Under the leadership of Wang Fangyi, Li Shimin and his group came to Pingzhang Courtyard established by Li Chengqian, which was the original main courtyard of Youchunfang.

Li Shimin stood at the door and looked up at the three words Pingzhangyuan mentioned by Li Chengqian and admired for a long time. Before he was about to step in, he saw an eunuch holding a box of pineapple wood that was one foot square.

When he saw Li Shimin and others hustle and stand by waiting for Li Shimin to come over, he saw Li Shimin keep looking at the box in his hand and didn't know what to do.

The eunuch beside Li Shimin saw that the little eunuch had no vision, so he stepped forward and said, "What is the stuff in your box?"

If you don’t open it, let’s see it for Your Majesty!”

When the eunuch heard this, he did not open the box and just replied: "Your Majesty, this box contains the memorials prepared by the military court and will be sent to the Chongjiao Hall."

Li Shimin heard this and said, "Open it quickly and show me how they drafted the ticket."

The little eunuch said with embarrassment when he heard this: "Your Majesty, I have no key." As he said that, he turned the box around. Li Shimin and others saw that there was indeed an exquisite small silver lock hanging on the box.

Li Shimin frowned before he could speak, the eunuch next to him stepped forward and asked, "Who is the key?"

"There are two keys on this box, one on the desk of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the other on the waist of General Su's waist in the military court." The little eunuch said truthfully.

When the eunuch heard this, he said anxiously: "Then why don't you go and find General Su to open a box for His Majesty!"

"Don't worry, go in with me." Li Shimin frowned and walked in first.

After entering the main courtyard, I turned around the screen wall and saw rows of tables in the courtyard. Next to each table were large wooden boxes filled with documents. Behind the table was a 9th-rank official who was lying down to deal with documents.

Several bachelors from Chongxian Pavilion walked among the tables, as if they were guiding them as if they were handling official documents.

Seeing Li Shimin and his group coming, they hurriedly ran to the front to salute.

"What official documents should be processed in this courtyard?" Li Shimin asked with displeasure.

The sir was responsible for the duty here and replied in a hurry: "Your Majesty, these are all accounts of the Ministry of Civil Affairs in recent years. His Royal Highness said that the Ministry of Civil Affairs has been too confused in recent years, so he asked the civil affairs officer to be the head of the recalculation of the case."

"Why don't you find a house to calculate the accounts?" Li Shimin asked while looking at everyone in front of him.

Another scholar attorney heard the displeasure in Li Shimin's words and replied: "Because the people we recruited this time are full of people, and the accounts can be calculated today. Seeing that the weather is sunny today, everyone is not cold outside, so they didn't find another place."

Li Shimin waved his hand and said, "Yeah" and left. Everyone hurriedly got up and went back to their seats to settle the score.

Li Shimin saw a man who was less than four feet tall, had a dry and black face, had an unrighteous facial features, and his official robe seemed to be stolen.

I watched the man shake and walk to behind a table to calculate the accounts.

Li Shimin could no longer help it, pointed at the man and shouted: "What's going on? Why are all kinds of people recruited into the palace?"

A bachelor in charge hurriedly stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, this man is named Zhou Jin Zhenguan, and he has never been awarded an official because of his vulgar appearance.

A few days ago, His Highness the Crown Prince summoned all 423 people who passed the imperial examinations in recent years but did not receive an official position. His Highness the Crown Prince gave a public examination in the Jiade Hall. Zhou Jin ranked first and was ordered by His Highness the Crown Prince himself to be appointed as an official position."

Li Shimin was still furious after hearing this: "The crown prince personally appointed him as an official?

Could it be that he couldn't see this man being less than four feet tall?"

The bachelor's worthy looked embarrassed but did not dare to take the blame.

The Tang Dynasty focused on four aspects: body, speech, book and judgment. The first is body, to be a magnificent person. Zhou Jin was less than four feet tall and had no great achievements. He was just a candidate who passed the Ming Jing subject. If he had not met Li Chengqian, he would never have been awarded an official in Chang'an Marquis.

When Li Shimin saw this person, he thought he had come in through the back door, and when he heard that it was an official appointed by Li Chengqian himself, he also believed that Li Chengqian's move violated the rules.

"Transfer my order..." Li Shimin was about to "correct the mistake" for Li Chengqian.

"I don't know if your Majesty is coming to welcome you later, so I hope your Majesty will forgive you." Xiao Yu hurriedly came out from the inside with the Sixth Household Case.

Li Shimin looked at Xiao Yu and snorted coldly, continued without saying a word: "Tell me the will..."

When Ma Zhou saw Li Shimin, he was determined to deal with Zhou Jin and hurried forward and said, "Your Majesty, it's better to go inside and ask the situation in Taifu Xiao, and then make a decision."

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Yang Shidao followed behind.

Li Shimin was interrupted twice and was very angry, but he still had to give some face to face the prime minister and important officials, so he just snorted coldly and walked into the front hall of Pingzhangyuan.

Xiao Yu and Liu Fangzhang were both confused and looked at Yang Shidao and Ma Zhou. Ma Zhou smiled bitterly and shook his head to chase Li Shimin first.

When Ma Zhou walked through the front hall, he saw Li Shimin having already walked to the main hall. He hurriedly accelerated his pace and followed Li Shimin and walked into the main hall.

As soon as Li Shimin entered the main hall, he sat in the main seat angrily. Ma Zhou hurriedly bowed up and said, "Your Highness the Crown Prince has obtained more than 400 talents loyal to the Eastern Palace in one fell swoop. Why should Your Majesty care about that Zhou Jin?"

Li Shimin sighed and said, "I am naturally happy that he can get some talents, but he can't be so hungry, right?

There are so many good talents in the world, what is that Zhou Jin?

As the saying goes, a piece of rat shit will ruin the porridge. When Zhou Jin went out to be an official in the future, he saw that this was the talent selected by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. Wouldn't it ruin Chengqian's reputation?

He either scolded him for being blind, or scolded me for being uninhibited in the Tang Dynasty, and even dwarfs who were less than four feet tall were selected to be officials."

Li Shimin said that, everyone else walked into the main hall to salute Li Shimin. Li Shimin ignored them and waved his hand to make him calm.

Seeing this, Ma Zhou smiled bitterly and said, "Of course what Your Majesty is thinking makes sense. But since His Highness believes that Zhou Jin was a talented person, let him do something that does not have to show up in public.

Why do you have to demote him? If the matter is more important than the fact that His Majesty and the Crown Prince's Hall are not good."

Li Shimin was silent for a long time after hearing Ma Zhou's words, then nodded and said, "It seems that this is the only way to go now."

Seeing this, Ma Zhou hurriedly said, "Your Majesty's wise!"

Li Shimin recovered and looked at Xiao Yu again and said, "Thank you for your hard work in Shiwen these days, you are here to support Chengqian."

Li Shimin felt that he entrusted Li Chengqian to Changsun Wuji, but Changsun Wuji became ill. Xiao Yu took the responsibility without saying a word, which moved him quite and felt that these old ministers were reliable.

I didn't expect that Xiao Yu had been complaining these days. After hearing Li Shimin's words, he said sarcastically: "I am old and weak, so what can I do? These great scholars are here for national affairs!" As he said that, he pointed to the Liufangs' case.

Su Dingfang, Zhu Suiliang and others were all embarrassed.

Li Shimin knew Xiao Yu the best. When he saw him like this, he knew that he was dissatisfied with Li Chengqian. He asked, "Chengqian is young and ignorant. Shi Wen just said anything to me directly."

Originally, Li Chengqian invited Xiao Yu to guard Pingzhangyuan, but he thought he was very happy that he had won half of the prime minister's real power for nothing, and he was even ready to compete with Changsun Wuji in front of Li Shimin.

When Changsun Wuji was angry and Xiao Yu was even happier, thinking that the entire prime minister was his.

However, as Pingzhangyuan started to operate according to Li Chengqian's design, Xiao Yu gradually realized something was wrong.

Changsun Wuji left the official and militia officers who were originally assigned to him, Li Zaigan took over directly and did not let Xiao Yu take over. However, the three rituals and punishment workers assigned to Xiao Yu had the power to directly vote for the case. The so-called major matters were handed over to him, and the so-called major matters were ruled in the case of the three rituals.

Xu Jingzong and Li Yifu both guessed Li Chengqian's intentions. Whether it was important or not, as long as the tickets they wrote were intended to be approved by Li Chengqian.

Of course, he would also give him some things that were really difficult to deal with.

Zhu Suiliang was square and discussed with him any major matters in the Lifang.

What is most unbearable is that Li Chengqian originally designed Pingzhangyuan as a secretary-general machine. They have no right to directly review memorials like the real prime minister. Their tickets they wrote were denied directly if they wanted to use them, and they didn't even need to say why.

In the past few days, the backlog of government departments in the Shangshu Province before the New Year has been basically handled. Except for the private houses, Xiao Yu has even entered a retirement state directly, so how could he not complain?

Li Shimin heard Xiao Yu's complaints, although he was annoyed, he heard the key things from them, and that Li Chengqian had really great power.

This made him both envious and wary.

After hearing Xiao Yu's complaints, Li Shimin looked at the Liufang's plan and found that these people had a high level of handling government affairs, at least much better than the current several Zhongshu Shepherds in the Secretariat Province.

Thinking about the hundreds of people who had not been appointed as officials in the East Palace for several years, Li Chengqian had no relationship with the court and was only loyal to Li Chengqian.

Li Shimin made two decisions, one was to find Changsun Wuji back and stare at Pingzhang Academy, and the other was to add Su Dingfang and others to the Grand Secretary of the Chongjiao Palace.

This not only allowed Changsun Wuji to suppress Li Chengqian, but it did not allowed Li Chengqian to fight back.

As for Yu Xiaoyu, hehe, he has no ability...
Chapter completed!