After eating breakfast, I finally recovered some of my energy, after all, I didn't sleep all night, my body was a little stiff, I stood up and moved my limbs, and smiled at Li Zhi: "I said Xiaozhi, should you just rub my breakfast and go to my house so early in the morning." "After teaching this prince a lesson, I remembered that I hadn't asked this kid what he wanted to do in my house early in the morning?

Li Zhicai took a sip of tea, and immediately looked bitter when he heard my words: "I said Brother Jun, look at what you said, is Xiaozhi such a person who only takes advantage of others and harms others?" Today, Xiaozhi came, one, naturally I haven't seen my master for a long time, and I came to visit, and I just want to talk to my master, you have been gone for nearly a year, but a lot of new things have happened. Except for Shizun, Xiao Zhi felt that chatting with those people was too boring. One or two of them are spitting, and they can't look good, let alone talk about things. ”

"Oh? If there's anything new, tell me about it. I sat cross-legged opposite Li Zhi and asked curiously, it has been almost a year since I left Chang'an, and although I have received a few letters during this period of time, most of them are mutual greetings, and there is nothing in them at all.

Li Zhi's words also showed me that his attitude towards me was as usual, which really touched me a little, and it was really rare to get the sincere friendship and recognition of this prince.

Li Zhi was energetic at this time, and his eyebrows were fluttering: "At the beginning of this year, my father ordered Sun Fujia, the secretary of Dali Temple, and others to patrol the Quartet with six articles, and dethroned sixty-seven people from Shi County. ”

"Six-of-a-kind? What a thing. "I'm a little curious, although I've been in Datang for many years, we still haven't figured out some of these things, is it similar to the Shang Fang Sword in later generations? Li Zhi's two eyes suddenly appeared: "Brother Jun, you don't even know this?" ”

"Nonsense! Any idea what else I can ask you? Besides, it's hard for you to hear Confucius say: Know? Knowing is knowing, not knowing is not knowing, and knowing is knowing. "I also responded to Li Zhi's provocation with two giant white eyes. Li Zhi shook his head helplessly: "I said Brother Jun, you were still attacking Confucius there vigorously, why did you take his words in a blink of an eye?" ”

I smiled: "Xiaozhi, tell you, what is a person's character, that's his business, but we can't erase all his achievements, Confucius's moral character is flawed, but we can't ignore his shining points because of his flaws." Many of his statements are still very beneficial. Little comrade, you must be humble......" I said proudly patting Li Zhi on the shoulder.

Li Zhi, who --------------------------------------------------- with a black line on his face, could only lean over and admit defeat, and then explained to me in detail what the Six Articles are, which was a system created by the Han Dynasty to "ask questions about things" to inspect the locality, forming a model of insisting on having laws to follow.

"Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was sealed for five years, and the scope of the assassination history was examined, and six articles were specially enacted. Second, 2,000 stones do not obey the edict and obey the canonical system, turn their backs on the public and private, guard the profits, invade the fishing people, and gather for annihilation. 3. Two thousand stones are not sympathetic to suspicion and murder in the wind,...... The two thousand stone disciples were proud of their glory and asked for the prison; Sixth, 2,000 stone violates the public and is stronger, and the goods are bribed, and the order is cut. According to this basis, the evil is punished, so the saying 'ask things with articles' hehe, this is also an allusion that Xiaozhi only knew when the officials of Dali Temple were sent out to inspect the place. Li Zhi was also very white in front of me, but as soon as he said this, I noticed the meaning of the previous words and startled me a lot.

"You mean, the dozens of people in Dali Temple went to the Quartet for a walk, and there were sixty-seven people who deposed the county order of the assassination Shi so much?" I couldn't help but repeat it again, for fear that I heard it wrong, obediently, Dali Temple in the Tang Dynasty is too good, right?

Li Zhi nodded: "That's natural, but anyone who violates these six articles, once it is verified, will inevitably report to Shangshu Province, and then the three provinces and six ministries will agree to cut officials and remove them, but if they are at great fault, even if they are directly imprisoned, it is not too much ......"

Li Zhi's explanation made me understand that Datang has two sets of supervision and inspection systems, one has always been a regular inspection system, and the inspector regularly inspects the place and supervises the officials at the specified time. At the beginning of the year, the inspection is completed in the middle of the year, and the work is done in Beijing. The other is the irregular inspection system, which is temporarily selected by Uncle Li according to the needs of the situation, and the officials of the Dali Temple or the Yushitai are generally the officials who take the imperial inspection of the place, and return to the court to resume their duties after the fact, and the term of office is not long, and the inspection time is not fixed. This is a kind of patrol system at any time, directly reporting to the emperor, with a large flexible surname and sudden surname, it is easier to find some local problems.

I heard a thumbs up, Uncle Li's trick is also enough, two sets of people, each is not under the control, according to the inspection of the three provinces under the management, and the temporarily selected officials are directly responsible to the emperor, if there is a contradiction, naturally His Majesty the Emperor will ask, and then next, naturally will be strictly checked on the contradictions, which party is responsible, or degraded or deposed, no mercy.

"No wonder Your Majesty always says that there are not enough officials, it seems that this is the case." I finally understand why Uncle Li always says that there are not enough talents, just because this extremely strict system has considerable benefits for the production and life of the people, which is why the economy in the early Tang Dynasty was unprecedentedly developed, social stability, political clarity, the people were rich and healthy, and the reason for unprecedented prosperity was because of the lack of soil for corrupt officials and corrupt officials, but the appearance of this actor, the light, the degraded officials, the heavy ones were dismissed, and the more serious ones were directly thrown into prison and stayed, and there were regular and irregular inspections once a year. In addition, the two sets of teams are not under their own control, which puts an end to the possible surnames that collude with each other to breed [***] hotbeds.

But the only regret is that a considerable number of officials will lose their posts every year, however, I don't think this is a disadvantage of this system, but a good set of incentive mechanisms, it is precisely because of the dismissal of officials that people with real virtue can be able to take office.

Well, this is the highest state of legal feudal society, if this system can be maintained like this, if the Tang Emperor is not because of his own reasons, well, if there are a lot, the consequences are also very serious, but I have an idea, that is, I hope that when Uncle Li is alive, he can establish and build all kinds of good systems, so that they can be implemented and carried out to the end, then it is not impossible for the Tang Dynasty to be forever and prosperous.

Just when I was crooked, Li Zhi said again: "Speaking of this, I still think of a major event, that is, the old master Confucius, this year, the son has been very sad. Li Zhi's expression looked a little schadenfreude.

"What's wrong? Did the old guy mess with you? Look at you like you're happy to marry another daughter-in-law. I glanced at Li Zhi, and I couldn't get used to his expression.

--------------------------------------------------- Li Zhi hurriedly explained: "How can there be, Brother Jun, isn't this the old man who used me to pick thorns all the time a few years ago?" Hmph, my eldest brother is also his student, and the fourth brother is also his student, but what's wrong with him, what do the two of them do, he only picks up the good ones and says, but what about my turn? In front of my father, he sued me a lot, little brother, I can bear it, I can't even say a cool word, besides, then I became the prince, he went to my father several times, and wanted to be my teacher, but fortunately my father refused. Nowadays, the gate lord of the Tang Dynasty, everyone looks at him unpleasantly, and the impeachment is continuous, fortunately, my father can resist, otherwise, this old man would have returned to Qufu to retire. ”

"Oh, then this shows that your father's imperial examination reform has already been raised?" I hurriedly asked, the reform of the imperial examination system, my son has been mixed with a lot, and seeing that the results are about to be released, I naturally want to ask. "Of course, this year's autumn test, there was such a fuss, but it's okay, there is no big mess, the poor scholars for these reforms, let alone let him raise his hands in favor, even if they let them lift all their hands and feet.

Li Zhi was about to continue, but unexpectedly, a person walked in outside the door, and when he turned around, it turned out to be my mother-in-law's lamb arrived. "Why are you up?" I quickly stood up and reached out to hug Li Shu with concern.

"The concubine couldn't see her husband, so she naturally couldn't sleep well, so she asked someone, only to know that the young slave was here again, and the younger brother came to visit the house. Li Shu enjoyed my thoughtfulness, looked back at me and smiled coquettishly, and then said gently.

"I've seen the seventeenth sister, and the younger brother has only been here for a long time." Li Zhi hurriedly saluted this sister he couldn't provoke, Li Shu didn't seem to have enough sleep, his whole body was weak, and he yawned a lot when he spoke. I had no choice but to persuade Li Shuwen: "Sister Shu, you better go back and rest, and talk to Xiaozhi casually for your husband here." ”

"In that case, young slave, you can talk to your brother-in-law slowly, my sister is still sleepy this time, go back to the house and lie down first, Wan'er, it's almost noon, you let the kitchen cook some good dishes, so that these two brothers don't go hungry." After Li Shu finished giving the order, he wanted to get up and leave. Li Zhi hurriedly said: "Sister, don't stir-fry the whole food, the hot pot will be ready, during this time, I am tired of eating the stir-fry all the time." ”

Li Zhi's words made me stunned: "I said Xiaozhi, shouldn't you drill into my house all day long and make a special trip to eat?" I subconsciously touched the teacup on the desk, thinking about whether I should give this guy such a brain, this wall-grass level prince is also a little shameless.

(To be continued)