Pang Tong was sent to Jingzhou by Li Sheng, and with it came the news that Kong Ming was going to Yizhou. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Li Sheng's order can be said to have raised the hearts of those officials in Yizhou who had been settled again.

After solving the problem of official position, everyone knows that the next thing to be determined is the institutional issues such as national law and family rules. Is it to preserve the old laws of Liu Zhang's era? Or will a new law be established? Whether this new law is wide or loose. The difference will undoubtedly affect the interests of all. Therefore, as early as when Li Sheng was in charge of the CD and had not yet been assigned an official position, many people approached Pang Tong and asked him all kinds of questions about this matter, and asked him about the leniency of this law. At that time, Pang Tong didn't know where Li Sheng was thinking, he just relied on his own feelings, and the kind of yearning for relaxation that his words would faintly reveal made everyone really relieved. They all thought that Li Sheng's regulations must be drafted by Pang Tong, and since Pang Tong was eager to be relaxed, then no matter how strict the regulations were, they would not be strict. They were relieved by this.

However, the situation seems to have changed in an instant. Pang Tong was sent to Jingzhou by Li Sheng to replace Zhuge Liang. This order undoubtedly shows that Li Sheng intends to use Zhuge Liang to formulate regulations. Who is this Zhuge Liang? What is his personality? What did he think of the testimonies? Lord Li Sheng suddenly transferred Pang Tong away, did he know that we asked Pang Tong's military division to inquire about the news of Fadu? Is it true that the lord does not approve of lenient law? A series of question marks hung in everyone's hearts, making them nervous.

"Ask the lord to quickly draw up the national law of Yizhou......" The feeling of uneasiness always makes people feel uncomfortable, so several bold officials directly asked Li Sheng to ask him for this opinion.

"Well...... Li Sheng hesitated for a moment, but shook his head heavily: "I'm not very familiar with this matter. So I can't come up with any regulations for a while, and you still imagine doing it according to the original law of Yizhou. As for the new law, I am going to wait for Kong Ming to come over before formulating it. Anyway, this thing didn't happen overnight, so let's wait......"

"Wait...... How can we wait for the great affairs of this country? "They still won't let up.

"It's because it's a big deal, so you have to be cautious." Li Sheng made the final decision: "That's it!" You can go back and follow the existing regulations, and when there is a basic draft of the new regulations, I will let all of you participate in the discussion. ”

"Yes, the lord ......" Everyone was so stubborn that they knew that they couldn't convince Li Sheng in the end, so they had to resign themselves to their fate and disperse. Of course, they did not stop for a moment, and in the mood of hoping that "Kong Ming is not a strict person", they began to visit Li Shengjun's generals and ask them all kinds of information about Kong Ming, so that they could achieve the so-called "knowing themselves and knowing their opponents" in their future interactions with Kong Ming. Although this is not a battlefield, this is officialdom, and the intrigue seems to be more intense than the battlefield.

For the various actions of these people, not only did they further develop the situation and report the situation to Li Sheng, but also the generals under Li Sheng complained to Li Sheng. For these generals, these people keep asking them a question, and it is really annoying enough to visit them ordinarily.

"In that case, you should overcome it first and live in a barracks outside the city. It will be much easier to wait for Kong Ming to come. Li Sheng didn't intend to stop the behavior of those Yizhou officials, but only slightly comforted the generals under his command and kept them away from this place for a while.

Although Li Sheng told those officials that everything would have to wait for Zhuge Liang to arrive, in fact, before Kong Ming arrived, Li Sheng's formulation of laws and regulations had already begun to be formulated. He summoned Fa Zheng, Huang Quan, Liu Ba and other capable and honest officials in Yizhou, and asked them to use the existing laws as a reference and start formulating new laws. Of course, Li Sheng knew that the formulation of the new law was not so fast, so what they were doing now was just to understand the old law and discover the problems of the old law. The drafting of the real new law, Li Sheng still plans to wait for Zhuge Liang to come.

Time passed little by little under the expectation of everyone. A month later, with a fleet of boats with white flags coming across the river, Kong Ming, who had been waiting for a long time, finally took a group of ministers from Jingzhou and escorted Li Sheng's other two wives to CD Li Sheng was overjoyed, and after a large banquet, he invited Kong Ming, Ma Liang, Kuai Yue, Kuai Liang, Cui Hao and other important ministers from Jingzhou to a small courtyard guarded by heavy soldiers behind the state pastoral mansion, and let them meet with Fa Zheng, Huang Quan, Liu Ba and others who were sorting out the old law. Then he took out the copy of the regulations he had written and gave them to read.

"Let's put those laws aside. I think we should first determine the organization of our government in the future. Li Sheng smiled and said, "Although this thing can't come in handy in the past two months, I think it's going to be soon." Cao Cao is likely to be king! Li Sheng smiled and said his judgment, and his last sentence was very meaningful.

"Cao Cao is the king, so several other forces against Cao Gong, such as Liu Bei, Sun Quan and himself, also have the possibility of becoming kings. Under this premise, it is already possible to change the political system within the kingdom. It can even be said that once this system is established, it will be used not only by the kingdom, but also by the emperor in the future. The big man is no longer good, everyone can see this. Once there is a situation where a strong person like Cao Cao is the king, then no matter who can imagine the situation of the king and the emperor is in front of him. For this point, everyone who has been solved by Li Sheng is well aware of it, and he also believes that it is indeed necessary to make further preparations now. After all, if you don't prepare now, it will be difficult to prepare again when the time comes to really become king.

Everyone is a smart person, and they have some understanding of Li Sheng's ambition and what he can do now, and he naturally knows whether this thing that Li Sheng is throwing out at the moment is or is not suitable or not: in terms of the gold content of the territory, if Cao Cao is the number one person who can be called king, then his lord is undoubtedly the number two person who can be called king. Li Sheng, who unknowingly owned the three territories of Jingnan, Jiaozhou, and Yizhou, completely surpassed Sun Quan and Liu Bei in terms of territory and population, and was only below Cao Cao. With such a strong strength, although everyone still thinks that Cao Cao is a little big, they will not think that he is completely invincible.

"When the time comes, if the lord can really establish a system and become the king, or even go further, then won't we all become the founding heroes? This is a good thing to leave a name for history. You should work hard" Everyone thought like this, even Huang Quan, Liu Ba, Cui Hao and other people who were relatively indifferent to power couldn't help but have their eyes lit up and became excited. They all began to look intently at what Li Sheng had given them, and began to think about what position they could play in it.

To be honest, there were not many things written on the paper that Li Sheng handed them, and it was just a few hundred words explaining the names and responsibilities of each part, but they thought as they read it, but the time spent on it was really an hour. As Kong Ming, who was the slowest, put down the paper in his hand, the discussion began. Li Sheng's fierce gaze swept over everyone's faces, and he was very keen to see all kinds of inexplicable and complicated appearances from their faces, among them, there were admiration, admiration, doubt, and confusion. Everyone present is an old official who has been an official for nearly ten years, and they can all see that this is a development of the three dukes, nine kings and six cao systems of this dynasty, but ......

"Isn't this a little too complicated? In particular, will there be too many eight departments set up under the political affairs hall Shangshu Province? "The first person to ask questions was not Kong Ming, but he had been a minister under Liu Biao's account for many years, and it was not until after Chibi that Li Sheng asked him to come over, and the old minister Kuai Yue. He is obviously a little older, although he has been under Li Sheng's account for five years, his thinking seems to be the same as in the old world. The reason why Li Sheng asked him to participate in the discussion of this matter was that he valued his "old" -- although the old ministers were more conservative, they were relatively calm and experienced, and they were not easy to make mistakes in some matters.

Of course, Li Sheng himself is also decisive, and when he thinks that he doesn't need to listen to the so-called "calm" opinions, he will also raise his own objections: "There are too many eight? I still think it's too little? In fact, the subordinates of Shangshu Province are responsible for specific government affairs. The current eight books are just a general summary of some undertakings that have not yet developed. When those things are spent in depth and detail, you will find that there are still too many things in the so-called Eight Departments. ”

"Huh?" Hearing Li Sheng say this, everyone couldn't help but feel a little dumbfounded: "Eight is still too little? Will it be divided again in the future? It's also too ......."

The founding thought of the early Han Dynasty was the Taoist "rule by inaction", and later Emperor Wu became the Confucian set of "rule by doing", but whether it was the inaction at the beginning of the Han Dynasty, or the promisingness after the Han Dynasty, or the governing program for thousands of years after the Han Dynasty, it was a bold word. In other words, the government is very rough in its management of the country, and most of them are only responsible for some general things, but they do not really do specific things. No wonder some people later said: "If a person can't even be an official, then this person is not even a waste." Because there is not much to do as an official!

Seeing everyone's surprised looks, Li Sheng shook his head lightly and said: "Governing the country is not a rough one, you only need to do some work such as collecting taxes, persuading farmers, and adjudicating cases. The people live in the world, can be said to be the most miserable people in the world, we, the high-ranking people, since we stay on this high position, we must use the rights we have given to suffer for the people. To put it simply, it is a question of mutual rights and obligations: the state has the right to accept taxes paid by the people, and has the obligation to improve the lives of the people, make the people live a better life, and protect the lives and property of the people from threats and destruction; While the common people have the right to receive a series of services provided by the state, they also have the right to pay taxes and tribute, undertake the service of soldiers and civilians, and defend the country. The obligation to preserve the unity of the country. This obligation and right are relative, and what you enjoy, you must give. Under such a general premise, you officials must be very meticulous in what you do, and you must think about the people in order to win the hearts of the people. From ancient times to the present, I have never heard of anything that won the world without the support of the people. ”

"This ...... I have reservations. Kuai Yue, who was a little dizzy by Li Sheng's words, finally forced such a sentence after Xiao thought about it for a long time. Although he also knew that what Li Sheng said was very reasonable, he still felt that this was very different from the truth he had accepted before: the state and officials had to accept the people's taxes and obtain their own benefits from the people, which has been the case since ancient times. Therefore, the lord actually put the people and the king in an equal position at the moment, and planned to implement this theory thoroughly, which naturally frightened them a little unconscious.

"Lord...... Don't forget the monarch and the minister. Kuai Yue finally had to remind Li Sheng in a whisper.

"Monarchs and ministers? I haven't forgotten. It's just that I don't think the interests of the country, the interests of the officials, the interests of the family, and the interests of the people may not necessarily be unified. It's like everyone dividing the bread together, if your bread is small, even if you eat it alone, it doesn't make any sense, but if you make the bread very large, then even if you share it with others, you will get more than if you take the cake yourself. Frugality is important, but more important than frugality is open source. I will put aside all the words that 'the interests of the people are determined, and the rest shall not compete with the people', and now your task is to increase the interests of the people for me, so that the interests of the people will become large enough, so that we can give you more on top of the interests. Li Sheng continued to explain for a while, smiled slightly, and felt that there seemed to be enough to say this, so he turned the topic to another point: "Don't talk about the matter of the monarch and the people for the time being, I just want to ask you how to look at the matter of the monarch and the minister?" ”

"Regardless of the monarch and the people, only the monarch and the minister?" Hearing Li Sheng suddenly change the topic, Kuai Yue was slightly stunned, and then understood what Li Sheng meant, and replied with a smile: "If you are a monarch and a minister, this policy is a great goodness." The military power is independent, the military administration and the military orders are separated, the civilian officials lead the military government, and the military generals control the military orders, so that the military generals can concentrate on fighting, and the civil ministers can also contain the ambitions of some military generals at the same time, do not interfere in the affairs of the military generals' conquest, which can prevent the occurrence of such princes' conquest after the other day. The three provinces under the political affairs hall are in charge of top policies, review, and implementation, so that political affairs can be determined by rules and regulations, and mistakes due to the Lord can be reduced. As for the independence of the judiciary in the ban, it can avoid the harm of officials protecting each other; The three parts of the imperial history are in charge, and there is no right to enforce it except for the white clothes, so you can supervise hundreds of officials at the top, and you can hear about the people's livelihood at the bottom. But as far as the theory of his monarch and minister is concerned, this is really a unique plan that has never been seen in the ages. ”

"So is this a good idea?" Li Sheng's eyes lit up and he hurriedly asked.

"Feasible!" The crowd replied firmly.

"Is it really possible? Is there nothing else to add? Li Sheng asked again.

"This ...... The lord and the minister have some doubts about this. Listening to Li Sheng's question again, Cui Hao whispered: "Why is there no guest department in charge of etiquette among the eight departments?" ”

"Oh? That's a question! Li Sheng smiled and explained to Cui Hao: "It's actually very simple, because I don't think it's useful to etiquette things, and there is no need to set up a department independently." ”

"How can this be?" Cui Hao whispered softly.

"How not?" Li Sheng raised his eyebrows, and asked Cui Hao in a harmonious voice: "What does Zhou Ping think the guest department will be in charge of if it is established?"

"It should be to educate the people and deal with the matter of kinship." Cui Hao replied.

"To educate the people, I will directly hand it over to the Ministry of Education. To deal with family relations, I set up a foreign affairs department. With these two departments dedicated to the office, do I still need to set up a guest department? Li Sheng asked again with a smile.

"I see, I want to deviate." When Cui Hao heard this, he scratched his head embarrassedly and smiled.

Seeing that Cui Hao, a person in his thirties, would still show such an innocent appearance, Li Sheng smiled faintly, he waved his hand and said, "It's okay, it's okay, as long as the doubt is said." If there is any problem, let's study and consider it together. Don't you say? Kong Ming! What do you think about this? I can't guarantee that I'm absolutely right. ”

"Not absolutely right?" Zhuge Liang glanced at Li Sheng with a smile and said, "I didn't believe in the existence of any geniuses before, but today I read this document from you, my lord, and I found that I seemed to be wrong." Although there is still a department missing from this, it is generally very mature for the division of the imperial court. The view of the monarch's balance and restraint is deeply rooted in it, which not only allows the ability of his subordinates to be maximized, but also allows the monarch to use his subordinates without doubting his subordinates. Because of the existence of the imperial history under the stage, the minister's every move cannot be hidden from the monarch, and the subdivision of the minister's authority allows the subordinates to restrain each other. It can be said that in this system, the monarch can completely rule by the arch, as long as he is not too mediocre. ”

"So, Kong Ming, do you think this method is good?" Li Sheng narrowed his eyes in satisfaction, and his face was full of happy smiles, just like a student whose homework had been approved by his husband. However, he was not a student who only remembered what he was happy about. Although Kong Ming mentioned it a little in his words just now, Li Sheng still kept it in his heart. "Kong Ming said that he missed a department, but what department did I miss?"

"Zongren's Mansion." Kong Ming said with a smile. Although he had a smile on his face, his tone was very serious, "With the comparison between the current strength of the lord and the general trend of the world, it is a sure thing for the lord to become the emperor by dividing one side, and if it can go further, it is not impossible to reunify the world." Once the dynasty is established, the expenses of the descendants will be scattered, and a special agency is indeed needed to be responsible. Does the lord plan to just give birth and not raise him? Zhuge Liang said this last playful smile, his tone was rare frivolous, and he joked to Li Sheng.

"Hah, this! It's true that I forgot. Li Sheng touched his nose embarrassedly: "You also know, my family has such a small population now." I would never have thought of setting up a special yamen to manage it. ”

"That's the lord, you yourself don't have the consciousness of being a king." Zhuge Liang said: "My lord, you are peaceful. To be strict, you're missing some of the posture that doesn't get angry. ”

"Huh? Is that so? Maybe I'll have to keep my face up all the time. Li Sheng smiled and touched his face, but said again: "But I still think the boss is very boring." Isn't there such a saying? "Laugh a little, ten years less" seems to say that laughter can delay aging. I still want to live a few more years, so ...... You don't need to look for me if you keep a straight face. There weren't too many people in the room, everyone was his minister, although some of them had just joined him, but Li Sheng thought they could be trusted, so he allowed them to join them, for these people, Li Sheng didn't think there was any need to hide his personality, so he was unscrupulous with Zhuge Liang in front of them - he thought that sooner or later everyone would need to accept and adapt to his personality.

"Boring? But sometimes it's boring and you need to endure it. To be a monarch is to have the majesty of that monarch, not to be frivolous. Kong Ming said with a serious face. Of course, he knew what Li Sheng was laughing at just now, but he was unwilling to cooperate with Li Sheng. Because he felt that from now on, he should slowly cultivate Li Sheng's bearing as a king and an emperor.

"Alas...... Do you really want to do that? Li Sheng muttered quietly, his face slumping. He didn't have anything to do about Kong Ming's non-cooperation. In desperation, he had no choice but to change the topic, and the embarrassment in front of him was put aside: "Okay, the structure of the imperial court has been determined in this way, and as for the following matters, the grades of each official position will be determined by you through consultation." Now let's talk about it......" Li Sheng said, raising his voice slightly.

"Oh? Please give it a try...... Zhuge Liang raised his eyes and looked at Li Sheng, the color on his face that seemed to be smiling flashed, and he regained his original course, and asked softly.

"Well, I'll make a few things before you start drafting the law." Speaking of this, the color on Li Sheng's face also became solemn, and he raised the index finger of his left hand and said, "First of all, we must determine the principle of 'the king is under the law'. The Mandate of Heaven is immense, so in order to restrain the possible misdeeds of the sovereign, it is necessary to put the law above the sovereign, so that the creed of 'the emperor who violates the law and the common people are guilty of the same crime' can be implemented. If the king and the people can be equal before the law, then the majesty of the law will be guaranteed, and it will be certain that all the commoners will obey the law. Violations must be prosecuted! ”

"This ...... Will there be no monarchs and ministers? "It's still Kuai Yue who raises this question, and as an old minister, he is a very staunch defender of the program.

"Maybe, but this must be established, and no one can violate it!" Li Sheng said resolutely, and then raised a second finger: "Secondly, the principle of property protection must be determined. In addition to the fact that the law must guarantee that the legal rights of individuals and the property of the State are not violated. ”

"This ...... There has never been such a law, huh? The monarch is rich in the world, and the property in the whole world belongs to the monarch alone? 'Under the whole world, it is not the king's land, and the shore of the land is not the king's ministers'! Kuai Yue still insisted on his opposition.

"Then Mr. Kuai, if I give an order and let all the property of the Kuai family be given to me, how can I ......" Li Sheng asked lightly.

"Well...... The lord would never have done such a cruel act. As soon as Kuai Yue heard this, the cold sweat on his forehead remained, and he quickly understood what Li Sheng's advantage was for doing this, "If there is no such law, it will be legal for their monarch to seek to seize the property of the family...... Although the Maison could also resist, such a rebellion would undoubtedly be a rebellion, an act that would divide the country. Rather than making everyone unhappy at the end, it's better to set the rules now and make everyone agree to follow them. ……”

Kuai Yue was quickly changing his thoughts here, and Li Sheng retorted to him, but his words fell one after another: "Although I won't be like this? But I can't guarantee that the lords after me won't be like that. In the past, how wise were Gaozu, Emperor Wen, and Emperor Jing, but what about ...... now? The absurdity of the two emperors of Ling and Huan, I don't think I need to say more. The power of the sovereign is great, so it is necessary to put some shackles on him. Power drives people crazy, and madness makes people perish. ”

"This ......" Kuai Yue nodded helplessly, he had to admit that what Li Sheng said was very correct. Although it is not the same as the classics, it does have its reason.

"Third ......" Li Sheng stretched out a third finger: "The principle of taxation by the amount of land must be determined." I don't want to see people with land pay the same taxes as people without land, and I don't want people with more land to pay the same taxes as people with less land. Agriculture is fundamental to the stability of the country, so I do not want this fundamental to be undermined. Land annexation is irrepressible, so I don't want this irrepressibility to affect the country's tax revenue. This point is consistent with the fourth point, which states that the sovereign, noble, and gentry must all pay taxes as one. ”

"......" Everyone listened, and even the two old ministers, Kuai Yue and Kuai Liang, were not in the mood to refute Li Sheng's words. They saw Li Sheng raise his fifth finger again.

"The terms of the law must be clarified. I want the terms of the law to be detailed and clear, the terms of the law must be explained in the vernacular, and the sentences must be clearly broken. This is very important. Because our laws are made for everyone to follow, we must make the law understandable to everyone, so we have to write it in the vernacular. In addition, the clarity of the sentence can reduce ambiguity to a large extent, and prevent the law from being used by some treacherous people. Li Sheng solemnly admonished them: "In addition, last and most importantly, this law must be set strictly. When I say strict, I don't mean that we have to enact heavy laws, but that we have to increase the punishment, but that we have to formulate them strictly, and we need to scrutinize them repeatedly, so that it is difficult for people to find flaws in them. Because I intend to stipulate that everything that is not written in the law is legal, because if you write the law loosely, I am afraid that people will take advantage of loopholes, which is the same thing as making you clear the sentence. You should take as much of the possible circumstances of the crime into account as much as possible in order to clarify the terms of the law. ”

"This ......" Everyone hesitated slightly and glanced at each other, but it was Kong Ming who asked Li Sheng: "If the lord makes the law like this, I am afraid that we will have a lot of things to write." I wonder how much time the lord agreed to give us? It's okay for us to have a bottom in our hearts. ”

"One year, I will give you one year to establish a law. This law is fundamental to the whole country, and no other law provided for after this law can conflict with this law. Do you understand that? Li Sheng asked them seriously.

"Understood." Everyone nodded, and many of them had some eager looks on their faces. Perhaps in their opinion, it is really difficult for you to complete such a decree in such a short period of one year.

Li Sheng also knew that this decree was a bit troublesome, so he said: "You think more about practical things, as for the criminal law, there is no need to make so many tricks, the death penalty is retained: Ling Chi and beheading two are enough, except for the military law, the cane and corporal punishment are abolished, and all are changed to imprisonment and labor, that is, they are imprisoned in one place, and their imprisonment is replaced by high-intensity labor." Hmph, it's not so easy to commit a crime, become a criminal, and want to eat and drink for nothing. Li Sheng smiled coldly, and then said that this can be used as the principle of the seventh point he explained.

"Got it. This is also the mercy of the lord. Everyone said in unison. In fact, most of them did not know whether Li Sheng's substitution of corporal punishment by means of forced labor increased the punishment or reduced the punishment, but they all felt that the last word "benevolence" that was indeed taken care of in terms of the complete abolition of corporal punishment was almost comparable to that of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty.

"Haha!" Li Sheng also smiled very proudly. For everyone's praise in unison, he is not completely useful, and he does have a somewhat complacent appearance. He knew that the principles he had established were far ahead of his time and would be seen as correct in later generations. As for whether these principles will constrain his pace of future conquests, Li Sheng has no doubts. Because, he knew that although he had now established the principle of respecting the law, his prestige and ability could overshadow the law for a long time in his life, and even after his death, if his descendants were capable, the ministers in this system would only have the ability to cooperate with the emperor, and only after a long time, when his descendants did not have the ability to govern, then the ministers in this system had the ability to restrain the emperor -- this was actually very related to the education received by those scholars in the whole world. Before most of the concept of the emperor as an elder has not changed, no matter how many shackles the emperor clearly says he wants to put on himself, in practice, the effect of these shackles is very limited.

"That's a good law." Li Sheng was happy to himself, but suddenly heard a noisy sound outside.

"What's going on?" Zhuge Liang asked for Li Sheng.

"Lord Qi, military advisors and lords, there is an urgent military report coming from Hanzhong." People outside reported loudly.

"What?" Whether it was Li Sheng, Kong Ming, or the others in the room, they were all stunned: "Hanzhong's military report? Could it be ...... Cao Cao is coming? ”