The Great Han Dynasty: From Feng Lang Juxu to the Eternal Emperor

Chapter 413: Hundreds of scholars enter the Academy of Sciences

In August of the first year of Yuanding, Huo Qubing was ordered to inspect the southeast.

Before Huo Qubing left, Wei Ning called Huo Qubing to the East Palace.

Wei Ning looked at Huo Qubing and asked, "Cousin, how are you going to check this time?"

Huo Qubing: "?"

He didn't seem to have any specific ideas, he just simply wanted to fight pirates.

Huo Qubing said: "I am waiting for work on the southeast coast. When the pirates invade my southeast coast again, I will catch a few dogs ashore and we will know at first trial."

Wei Ning asked: "Then what will you do if this group of pirates in the southeast never come ashore? Are you always waiting in the southeast?"

Huo Qubing said: "How is this possible? Since they have invaded once, they will definitely invade a second time. It will be a matter of time."

Wei Ning smiled and said, "You can't hide your patrol of the southeast this time. People outside will know about it soon."

"The pirates will also know. They will lie dormant. After you leave, they will continue to invade. What should you do?"

Huo Qubing smiled and said: "Cousin, how is this possible? The pirates don't know my whereabouts... Uh."

Huo Qubing suddenly widened his eyes and stared at Weining blankly. He took a breath and said, "Cousin, what do you mean by this?"

Why do you mean that when I go to the Southeast Pirates, I will go dormant, and if I leave the Southeast Pirates, I will continue to emerge?
How did they know my whereabouts?

Unless someone informs them!

Huo Qubing looked at Weining in disbelief.

Wei Ning nodded slightly and said: "I suspect that these pirates are fake, and it is true that someone asked Han people to pretend to be pirates."

"What are you planning on?"

Huo Qubing didn't understand, couldn't understand.

Weining analyzed: "Recently, we have focused on developing the economy of Jiangnan. Silk, tea, porcelain, etc. from Jiangnan are all emerging one after another. Food from South Vietnam has entered Jiangnan, and there has been a bumper harvest of food from Jiangnan."

"In addition, Jiangnan has begun to grow spices for the rich and powerful to play with."

"you say……"

Wei Ning looked at Huo Qubing, paused, and said, "If there happen to be countries or tribes on certain islands overseas."

"So once our silk, linen, tea, cotton, etc. are sold to them, how high will the price be charged by them?"

Huo Qubing really couldn't understand, he said: "Well, even if there are businessmen selling these things overseas, the imperial court has not restricted them."

"Why do they still send pirates to loot the southeast? Isn't this unnecessary?"

Wei Ning smiled and said: "Cousin, you might as well think about it, if other businessmen in the southeast knew these things, would they build ships and go to sea?"

"But with the existence of pirates, they don't have the guts to get involved in this benefit."

"What if someone wants to monopolize this business benefit?"

hiss!
Huo Qubing fell down and breathed cold air, and looked at Wei Ning in shock, because what Wei Ning said made sense!
This is not necessarily a direction.

Huo Qubing said, "Why don't you tell your uncle about these things?"

Wei Ning shook his head and said, "I'm not sure yet, so I didn't tell him."

"So when you go to Jiangnan this time, you don't really want to catch pirates, you want to catch other people."

"I even think there are officials in the southeast involved in this pirate robbery."

Huo Qubing was even more shocked and said: "How is this possible?"

"The officials in the southeast are dying?" Wei Ning said with a smile: "The mountains are high and the emperor is far away, no one can control them. They are the local emperors in the local area. They have overwhelming power, and they may not do desperate things."

"Anyway, this time you go to the southeast to do two things: secretly investigate officials and businessmen, and openly investigate pirates."

It is not important to check for pirates. What is important is to check whether these pirates have colluded with businessmen and whether there is any official support behind the businessmen.

Huo Qubing was actually surprised at first. What was strange was that if this group of pirates were familiar with the terrain of the southeast, why could they escape when Gongsun Ao went to arrest them?

Unless they are Han Chinese and know the terrain of the southeast!
After Weining said these words, Huo Qubing seemed to have been hit in the head.

If officials from the southeast are really involved, then this matter will be serious.

If it were just a pure businessman's behavior, it would be okay and within control.

If officials are involved, the southeast area will be completely ruined!

Gongsun Ao has long been transferred to the southeast, and the future focus of the Han Dynasty's development must also be in the south.

But the problem is that Gongsun Ao is from the military system and has no way to interfere with the political system.

Naturally, he does not know the political situation in the southeast.

After Wei Ning analyzed the matter in detail to Huo Qubing, Huo Qubing understood it clearly. He said: "Okay! I know what to do."

Wei Ning hummed, and then said, "Who else do you need to bring over? Tell me, and I will make arrangements for you."

Huo Qubing shook his head and said: "No need, the officials here in Chang'an are also in turmoil now, I can do it alone."

"it is good!"

……

In mid-August, Huo Qubing set out for the southeast.

After more than half a year of revision, Huo Guang has given Weining the preliminary plan for the new law.

Nowadays, the laws of the Han Dynasty have abandoned the previous complicated ratios, orders, etc., and only have three aspects: criminal law, civil law, and tax law.

The core is to ensure that the property and life of Han people are harmed and that the law treats everyone equally, regardless of high or low.

Of course, Huo Guang would not dare to add the theory that princes who break the law are guilty of the same crime as the common people. Even if Wei Ning had this idea, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty would never allow this law to be included in the laws of the Han Dynasty.

The preliminary revision of the Three Laws of the Han Dynasty has been completed, but it still needs to be negotiated with the ministries and departments of the three provinces and six ministries to go through them one by one. If there are any problems, everyone will work together.

Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty assigned this task to Weining. In the past month, Weining has basically been discussing the newly revised laws of the Han Dynasty with Huo Guang and other ministries from three provinces and six departments.

This process cannot be completed in a short time.

At the same time, the Ministry of Industry has completed the construction of the Han Academy of Sciences.

The Han Academy of Sciences is located next to the Imperial Ancestral Temple. Early this morning, Weining brought Dade and a group of officials to the Han Academy of Sciences.

Weining personally presented a plaque to the Han Academy of Sciences, and the construction of the Han Academy of Sciences was officially completed on August 16th.

During this period of time, Dade has recruited more than ten talents with various knowledge to enter the Academy of Sciences.

At the same time, Dade also began to recruit students to the Han Academy of Sciences in full swing.

Naturally, the way to recruit students is through examinations. Wei Ning has met all of these more than ten talents, and they all have their own opinions in various fields. The most valuable thing is that they have also received orthodox Confucian education, but they are not limited to Confucian education.

Wei Ning curiously asked Dade where he got so many talents. Dade's answer to Weining was, there are hundreds of schools of thought!

After only respecting Confucianism, all the schools of thought seemed to have withdrawn from the stage of history, but Weining opened another door for them.

(End of this chapter)