Volume 10 Iron-fisted Governance Chapter 404 Discovering the Clues
The result of the Pei family's temporary clan meeting was beyond everyone's expectations, the original opposition was open, due to Pei Ying's tough attitude, although Pei Jia and Pei Mingyao walked away, only three people left with them, and most of the rest of the Pei family expressed their willingness to obey the mediation of the queen. uctxt
As for how to arrange the family meeting later to clarify Pei Mingyuan's position as the head of the family, that is Pei You's business, Pei Ying didn't even eat dinner, and went back to the palace that night.
Zhang Huan is still in the imperial study of the Mingde Hall as usual to review the folds, but with his familiarity with the affairs of the court, the speed of his review and folds is also much faster, and the time to stay up late is becoming less and less, especially after the court meeting this morning, the mechanism of the Xiangguo has undergone a major change, the Tang Dynasty suddenly has seven Xiangguo, these seven Xiangguo may have different qualifications, but they are the same in power, each person can be in charge of ten days of political affairs, that is, to exercise the main power of the Xiangguo, except for some major matters to be negotiated together, Some ordinary court affairs are directly handled by the minister who writes the ruling affairs.
Therefore, from this afternoon onwards, there will be significantly fewer recitals for Zhang Huan, only fifty-six copies, which are all relatively important and need to be decreed, that is, they need the emperor's holy decree.
If Zhang Huan has no objection, he can directly write an edict on the edict with a red pen, and then submit it to the province for reconsideration, if the province does not agree to call back, Zhang Huan's edict will be written in vain.
On the contrary, if Zhang Huan feels that Xiangguo's opinion is unacceptable, then he can convene a court meeting, and summon Xiangguo and the main responsible person to a meeting for consultation, if he insists on insisting on his own opinion, the ministers will not understand, and in the end they can only accept his opinion, or Zhang Huan will replace him, but this situation is rare, after all, a compromise will be found in the end.
In fact, this system is not the first of its kind for Zhang Huan. He actually restored the normal process since the early Tang Dynasty, the political normalcy of the Han and Tang dynasties in China has never been the emperor decides everything, it has a very complete system of checks and balances, many times the emperor's pen is not as good as the seal of the door of the Chinese book, if not stamped with the seal of the door of the book, and the holy decree issued directly by the emperor. In fact, it is illegal, and the following enforcement agencies may not recognize it.
This is the balance of imperial power, that is, Chinese-style democracy, although there are also many loopholes, some powerful emperors will do everything possible to seize power, such as the emperor in the Middle and Tang Dynasty let the eunuchs take power, forming a confrontation with the courtiers of the Northern Ya, so that there was a disaster of eunuchs in the late Tang Dynasty, and there was also accommodation in the system. For example, the emperor was allowed to set up a Hanlin, and the Hanlin directly issued some edicts, such as paying homage to the generals and setting up photos, canonizing the crown prince and empress, and so on. But these are not the norm, the three provinces and six ministries itself is to limit the imperial power, Tang Zhongzong drafted the edict without authorization, he did not even dare to seal the bag containing the edict, nor did he dare to use the emperor's pen to write the edict, but instead to use the ink pen to reply, it can be seen that his heart is weak, this is the history of the famous oblique seal ink edict, perhaps after the Yashan no China refers to a kind of political system and the complete destruction of the humanistic spirit. So to some extent, the imperial dictatorship of the Ming and Qing dynasties did not fully represent the history of China.
The topic is a bit far away, pull it back first, Zhang Huan is in a really good mood today, many of his major policies have been realized today, his dynasty proposed to set up a land and land field supervisor in the afternoon was accepted by the Xiangguo, except for Lu Qi's opposition, the other Xiangguo finally agreed, of course, this is related to his restoration of the multiphase system in the early Tang Dynasty. The Xiangguo regarded this as an exchange of interests, and exchanged the multi-phase system for the supervision of land and the rent.
He casually took a notebook, and his attention was immediately attracted, the content of the notebook was that Zhang Yansheng proposed to issue treasure banknotes to make up for the lack of copper coins, and his reason was that the gold reserves in Zuozang had reached one million taels, and there were eight million taels of silver, which could be used as collateral to issue 10 million banknotes to the whole country. In fact, this is his Zhang Huan's proposition. He was anxious to expand his business in Jianghuai, but suffered from the lack of currency and the inconvenience of copper money circulation. Therefore, Zhang Huan instructed Pei You that the imperial court should reserve gold and silver, and Zhang Yansheng proposed to issue treasure banknotes at this time, which was actually a special twist and turn to figure out his Zhang Huan's thoughts.
Seeing the end, he saw the instructions of the first consul pen Xiangguo Han, the system did not match, and he actually approved a negative word, that is, his idea of issuing treasure banknotes was vetoed by the Xiangguo, Zhang Huan was stunned for a moment, he slowly sat up straight, his brows furrowed, he could understand that he could not issue treasure banknotes before, because there were not enough gold and silver reserves, so he deliberately strengthened the accumulation of gold and silver, and now only gold is worth more than 10 million yuan, how can it not be issued? And Han also only approved a system that did not match, he had never issued treasure banknotes before, how to talk about the system, Zhang Huan pondered for a while, and then discounted this book, he wanted to find an opportunity to hold a court meeting and negotiate with the ministers again.
Then. The eunuch An Zhongshun walked in lightly from the outside. Bite one's tongue. "What's the matter?" Zhang Huan glanced at him.
"Your Majesty. Cui Ge sent someone to deliver a letter. An Zhongshun put a letter on Zhang Huandi's case.
"Cui Yuan?" Zhang Huan was slightly stunned. What did Cui Yuan do when he sent him a letter? He pondered for a moment. Suddenly remembered what Cui Yu said in the morning. He immediately opened the letter. The letter was written by Cui Yuan himself. There are only a few words. In the letter, Cui Yuan told him that the last assassination of Dizhangfu was very likely to be a conspiracy of the great powers. It's already a bit eyebrow-raising. But the Cui family's strength is weak. It is hoped that Zhang Huan can support the manpower to investigate this matter.
If someone else writes like this. Zhang Huan may have thought that this was a prevarication. But Cui Yuandi's words, Zhang Huan was convinced. Since he said that there is a suspicion of other countries in this matter. Then this matter was either done by Tubo or Hui. In fact. When Cui Yu swore in the morning with the honor of the ancestors of the Cui family. Zhang Huan knew that this incident was not the Cui family's doing. But what Cui Yuan pointed out was the work of a big country. It was so serious that it took him a little by surprise. If it is really done by Hui or Tubo. This means that the dark war between countries has begun. Zhang Huan wrote down a handwritten message almost without hesitation. Together with Cui Yuandixin, it was handed over to An Zhongshun and said, "You will leave the palace now." Give it to Dume. Let him go to Cui Ge Lao immediately. ”
An Zhongshun did not dare to slack off. After receiving the letter, he hurried out of the palace. Zhang Huan gently rubbed his temples. Himself since his accession to the throne. I only think about domestic affairs. But he forgot about Tubo and Huifu. But they have not forgotten themselves. Internal worries will inevitably give rise to external troubles. That's not bad at all!
It seems that the monitoring office must be expanded to the outside world. He suddenly thought of Li Chuanyun. Let her go yourself. Isn't that a mistake?
Fengxiang Mansion, Cui Lianxing is standing on the top of a mountain and looking at a small village at the foot of the mountain, the sky is not yet dawn, but the east sky has turned up the white of the fish's belly, and a gray-white mist shrouds this small village of less than thirty households, the daughter of the Chen butcher is married here, and similarly, his son is also hiding in this small village, Cui Lianxing has been here for two hours, and before that, he has sent people to ambush.
After capturing Chen Butcher the day before yesterday, Cui Lianxing had a strong interest in bribing him with ten ingots of gold, the gold was smooth and complete, and the shape was exactly the same, that is to say, they were cast in batches, and he found a group of strange symbols behind each of the four gold ingots, according to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, people are not allowed to privately mint gold and silver, Cui Lianxing immediately sent the gold ingots to the Shaofu supervisor responsible for casting gold and silver for identification, and a craftsman told it that this kind of gold ingots was cast in Persia, and a small amount of them had flowed to the Central Plains before, but they were rarely used. I have never seen the casting symbols behind the back, and these symbols are the counting symbols of the Tianzhu people (that is, the current Arabic numerals), and from the point of view of the degree of casting of gold ingots, it will not take more than three years, from the discovery of the details of the gold ingots, Cui Lianxing thought of the confession of Chen Tuhu, he immediately realized that there was a major conspiracy hidden behind this matter, and he reported to Cui Yuan that day, and rushed to Fengxiang in person.
At this moment, in addition to Cui Lianxing in the dense forest on the mountain, there are more than 100 strong martial arts masters, they are all dressed in black, with cold eyes, these more than 100 people are secret agents of the monitoring room, and they were temporarily sent to Cui Lianxing to assist him in his actions, it can be seen that these black-clothed people are all from military backgrounds, although Cui Lianxing does not have any official status, but they absolutely obey his command, without half a word of nonsense, and Cui Lianxing cooperate very tacitly, as if they are the same kind of people, Their resolute style and strict discipline made Cui Lianxing also have the idea of joining this organization.
Suddenly, three black eagles rose into the air from the small village in a row, and a trace of excitement flashed in the eyes of everyone in the mountains and forests, the target is coming! Everyone's muscles began to tense, and their hands involuntarily pressed towards the handle of the knife, and a fierce murderous aura suddenly filled the mountain forest, and more than 100 people were like a group of leopards that had found their prey, waiting for the best time.
Cui Lianxing's face was as calm as water, his eyes looked at the village indifferently, there was no urgency, he knew that he would not startle the snake, because he had not informed the Chen butcher's daughter and family until now, that is to say, the daughter and son of the Chen butcher did not know that the danger was coming.
The low screams of a woman shattered the silence of the small village, and in an instant, four gray-clothed men rushed out of the village, fleeing in three directions, two of them running towards the hill.
Eighty steps, fifty steps, thirty steps, twenty steps, two gray-clothed men are about to enter the mountain forest.
"Do it!" , Cui Lianxing coldly gave the order.
Strive for another shift tonight, Lao Gao works hard, can the brothers have a monthly pass to support the two? )