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In the Qin and Han dynasties, the ministers went to the palace to discuss the seats, to the Song Dynasty, the ministers had to stand in the palace, and now Qin Mu let the ministers sit according to the case, quite a bit of the Qin and Han dynasties of the monarchs and ministers sat and talked about the Lang Lang style.

It's just that the layout of the main hall of the Zhongshan Palace, which is difficult to compare with the Jinluan Palace, is inevitably a little crowded after the six departments and nine Qings sit down, which makes the ministers' need to rebuild the palace more urgent.

The imperial court must have the appearance of the imperial court, and the monarch and the minister do not even have a place for the ministers, how to show the prestige of the imperial court and how to unite the people?

Huang Zhenlin, who was in charge of the design of the palace city, first stood up and played: "Begin to play the King of Qin, the palace city planning has been completed, please ask the King of Qin to take a look." ”

Han Zanzhou hurriedly went down to take the drawings presented by Huang Zhenlin and sent them to Qin Mu's desk, Qin Mu looked at them a few times, and said to the ministers present: "What do you think?" ”

Liu Meng, the governor of the Chinese army, replied: "King Qin, we have captured so many prisoners, can't we still keep them for idle food?" Naturally, the sooner the construction starts, the better, and the ministers don't understand what the palace will look like, but it is not wrong to fill in the foundation first. ”

Qin Mu bowed his head and turned to Liu Boquan and asked, "Liu Qing, is the money and food in the household department sufficient?" ”

Liu Boquan replied with a spring breeze on his face: "King Qin, a few days ago, the people donated a total of 9.28 million taels of silver, and this donation has been sealed in a separate treasury for the purpose of building the palace city, and there is no problem in terms of money and food." ”

In fact, what was built this time was only a palace city, and it didn't take so much silver, so it was so easy for Liu Boquan.

Qin Mu listened to the specific donation amount he reported, and was quite dissatisfied. Nine million taels seems like a lot, but at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang built Jinling City, and Shen Wansan alone donated one-third of the city wall.

Compared with. In this donation, Xu Yingjie donated two million taels, and many of them were donated by ordinary people, which means that the political donations of those powerful families in the former Ming Dynasty were actually not much.

It seems that milk has to be squeezed again, more squeezing is not only conducive to development, but also strong Chinese, why not?

Qin Mu turned to Song Yingxing, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, and asked, "Song Shangshu, can the Ministry of Industry be able to dispatch manpower?" ”

Song Yingxing replied: "Go back to the King of Qin." There is a specialization in the art industry, and carpenters, bricklayers, and stonemasons are mainly used in the construction of Miyagi, which will not have much impact on the mining of Ma'anshan and the manufacture of weapons for the army. As long as the household department has sufficient money, food, and labor to be dispatched, it will not be a problem to recruit some craftsmen from the people. ”

"Well, in that case. Then let Qin Tianjian choose an auspicious day for the zodiac. Let's start work as soon as possible. ”

"Yes, King Qin."

After the construction of the palace city came to an end, Song Xiance, the secretary of Dachang Temple, immediately stood up and began to "point fingers" at Qin Mu's harem and heirs.

In fact, as early as the time of Wuchang, Yang Shen and others began to mention it. It is an ordinary rich family, who is not a group of wives and concubines, which is also an important condition for ensuring many children and grandchildren.

Qin Mu has always had only one wife and two concubines. Moreover, the two concubines were still born in Qinglou, and there was no country before the founding of the country. Qin Mu accepted it, but the backgrounds of Dong and Li's wives were hard wounds, and even if they gave birth to heirs, they would not play much role in consolidating the country's foundation.

Therefore, as soon as Song Xiance officially mentioned this matter, the ministers present said a word about you and me, and they all made suggestions, asking Qin Mu to rectify the back court, set up the Internal Supervision Department, and the Internal Supervision Department selected nine good ladies to enter the palace as the nine concubines serving the emperor.

As a normal man, in his heart, Qin Mu will not earn as many women as he is, but now is really not the time, the Jiangbei Tartars are still eyeing each other, and the four realms are not appeased, and all kinds of waste are waiting to be raised;

At this time, he made a big show for the draft, and it was inevitable that he would go up and down, and his ministers and generals were afraid that they would also be partial to pleasure, and the fate of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in later generations might not be repeated.

But his heirs are indeed too thin, there is only one son of Qin Ye, to put it mildly, the medical conditions are very poor these years, who dares to guarantee that the eldest son will definitely grow up?

What the ministers are worried about is exactly this, Daqin has just established the country, if there is no successor, it is a major hidden danger, and the ministers follow themselves, hoping to seal their wives and sons and share the same fate with the country. As soon as Great Qin was in chaos, it would be difficult to guarantee their vested interests, so they were even more worried than Qin Mu himself.

Considering these, Qin Mu agreed to accept the concubine, but only two. Moreover, one of them, Qin Mu, has already made an internal decision in his heart, that is, Bian Yujing, the daughter of the Bian Di family in the Langzhong of the Ministry of Rites, and the remaining one is selected by Han Zanzhou from a small range of people and tries to act as low-key as possible.

The ministers didn't know that Qin Mu had already made a candidate, and after getting his consent to add two concubines, they reluctantly gave up.

Next, Lu Daqi, the squire of the military department, said: "King Qin, Ma Yongzhen, the governor of the left army, sent a concert, Luoyang's army and 100,000 people have withdrawn to Xiangyang, please ask the imperial court to allocate grain and grass as soon as possible to help the people." In addition, the governor of Ma Du asked the imperial court to order Li Dingguo, the governor of the rear army in Sichuan, to send troops to Hanzhong to contain He Luohui in Guanzhong. ”

"What do the ministers think of sending troops to Hanzhong?"

Li Yuan, a member of the Cabinet University, replied: "King Qin, the minister thinks that the affairs of Sichuan should also adhere to the strategy of first the south and then the north. At present, there are still two groups of men and horses in southern Sichuan, Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu, which are extremely unstable factors, and the top priority at the moment is to let Li Dingguo cooperate with the loyal Marquis Qin Liangyu, use both soft and hard measures, or appease or suppress, and pacify the two groups of Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu as soon as possible, so as not to sit in the southwest and threaten the rear of our Great Qin. ”

Zhuge Min, the second assistant of the cabinet, also said: "King Qin, although Boluo has not fled yet, it is difficult to become a big trouble, there is no need for our army to maintain so many troops in the south of the Yangtze River, Liu Wenxiu occupies the Luzhou area, which has caused a lot of threat to our Huguang." Therefore, the minister thought that in addition to Li Dingguo and Zhongzhen Hou should focus on southern Sichuan, it was also necessary to send some troops from Jiangnan back to Huguang and Jiangxi, and as for sending troops to Hanzhong, it was not the time yet. ”

Qin Mu then asked He Liang, the secretary of the Ministry of War, "What does He Shangshu think?" ”

"Playing the King of Qin, pacifying Sun Kewang and Liu Wenxiu is indeed the top priority, but the minister thinks that he can't sit back and watch He Luo stabilize Guanzhong, and order Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi to send thousands of elite soldiers to go north to Hanzhong and contain the Qing army in Guanzhong. Ma Yongzhen had already sent Ling Zhan to lead 5,000 elite troops out of Yunyang in the west, and Yunyang cooperated with Sichuan, when it could form a lot of pressure on Guanzhong, Guanzhong was unstable, and the Qing army could not concentrate on attacking Xiangyang in the middle line. ”

Qin Mu immediately made a decision and instructed Gu Yanwu, a scholar from Hanlin: "Bachelor Gu will draw up a will for Li Dingguo according to this." ”

"Yes, King Qin."

Qin Mu then asked, "Master Gu, what's going on with your eight-strand dispute now?" ”

Gu Yanwu hugged Yuan and replied: "Qi Qin Wang, now the battle between the eight shares is becoming more intense, and the eight shares and the opponents are still half each. ”

Qin Mu frowned and said: "Now that Jiangnan and Huainan need a large number of officials to govern, Enke can no longer delay, whether to continue to use the eight shares, the ministers will come up with a decision today." ”

When Gu Yanwu heard this, he immediately preemptively said: "Although many talents in governing the world have emerged in the former Ming Dynasty, the harm of the eight-share scholars to scholars is even greater than that of burning books and pit Confucianism;

Today's readers, as Mr. Ai said, put their heads high on the desk, buy new sharp weapons in the store, and read them with high shoulders and sighs. Three sentences to inherit the topic, two sentences to break the topic, shaking his head and tail, and saying that he is the senior brother of the Holy Gate. But I don't know what kind of article the three links and four histories are, which emperor of the Song Dynasty and Hanzu are; Bagasse, chewed and chewed, what does it taste like? lived up to the time, and was in a coma for a lifetime, so he taught him to deceive high-ranking officials, but it was only the bad luck of the people and the court. Therefore, the minister resolutely opposed the continuation of the eight-share selection. ”

Among the high-level officials of the Qin State, there were only a few high-ranking officials of the former Ming Dynasty such as Lu Daqi, Lu Zhenfei, and Guo Duxian;

There are more people like Sima An, Zhuge Min, Li Yuan, Yang Shen, He Liang, Gu Junen, Song Xiance, Shao Hua, Yu Dayou, Tian Yimu, Liu Boquan, they are all very talented, but they were not admitted to the Jinshi in the former Ming Dynasty, including Gu Yanwu was not born in the Jinshi, and it is not an exaggeration to say that they are all victims of the Eight Shares of the Shi.

Therefore, among the ministers present, the majority of those who opposed the continued use of the eight shares of the scholars, Qin Mu no longer hesitated, and ordered the Ministry of Rites Shangshu to block Yinxi to officially publish the list, announcing to the outside world the cancellation of the eight shares of scholars, and officially scheduled to hold the first imperial examination in the Jiangnan Gongyuan on November 1.

(To be continued......)