Chapter 465: Sleepiness in Spring (3)

The next day, the prime ministers went to the government hall.

This time, Li Zhi used people very skillfully and let Pei Xue Cui and the three of them see him, so the edict was passed. If Liu Renliang and Li Yiyan were called, this edict would not have passed.

What is the meaning of Pingzhangshi, Li Zhi explained, in order to make an exception to the merits, for those with shallow qualifications and below the fourth grade, moved to the name of participating in the governor's affairs. Exceptional promotion of talents, Liu Renliang and Li Yiyan will not object. But the exception of the prime minister, Liu Renliang and Li Yiyan, was opposed.

It's not that they have to stay up for a long time to become prime ministers, and others must also get through it. What is Zaifu, that is to make decisions on state affairs, without years of hard work, there is no relevant experience. Without years of inspection, it is impossible to determine whether he is capable or not. With this ordinary matter, well, maybe it will be a cat or a dog in the future, and you can also be the prime minister.

This is the prime minister, who handles all the affairs of the country.

But the two of them had little strength, so they had to watch this scene happen.

Several prime ministers sat down, and Pei Yan said: "Ladies and gentlemen, here are a few military reports about the northwest frontier, and the Western Turks have always been unpeaceful. It just so happened that Pei Xingjian was returning to Beijing, so I wanted to play and ask the two saints to let Pei Xingjian serve as the general manager of Anxi and completely pacify the northwest, what do you think? ”

There is nothing inherently wrong with this proposal.

The development of the Tang Dynasty to the present, there have been many drawbacks in the hands of Li Zhi. The first is the appointment of talents, Li Zhineng came to a level in order to balance the court, but he has not really appointed talents. The talents used are either the children of famous families or the children of official eunuchs, and the talents who are really promoted from ordinary people are less than one in ten in the court. Including Di Renjie, and Wei Yuanzhong, they are also the children of official eunuchs.

These are all the elite class of the Tang Dynasty, and it cannot be said that the children of these powerful people are not good. There are more squirts, or relying on my father's strength, calling my father a loser like Li Gang. However, they have a good family background, are nurtured by their parents, and have some excellent disciples who can start learning from a young age and do not worry about the economy. Therefore, there are also more elites. According to the proportional apportionment, the concept of the elite will be many times that of the commoners. Even because of his good family background, he will not be corrupt and take bribes.

We don't lack this money, so why be greedy?

Of course, it is not a generalization, and some families will continue to embezzle no matter how much money they have.

But no matter what the probability of them becoming elites is, it means that it is always their class, and they will speak for their class. For example, the annexation of various large households, sitting in the court and looking at them silently, is precisely because of the tacit understanding of officials. But as a feudal emperor himself, he did not want this polarization between the rich and the poor to be serious. Otherwise, why bother with a Juntian system. Even the father and son of the Lun family also learned from the Tang Dynasty to come to a uniform field system. This is to resolve the social contradictions caused by the huge gap between the rich and the poor.

There is no one at the bottom who is an official, and naturally no one speaks for the bottom.

Moreover, as a country, it should use talents in an eclectic manner, so that it can recruit more talents to serve the country. At the same time, the use of some poor talents and scholars as officials is also to some extent to resolve social contradictions. See, as long as you are promising, the court will still let you hold official positions. Don't complain, work hard.

Therefore, Wei Yuantong once wrote a book on the election, and expressed strong dissatisfaction with the fact that the children of the nobles who entered the house were "shallow in the class examinations and thin in their artistic ability, but the gate valve was well-trained and their prestige was exalted", and that "the sword and pen were measured by their talents, and the inspection was carried out according to the thin book", and the officials who were born from the common people who advanced in literature were not allowed to be promoted. Wei Yuanzhong also wrote a book, saying that "today's imperial court employs people, such as the children of generals, and there are also those who are promoted by the families of the dead", and it is impossible to select really useful generals. He also said, "People with lofty ideals, in the rich and the poor, all think of fame, and hope to spread the fragrance in bamboo silk." But Li Zhi didn't listen.

The most obvious example, how many military exploits Xue Rengui has made, it is precisely because of his peasant background that he actually made a Guo Zhifeng dissatisfied, what qualifications do he have to disobey, it is precisely because Xue Rengui Laozi is an ordinary person, and Guo Zhifeng Laozi is Li Gang.

The other is the government military system.

It's not that Li Wei saw it with the knowledge of crossing, Liu Renliang said before Li Wei wore it, thinking that neither the government military system nor the temporary recruitment system could meet the military needs of the country, and if there was a sudden war, the Tang Dynasty would be a country without military equipment and would fall in one fell swoop. Take a look, a large-scale expedition, slow action, it takes more than a year to call up the soldiers, fast action, it also takes several months.

In fact, the government military system began to collapse. The mechanism it established is that there is enough Yongye land and tax exemption, so that the government soldiers themselves do not have to worry about food and clothing, so they bring their own weapons and materials, and even their own grain, grass and livestock, and they will fight bravely on the battlefield.

However, now there is not enough land, and even some officials still levy taxes, and some officials will take back the Yongye field after the soldiers die in the front. In this case, will the soldiers no longer risk their lives to fight? Besides, they are all taxed, but they are not taxed, and they don't know if they can have three acres of land or ten acres of land at home, and what will happen to their families without their own labor. In addition, they have to bring their own weapons, materials, food and grass. So many of the soldiers fled.

For the sake of our families, we would rather be a fugitive than a soldier.

Therefore, large-scale operations had to be carried out on a temporary basis. In fact, in desperation, the imperial court gradually took the initiative to provide materials, weapons, grain and grass to reduce the burden on the government soldiers.

But Liu Renliang saw this drawback, but did not find a solution.

Li Wei is in Tuntian, Qinghai, which seems to be a road. However, it is not possible to let the soldiers not return for ten or eight years as soon as they are stationed, so some of the soldiers' families are allowed to move to Qinghai, and then some bachelors are allowed to marry Qiang women and Hu Nu as wives to settle down and start a business. This solved the problem of permanent garrison for more than 20,000 soldiers. Home is in Qinghai, you can be a soldier in wartime, a citizen in your spare time, and there is plenty of Yongye field, and the soldiers do not complain. Then, after the autumn of this year, when the grain harvest was abundant, some family members were moved over, and some poor but strong people were summoned to Qinghai to serve as soldiers. Cooked with raw life, anyway, Tuyuhun and the Qiang people were scrapped, and there was a live target. In this way, the soldiers who were unwilling to stay in Qinghai for a long time were replaced step by step.

But it still hasn't been solved, and now the battlefield is only in the area of Hehuang Jiuqu and Jishi Mountain, and the farthest place is only a few hundred miles away, and most of them are cavalry, so they don't delay the trip. Once Qinghai is taken, the farthest to Baihai Wuhai Fuluo River, how to garrison?

What about the side generals? After a long time, the border generals have ambitions, soldiers and food in their hands, will something bad happen?

This is Qinghai, what about the Western Regions and Mobei? If there are fewer garrisons, it will not work, and it may be defeated, and the Hu people will be killed along with their families. There are many garrisons, who is willing to go to the Western Regions and Mobei to cultivate fields? Besides, what can Mobei plant?

Not only the government soldiers, but because of this system, the imperial court gradually lacked generals.

In the Western Regions War, Xue Rengui and others were temporarily stationed in Qinghai and did not dare to leave. Liu Renliang is old, and it is not easy to go, and he can't let the prince go on another expedition, and only Pei Xingyan is suitable.

But there is nothing wrong with the advice, and the way to speak is wrong.

There must be more than one prime minister in the DPRK and China, and most of them are between five or six or six people. But there is always one leader, it turned out that Yan Liben, Zhang Wenjun, Dai Zhide, and Hao Chujun took turns as prime ministers, and several people died one after another, or they were old, and they were transferred to Hao Chujun as prime minister. Now it's Liu Renliang's turn again.

Then he spoke in the government hall, and the first speaker was the prime minister. Just like in the early dynasty, the emperor will ask the eunuchs to make a recital, play it early if there is something to do, and retreat from the court if there is nothing to do, and then the ministers will hold their teeth and start to play affairs. There was no one who didn't wait for the emperor to open his mouth, and began to say: "The minister has a book to play." ”

Wu Zetian's hand is very beautiful.

Li Zhi asked Liu Renliang to be the prime minister, but Liu Renliang was somewhat stained because of the Qinghai incident. The credit is great, but because of this stain, some ministers are also shameless. But Pei Yan's family background, political achievements, style, and knowledge are flawless.

And this person did a very clever job, secretly defected to himself, but it was not revealed on the surface, only a few people knew that Pei Yan helped the queen, but to be specific, he couldn't say it. Wu Zetian tolerated him and indulged him in making this kind of false Qinggao.

Therefore, even Li Zhi thinks that Pei Yan may fall to Wu Zetian, but he is not very good and can take care of the overall situation. Even Pei Yan was pulled up by Li Zhi single-handedly, and he still had hope for Pei Yan in his heart. Li Zhi's idea, not to mention other ministers.

As soon as Hao Chujun retreated, Pei Yan's reputation was already above Liu Ren's.

Pei Yan finished speaking and looked at everyone. First of all, his eyes were staring at Xue Yuanchao, Xue Yuanchao understood, his heart was bitter, and he had just made a statement like the queen, so he had to say helplessly: "Pei Xianggong is reasonable. ”

It's not that Pei Yan is right, it's to support Pei Yan to grab the team.

These two people expressed their positions, Guo Beiju and Guo Zhengyi also made a statement, and even when they came to the political hall, I am afraid that the closure of the door for the festival in the middle is not clear, and they are confused and right.

So he stared at Wei Xuantong and Cen Changqian again.

Wei Xuantong has a good relationship with Pei Yan, known as a long-lasting friend, that is, no matter what the situation, they are still friends, so he had to say: "Pei Xianggong's words are reasonable, but Pei Shilang has just come back, and he can't leave immediately......"

This is a euphemism to wake up Pei Yan.

For the sake of state affairs, it is okay to let Pei Xingjian pacify the Western Regions, but if it is to weaken the power of the crown prince, it is deliberate, I forgive me for not agreeing. Our friends are friends, but we can't abolish the public for personal reasons.

"It's just to arrange a candidate, not to let Pei Shilang go, besides, it's still recruiting and planning, and it will take a while."

Wei Xuantong did not object to this statement and acquiesced.

When it came to Cen Changqian again, the five of them stood in line together, and Cen Changqian had no choice but to say, "I also agree." ”

Cui Zhiwen will ignore Pei Yan, the queen pulled me, I don't object. But you, Pei Yan, don't think I'll stand in line. Silent. But this is enough, at least when discussing political affairs in the future, it proves that Pei Yan has more power to speak than Liu Renliang.

This time, Pei Yan successfully grabbed the team in the political affairs hall, and finally spread it.

At that time, it was just a blink of an eye, and Cen Changqian didn't have time to figure it out, thinking about it, it was too late, and he was marked by Pei Yan on his body.

But when it spread, the important ministers in the court had time to think about it slowly and analyze it carefully. When you think about it, you immediately realize that this is not good news. Although the prince returned, the direction of the wind in the court was not blowing towards the prince, but mostly towards the queen.

This is not a marching battle, and no matter how much troops are used, it will have no effect when it comes to the court.

The court will be able to schem. No matter how smart the prince is, his power and scheming skills are not as good as the queen's, plus the queen controls the real power to approve political affairs and the inner palace. The crown prince could not be restrained.

So when meeting Li Zhi in person, Li Yiyan wanted to stop talking several times, but it was not easy to explain clearly. However, Li Zhi was half dazed and half bright, and suddenly became faint at this time, and he didn't hear Li Yiyan's words. I didn't want her to hear it.

After several phases withdrew, Li Zhi was tired and went to the back to rest.

Wu Zetian said to Li Shoucheng: "This Li Yiyan is not simple. ”

"Queen of heaven, don't worry, he's not as far away as Hao Chujun."

"Send someone to keep an eye on it, with this person, our mother and son will inevitably be at odds in the future."

"Whoa." Li Shoucheng went down to make arrangements, not to follow Li Yiyan, but to find Li Yiyan's handle and push Li Yiyan down.

Hao Chujun was anxious when he heard this, but he stopped the political affairs, but he was helpless, found Liu Renliang, and asked: "Liu Xianggong, why did you actually let Pei Yance rebel against a few Pingzhang affairs?" ”

Li Yiyan and Hao Chujun were very anxious, but Liu Renliang was not in a hurry, and said: "That's not necessarily." Among the four, Wei Xuantong, Guo Zhengyi and Cen Changqian also have a good impression of the prince. It's that Guo Zhiju has no relationship with the prince, but he doesn't have much of a good impression of the queen. Pei Yan is hypocritical and shameless, but now he is dressed in the cloak of morality. Once the truth is revealed, even Wei Xuantong will part ways with him. Wait a little longer, the prince will come back soon, and as soon as the prince returns, there will be nothing left. ”

But Hao Chujun didn't believe it.

Even if the prince came back, what he picked up was just a mess that couldn't be worse.

While he was talking, the servant came in and reported: "Hao Xianggong, Ah Lang, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has arrived in the Eastern Capital. ”

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