In the early winter, there are laughter and joy everywhere.

Since Li Shimin left, the Chang'an court was as quiet as the Tai Chi Palace. All the civil and military ministers in the court acted according to Li Chengqian's will, and no one dared to disobey Li Chengqian's will.

After the autumn harvest, Li Chengqian personally issued an order to Chang'an City and surrounding counties, and sent Wen Yaxiang and Qiu Shenji to inspect Chang'an City and surrounding counties.

They were ordered to fight against gangs and eliminate evil, and to capture all the city foxes and rats that were occupied in Chang'an City, and all the powerful families involved were severely punished.

This time, Li Chengqian sent the Royal Military and Political College, students from the Government Affairs Council and the alien guards he selected from Lingzhou Martial Arts.

These people have nothing to do with the powerful people around Chang'an. The local snakes in Chang'an City can be free from the influence of any powerful and wealthy families.

The city foxes and rats in Chang'an City are mainly located in the area of ​​Chang'an South City, which is a slum in Chang'an City.

They cheated and robbed Chang'an City, and some people were also related to some powerful or powerful slaves in Chang'an City.

He specializes in bullying some foreign merchants and farmers who go to the city to sell, bullying the market in the east and west markets, and sometimes even killing money.

The people who did bad things and suffered losses were not familiar with Chang'an because they first arrived in Chang'an, so they considered themselves unlucky. Even if someone dared to call him Zhen, these city foxes and rats carried out the people behind them and scared them.

In the past, they committed a case and the government went to hunt them down. These people either hid among the people early or hid directly in the county town around Chang'an, and then came out to commit the crime after a while.

The government cannot catch it even if it wants to.

This time, Li Chengqian also made some effort to deal with them. The night before, Li Chengqian ordered that the city gates would not be opened the next day. In the morning, the grand court issued a decree to Chang'an City to start cracking down on the gang today.

Immediately afterwards, Li Chengqian personally took Qiu Shenji, Ren Yaxiang and others around the city, mobilized the people to report, verify the true merits, and severely punished the taint and fabricators.

The whistleblower was immediately arrested and tried. The result of the trial was basically not concealed. Those who were seriously injured and killed were executed, and those who were slightly demoted to cool labor.

All powerful families involved in it will be severely punished according to their severity.

In this way, once you pass Chang'an City for three days, you will not close your doors at night, and you will not pick up any remains on the road, and the people will become simple and simple.

Then, Qiu Shenji and Ren Yaxiang took their men to patrol the county towns around Chang'an based on the clues provided by Chang'an prisoners.

At the same time, Bafeng Palace sent the East Palace to pay salaries to fully promote this virtue. The common people praised him when they saw the rogues who were rampant in the market and the gangsters were brought to justice by Li Chengqian.

Some families who have been bullied by these evil forces all secretly gave Li Chengqian a living tablet to provide daily salary at home.

Li Chengqian's second intention is to help poverty alleviation in winter.

After several months of expedition to destroy Xue Yantuo, Li Chengqian transported food to Lingzhou, and at the same time he also transported a lot of bacon, fur, wool, etc. from Lingzhou one after another.

In addition to being used as military rations, part of these things is distributed to craftsmen in the Ministry of Works and craftsmen for free. The lives of these people are the most difficult.

Some of them are left and sold at a low price in Chang'an City, which means that they are for the welfare of poor families and are sold at the market.

Originally, Li Chengqian asked to send these things to the house. As a result, when the county governments of Chang'an and Wannian counties released the news, each house consciously lined up to buy them. Every day, the people of several houses went to the East City of Chang'an to buy them by themselves, without any confusion.

The powerful and wealthy people in Chang'an City consciously did not buy these things, and put on a high attitude and did not compete with the poor.

While trying hard to pay welfare to the people, Li Chengqian did not relax the rectification of the officialdom for a moment. Du Zhenglun returned to Chang'an to learn about Li Chengqian's current political status and was very happy. He completed the things arranged by Li Chengqian without any compromise.

In less than a month, Du Zhenglun and Liu Xiangdao, the Minister of the Ministry of Personnel, made a regulation and official recommendation rules for foreign officials to enter the industry.

As soon as Li Chengqian went up the two memorials, he immediately summoned the ministers to discuss the matter.

The six ministers now have only Du Shilun, the Minister of Personnel, Cheng Mingzhen, the Minister of Revenue, Liu Dewei, the Minister of Justice, in Chang'an, Xue Dading, the Minister of Works, Li Shiji, the Minister of War, and Li Daozong, the Minister of Rites, were not in Chang'an.

The Secretariat was taken away by Li Shimin. If it weren't for the various decrees of the crown prince in the Tang Dynasty who had been issued from the Zhanshi Mansion, the court would have been paralyzed.

Fortunately, the Grand Secretary of Pingzhang Academy was there, so Li Chengqian summoned Chu Suiliang, Xu Jingzong, and the newly added military officer Xue Rengui.

In addition, Zhang Xingcheng, the only prime minister in Chang'an City, was the minister of the minister.

The ministers who had just passed the noon came outside the Chongjiao Hall and saw that Li Chengqian was waiting outside the hall before he arrived.

Suddenly, the umbrella was high and the crown prince's ceremonial guard slowly walked out from behind the hall. Li Chengqian, wearing a purple robe, and a minister in a purple robe, were walking and saying something.

Everyone did not look at Li Chengqian, but looked at the person beside Li Chengqian in surprise. The man was no one else but Li Jing, the mountain chief of the Royal Military and Political Academy.

Li Jing retired for many years. Although Li Chengqian came out to preside over the Royal Military and Political Academy in the past two years, he was still far from the center of power of the court. Why did he invite him to discuss the matter today?

Just as Li Chengqian was approaching, the ministers hurriedly bowed and bowed.

"See Your Highness the Crown Prince."

"Everyone is calm!"

Li Chengqian smiled and said to everyone, and after that, he walked into Chongjiao Hall first.

The ministers followed the temple to celebrate the ceremony and sat on both sides of the hall according to the lines.

"Today, the Lone King summoned you to discuss with you the memorials of Du Qing's family in the Ministry of Personnel... The person who came here to pass the memorials to the Qing's family to see."

Liu Kui took out the two memorials and let the ministers in the palace pass on them.

The official ranks of the Tang Dynasty were divided into two types: internal and external ranks. The internal ranks were divided into nine grades and thirty grades, the first grade, from first grade, one grade is two levels, and the first grade is all the same. There are six levels in the first three grades.

When it reaches the fourth grade, it is divided into four levels, and the fourth grade is below. From the fourth grade and from the fourth grade, there are four levels in the first grade. From the fourth grade to the ninth grade, there are four levels in each level, and there are twenty-four levels in total.

There are also nine levels outside the thirty levels inside the stream. These nine levels inside the stream are all minor officials directly under the court, and local minor officials are not in the stream.

Logically speaking, both inside and outside the imperial court officials should have a fixed number of personnel, one carrot and one pit, but the Tang Dynasty has been very kind since Li Shimin and rewarded the official position at will.

Now, according to the statistics of Du Zhenglun and Liu Xiangdao, there are more than 1,000 new people entering the Tang Dynasty in a year, and only one or two hundred people who truly recruited scholars in the Ming Dynasty or imperial examinations. The rest are mixed into officials, such as military merits, labor, recruitment, recommendation, etc.

Now the total number of officials inside and outside the Tang Dynasty has exceeded 13,000, and there are still tens of thousands waiting to be selected. Many times, those who pass the Mingjing exam will not be able to get official positions without background.

Many recommended officials did not work in the court yamen at all. Local officials reported that someone had the talent to ask the court for some official position, and then stayed in his staff to do things.

Du Fu was called Du Work Department because Yan Wu, the governor of Jiannan, recommended him as a member of the Ministry of Work Department of the Procuratorate. The court was corrected when he saw the memorial. However, Du Fu never went to the Ministry of Work Department and had been working in some civil positions under Yan Wu because he was so impatient that he could not work with others in other places.

Of course, during the Zhenguan period, it was not the point where the Ministry of Works was rewarded casually, but even so, the imperial court's official positions were widely rewarded.

Du Zhenglun and Liu Xiangdao's memorials have five contents. First, the removal of officials who are not in their positions; second, those who are unsuccessful shall not be recommended; third, civil servants must have meritorious achievements and pass the examination; fourth, non-instruction ministers and generals of the march shall not recruit officials; fifth, officials shall not be favored by the children of scholars and children.

The disadvantages of these points are already very obvious. For example, the second point of view, those children of the gentry who were recommended without merit and Li Chengqian returned to Chang'an to dismiss him all belong to this point.

Article 4: Recruiting officials. It is very common for officials in the Tang Dynasty to recruit officials. There have even been open nepotism prime ministers. They also called them "I know these people and know their ability, so I can appoint them."

The fifth official's enshrined official is that an official made great contributions or became a high-ranking official, and his brothers and sons were all given real officials. Li Shimin could give several letters to some officials.

However, for example, the first article is that officials who are not in their positions, and the third article is that few are not in the current flow of officials. This is a problem that arises after Emperor Gaozong of Tang took office.

The ministers in Chongjiao Hall looked solemn after reading the memorials of Du Zhenglun and Liu Xiangdao, and slowly calculated the gains and losses in their hearts.

Any problem has its own reasons.

The problem of too many officials in history was raised by Du Zhenglun and Liu Xiangdao in the early years of Emperor Gaozong of Tang. Emperor Gaozong of Tang also expressed his support for them to formulate strategies to solve the disadvantages, and the two of them were extremely powerful in the prime minister.

But in the end, I didn't even take out a written strategy, not because I didn't have talent but was obstructed by various forces.

Later, this problem became more and more intense. Although the emperor and prime minister behind him knew about this problem, no one dared to solve it.

Although Li Chengqian is now in power, it is impossible to issue such a decree.

"I have reported to the Crown Prince. I think this is too much to be discussed and must not be made public, which will cause turmoil in the officialdom and damage the reputation of the Crown Prince."

Zhu Suiliang stood in the hall and said in a stern manner.

"I'm going to give you a comment!" Liu Dewei also stood up and said.

All the ministers in the palace looked at Li Chengqian after hearing this, and some of them looked eager to try, as if they were ready to stand up and oppose it at any time.

Li Chengqian sat on the throne and looked down at the ministers in the hall. Seeing that there were still people who wanted to stand up and object, he couldn't help but snorted coldly and said, "What?

Do you think this is inappropriate?”

"I am too anxious to report to the Crown Prince." Liu Dewei said loudly.

Li Chengqian had a cold face before he could answer, but saw the servant Zhang Xingcheng standing up slowly, and said solemnly:

"If His Highness the Crown Prince gives the order, I will never sue it."

As soon as Zhang Chengxing said this, the atmosphere in the hall immediately became depressed.

Menxia Province is responsible for reviewing government orders and has the power to refute.

Zhang Xingcheng said this just to tell Li Chengqian clearly that this government order would not be passed.

This is a frontal force.

It was also the most cruel time that Li Chengqian had been criticized by his ministers since he traveled through time.
Chapter completed!