Chapter 39: Chen Chen's Ambition
This has always been like this in troubled times.
Before we can see the dawn of unifying the world, everyone is looking for ways to survive.
No matter what world you are in, what you get means what you have to pay. For these aristocratic families who want to go further in troubled times, sometimes betting is indeed their best way.
Therefore, when chaos occurs in China, old families always fall down and new families stand up, as if this is the most normal world but all the rules, but Chen Chen doesn't think so.
However, this feudal dynasty has just begun to develop in its peak period, and it is not advisable to make class contradictions too directly and reform them.
In this regard, the failures of Wang Mang from the Xin Dynasty to the Han Dynasty or Zhang Jiao's Yellow Turban Rebellion prove that the other forces today are not enough to fight against the power of feudal families.
But if you plan ahead, keep your strength and stay low, and stay dormant for decades, even your lord agrees with your own ideas and class concepts, then perhaps the new Han can become a terrifying existence that has been ahead of the exotic countries of the same era for thousands of years.
In fact, this also involves Chen Chen's ambitions.
After coming to this world, he is also growing, reflecting constantly, and asking about the meaning of coming to this world.
Perhaps this world is completely different from the one he remembers, but since he has come here, he will try to use his own strength and knowledge to change this era.
Didn’t I also be an angry young man and a little pink in my previous life?
If the Han Dynasty could spread this prosperity in this Han Dynasty, one of the most powerful dynasties in China, form a gap in strength with other cultures, and in this era, it began to maintain its whip and ravage of countries around the world, making them a tradition of surrendering to the Han Dynasty.
Sorry, although Chen Chen is easy to talk and discuss on weekdays, he is also a complete nationalist.
In the sky and the earth, only the great man is the only one who is respected.
So Chen Chen still has a lot to do, and at present, basically as long as Liu Bei does not take the initiative to launch any large-scale battles within the next two years, similar to the situation where the Battle of Yiling directly ruins the entire country's combat power, Liu Bei will always maintain his advantage. Unifying the Han Dynasty is not a dream.
In addition, during this period, external operations have not stopped.
The formal establishment of the Mingqiuwei was to ensure that when Liu Bei was well slept at home and developed, there would be no other powerful enough prince who could quickly unify the south and gain the strength to defeat Liu Bei. Foreign operations were not just about fighting on the frontal battlefield.
There are also sow discord and instigation to promote.
In fact, Chen Chen has not fully informed Liu Bei. He felt that in the future, after Liu Bei successfully unified the Han Dynasty, what he should do was not to further enhance the feudal centralization of the Han Dynasty and reach a new peak, but to take another new path, which is very suitable for the world-style path.
Constitutional monarchy.
Because if feudal centralization was promoted to the peak, the Han Dynasty could indeed be extremely strong in this generation, because Liu Bei's own strength and realm were beyond ordinary people.
In addition, the legendary deeds of Liu Bei's three-restoration of Yan Han will be even more covered with a layer of sacred golden jade wool for the Liu family of the Han Dynasty. The divine light will naturally deeply imprint the "Emperor of the Liu surname is the destiny of heaven" in the hearts of the Han people and will be passed on from generation to generation.
You should know that in history, Liu Bei failed to successfully restore the Han Dynasty, and later generations still had the famous prophecy of "Mao Jin Dao".
This statement continued until the Sui and Tang Dynasties and was quite controversial, mainly because Liu Heita was in opposition to the Li Tang "Li's general rise" under the banner of "Li's family became king".
The reason why Liu Heita borrowed such a banner was that the Han Dynasty's rule was deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Before the Tang Dynasty, only the Han Dynasty was a dynasty that lasted for hundreds of years, and even in the past few hundred years, the Han Dynasty suffered internal and external troubles, natural disasters and man-made disasters. No matter what the risks or disasters were, the Han Dynasty survived.
In the classic Han Dynasty classic "Spring and Autumn Annals of Confucianism and Divination", the famous "Mao Jin Knife, named 'Liu', the Chi Emperor, and the next Zhou Dynasty" prophecy was born, which was actually to strengthen and exaggerate the rationality of Liu's destiny through the study of prophecy and divination.
The main reason is that the Han Han himself is also successful. As the first unified dynasty in history that lasted for four hundred years, he started from Liu Bang's legendary business and relied on the destiny to seize the world. Later, Liu Xiu sent troops to capture the unjust, Mao Jin cultivated virtue as the emperor, and Liu Bei rebuilt Ji Han. Until the extinction of the Han Dynasty, the almost uninterrupted "Han Revival" movement. The charm of such a Han Han was already divine.
Chen Chen's idea was based on this basis. If Liu Bei could once again unify the Han Dynasty and promote the Ji Han three times, the sacredness of the Liu family would basically become a fixed number, and it would be difficult for aristocratic families and others to have the courage to challenge the Liu family.
When the monarch's sacredness reaches its peak, he is actually suitable as a lord, a true emperor, rather than a dictator.
Because Liu Bei is excellent, but his descendants representing Liu Bei's will be able to maintain the quality of education and continue to be excellent.
However, if a constitutional system of the emperor belonging to the Han Dynasty and with the characteristics of the Han Dynasty is established, the society will be governed with the law, and the decision-making level will be slowly spread, and the people will be enlightened at the same time, and this national system with limited monarchy will be used to safeguard the interests and sacredness of the Liu family, but it will not hinder the Han Dynasty from continuing to move forward.
The core of this system lies in how to establish a good constitution, enhance the status and sovereignty of the people, and realize an ideal republic in state affairs, rather than a pure republic.
Of course, such a system is not without problems.
If you do not do a good job in education, guide people's intelligence and are opposed and resisted by aristocratic families that do not want to be assimilated by class, then there may be a problem of power penetration in the future. Although the government affairs treatment should be handed over to the best talents of each era, who can fully guarantee that the generation of talents in the era will be divided, thus causing the transfer of power, and causing the state's power to fall into the hands of some aristocratic alliances.
But Chen Chen knew that the probability of bastards and waste appearing in descendants of the Liu family would not be lower than the probability of failure of political wars in the times.
If he can firmly grasp the point of education, establish it as the core idea of the group, and implement the people's wisdom and education as the focus, he believes that in the future, there will always be a group of warriors with improving the current social situation and will continue to challenge various difficulties.
The power of a group is greater than that of an individual.
He is willing to put hope on the future, the future that focuses on education.
Of course, he couldn't tell Liu Bei about these ideas now.
Otherwise, before he could unify the world, he had already begun to consider his decentralization after he ascended the throne.
Even if Chen Chen is trusted by Liu Bei, such a thing may still cause displeasure to others and plant a seed. He still understands that he will not be arrogant because of favor.
And even if he was unwilling to admit it, he understood a little.
That is, if he and Liu Bei have different opinions on this aspect in the future, he is likely to stand opposite to Liu Bei in some matters.
If he wants to avoid this situation, he can only do his best to make Liu Bei understand himself and his thoughts during this period of unification of the world.
Although this seems selfish.
but.
This is the ambition he had born after coming to this world!
He didn't want to see wars appearing on this land that shouldn't exist. They were fierce and brave, and should wave to the outside world instead of bullying their own people.
He wants to dye this land red and continue to expand outward.
Peace has always been a false proposition.
Chen Chen is a real hawkish figure. He doesn't think the enemy will have any mercy on his side, so he should eliminate the threat as much as possible and protect himself.
but.
Just as the happy event between Chen Chen and Yan Ren was approaching, in the corner of the Han territory that Liu Bei Group did not notice, there were some ethnic groups who relied on the cooperation between Liu Bei Chen Chen and Nanhua to resolve the glacier period, and quietly raised their heads.
They seem to see more hope, and compared with the warm airflow caused by wind and snow, they also breed ambitions and desires in their hearts.
At that time, when the glacier period was approaching, Gongsun Zan, who originally used Liaodong County as his resident, had already gone to the grassland to look for traces of the Xianbei people, but was forced to retreat by the increasingly severe wind and snow, Gongsun Zan also returned to Liaodong County.
As for Gongsun Du, who was appointed as the prefect of Liaodong by Dong Zhuo?
After Liu Bei captured the lower half of Jizhou and rushed to Youzhou to persuade Gongsun Zan and Liu Yu, Gongsun Du naturally surrendered to Liu Bei. How could he feel that he has the strength to deal with Liu Bei who occupied the four states?
After Yuan Shao, who was once powerful, was defeated by Liu Bei, Gongsun Du became even more honest.
Fortunately, he had not done anything before he surrendered to Liu Bei, and he had done the operation of establishing the Marquis of Liaodong and the governor of Pingzhou. Otherwise, Liu Bei would have killed him directly on the charge of being disregarded by the court and freed up his territory for Gongsun Zan to live. Now Gongsun Du also served under Gongsun Zan because of his surname Gongsun Du. Although he was not very willing, he knew Gongsun Zan's combat power, and he had no way to beat Gongsun Zan.
Gongsun Zan, who commanded the White Horse Yicong and the Liaodong Army, is now a general of the same status as Guan Yu, Xu Huang, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun. He is the only one in the army, and Gongsun Zan has a higher autonomy.
Theoretically, Liu Bei and his team solved the problem of wind and snow in the northern border this time, so Gongsun Zan should have breathed a sigh of relief and continued to trouble the Xianbei people.
However, in the county governments of Liaodong County, Gongsun Zan was frowning and did not take his white horse to find the Xianbei people.
This is not because the Xianbei people died in this snow disaster. This snow disaster was indeed a devastating blow, but for the Xianbei people who live on the cold grasslands all year round, they still have many ways to retain the fire for the tribe. Rather than worrying about the environment of wind and snow, they are more worried about food.
They need to quickly find routes with animal traces in the wind and snow, and look for animals such as yellow sheep and roe deer in the thick snow and ice. If they find them, they can survive.
Therefore, the Xianbei people were able to recover from this situation, and Gongsun Zan also understood this truth.
But now he is not a Xianbei person.
"Shengji, what do you think?"
Gongsun Zan put down the information in his hand, closed his eyes and asked Gongsun Du, who was sitting next to him.
Although they are from their own family, they are not actually from the same tribe. Gongsun Du is a native of Liaodong, while Gongsun Zan is from western Liaoning. They can't even match their hometown dialect.
Not good enough, they are all from border generals, and communication is not complicated.
"Tsk."
Gongsun Du pondered for a while before summarizing the current situation based on his own experience.
"Goguryeo has never made any big moves, but they seem to have some small connections with the Xianbei people. The Xianbei people did not rob them. There were Xianbei tribes who ran from Bingzhou to the west of Youzhou before. I originally thought they could not find a good target for robbery, so I ran to Goguryeo to bully them, but I didn't expect that they seemed to have a good relationship. After staying in Goguryeo for a while, they left, and seemed to have sufficient supplies."
Gongsun Du had gone back to Liaodong before, and he knew much about Goguryeo.
"What's going on in this Goguryeo now?"
Gongsun Zan had no investigation or in-depth understanding of the Goguryeo people who were separated by him, the Greater Liaodong County. He only knew that those wild monkeys seemed a little mean.
This is what a wealthy businessman who went to Goguryeo to do business, so Gongsun Zan had a bad impression of them, and what threat could there be in that corner?
"It's a tough opponent."
Gongsun Du smiled bitterly. In fact, he didn't want to say that a vulgar minor Congress in Bianye is a difficult opponent, but Goguryeo is really disgusting.
"Goguryeo had only nearly one county at the beginning, and then continued to develop, annexing the three Koreans, and also annexing the old North Korea and small surrounding forces. The Goguryeo royal family was a member of Fuyu. The Goguryeo terrain was narrow and complex, and basically had no formed cavalry combat power. Because it was not suitable, there were many hills and forests that were blocked. If you attack Goguryeo, it would be easy to retreat due to excessive pressure on logistics supply. However, if you don't destroy them, you would occasionally harass the border."
Gongsun Du had fought with these bitches before.
Although Gongsun Du won no pressure and easily deal with them all with harassment, it was annoying.
He has not fought in Goguryeo, but those people are like monkeys, who run away as soon as they fight, and they get deeper as soon as they run.
"And there have been no major wars in Goguryeo. Now they have almost the same cultivation and rest. According to the national strength, they may be better than our Liaodong Army."
Gongsun Zan knocked on the table with his thick knuckles.
"It's really not easy to deal with."
.
.
.
[ps: Today is my birthday, I will pack up my things and go home early tomorrow morning. I will push two new books here]
"Stay and Don't Wave", a new book about Dancing, needless to say, the pseudonym is worth it. Dancing is produced, it must be a fine product, everyone hurry up!
Chapter completed!