Although Li Chengqian couldn't say Gao Shilian, he definitely didn't want to punish Wu Yuanqing, just when Li Chengqian thought of a reason to delay this matter, and when it couldn't be over, another edict came from Luoyang, and the emperor was ready to return to Chang'an.

There is still some time for the emperor to return to Chang'an, because the emperor promised the fathers and elders of Bingzhou to go to Jinyang to have a look on the way back to Chang'an, so it will take a lot of time to linger on the road.

However, the edict that came back should not be delayed, and it should be immediately transmitted to the states and counties to be known and strictly enforced.

In July, the emperor appointed the eldest grandson Wuji as Situ and Fang Xuanling as Sikong in Luoyang, although these two positions are only fictitious titles and are an honor, but to hang such titles to these two is undoubtedly a sign that Emperor Li Shimin began to prepare to adjust the courtiers again.

Fang Xuanling, the eldest grandson Wuji is not young, it's time to be promoted and then make way for others.

It doesn't mean that these two people will not be allowed to take charge of the government and participate in the government, but after hanging up the false title, they slowly began to withdraw from the handling of the specific government affairs, and became the general manager of the overall situation, only making suggestions to the government and politics, but not participating in the specific operation and processing.

Just like Wei Zheng and Li Jing, their special titles, although the specific positions have been handed over, no one has said that they are not the top ministers of the DPRK, but their identities are different, and they no longer have specific affairs to manage, they belong to the kind of people who can manage if they want to, but if they don't want to take care of it, they don't have to be managed, and there is no such thing as dereliction of duty or anything.

Their future roles are more like the kind of consultants who have the right to decide, don't look at the specific affairs in charge, but the real decision-making is still made by them, and the direction of the country is still the final participation and control of these people.

Li Shimin is gradually letting the elderly ministers withdraw from the handling of specific affairs, and let the younger officials come to the forefront.

The ministers of the DPRK and China will adjust it almost for a while, and everyone is used to it, and it has nothing to do with ordinary people, middle and lower-level officials, so everyone doesn't care.

When everyone was concerned, two days after the adjustment of the positions of the two important ministers, the emperor issued the edict that the whole country should execute.

Li Shimin issued an order: "From now on, those who have self-harmed bodies will have their crimes aggravated in accordance with the law, and they will still be required to serve in the army." ”

What is the meaning of this order, that is, from the day the order is issued, if anyone harms his own body, such as cutting off his hands and feet, and intends to avoid conscription, the punishment will be increased according to the newly promulgated decree, and after the punishment, you will not be able to escape from conscription if you cut off your hands and feet, but you will still have to pay taxes and accept the conscription of the state to serve in conscription.

Why did the emperor issue such an order, it has to start from the end of the Sui Dynasty.

The Sui Dynasty, especially from the Sui Dynasty after Emperor Yang came to power, began to build Luoyang City, the construction of the Grand Canal and many other projects were completed in a very short time, at that time the number of conscripted servants is unknown, the number of dead and wounded is unknown, and millions of people are conscripted, and hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded may be killed.

Accepting a conscription for conscription is no different from sending people to die, and the people are naturally unwilling to die like this.

Then if you don't want to die, you have to find a way to escape the draft, the law of the Sui Dynasty at that time stipulated that if you have a disability, that is, for example, the hands and feet are not dexterous, it is best to have problems with the hands and feet, no hands, or no feet, in this case, you do not need to accept conscription to serve in the conscription, not only do you not have to accept the draft, but you can even be exempted from taxes.

This policy is quite humane, but the humane policy has not brought good news to the people.

Because the people of the Sui Dynasty met an emperor who was completely unsympathetic to the people, Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty.

After this emperor came to power, in order to realize his dreams, ambitions, and enjoyment, he was arrogant and lascivious, and the construction of a large number of buildings led to heavy servitude, and the three expeditions to Goguryeo requisitioned millions of people and suffered heavy casualties.

The common people's service is completely gambling with their own lives, betting on their luck, whether they can come back alive, who would have thought about such a day.

Nobody thought about it.

I don't know who found out from the law that the court had such a policy of preferential treatment for the disabled, and then when the first person who self-harmed himself successfully avoided being drafted, this method of seizing the loophole to cut off his hands and feet in exchange for exemption from forced labor spread.

The emperor and the prince are naturally not very aware of these things, so they have allowed this kind of thing to exist for many years, but the officials below know it clearly.

The people call this kind of severed hands and severed feet blessed hands and feet, which means that although the hands and feet are cut off by themselves, what they bring is the hope of their own survival, which is a blessing.

Li Shimin's father and son raised troops from Jinyang precisely because they knew the suffering of the people and knew that they could get the support of the people, so they had an understanding of such a deformed and shocking thing as blessing hands and feet.

Originally, the Li family father and son thought that they had established the Tang Dynasty, even if they couldn't let everyone live a good life, but at least it wouldn't make the people live so terrified that they had to cut off their hands and feet to avoid conscription.

But what I didn't expect was that Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty died, the Sui Dynasty was also destroyed, and the Tang Dynasty experienced the nine years of Wude ruled by Li Yuan, and the sixteen years of the Zhenguan Dynasty notified by Li Shimin, a total of twenty-five years.

Twenty-five years since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the country is strong, and the people are rich, and in such a situation, there are still people who escape from forced labor by cutting off their hands and feet.

This made Li Shimin, who inadvertently found out about this when he was wandering outside Luoyang City at the end of June, feel that his face was beaten.

The country is rich and strong, Li Shimin doesn't think this is just his wishful thinking, because so many ministers in the DPRK and China, even people like Wei Zheng say so, then it must really be a rich country and a strong people.

Li Shimin is not so clear in other places, but there is Guanzhong and Luoyang, Li Shimin has seen it many times, and the people have not said which family can't eat, at most the remote places can't eat.

But compared with the last years of the Sui Dynasty, Li Shimin felt that the people of the country under his governance should be satisfied and happy.

And speaking of conscription, now all conscription and conscription in the imperial court are deducted from taxes, and the imperial court manages food and housing, food and housing are not bad, and the work is not too heavy, and there is no exhaustion because of conscription, there are accidents, but the imperial court has generous pensions to make up for it.

In such a situation, there are still people who cut off their hands and feet to escape from servitude, which makes Li Shimin, who has just sealed Mount Tai for the third time, have a hot face, and he is angry.

Lao Tzu worked so hard to be a good emperor and let you live a good life, but you especially slapped Lao Tzu in the face like this, if you really can't get by, forget it, but the fact is not that you can't get by, it's that you have formed a habit, and you feel that cutting off a hand and a foot can exempt you from a lifetime of forced labor and taxes, which is really cost-effective.

Grandma's, accustomed to you, have a good life, but you have to cut off your hands and feet to feel that you can live it. Lao Tzu is not used to it now, don't you cut off your hands and feet, not only so that Lao Tzu can't collect taxes and can't be conscripted, but also harvest a group of wastes who can't even plant land and can't do things well?

Well, Lao Tzu will start to prohibit self-mutilation now, all self-mutilation, even if you cut off your hands and feet, Lao Tzu will let you serve forced labor and teach taxes.

Lao Tzu told you to cut it.

I will cry to death after I cut it.