Shandong's resistance was fierce and came from a heartfelt reluctance, thinking that Liu Heng had gone too far.
Since ancient times, I have never heard of the principle of treating noble people harshly because of humble people.
It is we who maintain the emperor's rule, we are the ones who serve as generals and ministers, and we are even the ones who provide money, effort and people during wars.
As a result, we are now being cut off from our flesh to feed those despicable people. What’s the point?
This is the inner thought of most people, and this idea is not the consciousness of a single person, but the consciousness of an entire group, and even this consciousness is extremely difficult to change.
Even among today's passionate and righteous students, many of them will one day join this group as they grow older, accumulate wealth, and increase their land holdings. Even because they possess rich knowledge, they will become more loyal. powerful.
Someone wrote a letter asking: "Your Majesty has always governed your world with benevolence, but now that you have achieved great results, why do you abandon the practices that made you prosperous?
If Mrs. Liu cannot obtain a distinguished status, how can you demonstrate your majesty?
If the nobles cannot protect the family, then in what ways will your grace be expressed?
I am really worried about your kingdom. Is there a long-lasting dynasty that is unpopular since ancient times? "
These people's petitions were not just what they thought, but many people were pushing for it. There were even some people in Chang'an City who supported Liu Heng on the surface, but secretly arranged for people to hinder the implementation of the policy.
After Liu Heng learned about it, he angrily said: "The life, death, misfortune and fortune of the ministers are destined by God, but the kindness, failure, honor and disgrace are determined by the monarch.
My kindness is not only extended to you, but also to the people, and even to the birds and beasts. This is the bright road to the Holy King.
Receiving the salary from the monarch, accepting the land granted by the monarch, and enjoying the power granted by the monarch, yet he said such slanderous words about the monarch.
It hinders the monarch from becoming a holy king!
Is this what a minister should do?
How shameless this is.
Are people with no virtue like you worthy of standing under the sky with me? "
At this point, many staunch people couldn't bear the humiliation and committed suicide directly.
After all, if you don't want to live under the sky, you can't let the emperor commit suicide, so you can only do it yourself.
These people would rather die than admit that they were wrong or that they were immoral.
This move made Liu Heng come back to his senses from his anger. The stubbornness deep in the minds of these people made Liu Heng feel unbelievable. This was completely different from his bottom-level thinking after receiving Luo Xin's teachings.
Liu Heng then said: "I heard that the ancient sages would help the poor when they saw them, feed the hungry people when they saw them, and add clothes to the cold people when they saw them.
When the sage king did this, poverty, hunger, and cold would no longer exist in the world, and the world would be governed into a prosperous age.
You have countless gold, silver and jade, so much of it fills your secret rooms. The copper coins are piled in the cellar like mountains. You wear precious silks and satins, and you have to change them every day, and then throw them away casually. , what a luxury this is.
Look at the people in the fields. They work hard in the fields all day long, and their skin becomes dark as the sun shines on them.
The mud and sweat mixed together, so his face could not be seen clearly. He was wearing linen clothes that could be seen everywhere. There were many holes in them and he was reluctant to throw them away.
You still have to face taxes and corvee labor, and the surplus food you can save at the end of the year is just enough for one meal.
I am really disappointed.
This is not royal government, but atrocities, and the crisis of the overthrow of the Han Dynasty lies in this. "
The country is overthrown!
Liu Heng's words were so serious. His determination was demonstrated in them, and the whole world suddenly fell silent.
The Confucian scholars shouted that Liu Heng was the holy king who came down from heaven to bring peace. With such a backbone supporting them, they were even more motivated.
Students from Legalism and Xun Confucianism also worked bravely and diligently in this action. The mobility of students from these two schools was simply off the charts.
Officials sent from the imperial court went to various places, and the methods of supervising the administration were naturally different. The Legalist methods were always cruel. Although the ideas changed a little, the methods would not change. They started enforcing the law with the Han Code.
A few years ago, Luo Jing gathered the world's powerful people in Handan, and then moved most of them to Guanzhong. Many of those powerful people became court officials, and then followed Shangguan back to their hometown during the process of clearing the land. .
When the most powerful tycoons leave the local area, the remaining inferior tycoons will naturally occupy their original ecological niche.
No matter they were Legalist students or powerful people who took the initiative to leave the local area, they felt unhappy when they saw these people.
In addition, there are no tycoons who make a clean fortune in this world. These people must have done something illegal that violated Han law. So the situation quickly developed to the point where the officials sent by the imperial court used Han law to drive these local tycoons into bankruptcy. situation.
Clearing the land has turned into confiscating the property!
This matter soon reached Liu Heng's ears, and he immediately summoned Luo Jing and Jia Yi for discussion.
“This kind of trend must not be encouraged!”
The three people quickly set the tone, that is, this trend cannot be allowed to continue.
Liu Heng said with some memories: "When King Luo Wen taught me, he specifically told me that unless it was a last resort, cruelty politics should never be used.
On the surface, ruthless politics may seem like it can quickly eradicate some harmful powerful people, but in reality, the consequences are endless and will completely worsen the political situation and bottom line of the entire country. Once damaged, it will be extremely difficult to recover. "
Is it a pleasure to clean up powerful people through politics of ruthless officials?
quick!
This is obvious to all. As long as the emperor supports it, killing those powerful people is like killing a pig. It is easy to kill all the powerful people, and then divide the land and wealth, and the counties will be in great control.
It sounds really wonderful.
Then what?
New heroes are born, and they learn from previous experiences and become stronger. If they kill again, they will be trapped in this reincarnation forever.
Liu Heng now has enough ability and prestige to do these things. What if the next emperor's prestige is not enough to kill those powerful people?
At that time, the place was full of people who were born hostile to the imperial court!
As long as Liu Heng thought about it, he felt that the scene was too terrifying. This was also a major reason why he changed the mandatory tomb.
Whoever created the figurines has no descendants?
The imperial court used those extraneous tactics over and over again, which caused great harm to politics.
As for powerful people, they have their own way of doing things, so it is natural to clean them up. Just listen to this sentence.
If he could really act in accordance with the law, Luo's attitude towards Legalism might change a lot.
But what is the reality? The emperor has the final say whether or not to take action, and what to do with it after taking action.
In real history, Huo Qubing killed Li Gan. According to previous cases, this should have been a capital crime, but Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did not take it seriously at all.
Even Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, a great lord who could stand out among the five most powerful rulers in history, treated the law in this way. You can only imagine what the attitude of the other monarchs would be.
In this era of autocratic monarchy, talking about the rule of law is like telling a wolf not to eat a sheep. Ridiculous is not enough to describe it, it can only be described as absurd.
It was precisely after Luo Shi saw this that he complied with the situation, giving priority to the rule of man and supplementing the rule of law. Luo Shi was at least confident in his own moral character.
At the national level, Luo hopes to form a form of "how should be done" through a balanced relationship between morality and the rule of law, which is somewhat like "customary law" to determine how to do things based on local conditions and actual conditions, rather than simply A simple sitting method to kill.
Liu Heng was deeply influenced by this kind of thinking, so since he took office, even though he had exiled so many officials, they did not resent him much. Even those exiled officials cried bitterly and thought that they were wrong and that Liu Heng Heng has given them the highest grace.
Not to mention other officials, who do not harm their own kind, and do not feel sad when a rabbit dies or a fox dies. Instead, they secretly warn themselves not to touch His Majesty the Emperor's bottom line.
Liu Heng got too many benefits from this way of doing things. He didn't like to do it head-on with real swords and guns.
“How can those who clean up these people use the excuse of sitting in law?
Apart from Luo, are there any officials in the world who do not obey the law?
Immediately send an envoy to Jiaodong Kingdom to pass on my order and stop confiscation of homes. You are really looking for trouble for me. "
Liu Heng quickly made a decision. He first wanted to set an example to other court officials and tell them that they could not use pure legal reasons to clear land.
Even if you want to kill these people, you must let the world know that you were killed because you defied the general trend. The imperial court has known about you for a long time, but it has always given you opportunities, but you didn't want them, and even kicked your nose in the face. , His Majesty the Emperor was forced to kill you.
Liu Heng's order was quickly conveyed to Shandong by messenger. The powerful and inexplicable grief and anger gradually calmed down in the face of Liu Heng's comfort. The eager officials saw this and restrained their thoughts of killing.
The land inventory began to be slowly carried out according to the normal process. After experiencing this incident, many people who had tried to stop it before were a little more cooperative.
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Taizong of the Han Dynasty was a highly respected emperor in ancient China. He represented the literati ideal of an emperor. That is, the emperor himself was smart and wise, and he was good at listening to the advice of his ministers. He was close to those with outstanding abilities and stayed away from those who had great influence on the country. He is always able to understand the difficulties of his ministers when they are disadvantaged, and does not ask them to be morally perfect. In some aspects, he is not obsessed with the implementation of the law, but it is not trampling on it. Instead, he believes that the law may not be reasonable enough, but The ministers all know his bottom line, that is, they must not trample on people's lives at will. ——"General History of the World·Qin and Han Dynasty Volume Three"
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