readx; The news of Shouzhou's great victory and Chuzhou's victory spread quickly with the horse's hooves of the Chuzhou newspaper cavalry. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Because of the special explanation of Li Jingsui, the king of Qi, these cavalry who rushed to all directions and cities everywhere as long as they met the people and garrisons along the way, they would report the Jiejie documents and shout from afar: "Shouzhou is victorious, Lord Lin Fenglin led his troops to annihilate 50,000 enemies, Chuzhou was victorious, and the king of Qi led his troops to defeat the enemy army and encircled Qingliu Pass." ”

from Chuzhou to Yangzhou, then to Sizhou and Chuzhou; From Chuzhou to Hezhou and Luzhou; From Chuzhou to Runzhou, and then to Jinling, the western capital, these incredible good news instantly shook the hearts of all those who heard it, and instantly turned into tears and unrestrained tears, and then turned into ecstasy and roars, and passed to the streets and alleys with the mouths of those who heard it.

Li Jing received the good news on the evening of the 16th, and he was accompanying Zhong to dinner, and he immediately pushed the lamp and rushed to the imperial study, so that the surprised and happy Zhong could only stomp his feet lightly and frown lightly.

When a group of ministers rushed to the imperial study with the sound of firecrackers and fireworks that had already sounded all over the city, Li Jing, who was full of joy, was sitting at the imperial desk and writing hard.

Everyone hurriedly picked up the good news, trembling hands and feet to pass the long-awaited news of victory, Xiao Yan, who had always been straight-faced, finally smiled, and couldn't help but lightly high-five Sun Sheng, the right servant of Shangshu beside him.

"The good news has been read by everyone, I agree with Lin Feng and Lin Aiqing's judgment and analysis, the attack of the Zhou State is unfavorable, and the war in Jiangbei and Huainan has reached a stalemate; Wu Yue and the Southern Han Dynasty are really gaining momentum for a while, and it does not affect the overall situation, and the war situation in the Tang Dynasty has temporarily stabilized, so far it can be said that it has officially entered the stage of strategic stalemate, but, as Lin Aiqing analyzed, this stage is the most difficult, and we can only wait until the time of victory if we desperately persevere. Li Jing restrained his smile, flicked the paper in his hand, and said in a deep voice.

"I have made up my mind, Lin Feng specially stated that the soldiers and civilians of Shouzhou can unite as one and fight bravely to kill the enemy, the most basic one is to have clear rewards and punishments, and I want to be disciplined, reward loyalty and goodness, and punish evil when the Tang Dynasty is in danger.

If they sacrifice for the country, they will all enter the Martyrs' Shrine and make great contributions, and they can grace a child, and all the officials and people who defect to the enemy and betray the country and sell their lords to seek glory will be severely punished, and they will be included in the 2 ministers' records, which will cause harm to relatives and friends. ”

The expressions of the ministers present all slowly became solemn, and Jiang Wenwei, the right counselor and the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, couldn't help but spit out softly: "Ren Zi system." ”

"Renzi" system is the customary name of the Han Dynasty, the official is also called the Yin Ren system, to put it bluntly, the senior officials in the court can keep their children as officials, the Yin Ren system has been produced in the Qin Dynasty, inherited from the pre-Qin Shiguan system, is considered a variation of the aristocratic privilege system in the Qin and Han dynasties, to the time of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, the "Renzi" system became customized, but with the passage of time, this system slowly became a little out of control, in addition to the son, brother, grandson, but also expanded to the clan, the door from the number of people expanded from one to two to three.

In all fairness, the basis for the selection of officials under the shadow appointment system is not talent, but the political status of their father, brother or family, and it is a blood relationship, which is destined to be a backward and closed system of elected officials.

Now in the Southern Tang Dynasty, although this system has not been put on the surface, it is an undeniable fact that there are really few Manchu ministers who were born in Baiding.

"From the beginning of my dynasty, it is officially called the grace and shade system, and it can be grace to the Tang Dynasty military and civilians who have made great contributions, and I want everyone in the world to know that my Datang is a dignified country with clear rewards and punishments, and turbidity and purity." Li Jing replied forcefully.

While the other ministers nodded their heads in praise, Xiao Yan asked softly: "Holy Wisdom, please forgive Weichen for his false words, if such continuous rewards and punishments continue, will it eventually cause redundancy of officials and an imbalance in the proportion of officials and people, and it will become a big problem for my Tang Dynasty in the future." ”

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help nodding, from a historical point of view, the ratio of officials and people is a slow process, and the lowest should be the Han Dynasty, with a ratio of nearly 1:8,000; In the Tang Dynasty, it was about one to three thousand; The current Datang data is very easy to calculate, about one to two thousand, which is already the highest ratio in history.

Historically, in the Song Dynasty, when the scholars were given special preferential treatment, the real grace system was officially put on the table to implement, and the children of the middle and senior civil and military officials in the Song Dynasty, relatives and their guests can enjoy this privilege, and there are many patterns of shadow supplements: every year on the emperor's birthday, there is a holy festival shadow supplement, every three years every suburb worship there is a big gift shadow supplement, when the official retires to the old age, there is a tribute to the official when he retires, and when the official dies, there is a testament to the table and a testament to the shadow supplement, so that the accumulation, a meritorious hero from the beginning of the dynasty as an official until death, Tui En can even reach more than 20 people, which eventually led to the "redundant officials" becoming the hidden danger of the famous "three redundancies" of the Song Dynasty.

Li Jing turned around and picked up the paper he was writing on and handed it to everyone: "I really admire Lin Aiqing's ingenuity in building the Honorary Lordship system now, which is unique, which not only stimulates the power of the officials and the people, but also does not hurt the national body, wonderful." ”

It was another appreciation of Lin Feng's nakedness, and among the ministers, several of them immediately frowned secretly.

However, Li Jing continued: "From now on, I will take King Qi and Lin Feng as examples, and take the lead in awarding honorary orders, and other merits will be implemented in accordance with the regulations, what do you think." ”

It turned out that Lin Feng would not really be given an official again, many people secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and nodded their heads in praise, a scholar who has only been in the Tang Dynasty for two years, although he has made great achievements, but now he is a three-grade civil and military product, which is the first case of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, where can he be promoted again.

Lang You, the attendant of the Ministry of Rites, took a step forward and said respectfully: "Holy Lord, please forgive the vain discussion of the ministers, if the grace system and the honorary lord are awarded to the world in parallel, over time, those who accumulate merit will be many, not to mention the impact on the country's fiscal and tax revenues, and may affect daily governance." ”

This was said in a rather subtle way, but everyone instantly understood that according to the regulations of the Honorary Lordship system, tax exemptions and rewards only bring visible and visible losses, and if all the meritorious service recipients do not kneel down when they see the officials and go first, then the authority of the official family will be silently damaged, and the ruling order of the people ruled by officials on a daily basis will inevitably be affected to a certain extent.

Li Jing was stunned for a moment, and in his mind, he couldn't help but recall that Lin Feng was determined to promote reform, and he mentioned a sentence abnormally, "The transformation of the country is like tracing the water, and if you don't advance, you will retreat", and then think about Lin Feng's mention in the secret letter, "There are many rebels when they have been holding each other since ancient times...... The defeat of the Tang Dynasty, the loss of land, and the destruction of the country are not nonsense", and suddenly remembered those extremely harsh admonitions when I saw Lin Feng for the first time: "All the ministers of Eastern Wu are said to surrender, but Sun Quan, the lord of Eastern Wu, must not surrender, and the courtiers have surrendered, it is nothing more than a change of kowtow object, but to whom does the lord of a country surrender and how to deal with himself." ”

Li Jing's face changed twice, his slightly furrowed brows stretched out again, and he said in an accentuated tone: "I am inspirational in the Tang Dynasty, and I want to restore the prosperity of the former Tang Dynasty, if I don't even dare to touch the status quo of order, how can I be outstanding and compete in the world, all of you love Qing, but there are still objections." ”

Seeing the resolute expression on Li Jing's face, no one dared to come forward to disobey the holy will, and nodded in praise in unison.

On the same night, dozens of cavalry of the forbidden army went out of the city with 800 miles of expedited specifications, and rushed to the four directions to spread the edict, and the content of the edict was also pasted to all parts of Kyoto overnight.