Chapter 207: The Imperial Hall

A cold wind blew, and the snowflakes flew obliquely, densely sprinkled in Chang'an City.

It has been two days since Zhang Yunwen returned to Chang'an. In the past two days, he first reported his work to Li Shimin, and then he has been keeping warm in the house with his wife.

Regarding Zhang Yunwen's lazy behavior, Li Shimin turned a blind eye and let it go.

Although he was lazy, he still had to deal with a problem that Liu Cheng left him. This is the batch of livestock that Liu Cheng obtained after robbing and killing the Turkic envoys.

According to the current price, the minimum number of horses is 80 yuan, and the minimum number of sheep is 10 yuan, so that it is calculated, there are more than 300,000 yuan, such a large amount of money, how to deal with it?

Zhang Yunwen's method was that all the horses were sold to the Twelve Wei at a super low price, the four carts of raw cowhide were sold to the Equipment Institute at a low price for making leather armor, and the sheep were all handed over to Lin Ran to dispose of the stolen goods. I believe that with Lin Ran's huge business system, it is easy to digest these 8,000 sheep. And the profit Li Shimin sent a share, Liu Cheng and other 100 soldiers took a share, the reconnaissance battalion took a share, Lin Ran took a share, and Zhang Yunwen took a share. In this way, each party can reach 20,000 yuan.

In this way, the tribute gifts brought by the Turkic missions completely disappeared from view.

When the Turkic missions were immediately looted, a few of the herdsmen who had fled in all directions actually escaped. The escaped herdsmen fled to a nearby county government and were sent to Chang'an. And they all said that they had met a horse thief, led by a middle-aged man with a goatee. So the sheep's beard appeared in people's field of vision. However, when the officials and soldiers of the nearby county government felt the scene, they only saw corpses all over the ground, all of them were bandits and Turks, and as for the livestock and carts, there was no shadow at all.

Among the corpses, the people found the bodies of a sheep's beard and another group of horse thieves. Since they were all dead, who took the tribute? Obviously, the two of them are accomplices.

Thus, the charge of attacking the Turkic mission and stealing the tribute fell on the unfounded horse thief accomplices.

The news of the attack on this Turkic mission soon spread throughout the Tang Dynasty. In Chang'an City, almost everyone is talking about this matter. And Li Shimin expressed great anger about this matter, he assigned the officials of the Criminal Department to Yunzhou City to investigate, and on the other hand, he decided to clean up the horse thief gang inside and outside the Great Wall, in addition, he also expressed his anger at the Turkic Jieli Khan, knowing that it was an embassy, and sent such a small number of guards to protect him, even a horse thief could not be defeated, and he really did not take the relationship between the Tang Dynasty and the Turks in his eyes at all.

The Turkic envoy who came to Chang'an first hurriedly pleaded guilty in court, and Li Shimin was furious and drove the envoy out of the court.

The court of Zhenguan changed rapidly in the third year, first in January, Pei Lin was implicated because of the Falla monk, was removed from his official position, and returned to his hometown. Maybe he has been in Chang'an for a long time, and he is obsessed with the prosperous scenery of Chang'an, and he asked to stay in Chang'an, Li Shimin said to Pei Lian: "Your ability is so insufficient, and your planning is so mediocre, I remember that you are an old minister who has been following since the army of Jinyang, so you have always been kind to you. During the Wude period, the bribery of public banks and the disorder of the dynasty were all caused by you. But for the sake of you being an old minister, I didn't punish you. Now you should feel lucky to have just sent you back to your hometown! ”

When he said these words, Li Shimin was full of resentment. Not to mention the distant disputes such as Liu Wenjing and the storage position, it was in the second year of Zhenguan that he connived at the people of the clan to be evil and attacked Zhang Yunwen, which made Li Shimin, who was originally resentful of Pei Lian, have even more opinions about Pei Lian. Therefore, following the matter of Monk Falla, he kicked this Pei Lin out of the court and sent him back to his hometown.

Not only Pei Lone, but a large number of martial arts veterans who followed Pei Lone also faded out of the court one after another, either being set aside, or idle, or saying goodbye. In the first month of the second year of Zhenguan, the total number of central ministers in the entire imperial court was less than 600. The old ministers of the Wude Dynasty are almost seven or eight out of ten.

Hearing the news of Pei Lian's dismissal, Zhang Yunwen did not have a trace of joy, he knew that this old man's luck was very bad. Soon after returning to his hometown of Puzhou, another guy named Xinxing said in front of Pei Lin that he had a destiny, and Pei Lin was implicated again and exiled to Jingzhou. After arriving in Jingzhou, he encountered the local mountain bandits in turmoil. And the leader of the mountain qiang who made a rebellion didn't know what he had done, and even said that he would rob Pei Lin and go up the mountain and serve him as the master. Pei Lin was furious at that time and led his servants to quell the Shanqiang Rebellion. Later, he was taken back to Chang'an by Li Shimin and died here.

Another change in the court is the emergence of a large number of new ministers of Zhenguan. Fang Xuanling was the left servant, Du Ruhui was the right servant, and Shangshu was the right Wei Zheng to guard the secretary and supervise and participate in the government. The name of "Fang Mou Du Xuan" was immediately known to the world. Those who were in the Wude and Zhenguan years, and the young officials who had been trained for two years were promoted in large numbers, and under the leadership of the old ministers of Wude represented by Tang Jian and the new ministers of Zhenguan represented by Fang Du and Changsun, the whole court appeared a vigorous scene.

However, this is only the center of the imperial court, and there are still a large number of old officials in more than 300 prefectures and more than 1,000 counties across the country.

Although this kind of behavior is somewhat inconsistent with the etiquette system, but now the Manchu Dynasty is Li Shimin's close ministers, and this move is indeed in line with the national interests, so although some old Confucians have a little criticism, the court still passed Li Shimin's decision.

This large-scale personnel transfer also affected Zhang Yunwen. Yan Lide, the manager of the Equipment Institute under Zhang Yunwen, a member of the Ministry of Works, has been promoted to the head of the Ministry of Engineering because of his excellent performance during this period in the Equipment Institute, and is no longer in charge of the Equipment Institute. A newly promoted member of the Ministry of Engineering named Feng Nuo became the new manager of the Equipment Institute. On the side of the Military Academy, several of the former directors were also transferred to the military department, and they were replaced by a group of young faces.

As for the reconnaissance battalion and the investigation institute, there were no personnel changes.

Zhang Yunwen spent a few days talking with the new Feng Nuo and the young military academy directors, examining their conduct before re-deciding on their terms of reference.

In an instant, the month of February is almost over. And this new distribution of power above the court has also come to an end.

Seeing the tanned non-commissioned officers in the military academy, Zhang Yunwen suddenly thought of the question of forming artillery. And the best candidate for artillery, of course, is the cadets in the military academy. Thinking of this, Zhang Yunwen thought of the problems existing in the entire academy again, and slowly sat on the horse at the moment, slowly walking back, and at the same time, he had begun to build a new military academy system in his mind.

In the gust of cold wind, Zhang Yunwen closed the door of the study and sat silently at the desk. Carrying a brush dipped in ink, he wrote on a blank piece of paper: "Some opinions on the restructuring of the Datang Military Academy! ”