It's easy to arrange things, but next step.

Li Yuanji can also be regarded as experiencing the feeling of a cold palace, although the fourth sister Princess Gaomi nodded in agreement, but when facing Li Yuanji, she launched a cold offensive without hesitation, and the whole person was as if he had just come out of the ice cave.

However, even if it was a detour, Li Yuanji did not change his mind of letting Duan Lun reappoint.

On the tenth day of the first lunar month, it was supposed to be a holiday, but the Taiji Palace was busy early.

The emperor gave a banquet and personally entertained the cabinet ministers, as well as a few other ministers.

Fortunately, the families of these ministers are in Chang'an, and although the fifteen-day holiday is not short, if you go home, there will be a lot of delay on the way.

And what are they? Even if they want to reunite with their family, they can take the family members over in advance for the New Year, and with their ability, they can do this.

"Boy, how is the Spring Festival this year?" Cheng Zhijie sat on the chair with a big grin, looking at the hot pot in front of him, the red soup base, and his saliva flowed all over the ground, but Li Yuanji hadn't come yet, he could only wait, so he set his eyes on Ma Zhou.

The railway is under the management of the Railway Administration, and further up, it stands to reason that it should be under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Households, because it has something to do with people and money, but it is not given to the Ministry of Households, but it is to let the Ministry of Development supervise, many people do not know what kind of medicine Li Yuanji sells in this gourd, but I have to admit that the work of the Ministry of Households is indeed a lot easier.

Moreover, the Ministry of Development is only regulated, and the final investment and income must be handed over to the Ministry of Households.

"You old horseman, won't go and see it yourself?" Ma Zhou scolded back angrily.

"Practice?" Cheng Zhijie glared, although the age difference between the two is very big, but the official position of Ma Zhou is slightly higher than Cheng Zhijie, plus a few years of contact, everyone is also an old acquaintance, and there are not so many scruples about talking behind closed doors.

"A gentleman doesn't do anything with rough people!" Ma Zhou smiled slightly, shook his head lightly and refused.

"Boy, you don't really think that the old man won't dare to beat you, do you?" Cheng Zhijie's old face was horizontal, this product is getting more and more excessive.

"According to the old man's observation these days, the flow of people at the station seems to be larger than before, right?" Fang Xuanling stood up at the right time, this kind of thing is all martial arts, even if it is here, it will happen if it happens, although Li Yuanji is ordered to prohibit it, but if it really fights, it is just a punishment.

"There are indeed a lot, as of the day before yesterday, Chang'an Station has transported nearly 100,000 people. According to the experience of previous years, counting the last round, the flow of people this year will probably exceed 300,000. Ma Zhou said.

The detailed data is not available now, but fortunately, I have experience and can get the specific data of Chang'an Station, although I can only get it as of the day before yesterday, but I can also have a reference.

Chang'an Station is the station with the largest flow of people, and this reason goes without saying, in the past, Chang'an Station was able to occupy nearly half of the passenger flow.

What? One Spring Festival, one back and forth, one railway, transporting 300,000 people? Can this be called Spring Festival?

Of course, it's called Spring Festival, and now is not the next generation, although the times are advancing, but there are still not many people who are really willing to work far away from their hometowns to make money.

"Tut, 300,000 people, completed in half a month, if this was placed a few years ago, it would definitely not be unimaginable." Fang Xuanling sighed secretly.

In three years, a lot has indeed changed, and even the train itself has undergone a small upgrade.

Of course, there has been a new progress in the research of the steam engine, and the current train steam engine can provide more power than before, and as a result, the train, which originally had only ten passenger cars, has now been increased to fifteen, and the speed has not increased.

But even so, during the Spring Festival period, the extra five carriages mean that nearly a thousand more people can be transported.

"Huangfu Lao'er, you've been having a good time lately, right?" Cheng Zhijie continued to joke about Huangfu Wuyi.

It's a lot to transport 300,000 people, but the capacity will increase every year in the future.

The railway to the north of the town has been repaired for nearly 300 miles, and the road to Youzhou has been repaired for more than 200 miles, it is said that next year to speed up, go south, basically have been repaired to Ezhou, after the completion of the bridge next year, it can be opened to traffic, it is said that it will continue to be repaired to the south.

The rest, is to Yangzhou, last year to start construction, the starting point is Xuzhou, from Xuzhou station branch line to the south.

Moreover, the main task next year is to repair railways and cement roads, so you can imagine how great the pressure on the household is.

"It's really cool, the old man is wondering if he will deduct part of the military budget." Huangfu Wuyi directly counterattacked.

"You dare to ......" Cheng Zhijie immediately blew his beard and glared, causing a crowd of laughter.

Cheng Zhijie wanted to see other people's liveliness, but in the end, he stole chickens and rice, so that others could see his liveliness.

Of course, with Cheng Zhijie's shrewdness, he wouldn't come out so disgusting.

But now Cheng Zhijie just did it.

As for the reason......

Of course, the proposal of the Ministry of War, which was supposed to be adopted, was rejected, and the content of the proposal was very simple, that is, Cheng Zhijie asked to provide 90,000 trucks for the whole army in the next five years.

In this way, from the beginning of the sixth year, the Tang Army will be able to complete the transformation of mechanization and completely break away from the control of livestock.

This plan can be said to be very good, but the problem is that important energy and funds have been invested in infrastructure construction, Cheng Zhijie's proposal was not passed, but it was also passed, and only 4,000 trucks can be provided to the army every year, and in five years, it is only 20,000 units, and the number of 70,000 units has been directly cut, which makes Cheng Zhijie not angry?

But there's no way to be angry, this is Li Yuanji's own decision, he can't disgust Li Yuanji, right? Therefore, other ministers in the cabinet have become the targets of Cheng Zhijie's disgust.

"What are you anxious about, old horseman, maybe after this year, you will be able to do it?" Xiao Yu smiled and quipped.

"I don't know if the old man's book is not at the end, but your old horseman is about to come to an end, how about it? Do you want the old man to help you next? Cheng Zhijie fought back with a wicked smile.

Xiao Yu is sixty-four years old this year, according to the division of positions, Xiao Yu can be said to be the most powerful among these people who sit again, serving as the left servant of Shangshu, and concurrently serving as the secretary of the ministry, but in terms of power, Xiao Yu has never pursued too much.

In addition, he is too old, so after this term, he will also retire.

Although there is some reluctance, this is a matter of the system, and it is not reluctant to stay, and Xiao Yu's departure is equivalent to vacating a cabinet position, a position of the left servant of the secretary and a position of the secretary of the ministry.

This is a difficulty, Shangshu Zuo Servant Shot and the Ministry Shangshu are qualified to enter the cabinet, but there is only one vacant seat in the cabinet, but then continue to let people concurrently serve, this is not realistic.

"The old man is retiring, and there is still the court's Yulu, how can you use your old puffy skin to help?" Xiao Yu glared at Cheng Zhijie, and secretly decided not to be like this thing.

Besides, even if there is no court after retiring, with the Xiao family's family background, is it possible that he will not even be able to live?

Not to mention his sister Empress Xiao, Li Yuanji sends a lot of gifts every year, and gives fifty yuan as expenses every year, for a former queen, although this money is not much, but it is enough for her to spend.

After experiencing the wind and waves, Empress Xiao has already seen this, and the Li Tang royal family can treat herself so well, she will not have any complaints.

"Alright, let's talk about us, shall we?" Fang Xuanling shook his head, stopped the boring argument, and pulled the topic back to themselves.

Most of these people present have served two terms, and according to the rules, they must make a move, either transfer or retire.

According to their age, there is no problem for them to do the last term, but they have nothing to say about retiring, Fang Xuanling is now fifty-nine years old, this age is not too young.

But before, they didn't know where they should go next, only Xiao Yu knew that he was going to retreat, which was not requested by Li Yuanji, but by himself.

In my heart, these people don't want to retreat, and power or something is just one of them.

The most important thing is that as soon as they retreat, it means that the traces of Li Shimin's period have completely disappeared, strictly speaking, two-thirds of the people sitting here are former ministers of Li Shimin's period, and these people are all very different in age.

Although they have already let go of those, after all, they are old, and they always like to think back to the past when they have nothing to do.

But if they don't retreat, where can they go?

Cabinet ministers, this is already the highest level of official positions in the Tang Dynasty, they are already standing at the top of the world, and there is no way out.

Therefore, whether to return or not to return, they are also quite entangled, which not only depends on the emperor's intentions, but also depends on their own intentions.

The most depressed is naturally Zhang Xingcheng, as the secretary of the Criminal Department, he has been working for two terms, but he is only fifty-two years old this year, if he retires like this, although he has nothing to say, he is a little unwilling, he feels that he can work for a few more years.

Of course, the younger, only thirty-eight-year-old Ma Zhou, did not have this worry, with his identity, there was no need to think about these at all, His Majesty would always find a suitable place for him.

There are depressed people, there are happy people, and before the matter is finally closed, everyone's heart is like a cat scratched.

Except for Xiao Yu, this is a smart person, he is not in any serious health, he is very tough, but he retired directly due to the problem of age.

In addition to retiring, Xiao Yu, as a secretary of the ministry, has the power of the fate of the world's scholars, but in this case, he did not arrange his nephew and grandson to come in.

Who is his grandnephew? Of course, it is Yang Guang's grandson, and it is said that the rule set by Empress Xiao for them is that the descendants of the Yang family are forbidden to enter the office.

I have to say, this is also a smart woman.

"Your Majesty has arrived...... The prince drove to ......"