Three Kingdoms

Cut off the arm?

Fei glanced at his arms subconsciously, and Fang realized in the next second that Jia Xu's words were just a reference, but who was Jia Xu referring to?

Jia Xu met Fei Qian's doubtful eyes and said calmly: "Now that Han's arms are rotten, can the king dare to kill him with a sword?"

"Please Wenhe speak frankly."

Although Fei Qian was naturally aware of this matter, Fei Qian also wanted to know how Jia Xu, a native of the Han Dynasty, viewed the current social situation.

In the Han Dynasty, the current situation naturally meant that there was a big internal problem. In fact, most dynasties basically had internal problems first, and then collapsed due to some external factors.

In later generations, influenced by some movies, TV shows, and even games, Jia Xu seemed to be an extremely selfish and high-end wise counselor in Fei Qian's impression. No matter what he did, his own life was the most important thing. What about the rest? Most of them can be exchanged or given away.

However, are these so-called impressions really the true image of Jia Xu?

There is no problem with Jia Xu's wisdom, but Fei Qian now has some doubts about Jia Xu's selfish conclusion. The reason is very simple, it is the Han Dynasty.

It is often said that Jia Xu is poisonous, but if a person is extremely selfish, sinister by nature, loves chaos and enjoys misfortune, and uses trapping others as a stepping stone to gain his own position, such a person, even if he is rampant for a while, goes against the mainstream of the upper-class gentry in the Han Dynasty. Values, basically speaking, cannot lead to a lifetime of peace. They will eventually be taken into consideration by others, and then they will be knocked to the ground and stepped on a few times.

Even though no one dares to speak out about his authority over the world while alive, what about after death?

In history, Jia Xu eventually took the position of the Three Dukes, and was given the posthumous title of Suhou before his death.

"Gundeke is called Su; those who are determined are called Su." You must know that posthumous titles have basically formed a set of standards since the Western Zhou Dynasty and by the Han Dynasty. For oneself, one's name is born from another person, which is basically a final conclusion.

Moreover, this final conclusion will not change due to status and power. For example, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty only has the word "ling" anyway, and he will not be given a higher or better posthumous title just because he is the emperor.

Therefore, what kind of person is Jia Xu?

Jia Xu took a long breath, and then said: "A certain person from Wuwei was originally from Luoyang. Later, because he was involved in the incident of King Min of Linjiang, he and his family guarded the border... During his time as a good brother, he first Yan Gong, He was once awarded the title of General of Qingqi for his martial arts... However, the Qiang and Hu rebelled, and Xian Yan was convicted for it. Although Shu Coin was often spared from death, he was demoted to a commoner, and soon fell ill..."

It is different from the way of birthplace in later generations of China. People in the Han Dynasty now call themselves where they are from where they were born and grew up. If according to the division of birthplaces in later generations of China, Jia Xu’s grandfather was from Luoyang, then his father does not matter No matter where he goes, he will still be from Luoyang. No matter where he was born, Jia Xu will still be from Luoyang. Both methods have their own merits. After all, place of origin has always been a tool created by the ruling class to restrict population mobility.

However, Jia Xu revealed a lot of information in just a few sentences. If what Jia Xu said is true, then Jia Xu should be a descendant of Jia Yi, a great literary figure in the Western Han Dynasty. The Jia family in Luoyang is famous for this person.

Jia Yi, on the other hand, was a figure spanning Confucianism, Taoism and Legalism. He also wrote articles such as "On Guo Qin", "On Accumulation and Storage", "Chen Zheng Shi Shu", etc., and even continued to study it in later generations...

"...A certain person was born in Liang and grew up in Liang..." Jia Xu said slowly, "...it can be seen that Liangzhou is becoming increasingly dilapidated...it is not that the Han people in Liangzhou are not brave, nor that the Qiang and Hu in Liangzhou are unruly, but that they have abandoned Liangzhou The harm caused by the policy... It was a common practice in the Han Dynasty that county governors were not allowed to serve locally. Therefore, the county governors of Liangzhou were mostly from Shandong. Their families were thousands of miles away, and they were located among Qiang and Hu. They smelled the fishy smell, which was completely unreasonable. They are so interested in politics that they all petitioned to withdraw from Liangzhou!"

"In ancient times, Dayu divided the world into nine states. After the Spring and Autumn Period and Pre-Qin Dynasty, the Han Dynasty was able to add thirteen states!" Jia Xu was a little excited, and his tone was higher, "...but such a foolish scholar gave up merging states first, and then wanted to Abandon Liangzhou again! How is this behavior different from cutting off the soil to feed tigers in the Spring and Autumn Period?"

Fei Qian nodded silently.

In this world, no matter it is the Han Dynasty or later, no matter at any time, peace has never been achieved by cutting off the land, but only by greedy beasts chasing the smell of blood.

In fact, the Shandong nobles may not know this, but, haha, in fact, this is also thirty years from Hedong to thirty years from Hexi. At the earliest time, Liu Bang established his capital in Chang'an, and he often cut the leeks of the Shandong nobles to eat. Now Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty has established his capital in Luoyang. Okay, were the leeks delicious back then?

Any national policy, once it is mixed with selfishness, will evolve into a very terrifying monster.

The Eastern Han Dynasty established its capital in Luoyang and implemented the Guandong-based policy. The status of Chang'an, the western capital, plummeted. As a barrier to Chang'an, Liangzhou became insignificant.

In addition, due to the ebb and flow of power between the Kanto wealthy families and the Kansai wealthy families, in order to completely defeat the Kansai wealthy families, cut off the foundation of the Kansai wealthy families, and avoid the loss of Kanto's manpower and material resources due to the Qiang and Hu rebellions, etc., the court ordered The court repeatedly proposed the national policy of abandoning Liangzhou and moving Liangzhou people into inland prefectures and counties.

Jia Xu continued: "...in the fifth year of the Yongchu period, the Qiang bandits first disappeared from the east of the river and reached Hanoi. Luoyang and Henan were greatly frightened. The people of Neijun, who were surrounded by two thousand stones and lings, had no intention of defending the war. They all competed to move to prefectures and counties to avoid the invaders. In the next three months, they ordered Longxi to move to Xiangwu, Anding to Meiyang, and north to Chiyang, and go to the county to govern the government. Under the order, the people loved their country and were not happy to leave the old days. , then they cut the grass, spread it through the houses, razed the walls of the camps, and broke the accumulation! There were droughts, locusts, and famines, and they drove and plundered, wandered and scattered, died along the way, or abandoned the old and weak, or became servants and concubines, and lost more than half of them. ! In this way, the two states have been united and become decadent to this day!"

Fei Qian looked at Jia Xu, listening and thinking.

From now on, it seems that Jia Xu has basically put himself in the perspective of Xiliang people to look at the problem...

Therefore, Jia Xu first became Dong Zhuo's staff, and later encouraged Li Jue, Guo Si and others to attack Cheng'an and avenge Dong Zhuo. There may be a certain element of life-saving, but it may not be without the intention of retaliating against the Guandong gentry.

"...Nowadays, the great Han people, all the people in Guandong are rotten. Dogs, dogs and flies are living in a camp, they are in a mess, and they have no direction. In this rotten situation, they are guilty of nine out of ten..." Jia Xu looked at Fei Qian, his eyes bright, "The world of the Han Dynasty seems to be in danger. This is a time of great crisis! The kings and princes follow the way of heaven and raise the golden sword, and follow the great righteousness to attack the ministers. This is to create a peaceful world and save the country! Now the kings and princes are cultivating and reclaiming the land. In the north, on the outskirts of the countryside, the Yinshan Mountains control the Xiongnu and surround soldiers and armor, so that the common people can live and the Xianbei people cannot be in chaos. They provide warehouses to relieve the poor, restore irrigation to promote agriculture and mulberry trees, show mercy to the widowed and widowed, preserve the lonely, give out the title of virtue, and establish Xing. As a punishment, he built a school palace and worshiped Zhengshuo. This is a blessing to the world, and it also shows the illustrious achievements of the emperor!"

"...However, if the rotten place cannot be removed, it will eventually be delayed..." Jia Xu asked proudly, "Do you dare to cut off this rotten arm?"

Let me go, you are worthy of being a thousand-year-old bastard. I didn’t expect that Jia Xu would throw such a big topic so directly!

It sounds so nice, but it seems to be the other way around, doesn't it...

According to the routine, shouldn't I be the one to say it?

Damn turtle, steal my lines...

I have a headache, I have a headache.

No wonder Jia Xu finally chose Cao Cao in history. Under certain conditions of the right time and place, Cao Cao, who had some eunuch background, was naturally much better than the two great apes who were full of smells from the wealthy people of Guandong. After all, the carrot pits under the buttocks of the two great apes are now occupied by the children of the Kanto gentry. People like Jia Xu who were born in Kansai may not have any good fruits to eat.

Well, so later Cao Pi, a rebellious boy, deliberately chose Jia Xu as the Taiwei, probably just to disgust the Shandong nobles who were against him. It was precisely because of this that the half-blood prince Sun Shiwan laughed when he heard the news. After all, civil strife in Wei is what he likes to see the most...

What's the saying?

War is a continuation of politics.

When I visited the Three Kingdoms before, I saw everything was just hacking and killing. It was so exciting and enjoyable. However, now I really understand this truth that has already appeared in junior high school politics class.

No matter how warlike a civilian is, he cannot dominate politics and there will be no war.

No matter how dictatorial a political leader is, if he is not driven by interests, there will be no war.

No matter how favorable the situation is, without military power, there will be no war.

No matter how powerful one party's armed forces are, without the support of the situation, there will be no war.

No matter how fanatical a group of people are, if there are no triggering factors, there will be no war.

No matter how reasonable the triggering conditions are, the masses cannot be mobilized and there will be no war.

War is the highest form of human struggle. In a country, or in different countries, there will definitely be class differences. People of different classes will have different interests. If political disputes cannot be resolved peacefully, If there are conflicts, war will occur...

But the question now is, under the current situation of the Han Dynasty, has the relationship between the Kanto gentry and the Kansai gentry reached an absolutely irreconcilable situation?

"...Wen He, your academic biography is biased towards Legalism?" Fei Qian suddenly brought up a topic that seemed to be irrelevant.

Jia Xu was stunned for a moment, then nodded.

No wonder.

Legalism was born from Confucianism, but it was an unfilial son and took the opposite path to Confucianism. Xunzi, the last master of the Confucian school, had two of his most famous students, one was Han Fei and the other was Li Si. However, both of them were representatives of Legalism, and they ultimately made extraordinary contributions to the unification of the Qin Dynasty. The power relied on is the thought of Legalism.

Legalist thought is not the most perfect thought. Even compared with other schools such as Confucianism, Taoism, and Mohism, it has some shortcomings in terms of theoretical depth and world cognition. Even its logical speculative theories are also somewhat lacking. The shortcoming is that Legalists only talk about right and wrong, with little or no explanation.

However, Legalism is the most realistic, operable and immediately effective organizational leadership and management theory in the early stage of social and humanities among all schools of thought.

The central idea of ​​Legalism is completely different from Confucianism, Mohism, Taoism, Yin-Yang School, etc. Confucianism, Taoism, and Mo all believe that the best era is in the past. Confucianism admires the era of Yao and Shun, Mohism admires the era of Xia and Yu, Taoism admires the ancient era of Fuxi and Shennong, and the cosmology established by the Yin-Yang School advocates the chaotic Yin-Yang universe, which is full of indescribable things. sense of mystery.

Legalism is a heresy

Legalists do not agree at all that the best era of civilization is in the past. Instead, they believe that the situation in the past was different from today. Today, we should look at the new environment pragmatically and use new methods to solve new problems instead of blindly thinking about going back to the past. Then It's a "stupid" way of thinking.

This extremely realist ideological tendency of Legalism is completely different from the "Tao" that most other schools of pre-Qin Dynasty emphasized. Although other schools have different opinions, they all claim that they are the rational embodiment of the "Tao", and this "Tao" has been consistent from ancient times to the present. The opinions of their own schools do not violate this "Tao" since ancient times. .

However, Legalists do not need to prove whether their thoughts and practices are in line with the ancient "Tao". As long as they can be operated and practical in reality, and are adopted by the king.

In other words, practicality is the "Tao" of Legalism.

The Legalist theory of governing the country is also very realistic. It is not like Confucianism, which expects everyone to do good, become a gentleman, and ultimately achieve a harmonious "Great Harmony" world. Legalists only consider that people should "not do evil", and the way to achieve this goal is to establish complete laws and then strictly enforce the law.

From the Legalist point of view, "establishing virtue" is meaningless, and character inspiration is useless, because Legalists believe that "human nature is inherently evil" and any attempt to persuade human nature to be good is futile and can only be done externally. The method, even the severe method, to restrain talents is effective, otherwise the society will not be well governed. And this kind of governance method is the law and the majesty of the king, or in layman's terms, it is the "emperor's art" and "the art of controlling people".

To put it more simply, Legalists believe that those who do right things should be rewarded, and those who do wrong things should be punished.

Therefore, this is Jia Xu's attitude towards the Guandong nobles. Since the Han Dynasty did not do well under their control, these Guandong nobles should bear corresponding responsibilities. Those who should be removed from office should be dismissed, and those who should be investigated and punished. Those who should be executed will be executed. If the Guandong nobles are unwilling to do it, then Jia Xu will do it with the help of Li Jue and Guo Si...

Or, like now, I want to borrow Fei Qian's hand to do it. But why does Jia Xu think Fei Qian is a suitable candidate?

"Wen He, don't forget, I am from Heluo..." Fei Qian also smiled bitterly. Heluo is considered to be relatively close to Guandong. If he wanted to kill the nobles of Guandong, wouldn't he have to kill himself too?

"The words of the lord are wrong..." Jia Xu shook his head and said, "...the lord and the lord have the power to unite with the soldiers of the north, settle Pingyang, pacify Baibo, fight Meiji, restore Yinshan, station in Huguan, and cage the party. , taking control of Taiyuan, all these things have become like water and fire with Guandong..."

"...Unless," Jia Xu glanced at Fei Qian and said, "...unless the monarch disarms and returns to his fields and retires to Jingxiang."

Fei Qian was silent.

Is this choice possible?

It's obviously impossible. Even if Fei Qian is willing to let go now, I'm afraid many people are not willing to. Besides, there is an example of the Korean Festival in front of him, who dares to let go?

However, what is the purpose of Jia Xu’s expression? Does it mean that he feels that compared to other princes, Feiqian is still a choice that favors the western side of Kansai? Or is it still a desperate act to save one's life first?