On the day of the beginning of winter, early in the morning, Zhao Kun came to the imperial study of Jinxiang Hall as usual. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info five days ago, the forbidden army had completed its training, and three days ago, the will to adjust the important ministers had also been made clear. It is said that Zhao Kun should be a little more idle than before at this time, but in fact, it is not the case at all.

When you are an emperor, you can never finish your work. The recital alone was enough for the emperor to be busy. The cantata of this era, or the so-called feudal era -- although for most of the time China was de facto feudal, and the system of turtle kings and emperors supported by the layers of vassals in Europe -- was always full of nonsense, and so on. What's even worse is that there is no punctuation in the cantata.

Perhaps in the eyes of the civil officials, their own music or eloquence, ornate rhetoric, or all kinds of metaphors and puns, are very clever. But in Zhao Kun's opinion, what are the things in the concerto? With his level of ancient writing, he can see some of the essence of the cantata, but it's a pity that he has to flip through the classics from time to time while reading it, and it takes at least an hour to get a cantata.

After all, he is not Chai Rong, he has not received the education of the prince, and he has only participated in the "scripture banquet" after ascending the throne. The thing was to invite the so-called great Confucians, who were talented or famous, or both, to give lectures to the emperor, and to determine the frequency of the feast according to the emperor's needs.

However, Zhao Kun felt that this "scripture feast" was really useless, the emperor was so busy with his profession, how could he have the patience to listen to them slowly talk about the ideas of those Confucian classics? Moreover, after listening to it, it did not promote his efficiency in reading the chapters, and the views of the great Confucians still conflicted with Zhao Kun......

In the Qing Dynasty, he dared to throw the chapter to the Military Aircraft Department, but in the Zhou Dynasty, he did not dare to delegate the chapter to the political affairs hall. However, it is too time-consuming to review the music in person. A well-educated person like Chongzhen, who watches important concertos all day long, can only sleep for an hour or two, let alone Zhao Kun?

And at this time, it can't be compared to the Ming Dynasty, Zhao Kun wants to get a celebrant eunuch, but he can't find a eunuch who is educated enough.

He wanted to abolish these papers, but he could not afford to do so, which would be tantamount to pushing the civil service class to the opposite side, and the country's legal system would also be affected if these classical things were lost.

Moreover, to a certain extent, these clouds are full of classical canons of sages and modern red-headed documents full of doctrine and spirit, and in essence, they are probably about the same. At most, there are many hidden things in the current text, and it is even more difficult for uneducated people to figure it out.

In order to prevent him from being drowned in the sea of songs, Zhao Kun frequently summoned ministers on the one hand, and gave face-to-face lectures or listened to reports, or asked questions if he didn't understand; On the other hand, she handed over the recital to Fu Zhaohuan, and she took several other harem concubines from everyone who were born in the family and had a good cultural level of Zhao Kun to do the preliminary review, sort out the cantata, pick out the key cantata, and help simplify the content of the cantata by the way; As for those that are not very important, after reading it, give Zhao Kun an oral report and send it back to the prime ministers, let the prime ministers make a decision, and report the results.

This practice, in this era, should be called the harem to do politics, but in later generations, that is, the harem is used as a secretariat and office. And these secretaries are still the kind that can make Zhao Kun do what he has to do as a secretary and nothing as a secretary......

This system has been implemented for several months, and it has been criticized by many ministers, but unfortunately Zhao Kun, who is too lazy to continue acting, rejected all of them, and whoever opposes it will make anyone unlucky, and the DPRK and China are extremely clean for a while.

In his opinion, this plan has pros and cons, and the disadvantages or something, he can accept it, after all, the concubine is only a preliminary trial, and everything needs to be reported, not to mention, the final trial is in his hands and there is a prime minister outside, that is, a privy envoy.

There are a large number of women in the harem, and where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, politics/governance, and hierarchy, especially in this kind of environment where there are many people and are still closed. Zhao Kun, who has managed the harem once, has learned a lesson - last time he couldn't suppress the palace fight in the backyard, there are too many various private methods in the open and secret fights, and the big men can't blindly spend it in the backyard. That time, as an emperor and a man, he simply let go and do whatever he wanted after he couldn't control it, anyway, the emperor could always control the situation in general, and he could only care about his own pleasure.

This time, he chose to give them some work to do, and don't ******** Gong Dou all day. He doesn't object to competing for favor or something, it's too much to fight. If the original Chai Rong harem, Fu Zhaohuan was in charge of the six palaces, and there was no problem in handling affairs and authority, it would definitely be in order, and all the situations would be further controlled by the queen.

It's a pity that Zhao Kun is not Chai Rong, as a substitute, it is a human instinct for him to alienate Chai Rong's original match. Because of Fu Yanqing's relationship, he is not easy to clean up, so the queen's situation is slightly embarrassing - not in status, but in the emperor's intimacy. In order to make her feel at ease and less cranky, and to give Zhao Kun a reason for being estranged, Fu Zhaohuan took the queen's dignity to oversee this messenger who helped the emperor deal with government affairs, and he was very busy all day long.

In short, the emperor was very satisfied with the situation in the inner palace, so early in the morning, he instructed the eunuchs: "When the official offices are ordered, they will go and send a message to Wang Pu, Wei Renpu, Zheng Renyu, Fan Zhen, Li Gu, and Wang Pu to enter the palace to meet him." ”

While he waited, he continued to read the recitals that had been sorted out in the harem. Not long after, the officials of the outer court took up their posts, and the eunuch carried a stack of chapters into the side hall and handed them over to the queen and others for review.

After a while, the six summoned men entered the door and knelt down in the hall and bowed.

Zhao Kun is generally not very polite on the occasion of private summoning, and he said directly: "You don't have to kneel, come in and talk." ”

The six of them said in unison: "Thank you, Your Majesty." ”

Zhao Kun asked the eunuch to move the stool in, and kindly asked everyone to sit down and talk.

These six people are either Zhao Kun's henchmen or the new central members after adjustment, but despite this, their sitting posture is also very restrained, they all stand up straight, and their buttocks are against a small area of the stool.

Zhao Kun saw it in his eyes, and he no longer said anything, but opened his mouth to get down to business.

"Two things, the first thing is that I plan to set up an inner court, the name is the celebrant eunuch, and I specialize in making a set of seals of the inner court, and the queen is the master of ceremonies, which is considered to be the inner minister in another sense. Second, Wang Xianggong (Wang Pu) and Wei Envoy Jun (Wei Renpu) jointly signed an excerpt the day before yesterday, saying that the treasury was insufficient and that it was necessary to open up sources and reduce expenditure. ”

After speaking, a eunuch handed over the excerpt of the day before yesterday and passed it to the six people, reading them in turn.

"The chicken is in the morning, and it is not a blessing for the country." The first to take the fold was Zheng Renyu, and as soon as he spread out the fold, Wei Renpu stood up, arched his hand, and spoke. "Your Majesty is asked to take back your order."

Zhao Kun didn't speak, but just turned to the rest of the important ministers, "What about the opinions of the Qing and the others?" ”

Wang Pu, as Zhao Kun's ironcore, undoubtedly agreed. Fan quality, Li Gu is also relatively straightforward, and insists on opposing it. Wang Pu is a treacherous and cunning man, agreeing with Wang Pu, Zheng Renzhi said two words vaguely, neither directly saying against nor directly agreeing.

Zhao Kun didn't say anything, but ordered someone to take a few more pieces of the recitals—all written by civil officials who had been worn by the soul of the reincarnation—and read them to several prime ministers and scholars. The content of these cantata is different, but what is common is that they are all straightforward, abandon the words of the saints, are simple and easy to understand, and are followed by a large amount of data or detailed arguments as evidence.

"You can take a look at it, I think this kind of piece is worth promoting. When there is something to talk about, don't make any sage remarks, but when it comes to specific things, you are vague. As he spoke, Zhao Kun also picked up a piece of music, "Look at it, this is a report on the disaster situation, how much food was spent on disaster relief, where it was spent, how many households were affected, the distribution of the affected people, and what the general situation was, etc., are all clearly stated, and you can understand it at a glance." That's what I want, and try to explain things as plainly as possible. ”

"And this, this is the annual work summary of the governor of Songzhou, what has been done since he took office, what effect or significance, what he plans to do in the future, are all clear, and the tax and judicial matters are also clear......"

"If all the music were so simple and straightforward, I wouldn't need to be a celebrant! Otherwise, I won't be able to read all the folds you present! ”

At the end, Zhao Kun's tone was obviously aggravated. Several ministers hurriedly stood up from their seats and bowed down, "It's the fault of this minister." ”

Zhao Kun nodded, satisfied that no one said anything that contained the meaning of "Please rule the world with Your Majesty". If anyone dares to take out this set of supremacy of the ministers, Zhao Kun promised to let people pull him out and cut him down. Obviously, these prime ministers are still very sober-minded, knowing that the civil officials are weak now, and the emperor is even stronger than the average martial arts emperor, and they are destined to return, so they don't dare to stand hard.

In fact, the decision-making power of this kind of thing is in the hands of Zhao Kun alone, and the tendency in his heart can be decided. In this era, the emperor is not a human being at all, a son of heaven, a god, and naturally he cannot be treated according to the rules of the world if he speaks according to the law (provided that he is not set aside).

Still, he likes to call people to discuss it to show his democracy. You can freely express your views and vote democratically, of course, the final decision is still in the hands of Zhao Kun - this is called **********. In fact, if he could, he also hoped that there would be enough ministers to support his decision, so that the implementation would be smooth.

"The celebrant has no decision-making power, not to mention that the chapter is not sent to the political hall first, and then entered the palace?" He comforted him and explained, "The Secretariat is responsible for sorting out the chapters, classifying and summarizing them according to the requirements, leaving what I think is important in the palace, and sending them back to the government hall after the first report. In short, it's up to me to make a decision. The Registry is responsible for archiving and record-keeping. You will process the pieces that are sent back as required, and then report the results. The excerpts who stayed in the palace will summon you to the palace when the time comes. In short, this is an institution that helps me to relieve unnecessary burdens, and is filled by concubines and female officials in the inner court. What else is there to doubt? ”

A few people, you look at me, I look at you, and simply bow together: "Your Majesty is wise." ”

The matter was settled, and the ministers began to discuss the second matter. Compared to the problem of celebrants, the financial problems are actually more fatal - perhaps in the eyes of some people, the celebrants are more important when it comes to institutions and titles, but they can't beat the emperor.

After discussing for a while, several prime ministers put forward a lot of measures, but they either had little effect or were rejected by Zhao Kun. For example, the expansion of the army, without the army, the throne will not be stable in these years. There is also the ordnance supervisor, although there is not much progress on firearms, but as soon as the water conservancy forging machine comes out, plate armor can already be put on the agenda. Plate armor, spears, muskets, and military training content for college students, coupled with sufficient nutritional materials, can form a combat-effective army after a few months of training for strong men.

There is no way, these years the elite soldiers rely on training, and they need a lot of money, food and time. After so many years of turmoil, the people's livelihood has withered, and the national strength is very weak. Not only is there a shortage of money and food, but time is also a problem - there are still many battles to be fought.

In fact, Zhao Kun already had a mind about the issue of money and food, but he still waited until the prime ministers finished talking about those things before throwing out this plan to open up sources and reduce expenditure.

-- Destroy the moths and let them spit out some of what they have eaten over the years for national use.

This is a complete plan, and it can be seen that Zhao Kun has not made up his mind for a day or two.

The plan requires all monasteries in the country, prefectures, prefectures, counties, towns, villages, and squares to be allowed to continue to be retained, except for a few who have "quotas" (concessions), and all other monasteries are to be abolished, and all monks and nuns are ordered to return to the laity. In the future, no new monasteries will be allowed in towns and villages, or in places of scenic spot in mountains and forests; Princes and nobles, and local officials are no longer allowed to ask for the construction of monasteries, the opening of altars, and the ordination of monks and nuns.

At the same time, in order to vigorously reduce and eliminate the number of monks and nuns who do not plough the fields, weave cloth, serve or pay taxes, it can be stipulated that from now on, all those who wish to become monks must first obtain the support of their parents and grandparents; If it is an only child, it must also be allowed by the uncle, uncle or brother who lives together. At the same time, a man must be at least fifteen years old and be able to memorize 100 pages of scripture or read 500 pages of scripture by heart. A woman must be at least thirteen years old and be able to memorize 70 pages of scripture or read 300 pages of scripture by heart. After passing the test by the relevant officials, those who are allowed to shave.

Moreover, those who volunteer to become monks can only set up altars in Liangjing, Daimyofu, Jingzhaofu, Qingzhou and other five places, and must also be tested by the imperial court and prefecture officials. Even so, men and women who wish to become monks are not allowed to leave the house if their parents or grandparents are alive and there are no other children to support them. As for those who have been criminally punished for committing crimes, or those who have abandoned their parents, fugitive slaves and maids, rebels, and outlaws, they are not allowed to leave their homes. If there is a person who violates the edict and takes the ordination without authorization, the person, the master, the three outlines of the altar, the governor, the monk and the nun will all be punished and severely punished. (To be continued.) )