Li You's Tang Dynasty

Chapter 171

Dengwen Drum. In the feudal era of our country, the drum was hung outside the court, so that those who had a wrong or urgent case beat the drum to hear the news, so as to establish a lawsuit.

This is a kind of benevolence from the emperor to his people.

Because no matter at any time, the judicial system played an important role in maintaining social stability. However, in ancient times, due to the limitations caused by time and space factors, it was unsatisfactory in many aspects. It is also evident in .

In our impression, although the ancients also emphasized the rule of law, and formulated many rules and regulations to regulate the behavior of subjects according to needs, in the final analysis, they were still in the stage of the rule of man, and did not really break the shackles of human feelings on the case review. Therefore, the so-called " "A prince who breaks the law is the same as the common people" has often become an empty phrase.

It seems that it is difficult to bridge the gap between the powerful and the common people, so "the people do not fight with the officials" has become a long-standing social consensus.

However, there must be a degree of slack, as water can carry a boat or capsize it. Although the rich and powerful are not necessarily the top rulers, they can also arouse social conflicts and pose a certain degree of threat to the rulers' social governance.

Therefore, providing some channels for the common people at the bottom to reduce the negative impact of "official protection" has become an indispensable part of social governance, and the ancient Dengwen drum system was born based on this consideration .

Dengwen Drum appeared in our country for a long time. It started from the Jin Dynasty and went through the Northern and Southern Dynasties. However, in the Tang Dynasty, Dengwen Drum was carried forward by Li Shimin.

We all know that Li Shimin is a benevolent emperor, no matter whether he is showing off because of killing brothers and brothers, Li Shimin's benevolence to the people of Datang is real.

Because Li Shimin knew the benefits of Dengwen drum, he especially supported the establishment of Dengwen drum, and gradually specialized it, and specially promoted this system to the whole Tang Dynasty.

It is recorded in the "Tang Dazhao Collection": "Wenzu Taizong... Jian Dengwen's drum, at that time, there was no government in the dynasty, and there were no tired people in the world."

Therefore, after Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, most of the emperors of the Tang Dynasty continued to recognize the existence of Dengwen Drum.It is worth mentioning that during Wu Zetian's period, Tongjiao was set up to encourage "informants". In this matter, "there is a division in the Yuanyuan, and it has begun from then on."

Chang'an's Dengwen Drum is set up next to Dali Temple. As long as someone beats the Dengwen Drum, the messengers in Dali Temple will go to Taiji Hall to report immediately.

Here I want to explain that Dengwen Drum was vigorously developed during the Zhou Dynasty.In the Zhou Dynasty, the drum was placed at the road gate, so it was also called the road drum, and the emperor of Zhou also arranged for special guards.As long as the people come forward to beat the drums and complain, there will be a servant to report to the emperor of Zhou, without delay or delay.

But in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, one day a commoner beat the Dengwen drum.The emperor at that time was taken aback by this, thinking that something serious had happened to the people, so he met him while he was busy with political affairs, and asked the people what happened with a pleasant face.

But the commoner said that his pig was lost, which made the emperor very angry at that time, but the emperor still endured his anger and gave the people [-] yuan, which was regarded as compensation for the loss of the pig.

Later, Dengwen Drum was no longer placed by the side of the road. In the Tang Dynasty, it was placed next to Dali Temple. Chengtian Street is not accessible to ordinary people. If civilians want to come in, they must have great grievances, otherwise they won't be able to get in at all.

The next morning, Li You took Li Zhi and Li Mingda back to Chang'an. They had been outside for a long time, and Li Zhi was about to go to court, so they couldn't stay any longer.

However, Li You did not forget his promise. Right after he left, around noon that day, a team of craftsmen came from Chang'an.

Liu Dageng personally went over to ask these craftsmen what they were here for, and the craftsmen told them that they were here to build a school. This time, everyone in Zhuangzi was very happy, because Li You did not lie to them, Li You really wanted to build a school for them so that their children have a future.

Just when everyone in Zhuangzi was happy, and Li You who returned to Dunhua Square was also happy, Zhao Dezhu came to tell Li You that all ten horseshoe kilns had been built and could be fired in two days. Bricked.

This is good news, because Li You's cement factory has produced dozens of tons of cement, and now it is waiting for bricks. After Li You travels back to modern times this time, he will look for some blueprints of the five-story community. Then bring it back, Li You believes that craftsmen of this era should be able to build a modern five-story community.

Li You couldn't wait to take a look at the appearance of the Dunhua Square in Datang, where the five-storey residential quarters have sprung up. In addition to the blueprints of the five-storey residential quarters, Li You will bring back a hundred single tubes when he goes back this time. The binoculars are a lot of money, so Li You is not going to buy wine and snacks this time.

This time Li You will only buy some necessary glass products, perfume. Other things have to give way to telescopes and potatoes. Yes, Li You is ready to plant potatoes. Sweet potatoes are not yet in the planting period. For corn, the yield and potatoes In comparison, it is still slightly inferior.

Plant potatoes first, and then bring two high-yield crops over when sweet potatoes and corn can be planted. Of course, shopping is an important thing, but Li You has a more important thing to do when he goes to modern times this time. That is to know how Datang can get more war horses besides buying war horses in Huikun.

Li You didn't want Li Shimin to directly sacrifice his sister's happiness. If Li Mingda was married to Huixi, Li You estimated that he would go crazy. At that time, Li You didn't know what he would do.

At that time, it was not a good thing that the Tang Dynasty was in trouble, so Li You decided to go back to modern times to find out how to avoid returning to get more horses.

Li You thought about these problems, lay down in the wooden barrel, and then closed his eyes, but Li You didn't expect that in a corner of Chang'an at this time, a scholar was being threatened by a group of people, and these people The content of intimidating the scholar is to let the scholar go to Dali Temple tomorrow to beat Dengwen drum.

The scholar was a little scared. Because what the scholar said were all lies, but what the scholar didn't expect was that the lies were all taken as the truth. If the scholar didn't follow what these people said, then the scholar didn't have to knock on the drum , will die here today.

Finally, the scholar compromised. After all, he could still beat Dengwengu. If he didn't, he would die now.

(End of this chapter)