Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

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

Feng Deyi considered the words carefully and said: "The so-called hegemony of the Legalists is to govern the country with punishment, spread it to the public, let the law go to private interests, and have no hierarchy of punishment. What your Majesty says is the law."

Li Jiancheng frowned slightly.

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

Feng Deyi went on to say: "Your Majesty's recent conferment of the imperial clan and streamlining of officials, these measures have a strong flavor of Legalism. I think that Your Majesty already has a big heart."

Fang Xuanling turned his face to the side and whispered to Wei Zheng: "I knew this before, so why bother? This old fox has finally come to his senses now and is willing to speak out."

Wei Zheng didn't answer Fang Xuanling's words, but strode out of work.

Wei Zheng said loudly: "What Feng Xiangguo said is completely wrong."

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

Chen Ying had no choice but to back off. Anyway, Chen Ying was quite confident in Wei Zheng's firepower. As long as Wei Zheng went out and talked about it, he could seal three Deyis by himself.

Everyone looked at Wei Zheng in astonishment.

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

Li Jiancheng squinted his eyes, neither happy nor angry.

Chen Ying looked at Wei Zheng with a half-smile.

Wei Zheng said indifferently: "Legalism is domineering, and it seems to be effective, but in fact, it is an extremely short-sighted way. The death of Qin Dynasty II is an example. Only by respecting Confucianism and promoting the way of kings can the world be truly ruled. What Xiangguo said is completely different from the other, and it is extremely absurd."

Feng Deyi retorted: "What Wei Zheng said is purely a woman's opinion. The Tang Dynasty won the world immediately, not by the way of benevolence and forgiveness of the Confucian scholars, but by the scimitar and the horse's spear. This is well known. matter."

Wei Zheng said without hesitation: "The way of kingship is frank, and the way of kingship is mediocre. The so-called benevolence and forgiveness is not the true meaning of the way of kingship."

Speaking of this, Wei Zheng turned to Feng Deyi with malicious intentions and said, "I would like to ask Feng Xiangguo, in your heart, what is the kingly way?"

Feng Deyi was dumbfounded when asked.

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

Everyone looked at Wei Zheng intently.

Wei Zheng turned around and faced Li Jiancheng again: "The way of kingship is not a slogan, the way of kingship is not empty talk, the way of kingship is in everyone's heart, and the way of kingship is above the authority of the court! The way of kingship must be respected from the emperor to the common people. The law of the world, the kingly way is benevolence, the kingly way is righteousness, the kingly way is propriety, the kingly way is wisdom, the kingly way is faith...the kingly way is yin and yang, the kingly way is heaven and earth, the kingly way is order, the kingly way is etiquette...the kingly way is the foundation of scholars!"

Wei Zheng solemnly told Li Jiancheng: "For the Tang Dynasty, the real kingly way is only one sentence, the scholar-bureaucrats and the emperor share the world..."

Feng Deyi looked around with a sneer, pointed at Wei Zheng and said, "The credit for unifying Kyushu is lost in his mouth; the credit for formulating the three provinces and six ministries system is lost in his mouth; the credit for formulating the imperial law is lost in his mouth." His mouth is gone; the achievements of the prosperous age are also gone in his mouth; the achievements of fighting against the Turks are also gone in his mouth.

Wei Zheng looked gloomy and dismissive.

Feng Deyi sternly shouted: "Junior, I tell you, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty was a sage from the heavens, unique in beauty, penal law and etiquette were developed in tandem, and both literature and morality were far away; Yu Shun's great achievements were twenty, which is not enough. How can it be enough to talk about three or five of them. You are a yellow-mouthed kid, talking wildly and chaotically, you are really rebellious and immoral, and you are a sensationalist!"

After Feng Deyi finished speaking, his face became pale.

Without flinching, Wei Zheng took a few steps forward, facing Feng Deyi and said, "May I ask Prime Minister Feng, you have served Sui Wendi, Sui Yangdi and his son for two dynasties, do you know why the Sui Dynasty died in the second generation?"

Feng Deyi looked around again and said: "This is something that everyone knows, do you want me to waste my words and explain it?"

Wei Zheng said unceremoniously: "Please tell me."

Feng Deyi was stunned, and said slowly: "Okay... well, I tell you, Yang Guang murdered his father and seized the throne, exterminated human relations; he was extravagant and licentious, built the Eastern Capital, opened canals, and built the Great Wall, exhausting the civilian labor of the world; Goryeo has exhausted the foundation of the country, and if there is such a senseless and foolish king, any dynasty will be buried in his hands."

Wei Zheng said with a clear look: "Dare to ask the minister, Sui Yangdi built the Eastern Capital, built the canal, and conquered Korea. The three major evils have poisoned the world. It's the right time. Minister Xiao and Feng are equal. Now, even the Supreme Emperor was an official before Emperor Sui Yang, why couldn't he prevent the world from collapsing?"

Feng Deyi was tongue-tied, but was speechless for a long time.

Li Jiancheng patted the armrest of the chariot on the altar and said, "Wei Zheng, tell me why the Sui Dynasty died in the second generation?"

Wei Zhengchao Li Jiancheng said: "Your Majesty clearly learned that the fall of the Sui Dynasty was caused by Yang Jian, Emperor Wen of Sui Dynasty, not Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty."

All the ministers and officials in the hall were in an uproar.

Feng Deyi said dumbfounded: "It's really a ridiculous joke, ridiculous... ridiculous."

Li Jiancheng looked at Chen Ying thoughtfully.

However, Chen Ying pretended to be nonchalant, looked at Wei Zheng with a half-smile, and said, "Wei Xiangguo, but he has a good opinion."

Chapter 33 Wei Zheng, Wei Xuancheng, You Are So Kind

Chapter 33 Wei Zheng, Wei Xuancheng, You Are So Kind

What is kingly way?Why domineering?

When it comes to this issue, there is always one emperor who cannot be avoided, that is Qin Shihuang, the one emperor through the ages. Qin Shihuang inherited the throne at the age of 13 and became the emperor at the age of 39. He was the first iron-handed politician to complete the unification of China and established the first multi-ethnic centralized power. nation.

Of course, Yingzheng made a lot of contributions to history. He established the emperor system in the central government, implemented the Sangong Jiuqing, and managed state affairs.The local government abolished the system of enfeoffment and replaced it with the system of counties and counties. At the same time, the books and cars were in the same track, and the weights and measures were unified.Attack the Xiongnu in the north, conquer Baiyue in the south, build the Great Wall, build Lingqu, and communicate with the water system.

It also pushed China into the era of great unification and created a new situation for the establishment of a centralized system of authoritarianism.He had a profound impact on the history of China and the world, and established the basic structure of China's political system for more than two thousand years. He was hailed as "one emperor through the ages" by the Ming Dynasty thinker Li Zhi.

The laws of Daqin were newly established by Yingzheng and Li Si in Shangyang, and they were changed because of him. If it is said that Yingzheng's actions are not overbearing, I am afraid no one can claim to be overbearing.As the emperor, Yingzheng used the legalist dominance to rule the country with hegemony.The Sangong and Jiuqing are all responsible to Yingzheng. He manages the 36 counties in the world by himself, and he has to approve 120 catties of memorials a day.

Of course, everyone has no idea about the 120-jin memorial. The Qin bamboo slips are about 27 to 27 centimeters long, 30 centimeters wide, and [-] centimeters thick, and can write more than [-] characters on average (refer to the bamboo slips from the Qin Tomb in Sleeping Tiger Land )

The actual density of bamboo is very close to that of wood. If the density is in the middle, that is, one gram per cubic centimeter, the weight of a piece of Qin bamboo slips is about three or four cubic centimeters, that is, three to four grams.In the Qin Dynasty, a catty was 250 grams. Calculated, 120 catties of bamboo slips were between 22 and 30 bamboo slips.Calculated according to the three-cross characters written on a piece of bamboo (the actual number should be smaller, there will be blank spaces), that is, between [-] and [-] characters.

Some people may say that I can read 100 million characters a day when I read novels, but what Qin Shihuang read is not novels, but memorials in classical Chinese, which contain a lot of information and must be read and corrected word by word.

In terms of diligence and personal experience, Yingzheng is a rare and diligent emperor in history, but he is not the only one. As for Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian was also such an emperor.Yang Jian's throne came from usurpation.As early as the Northern Zhou Dynasty, when Yu Wenyong was in power, Yang Jian was already a man of the day in the Guanlong family.Yu Wenyong tried to get rid of him several times, even Yu Wenyong's son, Yu Wenyun, wanted to get rid of him.

But Yang Jian, like Sima Yi, was good at forbearance. He endured until Yu Wenyun passed away. Seven-year-old Yu Wenchan ascended the throne. Be vigilant, for fear that a second self will appear among the prime ministers, so in the end, they simply monopolize the power, and the position of prime minister in the court has all become decorations.

He is the same as Yingzheng. Qin Shihuang was fine. At that time, the world was divided into 36 counties, and only civil and military officials at the county guard and county lieutenant level could teach him. However, in the Sui Dynasty, the world was divided into 180 and eight counties. , the number of memorials was several times that of the Yingzheng period.

Hundreds of thousands of memorials, if there are no prime ministers to share the work, which emperor can bear it?But Yang Jian can insist on reviewing every day.For this reason, he only slept for two hours a day for 20 years, but when Yang Guang and Yang Erlang ascended the throne, he couldn't even sit still for half an hour on weekdays. How could this concentration be able to govern the country?

To put it bluntly, Yang Guang's subjugation was rooted in Yang Jian.Of course, the most important thing is that the Ming Dynasty also followed the old path of the Qin and Sui dynasties.The founding emperors were all workaholics. They had unlimited energy and could forget about eating and sleeping.But Cheng Zu Zhu Di didn't have this patience anymore, so he made the college students who were working as secretaries in the cabinet in the early Ming Dynasty the fifth rank, and gradually weighted them.

Although Chen Ying knew that what Wei Zheng said was reasonable, but the officials were not convinced?

The controversy over the Xiande Palace continued.

Chen Shuda pointed at Wei Zheng and shouted: "Listen everyone, this kind of weird talk can only come from Wei Zheng's mouth..."

Wei Zheng faced each other frankly, neither happy nor angry.

Yuwen Shiji came out angrily and said: "Your Majesty, the demise of Guozuo in the Sui Dynasty was at the hands of Yang Guang. This is the consensus of scholars all over the world. Is this truth known to all women and children, should we still argue in court?"

Even Li Jiancheng's confidant Pei Ju came out and said: "Your Majesty, I also served Yang Jian. Although Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty was mean and slaughtered heroes, he was diligent in governing and loving the people. He can be called a generation of sages."