of the Qin Dynasty. He was not even a noble of the Six Kingdoms. He started out as an old man, defeated countless nobles of the Six Kingdoms with his bare hands, and seized the world. Therefore, in the entire Chinese history, when it comes to gaining the country in a legitimate way, no one has ever been able to surpass our Han Dynasty!" said this Huang Han fan proudly.

However, he never expected that his words would be seized upon by Tang fans. One fan immediately retorted, "Nonsense! What do you mean Liu Bang was not a minister? Liu Bang was also a minister of the Qin State. He was a pavilion chief in the Qin Dynasty and was responsible for escorting corvée laborers to build the mausoleum. Are you trying to expel the court president from the Qin bureaucracy?"

Sure enough, these words made the Huanghan fan anxious, and he immediately retorted, "The post of Pavilion Chief is so low-ranking, just like a community director, what is there to discuss!"

"Just tell me whether this pavilion chief is an official or not!"

"The captain is in charge of only a few villages, and there are probably not even a thousand people in total. What kind of advantage is this?"

"Just tell me whether Liu Bang has ever been an official of the Qin Dynasty!"

“Can the smallest official also be considered an official?”

“Isn’t the smallest official also an official?”

"You are just making up your mind. You are just trying to argue. Do you think a beggar must become the founding emperor in order to be considered an official?"

"Haha, it's not impossible for a beggar to become an emperor!"

"Anyone who can say such things is really out of his mind. I'll put it this way: a beggar can never become an emperor. Because if you want to be an emperor, the most important thing is not how much territory you have when you start your army, nor how many troops and wealth you have, but how many talents you have who can actually help you!"

"These talents include not only generals who can win battles, but also a large number of civil servants. Because during a war, the soldiers only need to fight on the front lines. But leaders need to consider many things, the most important of which are food, supplies, equipment and other things needed for war... In fact, the real battle is these things, not how many soldiers there are."

"Where do these things come from? Of course, it comes from the lands ruled by the rear, as well as the population on these lands, and how to organize these people, let them grow food and grass for you, provide taxes, and build equipment, and then find a way to transport all these things to the front line, and these things require a strong civil service system. An army of 10 people also needs a civil service system of 10 people behind it, that is, 10 civil servants who can write and calculate, in order to manage it!"

"So, throughout history, except for the Han Dynasty, all other founding emperors who founded a dynasty were born into noble families, aristocratic families, or powerful officials. This is because when they started their armies, they already had a large team of civil servants who were good at writing and calculating. When they conquered a piece of land, they could immediately let this team of civil servants manage the entire land and continuously collect various logistical supplies from the land to support the battle on the front line."

(End of this chapter)