Chapter 83: Farming again?

Looking at Kong Rong's appearance of never giving up until he achieves his goal, Liu Xuan was quite speechless. "" novel netizens hand-printed

In fact, the edict asking Zhen Mi to come to Chang'an to study at the Imperial Academy had been issued a long time ago. Judging from the current situation, he might have crossed the Yellow River and entered Hebei. He thought that this was the case, and even if Kong Rong was dissatisfied, he would not

No matter what you say, even if you want to find something, you have to wait until Zhen Mi comes, right?

Unexpectedly, Kong Rong came here specially and said directly to himself: "Your Majesty, please take back the edict!"

Compared with Kong Rong, the rest of the people in the court were more knowledgeable, because they felt that just a woman was nothing to fight for. Even if Zhen Mi did enter the Imperial Academy, the time to really fill the vacancy was not to go to court.

It will be decided through discussion among the princes. By then, I am afraid that none of these people in the court will be willing to fill the vacancy with a woman, right?

In addition, His Majesty's meaning seems to be that he admires the little girl of the Zhen family, and everyone has a consensus: Sooner or later, this girl will enter the palace and become a concubine, and she will definitely not go to the court to become an official, so they cannot commit the crime.

Competing with the emperor over such a thing.

Those who are really dissatisfied are actually some Confucian scholars - they began to respect Confucian scholarship in the middle of the Han Dynasty, but before that they were in an era of contention among a hundred schools of thought. Not all scholars today are Confucian scholars, such as Guo Jia, who was highly valued by the emperor.

He is not a scribe studying Confucianism.

Another example is Zhuge Liang, who was still a child at this time. Based on the policies he later pursued, Liu Xuan speculated that Zhuge Liang should be a capable person with many knowledges from Mohism, Legalism and Taoism.

At the same time, there is another reason why these people don't care much. Although the status of women in the Han Dynasty dropped a lot compared to the Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties, and even dropped significantly compared to the early Han Dynasty, women were still relatively free.

There were female officials serving in the palace, and folk women who were dissatisfied with their marriages could divorce and even elope. At the same time, remarriage of widows was also socially recognized. The fundamental reason was that remarriages of widows often occurred in the royal family.

Even in the early Han Dynasty, Empress Lu held great power and granted several women the title of marquis. This shows that the status of women in the Han Dynasty was not low.

However, this situation gradually changed from the middle of the Han Dynasty. Due to some reasons and the personal desires of some prominent people, the status of women was suppressed. Among them, Confucian scribes occupied a major position in this matter. At the same time, Liu Xuan before

Several emperors also encouraged the concept of chastity because of their personal affairs. In addition to material rewards, they also used the idea of ​​"sacrifice oneself to bring glory to the whole family" to satisfy the vanity of many families.

At the same time, the publication of books such as Biographies of Women and Commandments for Women also provided basic theoretical guidelines for this behavior. At the same time, it began to be emphasized that women should submit to men in society, and they were more inclined to stay at home and assist their husbands in the social division of labor.

But after all, the time was not particularly long, so many people did not care about these things. Only some people who had always believed in Confucianism expressed opposition - but Liu Xuan felt that their opposition was not because they really thought this was ridiculous.

, but this kind of thing foreshadows one thing, that is, the status of Confucianism in the Han Dynasty began to decline.

Because those theories were put forward by Confucian scribes, they were feasible in the Han Dynasty in the past few decades because the emperor only respected Confucianism and suppressed other schools of thought. Otherwise, how could they have followed what they said?

? Let’s face it, the guy who didn’t like them long ago came out with a xx to refute it.

What Liu Xuan is doing now is obviously to overthrow everything before. This is simply a naked slap in the face of Confucian scribes, and Liu Xuan's actions also show that today's emperor is not interested in Confucianism.

, even looking at what the emperor did, Kong Rong felt that the emperor’s behavior today was closer to Legalism?

Only Liu Xuan himself knows that he does not belong to any sect at all. Even though he is an immortal, he has nothing to do with the Taoism of this era.

But he knew that when the emperor of the Han Dynasty suppressed several other people, the Confucianists spread rumors and slandered many of them. He was not like those emperors who really thought that Taoism's "fight" was to compete with themselves for the throne.

, those are just theories deliberately distorted by some ambitious people, just like Confucianism that later went further and further away.

In addition, Liu Xuan understood that it was not a good thing for his family to dominate, and the contention of a hundred schools of thought would be more energetic. At the same time, it could also ensure that these scribes would always remain competitive, study their own theories, and become true sages instead of changing their methods.

They tampered with and misinterpreted it to please the emperor, and finally created a mess of mess.

Looking at Kong Rong in front of him, Liu Xuan didn't bother to pay attention after he figured out why he cared so much about this matter.

"When did the Han Dynasty stipulate that women could not enter the Imperial Academy?"

After hearing this, Kong Rong also looked depressed, because the Han Dynasty did not have regulations in this regard. Let alone entering the Imperial Academy, even becoming an official was allowed - because the female officials in the inner palace had a clear official status, but they were only in the court

There is no place for female officials.

Now he is afraid that Liu Xuan will say this, and that Liu Xuan will actually appoint women as officials in the future. In that case, everything that the Confucian sages have finally accomplished will be overturned.

Maybe it is still a thing that the emperor uses women to serve as officials, but now that there is such a sign, it must be destroyed as soon as possible, otherwise when that time comes, won't he be even more unable to deal with it?

He came here today just to nip this possibility in the bud, but now it seems that he has little chance of success.

With a wave of his hand, Liu Xuan directly signaled Kong Rong to leave. He was too lazy to say anything more to Kong Rong now, even though this man still wanted to make a long speech in front of him, hoping to make him change his mind and withdraw the edict.

But could Liu Xuan be fooled casually? In addition, he was too lazy to listen to Kong Rong's nonsense, so just driving him away would save him a lot of annoying noise.

Kong Rong left unhappy, while Liu Xuan continued his own affairs.

For example, Sima Yi did well in the Weapon Refining Department, and Liu Xuan directly promoted him to doctor, making him the leader of the Weapon Refining Department. Although Shi Daoren did not have a formal position, he would still have to listen to Sima Yi's dispatches and arrangements in the future.

At the same time, Liu Xuan also checked the progress of Sima Yi's cultivation and found that this young man was also quite qualified in cultivation. Now his cultivation has gradually caught up. At this rate, he may soon reach the standard in his heart.

"At that time, Sima Yi will be sent to the army for training. As for the Weapon Refining Department...if Shi Taoist does well, I won't mind straightening him up in the future!"

Just as he was thinking about it, Shi Taoist happened to come to see him, and Liu Xuan let him in.

Only then did I realize that it turned out to be a routine report to the Weapon Refining Department. Because Liu Xuan had been paying attention to the Weapon Refining Department these days, and at the same time gave new orders to the Weapon Refining Department, Taoist Shi and Sima Yi would take turns coming every now and then.

Come and report.

"The armor your Majesty mentioned... although there are sufficient materials, it is very difficult to make. According to the current situation of the Weapon Refining Department, it is already fast to be able to make one pair every month!"

The battle armor that Shi Dao talked about was naturally the battle armor that Liu Xuan had previously built for Lu Bu and Liu Bei. However, he could make this kind of battle armor fairly quickly, but it was a bit difficult for these people to make it.

Although the monks in the Weapon Refining Department have been trained by Liu Xuan in the past few years, their cultivation has improved to a certain extent, and their knowledge has also broadened a lot, and their methods of refining weapons or alchemy have improved a lot - even Shi Daoren proposed to do it again.

An alchemy department was established, but Liu Xuan felt that it was not necessary to set up such a department now, so he said that he would wait until later, so the alchemy department was not established.

However, the armor Liu Xuan requested was complicated to make and used many difficult methods and techniques. It would take some time to truly master them.

"Yeah?"

Liu Xuan pondered for a while, and finally said: "Don't worry, go back and do it slowly, and master the manufacturing skills of this kind of armor within a year, because in the future this kind of armor will become a must for the imperial generals."

thing!"

This kind of armor can be used for a long time, and once you make one set, you can use it. If the user can temper it properly, the armor even has a certain ability to evolve, which means that after you get the armor, you will not need it in the future.

I no longer have to worry about the armor issue.

At present, the production is slow. Liu Xuanda can give it to some meritorious ministers first, so that the generals will be more willing to perform meritorious service. When there are more generals who have performed meritorious service in the future, the manufacturing speed will also increase, and it will gradually become popular.

Come on.

As for the soldier armor used by the Yulin Cavalry... it still needs to be made, and even the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry will have to wear some special armor in the future.

But the soldiers' armor and the generals' armor will never be of the same level. This difference can also give people at the bottom the motivation to climb up.

I also asked Taoist Shi about the current situation of the Weapon Refining Department and how the monks were living in Chang'an. The answers they finally got were good. Those monks no longer want to leave in an environment with more advanced techniques and better elixirs.

, they even feel that serving the emperor here has a better future than wandering around outside.

Although Shi Daoren didn't say anything about himself, Liu Xuan also noticed that Shi Daoren thought the same way. After seeing this, Liu Xuan handed over a jade piece and let Shi Daoren go down without saying anything.

However, as soon as Shi Daoren took the jade piece, his expression changed drastically, and then he respectfully gave Liu Xuan a big gift, and then slowly retreated.

"This Shi Dao Ren is now truly at my disposal. Thinking about it, he has really done a lot this year!"

While counting the things that happened this year, Liu Xuan began to think about what he should do next year. After thinking about it, it seemed that the only thing left was to cultivate relationships with his two women, because in military and political matters

The general direction has been basically set for everything, so there is no need to pay too much attention to it.

"Are we going to farm again?"

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