When Black Rou said this, the light shone in her eyes and her voice gradually increased: "Only by being a town official, a county magistrate, and a county magistrate, and doing well in these positions, you are qualified to be promoted to a higher position, rather than being directly prime minister because the king likes it. This is how the treacherous ministers and villains of all generations often come from."
Dou Peng nodded and said seriously: "We have had fixed rules before that, and titles can be inherited and inherited. This is to ensure that the children of aristocratic families and descendants of the gentry have enough opportunities to be officials first. Of course, in the current era, the previous system of recommendation, or the nine-rank Zhongzheng system, directly let the children of aristocratic families come out and become high-ranking officials, so that some people with wine and food can lie down and become prime ministers. High-level officials such as Jiuqing are indeed a bit too much, but in general, there is no problem for the children of aristocratic families to be prime ministers. If ordinary gentry really have talents, they can rely on the aristocratic families, slowly strengthen themselves, and enhance the status of the family. People like Liu Muzhi have the same chance."
"As for the martial artists, that's another matter. If the world is peaceful and the four barbarians are obeying, there is no need for these butchers who specialize in killing and setting fires and taking the heads of people. In other words, even if they want to maintain the army, they will only train to protect the country and will not start the war easily. For the entire China, since the Qin Dynasty established a unified and centralized country, most of the time the world will be peaceful. This is destined that the power of the world should be attributed to the hands of civil servants and geniuses who can govern the country, and the warlords will not govern the country for a long time."
"Even when implementing the merit system, this merit depends on whether it is a merit of civil governance or a merit of force. The world is peaceful. Without war, there will be no more opportunities for martial artists to make achievements. Just like when Emperor Wen of Han, Feng Tang Yi Lao and Li Guang were difficult to be granted. This may make some people think that the martial artists and generals are very sorry and wronged, but isn't it a blessing for the people of the world? In the era of Emperor Wu of Han, for his personal achievements, the old example of marriage kinship was broken for decades and started a war with the Huns. The subsequent war was continued for hundreds of years. Although the Huns suffered heavy losses, they finally lost their country due to civil strife, but didn't the Han people's population also lose more than half of the population because of war?"
"If Emperor Wu of Han had not had good luck, the Xiongnu would have perished due to the civil war between the Five Shanyu. If the Xiongnu could continue to unify and concentrate their efforts to fight the Han Dynasty, then the Han Dynasty would probably have died first. Tens of millions of people in the world were killed, and the reputation of several martial arts generals was only brought to history. What would this benefit the people of the world?"
The ancestor smiled slightly: "So according to your Master Dou Peng, Wu Ding, the king of the Shang Dynasty, who was the whole country to attack the Guifang. In one battle, he defeated the Guifang clan's idea of ​​entering the Central Plains. This is also unnecessary? By surrendering to the Guifang and compromising, he can protect the interests and ways of living of the Chinese people in the world?"
Dou Peng frowned and said, "This is not the same thing. The Gui Fang wanted to enter the Central Plains. But the Huns did not think so at that time. They just wanted to marry and collect supplies and benefits for the Han Dynasty in the name of marriage. To put it bluntly, the Han Dynasty could maintain peace between the two countries as long as it paid some protection fees. At most, the Huns' tribes robbed a little in the border counties when they were suffering from disasters. It was just a risk of scabies and would not let the Han Dynasty lose its country. Emperor Wu of Han fought this war for his personal face, wanted to leave a name in history and become a great emperor. As a result, half of the Han Dynasty's people died for his face. Of course, the Huns fought a miserable battle. Could it be that he was also a member of a certain evil sect and immortal cultivation sect, and so many people were to complete a ceremony of sacrifice and cultivation?"
Hei Rou shook his head and said calmly: "I don't agree with the view of Emperor Wu of Han. The right and wrong of Emperor Wu of Han has been concluded in history. He is a tyrant, but he is also a great hero. At least he is not wrong in fighting against the Huns by force, starting the Han-Hungary War, and ending the humiliation of marriage. For the Han Dynasty, although the Huns originated in China, from the Xia and Shang dynasties, or even earlier, it was like the grassland force that captured and destroyed the Yu Dynasty, which was already a huge threat to the entire Central Plains China. On the grassland, they lived by water and grass, lived poorly and could not survive when encountering natural disasters. This determined that they went south to rob. With the Great Wall, they might just be tribes of ten thousand tent levels, or even tribes of thousands of tent levels, to come to the border counties to fight for the autumn wind and grab some food and population, but what if the heroic lord who unified the grassland power appeared?"
"From the Ghost King during the Shang Dynasty, to the Lord of Quanrong who attacked the Western Zhou Dynasty, to the Five Barbarians who came from the grasslands outside the border, once they had the strength to unify the grasslands or unify the old land of Sushen, they could dispatch hundreds of thousands of troops, millions of people, and tens of millions of cattle and sheep to the south, it would be a huge threat to the Central Plains. The tragic situation of the Yu Dynasty when the attack and destruction was almost exactly the same as the situation in the north when the Five Barbarians invaded China after the Eight Kings Rebellion. As the people of the Central Plains, no matter when, they could not pin their hopes on the unwillingness of these grassland barbarians. When they had the strength, even if they wanted to seek peace for the descendants for generations, they would need to fight another battle."
Dou Peng said coldly: "Yes, the Black Robe Venerable felt that it was necessary to fight this battle, just like Wu Ding, Qin Shihuang, and Emperor Wu of Han. They all felt that it was necessary to defeat the forces on the grassland with the power of the whole country, but what was the result? They spent a lot of people and resources at that time, and sacrificed thousands of troops, so that the people of the world could live a life worse than death. They did defeat many grassland tribes and destroyed the unified grassland Khanate. But what was the result? In just a few years, or ten years later, the grassland returned to its original appearance, perhaps unified.
The overlords are no longer, but the small and medium-sized tribes still make the nomadic tribes powerful, and will still pose a huge threat to the Central Plains. Like the Shang Dynasty, they constantly launched wars and defeated the four barbarians. In the end, they fought for a total of 600 years, but they did not expand the power of the Shang Dynasty to the grasslands and the Jianghuai River. They did not occupy the places they had achieved when they were defeated. They had already established the Wuyuan during the Qin Dynasty, Shuofang during the Han Dynasty, and these prefectures and counties that they had wanted to establish, finally defended? Did they expand? The Great Wall blocked the Five Barbarians' Invasion of China and entered the Central Plains?" (End of this chapter)
Chapter completed!