After Pei Lin read out the holy decree, Li Shi ascended the throne of God, accepted the worship of hundreds of officials, and then led a minister of civil and military affairs to the southern suburbs of the capital to worship the emperor's mausoleum, and announced that the ancestors would go to heaven, and then amnesty the world and release back the exiled people during the Wude period.

At the same time, countless civil and military officials were rewarded, knighted and awarded according to their respective merits, and a government decree was issued to exempt Guannai and the six prefectures of Pu, Rui, Yu, Tai, Shaanxi, and Ding from taxation for two years, and exempted the whole country from forced labor for one year.

Among the people, the old people over 80 years old were given a load of grain and a number of cloths, and the old people over 100 years old were given honorary titles, and the various passes east of Tongguan near the Yellow River were abolished.

This series of decrees quickly allowed Li Shimin to gain a firm foothold among the common people and civil and military officials, and then he checked the population files of the household department and found that the registered population of the whole country was only more than 2 million households.

Among them, there are still many men who can't get wives, from the Sui Wei to the present ten years, the Central Plains has been in turmoil, countless women, children and children have died on the way to flee, which has led to an imbalance in the ratio of male and female population, and no one in the already small population is still beating singles.

When Li Shimin saw this record, he was immediately worried, if a country wants to prosper, it must first have people, and the current great Tang Dynasty has such a small number of people, whether it is for the abundance of the treasury or the expansion of national strength, it is greatly unfavorable.

But this is also a helpless thing, since the end of the Sui Dynasty, after so many years of fighting, the population of the heyday of the Great Sui Dynasty has not been left with three out of ten, the only way to do it now is to live with the people, and find a way to encourage everyone to have more children.

But if you want to have children, you have to let all marriageable men be able to take a daughter-in-law, and many women and children have died in the troubled times of more than ten years.

The men in the major wealthy families not only have countless wives and concubines, but also have a lot of room noos, and there are not a few who steal the outer room, and there are only wives and concubines with names and surnames, and it is not suitable for them to let them out.

But the room, the outer room, and the extra maidservants in the house, let the person who can't marry a wife give some money, don't you give it too much?

For this matter, Li Shimin specially summoned Fang Xuanling, eldest grandson Wuji, Du Ruhui, Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda and others to discuss.

These people are all representatives of various families, and after listening to Li Shimin's proposal, they are all silent.

It is not easy to let them out of the room and the outer room, although there is no difference between the two and the status of slaves and maids, and the master's family has the right to buy and sell.

But most of the men who have the ability to buy a room and an outer room are not short of money, and their background is not too bad, most of such people love face, let them let their women out, I am afraid that no one will be happy.

"I know that this thing is not easy to do, but if it is not easy to do, we have to do it, now the people's livelihood is withering, and the population of the entire Datang is only more than 200 households, which is extremely unfavorable to the long-term development of our dynasty, if you don't want to increase the population as soon as possible, the future of Datang is simply unimaginable."

"In order to set an example, I will start with myself first, and when I return to the palace in a while, I will let the supervisors in the palace check the number of palace maids, and then release some of them according to the actual situation. Seeing this, Li Shimin sighed lightly and said slowly.

"Do your best." Li Shimin said all this, and everyone had nothing to say, so they could only smile bitterly, as for the matter of letting a large number of palace maids out of the palace, they didn't take it seriously, and they just laughed.

A few days after Li Shimin ascended the throne, there were few people in his harem at all, and more than 90% of the people in the palace were from the emperor.

If the emperor releases all the palace maids from the palace at this time, isn't it obvious that he can't get along with the emperor?

The emperor was guilty because of the Xuanwu Gate, and was very deferential to the emperor, and when he ascended the throne, the emperor refused to give up the Taiji Palace and let him ascend the throne in the East Palace.

What the ministers didn't expect was that about the release of the palace maid, Li Shimin didn't take it upon him, or said it was playing, he was determined to streamline the palace staff.

In his opinion, there are less than ten of his concubines, Li Yuan's concubines are only more than thirty, and the total number of concubines of the father and son is less than fifty.

And the palace maids and eunuchs in the palace, although he has not yet let people count in detail, he also knows that there will be no less than 5,000 people, just a few dozen people, how can there be so many people to serve? This is simply a huge waste of resources.

For this reason, when he returned to the back court after discussing the matter with the courtiers, he immediately discussed the matter with his wife, and the eldest grandson was thorough and reasonable, and as soon as he heard what his husband said, he understood his approach, and he agreed with it very much.

Only thought that not long after her husband ascended the throne, the Xuanwumen incident had left him with a certain amount of infamy and handle, if he had just ascended the throne, he would make his own decisions and let his father's palace maids out, it would be easy to attract the infamy of unfilial piety.

In a flash of thought, she took the initiative to ask: "Your Majesty, let the concubine do this, wait for me to discuss with my father first, and try to get his consent before letting people out." ”

"No, with my father's temperament, it is impossible to agree to our method, in my opinion, this matter can only be cut first and then played, in order to avoid the father and emperor embarrassing you in the future, I will do this thing, wait for me to release these people first, and then seal the queen."

"In this way, even if my father wants to trouble you, there is no reason." Li Shimin shook his head, he didn't seal the throne immediately after he ascended the throne, first, there were too many things in the court, and he couldn't pull out for a while.

The second is that the eldest grandson's phoenix robe has not been made for the time being.

"Your Majesty." The eldest grandson called softly, she knew that her husband's move was for her good, but she disagreed.

"I've made up my mind, I don't need to say more, this matter is decided." Li Shimin waved his hand, he is a resolute character, his idea is certain, and he will implement it immediately.

On August 18 of the ninth year of Wude, Li Shimin personally issued an order to release 3,000 palace maids and let them go out of the palace to marry.

As Li Shi expected, his move caused the extreme displeasure of the Emperor Li Yuan, in Li Yuan's opinion, although these palace maids have not been favored by him, but the name is also his person, Li Shimin, as a son, how can he treat his father like this?

In addition, several young and beautiful concubines who were deeply favored by Li Yuan kept running to him and crying: "Emperor Taishang, the palace maids in the palace have suddenly been reduced so much, and the supply of food and clothing for the concubines has been greatly affected......"

"Erlang, you are really a filial son, once you ascended the throne, you stretched out your hand to my harem, and if you go on like this, are you going to even serve me, Lao Tzu?" Annoyed Li Yuan in his heart, he summoned Li Shimin to the front and scolded him.