In Chang'an City in early winter, there is laughter and laughter everywhere.

Since Li Shimin left, the Chang'an court was as quiet as the Taiji Palace, and the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty acted in accordance with Li Chengqian's will, and no one dared to disobey Li Chengqian's will.

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

ordered them to fight the underworld and eliminate the evil, and wiped out all the city fox and society rats in Chang'an City, and severely punished the powerful families involved.

This time, Li Chengqian sent the students of the Royal Military and Political Academy, the Government Affairs Yuan, and the alien guards he selected from the Lingzhou martial arts.

These people have nothing to do with the magnates around Chang'an, and dealing with the local snakes in Chang'an City can not be affected by any powerful and wealthy families.

The city fox society rats in Chang'an City are mainly entrenched in the area of Chang'an South City, which is the slum of Chang'an City.

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

They specially bullied some foreign merchants and peasants who went to the city to sell, bullied and dominated the market in the eastern and western cities, and sometimes even murdered people for money.

The people who have done bad things and suffered losses are unfamiliar with life when they first arrive in Chang'an, so they consider themselves unlucky. Even if someone dares to call it true, these city fox society rats will scare the people behind them and it will pass.

In the past, it was the government that chased them when they committed crimes, and these people either hid among the people early, or hid directly in the county towns around Chang'an, and then came out to commit crimes after a while.

The government can't catch it if it wants to.

On the first night, Li Chengqian ordered that the city gate should not be opened on the second day, and in the morning the court ordered Chang'an City to start fighting today.

Immediately afterwards, Li Chengqian personally took Qiu Shenji, Ren Yaxiang and others around the city, mobilized the people to report, verified the real merits, and severely punished those who were slandered and fabricated.

The reported person was immediately arrested and interrogated, and the results of the trial were basically not defiled, and all lawsuits with serious human life were punished, and minor cases were all demoted to coolies.

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

In this way, as soon as three days passed, Chang'an City did not close its doors at night, the road was not left behind, and the folk customs became simple.

Then, according to the clues provided by the prisoners in Chang'an, Qiu Shenji and Ren Yaxiang led people to inspect the county towns around Chang'an.

At the same time, the Eight Winds Palace sent the East Palace to fully publicize this virtuous policy, and the common people were praised when they saw that the scoundrels and gangsters who were rampant and domineering in Fang City on weekdays were brought to justice by Li Chengqian.

There are some people who have been bullied by these underworld forces, and they have revenge and quietly give Li Chengqian the tablet of Changsheng at home.

Li Chengqian's second purpose is to help the poor in winter.

After a few months of exterminating Xue Yantuo, after entering the late autumn, Li Chengqian was transporting grain to Lingzhou, and at the same time, he also successively brought back a lot of salted meat, fur, wool and so on from Lingzhou.

Except for one of these things, which was used as military rations, and some of which were distributed free of charge to the craftsmen of the Ministry of Works and the Craftsmen's Supervisor, these people lived the most miserable life.

Some of the remaining ones were sold at a low price in Chang'an City, clearly for the welfare of poor families, and they were sold according to the square.

Originally, Li Chengqian asked for these things to be sent from one place to another, but as soon as the county officials of Chang'an and Wannian counties released the news, each square consciously lined up to buy them according to the square, and every day the people of several squares went to Chang'an East City to line up to buy them, and there was no confusion at all.

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

While doing his best to provide welfare to the people, Li Chengqian did not relax for a moment in the rectification of officialdom, and Du Zhenglun returned to Chang'an to learn of Li Chengqian's current political status, and he was very happy in his heart, and he completed the things arranged by Li Chengqian without any discount.

In less than a month, Du Zhenglun and Liu Xiangdao, the servant of the Ministry of Officials, made a draft of the regulations and official recommendation rules for officials to enter the stream.

As soon as the two notes were issued, Li Chengqian made slight revisions and immediately convened the ministers to discuss the matter.

Of the six Shangshu, only Du Shilun, the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, Cheng Mingzhen, the secretary of the Ministry of Households, and Liu Dewei, the secretary of the Criminal Department, are in Chang'an, and Xue Dading, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, Li Shiji, the secretary of the Ministry of War, and Li Daozong, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, are not in Chang'an.

Zhongshu Province was taken away by Li Shimin, and if it weren't for the fact that all kinds of decrees issued by the Tang Dynasty Prince Jian Guo were issued from the Zhan Mansion, the imperial court would have been paralyzed.

Fortunately, the bachelors of Pingzhang Academy were all there, so Li Chengqian summoned Chu Suiliang, Xu Jingzong, Ren Yaxiang, Hao Chujun, Li Yifu, and Xue Rengui, who had newly supplemented the military room.

In addition, the only prime minister in Chang'an City, Zhang Xingcheng, a provincial servant under the door.

Just after noon, the summoned ministers came to the outside of the Chongjiao Palace, and when they saw that Li Chengqian had not yet arrived, they were waiting outside the hall.

After a while, I saw the umbrella cover stretched high, and the crown prince's guard of honor slowly came out from the back of the hall, and Li Chengqian, who was wearing a purple robe, was talking to a minister who was also wearing a purple robe.

Everyone didn't look at Li Chengqian, they all looked at the person next to Li Chengqian with some surprise, and that person was none other than Li Jing, the mountain chief of the Royal Military and Political Academy.

Li Jing has been in retirement for many years, and although Li Chengqian has come out to preside over the Royal Military and Political Academy in the past two years, he is still far from the center of power in the imperial court, so why did he invite him to the meeting today?

Just thinking that Li Chengqian had approached, the ministers hurriedly bowed and saluted.

"See His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

"All the ministers are flat!"

Li Chengqian smiled and said to everyone, and then walked into the Chongjiao Hall first.

The ministers followed into the hall and finished saluting, and sat on both sides of the main hall according to the ranks.

"Today, King Gu summoned you to discuss with you the performance of Du Qing's family...... Someone came to pass the song to all the secretaries. ”

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

The official products of the Tang Dynasty are divided into two kinds of internal and outflow, and the flow is divided into nine products and thirty grades, which is one product, from one product, one product is two grades, one product to three products are the same, and the first three products have six grades.

When it comes to the fourth grade, it is divided into the upper four products and the lower four products, from the four products and from the four products, and a total of four grades are four grades. There are four grades for each of the four to nine grades, for a total of twenty-four grades.

In addition to the thirty levels in the stream, there are also the nine grades outside the stream, and the nine grades outside the stream are all small officials directly under the yamen of the imperial court, and the local officials are not in the stream.

It stands to reason that whether it is a court official in or outside the stream, there should be a quota, a radish and a pit, but the Tang Dynasty has been very gracious since Li Shimin, and he 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 in Datang a year, and only one or two hundred people are really Ming Jing or imperial examinations, and the rest are mixed into the office, such as military merits, labor, conquest, recommendation, and so on.

Now there are more than 13,000 officials inside and outside the Tang Dynasty, and there are still tens of thousands of people waiting to be selected.

Many of the recommended officials did not work in the imperial court yamen at all, and the local officials said that someone had the talent to ask the imperial court for an official position, and then stayed in his staff to do things.

Du Fu is called Du Gongbu, because Jiannan Jiedu made Yan Wu recommend him as a member of the inspection department, and the court saw that he was approved. But Du Fu never went to work in the Ministry of Industry, and has been doing some clerical jobs under Yan Wu, because of his irritable personality, he can't work with people in other places.

Of course, during the Zhenguan period, it had not yet reached the point where the Ministry of Labor was rewarded casually, but even so, the official positions of the imperial court were also very popular.

Du Zhenglun and Liu Xiangdao's remarks have five contents, one is to remove officials who are not in their positions; Second, those who have no merit are not allowed to be recommended; the third is that the scribes must have meritorious service and pass the examination; Fourth, non-ministers and marching generals are not allowed to recruit officials; Fifth, the children of officials are not allowed to have more than two sons.

Some of the drawbacks of these articles are already very obvious, for example, the second article was recommended in vain, and the children of the scholar clan who were dismissed by Li Chengqian when he returned to Chang'an, all belong to this article.

Article 4 The recruitment of officials in the Tang Dynasty was very common, and there were even open nepotistic prime ministers, and they also said in the name that I know these people and know their ability, so I can appoint them.

The fifth official Enyin Jinshi is an official who has made great contributions or become a big official, and his brothers and sons are all named substantive officials, and Li Shimin can do several to some officials with one letter.

However, there are still relatively few officials who are not in their positions in the first article and officials in the third article who do not enter the stream, which is a problem that has arisen after Tang Gaozong took the throne.

At present, the ministers in the Chongjiao Hall looked solemn when they saw Du Zhenglun and Liu Xiangdao's performances, and slowly calculated the gains and losses in their hearts.

There is a reason for the existence of any problem.

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

But in the end, he didn't even come up with a written strategy, not because he didn't have talent, but because he was obstructed by various forces.

Later, this problem became more and more intense, and although the emperors and prime ministers in the later generations knew about this problem, no one dared to think about solving this problem at all.

Although Li Chengqian's power is now leaning towards the government and the opposition, it is impossible for him to promulgate such a decree smoothly.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the ministers think that this discussion is too serious, and it must not be announced to the world, causing turmoil in Shilin and damaging the prestige of His Royal Highness the Prince."

Yu Suiliang stood in the main hall and said solemnly.

"The minister seconded the proposal!" Liu Dewei also stood up.

When all the ministers in the palace heard this, they all looked at Li Chengqian, and some of them showed eager looks, 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 palace, and when he saw that there were still people who wanted to stand up and oppose it, he couldn't help but snort coldly: "What?

Do you think it's inappropriate to discuss this?"

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the minister thinks that this discussion is very inappropriate, and he is too eager." Liu Dewei said loudly.

Li Chengqian didn't answer with a cold face, but he saw Zhang Xingcheng in the middle of the service slowly stand up, and said word by word with a solemn expression:

"If His Royal Highness the Crown Prince gives an order, the minister will never review it."

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

The ministry is responsible for reviewing government decrees and has the power to refute them.

When Zhang Xingcheng said this, he clearly told Li Chengqian that this decree could not be issued.

It's positive and rigid.

It is also the most ruthless time that Li Chengqian has been scolded by his courtiers since he crossed.