Great unification is the embodiment of the regularity of the history of the Celestial Empire, and it is also the legitimacy of Li Zhongyi's ascension to the throne and the title of emperor.

To put it bluntly, if Li Zhongyi only ruled the Central Plains region and the sixteen states of Youyun that he had just taken, the so-called strong Han Dynasty he established would not be worthy of being called a dynasty at all.

Just like the weak Song Dynasty in history, the reason why it is called the Song Dynasty is actually a shameless literati who deliberately elevated the status of the weak Song Dynasty in order to highlight the view that the Han people dominated the mainstream of history.

In fact, the Liao Dynasty was established several decades earlier than the Northern Song Dynasty, and the territory of the Liao Dynasty was much larger than that of the Northern Song Dynasty.

To put it mildly, according to the historical outlook of shameless historians, the Liao Dynasty is the real orthodox dynasty, and the Northern Song Dynasty can only be regarded as the Song State in the south.

How can others be allowed to sleep soundly next to the couch, this is not only the shameless words of Song Taizu Zhao Laoer, but also represents Li Zhongyi's heart.

There are no two masters in the country, there are no two days in the sky, whoever dares to disobey will be beaten to death!

With the official inauguration of Cabinet Counselor Kong Kun as the envoy, the process of Li Zhongyi's official ascension to the throne and title of emperor has been significantly accelerated.

The name of the country was set as Han, which was nodded by Li Zhongyi, and no one dared to overthrow it.

However, for the sake of the name of the year, a large group of ministers in the Hanlin Courtyard were so noisy that they were red-faced, and they almost didn't roll up their sleeves and move roughly.

Li Zhongyi also understands these ministers of the Hanlin Academy, they can't govern the world well, and they can't settle the country with their martial arts, but they want to show off their so-called brilliant knowledge in the process of Li Zhongyi's ascension to the throne, and quarrels are inevitable.

In this context, the more noisy the Hanlin scholars are, the more angry they are, and the more they fight, the more flavorful they become!

Li Zhongyi has always been very uninterested in the pedantic practice of the ministers who carefully consider every word, but because of the inherent system of the imperial court, since he has raised so many Hanlin scholars, he must play a practical role, right?

What is the name of the year, Li Zhongyi doesn't care much about it at all, but he pays special attention to it.

According to the practice of previous years, the Ministry of Rites Examination is also called the provincial examination, and it is also a national unified examination for the children of various states.

The students who have survived the provincial examination are all called tributes. The tributes who participated in the palace examination were handpicked by Li Zhongyi and divided into three Jinshi.

Among them, the first one is Jinshi and the first, and there are only three, namely the champion, Bangyan and Tanhua. Generally speaking, the champion is the editor of the Hallym Academy, the list is the review, and the exploration is the editing.

The second class is from the Shi Jinshi, starting from the first place, there are more than 30 to 40 in total. All of them are eligible to participate in the examination of the Shu Jishi, and those who pass the examination will be admitted to the Shu Ji Shi Academy to study for three years, and after passing the examination, they will be awarded the post of editor.

The remaining 100 to 300 tributes were born as Jinshi, and after they had served as Guanzheng Jinshi in the capital for a period of time, they would be sent by the officials to various ministries, temples, yamen in the capital, and prefectures and counties, and awarded actual officials.

The original intention of the imperial court was to select talents and assist the emperor in governing the world.

However, as the imperial examinations continued, the rule of determining victory and defeat by the beauty of words gradually came to pass.

The so-called Tang and Song poems, the glory of their cultural prosperity, is actually based on the policy tilt based on the imperial examination. The Jinshi department of the Tang Dynasty mainly examined poetry, and the Jinshi department of the Song Dynasty mainly examined words and strategies, so Tang poetry and Song Ci became the business card of that era.

After the abolition of the imperial examination system in the late Qing Dynasty, the cultural people suddenly lost their way to progress, and either became a revolutionary party, or transformed into a constitutional party, in short, to limit the power of the Manchurian aristocracy.

Li Zhongyi is well versed in the unspoken rules of officialdom, he naturally will not touch the inherent rules of the game of the county, state and provincial examinations, and only needs to improve the palace examination he personally presided over, so that he can find out the real talents he needs in the world's top cultural people!

According to the battle report from the front, when Yehu Pass was taken by Li Jiajun, and Yuguan had long been mastered and = controlled by Li Jiajun, it was equivalent to blocking the Khitans' southward passage.

On the Youyun Great Plain, after deploying 50,000 troops, the remaining 160,000 elite soldiers and horses were all taken by Yang Lie on the way back to Kaifeng.

The army was stationed near Kaifeng City, and both food and military supplies could be transported through the water of the Yellow River to give abundant supplies.

However, the Grand Canal opened by the Sui Dynasty was unable to be navigable for a long distance due to its disrepair, resulting in all military supplies being transported by sea.

The artificial abandonment of the Grand Canal not only wasted a golden waterway in vain, but also increased the difficulty of logistical supply for the Li family army in the Northern Expedition.

Therefore, once the war was over, Li Zhongyi ordered the main force to return to Kaifeng in order to receive supplies nearby.

In the long run, Dingdu Kaifeng is actually not a wise thing to do!

Kaifeng is located on the edge of the Yellow River, and the annual freezing period is half a year long and four months.

The supply of materials transported by the river will be in a state of stagnation because of the freezing of the Yellow River. As a result, prices have skyrocketed and grass farmers have suffered unspeakably.

Therefore, Li Zhongyi has always intended to move the capital, and there are roughly three alternative locations: Huating County, which is the hometown of Shanghai; Second, Yangzhou, Yangzhou's economy is originally very developed, and water transportation and sea transportation are also extremely convenient; Three Luoyang, Luoyang is also the ancient capital of several dynasties, the geographical location is extremely important, just in the center of the whole world.

These three locations have their own advantages and disadvantages, and Li Zhongyi has not completely thought about it for the time being, so he has been undecided.

The reason why the relocation of the capital is considered at this point in time is mainly because the big case of Shi Shouxin and Wang Puxingbing's rebellion has just broken out, and the magnates are worried that they will be implicated and the entire family will fall into a situation from which they will never recover.

"Xianggong, there are no visitors outside the door!" The old housekeeper Wei Qi hung his head and reported the latest situation.

Wei Renpu sighed heavily and said: "The old man is on the wrong team, the position of prime minister has been greatly shaken, and those guys who tend to be inflammatory, they are not willing to come to the door again, for fear of provoking the old man's bad luck." ”

"Hmph, you're still the prime minister, how dare those people treat you like this?" Wei Qi muttered indignantly.

On the surface, Wei Renpu looked like a light breeze, but in fact, he regretted it so much that his intestines were blue.

Who would have imagined that Li Zhongyi was obviously not defeated, but blocked the news of the entire front line, so the purpose of the fake appearance of being defeated and killed in the battle was to lure the disgruntled forces in the court to appear.

What Wei Renpu didn't know was that Li Zhongyi set the code name of this operation as: Lead the snake out of the hole!

Originally, there was a lot of traffic and officials in front of the Prime Minister's Mansion, but now it is a dilapidated scene with a door to be dropped, Wei Qi felt very uncomfortable, Wei Renpu seemed to be fine, and he actually regretted it in his heart.

Li Zhongyi promoted Wei Renpu to be the prime minister of the cabinet, and Wei Renpu not only did not thank God, but took the old routine of riding on the wall and watching to the extreme.

To tell the truth, after Li Zhongyi slapped the rebellious party into the eighteenth layer of hell, Wei Renpu's position as prime minister will definitely be difficult to protect!

In this sinister officialdom, no matter how incompetent you are, as long as you always stand in the right team, others can only watch you rise to the top.

On the contrary, no matter how hard you are backering, as long as you stand on the wrong side at a critical moment, it will be light for the whole family to be crushed together, and you are afraid of the whole family.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that because Wei Renpu chose the wrong side and stood on the wrong team, not to mention that the prime minister could not continue to go now, I am afraid that there is still a future account to be settled.

Wei Renpu himself is a model of honesty and integrity, but who called Wei Renpu's two sons a loser?

Once Wei Renpu loses the throne of prime minister, is it possible for his two sons to resell the new rice in the granary and fill the warehouse with old rice?

As long as Wei Renpu thought of the good deeds done by the two evil animals, his heart was like a knife, he was restless, and sighed for a long time.

In these years, the money is gone, and you can still make it again. Once you lose the power to cover your family, it's all over!

Wei Renpu is about to lose power, as long as he is a discerning person, he will see it clearly.

On the contrary, the political situation of Li Qiong, the deputy minister of the cabinet, is obviously bullish, and his door immediately becomes crowded, with people coming and going, so it's not lively!

However, Li Qiong knew very well in her heart that after Wei Renpu stepped down, his second phase was also done.

The logic is actually very simple, since Li Zhongyi appointed Wei Renpu as prime minister and appointed Li Qiong as deputy prime minister, it happened to be a wonderful move to contain and restrain Prime Minister Wei.

Now, Wei Renpu is about to step down unfortunately, how can Li Qiong, the oldest person in the cabinet, be left alone?

In the Kangxi Dynasty, after the fall of Mingzhu, Suo Etu knew that his days were numbered, so he simply instigated the crown prince Yinren to secretly engage in ghosts, wanting to overthrow Kang Mazi's rule.

Mingzhu and Suo Etu, since they are the sworn enemies specially erected by Kang Mazi, then, after Mingzhu stepped down, Suo Etu also lost its greatest use value.

In the same way, Wei Renpu is about to step down, how long can Li Qiong stay in the cabinet?

"My lord, there are so many officials outside suddenly, my son is afraid of causing trouble to our family." Li Hu is an honest man, and he is honest.

Li Qiong suddenly realized that the stupidity that Li Hu had been taking was likely to become a blessing for the entire Li family.

Who is Li Zhongyi? Tianzhong genius, is there anything he can't understand?

Li Qiong is different from Wei Renpu, Li Qiong has always stood in the ranks of the old Li family, even if Li Qiong withdraws from the cabinet, with Li Zhongyi's temper, he will definitely compensate and vigorously promote Li Hu's official position and real power.

Maybe stupid people have stupid blessings? Li Qiong's mind about educating Li Hu suddenly faded a lot. He educated Li Hu for more than a year or two?

After so many years, Li Hu still has a straightforward and honest temperament, and he has not changed at all.

Li Qiong has already figured it out, since he can't change Li Hu, then simply let his nature go and break out of his own official career.

"The emperor is waiting for the old man's performance, you should go and rest."

After Li Qiong drove Li Hu out of the study, he wrote on the fold: "With the Zhongshu Sect under the Ping Zhang, the cabinet minister, the minister Li Qiong is a beggar ......"

PS: Sikong is actually very busy today, but in order to fulfill his promise, he took the risk of coding words in the office, and was almost discovered.