Judge of the Song Dynasty Chapter 113: You are all outlaws (three shifts, thanks to the leader of “0 not for sale 0”)

What?

Redundant... The curse of redundant officials?

The hall was silent.

In fact, the disaster of redundant officials has been mentioned continuously since the Renzong Dynasty, and no one dared to say that redundant officials are not a disaster.

This is a consensus.

Everyone knows its disadvantages, but it is precisely the disadvantages that are the core interests of officials.

And officials control the decision-making power, so in terms of human nature, no one wants to get stabbed.

That's why, everyone knows about the tribulation of redundancy, but they are still powerless to solve it.

However, no one dared to blame Taizu Taizong for the disaster of redundant officials.

That said, it is tantamount to asking for a dead end!

At this moment, even Fu Bi, Han Qi and others had to admire Zhang Fei's courage.

Wang Anshi, who shouted that "the ancestors are not good enough", is ashamed of himself.

People are stupid.

You are playing too big!

Liu Shu really didn't expect that Zhang Fei dared to bump into it. He was stunned for a while before he realized and asked excitedly: "According to what you said, the disaster of redundant officials is all because of too many officials." The bad government of the ancestor Taizong?"

This time Zhang Fei doesn't need to look at it, Xu Zhiqian has already placed Wen Yu in front of Zhang Fei.

Zhang Fei opened it and read it.

The officials sitting here, seeing Zhang Fei looking at Wen Yu now, felt inexplicably panicked.

They thought they were well-prepared, but they didn't know that compared with Zhang Fei, they were still insignificant.

No comparison at all.

When they asked casually, Zhang Fei could find the answer from the essay he had prepared.

How well prepared this is.

This is even suspected of cheating.

Zhang Fei looked at it for a long time before raising his head, "The source of this bad government lies in Taizu Taizong, but it cannot be blamed on Taizu Taizong, but should be blamed on the unworthy descendants of later generations who violated the laws of the ancestors... ...!"

Speaking of this, he glanced at Wen Yu again, and then he said for sure: "It's caused."

Liu Shu couldn't understand what he heard, and hummed: "What you said is obviously self-contradictory?"

Being able to say such nonsense is obviously panicked.

"Not contradictory at all."

Zhang Fei asked: "About the number of officials during Taizu Taizong's time and the number of officials today, can you be clear, if not, I have the specific number here."

Liu Shu hurriedly said: "Don't make any more papers, we all know that."

This issue has been debated so many times, and the number of officials in each dynasty can be memorized backwards.

"That would be great."

Zhang Fei read according to the text: "In Taizong Zhenzong's dynasty, the number of officials was about 8,000, while our dynasty reached 24,000, a full threefold increase, and the interval between them was almost fifty years. Terrible growth."

Liu Shu interrupted him and said, "Stop rambling on here, I'm asking you now, is the calamity of redundant officials caused by Taizu Taizong?"

"I also ask Mr. Liu to be calm, I will explain this clearly."

As Zhang Fei said, he said to Xu Zhiqian, "Send them the title of the text."

Xu Zhiqian was taken aback, "So this article is used here?"

Zhang Fei nodded.

Still posting?

Many jurors are depressed, this is a fun fight!

Zhao Xu outside the door was already sweating profusely, but he needed to take a breather. For him, the emperor, this lawsuit was getting worse and worse.

He is like this, let alone Sima Guang and Wang Anshi.

At present, no one knows the direction of this lawsuit.

Because this has already started a polemic against Taizu Taizong.

In feudal times, this was actually fatal.

When they got the text, they looked at it immediately.

Looking at it, you will be lost in the lake!

"Jiedushi of the Tang Dynasty?"

Zhao Xu looked at Liu Zhao in bewilderment.

Liu Zhao also shook his head.

Liu Shu was also stunned, and asked directly: "Why are you talking about the Jiedushi of the Tang Dynasty again?"

He thinks that Zhang Fei is deliberately avoiding that fatal problem, but he obviously won't let Zhang Fei succeed, that problem cannot escape even death.

Zhang Fei explained: "This article is about the origin and decline of the Jiedushi system in the Tang Dynasty. At the stage of the Tang Dynasty, it once helped the Tang Dynasty expand its territory and resist foreign enemies.

It is precisely because of the benefits brought by this system that the Tang Dynasty continued to delegate power to Jiedushi, so that the Anshi Rebellion occurred later.

We can't talk about toxicity regardless of the efficacy of the medicine. This will make me unable to understand the essence of the matter.

What is the essence? According to the old saying, the sun will be dizzy at midday, and the moon will eclipse when it is full. It can be seen that once any matter goes to extremes, it will inevitably backfire on itself. Just like rice, rice can satisfy hunger and has many benefits for people, but if you eat a hundred bowls a day, you will die, but does this mean that this rice is poisonous? This is the essence of bad government, and the Jiedushi system itself is not bad government. "

Zhao Xu nodded when he heard it: "So that's how it is!"

But Fu Bi said with admiration: "It's true that the blue is better than the blue!"

Don't you guys like to play allusions? Today I will play with you to the end. Zhang Fei said again: "Taizu and Taizong divided powers and prevented feudal vassals from being separated. This fully embodies the core idea of ​​what is called ancestral law, that is, the government of preventing fraud. At that time, there was no disaster of redundant officials. Taizu Taizong's arrangement is very appropriate.

Why did it evolve into the disaster of redundant officials today? The reason is just like the ancestral law that Lu Zhongcheng and the others misquoted just now.

They mistakenly believe that the rituals of the ancestors are not unique. They introduced Taizu Taizong's policy as the ancestral law, which led to the new emperor's accession to the throne, and was suggested by the ministers to further promote the wrong ancestral law, so they continued to divide powers, leading to the growth rate of officials, just like a sow's birth Cubs continue to reproduce, which leads to the disaster of redundant officials today. "

"Wonderful!"

Zhao Xu called out excitedly, but stopped immediately, and glanced inside guiltily, seeing that no one was paying attention, he breathed a sigh of relief.

It's back to the essence of the problem, the uniqueness of the ancestral law.

This example is enough to adjust the law of the ancestors.

Wang Anshi murmured: "He refers to horses as pigs!"

Sima Guang snorted: "He is clearly turning a stone into a pig."

Liu Shu's face was ashen, not as arrogant as before.

Zhang Fei continued: "Let's go back to the true ancestral law, to prevent things and control them. We must formulate a comprehensive and perfect system to prevent possible hidden dangers.

It can be seen that what Taizu Taizong guarded against was not the Jiedushi system, but to prevent the Jiedushi system from becoming the cause of bad governance. Policy formulation must be careful, tortuous, and enough is enough. "

"The Immortals"

Speaking, Zhang Fei suddenly held up a picture, "Everyone, please look, this is the annual change chart of the number of officials in our court."

is a very steep slash.

Speaking, he picked up another piece of paper, on which it was written, prevent things and control them.

"Do you think this picture matches these eight characters?" Zhang Fei looked at the officials and asked.

Embarrassing!

These eight words are matched with this picture, how embarrassing it is, how embarrassing it is!

"It's not twists and turns at all, it's not thorough at all, and it has no restrictions. Anyway, it just keeps rushing upwards."

Speaking, Zhang Fei put down the two pieces of paper, looked at the text again, paused, and continued to read: "If you think that the disaster of redundant officials is not a bad government established by Taizu Taizong, then you must We must recognize the uniqueness of the law of the ancestors. Otherwise, the disaster of redundant officials is due to the bad government of Taizu Taizong. Liu Langzhong, what do you think?"

"My officer...!"

The rake hit back, big beads of sweat trickled down from Liu Shu's temples.

This problem can be very fatal.

Zhang Fei cleverly interpreted the "law of the ancestors" as preventing the causes of maladministration, but this is obviously more in line with the core idea of ​​"preventing things by doing things and making them system by music", that is, the way to prevent malpractices. politics.

Prevention of maladministration is about prevention. It is best not to allow maladministration to occur, so it should be corrected from the process of maladministration.

Zhang Fei also used the case of Jiedushi to illustrate that the reason for the formation of bad governance is often that a policy is pushed to the extreme, and things will be reversed, rather than the policy itself.

The same is true for dividing power.

It is a good policy in itself to prevent the country from splitting again. It is you guys who do not understand the law of the ancestors, and now it has become a bad government.

You have to take the blame.

If you don't recite, only Taizu Taizong recites it.

You choose?

How to choose this?

No matter what you choose, you will die!

Liu Shu originally thought that he was throwing a fatal question to Zhang Fei, but it turned out that the clown was himself!

Wang Anshi was ecstatic when he heard this, which undoubtedly broke the support of the ancestors' law for the separation of powers.

If you can say it, just say a little bit more, even if you talk forever, I, Wang Jiefu, will accompany you to the end!

Everyone knows that the scourge of redundant officials lies in Taizu Taizong's grand policy of dividing powers. If one yamen is divided into four, it will naturally cause the disaster of redundant officials!

But the problem is that this is the tone set by Taizu Taizong, who dares to change it.

It was Wang Anshi who dared to clamor that "the ancestors are not lawful".

But he couldn't help it. If he didn't deny this, he couldn't carry out reforms, but this also caused him countless troubles.

The officials who originally supported him chose to stay away because of such words.

But now Zhang Fei has provided him with the legal and ideological certification of double justice.

Reforming the law is following the law of the ancestors!

These officials didn't even prepare a copy of the document, so they couldn't get it out!

This explanation makes them very helpless.

For a while, it was impeccable.

However, Zhang Fei cleverly blamed the disaster of redundant officials on the ministers, and at the same time flattered Taizu Taizong severely.

Seeing that Liu Shu was afraid to speak, Sima Guang asked Wang Anshi, "Do you have anything else to ask?"

Wang Anshi glanced at him, "Do you have anything to add?"

"...!"

This time they have learned a lesson, they can't ask random questions, and if they ask, they may be heinous.

Wang Anshi smiled and said, "I have nothing to ask about this."

Sima Guang looked at Zhang Fei and said with a smile, "You seem to have done a lot of homework."

Zhang Fei nodded and said: "It's about the law of the ancestors, the common people dare not speak nonsense."

"Very good!" Sima Guang nodded in praise, and said again: "That's right! You also mentioned constraints and extensiveness."

"Yes!"

Zhang Fei dug out the first document again, and read: "Regarding the binding nature, it is clearly written in the imperial edict that the discipline has been fixed, and things have their own rules. Please abide by it and dare not overstep it." Based on these four sentences alone, I believe that no one will doubt that this law will surpass all other laws, and it is the fundamental law of the country.

As for the universality, it is actually easy to understand that the law of the ancestors must set the tone for the entire country, so it must be universal and can cover all aspects, and any policy must also respect this law.

In the past, many officials took a sentence from Taizu Taizong, or an edict, as the law of the ancestors. That was pure nonsense and they did not understand the law at all. "

Han Qi and Fu Bi blushed.

Who are you scolding?

Sima Guang, Lu Hui, Tang Jie and others are no exception.

They do this a lot.

Zhang Fei looked at Xu Zhiqian again.

Xu Zhiqian immediately got up and sent them a letter.

At this time, these officials dare not look at it.

Even the look in Xu Zhiqian's eyes gradually became full of viciousness.

It doesn't work if you don't read it.

When they opened it, Zhang Fei said: "It records some policies and words of Taizu Taizong. If you use it now, do you think it is appropriate?"

Everyone was silent.

The above article also mentioned Taizu's policies towards Houshu. Now that Houshu is gone, are those policies suitable?

You are playing word games!

How shameless.

Zhang Fei said solemnly: "The law is very strict. It doesn't come just by opening your mouth. If you can freely quote the policies of the Taizu Taizong as the law of the ancestors, then according to the legal system, all the policies of the Taizu Taizong will become the laws of the ancestors. This is obviously not possible.”

Sima Guang nodded, and asked again: "According to your words, the core idea of ​​the ancestor's law is to prevent things and control them."

Zhang Fei corrected: "This is the only method of ancestors."

Sima Guang didn't argue, just said: "Can you explain these two sentences."

"Of course!"

Zhang Fei took the small note from the side and read: "This sentence is quoting the ancient classic "Hanshu, Liyuezhi". It means that no matter how big or small, there must be rules and precautions.

In Taizong's edict, things should be prevented, and music should be controlled, which generally means that all things should be prevented in advance, and comprehensive and detailed regulations should be formulated to control them, prevent erroneous events, and prevent fraud. "

The "qu" above refers to "little things". The following "qu" refers to "comprehensive".

Sima Guang nodded, and asked again: "If it is said that there is no system to prevent hidden dangers, is it against the law of the ancestors?"

Zhang Fei nodded and said, "Of course it violates."

Sima Guang asked again: "Does promulgating a system without comprehensive regulations violate the law of the ancestors?"

Zhang Fei nodded and said, "Of course it's a violation."

Sima Guang nodded and did not ask further questions.

Zhang Fei glanced at Sima Guang, and thought to himself, as expected of my Brother Guang, he is still sober now.

Liu Shu thought to himself, let's stop here quickly, and don't go into it any further. This kid is too well prepared. Using Sima Guang to divert the topic, he immediately said: "I almost forgot. Its punishment violates this edict.”

Decree!

It is not the law of the ancestors.

In other words, they were unwilling to acknowledge the tone set by Zhang Fei.

But the tone has also softened. Violating Taizong's edict is of course also violating the law of the ancestors.

Just as Zhang Fei opened his mouth, he suddenly saw the old man Sima Guang holding a teacup and taking a sip.

Is he drinking tea?

He was drinking tea.

I want to drink too!

Zhang Fei coughed a few times and opened his mouth, "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!"

Liu Shu wondered, "What are you doing?"

Zhang Fei pretended to be hoarse and said: "The throat is uncomfortable."

Sima Guang whispered: "It's your turn again!"

Wang Anshi was a little upset, but he still reprimanded his subordinates: "How do you do things? You don't even prepare a pot of tea for Zhang San. If this spreads, won't it make people think that the court is invincible?"

Is it still possible to win?

I think it's invincible!