Wait, please don't call me Emperor Zhaolie

Chapter 445: Take care of your life, don't worry about your life

"Your Majesty, I, Mao Jie, wish you a long life!"

"Your Majesty, I, Lü Bu, wish you long life and may the Crown Prince live forever!"

As the chief officers of all the officials present, Mao Jie and Lu Bu took the initiative to kneel down and greet the emperor when they saw the emperor's carriage arrive, and saluted and shouted in unison.

When Lu Bu was bowing, he noticed a pony behind the carriage, so he immediately added a sentence.

"Xiaoxian and Fengxian, please stand up. Zhongkang will go find a second carriage for them to follow the motorcade to the palace."

Liu Bei, who was in the carriage, heard Mao Jie and Lu Bu arriving together, and smiled and instructed Xu Chu.

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" The two men bowed again in gratitude.

Crown Prince Liu Yong also looked inside the carriage out of curiosity and saw the backs of the two men, as well as the common people watching in the fields in the distance. Among them were young men, peasant women, and some old people and children. Some of them stood on tiptoe to look at the convoy, while others lowered their heads and dared not look any further.

The carriage wheel slowly moved forward, and a figure in the distance gradually passed by.

Liu Bei looked at the curious Liu Yong, pointed outside and said with a smile: "Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it. The people of the world are like water, and the government is like a boat. If you cannot provide a way out for the people and repeatedly increase corvée and taxes, even the powerful Qin that destroyed the six kingdoms will be revived in Daze Township by Chen Sheng and Wu Guang."

"Only by sharing the benefits among the people can the Han Dynasty stabilize the world."

"I am very pleased that the Crown Prince has discovered the flaws in the imperial examinations..."

After he finished speaking, Liu Bei paused for a moment and then continued, "The prosperity of the world is fundamentally based on farming, and secondly on laws and rituals and music. Rewards must be given when they are worthy, and orders must be carried out. Punishments and rewards should not distinguish between relatives and strangers, nobles and humbles. When enforcing the law, we must judge the situation and be moderate in severity and leniency, and no unjust cases should be allowed to occur."

"So I will use the system of Emperor Gaozu again. If the people are dissatisfied with the laws and judgments of officials, they can beat drums and report to the county for handling. If they still feel that the officials are partial and pervert the law, they can continue to report to the state, the court, and the Ministry of Justice, and finally submit it to the Secretariat and present it to the emperor's desk."

"The Han dynasty used the law to intimidate some officials, so that they would not think that the emperor was far away and that they could act recklessly in their local areas. If they created any unjust cases in any place, the emperor would intervene."

"In addition to the law, the education of rituals and music cannot be neglected. Since the spread of Buddhist temples in the Western Regions to the Han Dynasty, there is the Luoyang White Horse Temple, and many other Buddhist temples have been built in other places."

"During the reigns of Emperors Huan and Ling, there were the Hu monks An Shigao, Zhiluo Jianchen and Zhu Foshuo. They were either princes of the Parthian Empire or came from the Yuezhi or the Indian Empire in the Western Regions. They settled in the White Horse Temple in Luoyang, recruited thousands of disciples, translated more than 30 volumes of Buddhist scriptures such as the Prajnaparamita Sutra, the Prajnaparamita Samadhi Sutra and the Shurangama Sutra, and brought Indian medical books to the Han Dynasty."

"Many Buddhist scriptures flourished in Luoyang. After reading the Buddhist scriptures, many scholars believed that the people mentioned in the Buddhist scriptures were similar to Laozi. They believed that Laozi went west through the Western Regions to India and taught 29 Hu Buddhist disciples. Buddha came from Laozi."

"In the second year of Jianxing, Princess Kehan ​​of Shanshan and Minister Alana of Cheshi came to pay homage to me. There were also many Hu monks in the delegation. They are now in Luoyang explaining the affairs of the Western Regions."

"Back then, Zuo Rong of Xuzhou built a Buddhist temple, claiming to preach Buddhist scriptures to relieve suffering, but in fact he took money from the common people and the wealthy. So I used a trick to paralyze Zuo Rong, led the cavalry to attack quickly, and beheaded this thief."

Speaking of this, Liu Bei also had a headache. Buddhism had already taken root in Luoyang a long time ago. With Dong Zhuo's entry into the capital, the world was in chaos. The many monks of the White Horse Temple were spread all over the world, and some monks even ran to Jiangdong to avoid the disaster.

Thinking about the numerous Buddhist temples during the Little Ice Age, the more natural disasters and man-made disasters there were, the easier it was for Buddhist scriptures in the Western Regions to take root.

The Han Dynasty's ritual and music education, in addition to curbing the trend of idle talk, also had to resist the spread of Buddhist scriptures by foreign monks after they had penetrated the Western Regions, and could only be stopped by Confucian scriptures.

In addition to this, the Buddhist scriptures must be revised, otherwise the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism will arise again in the future.

Looking down at the prince who seemed to understand but not quite, Liu Bei couldn't help but shake his head and laugh. It was so difficult to govern the world well. There was no perfect plan. He could only take it one step at a time. Touching the prince, Liu Bei continued, "My father-in-law has his own things to do, and you have your own things to do."

"Open the imperial examinations, promote education, compile the Han Dynasty Records, and after several decades, allow the people to set up private schools, so that each county will have a school to teach children, so that Confucianism can flourish throughout the country."

"The Han Dynasty laws were revised, and the death penalty for violators was abolished. Instead, they were exiled to the counties of Hexi, Liaodong, and Jiaozhou, and the guilty were required to cultivate land to pay for their crimes."

"Since ancient times, people have built the Great Wall to keep out the barbarians. But I want to turn the grassland barbarians into the Great Wall and implement the dual system of Han and Hu. I will be the emperor of the Han Dynasty, and do the work of the Chanyu and Khan."

"Let all the rulers of the four barbarians come to the palace and worship me as the Heavenly Khan, which means that the emperor of the Han Dynasty will concurrently rule over the affairs of the Xiongnu Great Khan, the Wuhuan Khan, the Xianbei Khan, and the leaders of the Qiang and Di tribes."

"These are what I will do throughout my life."

"Your Highness, you don't need to start anything new, nor do you need to bear the stigma of compiling your own history. All you need to do is follow the path I have created, and use your wisdom to accomplish this great cause!"

Liu Bei said with a smile.

What he had to do was to use the rest of his life to lay the most solid foundation for the Qin and Han dynasties' unification of the world over four hundred years ago.

Let the emperors of the Han Dynasty stand firmly on Liu Xuande's shoulders and lead the people of the world to move forward until all disasters are overcome.

In this life, we should take care of everything we do now, without worrying about what others will say about us after we die.

"Aweng, I understand. I will definitely not let you down."

Liu Yong clenched his fists, his eyes full of light, and agreed.

"Good, good!" Liu Bei couldn't help laughing.

For a person who has founded a business, nothing can make him more pleased than having a suitable successor.

If his eldest son could have the talent of Emperor Xiaoming Liu Zhuang, what would he have to worry about?

Even if there are many people with ulterior motives among the nobles and powerful families, they can be kept under control.

The emperor's hearty laughter could be heard outside the carriage, causing Xu Chu, who was driving, to be a little confused. Since His Majesty ascended the throne, he had rarely heard the emperor laugh so heartily.

The sound of the wheels and the sound of the soldiers' horses' hooves covered up the sound of the carriage, and he could not hear whether the emperor had any message for him.

Xu Chu thought for a while, then knocked on the door and asked respectfully, "Your Majesty, do you have any important instructions?"

Liu Bei was in the carriage just about to ask the prince to tell him what he felt when he saw the Xiongnu people being organized into households in Hedong, when he heard Xu Chu knocking on the door to ask about something, he smiled and said, "Zhongkang, just drive, I have nothing to tell you."

Then Liu Bei suddenly thought of the Xiongnu nobles he had just glanced at, so he changed his words and said, "In addition to the local officials and noble families, let the Xiongnu people also come to the palace to pay homage. I want to know what the situation is at the Xiongnu royal court at this moment."

(End of this chapter)