Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1256 Benefits
The autumn rain is continuous and the sky is getting cooler.

In the Hall of Yisui, Luo Cheng looked at the report sent by the Secretary of the Imperial City, "Ma Zhou, the new official, took office three times, and the fire was still very strong. When he arrived at Hengshan, the first fire that was burned was to wipe out the fire. More than 3000 Hengshan bandits dug up the giant columnworm in Hengshan County. Immediately after the second fire, the whole county suppressed bandits, 37 bandits, large and small, and captured more than [-] surrendered thieves. The third fire demolished Hengshan County There are more than one thousand temples, and the Buddhist temples and Taoist temples in the whole county have been cleaned up and rectified, and there are more than five thousand monks and Taoists.

Censor Zhongcheng Sun Wuji smiled and said to his brother-in-law, "Young man, you are full of blood."

"Ma Zhou is older than you." Luo Cheng laughed.

Changsun Wuji laughed, now that his official position is getting higher and higher, although he has not yet paid homage to the prime minister, he has officially entered the imperial meeting of the Xuanzheng Palace, living in a high place, sometimes his momentum has changed, it seems that he has matured even with his age.

"Daqin needs some promising officials like you, Ma Zhou and you, who dare to fight and fight hard." Luo Cheng closed the memorial, expressing his satisfaction with the fires of Ma Zhou and Li Gang in Hengshan County.

Daqin has no shortage of smart officials, but what is needed most is Ma Zhou and others who do practical things. Like Feng Deyi, they are smart but they are too smart. Thinking about the pros and cons, thinking about how to climb up, this kind of official is not a good official, Luo Cheng will use it when no one is using it, but once there is a more loyal and capable official, he will definitely be kicked aside.

"Wuji, recently when I read a book, I often think about a sentence, think twice."

Changsun Wuji was stunned for a moment, thinking twice, thinking about danger, thinking about retreating and thinking about change, what does the emperor mean by this.

"I once heard a report from the Imperial City Secretary that Feng Deyi told his sons to think twice about this, saying that when you are an official, you should think twice. If you know the danger, you should avoid it, which is called Siwei, and hide in a place where people don't pay attention to you. It’s called Si Tui. When you step back, look slowly and think slowly, think about what you did wrong in the past, and what you will do in the future. reveals his cunning nature."

"As the Son of Heaven, I should think twice."

Changsun Wuji asked, "The sage is the son of heaven. Now that the Great Qin Dynasty is so powerful, why do we have to think about danger, retreat and change? Isn't this the right time to go head-on?"

Luo Cheng smiled, "Navigating the sea depends on the helmsman. A great empire like Daqin is actually just a ship. I am the captain, and I am responsible for formulating the route. As for the specific operations, it is up to other people. Now the Chaozhong government There are ministers and assistants in the courtyard, all of whom are great talents, I am not worried about execution, nor about the present, but I am worried about the long-term."

After all, Luo Cheng believed that the founding emperor had a huge influence on an empire, and even determined how far the empire could go, the key was the system he formulated.

"The emperor of Zhou was feudal, and it has been in the world for 800 years. However, the feudal system also made the feudal princes finally sit big. The princes attacked and merged with each other, and finally destroyed Zhou. The reform was too fast, and after all, the second generation died. Han Liu Bang defeated Chu and won the world, and implemented a parallel system of feudal states and prefectures and counties. Different surnames were not allowed to be crowned kings. chaos."

"Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty adopted the system of enfeoffment and enfeoffment, which solved the threat of the Western Han vassal states. After that, the enfeoffment of the Western Han vassal states could no longer pose a threat to the central court. However, the Western Han court continued to centralize power. The powerful eunuchs, especially the imperial court’s investigation system, created a powerful gentry group, and the gentry group eventually formed powerful officials. The emperor could not use eunuchs to fight against the gentry group, and finally the Han Dynasty was forced to perish.”

It is said that history can be used as a mirror.

What Luo Cheng began to think about now was no longer the immediate thing, he began to think about the longer term, how far could his empire go, and how would it eventually perish?
He knew that he would live to be six or seventy years old at most, and his Great Qin might last two or three hundred years, but Luo Cheng didn't expect to live forever, but he still hoped that his empire could go a little further.

"At the end of the Han Dynasty and the Three Kingdoms, a hundred years of turmoil, the final unification of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and the emergence of the nine-rank Zhongzheng system, not only did not contain the interest groups generated by the Han Dynasty's procuratorial system, it even made it a further step to form a more powerful gentry family. And Jin's heavy push for enfeoffment eventually led to the Eight Kings' Rebellion."

"The gentry clan group formed by the Jiupin Zhongzheng System influenced the entire Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties."

"It wasn't until the emergence of the Guanlong military aristocratic group in the Western Wei Dynasty that they slightly suppressed the noble families."

Luo Cheng told his brother-in-law and grandson Wuji about these dynasties. The system of each dynasty is actually a repair of the system of the previous dynasty, but the result is that often the new system will create a new vested interest group.

The vassal state created by enfeoffment in the Zhou Dynasty, the feudal lords and gentry tyrants created by the enfeoffment system and inspections in the Han Dynasty, the powerful clans created by the nine-rank Zhongzheng in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, and the Guanlong military aristocratic group created by the soldiers of the Western Wei Dynasty.

"I often think, what kind of vested interest groups will be created by our Daqin system now! Wuji, tell me, what kind of interest groups will we create with the current system?"

Speaking of this, Luo Cheng is indeed full of worries.

Changsun Wuji had never really considered this issue from this angle before, but now he listened to the emperor's words and thought about it carefully.

What are the key points of Daqin's system?For example, the feudal system of princes?Whether there will be a situation where the princes of the Western Han Dynasty and the Western Jin Dynasty will cause chaos, he thinks it is unlikely. After all, the enfeoffment of this dynasty has imposed many restrictions early on. At that time, the feudal lands of the princes had to be entrusted to their descendants from generation to generation, so that the fiefdoms continued to shrink.In addition, although the imperial court allowed the feudal vassals to become vassal states, the military, civil, financial and taxation powers of the fiefdoms were all in the hands of the imperial court, and the feudal princes only had part of the economic and financial power in the fiefdoms.

It is impossible for the princes to threaten the court like the Western Han or Western Jin, and it is even more impossible to say that they would take a backlash like the Zhou Dynasty.

The enfeoffment system designed by the emperor, it can be said that although the imperial court will have a relatively large group of princes and nobles after several generations, the power of this noble group is limited, and it will not pose much threat to the centralization of the imperial court.

What other system will create what powerful interest groups?

He thought about it, is it the government military system, the recruitment system, or the imperial examination system?

"Wuji, you know everything and say everything, and there is no one else here, so just tell me what you think of, and just speak straight."

(End of this chapter)