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Although Chen Xi would despise the upper reaches of history no matter what, Chen Xi rarely despised those ancient thinkers and the development of classical science.
Chen Xi really wanted to get a glimpse of the previous era, that is, the pre-Qin period. However, history is history after all, and Chen Xi could only understand the light of wisdom of that era from classics.
If the era after Pre-Qin is an era in which schools chased the times and then gradually fell behind, then before Pre-Qin, it was an era in which schools chased after schools of thought.
Can you imagine that in an era when there was no enough food or clothing, someone proposed the ultimate state of socialism? At that time, someone proposed the concept of utopia, and then immediately someone played dystopia, and even built a complete set of ideological theories based on dystopia.
By the way, if you verify this theory from all angles, there is actually no problem. "If you lose a penny to benefit the world, don't give it away; if you know the whole world, don't take it." I ask you whether you accept it. Human rights and freedom All covered.
Ancient thinkers and philosophers, those before the pre-Qin period can basically be equated with monsters. To say it is too much, the foundation of Chinese culture for the next two thousand years was formed in that era, including written language, literature, idioms, allusions, and idioms. Etc. are basically formed in that era when various scholars fought against each other.
In the so-called era of great struggle, what is fought for is not only the country, but also the thoughts and theories of the philosophers. Hundreds of years of contention and hundreds of years of collision. If it is a spark of wisdom at the beginning, it is estimated that the sparks will be lost later. Can grill skewers.
After Confucianism unified the scholars and completely overpowered all the theories, there was no such grand occasion anymore. The scholars no longer had that foundation, and the Confucian scholars had no rivals.
At that time, Confucianism emphasized the six arts, mounting a horse to become a general, and dismounting a horse to become a prime minister. In the end, it gradually succumbed to the times and became a poor scholar who only knew how to do it.
Without the restraint and edification of Confucian students' moral thoughts by ritual music, without the physical strengthening and training of Confucian scholars by archeology, and without the thoroughness and rigor of mathematics, all that is left is what is written in books.
It would be a shame if future generations of Confucian scholars could still keep up with the times under such circumstances.
Therefore, the existence of hundreds of schools of thought is very necessary, and the struggle between various university sects and the struggle between various university sects are a growing foundation for a country.
Although the struggle between hundreds of schools of thought will inevitably turn into an attack between aristocratic families, hundreds of schools will provide ideas, and aristocratic families will provide money, people, and schools. In the end, it will form a model that is close to the academic lords and aristocratic families. However, compared with what the Han Empire could obtain, In terms of benefits, Chen Xi thinks he can give it a try.
Anyway, Baijia is still a weak chicken now, let alone the school factions, they are almost driven to death by Confucianism. Maybe some schools need Chen Xi to secretly provide some nutrition to survive, otherwise, they may die before they can survive. .
Although for schools like this, as long as one dominant Confucian school is destroyed, other schools of thought can grow out of their corpses, even if they are dead, the problem is that some schools have been eliminated so early that they no longer even have ideas. For example, what are the schools? Ji Ranxue, Yangtze, Huizi Xingming, over the past few hundred years, all the schools of thought have also fallen on their knees.
Therefore, Chen Xi's idea is to support the various schools of thought first, and even provide some subsidies if necessary, regardless of whether he is a promiscuous person, is still unable to make it to the stage, or has a long-lasting inheritance.
Just like sowing seeds in a vegetable garden, strange things will definitely grow out of it, but that doesn't matter. No matter if they are medicinal materials, weeds, or vegetables, you can definitely find the best way to use them.
Maybe one day a big tree will grow there, blocking the sun or something. If you can't cut it down then, you can just sow something else. As for whether cutting down the tree will collapse your house or something, that depends on the individual. It's up to you.
Anyway, the Han Dynasty is hungry now and needs to grow a lot of vegetables. Everything else is just drizzle.
Xun Yu, Xun You and others also knew this. However, in the past situation, it was difficult to shake the dominance of the Confucian family, and without absolute certainty, hundreds of schools of thought wearing the cloak of Confucianism did not dare to mess around. .
"So just take care of the current affairs. As for the future, let's talk about it when the time comes. Maybe the situation will be much better than you expected, or maybe we will have done something wrong by then?" Chen Xi curled his lips. said.
Everyone else shook their heads when they heard this. Only Chen Xi could take such a thing so lightly.
"I don't know how they are doing with the Southern Xiongnu's hometown just a few seconds ago?" Xun Yu changed the topic and said.
"If something like this goes wrong, I don't think I will dare to use him in the future. How dare you do it?" Chen Xi said angrily.
"Having said that, no one can say it accurately on the battlefield." Xun Yu nodded, but he nodded out of habit.
"If something goes wrong with something so easy, it's better to stop using it immediately." Chen Xi said with a speechless face, "To be fair, the Southern Huns seem to have hundreds of thousands of people."
"As far as I know, the population of the Southern Huns is around one million, but after excluding the old, weak, sick and disabled, there are only 300,000 available," Jia Xu said, "counting the other miscellaneous men we captured, as well as Sun Bofu and the others. We probably arrested close to 900,000 of that wave of miscreants."
"So many?" Chen Xi looked surprised.
"Isn't there so much?" Guo Jia looked at Chen Xi speechlessly, "You guys don't care about this at all and just idle around all day long."
"Say it as if you are working!" Chen Xi can allow Xun Yu to say this, allow Chen Qun to say this, allow Zhuge Liang to say this, but absolutely not allow Guo Jia to say it, because Guo Jia is also lazy, okay? .
"That's enough for you two. Don't stop taking fifty steps and making a hundred steps." Chen Qun said depressedly. These two guys didn't work well. "Zichuan, why do you want so many prisoners? To be honest, since the founding of the country, There is really no other era where so many prisoners have been captured.”
"It's useful. These people are all useful." Chen Xi thought for a while and said.
"Do you know that although these people are only given half a meal every day to prevent them from recovering their physical strength, these are hundreds of thousands of prisoners. If they are not engaged in production every day, they will eat horse chews, and they will go down a mountain in a day." Chen Qun sighed. said.
"It's hard to catch them. It's too bad to let them go. We can solve this problem when we get back to the Central Plains. These slaves are equivalent to money." Chen Xi said with a smile, "And hundreds of thousands of young and capable people are working. You know how to solve a lot of problems.”
"It can indeed solve many problems, but resettlement is also a very big problem." Chen Qun sighed and said, "This is not a small number, but there are actually hundreds of thousands of people, so resettlement is a very big problem."
"Don't worry, don't worry." Chen Xi waved his hand, "This is very simple. It's much simpler than when I had nothing in Mount Tai. At that time, we didn't even have absolute strength. There were bandits in Mount Tai, and they didn't need any money. Money is needed but no one wants it, so in the end, won’t I build Fenggao?”
"Having said that, these are just bastards after all." Chen Qun glanced at Chen Xi and said.
Chen Xi wiped his sweat and didn't realize that Chen Qun was also a ruthless person. However, considering that even the people of the Central Plains could ignore this guy, he had a gentle face, maybe it was just to cover up his dark heart.
"I will select all the craftsmen, craftsmen, horses, cattle and sheep, and serve as official slaves for the others. After working for ten years, I will register their households." Chen Xicai did not believe Chen Qun's deception. It is true that food has been consumed very quickly recently, but for the sake of a better future, Chen Xi will never kill the people who are currently wasting food.
"As for the so-called management difficulty, ha, this does not exist for us. I have managed more people than this." Chen Xi curled his lips and said.
"Actually, what I'm more curious about is, why do you have so much work to do?" Chen Qun said with a curious look on his face.
"I also want to dig a four-carriage straight road from Qishan Road to Chengdu." Chen Xi curled his lips and said. Chen Qun couldn't help but wipe a cold sweat after hearing this, and Xun Yu and others also looked shocked.
"Ahem, are you kidding?" Chen Qun said awkwardly, but he didn't find any joking expression on Chen Xi's face. Chen Qun was already convinced that he had to make a smooth road from Qishan Road to Sichuan and Sichuan. I don't know what to say in reply.
"You think I look like I'm joking right now?" Chen Xi curled his lips and said, completely ignoring whether Guo Jia, Jia Xu and others could accept such an impact.
"Ahem, Zichuan, I think we should calculate the amount of work. Moreover, the roads in Sichuan and Shu, let alone four, are not easy to repair even if they are one-way roads. There are many mountains there, and in many places even They are all backed by cliffs." Jia Xu coughed twice, thinking that Chen Xi had brain congestion again and was about to do something random.
"Well, you don't think I made the decision casually, do you? This plan was a long time ago, and building roads along the mountains is too nonsense. I know the mountains in Sichuan even if you don't tell me. ." Chen Xi curled his lips and said.
"How can we build a road if we don't build it along the mountain?" Chen Qun looked at He Cen Xi's expressions and found that the other party seemed to be serious about it, and generally speaking, Chen Xi said it was a plan a few years ago, which means that the completion of the plan is still possible. The execution level is very high.
"When you encounter a mountain, just dig a hole through it. Anyway, you can look back and see the land, Kanyu, Feng Shui, all kinds of methods are available. When you encounter a mountain, you can dig a hole directly through the mountain, and then directly build a bridge between the mountains. You can build a bridge, but you can't build a bridge between two mountains?" Chen Xi curled his lips and said with slight disdain.
At this moment, Chen Qun looked at Chen Xi with a hint of admiration. He could still have fun building roads like this!
"..." Jia Xu was a little confused. This way of building roads was a bit cruel, but it seemed that the Qin State had tried this before, but gave up after trying it once.
"First of all, can you tell me whether this can be repaired?" Chen Xi rolled his eyes and said, "Wenru said it can be repaired, but according to his estimation, even if you have inner energy, Feng Shui, and people who can teach you, there are still people who have conducted hydrology and mountain ranges for several years. Years of exploration would probably cost more than 100,000 people to build such a road in ten years."
"After all, it is not easy to dig out mountains and rocks. Even if you have inner energy and can use the method of water and fire, it is not easy to dig such a road. But if it is completed, there will be no natural dangers in Sichuan and Shu, and it will be completely connected to the Central Plains." Xun Yu said silently, "A strategy that harms one generation but benefits the future."
"It's such nonsense that it hurts a generation. This is why we caught so many miscreants. Let's put it this way, even if there is no such thing as the Northern Huns, I will wipe out the entire north in the future, whether it is to avoid future troubles, hold the grassland, and thicken it. It is indispensable for the foundation of the country and for some dangerous and heavy construction in the country." Chen Xi curled his lips and said.
"Actually, our generation has only a few large-scale projects in my plan." Chen Xi said with a sneer, "The Sichuan-Sichuan Straight Road plan is just one of them, the Yangtze and Yellow River dredging plan, the Grand Canal plan, and the Thirteen Prefecture Roads Network plans, these projects require people.”
Jia Xu silently raised his head to the sky. He suddenly realized that according to Chen Xi's plan at that time, if it was really completed, there would be no possibility of severing the connection between north, south, and east and west, and Chang'an's troops and horses could be dispatched within a month with just one order. Appear anywhere in the Han Dynasty.
"Zichuan, did you design the entire world as a basic plan from the beginning?" Jia Xu asked slowly after being silent for a while. There was nothing to hide at this time.
"Oh, I forgot." Chen Xi thought for a while, but he couldn't quite remember what he was thinking at the beginning. Maybe Jia Xu was right.
"The four major plans will completely tie the central and local governments together, right?" Xun Yu asked after being silent for a while.
"Well, the rest doesn't matter. The country must be a whole, and the division between east, west, north and south is actually a problem of difficulty of governance." Chen Xi shook his head and said, "The main reason why the lands of Sichuan, Shu and Wu Chu are difficult to rule is that they are beyond the reach of the whip. , and as basic disks, these places are absolutely not allowed to be divided.”
"So in order to save trouble or avoid future troubles, you directly connect the river channel from the Yangtze River to the Yellow River, passing through Luoyang, Chang'an, and north to Jicheng?" Jia Xu deeply felt Chen Xi's courage.
Well, this is not courage, this is completely a way of forcibly solving the problem. The cost of rule is high, but we cannot give up. It is beyond the reach of the whip. Since it is difficult to lengthen the whip, then change the horse. Changing the horse cannot change the person. In short, if you have more surface, add water, more water. I just wanted to do it in a simple and crude way.
To be honest, this method can be thought of by one person. The problem is that the only person who can think of it so far is Chen Xi. It is really easier said than done.
"Oh, I don't think there is a better way than this. In fact, it is not for Huainan, Huaibei, Guandong and Kansai, but more to ensure that the central government controls the place." Chen Xi spread his hands and said completely indifferently.
