Today's hundreds of officials continue to fold, and the things discussed have gradually changed from the initial Jiangbei corruption case to the unfavorable handling of the Inspectorate, and the cabinet ministries are also responsible, almost all the institutions are sprayed, and finally it has evolved into an administrative and judicial dispute.

Some say that the administration interferes with the judiciary, and some say that the judiciary and administration are not separated, which has led to administrative chaos.

And many of them are some old problems that have existed in the Tang Empire for many years, and even stubborn diseases, everyone knew about them in the past, but they would not take them out and say it, after all, the ugliness of the family still has to be covered.

But now, everything is out of the way, and when the trouble is getting bigger and bigger, Liu Bagou, who is a scholar of the Middle Pole Palace, the minister on duty in the imperial study, the secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture, and the marquis of the empire, also feels tricky.

Liu Bagou was the prime minister at the beginning of the Tang Empire, and later after the reform of the official system, he became a scholar of the Zhongji Temple, a scholar of the household department, and a grade of positive products.

However, although he has been in a high position with his early achievements, Liu Bagou is also a smart person, and he also knows what it means to be a meritorious master, so he is actually rarely actually responsible for any affairs after the empire unified China.

He Liu Bagou basically stayed in the imperial study every day, and he didn't participate much in detailed affairs, and in the imperial study, he didn't deal with detailed affairs much.

More often, he acts as a leader, mediating the contradictions of various departments, or acting as a bridge between the cabinet and the Son of Heaven, when it is inconvenient for the Son of Heaven to speak directly to various departments, he stands up to solve the trouble for the Son of Heaven.

But in terms of specific affairs, it is definitely not outstanding!

In addition, there is a very important point that he cares more about the loyalty of other ministers to Li Xuan than Li Xuan, and when it comes to etiquette issues, when a courtier loses in front of Li Xuan, Liu Bagou will not hesitate to stand up and solve it.

In other words, in the past ten years, Liu Bagou's original intention has never changed, that is, to maintain the imperial power of the Tang Empire!

Well, to put it bluntly, in fact, Liu Bagou is not defending Li Xuan, but the imperial power of the Tang Empire, if one day Li Xuan dies, Liu Bagou will not hesitate to support Li Xuan's son to ascend the throne as the emperor, and then assist him to become a new generation of saints.

For this point, although Liu Bagou has never said it, Li Xuan can see it, but he doesn't have much disgust with it, on the contrary, he still admires Liu Bagou for being so pure!

In the huge imperial officialdom, an official with such pure ideals like Liu Bagou can't find a second one out of a million!

Therefore, Liu Bagou's insistence is also that he has been sitting firmly on the throne of a scholar for the past ten years and has become the only person in the Tang Empire who is a civil official in office.

From the beginning of the establishment of the Tang Empire to the present, there have been a total of three Zhengyipin officials, namely Liu Bagou, Qian Mengjiu, and Wang Wenhua, and these three people's Zhengyipin grades all come from their university titles.

In the Tang Empire, the grade of the first product can only be obtained through two ways, one is a university scholar, and the second is the three dukes and three orphans, as for the title of nobility, this thing is not equal to the grade, and the Tang Dynasty did not fix that the aristocracy is a super grade, and the rank of the official is one level higher, and the aristocracy is a separate honor system, and has nothing to do with the administrative grade and the rank of the army.

And Li Xuan is more stingy, for so many years, the three princes and three orphans have never been issued, not once, and the university scholar has only been awarded to three people, that is, Liu Bagou and the other three, and these three people were also obtained in the Huangzhushan era.

As for the others, if they wanted to obtain the highest-ranking civil official titles in the Tang Empire, such as the University Scholar and the Three Dukes and Three Gus, Li Xuan felt that they still needed to work harder.

In the process of establishing the Tang Empire, to be honest, except for Liu Bagou, the other civilian officials did not make much effort, and the army played a major role, in addition, Li Xuan also deliberately suppressed the civilian clique to ensure that the military strength of the empire would not weaken too early, continue to maintain the attraction of high-quality talents, and maintain the combat effectiveness of the army.

Therefore, Li Xuan is very generous to the generals of the military, but the reason for the general suppression of civilian officials.

Liu Bagou is naturally well aware of Li Xuan's policy, and he doesn't understand it, but this does not prevent him from wholeheartedly defending Li Xuan and supporting Li Xuan's decision-making.

Liu Bagou has been in a high position for many years and has seen a lot of disputes and turmoil in the court, but such a large-scale political turmoil as this year still makes Liu Bagou quite worried.

He knew that the Holy Son of Heaven was planning to play a big game of chess, but he couldn't figure out what it was.

Well, it's not important, the important thing is that he feels that if he continues to be so uncontrolled, I'm afraid it will have too much impact, although the controversy is still limited to the court, but if it continues like this, it will definitely spread to the entire group of officials, and then the entire gentry group, and the entire gentry group knows, which basically means that the whole world knows.

And this will have a very bad effect.

Liu Bagou, who was a little worried, accompanied Li Xuan to inspect the back garden of the palace that was about to be completed, and asked a few words, he didn't want to stop anything, he just wanted to know the follow-up direction of the matter, so that he could prepare in advance!

As for Liu Bagou's side knock, Li Xuan looked up at this person, and then said with a usual smile: "Yes, it seems that the people below are also attentive, this flower garden is well cultivated, but it is elegant and generous under the competition of flowers!" ”

Li Xuan said, pointing to a large flower garden in front of him, the flower garden is planted with all kinds of flowers and plants, although it is autumn at this time, there are still many plants and trees that remain evergreen, and even bloom.

Li Xuan continued: "It's just that there are four seasons of evergreen, autumn and winter yellow, spring and summer flowers, and winter snow and cold plums, which are mixed with each other, although there is a unique charm, but Aiqing, do you think that this flower garden is too messy?" ”

Liu Bagou listened and looked at the flowerbed in front of him, it was not so easy to see such a delicate flowerbed in autumn.

But while watching, I was thinking about Li Xuan's words just now!

After a little contemplation, he replied: "What Your Majesty said is very true, the universe is orderly, yin and yang have a way, the order can not be disordered, the road can not be sent, but this flower garden is a mess, if it is repaired, evergreen in one place, four seasons in one place, wood a measurement, flower side, it will look more pleasing to the eye!" ”

Li Xuan nodded slightly, stopped talking, and continued to move forward.

A few secretaries who were waiting with him in the rear, some of them listened thoughtfully, while some of them showed a confused face, and some of them also looked at the flowerbed, and couldn't help but imagine in their minds that Liu Bagou would divide all the flowers and plants in the flowerbed into different categories, and then plant them separately, like that, I am afraid that it will be miserable.

But why did the Son of Heaven still nod?

Could it be that the aesthetics of these two people are different from ordinary people?

Although the entourage is all secretaries in the secretariat of the Hanlin Academy, the first secretary and the second secretary, as for the third secretary, they are not qualified to accompany them, according to reason, their position is also very important, they can access a large number of secrets, and they are all young officials who have been trained in a key way.

However, not everyone knows the inside story of the matter, and the first secretaries understand it, because they know more or less the thoughts of some of the Son of Heaven, but although they guess one or two, they all have their mouths closed, which will not be said to anyone.

As for those second-level secretaries, they naturally can't get in touch with the secrets of the high-level, and it is difficult to guess the thoughts of the Son of Heaven, so naturally they can't understand it.

Those who can understand understand understand, those who don't understand naturally can't understand, and Li Xuan is naturally too lazy to explain anything.

Judging from Liu Bagou's reaction, Liu Bagou understood, and also expressed his opinion!

Liu Bagou's opinion is to support Li Xuan as always!

As for right or wrong, it doesn't matter, at least not for Liu Bagou.

After getting his own answer, Liu Bagou didn't ask anything else, but specially accompanied Li Xuan to look at the back garden of this palace!

This back garden, in fact, has another name, that is, the Imperial Garden, but now it is only one side of the Imperial Garden, which is part of the reconstruction of the Imperial Palace.

The reconstruction of the imperial palace began very early, nominally, from the beginning of the Dingdu Jinling City, that is, the construction of the imperial palace, the former Ming Imperial Palace as the theme of reconstruction.

But because the former Ming Palace is too badly damaged, it will cost too much to rebuild it as it is, and the key point is that Li Xuan doesn't like the traditional palace, it is too depressing, and living in this seemingly grandiose palace all year round, but in fact, it will make people crazy.

Relatively speaking, Li Xuan prefers to live in the existing royal palace, because although the predecessor of the royal palace was a large mansion, after the reconstruction, it actually became a huge garden with fewer buildings, and Li Xuan likes this kind of living environment.

In fact, this is not Li Xuan's choice alone, from ancient times to the present, there are few emperors who like to live in the deep palace every day, and they like to live in the royal garden every opportunity.

Therefore, when rebuilding the palace, although the front hall part, because it needs to reflect the legitimacy of the Tang Dynasty, all kinds of traditional halls are needed, but the back living area, although the overall layout is also in accordance with the central axis, but under the requirements of Li Xuan, the back of the harem part is all garden-style layout.

If anyone dares to get him a large area of dense and eerie houses, Li Xuan will dare to send him directly to Nanyang, and it is still an undeveloped desert island where cannibals are entrenched.