Chapter 23: Hitting a mouse is a good cat

"The world is big, or the court is big?" This question circled Li Jiancheng's head, and Li Jiancheng was dizzy: "Isn't the court the same as the world? The world is the world of the court, and the court is the court of the world!"

This sentence seems to be like a tongue twister. In fact, this is almost the ordinary cognition of people of this era. The court is the world and the court is the court.

When Chen Ying heard this, he smiled without objection, but did not say anything.

Li Jiancheng asked in confusion: "Isn't that right? Then tell me, is it the world big or the imperial court big?"

Chen Yinghao said without hesitation: "Of course, the world is the best!"

Li Jiancheng nodded and said unsure of his determination: "The world is the best? I hope to hear it carefully!"

Chen Ying stretched out his finger, dipped some tea, and drew a rough outline of the map on the table. Chen Ying explained to Li Jiancheng while drawing: "Your Highness, Hedong, as the place where the Tang Dynasty rose, changed hands twice in just two years. Isn't this telling the problem? Now, in blunt words, the deterrence of the Tang Dynasty's court is limited to Guanzhong. Hedong is Hedong's Hedong people, Hexi people, Hexi people, Henan people, Hebei is Hebei, Hebei is Hebei. It is not easy to conquer the world, it is even more difficult to defend the country, and it is even more difficult to govern the country!"

Li Jiancheng nodded and said, "No, Chen Qing's words are reasonable."

"Now, Henan, Hebei, and Shandong have nominally joined the Tang Dynasty, but have they really joined it?" Chen Ying sighed and said, "Can the local government and the central government be in line with each other?"

Li Jiancheng was silent, and he vaguely understood the purpose of Chen Ying's proposal to establish Wenxun's twelve transformations. However, there was another reason he did not understand.

"Hebei is fertile and suitable for farming. He is known for its wealth. Hebei was originally a place of Yanzhao. The people's customs were originally fierce and aggressive. If they don't follow, they will draw their swords to face each other!" Chen Ying paused and said, "But Jiangnan did not agree. Since the Five Barbarians invaded China and moved south, Jiangnan has developed Confucianism and was the first to lead the world's trend. There are many famous scholars, and countless scholars have passed on their families through methology, and gradually became a major city in Shilin. Unlike other places, Jiangnan was originally a land of Chu. After being accustomed to Confucianism, he did not change his generosity and was fond of discussion and talk. However, Hexi has lived outside the border for a long time and lived with the Hu people. Although we are of the same ethnic group in China, we are also infected with some Hu people.

Habits, different customs and different customs in different places, it is quite difficult to manage well. The Tang Dynasty established a country with martial arts and could immediately win the world, but it could not immediately govern the world. If the Tang Dynasty only had a corner of the middle, there was no need to think too much, but the world did not only refer to Guanzhong, Xihe, Hedong, Hebei, Henan, Jiangnan, Bashu, Lingnan, Liaodong, and the greatness of the world naturally could not be unified. This requires the appropriate place and the rule according to customs. However, civil officials served as officials for one term and three years, how would they act locally? This directly concerns the court, whether they can have effective control over the local area."

The truth is easy to say, but in fact things are very difficult to deal with. Not to mention now, even in later generations, local village tyrants and tyrants are lawless. There are family members, aristocratic families, states and counties, and tyrants in the local countryside. This is actually a form of manifestation of local clan forces. Combined with special geographical situations, it becomes a stubborn disease. Ordinary clans can control the local government at most and indirectly affect the prefect and county magistrates. If they really encounter ruthless people, they will not fight with officials. After all, the people do not fight with officials, and the government has county soldiers as the backing of military force. If it is not enough, the court can still recruit more people, and no matter how big the manor is, it will be flattened. However, the clan thieves are different. They hide in the mountains and guard the dangers. One man is the pass, and ten thousand men cannot open it. No matter how many soldiers the court has, it is not easy to use.

Although the Central Plains family is so majestic that it is in the temple, and is famous for calling wind and rain, and once it loses its power, it may be uprooted at any time. In terms of endurance, life endurance is far inferior to these sects who are surrounded by mountains and rivers. However, they are far away from the world, their reputation is not obvious, and they are not qualified to leave their names in official history, and finally turn them into abstract labels.

The officials appointed by the central government cannot shake the local clan thieves. However, once the local power is lost and the court's policies are not affected, it is very easy to lose people's hearts. The Central Plains prefectures and counties are better, but what they fear most are remote prefectures and counties, where the clans and tribal forces are more stubborn.

If you want to stimulate civil servants and fight against local tyrants or thieves, you can only improve the assessment of civil servants and directly link the achievements of civil servants to their careers. You must know that there is no system for official departure review. At this time, once officials have a deficit in their accounts, the deficit of the previous officials will be filled by later officials. It can be imagined that in China, there have been two honest officials in thousands of years of history, and countless corrupt officials have been numerous, mainly because of the lack of system and the lack of an official assessment system.

In later generations, Chen Ying had no power and was not qualified to point fingers at all against the national policies and systems. However, in this time and space, by chance, Chen Ying felt that if he completed the regrets of the future, he would be in vain to travel through a journey.

Chen Ying and Li Jiancheng opened their hearts and explained it to Li Jiancheng in all aspects from the necessity of reality, rationality and the rigid needs of the country.

Finally, Chen Ying explained to Li Jiancheng: "Your Highness the Crown Prince, this is a great event that benefits the country and the people, and will be of great significance to the future. If Your Highness completes the establishment of the clerk review system, you will definitely be famous in history in the future. The most important thing is that as long as you can upload and issue it and the imperial government is open to the public, the Tang Dynasty will be in power for thousands of years and will be powerful in all the worlds and destinies!"

"Difficult, difficult, difficult!" Li Jiancheng sighed and said, "The aristocratic family controls the local area for a long time. It is inevitable that they will occupy land and evade taxes. If they adopt the system of civil and honor officials and target local tyrants and aristocratic families, the foundation of the Tang Dynasty will probably be shaken. After all, gentry is the foundation of the world."

"As His Highness the Crown Prince said, the power of the aristocratic clans and powerful people is strong. However, if they are not rectified, they will definitely become rich. In the long run, the country will not be in power!" Chen Ying smiled bitterly and said, "Of course, targeted measures are better than nothing. As long as you do it, failure will fail. His Highness the Crown Prince is not Prince Taiping. Who dares to rebel and defeat them? "

Li Jiancheng smiled bitterly and said, "It's so easy to say it lightly. This can affect the whole body with one blow. I must not think carefully about it and make comprehensive plans."

"It is very necessary to consider it thoroughly!" Chen Ying said: "If the prince cannot see through whether this matter is a big gain or a loss, it is better to find several prefectures and counties, several county magistrates and county governors, and several state governors. As an experiment, it is good to achieve it. Even if it fails, its impact on the Tang Dynasty can be ignored."

Li Jiancheng's eyes lit up when he heard this and said excitedly: "Chen Qing's plan is very wonderful!"

The Turks were eyeing the north of the Tang Dynasty, and more than 300,000 string-controlling soldiers were like a sharp sword, hanging above the head of the Tang Dynasty. God knew when this sharp sword would fall? Under such circumstances, the Tang Dynasty court strives for stability, and now stability is overwhelming.

Li Yuan doesn’t want to take risks, why does Li Jiancheng want to take risks?

Li Jiancheng couldn't help laughing. Chen Ying was sincere, but unfortunately his qualifications were too low. If Chen Ying became the prime minister, he might be able to come forward in person to dominate the matter. However, thinking about Chen Ying's age, Li Jiancheng was not only a bitter smile, but also a bitter smile.

Chen Ying is really too young to take on this important task.

Chen Ying obviously knew this. The Tang Dynasty had Turks and a battle of life and death. As the saying goes, one mountain cannot accommodate two tigers. There can only be one king under the sky of China, that is China.

Time is endless.

The Turks and Jie Li Khan are now in control of the Turks, and their status is not yet stable. This time, he took the opportunity to unite the tribes and compete with Li Tang for whom the world. A war is imminent, and the Li Tang court cannot make any major moves at this moment.

Chen Ying knew that Li Jiancheng was also in a dilemma, so he didn't force himself, so he could only feel silently regretful.

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The night is as dark as ink, but the lights are bright in the Chengqian Hall of the King of Qin Palace. There are six copper lamps on both walls of the east side hall of Chengqian Hall. The lamp is shaped like a lonely crane foot, and the strands hold up a ring-shaped lamp plate. There are three lamp posts in the lamp plate, and three large candles are lit at the same time, illuminating the east side hall of Chengqian Hall as bright as day.

The candlelight sways, and the people are silhouetted under the lamp.

Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Changsun Wuji, Yu Zhining, Su Shichang, Xue Shou, Chu Liang, Lu Deming, Yao Silian, Li Shousu, Yu Shinan, Cai Yungong, Yan Xiangshi, Cao Xujing, Xue Yuanjing, Gaiwenda, Su Xu and others were arguing loudly.

If you listen carefully, you will definitely find that the debate among the scholars of the Qin Palace at this time was the system of civil and honorary officials proposed by Chen Ying in Ganquan Palace.

Although his wife blushed with a quarrel, the atmosphere was good.

Fang Xuanling said: "Your Highness of the King of Qin, I think that the purpose of Chen's prince consort is not to reward, but to punish."

Li Shimin said: "Oh, what do you mean by this?"

"Because Mr. Chen is a military general, he is especially good at using military forces!" Fang Xuanling sighed: "Mr. Chen suddenly proposed to establish the Wenxun official system today because he saw that the Tang Dynasty government was too inefficient and officials were not enterprising, so he deliberately changed the evaluation every three years to every one year. This was his original intention."

"With that being said, I'm afraid few people are willing." Li Shimin sighed: "Chen Ying has a profound thought and is willing to risk the world for the country. His loyalty is commendable. If everyone can be like Chen Ying, why worry about the Tang Dynasty not prospering?"

"Your Highness of the Qin King, the gentleman is a gentleman's virtue, and the villain's virtue is a responsibilities of the court officials." Fang Xuanling smiled bitterly: "But our court officials are just worried that they will cause too much criticism, even your Majesty, so we discuss and do not speak, and let's try it first, and wait until the results are first seen, and the court will issue an edict to implement it."

Li Shimin and Li Yuan made a deal, and in exchange for framed Ling Jing, Li Yuan changed Li Shimin to the chief general manager of Liangzhou and replaced Li Daozong to be in charge of the fifteen prefectures of Hexi.

With Li Yuan's cautious and cautious personality, Li Daozong has been in Hexi for more than two years. It took too long to be afraid that Li Daozong would become the King of Liang, so Li Yuan was preparing to transfer Li Daozong back to become the deputy envoy of Hebei's strategic appeasement, partner with Li Shentong, and pacify Shandong.

Li Shimin also made progress and retreat. He knew that Li Yuan used him to balance Li Jiancheng, but Li Jiancheng was in Hedong and Chen Ying was in Hebei. This battle was too outstanding. No matter how reluctant Li Yuan was, he could not be too biased.

Therefore, King Qin Li Shimin was renamed the Grand Governor of Liangzhou, the Minister of the Longyou Daoxingtai, and also served as the Chief Executive of Liangzhou, becoming the de facto chief official.

When Li Shimin learned that Chen Ying mentioned the Wenxun official system, he decided to first formulate such a set of methods by the Qin Palace.

Li Shimin acted in a very similar manner to Taizong of the Celestial Empire in later generations.

A black cat and a white cat, a good cat is a rat.

Anyway, there was no patent law at this time. Although Chen Ying took the lead in proposing this system, Li Shimin did not even say hello and used it directly.

Li Shimin thought for a long time and said, "This method was proposed by Chen Ying. After formulating it, it is best to take it to him and listen to his opinions."
Chapter completed!