As long as the days of the last dynasty, the gate of the imperial city is always the most lively place before dawn, the weather is very cold, and the ministers like to nest in the carriage to chat, like today, there are many people who tell their coachmen, when Sun Zhengming's carriage comes, they will only make a sound by themselves, of course, there are not many people who are qualified to get into Sun Xiangfu's carriage directly, Wei Zheng counted one.

"Yo, Zhenglun is coming faster than the old man!"

"Xuancheng, you guessed wrong, I came with Sun Dudu."

Wei Zheng and Du Zhenglun are obviously friends, the two of them sat down on the sofas on both sides of the carriage one left and one right, and they didn't need Sun Xiangfu to greet them, Wei Zheng lifted the teapot on the charcoal stove in the car, poured himself a cup of milk tea, and filled Du Zhenglun's bowl, no way, this is the privilege of the old man, even if the official rank is not as high as you, there is no need to respect you as a young man.

"Have you finished asking about it, old man, there are still a lot of things to ask here!"

To say that the newly established department of the Tang Dynasty, in fact, the Ministry of Law is also one of them, although its members are from the Yushitai Dali Temple and the Criminal Department, but the new functions and powers are very different from the past, but now the Ministry of Justice is still in the legislative stage, how to really establish the entire functional system, to the whole country, it will take a year or two later, for the new trial, punishment methods, the imperial court needs to formulate a new set of rules, in this regard, and Wei Zheng, who was not born in a family, is actually a black eye.

"Ask first! I'm not in a hurry about my affairs, and when Zhengming goes to Weinan, it's not too late for us to talk about it in detail. ”

Du Zhenglun gave in modestly, and Wei Zheng was not polite, completely ignoring Sun Xiangfu's mood of passively becoming a free door consultant for various departments of the Tang Dynasty.

"Zhengming thinks that this time, the candidates of the Ming Law Department, my law department should take the geometry? What do you think about the management after that? ”

Legalism, since it was annexed by Confucianism, has become an elective course for Confucian children, because of the previous Yushitai, Dali Temple, the Criminal Department and the local magistrates, all require proficiency in some laws, yes, many Confucian children who are interested in becoming famous will dabble in some books on laws and regulations, but there are almost no people who really study this thing full-time.

In Sun Xiangfu's view, the students who can go to the law examination are not shallow in terms of academic attainments, at least they read and understand the relevant law books, then, the hard indicators in culture are enough, as long as some people who fish in troubled waters are eliminated, all the remaining people can be selected, and then let them go to the law department to help revise the law, at the same time, they can finish studying the new laws and regulations by the way, and put a little effort into ideological education, then it will not be so difficult for them to punish the case, after all, in the current society, It's not as complicated as the afterlife.

But even these points are about to be discussed with Wei Zheng, and it is not a matter of two words, so Sun Xiangfu said, "In this way, I will also write you a note later, for you to use for reference, as for the number of Zhongming law candidates in this imperial examination, it should be as high as eighty or ninety, because you are in the place, it is still blank, and the requirements of the imperial court are that each county must have a judge and a court, so that the gap of judges in the Ministry of Law, especially grassroots judges, is very huge." ”

Court, judges to the county, in fact, is a symbol of the imperial power to the county, even if the investment in doing so is relatively large, but Li Shimin also feels that it must be done, before the personnel can not be in place, the new batch of judges, will also be sent to the more populous Shangzhou, Shangxian to take office, and then gradually to the middle and lower counties, this process, I am afraid that it will take several years, Wei Zheng, but there is time to take his time.

Wei Zheng was for this purpose, nodded, and said, "Today, I am afraid that some officials will play Your Majesty and talk about the matter of taking scholars in the imperial examination, you must be prepared." ”

"Is it a Justice Department official?" Sun Xiangfu asked with some surprise.

"No, the Ministry of Justice is newly established, and most of the officials have been upgraded, and now in order to build the system of authority as soon as possible, they are very busy, where is the time to pay attention to the imperial examination, and you will know it when you go to the court."

Ministers, especially ministers who are qualified to go to the court, generally discuss in advance if they want to impeach and talk about things, and there are very few cases of temporary intentions, but once they discuss with each other, they will leak news, Wei Zheng, as the head of the original officials, has the most information about this kind of news, but now after the establishment of the Ministry of Law, their powers have all changed, and they have lost the right to hear the news.

Therefore, there are basically no more things to fight and attack each other in the court, and now most of the officials of various ministries express their views and opinions on some new policies, because now you have to sue whoever is wrongdoing, go directly to the Yamen of the Ministry of Law to file a complaint, and the Criminal Department will collect evidence, the Ministry of Justice will try it, and give it to the emperor for approval.

Don't look at the original six ministries have become ten, it seems that four departments have been added, in fact, the officials of the previous dynasty are now almost half less than before, except for the main officials of the three provinces and ten ministries in Beijing, as well as the main generals of Zhuwei real power, most of the rest of the miscellaneous officials are gone, and the total is only about a hundred people.

Speaking of which, the gate of the imperial city has been opened, Wei Zheng drank the milk tea in the cup, took the lead and got out of the carriage, Du Zhenglun and Sun Xiangfu followed, and after greeting each other with many officials who gathered, I wanted to say a few more words to Wei Zheng, but was pulled over by Wei Chigong, an old man, and asked for a bicycle.

"If you don't have a bike, do you want the band to play with one?"

"Band?"

Even if Yu Chi Laohei's nerves were in a big state at any time, he was a little confused by a god like Sun Xiangfu.

Sun Xiangfu said as he walked, "I am going to play Your Majesty and establish a literary troupe." ”

"What is the Art Troupe?"

"It's to give your subordinate generals, specially equipped with a band, sing a song to them when they have nothing to do, dance to show them, encourage their morale, release their pressure, do you say okay?"

Wei Chigong was still a little confused, "Is there such a good thing?" ”

"Yes, as long as you follow Your Majesty to Weinan and follow me to the proposal, it may be realized."

"That's good, that's good, I'll definitely play with you, old man."

diverted the topic, and also pulled an alliance by the way, which made Sun Xiangfu feel that it was easier to deal with military generals.

Soon, the courtiers were in the Taiji Palace, although Sun Xiangfu was the secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, but there was the position of the governor of Anbei, in the civil official sequence, only listed in Fang Xuanling, Li Jing and Xiao Yu, and when Li Shimin appeared, the blow was according to the custom, and after bowing down to worship, the discussion began.

"Ladies and gentlemen, let's continue yesterday's discussion."

Sun Xiangfu heard some hoarseness from Li Shimin's voice, it seems that after Li Shimin went down to the court in the past few days, he has not spoken less, and the reform is not easy to coordinate and calm down in all aspects, and it needs to be discussed and determined one by one, just in terms of official powers, after he left the court, he also had to discuss and formulate with the head of a department, and for the initial immature ideas, they still need to be revised, who told him to make such a big determination to change so much at once!

"The minister has something to do."

Before Li Shimin's words fell, Yu Zhining, the left attendant of the Ministry of Finance, said, "Your Majesty, the Ministry of Finance is newly established, and there is an urgent shortage of people who can write and calculate, settle the accounts, and ask Your Majesty to transfer the students of the Ming Arithmetic Science to the Ministry of Finance as soon as possible to solve the urgent need." ”

Li Shimin merged all the yamen that were in charge of money and grain into finance, so the workload of just liquidating all the money and grain that was previously in charge of various departments was very huge, not to mention, there was also a lot of corruption and deficit investigation and punishment among them, and there were many things that were going to be wronged.

"Your Majesty, the minister has objections, the students in the new branch were originally just white, and some were even born as merchants, greedy for profit and unrighteousness, how can they suddenly let them get in touch with the central affairs and manage the most important money and food affairs for the imperial court, the minister thinks that their character must be examined first, otherwise, a large amount of money and grain will come to them, and they are afraid that it will not be safe."

The one who spoke was dismissed from the Ministry of Industry because of the Li Xiaochang incident, and was later reactivated by Li Shimin as the eldest grandson Shunde of the right attendant of the Ministry of Industry.

'It's not safe in their hands?' It is estimated that it is only safe if it goes into your pocket. ’

After Sun Xiangfu listened to the report of the eldest grandson Shunde, he sarcastically said in his heart, thinking that when the eldest Sun Shunde was still working as a secretary of the Ministry of Industry, the money and grain for the construction of the reservoir were less than thirty percent after his hand, this person can be described as a corrupt person, but he is a relative of the eldest grandson queen, Sun Xiangfu is okay and it is not good to impeach him, because even if he commits a crime, Li Shimin will not punish him much in the face of the eldest grandson queen, no, even if he is involved in the rebellion, he can be quickly reappointed as a high-ranking official from the third grade, It can be seen that it is useless to impeach him for such a thing as corruption, but the person who impeached him will be estranged from the eldest grandson queen.

As soon as Li Shimin heard it, he still felt that what he said was quite reasonable, however, if it was said by others, he might have taken it seriously, but if it was the eldest grandson Shunde, then Li Shimin, who was familiar with his temperament, felt wrong, and this was someone who wanted to obstruct or delay the Ministry of Finance's statistics on the property books of the company.

Thinking about the time when Li Tang's army had just broken through Chang'an, the money, grain and materials in the treasury were piled up, and then looked at the current treasury, which was empty and could run mice, Li Shimin couldn't help but feel sad in his heart, even if his father Li Yuan was extravagant, it was impossible for him to lose all the property left by the Sui Dynasty in a few years, there must be all kinds of corruption phenomena, and it involved a wide range of people, but now is not the time for him to punish corruption on a large scale, because this may implicate many people, thus, There was a huge backlash and, eventually, the whole reform was aborted.

Yu Zhining was originally a loyal minister, in history, after being the left concubine of the East Palace, he constantly advised Li Chengqian, and even during the period of filial piety, he was taken away by Li Shimin's revenge, and he was the only person in the East Palace who was not convicted and was comforted by Taizong after Li Chengqian's rebellion.

Later, he became the left concubine of the new prince Li Zhi, and successfully trained him, and was the only person in the early Tang Dynasty who enjoyed the three noble titles of prince young master, prince and prince, and prince and prince when he was alive.

It can be seen that Gaozong Li Zhi can well grasp the core governing thought of Taizong's governance, and Yu Zhining has played a key role in it, and how can such a person with political comprehension be a fool!

After listening to the words of the eldest grandson Shunde, he immediately stopped doing it, and retorted, "The candidate who won the test is only responsible for settling the accounts, how can he embezzle money and food?" Isn't it that some people are afraid that the accounts will be cleared and their corruption and illegality will be exposed, so they deliberately find excuses to delay! ”

Yu Zhining's words were sharp, and as soon as he refuted, the eldest grandson Shunde's eyes suddenly fluttered, and he was a little flustered, however, before he could reveal his embarrassment and find further excuses to obstruct him, Li Shimin said, "I know about this matter, the candidates who are selected in the Ming Arithmetic Department will also help the candidates in other subjects to calculate the test scores, and they will have to wait a few days to go to the various ministries. I will punish him severely. ”