After breakfast, I finally recovered a little energy. After all, I didn't sleep all night and my body became a little stiff. After standing up, I moved my limbs, I smiled at Li Zhi and said, "I said Xiaozhi, you shouldn't just go to my house early in the morning just to get some breakfast." After teaching the prince a lesson, we remembered that we hadn't asked what the kid wanted to do when he ran into my house early in the morning?

Li Zhi had just taken a sip of tea, and when he heard what I said, "I said, Brother Jun, look at what you said, is Xiaozhi a person who is so good to take advantage of others and harms others? Today, Xiaozhi came here, naturally, he has never seen Master for a long time, so he came to visit him. These two people just want to talk to Master. You have been away for nearly a year, but a lot of new things have happened. In addition to Master, Xiaozhi felt that chatting with those people was too boring. One and two were hesitant and didn't look good, let alone talk about things."

"Oh? If there is anything new, please tell me." I sat cross-legged across from Li Zhi and asked curiously. It has been almost a year since I left Chang'an. Although I have received several letters over the past period of time, most of them greet each other, and there is no content in it.

Li Zhi's words made me obscurely clear that his attitude towards me was as usual. This really touched me a little. It was too rare to get the sincere friendship and recognition of this prince.

Li Zhi was so excited that he was very excited: "At the beginning of this year, his father ordered the Dali Temple Minister Sun Fujia and others to inspect the four directions with six items and demoted the governor and the county magistrate 67."

"Liu Tiao? What's the thing?" I was a little curious. Although I had been in the Tang Dynasty for many years, I still didn't understand some of them. Could it be something similar to the Shangfang Sword in later generations? Li Zhi rolled his eyes and suddenly appeared: "Brother Jun, you don't even know this?"

"Nonsense! Do you know I can ask you? Besides, you have never heard Confucius say: Do you know? Know it? Know it, don't know it. It's knowledge." I also responded to Li Zhi's provocation with two giant rolls of eyes. Li Zhi shook his head helplessly: "I said Jun Ge, you are still attacking Confucius just now. Why do you use his words to make a name for yourself in a blink of an eye?"

I smiled and said, "Xiao Zhi, tell you, what is the character of a person? That's his business, but we cannot erase all his achievements. Confucius has defects in morality, but we cannot ignore the bright spots on him because of his defects. Many of his statements are still very beneficial. Little comrade, be humble..." I patted Li Zhi's shoulder proudly and said.

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With a dark face, Li Zhi could only lean over and admit defeat, and then explained to me in detail what Six Regulations meant. This was the system of "asking things with questions" created by the Han Dynasty to inspect local areas. It formed a model of insisting on having laws to follow.

"In the fifth year of Yuanfeng of Emperor Wu of Han, he specially ordered six items to investigate the governor. First, the strong lords and tyrants were issued a special order. For the strong lords, the right land and houses were exceeded, and the strong bullies were bullied the weak, and the people were violent. Second, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2, 2,

"You mean, just the dozens of people from Dali Temple went around for a walk, and then there were 67 people demoted the governor and the county magistrate?" I couldn't help but repeat again. I was afraid that I had heard it wrong. Good. Dali Temple in the Tang Dynasty was too good at it, right?

Li Zhi nodded: "That's natural. Anyone who violates these six articles will be investigated and reported to the Secretariat, and then the three provinces and six ministries will agree to remove the official position. Anyone who has major faults will not be an exaggeration even if he is directly imprisoned..."

Li Zhi's explanation made me understand that the Tang Dynasty had two systems of supervision and inspection. It had always been a regular inspection system. The inspectors inspected local governments according to the prescribed time. At the beginning of the year, by the end of the year, they returned to Beijing to report the matter. The other was an irregular inspection system. Uncle Li temporarily selected government officials according to the needs of the situation. Generally, the officials in Dali Temple or the Censorate Territory took the imperial edict to inspect the local area. After the matter was completed, the term of office was not long and there was no fixed inspection time. This was a system of inspection at any time and incident, and directly informed the emperor. It had great flexibility and suddenness, making it easier to find some local problems.

I kept saying that Uncle Li's move was enough to make a big move. The two sets of people were not in charge. The inspector was under the management of the three provinces, but the officials temporarily selected were directly responsible to the emperor. If there was a contradiction, his Majesty the Emperor would naturally inquire about it. Then, he would naturally strictly check the contradictions. Which party should bear the responsibility, either demoted or demoted, and would never show mercy.

"No wonder Your Majesty always says that there are not enough officials. It seems that this is true." I finally understand why Uncle Li always says that there is not enough talent. It is because this extremely strict system has considerable benefits for the production and life of the people. This is also the reason why the economy in the early Tang Dynasty was unprecedentedly developed, the society was stable, the politics was clear, the people were prosperous and healthy, and there was unprecedented prosperity. It was because of the lack of soil for corrupt officials. However, those who acted in this way, the mild ones were demoted, and the severe ones were removed from office. The more serious ones, they were thrown into prison and stayed in prison. Regular and irregular inspections once a year, and the two teams were not affiliated, eliminated the possibility of collusion and breeding a breeding ground for corruption.

But the only regret is that a considerable number of officials are abandoned every year. However, I do not think this is a disadvantage of this system. Instead, it is a good incentive mechanism. It is precisely because someone dismisses from office that people with real talents can get promoted.

Well, this is the highest state of the legal feudal society. If this system can be maintained like this, if the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty was not because of his own reasons, well, if there were many, the consequences were serious, but I have an idea, that is, I hope that Uncle Li could establish and build all kinds of good systems when he was alive so that it could be implemented to the end, then it would not be impossible for the Tang Dynasty to prosper forever forever.

Just when I was a rude person, Li Zhi said again: "When it comes to this, I remembered a big thing, that Master Confucius. His life has been so hard this year." Li Zhi's expression seemed a little gloating.

"What's wrong? The old guy is messing with you? Look at you, you're happy as if you have married a wife again." I gave Li Zhi a blank look, and I couldn't stand his expression the most.

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Li Zhi quickly explained: "No, Brother Jun, isn't this the old man used me to pick me up all day in the past few years? Humph, my elder brother is also a student of his place, and the fourth brother is also a student of his place, but what happened to him? He only picked up the two of them and said it was my turn? He sued me a lot in front of my father. I can't even say a sarcastic word, let's talk about it, let's talk about it, and then I became the prince. He went to find my father several times and wanted to be my teacher. Fortunately, my father refused. Now, everyone in the Tang Dynasty disliked him, and he kept impeaching every day. Fortunately, my father could resist it, otherwise, the old man would have gone back to Qufu to retire."

"Oh, then this means that your father's imperial examination reform has already made a big deal?" I asked quickly. I have been involved in the reform of the imperial examination system. Seeing that the results were coming, I naturally had to ask. "Of course, this autumn exam happened this year, but it was okay. There was no big trouble. The poor people, let alone let him agree with these reforms, even if they were to let them raise their hands and feet.

Li Zhi was about to continue talking, but unexpectedly, someone came into the door. When he turned around, it turned out that it was my wife and lamb who arrived. "Why are you getting up?" I quickly stood up and reached out to support Li Shu and said with concern.

"I can't see my husband, so I naturally couldn't sleep well. So I asked the person. I realized that Zhinu was here again. My younger brother came to visit her home. I, as a sister, can't ignore it." Li Shu enjoyed my consideration very much, looked back and smiled at me charmingly, and then said warmly.

"I have met Sister Seventeen, and I have only been here for a while." Li Zhi quickly greeted this sister who he couldn't afford to offend. Li Shu seemed to have not had enough rest, and was weak all over and yawning. I had to persuade Li Shu gently, "Sister Shu, you'd better go back and rest, so I'll just chat with Xiao Zhi here."

"Since that's the case, Zhinu, just chat with your brother-in-law slowly. My sister is still sleepy now. Let's go back to the house and lie down for a while. Wan'er, it's almost noon. You ask the kitchen to cook some good dishes and let the two of you not be hungry." After Li Shu gave the order, he wanted to get up and leave. Li Zhi quickly said, "Sister, stop cooking, hot pot is all. I'm tired of eating it all the time."
Chapter completed!