There were three types of early dynasties in the Sui Dynasty. The first one was the Great Court Meeting held on Yuan Day every year. In addition to the ministers, generals, ministers and hundreds of officials, as well as local governors, chiefs and envoys of various tribes all presented tributes and congratulations; The second type is the Synodic Court Meeting held on the first and fifteenth day of each month. All officials of the ninth rank and above in Beijing must meet with the emperor; the third type is the court meeting that must occur every day. Only officials of the fifth rank and above are eligible to attend. Generally, there is no pomp and circumstance. , is a real administrative day.
It's just that the court meetings in the Sui Dynasty were relatively relaxed. Although there was no saying that military generals were not allowed to participate in politics, there was also the concept of not being involved in politics unless they were in their positions. Since the early dynasty was mainly about government affairs, there must be regular attendance every day, and military generals could go or not. However, it is necessary to go to the Dachao Meeting and Shuowang Dynasty; but for people like Yang Ji, who are hard-working people, they don’t even have to go to Shuowang Dynasty, and only need to participate in the annual Dachao Meeting.
Because today is the New Year's Day, the etiquette is a little more grand than that of regular visits. Officials, big and small, first line up to go to the west pavilion of the Zhonghua Palace to pay homage to the sages of the past dynasties. Then, under the arrangement of the supervising censor, they line up according to rank and take off their outer boots one by one. , wearing inner shoes similar to socks to enter the temple.
From the Western Han Dynasty to the Sui Dynasty, people were accustomed to kneeling and sitting, so they had to "take off their shoes" when going to court, offering sacrifices, and attending banquets to avoid stepping on the carpet on the ground. As for the small shoes and socks inside, they could be worn. Only great heroes were allowed to wear shoes into the palace. Of course, powerful officials like Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao who controlled the government were also allowed.
Entering the main hall, Yang Jian, wearing black clothes and a full crown, straddled his sword and sat high on the dragon chair. This horse-riding emperor has sharp eyes and a broad forehead. Although he is over sixty years old, he is still magnanimous. Extraordinary. The simple and majestic dragon and phoenix reliefs in front of him, the majestic mountains and rivers and the country map behind him, plus the respectful servants standing on both sides of Danbi, set off his majesty and majesty.
As an old eunuch waved his hand, everyone bowed and said: "See the saint."
Yang Jian raised his hand gently: "Everyone is safe!"
"Thank you, saint."
The loud voice resounded throughout the huge hall. When the echoes dispersed, the old eunuch strode out and said loudly: "Take your seats and take your seats."
Everyone bowed their hands and took their seats.
In addition to the high dragon chair at the top, the Chinese Hall is divided into three steps. As the prince, Yang Guang occupies the first step.
The princes such as Yang Ji were higher in status than the ministers, while the emperor Yang Jian and the prince Yang Guang were inferior to them. Therefore, they followed the order of elder and younger and sat on the second step behind Yang Guang and before the civil and military officials.
Yang Ji's seat was on the military generals' side. In front of him were Yang Zhiji and Yang Lun, and behind him was Yang Xiong, the king of Ande County. Yang Jing was assigned to the civil servants' side. He sat first, followed by Yang Zhao, Yang Guang's eldest son; After Guang was established as the crown prince, the vacant Jin king was granted to Yang Zhao by Yang Jian. However, he was of lower seniority, so he was placed after Yang Jing, and after Yang Zhao was Yang Hong, the prince of Hejian County.
The royal family of the Sui Dynasty was not prosperous, and although Yang Jian had five sons, he was dismissed from the family either by death or by death. Except for Yang Guang, the only remaining Yang Liang served in Bingzhou, so the ladder dedicated to the royal family seemed empty.
The civil and military officials sit on the left and right of the third step according to their distinction. The order of these positions is very particular based on the official positions, titles, casual officials, and honors of the civil and military officials. When Han Qinhu was still alive, He Ruobi competed with him in all aspects, even his seat. Since Han Qinhu's seat in the early dynasty was relatively close to him, he drew his sword many times to kill Han Qinhu, causing Yang Jian to die. The first two were very annoyed, so they finally placed him in the seat opposite the prince, and then they gave up contentedly.
Yang Ji knew that the dispute between himself and He Ruobi was a trivial matter and could not be put in the first place, so he knelt down on the thick mat and listened with interest to the responses of Yang Jian and the civil and military officials.
Yang Jian's way of managing politics was to discuss with ministers based on the memorials submitted by civil and military officials and local officials. Reasonable plans and requests were adopted, while unreasonable ones were rejected or rejected.
During the discussion, everyone discussed the matter as it happened, unlike later generations of leaders who made lengthy, stinky speeches. This also enabled each memorial to be processed very quickly without any sense of delay. Yang Ji felt that it was very efficient.
This is related to Yang Jian's political ability and experience. The key is that he has very strong control over the court. If he were replaced by an emperor who could not control his ministers, he would probably have to fight over trivial matters and fail to pass them for a long time.
Most of the content they discussed came from the local area. When they encountered doubts, ministers who were familiar with the place would come out and point out in detail the local topography, landforms, hydrology, human relations, customs and other basic information. Then the monarch and his ministers would make decisions based on the local conditions. Making decisions involves detailed analysis of specific issues.
Whenever a minister came out to introduce the general situation of the place, Yang Ji would listen with interest and take the opportunity to nourish his poor knowledge.
After dealing with local government affairs, I turned back to the central government. The main content was the revision of etiquette, and the use of new etiquette to restrain the extravagant style and restrain the powerful.
This is when Yang Jian saw the blind comparisons between powerful people, which turned the celebration of red and white into an occasion to show off and fight for wealth. In order to show off their wealth, some powerful people even did things like paving roads with corn and painting walls with paint, causing great waste. Yang Jian, who had been frugal all his life, was very unhappy with this bad habit. In order to curb this bad habit, he ordered Yang Su, Su Wei, Niu Hong and others to practice the five rites of good luck, bad luck, military, guest and Jia.
The three of them set corresponding restrictions on the specifications of various celebrations for civil and military officials and aristocratic families based on their official rank. Anyone whose specifications exceed their official position and status will be deemed to have exceeded the regulations and be punished by law.
What is exceeding the limit?
They used ceremonial guards and items that exceeded their status. Among them, Princess Yang Lihua's daughter Yuwen Eying and son-in-law Li Min were attacked here.
Although Yang Lihua had a tortuous experience of transforming from a queen to a queen mother, and from a queen mother to a princess, she always believed that she gave the world to her father, so she made all kinds of excessive demands on Yang Jian; but Yang Jian felt guilty. They all tried their best to satisfy her, which directly led to Li Min and Yuwen Eying living an extravagant and extravagant life.
Yuwen Eying was originally a rather embarrassing princess of the previous dynasty. As long as the couple had some sense, they would behave with their tails between their legs. However, the standards of ceremonial they used were far superior to those of princesses and princes.
All dynasties have attached great importance to overstepping the rules. Even if Li Min and his wife broke the rules on a daily basis because of Yang Lihua, the emperor acquiesced, but after all, it was just an unspoken rule under the sun. If everyone didn't tell them, they would just pretend they didn't know it.
But if you put it on the table and say it, then absolutely not!
Rules are rules, if everyone doesn't follow them, what's the use of them?
In order to uphold the dignity of the law, Emperor Yang Jian severely punished Qin King Yang Jun and Shu King Yang Xiu for violating laws and regulations, taking bribes and perverting the law. Yang Jun was not forgiven by his father after his death.
Since the prince broke the law and was guilty like the people, then Yuwen Eying and Li Min, who used the ceremonial guard far beyond that of the royal children, were despising the laws of the Sui Dynasty, did not take the dignity of the Tian family in their eyes, and were disrespectful and treasonous!
Yang Ji can understand the mood of the civil and military officials. After all, everyone lived and died for the Sui Dynasty to achieve their current status. If the children of the royal family were extravagant and lustful and enjoyed the highest honor, they would naturally have nothing to say, but Yuwen Eying, Li Min was just a relative at most, so why did their honor guard surpass the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty?
Secondly, because Li Min welcomed Yu Wen Eying, his mother-in-law Yang Lihua not only won for him the governorship of Zhuguo and Jingcheng County, but also won the governorship of the five prefectures of Pu, Bin, Jin, Hua, and Fu. The power and rewards were exhausted. They are all superior to the heroes. Civil and military officials have been dissatisfied with this for a long time. Now they just have an outlet to express themselves.
Li Min was criticized by all the civil and military officials, so he had no choice but to plead guilty with a pale face. Not only did he lose his country, the governor of the five states was also reduced to the governor of Qizhou. In addition, he was fined 10,000 taels and five years' salary.
Li Min's dismal ending also made Yang Ji see the cruelty of Sui Dynasty officialdom. If you have no strength to rely on and no worthy achievements, even the emperor cannot protect you.
Therefore, you still have to rely on yourself to be a human being and an official. If you are stupid and superstitious and believe in the 'royal family is supreme' and 'the royal family is sacred and inviolable', then it seems that your family will be destroyed and your family will be destroyed.
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"This memorial is interesting!" Yang Jian took a memorial from the desk: "The Duke of Song Dynasty sued King Wei, saying that King Wei used military crossbows to hurt people in the street with the intention of killing He Ruohuailiang, the third minister of Yitong. Is it possible..."
Before Yang Jian finished speaking, he heard a "pop" sound, but it was He Ruobi who rushed to the center of the hall, knelt on his knees and shouted: "Saint, please make the decision for the final general."
I saw him banging his head on the ground and crying loudly.
The cry was hoarse and majestic, passionate and full of grievances, just like the endless waves of the river, or like the Yellow River flooding out of control.
Yang Ji was dumbfounded...
When the court discussed etiquette and punished Li Min, he realized that a big drama was going on, but he never expected that such a reckless man as He Ruobi could perform as well as any actor, with his twitching shoulders, tears like bursting of dams, and overwhelming grief. The cry is enough to move the viewer and make the listener cry.
Isn't this too shameless?
Little did he know that He Ruobi was not acting, but was really sad. In addition to He Ruohuailiang becoming an eunuch, it was more because he was used to being the king and hegemony and going smoothly. For decades, he had always been the bully. Such humiliation?
This feeling of being stepped from the clouds into the mud made him feel worse than death.
He cried loudly in front of the civil and military officials of the court, which stunned Yang Ji, who was well prepared, and suddenly felt a little at a loss.
Did he also kneel down and cry bitterly?
Kneeling to his uncle, Yang Ji felt no psychological pressure. The key was that he couldn't cry!
"Hahahaha..." Suddenly, Yang Ji laughed loudly. Since he couldn't cry, he just laughed. He even faked a smile at first, but when he thought of stepping on a eunuch, his smile became even louder and his laughter became louder.
In the Chinese Palace, a prince was crying in sorrow, and a prince was laughing arrogantly. This scene was completely consistent with the mentality of the victim and the criminal.
Yang Jian looked at an old man and a young man in front of him, one kneeling and one standing, one crying and one laughing. He felt his temples pounding and shouted: "Shut up, everyone, it's so noisy."
He Ruobi didn't dare to say anything anymore and immediately shut up. His eyes were as red and swollen as peach twitching.
"Haha!" Yang Ji had already held back, but when he saw that the strong bear-like He Ruobi was as aggrieved as a little daughter-in-law who had been fucked countless times, he couldn't help but laugh: "Hahahaha, I'm sorry, no matter how much It’s funny, I usually don’t laugh unless I really can’t help it.”
After hearing Yang Ji's words, Yang Jian wanted to laugh, so in order to maintain his image, he had to keep his eyes blank, as if he was glaring at Yang Ji fiercely: "The Song Dynasty announced that you planned to murder the imperial official, how dare you laugh?"
"Haha, I don't laugh at anything else. I laugh at Song Guogong's lack of integrity and He Ruobi's shame. If it were me, I wouldn't cry out to catch the thief or confuse right and wrong..." Yang Ji found a reason to laugh and said with a high-sounding smile.
"How can I be so shameless?" He Ruobi was furious.
"In the battle between Pingchen and Chen, even the Beiye gate where you entered Kangcheng was opened by General Han Qinhu. But in order to capture the enemy chieftain, you not only drew your sword to kill General Han; you also let Chen Chao The Minister of Civil Affairs wrote for Chen Shubao and asked him to pretend to be Chen Shubao and come to you in a mule cart. Isn't this shameless?" Yang Ji laughed unscrupulously.
He Ruobi said angrily: "I destroyed the Chen Dynasty's army, Han Qinhu just took advantage and captured Chen Shubao."
Yang Jikai said heartily: "As far as I know, General Yuwenshu contained many Chen troops for you in Stone City; and Duke Yue, General Wang Changxi, General Liu Ren'en, and General Xue Zhou even annihilated them in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River. The elite Chen army created the conditions for victory in the attack on Jiankang City... If we go by your absurd theory, should they be credited with capturing Chen Shubao?"
He Ruobi said disdainfully: "Them? They are nothing."
Yang Ji said with an expression that he wanted to be beaten: "To put it bluntly, you are a piece of shit."
Manchao Wenwu couldn't hold it in anymore, so he had to raise his hand to cover his mouth, fearing that he might laugh out loud.
Yang Jian, who was aloof, blinked his eyes and suddenly realized that Yang Ji's messy talent was quite remarkable. He not only brought He Ruobi to life, but also attracted a bunch of enemies to him.
"The battle between He Ruo and Han has been decided for a long time. Could it be that King Wei feels that the saint's reward is unfair?" A clear voice came from the row of civil servants.
