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"Qi Jue Governor, his subordinates found a lot of food in the cellar of the backyard, and found nearly a hundred boxes in the dark, all of which were full of gold, silver and jade, and..."

Zhang Lie's troops who were looting around the mansion recorded the food, grass and property they obtained in Ding Mansion and reported to Liu Ce truthfully.

When the Ding family heard the news, they all felt as if they were ashamed and even more mournful.

"How much food is there?"

Liu Ce didn't care much about gold and silver. What he lacked is food to stabilize the people's hearts. Hearing Zhang Lie's subordinates' report, his eyes flashed in an instant, and he asked quietly.

The subordinate replied respectfully: "Report to the military governor, it has not been counted yet, but the subordinate roughly estimates that it is no less than ten thousand stones..."

"Hahaha..." Liu Ce stared at Ding Mian and laughed, "Ding Mian, the soldiers and civilians in the city are hungry and eat wild vegetables. You have at least tens of thousands of stones of food here. Haven't you ever thought about giving them some extra money?"

"Hmph..." Ding Mian snorted and replied, "The food in my family is not obtained out of thin air. Why should I share it with those lowly common people?"

"It seems that your books have been read to dogs..." Liu Ce glanced at the corner of his mouth, "Is this also the teachings of the saints?"

Ding Mian smiled bitterly and said, "Liu Ce, what way do you, a reckless man in the army, understand the way of a saint? I just follow the teachings of a saint and use them on the people. The saints say rituals are not virtuous and inferior. We Confucian scholars naturally have to always abide by the teachings of a saint..."

Liu Ce shook his head, his face full of gloom: "It's really worse than beasts. If the so-called Book of Sages teaches such black and white words, then this so-called saint is a person who deceives the world and steals the reputation. Only those who are treacherous like you will regard it as the truth. This military governor is really a waste of time and you are here to waste your time. Come and send this family to the road and put their heads high in the Caishikou!"

Hearing Liu Ce's military order, the soldiers immediately began to drag all the Ding family's elders and young people out of the mansion. In an instant, the screams of adults and children echoed inside and outside the Ding Mansion. Ding Mian was even more grabbed by Zhang Lie and dragged out of the hall door despite his struggle...

Looking at the figure of the Ding family gradually fading away, Liu Ce's eyes became more and more gloomy, and Ye Yin and his words of suggesting that Confucianism were completely abolished. This impulse in his heart...

In Liu Ce's mind, no matter whether it is the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, or the First Qin and the Han Dynasty, no one in the powerful dynasty would really reuse Confucianism.

The reason why Qin State was so powerful that it unified the six countries was the Legalist thought. The Han Dynasty inherited the Qin system and emphasized law. The popularity of Legalism led to an unprecedentedly powerful military power in the dynasty, which made the surrounding countries and countries dare not commit lightly, and could only look at the rise of the thriving empire with a look of upwardness.

Take a step back, even if the dynasty is recuperated during the rest period, it is still not Confucianism, but the Taoist ideology. The historical Wen and Jing Governance and Zhenguan Governance are also governing the country concepts of the two schools of law and Taoism. As for Confucianism, it is just a layer of skin. No one will really take it seriously at all. An enlightened monarch will always only use Confucianism as a tool, rather than a right-hand man...

What are the consequences of reusing Confucianism? Although many people always say that things are done by humans and that the Confucian principles cannot be subverted by individual behavior, I'm sorry, the overly noble concept is divorced from reality. Moreover, Confucianism itself is a theory that regresses society. Since the gradual prosperity of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism in the Song Dynasty, it has gradually entered a passive situation of being beaten. The origin of "suppression of Song" is that Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism castrated the blood nature of men in the Central Plains, making them become new "two-legged sheep", only knowing how to bow down and blindly worship imperial power.

However, it was not only the Song Dynasty who was cheated by Confucianism. Putting aside the national plot, the Mongolian Yuan was also strictly one of the victims. Because the Mongolian Yuan did not understand the culture of the Central Plains, but wanted to integrate into the Central Plains and was recognized by the world, after the Southern Song Dynasty was destroyed, he chose Confucianism as the concept of governing the country. Since, from the moment it decided to choose Confucianism, the nation on the horse was completely tragic. Not only was it driven back to the desert in less than a hundred years, it was often beaten. Even in the Qing Dynasty, some people even compiled the fourth and fourth people of the Yuan Dynasty and Chu Yequan to blackmail the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty. The prosperous era of the Jiannu Dynasty was different. In fact, compared with the two alien races, the former was much more open-minded than the latter, although they also put the land of China in a dark period...

As for the Ming Dynasty, I won’t say much. The consequences of Confucianism entering the house to rule the world directly led to the gradual lag in the middle of the Ming Dynasty and the West, which began to gradually fall behind and began to renaissance in the Renaissance. By the end of the Ming Dynasty, it was basically surpassed by the West, but the gap was still within the acceptance range...

Finally, let’s talk about the Qing Dynasty. After entering the pass, the Eight Banners also quickly transformed from the most powerful soldier in East Asia to a playboy who could only walk birds and drink tea and play. Among them, the high-level regime of the Qing Dynasty promoted Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism to an unprecedented "prosperity". Liu Ce believed that the so-called "Kangxi and Qianlong Prosperity" actually refers to the complete castration of the nation's blood. The biggest beneficiary was the ruler class. Yongzheng discovered the huge hidden drawbacks and wanted to find a way to change it, but he was also blackened by those Confucian scholars of Manchu and Han for hundreds of years...

It was not until the Western powers opened the country with cannons after the Industrial Revolution that they realized that they had been far away from the world...

Confucianism will surely harm the people. Whoever uses Confucianism will destroy the country. If you kill a group of people, you will be killed. If you ruin each generation, you will be considered a generation. Although this sentence is a bit extreme, if you think about it carefully, it seems that it is not unreasonable...

"Mr. Military Governor, your injuries..."

Liu Ce was still in the "Shenwen Taixu", and was deeply disappointed with a gentle scum like Ding Mian. Xue Ruyuan's nervous call sounded in his ears. He couldn't help but look up and glanced at the moment when he was about to speak, but saw Zhang Lie's subordinates carrying a box to Liu Ce.

"What is this?" Liu Ce asked.

The subordinate said, "Mr. Military Supervisor, I found this box in the inner room. There were only a pile of black bumps weighing nearly 100 kilograms in it. I don't know what it is for, so I want to hand it over to the Military Supervisor to deal with it..."

"Open and see..."

Liu Ce held his forehead with his hand and leaned against the edge of the table, wanting to see what the "black lump" mentioned by the soldier was.

When the box lid was opened by the soldiers, Liu Ce's eyes lit up immediately, he immediately got up and came to the edge of the box, picked up a "black lump" and observed it carefully.

"I didn't expect that there was this thing in another world. It's great, it's great. My Jingwei Camp's military preparations can be one step closer..."

At this moment, Liu Ce was extremely excited because the "black lump" he held in his hand was manganese ore. With it, the soldiers under his control would undergo unprecedented qualitative changes.

After thinking for a while, Liu Ce dropped the fierce ore in his hand and immediately ordered: "Send the order and take the person in charge of the Ding family back to the prison for detention. The military governor asked them if he had something important to do. Also, search me carefully to see how many such black lumps there are in this mansion. You have to find out if you dig three feet into the ground!"

"Abide by the order!"

Although the soldier did not understand Liu Ce's intention, he still strictly took the order to execute his orders.

"Mr. Military Governor, your wound..."

"Miss Xue, can you change the line? My ears are almost calloused. This military governor is fine, you don't have to worry about it..."

Seeing that the blood on Liu Ce’s back was soaked in the cloak, Xue Ruyuan shouted again with a trembling voice, but was blocked by Liu Ce’s casual words and immediately became a little at a loss.

Seeing Xue Ruyuan shut up, Liu Ce hooked his fingers to Wei Dian and signaled him to come over.

"Low, you are so high, I'm very tired of talking to you..." After Wei Ding approached, Liu Ce muttered again, making him bend down.

Wei Ding grinned and didn't bother with Liu Ce, so he did as he told him.

Liu Ce patted Wei Dian on the shoulder and said, "You performed very well today. How can I reward you if I want this military governor?"

Wei Ding shook Liu Ce's arm and said angrily: "Just be able to eat enough..."

Liu Ce's mouth curled: "At noon, I'll let you eat it with great pleasure..."

"This is almost the same..." Wei Dian muttered softly, then scratched his head and said to Liu Ce, "Hey, I am considered a dereliction of duty today, I didn't protect you well. Are you really okay? How come dozens of feather arrows inserted into you don't look like something is wrong?"

When Liu Ce heard this, he patted his chest and said, "I have a breastplate in my military uniform, otherwise how could I be so confident to deal with these killers? I will buy you a breastplate when I look back. I don't have the size of yours in the army for now. Let's talk about it when I return to the Far East."

"Far East?" Wei Dian frowned and suddenly asked, "I said, don't you think I will really stay in this army all the time, right?"

"What? Are you unsatisfied with the army?" Liu Ce asked back.

Wei Ding replied: "I admit that your army is very different from the government troops in other places, but you are a member of the government after all, and I don't want to get too close to the government."

Liu Ce smiled: "It seems you have a big prejudice against officers and soldiers?"

Wei Ding said: "Anyway, all the officers and soldiers I met bully men and women, and none of them are good. They serve under the official army, which really makes me feel uncomfortable."

Liu Ce nodded: "You are right. The military discipline of the officers and soldiers in various places has been corrupt for more than a day or two. However, the army of this military governor is different from them. Have you ever seen this military governor robbery in these days?"

Wei Ding thought for a while and said, "It seems that there is no, but I can't guarantee whether you are pretending..."

"Some things cannot be pretended..." Liu Ce replied firmly, "One person may be able to pretend to be a saint, but do you think it is possible for an army?"

"No matter what, you are an official army. I will not stay under your command for a long time..." Wei Ding said firmly.

"Okay..." Liu Ce stopped saying more, "You can just follow me to pacify the thieves in the river and make a decision to stay. In short, you will stay by my military governor to protect me during this period..."

"Okay!" Wei Dian nodded and replied, "I will go with you to the thief in the source of the river. When I want to leave, don't stop me!"

"A word is determined..." Liu Ce nodded and agreed to his request, "Now, escort the military governor and Miss Xue back..."
Chapter completed!