Wait, please don't call me Emperor Zhaolie

Chapter 444 Liu Bei Educates His Son
When the emperor's carriage slowly arrived, officials and common people outside Jinyang City could not help but shout in unison: "Long live the emperor!" "Long live the Han Dynasty!"

Thousands of people shouted in unison, their voices shaking the roof tiles.

Mao Jie and Lu Bu led the officials to perform the kowtow ceremony to welcome the emperor.

Crown Prince Liu Yong, who was sitting in the carriage, was also startled by the loud noise outside and his eyes suddenly widened.

Liu Bei chuckled and touched his head, saying soothingly: "Don't worry, Prince. The imperial court transported grain to Bingzhou in the past to feed hundreds of thousands of people in Heishan. The Han Dynasty promoted Confucianism for two or three hundred years, and it is necessary to restore order for your father, so that loyalty, filial piety and gratitude will remain."

"The people and scholars of the world still believe in Confucianism. Why did I posthumously confer the title of Grand Master of the Han Dynasty on Kang Chenggong and grant him the title of Huangchangtichou? It was to emphasize the study of classics, combat the trend of idle talk, and prevent those with empty names from controlling the government."

"Nowadays, there are many famous scholars in the world, such as Kong Zhu, Liu Dai, Xu Jing, etc. They flatter each other, live in bamboo pavilions in the mountains and forests, look down on officials who work hard at desks all day, and take pride in their own lofty discussions and their ability to talk about life."

"I have no talent for managing the world, nor the ability to lead a military commander to defeat the enemy. I have no compassion for the people, and I cannot deter foreign enemies."

"All these scholars rely on are the classics handed down from their families. I will use examinations to separate these people from the officials and prevent them from continuing to influence the court."

At this point, Liu Bei smiled, looked at the puzzled prince, and continued: "There is great resistance to promoting the imperial examination throughout the country, but this is a strategy that the Han family must implement, just like the Han law cannot be abolished."

"If the so-called 'famous scholars' who talk about elegance and elegance are allowed to be active in the court without being restrained, they will surely be in office without any official duties, and will have no heart for things. They will spend all day reciting poems and writing essays, applying powder and rouge, and behaving like prostitutes. This will ruin the military preparations of the Han Dynasty and reduce the heroic spirit of the Han people."

"So I took great pains to personally manage the imperial examinations and the assessment of officials in the Ministry of Personnel. From this dynasty onwards, all people in the world, regardless of their status, who want to be officials need to take the examinations. The promotion and dismissal of officials inside and outside the country also require performance assessments."

"The subjects of ritual, law, calligraphy, mathematics, history, agriculture, medicine, riding, archery, driving, swordsmanship, etc., will not be changed. The Han Dynasty does not advocate the elegance of celebrities, but only requires administrative and military achievements. It needs generals with outstanding martial arts, and ministers who are good at riding and archery, familiar with current affairs, and quick to participate in politics."

"This is what the Han Dynasty requires of its officials. Prince, remember your father's words. I am telling you today, and I hope you can tell your descendants in the future."

Liu Bei looked at the prince who was listening very seriously, and a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.

"Aunt, I understand... But is this requirement too difficult for those who want to be officials?"

"I am also studying law, mathematics, history, archery, and etiquette. My grandfather helps me with my questions, and I have to study until late every day. I am the crown prince of the Han Dynasty, and this is how ordinary people's children can pass the exams against the nobles and wealthy families."

"I have heard my mother say that the number of people who pass the imperial examinations to become officials is far better than the number of people who were selected as officials by the counties in the past. If this continues, the court will be completely occupied by the children of the aristocratic families..."

"Aweng also said that the tripod can stand because it has three legs. Now the Han Dynasty should rely on the gentry, the local nobles and the common people, just like the Han Dynasty relied on the relatives, nobles and eunuchs as the three legs. If the common people can never enter the court to serve as officials and can only join the army to serve as soldiers, isn't it like the tripod is missing a leg?"

Crown Prince Liu Yong frowned, feeling something was not right after listening to it. He thought for a long time, and when he thought about his own situation, he immediately found the problem and immediately looked up and asked.

I hope Aung can give me a solution. Also, what should I do if the children of the noble families become entrenched and stick together?
For example, his younger brothers and sisters, who were of similar age and could play together, were afraid of their elder brothers, because their mother often told them that they should not only be kind to their younger brothers, but also show their authority as an elder brother so that they would not dare to be naughty. However, this made him have fewer playmates, so he had to either play with his uncle Zhao outside the palace, or with Zhang Bao, Zhao Tong, Cao Zhang, Cao Zhi and others.

If we continue to draw analogies, won't we again employ external relatives and eunuchs in the future and repeat the decline of the Han Dynasty?
Even if he doesn't use it, after a long time, the successor king will have to use it when faced with this situation...

After Liu Bei finished teaching the prince, he asked Xu Chu to pass on the order that the common people and officials no longer needed to perform formalities, and ordered the carriage to drive directly into the emperor's palace. He then ordered the officials of Bingzhou and the local nobles to come to the palace to meet him.

He planned to inquire about each matter in detail to see if anyone was cheating.

Hearing the prince's question, Liu Bei suddenly turned around, looked at Liu Yong quietly with his peripheral vision, and recalled the agreement between him and Yin Jun in his mind.

She and Cai Yan could only provide education for the prince, teaching him calligraphy, arithmetic, and etiquette, and they could not let the idea of ​​Xinye Yin family, who wanted to become an in-law of the Han family, influence the crown prince Liu Yong.

Yin Meng and Yin Fang could enter the palace and chat with the empress and the crown prince about family matters, but they could not always mention that the empress was the daughter of Yin and that the crown prince was also related by blood to the Yin family.

Otherwise, don't blame him for not considering the relationship between relatives and directly confining the two of them to Nanyang County forever.

Liu Bei's half-smiley words frightened the brothers Yin Meng and Yin Fang so much that they almost lost their souls. They quickly stood up from their seats and kowtowed to apologize.

Since then, the frequency of these two people entering the palace has gradually decreased. When the head of the Yin clan heard about this in Xinye, he was so angry that he vomited blood.

On his deathbed, he orally reported to the emperor, explaining that the Yin family of Xinye had no intention of becoming an in-law of the Han dynasty and only wanted to live safely in Nanyang.

After Emperor Xiaozhang, the foreign relatives took turns vying for power. Brothers and sisters controlled the internal and external affairs of the court as empress dowagers and generals. They specially selected young children to be emperors, and many emperors died inexplicably.

It was difficult to tell whether the taboo was true or false, but the patriarch of the Yin clan guessed what the Han emperor was taboo about, so before he passed away, he asked someone to write several letters to the emperor and the empress, and also sent two letters to Yin Meng and Yin Fang.

In the letter, he cursed the two men bitterly, and at the end he said bluntly: "If you dare to be blinded by greed again, you will die of starvation in the future and don't even think about being buried in the ancestral land of the clan. The Nanyang Yin family does not need unfilial sons and daughters who make our ancestors ashamed in the afterlife."

After opening the clan leader's suicide note, the brothers Yin Meng and Yin Fang instantly felt weak in their limbs. They rushed back to Nanyang from Yunyang with sad faces to hold the clan leader's funeral, because there were rumors among the wealthy families in Nanyang that the clan leader of the Yin family was angered to death, and if they didn't go back, they would have no face to live in this world.

Liu Bei reached out and stroked the prince's hair. He quickly went over the matter of the Nanyang nobles' probing in his mind, and only felt relieved when he was sure that no one had influenced Liu Yong's thoughts.

Some people, unable to gain any benefit from him, wanted to gain wealth and honor for their clan decades later in the name of being close to the prince.

(End of this chapter)