Glancing slightly, Li Yuanji scratched his head in pain.

Now I really saw what it means to be a dead pig that is not afraid of boiling water, even if it is dead, it has not done so.

"The thing was done by my Lao Cheng, I admit it, I can punish how I should be punished, if I Lao Cheng frowns, he is not a man." Cheng Zhijie didn't think it was a big deal about this, and he had a posture of letting you dispose of it.

"Go home and be your old!" Li Yuanji, who had a headache and was not lightly angered by Cheng Zhijie's attitude, scolded him fiercely, and his attitude of hating iron and not steel was undoubtedly displayed.

Fairy Cheng is not a fool, but he did this kind of thing that only a fool would do before he was rewarded for his merits.

Without warning.

I kept recalling some records of Cheng Zhijie in history, this thing was very old, and I couldn't see any great merit on paper, in terms of war merits, Cheng Zhijie did not have the first merit, and the only one that could get the first merit was possible, but he was made a mess by him when the war was extremely smooth, and he almost capsized in the gutter.

After Wu Zetian took the stage, he did not attack this old minister, which is still relatively rare.

Thinking of some rumors about Cheng Zhijie in later generations, Li Yuanji also had to be a little convinced, if he didn't believe it, he couldn't make nonsense, this was a signal.

Such a courtier is undoubtedly the emperor's most trusted and favorite minister, because he knows when to give you some handles to knock him on, and when to suppress his own limelight, so that the emperor will not think that you are a high-ranking master.

Li Yuanji also likes his character very much, but at this critical moment, he is still very unhappy in his heart.

What he needs is not his forbearance and self-destruction, but to set up a banner, or even many flags.

"Be an old lady, you should be, how good an old lady is, eat, sleep, sleep, eat, and go to the theater to watch sketches......" Cheng Zhijie muttered indifferently, he would rather go home and be that old lady than be in the limelight.

Li Yuanji's angry mouth was crooked, Lao Tzu is the time to use people, don't say that you dropped the chain at the critical moment, and there is such a reason, the angry Li Yuanji pointed at Cheng Zhijie and said angrily: "Okay, since you want to be the old lady who eats, sleeps, sleeps and eats at home, loneliness will fulfill you, so as not to disturb your wishes in the future." ”

"Someone!" Li Yuanji roared with a tight face: "Remove Cheng Zhijie from all public duties, punish him for one year, divide it into four parts, one for the three shops and one for the person who was beaten, in addition, send someone to stare at Lonely, even if he is asleep, he has to be stared at by Lonely, if he dares to leave the house half a step away, he will directly break his legs and throw it back!" ”

Cheng Zhijie grinned, gritting his teeth in pain, can you use this? All other punishments have been admitted, and they have been grounded for half a year? What else is this special meow playing?

"Your Highness, the minister thinks that His Highness's move is unfair." Wei Zheng stepped forward with a righteous face, indignantly and dissatisfiedly shouted injustice for Cheng Zhijie, and arched his hand: "The law fights lawsuits: Those who fight people will be punished with forty lashes, and those who hit people with their hands and feet, and those who hurt others and beat others with other things, will be given sixty rods. It is that the prince of Su Guo oppressed the people for no reason, and the crime plus one degree was only a hundred rods, although His Royal Highness's disposition made the people dance, but it damaged the law and the court, I hope His Highness will think twice. ”

"Then do it according to the law, and after you finish it, you will be punished by Lone!" How can Li Yuanji, who is angry, care so much? If you don't let Lonely get better, then you can lie down at home.

There is also Wei Zheng of the dog day, you chased Lao Tzu to deal with Cheng Zhijie, and now that Lao Tzu has disposed of it, do you say it is serious?

"Your Highness will be able to calm the world by disposing of it like this!" Wei Zheng nodded with satisfaction.

"Wei Zheng on the dog day, the old man is not finished with you......" Cheng Zhiqi's teeth itched, and he jumped three feet high to find Wei Zheng's trouble.

Originally, Li Yuanji had already been punished, not to mention the dismissal, and he was also fined a year's salary and grounded for half a year, which was heavy enough.

At first, I thought that Wei Zheng felt that the punishment was too heavy, so he came out to speak for himself.

The feeling is that none of Li Yuanji's disposition is related to the criminal law, so his disposition is only a personal disposition, and there is no criminal law disposition.

Sixty sticks for no reason, doesn't Cheng Zhixing hate Wei Zheng?

Hate! The teeth of hatred itch.

But there was no way, so he could only be led by the people of Dali Temple to be punished.

Li Yuanji finally understood why Wei Zheng was so unpopular, this person was simply a nerd and would not be flexible at all, but Datang also seemed to need such a person.

"Xuan Ling stays!" Rubbing his swollen temples, Li Yuanji left Fang Xuanling alone.

Although they didn't do it right before, they were all old acquaintances, and they didn't settle accounts with them, so they worked hard, and the atmosphere was not at all like they had just changed masters.

Everyone retreated, and only Fang Xuanling and Li Yuanji were left in the hall, as well as Song Zhong, a personal follower.

The atmosphere is not embarrassing, Li Yuanji does not regard Fang Xuanling as an outsider, if it is decided today, Li Yuanji does not want to do those things that are fast for those relatives who hate enemies, he is a black cat and a white cat, and if he catches a mouse, he is a good cat.

"How's the preparation for streamlining the imperial court?" Li Yuanji asked smugly, as if this matter was a task he had given himself.

"The basic overview is already there, but it still needs to be carefully revised, and the other is that the assessment of personnel also needs to be cautious, after all, the stakes are very high, if the people left behind are not enough to shoulder the heavy responsibility, the loss of the court will be greater." Fang Xuanling was stunned for a moment and said.

Li Yuanji nodded, saying that it had just begun, but in fact?

Regarding the matter of streamlining the imperial court, Fang Xuanling has been working on it for more than half a year, and the bloated state of the imperial court is not only intolerable to Li Shimin, but also intolerable to himself, and a large part of the reason for the deficit of the treasury is because he has raised too many useless officials.

Therefore, it is imperative to streamline the imperial court, and he is not right with Li Shimin, but it does not mean that all his decisions should be denied.

In fact, according to what he learned, the matter of streamlining the imperial court has basically entered the final stage, that is, to determine the list of officials to be dismissed.

But with his accession to the throne, this list is obviously no longer usable, because the first thing in this list is to eliminate the people who are in the power of Emperor Taishang, Prince Yin and Li Yuanji, and then those who are incompetent.

The new monarch ascended the throne, if Fang Xuanling dared to take out this list, it was estimated that he would be almost dead.

Although he knew, he didn't understand it thoroughly, Fang Xuanling was a smart person, and he knew which people should be eliminated and which ones should definitely stay.

As for the question of whether people will stay or not, I am not worried.

"After the personnel are streamlined, the work process of each yamen must also be changed, to ensure that it is fast, convenient, and efficient, and to avoid wasting too many personnel and time on the same thing as now...... "According to the setting up of some departments in later generations, Li Yuanji also briefly put forward a few requirements.

It's not that I want to take care of so much, but if I don't clear up the most basic problems, I will never have free time even if I am busy in the future.

In order to ensure that he can live a stable life in the future, Li Yuanji decided to throw off his arms and work hard for a month, and then take a vacation for eleven months......

"The current idea is that the responsibility is divided into individuals, and there will be a person in each different position to be in charge of the fixed, and then each yamen is equipped with two or three officials on duty according to the size of the workload, so as to avoid the situation that no one is available in an emergency. When it comes to work, Fang Xuanling is also concerned.

I thought that Li Shimin's proposal to streamline the imperial court Li Yuanji would be stopped, but I didn't expect that instead of stopping, I would continue to do it, and the opinions put forward would be more detailed than the opinions given by Li Shimin at the beginning.

Compared with the two, Li Shimin belongs to the kind of person who gives you a general direction and the result he wants, and you play it yourself in the middle.

And Li Yuanji is the kind that gives you a specific direction and the final result, and there is not much room for yourself to play in the middle, but it is not easy to do it well, or even more difficult.

"There are fewer people and more work to do, so we have to make up for it more in terms of treatment, and we can't ask the horses to run again, and we don't let the horses eat." Li Yuanji nodded, which can be regarded as approving Fang Xuanling's way of working.

Then the two chatted about some other things, like a scene of harmony between the monarch and the minister.

But Li Yuanji has always considered a problem in his heart, the key below, but the key above, if you don't carry out comprehensive reform, you can't be lazy if you don't carry out comprehensive reform.

"Now the scale of the court meeting is too large, and the entire court meeting is down, and even most of the officials are not even qualified to say the last sentence, and I feel that this is also a waste of personnel, what does Aiqing think about this matter?" Squinting slightly, Li Yuanji said as if sighing.

Fang Xuanling was shocked, and quietly glanced at Li Yuanji, but found that Li Yuanji was looking at him with a smile on his face, looking at each other, and the atmosphere instantly became a little embarrassing.

"This issue has also been considered by ministers, but the court meeting has existed since ancient times, and it is a symbol of imperial power and an encouragement to officials." I have already guessed in my heart what Li Yuanji wants to do, but how can the system of the court meeting be easily changed? Isn't that tantamount to directly cutting off the power of most officials to report directly to the emperor? In other words, the abolition of the court meeting is also a dilution of imperial power, and no emperor would do this.

Laziness is laziness, but you can't even lose the imperial power in the back, that is the real self-digging grave, Fang Xuanling's words made Li Yuanji feel that he seemed to be a little whimsical, but this matter still has to be carefully pondered: "It's lonely and owed, how is the preparation for the imperial examination?" ”