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The charcoal in the small charcoal stove was slightly reddened, and there was a kettle on top of it, and the water in the kettle had been boiled and kept tumbling.

Zhuge Liang handed a small teacup to Pang Tong, Pang Tong hurriedly took the teacup with both hands, put it on the tip of his nose and smelled it, and then sucked it in small sips, then slowly closed his eyes, and savored the elegant fragrance of the tea.

"Good tea!" Pang Tong sighed lightly: "Kong Ming, the tea you brew is definitely the best in the world!" Here, bring me another glass. ”

Zhuge Liang did not respond to Pang Tong's words, but continued to fiddle with the gap in his hand, and said at the same time: "Shiyuan, I invited you over today, but I didn't let you drink tea. ”

"I know, you came to me for what Your Majesty mentioned!" Pang Tongfang put down the teacup in his hand, and then said: "The nine-rank Dingguan is not much different from now, it's just that the soup is changed or not the medicine, and this one is changed, it doesn't matter." But these six...... Somewhat troublesome. ”

"yes." Zhuge Liang nodded: "Shiyuan, this Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of War are in charge of civil and military officials and soldier training; The head of the household department is in charge of money and grain; The Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Criminal Affairs are closely related to civil affairs; It's just that this rite department, I don't think it's necessary to have a self-contained one, and start with the six. ”

"Your Majesty should have a deep meaning in doing this." Pang Tong said.

In the era when there was no imperial examination system, the Ministry of Rites was not responsible. The selection of court officials has much less power, and they are only responsible for the emperor's life and the reception of foreign envoys, and it seems a bit far-fetched to be on an equal footing with the other five ministries just in this way.

Pang Tong paused, and then said, "Kong. Ming, do you think these six are feasible? ”

"If it is in a peaceful and prosperous world, these six parts are absolutely feasible! And it's still stable. The way of court. Shi Yuan, just this civil and military division and military department, is a peaceful policy. Thinking back to the Han Dynasty, Emperor Ling issued a holy decree, and the state pastor held the power, so Liu Yan, Liu Biao and others didn't have to do anything, just because they were the state pastors, and finally became the princes of one party. That Liu Yan also privately stopped the taxes to pay tribute to the imperial court. And a county is too guarded, and he also has heavy troops, compared to when the Han Dynasty was first established, those county kings are even better. If the civil and military are divided, this problem will be solved. ”

"And the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Punishment, if there is no war between the DPRK and China in a peaceful and prosperous era, the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Punishment will play a big role. The Ministry of Engineering is in charge of civil engineering, paving bridges and roads, and diverting canals for irrigation, all of which are major events for the people; And the criminal department is in charge of the world's criminal names, and dealing with those who commit adultery is a move to stabilize people's hearts. ”

"Yes, it's just Kong Ming, have you ever thought that if you really establish these six. Ministry, I'm afraid the opposition of the DPRK and China will not be small! Pang Tong said.

Dynasties and dynasties, as long as . It is the reform that will touch the interests of some people, such as the "Tui En Order" of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, which strengthened the power of his monarch, but the interests of those local county kings made many county kings revolt and rebel. Some of the policies of the first emperor in the past, although they are beneficial for thousands of years and meritorious for all generations, but they have caused public resentment to boil because of improper attempts; Earlier, although the Shang Dynasty changed the law, although it made the Great Qin strong, it also offended the power of the Dynasty at that time, and it was only because the Qin State was poor and white at that time, and with the support of the King of Qin, it barely succeeded, but the Shang Dynasty also ended up with a car split.

If you want to say that this official is divided into nine grades and eighteen levels, and he is just scratching his boots, then the establishment of six parts is a pain in the bones. Because it involves almost all things such as officials, soldiers, ordinary people, taxes, etc., which are intertwined and have many conflicts of interest, it is absolutely difficult to reform.

"Hey......" Zhuge Liang also frowned, if Adou is now in power and enjoys the world, he can use some means, and even directly send troops to suppress it like the first emperor did back then. However, if there are three points today, and Yongzhou is not firmly established, if there is civil strife at this time, even a little chaos will give Wei and Wu an opportunity.

"Kong Ming, I have an idea." Pang Tong suddenly spoke.

"What's the idea?"

"Take advantage of the situation!"

"Excuse me?" Zhuge Liang's eyes rolled slightly, and he immediately understood Pang Tong's intentions.

"Wonderful! Wonderful! Shi Yuan, this trick is wonderful! If you can borrow the momentum, this matter of changing the nine products and six parts will become seven points. Zhuge Liang smiled on his face, and then continued: "It's just this potential, how to borrow it!" ”

"Kong Ming, Hugh is going to pretend to be confused for me!" Pang Tong also laughed: "You thought of it a long time ago, but you want to force me to say it, hehe...... Good you cunning Kong Ming! ”

Although he was recognized by Pang Tong, Zhuge Liang did not have the slightest embarrassment on his face, and still said with a serious face: "I was worried that His Majesty would not agree, so I didn't say it." Why don't you mention it to Your Majesty? ”

"No need to talk! This kind of errand, you found me on the head! I don't do it! Pang Tong immediately waved his hand, and then said: "I won't go, but there is one person who goes, this kind of marriage is a major event, it needs to be decided by the elders, you and I are not good, now I can be called His Majesty's elders, I don't need to say, you also know which two people it is!" What's more, those two young ladies are not young! ”

As soon as Pang Tong's words fell, the people outside hurriedly ran over, came to the front of the two, and reported: "Prime Minister, Taifu, General and General Wei are here!" ”

"Hehe, what a coincidence, just as I was talking, they came, please come up......"

"Kong Ming, quickly calculate for me, which day is an auspicious day for the zodiac!" A loud voice came from far away, Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong both heard it, it was Zhang Fei who spoke, and it sounded like Zhang Fei was drunk!

"Kong Ming, do you hear it, you're drunk again!" Pang Tong shrank back slightly.

"Don't be afraid, didn't you say it just now, the prince and the three generals are here, and the prince is here!" Zhuge Liang said from the side.

"Kong Ming, count the auspicious days of the zodiac......" Zhang Fei's voice came from outside again.

"Hehehehe......" Pang Tong suddenly laughed.

"Shi Yuan, what are you laughing at?" Zhuge Liang asked.

"Kong Ming, I have a hunch." Pang Tong had a strange smile on his face, and then continued: "We don't need to mention this matter to Your Majesty, Your Majesty has already agreed." ”

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Weiyang Palace.

Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong stood in front of Adou, Zhuge Liang still looked unfazed, and Pang Tong had a faint evil smile on his face.

"Your Majesty, both of us think that these nine products and six parts are feasible!" Zhuge Liang said.

A Dou's face suddenly appeared a hint of joy, before Adou was most worried that Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong would not support, but now both of them agreed, and this reform has been more than half successful.

"It's just that Your Majesty, the minister is worried that the ministers of the DPRK and China will object." Zhuge Liang's next sentence undoubtedly poured a lot of cold water.

Without waiting for Adou to speak, Zhuge Liang continued: "So the ministers and the others discussed for a long time, and finally came up with a countermeasure. ”

"What is the solution?" Adou hurriedly asked.

"Take advantage of the situation!"

"Excuse me?" Adou was confused when he heard this.

"It's to take advantage of the situation, the day before yesterday, the general once came to the minister, and asked the minister to calculate an auspicious day for His Majesty's wedding. The borrowing that the minister said is to take advantage of His Majesty's wedding to announce the change of nine products and six parts! Zhuge Liang said.

Adou suddenly realized.

The ancients paid attention to etiquette, and under normal circumstances, royal happy events should be amnesty to the whole world and the whole country celebrates. This happy event includes the emperor's birthday, the queen mother's birthday, and the emperor's marriage.

The queen is the mother of a country, and canonizing the queen is a very important thing, and if the previous emperor did not establish a queen, he is still a single person, not to mention the grandeur of this wedding.

According to ancient customs, except for those who committed heinous crimes such as rebellion, all other criminals were pardoned for their crimes, and sometimes, in some places, they would even open warehouses to release grain as a sign of celebration. And the ministers also know that at such a time, it is absolutely impossible to mention some discordant things, which can be regarded as an unspoken rule in officialdom, and it is also a kind of etiquette. Even if the imperial history wanted to impeach some officials who had committed crimes, it would only be done after the emperor's wedding. Even the most old-fashioned old pedant will not be uncomfortable at this festive time.

So if it is to announce the reform of the nine products and six parts at the time of Adou's wedding, even if someone wants to oppose it, they can't come out to oppose it. This is not courteous.

"Good plan!" Adou snorted softly, and then immediately smiled bitterly. At this time, Adou finally realized the sentence: Being in the emperor's house, he can't help himself.

Adou's own marriage, he can't be the master by himself, this Adou has already been prepared. Adou always felt that he had never been married in his previous life and almost became a Taoist priest, and he was able to marry a wife and have children in this life, and pass on the lineage, which was already earned. But Adou never thought that this wedding would also become a medium for the implementation of the plan.

Pang Tong next to him seemed to notice Adou's abnormality, Pang Tong took a step forward slightly, and said softly: "Your Majesty is the king of a country, and you should put state affairs first!" ”

The king of a country, the state affairs are important? Adou smiled self-deprecatingly, and then said, "Taifu, I just feel it occasionally, I know, what to do." ”

……

On both sides of the long street, vendors were squatting there, some of them leaning north on carts, some holding on to their flat poles, and in front of them, all the goods for sale were placed.

The streets of Chang'an City are already relatively wide in the Han Dynasty, but they are also crowded when they are surrounded by these hawkers. In late autumn and early winter, the weather is relatively dry, and the streets are full of dust, and there is often a slight amount of dust raised by pedestrians, but these vendors seem to have been used to this and do not care at all.

Zhang Wei followed closely behind Adou, looking around vigilantly, while Adou in front of him walked forward leisurely, checking those things he was interested in from time to time.

The autumn harvest season has passed, it is the agricultural slack season, but these hard-working people are not idle, some of the craftsmen have made some small handicrafts, come to Chang'an City to sell, and do not know the craft, as long as there is the strength of the people to run to the city, to see if there is an opportunity to make money. Therefore, there are a lot more people in Chang'an City today than in spring and summer.

Adou came to a stall very casually and looked at the pairs of straw sandals on the stall. Adou took out one of the straw sandals, but he couldn't help but think of Liu Bei in his mind.

"Let's go, let's take a look, that monk is going to lecture again." A scribe dressed as a scribe spoke.

"What's so nice about that, what Hu Seng said, I don't understand." A slightly chubby scribe next to him said.

"You don't understand this, do you? I'm telling you, it's because you don't understand that you have to listen. The other said, leaned into the fat scribe's ear and whispered: "Actually, I don't understand either, those who go to listen to the lectures of the monks, a few of them can listen to them!" ”

"I don't understand, why do you want to listen?" The fat scribe then asked.

"Hmph, you don't know that! If no one else can understand it, you can understand it, doesn't it seem that you are knowledgeable? Therefore, the person who listens to the monk's lecture on the scriptures, even if he can't understand it, he must pretend to understand it, so that he can appear superior! ”

The scribe's voice was very small, only the fat scribe could hear it, and the noise on the road made no one pay attention to the scribe's words, but Ah Dou's ears were really good, and he naturally heard it clearly.

"Hehe......" Adou smiled slightly, there have been such Mr. Nanguo in all dynasties, but I didn't expect to meet two of them just after I went out now.

Thinking of this, Adou stepped forward and said, "Two brothers, dare to ask what you just said, what is the matter with Hu Seng?" ”

When the slightly thinner scribe heard someone ask, he immediately made an unfathomable appearance, put on a Taoist posture, and said: "This Hu monk is a monk from the Hu people, and he will open the altar to give lectures every ten days. Recently, there was an old monk named Lai Xin Jueluo from Tianzhu Kingdom, and we were going to listen to his lectures. ”

"Love Xin Jueluo?" Adou made a fierce one.

"It's not Aixin Jueluo, it's Lai Xinjueluo!"

"Oh, it turned out to be Lai Xinjueluo......" Adou breathed a sigh of relief, just now Adou heard it as "Aixin Jueluo", and thought that a certain emperor of the Qing Dynasty had also crossed it!

"Brother Tai, you don't know that this Hu monk should have just arrived in Chang'an, right? Would you be interested in coming with me to listen to the monk's sermons? ”

"Well, it's okay......" Adou also wanted to see what this monk of the Han Dynasty was like, so he agreed.

……

This Buddhist temple in Chang'an City has been established for some years, and in the past 30 years, Chang'an has been in turmoil and has changed hands several times, and this temple has naturally not been repaired. Today, the temple looks a little dilapidated, and even the plaque is not hung.

In front of the temple gate, two monks in rough clothes stood in front of the door to greet the visitors, and the two monks did not seem to want to be Han, but looked towards the courtyard, where dozens of futons were placed, and the futons also looked very shabby. And in front of him, there was an old monk sitting on a wide platform with his eyes down, and the old man's complexion was dark, similar to the Tianzhu people that Adou had seen in his previous life.

Adou came late, most of the futons were full, only the front row was empty, and the newcomers were reluctant to take a seat at the front even if they stood in the back.

Adou casually pulled a monk next to him and asked, "This master, the front row, is it for important people?" ”

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be!" This monk didn't seem to want to be a Han Chinese, but he spoke Chinese fluently, and I saw this monk pointing to a row of futons in front of him and said: "All beings are equal, in the eyes of my Buddha, there are no high or low people, how can important people say, if this gentleman wants to sit, what if he sits on that high platform?" ”

"Oh. So why is there no one sitting at the front? Adou then asked.

"Everyone in this courtyard is here to listen to the sound of the Buddha, and they can ...... wherever they sit, or whether they are sitting or standing," the monk said, bowing his head and began to chant the scriptures.

"Childe, I see that there is something strange in the row in front of me, let's not go over." Next to him, Zhang Wei said.

Now Adou is traveling in micro-service, so he ordered Zhang Wei to call himself "Childe." ”

"What are you afraid of, let's go, go over and have a look!" Adou took Zhang Wei to the front row and sat down.

Seeing that Adou actually sat in the first row, everyone's eyes were focused on Adou, and in that look, there was confusion, admiration, and ridicule.

The fat scribe was also late just now, and when he saw Adou sitting in the first row, the monk didn't stop him, he poked the scribe next to him slightly, and said, "Look, the first row can sit people, let's go and sit too!" ”

"Don't, don't go over." The fat scribe's companion immediately stopped, "I'm telling you, you must not sit in this first row. ”

"Why? Don't you see that the man also sat down? The fat scribe asked, puzzled.

"The man is new and doesn't know the rules. This is called Lai Xin Jueluo old monk is different from other monks, this old monk likes to ask when he preaches the scriptures. Naturally, he asked in the first row closest to him. Let me ask you, do you understand what this monk said? ”

"I don't understand ......"

"Since you don't understand, can you answer that?"

"I can't understand it, how can I answer?" The fat scribe replied honestly.

"Isn't that the end of it! The old monk asks you questions, but you can't answer them, this is a big loss of face! Last time, a few people sat in the first row, but when they were asked by the old monk, no one could answer, and these people are still the laughing stock of Chang'an City! I didn't expect that there was a person who didn't think much of himself in the past today, let's see how he made a fool of himself later! ”

There were many people in the hall who had the same thoughts as this scribe. Most of the people who come to listen to the monks' lectures can't understand it, and the few who can understand it are only half-understood, so most people come here to embrace elegance.

More importantly, this Buddhism has just spread to the Han Dynasty, many classics have not been translated into Chinese characters, and these monks are not Han Chinese, and Chinese is not very good. In the eyes of these scholars in the Han Dynasty, this Tianzhu language is undoubtedly like listening to heavenly books. It's good not to be asleep, how else to be able to understand and answer.

"Dong ......" Not long after Adou sat down, a thick bell rang, and everyone quieted down.

The old monk was finally about to start preaching......