In the current harem of the Tang Dynasty, in addition to the Empress Dowager Bai and Empress Dong, the status of Concubine Ye and Concubine De Wang is the most noble.

The harem concubine system of the Tang Dynasty also followed the ancient system, and was slightly improved, forming a concubine system with Tang characteristics: the harem has a queen, three concubines, nine concubines, nine concubines, and three levels of Jieyu, beauty, and talent, and the last three levels are indefinite.

That is to say, in addition to the upper limit on the number of concubines and above, the Jieyu, beauties, and talented people in the back, in theory, Li Xuan can set as many as he wants, and in fact, Li Xuan did so.

For example, dozens of members of the Tang Dynasty Court Dance Troupe, most of them have the titles of beauty and talent.

However, in order to avoid concubines from walking all over the place, Li Xuan's restrictions on the titles above the concubines are relatively large, and the current nine concubines are actually only three people, two concubines, and none of the concubines.

It's more about Jieyu, beauties, and talents.

However, there are more and more women, and the total number of third-level irregular harem women has reached more than fifty, and it is still expanding on a large scale.

Among them, except for the palace dance troupe, which was selected by Wang Wenhua and other courtiers, Li Xuan wanted it himself, and then went out to the early four of Empress Dong, Concubine Shu, Concubine Li, and Zhu'er, and the rest were all with strong political marriages.

There are all kinds of people, a few are the daughters of the Tusi family in Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi, and some are the daughters of the gentry in various provinces.

Basically, every time he hits a region, Li Xuan inevitably has to admit a few women, and it is not the kind that he can't do if he doesn't, because this is one of the means to win people's hearts and completely tie the locals to the Tang carriage.

For example, now the capital is Jinling, because in the past few months in the Tang Dynasty, the law enforcement force with the tax inspection team as the core has cleaned up the gentry power in the south of the Yangtze River, and ruling a place, it is not enough to kill alone, this hand of sticks and a hand of candy is the king.

Therefore, when Li Xuan had not yet arrived in Jinling City, in fact, the Tang Dynasty had already begun to select women to enter the palace in various parts of the Yangtze River.

This kind of selection is naturally not a draft, and the object is definitely not a woman from a small family such as jasper, but a lady of all colors, and she is also a scholarly family, the daughter of a gentry and a powerful family.

Because this is actually a political marriage, the object must be representative.

In the evening, Empress Dowager Bai called Li Xuan over, saying that the Ministry of Rites had submitted the eighteen families who were scheduled to be drafted, Li Xuan looked at the list, okay, all the scholarly gentry and powerful families, many families were high-ranking officials in the Ming Dynasty, and even now there are families with clansmen who are officials in the Ming Dynasty.

However, Li Xuan did not express any objections, because this is not to choose a beautiful woman for himself, but a political marriage, after examining the detailed background of these eighteen families with a working attitude, as well as the political influence that these eighteen families can represent, Li Xuan said: "Everything depends on the mother!" ”

Empress Dowager Bai also nodded slightly: "Since the emperor has no opinion, then go back to mourn the family and let the queen begin!" ”

This is for the emperor to choose a concubine, the queen mother's opinion is very important, the queen's opinion is also very important, and the specific work actually has to be done by Dong Yunyun.

At the same time, in a palatial mansion in Suzhou Fucheng, two middle-aged men were standing in front of an old man who was old, and one of them was a little older: "Dad, things have been largely decided, and this time there will be a place for our Song family!" ”

The old man nodded slightly: "Well, since it's settled, then get ready, calculate the time, the draft angel should not be long before it comes!" ”

At this time, another slightly younger middle-aged man said: "Dad, eldest brother, will we implicate the third brother if we do this, and now the third brother is still in the north!" ”

Old lady Song said: "What is involved, the old man has already publicly publicized that he will be expelled from the house, and all the people in the third room have already moved to Jingshi." What's more, it's not our Song family's family who does this, the huge Jiangnan, who doesn't do this, the north must know, but what's the harm in knowing, now the ministers in the court in the north, isn't there a clansman staying in Jiangnan! ”

Although the Tang Dynasty rose and occupied Jiangnan, today's China is de facto separated from the north and the south, and many ministers in the Ming Dynasty are actually embarrassed, because most of them are people from Jiangnan.

His family is in Jiangnan, under the rule of the pseudo-Tang Dynasty, but he is an official in the Ming Dynasty, and the official is not low!

So many people have made the same choice, that is, the family began to separate, and there are not a few who publicly announced the severance of relations.

And this kind of thing, Li Xuan and Emperor Zhengde both knew about it, but no one came up with it.

As long as the gentry under the rule of the Tang Dynasty abide by the law and cooperate with the rule of the Tang Dynasty, then some of these gentry are officials in the Ming Dynasty, and they will turn a blind eye.

Because if you really want to investigate it, then you have to kill all these gentry families.

Although Li Xuan didn't like the gentry class very much, there was no need to kill them all, and these gentry still had some use after transformation, such as initially stabilizing the place, and then when they joined industry and commerce, it could also stimulate economic development.

After all, the stable development of a society is needed by all strata, even good and bad people.

After these people discussed it again, they said to the old lady Song again: "You can choose the specific candidates, this matter is important, and the operation is good, but it is not only able to bring the benefits in front of you, if the person who enters the palace is favored and there is only one prince left, how can you not say more about the old man in the future!" ”

"My son knows, and now there are two suitable candidates in the family, but who exactly it is, we will have to wait for the draft angel to come!"

"Well, that's good, don't slack off on this matter!"

The same thing, at different times and in different places, has been staged in various parts of Jiangnan.

The Tang Dynasty set the capital of Jinling, and the momentum is very strong, there is a momentum of unifying China, even if it is not unified China, but it is easy to rule with the Ming Dynasty, in this case, if they want to continue to survive and maintain glory and wealth, the carriage of the Tang Dynasty, whether they want to or not, must also go.

Now the relationship between the Jiangnan gentry and the Tang Dynasty is somewhat special, both sides actually don't like each other, but they both pinch their noses and cooperate for the sake of the overall situation.

Empress Dowager Bai and Li Xuan talked about the draft, it was just a small episode, this matter may be very important to many people, but in Li Xuan's opinion, it is like that, it belongs to the kind that can be done, but it is not a big loss if you don't do it.

I thought that Li Xuan did not rely on the gentry and landlord class to rise, he relied on the army to rise, and the foundation of his rule was the vast number of peasants and the new industrial and commercial bourgeoisie.

Traditional landlords have always been the target of his attacks.

Now, it's just a matter of easing the relationship a little after the blow

But the landlord class, which occupies a lot of land, is still the target of Li Xuan's unswerving attack!

Now many people outside the Tang Dynasty have many chaotic and tyrannical governments, which are caused by many chaotic ministers and thieves of the Tang Dynasty, Li Xuan is just blinded, and many people are like Chen Lifu with the mentality of supporting the royal family and putting things right into the Tang Dynasty.

But I'm afraid they would never have guessed that the reason why the Tang Dynasty is where it is today and why it has launched all kinds of chaotic and tyrannical governments is all because of Li Xuan's blow.

It was Li Xuan who created the Tang Dynasty, and it was Li Xuan who promoted many unprecedented changes!

Those ministers are just following Li Xuan's wishes!

If they want to set things right, they have to kill Li Xuan first.

The day after Li Xuan entered Jinling City, the first great court meeting was held in Jinling City, and hundreds of civil and military officials went to meet him and shouted long live long live.

This great court meeting is also a political propaganda campaign, which means that the Tang Dynasty has officially begun to set its office in Jinling City.

At the same time, in order to celebrate the joy of moving the capital, Li Xuan once again issued an amnesty order, and the object of pardon was still a large number of prisoners of war and the families of implicated criminals, and this move was also to buy the hearts of the people.

After a series of major actions, Jinling City returned to calm, and the officials began to be in the same state of busyness as before.

And many officials who have just entered the Tang Dynasty and become officials are very unaccustomed to this, because being an official in the Tang Dynasty is not as good as being an official in the Ming Dynasty, being an official in the Ming Dynasty, that is a thing to do, you can go to the Qinglou every day, but being an official in the Tang Dynasty, it is really busy!

As one of the new officials, Chen Lifu also has a deep understanding of this!

Since coming to Chizhou Mansion from Jinling City in the first month, Chen Lifu has not been relaxed, and he has been running around every day to review the files, but it is just busy, but it makes him very tired.

And the reason why he is tired is because of his mission!

Before coming to Chizhou, he and another senior tax inspector received a mission.

According to the Ministry of Agriculture's inferred number of acres of land in Chizhou, combined with the tax rate, the amount of agricultural tax it should collect should be three times the amount paid.

In other words, the Chizhou government paid only one-third of the estimated agricultural tax.

And the business tax is also lower than expected!

What does this mean, it means that tax evasion in Chizhou is quite serious, and this kind of thing is absolutely intolerable to the Ministry of Taxation.

Taxation is the lifeblood of the Tang Dynasty, and tax evasion is intolerable to the Tang Dynasty, let alone such a serious large-scale tax evasion!