Chapter 32 What is the kingly way and what is the domineering way

When Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling, Wang Gui, Gao Shilian, Xu Shimo and other ministers arrived at His Highness Xiande, Li Jiancheng did not say a word and placed the four new laws, including the "Law on the Protection of Rights and Interests of the Tang Army and Martyrs" that Chen Ying had just written down, the "Law on the Retirement and Resettlement of Soldiers in the Tang Dynasty", the "Law on the Retirement of Officials in the Tang Dynasty", and the "Regulations on the Promotion of Generals in the Tang Dynasty" before everyone.

Because the salaries of officials in the Tang Dynasty were actually not high, and it was a one-size-fits-all approach for retired officials. As long as you retire, the court will not care about what will happen in the future.

Wei Zheng first took out the Law on the Retirement of Officials of the Tang Dynasty, and the first sentence of the opening line "Respect the elderly and the elderly of others, and the young of others..."

Chen used extremely simple language to tell the ministers the meaning of formulating the law of retirement and honor, and then wrote that if any civil and military officials are at the age of 60, they can apply for retirement and enjoy the salary paid by the court.

Wei Zheng was so angry that he saw this.

This time, when Li Jiancheng came to power, he began to streamline military affairs and government, with the purpose of reducing the expenses of the court. Now Chen Ying is good enough to pay salaries to retired officials. As long as he is an official in the Tang Dynasty, wouldn’t he be able to die and the court continue to pay salaries? In this way, wouldn’t the court’s financial expenses be expanded?

Wei Zheng looked at Chen Ying with a dark face and said, "Captain Chen, what do you mean by setting this method to invite the officials all over the world?"

Wei Zheng spoke, and the first sentence put a big hat on Chen Ying and invited people to win people's hearts. This is a serious crime for the minister.

But Wang Gui and Xu Shimo were silent. Xu Shimo came from a cold family. Of course, this poor family is relatively similar. After all, although the Xu family in Yanzhou is not a wealthy family, there are tens of thousands of acres of fertile land in their family. Now, Xu Shimo doesn’t have to worry, but once he retires in the future, his life pressure will be quite high.

After all, the poor have difficulties for the poor. The rich have difficulties for the rich.

Fang Xuanling looked at Chen Ying silent and said without hesitation: "Captain Chen's idea is good, but... so many officials need to pay their salaries, where does the money and food come from?"

Chen Ying smiled faintly and said, "The money and grain for retirement are divided into two parts. One tenth of the annual salary of an official is directly deducted when it is distributed by the Ministry of Revenue and deposited into the state treasury; the court also paid the same amount of money to deposit as a subsidy; when it comes to retirement, as long as the official does not commit any illegal crimes, the money will be distributed to the official himself as a pension money in other places."

As he said that, Chen Ying looked at Wei Zheng and smiled and said, "Take your Wei Prime Minister as an example, the Wei Prime Minister has a salary of 72 guan, 370 guan, 900 mu of land, 120 guan, a total of 30 guan. After deducting one tenth of the year, it is 30 guan, and the imperial court subsidy is also 30 guan. The Wei Prime Minister is now 42 years old and can still serve Your Majesty for twenty years. Twenty years later, if the Wei Prime Minister retires, he can get a total of 1,200 guan, and with this 1,200 guan, the Wei Prime Minister can buy land and buy land, or live a life of his life. In fact, the imperial court only needs to take out 600 guan, is it too much?"

Li Jiancheng hesitated and said, "There are not much 600 trump cards in twenty years!"

Chen Ying looked at the ministers and said, "Why Prime Minister Wei, who had served the imperial court for twenty years, should he receive this thousand,200 pension?"

Xu Shimo quickly said, "It's time to get it!"

Chen Ying smiled and said, "Yes, Wei Prime Minister should take it, but there are many officials as poor as Wei Prime Minister in the Tang Dynasty. Once they lose the salary of the court, they will lose their livelihood. Could it be that the Tang Dynasty, the prime minister, begs along the street?"

The officials were in thought. For the officials, one-tenth of what they deducted would not affect their normal lives.

Wang Gui thought that in the future, the same amount of subsidy land of the imperial court would be equivalent to double the deduction and then pay it back. Wouldn't it be equivalent to a one-tenth of the salary increase?

However, these officials never thought about how much benefit they could get when inflation and the treasury would use this money to operate.

Wei Zheng didn't say anything. He felt that the officials paid their salary and deposited it into the treasury, which was equivalent to paying an insurance policy. As long as they did not violate the law, they could get the huge sum of money.

In fact, Chen Ying also considered that in later generations, people made calculations that according to the purchasing power level, every stake in the Tang Dynasty was almost equivalent to 4,248 yuan and 1,200 yuan in later generations, which was equivalent to 5.1 million yuan. Unless they were born in aristocratic families, ordinary officials could not ignore this huge sum of money.

At this moment, Wang Gui thought about it and asked: "What are the situations in which this money will not be obtained? If I stop being an official in the middle and resign and leave, what should I do?"

Chen Ying explained to the ministers: "If you are dismissed for being punished, then the money will not be received. In the future, the court deducts 10% of your salary as a pretext, which means that all officials dare not be honest. The court takes out the same amount of money as a reward for a clean and strict, conscientious, clean and unscrupulous. If you die for the line of merit, you will not only give up all the deducted pensions, but also add appropriate rewards on the basis of the court's subsidies. If you are unable to be qualified for the dispatch due to physical or personal reasons, you will be sure to not take office after two years of retirement, and you will be sure to not take office again, you will be able to receive your pension in full."

Li Jiancheng strongly agreed with Chen Ying's pension system. Anyone who is tempted by corruption and bribery should also consider: be honest and dedicated, and you will have a big retirement and blond in your hands when you are old, without any risks; if you accept bribery, you may be caught by the censor, and not only will you go to jail, but this huge sum of money will also be ruined.

Moreover, Li Jiancheng also saw a better part of this system. When a young official first entered the officialdom, he had a low level, low salary, and less pension, and he would definitely have a small power, so he would not have any chance to embezzle and accept bribes. After the officials worked for a long time, they gradually rose to a high position, and their powers became greater, and there would be more opportunities to embezzle and accept bribes; however, he also saved more provident funds, so who would be in front of bribes? Don’t you think about the large amount of money that he had in the treasury?

Li Jiancheng looked at Chen Ying. Chen Ying was planning and truly holding the world and people's hearts in his palm!

As for the "Law on the Protection of Rights and Interests of the Tang Army and Martyrs", no minister dared to raise objections, including Wei Zheng. After all, this bill involves the interests of more than 500,000 soldiers of the Tang Dynasty. No matter who dares to stumbling on this bill, the angry soldiers will definitely tear them to pieces.

...

In Fengdeyi's mansion in Chang'an City, the sky was just dawn. Feng Deyi opened his eyes and stood up tremblingly. He couldn't sleep, so the emperor summoned all the ministers to Xiande Hall to discuss matters, but he didn't call him.

Although he had been dismissed, the Shangshu Zuo Pushe was promoted to Special. Although Special. It was a false position, it was the second among civil servants, second only to the three departments of Kaifu Yi and the three departments. The key is that the Tang Dynasty did not have the actual position of the three departments of Kaifu Yi and the three departments, that is, Pei Ji, who was promoted to Sikong, was the first among civil servants, and he became the second.

But this second civil servant has been marginalized.

This is a very dangerous signal. If marginalization continues, then Feng Deyi will become a laughing stock in Chang'an City.

He absolutely can't stand this matter.

Thinking of this, Feng Deyi shouted outside the door: "Come here!"

Not long after, Feng Daoyan pushed the door and entered, "Father!"

Feng Deyi waved to Feng Daoyan in the morning and said, "Help wear the crown for his father."

Feng Daoyan said in surprise: "Father, you look like this, and you still have to go to court?"

Feng Deyi pondered and said, "You must go to court for your father. Now that things have come to this point, for the Feng family, you must try again no matter what, to see if you can... satisfy Your Majesty."

Looking at Feng Deyi with a pale complexion, Feng Daoyan looked distressed.

...

The officials in the palace sang loudly: "Your Majesty is here, all the officials will worship you!"

Guan Zhong, who was originally whispering, immediately shut up and lined up.

At this time, Li Jiancheng climbed onto the Danban with his full crown.

All civil and military officials stepped forward one after another and bowed and bowed: "Your Majesty is in peace!"

Feng Deyi walked slowly among the crowd tremblingly.

Officials made way for Feng Deyi one after another.

Wei Zheng carefully supported Feng Deyi and stood in the front row.

Li Jiancheng's eyes were like lightning, and he slowly glanced at his ministers and said, "Since the first year of Wude, our Tang Dynasty took Guanzhong and Hedong as the foundation and worked hard to govern. After several ups and downs, he unified the nine provinces. Although the war was generally over, only the Turkic disasters were left outside the border, how to make the people of the world rest and recuperate and maintain peace in the Tang Dynasty? The Supreme Emperor did not understand the law, and I would not understand the law. All the families, let me discuss this way of governing the country today!"

Feng Deyi rushes to leave and says, "Your Majesty, now all the nine provinces are subdued and all the things are waiting to be developed. Our Tang Dynasty should follow the pre-Qin period and govern the world with the domineering power of the Legalists."

Li Jiancheng looked at Feng Deyi with interest and said, "What do you say about the domineering Legalists?"

Feng Deyi looked at Li Jiancheng's expression and felt secretly proud. He thought he had grasped Li Jiancheng's pulse. From Wei Zheng and Fang Xuanling to carry out the so-called "simplified military and simplified government", Li Jiancheng completely abandoned Li Yuan's strategy of governing the country, and began to write purposefully, implement the domineering of France's dominance in governing the country.

As the saying goes, if you have something to do with the superiors, you must follow it.

Feng Deyi is now about saying what Li Jiancheng likes to hear and doing what Li Jiancheng wants to see, otherwise his career will end here.

Feng Deyi carefully said, "The so-called overbearing law-abiding rule of the country by punishment, distribute it to the public, and appoint the law to remove private punishment. There is no rank in punishment. What Your Majesty said is all the law."

Li Jiancheng frowned slightly.

Li Jiancheng looked at Chen Ying, the leader of all officials. At this time, Chen Ying actually yawned. Obviously, Chen Ying did not agree with Feng Deyi's point of view.

Feng Deyi continued: "Your Majesty has recently surrendered to the royal family and streamlined officials. These measures have attracted the domineering taste of the Legalists. I think Your Majesty has long been very interested in it."

Fang Xuanling turned his face and whispered to Wei Zheng: "If I had known this, why would I have been there? This old fox has finally come back and is willing to stand up and express his opinion."

Wei Zheng did not answer Fang Xuanling's words, but made great strides.

Wei Zheng shouted: "This statement from the Prime Minister is very wrong."

In fact, Chen Ying also wanted to refute Feng Deyi, but was robbed by Wei Zheng first.

Chen Ying had to retreat. Anyway, Chen Ying was quite confident in Wei Zheng's firepower. As long as Wei Zheng took action and verbal tricks, he could do the three Feng Deyi alone.

Everyone looked at Wei Zheng in surprise.

Wei Zheng said disapprovingly: "Since Confucius established the Tao, there is only one way to govern the world, that is, the kingly way of Confucianism."

Li Jiancheng narrowed his eyes, without any joy or anger.

Chen Ying looked at Wei Zheng, but he seemed to be smiling.

Wei Zheng said lightly: "The legalists domineering and seem to be effective in doing so, but in fact, they are extremely short-sighted ways. The demise of the Qin Dynasty in the second generation is an example. Only by respecting Confucius and promoting the kingly way can we truly achieve great governance in the world. What the Prime Minister said is completely different and it is extremely wrong."

Feng Deyi retorted: "What Wei Zheng said was purely a woman who saw that the Tang Dynasty won the world soon, and it was not the way of benevolence and forgiveness of Confucian scholars, but the scimitar and horse spear. This is well-known."

Wei Zheng said unwillingly: "The king's way is open and the king's way is mediocre. The so-called benevolence and forgiveness are not the true meaning of the king's way."

Speaking of this, Wei Zheng turned to Feng Deyi with malicious intentions and said, "I want to ask the Prime Minister Feng, in your heart, what is the kingdom?"

Feng Deyi was stunned by the question.

Wei Zheng turned around and faced the officials in the court and said, "Everyone, what is the kingly way?"

Everyone looked at Wei Zheng intently.

Wei Zheng turned around and faced Li Jiancheng again: "The way of kings is not a slogan, the way of kings is not false words, the way of kings is in everyone's heart, and the way of kings is above the authority of the court! The way of kings is the laws of the world that must be respected from the emperor to the common people. The way of kings is benevolence, the way of kings is righteousness, the way of kings is ritual, the way of kings is wisdom, the way of kings is faith... The way of kings is yin and yang, the way of kings is the universe, the way of kings is order, the way of kings is etiquette... The way of kings is the foundation of scholars!"

Wei Zheng solemnly told Li Jiancheng: "For the Tang Dynasty, there is only one sentence in the true kingdom, the scholars and officials share the world with the emperor..."

Feng Deyi sneered and looked around, and pointed at Wei Zheng with his hand, saying, "The merit of unifying the Jiuzhou was gone in his mouth; the merit of formulating the three provinces and six ministries was gone in his mouth; the merit of formulating the Kaihuang Law was gone in his mouth; the merit of formulating the Kaihuang Prosperity was gone in his mouth; the merit of fighting against the Turks was gone in his mouth.

Wei Zheng's face was depressed and he looked down upon him.

Feng Deyi shouted sternly: "Junior, I tell you that Emperor Wen of Sui, who is the saint of saints, is the only heroic spirit, and his criminal law and etiquette are the same, and his literary virtues are both far away. Yu Shun's great achievements are twenty, but not enough, and Ji Fa's unity of three or five is not enough. You are a child with yellow words and talks wildly, and he is really a traitor who is sensational!"

Feng Deyi finished speaking with a gloomy face.

Wei Zheng took a few steps forward without retreating, faced Feng Deyi and said, "I dare to ask Feng Prime Minister, you have served Emperor Wen of Sui and Emperor Yang of Sui and his son. Can you tell me why the Sui Dynasty died in the second lifetime?"

Feng Deyi looked around again and said, "This is a well-known thing. Do you want me to waste my lips and tongue to explain it?"

Wei Zheng said bluntly: "Please speak."

Feng Deyi was stunned and said slowly: "Okay...Okay, I tell you that Yang Guang killed his father and seized the throne, exterminated human ethics; he was arrogant and extravagant, built the Eastern Capital, opened the canal, built the Great Wall, and exhausted the civil servants of the world; he conquered Goryeo and exhausted the country's foundation. There was such a tyrant monarch who would be destroyed by any dynasty."

Wei Zheng looked clear and said, "I dare to ask about the title of Prime Minister, Emperor Yang of Sui built the Eastern Capital, built the canal, and conquered Goryeo, three major bad policies, poisoning the world. At that time, Xiao Xiang and Feng Xiang were all famous officials. Even the Supreme Emperor was an official in front of Emperor Yang of Sui at that time, why could not stop the world from collapse?"

Feng Deyi was speechless, but couldn't speak for a long time.

Li Jiancheng slapped the armrest of the chariot on the danmu and said, "Wei Zheng, then tell me, why did the Sui Dynasty die in the second lifetime?"

Li Jiancheng, a quizzed in the Wei Zheng Dynasty, said: "Your Majesty clearly understood that the Sui Dynasty was destroyed by Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian, not Emperor Yang Guang of Sui Yang."

The ministers and officials in the palace were immediately in an uproar.

Feng Deyi said dumbfoundedly: "It's really ridiculous, ridiculous... ridiculous."

Li Jiancheng looked at Chen Ying thoughtfully.
Chapter completed!