Zhong Mingli hurriedly walked into Tang Ning's study, looked at him, and asked in shock: "How could the matter of Jiangnan raising people and streamlining taxes fall on you?" ”

Tang Ning shook his head and said, "I don't know either. ”

He couldn't tell his father-in-law that this was one of the dowry gifts that Emperor Chen asked him for after he got his daughter.

"How is this a good ......" Zhong Mingli looked worried and said: "These two things, no one can please them, isn't it difficult for you, Your Majesty?" ”

"It's fine." Tang Ning smiled and said, "There will always be a way." ”

For him, there are naturally solutions to this matter, and there are many of them, the question is how to choose.

The quota for lifting people in Jiangnan can be directly reduced, and anyone who dares to make trouble at the gate of Guozi Prison will be arrested and put in the prison of the Criminal Department.

You can not move the quota of Jiangnan people, cancel the qualification of the two states in Jiangnan to take the independent proposition, and from now on, the Jiangnan Prefecture test questions will be issued by the Beijing Division, and no longer based on the ranking, but a separate passing line......

The number of places given by the imperial court remains unchanged, but whether the number of students who pass the Jiangnan Prefecture exam is enough is not something that the imperial court can decide.

Of course, in Downing's view, these are all strategies.

The task given to him by Emperor Chen was to do things beautifully, not only to reduce the number of places in Jiangnan, but also to prevent Jiangnan students from having opinions, any violent behavior or unfair policy would inevitably attract great resistance from them, so they lost their original intention to do this.

Even Tang Ning, for a while, couldn't think of any good way.

Emperor Chen's order to hand over this matter to him obviously ushered in another round of resistance from Jiangnan students, and many Jiangnan officials also played one after another, bluntly saying that this law was unfair and too unfair to Jiangnan.

Some people even pointed the finger at Gyeonggi, saying that the imperial court already gave preferential treatment to Gyeonggi students, and now it is unreasonable to suppress Jiangnan.

There is a big difference in the educational resources between the north and the south of Chen Guo, if in terms of the quality of students, Jiangnan is the leader alone, and even the Beijing division is not as good as the Beijing Division, but the number of people allocated by the Beijing Division in each imperial examination is more than that of Jiangnan.

However, Jingshi is the capital of Chen State, and the upper echelons of Chen State are gathered here, and Jiangnan can only swallow his anger when he is treated unfairly, but their patience is limited, and they cannot tolerate Jingshi's repeated bullying.

This time, all the places of lifting people reduced from Jiangnan were added to Gyeonggi, and who could stand this, so the contradiction between Guozijian and Jiangnan students gradually developed into a contradiction between Gangnam and Gyeonggi.

Naturally, the officials of the Jingshi students could not let them be arranged, and gradually began to fight back, and the folds piled up on both sides occupied several large tables in Shangshu Province.

Before going down to the Ya, Shangshu Province did not discuss a countermeasure, Tang Ning went out of Shangshu Province as usual, and when he was about to go home, he saw a person walking out of the yamen in the rear.

That place is Zhongshuya, and the person who came out is Tang Jing, a member of Zhongshushe.

Although Tang Jing is also a member of the Tang family, he is different from Tang Qi and Tang Huai, so in the matter of targeting the Tang family, Tang Ning did not point the finger at him.

He is still his Zhongshusheren, in the Chen State, although the official position of the Zhongshusheren is not high, but he can directly participate in state affairs, which is equivalent to the emperor's secretary, and the future is unlimited.

Even if Tang Ning and Tang Jing didn't have any grievances, he didn't want to have too much entanglement with the Tang family, he took the initiative to slow down his pace, and waited until Tang Jing walked out of the palace gate before he slowly walked out.

He walked out of the palace gate, and a voice came from the front.

"The problem of Gangnam, in the final analysis, is the contradiction between Gangnam and Gyeonggi, Your Majesty does not want the Gangnam faction to sit big, and the Gangnam faction does not want the Ganggi faction to dominate, and it is fundamentally not feasible to reduce Gangnam to make up for Gyeonggi......"

Tang Jing did not leave, but waited for him outside the palace gate.

After he had said a word, he got into the carriage.

Hearing Tang Jing's words, Tang Ning stood in place, and suddenly a bright light crossed his mind.

At this moment, there was a sudden sound of hurried footsteps behind him, and a eunuch trotted out, panting, and said, "Lord Tang, Your Majesty has summoned ......."

Tang Ning entered the imperial study, and Emperor Chen didn't raise his head, and asked, "Have you thought of a solution to the matter in Jiangnan?" ”

Tang Ning said honestly: "Not yet." ”

"I'll give you three more days." Emperor Chen said lightly: "Within three days, I will see the fold of reducing the number of people raised in Jiangnan, and if there is an official in the court who has a different opinion, I will beat you in front of everyone." ”

Tang Ning saw that Emperor Chen didn't want to solve the problem, he just wanted to hit his board, but he still arched his hand and said, "The minister obeys the order." ”

Chen Huang glanced at him and said, "This doesn't mean to embarrass you, right?" ”

Tang Ning said: "Back to Your Majesty, it doesn't count." ”

Chen Huang said: "Since you don't think this is a dilemma, then when the matter in Jiangnan is resolved, the matter in Gyeonggi will also be handed over to you." ”

Tang Ning raised his head and asked, "May I ask Your Majesty, what is the matter in Gyeonggi?" ”

Chen Huang said: "After the number of Jiangnan factions is reduced, the power of the Jiangnan faction will definitely be reduced, and at that time, without the containment of the Jiangnan faction, the Gyeonggi faction will be too strong, which is not conducive to the balance of the court......"

Tang Ning thought for a while and asked, "Or, just find some reasons to pick some Beijing officials to raid the house, I don't know if Your Majesty thinks this method is feasible?" ”

Emperor Chen looked at him and said, "What do you say? ”

Tang Ning didn't answer, just glanced at Emperor Chen vaguely, it was he who wanted to weaken the Jiangnan party, and he was the one who thought that the Jiangnan party was too weak to suppress Gyeonggi, Tang Ning really wanted to take off his shoes at this moment and use the soles of his shoes to slap his old face.

What is the difference between weakening the Jiangnan party and asking them to increase their strength to contain the more powerful Jingshi, and asking him to draw colorful black with a brush?

Chen Huang glanced at him and said, "What, there's a problem?" ”

Tang Ning gritted his teeth and bowed, and said, "Back to Your Majesty, no." ”

After trying to think about it from Emperor Chen's point of view, Tang Ning was not angry at all.

If he was Emperor Chen, the person standing with His Highness at this moment would have at least three legs broken by the guards.

Emperor Chen waved his hand and said, "If not, go back, I will only give you three days, and if you still haven't thought of a way after three days, remember to wear two more pants when you went to court." ”

After Tang Ning left, Emperor Chen put down the concerto, slowly stood up, breathed a long sigh of relief, and muttered: "Thinking about it, if you don't hit his board, I won't be able to calm down......"

……

Chen Huang wanted to beat his board by deliberately making things difficult, which was simply a fool's dream.

Even if he really wanted Tang Ning to draw colorful black, Tang Ning could meet his request and leave him speechless.

Early in the morning of the second day, above the morning court, Tang Ning hugged the wat board and said: "Your Majesty, regarding the allocation of the number of children in each state, the minister has a ......."

"So fast?" Emperor Chen looked at him in surprise and said, "Let's hear it." ”

Tang Ning bowed and said: "All along, I have been holding the quota of the imperial examination, Jiangnan Province and Gyeonggi Province, it occupies more than seventy percent, the minister thinks that this is extremely unfair to the rest of the students, the minister proposed, Gyeonggi Province and Jiangnan Province, each give up 20% of the number of people, and divide it equally to Dugi Province, Shannan Province, Huainan Province, Hedong Province, Guannai Province and other ......, so as to show fairness." ”

Emperor Chen wants to reduce the power of Jiangnan, but he doesn't want Gyeonggi to sit big, since this is the case, then each will play 30 boards, and at the same time reduce the number of lifters in the two places, and divide it equally among the rest of the provinces, wouldn't it be exactly what Emperor Chen wanted?

Tang Ning's voice fell, and the court was in an uproar.

Gangnam Province cut the number of lifters, originally ceded to Gyeonggi Province, so that Gangnam's influence in the DPRK will gradually decrease, Gyeonggi lineage, the power will continue to expand, no one expected that Tangning not only did not give Gangnam the quota to Gyeonggi, but at the same time cut Gangnam and Gyeonggi quotas, and divided them equally among the rest of the provinces.

In this way, in the future court, the power of the Gangnam and Gyeonggi parties will gradually decrease, and the rest of the provinces will gradually rise, breaking the situation of monopolization of power by officials of the two parties, so that they can also win more benefits for the provinces, and no longer have to follow Gangnam and Gyeonggi to eat their leftovers.

The court was in an uproar for a moment, and then it was quiet again.

It's just that everyone's expressions have changed like never before.

The expressions of the two officials in Jiangnan were stunned, although Jiangnan was still cut in quotas, but the Jingshi did not take advantage, but suffered the same loss as them, thinking about it this way, things don't seem to be so bad.

The officials who represented the interests of Gyeonggi were naturally angry and dissatisfied in their hearts, but just as they wanted to stand up and refute Tang Ning's proposal, they caught a glimpse of the eyes of the other officials, and they couldn't help but chuckle in their hearts and stopped to take a step.

Above the court, except for the officials from Jiangnan and Gyeonggi, the rest of the officials were all happy, and their eyes flashed with strange lights, like cats that only smelled fishy......