In the afternoon of the same day, the queen mother issued the first edict after coming to Chang'an, canonizing Guo Song, the king of Jin, as the regent of the prison state, giving him the power of canonization as an official and taking full responsibility for the formation of a new imperial court.

This edict was immediately published in the next day's "Chang'an Express" and "Tianxia Xinbao", and on the same day, Guo Song also issued his first decree to supervise the country, announcing the formation of a political affairs hall, and the name of the country was set at seven.

Soon he appointed three more ministers, namely Zhang Qianyi, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, Cao Wannian, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Zhang Qiu'an, the secretary of the Ministry of War.

The order to appoint these five ministers came out, and the officials understood the true intentions of the King of Jin, and there would be no change in the pattern of the court, in fact, the various departments of the Jin Wangfu were upgraded to the temples, and the officials had followed Guo Song for many years, had rich experience, and had paid sweat for the governance of the Jin State, made meritorious achievements, and their loyalty to the King of Jin had also withstood the test, and they deserved to be rewarded at the important juncture of rebuilding the imperial court.

The establishment of the political hall meant that the imperial court began to function, and they would assist the regent Guo Song to gradually build the framework of the imperial court, and then enrich its flesh and blood, and finally replace the Jin palace with the imperial court, so that it was fully operational.

In the afternoon, Guo Song stole a leisure, changed into regular clothes, and took a carriage to the city wall square, which was built a few years ago to house the displaced people in Chang'an City of the Han Dynasty, it is actually a slum, and the people at the bottom of Chang'an live here.

The name of the official house at the root of the city wall is Ju'an Fang, but the people of Chang'an call it the City Wall Fang, or Ju Poor Fang.

In just a few years, more than 200,000 people gathered here, basically all of them were full, and the Jin Wangfu also built a large number of public facilities for them, such as wells, latrines, schools, official pharmacies, security offices, and so on.

Among them, more than 60 optical halls have been built, and more than 100,000 children can study for free for two years in the school, learn the most basic reading and literacy, and learn the most basic etiquette and morality.

In the past two years, Chang'an's style of study has become more and more prosperous, as the so-called prosperous era of learning literature, troubled times of learning martial arts, especially the emergence of the two major newspapers, greatly promoted the rise of Chang'an people to send their children to learn literature, more and more official schools, private schools have also sprung up, and even a large number of literacy crash courses, specializing in teaching thousands of characters.

Guo Song came to the corner of the city wall, naturally he secretly came to see his son, his son Guo Jincheng began to officially give lessons to the poor children in Ju'anfang yesterday, Guo Song couldn't rest assured, and came over to take a sneak look.

The lecturers in Ju'anfang are basically young students from Taixue and Guozixue, and Guo Jincheng, as a student of Taixue Law, is very normal for him to teach students here.

Guo Song hasn't been to Ju'anfang for a long time, Ju'anfang has changed a lot, and it has obviously become dirty and messy compared to when it was just repaired.

Everywhere you can see all kinds of bamboo and wood sheds built indiscriminately, the open space is occupied, the original snow-white walls, eroded by the wind and sand and rain, and all kinds of unknown yellow stains, become yellow and black, dirty, and smelly.

The ground was also full of sinkholes, and the carriage drove cautiously to avoid this puddle, but could not avoid the puddle, so that the carriage walked slowly in the bumps.

Guo Song's brows furrowed, this is not only a dirty and messy problem, but also a great fire hazard, once there is a fire, it will affect tens of thousands of families.

The carriage slowly stopped in front of a primary school hall, which was surrounded by a wall, and the seventeenth school of Ju'an Fang hung above the gate, and the sound of Langlang reading could be faintly heard inside.

The primary school was originally a one-year system, learning "Thousand Character Text" and "Zengguang Xianwen", "Zengguang Xianwen" of course Guo Song wrote out the book of the same name in later generations, handed over to the Ministry of Rites to compile and print, and promoted in the primary school.

Later, with the unanimous consent of the counselors, the one-year system was changed to a two-year system, and two courses of "Analects" and "Mencius" were added, which were still free, which can be regarded as the earliest compulsory education.

Of course, free is only free of tuition and textbook fees, pen, ink, paper and inkstone still need students to pay for themselves, but the school will provide a set of cheap pen and ink for students to choose, only the market price of 30%.

Guo Song walked into the door, the old man who was guarding the door was just about to get up to stop him, the two guards behind him glared at him fiercely, and he sat back with interest, there have been many big people visiting in the past two days, which made him muttered in his heart, I don't know who this is?

When Guo Song walked into the courtyard, he found the guards hiding in the shadows, hidden in a dark crack under the eaves, which was indeed very hidden, and it was estimated that the old man who was guarding the door did not find it.

"Zi said: 'Learn and learn from time to time, don't you also say? Have friends come from afar, are you happy? People don't know and are not ashamed, aren't they also gentlemen? ’

A son said: 'He is also a filial brother, and those who are good at offending are rare; It is not easy to commit, and those who are good at making trouble are not there. A gentleman is a gentleman, and he is born from the beginning. Filial piety is also the foundation of benevolence! ’

Zi said: 'Clever words, fresh and benevolent! ’”

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Approaching the window, I heard a student reciting the book, and then heard the voice of his son Guo Jincheng, "Zeng Saburo is not bad, there is only one mistake, it is clever words, not clever words, write these four words silently twenty times, the next Qiao Shuigen, and then Zeng Saburo recite it." ”

Guo Song stood by the wall, looking in from an open window, and saw his son Guo Jincheng wearing a blue fine linen gown, wearing a scarf on his head, a leather belt around his waist, and standing in front of a group of children with his back hand, quite majestic, and there were fifty or sixty children sitting below, mostly seven or eight years old, most of them were shabby, and their faces were full of snot.

A boy stood up timidly and whispered, "I didn't carry it last night." ”

"Why is there no endorsement?" Guo Jincheng stared at him sternly.

"I have to wash my father's quilt when I go home, cook for me, and take my younger brother with me."

"What about that night!"

Guo Jincheng's tone softened a little, "Why don't you endorse it at night?" ”

"I have to help my mother wash clothes at night to earn money." The boy's head was pressed even lower, and his face flushed.

"Are you telling the truth? I'm going to your house to find out! ”

A few students next to him coaxed: "His father is paralyzed, feces and urine are pulled on the bed, the house is more smelly than a pigsty, and no one wants to go to his house!" ”

'Smack! A few tears rolled out of the boy's eyes and dripped on the small table.

Guo Jincheng looked at him for a long time, waved his hand and said: "Although you don't endorse it, but there are extenuating circumstances, I won't punish you, sit down first!" ”

The student named Qiao Shuigen sat down, leaned on the table and cried silently, Guo Jincheng pointed at the student who was the loudest coaxing with a ring ruler, and said coldly: "Zhang Dakui followed Zeng Sanlang's back, made a mistake, and beat his palm ten times!" ”

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Guo Song didn't continue to watch it and left quietly, although his son's performance was still a little juvenile, it was enough to reassure him.

Back in the official room, Guo Song asked people to find Zhang Beiyi, the secretary of the household department, Zhang Qianyi had just taken office as Xiangguo in the morning, and he was also very busy in the past two days, and there were a lot of trivial things to deal with when he was promoted from the household department to the household department.

In order to establish the framework of the household department, it is necessary to strip away more than a dozen departments under the household department, and these specific functional departments are under the supervision and jurisdiction of the temple.

Guo Song saw that Zhang Qianyi was sweating profusely, and knew that he was very busy, so he waved his hand and smiled: "Then let's go back and get busy first!" I'll look for you again in a few days. ”

Zhang Qianyi wiped the sweat from his forehead and said: "Things will never be done, Your Highness, please speak!" Maybe I can tell the people below me to do it. ”

"It's okay, you can arrange for the people below to do it!"

Guo Song leaned back on the wide chair, clasped his hands together and smiled: "If I'm not mistaken, the official rental house is in charge of the Commercial and Housing Department under the Ministry of Households!" ”

The Commercial and Housing Department is responsible for most of the properties that belong to the government, including shops, official residences, official rental houses, etc., but does not include palaces, gardens, official offices, temples, and Taoist temples, which are relatively special and are the responsibility of the Palace Administration.

Zhang Xiaoyi nodded, "Your Highness is right, it is indeed the Commercial and Housing Department that is in charge. ”

"I went to Ju'an Fang today, and to be honest, I was very disappointed by the management inside, basically there was no management, it was completely laissez-faire, the ground was uneven, the sewage was cross-flowing, the walls were stained all over, and there was a strong rancid smell on the street, I couldn't imagine what it would be like in summer.

But what I'm most worried about is not these, but all kinds of bamboo and wood sheds built indiscriminately, basically used as kitchens, and a fire in one family, the whole area is not spared, so I want to know, how does the Commercial and Housing Department manage it? Is the chief officer of the Commercial and Housing Department qualified or not? Should we be held accountable and dismissed? ”

Guo Song's tone was calm, but his words were very harsh, and the three questions made Zhang Qianyi sweat, he was the highest person responsible for Ju'anfang, and once the fire caused heavy losses, he should be the first to be dismissed.

"The lowly post understands, go back to rectify it immediately, those who should be dismissed are exempted, those who should be dismissed, and they will not be tolerated, and the lowly post will come up with a rectification plan to His Highness within three days."

Guo Song nodded, "I only mention two things, first, the rent is all used for management, and we don't lack this money; Second, for the indiscriminate construction, I don't want to adopt a one-size-fits-all approach, the government wants to save effort, today forcibly demolished, they will build again tomorrow, the symptoms are not the root cause, I suggest, the indiscriminate construction of sheds can be allowed to exist, but all must be changed to brick structure, blocking is better than sparse, this is my attitude. ”