Chapter 258 The Great Confucian King (Seven)

Author: Xianren Grass Tofu Milk

Chapter 258 The Great Confucian King (Seven)

Twelve years later

The second year of Yanguang (123 AD)

Longxi County

Wang Xu, who was already sixty years old, came to Liangzhou again. There was a deserted Gobi Desert at his feet, and there were many refugees migrated by the imperial court in front of him.

"mother--"

"Give me some food, please."

"My child, who stole my child! Ah woo woo woo woo woo--"

The refugees set out from Guanzhong in groups and went to Liangzhou to reclaim land and live in places with water.

They were originally from Liangzhou. More than ten years ago, the Qiang people rebelled, and the imperial court directly gave up Liangzhou and moved them to Guanzhong to live under someone's roof.

I finally reclaimed a few pieces of farmland on some barren land in Guanzhong and barely could support myself.

As a result, two years ago, the court finally suppressed all the Qiang people involved in the rebellion. Liangzhou, which had been occupied for more than ten years, was regained again, so the court moved them back to Liangzhou to enrich the population.

After migrating over and then migrating back and forth, many Han people died on the migration path.

There were nearly two million people in Liangzhou, but more than 300,000 died in the Qiang rebellion, more than 400,000 died in the famine caused by the court's heavy taxes, and more than 600,000 died on the way back and forth. There are only more than 600,000 people left in the entire Liangzhou.

Since the food must be brought by oneself and the court had no money to distribute food, people continued to die on the migration route.

At night, I had to worry about other refugees stealing their children and eating them.

From time to time, some unbearable refugees rebel directly, but immediately nearby officers and soldiers came to suppress them.

Although the court could not meet their food needs, it could meet their iron fist needs.

No one cares about people starving to death on the road, but if someone says he wants to rebel, then someone cares.

"What are the people? Alas..."

Wang Xu couldn't bear it anymore, so he took out half of his rations and prepared to distribute them to the refugees present.

"Sir, no!" A young man next to him quickly dissuaded.

This young man was handsome and named Dong Junya. He was a powerful child in Lun County, Yingchuan County. He had about thirty tenants and hundreds of acres of land in his family. The family could barely afford to study in elementary school and be able to read literacy. Although the children in the family were not considered scholars, they were still poor children who could understand the words.

His father was the chief clerk of the county. When Wang Xu passed by Yingchuan and taught the classics by the way in Yingchuan, many people went to listen, so Dong Junya seized this opportunity to listen.

Wang Xu advocated that there was no difference in religion, and that no matter whether it was a gentry or a powerful man, even the old peasants at the bottom could come and listen to his sermons of scriptures.

Although even rich peasants can afford to buy the basic books used to read, only ordinary people cannot afford it, those real Confucian classics are either worth a thousand gold, or are inherited by others, outsiders either have connections or spend a lot of money, otherwise it would be impossible to get in touch with these Confucian classics.

If you cannot access Confucian classics, it means that it is impossible to become an official through the supervision and recommendation system. At most, you will be an official in your life. If you are lucky, you can obtain military merits and transform into an official by joining the army.

Because the classics are the threshold for the recommendation system.

First of all, you must understand the classics to be qualified to become the target group of the inspection system. After becoming the target group of the inspection system, the prefect will select a survey system with family background from many goals and become an official in the court.

In other words, if you don’t understand the classics, you can’t even get in the door of the system of recommendation, let alone give money or something.

First of all, you must understand the classics and enter this Confucian threshold, and then you can rely on giving money or using your own family background to allow the prefect to take charge of himself.

Otherwise, you will not find a way to just send money.

However, classics are not so easy to obtain.

Even if a wealthy family buys some books on classics with money, someone must explain it. Otherwise, if you only have books, you can't understand the meaning of the sentences above. And you are willing to buy it, and others may not be willing to sell it.

After all, not everyone has the courage and luck of the Wang family in Liaodong, who can obtain the classics through robbery.

But there are only a few great scholars who can explain the classics, and each of them is very busy.

Therefore, when Wang Xu passed by Yingchuan for free teaching of the Confucianism, there were instant people crowding with countless powerful children and peddlers crowded on the grass, with about 20,000 or 30,000 people. The people behind him could not hear what Wang Xu said at all, but they still had to crowd over, just to have a capital to show off in the future. When they met others in the future, they could boast with great pride: I once listened to the teachings of the Confucianism under the seat of a great scholar.

Two years ago, Empress Dowager Deng passed away. According to the characteristics of the Han Dynasty, the emperor and eunuchs launched a great purge on the Deng family's relatives. The Deng family died and the Guan family was in the Guan family.

Everyone is used to this kind of classic plot.

Except for the relatively treacherous Wang family relatives, they ran away in time after making money and let others take the blame, thus saving the family. The other relatives and families were too greedy and wanted to keep the power in their hands forever, and eventually ended up dead and destruction.

The eunuch Cai Lun once killed the emperor's biological mother. She was protected by Empress Dowager Deng, so the emperor could only tolerate it. With the fall of the Deng family's relatives, Cai Lun knew that he would definitely be executed by the power of the emperor Liu Hu. In order to prevent Emperor Liu Hu from tortureing him, Cai Lun, a papermaking reformer, chose to commit suicide by taking poison, and did not give the emperor Liu Hu the chance to torture himself.

Emperor Liu Hu was furious when he heard that Cai Lun committed suicide by taking poison: "I originally wanted to dismember Cai Lun's five horses, it's really a bargain!"

The court was changing, and most of the officials with good relations with the Deng family were demoted. Even the great scholar Wang Xu, who had just become a superior, was dismissed from the position of Situ by Emperor Liu Hu because he was a teacher of the Confucianism of the Deng family and was deposed as a civilian.

Wang Xu didn't care about Situ's position as the three ministers. He devoted himself to teaching the classics. If the Deng family had not had to let Wang Xu be Situ in order to establish a archway in the past, he would have traveled all over the world.

In order to show loyalty to the scholars of the world and let the scholars of the world understand that the Deng family was unswervingly standing on the ranks of the gentry, the Deng family vigorously promoted those famous Confucian scholars, especially great scholars such as Wang Xu, who were ranked among the three Dukes. Regardless of whether the other party knew whether they knew how to govern the country, they forced the other party to make an official position to make a political statement.

Once the emperor and the ministers are born, the new power center will have a new mode of domination.

When the Deng family's relatives were in power, the court moved the people from Liangzhou to Guanzhong. Now it was Emperor Liu Hu's turn to take power, so he ordered the people who had finally settled down to Guanzhong to migrate back to Liangzhou.

The change in the court's power center led to policy changes every day, and the final result was that the people suffered twice and suffered twice!

"Why can't you give it?" Wang Xu, a 60-year-old white-haired old man, asked the boy beside him who came to Liangzhou with him.

It was only after he heard that the imperial court had recaptured Liangzhou that he wanted to come to Liangzhou to teach the saint's way to the Han and Qiang people in Liangzhou. Even if Liangzhou was not safe, he would not hesitate.

If I don’t go to the underworld, who will go to the underworld?

"There are too many refugees, and your food is limited. If you share the food, there are only a small number of people who can get food, and most of them cannot share the food. Those who cannot share the food will resent you, think you are unfair, and even hurt you." The young man Dong Junya has already had an insight into human nature at a young age.

This world is like this, and the people who truly save the people are made difficult by all kinds of difficulties, while those who are heartless are praised by scholars.

At this moment, many Han cavalry came from afar.

"The officers and soldiers are here, run away!" When the Han people saw the Han soldiers, they were so scared that they ran away. In their eyes, these officers and soldiers were the same demons as the Qiang barbarians.

However, the Han army did not kill them, but went directly over them, ignored them, and rushed straight towards Wang Xu.

"teacher!"

The leading general waved at Wang Xu.

"Xuan Liao?" Wang Xu looked at the general who waved to him. It was Xuan Liao, the newly appointed chief of the Western Regions, the royal court, who went to the Western Regions to rebuild the Han rule in the Western Regions.

However, this reconstruction is different. In the past, the Western Regions Protectorate had actually governed the Western Regions and also counted the population of the Western Regions. The current Western Regions Chiefs' Mansion ruled the Western Regions. As long as the Western Regions countries nominally surrendered to the Han Dynasty, they would ignore the rest.

"Ban Yong, I have met the teacher." Ban Yong dismounted and said respectfully. He came to visit his classics teacher Wang Xu after hearing that Wang Xu was in Liangzhou.

The people around him did not know Ban Yong, but saw that Ban Yong did not kill them like ordinary Han generals, so they gradually stopped feeling fear.
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