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

Chapter 467, Bloodline Genealogy and Liu Family's Thousand Miles Horse
After Xu Fan persuaded Ye Teng and the others, he immediately found Shusun Tong and Fu Sheng.

Xu Fan smiled at the two and said, "In the past two years, a large number of Chinese bloodlines left in Southeast Asia have returned to our Han Dynasty. You two have made great contributions."

In order to maintain stability in Nanyang, Xu Fan has received a large number of Nanyang tribal leaders in the past two years. When these leaders came to Chang'an City, they would generally hold up a bloodline genealogy book to prove that they were of Chinese descent and trace their ancestry. The two people who helped these indigenous people compile their bloodline genealogy books were Shusun Tong and Fusheng.

Hearing the emperor's words of praise, Shusun Tong and Fusheng were not happy but felt their scalps tingling. They knew that the emperor was a pragmatist who usually ignored them, the Confucians. He even often complained that Confucian celebrities could not keep up with the historical trend and could only express some opinions that went against the trend, which was too decadent.

When I teach in the academy, I like to tell some Confucian classic jokes to my students, such as "If you don't work hard, you won't know the difference between the five grains." Confucianists don't follow Confucius' words and have no opinions of their own. They always use what Confucius said hundreds of years ago to explain the world today.

If there are any Confucian haters in this world, the current emperor is the first one. Shusun Tong once complained that the emperor was too harsh on his Confucianism. However, the emperor said something that left him dumbfounded, "This is what Master Xu said. What does it have to do with me?" Shusun Tong was speechless.

Of course, the emperor ridiculed Confucianism, but he often praised them for their contributions to the education of Liaodong, the desert, and the Western Regions. Now, 16 Confucian scholars in these places have been granted the titles of viscount and baron. It should be known that after the founding of the Han Dynasty, it was very difficult to get a title. This shows the nobility of these titles. Among all the schools of thought, only Confucianism could be granted so many titles after the founding of the Han Dynasty.

The people who received these titles, in addition to educating the natives, were generally history inventors. They would find history books from who knows where, and then compile a reasonable bloodline hereditary genealogy for the local natives to prove that their bloodline came from the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors of the Han Dynasty, and that they and the Han Dynasty were brothers whose blood was thicker than water. Now that the eldest brother was rich, it was natural for the poor brothers to come and seek refuge with him. This theory had been recognized by the princes and local people in various parts of the Han Dynasty.

A few years ago, Shusun Tong and Fusheng, under the order of Xu Fan, compiled a logical and hereditary bloodline genealogy for the indigenous people of Nanyang. They searched through all kinds of information in the Han Library, went to the land of Baiyue, explored local myths and collected various books from the land of Baiyue, and went to various islands in Nanyang to collect their myths and ancient objects. It took them several years to find historians from the Wu and Yue countries to complete this hereditary bloodline genealogy, proving that most of the lands in Nanyang have the blood of Wu and Yue. Even if there is not, they came to Nanyang during the Xia and Shang dynasties, or even earlier, during the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors period. Many myths and legends of the local indigenous people and their cultural relics and antiques can prove this.

Shusun Tong and Funian compiled a book based on their completed bloodline hereditary genealogy and various myths of Southeast Asia. Both of them were very proud of it and believed that they had completed an unprecedented project to help the indigenous people of Southeast Asia find their roots and ancestors.

As a result, the books they compiled with great effort received very average response in the Han Dynasty. Most Han people gave a thumbs up to the books compiled by Sun Shutong and Fu Nian, saying that they were indeed great scholars of the time. The forgery was as rigorous as the real thing. The hereditary genealogy of the bloodline of the Han nobles was not so rigorous. But no one believed that what they wrote was true. You can imagine how depressed they were.

They had no way to refute it, because there were so many bloodline hereditary genealogies compiled by Confucianists in the past two years that the people of the Han Dynasty found that their brothers were all over the Han Dynasty, and everyone had become immune to it. More importantly, there were some scumbags of Confucianism who carried forward the bloodline hereditary genealogy of the Han Dynasty. As long as they were paid a few thousand or tens of thousands of dollars, they would provide door-to-door services and help wealthy families compile a bloodline hereditary genealogy that had been passed down for three thousand years, ensuring that it was rigorous and could withstand verification. They named this behavior a journey of seeking roots, which set off a wave of enthusiasm in the Han Dynasty.

Since the founding of the Han Dynasty, the wealth brought by the Industrial Revolution, the Great Navigation, and the first Industrial Revolution has increased the number of wealthy families in the Han Dynasty by dozens or even hundreds of times. However, when Xu Fan founded the Han Dynasty, he swept away the nobles from the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, and now these wealthy people are almost all from the mud.

Xu Fan was able to clean up the aristocratic system of the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, but the aristocratic system rooted in the minds of the people could not be cleaned up. There is an old saying that the people who want to become slave owners the most are slaves, the people who want to become landlords the most are tenants, and the people who want to become nobles the most are those who were oppressed by the nobles. Now that the Han people, the peasants, have come ashore, they naturally want to make up a good identity for themselves to prove their aristocratic status and that the source of their wealth is reasonable.

The reason why you guys didn't get rich is because you don't have aristocratic blood. This is ridiculous, but you can't help but believe it. Facing the backlash of this feudal trend, Xu Fan simply added fuel to the flames. If you don't want aristocratic blood, then everyone will have a share, and no one will be left out. So under Xu Fan's promotion, bloodline hereditary genealogy became an industry, just like the Feng Shui masters of later generations.

Everyone can find some information from history books and find a noble ancestor for you based on where you live. In this way, you will have noble blood, others will also get a good job, and everyone will have a bright future.

Ordinary people don't have that much money, so what should they do? There is a way. You don't even need to find evidence. You can use your surname and birthplace to infer your bloodline. Anyway, when you go out, you give your own identity. In the end, everyone regards Yanhuang as their ancestor. Moreover, Xu Fan also promoted the most popular saying in later generations: bloodline has been passed down for three thousand years, and every family has produced a few nobles and emperors. Everyone has the same bloodline, so no one can say who is noble. Thus, the Han Dynasty ushered in an era of universal aristocracy.

The only flaw was that in this wave, the reputation of Confucianism suffered another blow. A large number of alchemists pretended to be Confucian scholars and compiled bloodline hereditary genealogies for others. It was not a big deal among the common people, but people in the academic community extremely despised this behavior of Confucianism, so Shusun Tong and the others really did not want this credit.

Moreover, they knew that the emperor would never summon them except at court meetings. If he summoned them, there must be something for them to do, and it was very likely something they were unwilling to do.

Fu Sheng said angrily: "This is all the credit of the court. We dare not take the credit."

Xu Fan smiled and said, "You are the ones who do the actual work, so the credit should go to you. The fact that our Han Dynasty has its current territory is largely due to your Confucian education."

Xu Fan continued, "I plan to send two expedition teams to explore the unknown world, and I also want your Rujia to send some scholars to join the expedition team."

Fu Sheng was surprised and said, "Your Majesty, sailing requires sailors and captains, which has nothing to do with my Confucianism."

Xu Fan said: "You see, Nanyang is thousands of miles away from our Han mainland, but our ancestors have crossed the sea to settle here. If it weren't for our Han expansion, I don't know how many years it would take for these blood brothers to return to our Han embrace. I wonder if there is Han blood in Nanyang, and there will be Han blood in other places and on the continent."

Fu Shengtong smiled bitterly and said, "Your Majesty, the blood of our Han Dynasty is everywhere. Is the blood of our Han Dynasty too chaotic? How will the historians record this history a thousand years later? I don't care. I eat the salary of the king and should be loyal to the king. But what your majesty did may become a stain on you."

Xu Fan said casually: "The reason why China has historians to record history is to serve the present. These are the right or wrong paths our ancestors left us, allowing us to avoid these mistakes. What you are doing now is also serving the Han Dynasty. If we regard the Huns as foreigners, then the Han Dynasty will not have the stable borders it has now. The natives of Nanyang do not have the blood of the Han Dynasty. Keeping them will be a disaster. The Han Dynasty cannot be strong forever. When it declines, they will drive the Han people away. Killing them all will harm the harmony of nature. Only educating them and turning them into Han people is the best choice for both sides."

Shusun Tong asked, "What does your majesty want us to do?"

"Let me give you an example. For example, if the expedition team encounters a new civilization in the New World, which is equivalent to the Nanyang region, the students you send out should find a way to collect local myths and legends, texts, and everything that can be used to see if they are the same as our Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, and have the same customs. Then it is very likely that they are our Chinese bloodline. At the same time, we should also find a way to find the different sources of the differences."

"Suppose there is a new continent with indigenous people whose customs are the same as those of the Shang Dynasty. They are very likely the descendants of the Shang Dynasty, but they cannot make wheels or bronze weapons."

Fu Sheng said: "That means they are not descendants of the Shang Dynasty. The history of wheel making in our Chinese civilization is very long. Huangdi Xuanyuan was the first to make wheels. The history of bronze can also be traced back to before the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors."

Xu Fan said: "Seek common ground and understand, their customs are the same as those of the Shang Dynasty, so they are naturally the descendants of the Shang Dynasty. Losing technology is a very common thing. Throughout the ages, many good things of our ancestors have been lost by us, such as the bird that can fly for three days and three nights made by Lu Ban, and the mechanical engineering of the Mohist school."

"The borders of our Han Dynasty have been pushed to the sea. The New World must be isolated from the outside world. Our ancestors fled to the New World by sea. They could only travel by boat, which made wheels useless. If the craftsmen who could make wheels died during the journey, the technology to make wheels would have been lost. This possibility is very high, right?"

Fu Sheng was speechless. He could not stop the emperor from making history, so he could only respond in silence.

After listening to Xu Fan's words, Shusun Tong said, "Your Majesty, we are willing to send Confucian scholars to join the expedition team and collect the civilization of the New World to compare with our Chinese civilization, so as not to let the Chinese bloodline flow into the wilderness."

He knew that the most important role of Confucianism to the Han Dynasty at this stage was to educate the barbarians and compile bloodline genealogies for them. If this ability was lost, the importance of Confucianism to the Han Dynasty would be reduced by more than half.

This job seems to be despicable, but Confucians are unwilling to do it. Some schools of thought are willing to do it. Novelists are best at writing stories, and Legalists are even more like rags in the hands of the emperor, and are most willing to do this kind of dirty and tiring work.

Shusun Tong dared to guarantee that as long as they refused the job, the emperor would immediately look for the Legalists, novelists or even other declining schools to take over, and by then they would really regret it.

In the sixth month of the nineteenth year of the Han Dynasty, Guanzhong.

A train carriage filled with naval officers, accompanied by the sound of the train's beep, quickly drove towards Chang'an City.

Looking at the fields covered with green wheat grass, the officers sighed, "Guanzhong is still rich, with canals everywhere. Unlike Wodao where we are stationed, we can't even be self-sufficient in food and have to rely on the imperial court for transportation every year." Although Wodao was developed by the Han Dynasty for ten years, due to the influence of the gold and silver mines, few of the immigrants who came here were willing to farm. Instead, they wanted to get rich overnight and pan for gold.

The North Sea Fleet also captured some local natives and taught them how to farm, but the results were too poor. It was basically a slash-and-burn agriculture. In addition, mining also required manpower, and these natives were often sent to the mines and suffered heavy losses, which further reduced the farming population. Therefore, even now, the Japanese island cannot be self-sufficient in food.

Liu Bi said: "This may not be a bad thing for the court. Without food, the people on the Japanese islands will not dare to riot. The court's needs for the Japanese islands are also very simple. They only need gold, silver and sulfur. With such a handle in hand, it will be easier for the court to control the Japanese islands."

At this moment, an officer asked in surprise: "What is this?"

Liu Bi and others looked in the direction he was looking and found something like a black colored chain.

Then they asked the train staff.

"That's the newly built road by the imperial court. It's made of asphalt and small stones. It's extremely smooth and flat. When a carriage drives on it, it doesn't feel bumpy at all. It's also waterproof and weed-proof."

"Asphalt road?" When these officers were resting at the train station, they deliberately stepped on the asphalt road. They found that the road was unusually smooth, even smoother than the straight roads of the Qin Dynasty.

Liu Bi sighed: "Prime Minister Xiao is indeed worthy of being the Prime Minister who builds roads."

During the ten years that Xiao He served as prime minister, he vigorously developed the Han Dynasty's wooden tracks, highways and other infrastructure, employing more than one million laborers each year. He was known as the "road-building prime minister" by the people.

Chang'an City, Peihou Mansion.

Liu Bi, who came to Chang'an City from the North Sea Fleet, immediately came to pay a visit when he learned that his uncle Liu Bang was also in Chang'an.

Liu Bang helped Liu Bi up and said to his third son Liu Ruyi and fourth son Liu Heng happily: "You should learn more from brother Bi in the future. He is only thirty years old but has already become a 2000-stone commander of the Han Dynasty. He is the thousand-mile horse of our Liu family."

Liu Bi said, "I am not as good as Ji's father. You have been following the emperor for less than a year and have already become a General of the Central Army. You were even granted the title of Marquis when you founded the country. I am far inferior to you."

Liu Bang patted Liu Bi on the shoulder and said, "My father also had a chance encounter. He joined the emperor and achieved his current success. In addition, there were many opportunities in the turbulent times, so he became a marquis. You are different. You have climbed up step by step. When my father was about your age, he was still a retainer under Brother Zhang Er."

Liu Bang was really satisfied with Liu Bi. There were only a handful of young people in the Han Dynasty who could be promoted to 2000 shi, and Liu Bi was one of them. His Liu family produced many talents.

Liu Bi smiled and said, "My nephew is also taking advantage of Treasure Island."

You have to know that now the military of the Han Dynasty is very sparsely populated. More than ten years of peace have not given these officers too many opportunities for promotion. Every year, the officers who are promoted have to step on a large number of competitors. Now the competitive pressure in the military of the Han Dynasty is dozens of times higher than when the Han Dynasty was founded.

However, the Han Dynasty would generally raise their evaluation of those places with simple conditions by one level, and Liu Bi had stayed in Wa Island for nearly 10 years, so his evaluation was naturally high. Not to mention that they had not only worked hard in these ten years, but also discovered five large and small gold and silver mines and five large sulfur mines in Wa Island. Their contributions were not small, so Liu Bi was able to become a two thousand stone commander of the Han Dynasty at the age of thirty.

Liu Bang smiled and said, "That was also established by you. You were able to endure ten years of hardship on the wild island of Wodao. This is also a kind of ability. There are so many officers in the Han Dynasty, how many are willing to stay on the Wodao island for ten years?"

After a brief exchange of greetings, Liu Bang asked his servants to prepare a family banquet. After three rounds of wine, Liu Bi asked, "Father Ji, do you know why the court transferred us this time?"

The Han Dynasty usually transfers officers together with retired soldiers after the autumn harvest. Some officers have to retire due to their age, while others are promoted, but it is very rare to issue a transfer order in May this year.

Liu Bang said, "I just heard some news. It is said that the emperor intends to allocate two small fleets to sail from the east and west of the Han Dynasty to prove the spherical shape of this world and to find traces of other civilizations. You have also heard of the place called Tianzhu, right?"

Liu Bi said: "Of course I have heard of it. It is said that there are more than a dozen countries whose civilization is only slightly inferior to that of our Han Dynasty, and there are tens of millions of people."

Then he said enviously: "Nanyang is great. Not only are there many islands, but now there is also an Indian civilization. All the good things are occupied by them."

When the news of Tianzhu reached the North Sea Fleet a few months ago, everyone was jealous of the South Sea Fleet. They had finally managed to win back the game in terms of gold and silver and other resources, but Tianzhu appeared in the South Sea, and the North Sea Fleet was much worse. In order to find new islands, the North Sea Fleet sent Liu Bi to sail east of the Wo Island for half a month, but he found no islands and could only return disappointed. This also disappointed the officers of the North Sea Fleet, because the opposite side of the Wo Island was the endless sea.

Liu Bang said, "There is India overseas, so there must be other civilizations. The emperor wants to find other civilizations, and proving that the earth is spherical is just a byproduct. I think the emperor saw that the territory that the Han Dynasty could expand has been expanded, and the discovery of India gave the emperor new hope, so he sent two fleets to find other continents and civilizations."

In Liu Bang's view, the current emperor's greed for land is the strongest among all the emperors in history, even the First Emperor cannot compare to him, who only conquered the south and the north and attacked the Xiongnu in the north. But the current emperor is expanding in all directions, so that the territory of the Han Dynasty is more than ten times larger than that of the Qin Dynasty.

Fortunately, the current emperor is more than ten times more generous than the First Emperor. He is willing to share the newly discovered territories generously, and is also extremely generous to his subordinates. As long as they have made contributions, they can support their subordinates to establish vassal states. This is also the reason why the Han Dynasty’s territory has expanded so much without consuming much.

Liu Bi's eyes lit up and he said, "If we really find a new continent and a new civilization, His Majesty will be generous in rewarding us."

Liu Bang said, "This is not like the South Seas. We don't know how far this voyage will go. Although there is a lot of evidence that the earth is spherical, no one has seen it. Who knows if it is true or not? Even if it is true, how big is this sphere? Who knows? We are sailing in one direction. We don't know how many dangers there are along the way. This mission can be said to be a life-and-death struggle. The discovery of the Spice Islands made Luan Bu a marquis. If this fleet really proves that the earth is spherical and discovers other continents and other civilizations, I think it will not be a problem for the emperor to confer a title of marquis."

"Marquis of ten thousand households!" Liu Bi's eyes sparkled. After being in the military of the Han Dynasty, he realized that it was too difficult to be granted a title of nobility in the Han Dynasty. It was not that their army was not strong enough, but that the entire Han Dynasty had no enemies. Their North Sea Fleet patrolled the sea area of ​​thousands of miles in the north, and it was enough to make them excited if they encountered a pirate ship a year. But what kind of merit could be achieved by beating a pirate? At most, the captain of a small ship could record a small achievement.

If he was promoted step by step like this, even if he was promoted to a naval general, he would probably never be granted a title of nobility. The court, in recognition of his decades of hard work, granted him the title of viscount. Earl was probably the limit for him, but this was not what Liu Bi wanted. As a man, he wanted to be a marquis.

Seeing Liu Bi's excited face, Liu Bang said seriously: "You are already a 2000-stone commander. It is not worth doing something like risking your life for a title."

Liu Bang didn't want Liu Bi to be an adventurer. Naturally, he had to risk his life for wealth and honor when his family was poor. But now his Liu family was already a vassal state, and even Liu Bi was a captain with a salary of 2000 stones. As long as Liu Bi followed the procedures, he could easily become a General, although not a general. Naturally, Liu Bang didn't want his nephew to take risks.

Liu Bi said, "Father Ji, I wish I had been born ten years earlier so that I could follow you to join the emperor and build meritorious careers. I have only been in the army for more than ten years. The biggest battle I have fought was to wipe out a tribe of less than 200 barbarians. The most soldiers I commanded were only . This opportunity is rare. If I don't seize it, I will be dead. I don't want to be in the army all my life and live a boring life without any memories worth recalling."

Liu Ruyi said excitedly: "Brother Bi is right, expanding the territory is our responsibility."

(End of this chapter)