"Shi Xiancheng, Chen Kang, the palace attendant, impeached you for many crimes to the emperor, and now the emperor invites you to defend and confront you!" The eunuch in the palace said.

Shi Bufan said: "Okay, I'll go right away!" ”

Shi Bufan is actually not surprised to sue himself for this imperial history, and he has even been prepared for a long time. Shi Bufan was there at Du Yan at that time, but he said that sentence: "Yushi eats. ", which can be regarded as offending all the people with the identity of this imperial history. So if these imperial histories don't come back to the field, it will be a strange thing. So for their revenge, it's no wonder that they don't take the opportunity to find an opportunity to bite Shi Bufan. So Shi Bufan is not surprised, now they are using Shi Bufan to engage in this so-called lawsuit against themselves, but Shi Bufan is not afraid. Because he was very cautious and acted on the bottom line of the legal and economic system of the Tang Dynasty every step, he naturally had a way.

However, what Shi Bufan is most worried about is the one that these mad dogs are best at, which is the so-called "political correctness". If you can't press them on "political correctness", then I'm afraid these mad dogs will still bite you to death, and they won't be able to talk about them at all.

Shi Bufan came to the Liangyi Hall of the Tang Dynasty harem and found that there were not many people present, so Shi Bufan breathed a sigh of relief. However, he quickly judged that this time it seemed that there was obviously no idea of making a big deal out of it, maybe it was Li Shimin's attitude?

"According to common sense, such a charge against me for sabotaging the basic equalization system of the Tang Dynasty, and inciting the people to resist the service, with the intention of plotting misdeeds, is generally very large, and it is not an exaggeration to convene a plenary court meeting to discuss, but it is actually just an internal dynasty, which shows that Li Shimin does not really want to clean me up. In that case, it won't be too much of a problem. Shi Bufan thought.

In fact, in the early Tang Dynasty, the crime of "rebellion" was actually very common, and many court officials were charged with "rebellion". For example, Wei Chigong, a person who is loyal to Li Tang, has been accused of rebellion. But in fact, it doesn't matter, it's all about whether you really rebel in the eyes of the emperor. Some even sued for "rebellion", which was just a means used by the emperor to suppress his courtiers, not what he really wanted to do with you. Therefore, the crime of "rebellion" can actually be big or small, especially in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, "rebellion" was the same as the general crime, and it was a good excuse to attack the courtiers. Of course, as long as the courtiers themselves can justify themselves, the emperor will also "believe" in "pushing the boat with the current". During the Li Shimin period of the Tang Dynasty, there were indeed many cases of rebellion being used to deduct hats, but not many were actually killed, perhaps it was just an excuse for Li Shimin to weaken and suppress his courtiers.

At least, under Li Shimin, most of the people's heads can be saved.

"I've seen the emperor, may I ask the emperor to let his ministers come, what's the matter?" Shi Bufan said.

However, Chen Kang, the palace attendant, immediately began to say: "Your Majesty, this time is not an ordinary destruction of my Tang Dynasty's Juntian system, and my Tang Dynasty's government military system and rent-yong modulation are all based on the Juntian system. If the Juntian system collapses, the military system and the rent system will also collapse. Shi Bufan abused his power, embezzled land, and undermined the land equalization system, which is really a heinous crime. Even making the people resist forced labor is a plot to win over people's hearts. Please behead the emperor to set an example! ”

Shi Bufan is not nervous, don't look at this and say that he wants to be beheaded, the ancient complaint is often beheaded, which is much worse than that of later generations. But this is often decapitated, but how many are really beheaded? So Shi Bufan is not worried, he is still very calm. Li Shimin is an emperor born in the battlefield, and he often looks at the result when he does things, not the process, which is the most reassuring thing for Shi Bufan. As long as you have a good effect, then this will naturally not happen, and even the extraordinary model can be promoted.

"Shi Bufan, did you hear that?" Chen Kang, the palace attendant, asked.

Shi Bufan replied lightly: "I heard it, a mad dog is barking!" ”

"You, you, you, you......" Chen Kang pointed at Shi Bufan, obviously so angry that he couldn't say a word.

Shi Bufan is very disdainful of the so-called "imperial history" in ancient times, the so-called imperial history is an official who supervises, but in fact, he is just a mad dog in Shi Bufan's eyes. Although nominally the Imperial Historian could monitor corrupt officials, in fact the Imperial Historian was just a mad dog in the court, a mad dog that the emperor used to bite people. The establishment of the imperial history originated from the imperial historian during the Qin Dynasty, but the establishment of the imperial historian was nothing more than the emperor's practice of dividing the prime minister's power in order to maintain the imperial power, and was used to restrain the prime minister and maintain the imperial power.

So from the very beginning, this imperial history was just a mad dog raised by the emperor to maintain the imperial power. Definitely don't take this imperial history as the prosecutor of the Commission for Discipline Inspection in the future, because they are not worthy of this imperial history. Their criterion for impeaching others is not good or evil, not corrupt officials and clean officials, or other criteria, the only criterion is to see whether this guy is beneficial to the emperor, or to the political group behind him.

Therefore, from the beginning of its establishment, the reason for the establishment of this imperial history was not to maintain the country, but to maintain the rule of imperial power. Shi Bufan naturally does not regard them as discipline inspection and supervision officials in later generations, and some of the discipline inspection and supervision officials in later generations are for the party, but not for a certain family or a certain person, but for the public interest. But this imperial history is a mad dog for a small number of families and a small number of interest groups, and he naturally looks down on it.

Maybe some imperial historians are really doing things in good faith, but the core they set up is not to clean up corrupt officials and mediocre officials, since the core purpose of their establishment is wrong, then how can they be expected to be able to perfect impartial law enforcement?

"Your Majesty, this Shi Bufan is so arrogant, he dares to blatantly insult us and other imperial histories here, this is really a great crime!" Chen Kang continued to say angrily.

However, Li Shimin then asked: "Shi Bufan, what do you have to say?" ”

Shi Bufan said directly: "Your Majesty, this so-called cooperative is actually just an organization of the people themselves. Through the division of labor and cooperation, they perform their own duties, so that human and material resources can be used to the maximum. A lot of food has been saved, and saving is net earning, you should understand this emperor? I found that in the past, the servitude in our rents was too wasteful, and a lot of resources were wasted in between. And relying on manpower to plough the land, the people are miserable, and the people are really miserable. As the county governor of Wannian, I am an official close to the people and a parent official of the people. The local people are all my children, and how can there be parents who let their children suffer from the hearts of the people? I tried my best to finally come up with this plan. This plan can not only avoid the reduction of land production during forced labor, but also save the consumption of rations for no reason during forced labor, and the consumption of various rations can be reduced by at least half in vacuum. The cost of arable land is also cultivated land, and it is naturally better to expand the area with horse ploughing than manual arable land. ”

"So, with this method, the same manpower, but it can be made several times more than the previous method. And now the people are rushing to serve the conscription, they are full-time serving the villagers, and now they are even rushing to work, and there will be no lazy things. ”

"What? Rushing to serve in conscription? Li Shimin exclaimed.

Li Shimin naturally knew that for the ancient agricultural society, excesses and miscellaneous taxes were often not the most terrible, and they were just the last straw that crushed the camel. But what is really terrible is the forced labor, which destroys agricultural production, and even wastes a lot of food rations for no reason. In addition, it was free to let the people serve, and of course the people resisted. But now I actually heard that the people rushed to serve the conscription, which simply subverted Li Shimin's outlook on life.

"Your Majesty, the ministers are now organizing the people to build water conservancy and strive for a good harvest in the coming year. After the construction of water conservancy, regardless of drought or flood disasters, the harvest can be guaranteed as much as possible, and there will hardly be any drought and flood disasters in our Wannian County in the future. The person responsible for the construction and presiding over the water conservancy is the Kuzhen Yan Liben of the Qin Palace. Shi Bufan said.

"Oh? It's him! The Yan family is indeed very good at this kind of civil engineering. Li Shimin nodded and said.

Yan Lide and Yan Liben's Yan family, their ability to be good at the design and organization of civil engineering was almost famous in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and Li Shimin knew it.

Soon, Yan Liben was also summoned.

"Liben, Shi Bufan said that the people are rushing to serve the conscription now, but is there such a thing?" Li Shimin asked.

Yan Liben said: "Your Majesty, that's right, this is indeed the case. Since the adoption of the method of calculating the amount of conscription by the county men, the people have not only done more work in one day than in the past three days! Even more and more proficient, we don't have to let the overseers whip them at all, they will take the initiative to do things themselves. It makes me feel terrible to continue doing it even after five hours a day. Even when they are allowed to rest, they have to continue to do things, because the more they do, the more food they will get from the villagers. ”

"According to the minister's estimates, if in the future, after they become proficient, they would have been forced into labor by a thousand people, but now maybe a hundred people can be completed in the same time, and maybe even fewer people, whether it is the ration consumption of the imperial court or the ration consumption of their own people, it is many times less. There is no need to worry about delaying farmland production, which ensures that farmland production will not be reduced due to forced labor. It is estimated from different places that without delaying the original project time, the manpower is saved by at least 90%, and the ration saving is also more than 90%, because the number of people has decreased so much, and the waste of rations is naturally less. The rest of the people could continue to farm, and continue to guarantee the grain cultivation and taxation of the imperial court. ”

When Li Shimin heard this, he laughed so much that his back molars came out. Ancient emperors liked this kind of favorite, and the ancient emperors had a crime of "building a lot of buildings", describing those emperors who engaged in various projects, this kind of waste of human resources and destruction of agricultural production, was vigorously criticized by ancient times.

But now the common people are rushing to serve the forced labor, and there is almost no destruction of agricultural production, so that even if the emperor makes great efforts to build the building, it is completely bearable. Manpower is still those manpower, but after such effective integration, it actually broke out something that several times more manpower than in the past could not do, so of course it is good.

In ancient agrarian societies, population was the greatest resource, and human resources determined the rise and fall of an agrarian society. With manpower, more land can be cultivated, and with manpower, there will be more armies. Of course, there is too much manpower, and the Central Plains will not be able to feed it.

But now that the Tang Dynasty has just been established, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty desperately wants to restore the population. even did not hesitate to set up a law to force the people to marry, if they could not get married as soon as possible when they reached the age, the government would force them to marry, which was actually the difficulty encountered by Qin Jiarui at that time.

Therefore, human resources are precious, and Li Shimin is eager to use one as a few people. I couldn't do it before, but Shi Bufan did it for Li Shimin. Of course, Li Shimin is happy, and it will be good to build a large number of projects in the future.

"So, will I be able to build a lot of construction in the future?" Li Shimin asked.

Yan Liben immediately said: "Your Majesty, you must let the people of the whole country organize according to the method of Shi Xianmen, so that more construction can be carried out." Otherwise, the people will still not be able to bear it! ”

Hearing that Li Shimin was going to build a large number of buildings, Chen Kang, the palace attendant, hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, the minister hopes that the emperor will not build a large number of buildings, and the former Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty will not be destroyed because of the construction of large buildings." At that time, Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall and Afang Palace because of the construction of a large number of buildings, and in the end, didn't he also die? Therefore, the lessons of the previous car are not far away, and please ask the emperor not to follow the old road of the former Sui! ”

As an imperial history, isn't it necessary to speak in a timely manner when necessary, and then express that you can put forward opinions and advise the emperor in a timely manner? That's what Goshi does, and if you don't do it, you won't be able to gain fame. It is good for him to admonish, and even the emperor can't kill him, which is of course what he has to do.

As for dissuading the emperor from "building a large number of buildings", in the eyes of ancient officials, it was a "politically correct" thing, and it must be stopped. Whenever the emperor wanted to "build a large number of buildings", he had to dissuade them, because this was "politically correct", so he quickly seized this opportunity to dissuade them.

Shi Bufan hurriedly said: "Sure enough, it's a mad dog, and it's just shouting here regardless of reality." You are vain about the development of the imperial court and the livelihood of the people, just for the sake of your own reputation and future, and here you would rather sacrifice the people's livelihood in exchange for your reputation, aren't people like you a mad dog? ”

"Shi Bufan, you dare to say it again! I've put up with you for a long time! Your Majesty, the minister has a heart for my Tang Dan, as a Qing official of the imperial history, how can he be bullied by him? Please ask the emperor to uphold justice for his ministers and severely punish such people who destroy the superordinates! Chen Kang finally couldn't help but say angrily.

(To be continued.) )