new year.

In the Eastern Palace, Cheng Qian invited his brothers to dinner for several years, and Grand Tutor Li Chao was also invited.

After the meal, the young princes retreated, leaving only Li Ke, Li Tai and Li You. Li Zhi, the King of Jin, was taken by the queen three years ago because he was too young, and is still in Dengzhou, the Eastern Capital.

The food was removed and the palace servants gave them refreshments.

Cheng Qian personally poured tea for his three brothers, "After the New Year, you are all fifteen, and Brother Ke is about to be sixteen."

Li Tai, who was still fat, seemed to guess what Cheng Qian was going to say at once, "Prince, I'm not fifteen yet, how many months are there."

The water vapor of hot tea rose, and Cheng Qian's face was smiling behind the water vapor.

"A year will be one year older. You will be fourteen last year, and you will naturally be fifteen after the New Year. According to my Tang system, the country of the prince will be a vassal, and this year will be over. I have decided that after a few days, I will send troops to escort your country to a vassal. Brother Ke and Brother You's mother will also follow you to your fiefdom. Don't worry, the court has been in Lingbei for three years, and now it is very safe. Your fiefdoms are all fertile places chosen by His Majesty themselves. When you get there, it will be very good."

Li Tai opened his mouth, "Do your Majesty know about this?"

"I will report to Your Majesty if I look back."

When Li Tai heard this, his eyes turned, "It's cold now, so why not wait until spring is blooming before setting off."

"I changed my mind and you will leave tomorrow."

Li Tai was stunned.

Li Chao said beside him, "Don't worry, your nobles, the military town castles in your fiefdom have been built, and there are also imperial garrisons there, so it's safe to go there."

Li Ke and Li You didn't say anything, but Li Tai was very unwilling to accept it with his cheeks.

"Okay, you guys retreat and go back and clean up. Tomorrow, I will send troops to protect your country and be a vassal."

After the three princes retreated unwillingly, Li Chao smiled and said to Cheng Qian, "You are a little anxious about this."

Cheng Qian said indifferently, "I was a little annoyed when I saw them. King Tai of Qin went to make friends with ministers and win over scholars all day long in the name of studying. Wang Ke of Hanzhong also made friends with Xunqi's children everywhere. As for Li You, he didn't have so many ambitions, but he was doing things wrong in Hanjing and often made chaos. I don't want to see any of these three people stay in Hanjing."

"But if you don't report this to Your Majesty first, I'm afraid Your Majesty will be unhappy."

"The orphans also act according to the Tang Dynasty system. The country of the fifteenth prince is, this is the national system."

Li Chao knew about the prince's thoughts. The prince grew older and began to have his own ideas. However, he was too anxious. In the past three years, the emperor was not in Beijing. With his help, Cheng Qian had truly mastered the left-behind court in Hanjing.

In Hanjing, Cheng Qian promoted and appointed a large number of officials, which was a preliminary formation of a real prince-party.

Because the emperor has not returned to the court for a long time, Li Chao advised the emperor last year that he imitated the court system in Hanjing and a new set of left-behind officials.

This set of left-behind officials was actually imitating the Nanjing left-behind court in the Ming Dynasty in later generations, setting up one of the three provinces and six ministries.

Li Chao's proposal was approved by Li Shimin.

So, there is now a court in Dengzhou, Tokyo, and there is another left-behind court in Hanjing.

Tokyo has three provinces and six ministries, and Hanjing also has three provinces and six ministries.

It’s just that Hanjing does not have a prime minister in the Third Court.

There were Shangshu Province, Zhongshu Province, Menxia Province, and six ministries and ministers, but there were ministers in the three provinces without orders. Moreover, these officials in Hanjing added the words "Left-behind" in front of them, such as Shangshu of the Ministry of War, Shangshu of the Ministry of Personnel in Hanjing, etc.

Because during the war, these two courts are now considered half of each of them.

The Tokyo court now governs the roads of Hebei, Huaibei, Huainan, Jiangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi, Liaoxi and other roads of Hedong Pass, Shuofang, Longyou Mountain, Hunan, Lingnan, Guizhou, Bashu, and the Western Regions.

Some important military and national affairs must also be reported to the Tokyo court for review. Nominally, the various departments of the Hanjing are also affiliated with the various departments of the Tokyo court.

The Hanjing court was somewhat similar to the various major offices and Taiwan at the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty. At that time, the major offices also had various departments such as the Ministry of War and Personnel, which were considered as the general manager.

The prince always wants to have his own team, but in fact, his people are basically Li Chao's people now, but the prince doesn't know it yet.

Li Chao knew that the prince's impatience was actually very lost in Li Shimin's side, but Li Chao just advised him a few times every time.

There are some things that he has tried to persuade him too much. The prince is his student, but he will not listen to him completely, especially now that the prince is getting older and older. In recent years, there has been no emperor who has been taking care of him on his head, and the prince has become more and more aloof.

However, what surprised Li Chao was that for three years, no matter what the prince did, the emperor had been patient and never taught the prince a lesson.

Maybe, we have to wait until the emperor comes back before we will settle the accounts.

In the third year of the crown prince's reign, Li Chao first premiered for three years.

Over the past three years, Li Chao's prestige in this small court has also become higher and higher. As the chief minister and the prince are young, many things are almost made by Li Chao's decisions. Yang Gongren has been ill at home for three years.

Liu Hongji and Du Yan were in the court and could not be compared with Li Chao at all.

Originally, there was the so-called Li Party in the court. In the past three years, Li Chao took the opportunity to install a large number of people in various departments. Li Chao served as the chief examiner of the imperial examination, including the chief examiner before the reform, and he was also the chief examiner after the reform. There were 1,000 Jinshi in the court, although they were all disciples of the emperor, but they were also Li Chao's disciples.

"Teacher, this year's exam is about to begin again, and the teacher will be more tired."

The twelve year of Zhenguan is another year of the imperial examination competition.

During the old imperial examination, there was one subject a year, but the number of people admitted was very small, especially the Jinshi. Now the new imperial examination was held until the third session, and the Jinshi examination became the only regular examination in the imperial examination, and each session was more and more important.

Although the emperor was in Tokyo, the imperial examination was still held in Hanjing.

There were more than 10,000 candidates who flocked to Hanjing at the end of last year. Among them, there were 5,000 candidates who took the exam, and many candidates who came to visit and make friends.

This year's examination will still be held by Li Chao, and the palace examination will be chaired by Prince Chengqian. The palace examination will be held for the first time. Chengqian is also very excited and looking forward to it.

After the implementation of the new official system and the imperial examination system, the number of officials in the Tang Dynasty's economic system has increased significantly, and most of them are scholars from the imperial examination and some experienced veteran officials. A large number of old officials have been eliminated, and the efficiency of the central and local government offices has been greatly improved.

Now the three-year imperial examination and the annual civil service examination have allowed the official class to be firmly controlled by the court. The situation of local tyrants and landlords controlling local officials in the past has never returned.

Although the censors have now approved the new official system of the court, which has led to a huge increase in the number of officials and the disadvantages of redundant officials. But in fact, those who understand know that although the number of officials in the past was small in the past, there were actually quite a lot of people, with a large number of non-communist officials, and although they did not use the court's food, these people rely on local extras and various names to embezzle, which increased the burden on the people, and corrupted the administration.

Now the court has increased the number of officials in the ritual. It seems that the number of officials in the court has increased and the expenditure has increased, but it has also reduced various additional stakes in the local area and reduced the problem of corruption.

The court did not collect taxes from the people more often. The burden on the people was much lighter than in the past, and the administration was much clearer. As for the expenses that the court spent more, it was increased through tax revenues in industry and commerce. Generally speaking, it was much better than the situation in the past that was left to the local area.

The number of officials in the Tang Dynasty is very large today, especially those in the officialdom.

Now there are Taoist governments in the Tang Dynasty, including prefectures, counties, townships, and four levels of local administrative agencies. In the past, the imperial power did not go to the countryside, and the imperial court directly governed the state. Now there are Taoist governments in the prefectures and townships in the county. Not only are there many yamen, but the number of officials has increased significantly.

In the past, a county had only a few officials, including the magistrate, the chief, the magistrate, the magistrate, the magistrate, the magistrate, the magistrate, and the school officials, and there were not many officials. Now, a county had at least two or three hundred officials.

However, in recent years, Li Chao has also presided over the imperial court to streamline prefectures and counties. A large number of prefectures and counties have been laid off and merged. The number of prefectures and counties has been greatly reduced. A prefecture must have at least eight counties, and a county must have at least more than 50,000 people. If this minimum standard is not met, it must be laid off and merged.

There are now more than 30 roads, more than 300 prefectures, and more than 1,000 counties in the Tang Dynasty.

Compared with the early Tang Dynasty, the territory expanded a lot, but the number of prefectures and counties decreased a lot.

Nowadays, many new officials are promoted to officials every year, but similarly, a large number of officials are eliminated and removed every year, and many officials are also removed from office.

The officials of the Tang Dynasty are not now strong. If they fail to be evaluated, they will either be reduced or exempted. Even if they are from Jinshi, they will not be evaluated. If they should be reduced or exempted, they will be exempted. However, even if they are exempted, they can still take the official examination and start with the official.

Li Chao is now the chief minister of Han Jing, and is the prime minister who stayed in the court. He is the main matter of all three provinces and six ministries. Liu Hongji, the auxiliary minister, is in charge of the soldiers of Han Jing, Du Yan is the censor, and is in charge of the censor.

Therefore, the court's common affairs and specific affairs were actually handled by Li Chao and the left-behind ministers of the three provinces and six ministries.

As the prince of the regent, Chengqian presented the memorials before him have been reviewed by Li Chao and others and have made the memorials. Chengqian only needs to deal with the yes or no results of Li Chao and others.

This is similar to the posting of yellow in the Ming Dynasty. Li Chao and the ministers deal with the memorials, gave their opinions on disposal, wrote them on yellow paper, and then posted them on the memorials, and then gave them to the prince for reference.

But even so, there are many memorials left by the court.

Even if Cheng Qian stared at the memorials all day long, he still couldn't finish them.

In the end, Chengqian asked Li Chao to help him. Usually after going to court, Chengqian left Li Chao in his study to help him review the memorials. Chengqian chose some Hanlin bachelor's memorials and posted yellow, and then waited for Chengqian and Li Chao to discuss a decision, and then added Hanlin bachelor's memorials to criticize the memorials.
Chapter completed!