Dajing Kyushu, the highest level of governor in each state capital is Zhizhou, and the official system is from the second grade. Under it, political envoys and procurators were set up to be in charge of money, food, and criminal names, which were equivalent to the second-in-command and third-in-command of each state.

Ye Qianhuai's will was very strange, she did not ask the governor to enter Beijing to report on his work, but asked the political envoy and the envoy to come to the capital to report on his work.

Immediately questions were raised.

Su Hongwei, the secretary of the ministry, said: "Your Majesty, the state capital is far away, and it is not easy for officials to go to Beijing once. For example, in Leizhou, it takes two and a half months to go back and forth from Ba County to Shengjing, and many government affairs in Leizhou will be delayed during this period. It is precisely for this reason that during the Yanzhao period, the Yanzhao Emperor changed the frequency of state officials to visit Beijing from once a year to once every three years. The lower officials were puzzled, only 100 officials entered Beijing for the Hajj last year, why did His Majesty summon the political envoy and the envoy at this time? ”

"I know that it is not easy for the officials of the state government to go to Beijing, so I don't want to make a big deal like the Hajj this time. The governors of the prefectures had seen them at last year's Hajj, but there were still many of them that I was not familiar with. Now that I'm in power, I still have to meet them. Each state only has these two people to see each other, and there is no need to bring anything, and the time should be halved in Beijing. Ye Qian said.

Su Hong was slightly stunned, he didn't know why the emperor was so insistent on meeting the second-in-command and third-in-command of the state capitals, so he frowned and said: "If Your Majesty wants to know the situation in the states, you can ask for details." The political envoy and the envoy are both key officials in charge of local government affairs, and after walking away for such a long time, the minister is worried that the state government yamen will be overstretched. ”

Ye Qianhuai nodded and said, "So I left Zhizhou behind to stabilize the political situation. In addition, it is not necessary for the officials of the various states to come to Beijing at the same time, and according to the specific situation of each state, it is better to choose a more leisurely time. For example, Yunzhou, in winter, it is better to come to Beijing in winter. Su Hongwei, you agree with the state capitals to arrange a time for me to enter Beijing. ”

She had arranged it in such detail, and it was obvious that she had thought about it for a long time, not on the spur of the moment.

It was understandable that the emperor wanted to meet the officials of the state government, but Su Hongwei didn't want to say anything, so he had to take the order and stand aside.

——

After the early dynasty, hundreds of officials left in groups of threes and threes.

Su Hongwei walked at the end, he walked very slowly, and his face was a little hesitant.

He was still recalling the emperor's actions in his early days, pondering the deep meaning.

"Hongwei," Chen Yuansi appeared behind him at some point, startling him, Su Hongwei hurriedly saluted, but Chen Yuansi didn't look at him, and continued to walk forward by himself, saying, "Give the people in those states eight hundred miles to rush to a letter, just say that Beijing is stable, so that they don't have to panic, and do their own errands." ”

Su Hongwei followed, approached Chen Yuansi, and said, "Your Excellency, do you know what does Your Majesty mean by suddenly wanting to summon the political envoy and the envoy?" ”

Chen Yuansi glanced at him with half-open and half-closed eyes, and said, "Your Majesty wants to take the state capital under your own hands. ”

Su Hong paused slightly and said, "The lower officials don't quite understand. ”

"If Your Majesty suddenly summons your servants alone, and then strikes you with a speech. How do you feel? ”

Chen Yuansi's words seemed to make Su Hongwei think of something.

Chen Yuansi continued: "Your Majesty, this is to make them suspicious of each other, so that the fishermen can benefit." ”

Su Hongwei stopped and said in a daze: "Can Your Majesty think of such a far?" ”

Chen Yuansi also stopped, he didn't look back or answer, but looked up and looked into the distance, looking at the blue sky above Chengtian Gate.

There was a worry in his twilight eyes.

——

Ye Qianhuai's will took effect very quickly, so fast that Ye Tianhuai was surprised.

The next day, Li Baoquan sent three secret folds to Ye Qianhuai.

One impeached the Ministry of Officials for violating the rules, one impeached the Yushitai for prevarication, and one caught Ye Qianhuai's attention.

The squire of the military department reported that a large amount of shoddy military rations stored in the suburbs of Beijing were shoddy, and he suspected that some officials had changed the grain in the process of entering the warehouse to fill their own pockets.

Ye Qianhuai immediately sent the news to Tao Yuan, asking him to inquire about the situation of the military grain depot on the plateau.

Then, she asked Li Baoquan to summon Lu Yanchen into the palace.

After all, she couldn't find a second person to discuss politics at the moment.

This is the first time Lu Yanchen has entered the palace after resigning from the position of emperor.

Since Shunping ten years, he, as Ye Qianhuai's husband, has been teaching her here every day for three years. He knew everything in the Wenxuan Hall well.

But for some reason, now that he stepped into this study again as a foreign minister, he actually had a complicated feeling like homesickness from the bottom of his heart.

For it was no longer a half-grown child who sat in the temple as high as his chest.

She has grown from an ignorant young prince to a deep emperor in the city, and every time she transforms, he has witnessed it with his own eyes.

He could always remember how she looked when he first saw Ye Qianhuai in the Wenxuan Palace.

The taciturn prince knows almost nothing about government affairs, but he has a very high level of understanding and understands a little. When answering his questions, she will look at him timidly with a pair of bright eyes.

He always remembered what Ye Qianhuai looked like at that time.

Eyes as clean as white paper.

A mind as clean as a blank sheet of paper.

It's so clean that people feel pity, but it's terrifying.

Innocence is the last quality you need as an emperor.

For this simple but intelligent student, Lu Yanchen taught him everything. He was very anxious to teach, and he couldn't wait to immediately pour all the poems and books in his belly into Ye Tianhuai's brain.

Ye Qianhuai did not disappoint him either.

No matter how fast he taught or how much pressure he put on her, she always did the homework he assigned perfectly.

It made him want to teach her more knowledge, teach her something deeper.

He not only taught her economic history and arithmetic, taught her the political views of a hundred schools, but also taught her how to weigh people's hearts and control power.

He was like a pen full of thick ink, splashing ink on her white paper, and the pen walked like a snake.

Now, she had grown into what he thought she should be.

Lu Yanchen felt relieved, but he was inexplicably a little lost.

Ye Qianhuai was like a chick he watched grow up, and now her wings were stiff and she was about to leave the nest.

Her gaze was no longer just on him, she was looking at the vast sky, looking in the direction ahead.

For a long time, Lu Yanchen subconsciously felt that Ye Tianhuai was still the child who followed him, just like the quiet time when the teachers and students in the Wenxuan Hall were relative, and this would be the case for the next ten years and fifty years.

But these days, he has felt more and more clearly that the little emperor who once looked at him timidly no longer belongs to him.

(End of chapter)