At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 313: Change is slow, the emperor is also a Legalist
"No, no, the white rice is enough for these two boys." Although the uncle tried to dissuade him, he did not move his body.

Xu Fan also smiled and said: "Children are growing up, so they should eat better. This will make them smarter and able to study and take the imperial examinations."

Xu Fan's words obviously spoke to the uncle's heart. The uncle smiled and said: "These two children have been smart since they were young. I am saving money and plan to send them to the county primary school to study."

Chen Sheng asked in surprise: "Is there no master in your village?"

According to the education system of the Han Dynasty, not every village should have a primary school.

The uncle sighed and said: "How can a master be willing to come to a remote country like ours? We have several primary schools in Ju County here. If you want to study, you must go to the county seat."

Zhang Liang said with an ugly face: "The imperial court did not leave 100 acres of husband's field and 500 acres of school land in each village."

Zhang Liang thought that Han officials had embezzled the land, which was why there were no masters here.

But the uncle sighed and said: "It is useless to have a school without a wife. Among ordinary people, we can only have a few people who can read and write. The learned ones are the nobles, but the imperial court demoted all the nobles from Donghai County to the frontier." Well, there are not many people in Donghai County who can read.”

The uncle's words made Xu Fan and Zhang Liang look at each other. They thought a lot, but they did not expect this to be the reason.

Xu Fan couldn't help but sigh: "After all, the imperial court lacks talents."

As expected, everything has its own gains and losses. After all, the talents of this era are not like Xu Fan in later generations. He swept away the upper class and the talents. It is almost impossible to have a large number of literate talents in a short period of time. We can only wait for the talents cultivated by the Han Dynasty to grow up.

For Xu Fan, the only good thing is that the primary school students trained by Chen Jun are about to graduate. By then, the situation of the big man will be better, and the talent gap will not be so big.

Then Xu Fan looked around the village again. This was supposed to be a small fishing village. Xu Fan and Zhang Liang saw many small fishing boats and fishing nets hanging out to dry.

Xu Fan said to Zhang Liang: "The imperial court still needs to support the development of fishery. There are endless fish that can be caught in the sea. Just relying on such small fishing nets and small fishing boats is not enough. The imperial court must build thousands of stone, five thousand stone or even larger fishing boats." , When I go fishing in farther seas, the fish I caught in the past will still rot, but now I have enough cheap sea salt to solve this problem perfectly. "

"Fishing is a promising industry. If it develops well enough, people all over the world can eat fish." Xu Fanke remembers whether millions or tens of millions of tons of marine fish could be fished from the ocean every year in his era. In short, These marine fish owners are enough to feed the entire world's population.

Zhang Liang simply replied: "The imperial court has no money."

Xu Fan said: "The imperial court can support wealthy merchants to invest in the fishery industry and set a benchmark. As long as they see the money being made, they will naturally flock in."

After all, offshore fishery is a capital-intensive industry and a technology-intensive industry.

It is capital-intensive, mainly due to the large investment in fishing boats, and the larger the fishing boat, the greater the funds required. A thousand-stone fishing boat will cost about one million yuan to buy, and a five-thousand-stone fishing boat like Xu Fan said will cost Twenty million dollars, the Han Dynasty had just ended the war, and Xu Fan had purged a wave of powerful nobles. Among the powerful nobles with tens of millions of financial resources, only Chu Dihao, who had followed Xu Fan at the beginning, could barely find a few.

The technology-intensive aspect lies in the fact that these days, whether you are a sailor or a captain, you need to know a little bit about astronomy and geography to conduct ocean voyages. If you dare to leave the coastline too far, you are simply asking for death. But if you really want to understand astronomy and geography, if you don't have The only way to learn is to rely on your own experience. In this era, they are all high-end talents.

This is also the reason why the ancient imperial court did not develop offshore fisheries. They were all locals on the Loess Plateau. They had never seen this industry, so how could they make huge investments.

However, Xu Fan knew that the ocean was rich in resources, but he fished too hard and turned a good ocean into an offshore desert.

At this time, Li Zheng from the fishing village appeared in front of Xu Fan and saluted: "Our village is so simple that it is difficult to entertain a few gentlemen. Ju County is only twenty miles away from our village. The few gentlemen are on their way now and should be able to get there before dark." Arrive at Ju County.”

Behind Li Zheng stood a dozen young men holding poles and hoes. Obviously, if Xu Fan didn't know how to lift him up, they wouldn't mind beating him out.

Ge Ying and Chen Sheng were furious and wanted to teach Li Zheng a lesson, but Xu Fan stopped them, then smiled at Li Zheng and said, "I'll leave as soon as I can."

After several people left the village, Xu Fan said to Ge Ying: "Send a few people to check what is happening in this village."

Ge Ying said: "No"

Not long after, hundreds of personal guards hiding outside the village appeared and protected Xu Fan and the others to Ju County.

The next day, Xu Fan just woke up.

Ge Ying reported to Xu Fanhui: "Your Majesty, we were deceived by the people in that village. The reason why they left us was because their village wanted to trade with salt merchants. Last night they traded a thousand stones of salt. It was sold for 30 yuan. Your Majesty, can you believe that in such a shabby fishing village, they actually use granaries to pile salt."

In Ge Ying's memory, salt has always been a luxury product. It is unimaginable to use granaries to accumulate salt. Thousands of stones of salt are a huge wealth. Ge Ying feels that they have been deceived by the people on the fishing boats.

Xu Fan laughed when he heard this: "I didn't expect that Li Zheng was still a farmer entrepreneur. I think it won't be long before the barren appearance of the village will be changed."

Xu Fan had no idea that he had been deceived. This fishing village was richer than he thought, and he was even happier. Li Zheng in the fishing village has some tricks, which reminded him of those reckless heroes in later generations. I wonder if this Li Zheng can stand out.

Xu Fan continued to go south, and the villages and towns far away from the coast in Donghai County were much worse. These people had only been Han Chinese for two years. Although their land was equalized, they were generally not wealthy. A family with a few iron farm tools would be considered a wealthy family. If there were still The farmer is considered the richest man in the village, and most of these families are the families of retired soldiers.

In these places, the Han Dynasty’s new farming technology and composting technology are not available. They still cultivate their own land according to the farming technology that has been used for hundreds of years. The Han Dynasty’s influence on this land is extremely limited. The people here can even use To sum it up in one sentence, Peach Blossom Spring, I don’t know how to describe it.

Xu Fan said to Zhang Liang: "The great Han has a long way to go if he wants to make all people in the world prosperous."

After all, his influence is limited. In the information age, Xu Fan still finds it difficult to adapt to the slow changes in the world.

Zhang Liang said with relief: "Your Majesty has made progress step by step towards this goal. At least because of tax cuts and equalization of land, the people of Donghai County no longer have to worry about starving to death. As long as they accumulate a few more years, the local people will not be able to make ends meet." question."

Xu Fan and his party had just arrived in Huaiyin when they saw Wang Dao, the governor of Donghai County, the mausoleum of the county captain, and Li Yu, the county supervisor, and a few Han officials saluted Xu Fan and said, "Your Majesty, Wang Dao, the prefect of Donghai County, the mausoleum of the county captain, and the county commander." Supervisor Li Yu has met Your Majesty."

When Xu Fan visited the south, all the governors in the south were very nervous. Although Wang Dao had already prepared to welcome him, he did not expect that the emperor would leave the large army behind. They spent a lot of effort to find the emperor and the others in Huaiyin County.

Xu Fan said: "No need to be polite."

Then Xu Fan called three people up and said, "I passed through Donghai County on my way and found that this place has a good government and good people. You have managed it well."

Wang Dao and others said happily: "This is what I should do."

"But there are still some problems. Your Donghai County industry is still too single. The competition with the salt industry is very high. Now Qi State is also occupied by my Han Dynasty. There are nearly ten counties in the world that can produce salt. Soon it will supply more than "You should find a way to integrate the industrial chain to form a cluster advantage, and at the same time open a canal to connect the Central Plains, so that your salt near the East China Sea can get more markets."

Xu Fan remembered that this area seemed to be the boundary of Yangzhou in later generations. It was the TV series Fu of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the Yangzhou salt merchants were famous. Obviously there are advantages to developing the salt industry here.

"At the same time, we must also develop industries upstream of the salt industry. If your Donghai County has too much salt, you can find ways to catch more fish and make dried salted fish, etc. In short, the more profitable industries a county has, the richer the local area will be. When you serve as an official, you will benefit the country and formulate a long-term industrial strategy, so that even if you leave, the local people will remember your deeds. "

Attracting investment was already well known to women and children in Xu Fan's time.

Wang Dao, Wang Ling, and Li Yu nodded and said: "I will obey your Majesty's teachings."

The words are divided into two parts. When Xu Fan was on tour in the south, Zhang Liang's "Book of Datong" had begun to spread all over the world and became the biggest hot spot in the entire Sinological world.

Sanchuan County, Luoyang City.

Chen Ping read Zhang Liang's "Book of Datong" and the content of Zhang Liang's lectures. He couldn't help but be jealous and said: "Zhang Liang's luck is also very good. Everything good happens to him."

After reading the contents of the "Book of Datong" and the handouts, he understood that the ideological content and writing style belonged to the Emperor. The Emperor's "On Friends and Enemies" was simple and clear, but got to the core.

Chen Pinghao really thought it right. First, Xu Fan wrote it in the format of later generations' articles, and then Zhang Liang found a way to transform it into an article in this world. Of course, Zhang Liang also added a lot of his ideas, otherwise Zhang Liang wouldn't have I will write my name on the "Book of Datong".

In fact, the first author of "The Book of Datong" is Xu Fan, and Zhang Liang is the second author, but people all over the world think that "The Book of Datong" is Zhang Liang's idea. After all, the emperor has high status and power and can only be ranked first. Only the real Only those who have had a lot of contact with Xu Fan understand that the core idea of ​​"The Book of Datong" comes from the emperor.

Chen Ping thought that the "Rituals of the Princes" formulated by Zhang Liang had spread throughout the Han Dynasty. Now some people said that Zhang Liang was the Duke of Zhou of the Han Dynasty. No one could refuse this kind of thing that would leave his name in history. He now lacks power and money, but he lacks an opportunity to leave his name in history. He, Chen Ping, also wants to be called Chen Zi.

Chen Ping thought about the gap between himself and Zhang Liang. Comparing their qualifications, he took refuge with the emperor a year earlier than Zhang Liang. He became the prefect of 2000 shi before Zhang Liang took refuge with the emperor. He also believed that he would not lose to Zhang Liang in the talent competition. He had completed the tasks assigned by the emperor over the years very well.

After thinking about it, Chen Ping felt that the biggest difference between him and Zhang Liang was that Zhang Liang had been with the emperor from the beginning and was a close minister of the emperor, while he started from a local background.

"As expected, I still have to leave a good impression in front of His Majesty," Chen Ping sighed. Then he began to write about what he had done recently, and asked the emperor for guidance and advice.

Guanzhong, Chang'an City.

Kong Kun looked at the latest "Book of Datong" and sighed: "The biggest difference between His Majesty and previous emperors is that he does not bother to hide his thoughts. Even the emperor and the Legalists are on opposite sides. The Legalists want the emperor to be unpredictable. And The emperor wants more people to understand his ideas. This "Book of Datong" is the emperor's idea of ​​transforming the Han Dynasty. The emperor wants to find his followers throughout the world. "

"When the entire Han Dynasty knows the Emperor's thoughts, those who are willing to follow the Emperor will be reused by the Emperor. Those who are unwilling to follow the Emperor will be driven out of the Han Dynasty mercilessly. This is how the Emperor treats the nobles and tyrants of the six countries. , these people refused to follow the emperor to equalize the land, so the emperor united with the Han officials and wiped them out mercilessly. "The Theory of Friends and Enemies" was used to perfection by the emperor.

Although "The Book of Datong" was written by Zhang Liang, Kong Kun understood that it was the emperor's thought. Now the emperor also faced the same problem as the First Emperor, how to take the future path of the Han Dynasty.

The First Emperor handed in an unqualified answer sheet. He wanted to quickly establish a unified empire, but as a result, haste made waste, causing the Qin Empire to fall apart.

However, the emperor attracted the people of the world with the world of great harmony and led the people of the world to move towards this goal. Although this road has just taken the first step, Kong Kun was very optimistic about the Han court. He also wanted to see if the Han Dynasty could Enter the world of Datong.

Fu Sheng read "The Book of Datong" and said: "The argument is rigorous and the road to Datong is clear. Although it is not yet known whether the rule of Datong can be achieved, the emperor is the first emperor who dares to advance towards the world of Datong. Based on this alone, The emperor has defeated countless emperors."

"Is it just this book of Datong that makes me feel a bit of Legalism?" Fu Sheng had just refuted Han Fei's "Five Worms" not long ago and found that many of the examples quoted by Zhang Liang had the same goal as Han Fei's.

Kong Yu even said directly: "Brother, I think it is more like Han Fei's words. It is progressive and logical. It is difficult to refute. Zhang Zi's name is well deserved."

Kong Yu also met Han Fei back then. Han Fei was a disciple of Xunzi, and he also studied under Xunzi. It was a kind of blow from a god of learning to a top student. He would never dare to compete with Han Fei. The argumentation method of this "Book of Datong" is almost exactly the same as that of Han Fei, and the thinking mode is also the same. If he had not already known that Han Fei was dead, he would have thought that this was a new article written by Han Fei.

Shusun Tong said happily: "Your Majesty wants to establish a world of great unity, and we Confucianists also want to establish a world of great unity. We Confucian scholars and your Majesty share the same goals. This "Book of Datong" will become one of our Confucian classics. Every Confucian scholar must study it in depth and understand it." The intention is to contribute to building a harmonious world.”

Chang'an City, Li Si Mansion.

Li Si and Zhang Cang are also savoring the new "Book of Datong"

Li Si smiled after reading the entire content: "It turns out that the Emperor is also a Legalist."

Zhang Cang said with a mocking smile: "Don't say that the emperor is a Legalist just because Zhang Ziyi is similar to Han Fei. I, the Han Dynasty, are completely different from Bao Qin."

Li Si said calmly: "The Book of Datong proves that the two pillars are production and distribution. Isn't this production just another way of saying "Efforts of the Earth" in Legalism? It's just a different name.

Distribution is not only about restricting the rights of the emperor and nobles to prevent them from eating and occupying too much, but our Legalists also limit the rights and interests of the nobles, centralize power to the emperor, and concentrate interests to the court, so that the court has enough money and food, and the country is rich and the army is strong.

The Emperor's "Book of Datong" even restricted the Emperor's own rights. In the past, our Legalists said that princes who broke the law were guilty of the same crime as the common people, but restricting the Han Dynasty was just a step further, saying that the emperor was guilty of the same crime as the common people. "

Li Si sneered and said: "If the emperor dares to make such an opening, he won't worry that his descendants will be killed because 'the emperor breaks the law and the common people are guilty'."

Xu Fan really wasn't worried. Killing the emperor was too common in later generations. There were countless examples at home and abroad. Originally, more than 400 years later, an emperor would be killed in the street. Did Louis XVI know that he was cut into two pieces in front of tens of thousands of people? Unbeknownst to Alexander, his whole family was killed.

Zhang Cang was so frightened that he broke into a cold sweat and said, "Don't dare to talk nonsense."

It's obviously an academic discussion, why do you say such scary things?
However, Zhang Cang thought about Li Si's words and found that what he said was quite reasonable, but he still retorted: "Your Legalists centralized power for the king and harmed the people of the world, but now the emperor wants to lead the people of the world to achieve great unity. This is completely different from our Legalism."

Li Si said calmly: "The world has changed, and our Legalists will naturally change with it. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States, when princes competed for hegemony, Legalists concentrated power for the king and squeezed the people, so that they could quickly enrich the country and strengthen the army. The emperor has a saying that is good, where does the money come from? Come? This is an eternal problem. The world's money and food are limited. If the people get more, the country will have less. "

"And the Warring States Period was a chaotic time with extremely fierce competition. If the king could not centralize power, it would be difficult for the country to work together to expand. The court lacked food and grass, so it did not have enough money to raise troops and defend the country. The countries that emphasized benevolence and righteousness in the Spring and Autumn Period did not have enough people. They used money, food and troops to protect their country, but were eventually annexed by those powerful vassal states.”

"But the situation is different now. The world is peaceful and stable. There is no need to centralize power in the emperor to speed up the efficiency of the court's decision-making. The court does not need to occupy too much money and food to prepare for war. The new era requires new coping methods. "

Then Li Si said sadly: "We, the Qin Dynasty, just haven't found the right way. The world has been unified, but we are still using the system of the Warring States Period to manage the world. We have forgotten that the general trend of the world has changed, and the system of the country and the court should also adapt to the new system. The world developed and changed and adjustments were made, but in the end Da Qin failed to adapt to the changes of the times. "

(End of this chapter)