As early as before Liu Ji's army set off, Xiao He was entangled in the personnel and government arrangements during the prince's imprisonment, and pondered day and night, feeling that he could not avoid suspicion this time.

He witnessed Zhang Liang's current situation, and he was not envious.

Every night when he couldn't sleep and tossed and turned, he was eager to follow Zhang Zifang's precedent, push away all the feudal officials and rich food, and hang up the seal, leaving him with an idle position.

At present, Zhang Zifang is getting old, drinking wind and eating sand and raising horses in Longxi County all day long, although it is hard, but it seems to be out of the center of the whirlpool in Luoyang.

Moreover, every extra point he did in the northwest would increase the emperor's remaining gratitude.

On the other hand, he hesitated, hesitated, and never understood this layer, and was unwilling to give up power and leave.

Suspicious of dark ghosts, he secretly laughed at himself, once greed was born, he was like holding a heavy treasure, and he didn't shed tears when he didn't see the coffin.

Therefore, hearing that the queen is now willing to take the initiative to take this hot potato, Xiao He's heart was relieved, his face couldn't hold back, and he didn't even show a smile on his lips, but after thinking about it, he said,

"When His Majesty went east, he assisted the prince in Guanzhong, which was really helpless.

Now that you are in charge of the Middle Palace, you are the justifiable queen, and this auxiliary responsibility is also the responsibility of the Middle Palace.

It's just that you haven't seen all kinds of officials coming and going in the cold house every day, like a marquee, if they all shout into the palace, I'm afraid it will be too chaotic and noisy. ”

"It's okay, Xiangguo is not afraid of hard work, and Ying'er and I are naturally not afraid."

Lu Pheasant lowered his eyes and looked at Liu Ying, who was full of ignorance, and only said,

"I have to ask Xiangguo to count the names of officials who may need to enter the palace to discuss politics during this time.

It is expected that more than half of them have not yet been registered.

In this matter, Xiangguo can instruct my eldest brother Lu Ze to handle it, and get out the names of these officials as soon as possible. ”

The door register is a bamboo seal that is forbidden to enter and exit the palace, and it contains personal information such as the name, surname, age, physiognomy and position of the person entering the palace in detail.

These books are of the same size, each about two feet long, and they are all hung on the palace gates and palace gates in the palace castle as archives and credentials.

When an official or dignitary enters the palace, he or she needs to report his home to the prison officer, and the doorman can verify the person in front of him according to the information recorded on the door register before introducing him into the palace.

Xiao He understood that at this moment, the heavy responsibility of guarding the palace city was entrusted to Lu Ze, the queen's brother, so the matter of adding books and archives in the palace forbidden province naturally needed to be discussed with Lu Ze.

"By the way, I'm afraid I need to prepare more for this door.

Xiangguo don't forget, the group of young officials to be selected, the children of all families, all came to the palace, and it was a large group of hulala. ”

***

Although he had nearly 50 years of experience in governing the country in his previous life, Lu Pheasant was still so tired that he secretly complained in the first few days of his real reign.

She knew that something was wrong, and her current shell was far less satisfactory than the one in her previous life.

In the last life, she began to give birth at the age of nearly thirty, gave birth to six children in a row, and became the emperor in the ancient years, still deaf and bright, energetic, and lived to be more than eighty years old in one breath.

But in front of me, I have been a little lazy, every morning, after the fifth watch, Fang led the prince, and discussed with the officials, Rao is so, a few days of continuous rotation down, still endless backache and leg pain.

She carefully recalled that although Lu Pheasant in history was not short-lived, he could not be called a long-lived man, and it seemed that he died suddenly just over 60 years old.

It is probably the root of the illness that fell when I was doing housework in the fields of Pei County in the early years, and later suffered in Chuying, this is not good, there are too many things I want to do in this life, and I must not die before I am ambitious.

Thinking so, Lu Pheasant couldn't help but quietly move his numb ankle behind the case.

Seeing this, Liu Ying, who was sitting beside her, also wanted to stretch her waist, and when she peeked to look at her mother, she happened to see her knife-sharp gaze gouging over.

Liu Ying's face trembled in fright, so she had to obediently restrain her expression and continue to listen carefully.

The chief of the capital under the hall was gushing endlessly, and was making a detailed report on the incident of the Yellow River breaking in Suozao County last month.

This is the nineteenth and final thing to be discussed today.

In fact, in Lu Pheasant's view, supervising the country is a rare opportunity for the crown prince, and it is also a compulsory course for the successor of the empire.

If you want to understand the internal and external situation of the huge empire, and be familiar with the rules and regulations of the operation of the court, you must learn from these bits and pieces of daily trivialities.

The most important thing is that for a prince who is long in the deep palace, those skills of controlling the subordinates, those tricks of observing words and feelings, can only be understood by dealing with the ministers in person.

For example, river governance and civil affairs.

***

Suozao County is under the jurisdiction of the local government of Dongjun, so the leading role of river governance is the county guard of Dongjun County and the order of Suozao County.

Both the county magistrate and the county keeper were diligent and conscientious, and as early as the beginning of the rainfall for several days, they tried their best to move a large number of people away from the edge of the river.

They also personally led people to inspect the embankment day and night, so that they were able to report to the imperial court in time at the beginning of the breach, and at the same time organized labor to plug the leak, avoiding greater losses.

Lu Pheasant nodded again and again,

"The magistrate of Suozao County has truly become the parent of the people, and he deserves a great commendation.

Prince, what do you say, what is the excellence of the local officials? ”

Liu Ying was accustomed to the queen mother's unexpected questions during the discussion, he thought for a while, and said slowly,

"Erchen thinks that the local parents and officials have one thing that is particularly worthy of commendation, that is, 'Zhihe'.

Knowing the river lies in the fact that they can see the subtleties, know the benefits and disadvantages, and take precautions in advance. ”

"Well, the prince can have this insight, which is really talented."

Xiao He smiled and praised a few words, feeling that he could go home today.

Ying'er is right.

But I think that on the Zhihe, the biggest achievement of the two of them as local officials is actually to regard the people as sons and dare to take responsibility. ”

Lu Pheasant didn't mean to quit the dynasty, she said,

"There are many people who know the water and the river, but there are too few good officials who dare to do things.

I believe that the imperial court is vast, and there will be no shortage of outstanding grassroots talents in the county, Xiao Xiangguo, as the head of a hundred officials, you must work hard to discover them and promote them exceptionally. ”

"Yes, I obey."

Xiao He hurriedly came down, pondering the intention behind the queen's words, and heard her say again,

"Xiangguo, we live in Luoyang City, and as far as the eye can see, it is really limited.

I thought that I might as well announce it to the whole country, so that the local officials could recommend to the imperial court those who were virtuous and upright, and could speak out, so as to think that the grassroots personnel would be able to advance in the ranks. ”

She was a little lucky, but fortunately she encountered today's story of a good official, so that she was able to calmly and naturally launch the official election system that she had in mind-

Probationary system.