Chapter 22: The world is the best or the court is the best (first update)

"We can take another time to debate the debate on justice and profit!" Chen Ying looked at Kong Yingda's chest fluctuations, but there was no added fuel to the fire. He was really afraid that he would accidentally anger Kong Yingda to death and scold Lu Jilan to death. Chen Ying could make the world clear, but once Kong Yingda was angry, he, Chen Ying, would be the enemy of the entire Confucian sect.

However, Chen Ying was not worried about being an enemy of the Confucian Sect. The Confucian Sect is always a solid piece of law. Besides, Chen Ying always insisted on believing that the so-called loyalty is because there are not enough chips for betrayal. Once the chips are enough for the person's left hand, he will betray the right hand.

Chen Ying bowed to the ministers and said, "Shang Yang founded the Qin 20th-class title system, which made Qin prosperous and powerful in military affairs, and laid the foundation for Qin Shihuang to unify the country. Now that we were established in the early Tang Dynasty, we can completely imitate Shang Yang and create a set of lord system with the characteristics of the Tang Dynasty. Now that the Tang Dynasty has twelve-class title system, we can also create the twelve-class title system of Wenxun. In the preliminary concept, Wenxun can be equal to Wuxun. Xiaxian and Xiazhou can be benchmarked against Xiaxian, Zhongzhou and Zhongxian can be benchmarked against Zhongchao.

Shangzhou and Shangxian can be used to benchmark the battle. The population of prefectures and counties increases by more than 30%, the land tax increases by more than 30%, and the land tax increases by more than 30%, which can be remembered as the honor. Similarly, the increase of population, land tax increases by more than 20%, which is the increase of Zhongxun, the population, land tax increases by 10%, which can be regarded as the lower honor. According to the conditions of guarding Muzhou County and the results of governance, a "turn" number is formulated. In the battle, the upper honor is five turns, the upper honor is four turns, the upper honor is three turns, and the lower award is three turns, and the following is decreasing and so on."

After Chen Ying finished speaking, not only Kong Yingda stopped talking, but even Pei Ji, Chen Shuda, and Li Jiancheng were silent.

In theory, when formulating such a system of literary merits, the beneficiaries will always be civil servants, and almost all officials present will be civil servants, which will increase their interests and they have no reason to object.

After a while, Chen Ying realized that yearning for freedom and breaking away from constraints is the nature of human beings. Officials are no exception. People like to live an unrestrained life, preferably without any legal constraints. This is especially true for officials. Although Chen Ying proposed this is an incentive measure, any incentive system does not exist alone. For example, behind the 12-year-old award system of the Tang Dynasty, there is a harsh 17 ban and 54-year-old death.

Chen Ying took out this policy and said that he had no selfishness. The biggest selfishness was to make the country and the country live a better life. Of course, if such a civil servant system was implemented, then civil servants would definitely not be as comfortable as they were now. Under their rule, the aristocratic clans wanted to annex the land or conceal taxes, which would conflict with the interests of local officials. On the one hand, it was a rigid standard for promotion and title, and on the other hand, the aristocratic clans, which would inevitably cause severe conflicts. Only the people and the court would benefit from it.

At this time, the officials' praise was mainly based on the public opinion mastered by the aristocratic families. However, no matter how they promote it, there is no way to falsify the data. Taxes, population, and land are tangible, unlike in the past when they were not closed at night or picking up the remains.

"Only the wisdom of the superior and the foolish of the inferior!"

Li Yuan could see clearly the benefits of this Wenxun system to the Tang Dynasty and the long-term benefits of the country, but as the emperor, he could not make a decision easily. After all, the aristocratic clans had the power to check and balance the power of the emperor. Once they were triggered, the country might be in turmoil.

Chen Ying was a little nervous. He leaned back, his body leaning back and tapped the lacquer case with his fingers. If Li Yuan did not support his proposal, Chen Ying would never stick to it. Chen Ying could not learn Wei Zheng's approach. The key is that Li Yuan was not Taizong. Taizong could tolerate it, but Li Yuan could not tolerate it. Chen Ying could not do such a thing as carrying the coffin and telling him to death.

If the Tang Dynasty still followed the old path, then Chen Ying could only retreat and stay the same, looking forward to making plans in the future. After all, Chen Ying was too young and age was his greatest advantage. He had to endure all these old stubborns to death. At that time, Chen Ying had enough prestige to realize his political ambitions.

As his idea was about to settle, the smile on Chen Ying's face gradually closed and his eyes gradually became cold.

Li Yuan was actually in the sacred body, and he thought more deeply. The Tang Dynasty's honorary official system directly caused a result, that is, the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty went on one after another, died after death. Qianshuiyuan was defeated, nearly 100,000 soldiers and horses were lost, and the foundation of the Tang Dynasty was not moved. In the defeat of Luoyang, Li Shimin lost tens of thousands of soldiers and horses. Although new tombs were added everywhere in Guanzhong and crying everywhere, the craze for the Tang Dynasty to join the army was not reduced at all.

Because ordinary farmers also have a strong desire to turn over, but the only way to change is to join the army and strive for success on the battlefield. Once they make contributions, they can win their wives and children, shine their families, return home in a rich and prosperous life. As for life and death, in the eyes of people of this era, this is just a trivial matter.

Li Yuan slowly came to his senses and looked around the hall. Seeing countless pairs of eyes staring at him, he realized that the predicament in front of him still needed to be broken by himself. Li Yuan couldn't help but sigh.

A sigh made everyone look at each other. As the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yuan was so depressed. It seemed that Li Yuan was still angry with Chen Ying, otherwise he would not have been like this.

Li Yuan looked at Pei Ji. Whenever Li Yuan needed to find a helper, he would ask Pei Ji to come forward to break the balance and lay the foundation for the world. Of course, whether Pei Ji could understand Li Yuan’s true intentions was very important.

Li Yuan said: "Pei Jian, what do you think about this?"

"I think this matter is up to be discussed!" Pei Ji said no longer hesitated. He thought: "If it seems calm today, but it is actually undercurrents. 300,000 Turkic troops gathered in Dingxiang, with unclear intentions. Our Tang Dynasty is now suitable for quietness rather than moving. Once the twelve-turn Wenxun system is implemented, I am afraid that officials in various prefectures and counties will not understand why they will cause trouble."

Pei Ji refused this proposal without reservation, and of course the reasons were quite sufficient.

To be fair, any reform will not be limited to the turmoil of the court and the uneasy of the people. Pei Ji said this, in fact, it is understandable that the strong enemy is approaching, and reforming again will make people unstable, which is simply no different from suicide.

After hearing Pei Ji's words, Li Yuan saw no emotional fluctuations on his face. Gu Bo was not surprised. He had old eyes and looked at Xiao Yu with burning eyes and said, "Shi Wen, what do you think?"

"The old minister thinks there is a lot to do!" Xiao Yu stood up from his seat, walked to Chen Ying, bowed and said, "The prince-consort Chen has a country in mind and a heart of the people of the world. The old minister congratulates His Majesty for this good son-in-law!"

Xiao Yu then turned around and talked to the ministers: "The strong enemy of the Turks is approaching. As Pei Xiangguo said, it is better to be quiet and not move at this time. However, the court and civil servants are unable to make ends meet, and it is probably difficult to last. With the plan of Chen's prince consort, the unpaid plan is not a good rule for governance. The old ministers think that we can first improve the various evaluation systems of Wenxun's twelve-turn transfers. In the future, as a good recipe for the selection of the pillars of the world, it is only the strategy of Chen's prince consort, and it remains to be discussed. For example, who will do this, the Censorate or the Ministry of Personnel's examination department? Or is there a new government office directly under His Majesty? This all needs to be discussed separately."

Li Jiancheng frowned slightly, and he was not in the mood to argue with Chen Ying.

However, this incident had a far-reaching impact. As a capable general under the Eastern Palace, Chen Ying even reported to Li Yuan without asking for instructions that this was a rank that Li Jiancheng was quite dissatisfied.

Chen Yingke was overjoyed. Because this matter involved the reform of the court, it had a far-reaching impact and could be used as a target to attract the attention of the ministers, thereby downplaying the influence of Dou Jiande's surrender, and also making the Li Tang court unable to take action against Dou Jiande.

The thing Chen Ying was most worried about was the Hebei Rebellion. Although Liu Heita had been killed by Luo Shixin, Chen Ying could not guarantee whether there would be another Zhang Heita, Li Heita, and Guo Heita.

Li Yuan finally did not decide that such policies covering all aspects of interests are not so easy to introduce, and the interests of all parties must be comprehensively considered.

After everyone left, Li Jiancheng pulled Chen Ying's sleeves. Chen Ying understood and followed Li Jiancheng and boarded Li Jiancheng's carriage.

After getting on the carriage, Yuchi Gong led the left sect of the East Palace to slowly take off and head towards the East Palace.

Li Jiancheng looked at Chen Ying and sighed, "Chen Ying, you are so reckless."
Chapter completed!