Chapter 21 Summer insects cannot speak of ice

The moment Chen Ying heard this name, he thought of Kong Yingda, one of the eighteen bachelors of the Qin Palace. This old master was extremely powerful, and he was citing classics and sarcastic, pointing at Chen Ying's nose and cursing: "Little man..."

Chen Ying smiled faintly, and his face was always filled with such an expression.

Li Jiancheng nodded in approval and thought to himself that Chen Ying was well-educated and had a very cunning life.

However, Chen Ying couldn't understand what Kong Yingda meant at all.

If Li Jiancheng knew that Chen Ying was the reason, he would probably be shocked.

People in this era, whether they argue or discuss, even if they have political disagreements, they are not cursing by names like shrews. However, Kong Yingda was really a waste of his expression because Chen Ying didn't understand a lot of the meaning.

The ministers understood, but they couldn't say anything in front of Li Yuan.

Li Jiancheng was very anxious. Could Kong Yingda's attack on Chen Ying be a signal of Li Yuan?

Sure enough, Li Yuan looked unsuspecting. Kong Yingda became more and more excited as he spoke. After a long and long discussion, Kong Yingda sighed with heartache: "The prince-consum Chen is wrong. He said that he was good at using virtue and politeness to qualify him. This is the foundation of governance. Abandoning morality is like a worn-out shoe. It is impossible to achieve peace, let alone peace?"

"It is not the best way to make a move and say profit. You can be careful when walking on frost and ice." The Guanglu Dafu, who was under the Secretariat of the Central Secretariat, bowed and said, "The old minister followed Dr. Kong!"

"A gentleman is used to be righteous, and a villain is used to be profit. Wherever Your Majesty's edict is sent, there is no way to follow the scenery. The scholars in the world return to their hearts and sincerely accept His Majesty. Is it just to eat the wealth of the Tang Dynasty?" Chen Shuda also swears: "They came with loyalty to the court, for righteousness..."

"If it is beneficial to the country, why should we cherish the reputation behind us!" said Pei Ji, the Secretary of Shangshu Zuo Pushe.

Chen Ying finally figured it out. Even if he was slow, he knew that these ministers were targeting him. Of course, what Chen Ying didn't know was that because Chen Ying came, the status of craftsmen was raised too high. In the eyes of these ministers, scholars were the heads of the four peoples, and scholars were the heads of the four peoples. The peasants, industry and businessmen should not be rude to the scholars. Unruly means that there is no scholar in their hearts.

But what about Chen Ying? He not only gave the lowly craftsmen the name of everyone and respected everyone. This is to make absolute achievements on the one hand, so that he can be called a great person.

Zheng Xuan is good at the scriptures and is called the master of classics.

A blacksmith, called everyone, would be unable to see it.

All the ministers criticized Chen Ying one after another. Li Jiancheng wanted to rescue Chen Ying several times, but Li Yuan stopped him with his eyes. However, this scene fell into the eyes of all the ministers. All the ministers thought that Li Yuan was agreeing with Kong Yingda's proposal, so he aimed at Chen Ying's artillery fire, which became even more fierce.

Kong Yingda continued: "Your Majesty made things happen and finally saw a little hope for a peaceful and prosperous era. If everyone pursues profit and does not know loyalty and trustworthiness, this is the great misfortune of the country. The old minister asks for the order, and asks Your Majesty to make a decision!"

Kong Yingda's ability to make a big hat is really not a big deal. From a small thing, it stretched to the great righteousness of the country, and then turned the blame to Li Yuan.

Even if Chen Ying was slow to react, he knew that he could never let Kong Yingda continue to talk.

Chen Ying retorted: "If we use what Dr. Kong said, to discuss the Tao and preach the scriptures, and when the Turkic army breaks through the pass, can scholars recite scriptures and retreat to the enemy?"

Hearing Chen Ying's words, Li Jiancheng almost burst out laughing.

Isn’t it that when reciting scriptures to resist the enemy, I’m just asking them to learn alchemist and sprinkle beans to become soldiers?

Kong Yingda was about to refute, but heard Chen Ying give him the opportunity to speak out and said directly: "Shi Gong Tai said: "If the granaries are full, you know etiquette; if the food and clothing are enough, you know honor and disgrace. Etiquette is born from existence and abandoned from non-existence. Therefore, a gentleman is rich and likes to perform his virtue; a villain is rich to adapt to his strength. Fish are deep in the abyss, and fish are deep in the mountains, and beasts are rich in the people, and benevolence and righteousness are attached to him. The rich get the tide and the guests have nothing to do, and they are not happy. The barbarians are even more excited. The proverb says: "A son of a thousand gold will not die in the market." This is not an empty statement. Therefore, it is said: The world is prosperous and prosperous, and all the world is for profit; the world is rich and the king of thousands of vehicles, the marquis of thousands of families, and the king of hundreds of households is still worried about poverty, let alone the people who have registered households..."

Is it only you Confucius who can quote the scriptures?

Chen Ying was born in an era of information explosion. The information he learned through various media was tens of times more than Kong Yingda. No matter how smart Kong Yingda was, it is impossible to deny this passage from Sima Qian.

Kong Yingda was about to argue with Chen Ying, but Chen Ying suddenly walked to Kong Yingda and said, "Dr. Kong, how many servants are there in your family? Just preaching to them and preaching morality, will they not need wages?"

Kong Yingda said: "A gentleman does not compete with villains for profit!"

Chen Ying pretended to be enlightened and said, "So, a gentleman does not love money. Can he understand this way?"

"A gentleman loves money and gets it well!" Kong Yingda's eyes were about to spurt fire.

Chen Ying had no fixed rules in his speech, and he was involved in a bunch of things and pulled a bunch of things.

However, Chen Ying looked at the ministers in front of him and said, "You are all promising gentlemen!"

"That's right!" Kong Yingda said.

Chen Ying turned to Xiao Yu and said, "Shangshu Xiao, you are in charge of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. You should know how the Tang Dynasty's treasury is? Because of the years of war, you have been spending hundreds of millions of dollars in military funds. If you don't love money, don't be ashamed to talk about profit, then do you don't pay any salary to solve the urgent needs of the court? Your Majesty, I have the foundation to make up for it. I feel that the national treasury is empty and anxious about what the court is anxious about. I am willing to donate ten years of salary to serve as state-owned assets."

Chen Ying is now a general from the second-rank army and enjoys the treatment of the second-rank army. According to the salary of the Tang Dynasty, Chen Yingying's salary was 72 knots, 470 shi of salary, 180 mu of labor and land, and 180 stakes of servants, totaling about 350 knots, which is equivalent to about 1.35 million yuan in money for later generations. The salary for ten years is actually not 3,500 knots. For Chen Ying, this amount of money is really a small amount.

Chen Ying’s method is actually very simple. Aren’t you telling a gentleman yourself to be ashamed of making profits? All the officials in the court are gentlemen, so shouldn’t gentlemen be generous?

If you want to donate generously, let's come together.

The Sui and Tang Dynasties were the initiation period of the imperial examination. Before that, the officials were mainly famous families and scholars and officials. These people had fiefs and property. Being an official is an obligation. The salary given by the state is very rare to the property they own, so the salary does not matter to them.

After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, poor families could also become officials, and becoming officials became the way for scholars to survive and make a fortune. Therefore, the court also greatly increased the treatment of officials to ensure that officials work with peace of mind without having to work hard for their livelihood. The salary of officials in the Tang Dynasty was indeed not high, basically equivalent to one-tenth of that in the Song Dynasty. However, not all the officials in the court were children of aristocratic families, and there were poor families.

If the salary was still donated during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, even the officials of 10,000 stones would actually not have high salaries. During the Zhenguan period, the price of rice was five cents per dou. Ten dou was one stone, ten thousand stones, which was equivalent to about five hundred stagnants. However, officials like the county magistrate, their salaries were only about twenty stagnants.

The officials in the court didn't care at all. After all, all the ministers present were nobles. When Pei Ji saw Chen Ying's statement, he was not willing to fall behind and said directly: "The old minister is willing to donate his salary to solve the urgent needs of the court."

Yu Wen Shiji, Yang Gongren and others quickly expressed their opinions.

However, at this time, Li Yuan was so angry.

Because of the argument, the style of painting suddenly changed, and it turned into a dispute between justice and profit. The matter of Chen Ying's proposal to build a civil servant in the Tang Dynasty was accidentally deviated.

Are scholars all good?

Li Yuan is not a flower in a greenhouse, so he naturally knows that now is the time when the wind and the sun is down, and people's hearts are never old, especially the so-called scholars, who have milk and mothers, who are just talking about the meaning of the scriptures and morality. He only knows that he will never get tired of food and fine meat, but he forgets the original intention of the saint, and says that he will not have fun today, and when will he wait?

How could there be a little bit of taking the world as one's own responsibility? Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty encouraged Confucianism, advocated integrity, and worked hard to manage it. Finally, he could see a little hope for a peaceful and prosperous era. Who would have thought that these scholars would be ruined first?

Chen Ying brought Kong Yingda into the ditch. At this time, when the ministers expressed their opinions, he had already reacted. But it was too late. Kong Yingda laughed, but there was no smile on his face, but there was a little more sarcastic. "The prince-concubine Chen uses his lips as a knife and his tongue as a spear. His momentum is so powerful that it is hard to bear!"

Chen Ying did not have any embarrassment and smiled faintly: "Dr. Kong, you should be glad!"

"What are you glad?" Kong Yingda said inexplicably.

Li Yuan suddenly realized, and then he remembered that Chen Ying had scolded Lu Ji Lan to death. At this time, Yang Gongren, who was standing next to Kong Yingda, told Kong Yingda about Chen Ying's Guanghui's record. Kong Yingda was embarrassed for a moment, and said to him around. "Summer insects cannot be talked about ice."
Chapter completed!