Chapter 5246: The Lingyi System suppresses the powerful
Liu Jingxuan nodded: "So, you are actually using the hope you mentioned, the hope for a better life in the future, to make people all over the world willing to join the army and practice martial arts, take the initiative to learn martial arts, and exercise their bodies. In this way, in the whole village and township, those who
The veterans will be very popular after they return, and everyone will compete to learn from them and learn various military skills from them, right?"
Liu Yu said calmly: "Yes, and it's not just a apprenticeship relationship. I want these veterans scattered all over the world to serve as military trainers in local villages. Not everyone in the world wants to live in big cities.
We Han people are relocating to their hometowns. If they can be allocated enough fields in their hometowns and can become officials in their hometowns, then there will definitely be many people who are willing to return to their hometowns to serve. After all, there are not so many fields near the capital.
They were given official positions. In the end, most of them must have returned to their hometowns, settled down, married and had children."
Liu Jingxuan licked his lips and said: "This is still the idea of letting veterans return to their hometowns and serve as officials. But you have done this before, didn't you fail?"
Liu Yu shook his head and said sternly: "The previous failure was that our ideas were too simple and we failed to fulfill our duties. Veteran brothers are often illiterate and do not know a few Chinese characters. They do not have the ability and quality to govern the local area.
, it would be difficult for them to directly become village chiefs or township leaders."
"In this case, once the local powerful people are dissatisfied that these veterans have taken away their official positions and power, they will inevitably fight back with all their strength and use various overt and covert means to make it difficult for the veteran brothers to survive and to fight against the imperial court.
Even if the mission cannot help the people live a good life, it will naturally not be able to gain a foothold."
Liu Jingxuan said bitterly: "These guys are capable of killing a thousand people, so we should all kill them!"
Liu Yu sighed: "Ah Shou, fighting and killing will not solve the problem. Even if we kill all the local powerful people, can our veteran brothers be able to manage the local area? Without the influential local wealthy families, the gentry will not be able to solve the problem."
People are helping, but I'm afraid that within two years, these places will rise up in rebellion. When we discuss problems, we must start from the perspective of solving problems, rather than acting on impulse."
Liu Jingxuan sighed: "So, only if the veteran brothers have learned culture and management skills in the military school, can they return to their hometowns and serve as these officials? This is why we need to provide training in the military."
Liu Yu said seriously: "Those things learned in military middle schools may not be useful in rural areas. Just like the management you mentioned, everyone in the army trains together and stays together, and they are all in one camp. Relatively speaking,
Management is much simpler, because you can see people directly every day, but when you return to your hometown, village, or even serve as an official in a county, you have to deal with people from all over the country and understand the situation in each place every day.
You may not be able to find the person you want even after walking for dozens of miles. When it is time to pay taxes, you have to go door to door with your men to collect taxes. If there are people who are unable to evade taxes, how do you find them and how do you solve them?
If there is a famine and relief is needed, how to manage it and how to distribute food? These things cannot be done simply by learning some literacy in the military camp. If you are literate, you can manage it.
So why are there so many children from aristocratic families who can recite poems and compose poems but cannot do basic things well when they are sent to serve as officials?"
Liu Jingxuan murmured: "So, only those local powerful and wealthy people who are familiar with the local conditions are the most suitable to be local officials?"
Liu Yu curled his lips and said: "Yes, but these people only want to use their official positions to benefit their own families, so we need to cooperate with them, but we cannot be completely controlled by them. The best way is,
It is to decentralize power and separate the power to govern the countryside in peacetime from the power to train and catch thieves in the military. The power to govern the countryside is left to the people of the powerful families, while the military training of the people and the maintenance of law and order in peacetime are left to veterans.
Acting, this is also a kind of civil and military division at the rural level!"
Liu Jingxuan said sternly: "In this way, the civil and military division you want is actually to let the local powerful families manage the administration, and by the way, it can also control the local people. The maintenance of law and order, providing military training, and selecting soldiers are all left to us.
Is this the case for veterans who have returned home from the army? If this veteran who has made a meritorious service is also a descendant of a powerful local family, such as the Shen brothers, wouldn't it make such powerful people more and more powerful in the local area?
The bigger it gets, the bigger the tail will be in the end?"
Liu Yu said in a deep voice: "Yes, if a powerful family had a nephew join the army and made new achievements, and after returning to the hometown, according to regulations, he could take the position of military attache in this village, you would indeed appear.
It’s just something to say, but I also have a good way to break this trend of powerful families becoming more and more powerful in local areas, and that is the mausoleum system in the Western Han Dynasty.”
Liu Jingxuan's eyes lit up: "The mausoleum system? Are you talking about the Western Han Dynasty's practice of setting up imperial mausoleums for the emperor, and then forcibly moving the powerful powerful people from Guandong to live in new cities near the imperial mausoleum to weaken the powerful powerful people?"
Liu Yu smiled slightly and said: "Yes, according to the rule that officials must have military merit according to the title reduction, in fact, I did not come up with the Lingyi system myself, but this rule existed in the Western Han Dynasty, just to suppress
It was established by local powerful landlords who could accumulate titles, wealth, and land. It was a way to forcibly relocate the powerful landlords who were gradually growing in power and were difficult to control in the local area to prevent them from controlling the grassroots. Guarding the mausoleum for the late emperor was
A good excuse, because these tombs were built in Guanzhong, it was also convenient to monitor and control the newly moved tycoons, and moving from the land of Guandong to Guanzhong, under the emperor's feet, also gave the tycoons of Guandong the opportunity to become good families in the six counties.
Being a member of the ruling group of the Han Dynasty will help alleviate their resentment."
Liu Jingxuan smiled and said: "It sounds very good, but later in the Western Han Dynasty, starting from Emperor Han Yuan, they listened to the words of Confucian scholars and believed that this kind of forceful landlords were forced to move and guard their tombs, leaving their ancestors' hometown and not protecting their ancestors.
It is a very unfilial and unkind act. Starting from Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty, the mausoleum system was abolished, and it was never re-implemented in subsequent dynasties."
Liu Yu said coldly: "So the father of Emperor Yuan of the Han Dynasty declared when he was still the prince that the one who would destroy the Han Dynasty must be this son. It's just that he has a soft ear and thinks about benevolence, justice and morality, but can't see clearly this kind of thing."
The mausoleum system was the only way to restrain local powerful forces at that time. To be an official in the Han Dynasty, to a large extent, you had to rely on your relatives, the queen, and the power of the concubine's natal family. Soon, the Queen Mother and her good nephew Wang Mang