It was quiet and silent on the high platform of the Civil and Military Jury Courtyard.
Then Dou Qiushi, who is now the county magistrate and sits firmly on the first chair of the civil servants in the court, said, "What the prefect said is great kindness." He smiled and said, "The way to govern a country is to pay attention to etiquette.
Evil, but those who are above etiquette and law are actually virtuous, and those who are respected by all the people and imitate them are kings. Now that the Grand Administrator has disciplined himself with virtue, and governed the people with etiquette, then the world has been settled both internally and externally!"
Luochuan nodded slightly when he heard this.
So all the civil servants immediately became interested, and they praised Luo Chuan almost to the sky with a rainbow fart, which only made the warrior on the other side anxious. He wanted to speak but couldn't open his mouth. He just hated
I read less books on weekdays and won’t use them at critical moments.
Luo Chuan smiled and took in all the flatterers. He waited until the noise subsided and then turned to look at the middle-aged man in the third position below Dou Qiushi. Seeing that he was sitting silently, he asked, "Master Gongsun, just now
What do you think of what Dou Juncheng said?"
The Confucian scholar Luo Chuan called Lord Gongsun was the one he promoted from the position of governor of Baitong County to the new head of the household, Gongsun Runze, the son of the former county prime minister Gongsun Cuo.
Gongsun Runze has just joined the Sihu government office. Although he has the help of Zhou Zhongqing, the current chief official of the department, he has been an official who has been in charge of the area for many years. He is still very busy. Compared with Luochuan when he first met him, he is obviously a bit thinner. Hearing that
When Luo Chuan asked, he just showed no expression, raised his hands and saluted, "Returning to the prefect, I have different views on the etiquette discussed by the prefect."
Luochuan originally wanted to name Gongsun Runze, a newcomer to the court and a new minister, and give him an opportunity to shape the prefect's close ministers, but unexpectedly his focus was obviously elsewhere.
"Ritual is what nourishes people's desires. Being polite without fighting is to eliminate evil. But the laws are different. The people fear the law. Rules are not chaotic. It is for good. It is the foundation of the country. It is the law.
In addition to etiquette, if a king values etiquette, the world will be stable. If he disciplines himself with virtue rather than etiquette, it will be easy to be inaccurate and difficult to balance. Today's prefect, who is virtuous on the inside and polite on the outside, can leave the county for a hundred generations.
Can you guarantee that every prefect can do this?" Gongsun Runze said solemnly, "It is even more undesirable to put virtue above etiquette and law. If all people follow suit and put invisible virtue above visible etiquette and law, the collapse of the country will not be far away.
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All the civil servants and generals listened in silence.
Naturally, the military generals were confused and reluctant to speak, while the civil servants were mostly watching or meditating. Such discussions, which seemed to be about cultural disputes, naturally existed in the literary circle, but it was just straightforward in this kind of discussion.
There wasn't much public debate on the occasion.
Luo Chuan was a little surprised at first, but after being surprised, he listened carefully and felt that fundamentally, the two people's views were actually similar. They were not as distinct as between Confucianism and Legalism in that world, let alone Confucianism and Mohism.
If it was either this or that, he said, "Etiquette and law are extremely important to a country. If etiquette is not powerful, law can make up for it. If the law is unclear, etiquette can make up for it. If you want a
To govern a great country or even to govern a country forever, both etiquette and law need to be constantly improved and even updated, so that it is possible to accommodate all things and govern them in a balanced way. This can only be realized if you, your lords, are able to argue as clearly as the two lords do today."
Upon hearing this, all the civil servants saluted and said yes.
Luo Chuan's eyes swept over the faces of several important officials among the civil servants, and then looked at the palace minister Dong Yu'er standing on one side of the high platform, "But the auspicious time has come?"
Dong Yuer nodded in agreement.
Luo Chuan stood up with a smile, turned around and looked at the civil and military courtiers on the high platform, "On this high platform today, I originally thought it was just some ceremony, but unexpectedly, a debate on etiquette and law turned out to be the first civil and military event in the world of my human race.
To start with, candidates tens of millions of years from now will have to lament this grand event when they recall this moment, and today..." He waved his hand, and the long sleeves of the black dress drew an arc, "Everyone.
We are all here, creating history with Luochuan!"
He calmly turned around and looked down at the high platform, "Civil and military ceremony, Kai!"
Dong Yuer saluted and said yes, and then shouted in a loud and sharp voice, "Civil and military ceremony, open!!"
As the sound spread all around under the vibration of the true energy, the door of the Civil and Military Juyuan slowly opened, and the common people, regardless of whether they were rich or poor, had to walk in.
Therefore, under the constraints of the rows of garrison troops leaving the city, a large number of people gathered without chaos, poured into the civil and military examination courtyard, and finally merged into the martial arts examination venue, extending from the garrison wall ten feet away from the high platform to the civil and military examination
Outside the courtyard gate!
There were huge crowds of people, and there was a lot of buzz.
Luo Chuan stood independently at the front of the high platform, looking at the dense crowd of people under the stage, thinking about some messy things. In the eyes of countless people under the stage, he was young and famous, and he was very majestic, so he didn't know
Whoever started first, the people began to kneel down spontaneously, just like the wheat fields blown by the typhoon, falling in pieces, and eventually turned into a noisy but shocking voice of greetings.
"Greetings to the Governor...!"
When all the chaotic greetings stopped and the first people to kneel had been kneeling for a while, Luo Chuan seemed to have just come back to his senses and summoned his energy and said loudly, "People, stand up!"
The people thanked each other and stood up. Luo Chuan's gaze swept across the whole place. Being stared at by so many people made him feel a heavy weight in his heart, "I am from the Luo family in Lijun. Since I came to Lijun,
They have been stationed on these two sides for the human race for nine hundred years. During this period, there were countless battles, large and small, and nearly 300 of the Luo clan's descendants died directly on the battlefield in southern Xinjiang! This number will only be reduced from now on.
There will be more!”
The breeze blew by, and the small voices among the crowd gradually died down.
"But with just one Luo clan and these three hundred people, can they stop the tide of Nanyi beasts and the Western Yi invasion for nine hundred years?" Luo Chuan said resolutely, "Impossible! Then I will stand tall in Lijun.
How can the human race's southwest border remain stable for nine hundred years?"
"It is the unity and progress of thousands of Li people, the bravery and fearlessness of my Lijun soldiers, the integrity and dedication of my capable ministers and officials, and the blood and lives of countless ancestors over the past nine hundred years.
Yes, peace! But now!" Luo Chuan paused for a moment and then said slowly, "But now what the human world needs is just to keep Li County from falling. Is the southwest border stable?!"
"No!!" He waved his sleeves fiercely and shouted as if a strong wind was blowing up, "Today's human race in Central Continent is surrounded by powerful enemies, big monsters invade, Shanbei County's mountains and rivers collapse, the people of Anyang County can hardly survive, and the Western Yi
The tigers are watching from outside the mountains, and the Eastern Yi are dormant on the shores of the blue sea. At this time when the human race is in danger, for us in Central Continent, who should we rely on?!"
"You have to rely on me, the Luo clan of Li County, you have to rely on my tens of thousands of Li people, and more importantly, you have to rely on this world, and my hundreds of millions of compatriots!" He raised his hands as if to embrace the world, "Only in this way can all the monsters from all over the world know what they are like now.
The human race is the same as it was nine hundred years ago, or even stronger! Only in this way can the good people in the world know that the human race cannot be divided, and Central Continent cannot be divided!"
"So today, I leave Luochuan, the prefect of the county, to inherit the spirit of our ancestors and the aspirations of the people of the world, and to hold the first civil and military competition in the history of the human race. I will leave my position as a civil and military official in the county and wait for the virtuous and talented people in the world.
"Luo Chuan slowly raised his hands and spread his voice throughout the world, "To promote talents for the human race, and to gather loyalty for Li County, I swear here that our civil and military actions will not be destroyed for thousands of generations!!"
"Everyone here today is a witness!!!"
All the people knelt down again.
Dong Yuer glanced at Luochuan, and then said in a high-pitched voice, "The Ceremony of Ten Thousand Dances, get up!!"
Thousands of soldiers prepared on both sides of the field moved in unison, striking each other with swords and shields, and shouting loudly!
The shouts seemed to resound directly from the bottom of everyone's heart.