Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

Chapter 442 Uninvited guests from Panyu

Years later, there are many things to deal with.

Before the Lantern Festival, Shi Congyun got busy.

The follow-up processing and resettlement of the Southern Han Dynasty, the division and design of administrative divisions, the arrangement of a large number of personnel and personnel, the change and implementation of policies, and the change and popularization of laws.

In addition, with the use of these years, the "Da Qin Xing Tong" inherited from the "Da Zhou Xing Tong" has many unreasonable points, while the "Da Zhou Xing Tong" used in the previous and later Zhou Dynasty is based on the laws of the Tang Dynasty. Many of them are directly copied.

But obviously times have changed, and now more than 50 years have passed since the end of the Tang Dynasty in theory, but that is only in theory.

In fact, from the mid-to-late Tang Dynasty, the warlords were divided into separate regimes. The imperial power did not come down to the counties, and the warlords ruled all directions. The judicial system dominated by civilian officials in the early and mid-Tang Dynasty completely turned into a private punishment system dominated by local warlords. Martial arts can formulate local laws at will. , the consequences would be inhumane and lifeless.

If we count from the time when the judiciary collapsed in the Tang Dynasty, it has been almost 200 years. The times have changed and the situation has changed. It is not appropriate to transfer many laws of the Tang Dynasty.

In particular, the laws on the imperial examination are completely inapplicable to the present.

Although there were imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty, the imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty were like a decoration, to comfort ordinary people, because the proportion of candidates in the imperial examinations in the Tang Dynasty was very low, and they were not vague.

Candidates in the Song Dynasty and after that had a lot of tricks to cheat, but there was a prerequisite for their cheating, that is, the exam was really strict, and they were forced to take risks and do some small tricks.

The Tang Dynasty did not use cheating, because the cheating in the Tang Dynasty was not in the examination room, and it was taken care of long before the examination room.

In the simplest comparison, there were very few civilian prime ministers up to the prime minister level in the Tang Dynasty, but there were many civilian prime ministers or high-ranking officials in the Song Dynasty.

This is also an important reason why the glory of the Tang Dynasty was very short. From the founding of the country to the Anshi Rebellion, and then a rapid decline, the warlords only had a separatist regime for more than 130 years.

It is also one of the important reasons for the chaos in the middle and late Tang Dynasty. The lack of ascending channels at the bottom level led to land mergers and the aristocratic family grew too fast.

Land mergers and resource monopoly have occurred in all dynasties. Just like the Matthew effect, the strong get stronger and the weak get weaker.

If the lower ranks are not forced to rise, land annexation and monopoly will accelerate sharply. The Han Dynasty inherited and improved the military merit system from the Qin Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty had a large number of recruits to ensure a fair imperial examination system. More like the excesses of it.

Its military merit system is not the only way to ascend like the Han Dynasty, nor is it very strict in rewards and punishments like the Han Dynasty and Qin Dynasty. Alright, if a general loses a battle, he will be punished with a capital offense if he does not die.

It has imperial examinations, but more of them are just a decoration. The unambiguous examinations are basically monopolized by the powerful and nobles. More than [-]% of the official arrangements are based on connections, and only a small part is based on the imperial examinations. The imperial examinations are not fair.

As a result, during the Anshi Rebellion, those who followed An Lushan to rebel were not only foreigners, but all-encompassing, Khitan people, Xi people, Turkic people, Shatuo people, etc., and there were also many Han people.

Because of land mergers, serious resource monopoly, and no upward channels at the bottom, then they can only follow the rebellion.

Later, the Northern Song Dynasty learned the lessons of the Tang Dynasty’s demise to a large extent. First, it tried its best to restrain the military generals. The second was to attach great importance to the imperial examinations and prepare a large number of upward channels for the bottom. In addition to the obscurity of the exams, it attaches great importance to it. Zhao Kuangyin even specifically stipulated that , if the children of poor families pass the exam, they will be in high school, but if the children of officials pass the exam, they will have to pass the palace examination to see if they have real talents and learning, and if they have a relationship and go through the back door.

It's just that things have two sides, and the Song Dynasty's reflection on the Tang Dynasty also had some overkill.

For example, a large number of low-level officials were selected through the imperial examinations, which greatly opened up the promotion channels. It did give ordinary students more opportunities, but it also made the bureaucratic system of the Song Dynasty very complicated and redundant. burden, even when faced with the invasion of foreign enemies, they shirk and argue and respond slowly.

As Wang Fuzhi of the Qing Dynasty said, the failure of several foreign wars in the Northern Song Dynasty was not due to military strength, but to personnel and logistics.

So Emperor Shi was also thinking.

It is not feasible to continue to use the laws of the Tang Dynasty. History has proved its disadvantages, and times have changed, and Daqin also needs new laws.

The imperial examination must be taken seriously, and it must be taken as seriously as Zhao Kuangyin. This must be reflected in the law. Regarding the imperial examination fraud, the charges of seeking personal gain must be stricter, and the imperial examination process must also be optimized.

At the same time, in order not to overcorrect as in the Northern Song Dynasty, he must find a balance point, otherwise a large number of officials selected will become redundant officials after a few years, greatly reducing the administrative efficiency of the country.

Martial arts should also be paid attention to, and his newly established "gongju", which is presided over by the secret department to select craftsmen, should also be tried to advance simultaneously.

In addition, many areas that need to be improved over the past few years need to be changed.

Emperor Shi attached great importance to the revision of the new "Da Qin Xing Tong".

He made a decision without haste, and asked Dou Yi to discuss it.

On the nineteenth day of the first lunar month, after the Lantern Festival, the results of the joint trial of the three divisions were revised after several discussions, and finally finalized. The official notice has been posted, listing their crimes, and at the same time issued an order to announce it to the world.

In the Southern Han Dynasty, 360 seven eunuchs including Li Tuo and Xue Chongyu, 83 court ladies including Lu Qiongxian, and [-] witches and wizards including Fan Huzi were executed.

By the end of the first lunar month, nearly 500 people had been beheaded, blood flowed into rivers, and many people were terrified.

It is indeed too bloody and terrifying for those who have never been on the battlefield.

As for Liu Yan, because he is the lord of the country, he was not taken to the street to beheaded, but he was given the last decency by giving him poisoned wine and making him commit suicide by taking poison.

However, Liu Yu broke down and cried when he found out. The officials of Yushitai and the imperial guards from the east and west classes arrived and refused to die. In the end, they were forced into it by the soldiers of the imperial guards, and finally died of poison.

During Liu Yu's reign, he liked poisoning ministers the most, watching them die in pain, but he did not expect that at the end of his life, he would experience it himself.

After dealing with these, at the beginning of February, Shi Congyun announced that he would revise the imperial edict of "Great Zhou Xingtong", and at the same time, all officials in the world could submit letters to make comments.

The appointment to revise the law is dominated by the newly promoted Yushi Zhongcheng Dou Yi.

And temporarily set up an office next to the Longevity Hall, let Dou Yi lead the Minister of Dali Temple, and the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment will revise it here.

The Long Live Hall is the emperor's bedroom. It was announced in front of the civil and military officials of the great dynasty, and they were asked to amend the law next to the bedroom, which shows that the emperor attaches great importance to it.

On the one hand, it also allowed officials to speak up and give opinions in order to show off in front of the emperor.

Soon, the time came to the fourteenth day of February, and Pan Mei came to make a memorial.

On the one hand, it is said that Panyu has been completely controlled, the decree has been implemented, and the entire territory of the Southern Han Dynasty has settled down.

There were two small-scale rebellions in the lower reaches of the Guijiang River before, and troops were sent to suppress them, killing 120 or six rebels. Now the entire Southern Han Dynasty is peaceful, and [-]% of the officials sent by the imperial court have already arrived at their posts.

However, his report on another matter caught Shi Congyun's attention.

Pan Mei said that when Liu Renshan led the naval forces to blockade the seaports and ports, they intercepted a fleet of ships. The people on them were different from those from the Central Plains. There were six large ships with 240 crew members, and they were different in style from their ships. The sails were tall and slender. pointed bottom.They could not speak Chinese clearly, and after being translated by local officials in Panyu, they claimed to be businessmen who had traveled thousands of miles from the west coast to do business, and asked Shi Congyun how to deal with it.

Shi Congyun froze for a moment, and suddenly thought of something in his mind.
(End of this chapter)