Chapter 971

It is not so easy to abandon the old era, especially when it is left to the rulers to make a decision. Without great determination and perseverance, not everyone can make that decision.

Liu Yan actually doesn't know much about today's literature. It can even be said that he has only learned one-sided knowledge of modern times. What he knows, in addition to the daily common sense of life, is the military literacy cultivated after joining the army.

I don't know enough about today's knowledge level, and I can't come up with a set of practical new knowledge for people to study. I really want to abandon the old era and fill the gap with what?

Liu Yan couldn't stay at the temple of heaven. He returned to the palace city less than two hours after he came out. Obviously, he was not happy. After thinking about it, he went to the direction of food street.

The dignitaries who argued for a while stopped after they found that Liu Yan was not there. Everyone seemed as if when the argument just now did not exist. They couldn't hook up their shoulders, but they could also smile and chat about something else. They asked where Liu Yan went with the prince and daughter and followed him.

"Your Majesty won't be angry?" Ran min looked very calm, not as vigorous as the false fire just now: "are we going too far?"

Even if they are in a high position and can even affect the formulation of national policies, it is always a little inappropriate to argue whether the sages have contributed to the nation.

It is not wrong that they are high-ranking people now, and they can also affect the formulation of national policies. However, in history, people like them are like crucian carp crossing the river. How many people can become sages?

There were many people who wanted to deny or even slander the sages. No matter how noble their identity was, or even as emperors, they could not get the knowledge (achievements) comparable to the sages. There is no doubt that they have become contemporary jokes and have to be recorded in history as eternal clowns.

"It's a little too much." Ji Chang said with a wry smile, "but I have to do so."

Not everyone in Temple of heaven square knows who they are, but there must be people who know them, how high their status is, what kind of words they say in public, and each sentence will produce corresponding follow-up results.

Important officials of the country, whether in private or in public, basically can't climb to a high position if they don't understand the truth that more words must be lost and remain silent.

They know that every word they say will lead to unknowable follow-up. The key is, as Ji Chang said, no matter how big the risk is, they should bear it to trigger Liu Yan's thinking.

"Someone's reputation is smelly enough..." ran Min said so, but he couldn't see any annoyance. He looked even relaxed: "after today, he will be criticized more severely?"

"General hussars, are you at ease?" The contradiction between sang Yu and ran Min has long been weakened. They can't become close friends, but they can make fun of each other calmly: "among us, those who can accompany the rich and noble forever belong to the ran family."

Ran min glared at sang Yu mercilessly, but he didn't refute.

The founding fathers of any dynasty since the Western Han Dynasty, it is one thing to fight in the mountains and rivers. After waiting for the mountains and rivers, no one is particularly afraid to stage the drama of "birds do their best to bow and hide, cunning rabbits die and running dogs cook". After the situation has been settled, smart people can pollute themselves. They are deeply afraid that too good a reputation will lead to the fear of the king and the desolate end of death and family destruction.

Ran min should be one of the most complicated people in the world. He even became the king of the world side by side with Liu Yan. After the whole country was annexed, many ministries entered various posts in military and political affairs.

There are too many officials and nobles. Their ties with ran min are constantly cut. Ran Min has a bad reputation whether he is not attached or after he is attached.

"Someone knows very well." Ran Min said proudly, "just think you're jealous."

Sang Yu uttered a "hum" directly, but his face was also smiling.

Logically speaking, if Liu Yan wants to play the game of "birds do their best to hide their bows, cunning rabbits die and running dogs cook", it is absolutely the first to cut ran min, followed by the generals who control military power, and finally those who control civil power.

So far, Liu Yansi has shown no signs of cleaning in any way or even in terms of signs. This is also the case. Although they may break out contradictions and even have a fierce confrontation, they dare not kill each other, lest they die the first and break the heart of Liu Yan at the beginning.

Liu Yan's surname is Liu and his country name is Han.

People who read some books will never forget that the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty were an extreme.

The founding fathers of the Western Han Dynasty, whose credit is higher, die faster and worse. Even if the founding fathers didn't die for a while, no matter what the scenery of the first generation is, the fourth generation either becomes a non-profit among the high honors or simply becomes a civilian.

The Eastern Han Dynasty was different. The founding fathers lived well and received the grace they deserved. Even future generations could benefit continuously.

There are rules and tacit understanding in everything.

If Xun GUI doesn't treat himself as a Xun GUI, no amount of credit is enough to die. That is, the Emperor didn't start, and the same Xun GUI was either marginalized or attacked in groups.

It's the same with killing each other. If Xun GUI fights with each other, don't expect the emperor to be kind. The first one to die in the inner fight, the emperor will never mind doing it himself or killing several more.

Everyone cautiously didn't want to make a start. They kept the greatest caution, but they didn't want Liu Yan to remember the extremes of the two Han Dynasties. The Western Han Dynasty was really mean and ungrateful, but the meritorious heroes of the Eastern Han Dynasty came to the end of harming the country.

It is not that Liu Yan adheres to the concept of not killing meritorious officials for "perfection", but that he can control the ministers, and his age also has a great advantage.

If you wait for such a day, for example, Liu Yan is dying of illness, he will definitely kill those vigorous founding heroes, and none of them will stay.

It's not cold-blooded. In fact, it's for the sake of national stability. One emperor and one courtier is the best situation. The more martyrs of the older generation live, the greater the harm to the country.

Sang Yu said that it is reasonable for ran min's descendants to be rich as long as they don't make mistakes.

Ran min takes the initiative to take revenge on the Jie people. He doesn't care that his reputation becomes more smelly to carry out the action of exterminating the family. Anyone who has been abused and abused by the Jie people is willing to accept ran min's feelings no longer.

Not everyone is qualified to repay the kindness. If you can't repay the kindness, you should read it well. When there are too many people who need to repay kindness, it is both dangerous and inside information for the parties. As long as the parties themselves are not crazy and do not become living saints, and the emperor has no head caught by the door, they should give enough wealth to the parties and their descendants.

"Now we need to maintain stability most. Don't mess around." Ran min looked at the food street in front of him and stopped to look at Jichang and Sangyu, several important civil servants: "if you are unkind, don't blame us!"

Ran min's words were endless, but Ji Chang and others knew what they were talking about.

"If you plan for a big man..." Ji Chang said with a smile, "what you do is what you do."

"You!" Ran min angrily said, "in short, whoever proposes to abolish the army is the common enemy of the military."

Ji Chang simply ignored ran min and continued to move forward with a leisurely attitude.

"Don't look at me." Sang Yu was not afraid of Ran min's ferocious face: "who is the threat? Don't think that there is no war, is it suitable to continue to raise such a huge army?"

"You can try." Ran min kept sneering: "who proposed to abolish the standing army..."

Sang Yu "ha ha" smiled a few times and ignored ran min's wrong body.

Disarmament? If Liu Yan heard what they said, he could understand why there were so many strange things these days.

At this time, Liu Yan ate bean curd with his children around the table.

Food street, of course, has a large flow of people. There are few vacant shops and stalls on the street; Most of the people walking in the street also have all kinds of snacks in their hands.

"Father, how to eat bean curd? There is a saying of 'heresy'?" Liu Shen was curious and asked, "I know the word 'heresy'. I heard that the distant Qin Dynasty would burn 'heresy' with fire."

"Where did you hear that?" Liu Yan remembered that he had not said similar words to the children. With a rare mind, he taught: "in the Western Daqin Dynasty, in the early days, they nailed the blasphemers to the cross. The one who was nailed to the cross later became their son of God. It was inappropriate to nail with the cross, so they changed to other criminal laws. Fire is the most commonly used one."

"Oh..." Liu Shen was obviously unwilling to get the answer. He asked, "then why does mother say that eating tofu brain is different from 'heresy'? Will big men tie people to burn on a pillar because they eat sweet or salty?"

There are two bowls of bean curd in front of Liu Yin. One mouthful is sweet and the other mouthful is salty. She heard Liu Shen's question and stopped to look at Liu Yan.

"..." Liu Yan saw that many of his children looked at him in an instant. He remembered that he seemed to have mentioned it to those women more than once, but he was just kidding. There was no other meaning! He asked, "do you like sweet or salty? What about you?"

Liu Yan first asked Liu Shen and Liu Yin, and then asked the other children.

"Father likes sweet food." Liu Shen said cunningly, "children naturally like to eat sweet."

Liu Yin immediately pushed the salty bowl far away and stood aside with her father.

At the same time, the children who were already eating sweet smiled, while the children who ate salty showed a bitter expression.

As an ordinary person, Liu Yan would tell the questioner jokingly when facing his children like this, The heretic who eats salty (or sweet) tofu brain should indeed be burned to death, but he is the son of heaven with a tongue in his mouth. He can't joke about this. Otherwise, some people will be burned to death by eating salty tofu brain or sweet tofu brain somewhere in the Empire.

"The Han Dynasty has a large territory." Liu Yan put down the bean curd and motioned Liu Shen to listen: "from the frozen soil in the north to the sea in the south, the whole journey is nearly ten thousand miles. From the ice field in the east to the plateau in the west, the total length is more than 8000 miles. With such a vast territory, people in every place will not have the same living habits, and their food will change due to different regions."

Liu Shen was a little confused. He only understood that the territory of the country was very large, and the rest didn't understand very well.

"You can't think they are different people because people on the grassland eat cheese and people along the coast eat seafood." Liu Yan has noticed that Ji Chang came behind him and didn't stop Preaching: "as long as they wear my Han clothes, speak my Han language, respect their ancestors and have the same customs, they are all Han people."

"Yes." Liu Shen probably understood it later and concluded: "for his father, what he cares about is not whether they eat sweet or salty, but all his parents and villagers."

Liu Yan immediately made a look of laughter. He felt that Liu Shen used the word "parents and villagers" very well, far better than some words such as "people", "people" and "Li people".

With the current culture and boundaries, not everyone is qualified to mention "parents and villagers". They have to have enough achievements or high enough status.

If someone has made great achievements, he will be qualified to be cultivated by his parents in a township, village, city or town.

Thank you for mentioning "parents and villagers", but only the son of heaven is qualified to say that "parents and villagers" are his people. Anyone who dares to say that parents and villagers are his people, except the son of heaven, will be regarded as rebellious.

Ji Chang was the first to see Liu Yan teach Liu Shen with his own eyes. First, he was happy, and then he was slightly shocked.

The Han Empire has always been in a state of vacancy of the position of Prince. Some of their important ministers have repeatedly implicitly suggested that the position of prince should be established, but Liu Yan has never made a clear response.

At present, there is no rule to establish a reserve and a leader. From the ancient Pre-Qin Dynasty to the demise of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the position of the reserve king of Zhuxia has always been to establish a virtuous person. This can be seen from all dynasties. Only the prince who does not appear to be particularly virtuous will be the eldest son of the emperor's line to succeed to the throne.

Jichang originally thought that Liu Yan didn't choose the candidate for Chu Jun so quickly because the princes were too young to wait for many princes to grow up. Today, he saw Liu Yan teach Liu Shen and had a different view.

"Be careful." Liu Yancai doesn't care what's wrong with Ji Chang. In addition, he doesn't have long eyes in the back of his head. He asked Liu Shen genially, "after this winter, you will be eleven years old. After thinking for my father, it's not suitable for you to stay in the palace city. You should go out and practice."

"OK, OK." Liu Shen didn't seem to think much and said happily, "my child wants to go to northern Xinjiang!"

"Northern Xinjiang?" Liu Yan's experience is not to let Liu Shen go out to play, so he asked again: "you have to think about it. This time you go out, you don't stay for only ten days and a half months as usual, maybe a few years."

Liu Shen had been out of the palace for the longest month. He was surprised to hear that he had to stay for at least a few years.

"Your Majesty." Ji Chang really felt that it would be too late not to speak again, so he said, "Prince Shen is still young!"

Liu Yan is waiting for Liu Shen to make his final decision. He has thought in detail. Even if he has chosen Liu Shen as the prince, it is impossible for his son to stay in the capital. He should go out to understand what the world outside the capital looks like, and even encourage him to go abroad to have a look.