In order to help the schools in each state reach a balanced situation as soon as possible, Liu Bei ordered the school department to send special personnel to each state to supervise, see how the construction of the schools in each state was going, give some guiding opinions, and supervise them to complete the construction.
In terms of the source of enrolled students, a voluntary registration principle should be followed, that is, registration is accepted, examinations are organized, and then admissions are made in accordance with regulations. Regardless of the level of origin or the wealth of the family, as long as they pass the examination, they should be admitted.
Based on what happened in Liangzhou Prefectural School, Liu Bei was not worried about the source of students, because the number of scholars was first of all limited, and the number of powerful landlords was also limited. After all, the largest number were the children of farmers.
In the first few years, there will be more children of scholars and powerful landlords. Soon afterwards, as long as Liu Bei does a good job in providing educational subsidies and is willing to spend money, the number of children from peasant families will catch up.
And judging from the current changes in educational content, in fact, everyone has almost reached a unified starting line, and the advantages of the children of scholars in the past have basically disappeared.
It's not that no one had any objections, but in Liu Bei's boiling frog mode, by the time they found out that they had lost everything and had to return to the King of Volume mode, it was already too late.
Currently, Liu Bei has not yet announced that he will formally change the method of selecting officials, and the inspection and promotion system is still maintained in name.
But this is only a phase.
After education is fully rolled out and school education can steadily provide high-quality graduates, it is a matter of course to change the existing talent selection model based on the inspection system to an examination model.
The imperial examination system will eventually bid farewell to the history of the Han Empire, and the era of selecting talents through examinations will come.
At present, everyone is still immersed in the series of reform actions taken by Liu Bei and cannot extricate themselves. They do not realize that an unprecedented comprehensive change is slowly coming.
Even though Zheng Xuan had learned enough information and knew a considerable part of Liu Bei's ambitions, he could not draw a more direct conclusion.
But with the passage of time, all of this has become a matter of course and cannot be changed.
When the last heavy snow fell in the fifth year of Jian'an, the news of the death of Empress Dowager Dong spread throughout Luoyang. The life of this lucky Empress Dowager finally came to an end.
When she left, her grandson Liu Xie was with her.
Liu Xie did not leave Luoyang for several months. He always served her as a grandson, serving her soup and medicine, hoping that she would recover. However, this expectation was ultimately in vain. The old lady could not bear it, and even failed to do so.
After five years of Jian'an.
Of course, she also did not see the official completion of "Chiade Tongyi", which she has a close relationship with.
When Liu Bei was working hard to promote the implementation of various reform bills, and when the whole world was facing major changes, the old lady left.
Liu Bei personally hosted a grand funeral for the old lady, dressed in white to keep vigil for her and announced a seven-day suspension of worship as a sign of mourning.
According to the old lady's last wish, her body will be returned to her hometown for burial. Wherever it comes from, it will go to where it came from. Luoyang is cold and has no temperature. Basically, her most important people are in her hometown. She thought
Returning to my hometown, fallen leaves return to their roots.
Liu Bei fulfilled the old lady's wish. Seven days later, he ordered a large funeral procession to start from Luoyang, all the way to Jizhou, and return to the old lady's hometown for burial.
When he returns this time, Liu Xie will follow him. He will return to his hometown as a county prince, return to his fief, and spend the rest of his life there.
After observing the filial piety for the old lady, he can do whatever he wants. As long as it does not violate the provisions of the "Han Code", he can have maximum freedom.
And although his title is not high, his salary is the only one among Han clan members in the world. This is what Liu Bei promised, so Liu Xie can use that money to do many things.
As a person who lost his throne, Liu Bei didn't know whether Liu Xie's fate was better or worse than his own in the original historical trajectory. Although, he had never held any real power, and he had no power of his own from the time he ascended the throne to the Zen throne.
The will is completely controlled by others.
In Cao Wei, after he passed the Zen throne, he lived for fourteen years and died in the same year as Zhuge Liang. He lived longer than Cao Pi but not Cao Rui.
How he spent those fourteen years, what his mood was, and what kind of feelings he had, no one knows.
However, there are rumors that he stayed away from politics after becoming a monk, and devoted himself to medical skills. He treated the people in his fief for free, and he had a demeanor of hanging a pot to help the world. Thinking about it, his life was not all boring.
However, Liu Bei felt that his life should be easier here than in Cao Wei. At least he could stay away from the political whirlpool before he truly realized the dangers of the world. He would also receive the most comprehensive care and protection from Liu Bei, and he would also be rich throughout his life.
Then, he should be happy, his mood should be at ease, he should not feel any shame of losing the throne, nor should he wake up in the middle of the night feeling worried that he has failed his ancestors, making it difficult to sleep.
This might be the best ending for him.
After the old lady passed away and Liu Xie returned to his fiefdom, the New Year's Eve of the first year of Zhenguan was about to come.
The Jian'an Year will be completely over, and the last symbol of the Second Han Empire will be replaced by the era name representing the Third Han Empire. The Han Dynasty will completely enter the next era.
Two days before this New Year's Day, Liu Bei took a vacation to spend time with his family. He accompanied his wife, concubines, and children out of Luoyang City, and found a secluded place outside Luoyang City to eat barbecue and hot pot.
The children gathered together to have a snowball fight. The playful Gong Qin and Gong Ling also joined in and became the kings of the children. They divided the children into two groups and started a snowball fight.
But he didn't participate, he just sat quietly in the pavilion and barbecued.
As the head wife, Han Ning was naturally qualified to sit next to him and help him skewer meat. The other concubines could only sit around the stone table in the back, cook hot pot, and talk about women's topics.
"To be honest, until now, I have no sense of reality about being an emperor."
Liu Bei flipped the barbecue skewers and said slowly: "I just feel that I am still the general, and everything has not changed. Being the emperor or not has little impact on me, but it has little impact on other people."
For people, it has a great impact.”
Han Ning sat next to Liu Bei, helping him skewer meat while giving him a blank look.
"Didn't you say you were very happy before? Now you feel nothing at all?"
"I'm happy, but it's only for a while."
Liu Bei shook his head and said with a smile: "After the excitement of happiness has passed, I found that everything is complicated and difficult. There are more things to do than before, and the worries will also increase. I guess there won't be a few good days in the future.
You can get by."
"Look what you said."
Han Ning smiled and said: "If you, an emperor, say such things, people in the world don't know how to evaluate you. You are well-dressed and well-fed every day, and everything is taken care of. Are you not satisfied yet?"
"There are many people who can be served well and well, and there are many who are more comfortable than me."
As Liu Bei said this, he remembered the limerick Zhu Yuanzhang once wrote.
It is said that the officials have not gotten up yet, but he has already gotten up, and the officials have gone to bed long ago, but he has not slept yet, so he is particularly envious of the rich men in Jiangnan, who can sleep until three o'clock in the morning before getting up every day, unlike him, who handles government affairs every day
Until midnight.
In this matter, it is true that public opinion is justified and mother-in-law is justified. Rich men also envied Zhu Yuanzhang for his monopoly power and would kill whoever he wanted. Who would have thought that Zhu Yuanzhang would still envy these rich men for being able to sleep until midnight before getting up again?
Everyone has troubles...
"I just hope that I don't die as emperor, then I'll be satisfied."
"Huh? That's not easy. If you don't want to do anything anymore, just take the Zen position."
Han Ning said with a smile: "Whenever you no longer want to be the emperor, just give up the throne to Shen, isn't that enough?"
When Liu Bei heard this, he turned his attention to his eldest son Liu Shen, who was happily having a snowball fight.
He is ten years old this year, and his academic performance is very good due to his mother's strict supervision. After transferring to Sili Academy, he has taken the first place in the kindergarten grade many times and competed with several other strong opponents. The competition is fierce.
To say that he is excellent, he is absolutely excellent. Whether it is Confucianism, agriculture, mathematics, astronomy, geography, etc., he has learned very well. He also has a good grasp of equestrianism and some basic martial arts. Under elite education, he has
Not useless.
Liu Shen is like this, and so is Liu Ze. His grades are not much worse than his brother's, and he is also a player in the first echelon of the kindergarten grade. The two brothers often compete with each other for first place, and they are both very good children.
Following this direction of training, Liu Bei feels that Liu Shen can definitely be trained as a second-generation successor, and Liu Ze will not be a playboy. As long as they can get a suitable position, they will definitely be able to make something of their careers.
But in the royal family, many things are out of your control. Now they are brothers who are close, but there is no guarantee that they will still be close when he is ready to abdicate in the future.
There is only one person on the throne, but they have several brothers and sisters. Although Liu Bei identified Liu Shen as the heir to the throne from the beginning, who knows what will happen in the future?
But Liu Bei is not worried about this issue.
If he follows his planned route, it is natural for the Han Dynasty to turn his career outwards. He will turn his attention outwards no matter what, to open up more new territories and avoid the Third Reich's old path of involution.
In this way, he can also try to enfeoff outstanding disciples to the outside world to expand territory, to share the population, power and opportunities, to learn from the enfeoffment system of the Zhou Dynasty, and to explore a new route.
No matter how difficult or dangerous this route is, he must go on it.
Liu Bei could also get a glimpse of how the first and second generations of descendants who were enfeoffed by the Zhou royal family risked their lives to open up territories and engage in construction from ancient books.
Leading a group of people to start a business and build a country from scratch in an unfamiliar and dangerous environment. Considering the average age of the people at that time, it was really hard work to pioneer.
Not to mention the second and third generation monarchs who feuded the country, the first generation monarchs may not be able to live in decent cities and houses until their death, and they will sleep in tents with poor conditions from birth to death.
Therefore, exploring unknown territories has always been an extremely dangerous thing. If you are not careful, you will either be killed by the indigenous people, killed by wild beasts, poisonous insects, or killed by diseases. The extremely high mortality rate may also prevent people from exploring.
One main reason.
Nature is never gentle, and humans are never fragile. To turn a wild land into vast tracts of fertile land requires not only money and sweat, but also blood.
But this path must be taken. If this path is not chosen, the cruel involution will not only turn the royal family into a Shura field, but the Han Empire will also become a huge Shura field sooner or later.
Everyone is in trouble and suffering endlessly.
So after going back that night, Liu Bei found Liu Hui and asked Liu Hui to form an elite expedition team to carry out the route of external exploration to the end, and to start taking action at the end of the fifth year of Jian'an. Seize the time and start a expedition.
Don't waste a second.
"Going to Nichinan County?"
Liu Hui found it very puzzling that Liu Bei suddenly proposed to form a maritime expedition team and asked them to go to Rinan County to build a base as the first step.
Currently, the focus of work of Dongyuan under Liu Hui's command is towards the northwest and northeast. The southwest and southeast are also being arranged, but overseas has not really been put on the agenda.
However, Liu Bei asked Liu Hui to immediately send people to organize a maritime expedition and build a stronghold in Rinan County.
"Yes, Rinan County. This is the southernmost county of the Han Dynasty. It was created by Emperor Wu during his expansion period. I have read palace documents before. Although Rinan County is located in a barbaric land, its business dealings with overseas people are very small.
Quite prosperous.
When Emperor Xiaohuan was in power, the envoys from the Qin State landed at Rinan County, then entered the Han territory, and went to Luoyang to meet Emperor Xiaohuan. So I think we must control everything in Rinan County, and then control many overseas affairs.
The situation of the country and the maritime trade routes.”
Liu Hui said "Oh" and nodded slowly.
"It's no wonder that there is such a relationship inside. Then, Your Majesty, how many people should be organized to go?"
"At least five hundred people. You can also select some officers and soldiers in the army who are good at fighting to join the team. There are many barbarians in those places who refuse to be educated. If you want to stay there permanently, you must have strong force."
"only."
Liu Hui nodded: "After establishing a foothold in the local area, are you going to contact overseas countries? If so, wouldn't it be better to have Dahonglu send people to accompany you?"
"Not necessary for the time being. The main purpose is to detect intelligence and figure out their location and route."
Liu Bei said slowly: "You only need to send people to investigate the information clearly. There is no need to worry about the rest."