"If you don't come, I will almost be raised by the dog next door."

Luo Taisui couldn't help but smile when he saw the beautiful figure appearing at the door while pinching the meal.

"I didn't ask you to prepare my meal every day." Li Lizhi pouted and walked in with a proud look on her face.

Luo Taisui laughed and said, "You always come at this time. Wouldn't it be embarrassing if you don't have food to treat?"

"It seems like I'm coming to have a free meal..."

Li Lizhi muttered in her little mouth, but she was so soft-mouthed that she quickly changed the subject: "Why didn't you see Yanshi?"

Luo Taisui said: "I've been busy these two days, so I've been waiting for a while for Shouyi to pick me up."

"oh."

Li Lizhi responded calmly and then sat down in front of the dining table very honestly.

Luo Taisui moved her favorite dishes to her, and then served rice.

The aroma of the meal is everywhere.

Li Lizhi, who was already full of anger, suddenly felt hungry, so she picked up the chopsticks and asked casually while picking up food: "Are you busy with the case of a bad person?"

"Have you heard it too?" Luo Taisui looked at her with some surprise, but she didn't expect that she would still care about such things.

"I heard from the adults." Li Lizhi also looked at Luo Taisui.

The case of the bad guy ended in failure. I wonder if Luo Datou would be discouraged if he knew it was this result.

After all, he spent a lot of effort on the case.

"How? Can you gain something?"

She was intentionally testing Luo Taisui's tone and see how much he attached to the case.

Luo Taisui did not doubt that he was there and said very simply: "This case involves officials of the third rank or above in the court, and I am afraid it will be unsustainable."

Li Lizhi quietly observed his expression and found that he was not very disappointed. He said strangely: "Why? When it comes to officials of this level, the court should pay more attention to it."

"You're still too young!"

Luo Taisui looked old-fashioned and said, "Which bad guy with bad deeds and important officials of the court who were cited as right-hand men, who would you choose?"

Li Lizhi thought carefully for a moment, and then said, "In terms of action, it is certainly important for ministers. However, if the other party is a minister and abuses the law, and all prefectures and counties follow their examples, how will the court convince the public?

There is a way: if the law does not work, it will be violated by oneself. Isn’t this the case?"

Seeing her serious little look, Luo Taisui couldn't help but smile and said, "This is what Mr. Shang said, but you only know one thing, not the other."

Li Lizhi was shocked.

She once again proposed that "the law does not work, and the law will be violated by itself", just to hear what Luo Taisui understood about this, but she did not expect that his answer was almost exactly the same as his father.

Next, I heard Luo Taisui say: "As early as the Western Zhou Dynasty, the literati had privileges and were not restricted by laws and regulations, and only had to strictly abide by the rules of the Zhou rituals.

The common people are busy working and have no time to practice etiquette, so they can only use punishment to manage them.

The scholars and officials and common people, both at the top and bottom, each has its own rules and cannot be overruled.

This is what is said, "The punishment cannot be punished by the doctor, and the etiquette cannot be given to the common people."

Li Lizhi frowned slightly when she heard this, and subconsciously refuted: "This is the time and the other is the time. Now that I have martial laws to follow in the Tang Dynasty, how can I generalize them?"

"You're right, but don't be impatient, and listen to me slowly."

Luo Taisui pressed his palm out of thin air, and then said leisurely: "In the Warring States Period, the patriarchal system of the Western Zhou Dynasty completely collapsed, which was known in history as "the collapse of rituals and music".

Therefore, Shang Yang's reforms extended the criminal law that Qin was originally used for common people to the literati and officials.

The result of this is to break the hierarchical boundaries between scholars and officials and commoners.

What you call "If the law does not work, it will be violated by the superiors" is exactly what Shang Yang made to implement the new order."

This is pretty good.

Li Lizhi nodded slowly when she heard this: "Then do you think I'm right?"

Unexpectedly, Luo Taisui suddenly had a "straight male cancer" attack, and he shook his head and said, "It's not entirely true."

Li Lizhi was so angry: "Then tell me what's wrong with me!"

"Where is right or wrong?" Luo Taisui laughed, "The so-called butt determines the head...uh!"

Seeing that Li Lizhi's expression was a little unnatural, he screamed and quickly changed his words: "How to say it in the words of a literati... If you are not in his position, don't do your own politics, yes, don't do your own politics!"

Li Lizhi seemed to understand but not understand.

As for the butt and other things, although the words are indecent, don’t I just like to be with him and chatting unscrupulously with each other?

So Li Lizhi was not angry, but was looking forward to what he wanted to say next.

"What you think is from the prime minister and sitting in any position, there is no problem thinking like this."

Luo Taisui continued: "But once you sit on the only throne and do it according to your principles, it seems to be inadequate."

"You mean..." Li Lizhi thought, "As the emperor, you must have different considerations?"

"That's right."

Luo Taisui shook his head and said, "Do you know that officials are the foundation of the people and the principles, so the sage governs officials but not the people?"

"Of course I know."

Li Lizhi pursed her lips and said, "This is from Han Feizi, which means that officials are the foundation and principles of the people. For a wise monarch, governing the people first, governing officials, and governing officials is governing the country...

In this way, shouldn’t the government be rectified?”

This girl knows a lot, and Luo Taisui is a little surprised.

"So, you only know one thing, not the other." He said slowly, "Then ask you another question. If you are the king of a country, who do you think your biggest enemy is?"

"Enemy?" Li Lizhi was suddenly stopped by him.

"This question seems too general, so I'll ask more specific questions." Luo Taisui thought about it and said, "If you are the king of a country, do you think your biggest enemy is your subordinate or a commoner?"

"Subject? People?"

Li Lizhi was a little confused about this problem at the beginning, but the more she thought about it, the more shocked she felt.

Why did the Zhou Dynasty collapse in rituals and music?

The princes and heroes emerged, challenging the authority of the Zhou royal family, which made the prestige of the Zhou emperor ruin the floor and the royal family gradually declined.

Why did the Han Dynasty fall apart?

Foreign relatives interfered in politics, eunuchs took power, powerful ministers controlled the government, and used the emperor to order the princes...

Wei usurped the Han Dynasty, Jin usurped the Wei Dynasty...

Until Yang Jian forced the orphans and widows to usurp the Northern Zhou Dynasty and establish the Sui Dynasty...

Including grandfather Li Yuan rebelled against Sui and prospered the Tang Dynasty...

"Is the king's biggest enemy a commoner? No, he is a subordinate." Luo Taisui knew that she had an answer in her heart, "As an emperor, he must have the skills to check and balance and control his ministers in a good way.

If the ministers are united and do not check and balance each other, their spearhead will be directed at the emperor, which will turn into a dispute between imperial power and ministers.

Once it reaches this point, it is equivalent to the court having two emperors, one is the real emperor, and the other...

He is the powerful emperor!

If the technique of checks and balances is not well grasped, the emperor will become the spokesperson for the prime minister!

So, do you understand?"

Li Lizhi was already stunned by hearing this.

"So father... When the son did not pursue the important officials of the court involved in the case of bad people today, it has nothing to do with right or wrong. It is actually a kind of art of controlling the ministers?" She gradually realized.

Luo Taisui nodded slowly: "There are skills for checks and balances, and the control of ministers is good. This is the art of the emperor!"
Chapter completed!