Li Shimin's will: Li Zhi, the throne belongs to your brother

As for distinguishing the virtuous and capable of hundreds of officials...it is even more difficult, and it takes a long time to get along to distinguish the virtuous and the mediocre.

How does this feel like fortune telling?

All the ministers complained in their hearts, but since Li Shimin dared to say that, he must be relying on something, so don't rush to draw conclusions, let's wait and see.

"Your Majesty, please teach me to wait."

Under the eyes of everyone, Li Shimin turned his head and looked at Li Tai.

"I can only scratch the surface of this knowledge. The prince will teach it, and I will assist."

"Yes!" Everyone looked at Li Tai in unison, and it was the first time for Li Shimin to assist him!

"Cough." Li Tai opened "Mathematics" with some trepidation, turned to statistics, and cut straight to the point: "The prince didn't talk too much nonsense, so he just started talking."

"Statistics is a comprehensive science that infers the nature of the measured object and even predicts the future of the object by means of searching, sorting, analyzing, and describing data."

At the first sentence, everyone frowned.

What is this?

Science is such a mouthful?

Or quickly write it down!

For a while, there was the sound of writing brushes below.

Li Tai felt that he had returned to the era when students took notes, but it meant that he was the prince, and those below him were important ministers.

See everyone put down their pens.

Li Tai pointed to the huge chessboard and said.

"On the chessboard in front of you, the horizontal grid represents the year, and the vertical grid represents the population. Put the pieces one by one into the corresponding grid..."

As he spoke, he put the chess pieces on the board.

Although the important ministers in the audience didn't know everything, they followed suit honestly.

As more and more chess pieces are placed, what appears in front of them is a folded line.

Everyone's expressions gradually changed, and they gradually discovered the mystery.

Fang Xuanling was surprised and said: "The tortuous part is the three-year drought... This is the year when the Turks invaded, natural disasters and wars caused the population to decrease..."

Changsun Wuji said in astonishment: "Population, money and grain, and fertile land represent the national strength of the Tang Dynasty. If these three are displayed together, the ups and downs of the Tang Dynasty's national strength can be seen at a glance."

Chu Suiliang frowned and said: "Agricultural tax, commercial tax, fertile land... This method can count the governance ability of officials!?"

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The highly intelligent minister thought of the benefits of statistics almost instantly, and praised it without hesitation.

"As His Majesty said, this statistic can show the rise and fall of a country's fortunes, and can identify talented people."

"If you find that the Tang Dynasty is in decline, you can adjust the national policy... In this way, the Tang Dynasty can prosper forever..."

"Eternal prosperity?"

"Eternal prosperity!!"

After hearing the words 'everlasting prosperity', the ministers who were discussing a lot just now fell silent in an instant.

The minds of the ministers were like a bolt from the blue, and their heads went blank.

Referring to the history of thousands of years, dynasties have never been prosperous, but have risen and fallen.

Whenever a dynasty changes, it also means a change and compromise between the old and new family forces.

Now is the year of Zhenguan in the early Tang Dynasty.

Things like the Yuwen family have become a thing of the past, and it is confirmed that they are replaced by the five surnames and Qiwang.

But after a few hundred years, they will also be replaced by a new family with the Yuwen family and become the past.

No one wants their descendants and ancestral family property to become someone else's.

Throughout history, the secret to maintaining the family's longevity is only one word 'gou'.

Keep a low profile to keep yourself strong, go through the chaotic period of opening up territories, and wait until the peace and tranquility, and directly express your willingness to submit and surrender.

For example, Fan Yang Lu's family is such a family, the local power is very strong, and they have been fighting until now.

When Li Shimin hit the door of his house, he directly opened the door and surrendered. He had no choice but to confer a symbolic seal on a Fanyang County Duke.

To use a vivid metaphor, this kind of family is like a thousand-year-old tortoise riding in the carriage of Dynasty.

I want to kill it, but its tortoise shell is very hard, it is too difficult to operate, and other families will also resist.

Once too many families rebel, it will be a turmoil. They are likely to lose the carriage in the turmoil, and the dynasty will be in danger of overturning in the end.

But once the dynasty fell, it got off the dynasty's carriage directly, expressing its desire to transfer.

In this way, it once again prostituted the dynasty for nothing, and the family survived another dynasty change.

Therefore, for the dynasty, this white prostitution is very uncomfortable, but there is not much to do.

Because the reason for the survival and development of this "gou" is that the dynasty is prone to overturn, especially Qin II, this dynasty overturned too much.

So in order to preserve the kindling for my family, I have always adopted the state of 'dog' living and developing silently.

But now it's different!

The appearance of statistical charts can clearly show the growth and decline of national power.

Knowing the growth and decline of national power, we can analyze the reasons for the growth and decline, and then we can prescribe the right medicine—the national policies that can increase the national power must be fully implemented, and the national policies that lead to the reduction of national power must be quickly corrected.

In the long run, as long as this principle has been followed, the national strength will continue to prosper.

This means that Datang's carriage will not overturn easily.

Thinking of this, all the ministers looked at Li Tai with different eyes, and there was a huge wave in their hearts. Doesn't this mean that the Tang Dynasty will last forever! ?

Thoughts swirled in their hearts, some were thankful that they had already boarded the car, some had selfish motives and eagerly wanted to discuss with the Hui people, and some were eager to get on the car...

"Cough." Li Shimin looked around with sharp eyes.

This is the effect he wants - the world will return to its heart.

It is not only the binding of interests, but also the ideological transformation of their ideas.

Show the way forward for the dynasty and make them want to ride with this carriage.

Instead of letting these families always think about backstabbing, transferring, and staying....

Otherwise, only the Li family will contribute, and they will be exhausted sooner or later.

Chapter 119 Changan County Pilot

Li Shimin coughed, interrupting the thinking of all the ministers: "My love, if you have any opinions, please feel free to speak up."

Wei Zheng was the first to speak and said: "I thought that the professor would give statistics to civil and military officials, and the imperial court could set up a lower department in the six ministries, and the same could be set up in each government.

The statistical data of each prefecture is regularly submitted to the imperial court, and the imperial court conducts analysis based on the data after verification.

Then you can get the pros and cons of national policies and the merits of talents. "

Statistical bureaus are set up in every place, and the data is handed over to Chang'an, and then handed over to Li Shimin after verification. Even now, the eating method is similar.

Everyone nodded.

But Chu Suiliang immediately came out and refuted.

"This move seems beautiful, but it is one of the things that will consume a lot of national power if it is set up in every place.

Second, each place has different customs, products and grains, etc. How can there be a standard?

In addition, coupled with the fact that the local officials conduct themselves in the world and interpret things differently, it would be too ruthless to judge this by relying solely on data. "

A small statistical chart seems to have no impact on the locality, but it is just to count the data and evaluate the officials.

But it's not.

Think about it, even if you want to rebel, you need to hoard a lot of money, food, salt, iron, soldiers, horses and weapons.

Once a large amount of money, grain, salt and iron is hoarded, the price of local materials such as horses will soon rise.

At the same time, a large number of conscripts will lose a large number of farmers. These populations will disappear inexplicably. Fields, taxation, and a series of all will be affected.

If the data is mastered tightly, the statistical chart will faithfully record all these changes.

This means that before he had time to rebel, his own strength had already been exposed.

No one wants their own strength to be placed in front of Li Shimin's eyes. The Ministry of Officials has its own set of promotion assessment standards and assessment methods.

As soon as the Ministry of Statistics came out, it obviously affected the power of the Ministry of Officials, and Chu Suiliang naturally opposed the combination of the two.

Everyone wanted to understand the reason for Suiliang, but although Chu Suiliang refused both inside and outside, it was very reasonable.

The land area of ​​Datang is very large, how much to set up is a problem, the form of display, cost and so on are all problems.

At the same time, the climate and environment in the north and the south are very different, which leads to great differences in population, food production and taxation. It is difficult to have a standard for judging the performance of officials.

In addition, every official has a judgmental style and a style of handling affairs. It is too ruthless to judge by data alone... There are a lot of problems.

"What you said is polite." Li Shimin nodded, then changed the subject and said, "My dear friends, you can speak up, and your questions can be resolved slowly."

"Yes..." Chu Suiliang sighed in his heart, knowing that so many people would definitely be able to negotiate a solution.

Fang Xuanling also stood up and said: "I think that statistics can be used as one of the methods of evaluating officials' performance, and it will be more fair and intuitive to show the talents of officials from all over the world."

There are usually two types of performance appraisal in ancient times.

One is inspection, in which specific officials inspect the performance of officials every year, which is related to promotion.

The other is the examination, which is the work efficiency and tenure of the officials, which is related to losing the official.

A combination of the two completes the final exam.

If the inspection is good, the exam is also good, and if you get a good evaluation in three years, then you can be promoted.

In order to be promoted, officials will use whatever means to get evaluation from above.

"Fengshi Wenjianlu" records that Wu Zetian wanted to select a group of officials in the year of Ruyi.

On the list, there were officials surnamed Wang and Fang, following the advice of people in the industry, they removed one sum from their names and changed their surnames to Ding and Shi, planning to change them back after they were promoted.

Because these two surnames are very rare and concise, they are very conspicuous on the list.

But I didn't expect to be seen through at a glance, and the road to promotion was cut off.

A name can affect promotion, not to mention accepting bribes and the like, so in evaluating the achievements of officials, using statistics will become more just and fair.

Hearing what Fang Xuanling said, Chu Suiliang's face turned dark immediately, which was clearly a slap in the face.

"That's right, what Fang Aiqing said is well-founded." Li Shimin praised with a smile.

And Changsun Wuji also said: "The old minister thinks that the knowledge of statistics can be added to the "Suanjing" and included in the scope of scientific examinations."

Included in the scientific examination?

Everyone raised their heads and looked at each other, their eyes drifted between Changsun Wuji and Li Shimin.

After all, statistics is a science, and now the mainstream of scientific research is Confucianism.

They suspected that Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji had colluded and used the questions to include science in the scope of the exam.

If this is the case, there will be countless more disciples studying science overnight.

For a moment Li Shimin's heart was a little moved, and at the same time he was clearly aware of the conflict of doctrines between the two, which was likely to cause more trouble or even conflict.

For a while, Li Shimin was a little uncertain, and looked at Li Tai.

Li Tai spoke in the eyes of everyone.

"Whether it's six departments and then a lower one, or it's used to assess officials, or it's included in scientific research... From a logical point of view, it all makes sense.

It's just that statistics, as a new discipline in mathematics, has its own advantages and disadvantages, such as being unreasonable...and so on.

Moreover, as a new learning, most people who practice it do not understand it, nor do they know how to practice it, and there are many problems in it.

The prince thought that it could be done step by step, first find a place to set up a small department and then implement it.

The difficulties, solutions and experiences they encountered during implementation can be bound into a book to avoid making the same mistakes. "

"This..." Everyone started to think after hearing this.