Volume 1 The End of the Dynasty Chapter 21 A Difficult Choice
Orange clouds began to rise in the sky, and the faint sound of chickens crowing in the distance came, He Bixian yawned a long time, this is the first day to come to the Taiwei Mansion, when will he deal with political affairs all night, and now he has been dealing with affairs in the Taiwei Mansion for a day and a night, he still squinted his eyes a little in the middle, but the one sitting on it has been sitting like that, picking up this bamboo slip, writing and drawing, putting it down, and picking up the scroll again, such an action has been carried out repeatedly all night, The old butler came in and poured oil into the lamp, and he probably didn't even know it. He Bixian shook his head and looked at Uncle Yang carefully, his eyes were deep-set, his skin was dark, and his body was thin, who would have thought that such an ordinary person who would disappear completely if thrown into the crowd would have such a great energy, since the emperor came to discuss a little time yesterday morning, he only stopped when he was eating lunch and dinner, but the speed of his meal was extremely fast, even Pu Xianyu, who had been in the army earlier, could not compare, I saw him pick up the broth with one hand, scoop up the dough with the other, two or three mouthfuls of a dough, The bowl of soup was gone, and then it plunged headlong into the stack of books. The people in this house seem to have gotten used to it, a maid rewarded by the emperor came in and took away the kitchen utensils, and the old housekeeper went into the study to add oil to the oil lamp, and then moved the bamboo slips next to it one by one and put them next to the table. Uncle Yang rinsed his mouth with water and sat down next to the desk and began to look at the bamboo slips that were moved, until now, I don't know what time it is, no one in this house reports the time, and no one cleans the yard, everything is quiet, quiet makes people feel a little quiet, or mysterious.
After a while, the old housekeeper walked in and walked to Uncle Yang's desk, tied up the bamboo slip on the right neatly, picked it up and put it on the bookshelf at the back, walked over and whispered to He Bixian: "My lord, if you are tired, go to the room to rest first, I will keep an eye here, and Mr. will not rest for a while." ”
He Bixian looked at the old butler, nodded, and asked, "How do you know that Lord Taiwei will need a while before he rests?" ”
The old housekeeper hurriedly "shh You don't know, Mr. has always been like this, when there is a major decision, he will always carefully read all kinds of classics, until he finds it, and then he will keep reading like this all night, sometimes he will not fit his eyes for a day or two nights, and he will not sleep until the next night, I have been serving Mr. for more than half a year, and these are used to it. You go and rest first, or the gentleman will call you later, every time he does it all night, he will not rest until the next day, so go quickly. ”
He Bi sighed after hearing it first, if all the officials were like Uncle Yang, why worry about the instability of the world. He Bixian walked out of the study softly and went to rest.
The sun slowly rose and gradually became hotter, the old housekeeper picked up a fan to help Uncle Yang dispel the heat, and Uncle Yang raised his head and said, "You are still there, go down and rest for a while, you have been fanning for a long time." ”
"Sir, it's dawn, it's the second day." The old butler said in a hoarse voice.
Uncle Yang was stunned for a moment, and then laughed: "Haha...... Oh, it's really fast, I thought it was early, this new method is almost finished, after a while, you go and call Pu Xianyu and He Bixian, let them come to the study, I have to ask them what their opinions are about something. ”
The old housekeeper answered, put down the pu fan, poured a cup of tea for Uncle Yang, got up and went out.
After a while, Pu Xianyu and He Bi came first, Pu Xianyu's spirit was very good, but He Bixian yawned.
Uncle Yang looked at it and smiled: "Haha...... It seems that my Taiwei Mansion is tired of our long history, come and come, sit, eat some food first, let's talk while eating, I still have a little thing to decide, you can help me take a look. ”
The two maids brought the meal, and the old butler put it on the table one by one, and poured a little wine for the three of them.
The three of them sat on the mat, and Uncle Yang said: "Come, I salute you, I'm afraid I will have to be so busy in the future, I hope you two will forgive me." ”
Pu Xianyu and He Bixian hurriedly picked up the wine cup and returned: "Where, Taiwei has an order, the two of us will definitely go to the soup and fire." ”
The three of them drank, "Come, eat." Uncle Yang picked up the chopsticks and greeted.
"You are all in the middle of the court for some years, how do you think this "Treatise on Fiefdoms" should be implemented?" Uncle Yang asked, but his main question was He Bixian, because Pu Xianyu was in a hurry, but he didn't know much about this court, he was born in the military.
He Bixian pondered for a while, and said: "If you talk about fiefs in the Fang Jin Dynasty, only the Marquis of Yinping and the Marquis of Ding'an have fiefs, and the first emperor Daizong in order to prevent the rebellion of those princes who divided the feudal lords in ancient times and caused social instability, so the fiefs of other princes were banned, but these fiefs were really banned because these people had bad intentions, so they ......, and if you want to cancel the fiefs at this time, I am afraid there are many difficulties." ”
"However, if the fiefdom is not abolished, it will lead to the existence of China in the country, and it will not be conducive to the government to govern these places. Since ancient times, all disasters have come from this. That's why I'm going to cancel the fiefdom. ”
Pu Xianyu, who had been listening to Uncle Yang and He Bixian's conversation, suddenly said: "It's better to create a fake case of the kind that I did in the past, and directly use it as a name......
Before Pu Xianyu finished speaking, Uncle Yang sternly stopped: "Nonsense, I am bent on implementing the law, but you let me touch the law myself, how can I convince the world if I go back on my word like this." During the Warring States Period, when Li Kui changed the law, because many years later, someone came out and said that he was the prisoner of a case that year, but this case had already been closed many years ago, and it was concluded by Li Kui himself, so it became an unjust case. Do you know that when the decree is issued, the prince and the common people are guilty of the same crime, and I and I may be touched? ”
Pu Xianyu was stunned for a while, just stuffed something into his mouth to eat, He Bixian smiled first, and said: "Lord Taiwei, if you want to really revoke the fiefdom, you have to wait for the country's other laws and regulations to be implemented smoothly, so that the people are accustomed to the new law before implementing this law. ”
"I'm not afraid of them, it's the old nobles behind them, I'm afraid that this matter will become the cause of all disasters." Uncle Yang knew that the two of them couldn't give any advice, so he hurriedly finished his meal, and instead of directly pushing the new decree out as usual, he went back to the house to rest.