I'm really not King Jing of Zhongshan

Chapter 442

Regarding the departing Hun mission, Liu Sheng did not appease too much, but maintained his usual tough style and attitude.

Just like last year, it caused the Huns to invade the four northern counties in anger, and it directly led to the battle of Mayi between the Han and Huns after autumn.

Regarding Liu Sheng's style of work, inside and outside the court of the Han family, it can only be said that the old man is very relieved.

Why is that?
Could it be that the emperor of the Han family had to be tough with the outside world regardless of the facts, and had to stimulate the Huns regardless of the objective facts?
No.

If this is the case, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen of the Han Dynasty will be a "soft-footed crab who has spent his entire life without saying a hard word to the Huns", not a living saint recognized by the world;
The first emperor Liu Qi would also be a faint king who only knew about making peace, not a quasi-smart king who 'if there was no chaos between Wu and Chu, he would probably get a temple title'.

The most important thing is: Emperor Taizu Gao, who set a precedent for peace with foreign countries, will be another "Han Kingdom", and the Han family will also be another "pseudo-regime" after the victory of the Qin Dynasty.

In fact, Liu Sheng maintains his tough strategic attitude toward the outside world, which is actually related to Liu Sheng's age.

——After the Han-Xiong Pingcheng War, especially after the siege of Baideng, Emperor Taizu Gao chose to make peace with the Huns. People all over the world will only say that Emperor Gao was wise and martial, and chose the most cost-effective choice.

In short: no one will doubt the decision of the founding emperor, especially the foreign strategic decision made after the war and after suffering huge losses.

When Emperor Taizong Xiaowen came to Chang'an from generation to generation and inherited the Datong in a weak crown year, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen did not directly take power, but for a long period of time, he played the role of a puppet emperor with clay statues.

After killing Chen Ping, Zhou Bo, Guan Ying and other veterans, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen also sought a decisive battle with the Huns.

Although in the end, the Han-Hungarian War, which was carefully planned by Emperor Taizong Xiaowen and planned for many years, was destroyed by the sudden rebellion of Jinbei King Liu Xingju, but the final effect was the same as Liu Sheng's promotion of the Han-Hungarian Mayi Battle. .

——For the young emperor, both inside and outside the court, and even the people of the world, are actually skeptical and wait-and-see attitudes.

What kind of person is Xinjun?

In this era without any means of media, government orders can only be sent to all parts of the world through the post station network, and it may not even be guaranteed to be known to everyone in the world. It is really a matter for the common people to find out what kind of person the emperor is. Both easy and extremely difficult.

Easy, it means that the image of the Son of Heaven in the hearts of the common people is likely to be approaching the direction of the ancient evil beast because of some idlers who drink horse urine and brag a lot;
Difficulties refer to the emperors of this era, it is difficult for the common people to correctly understand their own image through ordinary trivial matters.

then what should we do?

This has to mention the "amnesty for the world" that has been enjoyed since the Han Dynasty, and even in the subsequent dynasties.

That's right.

Amnesty to the world every year and festival is one of the emperor's few means of 'letting the world know that I am not bad', and it is also the least costly means.

The rest are nothing more than martial arts and martial arts.

Knowing this, let’s go back to the year when Emperor Taizong Xiaowen insisted on a decisive battle with the Huns under the premise of internal instability, regardless of the objective facts, and today’s Zisheng decisively promoted last autumn’s The battle between the Han and the Hungarian Mayi made all this clear.

——Before the Battle of Mayi, Liu Sheng's image in the hearts of the world was not even as good as a blank sheet of paper.

After all, blank paper also means ignorance, and it also means that the first impression can effectively establish a personal image;

But for an emperor who has not yet been crowned, the first reaction of the people in the world is distrust and suspicion.

Go up to the sky, that is, people in Guanzhong vaguely remember that when he was still a son, Tianzi Sheng presided over the stabilization of food prices within Guanzhong.

Other than that, nothing else.

But now, Liu Sheng has completely engraved his tough image into the hearts of most people in the world through a Mayi battle.

From now on, no matter how absurd and bad things Liu Sheng does, people will never say, 'I'll just say it?To be an emperor at this age is a disaster for the world! ';
Instead, he would say: Hey, bear with it, at least this guy can keep our Han family safe and not let the foreign barbarians bully us...
Just like back then, Emperor Taizong Xiaowen's decisive battle between the Han and the Hungarians, which failed to officially start, made people in the world no longer say, 'I'll just say it?A country bumpkin from this generation, he is not worthy of sitting on the throne! ';
Instead, he would say: Hey~ It’s not that this person is weak and deceitful, it’s just that the objective conditions do not allow it...

There is a lesson learned from Liu Xingju, king of Jinbei, or else, wait a little longer...
This is the reason why Liu Sheng's tough attitude towards the outside world makes "the old man feel very comforted" inside and outside the court - Liu Sheng needed to do this, and he did.

When a young emperor who came to the throne not long ago can consciously do what he should do, the court officials who are his subjects must be extremely gratified.

Just before the inside and outside of the court recovered from the relief of 'Your Majesty has finally grown up', the next thing Liu Sheng paid attention to made the entire court silent.

——Censor doctor.

Liu Sheng's attention has returned to the prehistoric version of the Disciplinary Inspection Committee: the doctor Yushi belongs to the Yamen...
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"Let's talk about it first."

"How did Ting Wei deal with the issue of accepting bribes and corruption in the examination of scholars, and what other ideas do you have?"

"For supervisory officials, what suggestion does Yu Shi Zhongcheng have?"

As the saying goes: a meeting with many people is not important, but an important meeting is not many people;
Hold a conference to solve small problems, and hold small meetings to solve big problems;

Today's meeting is undoubtedly a 'small meeting'.

The participants in the meeting were only today's Zisheng, Tingwei Zhao Yu, Yushi Zhongcheng Chen Jian, and Prime Minister Liu She.

——Among them, Prime Minister Liu She just came to show his face.

It can only be said that with a meeting of this size and scale, the problems to be solved cannot be small.

Zhao Yu and Chen Jian's subsequent responses also confirmed this point.

"Report to His Majesty."

It was Ting Wei Zhao Yu who answered first.

"For the officials who were imprisoned for corruption and bribery in the past nearly a year, the minister neither leniented them because of their "examination to become an official" background, nor severely punished them because of rumors."

"——Emperor Taizong Xiaowen, Emperor Taizong planned to severely punish a passer-by who disturbed Shengjia. At that time, Zhang Tingwei once said to Emperor Taizong: The law is enough."

"In the end, Emperor Taizong also agreed with Zhang Tingwei's opinion. According to the "Han Law" regulations on inadvertently disturbing the holy driver, he fined the passerby four taels of gold."

"I believe that Zhang Shizhi's sentence 'the law is enough' is the most reasonable motto that all the court officers of the Han family should regard as Guibi."

"It's the same when it comes to this time......"

For Zhao Yu, Ting Weiqing, Liu Sheng is naturally at ease.

As for Zhao Yu's legal stance, Liu Sheng is more and more appreciative.

——Different from Qin Shi, who advocated the extremely strict legal spirit of "everything is strict and strict", today's Legalists are also constantly reflecting on Qin's experience and lessons.

After decades of reflection and summarization, the Legalist position on the legal system has finally been gradually established in Zhao Yu's generation, and has been summarized into Zhang Shizhi's famous saying: The law is enough.

The law stipulates this way, so just follow the law and do it.

This sentence can almost be said to be the prehistoric version of "There are laws to follow, and there are laws to follow".

For Legalists to have such an ideological understanding, Liu Sheng is naturally gratified, and at the same time he has long been psychologically prepared.

What really made Liu Sheng look forward to was actually Zhao Yu's next answer.

——What should I do next?
——How to prevent the next batch, and even every batch of scholars who were born in the exams in the future, from affecting the contribution of the exams to Liu Han Sheji because of corruption.

"I also have a few humble opinions on the issue of corruption and bribery in the examination of scholars."

"Since Your Majesty asks, minister, I will speak up boldly."

Zhao Yu's words caused Chen Jian and Liu She to straighten their faces again, and even Liu Sheng did not forget to sit up straighter in a symbolic way.

Seeing that Zhao Yu cleared his throat and pondered for a while, Fang said in a deep voice: "As Your Majesty said earlier, the problem of official corruption and accepting bribes does not only appear to scholars who were born in examinations, or even On officials."

"From the Chang'an court down, no matter if it's the officials of the capital, or the two thousand stones of the local counties, or even the eunuchs in the palace, and the concierge servants in the homes of high-ranking officials and nobles;"

"—But whenever someone comes to the door, from asking for a report, to persuasion, and even offering good words on behalf of the entrusted person, it has already become a customary rule of my Han family."

"If someone comes to ask someone to do something, but doesn't pay bribes in accordance with these customary rules, it will be said to be 'ignorant of the rules', or even 'not shy about world affairs'."

"Especially during Emperor Taizong's reign, General Zhang Wu accepted bribes. Emperor Taizong rewarded instead of punishing him, and gave five hundred gold to 'ashamed of his heart'. The trend of accepting and giving bribes in our Han family intensified."

"Up to now, even in broad daylight, there is no taboo at all."

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"So in my opinion, to solve the problem of corruption and bribery in the examination of scholars, it is not just about how to make the scholars in the examinations clean", but to consider how to change the atmosphere of the entire officialdom. And even the atmosphere of the whole world.”

"If not, even if some extraordinary methods are used to prevent the scholars who are born in the exam from being corrupt and accepting bribes as much as possible, it will not last at all."

"If only the scholars who were born in the imperial examination were not allowed to accept bribes, then in the future, it is even very likely that the ministers will impeach the small officials with two thousand stones and four hundred stones, so that the whole court and the imperial examination stand on the opposite side. "

"After all, bribery and corruption have been around for a long time. Ten people are corrupt and one person is clean. If they are wrong, they may not be the clean person..."

For the words to be said today, Zhao Yu naturally thought for a long time, and also worded for a long time.

Even today, when he learned that Liu She was going to attend this meeting, Zhao Yu temporarily adjusted his wording.

But in summary, Zhao Yu's opinion is just one sentence: Official corruption is not an individual case, but a general trend.

If you want to change the status quo, you can't just rely on anti-corruption and anti-corruption, or take action from punishment and prisons. Instead, you should change the atmosphere and solve the problem from the root.

This proposition is not insignificant.

But for Liu Sheng, even such a huge proposition, as long as someone can take the initiative to raise it, it can be considered a good thing.

——After all, if someone dares to speak, it means that this problem has not yet reached the level of "everyone is taboo and dare not speak up, but speaking up will cause the whole world to attack".

It's just that the grandness of this proposition also makes Liu Sheng have to put this matter aside for the time being, even if he wants to, and discuss it in the long run.

"You can think about this matter after Captain Ting goes down."

"Ting Wei's opinion, I deeply agree."

"It's just how to do it specifically, I don't have any good ideas for the time being..."

After euphemistically reminding Zhao Yu, 'Don't just point out the problem, remember to give suggestions to solve the problem', Liu Sheng's eyes fell on Chen Jian, the censor Zhongcheng.

Chen Jian is not a famous minister.

No matter in Qing history or in today's era, Yushi Zhongcheng Chen Jian is undoubtedly an unknown little person.

Of course, this is also related to the characteristics of Yushi Zhongcheng's position.

——Weight, low position, and extremely taboo to deal with courtiers and officials, not only must have excellent professional ability, but also must have a firm personal stand;

It is often difficult for such a person to be known to everyone in the world.

The reason why Liu Sheng wanted to find the censor Zhongcheng Chen Jian instead of the censor doctor Tian Shu was naturally because of the central idea that had been determined when he decided to reform the censor doctor.

Doctor Yushi, he used to be the sub-prime minister, now he is the sub-prime minister, and in the future, he will still be the executive deputy prime minister;

However, the Yushi doctor belongs to the Yamen, so it should be controlled by Yushi Zhongcheng, and take Yushi Zhongcheng as the entry point to carry out substantial reforms from top to bottom.

Before such a large-scale reform, Liu Sheng needs to listen to Yu Shi Zhongcheng's own opinion.

No matter what position this opinion is based on, Liu Sheng needs to know: what is his opinion on his idea of ​​reforming the royal doctor, and the subject who is about to accept the reform...

"The minister believes that the practice of accepting bribes in the examination of scholars is mainly due to the failure of the censor's subordinates to fulfill their duties of supervising all officials and reporting disobedience."

"It's just like what Zhao Tingwei said: Corruption and bribery is not only a problem in the examination of scholars, or even a problem in officials, but a problem that has emerged endlessly in the entire Han Dynasty, and even became a common practice."

"And this problem is mainly caused by the inaction and indulgence of the censor's subordinates in the past few years."

"If we want to change this situation, I believe that we should start with the main framework and power and responsibility structure of the censor doctor's office, and carry out a certain degree of system change."

"It's just that this matter should be done by His Majesty. I can only make some unwise suggestions based on what I have seen and heard in the past..."

(End of this chapter)