Volume 15: Four directions

In the midst of busyness, the seventh year of Guangxi finally arrived at the end of the year.

There have been too many unexpected things this year. If you look back and take a closer look, you will find that most of them seem to be related to one person, who is the newly-private King of Pingxi Zhao Guochang.

Today, Zhao Xing is already a well-known celebrity in the Han Dynasty. Even when the elderly, weak, women and children mention Zhao Guochang, the King of Pingxi, can tell many stories and rumors about this legendary figure in one breath.

Reputation is neither visible nor touched, but for those who like to play with power, it is the most important intangible asset. It may be hard to accumulate, but when spending, it may be just a moment. The biggest disadvantage of zero-inventory and whole-retrieval is that the process is long and suffocating is that it is suffocating or even despair, and the advantage is that you can feel the great pleasure of living the world in a moment of spending.

The above feelings are effective for most people who are determined to change dynasties and seek the world, but they are not applicable to Zhao Xing.

Zhao Xing, who has lived in the Chouhu City for the second half of the year, has neither the anxiety and irritability of waiting nor the frivolity and joy of being a crowned queen. Instead, he is busy all day long with things that others cannot understand or can't understand.

Zhao Xing found several priest doctors from Taihang Academy and discussed and argued with them about subdividing the classification disciplines of Taihang Academy. Although there was no consensus in the end, Zhang Jian, Cai Yong, Kong Rong, Guan Ning, Bing Yuan and others still accepted Zhao Xing's idea of ​​"there are specialties in art and disciplines, and the rest is to argue about how many major categories are opened, and each major is divided into several subcategories, and those contents should be used as basic disciplines.

Zhao Xing invited the most famous group of craftsmen in the Crouching Tiger City to the mansion, and took out a stack of inconspicuous patterns, as if he wanted to set off a second round of invention and production. Among the production lists listed by Zhao Xing this time, there are still some amazing names, such as: double-layer steel insulation water bottle, wool knitted clothes, duck down warm clothing, fire-proof alcohol stove, canned smoked wax fish, dog sledge, deer sled, lifebuoy, life jacket, composite portable multi-purpose saber, simple portable Sinan...

This group of craftsmen who had worked with Zhao Xing tasted great sweetness because they participated in the invention and production last time, and they were looking forward to the re-summoning of King Pingxi every day. This time, Zhao Xing made the more complicated, and even needed several industries to hand over the drawings developed together to them, making these craftsmen excited as if they were injected with chicken blood. They are not afraid of complexity, but they are afraid of nothing to do.

Zhao Xing asked Chen Gui and Li Ru to collect detailed information on Taiping Taoism and the Five Dok Rice Sect separately, and asked Lu Meng to investigate what the monk Toutuo, who is now active near Luoyang, is doing. He seems to be interested in how to pretend to be a ghost and a scattered thing recently.

In his spare time to examine his children's homework, Zhao Xing still took a lot of time to meet representatives of the people from all over the country and listened patiently to their opinions or suggestions. Some of them were also dissatisfied with the officials in their location and went directly to Zhao Xing to file a complaint.

Zhao Xing attached great importance to the opinions and suggestions put forward by representatives of the people from all over the country, and asked someone to make detailed records when he talked with the visitors. After seeing off these visitors, he would call Li Jinsi and take these conversation records to the Shadow Headquarters. As for what he did, no one could know.

The person who could meet Zhao Xing may be an inconspicuous grain grower on the Jizhou Plain, or an old man from a certain family in Xuzhou, or a small boss selling coal stoves in Youzhou. Before they met Zhao Xing, they all went through the shadow inspection and Li Jinsi personally checked it.

To carry out such a complicated procedure, it is not because Zhao Xing was worried that he would be assassinated in the mansion, but because he should try to select prominent and representative people to meet him. Try to meet one of them, so that he can roughly understand the current status of the person's industry and class, so that he can make more accurate judgments and provide real reference for the next step of revision and improvement of domestic policy strategies.

Being able to personally meet King Zhao Xing of Pingxi in the Lord of Wohu City is naturally a great honor for ordinary people, and it can make people recall their lives. However, before they arrived in Wohu City, they received a thick stack of paper similar to later questionnaires, and were asked to distribute it to people similar to those of them before leaving for Wohu City and fill it out carefully. These activities were carried out under the protection of a dedicated person and were not subject to any supervision or interference from local governments.

As the territory he controls becomes larger and the population increases, Zhao Xing has now realized that it is necessary to establish an institution similar to the Government Council to coordinate and guide the internal political management of each state, and avoid various vicious competition, duplicate construction, blind investment, and local law governance.

As for Zhao Xing himself, he was still quite interested in the cabinet auxiliary system implemented by the Tang Empire in the early days. He wanted the Han Empire to step into a constitutional monarchy or even a republic system in one step. This idea was good, but it was tantamount to the sky, or to destroy the Great Wall.

After some troubles by Dong Zhongshu of the Western Han Dynasty, the Han people now recognize the view that "the world is unified, and the power of the king is granted divinely". If there are shocking remarks such as "separation of powers" suddenly come, it will not only cause a huge impact on society, but will also destroy the difficult unified and stable situation.

Zhao Xing hopes to establish a system that can last for a long time and can repair itself in his lifetime. Even if he encounters major social problems or institutional defects later, he can reform in a more moderate and gradual way, instead of engaging in a bloody massacre and resistance at any time, and then re-exploring and building after complete destruction.

Zhao Xing has now had in-depth thinking on some issues that may affect long-term stability. He has summarized several factors that may lead to the collapse of the country and the collapse of the dynasty. The first is the land issue, the second is the ethnic and religious issues, the third is the unrestricted and supervised imperial power, the fourth is the restricted or even strangled advanced ideas and scientific culture, and the fifth is the development of population and productivity.

Perhaps Zhao Xing's thinking was not in-depth and meticulous enough, and he had not yet discovered the key aspects that led to the defeat of the country and the change of power, but now he is able to think about these issues seriously and is willing to take action for some changes, which is enough.

Just imagine, if Zhao Xing formulated a complete system for later generations, which could largely avoid the royal family, bureaucrats and rich people from annexing the land on which farmers depend for their survival, then many peasant movements could be avoided, which would make the foundation of the empire not easily shaken.

If Zhao Xing can resolutely and thoroughly solve the problem of the nomadic peoples in the north and promote the realization of the integration of multiple ethnic groups, then the empire will no longer be overwhelmed by the invasion of various alien ethnic groups, and consume financial and material resources.

If Zhao Xing could leave behind a mechanism that could limit and supervise imperial power, prevent the royal family from just being obsessed with snatching power all day long, fighting infighting internal strife, and avoiding the destruction of a dynasty because of the coming of power by a bastard emperor, then the long-term stability of the empire can be expected.

If Zhao Xing can make the people of the world understand one truth, that is, "I don't support the truth you say, but I support you with the right to speak!", let the academic grand occasion of blooming and the school of thought controversy rejuvenate, provide everyone with a platform to argue, and eliminate academic hegemony like Dong Zhongshu, such as "deposing the school of thought and respecting Confucianism alone", then the people will become smarter in the prosperous era of "the more they argue, the more they become clearer", and will no longer be fooled and deceived easily.

There are too many things, even if you can only achieve one aspect or a small step in one aspect, this will be a qualitative leap and a huge progress for the future empire!


Chapter completed!