Chapter 1441 Afternoon conversation around the fire
On December 29th, the day before New Year's Eve, the imperial court was already on vacation. From this year onwards, it would be a holiday until the fourth day of the first lunar month, and the court would officially start on the fifth day of the first lunar month.
Li Ye knew that everyone was suffering from ancestor worship, so he changed the New Year's Eve banquet to be held on the fifth day of the first lunar month, canceled the New Year's banquet, and distributed tens of thousands of sheep to officials in the form of welfare.
Most families worship their ancestors at the Yin hour on New Year's Eve, relying on a good night's sleep to replenish their spirits.
But the officials couldn't sleep, waiting for dawn to start the New Year's Day. Therefore, during the New Year's Day, the officials were all listless and yawning all the time.
The New Year's banquet will be held immediately afterwards. Can the officials not get drunk? After a few glasses of wine, it is a huge devastation to the health.
Although this fine-tuning is small, it is of great significance and breaks many stereotypes that everyone has been overwhelmed with.
Everyone has already had opinions on the New Year's Day, but no one dared to say more.
Li Ye changed it, which aroused rave reviews from the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty.
The second detailed modification is the time for going to court. The traditional time for going to court is Mao Shizheng, which is exactly six o'clock, which means that you have to get up at five o'clock, wash up, have breakfast, and then change clothes and go to the court.
This is mainly to rush to the morning meeting, which is the court meeting. After the court meeting ends around 8:30, it does not affect the handling of official business in the morning.
But if the shadow does not affect the body, the emperor will not consider it.
What's more important is what the imperial court does when it holds a court meeting. To put it bluntly, it's just an eye medicine. A certain official comes out and directly reports to the emperor. Have you reported to your superiors? Have you reported to the prime minister?
Going directly to the emperor to report to the emperor, bypassing the superiors and prime ministers, isn't this an eyesore?
If it were really a major national event, it would not be the turn of the petty officials to report to the emperor, but the prime minister should report to the emperor.
The early dynasty was more about several departments and several power groups attacking each other. Therefore, the early dynasty has not accomplished much since ancient times, but it has caused a lot of conflicts.
Of course, the emperor liked this and liked the internal fighting among the ministers, so the real purpose of holding the morning court was just a means for the emperor to provoke internal fighting.
Li Ye also made some changes. First of all, instead of going to the morning court every day, the normal time for going to the court was changed to two quarters after Chen hour, which is half past eight.
The nine prime ministers and assistant ministers of the Zhengshi Hall will gather in the Zhengshi Hall every morning to discuss and vote on some major political affairs, and then go back to the court room to start the day's administration.
Of course, Li Ye's court also had morning court, which was held every fifth day, three times a month, starting at around 6:30 and ending at 8:30.
However, the early dynasty was not a great dynasty in the sense of a court, but only a Chinese dynasty. Officials of fifth rank and above participated, discussed major decisions, and finally voted.
Such major military affairs as the abolition of slavery, tax reform, disaster relief, expeditions to Liaodong, Nanzhao, the Western Regions, etc. were all implemented after discussions and votes between China and North Korea.
This is also the political system designed by Li Ye, a kind of power control over the political hall.
What Li Ye is thinking about is that a hundred years from now, if one of his descendants is weak in the future, after he ascends the throne, he is likely to have a strong and powerful prime minister, who will deceive the superiors and subordinates, and make many major decisions that are detrimental to the country. So who will check and balance him?
Of course, this kind of China-North Korea system will also cause procrastination, but no system can be perfect. The key is to give mid-level and high-level officials a channel to express their power, and use anonymous voting to bring together the will of all mid-level and high-level officials.
, forming a powerful voice.
If the decision made by Baihutang as a major military incident has not been discussed and voted by China and North Korea, the compliance review of Baihutang will not be passed. If the Baihutang's review seal cannot be affixed, the law will not be formed and cannot be implemented.
Many tragedies in history could have been avoided in the early stage, but due to the inaction or indiscriminate actions of those in power, chaos finally broke out.
In the study, Li Ye was explaining some necessary political concepts to his son Li Tan.
“Governing the people is like managing a river. If a flood comes and there is no way or too late to block it, and the embankment is about to burst, what should we do?
The correct approach is to release the flood. Find a place that is not very important, remove the levee, and let the flood flow out. This way, an important area with dense population and rich land can be preserved. If we can change the course of the Yellow River this year, if we can do it earlier,
If Dizhou discharges floods, the prosperous Bozhou and Beizhou can be saved. The lesson is profound!"
Li Ye sighed and said: "I agree. If a place is hit by a disaster and it is difficult for the court to provide relief, what should we do? Then we need to find a rich place to evacuate the victims so that the victims can have food to eat. This can avoid
The victims broke out in an uprising in despair, you understand! Why is disaster relief so important? The court must be quick and timely. This is not only a matter of keeping the victims alive, but more importantly, it is to avoid serious political unrest among the victims.
People with ulterior motives can take advantage of it.”
Li Tan nodded, "I understand my father's teachings."
Li Ye smiled again and said: "Last time you asked my father why he wanted to conquer the surrounding small countries, was it your husband who asked you to ask?"
"No, our school is discussing this issue. No one can understand it. Many classmates and classmates say that the Tang Dynasty is showing off its power."
Li Ye pondered for a moment and smiled: "Chang'an people have a bad habit when they are sick. After taking medicine, they like to pour the medicine residue on the road and let passers-by step on it. Their purpose is to let passers-by take away the disease, and their own illness will be cured. Of course
, this is impossible to achieve.
My father also made a metaphor, as if he transferred the disease of the Tang Dynasty to the surrounding small countries, his own body would be healthy.
First of all, our Tang Dynasty's conquest of the four directions is not to show off its power, but the Tang Dynasty's finances have collapsed in the late Anshi Rebellion. The people have been exploited and can no longer bear the taxes. What should we do? At that time, my father exchanged land for finance.
The imperial court received a little blood transfusion, but it was far from enough. Even if all the savings of the Helong Jiedu Mansion were spent, it would not be able to fill the bottomless hole in the imperial court's finances.
What to do? The only way is to launch wars abroad and plunder the wealth of other small countries to replenish the finances. This is how we use war to transfer the pain to the princes and nobles of the surrounding small countries. Why is there no objection to foreign conquests in the imperial court? Everyone has a tacit understanding
.
Now that the imperial government has a solid financial foundation, we can implement a very low tax rate on the Tang Dynasty and exempt most of the taxes, allowing the people to recuperate and grow the population, so that the Tang Dynasty can quickly resume its resurgence."
At this point, Li Ye sighed and said: "Father, I also know that this is unbenevolent, but the world is originally a jungle world. If you want to survive, you must eat weaker beasts. If you insist on benevolence and righteousness, you can't bear to eat it."
, that one who cannot bear to kill, when the more powerful beast comes in the end, you are unable to resist. Those weak beasts before will definitely follow the big beast and eat you. Although they also know that they will be eaten by the big beast in the end, but they care
If you don’t go to the future, just try to have a good meal in front of you.”
"Father's teachings, children remember them in their hearts!"
"There is also the abolition of slavery. Why is my father determined to abolish slavery? You will know if my father gives you two figures. Five years ago, the imperial court counted the population. There were only 38 million people in the world, and the first year of Tianbao was
The population of 48 million has decreased by 10 million.
But three months ago, the imperial court conducted another census, and the world's population actually increased to 43 million, an increase of 5 million people. What do you think is the reason?"
"Abolition of slavery!" Li Tan blurted out.
Li Ye nodded, "The abolition of slavery has been issued since the year before last, and a large number of hidden slaves have been liberated. If we continue to strictly enforce it, by the end of next year, the population will basically be able to return to 48 million. There are natural reasons for this.
The population is growing, but more are still hidden slaves.”
Li Tan sighed: "To put it this way, how many slaves were hidden before the Tang Dynasty!"
Li Ye nodded, "That's the problem. The problem of slavery in the Tang Dynasty is too serious. Rich families, nobles, officials, monasteries and Taoists all over the country are keeping slaves. How many people's interests are involved? Now is the best opportunity.
If your father doesn't do anything and doesn't solve it, you and your descendants will be even less able to solve it.
"My son, I understand!"
Li Ye patted his son on the shoulder and said, "You are growing up now. From now on, you will go to the political hall every day and listen to the discussions of the ministers. You will learn more."
