Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 309
Time flies, in July, many things have come to an end.

There are two main things, one is to establish the country and handle diplomacy; the other is to settle down the royal family and many officials of the Shu Kingdom.

Few of the officials in the Shu region were highly valued, and he didn't value much. Even if he liked them, such as Han Baozheng and others, they only gave them the positions of middle-level generals.

It's not that Shi Congyun is stingy, it's just that he is very savvy, and he has seen the way in many things.

He is usually informal and casual, but it does not mean that he is not brainless, and many things need to be grasped and let go of the small.

Just like Liu Bang, he usually doesn’t follow any rules at all, he has to eat with his concubine in his arms when he eats, and none of the ministers is his opponent when he scolds, and he can ride on the minister’s neck when he makes a fuss. A tyrant like King Zhou of Shang and a king of subjugation, he just laughed it off and didn't care at all.

In this way, many of his courtiers dared to speak and display their talents, and when they encountered problems, they all jumped up and down to express their opinions and opinions.

Because they knew that it was okay to contradict Liu Bang, it was okay to say something wrong, it was okay to quarrel with the emperor, and they quarreled casually, so the atmosphere in the court was relaxed and lively, and everyone could speak enthusiastically.

But he is very shrewd and ruthless in dealing with major issues, just like killing princes and kings of the opposite sex.

The emperor is the face of a country, and the atmosphere around him, and even the atmosphere of the whole country, needs to be driven and guided by the emperor.

Therefore, Shi Congyun tried his best to be lenient when dealing with small matters, and he didn't have to be too disciplined. After a long time, the atmosphere developed, and the ministers dared to speak, speak enthusiastically, and offer advice and suggestions.

But the issue of core interests cannot be taken lightly, and one must be clear-headed about this point.

After Tang Zhuangzong Li Cunxu, many people think that he was killed by the singer and the queen, even the history books say so.

But the collapse of a huge interest group is not that simple. The opera singer and his queen are just the incentives. Shi Congyun has seen a huge hidden danger from his personnel scheduling.

Li Cunxu may be out of love for talents, or out of wanting to show a tolerant attitude, he actually did not consider political factors after the destruction of Houliang, and promoted many former Houliang officials to high positions and mastered power entirely based on his personal subjective wishes and preferences.

This is a big taboo, what does this make his former civil and military ministers think?
The old men fought with you for half of the country, but the one who surrendered on the other side, is equal to us without any credit, or even rides on our head?

This completely damaged the interests of the old ministers who fought with him and supported him as emperor. The internal conflicts were so great that they could tear the later Tang apart, laying a huge hidden danger for the subsequent coup d'etat.

But Li Cunxu didn't know it yet, obviously he was a military strategist, but not a politician.

He thought that the emperor could do whatever he wanted, but he never thought about such issues as "why he is the emperor" and "the source of the emperor's power".

It also shows that Liu Bang's oath of the White Horse League "don't wait for merit" is very wise. If Li Cunxu knew this and abided by it, there would be no tragic end.

Shi Congyun can't do anything else, but he is tall and big, and has a good understanding, so he thinks things very clearly, which is the relationship of interests.

He doesn't care so much about some small things, just be casual.

Ministers, you can scold, and if you are upset, call over and scold to vent your anger; you can beat or kill;

Caution should be exercised when it comes to their group interests.

So even if he felt that Han Baozheng and Li Yangui were talents, he only gave Han Baozheng, a former high-ranking official of the Shu Kingdom, a middle-level military post, and Li Yangui gave him a pension post.

He likes Meng Xuanzhe very much, but he is only appointed as a close minister, without any real power position.

In order to reward and promote them in the future, at least let them go to the battlefield, or let them have some credit.

It is ok to show one's love of talent and to be open-minded, but not indiscriminately. You can show it in your daily words and deeds, and you can be casual about unimportant matters. Create a relaxed atmosphere so that ministers dare to speak, but you should be cautious when it comes to core interests Otherwise, you will kill yourself.

By the end of July, almost everything was handled in the same way, and the memorials from the counties and feudal towns of all states and counties also arrived, and the situation in the whole country stabilized.

Then Zhao Yantao was escorted to the capital and imprisoned at Yushitai. Shi Congyun didn't intervene, and asked Dou Yi to lead the people from Dali Temple, Criminal Department, and Yushitai to handle the case. The mother and son were still in the palace and hadn't been released yet.

In a few days, Dou Yi handed over the case files to his desk, basically without omissions, just like the mother and son said, they also found out another point, after Zhao Yantao took out the heart and liver of the deceased, sliced ​​them and dipped them in salt to eat them raw.

Dou Yi, the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and Yu Shitai still think that it should be better to fight for responsibility, tattoo characters, and distribute to the frontier.

Shi Congyun still insisted on executing him to show the public and make it known to the world.

Dou Yi even quarreled with him because of this matter, because since the end of Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, it is not uncommon for powerful people to eat people, and they are far less hated than Shi Congyun. It is reassuring, and according to the law, he should be resigned and assigned.

However, Shi Congyun hated this bad habit very much, and decided to kill him to make it known to the world. The two had a quarrel in the front hall of the Long Live Hall.

Shi Congyun only knew that Dou Yi even dared to contradict Zhao Kuangyin, but he didn't expect him to be so stubborn, and finally got into a quarrel with red ears.

But the red-faced one is Dou Yi. He is tall and has a loud voice. Zu'an's great ability, trained among those rough men in the army, is no match for Dou Yi's first-year scholars.

In the end, the original verdict was upheld, and Zhao Yantao was killed to announce to the world, but originally he wanted to beheaded at the intersection of the street to show the public, and then abandoned the market. Instead, he died in prison, and then announced to the world.

On the same day, he went out of the palace angrily to stay overnight in Wei Wang's mansion, and sought comfort from the Empress Dowager Fu, who had relatively well-developed chest muscles.

The next day, after the court was over, he was so angry that he called Dou Yi to scold him again, but Dou Yi still refused to give in. He said that he was convicted according to the "Great Zhou Xing Tong".

This is the law of the state of Zhou, which was revised by Fan Zhi and others.

Shi Congyun was not convinced, and asked Dou Yi to show him the legal provisions. After reading it for a while, he found that there were indeed regulations in it. According to the law, taking responsibility is already an extra punishment, and the only option is resignation and tattooing.

Shi Congyun felt very embarrassed, but there was nothing he could do. He could only lower his face and say, "Well, well, well, you are right. But I think this system of punishment is not complete, and needs to be supplemented."

Dou Yi was also a good official. Knowing that he was stepping down the steps of the leader, he stopped arguing and said, "This is made up after the laws of the Tang Dynasty. Many of them are outdated, and there are many gaps."

Shi Congyun thought for a while, and asked someone to call Fan Zhi, officials from Yushitai and officials from the Ministry of Punishment.

He said: "I also need a complete legal system to establish a country in the Great Qin Dynasty. The previous Great Zhou Law was imitated from the Tang Dynasty. At that time, the officials were also busy with wars, so there was no time for careful planning.

Now I want to rebuild a "Qin Law" to regulate the world's punishments and officials, and restrain the people. "

"The officials are wise." Almost all the officials from the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple and Yushitai said excitedly, this is a credit.

Shi Congyun said: "In this case, this matter is led by Fan Gong (Fan Zhi), with Dou Yi as his assistant, and officials who understand the criminal law from Yushitai, the Ministry of Punishment, and Dali Temple are assisted in writing a new "Qin Law." "."

"Follow the order!" Fan Zhi and Dou Yi clasped their hands together.

"Well, the new law should be as detailed as possible. There is no need to hurry this time. The previous criminal law can still be used. It should be as perfect as possible to adapt to the present." Shi Congyun ordered.

When the officials established the Great Zhou Criminal System, it was because the Zhou State established the country and there was no legal system at all. They could only imitate the Tang Dynasty to make a set and use it temporarily to maintain the order of the world and solve problems, so they were very rushed.

Now they can temporarily use the criminal laws of the Zhou Dynasty, and slowly formulate and improve new criminal laws, so they don't have to rush to work.

To put the world on the right track, a country's criminal law must also be perfected.

"This matter is very important. After the selection, you all go to work in the east hall of the Chuigong Hall. I will inspect it from time to time. Don't be lazy." Shi Congyun said.

Everyone clapped their hands together, expressing that they would do their best and try their best to do it well.

That night, Shi Congyun went to Liumei's place, and Lin Shanggong made a clear count of the expenses in the palace and the tributes from all over the world, and sent them to him. A lot, but in Shi Congyun's view, it is still a luxury.

For example, the Shangshi Bureau ordered him to add up to at least 28 dishes for each meal. The queen was the same as him, with twenty noble concubines and sixteen other concubines, which is the standard for continuing the official Guo Rong.

This is actually very frugal, by the standards of the imperial palace.

During Song Taizong's time, there was a prime minister to receive him, and there were more than 100 dishes recorded on the banquet, and there were still unrecorded ones;

The standard of the emperors of the Qing Dynasty was 120 dishes per meal. Some emperors cut down to show frugality, but there were still more than 60 dishes.

Comparing this way, his meal of 28 dishes is already considered a model, but it is still too much, and it is too wasteful.
Shi Congyun did not make random changes, but asked about the previous expenses in the palace. The older maid told him that in fact, during the period of Zhou Taizu Guo Wei, the palace spent less, and the standard meal was twelve dishes.

Nowadays, many tributes are not required to be paid. After Shizong Guorong, some more were added.

Shi Congyun nodded. It is true that Guo Rong has done more than Guo Wei, but Guo Wei is also a rare person who leads by example. When he was there, he was more frugal and loved the people. He often went to the farmland outside Daliang to inspect the farming conditions of the people.

When it came to Shizong Guo Rong, he was not as good as Guo Wei in terms of thrift and love for the people. Although the officials built palaces while fighting wars and lived more luxuriously, they far surpassed Taizu Guo Wei in military performance.

Shi Congyun thought for a while, he couldn't finish 28 dishes in one meal, it was pure waste, and said: "Let the Shangshi Bureau restore Zhou Taizu's practice in the future, I have twelve dishes per meal, the queen and everyone The concubine is the same as me."

Lin Shanggong took it down immediately, and then showed him the list of tributes from various places.

After reading it, I was very puzzled, because he had nothing to do these days, so he read the memoirs of Guo Wei and Shizong Guorong, the Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, recorded by the historian.

I found that many things were ordered not to be paid tribute by Zhou Taizu, because it was a waste of money, so why did they start paying tribute again now? Maybe it was because the dynasty changed, and the rules should change accordingly.

So Shi Congyun asked Liumei to get his Taizu Shilu, and to Guo Wei's previous edict, to remove some things that cost people and money from the tribute.

Let Sixth Sister write for him, he read and wrote an imperial edict.

"It is advisable to divide and subtract the old tribute food of the state capitals of the world.

Liangzhe fine wine, seafood, ginger melon;
Hunan pillow tea, lactose, white sugar, olive seeds;

Zhenzhou high rice, pear, Yi, Ding millet;

Hedong Baishe pears, rice noodles, mung bean noodles, jade chip fanzi noodles, Yongxing Yutian red japonica rice, new barley noodles, Xingping Su Suzi;
Huazhou musk, antelope horn, bear bile, otter liver, red persimmon, bear white, river tree red dates, schisandra, light tin;
Jin and crimson grapes, Huangxiao pears, Shanfu Fengqi pears;

Xiangzhou purple ginger, new bamboo shoots, oranges, Anzhou japonica rice, bad taste, Qingzhou pears, Heyang miscellaneous fruits, Xuzhou imperial plums, Zhengzhou new bamboo shoots, goose pears, Huaizhou cold food almonds, Shenzhou Xihe, Bozhou萆薢, along Huaizhou County Huai Baiyu.

If you hear that these things are all from local products, they are also taken from people's homes, which is a waste of money and labor.

Forced labor loads, driving the road, and accumulating in the company, are very useless things, and they will not need to be enshrined in the future, nor should they be used as an excuse to disturb the people.

The prefectures of various states have the taste of eating according to the old rules, and those who do not have it should be played and stopped. "

Shi Congyun compared them one by one and eliminated many things.

He is also an old fritter, but he understands that these things are the easiest for local officials to exploit the people with chicken feather swords.

For example, for things like mung bean flour, his family forcibly expropriated some of them, and asked for [-] catties, and paid [-] catties to Daliang.

The investigation is unclear, and it is impossible to send a censor to investigate for hundreds of catties of mung bean flour, but for ordinary people, this loss is fatal.

Guo Wei had expected this a long time ago, so after the founding of the country, local tribute was prohibited for many things, but it started again in these years. After Shi Congyun found out, he also decreed to prohibit it. That bit of enjoyment is not necessary.

If the emperor let go of the enjoyment, the number of people suffering from it would be countless. Moreover, in the era of underdeveloped transportation and communication, this is almost an unsolvable problem, which can only be restrained by the ruler himself.

After dealing with all this, Sixth Sister blushed that night and said that she wanted a child. Shi Congyun agreed. After all, she is now a queen. If she never has a child, she will be in an embarrassing situation in the future.

It's just that he is really young, Shi Congyun asked Xiao Huanghua to go back to the Long Live Palace to sleep, and he stayed in Kunning Palace.

Sixth Sister became a queen, her character has not changed at all, she is extremely well-behaved.

His wives really have different personalities, and Sixth Sister is the obedient baby among them, who will obey him in everything.

The days passed day by day, and soon around the Mid-Autumn Festival, as the Southern Tang Dynasty was forced to open up, the lives of the people became better and better.

With the wars of these years, the Qin State has made a fortune, whether it is the tribute and compensation from various countries or the things collected from the palace treasury of Shu and Jingzhou.

And these things flowed into the hands of ordinary soldiers and their families in large quantities, but it was not enough to have money, but also to be able to buy things. As the Southern Tang Dynasty was forced to open up trade, prices in Qin State also began to drop.

Many Jiangnan merchants came to Daliang to do business and sell things along the waterway, and merchants in Daliang and nearby also went south to Jiangnan for business along the Bian River, Huaihe River and other waters.

In just two months, some key daily necessities in Daliang had a slight price reduction trend, and the lives of the people were much better than before. This is one of the benefits of the war.

The result of this is that the common people are more supportive of the imperial court, and the soldiers are also looking forward to the next battle to make a fortune. Many people also rushed to Daliang to join the army, hoping to make a fortune.

During the Mid-Autumn Festival, Shi Congyun took his sixth younger sister, dressed in red and black dragon robes, to the tower of Xuandemen. Below them were the people of Daliang, curiously looking at the top of the city, shouting long live the official family.

For a while, the city of Daliang was decorated with lights and festoons, the lights dimmed and traffic was busy, and Daliang, which had been in chaos for more than a hundred years, gradually became prosperous and peaceful. Looking at the many excited subjects and the mountains and rivers under their feet, my heart was also full of excitement.

The Hanlin scholars also discussed the results, and took the black dragon out of the water, soaring into the auspiciousness of the sky, changing it to Yuan Tenglong and announcing it in front of many people, telling the world.

In fact, Shi Congyun wanted to use "Shenlong" at the beginning, because it sounded more attractive.
But after the celebration, trouble soon came.

In August, Hedong reported that Li Yun had rejected Qin's conferment on him, and all the envoys except him agreed.

Shi Congyun didn't act immediately, but after thinking about it, he sent an envoy to Liaozhou to seal him.

While sending out the envoy, he has also started to make military preparations.

In late August, Shi Congyun tested the improved second version of the stone-shooting cannon with many craftsmen of the Confidential Department in the test camp by the Bian River.

The overall changes in this version are not big, mainly to improve some processes, making the barrel longer and stronger, and improving the range and accuracy.

Shi Congyun was very satisfied after firing dozens of cannonballs one after another. The skills of the craftsmen exceeded his expectations.

In fact, ancient Chinese metallurgical technology has been very leading in the world since the Han Dynasty.

He remembered that there was a period of time in later generations when people kept boasting about the Roman metallurgical technology, the reason being that there were a lot of surface iron ore reserves in Rome.They also pretend to be objective and say that the Han Dynasty is powerful, but the smelting technology is not as good as that of Rome and so on.
It is true that the study of history relies on imagination, and does not look at physical archaeology at all.

In fact, there is no need to imagine nonsense at all. There are a lot of standard weapons left by the Han Dynasty. There are very few real ones in Rome at the same time, but it is not impossible. It is not difficult to do scientific component analysis.

Moreover, some scholars have done this kind of experiment for a long time, and after analyzing the composition, they found that the ring head knife in the middle and late Han Dynasty has reached the level of high carbon steel!At the same time, Rome couldn't keep up with flattery.

This kind of technological advantage is an important reason why the Han Dynasty has always maintained a huge military advantage over the surrounding nations. This advantage has been preserved until the Tang Dynasty, the end of the Tang Dynasty, and even now the craftsmen's attainments in metallurgy are indeed beyond his expectations.

The body of this stone-shooting gun was stronger than he had imagined.

Feng Jisheng and other craftsmen, after a lot of financial support and continuous experiments over the past few months, scrapped several extremely valuable gun barrels and made some changes, such as using softer copper at the bottom of the barrel to effectively extend the length of the gun. Longer service life, less chance of bombing.

Slightly reducing the diameter of the gun barrel from the original basis can increase the range and power.

All kinds of progress made Shi Congyun very happy, and he added a huge sum of [-] yuan to the confidentiality department. He had no choice but to finish the battle of Shu. The rich and powerful are rich!
The last time he went to Shu, he was not able to hit a few shots due to geographical reasons, and he was very upset.

This time Feng Jisheng assured him that by next year, at least 20 stone-shooting cannons would be built, and more than [-] old ones would be modified to enhance their performance.

By next year, his Qin State will really be able to form a large-scale artillery force, which is cool to think about!
(It's cold and I want to cultivate immortals. Does anyone know any good immortal novels in the past two years? Let me recommend them to private chat. I want to finish the kind)

(End of this chapter)