The so-called outside must first be inside.

When Li Shimin made up his mind to touch the Turks, internally, he naturally had to start a wave of drastic regularization!

The first thing is to change the law!

Fang Xuanling, Du Ruhui, Wei Zheng, and Dai Zhou were four important ministers who stayed on the desk non-stop for two months, and finally deleted the complicated and simplified "Wude Law" and launched "Zhenguan Law"! Spread the world!

From the day it was promulgated, Datang has entered a new era, and the social environment will become more harmonious!

At the same time, after listening to the opinions of all walks of life, the "Zhenguan Law" has also added a lot of articles, including the "entry and exit law", which specifically regulates the personnel entering and leaving the country, and adds tariffs to the goods entering and leaving the country, and gives a tax rate of 10% to 60% for different types of goods.

When this decree was promulgated, many bigwigs in the DPRK and China breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, business can still be done...... It's just that the dividends originally distributed to the border generals were handed over to the imperial court.

This is actually a good thing, after all, it is above board, and there is no need to do business secretly.

Oh yes, there's another episode in between.

The emperor quietly dispatched several messengers to investigate and prosecute several generals who had been in the border pass for many years, and raided their homes for several serious crimes such as corruption, abuse of power, and embezzlement.

The taste of it, I can only say that I understand it.

At the same time, the imperial court's large-scale layoffs were also in full swing, and officials from various localities and officials in Beijing were successively admitted to Chang'an for assessment within three months, and the fittest was surviving.

This workload almost made the eldest grandson Wuji tired, and Li Shimin could only send Fang Xuanling to the top.

In the end, the results were remarkable.

The bloated imperial court was finally cut down to 647 people.

The magistrates have also undergone a major blood change, so that there are not enough people to govern the world.

Chop!

Chop, chop, chop!

Regardless of your northwest, cut it first!

When Li Shimin sat in the East Palace and saw the briefing in front of him, his mood was complicated.

"Auxiliary, Xuanling."

He looked at the two henchmen in front of him, who had lost a lot of weight, and exclaimed,

"This ...... It's good to keep people down, and it's good to use the best. ”

"For example, on the side of the imperial court, you have reduced the inner court of more than 3,000 people to more than 600 people, which is a very good thing!"

"In all dynasties, I am afraid that there is no court in any dynasty that is so clean and neat, there are fewer people, and the efficiency is higher! There is no one before and no one after us, excellent! ”

The two ministers had dark circles under their eyes, but they did not show happy expressions.

Because listening to the meaning of the emperor's words, it seems that there is still a turning point.

"But......"

Sure enough, the twist came.

I only heard Li Shimin say helplessly,

"You can't be too rough with the locality."

"Some officials are indeed not very good, their abilities are mediocre, and they do not seek to improve. But it's not that it can't be used! ”

"If they are all dismissed at once, there will be no officials to match in the local area, and there will be no one to govern, and there will be chaos."

"Compared with the governance of the landlords and squires in the countryside, it is better to govern the officials of the imperial court, even if it is a little mediocre, this governing power cannot be vacated, let it out!"

He paused for a moment and said to Xu Fenglei, who was drinking tea on the side:

"Listen, don't you?"

Xu Fenglei smiled.

"Since Your Majesty has chosen drastic reforms and wants to completely abandon the old things, it is inevitable that this painful period will occur."

He whispered,

"Since you have done it, you will do it to the end! If we ignore this and that, and open our mouths, many people will be allowed to take advantage of this loophole, and in the end, the effectiveness of the reform will be greatly reduced. ”

"The minister thought, the two of them also gritted their teeth and fought to the end out of this consideration."

When the two of them heard this, they both nodded in agreement.

"What the Taishi said is extremely true."

Fang Xuanling arched his hand,

"In fact, the minister has relaxed the standards again and again, but most local officials still can't reach it, and it's far from it!"

"It's polite to describe them as a corpse vegetarian meal, and the minister said, it's just full of brains and intestines, and it's useless!"

"If such officials continue to be activated, then the Zhenguan Dynasty will not be good!"

The eldest grandson Wuji also echoed:

"Yes, Your Majesty! It's not that we're too harsh, it's that they're too unbearable! ”

"This ......"

Li Shimin sighed.

"In the final analysis, it's all a mess left by the Wude Dynasty, and if you push it forward, it's all a mess left by the Sui Dynasty.

He lamented,

"Now, it's up to me to clean it up."

"That's a ...... Such a Tang Dynasty seems to be strong, but if I hadn't supported it with you, would it have been so good? ”

This is really not Li Er's boasting.

If it weren't for him, an emperor who is full of civil and martial arts, and such a top civil and military minister to help him.

At present, this Datang will have a short life!

"Alas!"

Li Shimin held the briefing in his hand and said,

"The top priority at present is to select a number of good officials and good officials to fill the shortage of officials in various localities."

"Three Aiqing, what can you do?"

His gaze swept to the three people in front of him.

These three are all his top thinkers, so there is no problem they can't solve!

"Back to Your Majesty."

The eldest grandson Wuji was the first to speak,

"Can you select a group of young talents from among the nobles and families?"

"Clans, clans, and families, now there are young people studying at home and cultivating themselves, how much knowledge do they have, and young people have vitality, fighting spirit, and energy."

"If we send them to the local areas to experience and experience, we can also see how well they have achieved results, and in the future, we can select a few talents who can be of great use to the country."

Li Shimin bowed his head.

"Yes."

He answered,

"This is indeed an idea, with the clan and the Xun clan first, and the family second, let them select a few talents who can be used, and then I will send someone to evaluate them, and then they can become officials."

"Including a few of you, if you think there are talents in the family, you can recommend them, and you can't avoid relatives."

In Li Er's heart, the nobles are the closest, and the clan is second.

And the family, such as the five surnames and the seven wang and other big families, should be cautious, and even beware of them.

Speaking of which, these guys all supported Li Jiancheng at the beginning, hehe.

"Yes."

The eldest grandson Wuji responded,

"After the minister returns home, he must think carefully and contribute a few talents to His Majesty."

This is a good opportunity to expand the strength of the family!

You have to grasp it.

"Hmm." Li Shimin looked at Fang Xuanling and said with a smile, "Xuanling, what do you think, let's hear it." ”

Seeing that he was stroking his beard and calm, he knew that he had an idea.

"Back to Your Majesty, the minister thinks that he should urge the ministers in the court to be virtuous."

Fang Xuanling stroked his beard,

"Courtiers not only need to do their jobs well, but also have the responsibility to discover talents for the country."

"If Your Majesty does not urge, everyone will not take it seriously; But if His Majesty urges, or even rewards and punishes, the minister thinks that the officials will definitely rush to discover the remnants of the opposition. ”

"Don't care about anything else, let them promote talents, as for whether they are virtuous or not, your majesty will judge."

Li Shimin's eyes lit up.

Syllable!

"What a great idea! Haha......"

He clapped his hands and praised,

"The so-called ten steps of Ze must have vanilla; In the ten-room city, there will be loyal men. ”

"There must be sages in the wilderness, but I didn't bother to use my mind to mobilize everyone to find them."

"Xuan Ling's idea is good, I can make a note."

When the words fell, the three of them all turned their eyes to Xu Fenglei.

"Taishi?"

Li Shimin said with a smile,

"It's your turn."

"With your intelligence, you should already have an idea, right?"

Xu Fenglei coughed dryly and slowly put down the teacup.

"Uh...... The minister has an immature idea. ”

He answered,

"The minister thinks that the selection of talents should not be a hammer in the east and a mallet in the west. Selecting a group of nobles and mobilizing ministers to select a group can indeed solve the temporary shortage. ”

"But what about the future?"

"The number of nobles in the clan is limited, and the circle of friends of the courtiers is also limited, and this method will be exhausted after not being used three times."

"That's why I said, it's all a symptom, not a root cause."

Li Shimin raised his eyebrows and touched his chin.

Fang Xuanling and the eldest grandson Wuji also gently stroked their beards and nodded, listening quietly.

"Then tell me about the root cause?" Li Er raised his hand and said with interest.

"The way to cure the root cause is to establish a system for selecting talents!"

Xu Fenglei said in a deep voice,

"With this system, we will continue to select reliable and usable talents from the broad masses of the people!"

"Your Majesty also said just now that there will be loyal men in the ten-room city. So how many loyal and capable people should there be tens of millions of people in the world? I'm afraid it's like a crucian carp crossing the river, and I can't count them! ”

"If the selection system is compared to a fishing net, talent is an endless stream of fish, you just need to cast the net at the right time to catch a net of talent!"

"In this case, Your Majesty, are you still afraid that no one will be available?"

Li Shimin's eyes widened slightly, and there were already waves in his heart!

"Okay, okay......"

"That's a good way, you're so good!"

He muttered in his mouth, and a picture already appeared in his mind—

A fisherman cast a big net into the river, and in a moment, the fish that were beating all over the net were squeezed into a big ball!

The fisherman laughed excitedly, and when he looked back, it was himself!

"What Taishi said is somewhat similar to the imperial examination system created by Emperor Wen of Sui!"

Fang Xuanling exclaimed,

"Yes!"

Xu Fenglei said firmly,

"It's true that the imperial examination is true, but what Emperor Wen of Sui founded, including the imperial examination practiced by Emperor Yang of Sui, is still too one-sided, and the threshold is still very high."

"The people who were able to participate in the imperial examination in the Sui period were all children of wealthy families, and at the very least, they were also from a down-and-out family, and they didn't even have a single Qianshou people."

"I think that the imperial examination should not set a threshold, as long as you have read a book, you are eligible to take the exam! As long as the article is decent and the thinking is passable, then you can become an official! ”

Li Shimin nodded.

"Yes, yes."

He agreed,

"I want talents from all over the world, not limited to a family of gate valves."

"I believe in a word, there are masters in the people."

"There should be no threshold for this imperial examination, whether you are a prince or nobleman, or a rural villager. If you come and have nothing else, just set the level of an exam paper, as long as you are talented, the village husband can also be above the nobles! ”

"Great, I like this!"

How to get rid of the huge political influence of the gate valve family and consolidate the imperial power is a question that has been pondered and meditated on since Emperor Wen of Sui.

Li Shimin has always been Yang Guang's black, but Yang Guang has one thing that he will never black, that is, to crack down on the gate valve!

That's what he's going to do!

And the word "imperial examination" seems to be a sharp knife, a knife given to the heart of the gate valve family!

"The idea is good, but ......"

The eldest grandson Wuji muttered,

"How many books can a country man read? How many books did the children of the family read? ”

"Both...... It's not the same! If I really want to compare in the same exam room, I think ...... Ordinary peasant children are probably going to be crushed, and there should be very few who can stand out. ”

Xu Fenglei nodded.

"Yes, that's undeniable."

He responded,

"But this at least gives the poor people in the world a hope, a channel to rise."

"As long as you study hard, you can get ahead!"

"Maybe in the first few imperial examinations, the children of the family can rely on their profound family education to occupy an advantage, but don't forget, how many people are in the family? How many poor scholars are there in the world? ”

"The cardinal base is there! In the future, there may be 20 children of wealthy families and 100 poor scholars standing in the same examination room. ”

"Even if the children of wealthy families pass all the exams, the poor scholars only pass 20% of the exams and 80% are eliminated! The number of people who have joined the two as officials is also the same! ”

The eldest grandson, Wuji, fell silent.

In the bottom of his heart, a trace of bad feeling suddenly rose.

This imperial examination system seems to be very friendly to the poor masses, but it is somewhat unfavorable to the nobles.

Although this gave the poor scholars a chance to become officials, it actually cut down the official career of the nobles of the family, because they did not need to take exams and could become officials through recommendation!

For example, his son Changsun Chong, relying on his own grace, it should be no problem to be a feudal official.

But now it's time to take the exam...... You may be eliminated!

If the eldest grandson Chong loses the election, he can only live by inheriting the title, but this title will be lowered by one level from generation to generation, and after four or five generations, if the eldest grandson's family does not produce a genius, then the whole family will be marginalized and will decline!

Oh my God, that's a knife!

For this knife, Li Shimin and the eldest grandson Wuji's feelings are obviously different.

One is the one who holds the knife, and the other is the one who is stabbed.

"Well said!"

Li Shimin clapped his hands and said,

"Listening to your analysis, this imperial examination system is indeed a good thing! It is a good system that can truly endure and steadily select talents for Datang! ”

"Datang, you need the imperial examination!"

"Listen, your suggestion is very good, this first imperial examination of the Tang Dynasty is up to you! How about you being the examiner? ”

Xu Fenglei: "??? ”

"Ah......h

He was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly waved his hand to refuse,

"Your Majesty, the minister is just an idea, you know, the minister has always been a good scheming and a short practical operation, so you can spare the minister......"

Are you kidding!

He doesn't want to be a dog! Drinking tea every day to train children, isn't he fragrant?

Look at the two big guys in front of you with dark circles under their eyes and vain steps......

He didn't want to be like this!

(End of chapter)