Chapter 277: What is the Truth
Wei Zheng reported everything he thought of to Emperor Li Shimin, and then left to leave time and space to the emperor.
Wei Zheng felt that he had fulfilled his obligations as a courtier, and as for running to Fan Jingjing's house and telling Fan Jingjing something about five four or three, Wei Zheng didn't do it.
Because she has a daughter in the Fan Family School, she can't discredit her daughter and make it difficult for her daughter.
So the next thing, since Emperor Li Shimin noticed it, naturally Emperor Li Shimin will take the lead, he has so many people under him, what are he doing? Nothing to do.
Rushing to the front and doing everything next will offend many people.
Everyone wants to make meritorious contributions.
Wei Zheng is very clear about his position, and his main task is to be a paparazzi and inform Emperor Li Shimin of the matter.
He continued to be a laid-back official with his cannon.
From time to time, if you find something to fire a cannon and care about the country's major affairs, so that the way the court does things will not deviate, you will be very worthy of the salary and the people.
Even if printing was indeed very shocking, it also brought Emperor Li Shimin a lot of new ideas, but after all, it was not an emergency, and he still had many things on his hands that had to be dealt with immediately.
At least after reading and closing can you let your subordinates do things.
Otherwise, if it is delayed, many people will starve to death, or die of tricks.
The emperor's office will affect the fate of many people, sometimes a moment earlier, a moment later for a person, life has different changes.
Emperor Li Shimin, although no one has the consciousness of starvation, but he is determined to be the greatest emperor in the world, what should the emperor do?
There are many people in the past who have demonstrated, so he knows that the so-called good emperor must be diligent in government, and find out the following twists and turns, crack them, and carefully see what impact this matter will have, every policy will involve the interests of many people, so someone will promote it.
What are the consequences, some of the effects, maybe ten years and a hundred years later, will lead to very bad consequences, but the first ten years are good, and then we must consider whether we should use this method.
When the policy deteriorates, do people have the courage to stop?
After being the emperor for a long time, Li Shimin has long understood that nothing is eternal, and many benefits are often temporary.
If you want more benefits, you have to change the approach in front of you.
Often, when it comes time to change, it is already intertwined, and it is very difficult to cut off all the root systems.
The black fish in the pond is difficult to eradicate, which makes all fish farmers feel hated.
By the time the emperor had finished dealing with all the urgent matters at hand, it was dusk, even if he was originally a general who fought on horseback and had been an emperor for a few years, his physical condition was getting worse and worse.
Many people like to sit in the office, and the emperor's work is glued to his chair almost every day, but this chair is occasionally changed.
In any case, the chair on which the emperor sits is a dragon chair.
"The emperor has worked hard, and the concubine will help you boil a bowl of sweet soup to relieve your fatigue."
Empress Changsun will boil a bowl of soup in the evening to show off her sense of existence, because the evening is not necessarily her time, between husband and wife, because of the nature of the emperor's work and the relationship between too many concubines, Yu has a very abnormal life.
Even if she loves Emperor Li Shimin very much, she may not have no resentment in her heart.
The relationship between the emperor and the empress was more like a job most of the time.
It's just that Li Shimin has a different kind of care for the eldest grandson.
For him, Empress Changsun can carry his soul, so he still takes care of Empress Changsun, it is not bedtime at night, and he is more happy that Empress Changsun is by his side.
As for bedtime at night, he prefers to taste some fresh new textures.
What men love most is beauty and money, as well as power.
For the emperor, he has already obtained these things, but after getting them, it does not mean that he can keep them all the time if he lies down.
The Tang Dynasty has just been established, and there are still rebellions in many places, which must be constantly cleaned up, so that people dare not doubt the authenticity of the Tang Dynasty, and their family as emperors can rest assured until they bring down the dynasty again.
For the emperor, in fact, Li Shimin also found that every dynasty fell, and there seemed to be a certain fixed law.
It's not entirely the impact of the outside ethnic groups on the Han nation.
There seems to be a law in the demise of dynasties, and for him, he really wants to find out this law and solve it to cause this law.
It seems that the existence of some big families determines the survival of the dynasty.
You can't rule this great empire without help, but once the status of some big families is secured, the impact on the country is also very far-reaching.
In fact, every dynasty in later generations has some summaries of all the previous ways of extinction, and the way of the Tang Dynasty has long been summarized, in fact, there is no certain law, but the people in power of the family, after having greater power, are one of the roots of the demise of the dynasty.
There is also the existence of feudal taxes, which cause great suffering to the common people.
But no one will tell Tang Li Shimin, and she won't believe it.
Fan Jingjing also knows that if the country dies again in the era of science and technology, it must be caused by different reasons.
It's just that she didn't have a chance to witness it.
Because she's already crossed.
"Does the queen know what Wei Zheng brought over?"
"Did Wei Zheng come to you? Isn't there anything fussy about it? In the past, when he was picked on by Wei Zheng, the emperor would be angry, although he would not say it in front of Wei Zheng, but in front of the concubine, His Majesty was not polite. ”
Empress Eldest Sun covered her mouth to reveal the attitude of her youngest daughter, and smiled.
She knew that Emperor Li Shimin actually missed the past very much, so she hoped that the two of them could get along more comfortably.
But once the emperor is at ease, the people around the emperor can't be at ease, and they must measure the emperor's mood and cooperate, otherwise it will affect the emperor's mood.
Even if this person is the eldest grandson empress, it is the same.
Fortunately, Empress Changsun is a powerful queen, she is unhappy, and there are countless people in the harem who can make her angry.
Those who dared to trouble her had already been sent to the crematorium for cremation.
If you want to be buried, you can't go with the wind.
As for the mass graves where corpses flew outside the city. Under Fan Jingjing's persuasion, it has been completely dealt with, and there is no way to casually throw the corpse on it, because this is the source of malaria.
Cremation is now the mainstream of corpse disposal near Chang'an.
If you don't want cremation, no one will prohibit you if you want to bury it, the most important thing is that your family must have land that can be buried, and this land cannot be developed into cultivated land in a short period of time, after all, the crops that are cultivated are eating the corpses of your ancestors, and you can't eat them, right?
You can't just just take a hillside and bury your family's corpse in it, leaving the land for a new developer.
Due to Ji Yulan's development, many people have a new interest in land reclamation.
In their eyes, the beast didn't seem to be bothering the people of the Fan family's manor.
Fan Jingjing told Empress Changsun a lot about the concept of ownership, and such a thing was actually told by Empress Changsun to Emperor Li Shimin.
"We mentioned before whether to give Fan Jingjing an actual position and let her do it.
She was able to put forward too many new ideas, which were more practical than the officials of the imperial court.
And the impact on the people is even more far-reaching, others are operational, after all, they don't have Fan Jingjing's ability. ”
Empress Changsun rolled her eyes at Emperor Li Shimin, and to the emperor, she must avoid suspicion and not let the emperor think that she wants to take power.
"The concubine has mentioned before that women can't interfere with the court, it should be a man's world, if a woman is mixed in, a lot of right and wrong may happen.
Those things are often difficult to deal with, after all, personal morality is involved. ”
"But we didn't let Fan Jingjing be an official, and we felt that we had lost a lot. Fan Jingjing is a woman, it's a pity. ”
"Otherwise, let her specialize in managing farming, and find ways to make farming more efficient and methodical."
"Well, if she is an official, at most she can be a farmer or a land-related official, right? He doesn't seem to have a very good way to manage ordinary people. The emperor obviously didn't want to continue, so he continued: "Wei Zheng brought a book, which was not copied by hand, but printed on a wooden board. This is another initiative of the Fan family manor. ”
After Li Shimin finished speaking, he looked for it on the table, and handed the Analects brought by Wei Zheng to Empress Changsun to see.
Empress Changsun is a talented woman, and reading some words is not a big problem.
Empress Eldest Sun opened the book and saw that she had the same problem as Li Shimin in her heart, but she knew that Li Shimin did not have this kind of leisure and would joke with her, so she waited for Li Shimin to continue to explain to her.
"It's not handwritten, you can see that the same word, almost identical. This is the book printed.,Wei Zheng said it's similar to us stamping the seal.,But so many words don't know how many stamps to use.,It's also very labor-intensive to make the seal smooth.。 ”
Empress Changsun's eyes became as bright as Li Shimin's at the same time, although she would not participate in Li Shimin's government management, she would more or less care, and the world of the Tang Dynasty was the world of the Li family to Li Shimin.
But for the eldest grandson, it is also the world of her children.
As the mother of the country, there is no way not to care about the affairs of the world, as long as Datang can go further. As the mother of the nation, I am happy.
What's more, she often goes to the countryside as a result. Although she saw that it was a wealthy Fanjia Town, when she went out, Empress Changsun didn't want her eyes to be covered by others.
They would also send people out to the nearby villages to inquire and ask the people in the village to tell them what they thought of the Banjia Manor.
Listen to the news they have returned, and if you are interested, you will visit in person.
Empress Eldest Sun is also to prevent people who go to investigate, stealing chickens and dogs or receiving some benefits, and what she said when she came back to report it was not the truth, but she made it up casually.
Since Empress Changsun went out of the city to make an actual visit, few of the people she sent out dared to mess around.
If you bully the little people and are rumored to be known by the Empress Changsun, then the Empress Changsun will be angry for the little people and make jokes about her neck, it will not be good.
It is also because of the existence of Fan Jingjing that Empress Changsun will begin to visit the people, in the past, they all hid in the palace to absorb the information of the outside visit, and rarely had the opportunity to visit in person.
But because of Fan Jingjing's existence. Emperor Li Shimin and Empress Changsun will be unconscious, feeling that they should supervise Fan Jingjing more, and they should not startle the snake.
There are more opportunities to get out of the palace.
They will go out of the palace to the Fan family manor to have a look, including going to the playground of the Fan family manor to see what new things Fan Jingjing has gotten.
Walking out of the palace, although Chang'an is the most prosperous place, all emperors or rulers can realize in their hearts that Chang'an is the first good area, if the people next to it are not able to live a good life, so far away, where they can't see, the people don't want to live a good life.
Sometimes, they even receive letters of accusation from local officials, explaining how the local people are being oppressed, although they think that nine times out of ten, it may be a false report, and most of the information reported in the document is true.
Emperors generally don't ask things to think in bad places, if they think things in bad places, do you want to live in that day?
The talents of the hundred officials of the imperial court cannot be relied on, at least the officials in front of him do not dare to procrastinate, and they will complete what he says.
There is a big difference between the emperor being able to see it with his own eyes and the emperor not being able to see it with his own eyes.
Only by seeing with one's own eyes can we observe the suffering of the people from a subtle place, and in this era, there is no one who does not suffer, and those who suffer live in Chang'an City, and they are all spread in front of the emperor's eyes, if they are regarded as ordinary people, then the emperor will make a big mistake.
The emperor used to be a person who could leave the palace, and if he was locked up in the palace, he thought that the people of the world would be able to live a good life, it would be too arrogant.
However, the hundred officials liked to lock the emperor in the palace and prevent the emperor from going around.
What they said is also very reasonable, if the emperor changes from time to time, it is not good for the normal order of the imperial court, so the emperor must ensure safety, and every time the emperor goes out, he must bring a lot of horses, which is also a waste of money and labor.
Without taking these people out of the house, there is no way to protect the danger of the emperor himself.
You must know that some of the money spent on going out was paid by the emperor himself, and most of it was provided by the local people.
If the emperor doesn't go out of the money, they don't have to spend it, and once the emperor wants to go out, where the emperor passes, the people must support the emperor.
And these money are their expenses other than taxes, and the people who pay taxes are ordinary people, and most of the people who spend on the emperor's parade are local gentry, and the people only need to contribute manpower.
That is to say, the group of people who paid the money from the imperial court, although they could get some benefits when they came into contact with the emperor, but the emperor really couldn't take care of so many people.