Chang'an City. It is now the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month in the seventh year of Yongshi, Laba Festival.

This imperial capital of the Han Dynasty has undergone earth-shaking changes compared to seven years ago.

The entire suburbs of Chang'an are now full of chimneys, with hundreds of steel mills and iron furnaces, all around Chang'an and extending to Xinfeng for thousands of years.

The tall chimneys kept sucking and spitting smoke from morning to night, and the air quality in Chang'an has dropped in seven years.

The frequency of various lung diseases among citizens and officials living here has increased countless times.

But no one complained.

Because it is these steel mills and iron furnaces that have been smog all year round that have created the national power that the Han Empire is so strong that it is unimaginable!

A super heavy industrial system with an annual output of more than 10 million kilograms of crude steel, 20 million kilograms of fine iron, and 10 million kilograms of cast iron.

With this unimaginable steel output, the country's development is changing with each passing day.

Today, the 138 counties of the empire (Yanhe Zhongben is 106 counties. However, since Yongshi, they have newly expanded the Western Regions, obtained the land after the Xiongnu moved westward, and divided them into the south of the Mosun, the land of Hehuang, the land of feudal Fusang, Fusan, and the land of the southwest vassal states, and the land of thirty-two counties and four prefectures) have all realized the ironization of agricultural tools. The rich lands of the inner counties have even begun to popularize all-steel farm tools, and various new water trucks and transportation tools have also emerged.

As for the near the imperial capital Chang'an, an experimental road with a material building called asphalt was built since the previous year.

This road surrounds Chang'an City, passes through the Taixue Wuyuan, and reaches Xinfeng. The total length is only 200 miles, but it costs tens of millions of funds from the country.

The average cost per step is as high as thousands of dollars.

However, after the cultivation is completed, everyone in the world will praise it.

There are even voices in the government and the country, and they request that such roads be built everywhere.

Because fools know, how many benefits are there for such asphalt roads?

But no matter whether it is windy or rainy, there will be no muddy roads.

Since its completion, trucks transported from Xinfeng, Wannian, Lintong to Chang'an can travel quickly day and night, and the speed is very fast.

Unfortunately, the material called asphalt is difficult to extract.

Today, the Han Dynasty has only discovered several extracted mines in Gaonu in Guanzhong and Dunhuang in Hexi, mobilizing tens of thousands of slave workers to mine and refine them day and night, but the output is only tens of thousands of kilograms per day.

It may be difficult to meet the needs of the world.

At this moment, in the cold wind, a carriage was slowly driving on this road paved with asphalt.

This carriage is extremely luxurious, and even the curtains are made of gold and silver.

The car is extremely luxurious, and even the car boards are covered with expensive cashmere blankets.

This is the Qiang people who picked the goat velvet weaves from the plateau thousands of feet high. The yield is rare and they have always been priceless.

Two pretty and cute girls with blond hair and brown eyes and high noses were kneeling on the blanket in front of their master and gently hitting the legs of the carriage owner.

If anyone knows the goods here, he will definitely recognize that these two female slaves must be specialties of Wusun and Shache in the Western Regions.

And the best quality of these two girls must be the tributes paid by these two countries.

It is an existence that only appears in the palaces of important officials of the Han Dynasty.

"Ming Gong, will the Prime Minister reuse you when you return to Beijing this time?" A scholar in green asked in a low voice opposite his master.

"You are so serious..." The master chuckled: "No matter where you are, you are just serving the Prime Minister's great cause and expending your life for the prosperity of the world..."

"Whether you live in a prefecture or county or go to court, there is no difference between me!"

"Just as the Prime Minister said last year: I am worried about the people of the temple and the world is far away, and I am worried about the country!"

"This is true of our words!"

The scholar smiled and bowed quickly, saying, "Ming Gong is far inferior to his virtuous officials!"

But both of them were as bright as a mirror.

Since Yanhe, the prime minister has been in power, the emperor has been chasing, the world has been peaceful, and the world has flourished.

As a result, the Han political arena and the trend of the Shilin people changed.

Both inside and outside the government and the country were looking for theoretical support for the various changes made by the Chief after the reign of the government.

Including the Prime Minister himself, he is also seeking the cornerstone of ideological and theoretical aspects.

So, Xunzi and Mencius's remarks were picked up from the pile of old papers, wiped the dust and used them again.

Even the classics of Lu Buwei, Shi Zi and others were taken out to study as the basis of their own theory.

At the same time, the world's literary world also launched a trend called "I am annotating the meaning of the scriptures".

It is a completely different contrast from the previous sutras.

The so-called melody of the scriptures is a trend since Dong Zi, which talks about the use of the words and deeds of the ancestors, mainly the spirit of Confucius and his disciples to explain the great righteousness of "I" or the world.

Scholars and literati are practitioners who respect the sages, the sages, and the kings.

But this "I am annotated with the meaning of the sutra" is different. It refers to taking the meaning of the sutras of the sages and kings for my use, and cut them at will. If they are combined, they will be combined; if they are not combined, they will be cut.

In short, it means that only those that are in line with my wishes and principles are recognized and used. If they are not in line with each other, they pretend that there is no such words and meaning.

Since its emergence, this trend has quickly swept across the world and completely changed the trend of the Han literary world and the Shilin style.

All kinds of monsters and monsters appeared, and great scholars and great scholars have created schools.

In just a few years, the world's schools have divided into hundreds of schools.

The Prime Minister was happy to see his success, and encouraged and even rewarded the great scholars to set up their own businesses.

According to the "Resulting Academic Order" of the Prime Minister in the second year of Yongshi, in every county, there will be a school in the prefectures and counties, as long as there are more than a hundred disciples, they can apply to be established as a county and prefecture school and receive state funding.

The prefectures and counties in various places will be assigned to assess and evaluate the grades of school and private schools in the jurisdiction to determine their advantages and disadvantages.

The two-level institution of state and county were set up in each state and county, which were established and guaranteed by the state.

The number of disciples who are admitted to state and county schools every year is used as an important bargaining chip for assessing and judging their pros and cons.

State and county schools are important sources of Tai students. After the assessment, as long as the admission score line of Taixue is reached, they can be admitted as Taixue students and enter Taixue to study.

And the Tai student is the proud son of heaven and is known as the disciple of the prime minister!

As long as you graduate, you can be admitted to an official position and you don’t need to pass the exam.

Over the past seven years, the size of the Imperial College has been increasing. Today, it has increased from only fifty people a year to tens of thousands.

International students in Wuyuan and Imperial College are not listed here.

In the eyes of outsiders, these changes are the actions of the prime minister and great master who imitated Confucius, promoted education and benefited the people.

But this is not the case in the eyes of scribes and carriage owners.

In fact, they all understood that this was a decision made by the Prime Minister and his group of "decisive and supportive heroes" for their own power, wealth and status for thousands of years.

The carriage owner personally participated in the formulation of these decisions and policies.

"I am annotating the meaning of the scriptures" is to grasp the right to speak, and to make people forget the old virtues of the Liu family, forget the emperor in Jianzhang Palace, forget the power of the country, and fall into the hands of the prime minister and others.

The purpose of promoting education and establishing education is to further divide and weaken the influence of great scholars, and also to allow great scholars and great scholars to have something to do so that no fools will suddenly remember that the emperor of Jianzhang Palace is still there, so as not to get angry, wanting to respect the king and eliminate traitors and protect the royal family.

The expansion of Tai students and the continuous increase in education expenditure is to cultivate new officials and literati, and replace old officials and literati with them.

Now it seems that the effectiveness of these plans and policies is surprisingly good.

Nowadays, for their respective academic schools and Taoist thrones, the great scholars and great scholars in the local prefectures and counties have set up their own businesses, recruit disciples and disciples, and open school.

In order to compete for students, to maintain and prove their own way.

The great scholars attacked each other and the dog's brain was almost out.

Naturally, they don’t have the time and energy to care about whether the emperor in Jianzhang Palace is wronged again?

On the contrary, they all forgot that there was the emperor in Jianzhang Palace!

To fight against foreign countries, we must first settle the home.

Before defeating those damn heresies, these people probably had no energy to respect the king and eliminate traitors.

Plus the theories and ideas that were picked up by people.

For a time, in the literary world, the popular trend of thinking that the people value the king over the country, and the world is far more important than the king.

Some people even began to promote that the emperor is the harm of the world, whether virtuous or not!

Therefore, the best emperor should be like this now - hanging clothes and governing the world.

Just leave the country’s major policies to the wise ministers and gentlemen to deal with them.

Many of these remarks even appreciate and even agree with the heroes who have made decisions and helped the people.

For example, the current Beihai Tower General was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the one who was the

These close ministers around the prime minister support this remark.

Of course, there are supporters and there are also opponents.

Among the heroes who have made up their orders and helped the people for helping others for a long time, there have always been many royalists.

Many old ministers led by Shangshu Ling and Suiyang Hou Zhang Anshi have been thinking about it all the time, thinking of waiting for the little emperor to grow up, and then persuading the prime minister to return the power to the emperor.

The owner of the carriage knew that the scholar opposite him was from the royalists.

When he came to see him, he was probably entrusted by Zhang Anshi to find out the truth.

Because the Prime Minister is going to get married!

Speaking of which, it's also a bit funny.

The prime minister, general, Taiwei, Yinghou of the Han Dynasty, was ordered to regent and command the military and national affairs of the country. Zhang Yi, the chief of Taixue Mountain and chief professor of Wuyuan, was only 26 years old this year and was still unmarried.

Of course, there are several concubines in them.

These concubines even had their own Tang Mu fiefs and fiefs.

For example, Mrs. Chunyu, Mrs. Jin, the State of Guo, etc., all Tangmu and her fiefs were 10,000 households!

Even the brothers of these concubines were used by the Prime Minister and served as important positions in the General Mansion of the Western Regions, Beihai and Nanhai.

They all have children.

The eldest son of the concubine who was born by Lady Jin of Guo State was even eight years old.

But it is true that the Prime Minister has never been married.

Because the Prime Minister has been waiting, according to the Prime Minister himself, a woman cannot have children before she reaches the eighteenth grade, otherwise she will suffer from a mother's difficulties.

Therefore, the people in the world could only watch, but the prime minister of the dynasty had no right wife.

Fortunately, this embarrassing situation is finally over.

Last month, the Prime Minister had formally hired the emperor's family in accordance with traditional etiquette. He gave three hundred horses specialties from all over the world and 300 boxes of treasures as betrothal gifts. According to the order of the late Emperor Xiaoming of Shizong, he married the eldest princess of Nanling, who was about to be 18 years old.

Moreover, he will also marry the Zhao family, who was named Princess of Nanyang at the same time.

Princess Nanling will be the eldest princess of Nanyang and will be the wife.

This is very inconsistent with the etiquette and law, and will further destroy the majesty and sacredness of the Tian family - although the emperor now has no majesty and sacredness to destroy.

The prince's tutor Shangguan Jie publicly beat him with a ruler, and the little emperor cried loudly. This is something that everyone sees.

However, no one in the world complains about it.

On the contrary, it is said that the Taifu is good at playing!

A child cannot become a weapon without teaching!

A filial son appears under the stick!

The emperor is the same. If he doesn’t educate himself well, what if he learns from his grandfather, Emperor Shizong, in the future?

A traitor is the only one who can kill him.

So, now, apart from the royalists, few people actually care about this matter.

On the contrary, the Prime Minister took the lead in marrying two real wives at once, which made many people very happy.

Because in this way, they can follow the prime minister and marry another wife.

This is equivalent to an extra chance of marriage for many people.

Who wouldn't support it?

Even the owner of the carriage was eager to try it out. After the Prime Minister got married, he sent someone to propose marriage to Shangguan Jie and become the son-in-law of the Grand Tutor.

The scribe and the carriage owner talked about news inside and outside Chang'an.

After just a quarter of an hour of chatting, he already knew in his heart that this important minister who was about to enter the court would not agree to the proposal of his friends.

The Emperor of Han lost another loyal minister.

So he looked sad. After the carriage arrived at the gate of Chang'an City, he bowed to the owner of the carriage and said goodbye.

"This is a smart man..." The owner of the carriage looked at the scholar's back as he walked away: "It has not insulted his father and grandfather!"

Back then, Gongsun Hong, the Xianhou of Pingjin, was influential in the world, and the government and the country were invincible. Even the prime minister of the current dynasty often said: The famous prime ministers of the country are just Zan Hou, Beiping Hou, and Pingjin Hou!

"Ming Gong, should you tell the Prime Minister about this?" An official walked out of the cubicle and asked.

"No need!" The owner of the carriage smiled and said, "The emperor knows much more clearly what Zhang Shangshu did!"

The prime minister of the dynasty set up Jinyiwei to supervise all civil and military officials in the world.

Those Jinyiwei infiltrated the common people around the nobles and nobles, and there was almost nothing that could hide from these prime ministers' purposes.

How can the existence of the royalists be deceived by the Prime Minister?

Therefore, there is only one truth about the matter - the Prime Minister deliberately indulged.

Since that's the case, there is no need to break the window paper.

Anyway, except for lobbying, the royalists have never done anything to harm the "decisive and support the heroes". On the contrary, they have conscientiously implemented the various policies of the prime minister, worked hard and could be called honest officials.

"Go back to your home first and go to see your father!" The host whispered: "I have been away from home for three years. It is time to go to visit you and ask for the changes and court changes in Chang'an over the years!"

When the official heard this, he laughed: "The Grand Secretary's Governor praised Ming Gong very much, especially the Ming Gong was ordered to preside over the management of rivers. Over the years, the Grand Secretary's Governor has often said to the lower officials and others: Those who can inherit my legacy will have no one else after giving up the jun!"

"Sir, you're over-reputable!" The owner of the carriage listened and was extremely happy.

Although he is now in a high position and powerful position, he still cannot do without his father's help.

Who called his father, who is the core member of the Central Decision-making Circle of the Han Dynasty, is a great minister who is commonly known as one of the "Twelve Ministers and Officials" by the world, and is the Anguo Hou Sang Hongyang?

And he was the Xinfeng Industrial and Commercial Bureau ordered that the Chang'an Rebellion in Yanhe at the end of the year. Because he was far away in Xinfeng, he failed to participate, so he did not make any contribution.

Afterwards, relying on the favor of the prime minister and the halo of his father, he was promoted to the commander of the Shuiheng Duke. In the second year of Yongshi, he was granted the title of "decisive and heroic officials to support danger". In the third year of Yongshi, he was ordered by the prime minister to go south and be appointed as the commander of Luoyang. In the fourth year, he took over the position of Wang Ji, the former governor of the Southeast River Control River, and continued the river control project. Now that the three years have passed, he is on standby.

According to his performance, the achievements over the past three years are enough to change a Marquis.

Maybe, like his predecessor Wang Ji, he could be promoted to the chief official of the Nine Ministers and the Minister of Yousi, or even serve as the commander of one of the three auxiliary officials, becoming an existence who has the opportunity to be elected and nominated as one of the ruling ministers, "Twelve Ministers and Officials".

That is the decision-maker who can discuss and decide national affairs and war with the Prime Minister.

Everyone holds a vote that is crucial to the world and the country, and each has its own power and power, and can be promoted and removed from officials less than 2,000 stones.

Although he is not a king, he is more powerful than a king.

Therefore, after these nobles and officials died, they would inevitably be posthumously named kings.

Just like the General of Cheqi and Cavalry who died last year, Gongsun Yi, the Marquis of Xiangwu, was posthumously named King of Han and posthumously named Wenzhong, and his son Gongsun Chang was ordered to succeed the throne. The Marquis of Xiangwu were allowed to use the ceremonial guards of princes for three generations, wearing royal robes and seals that only princes could wear, allowing entry and exit to be called police, and using orphans to write documents. The edict could be issued in the name of the king in Xiangwu County in the Western Regions.

This is the peak that a minister can reach!

Therefore, today's Han Dynasty, regardless of civil and military affairs, wanted to squeeze into the circle of the twelve nobles and officials.

According to the decision made by the Prime Minister in the fourth year of Yongshi.

The Han civil and military ministers are now divided into four levels.

The first level is civil and military officials below 2,000 stones in prefectures and counties, and officials below 1,000 stones in Guanzhong. These people only enjoy the power to be officials and execute orders at the upper level.

The second level is the county magistrate, county magistrate, governor, and lord of the prefecture and county.

These people have the power to make suggestions to the state and have the right to vote for the ruling nine ministers and three ministers.

The third level is the civil and military officials of important state institutions and important strategic locations, or the chief officials of major military dispatched institutions.

For example, the three auxiliary servants in Guanzhong, Luoyang, Linzi, Jiangdu, Suiyang, Lingju, Annan, Anbei, Anxi, and the Western Regions Protectorate, front, back, left and right generals, chariots, muskets, and artillery generals are all here.

These talents are eligible to be nominated and can be elected as important officials of the Nine Ministers and the Three Dukes.

The fourth level is the ruling group formed by the Nine Ministers and the Three Dukes and the Prime Minister himself.

The dream place for every civil servant and military general!

Sang Jun is no exception!

As for the Emperor?

I'm really sorry...
Chapter completed!