Three Kingdoms

Just when Zhuge Liang was flexing his muscles in the northwest of Sichuan and Sichuan, and setting a fire to burn the Di people to death, a man of the same age as him was also preparing to set "a fire".

Well, in fact, historically, these two were not only born in the same year, but also died in the same year, so it is not surprising that later generations inevitably have some far-fetched claims.

Zhuge Liang burned the Di people, and Liu Xie also prepared to burn the enemy.

During this period of time, Liu Xie summoned many people, including Xi Liu, to tell and describe the three assistants in Guanzhong. Regarding the situation of Qiusi Feiqian, he also caught some out of the complicated words that were different from true to false. focus.

Some reasons why Fei Qian was able to succeed, gain a foothold in the North, and grow in Guanzhong.

Sometimes when he dreamed about it at night, Liu Xie recalled the scene in which he once declared his philosophy of governing the country in front of Fei Qian and expressed the theory of inheriting reincarnation. He couldn't help but blush, feel ashamed and uncomfortable, and also had some complaints , I felt that Fei Qian must have been watching a joke at that time, knowing that he knew it but holding back and saying nothing.

In Liu Xie's silent research and summary, he finally discovered some special features about Fei Qian's governance and realized the significance of these measures to reality. .

For example, for children from poor families.

These disciples have neither fame nor property. The only thing worth boasting about is their own talents and abilities. However, these talents and abilities were not considered important points worthy of attention in the previous Han Dynasty.

Family and mentorship were what the officials of the Han Dynasty valued in the past.

This is especially true the closer to the center.

So when Feiqian went to the north to start the official examination, although he was criticized by many people as a heretic for a lot of time, in fact, for those young people who have been unable to find the official path, it is undoubtedly a Like the sounds of nature.

Otherwise, just like the original big man, after young people with no background enter the officialdom, they are always the first to be sent to other states to serve as county magistrates, county captains, etc., if there is no special opportunity, or even some outstanding ability If he has the ability, then it is simply impossible to return to the court.

This also leads to these officials who are working outside the country to choose to be corrupt and make money. Firstly, they can use the money to buy their way to the top. Secondly, if there is no hope of promotion, they can go home and become rich.

Under such circumstances, how could the officials of the Han Dynasty not be bad?

After Liu Xie discovered this, he felt more and more that a considerable part of the reason why Fei Qian was successful was the difference in the selection of officials. For these young disciples from poor families who are eager to advance their career, they don't care too much about whether Fei Qian represents the unification of the country. They care more about their own opportunities.

Therefore, the more turbulent the court is, the more opportunities these people have to be promoted.

So for Fei Qian to reach such a position, to gain a foothold in Guanzhong Sanfu and develop greatly, he is not just the kind of green-faced fang described in the streets and alleys, a ferocious and ferocious man who only knows how to kill, nor can he rely on killing. , using cruel officials to maintain their politics. A distinctive feature of Fei Qian's rule is that the political resources open to poor people far exceed those in Shandong, and the examination system ensures that there will not be a mix of good and bad, good and bad. distinguish.

The more he studied, the more subtle Liu Xie felt that Fei Qian's strategy was more sophisticated.

In fact, Liu Xie's father, or his grandfather's generation, began to suppress the Shandong gentry, but they did not achieve much success, and even had the opposite effect. At this stage, it is difficult for Liu Xie to judge whether the party's supervision is too radical and the drug is too strong, or whether it is simply not done enough and not strong enough...

Anyway, for his father, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, he was not satisfied with the word "spirit", but he was helpless. Personal emotions and realistic helplessness were intertwined, making it impossible for him to distinguish it more objectively and clearly. Right and wrong.

Secondly, after recruiting a large number of children from poor families as grassroots officials, Liu Xie also felt that Fei Qian had created a new idea for those middle-level and upper-level officials.

These middle- and upper-level officials have either accumulated certain qualifications or are quite famous. What these people value is not a place or a county, nor money and beautiful women, but more about the future and the inheritance of themselves and their families. .

How did Feiqian do it? He opened some brand-new institutions, and then accommodated these officials, and divided these officials into several parts, such as the Senluyuan and Qinglong Temple. Although they both had the authority to participate in and discuss politics, their respective directions were not completely consistent. , Shenluyuan pays more attention to laws, while Qinglong Temple is more inclined to literary classics.

This allows these middle- and upper-level officials to have enough space to display their talents without being constrained by the structure of "three public officials and nine ministers"...

Liu Xie actually understands a little bit why the Han Dynasty used "three gongs and nine ministers" as the central official structure of the court. Isn't it because of the struggle between imperial power and prime minister power? There is a natural contradiction between imperial power and prime ministerial power. If the emperor has too much authority, the prime minister will be useless. If the prime minister is too powerful, the emperor will be directly ignored.

It was like he was right now, under his crotch... well, under his pomegranate skirt, hey, there wasn't much foundation under his feet, it looked empty and dangling, so uncomfortable.

If the imperial power is to be stable, it must be decentralized. In the past, the three princes and nine ministers were not divided enough! Looking at the current Fei Qian, Liu Xie suddenly realized that there was no need to limit himself to the previous institutions. After the expansion, there would naturally be more people, and then power would be decentralized naturally!

After thinking about these two points, Liu Xie felt like he was seeing the sky and seeing the light again. He felt that his chest and abdomen were smooth, and he felt as if he was floating in the wind...

Then when it came down to it, Liu Xie found that there was no way he could be like Fei Qian, who had thousands of people following his words. His farts had already dissipated before they left the Chongde Hall, and they had already dissipated within three feet of the hall. Besides, it doesn’t even have a taste.

what to do?

Liu Xie was ready to use a two-pronged approach and set two fires.

What does Liu Xie have around him that Cao Cao and Fei Qian don't have? eunuch. Just like his father before him, and the emperors of the Han Dynasty after that, they all had strategies to use these eunuchs. Naturally, Liu Xie could not abandon this fine tradition of the Han Dynasty. Although he has trained several confidants now, it is still not enough and the number is still too small. Of course, these eunuchs cannot replace the courtiers, but they can serve as Liu Xie's tentacles and eyes and ears, connecting both inside and outside, and then slowly expand their strength.

Therefore, the first priority is to recruit more eunuchs!

The second fire was burned on Xi Lu and others...

These people who left Guanzhong Sanfu and came to Liu Xie's side can first be sure that these people cannot get along with Fei Qian, so they can become Liu Xie's help.

When Liu Xie summoned these people to give lectures, he was not subject to many restrictions, which also shows that these people were not taken seriously by the Yingchuan sect...

Just like these guys from Yingchuan never take the time to lecture with Liu Xie, these Yingchuan people are more willing to spend time on absorbing more authority, so these people like Xi Lu are also different from the Yingchuan people. There are contradictions between them.

Although this conflict is not so intense that it is life-and-death, Liu Xie feels that he can take advantage of it and light some fire to see what changes happen.

At least don't look like a stagnant pool of water right now.

So Liu Xie thought about how to light the second fire, and finally came up with a perfect place to light it!

Make history!

If the annotation of classics is the dream of a family of classics scholars, then the compilation of history is the dream of all knowledgeable people in the world...

It may be difficult for future generations to understand this issue, but it can be roughly understood by giving an example. In the Tang Dynasty, there was a prime minister, Xue Yuanchao, who was more or less inferior to one person and more than ten thousand people. He said that he had three hatreds in his life: first, he could not be a Jinshi, second, he could not marry a woman with the fifth surname, and third, he could not write the history of the country. It can be seen that the compilation of national history is a great temptation for Xue, the high-ranking prime minister.

The compilation of history can only be initiated by Liu Xie, no one else has this qualification!

Not long after Ban Gu started compiling history, someone found out that he had written to Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty to accuse Ban Gu of "writing national history privately". Ban Gu was immediately arrested and imprisoned, and all his manuscripts were confiscated. Fortunately, his younger brother Ban Chao wrote to Emperor Han Ming to explain that Ban Gu's purpose of compiling the "Book of Han" was to praise Han virtues and let future generations understand history and learn lessons from it. He did not mean to slander the imperial court. After some investigation, Emperor Han Ming sent Ban Gu He was acquitted and gave the Ban family some money to help them write.

Therefore, writing history without the emperor's authorization is a serious crime.

Of course, Liu Xie didn't have much ink in his stomach. It was a joke for him to personally revise the history of the country.

Later generations thought that compiling the history of the country was something that could only be done in the next dynasty. In fact, there was really no such emphasis in the Han Dynasty. For example, the famous "Historical Records" was written directly under the nose of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Strictly speaking, the later "Hanshu" was written by the descendants of the previous generation and the Eastern Han Dynasty was written by the Western Han Dynasty. However, after all, it still used the same banner of the Han family, and during the period of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, Cai Yong and others also expressed that they had the Han Dynasty. Since then, it has been regarded as a sequel to the "Book of Han", so in the concept of the Han Dynasty people, it is normal to compile contemporary national history.

This is much more exciting than scripture annotations...

One is to annotate the scriptures, while the history of the country is to annotate the country, which in itself is a great temptation for these scholars. Sharpening the pen and leaving a name in history is the dream of many gentry children.

Nowadays, the relationship between Liu Xie and Cao Cao is neither good nor bad. However, after the previous incidents, Liu Xie has become somewhat clear-headed and knows that the power gap between himself and Cao Cao is still very large. On the one hand, Liu Xie Xie placed his hope on Cao Cao to deal with the local princes who were disobedient to the king's laws and wantonly resisted the court, including Fei Qian; on the other hand, Liu Xie was also deeply wary of Cao Cao's power, and worried that Cao Cao would eventually He will become someone like Dong Zhuo or Li Guo.

When Liu Xie left Fei Qian and insisted on coming to Xuxian County in Yuzhou, it was not because he knew how beautiful Xuxian County was, but because Guanzhong was a sad place for him, and he was really afraid that Feiqian would become a Dong Zhuo was second. He didn't dare to bet, fearing that if it really happened that day, he wouldn't even be able to run away.

Therefore, Liu Xie's current preparations are to accumulate strength in the palace. Even if there are no eunuchs, they are still manpower at his disposal. Moreover, the life of being monitored and monitored has made Liu Xie tired and angry. And hate. The other is to seek assistance outside the palace, gather more people in the name of revising history, and then select some people from them who can play a role when necessary...

Of course, in the early days, Liu Xie believed that it was necessary to learn from the lessons learned from the last time and the last time, not to be impatient, and not to expose one's goals prematurely.

Regarding the recruitment of eunuchs, Liu Xie simply found a reason to give orders to the young master. Anyway, he cited some reasons such as too few people in the palace and poor cleaning of the floors, etc., and recruited some refugees from the outside, mainly young people. Basically, He said that the young master would not have any objections and directly released the recruitment information to the outside world.

After all, she is not a talent show girl. Recruiting homeless people who cannot survive, and giving these children a living, although it comes at the cost of losing little Jiji, but these people may not be able to use this thing in their lifetime, so what good is it? Difficult?

After recruiting a certain number of people, Liu Xie would organize an internal training program on the grounds that the eunuchs were vulgar and made mistakes when sorting out documents, and summoned these little guys to attend classes to cultivate their loyalty and train them. As for the body, we should use the name of Cuju in the early stage...

Anyway, even in later generations, it has become a well-known thing that there are small players in China who are not good at playing.

In addition to the matter of compiling history, Liu Xie slightly revealed this intention, and then tentatively assigned Xi Liu to search for historical files in the newly built Guanyuntai.

After all, one or two hundred years have passed since the "Book of Han" was published. Regardless of whether you really want to compile history or not, there is no harm in sorting out some information.

The Guanyuntai was built after the previous Dongguan was burned down, and the Imperial Han Dynasty Library was rebuilt in Xu County in imitation of its specifications. The Yingchuan gentry initially contributed a batch of manuscripts and originals, which can be regarded as the foundation of the newly built Imperial Han Dynasty. The library will not be so empty.

But after Xi considered the Guanyuntai, he really felt the gap with the collection of books in Guanzhong...

Under the Cavalry, it is said to have the largest book collection in the world, and it is really not a boast.

When in Guanzhong, as long as the children of the noble family wanted to borrow books, they could pay a certain deposit like the libraries of later generations, and then they could borrow ordinary manuscripts, engravings, rubbings, etc., relatively speaking, the quantity There are more books, and orphan and incomplete copies require a certain identity, and they must bear the responsibility in case they are lost or damaged.

In Xu County's Guanyuntai, this serious royal library, although many documents and documents had been accumulated, when Xi Liu carefully read through them, he discovered that these documents were not important at all. Most of the books on sex are ordinary scriptures. Even among these scriptures, Xi Lu discovered some flaws in the scriptures, such as wrong sentence readings or interpretations that had been approved by Guanzhong early.

There are also several elderly scholars and old eunuchs serving in Guanyuntai. In addition, there are some underlings who are just responsible for cleaning and are illiterate people.

While Xi was looking through the collection of books, he would occasionally look outside the door and find that before noon, people were already leaving secretly. Some would go to the main hall to announce their presence, and some would not even say hello. , slipped away straight away.

In the main hall, Taicheng Wang, who was originally responsible for the daily affairs of the Cloud Viewing Terrace, seemed as if he had not seen him before. He just held the book and read with concentration, shaking his head and immersed in his own world.

Throughout the morning, there was only one incident related to Guanyuntai, and that was that the secretary of Shangshutai came to ask for a batch of books on rituals related to the sacrifice of captives, and borrowed a large box of books. Two servants were responsible for carrying it away...

This situation made Xi Xi, who originally accepted the task of "revising history", feel less enthusiastic.

Xi muttered in a low voice. Although he couldn't hear clearly what he was saying, he guessed it had something to do with the tangerine maize peel...

How to do this?

He needs manpower but not books, and he needs books but not books. In addition, although Xi Lu himself has the title of a disciple of Zheng Xuan, he is not Zheng Xuan after all. He really wants to compile history alone. He has the intention, but he does not have the strength. After all, Ban Shi could not finish the "Book of Han" from his birth to his death. Even though Xi Lu was arrogant, he still knew that he was incompetent at this point.

Moreover, according to the emperor's wishes, he could not move too much. Xi Lu was also deeply touched by this point. After all, the previous "job training" experience also left a deep impression on Xi Liu...

Xi Lu was also holding a book, but his mind was not on the slips at all. A sudden inspiration came to him, and he hurriedly put down the slips in his hands, stood up to leave, and took two steps before he realized what he was doing. He turned around and faced the main hall. The Taicheng Wang family saluted and said hello.

Taicheng Wang put down the book slightly, returned the gift, and then watched Xi Lu leave, with a somewhat unclear look in his eyes...

Xi Lu hurriedly returned to the Chongde Hall, met with the emperor, and reported: "Your Majesty... I think that we can start with the issue of sacrificing prisoners..."

Fei Qian had already escorted the captives of the Xiqiang rebellion to Yuzhou early before, but they had been detained, um, stranded in Yangcheng. Now the official process has finally entered and the ceremony of sacrificing prisoners is about to begin.

"I love you..." Liu Xie frowned. He didn't understand what Xi Liu meant.

Xi Lu held up his hands and said slightly vaguely, "The people who offered the sacrifices have arrived in Yuzhou long ago... Now... it must be that the general returned to the court after winning... If he is involved in this matter, he can secretly recruit people without causing trouble to him." ...』

Compiling history always requires manpower, and there also needs to be a better starting point. Xi Lu is like borrowing this time's sacrifice of prisoners, by making statistics about some of the sacrifice ceremonies, scale, frequency, etc. of the Han Dynasty, and then The acquisition of a small number of people, on the one hand, also involves the return of General Cao Cao victoriously, so that he will not be targeted by the Yingchuan faction. On the other hand, it is also an opportunity to develop some strength. At least there must be a few people under his command, so that after the prisoner dedication ceremony, Carry out follow-up matters.

Liu Xie pondered for a moment, and finally sighed, "That's right, just follow what Aiqing said..."

Xi Lu received the latest instructions and headed towards the chancellery.

Liu Xie was silent in the hall for a long time.

Cao Cao won?

Hearing what Xi Liu said, Liu Xie thought it was really possible, but... no one informed him of such a big thing! If Xi Lu hadn't happened to meet him today, Liu Xie might not have known about it until the end!

"call……"

Liu Xie sighed softly.

The sun shone slantly into Chongde Hall. Logically speaking, the current weather cannot be considered cold, but Liu Xie still felt that his hands and feet were a little cold, and he couldn't help but wrap up his robe...