Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

When the two armies fight, it is inevitable for a big country to lose tens of thousands of horses.

What's more, the great river is a natural moat, and the wind and waves are erratic. If the city cannot be attacked for a long time, and the food and grass cannot be sustained, this is also a worry for the Northern Dynasties. "

After hearing what he said, Shi Congyun was immediately speechless, feeling ashamed!

However, he was a shameless person in the first place, so he quickly shook his head and laughed loudly: "Feng Yanlu, I didn't expect there to be a talent like you in Jiangnan. I can't beat you."

This reaction really shocked Feng Yanlu, even though he was eloquent and quick-thinking, he couldn't answer the words all at once.

Shi Congyun stood up, walked down the steps, and said in front of him: "Your words are reasonable, but I also know that if the sword in my hand points to the south, you Jinling will not have tens of thousands of dead men who died with the country. , it is not bad if thousands of people can fight to the end.”

Feng Yanlu was about to say something, but Shi Congyun interrupted him brutally by raising his hand: "You are a talent, but your king is not.

You go back and tell Li Jing that I can promise not to send troops to the south of the Yangtze River, so that he can be his lord of the south of the Yangtze River during his reign, and allow him to repair the city wall, but the offerings to our court will be tripled.

Otherwise, the Kingdom of Shu has been pacified, Jingzhou has been established, and there are hundreds of thousands of troops near our beams with no place to display them. The soldiers all want to earn credit. "

"This...Your Majesty, triple the amount would be too much." Feng Yanlu said cautiously.

"Then it will double your face. This is my biggest concession, but at the same time, we must open up business exchanges between the two countries. Don't stop the people of Dazhou from buying and selling in the south of the Yangtze River. You don't have to sell salt and iron. If you dare Obstruction is considered a breach of contract, and when the time comes, I will personally lead the troops to see your lord's dead soldiers."

Seeing that he had already given in, Feng Yanlu had no choice but to agree first, and then said to go back and ask the king for instructions.

Shi Congyun nodded, and then said: "The business is over, let's talk about it lightly, you are not wrong, someone likes it, treat you to dinner today, and tell me about Jiangnan."

Feng Yanlu was flattered, and then Shi Congyun hosted a banquet for the envoy from Jiangnan in the garden, and talked with Feng Yanlu about many things. He really appreciated this man's courage and quick thinking.

And his request not to hinder the people of Daqin from buying and selling in the south of the Yangtze River was also premeditated for a long time. He obtained a lot of money from the tributes of Shu and other countries, and a lot of this money went to many soldiers who fought and made meritorious service.

Soldiers and their families have money, but being rich does not mean that the standard of living has risen, it must be able to buy things. If the supply exceeds the demand, it will only cause the prices to skyrocket.

If domestic products are not enough, where to buy them?Naturally, go to the affluent Jiangnan to buy.

Their tea, rice, oil, salt, cloth, etc. can improve the lives of the people of Qin, so it is necessary to open up business, otherwise so much money will be wasted.

At that time, the people's life will get better and better, and they will naturally become more and more cohesive, thus supporting him...

Chapter 309, Shooting

Time flies, in July, many things have come to an end.

There are two main things, one is to establish the country and handle diplomacy; the other is to settle down the royal family and many officials of the Shu Kingdom.

Few of the officials in the Shu region were highly valued, and he didn't value much. Even if he liked them, such as Han Baozheng and others, they only gave them the positions of middle-level generals.

It's not that Shi Congyun is stingy, it's just that he is very savvy, and he has seen the way in many things.

He is usually informal and casual, but it does not mean that he is not brainless, and many things need to be grasped and let go of the small.

Just like Liu Bang, he usually doesn’t follow any rules at all, he has to eat with his concubine in his arms when he eats, and none of the ministers is his opponent when he scolds, and he can ride on the minister’s neck when he makes a fuss. A tyrant like King Zhou of Shang and a king of subjugation, he just laughed it off and didn't care at all.

In this way, many of his courtiers dared to speak and display their talents, and when they encountered problems, they all jumped up and down to express their opinions and opinions.

Because they knew that it was okay to contradict Liu Bang, it was okay to say something wrong, it was okay to quarrel with the emperor, and they quarreled casually, so the atmosphere in the court was relaxed and lively, and everyone could speak enthusiastically.

But he is very shrewd and ruthless in dealing with major issues, just like killing princes and kings of the opposite sex.

The emperor is the face of a country, and the atmosphere around him, and even the atmosphere of the whole country, needs to be driven and guided by the emperor.

Therefore, Shi Congyun tried his best to be lenient when dealing with small matters, and he didn't have to be too disciplined. After a long time, the atmosphere developed, and the ministers dared to speak, speak enthusiastically, and offer advice and suggestions.

But the issue of core interests cannot be taken lightly, and one must be clear-headed about this point.

After Tang Zhuangzong Li Cunxu, many people think that he was killed by the singer and the queen, even the history books say so.

But the collapse of a huge interest group is not that simple. The opera singer and his queen are just the incentives. Shi Congyun has seen a huge hidden danger from his personnel scheduling.

Li Cunxu may be out of love for talents, or out of wanting to show a tolerant attitude, he actually did not consider political factors after the destruction of Houliang, and promoted many former Houliang officials to high positions and mastered power entirely based on his personal subjective wishes and preferences.

This is a big taboo, what does this make his former civil and military ministers think?

The old men fought with you for half of the country, but the one who surrendered on the other side, is equal to us without any credit, or even rides on our head?

This completely damaged the interests of the old ministers who fought with him and supported him as emperor. The internal conflicts were so great that they could tear the later Tang apart, laying a huge hidden danger for the subsequent coup d'etat.

But Li Cunxu didn't know it yet, obviously he was a military strategist, but not a politician.

He thought that the emperor could do whatever he wanted, but he never thought about such issues as "why he is the emperor" and "the source of the emperor's power".

It also shows that Liu Bang's oath of the White Horse League "don't wait for merit" is very wise. If Li Cunxu knew this and abided by it, there would be no tragic end.

Shi Congyun can't do anything else, but he is tall and big, and has a good understanding, so he thinks things very clearly, which is the relationship of interests.

He doesn't care so much about some small things, just be casual.

Ministers, you can scold, and if you are upset, call over and scold to vent your anger; you can beat or kill;

Caution should be exercised when it comes to their group interests.

So even if he felt that Han Baozheng and Li Yangui were talents, he only gave Han Baozheng, a former high-ranking official of the Shu Kingdom, a middle-level military post, and Li Yangui gave him a pension post.

He likes Meng Xuanzhe very much, but he is only appointed as a close minister, without any real power position.

In order to reward and promote them in the future, at least let them go to the battlefield, or let them have some credit.

It is ok to show one's love of talent and to be open-minded, but not indiscriminately. You can show it in your daily words and deeds, and you can be casual about unimportant matters. Create a relaxed atmosphere so that ministers dare to speak, but you should be cautious when it comes to core interests Otherwise, you will kill yourself.

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By the end of July, almost everything was handled in the same way, and the memorials from the counties and feudal towns of all states and counties also arrived, and the situation in the whole country stabilized.

Then Zhao Yantao was escorted to the capital and imprisoned at Yushitai. Shi Congyun didn't intervene, and asked Dou Yi to lead the people from Dali Temple, Criminal Department, and Yushitai to handle the case. The mother and son were still in the palace and hadn't been released yet.

Dou Yi handed over the case files to his desk every few days, basically without omissions, just like the mother and son said, they also found out another point, after Zhao Yantao took out the heart and liver of the deceased, sliced ​​them and dipped them in salt to eat them raw.

Dou Yi, the Ministry of Criminal Justice, and Yu Shitai still think that it should be better to fight for responsibility, tattoo characters, and distribute to the frontier.

Shi Congyun still insisted on executing him to show the public and make it known to the world.

Dou Yi even quarreled with him because of this matter, because since the end of Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, it is not uncommon for powerful people to eat people, and they are far less hated than Shi Congyun. Peace of mind.

However, Shi Congyun hated this bad habit very much, and decided to kill him to make it known to the world. The two had a quarrel in the front hall of the Long Live Hall.

Shi Congyun only knew that Dou Yi even dared to contradict Zhao Kuangyin, but he didn't expect him to be so stubborn, and finally got into a quarrel with red ears.

But the red-faced one is Dou Yi. He is tall and has a loud voice. Zu'an's great ability, trained among those rough men in the army, is no match for Dou Yi's first-year scholars.

In the end, the original verdict was maintained, and Zhao Yantao was killed to announce to the world, but originally he wanted to beheaded at the intersection of the street to show the public, but instead he died in prison, and then announced to the world.

On the same day, he went out of the palace angrily to stay overnight in Wei Wang's mansion, and sought comfort from the Empress Dowager Fu, who had relatively well-developed chest muscles.

The next day, after the court was over, he was so angry that he called Dou Yi to scold him again, but Dou Yi still refused to give in. He said that he was convicted according to the "Great Zhou Xing Tong".

This is the law of the state of Zhou, which was revised by Fan Zhi and others.

Shi Congyun was unconvinced and asked Dou Yi to show him the legal provisions. After reading it for a while, he found that there were indeed regulations in it. According to the law, taking responsibility is already an extra punishment, and he can only be resigned and tattooed.

Shi Congyun felt very embarrassed, but there was nothing he could do. He could only lower his face and say, "Well, well, well, you are right. But I think this system of punishment is not complete, and needs to be supplemented."

Dou Yi is also a good official. Knowing that she was under the steps of the leader, she stopped arguing. She took the opportunity to step down the donkey and said, "This is fabricated after the laws of the Tang Dynasty. Many of them are outdated, and there are many gaps."

Shi Congyun thought for a while, and asked someone to call Fan Zhi, officials from Yushitai and officials from the Ministry of Punishment.

He said: "I also need a complete legal system to establish a country in the Great Qin Dynasty. The previous Great Zhou Law was imitated from the Qin Dynasty. At that time, the officials were also busy with wars, and there was no time for careful planning.

Now I want to rebuild a "Qin Law" to regulate the world's punishments and officials, and restrain the people. "

"The officials are wise." Almost all the officials from the Ministry of Punishment, Dali Temple and Yushitai said excitedly, this is a credit.

Shi Congyun said: "In this case, this matter is led by Fan Gong (Fan Zhi), with Dou Yi as his assistant. Officials who are named and understand criminal laws from Yushitai, the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, and Dali Temple are assisted in writing a new "Qin Law." "."

"Follow the order!" Fan Zhi and Dou Yi clasped their hands together.

"Well, the new law should be as detailed as possible. There is no need to hurry this time. The previous criminal law can still be used. It should be as perfect as possible to adapt to the present." Shi Congyun ordered.

When the officials established the Great Zhou Criminal System, it was because the Zhou State established the country and there was no legal system at all. They could only imitate the Tang Dynasty to make a set and use it temporarily to maintain the order of the world and solve problems, so they were very rushed.

Now they can temporarily use the criminal laws of the Zhou Dynasty, and slowly formulate and improve new criminal laws, so they don't have to rush to work.

To put the world on the right track, a country's criminal law must also be perfected.

"This matter is very important. After the selection, you all go to work in the east hall of the Chuigong Hall. I will inspect it from time to time. Don't be lazy." Shi Congyun said.

Everyone clapped their hands together, expressing that they would do their best and try their best to do it well.

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That night, Shi Congyun went to Liumei's place, and Lin Shanggong made a clear count of the expenses in the palace and the tributes from all over the world, and sent them to him. A lot, but in Shi Congyun's view, it is still a luxury.

For example, the Shangshi Bureau ordered him to add up to at least 28 dishes for each meal. The queen was the same as him, with twenty noble concubines and sixteen other concubines, which is the standard for continuing the official Guo Rong.

This is actually very frugal, by the standards of the imperial palace.

During Song Taizu’s time, there was a prime minister to receive him, and there were more than 100 dishes recorded at the banquet, and there were still unrecorded ones;

The standard of the emperors of the Qing Dynasty was 120 dishes per meal. Some emperors cut down to show frugality, but there were still more than 60 dishes.

Comparing this way, his meal of 28 dishes is already considered a model, but it is still too much, it is impossible to finish it, it is too wasteful...

Shi Congyun did not make random changes, but asked about the previous expenses in the palace. The older maid told him that in fact, during the period of Zhou Taizu Guo Wei, the palace spent less, and the standard meal was twelve dishes.

Nowadays, many tributes are not required to be paid. After Shizong Guorong, some more were added.

Shi Congyun nodded. It is true that Guo Rong has done more than Guo Wei, but Guo Wei is also a rare person who leads by example. When he was there, he was more frugal and loved the people. He often went to the farmland outside Daliang to inspect the farming conditions of the people.

When it came to Shizong Guo Rong, he was not as good as Guo Wei in terms of thrift and love for the people. Although the officials built palaces while fighting wars and lived more luxuriously, they far surpassed Taizu Guo Wei in military performance.

Shi Congyun thought for a while, he couldn't finish 28 dishes in one meal, it was pure waste, and said: "Let the Shangshi Bureau restore Zhou Taizu's practice in the future, I have twelve dishes per meal, the queen and everyone The concubine is the same as me."

Lin Shanggong took it down immediately, and then showed him the list of tributes from various places.

After reading it, I was very puzzled, because he had nothing to do these days, so he read the memoirs of Guo Wei and Shizong Guorong, the Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, recorded by the historian.

I found that many things were ordered not to be paid tribute by Zhou Taizu, because it was a waste of money, so why did they start paying tribute again now? Maybe it was because the dynasty changed, and the rules should change accordingly.

So Shi Congyun asked Liumei to get his Taizu Shilu, and to Guo Wei's previous edict, to remove some things that cost people and money from the tribute.

Let Sixth Sister write for him, he read and wrote an imperial edict.

"It is advisable to divide and subtract the old tribute food of the state capitals of the world.

Liangzhejin fine wine, seafood, ginger melon;

Hunan pillow tea, lactose, white sugar, olive seeds;

Zhenzhou high rice, pear, Yi, Ding millet;

Hedong Baishe pears, rice noodles, mung bean noodles, jade chip fanzi noodles, Yongxing Yutian red japonica rice, new barley noodles, Xingping Su Suzi;

Huazhou musk, antelope horn, bear bile, otter liver, red persimmon, bear white, river tree red dates, schisandra, light tin;

Jin and crimson grapes, Huangxiao pears, Shanfu Fengqi pears;

Xiangzhou purple ginger, new bamboo shoots, oranges, Anzhou japonica rice, bad taste, Qingzhou pears, Heyang miscellaneous fruits, Xuzhou imperial plums, Zhengzhou new bamboo shoots, goose pears, Huaizhou cold food almonds, Shenzhou Xihe, Bozhou萆薢, along Huaizhou County Huai Baiyu.

If you hear that these things are all from local products, they are also taken from people's homes, which is a waste of money and labor.

Forced labor loads, driving the road, and accumulating in the company, are very useless things, and they will not need to be enshrined in the future, nor should they be used as an excuse to disturb the people.

The prefectures of various states have the taste of eating according to the old rules, and those who do not have it should be played and stopped. "

Shi Congyun compared them one by one and eliminated many things.

He is also an old fritter, but he understands that these things are the easiest for local officials to exploit the people with chicken feather swords.

For example, for things like mung bean flour, his family forcibly expropriated some of them, and asked for [-] catties, and paid [-] catties to Daliang.

The investigation is unclear, and it is impossible to send a censor to investigate for hundreds of catties of mung bean flour, but for ordinary people, this loss is fatal.

Guo Wei had expected this a long time ago, so after the founding of the country, local tribute was prohibited for many things, but it started again in these years. After Shi Congyun found out, he also decreed to prohibit it. That bit of enjoyment is not necessary.

If the emperor let go of the enjoyment, the number of people suffering from it would be countless. Moreover, in the era of underdeveloped transportation and communication, this is almost an unsolvable problem, which can only be restrained by the ruler himself.

After dealing with all this, Sixth Sister blushed that night and said that she wanted a child. Shi Congyun agreed. After all, she is now a queen. If she never has a child, she will be in an embarrassing situation in the future.

It's just that he is really young, Shi Congyun asked Xiao Huanghua to go back to the Long Live Palace to sleep, and he stayed in Kunning Palace.

Sixth Sister became a queen, her character has not changed at all, she is extremely well-behaved.

His wives really have different personalities, and Sixth Sister is the obedient baby among them, who will obey him in everything.

.......

The days passed day by day, and soon around the Mid-Autumn Festival, as the Southern Tang Dynasty was forced to open up, the lives of the people became better and better.

With the wars of these years, the Qin State has made a fortune, whether it is the tribute and compensation from various countries or the things collected from the palace treasury of Shu and Jingzhou.