On the carriage back to Ziwei Palace, Zhang Xuan remained silent, and after entering the end gate, Zhang Xuan finally broke the silence, "The military advisor doesn't seem to have any comments on my inspection of the stationery store?" ”

Fang Xuanling smiled bitterly and said: "Wechen fully understands His Majesty's thoughts, Wechen has no opinion, but if Your Majesty must say something to Wechen, then Wechen has two suggestions." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info”

"Strategist, please!"

"The first suggestion is to take a long-term view, this is not a few years or more than ten years to be effective, and there will even be a large number of scholars who continue to rely on the family, but this is only temporary, the seeds planted by His Majesty today will grow into big trees in at least a few decades or even hundreds of years, ten years of trees, and a hundred years of tree people is this truth."

Zhang Xuan nodded, "I understand, military advisor, please continue." ”

"The second suggestion that Weichen said is the imperial examination and official learning, if His Majesty vigorously promotes cheap stationery in order to make more people afford to read, this is planting a seed, then the perfect imperial examination system, as well as the official education all over the world, is the sunshine and soil, with them, the seed can take root and sprout, and eventually grow into a towering tree."

At this time, the carriage slowly stopped in front of the Heavenly Pavilion, Zhang Xuan got out of the carriage, and smiled at Fang Xuanling: "Thank you for accompanying me today, and thank you for the two suggestions that the military advisor gave me." ”

Fang Xuanling also smiled slightly: "Your Majesty doesn't need to be grateful, this is the duty of Weichen." ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, understanding.

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In the afternoon, Zhang Xuan was in the imperial study to review several important resolutions passed by Ziwei Pavilion, the monarch has the power of the monarch, the power of the minister, generally speaking, the military power and supervision power are firmly in his own hands, and in addition to the major military affairs and the appointment of senior officials above the fifth grade, he basically no longer cares about political affairs, and for some important matters that have serious differences in the Ziwei Pavilion, he will hold a small court meeting and hand it over to the hundred officials for discussion.

The so-called small court meeting is a court meeting attended by officials above the fifth grade, which is basically attended by important officials from various ministries and temples, and each official can express his or her own opinions at the small court meeting, which is also an important channel for Zhang Xuan to encourage officials to participate in government affairs.

In the past few days, the court is discussing the issue of the term of office of Ziwei Pavilion, which is also the plan proposed by Zhang Xuan, Xiangguo cannot be in office for a lifetime, and the ministers must be given the opportunity to enter the prime minister, Zhang Xuan proposed a five-year term of office for Xiangguo, and he can continue to serve for another five years after the expiration of the term, but it must be nominated by the Son of Heaven, and then voted by officials above the fifth grade, which is also to some extent to limit the imperial power, although he Zhang Xuan is sober-minded, he is afraid that his children and grandchildren will be confused on this key issue.

Of course, if the Son of Heaven does not nominate to stay in office, then he will directly step down and change to other official positions, and in the future he will continue to improve the Xiangguo system and give the power to choose the Xiangguo to the hundred officials, rather than the Son of Heaven to decide.

Jang Hyun has worked hard for the Xiangguo system, he knows that a good minister can make the country prosperous, and a treacherous minister will make the country sink, and he also believes that most officials have bright eyes and will make the right choice.

This Xiangguo will be five years old at the end of this year, starting from Beihai County, so that a few unsuitable Xiangguo can also quit Ziwei Pavilion and change to other official positions.

In this appointment of Xiangguo, Zhang Xuan considered leaving four and three, Wei Yunqi, Li Gang, Xiao Yu, and Lu Chu remained in office, while Su Wei, Chen Ling and Li Jing stepped down, and then Fang Xuanling, Yang Gongren and Zhang Xuansu took over.

However, there is still half a year to go before the reform of the country, but another major reform is imminent, that is, the reform of the military system.

The main generals have been generals for too long, and they should be promoted, and there can be more generals and generals on top of the generals.

The general is increased to three gears, namely General Long Xiang, General Hu Ben and General Yingyang, and then each has a deputy position, and the Lang general is also divided into three gears, namely the Shanglang general, the middle Lang general and the Lang general, and also has a deputy position, and the rank of the captain is also divided into three grades, the cavalry captain, the feather lieutenant and the cloud lieutenant, and the brigade commander and team below are unchanged.

The characteristics of this reform of the military system are that the middle and upper levels have been expanded, which is conducive to boosting morale and enabling talented people to come to the fore.

The local county soldiers have a maximum of 1,000 people, and there are three levels: chief soldier, commander and captain, which are jointly managed by the military department and the taishou, while the local militia is under the command of the county commander and the county lieutenant.

In this way, the responsibilities and jurisdiction of the three types of armies are clearly distinguished, and a huge and perfect military system is formed.

This is a plan that Zhang Xuan has been thinking about for a long time, originally wanted to launch it when he ascended the throne, but considering the upcoming war, he postponed it, and now with the smooth progress of the war in various places, the time is ripe, and now the army restructuring is launched, basically all the generals can be promoted, which will help stimulate the enthusiasm of the soldiers.

While he was thinking about it, a guard outside the door reported: "Your Majesty, the royal order is here." ”

Zhang Xuan smiled and nodded, "Please let him in!" ”

After a while, Wang Shan, the supervisor of the Shaofu Mansion, walked into the imperial study quickly, bowed and saluted: "Weichen see Your Majesty!" ”

Wang Shan was born in Taiyuan Wang, belongs to the state faction, and Pei Ju has a very good relationship, has been strongly recommended by Pei Ju, once served as Shangshu Zuocheng, Shangshu Zuocheng was abolished after the post was dismissed, he served as the Taishou of Changping County, at the beginning of the year was transferred back to the imperial court as the Shaofu supervisor, responsible for smelting, coinage and specific management of the handicraft industry, is a more important department.

Zhang Xuan smiled and asked, "How is the new money situation now?" ”

The new money is Datong Tongbao, which was minted by the Northern Sui in the past, but the coins did not have traces of the Northern Sui, so the Zhou Dynasty continued to be minted on a large scale after the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, in contrast, the Kaiyuan Tongbao of the Tang Dynasty due to a serious lack of materials, so far only minted less than one million guan, which was also mixed with a large number of fake and shoddy coins, and only circulated in Chang'an and its vicinity, including Longyou, Bashu and other vast areas are still using the coins of the Sui Dynasty, on the contrary, the Datong Tongbao has begun to be used in large quantities in the Zhou region.

"Your Majesty, the coinage is progressing smoothly, and so far five million Datong Tongbao have been minted, and Hebei, Central Plains, Qingzhou, Jianghuai, and Jiangnan have all been circulated, and the currency value is very stable."

"What do you mean by stability?"

"Weichen is to use the private exchange of gold to compare, the official gold exchange is one or two to ten Datong Tongbao, but the private exchange is only one or two to twelve, the difference is not big, in contrast, Chang'an exchange for gold is crazy, one or two gold can be exchanged for fifty Kaihuang five plant money, or thirty Kaiyuan Tongbao, some people even found a loophole between the Sui and Tang Dynasties."

"What vulnerability?"

"Use cloth to make the difference, Chang'an and Zhongdu's cloth is about the same, probably a consistent money, with a hundred pieces of Kaihuang five baht money to buy a hundred pieces of cloth to sell in the capital, get eighty Datong Tongbao, and then exchange for eight taels of gold back to Chang'an, and then you can exchange it for four hundred Kaihuang five baht money, a net profit of three hundred yuan, now there are many Chang'an businessmen to exchange gold, the official needless to say, never exchanged, but now even the black market has not been redeemed, most of the merchants directly take Datong Tongbao back, in Chang'an, has always been Datong treasure can be exchanged for two open emperor five plant money, the same profitable. ”

Zhang Xuan paced back and forth in the imperial study with his hands, Wang Shan's words resonated with him, last year Wei Yunqi sent an envoy to Chang'an, the two countries re-established trade relations, because the Zhou Dynasty to a certain extent released the ban on some strategic substances, such as pig iron, the Zhou Dynasty also agreed to import some inferior civilian pig iron to the Tang Dynasty every year, which is undoubtedly an irresistible temptation for the Tang Dynasty, which is extremely lacking in pig iron, and even the war has broken out between the two countries, and the trade between the two countries is still going smoothly.

However, it is precisely because of the high price of gold and Datong Tongbao in Chang'an, which led to a large amount of gold and copper coins flowing into Chang'an, while a huge amount of material flowed into the Zhou Dynasty, which eventually made Chang'an increasingly scarce materials, and more and more money, the Tang Dynasty will face the crisis of people's livelihood withering and Wandian closing, which is actually another war, a war of trade and plundering without seeing swords, but the Tang Dynasty has not yet woken up.

Zhang Xuan sat down, smiled at Wang Shan, and said, "I invited Wang Aiqing to come over today because I wanted to talk to Wang Aiqing about the Taiyuan Wang family. ”

(To be continued.) )