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

Chapter 664: Outstanding Representatives Observe Politics
Emperor Xu Aimin wrote an article that night, recounting Xiahou Zao's achievements as a Han official over the past decades, and focusing on the outstanding contributions made by two generations of father and son to opening up the Shuzhong and Guanzhong railways.

He then concluded that the Han Dynasty belongs to everyone in the world, Han officials serve the people, and Xiahou Zao is one of the thousands of comrades in our Han Dynasty who are working to build a harmonious world. Everyone has to die, and some people's death is heavier than Mount Tai, while others' death is lighter than a feather. To die for the construction of a harmonious world and for the interests of the Han people is heavier than Mount Tai.

Afterwards, Xu Aimin called on his comrades in the Han Dynasty who were implementing the Great Harmony Governance to learn from Xiahou Zao.

The next day, the article written by Xu Aimin, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, was published on the front page of the Han Daily, and caused a sensation in the entire Chang'an City, the entire Guanzhong area, and the entire Han Dynasty. For a time, from the common people to the officialdom of the Han Dynasty, there was a trend of learning from Xiahou Zao.

October 51, 10st year of the Han calendar, Chang'an City, Liu Mansion.

Liu Gong, the son of the Marquis of Pei, looked at the Han Daily and said with envy: "Uncle Xiahou, this is a name that will go down in history. I'm afraid you will be honored in the imperial temple."

Liu Ying in this timeline lives a much more comfortable life than his historical counterpart. Even though he is over fifty years old now, he is still in good health. His sons have also escaped their historical fate. For example, his eldest son Liu Gong, who is thirty years old this year, has begun to assist his father in managing the State of Pei. This time, he also represented the State of Pei to attend the meeting of princes.

Liu Heng said unhappily, "We don't have an Imperial Ancestral Temple in the Han Dynasty. It's called the Martyrs' Park. Only the imperial empire has an Imperial Ancestral Temple. The Martyrs' Park is for the burial of those who have contributed to the rule of Datong."

Although Xu Fan has not died of illness, there are only a few heroes left among the founding officials of the Han Dynasty. Only Zhang Cang is over 90 years old, but he is in good health and can even teach scholars occasionally.

However, when Zhou Zhang and Zhang Liang died of illness, they wrote to the court, asking to be buried in Chang'an City. What they meant was that they wanted to be buried in the Taimiao.

In the feudal era, the Imperial Ancestral Temple was only a place to worship the ancestors of the emperor. Later, the gods of the emperor, empress and meritorious officials could also be worshipped in the Imperial Ancestral Temple. Ordinary royal relatives were not eligible. They had to be close relatives or royal relatives who had made contributions to the country. Also, ministers and subjects who had made contributions to the country could enjoy the treatment of the Imperial Ancestral Temple after their death with the emperor's permission. People in this era cared more about what happened after their death, and enjoying the Imperial Ancestral Temple could be said to be the highest honor for ministers.

But compared to the Taimiao of the feudal era, Xu Fan prefers to use the Martyrs' Park and Memorial Hall of their time instead. This also reduces the feudal connotation. At the same time, it can also let the people of the Han Dynasty understand the heroes and their deeds during the founding period of the Han Dynasty, and know that the Han Dynasty was not easy to come by. It can inspire the people's patriotism. Compared with the feudal era's "The Ming Dynasty has nurtured scholars for three hundred years, and they are dying for justice today." Only a small number of feudal elites protected the country. Xu Fan cares more about the Han Dynasty mobilizing millions of people to protect the country.

Therefore, the Han Dynasty established a memorial hall for heroes in Chang'an City, and at the same time, a martyrs' park was built on a mountain outside Chang'an City. The founding heroes of the Han Dynasty who did not want to be buried in their own vassal states could be buried in this martyrs' park.

The founding heroes of the Han Dynasty were extremely satisfied with Xu Fan's establishment of a museum to publicize their deeds. This not only allowed their achievements to be recorded in history, but also allowed ordinary people to learn about their achievements. Every year, millions of people visited the museum to learn about their achievements, and the Han court hosted official worship every year.

The treatment of being deified after death is better than being recorded in history. Few kings in ancient times received such treatment after their death. Going back further, the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors were no better than this. Only the emperor of today can think of such a way to publicize his achievements.

Therefore, in the eyes of the princes and meritorious officials of the Han Dynasty, the museum system set up by the emperor was even better than the Taimiao. Therefore, even if the princes of the Han Dynasty died of illness in their own vassal states, they would always instruct their descendants to bury them in the Martyrs' Park in Chang'an.

There was even a time when the treatment of novelists rose more than tenfold, because the princes of the Han Dynasty would invite these novelists to dictate and ask them to write a biography about themselves, focusing on their great contributions during the founding period of the Han Dynasty and their outstanding contributions during the period of building a harmonious world.

There must be some content that is good for oneself. At the beginning, the Propaganda Department of the Han Dynasty could only turn a blind eye to these princes, seeing that they were veterans and meritorious officials. But later, someone crossed the bottom line and used the method of pulling and stepping on others. This is a mess. If you promote your own glorious deeds, everyone will accept it, but if you step on others to promote yourself, this is too much.

There was a time when the meritorious officials who were living in retirement in Chang'an City would often go to war, causing extremely bad consequences. At this time, the Han court had to intervene personally, and the Propaganda Department appointed Han officials to record the deeds of these meritorious officials, and then the Han court would write biographies for them.

It is because the Martyrs' Park can promote their reputations so well that the 12 dukes, marquises and earls who founded the Han Dynasty are all buried in the Chang'an Martyrs' Park. Because there are too many meritorious officials who have made requests, the Chang'an Martyrs' Park can only limit the number of meritorious officials. The Han Dynasty is counting the household registration of meritorious officials and building similar martyrs' parks in other counties. Every year, the government organizes sacrifices to these heroes.

Of course, everyone was still proud to enter the Chang'an Martyrs' Park, and regarded it as another form of being honored in the Imperial Ancestral Temple. At least in the eyes of Liu Gong and others, this was another form of the Imperial Ancestral Temple. At the same time, he admired the methods of the retired emperor. Although the retired emperor was strict, he was extremely generous to his meritorious officials, whether in terms of fiefdoms during their lifetime or in terms of reputation after their death. No monarch in the past three generations could compare to the retired emperor.

Liu Piao was thankful and said, "Fortunately, there is the matter of Uncle Xiahou, otherwise this year's Han princes' meeting would be embarrassing."

Liu Piao is now extremely grateful that when Zhou Jianyi and his men invited her to go public in Jiang State, Chen Wu brought her to Chang'an City to consult her father, although she was beaten at that time and then asked her to honestly engage in shipping. But now it seems that she has escaped a disaster. Now they honestly transport iron ore from Mapo Island to Kuaiji County, which is a long-term business. So far this year, they have earned more than 20 million. Transporting iron ore is indeed a good business to make money. This year, Liu Piao has ordered two steam cargo ships, hoping to make her ocean shipping company bigger and stronger and create more glory.

"Bang!" Liu Heng angrily slammed the table when he heard this and said, "A Zao is not an excuse for you parasites."

The Han heroes who came from Pei County all had a good relationship with each other. Liu Heng and Xiahou Zao had been friends since childhood. Now that Xiahou Zao had died in Hanzhong, Liu Heng was naturally in a bad mood, not to mention what his daughter said. If Liu Qi were here, how many whips would he give him?

Chen Wu immediately said, "Sir, that's not what I meant. We are also extremely sad about Uncle Xiahou's sacrifice."

After all, she was his favorite daughter, so Liu Heng did not continue to reprimand her. Instead, he said, "The Han Dynasty is not a hereditary dynasty like in the past, but a country ruled by the public. If you do something illegal, your father cannot protect you, and will not protect you."

Liu Piao wanted to say something, but Chen Wu immediately pulled his wife aside and said, "My Lord, I will never do anything that violates the law, but only do things that benefit the country and the people."

This incident also frightened Chen Wu. Most of the offenders were the second generation sons of princes and nobles. His uncles also made great efforts to split up the family and cut off ties with the emperor. Now all of them and their families will be exiled to Yanzhou.

If he had failed to resist the temptation and joined in, he might have been implicated in the destruction of Tangyi Houfu, and he would have truly become the eternal sinner of the Chen family.

Seeing Chen Wu's attention, Liu Heng relaxed his tone and said, "You are born rich, and money has no meaning to you. You must do things that benefit the Han Dynasty. Only when the Han Dynasty is strong can your wealth continue. What Zhou Jianyi did to dig up the roots of the Han Dynasty is no different from the Qin officials back then. If the Qin tree falls, how can the monkeys on the tree survive? Those Qin nobles and officials were either killed or exiled by the Han Dynasty, and their entire families fell into the quagmire."

Chen Wu nodded and said, "Your Excellency is right."

"Perseverance is the true attitude to do business. Even if you have tens of billions of dollars in your hands, it is insignificant to the Han Dynasty. At most, it is just a fat pig. Whenever the court is short of money, it always asks these people to make up for it.

When you can support tens of thousands of people and influence the work of hundreds of thousands of people, the court will truly value you and regard you as pillars of society. At your level, money is no longer important. What is important is the court's opinion of you.

The reason why Zhou Jianyi and his people ended up like this is that they had no ambition to start a business, but only wanted to make quick money. In the end, they went astray and became first-class swindlers. The imperial court has always suppressed such thieves who harmed the people. What Zhou Jianyi did was a disgrace to Uncle Zhou, and it might even affect the future of his two uncles."

Back then, Zhou Bo made outstanding contributions to the reforms of the Han Dynasty, and the Han Dynasty also rewarded the Zhou family generously. Zhou Bo's Jiang State was one of the richest vassal states in the Han Dynasty, and the oil industry alone was enough to make the Zhou family rich and long-lived.

Zhou Bo's second son, Zhou Yafu, was highly valued by the court. He was now the lord of Xinjinshan City in Yanzhou and a lieutenant with a salary of 2000 shi. He guarded the most important gold producing area of ​​the Han Dynasty. According to the tradition of the Han Dynasty, Zhou Yafu would be promoted to General of the Central Army and become a military giant of the Han Dynasty after returning from Xinjinshan City. Zhou Bo's third son, Zhou Jian, although not outstanding in talent, became the magistrate of a large county at the age of thirty. As long as Zhou Jian did not make serious mistakes, he would most likely become the governor of the Han Dynasty with a salary of 2000 shi. If he worked harder, it would not be impossible for him to become a nine-minister. The Zhou family had vassal states in Nanyang, and both civil and military affairs had developed relatively well within the Han Dynasty. Among the founding heroes of the Han Dynasty, the Zhou family had developed very well, but this incident cast a shadow on the development of the Zhou family.

Liu Gong also nodded and said, "What my uncle said is a wise saying. At our level, we really don't need to care too much about money."

The reason why Pei State was able to develop better than other princes in Liaodong was that Pei State was more useful to the Han Dynasty than other princes. Pei State could serve as a logistics base for Treasure Island nearby, and one of the most important bases for the court to communicate with the New World in distant places. It was precisely because of these two maritime trade routes that Pei State became one of the richest princes in Liaodong.

October 51, 10st year of the Han calendar, Chang'an City, Zhangtai Palace.

The annual statistics meeting was held here. County governors and officials from all over the Han Dynasty carried data half a person's height and slowly entered this heartland of the Han Dynasty.

But this year is different. There are hundreds of unexpected guests at the most important annual conference of the Han Dynasty.

Liu Heng looked at these people with a surprised look on his face. He knew that these were the outstanding representatives from all walks of life this year, and many of them were selected by their Shaofu. They came to Chang'an City to accept the emperor's commendation to show the Han Dynasty's emphasis on industry, but this was the first time they appeared in Zhangtai Palace like today.

Shangjun Prefect Shentu Jia approached Prime Minister Chen Lei and asked, "Your Majesty, what is this for?"

Chen Lei whispered, "The princes' children are too incompetent. Your Majesty wants to make use of this group of people from the grassroots. This year is just the beginning. There will be more and more of them in the future."

In order to make use of these outstanding grassroots representatives, it is necessary to reach a consensus with the prime minister, so when Chen Lei knew about this, he also agreed with this point. In recent years, more and more children of Han princes have become Han officials. These people have made a lot of jokes in the local area and corrupted the local atmosphere. The court needs to suppress these people.

Shentu Jia frowned and said, "Generals come from the army, and prime ministers come from the grassroots. This is in line with the practice of our Han Dynasty. However, in this way, the power of the Agricultural School, the Mohist School, and the Legalist School will be too strong, which is not conducive to the balance of the court."

Ninety percent of these outstanding representatives come from these three schools. If the court uses them in the future, the students of the Han Dynasty will give priority to entering these three schools for the sake of their future. However, the schools within the Han Dynasty are not limited to the Agricultural School, the Mohist School, and the Legalist School. There are also forces of other schools of thought and forces of overseas princes and elders. Among them, the power of the princes and elders of the Han Dynasty is the greatest. The children of princes still have certain advantages in promotion within the Han Dynasty. As long as they are willing to work hard, they can progress faster than ordinary Han officials.

Even though the Han Dynasty belonged to everyone in the world, the children of the princes obviously accounted for a relatively large share. Even in order to maintain relations with the princes, the Han court would promote their promising children.

Chen Lei said calmly: "Now the forces of the Han Dynasty are intertwined, how can they be clearly divided? Do you think the true form belongs to the elders' forces or the Mohist forces?"

Chen Lei is the eldest son of Chen Chui, a founding hero of the Han Dynasty, but he has been a disciple of Qin Bo since he was a child, and is also one of the senior leaders of the Mohist School, so he is not too disgusted with this matter. Anyway, the tradition of the Han Dynasty is agriculture, and the Mohist School and the elders form the ruling team. Now the power of the Han Dynasty elders has begun to gradually fade, and the power of the various schools of thought will become the norm in the Han Dynasty's political arena in the future.

These outstanding representatives from all walks of life looked at the heart of the great man with nervousness and curiosity.

Zhu Tie suppressed his excitement and said, "I saw the Shaofu Order. I didn't expect to be able to enter the Zhangtai Palace this time. After returning to the factory, I can show off to those guys."

Zhao Yu's face was filled with memories and sighs. He had never thought that decades later, he would be able to return to Zhangtai Palace again. He still had some memories of the Qin Emperor's Palace in his mind, but they had long been blurred. Now these memories slowly emerged in his mind, but he found that except for this palace, other places were nothing like his memories. The Qin Emperor's Palace was the core area of ​​Chang'an City. Except for some important buildings, other places had long been demolished by the Han Dynasty.

"Delegate, please sit here!" the staff member said slowly.

"Oh!" Zhao Yu sat down.

The staff member continued, "You can watch the court's report here, but please don't make any noise. If you need anything, please contact me."

These representatives all nodded excitedly. For many of them, being able to see the three dukes and nine ministers of the Han Dynasty and dozens of county governors here was the most glorious moment in their lives.

After these people were seated, the core Prime Minister Chen Lei, the three dukes and nine ministers of the Han Dynasty, and the princes from all over the place also sat in their respective seats.

"My name is Gongsun Hong from the farming family. May I know your name?" asked a middle-aged man with slightly gray hair.

"Legalist, Zhao Yu!"

Gongsun Hong bowed and said, "It turns out to be Brother Zhao. To be able to become an outstanding Han official at your age, you must have something extraordinary."

Zhao Yu said calmly: "I have only worked as a lawyer in the village for thirty years, and I haven't done anything outstanding."

Gongsun Hong said excitedly: "Otherwise, brother can be at ease in the village as a lawyer for thirty years, this is the greatest outstanding thing."

Gongsun Hong kept talking to suppress his excitement. He was a man with great ambitions, but when he was young, he was a jailer in Xue County, but was dismissed for a crime. In the Han Dynasty, which attached great importance to children from good families, this stain on Gongsun Hong almost ruined his future.

But he did not give up. Instead, he joined a farming family and became a student at the grassroots level of the family, presiding over this farming cooperative. After more than ten years of hard work, the farming cooperative he ran became one of the largest in the entire north, accommodating tens of thousands of farmers and having more than a dozen workshops. The annual output value of the farming cooperative was several billion yuan. Under his leadership, the farmers' income exceeded 100,000 yuan, which exceeded the income of local craftsmen.

The agricultural cooperative under his command was recognized as an advanced agricultural cooperative by the Han court, and Gongsun Hongye became an outstanding representative of the farming family, which led to his visit to Chang'an. Originally, these outstanding representatives would return to their posts after being received by the emperor and touring the beautiful country.

But this time it was different. The court arranged for them to come to Shangji to observe government affairs. It was said that they would also be allowed to observe government affairs at the upcoming Sages Conference. This had never happened before. He had a premonition that they would be highly valued by the court this time.

For Gongsun Hong, this was almost a ray of hope in his despair. He was 40 years old this year. If he continued to stay in the countryside, he would really have to retire there. The Han Dynasty had a 60-year-old pension system. Although the top leaders could postpone it for some time, it was obviously not enough for him.

(End of this chapter)