Chapter 258

"What kind of minister am I?" Lu que was stunned by the words. He bowed his head and thought for a while. Then he shook his head. "I haven't really thought about this problem."

"Lu que." Looking at Lu's indifference, Luo canglan said, "we all know that with your talent, Daqian is just your rising place, not your destination. Whether you are thinking of your country or playing in the world of mortals. But it is undeniable that you are already in the world of mortals, floating with the waves of the world of mortals. You just said that I am a new minister, but in the eyes of many of us, you are the future official of Daqian. You will end the disputes among nobility, aristocracy and poor families, and the ambition of the Three Kingdoms on the grassland. This is the hope of your majesty, your mother's eldest princess, your father's Duke Wei, and the hope of Daqian's people. "

"Lao Guogong." Looking at the head of the school in front of him and the generation of capable officials who worked with his mother to maintain the stability of Da Qian in the early Hongxi Dynasty, Lu que suddenly felt a little ashamed. He was a conscientious old man who had devoted his whole life to Da Qian. Even though he was over sixty years old, he still devoted his whole life's ruling experience to teach and educate Da Qian in the school, Pass it on to generations of students. Facing such a person, Lu suddenly didn't know what to say.

"Lu que, you are a very intelligent person. I don't need you to talk about some things. It's just that you have too much to do with yourself. I don't want to see you heading for a road of no return." Luo canglan said sincerely.

"Lao Guogong, what do you mean when you ask students to come here today?" Lu que Wen Yan frowned and asked. He asked himself that he hadn't done anything wrong in waige for half a year. Some people didn't understand why the first adult of the Academy said such a thing.

"Alas ~" Luo canglan sighed slowly, with a trace of memory in his eyes, and said slowly, "the world has been peaceful for a long time. Except for the Qingyang iron cavalry's fight to the blue river more than 20 years ago, there has been no large-scale war for more than 100 years. At that time, the former Emperor had found that the gradual development of the aristocratic family had brought harm to the whole country, but the former Emperor had not completely solved the problem of the aristocratic family and died in his prime. However, the former Emperor had already planted the seeds, which led to the rise of the three heroes in Hongxi's early period and the establishment of the sky fire army. That's why I and your mother supported your father to lead the army to the north when the State Treasury was not abundant. "

Speaking of this, Luo canglan took a look at Lu Que and said, "what you are thinking now is exactly what I and your mother did in those years. We just want to let the poor family rise to balance the family, but what you have done is further than us. You have gathered your noble ambition, together with the heart of the top ten families, to support the new generation of poor leaders, Such an approach can make Daqian reduce the pain in the process of reform as much as possible, but the reform will damage the interests of some people. Now there are two families, you and CAI, and they don't know how many in the future. Have you ever thought about what to do? "

Lu que took a look at Luo canglan and said seriously, "Lao Guogong, our great qiantaizu founded the country by military force, and then Emperor Wu sent troops to the northern expedition. The military style is far more prosperous than that of all previous dynasties. As long as the imperial city is dedicated to the royal family, as long as the great qiantaizu army is still the country's main army, the rest is nothing but scabies. Your majesty is related to me by blood and has the grace of promotion and reuse. Lu que should do his best, To fulfill your Majesty's wish, we should also have a clear and just court and a clean court

"Do you know the real reason why I came to you today?" Luo Cang LAN smell speech satisfied of nod, looking at Lu lack to say.

"This ~" Lu que took a look at Luo canglan, hesitated slightly, and then shook his head.

"When your majesty made you commander-in-chief in spite of the opposition of his ministers, I strongly opposed it. Do you think I want to say something for the noble family, or to stop you?"

Lu qiaowen shook his head. "The students have never thought about it like this, and I don't agree with what your majesty has done. It's just that when I returned to Beijing, the imperial edict was issued, and everything has become a foregone conclusion. Even if I want to change anything, I can't help it."

Luo Cang LAN nodded and said, "if only you could think that way, I strongly opposed it because you were too young and too sharp. The so-called wood show in the forest, the wind will destroy it, the pile higher than the flow, the river will flow, the line higher than the people will not, although you can get a temporary convenience, but it is not a good thing in the long run, your majesty is a little worried about this. "

Lu que nodded with approval. Now he is the commander of the second grade army, and he is actually the deputy commander of the Changqing army. But after the war in southern Xinjiang, he was appointed to take charge of the whole situation, and all the soldiers and horses in southern Xinjiang were transferred by him. You know, there are more than one million troops in the six legions. In the whole history of Daqian, except for the emperor Taizu who founded the country in bloody battles, No one had so many soldiers in his hands. Even his father, who had made great achievements in the war, was only controlling the four legions during the northern expedition to Qingyang.

Although all this is only temporary, when the war is over, the military power will be taken back to waige again, but the contribution of this war is real. Now Fengxiang's army encircles Heyan city. As long as Heyan city is conquered, Tianxing will have no room to maneuver, and only one way to perish. What kind of reward should be given for such a victory, You can't let him join the cabinet and worship the prime minister before he is crowned.

Moreover, his majesty has deliberately passed that he will be the crown prince and the new leader of the country. Even if he does not have selfish thoughts, the new emperor will be influenced by the people around him. Maybe he will have achieved great success before he and his cousin Yu Tianxiang's reform is completed. Moreover, it is clearly recorded in historical records that most of the reformers in the past dynasties did not have a good ending. At that time, he may have to put aside the unfinished business and resign. This is why Luo canglan said that he was a member of the state, but he was so worried. This old man, who had been immersed in the imperial court for decades, had already seen the very likely future.

Think of here, Lu lack some tired knead the eyebrow, suddenly feel a little depressed. He didn't understand why he was doing this, whether it was the emperor's trust, the expectation of his parents, or the hope of the people standing behind him.

"It seems you want to understand." Luo canglan looked at Lu Que's expression change and said, "Ji Zhiheng, the three heroes of the poor family, resigned and went to seclusion. The middle way of Bai Lijia died. As for your father, his heart is not dry now. The arrangement of the former Emperor and the strategy of the old man and the eldest princess have failed. Now we can only rely on you and Tianxiang, and the new generation of talents of Daqian. Lu que, Da qian can't afford another failure. If you also fail, the aristocratic family will fight back and there will be no one to control. At that time, Daqian's court situation will no longer be the decision-making of the national economy and people's livelihood, but the endless suspicion, struggle and compromise. That's why I came to you today. "

"Lao Guogong, there's one thing the students don't understand. Is the aristocratic family really that terrible?" Lu que looks up at Luo Cang LAN and asks suspiciously. The aristocratic families he knew, such as Le miao'er, Wu yunshang, and his uncles Mu Zhuo, Shi Kuan, and Feng Yu, were all dedicated to pursuing the peak of their skills. Fame and wealth were not in their hearts. He did not understand why the aristocratic families in the hearts of his parents and Luo shouzuo were like wolves, tigers and leopards.

"On the surface, the trouble of the aristocratic family is that the aristocratic family annexed land in the local area and formed a clique in the imperial court. In fact, the most fundamental reason lies in its survival and reproduction. Take the Yue family of the top ten aristocratic families as an example. When Daqian founded the country, the Yue family was just a few people led by Le Tianyin, the daughter of Miaoyin. Now, more than 240 years later, what is the population of the Yue family, How many people are attached to the musicians

Luo canglan said with a sigh, "it's just a musician who ignores foreign affairs and only pursues heaven's voice and Tao. Although other families have been reproducing from generation to generation, they need more land, more food and more resources when they have more and more population, but there are a lot of land suitable for farming in this world, There are several official positions in chaotang. Unless Daqian keeps expanding, it will be saturated sooner or later. At that time, the whole life of the popular uprising and the aristocratic family will add fuel to the flames. The huanghuang Daqian will collapse and disappear in the long river of history, just like all the dynasties in the past, until the next new empire is built on Daqian's corpse and the next reincarnation begins. "

Lu Que's heart and mind were shocked when he heard the words. He had thought about this problem more than once, but he never thought so deeply as the old man in front of him. Moreover, Lu que knew that there was nothing wrong with the old man's words. If he could not solve the problems of his family, such things would happen sooner or later. Contradictions do not occur in a moment, but accumulate over time until irreconcilable.

For a moment, family and country, nation and family problems flashed quickly in Lu Que's mind, which was both magnificent and complicated. With Lu Que's intelligence, he couldn't figure out a clue for a moment, because in his opinion, if we want to solve such problems according to Luo canglan, it's not enough to just let the poor family rise, because the rising poor family will form a new family, It is not enough to change the current way of employing people and the law of Da Qian. Because time has changed, the law can only guarantee one time, but it can not guarantee one life, let alone forever. For the first time, Lu felt that the problem he had to face was so intractable.

"Lao Guogong can have a way to deal with it." Lu que pondered for a while, then straightened his clothes, sat upright and respectfully asked the old man for advice. He believes that the old minister in front of him, who can be ranked in the top ten in the history of Da Qian, must have come up with a solution since he can say this.

"The martial arts break the ban, the culture violates the law, and the aristocratic families fight for the interests of the country and the people in the name of being loyal to the monarch. Although the family is in the place, its foundation is in the court. Therefore, the culture and the martial arts should be separated and paralleled, and the culture should not be suppressed by the culture, and the martial arts should not be suppressed by the martial arts, so as to protect the inheritance of the country." Luo canglan picked up the tea cup in front of him and said the answer he had thought for decades.

"But after the founding of Taizu, was it not this system that Daqian used? The internal and external pavilions are divided into civil and military affairs, which do not interfere with or belong to each other. " Lu que asked, puzzled, because what Luo canglan said was different from the current law system of Da Qian, but it was almost the same.

"Do you know the difference is a thousand miles away?" Luo Cang LAN naturally understood what Lu que was thinking and shook his head.

"Please give me some advice." Lu Qiaogong arched his hand, took the kettle boiling on the charcoal stove, added a new pot of water to the teapot, slightly shook the pot body, and added tea to the cup in front of Luo canglan.

Luo canglan took a sip from his tea cup and said, "now Da Qian seems to be separated from the civil and military forces. He only cooperates, not subordinates. In fact, this is not the case. It's OK during the national war. But in the Chengping era, the power of the civil servants in the cabinet was superior to that of the generals in the foreign cabinet. Do you know why? "

Lu que pondered for a moment and said, "in Chengping period, the government mainly focused on cultural administration, sorting out state affairs, dredging rivers, persuading people to farm and mulberry, while the military was only stationed in the four areas of the army and training soldiers. So on the surface, it seems that the cabinet has surpassed the foreign cabinet, but the old Guogong should know that it is not the case."

"That's not what I want to say." Luo canglan shook his head and said, "what I want to say is that at the time of Chengping, part of the lifeline of the military of the outer cabinet was in the hands of the cabinet, or in the hands of the household and the agricultural departments, so the outer cabinet would be restricted by the cabinet."

"The old Duke is talking about grain and military pay?" Lu was stunned, and then he realized that Daqian had more than four million standing troops in the 12th army and the 24th army. Among them, the 12th army, as the elite frontier guard, was more than two million. In addition, there were five or six million garrisons in each county. The annual sales of an army of this size was an extremely large number, accounting for almost 10% of Daqian's taxes.

However, the military's food and financial expenses are in the hands of the household and the agricultural departments. This is the way for the royal family of Daqian to defend against the army and support themselves. It is not wartime. There is only food in March in the army, and it will be redistributed by the household and the agricultural departments in three months. If so, the lifeline of the foreign military is really in the hands of the cabinet.

Although this is a way to restrict generals from having different intentions, if there were no war in Chengping period, the status of military generals would have been reduced. If Wen Chen used it to suppress military generals, the military would not have much power to fight back unless it rebelled against the Qing monarch. After all, the army exists for the sake of war. Once there is no war, the army will have no meaning of existence. At that time, the parallel development of civil and military became a piece of empty talk, because civil officials had a way to restrict military generals, but military generals did not.

"Time has changed." Luo canglan sighed and said, "now in the war of Southern Xinjiang, all materials are first supplied to the front battlefield, and the stars shine brightly in the world. However, how could a country fall into endless wars? After the war in southern Xinjiang, Tianxing and Nanli were destroyed. After a whole year's repair, they sent out conscription to wipe out the Three Kingdoms on the grassland. By then, the east of Qingmu was a big dry land, and there was no rival. Lu que, with your talent and foresight, what do you think will happen next

"If you don't go back to the west of the mountain, there will be thousands of miles of sand sea, which will not benefit you. To the north of the grassland, there will be a vast ice field, and it is difficult for people and animals to survive the ice and snow all the year round. To the northwest of the grassland, there will be mountains, and to the southwest, there will be plateau, and there will be few and poor land. At that time, the best choice is to develop people's livelihood by disarmament, put weapons in the warehouse, and let Lu que thought about it and sighed.

"You seem to understand." Luo canglan stands up and pushes open the window of his study. A gust of wind blows, and the copper bells on the eaves ring. From here, you can not only overlook the whole Fengming academy, but also see the magnificent Daqian palace built on Lingqiu in Qianyuan city in the north. It used to be a great capital, but at this time, it seems that it can not disperse the haze and worries accumulated in the heart.

"Lu que, restoring the territory of the three dynasties in ancient times is the dream of our emperor Daqian for generations. Now only when Heyan city is conquered, the war situation in southern Xinjiang will be settled. Then the next step is the grassland in Northern Xinjiang. Once the Three Kingdoms in Northern Xinjiang are destroyed, where do you think Daqian will go without foreign enemies. Will the kings of later generations who were suppressed by their ancestors' achievements lose their sense of anxiety and ambition to forge ahead? Will the danger of Da Yu, Da Li and Da Xuan be repeated? "

Luo canglan seems to be asking, but also seems to be murmuring, between the words full of love and worry about the country. Sometimes history is like a samsara, repeating the past circle after circle. Different people, different countries and different times interpret the same story and the same ending.

Once there is no foreign enemy in the country, will da Qian, like all previous dynasties, go down to the Royal courtiers and the common people, gradually sink in the midst of peace and pleasure, the etiquette system will be subverted, benevolence and justice will become verbal words, and integrity will be gradually lost, and then the common people will be subverted and destroyed under the roar of the common people.

"The sages have also said that when you are born in hardship, you die in ease. When you are born in an invincible foreign country, you will die forever. At this time, Lao Guogong was in the same mood as his predecessors. " Lu que sighed again. He felt that he sighed more in the attic today than in the past month.

"Lao Guogong is not worried. It is not that there is no solution." Lu que stood up and went to the window. He looked at the students who were talking and laughing, or drinking tea and talking about Taoism. He said, "after Qingyang, there will be Baixia, CHIDI and leran. After the Three Kingdoms, there will be the rise of a new grassland kingdom. How can later Kings lie on their ancestors' merit books and only know how to enjoy themselves but not how to advance."

"You mean to destroy their country and not take their land?" Luo Cang LAN heart a shock, the first time show surprised expression.

"In the past decade or so, the Three Kingdoms on the grassland have buckled the border dozens of times, burned six cities, and plundered tens of thousands of people outside the pass. They have long been the enemy of life and death of the great chieftain. It is not enough to explain themselves to the people of the world if they are not exterminated. However, the vast sea of grass north of the snow and cold mountain is not suitable for the life of the people of the great chieftain. If you can't immigrate, you can't set up counties and counties. There will be new grassland tribes rising sooner or later between the White Mountains and the clear waters. "