The Hu Empire won a major victory in its western expedition from the autumn and winter of 460 AD to the spring of 461 AD, destroying not only the Kingdom of Burgundy and the capture of all the royal family, including King Gundobad, but also most of the northern part of the Gallic province of the Western Roman Empire, where important figures were captured in the city of Lyon, including the Bishop of Venice, Jon.

Qin Dong had thought about how to deal with Jon for a long time, and it was not until he returned to Saidika that he had made a decision since the class master returned to the dynasty in triumph.

Back to Saidika's first court meeting, this is a very heavy court meeting, the first reason is that this time Qin Dong led the army to go out for more than half a year, the time is very long, Qin Dong has not personally held a court meeting for a long time, the second reason is that the courtiers want to congratulate the emperor Qin Dong at the court meeting, and the bell for the court meeting rang twenty-four times, which indicates that among all the officials of Saidika, the officials of the fifth rank and above have to go to the palace to meet the emperor.

Outside the main hall of the Qinzheng Palace, there are many civil and military generals, these civil and military generals are huddled together in twos and threes and whispering, and some civil officials and military generals participated in the Western Expedition with Qin Dong this time, and naturally have the capital to show off, telling the thrilling war scenes in front of their colleagues, which caused their colleagues to be amazed and envious.

It's already more than seven o'clock in the morning, and there is still a little time before the official convening of the court meeting, Qin Dong will not arrive so early, he has always been a punctual person, but the civil and military ministers dare not pinch the point to come, so they can only arrive early and wait, in the time of the court meeting, Qin Dong did not follow the ancient Chinese court meeting before dawn, it was really torturous. He set the time for the court meeting to be held at 8 o'clock in the morning, and the ministers who had not arrived at the palace at 7:50 could not enter, because it took ten minutes to walk from the palace gate to the Qinzheng Palace.

After the gate of the main hall of the Qinzheng Hall was opened. Under the greeting of the eunuch on duty, the civil and military ministers lined up according to their rank and rank to enter the main hall in turn, at this time the emperor had not yet come, and the ministers could only kneel on the carpet and whisper with their colleagues, but the topic was always inseparable from the political zhì.

There are more officials who came to participate in the court meeting today, and the entire Qinzheng Hall is full, and the outermost officials are leaning against the wall. There were also some officials who could no longer enter, so they could only stand in the corridor outside the hall.

At eight o'clock, Qin Dong appeared in the main hall. After the eunuch on duty shouted that the emperor had arrived, all the civil and military ministers prostrated on the carpet and shouted long live.

Qin Dong sat on the dragon chair and raised his hand to let the civil and military ministers get up, and then said, "What do you have to do?" ”

The Prime Minister of the State Council, Peteus, first went out of class to salute Qin Dong and said: "Honorable Majesty, Peteus congratulates His Majesty on the annihilation of the Kingdom of Burgundy. Seize its land. Capture all the members of the royal family, including its king, and make a loud voice for the Western Roman Empire's alliance to conquer the Franks, Saxons, and Sarmatians, and his majesty is worthy of the heavens, and his majesty is worthy of the .......".

Peteus's congratulatory message was long and numb, and many people, including Qin Dong, couldn't help but shudder when they heard it, but despite this, Qin Dong had to endure listening to it. The courtiers also looked forward with their eyes drooping, as if they had not been disturbed in any way. There was no reaction at all, but after Petheus had finished speaking, the ministers all echoed and nodded their heads in approval.

After Petheus, there were officials who came out to congratulate the emperor, and one after another, in the end, Qin Dong couldn't listen to it even if he had good patience, he frowned and waved his hand unhappily: "Okay, everyone knows that this Western Expedition has won the battle, this is not only the credit of me alone, but also the credit of the soldiers who participated in this Western Expedition, without them, I can't fight alone, it is very good for you to be happy because of the victory of this Western Expedition, I am also very happy, and I am also very happy, and I ordered to reward the three armies, and give the soldiers enough wine and meat, The vacation that deserves to be on vacation, the bereavement pension that deserves to bereavement! ”

Su He, the vice minister of the Military Aircraft Academy, stood up and saluted: "Your Majesty's will, after the dispersal of the dynasty, the ministers will handle it immediately!" ”

Qin Dong nodded, glanced at the ministers with his eyes and asked, "What else do you ministers have to do?" ”

"The Imperial Palace, the Imperial Palace, Zhong Hui, has something to do!" A loud voice sounded, and all the officials in the entire hall could hear it clearly.

Hearing that it was Zuodu Yushi Zhonghui who stood up, the officials trembled in their hearts, and said in their hearts that this "messenger of hell" should not sue the emperor again? Zhong Hui, as the leader of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, holds a lot of power, generally as long as he participates in the people, few can escape the responsibility, which official he participated in in front of the emperor, the people who were involved basically have only one result, that is, death! Therefore, it was basically not good for the officials for him to stand up, and in a short period of time he was given the nickname "Hell Messenger" by the officials, who made the Metropolitan Procuratorate an institution set up by the emperor to supervise officials?

Qin Dong looked at Zhong Hui and said, "Quasi-play!" ”

"Your Majesty, in recent years, official corruption has become increasingly strict, and the wind of hedonism in officialdom is prevalent, although the Metropolitan Procuratorate has repeatedly impeached the people who have committed the most crimes, but this trend has never been stopped, and the armed forces of the Metropolitan Procuratorate are weak, and there is no way to deal with some high-ranking officials who hold great power and control the armed forces, and they often resist by force when they are arrested by the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the minister asks His Majesty to allow the Metropolitan Procuratorate to expand its armed forces and purchase weapons and armor!"

Qin Dong's first reaction to Zhong Hui's request to expand the military strength of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and purchase weapons and armor was to be vigilant, after all, the power of the Metropolitan Procuratorate was already big enough, and it would be difficult to control it no matter how big it was, but Qin Dong did not show anything on the surface, he looked at the officials below and found that the officials all showed worried expressions after hearing Zhong Hui's words, which was the reaction of most officials.

In fact, the Metropolitan Procuratorate is not without political enemies, the Metropolitan Procuratorate is hostile to each other, the left and the right are guarding and monitoring each other, the left faction headed by the first leader Zuo Yu Shi Zhong Hui is responsible for supervising the large and small officials in the DPRK and the central government, and the right officials headed by Agul are nominally auxiliary to the left, in fact, they also have a duty to supervise the left officials, and it must be much more difficult to supervise the main post with a deputy, so the left has always suppressed the right faction, but although the right imperial envoy Agul is Zhong Hui's deputy, However, he could directly meet with the emperor to report on the affairs of the Imperial Procuratorate, and there was no need to report everything to Zhonghui, the imperial historian of the left capital, so the leftists and the rightists were basically equal in strength.

But no matter what the struggle within the Supervision Yuan is, after all, the two factions on the left and right are eating in the same trough, and once they are attacked by the forces of other factions, they will inevitably be hugged together.

The power of supervising hundreds of officials is too concentrated, Qin Dong has also felt this recently, and now Zhong Hui put forward a series of suggestions at the court meeting to obviously strengthen the power and strength of the Metropolitan Procuratorate again, but the weak supervision force of the Supervision Yuan is also a reality, and he can't make up his mind for a while on how to deal with this matter.

After thinking for a while, Qin Dong looked at the other courtiers and asked, "Lord Zhong has requested to increase the military strength of the Imperial Procuratorate, and to purchase weapons and armor, what do you courtiers think?" ”

Let's take a look at the reaction of the courtiers first, don't rush to make a decision, this is Qin Dong's habit all along, and it is also one of the means to control the officials, if you don't ask the opinions of the officials to make their own decisions, although the hundred officials must follow the holy decree after it is issued, but the specific implementation, the effect will definitely be greatly discounted, and if most of the officials have reached a unified idea with the emperor, then the implementation of the policy will definitely reflect unprecedented efficiency, and the effect will be much better.

Qin Dong originally thought that Prime Minister Petheus and others would definitely take the lead in standing up against it, but to his surprise, the first to come out against it was Hubu Shangshu Holmes, "Qi Xiang Your Majesty, the minister is against it!" ”

Qin Dong asked, "Why?" ”

Holmes said: "Your Majesty, although this western expedition won a great victory and gained a lot of land and population, it also cost a lot of money, and the treasury is already empty, if Lord Zhong wants to strengthen the military strength of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and to add weapons and armor, it is bound to increase the budget of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, and the household department will not be able to come up with extra money now!" ”

Zhong Hui immediately became anxious when he heard this: "Lord Holmes, I see that you are crying poor, the household department is obviously rich, why can't you increase the budget of our Metropolitan Procuratorate?" ”

Holmes was also not a fuel-efficient lamp, and immediately retorted: "Lord Zhong, the treasury is not just for the Metropolitan Procuratorate, all the official offices and yamen up and down the court have to use money, and if you increase the budget of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, you have to embezzle the funds of other official offices, so what will this hole be used to fill it?" I don't have the guts to embezzle other funds! ”

Generally speaking, a country must ensure a certain fiscal deficit in order to have better development of the domestic economy, but this fiscal deficit cannot be too large, let alone exceed the ability to bear, and the treasury cannot have surplus money left every year, which is extremely detrimental to economic development. Therefore, every penny of the money in the treasury is useful, and it is not something that can be embezzled casually if you want to.

Dali Siqing also stood up and objected: "Your Majesty, the minister is also opposed, the reason is that the power of the Metropolitan Procuratorate is already big enough, if you increase the military force, I am afraid that no one will be able to control it in the future!" ”

As soon as these few words came out, the officials knew that the lethality of this sentence was really a bit big, and it was directly pointed out that Zhong Hui wanted to expand the power in his hands, which could be said to be to the point.

"You!" Zhong Hui pointed to Dali Siqing, only said one word, but the latter words were not spoken, and then turned to Qin Dong and saluted: "Your Majesty, the loyalty of the minister can be shown to the sun and the moon, the minister just wants to add some personnel to the Metropolitan Procuratorate to enforce the law and discipline, there is no dissent!" ”

"Hehe, I know the loyalty of the Zhong Qing family, you get up, let me think about this matter again!" (To be continued......)