On the fourth day of the winter month, Dong Zhenzi came to Lin Quan again, saying that the Chixiao faction had already come, and he didn't know when Lin Quan would be free, and Lin Quan said that he had to wait for the Mu holiday on the tenth day of the first month before he had time.

Dong Zhenzi naturally said yes and told Lin Quan that now they were waiting in the pure yang view of the capital.

Lin Quan asked Dong Zhenzi to go back first, and he would tell him when he was going to go.

On the afternoon of the fifth day of the first lunar month, Lin Quan was summoned to the Hanzhen Palace where Concubine Xian was located.

After Lin Quan saluted, Concubine Xian said to Lin Quan, "Lin Quan, Dong Zhenzi asked you to go to the Pure Yang Temple, how are you going to solve their Chixiao matter." ”

"Qi Yu Niangniang, the minister should not have acted on behalf of the minister, but the head of the cave Zhenzi is related to the minister, and the minister has no choice, and he asks the mother to forgive the sin."

"This matter, it's okay for you to come forward, this palace doesn't mean to blame you, it's just Lin Quan, I hope that after this incident, Dong Zhenzi can take charge of Chixiao well, don't make these jokes, let others see the jokes."

Lin Quan said that he would definitely tell Dong Zhenzi so that Dong Zhenzi would not make this mistake again.

Lin Quan's words fell, a minister went outside the palace, asked to see the concubine, after the concubine let the minister in, learned that it was the saint who summoned Lin Quan, this minister went to Chongwen Hall, learned that Lin Quan was here, so he came here.

Concubine Xian said to Lin Quan, "Since the sage has summoned you, then you should go first." ”

After Lin Quan left, when he went to Sanwuzhai, he saw the saint's angry appearance, and thought to himself that he had no place to offend the saint.

When the sage saw Lin Quan coming, he smiled at Lin Quan and asked Lin Quan to sit down.

"Saint, don't you know what to worry about?"

"Lin Quan, look at these official documents, I'm really angry."

The sage threw the official documents on the ground, Lin Quan took a look at it, and understood what the sage was angry about, these official documents were all very good, and there was a lot of nonsense.

The sage said to Lin Quan, "Since the time of Emperor Gao, the imperial court has issued an order to strictly prohibit gorgeousness, and these ministers always don't listen, Lin Quan, I want you to set rules for official documents, so that from now on, hundreds of officials will not be like this." ”

Lin Quan pondered for an hour, and then said to the sage some requirements for the official documents.

The first point is to avoid obscurity.

Lin Quan said that nowadays, some scholars, when writing essays, like to use remote allusions, or order to create new canons, which is not a problem for writing articles, but when it is used to write chapters, then it makes it difficult for the sages.

When Lin Quan was in the Chen Dynasty, this style was the most prosperous, and the literati boasted of their knowledge at that time, and they liked to use rare classics, which made the emperor of the Chen Dynasty look very headache. For example, the emperor allowed an official to come to Beijing to see him after the fall, but the scholar who wrote the approval had to do a "wait for Xiao Xiao and make a delightful trip." ”

After these words came out, they were rumored to sit and laugh about, and in today's dynasty, five or six hundred years later, there are still officials who make mistakes.

The second point is not to be careless.

Lin Quan said that some of the people who write official documents today are not good at learning, and the content of the writing is very rough, which gives many people a lot of space. Lin Quan is too familiar with this, master, these people rely on this ambiguity in official documents to live or harm people's lives.

Lin Quan mentioned this and gave an example, a group of robbers entered the door to kill and rob, and were caught. Their relatives gave money to the official, and after the official received the money, he changed the big character on the file with the words "stealing confessions and gathering the people to enter through the gate" into a dog character.

So the blatant crime was blatant, but in the end, it became a petty thief, and the crime was reduced.

This is life, but also harmful to people's lives, during the Wei Dynasty, someone was tortured into a move, written twenty people, and finally the county official because of the old hatred, turned two into five, so that thirty more people were framed.

The third point is to avoid ambiguity

Lin Quan said that nowadays, because there are too many scriptures and classics, it is easy to make the content vague. It's okay to say that, it's okay to say that. In this way, some treacherous people have taken advantage of loopholes.

For example, in the Song Dynasty, there was a big official who liked to punish people, and if he had nothing to do, he would stick his subordinates, and the Song Emperor couldn't see it, so he asked the subordinates of the big official to supervise the big official, and if he had more than ten rods, he had to report to the Song Emperor.

As a result, this senior official always beat this subordinate with seven or eight rods, no more than ten rods, and this subordinate really had suffering.

When the sage heard this, he said to Lin Quan, "This matter has to be cautious, the treacherous villain, this is how I messed up." ”

After the sage finished speaking, he asked Lin Quan to continue, and Lin Quan also continued.

The fourth point is to avoid bluntness.

Any article is taboo and blunt, although the hundred officials are below and the saint is superior, but if the saint's return is too blunt, it will make the subordinates uncomfortable. Although his subordinates didn't dare to say anything, they always had resentment in their hearts.

If the subordinate replied to the saint with blunt words, then the saint would naturally be furious. Therefore, this document should not be too blunt.

Fifth, avoid imitation.

Lin Quan said that since the Song Dynasty, the edicts drafted by the Hanlin Dynasty in previous dynasties have basically been to delete, delete, modify and change the old texts, and draw gourds in the same way. And the courtiers' official documents are the same cliché. Of course, this is for convenience, but Lin Quan believes that if it goes on like this, it will actually be harmful to people's literary talents. Although it takes time to write a new official document, the more flexible your mind will be if you write it carefully.

If it is convenient to save trouble, then after getting used to it, you will be lazy, then your writing and thinking will become more and more sluggish, and you will not be able to write articles in the end.

The sixth is what the sage said, avoid verbosity.

Although the length can show off the writing and make it pleasing to those who understand the article, the saint has a lot of opportunities every day, and there are no less than a thousand pieces to deal with.

Lin Quan said that in the future, the number of words in the article should be about 600 words, and there should be no longer any long advice or the like. In this way, the saint's approval is fast, and the courtiers save trouble.

Lin Quan also said that Emperor Ren's imperial approval was too long and too tired, so he rode the dragon early.

The sage nodded and asked the eunuch to record it aside.

Lin Quan is the seventh point, which is to avoid blind obedience.

This Hanlin bachelor, who is the best of the scholars, can naturally be sensible and understand the rules, if there is anything wrong in the edict of the sage, it should be corrected, not blindly catered to.

And Master Qi, the secretary of the hundred officials, should also remind the lotus master a lot, what should be played and what should not be played. Which should be said more and which should be said less. You can't know that there is a problem with the official document and not open your mouth.

In contrast to this is the eighth point, avoid conceit.

This Hanlin bachelor and Shuqi master, some of them think that they are unparalleled in learning, and they are unwilling to change what they write, which is not good, the so-called humble bamboo has a bowed head, if it is too conceited, there will be mistakes in the official documents that they have exemplified.

The ninth point, Lin Quan said that it was to avoid negligence.

Lin Quan felt this point, and now the officials of the Yu Dynasty are mostly nobles, they don't know how to govern at all, they are basically plain corpses, and they don't know anything about the outside world.

After Master Shuqi wrote the official document, they didn't look at it, checked to see if there was such a thing, or if there was anything important that had not yet been announced, so they casually stamped their seals.

They don't tell it, and the saint is far away in the deep palace, so it is naturally impossible to know.

The tenth point is the opposite, which is to avoid fear.

Some of the contents of the official documents are insignificant at all, and some of them have to deliberately ask the saint if he is well, worried that he will not be able to greet him, and will be blamed by the saint.

Eleventh, avoid showmanship.

For example, during the Wei Dynasty, there was a man-made rebellion, and a Hanlin in the imperial court wrote an article to crusade, which was well written, but between the lines of the article, the movement of the imperial army was leaked, and finally led to the defeat of the Wei army.

The twelfth is to taboo mistakes and omissions.

Lin Quan didn't say much about this, that is, he didn't wrap the saint in a fixed frame, or called it wrong, these are all trivial things, but these little things are the easiest to be punished, and Lin Quan also wanted to add.

After Lin Quan finished saying these twelve points, he had to think about it again, he also thought of something to say temporarily, he added, eleven o'clock that trickery, it can also be a leak of secrets.

However, this is not from the article itself, but from Hanlin and Master Shuqi, they drafted the text and knew the news as soon as possible, if they couldn't keep it secret, then it would cause a big disaster.

Lin Quan continued to add, he thought of avoiding exaggeration, now officials write articles for political achievements, often exaggerate, using this to promote, this act of blinding the saint must be stopped. Otherwise, it will confuse the virtuous and the foolish, and it will be difficult to distinguish between the dragon and the snake.

The next is the taboo and impropriety, which is mainly aimed at edicts, which will be recorded in the actual records and passed down through the ages, so we should be cautious, as the sage said before, words, cardinals of gentlemen.

Finally, there is taboo and bias, some officials have personal vendetta in private, so they use official documents to attack each other, or exaggerate their crimes, or trivialize their merits, which is not right.

After Lin Quan finished speaking, he said to the sage, all he thought of was this, and the sage asked the eunuch to show Lin Quan the entries he had made, and after Lin Quan deleted them, they were set to ten and presented to the sage.

After the sage's imperial inspection, he stamped his seal and said to Lin Quan, "From now on, the official documents and seals will be determined according to these ten cases, the first violation will be punished for three months, and then the punishment will be three years, and three violations." ”

Lin Quan said that the sage was wise, he didn't expect that this suggestion he put forward would be adopted by the sage, and Lin Quan knew that after these ten articles were promulgated, he would definitely be impeached.

Sure enough, the next day, after the court, after the sage asked the eunuch to read it, it immediately caused an uproar, and many officials objected, believing that the article was a collection of talents and ideas, and could not be restricted.

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