Chapter 55 To govern the country is to govern the officials

When Li Zhen woke up, it was already five days later (from the time when Cheng Chuliang and Fang Yiai had a heart-to-heart talk).

Situ Chen had already left three days ago, and when he came, he only brought a third of the fleet, but when he returned, he brought a whole fleet with him - this whole fleet can be said to be a typical mixed fleet, one third of which is the Dagang warship brought by himself, the other third is the Coconut Harbor fleet of Linfa, and the third is the Quanzhou fleet brought by Cheng Chuliang, plus countless cargo ships and merchant ships, there are five or six hundred large and small ships alone, spread out on the sea and oppressive one. Covers almost the entire sea area.

There are so many ships, a considerable part of which are prisoners transported, and even some of the warships in the escort fleet are full of prisoners, and there are nearly 10,000 prisoners who are enough to be sentenced to death, and the rest are all full of evil, and these are only the first batch, even the prisoners in Coconut Harbor have not been transported, and the prisoners in other cities have to wait for the second and third fleets to be transported.

"It's really embarrassing to be in a coma for so long." Li Zhen leaned on the bed, eating the food fed by the maid, and said with a wry smile: "It seems that this inspection should not be able to continue." ”

Originally, he planned to take advantage of this time to put everything in Nanyang in order to get everything in order in Nanyang, but now he is sick like this - illness is not a problem, it can be cured, the problem is that the news of his illness and dying must be transmitted back to Chang'an, once Li Shimin knows, he will definitely urgently recall himself to Chang'an, and the task of inspection will definitely be interrupted.

"Oh, my Highness, why do you still want to make rounds? Don't you look at what you're sick against? Hearing this, Fang Yiai next to him suddenly cried and mourned: "You just give me this thought, do you know how serious you are this time?" You were barely breathing when we found you, and Dr. Shiratori almost didn't get you back...... You are still thinking about patrolling the South Seas, don't you think about yourself, do you also want to think about it for our subordinates? Think about it, if something happens to you, what are we going to face? I'm afraid that I don't have to wait for the knife of the court to come down, and I myself will commit suicide and be buried for you. ”

"Is it that serious?" Li Zhen chuckled when she heard this: "It's just a bad cold, there is a white bird, where will there be something in this palace?" His medical skills are not inferior to those of the horse and the Sun Shen Doctor. ”

"Is it that serious? Could you please remove that word for me? You don't know how urgent the situation was at that time, and Shiratori finally used his ancestral Heart Protection Pill to give you a sigh of relief, and finally took this opportunity to save you...... Hey, why am I telling you this? Anyway, your body is there, don't think about patrolling, you just stay here for me honestly, don't think about going out of this door before your illness is cured, and when your illness is cured, I will immediately send you back to Yuezhou - where are you Your Highness? You're a ticking time bomb, I'm scared of you. "Fang Yiai can be regarded as having figured it out, the most important thing now is to send Li Zhen back, it's useless to talk nonsense to him, now he has to be tough, otherwise God knows what Li Zhen will do.

"But this time it's ......"

Before Li Zhen finished speaking, he was interrupted by Fang Yiai: "Oh, my highness, just say a little less, don't you hear how dry and hoarse your voice is?" Your subordinates know what you're worried about, but you've got to give us a chance to perform, right? How do you know that without your care, our change of guard will go wrong this time?

You can rest assured, everyone has been training in their respective places for so many years, and they have long had the ability to be alone. Isn't it just a change of guard? Even if we don't have you, we won't have any major problems - anyway, at most a year, you're going on an expedition, and you'll still come here again, and even if there are any problems, you can make adjustments in time, so what's there to worry about? ”

"It makes sense, maybe it's messy if I care." The situation between Lingnan and Nanyang was built up by Li Zhen for eight years, during which he encountered countless difficulties, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it was his most important effort, of course he did not want to leave any flaws here, so he wanted to adjust the work of Nanyang before leaving.

But now that I think about it, I have so many top talents under my command now, they have already experienced and practiced over the years, and they have accumulated enough experience, and they all know what to do when they arrive in a new place, where do they need to worry about themselves? I'm a fan of the authorities at all.

"That's it, right...... Besides, Your Highness, how thoughtful you are, you have copied the Nanyang officialdom at one time. Fang Yiai said with a little resentment: "Don't say anything else, let's just say that our Luzon Protectorate, the whole has been broken up by you, and the subordinates don't even have a person who can use it in the new place, and the others are almost the same, so when you get to the new place, who can do things?" ”

This is the only place where Fang Yiai is dissatisfied with Li Zhen, to say that Li Zhen's method is correct, because he knows very well the rules of the imperial court - for example, a state capital, a assassin's term of office expires, the imperial court will generally only transfer himself and his high-ranking officials, but his subordinates generally do not move, and most of them will continue to use these small officials in order to maintain stability after the new assassin is transferred.

In this way, the prestige of the small officials in the local area has become higher and higher, and some good officials are okay, at most they have formed clans or families, but those evil officials are rampant and oppress the good, and the people who suffer are the people.

Taizu said that governing the country is governing officials, as long as the grassroots civil servants are well managed, as long as the grassroots level is not chaotic, the officials at the top are actually not corrupt even if they are corrupt.

But having said that, the territory of the Tang Dynasty is now more than 20 million square kilometers (there are actually only three big countries left in Asia today, the Tang Dynasty, the Western Turks and the Great Eclipse, of which the Tang Dynasty monopolizes the entire East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Northeast Asia and part of North Asia, 20 million is still less), there are three or four hundred local state capitals alone, more than 1,500 counties, and there are at least 200 officials in each county, and then counting the personnel ...... the state capitals, and then counting the major overseas governors' palaces, this is simply an astronomical number.

(End of chapter)