Today's weather is still good, the manna hall still looks dim, the palace people will open the window on the side, so that the hall is brighter.

Some sunlight shone in, and only the seat where His Majesty was sitting did not shine the sunlight.

Xu Jingzong walked quickly into the hall and saluted, "Your Majesty." ”

At this time, he couldn't see His Majesty's expression, Xu Jingzong bowed down and said: "Half a month ago, the spies of the Ministry of Rites sent a message in Goguryeo, and the King of Goguryeo received a letter from the Ministry of Rites and a letter from the Tang Dynasty, and he did intend to congratulate the Tang Dynasty and was willing to make amends, but it was just ......"

After a pause, Xu Jingzong explained: "Your Majesty, the situation in Goguryeo is complicated now, Yuangai Suwen holds the military power, and the royal power is weak, and the royal life of Goguryeo cannot be released, and the military generals are in power, and the king of Goguryeo has been imprisoned." ”

Heo Kyung-jong explained the situation in Goguryeo today.

This is all the information that the Ministry of Rites has been staring at Liaodong for many years, and all the changes in the Goguryeo royal family have always been in the hands of the Ministry of Rites.

Next, Xu Jingzong explained to His Majesty what had happened in Goguryeo recently, and how Yi Yifu had served Yuangae Suwen, and how Yuangae Suwen had become a climate, and how he had deepened the contradictions between the Goguryeo royal family and military power step by step.

Yi Yifu was like a stick in Goguryeo, which not only confused Goguryeo's pool, but also exacerbated Goguryeo's internal contradictions.

There was no one else in the palace, and the prince let the other palace people leave, and he himself stayed outside the palace.

In the hall, Li Shimin stepped forward, "Li Yifu is a messenger sent by the Ministry of Rites, will what he did in Goguryeo become the handle of others?" ”

Xu Jingzong bowed and said: "Your Majesty, rest assured, Li Yifu does not participate in the internal struggle of Goguryeo, and there is Zhang Da'an in Liaodong to block it. ”

"So, I should be relieved?"

"The power of Yongai Suwen is getting stronger and stronger, the previous Goguryeo has died of illness, and the current king of Goguryeo is a young ......"

A bloody struggle for power within Goguryeo unfolded in front of the emperor.

I have told His Majesty what should be said, and as for what should not be said, Xu Jingzong will not say more.

Some of the plans of the Ministry of Rites are only clear to a few core people, and there are some things that Xu Jingzong will not tell Zhang Daxiang and Zhang Dasu, and Xu Jingzong will only tell Zhang Shangshu.

Xu Jingzong believes that his life's struggle is for his career, and through the recommendation of the king of Hejian County, he also met Zhang Shangshu by chance.

While feeling that life is interesting, he also understands that he must live carefully.

With Zhang Yang's support, he can rise to the top, but in some schemes, Xu Jingzong did not dare to tell outsiders about the means used.

That was all before the establishment of the Foreign Affairs Yuan, and now the Ministry of Rites is more cautious, at least not to let people hold the handle.

With Zhang Yang leaving the Foreign Affairs Academy, everything in the Ministry of Rites is done in accordance with the rules of the court.

Li Shimin patted him on the shoulder, "You are a capable person." ”

Xu Jingzong bowed and said: "Thanks to Your Majesty's trust, the Ministry of Rites is willing to go to the soup for the society, and I will not hesitate." ”

"In the future, you can come to see me directly in the affairs of the Foreign Affairs Yuan, and you don't need to go through Zhongshu Province."

"Minister......

Hearing this, Xu Jingzong was in a trance, and then calmed down a little, "The minister takes the order." ”

Li Shimin bowed his head and said: "When the Tubo and Hanhai Protectorate are built, you will serve as the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, as for Zhang Yang...... Stay in Taifu Temple right now. ”

Xu Jingzong lowered his head and said, "The minister will live up to His Majesty's trust." ”

"Stand down."

Li Shimin said flatly.

The matter of the Eastern Crusade has been concerned for a long time, and since Wen Yanbo entered the dynasty and talked about it, this matter is like a stone hanging in his heart.

The Tang Dynasty will one day take Goguryeo, and the sooner the better.

Xu Jingzong walked out of the Ganlu Palace, thinking in his heart that this was the fourth time that His Majesty had talked to him alone.

The earliest time was because of the matter of Gaochang, then because of Tibet, the most recent time was because His Majesty promised the Ministry of Rites, and now it is for Goguryeo.

Your Majesty said that in the future, the affairs of the Ministry of Rites can be done without going through the Zhongshu Province, and you can meet Your Majesty directly.

In order to stand firm in the court, in addition to your own ability, you must also understand the meaning of Your Majesty's words.

After an agreement between Zhang Yang and Zhao Guogong, he won the diplomatic authority of the Ministry of Rites from the court.

Until now, the Ministry of Rites has always been outside of the court battle, whether it is the dispute between the Imperial Protectorate or the Imperial Examination Department, it is not involved.

Such an isolated official residence is so huge, with the precipitation of the past five years, the Ministry of Rites has more and more information, and more and more people are sent out.

It is no longer the Ministry of Rites at the beginning, and now the Ministry of Rites plays a pivotal role in government affairs.

His Majesty's implication is that in the future, the Ministry of Rites will be directly subordinate to His Majesty, and there is no need to report to the Zhongshu Province, nor will there be any need to look at the faces of the ministries of the DPRK and the Central Committee.

But at the same time, the price is that in the future, the Ministry of Rites will obey His Majesty's orders.

This is His Majesty's power technique, and the Ministry of Rites is like a fruit tree, from the geographical records inside and outside the Guan, to the customs and customs outside the Guan, the intelligence of the Uighurs or Tibetans, and the current diplomatic capabilities, these are all the fruits of the Ministry of Rites.

Your Majesty will not let anyone covet such a fruitful result, and the Ministry of Rites must be Your Majesty's or directly under Your Majesty, which seems to be something that will definitely happen.

Xu Jingzong walked outside the Vermilion Bird Gate, and now he finally figured it out and understood the reason why Zhang Shangshu would leave the Ministry of Rites.

Perhaps he had already thought that the current Ministry of Rites would have today, and it would be handed over to His Majesty one day.

And it is best for Zhang Shangshu to retire at this time.

Whether it is His Majesty, Zhang Yang, or himself, or so many people in the Ministry of Rites, everyone has got the results they wanted.

Zhang Yang fulfilled everyone.

This situation is indeed the best, Xu Jingzong sighed, it is not easy for the Ministry of Rites, it is too difficult to get to today's situation.

I felt that the burden on my body was very heavy, and I felt that I had to carry it.

When he came to the gate of the Foreign Affairs Academy, there were several envoys making noise at the door, and Xu Jingzong saw that the person was the envoy of Nanzhao.

After many envoys from outside the customs came to Chang'an, they did not want to go back.

There are more and more envoys stranded in Chang'an City.

Walking into the Foreign Affairs Courtyard quietly, Xu Jingzong asked Li Chongyi, "Prince Chongyi, what are these people doing?" ”

Li Chongyi replied in a low voice: "It's the envoy of Nanzhao, saying that there was a Tang man with a group of bandits who recently attacked the city in their Nanzhao. ”

Xu Jingzong was surprised: "Tang people? ”

"Hmm." Li Chongyi's expression was solemn, "They said it was like this, what happened in March." ”

Hearing this, Xu Jingzong thought about it, if he wanted to attack Nanzhao, he would have to pass through Shudi, and the road in that place was very difficult to walk.

Recently, the newspaper did not say that there were bandits in the vicinity of Kennan Province.

Xu Jingzong asked in a low voice, "Are you really attacking the city?" ”

Li Chongyi smiled instead, "It's just a few villages, where is it as big as they say." ”

Xu Jingzong was relieved to say this, and he said: "Maybe it's a conflict between local villagers." ”

Seeing that Xu Jingzong was leaving, Li Chongyi asked, "Then do we have to take care of this matter?" ”

Xu Jingzong walked to the backyard of the Foreign Affairs Academy, asked the cook here to serve a bowl of soup cakes, and replied: "It's good to appease, as for the matter of Nanzhao Village, let's just say that our Tang Dynasty can't attack them, everything must be evidenced, if they catch the bandits and can bring them to Chang'an as witnesses, we will discuss it later." ”

Li Chongyi nodded and wrote it down.

"Has the Chongyi Son eaten any food?"

Hearing this, Li Chongyi shook his head.

Xu Jingzong asked the cook to serve another bowl of soup cakes and continued to eat.

The Foreign Affairs Council is still very busy, and after several expansions, it is still very busy, especially dealing with envoys from various countries.

The construction of the capital protectorate in Tibet has not yet been settled, and the construction of the Hanhai capital is also being arranged.

After eating the soup cake in the bowl, Xu Jingzong had expectations in his heart, hoping that he would sit in the position of the secretary of the Ministry of Rites as soon as possible and continue to carry forward the diplomatic career left by Zhang Shangshu.

Lishan, Li Lizhi is also back.

Li Yue listened to her and said with a smile: "It's good to come back, let's eat." ”

"Hmm." Li Li nodded and washed her hands and prepared to eat.

This sound of rice seems to be very warm, and it is always the warmest when eating in Lishan, and the younger brothers and sisters sit around the table.

And the royal sister and brother-in-law also take every meal very seriously, no matter how greedy the younger brothers and sisters are, they must not delay the time to eat, no matter how much the younger brothers and sisters play, when it is time to eat, they must stop what they are doing and come back to eat on time.

This is the rule of Lishan, and it is also the warmest rule.

It's okay to live in the palace and be by the side of the queen mother, but you will always encounter trivial matters between the concubines in the palace.

In Lishan, the younger brothers and sisters can be happier and will not be separated.

Zhang Yang ate his meal and looked at the letter sent by the Ministry of Rites, the person sent by Li Shimin to the Hanhai Metropolitan Protectorate was Qiu Xinggong.

Qiu Xinggong is also a veteran of the court, one of the people who followed Li Shimin to participate in the affairs of Xuanwu Gate.

Moreover, this person has a harsh nature, and people on both sides of the DPRK and Chinese and military forces are extremely jealous of him.

Qiu Xinggong's character was harsh, he was dismissed from his post for impeachment at the beginning, and later he was reused, and such a person would inevitably cause trouble if he stayed in Chang'an, and now he was sent to the Hanhai Protectorate to toss the Uighurs and Xue Yantuo.

Zhang Yang smiled helplessly, maybe Li Shimin also had an attitude of not seeing out.

The generals sent to Duan Zhixuan and Duan Zan father and son in Anxi were sent out by Du Gou, who was also the son of Du Ruhui back then.

At the same time that the military generals of Wenchen went to protect the prefectures in various places, this heavenly khan also dismissed many local officials and replaced them with new people in the court.

In the words of Tian Khan, many of the counties are officials left by the former Sui, and many of them are old and should be replaced.

In this way, the emperor continued to encroach on the relationship between the wealthy families of the noble families in various places, and the officials who replaced them were also carefully selected, these people were newly promoted officials with a very clean background, and the people who were sent to various places to appoint county governors were also loyal to the current emperor.

In this way, coupled with the arrangement of the local Zhichong Mansion, the emperor grabbed the throat of these wealthy families step by step.

This is the policy set by the eldest grandson Wuji, in order to reduce the control of local tycoons.

After the meal, Zhang Yang went down the mountain and told Zhang Gongjin about it, "Teacher, I always thought that Zhao Guogong was on the side of the powerful of the family. ”

Zhang Gongjin sat in a wheelchair and said with a smile: "Since Your Majesty is determined to fight against the family and revitalize the imperial examination, his eldest grandson Wuji is bound to stand on His Majesty's side, and he will act according to His Majesty's wishes." ”

"I think he was still helping Guan Long's gate valve to speak."

"Guan Long, ......" Zhang Gongjin remembered the past again, but smiled, "That's because they thought of His Majesty too simply, and today's Guan Longmen valve is not what it used to be." ”

"As the teacher said, I have also heard that there are many people from Longyou who want to move into the boundary of Chang'an City, among which Jingyang and Bashang, as well as Gaoling, have the most people who have moved into Longyou, and excessive reclamation will make the fields more and more barren."

Since the Qin and Han dynasties, people have razed mountains to the ground for food, and also because of the war, razed the mountains to the ground, cut down the mountains and forests to form plains, and turned them into fields, and this excessive reclamation has also brought bad results.

However, the environment in Kansai today is not as harsh as that in later generations.

Zhang Yang felt that it was too late for him to call on people to replant trees, at least from now on, to plant a large forest in the northwest.

Restoring barren land to life is a big undertaking that will take generations, starting with your own.

The environment in Kansai is getting worse and worse, and judging from the archives of Taifu Temple, the grain harvested is getting less and less every year, so people naturally have to move east.

Not to mention that after experiencing the war, the Guanlong Gate Valve wanted Emperor Li Tang to fulfill the promise he made when he supported Li Yuan to ascend the throne.

Maybe Li Jiancheng will support them if he is still there, before the accident in Xuanwumen, Li Jiancheng was still alive, and he received the most support from the scholars and gate valves.

That is, the person who is now sitting on the throne is Li Shimin, not Li Jiancheng, and will start to deal with the people who supported Li Jiancheng at the beginning.

It is said that Li Shimin is an emperor who can forbear, and he endured the infamy of Xuanwumen, the Weishui Alliance, and the scolding of many scholars.

In the years when he was sitting on the throne, Li Shimin steadily did a good job in the handover of the court, still used the important ministers and local generals of the year, and let Gao Shilian preside over the government.

Only now that the power of this emperor has been consolidated, and it is time to begin reckoning.

This world began to change under the will of this emperor.

Zhang Yang listened to the teacher's explanation, and said, "I still don't agree with Zhao Guogong's way. ”

Zhang Gongjin nodded slowly, "Well, you always say that it is better to raise the soup to stop the boiling than to draw the salary at the bottom of the kettle." ”

"The removal of local officials can only weaken the control of the gate valve family over the locality, but their strength is still there, and the roots are intertwined deep in the ground, and some branches and branches are just cut off, and they can't move their vitality."

"Hmm." Zhang Gongjin also agreed with this approach, he nodded and said: "Eldest Sun Wuji is a very cautious person, he doesn't dare to take risks, his words and deeds may be adopted by His Majesty, he will say the least risky and safest way." ”

"It's ironic that you obviously want to get rid of the hidden dangers of the Central Plains, but you have to be cautious and even struggling."

"You are a very assertive child, and you know how to go in and out."

Zhang Gongjin took a sip of tea, "The old man doesn't have the ability to teach you anything else, only to protect yourself in everything, even if you set yourself on fire, you have to leave room for your whole body to retreat." ”

I'll take a break from the chapter today.

It will be updated normally tomorrow, and we will strive to make up for it.