Chapter 191: Reform of the Law
"Shiqi, it will be up to you to take the place of the main Bo."
Gao Cheng's understatement made Zhang Shiqi's heart turbulent.
He couldn't hide his excitement, and bowed his head in thanks:
"Servant, thank the general for his appreciation."
Zhang Shiqi does not have a prominent family background, if it were not for Gao Cheng's appreciation, he might be a humble official who does not deserve a name for the rest of his life.
He relied on his ability to flatter, and all the way to the present, wrote many words against his will, and finally became one of the top of the shogunate.
Gao Cheng encouraged:
"Get up, you need to work harder in the future."
Zhang Shiqi should take a bite:
"With the help of General Meng, how dare the servants not do their best."
The promotion of Zhang Shiqi to the head of the General's Mansion is just Gao Cheng's reward for his hard work for many years, but his own work still has to be on recording his words and deeds.
After all, it is more important to be able to cultivate an excellent historian for future generations, and it will depend on him to revise the history of Wei in the future.
After arranging the transfer of the shogunate's position, Gao Cheng and his cronies continued to discuss the reform of the official system in depth until it was about to get dark, and everyone left the Zhongshu Provincial Government.
Gao Cheng returned to the Bohai Mansion for dinner, and did not rush to enjoy the gentleness, but ordered someone to summon the seal.
In the third year of Taichang (534), Gao Cheng rectified corruption, gave the imperial history platform the power not to be convicted by words, and sealed as an imperial history, but was dismissed by Gao Cheng on the cusp and rushed to study the law.
Although there is no specific time agreement, it is exactly eight years since the sixth year of Taichang (537).
The eight-year period has come, and it's time to use me.
Gao Cheng has only been back in Luoyang for a long time, and when he learned that he was summoned by Low Cheng, he also understood my intentions, but now it is the same as in the past.
Eight years later, I stopped studying hard behind closed doors, and even disobeyed Low Cheng's original suggestion, and with my warrant, I went to various places to investigate and study, and I was not unattained in the law.
And at that point, when Low Cheng talked to me about the law again, he didn't understand it deeply.
Until his mouth was dry, taking advantage of the gap between calling the slave and maid to retreat to add tea, Low Cheng praised from the bottom of his heart:
"Junyi is willing to be silent for eight years, and now he is a blockbuster, and Cheng should be impressed."
"Back then, everyone in Yushitai, only Du Bi had the courage to do anything, and he was a person who had a vegetarian meal in the corpse position, but he had high hopes from the little general, how could he dare to slack off."
Gao Cheng didn't tell a lie, he lost his official position in the imperial history back then, and was forced to study the law by Low Cheng, which means deeply, I know it well, if it is not to be reused in the future, why bother arranging it, and specially gave a warrant to let me go back and forth to various government offices.
"The Little General's Mansion is now short of a Zhonglang, is he willing to give in to the righteousness of the king?"
Faced with the olive branch thrown by Low Cheng, Gao Cheng dared to hesitate:
"The little general values it, expresses his gratitude, and is willing to be driven by the little general to make a modest effort."
Hearing this, Low Cheng laughed loudly:
"Cheng Yu Junyi, no small use, Junyi should not understand, Xiao Wei's law is frequently changed, the people suffer deeply, Cheng wants to revise the new system, non-Junyi can accept this responsibility."
"I wish to show my talents and learn to help the little general."
Gao Cheng was indeed not mentally prepared for a long time, and Low Cheng asked me to learn the Fa, and I used it at this time.
Xiao Cheng Xiaoxi immediately gave Li Jiaxiao the post of Zhonglang in the General's Mansion, and I summoned the people I had met in the past eight years who were well versed in the law to revise the law.
As a modern person, Low Cheng knows the importance of not being able to follow, and the laws of the Northern Wei Dynasty have been revised four times before, but there are still many omissions.
Eight years later, Low Cheng found Gao Cheng, the future editor of the "Lin Toe Ge", to prepare for the future revision of the law.
Although the Northern Qi Dynasty died in history, the "Northern Qi Law" based on the "Lin Toe Ge" is the lowest achievement since the Han Dynasty, Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, and the Sui Dynasty's "Kaihuang Law" and the Tang Dynasty's "Tang Law Shuyi" were directly influenced by it.
It can't even be said that although the Northern Qi Dynasty died, Qi Fa did not die.
On the contrary, the "Northern Zhou Law" pursued by the loser Northern Zhou was abandoned by the Sui and Tang rulers.
Low Cheng has very little expectations for the new law, I think that without his own review, the new law, no matter how it is achieved, should be lower than "Lin Toe Ge".
In the future, the "Qi Law" must also be based on that law.
The servant man refilled tea for the two, and Low Cheng continued to exchange his views with Gao Cheng on the law.
The night was deep, and the low Cheng talked about it or not, so he left Gao Cheng in the Bohai Mansion and talked with me all night.
It wasn't until the early morning of the next day that Erzhu Ying'e brought someone to serve Low Cheng to wash up, and then put Gao Cheng back.
Gao Cheng left, Low Cheng was still resting, and I was full of energy, and I ordered someone to call Low Longzhi and talk to him again.
Low Longzhi heard what Low Cheng said, and before leaving, he hurriedly entered the palace to meet the Son of Heaven with his status as a servant, and asked Zhang Shiqi to meet him.
That kind of thing of bullying the king, Low Longzhi is too familiar, it is deception, it is bullying.
When the low emperor heard that the old habitual criminal who bullied the Son of Heaven had entered the palace, he hurried over, and saw my posture of threatening the Son of Heaven vaguely.
On the spot, he asked:
"He asked you a question, brother, my father still respects the Son of Heaven, how did he ever teach me to act like this."
Seeing that the low emperor was coming, he stayed for a long time, and only threw one sentence:
"What the minister said, please think about it, don't make the little general happy."
In front of the low emperor's shouting and scolding, he walked away.
As for the low emperor, I asked me to tell low Cheng to pay tribute to the Son of Heaven, and I forgot about it as soon as I left the palace.
On August 14 of the eighth year of Taichang (537), he negotiated with a group of cronies on the reform of the official system, and said in 10,000 words, bitterly Chen Yuanwei's accumulation of shortcomings, and asked the Son of Heaven to allow the reform of the law.
That was the first letter that Zhang Shiqi could receive since Low Cheng served as the middle secretary, and the rest was intercepted by the Great Low King under Lao Jun.
But Li Jiaqing had joy in her heart, and even thought of the humiliation she was about to suffer, and faintly felt a little sad and angry.
The low emperor comforted him on the side, and as he spoke, he couldn't hold back his tears.
"Don't worry about it before the emperor, hurt the brother-sister relationship, it's just a little humiliation, I can still bear it."
Zhang Shiqi, who will turn seventeen, held the hand in front of the low emperor and said movingly.
People are not grass and trees, who can be affectionate, and the maintenance of himself before the low emperor in those years, Zhang Shiqi looked out of his eyes.
For you, it has long been an end of vigilance and use, and you have already moved your true feelings.
Full of wishes, Zhang Shiqi still set a court meeting tomorrow to discuss the changes played by Low Cheng.
As Low Longzhi said, it is to make the little general happy.
Low Cheng is not the heaven of Luoyang, but I, Zhang Shiqi, am only the son of heaven.
On August 14, the court was opened.
Low Cheng talked freely about the benefits of law change and innovation in His Royal Highness, and all the ministers obeyed.
Zhang Shiqi, the Son of Heaven, hesitated, thinking that the method of the ancestors was changeable, and hoped that Low Cheng could consider it again.
This statement was also recognized by the young ministers, including Shangshu's right servant, Xiao Longzhi and other young ministers.
When Low Cheng heard this, under the small hall, he fought with his ministers, and before an impassioned tirade, Low Cheng concluded:
"The change of the sky is enough fear, the words of people are full of compassion, and the law of the ancestors is enough to guard! If there is no change in the law and reform, there is a weak country, and the ministers ask His Majesty to observe it. ”
The ministers present, including Low Longzhi, who weakly praised the change, were all impressed by Low Cheng, and changed their positions one after another, asking Zhang Shiqi for permission for Low Cheng to preside over the change.
Li Jiaqing also pushed the boat down the river, and went through the performance that tortured me.
Before the court meeting, Low Cheng's heroic posture in the Mingguang Hall and the ministers was also praised by a secret agency that was willing to reveal its name.
According to the research of the previous life, thousands of years ago, when no scholar surnamed Luo wrote a historical romance, he used the story of Low Cheng and regressed from the historical figures in his pen.
Of course, those are all in the past, and Low Cheng was ordered to preside over the reform of the law as a small general, of course, he can just shout slogans.
With Sun Teng's entry into Luoyang, Duan Rong passed through the Tiger Prison and was personally sent by Duan Shao to recuperate, and the order for Low Huan to recruit Li Yuanzhong to serve in Jinyang finally arrived.
Before discussing with Duan Rong, Sun Teng and others, Low Cheng adjusted everyone's positions one by one, Duan Rong was transferred to Zhongshu Ling, and Sun Teng was transferred to Shangshu Zuo.
As the only two remaining servants, Low Cheng was in Zhongshu Province, and Low Long was in Shangshu Province, and the new Huangmen squire Cui Ang was able to manage Menshang Province on his behalf.
And the Yushitai led by Du Bi has long been ordered by Low Cheng to crack down on corruption, and several court officials have fallen because of this, and the old but promising people have rarely been persuaded to enter.
When the position became vacant, Low Cheng also ended my reform of the law, and the first thing he touched was not the official system.
On August 78, the low Cheng played, please abolish the eight-high queen system, and preside over the central operation with eight provinces and eight ministries.
A small amount of the temple was abolished, and the government and the opposition were in an uproar.
Although the Empress Bagao has lost her real power, but since the Qin and Han dynasties, after nearly 400 years, it can be regarded as deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
It was an uproar, but it didn't stir up too little wind and waves.
After all, Low Cheng also prepared vacancies for the officials who had been abolished from the temple, and Cui Xian, the servant of the Ministry of Officials, was busy during that time, and the examination of Gong Cao, which I was in charge of, was even transferred for several days, in order to be able to arrange the right people in the right positions.
Low Cheng's move slightly reduced the number of officials in the central court, and ineffectively improved the atmosphere of people being superficial.
In the past, Low Cheng cracked down on officials who neglected government, but in the Eight High Queen System, the small and big officials in the treasury of each prefecture also did things because they had no real power, and that group escaped this governance movement.
The eight-high queen system that has survived for 400 years has been abolished by Low Cheng, and the established eight-province and eight-ministry system has not escaped the fate of the passive knife.
Low Cheng first clarified the functions and powers of the eight provinces, and ended the retrogression and integration of the eight departments under Shangshu Province.
The old names such as the abolition of the degree branch were named after the eight ministries of officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers, and the functions and powers of each ministry were also redistributed according to their names.
And the original eight departments and eighty-eight Caos also took a step back and reduced them to eight departments and seventy-seven divisions.
Take the most valuable ministry among the eight departments as an example, the ministry before the integration was streamlined from the eight cao who did not take the examination to the seven divisions of merit, anthology, seal inspection, and honor.
The establishment of the Anthology Division also shows that another idea of Low Cheng is about to be implemented: the imperial examination.
The plan to reform the official system is to avoid the part of the four-product Zhongzheng system.
There is also a chapter in the evening, which should be before twelve o'clock.
(End of chapter)