When Li Jing waved his hand to stop the eunuch's shouting, he was still depressed and pushed open the door of the imperial study, and found that the imperial study was still in a stalemate:

Xiao Yan in the Dali Temple, Jiang Wenwei, the doctor and the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, You Jianyan, the bachelor of Hanlin and the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, Han Xizai, a member of the Yu Department, and Liao Jusu, a member of the Ministry of Etiquette, sat in a corner, did not look at each other, and bowed their heads and were silent.

Immediately, Li Jing's mood became even more depressed. If you find a group of people privately and still can't come up with a draft reform of the commercial law, wouldn't it be a big joke? Didn't he lose in front of Song Qiqiu and others?

As soon as several people looked up, they found that Li Jing was already standing in the middle of the house, and immediately knelt on the ground and bowed to worship.

"No courtesy, no courtesy!" Li Jing waved his hand irritably, walked directly to the back of the imperial desk and sat down.

Xiao Yan and the others looked at each other in private, knowing that the Emperor Dao must be dissatisfied with their current lack of progress, but they were also helpless.

Although Xiao Yan and others support change, it does not mean that they have no opinions and ideas about the commercial law! Without the Song Party as opponents, several people have been in the palace for a whole day and a night, but they themselves can't argue because of several core issues of the Shangjue Law, and the draft has written a general outline, without a few words in total!

The problem is still the same old question, and it is also a few issues that have been disputed in the court before:

First, how to determine the standard for businessmen to bestow knights? That is, how many good deeds a businessman has done to give him a knighthood, he can't open a porridge shed for two days, and give a few pennies to give a knight, right?

Second, should there be a ceiling on the merchant's knighthood? What if there is another Lu Buwei who is rich and powerful?

Third, how does the Shang Jue Law connect with the current lord system? Should we continue the existing system or create a new one?

Fourth, the merchants who were the most ranked in the original Shinong industry and commerce can now be knighted, but what about the workers? What about farming? What about ordinary scholars? What about the soldiers?

In the silent atmosphere of the study, Han Xizai closed his eyes slightly, and once again slowly sorted out the origin and changes of the lord system in his heart.

China's knighthood system has a long history, as early as the Spring and Autumn Period's "Book of Rites? It is recorded in the "Royal System": "The king's system is a lord, a prince and a man, and he is of the fifth class." ”

In the pre-Qin period, China's knighthood system was chaotic. For example, during the Warring States Period, the feudal system of the six kingdoms of the Kwantung region, and the marquis of Che and the marquis of Guannei among the 20 military meritorious lords of Qin, all belonged to the primary form of the feudal system. After the advent of the knighthood system, for a long time, the difference from the sub-feudal system was not obvious. For example, the feudal monarch still has certain administrative functions in the food eup. Qin 20th rank military meritorious, accumulating knighthood to the marquis of Guannei and the marquis of Che, you can eat rent tax or food estate; The knighthood of the food and rent tax is not only integrated with the knighthood system, but also still has the nature of a bureaucracy, and has not yet been completely separated from the official system.

In the Han Dynasty, the knighthood system was established. After the middle of the Han Dynasty, the feudal system was established and perfected, mainly with four signs: first, the separation of the right to eat and rent tax and the administrative power of the people; the second is the separation of the same surname and the different surname, that is, the prince is crowned king, and the meritorious hero is crowned marquis; the third is the separation of the knighthood system and the knighthood system; The fourth is the separation of knighthood and official rank, that is, the knighthood has its own hierarchical sequence, although there is a rank corresponding to the official, but there is no administrative function, and it does not belong to the official. Through these four separations, the essence of the knighthood system is relatively clear: it has a political rank and no administrative power; enjoy the feudal state and the food household; hereditary succession; Taxes on food, clothing, and rent.

Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, the lord honor system has tended to be stable. When the fifth-class lord was Emperor Yang, only the king, duke, and marquis were retained, and the rest were abolished.

"There is a political hierarchy but no executive power...... Hereditary inheritance......" Han Xizai muttered in his mouth, took out a small note from his pocket again, and read it several times again, such as "tax refund, inspection, nominal and substantial, Shinong industrial and commercial sharing, non-hereditary, and the army is single-lined", and finally made up his mind and said: "Your Majesty, Weichen has some thoughts about the Shangjue Law, and I want to play Your Majesty's Majesty." ”

Hey, Han Xizai, who has not spoken since entering the palace, is finally about to speak?! Not only Li Jing, but even Xiao Yan and the others raised their heads and looked at Han Xizai unfreely.

"Oh, Aiqing, talk about it!" Li Jing threw away the scroll in his hand that had long been boring, and stared at Han Xizai with blazing eyes.

Change means breakthrough and innovation! My gang is still not bold enough and lacks courage! Han Xizai shook his head secretly, and said with some bitterness:

"A businessman is only a member of the social class. If the Shang Jue Law is listed separately, what will happen to the outstanding talents and patriots of other classes? For example, should the talents selected by the ten questions of recruitment make greater contributions in the future? What about the soldiers who fought bravely on the battlefield to kill the enemy and expand their territory? What if in the future, there will be people with lofty ideals like Ban Chao and Ban Dingyuan who have gone to the Western Regions and made great contributions? Our finances can never afford so many people to become officials, so there is only one way to be knighted.

After thinking about it, Wei Chen felt that the original lord system should remain unchanged, and two parallel honorary lord systems should be designed. One is applicable to all strata of agriculture and industry, and the other is a special military merit system. ”

That's a fresh idea! All the other people in the study were dazzled, and Li Jing was even more interested, pressing his hands on the table, and urging: "Han Qing, please tell me carefully!" ”

"The lord system of the Shinong industry and commerce is applied, and it can be divided into three classes and nine classes according to contributions and merits, the first class, in addition to honor, land and money can be rewarded, and the highest one can also honor a hereditary eldest son; second, in addition to honor, can reward different amounts of money according to different ranks; The third class only rewards unequal honors, such as not bowing to officials, the road first, and giving priority to entering the office. And those who have made military merits, considering that we and Tang have only one way to pacify the world by force in the future, we should set up a lord system that is completely based on military merits, which is directly linked to land, money, and honor! Han Xizai straightened out his thoughts and spoke slowly.

Speaking of this, Han Xizai was a little stuck in his thoughts, took out the small note again, glanced at it twice, and continued:

"After the implementation of the two lord systems, on the one hand, it is necessary to pay attention to rigor and fairness, and the process of giving knights, whether they are fair or not can be used as future inspections, once fraud is discovered, all personnel involved in the case will be dismissed, and those who cheat will never be allowed to enter the official office; On the one hand, it is necessary to be flexible. For example, businessmen and scholars are not short of money, and they can consider pro-rata tax refunds to encourage them to be more active in philanthropy. ”

"What good thing did you just take out? Let me see. Li Jing was more interested and asked.

"Obey." Han Hee-jae stood up, took out the note, and handed it to Jing.

"What is this?" Li Jing got the note and was suddenly a little stunned.

"Your Majesty, please forgive the sin of Wei Chen. To tell the truth, what Wei Chen just said was what Lord Lin talked about when he was chatting with Lord Lin Fenglin, and Wei Chen wrote it down on a piece of paper afterwards to remind himself. Weichen, it's just picking up people's teeth! Han Xizai sighed slightly and bowed.

At first, the reason why Han Xizai was hesitant was because he considered that once such a system was implemented, all the scholars in the world would not be so valuable in the future! Han Xizai, as a scholar who started with articles, has been fighting between heaven and man, does he continue to safeguard the interests of his own class, or fight for the future of Datang? It wasn't until the last that he gritted his teeth and made a decision.

It's Lin Feng again! Everyone in the study was stunned.

"Your Majesty, please forgive Weichen for his delusions, Weichen agrees with Lord Lin and Lord Han's Lord Lord's thinking." Liao Jusu, the school secretary, took the lead in standing up and chose to stand on Lin Feng's side.

Because of Lin Feng's insight, Liao Jusu was able to participate in the debate competition, thus opening a new dawn in his career, and now he has been promoted from the school secretary on the ninth grade to the flattering man on the eighth grade, and he is naturally grateful to Lin Feng, and then the more he knows about Lin Feng, the more he admires Lin Feng. No, the Manchu people have long given answers and ideas to the problems that the Manchu people are arguing about. The key is that everyone is confined to traditional inherent thinking and dare not break through at all!

"The minister agrees!" Xiao Yan, Jiang Wenwei, and You Jianyan also stood up one after another to express their attitude.

In fact, from the strategic perspective of governing the country and leveling the world, all the changes proposed by Lin Feng are imperative and can be done by the Southern Tang Dynasty, the key is whether the rulers of the Southern Tang Dynasty dare to think, dare to do, and are willing to do it!

"Good!" Li Jing shook his head, shook off a trace of surprise and unhappiness in his mind, and commanded, "Please start with this, and immediately draw up two lord systems!" ”