For the first time since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin saw the officials of the family family attacking each other and impeaching each other in the court, which was a strange scene, but he was a little difficult to adapt to this sudden change.

How to provoke them to fight to the death without them consciously is a technical job, so Li Shimin died a lot of brain cells today.

"Your Majesty, Anbei Du protects Sun Zhengming's private grant of 3 million acres of official land, which is a major crime against the laws of the state, and I ask Your Majesty to severely punish this kind of traitorous minister who disregards the interests of the country in accordance with the law, and take back the land privately granted by him." Cui Shixun ignored the face of Wang Gui, who was standing in the front row of him, and bit Sun Xiangfu for violating the national law.

Wang Gui is currently a servant, and his official position is several levels higher than Cui Shixun, and he was very annoyed that he dared to ignore his eye warning, and blew his beard and went out of the class, "Your Majesty, you set up the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate and gave Sun Zhengming full power, which means that he has the right to distribute the land under his jurisdiction, which is not illegal, and granting 3 million mu of land to the Wang family must also have his own considerations, Your Majesty cannot interfere arbitrarily and disrupt the development of the border land." ”

"No, no, the imperial court delegated power to Sun Zhengming, but not let him seek personal interests in the border land, the minister believes that Sun Zhengming's move is suspected of colluding with the Wang family for personal gain, His Majesty should suspend his position, let the superintendent of the imperial history investigate the matter clearly, and then make a decision, as for the three million acres of land, it should be recovered by the imperial court, and then disposed of separately······"

Cui Zheng Wang Lu Li, the officials of the five surnames and seven families in the court The war of words in the court was fully opened, and Li Shimin didn't need to open his mouth, they just talked to themselves, until the inner servant Wang had to whisper a few words in Li Shimin's ear, Li Shimin smiled leisurely and said, "What you Aiqing said is reasonable, I can't make a decision for a while, it's better to go down and discuss for the time being, and wait for me to make a decision after I investigate this matter in detail." Now that there is a catastrophe in Guanzhong, there are many things that need to be dealt with everywhere, so let's solve the urgent task first. ”

When Li Shimin said this, the ministers had to shut up for the time being, and just now, Wang De used the word "drag" to pass on the message.

This is the advice that Li Shimin specially sent someone to ask Ma Zhou.

At this juncture, there is an advantage to dragging, that is, deepening the rift between the seven sects and the five surnames, if the matter is not settled for a day, they will fight for the interests of their own family one day, and it is easy to fight for the real fire, looking at Wang Gui's expression when facing the trolls of several other families, Li Shimin immediately understood the subtlety of the word 'drag' that Ma Zhou said.

If you want to split these families with complicated relationships, you should let them be in arguments and fights for a long time, and sooner or later they will be irrational, and at that time, the opportunity will appear.

After retiring from the dynasty, Li Shimin summoned Ma Zhou in the imperial study for the first time, and now, he is already an official position of the Zhongshu Sheren, the head of the service, the senator seal, one of the emperor's little secretaries, and has a more comprehensive understanding of the politics of the whole country.

"Your Majesty, Sun Zhengming deliberately sent a letter to Lord Wei to impeach him, just to roast the Wang family on the fire, and the benefits brought to the Wang family by 800,000 mu of spice fields are nearly 10 million yuan, and the Wang family will not let go of these 3 million mu of land.

Yes, in order to ensure that the fields can be started, the ministers of the Wang family led by Lord Wang will definitely use some extraordinary methods, Your Majesty will drag them for a few days first, let them quarrel with each other, and then give some wind to Lord Wang, tell him, Your Majesty, you support Sun Zhengming's decision, but the resistance in the court is too great, and you have no choice.

Lord Wang Gui is a servant, a high and powerful position, and will definitely use the power in his hands to eliminate those officials who hinder his royal family from taking land, and if you take advantage of the situation to help them, then their own struggle will be transformed from a struggle of interests to a struggle for power, so that Your Majesty can vacate some important positions without a trace·····

"King Bin has a brilliant plan, but what if a large number of family officials are eliminated and there is no one available in my hands?"

If there are conditions, Li Shimin does not want a son of a family to be an official in the court, however, this is unrealistic, there are too few scholars in the Tang Dynasty, even after he took the position, he has been making every effort to develop education, but it has only been more than two years, and talents can not be cultivated so quickly, when no one can be qualified for those official positions, even if he knows that these family sons regard the interests of the family as more important than the interests of the country, they have to be used as officials.

"Your Majesty, the minister recently looked at the list of officials of the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate reported by Sun Zhengming, and found a very interesting thing." Ma Zhou thought for a while.

"What's the matter?"

"When he appointed officials, most of them involved money, food, and the military, and most of them used ordinary people with no background as officials to control the source, while other officials were all appointed by the Wang family.

These officials who are in charge of money and food are basically just the most ordinary writing and arithmetic, but they are very sincere, and under his rules and regulations, they can easily get things done.

Not to mention the army, Su Dingfang, Guo Po, Abu Tusi, Xi Junmai, these people are all people with no foundation in the court, and the purpose of being a man and doing things is very simple, most of them are only obedient to his life.

And having mastered the money, food, and army, any policy he wants to implement according to the Northern Capital Protectorate will be unimpeded. ”

After that, Ma Zhou also opened Sun Xiangfu's policy address to Li Shimin, above, first of all, the division of officials' duties and powers, such as Sun Xiangfu's county order, Yishui's surname Wang, and even the Gongcao of various ministries are also surnamed Wang.

However, these officials in charge of specific affairs are not subject to the full authority of the county order, but also need to be responsible to their higher-level officials, just like in later generations, the county bureau was under the control of the county magistrate, but also under the leadership of the city bureau.

Cang Cao, who is in charge of the warehouse in the county, who is in charge of the warehouse in the state, who is in charge of the county and who is in charge of public security, who is the county lieutenant who is in charge of public security, who is in charge of public security, and who is responsible for the taxation and property cashiers, etc., all have a separate line leading directly to Sun Xiangfu, and at the top of this line, Sun Xiangfu only appointed a few of his own cronies to control the overall situation, and even, he only used his cronies in the three aspects of money, food and army.

As for the county order, as the chief official, you are only in charge of the people's livelihood, where there is a shortage of clothing and food, you will report it, apply for subsidy placement, and the higher-level official will approve the slip, and the household department will be responsible for distributing it.

Where you need to repair bridges and repair roads, you report, the higher-level officials approved the slips, and the Ministry of Industry Gongcao went to the Ministry of Household Gongcao to receive the funding materials approved by the higher-level officials, and the Ministry of Industry went to build it.

Household officials, when they see the slips, they give something, what they give, and what should be left, there are details, and it is clear at a glance when you check it.

The tax collector collects any tax, it is according to the actual collection of invoices, the people and the government all kinds of one, from time to time there are checks, the people can not get the bills, you can check the stub, if there is no record on the stub, that is, you did not pay.

If the people come up with the bills, but the officials can't produce the stub bills, they will inevitably be embezzled and will be fully responsible.

Each invoice and invoice stub has a number, one household number, how many households, how many things you have received, a check of the bills, at a glance, you want to erase the people's bills and stubs, sorry, you can't lack the number when you check it, and the missing official is fully responsible.

Of course, at present, all the fields in Shuozhou, including the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, are under the tax holiday, and farmers only have a small amount of poll tax to pay, and the main source of tax revenue is concentrated on workers and merchants.

The county order is in charge of everything, but only has the right to check and supervise, the money does not go into the county order, the officials of each department will inspect and verify the division, the county order does not have the right to embezzle, the division embezzles it on its own, and will face the double inspection of the county order and the departments, and the work of the departments can not only meet the requirements of the county order, but also they are responsible for their own upline. It seems that everything has to be approved or reported by the pen of the prefectural order, but in fact, the people who do the work are working according to the standards set by the upper part of the county, and the prefectural order cannot interfere.

As for culture, education, reception, or the handling of some daily affairs, Sun Xiangfu also appointed a large number of Wang's children, because the people responsible for doing these jobs did not have any actual power, and only needed to allocate them fixed funds.

This method of dual supervision and management can not only greatly eliminate corruption, but also make it easy for Sun Xiangfu to take power into his own hands.

Finding problems, investigating problems, and solving problems are three groups of people, and Sun Xiangfu only needs to grasp the power of the group of people who investigate the problem to manage all the three groups of people, but this group of people who investigate and verify the situation does not need a profound culture.

They just need to go and count the quantity, check the quality, and make sure that this is the case.

Of course, it's not that it's so clever to manage things, it's just that in the absence of too many people in charge of things, it's easier to manage things like this, and there won't be any big problems.

Ma Zhou suggested that Li Shimin do the same, which can not only make the imperial power more centralized, but also temporarily solve the situation of lack of manpower, and at the same time, there is also the meaning of weakening the power of local officials.

"Well, if this method is studied and made up for its shortcomings, it may be able to greatly reduce the power in the hands of the sons of the family."

Li Shimin is a smart person, and he can understand it thoroughly, and the two biggest characteristics of his life are knowing how to make good use of people and discerning gains and losses.

When an emperor can use people, and knows what is good and what is bad, then governing the country will get twice the result with half the effort, yes, after discussing with Ma Zhou for an afternoon, Li Shimin left all the pieces sent by Wei Zheng.

Staying in the middle means not dealing with it, so Sun Xiangfu in Shanyang still does what he loves.

In the evening, he listened to Wuying'er's summary report on all the information in the city today.

There was almost a fight in the Wang family's house, and the families received the news that Sun Xiangfu had privately granted the Wang family 3 million mu of land, and united to question Wang Rui, asking them to take out some of these fields and distribute them to several families, and withdraw from the land auction.

Wang Rui naturally disagrees, Sun Zhengming is his close partner of the Wang family, and he strives for the interests of the Wang family, which is natural, and you have the ability, you should cultivate a talent like Sun Zhengming yourself!

He announced that the 3 million acres of land not only planted by the Wang family, but also, when bidding, will definitely auction their own piece of land, who has the ability to have more money than my Wang family, just let the horse come, don't talk about the identity of your aunt and grandfather, these lands, but the industry that can be passed down from generation to generation, Wang Rui is not allowed to fight for his children and grandchildren, but he has not thought that so far, these families have not made a detailed distribution of the 5 million acres of land that is about to be auctioned!

Then, there were also Hui Murowei and Shen Ya who showed unfriendly conditions in the city, and if it weren't for the law and order summer, the men and horses of these two departments would almost start a fight in the city.

It's no wonder that they are in such a hurry to get on fire, the territory of these two parts is the junction of the whole line, and they are all in the bitter cold land of the Northeast, and they usually have constant friction in order to compete for survival resources.

Nowadays, the three types of land marked out by the Anbei Metropolitan Protectorate, those who are close to the west dare not think, and those who are close to the east are also thousands of miles away, this land is not far from them, for them, this is a piece of meat on the side of their mouths, can they eat it? Eating even half of them would greatly increase their strength, and of course, it would be even better if they took them all, which would allow them to dream of being their own tribe and becoming the next similar Turkic Khanate.

The reason why Sun Xiangfu separately marked this piece as three types of land was originally with the intention of causing them to fight, and when they fought themselves, their dependence on Datang became more and more serious, killing three soldiers with one peach!

The auction is still three days away, and the situation in the city is as good as Sun Xiangfu expected, however, in order for this fire to burn more vigorously, Sun Xiangfu also needs to do it more comprehensively and meticulously, the Guanlong family group represented by Wei Shuhuan needs to be used, the Shandong family group represented by Wei Zheng needs to be used, and even, the Huainan family group headed by the four major families in Yangzhou can also be used, so that they can all fight, and this land auction is lively.