Zhaocheng.
Such important news must of course be conveyed to Zhaocheng. The Luo family in Zhaocheng came excitedly to inform Luo Ling of the news.
"Master, the Spring and Autumn Classics was established as an official school by the Han court, and Qi Fa and Meng Ru were all listed as doctoral students as secondary schools. These Confucian scholars said they must uphold the king's way and bring peace to the world. I really want to see what they can do. The situation!"
Luo Ling felt that the family's heritage had become deeper in the past few days, but he was stunned for a long time when faced with this news.
Luo Ling is not too academically gifted, but he has a high level of power struggle and a good understanding of reality. He may not be able to write these classics written by sages, but he will know as soon as he reads these classics that they are too Too vague.
It goes without saying that the Mohists love everything but don’t attack. The Confucianists want to bring peace and establish a kingly order, which is nothing more than what they did in the Luo Kingdom in the past.
Through the powerful ruler of the Luo Kingdom, the country's wealth will be redistributed to ensure that there will be no extreme poverty. Then, through commercial taxes, etc., the school will be built to open up the path for advancement. Finally, the Luo Kingdom will be wiped out from the Qing Dynasty. After eliminating the barbarians around the country, they consciously controlled the population of the country, and this was how the country was maintained for thousands of years.
Nowadays, Confucian scholars say that although the world is affluent, there are still huge problems. As the saying goes, "the rich are connected by thick and thin." Although the poor have not yet reached the point where they have no place to stand, it will happen sooner or later.
Because in the past it was just King Luowen who forcibly suppressed and attacked a wave of powerful people, but the real source of all the troubles, that is, the land annexation has not been solved, that is, treating the symptoms but not the root cause.
The various scholars are such smart people. How could they not see the harm of land annexation?
Even they know that as long as the land is nationalized and then redistributed, most of the world's problems can be solved.
The theory is very beautiful, and the reasons are even relatively accurate, but in Luo Ling's view, the only problem is that it is unrealistic.
Whether you are a person or a country, you should do the right thing at the right time.
In real history, an extremely tyrannical monarch like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had almost unlimited power. He could force middle-class businessmen all over the world to go bankrupt with just one order. However, he could not completely implement it on the matter of land. The person who really implemented it was Wang Mang, then he was gone.
Luo Ling felt a little uneasy in his heart. He didn't know where the world would go, but he knew that unrealistic reforms would only lead to the most chaotic ending.
The most important thing is that he is not young anymore.
He is very old and doesn't know how long he can protect his family.
If he dies, the family's supernatural abilities will be greatly reduced.
Because he is the only human shadow of King Su, the god on earth, who can activate those powerful artifacts at a very small cost.
Once he dies, future family heads may not be willing to spend their family's wealth to activate artifacts to maintain the family.
The gods of the four seasons and other artifacts that can now be used at will may not be used once in more than a hundred years.
The most frightening thing is that the descendants of the Luo family will probably support the path followed by the Confucian scholars!
Looking at the excitement on the faces of the family members who just came to deliver the letter, you can see how attractive the scene in Luo Country was to the clan members.
That is the immortal achievement created by our ancestors!
A demigod like Luoling would sometimes want to use artifacts to achieve that kind of immortality, let alone other people.
"The head of the family."
Seeing that Luo Ling remained silent, the group of people who came to deliver the letter gave a tentative call.
"A common problem among wise people is that they worry about things in vain!"
Luo Ling, who had been silent for a long time, commented to himself. It's just that he is worried about things that may happen in the future. This is a common problem among wise people.
Maybe Confucianism was abandoned by the emperor not long after taking power, and everything went back to Huang Lao Taoism or Legalism?
"Reply to A Jing and try your best to restrain the steps of the Confucian scholars. Take them to visit the people more often and work in the farmland. Don't think about running into the world of Datong. That is unrealistic."
In the end, Luo Ling just asked people to take this sentence back to Chang'an. As for the extent to which Luo Jing could control it, that was not something he could know.
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Dong Ahou Mansion.
Luo Jing received Luo Ling's letter, and he could feel his uncle's worry from the handwriting, which calmed down his restless heart.
"There is no need to compile and excerpt this poem now. My husband needs to think carefully about whether to submit it."
Several women who were excerpting for Luo Jing stopped their pens after hearing this and looked at Luo Jing with doubts on their faces. They were all rare and beautiful women, ranging in age from 28 to 20 years old. Yes, because there are many concubines in Luo Jing, except for one person sent by Zhaocheng, there are no maids waiting around. They are all handled by the concubines themselves, also for the purpose of getting along day and night.
"My dear friend, if you submit this essay, your majesty will be delighted. It praises the prosperity of the Han Dynasty. I am afraid that the bamboo forest outside Chang'an City will be cut down again to make bamboo slips to copy your essay."
A woman who looked at a rather small and exquisite woman said with a smile and a soft voice. She was the daughter of King Kuaiji and the head of the Han Dynasty. She was not the only daughter of the clan who married into the Dong'ahou Mansion.
In the Dong'ahou Mansion, there are also other sisters within her fifth server, as well as juniors and elders. After all, in a family as large as the Liu Royal Family, seniority and age have never been linked.
She is one of Luo Jing's favorite concubines. She already has one son or two daughters, which is relatively large among the many concubines.
"My dear, what did Lord Zhaogong say?"
When Luo Ling was mentioned, these women sat upright one after another.
For Luo Ling, except for the emperor Liu Heng and the Queen Mother, everyone in the world calls Luo Ling "Shang Jun" in formal occasions and "Maharaja" in private. This is Luo Ling's special status.
Luo Jing pondered for a moment and then handed the letter in his hand to everyone to see. This letter was nothing, and most people couldn't read the worry in it. Only those who knew Luo Ling better could see it.
Sure enough, after seeing it, all the women laughed and said: "It's nothing, Lord Zhaogong just reminds you to pay more attention.
Isn’t this world in its peak state?
Is the scene in this world any different from what you have done in your poem?
I thought there was none.
You are unwilling to dedicate this gift to His Majesty, presumably because you are worried about whitewashing prosperity while the reality is messy, but the world is inherently peaceful.
I think I should dedicate it to Your Majesty. Your Majesty is such a benevolent monarch.
If we see the prosperous scene of this prosperous age and see the people in the world living and working in peace and contentment, they will definitely work harder to govern. Isn't this what a good minister should do?
I also ask my dear friend to think about it more. I will give you all my words here. "
Luo Jing looked at Tian Han Qi San, who wrote the article in an excited mood, and said, "You are really a wise woman.
It's because you worry too much about your husband.
Just follow what you said, continue to organize and correct, and I will present it to your Majesty as my husband tomorrow.
As a minister, if you cannot solve the problems for the country and instead hesitate to move forward, that would be wrong. My husband almost fell into such a strange circle. "
Seeing that her persuasion was reasonable, the woman smiled and started copying again. The others looked at this scene with envy. She was naturally capable of being favored by Luo Jing.
The next day.
Luo Jing walked into the palace with a roll of bamboo slips, feeling a little heavy, and thought to himself: "I wonder how the family's transformation of paper has gone. If one day we can really change the current heavy bamboo slips, it will be a deed of immeasurable merit."
In fact, in today's world, there is something similar to the paper of later generations, but it is a kind of paper that is extremely costly and inconvenient to use. It is also very brittle and easily damaged.
What has always been needed to be recorded is knowledge, and knowledge is something more precious than gold and jewels, so no one has ever used such junk things.
Although bamboo slips have many shortcomings, as long as they are properly maintained, they can be kept for a long time. There are even bamboo slips from a thousand years ago in Zhaocheng.
Human beings are born to believe that immortal things are the most precious. This is how gold became a precious metal. The same is true for bamboo slips. This kind of object that can last for a very long time, in addition to its high cost and inconvenience to carry, is the most suitable for recording knowledge.
But Luo wanted to get something that could spread knowledge more easily, so he needed a new material. He tried for a long time, and paper appeared in Luo's eyes.
So Rockefeller began the development of paper and invested a lot of money in it, but it continued to fail and no progress was made.
Without reference, this is the normal result of research. Even after investing a lot of manpower and material resources, it is very possible to find that the direction is wrong and get nothing.
In real history, although the aristocratic families of the Eastern Han Dynasty were a cancer on the country, this group of people really produced a lot of useful things. They made great achievements in astronomy, geography, arithmetic, machinery, etc. As a result, they were all wiped out by the horrific annihilation at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
In this period when aristocratic families have not yet fully emerged, only the Luo family and some wealthy princes and kings of the Liu family with special interests have the time and energy to study such thankless things.
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There are two kinds of opinions circulating at the same time in the mainstream public opinion of society. One is a criticism of powerful families in ancient times, believing that these people control the path of social advancement and are completely hindering the process of history. The other is a criticism of Luo Shi. The praise of the largest aristocratic family, this is a very awkward ecology, but if we open the history books, we can get the answer to this question, that is, Luo Family has always been the leader of civilization, and Luo Family has always worked tirelessly to spread civilization. To every corner of society, inventions such as papermaking and so on, this is why he is praised. ——"Luo Culture"
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