At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin said many times that he would learn from the demise of the Sui Dynasty. Once upon a time, there were more and more hard labor, and there were "official corvees, and the road followed, and the brothers went to their brothers to return, beginning and ending." Those people who are five or six thousand miles away, spring, summer, autumn and winter, are slightly endless, and the tension of "just doing documents and serving as before". Including children from remote areas. Bring your own food and come all the way to Beijing to serve. During Li Shimin's reign, a large number of palaces were built, such as Ganyang Palace, Luo Yang Palace, Yong 'an Palace, Feishanmu, Xiangcheng Officer, Cui Instructor, Yuhua Palace, Jiucheng Palace and Beique Palace. That is to say, in terms of the relatively small and sloppy renovation of Xiangcheng Palace in Xishan, Ruzhou (Linru, Henan), the labor force has reached1900,000. It has created a tragic image of "one person serves, and the whole family is ruined". Therefore, some people accused Tang Taizong face to face, saying that when he flew to the mountain palace, he was "constantly poor in Shandong", "pregnant (Qinyang, Henan) and Luodong", and the disabled were miserable.
What's more, military service flourished during this period, and Emperor Taizong himself liked school hunting and recreation whether he was busy with farming or not. Therefore, he built bridges and roads, and at least 1 10,000 to 20,000 migrant workers were employed, which also seriously hindered farming. The laws of the Tang Dynasty imposed a felony on people who ran away from home because of class service. The Chang 'an government has repeatedly ordered the ban on residents living in different places. The purpose of "avoidance" is to master as many classes as possible. Extending the age of middle-aged men and delaying the age of adulthood in individual periods is a threat to "improve the people" and take into account reality. It is not difficult to find that "middle-aged men who have served in the army have re-entered the fourth class." I don't see any benefit to the people. Wei Zhi said in his remonstrance: "Your Majesty has been abusing the people's power all these years, and he also plausibly said,' People are arrogant and easy to do, and labor is easy to do'. What a fallacy this is! "
From the early "water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it" to today's "a big man makes things easy", which is true or false? Which is the performance and which is the truth? Behind the touching dialogue, Jiucheng Palace, Daming Palace, Feishan Palace and Xiangcheng Palace also broke ground at the same time. Because Jiucheng Palace was built in luxury, he ordered it to be destroyed. Xiangcheng Palace was also destroyed because it was not in his mind after it was built. The contrast between the two is easy to see, which belongs to the performance and which belongs to the true meaning. Therefore, the "Zhenguan rule" is not a masterpiece of Emperor Taizong's rule of the world in essence, but an extension of Tang Gaozu's rule of the country, which formed a "rule" with obvious contrast between the war in the early Zhenguan period and the war in the late Sui Dynasty, and was also the result of the continuous guidance and rectification of the upright minister Wei Zhi.