In April of the third year of Guangqi of the Tang Dynasty, Li Yi announced his abdication and gave way to Li Jie, the emperor's younger brother.

Subsequently, Shouwang Li Jie ascended the throne and changed his name to Li Ye, with the year name 'Qianning', which means that Qiankun is peaceful, and that year is the first year of Qianning.

After Li Ye ascended the throne, he promulgated the first holy decree to respect Li Yi as the emperor.

Subsequently, Li Ye made a big vassal.

Immediately promulgated a holy decree to abolish the three towns of Fengxiang, Jingyuan and Yanyan, and set up Guannei Dao to govern Fengxiang. Xiao Yu is the envoy of the festival, Li Yi is the political envoy, Zhang Xiao is the observation envoy, Xu Shiren is the marching Sima, and Kong Wei's brother Kong Wei (the champion and the first in the thirteenth year of Xiantong) is the scholar and politician.

revoke Dongchuan, form Sichuan Province, and take Sun Ye as the envoy; Yang Hanzhou served as the envoy of Shannan West Province.

Split the Jinyi Guard, strip off the guard function of the Jinyi Guard, and set up the left and right prison guards, with Link as the general of the left prison guard and Zhao Xiong as the general of the right prison guard.

At the same time, a holy decree was issued to recover the power of the Qin sect.

With Zhu Wen as the commander of the camp in the north of Caizhou, he was responsible for commanding the towns of Xuanwu, Yicheng, Weibo, Tianping, and Taining; With Zheng Congyan as the commander of the camp in the south of Caizhou, he was responsible for commanding the Zuo Tiance Army, the Zuo Longwu Army, the Right Shence Army, and the Jingnan Army.

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These orders were promulgated within a few days, and by the time they reached various places, it was at least a few days later, and when Zhu Wen of Bianzhou received them, it was already mid-April.

"Qianning? Tranquility? This new majesty has no small ambitions. ”

Seeing the news from Chang'an, Zhu Wen was quite surprised, and he felt a little uneasy in his heart.

The removal of Fengxiang towns reminded Zhu Wen that this new majesty was likely to cut down the feudal domain. Unless Zhu Wen is willing to give up the power in his hands, his Xuanwu army is also a target.

Jing Xiang knew what his marshal was worried about, and hurriedly persuaded, "King of the county, even if the imperial court wants to cut the domain, it will not dare to cut it to the Xuanwu army now, and the imperial court needs the county king to quell the rebellion of Qin Zongquan." And there are so many strong feudal domains in the world, with the current strength of the imperial court, it is not easy to cut the feudal domain, since the Anshi Rebellion, more than ten emperors of the Tang Dynasty are cutting the feudal domain, but in the end they have not been able to solve the problem of the feudal town, even if His Majesty has the intention to cut the feudal domain, it may not be successful.

As a matter of urgency, the county king should make good use of his position as the commander of the camp in the north of Caizhou, and use the armies of Yicheng, Taining and other feudal towns to defeat Qin Zongquan and strengthen his own strength.

At that time, even if the imperial court wants to cut the domain, the county king does not have to worry too much. ”

Zhu Wen laughed and said, "What Mr. said is that Zhu has not rebelled. At the beginning, Zhu was able to follow Huang Chao to attack Chang'an, but if the imperial court cut the feudal domain to Zhu's head, it would be a big deal that Zhu would be reversed. ”

Hearing that Zhu Wen put the word rebellion on his lips at any time, the corners of Jing Xiang's mouth twitched, and he even hesitated a little in his heart for a while. What he has learned is nothing more than to serve the court, but now he is assisting Zhu Wen, who has no respect for the court, and he doesn't know whether it is right or wrong.

However, thinking that he had failed the imperial examination several times, and that the family had no chance to control the imperial examination, he felt a little resentful in his heart. And now the main ministers of the imperial court, whether it is Xiao Yu, Sun Ye, Zheng Ningji, or Li Yingxu, are all from the family, such a court, even if they are loyal, they have no good future.

On the other hand, Zhu Wen, Corporal Lixian, is very courteous to himself. Your talents and ambitions can be fully displayed here, so why go to the court to sit on the cold kang.

Thinking of this, he was determined to assist Zhu Wen in his heart. Although Zhu Wen has lost his temperament, what he does can be seen as a person who actually does great things.

"What the county king said is that if you defeat Qin Zongquan and take over Qin Zongquan's territory, you will be able to occupy the rich Central Plains when you reach the county king.

At that time, the king of the county only needs to provoke the contradiction between the court and Li Keyong in Hedong, and let the two sides fight, so that the two big enemies do not want the king of the county to make a move, and they will lose both. And the king of the county is sitting on the side to reap the profits of the fisherman, so a great cause can be expected! Jing Xiang said seriously.

"Not bad! Mr. is really talented, let the little emperor toss, I want to see how many times he can toss in this world. In the end, Zhu Wen couldn't help but sneer.

However, Zhu Wen soon became unhappy, because Qin Zongquan once again led an army of 500,000 to attack Bianzhou.

Half a million troops? If there really was an army of 500,000, Qin Zongquan would not have been repeatedly defeated by Zhu Wen, who had less than 100,000 troops.

This is just a claim that it really has only 300,000 troops.

And among these 300,000 troops, nearly half of them were displaced or forcibly conscripted men, so in the face of Zhu Wen, who had less than 100,000 troops, he also lost battles from time to time.

If you don't consider these, plus the hundreds of thousands of troops of Zhao Deyu of Shannan Dongdao, Qin Zongquan, who has an army of 500,000, is indeed the largest force in the Tang Dynasty at this time, and even the imperial court controlled by Li Ye is not as good as it.

Moreover, Qin Zongquan is also called the emperor, and he still uses the name of Qi.

Although the imperial court's intention to reduce the feudal domain became more and more obvious, at this time, the contradictions between the feudal towns were very large, and it was impossible to unite against the imperial court. Just like Zhu Wen, at present, he can only defeat the current great enemy Qin Zongquan first, and only in this way can he be qualified to fight against the imperial court.

Qin Zongquan's attack on Zhu Wen has nothing to do with Li Ye, if the two don't fight for a year or two, they can't tell the winner; As for Li Keyong's side, he is also licking his wounds, and at the same time focusing on Zhaoyijun and Yunzhou; As for Zheng Congyan's army to attack Zhao Deyu, he was still gathering troops and preparing grain and grass, and it would take half a month to officially set out on the expedition.

There was no major event outside for the time being, so Li Ye set his sights on the inside, especially the imperial examination.

Although it is said that the imperial examination originated in the Sui Dynasty and was formed in the Tang Dynasty, strictly speaking, the imperial examination originated in the Tang Dynasty.

The purpose of the emergence of the imperial examination is to restrain the family and give the children of the poor a chance to compete fairly.

The imperial examination system was formally formed in the early Tang Dynasty, and through the efforts of the three emperors of Tang Taizong, Wu Zetian, and Tang Xuanzong, the imperial examination system became more and more perfect.

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In the current Tang Dynasty, the imperial examination was divided into regular subjects and system subjects, which were held regularly every year and were called regular subjects, and the examinations held temporarily by the emperor's edict were called regular subjects, but regular subjects were the most important and common.

There are more than 50 kinds of subjects in the regular course, such as Xiucai, Ming Jing, Jinshi, Junshi, Ming Law, Ming Zi, Ming Calculation, etc. Among them, the subjects of Ming Law, Ming Calculation, and Ming Characters are not taken seriously; Xiucai was very demanding in the early Tang Dynasty, and later gradually abandoned.

Therefore, the two subjects of Ming Jing and Jinshi became the main subjects of the regular subjects in the Tang Dynasty, among which Jinshi examined current affairs and poems, articles, and Ming Jing examined current affairs and scriptures. The former is more difficult, the latter is easier.

For many reasons, poetry became the main content of the Jinshi examination later.

The imperial examination is presided over by the Ministry of Rites and is held in the spring of each year, so it is called Chunqiu.

However, this year, due to the impact of the night of Shangyuan, Li Yi's abdication, and Li Ye's accession to the throne, although it was not canceled, the time was postponed and set for mid-May.

Another reason for the postponement is that Li Ye wants to carry out the reform of the imperial examination.

Therefore, less than ten days before Li Ye's accession to the throne today, a group of officials such as the Liubu Shangshu, the scholars of the Imperial Palace, and the Shilang of the Ministry of Rites discussed the imperial examination to be held in May in the Liangyi Palace.

After Li Ye ascended the throne, many important positions in the imperial court were changed, including Xiao Yu was transferred to the newly established Guannei Province as the envoy of the festival, and Zheng Congyan was transferred to Zhao Dexuan.

This seems to be reusing the two, but in fact, Li Ye took the opportunity to send the two out of the court.

With the demotion of Wei Zhaodu and others, some changes have also taken place in the six Shangshu.

The secretary of the ministry is still Wang Hui, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites has not changed and is still Li Ling, the secretary of the household department is still Li Mi, the secretary of the criminal department has become Zheng Ningji, the secretary of the military department is Liu Jurong, and the secretary of the Ministry of Industry has become Xiao Rong.

In addition, Du Rangneng was transferred to Zhongshu Shilang, Liu Chongwang served as his subordinate Shilang, and Zheng Congyan was still in the waiter.

It is worth mentioning that Zheng Zheng resigned.

Since serving as the envoy of Fengxiang Festival, Zheng Ji has been sick.

Due to the continuous aggravation of his condition, in February of the third year of Guangqi, Zheng Zheng resigned from his position as a festival envoy, and is currently recuperating at home in Chang'an or spending the rest of his time with peace of mind.

Out of consideration for compensation, Li Ye promoted Zheng Ningji to serve as the secretary of the Criminal Department.

Li Zhen served as the commander of the Zhengsanpin Jinyi Guard, and at the same time still served as a scholar of the Wude Palace.

Pei Rong served as a privy envoy and was in charge of the army under the command. At the same time, Li Ye set up three deputy envoys under the privy envoy, named Assist, which is actually a separation of powers.

After Li Ye ascended the throne, there was no prime minister, and a cabinet was set up to assist him in handling government affairs.

The first cabinet had seven people, namely Pei Rong, Li Zhen, Wang Hui, Li Mi, Du Rangneng, Zheng Ningji and Zheng Congyan.

Therefore, the ministers of the Liangyi Hall on the imperial examination reform conference this time, these seven scholars except Zheng Congyan are all in the palace.

"Your Majesty, this year's imperial examination is scheduled for May 16, and there are still two months to go, so there is plenty of time, and the examination can be held as scheduled." Li Li presented a copy of the Ministry of Rites' report on the imperial examination, and said at the same time.

Li Li knew that there should be changes in this year's imperial examination, otherwise it would just be a routine imperial examination, and it would not have allowed so many important ministers of the court and the central government to gather here.

Li Ye took over the fold from Zhang Wei and took a general look, in fact, there was nothing to pay special attention to, it was basically carried out in accordance with the previous process of the imperial examination, which obviously did not satisfy Li Ye.

Sitting on the throne, Li Ye knew that the emperor was not easy to be, so he almost collapsed with the etiquette on the day he ascended the throne, but fortunately he persevered in the end.

However, after ascending the throne, he has a lot of things in his hands, although there is a cabinet to share affairs, but these cabinet scholars themselves have positions, and it is impossible for Li Ye to handle government affairs in the office area of the front hall of Taiji Palace all the time.

Li Zhen, Du Rangneng and Zheng Congyan have been the only ones who have been there, which makes Li Ye have the heart to adjust the role of the cabinet again, at least he cannot be specifically responsible for the work of a certain ministry, otherwise it will not play a role in reducing Li Ye's workload at all.

Looking at the people present, Li Ye put down the fold and knocked on the table, "Regarding this year's imperial examination, I plan to make some changes, so I asked you Aiqing to come over just to discuss." ”

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