"We see Your Majesty!"

On the morning of the second day, hundreds of officials gathered in the Taiji Palace, and Li Chengqian led the hundred officials to salute.

Li Shimin has been traveling for more than two months, and now that he has returned, it is natural that all the officials will come to meet him, and even Morton, who has never participated in the court meeting, has to come and wait obediently.

"Everyone, please get up!" Li Shimin said loudly.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Baiguan got up and stood still, and when he saw the familiar figure of Li Shimin, the original sense of strangeness of the crown prince in prison was suddenly swept away.

When Prince Li Chengqian was in charge of the country, they had too many things to worry about, and Li Shimin was in power, so they only needed to do their own work.

"Enlighten the father, the son has a play." After the hundred officials stood still, Li Chengqian took the lead in the queue.

"Accurate!" Li Shimin said lightly.

Li Chengqian said: "When my father left the palace, he once let his children supervise the country, but now that my father has returned, he also asked my father to take back the post of children's prison of the country. ”

Li Chengqian's progress can be said to be scrupulous in his duty, Li Shimin has returned to the palace, and it is logical for him to cooperate with the transfer of the post of superintendent.

Li Shimin shook his head and said: "This matter is not urgent, the biggest reason why I ordered you to supervise the country is to exercise your ability to handle government affairs, and now that you have been in charge of the country for more than two months, let me see how your results are?" ”

"Please also ask my father to assess!" Li Chengqian said suddenly in his heart.

Li Shimin looked around at the ministers and said slowly: "The position of supervising the country is to ensure that I leave the capital and the court is operating normally, and the three provinces?" ”

Li Shimin set his eyes on Fang Xuanling, who was headed by hundreds of officials, and Fang Xuanling bowed and said: "Your Majesty, during the period when the crown prince was in charge of the country, the three provinces were operating normally. ”

Wei Zheng and eldest grandson Wuji nodded their heads and praised Li Chengqian's performance during his time in prison.

"What about the six?" Li Shimin nodded unknowably and continued to ask.

Linghu Dedi, the waiter of the Ministry of Rites, said loudly: "Back to Your Majesty, everything is operating normally in the Ministry of Rites, and now that the weather is getting colder, the envoys sent to the Western Regions before have also embarked on their way home. ”

"During the period when the prince was met, the Criminal Department did not have a single unjust, false or wrongful case, nor did it bend the law for personal gain by using power." Li Daozong said solemnly.

"Among the ministries of the people, the money and wealth of each ministry have been allocated, and there is a lot of surplus in the treasury, thanks to the meritorious dispatch of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Dai Xuan said stiffly.

There is a surplus in the treasury, and it is because after Li Chengqian reformed the post station, the state treasury no longer allocated a large amount of money to fill the bottomless pit of the post station, and naturally there was a lot of money left.

"Oh, I didn't expect the prince to have such a talent for financial management." Li Shimin glanced at Li Chengqian as if unintentionally.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince not only has the ability to manage money, but also the God of Wealth has turned stones into gold, and he has made the post station that originally lost money and money go into gold every day."

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince strongly advocates the reform of the post station, saving tens of thousands of yuan of money and grain for the imperial court every year."

"What's even more rare is that the post station communication sends letters to the people of the world, so that the people of the world can avoid the suffering of longing, which can be described as benevolent government!"

"The ministers have been away from home for many years, and they haven't returned to their hometown for a long time, and yesterday I received a letter from my relatives at home, and I was really happy."

………

For a time, there were voices of praise in the court for Li Chengqian's reform of the post station, which naturally included sincere praise, and there were also many ill-intentioned killings.

However, the more people praised him, the more uneasy Li Chengqian's heart became, knowing that he reformed the post station without Li Shimin's consent.

"Oh, that's it?" Li Shimin said in amazement.

Li Chengqian panicked in his heart, and hurriedly said: "The child is about to ask his father for guilt, and the child has not been approved by his father for the reform of the post station, and he has been dismissed from the driving department without authorization, and he has also asked his father to punish him." ”

Li Shimin saw Li Chengqian's respectful appearance, and he was a little lost in his heart for some reason.

When he was as old as Li Chengqian, he had already begun to ride a horse to fight the world, but Li Chengqian became more and more old-fashioned.

In contrast, he prefers Merton's catfish attribute, which can turn the world upside down wherever he goes. Although he kept helping him with Murton's back, and even punished him, he didn't have a trace of anger in his heart, but he had a different taste.

Li Shimin said with great interest: "What is the crime of the prince, when I left, I entrusted the world to you, there is no important military matter can be decided in a word, and your reform of the post station is also out of good intentions, in order to solve the financial burden of the imperial court and quite effective." As for the matter of driving the department, since he said that he was sick and told the old, then the court could reward him more, and he should not let the old minister chill. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty, for your loving heart." Some of the old ministers bowed down and thanked them.

However, some important ministers couldn't help but think in their hearts, although Li Shimin is now doing his best to defend Li Chengqian, but a powerful prince needs to be maintained everywhere, just like the Mo family, it is not too much to beat it once a day, how can it be maintained.

The more Li Shimin defended Li Chengqian, the more the ministers knew that Li Shimin was still dissatisfied with Li Chengqian.

Li Chengqian naturally noticed this abnormality, and couldn't help but look a little embarrassed.

Merton couldn't help sighing, Li Chengqian was still not confident enough, he was timid, he had such a great merit in hand, but he was guilty of recalling a driver, so he suffered from such gains and losses, how could he satisfy Li Shimin.

Soon this court meeting ended in the complicated thoughts of the hundred officials, and as the hundred officials retreated, Li Chengqian, as the crown prince, was left alone.

"Do you know why I left you alone." Li Shimin stood up proudly, not angry and arrogant.

"The son is stupid, and he asks his father for advice." Li Chengqian bowed his head.

Li Shimin snorted coldly and said: "The post station spends a lot of money every year, do you think that the use of the post station to communicate for the people of the world has not been proposed since ancient times?" However, it has not been accepted by successive dynasties, do you know why? ”

"I don't know!" Li Chengqian shook his head honestly.

"For one, most of the previous concerts and setbacks were talkative, there was nothing at all, there was no practical plan, and they didn't have the good luck of you." Li Shimin glanced at Li Chengqian pointedly and said.

Li Chengqian has many strange plans of the Mo family to give advice, Shen Fuzi, who is unique in arithmetic and learning, asks for his planning blueprint, and Su Dingfang, who has rich experience in transshipment, runs all over the world for him, and the reform of the post station has a successful foundation.

Li Chengqian couldn't help but feel nervous in his heart, and suddenly knew that his actions were seen through by Li Shimin.

"The child's merit in Merton is his own, and he asks his father to punish him!" Li Chengqian hurriedly pleaded guilty.

"You are the crown prince, but the future prince, it is natural to adopt the ideas of the courtiers, and it is also their honor, of course, the credit is naturally borne by you, you did not disappoint me is that you firmly seized this opportunity, even I have to say, you have done a good job in the post station." Li Shimin sighed.

The stamp system can be said to be a stroke of genius, a philatelic wind makes the post station communication popular in the Tang Dynasty, but the letter alone can not maintain the post station expenses, and has increased so many post guards to send letters, it is a huge expense, I am afraid that the cost will be greater, which is also the reason why the dynasties did not choose the post station communication.

However, coupled with the cash flow of ink magazines and Confucian magazines, the situation suddenly changed, and the income of the post station suddenly increased a lot, which was enough to maintain the balance of the post station.

"These are not worthy of praise from the father, they are just a fluke for the child." Li Chengqian got his father's affirmation, and he actually had a sour feeling, he was not unaware of the risk of reforming the post station with all his might, but he still did this, not only to prove himself in front of the ministers, but also to hope to get Li Shimin's affirmation.

"However, even if the post station communication lost money before, it can get a good reputation in the hearts of the people of the world, do you know why the dynasties are still indifferent." Li Shimin's words changed.

Li Chengqian couldn't help but pause, stunned.

"That's because it's good for the world, but it's not good for the royal family." Li Shimin's words were astonishing.

"Ahh Li Chengqian was suddenly startled and looked at Li Shimin in disbelief.

Li Shimin said lightly: "What do you think the emperor of the world spends a huge amount of wealth every year, in addition to the military and peacetime delivery of official documents, the post station can collect information about the world for the emperor, whenever there is a major event in the world, the first to know must be the emperors of the past dynasties, we can calmly transfer the command, and even in other places without a reaction to eliminate hidden dangers." ”

"Now the post station for the people of the world to send letters, but also as the transport of newspapers and periodicals, although for the court to reduce the pressure, but to make the communication much more convenient, the royal and government information advantage is gone, so that in a place, the world, the world knows, and even cause a great panic, this consequence have you ever thought!"

Li Chengqian couldn't help but panic in his heart, he never thought that the post station reform he had always been proud of would have such loopholes, and his good intentions would actually do something wrong.

"Since this is the case, the ministers will punish themselves and abolish the post station communication." Li Chengqian gritted his teeth and said.

Li Shimin laughed and said: "You are wrong, it is the dynasties of the past dynasties, and my Tang Dynasty is not, now that my Tang Dynasty has surrendered all over the world, and the country is prosperous, how can I care about that little rumor." And for the father, I will teach you another way to be a king. ”

"Listen to your son!" Li Chengqian said modestly.

"As an emperor, the most taboo thing is to change the order of the day, and sometimes, even if it is wrong, we have to be wrong." Li Shimin's eyes were deep. As a generation of emperors, he naturally does not believe that a post station can shake the rule of the Tang Dynasty, and he also has the fact that he accepts the communication of the post station with this heart.

Li Chengqian said awe-inspiringly: "The sons are taught. ”

However, Li Shimin only said the harm of post station communication to the royal family, but did not say the real reason why he supported the reform of the post station.

Although the protection of Li Chengqian is one of the reasons, but more helpless, if it was before, he would definitely be the same as the emperors of previous dynasties, to maintain the status quo of the post station, but since recent years, with the unremitting efforts of Merton, although the taxes of the Tang Dynasty have risen year after year, the treasury is increasingly short of money, which is simply not enough.

Controlling the Yellow River, building brick roads, and preparing to build the Weishui Bridge are even more bottomless gold-swallowing beasts, but these are important things for the benefit of the country and the people, and it will not work if they are not built.

In this way, it is rare to save the money allocated to the post station every year, which is enough for the imperial court to do a lot of things and no longer be stretched, which is also the real reason why Li Shimin finally agreed to the reform of the post station.