Crown Tang emperor

Li Tong is not picky about this, if he is fat first, then he will beat others first.

Guided by Ling Shi, he walked into the left side of the main hall. This is a row of office halls.Nayan, the servant, etc. occasionally go down to the hall, but most of the time they call people to the hall to report matters.As for the Tongtang in the right wing, it is a public office for casual riding, remonstrance, and picking up relics.

When Li Tongxing entered the Tongtang hall, all the elders were already at their seats, and when they saw him walking in, they nodded their heads in a friendly manner, after all, they had just drank other people's flower wine yesterday.

It's just that when they saw Shu Lingshi leading Li Tong to the seat closest to the main hall, their expressions also changed slightly.After all, they are all at the same level now, and they still have different concerns about qualifications, rankings, etc. in their hearts.

"Bai Si Zuo has already entered the province, and the cases are divided into prosecutions. Do we need to expand the inspection first? Or should we arrange to go to the province?"

Hearing Shu Lingshi's report, Li Tong raised his head and looked at a row of boxes and cages against the opposite wall. There were many different documents in those boxes and cages, which were the memorabilia brought into the province by Bai Sihui.

From the following to the above, there are six systems, one is called Zoucha, the other is called Zoutan, the third is called Lubu, the fourth is called Yi, the fifth is called Biao, and the sixth is called Form.All these six things can be summarized by the officials under the door.And before it is sent to the official's desk, it is Gi Shizhong who is responsible for the preliminary processing.Especially the first three are the main work of daily copywriting.

The so-called memorials refer to related documents such as sacrifices, supporting degrees, conferring officials, and convicting crimes.Playing bombs is an illegal and illegal matter for the censor to correct and impeach Baisi.Lubu is the instrument of military affairs on all sides.

After thinking for a while, Li Tong asked, "Shangshu Xiaguan has a separate case regarding Anxilubu?"

Although he was tossing around in the court, he still cared about military and national affairs. It was the end of September, and the battle to recover the four towns of Anxi should have made great progress. He wanted to see how the progress was.In addition to pure concern, he also has a group of people in Heyuan who are ready to fight the wind and make some money.

When Shu Lingshi heard this, his face showed embarrassment. He pointed to a room in Beitang with a closed door and guarded by Benshi, and said: "The civil affairs of Tianguan and Xiaguan are still closed, and we need to The official ordered the inspection and cooperation to open the position."

The so-called wedge order is the wooden wedge reconnaissance and cooperation system, which is used for the management of income and expenditure of goods, management of important documents, and storage of all parties.Both parties hold the male and female wooden wedges separately, and after the inspection of the texts and orders of all books, the wooden wedges must be reconciled to complete the handover.

Li Tong was originally in high spirits, but after hearing this, he felt dull. The most important personnel and military affairs can't be dealt with now, so what's the matter?

He turned his head to see that the people in the side seats were all at their desks, not neglecting because of small matters, he nodded in satisfaction, and said to Shu Lingshi: "Let's talk about daily miscellaneous rules and regulations first."

The daily affairs in giving affairs can be roughly divided into three categories: enshrining and waiting for the system, sitting in the yamen and going down to the province.There is no need to say more about the first two, but the point is that the third is down-to-earth, which can best reflect the official authority in the matter.

The name of Southern Province originally only refers to Shangshu Province, because Shangshu Province is located in the south of Zhongshu and Menxia Provinces.However, the layout of the Luoyang imperial city is different from that of Chang'an. Shang Shusheng was kicked out of the imperial city and located in the east city.

Therefore, the southern provinces referred to now are collectively referred to as the three provinces, but in the official office's cheap writing, the southern provinces still refer specifically to the Shangshu province.Xiaxing is to inspect the affairs of the six departments of Shangshu Province. Occasionally, some foreign envoys who go out of Beijing can also be called Xiaxing, but this opportunity is rare. Generally, the main dispatch of foreign envoys is the censor.

In the official system of the Tang Dynasty, the third rank was the highest. When the officials of the three provinces, six ministries and nine temples reached this level, their powers were no longer in specific affairs. They sat in the yamen hall and were in charge of specific affairs. They were often ministers. .

Nowadays, the servants of the three provinces often also know about political affairs, so the five-rank Zhongshu Sheren, Menxia Geshizhong, and Shangshu Zuosi Langzhong are the specific provincial executors.To put things into perspective, although the ministers in the Southern Province have a higher rank, they still need to be open to questions.

After listening to Shu Lingshi's explanation to this point, Li Tong became happy, and immediately fell in love with the job content of saving provinces.It wasn't the first time that Wu Sansi provoked him face to face, he pretended to be a wolf with a big tail, and took care of the old boy when he had time.

He was still planning to go to the province to show his prestige, when the provincial drum sounded again, the prime minister had retreated to the court, so he got up and went out to meet him.

The Prime Minister Cui Yuanzong rushed to the office, and the servant Yang Zaisi also followed behind. Both of them looked a little anxious. Behind them was a group of imperial warriors and two high-ranking envoys. It seemed that something big was about to happen.

Cui Yuanzong didn't stop to respond to the greetings of his subordinates. After entering the Yamen, he hurried into the Zhitang, and then turned into the Tongtang.

Li Tong was standing in the front. Seeing this scene, he looked at Yang Zaisi who was standing in the corridor with questioning eyes. Yang Zaisi just gave him a gesture of calm down and didn't say anything else.

Not long after, Cui Yuanzong came out, and the envoy behind him moved and lifted the huge cage. He stood in the corridor for a while, raised his finger and said to his subordinates: "Zhou Weishi, Su Weishi, you, alas, and Xunqing, enter the palace together!"

After finishing speaking, he strode towards the official office again.The people who had been named also hurried forward. At this moment, Yang Zaisi came up and whispered in Li Tong's ear: "Anxi is a great victory, the four towns have been restored! The special performance has been sent to Fengge, and the minister returned to the Yamen to pick up Lubu , as a reward!"

Hearing this, Li Tong secretly applauded in his heart, and heaved a long sigh of relief.Although he never overestimated his influence, he was also worried that his little wings would have a bad impact on the current situation. Now that he heard that the four Anxi towns were successfully recovered, he was very happy.

After the people from Luantai entered the palace city, Li Tong felt that the atmosphere was quite cheerful. The people he saw walked much more briskly, and they were obviously happy for the recovery of the four towns.

During the Chui Gong period, due to internal and external troubles, the four towns had to be abandoned. Although the four towns were far away in the west, they also brought a lot of depression to the current situation.Since the heroine came to the country, foreign affairs have been difficult to explain in one word. This big victory will naturally make people feel at ease.

Chapter 0333 There are countless party members, and the power is inside and outside

"Wang Xiaojie, what a talent!"

Li Tong and the others just walked outside the Wucheng Hall in the Forbidden City, when they heard his grandma's joyful cheers from the hall, they couldn't help but also became happy.

In the early years of Chuigong, Xu Jingye rebelled in Yangzhou, no matter how you look at it, it was somewhat similar to the rebellion of Yang Xuangan in the old Sui Dynasty.Although Wu Zetian urgently summoned General Hei Chi Changzhi to return to the court to put down the rebellion as soon as possible, she was still very panicked, worried that there would be more disasters to come. Under such circumstances, she had to shrink the border defense and abandon the four towns.

But no matter what the reason is, the infamy of losing power and humiliating the country cannot be washed away, and because of the loss of the four towns, the border threat posed by Tubo is even greater.Therefore, after the situation in the middle of the country has stabilized, Wu Zetian has been trying to regain the four towns.

Among them, Wei Taiji's Western Expedition in the first year of Yongchang was the one that gave the most hope. Not only did it use the most manpower and material resources, Wu Zetian also opposed the suspicious attitude of the ministers and gave Wei Taigui great trust.

In the third year of Chuigong, Wei waited for the price and went to the frontier to prepare for the war. Even if there was a disturbance in the royal family such as the king of Yue, Li Zhen, he did not recall him.Even before the start of the war, he gave Wei a price and promoted him to the rank, showing great favor and favor, but in the end he suffered a crushing defeat.

Although two generals, Hei Chi Chang Zhi and Wang Xiao Jie, were dispatched for this Western Expedition, to be honest, Wu Zetian was not very confident.The previous time, Wei Dai was Prime Minister Dianjun, and he was named the Duke of the county before it started. Expeditionary action.

It is precisely because of this that the current Wu Zetian will be even more joyful, so that he can't control his emotions and often loses his composure.She was so eager for such a big victory that even a Buddhist general like Xue Huaiyi was extremely precious.

Cui Yuanzong climbed into the hall, and then ordered his subordinates to enter the side hall quickly, and report the relevant Lubu review as soon as possible.Actually dragging the officials to work on the spot, it can be seen that Jun Xin is really anxious.

Li Tong and others walked into the side hall, and after the cage was opened, the cases were distributed as Chinese rolls.The other two were already at their desks to quickly review the matter, while Li Tong was a little at a loss.

After all, he is not specialized in copywriting with knife and pen. When he first started, he faced such an urgent task. He didn't have a familiar process at all, and no one taught him the relevant experience. Naturally, he was a little rusty for a while.

But not long after he was cramped here, Yang Zaisi walked over, sat in his case, picked up the file to examine it, and didn't say much after processing it, and directly pushed it to Li Tong's case.

Li Tong glanced at it, and he understood a little bit in his heart. This is similar to reading comprehension, reviewing the whole text, annotating the main points, and correcting some dictionaries at the same time, so that the whole document looks more concise.

From this point of view, the work in the work seems to be somewhat irrelevant, as if it is just redundant staff between the top and bottom, but it is not.

The people below don't know what the superiors care about, so they can only record the affairs in detail, worrying about missing the key points.And the superiors need to deal with a lot of affairs every day, and it is impossible to have the time and energy to grasp one thing and die.So giving things is a sieve sandwiched in the middle, extracting the main points, and sifting out the mess.

Li Tong also worked in agencies before, so he has relevant experience, and also has Yang Zaisi's face-to-face proofing instructions, and soon began to review and read. At first, the efficiency was still low, and the processed documents had to be reviewed by Yang Zaisi, but gradually Once you figure out the tricks, your efficiency will increase.

The two of them worked together, and the paperwork was quickly processed, while the other two were still working hard.

Taking advantage of a little spare time, Yang Zaisi reviewed the paperwork that Li Tong had handled, and then raised his head, looking at Li Tong with approval in his eyes.

And Li Tong also looked at Yang Zaisi with admiration. He could become a prime minister. This guy not only has the ability to flirt with others, but also has extraordinary talents.

Although the two of them worked together, Yang Zaisi handled most of the papers, and he still had the energy to help Li Tong correct his mistakes.This alone surpassed the work of the other two members who were still at their desks.

Not to mention the sympathy between the pair of licking dogs, the palace officials also came to ask several times, and finally the other two members finished processing the desk documents during the matter, then quickly sorted the processed documents and sent them to the palace.

"Let's wait here for a while, there may be other life additions later."

Yang Zaisi said with experience, and then got up and went elsewhere. Although he was not qualified to sit in the palace for counseling, he was still in a high position and had a wide range of people. He took advantage of the group of officials arriving outside the palace one after another to inquire about news .

The side rooms of this side hall are not small. In addition to the basic seats and cases, there are other sleeping arrangements for people to take a short rest here.Among the other two members, one is Zhou Yunyuan, and the other is Su Changxi, who was introduced as the cousin of Su Shi's ancestor Su Weiwei.

Although the two of them had finished the tasks at hand, they did not relax. They were still sitting in the seats, ready to be called at any time.

Li Tong, on the other hand, felt a little bored. Thinking of the content of Lubu just now, he moved to the nearest table and wanted to discuss related military affairs with these two people, but seeing that the two were sitting upright and cautious in their words and deeds, he also felt that it was boring, so he simply turned to lie down on his side behind the screen Close your eyes and doze off.

After an unknown amount of time passed, Li Tong was woken up by voices from outside the screen. He got up and walked out, and saw Wei Tuan'er standing in front of the door leading several palace maids.

"It's too early for the main meal, and Mr. Zhilang and others have to wait for orders and can't eat outside the hall. The concubine prepares light meals and eats first."

When Wei Tuan'er saw Li Tong, he smiled like a flower, stepped forward to salute, and then brought in the food box with his own hands, and put the food inside on the table one by one.

Li Tong was really hungry at the moment, so he nodded his thanks to Wei Tuan'er first, and just about to raise his chopsticks, his eyes shifted to the other two, and he said with a smile: "You two might as well move the table to have a meal together."

Although the two of them are still sitting upright at the moment, they are already very hungry, and there is no lack of self-pity in their hearts. Seeing how others treat them, they are at home. , On the other hand, my legs are numb and my butt hurts from sitting, and no one cares.

The meals that Wei Tuan'er sent were delicate and small, obviously not enough for three people, but the two of them were sensible and waved their hands down when they heard the invitation.

"Hey, the king can't drive hungry envoys. Can Mrs. Laowei come in and ask if she can give me food?"

Li Tong was also embarrassed to eat a big piece by himself, so he looked up at Wei Tuan'er and said.

Wei Tuan'er was like a docile little daughter-in-law, after hearing the words, she nodded and said: "Your Majesty, what you said makes sense, I will go now."

After speaking, she hurried out.

About a quarter of an hour passed, and some palace servants carried a few huge food boxes to the side hall. Although the food they brought was warm and cold, it was nothing to the courtiers who had endured hunger for a long time. Can be picky.

Especially Zhou and Su, who lived in the same house with Li Tong, looked at Li Tong very differently, and their attitude became much more intimate.

In many things, no matter how strong you are, you have to admit that you are not as good as others. The solemn residence in the eyes of others is a restaurant where some people can order food at will. Although they don't say it, they are very envious in their hearts.

After eating, Li Tong didn't sit comfortably in the room, but walked into the corridor, and stood with a few other courtiers who were looking around boredly, listening to the movement from the Wucheng Hall from a distance.Being so far away, I couldn't actually hear anything, and it was just to pass the time.

In addition to Fengge and Luantai, other courtiers from the Southern Province also waited here.Li Tong stood on the porch for a while, and then saw Wu Sansi, who had a mouth full of oil, walking out of a verandah to digest his food, so he smiled and nodded to him.

Seeing him like this, Wu Sansi was a little astonished at first, then looked down at his clothes with some uncertainty, and looked left and right, finally took out a brocade handkerchief and wiped his mouth, cast a sidelong glance at Li Tong and turned back.

The old boy is ashamed, he will not eat the toast and eat the fine wine!

Seeing Wu Sansi's reaction like this, Li Tong secretly cursed in his heart, and later went to Shangshu's Tianguan Yamen Office to put on a show and asked the old boy to shine his shoes.

Time passed quietly, and when it was almost evening, the middle officials from the Wucheng Palace walked out and announced loudly: "Except for Fengge Pavilion and Luantai, and the rest of the officials belong to their own houses."

Hearing this, people came out of the surrounding halls one after another, and the people on the steps of the hall paid respects to Wucheng Hall, and then they left separately.

At the same time, another palace official came here and announced: "His Majesty the Holy Emperor summons the minister Baoyu to enter the palace."

Li Tong had never heard anyone call him that before, first he glanced at the other two in a daze, and then he came to his senses, hurriedly got up and said: "Chen Baoyu leads the order."

Li Tong followed the palace officials to the hall, first kowtowed to the hall, and then retreated to the left side of the hall to offer a horizontal seat.There are already two people sitting here, both of whom are from Fengge.

From this it can be seen that Fengge is still a little more important than Luantai. The three of them are still sitting on the bench outside the hall during the incident, and the two Fengge housemen have been listening to the bosses bragging for a long time in the hall.

However, their southern province is still a bit weak compared to the opposite Xiantai, and there are four servants sitting on the opposite side of the table, and the palace servants sitting on the opposite side.

After entering the hall, Li Tong realized that it was an intermission, and the officials were eating in the hall. His grandma specially asked him to come in to eat, so he drank a bowl full of love while thinking to himself that he was not shaking M. meat soup.

While eating, two people from the Fengge family at the side table also made a small introduction, one of them was named Wang Cheng.Li Tong was taken aback when he heard the name, and thought to himself that he would be punished for copying his essays, why did he meet all the relatives of literary giants today?

Wang Cheng is Wang Bo's elder brother, and he has some relationship with Su Changxi in the affairs outside the palace. He and Su Weiwei are brothers-in-law, and they are both Pei Xingjian's son-in-law.Fortunately, Li Tong didn't attack Wang Bo and Su Shi, so he was able to deal with them calmly.

After the meal, the palace meeting continued.In fact, the main body of the discussion on rewards for military merit has been completed, and now we are discussing various arrangements after the Anxi Protectorate.

The bigwigs were talking there, and Li Tong naturally couldn't intervene and could only be a spectator, but he heard an issue that was somewhat related to him, that is, his wife's grandfather Tang Xiujing was nominated as the Deputy Protector of Anxi.

Although this relationship will not be used in the short term, after hearing that the appointment was confirmed and Tang Xiujing was given the false title of Servant, Li Tong still had the illusion that he had numerous followers and that his power was pouring inside and out.

Chapter 0334 Sun Lang is diligent and dedicated

In the next period of time, the wind direction in the court revolved around this great victory in Anxi, and even the matter of Changing Yuan Changshou was faintly neglected.

In this regard, Wu Zetian did not show any dissatisfaction, and even took the initiative to postpone the series of celebrations for changing the Yuan Dynasty to the New Year, and hold them together with the grand ceremony of presenting prisoners and praising their achievements.After all, whether she lives long or not has a lot to do with the stability of the current situation.

Therefore, regarding the reform of the Yuan Dynasty, the imperial court only issued a congratulatory form, and Li Tong also wrote an "Ode to Congratulations to the Old Man" and dedicated it, and then devoted himself to the busy provincial affairs.

This busyness is not to say, it is really busy, the memorial documents sent to Luantai by the various divisions are no longer carried by manpower, but are transported by bullock carts.Walking into the hall every day, Li Tong felt a sense of despair that was almost suffocating when he saw the high stack of boxes and cages stacked against the wall.

He was also enthusiastically trying to seize power in Luantai, and if he really wanted to take over all of them, he might die of exhaustion first.

The reason why there are so many correspondence documents is related to three major issues.

The first one is naturally the question about the narration of the heroes in the Anxi Great Victory.The bigwigs in the court were discussing endlessly, but they were all concentrated on the level of the generals of the armies and the governors of the states.However, people below the sixth rank, including people of all kinds outside the country, are the main force participating in this battle, so naturally they can only be handled by various divisions and inspected and supervised by Luantai.

The second is the release of officials in the winter collection. According to the regulations of the Tang Dynasty, candidates from all states must gather in the capital in winter and October, and participate in the selection test hosted by the Tianguan of the Ministry of Officials. After passing, they will be awarded officials.Although the main department in charge of this matter is the Ministry of Officials, the files of all the candidates have to be reviewed in Luantai, which is called passing officials.

How heavy is this task?Last year was the second year of Tianshou, and there were more than [-] electors in the winter election. The election month began in October in winter, and it was busy until April of the following year. over.

The third thing is the measurement of support. The rents and departments of the states will be transported to Shendu one after another after autumn. Luantai conducts a tick check.

Luantai needs to be deeply involved in the three major issues of military, personnel, and finance.Rao is such a restless person like Li Tong, facing so many affairs, he can't figure out which part of the affairs should be grasped for a while, which can also be said to be the distress of happiness.

On the first day Li Tong came to Luantai, he was happy to get out early and enforce discipline. Now that he is busy with affairs, it is not easy to fish for fish.Sitting in the office from morning to night every day, reading the dense vertical text, especially without punctuation marks, is really dizzy and miserable.

But this busyness is also layered. It is true that they are extremely busy with all their affairs, including the recorders at the bottom, but the high-level people are having a good time.That old boy Yang Zaisi even took ten days off and married a young wife before returning to work with a smile on his face.

On this day when he was leaving the court, Li Tong saw Yang Zaisi walking into the official residence with a mean smile on his face, so he pushed the case and followed Yang Zaisi into his official hall, ready to take a rest and take a breath.

"Xun Lang has been working hard these days, he is diligent and diligent, and his affairs are well-organized. Today, when he is in court, Cui Xianggong even nominated him for praise, saying that you don't act like a noble and self-confident person. It is really commendable."

Yang Zaisi smiled and asked the clerk to bring Li Tong a cup of tea, while he drank the buttermilk himself, not used to the bitter drink.

"Just stick to your job."

Sitting in the table, Li Tong's gaze was a little dull, and he looked down at his hand holding the pen that was almost as stiff as a chicken claw, and he was not happy with this praise.

Seeing him like this, Yang Zaisi just chuckled, opened the side box of his case, and started to deal with the provincial affairs he was responsible for. First, he flipped through the documents and said in surprise: "Cui Xianggong is always cautious when he judges people and things. After returning to the Yamen, I wanted to admire Xun Lang's beautiful sentence, but why did the case disappear?"

Li Tong glanced at him after hearing the words, it's not because of you old guy!You guys pat your butt and go home to find a young wife. I have no backing in Luantai, so of course I will be bullied!

It's not that Li Tong has never experienced the tricks of government offices.He was busy all day long approving and copying documents, but very few of them were able to be submitted to the chief's desk. There was only one reason, and that was that the assignments to him were all trivial matters.

It's not that Li Tong didn't notice this, but even if he did, what could he do?Give up?It's better to make trouble in front of his grandma. I'm so talented, but I ended up dealing with these trivial matters!

If he really wants to do this, even if his grandma pampers him again, she will have to say that if you don't want to do it, you can leave.

Although he has a relationship with the sky, this relationship is not connected up and down, and can only play a role at a certain level.All of them joined forces to squeeze him and push him to do some chores, which even his grandma couldn't care about.

But the boss Cui Yuanzong also tacitly allowed his subordinates to do this, so Li Tong felt a little bit resentful, and he didn't like me so much, and wanted me to quit Luantai by myself?

In the past few days, taking advantage of his grandma calling him into the palace to give him food, it's not like Li Tong didn't do little tricks, such as spilling ink on his robes, or dozing off during meals, in short, let his grandma see, your grandson is exhausted What a dog.

It seems that doing so is still effective. There have been so many important events in the court recently, and Cui Yuanzong still has to praise him a few more words, obviously because of his grandmother's beating.

Feeling the resentment in Li Tong's body, Yang Zaisi laughed dryly, and said directly: "There are a lot of provincial affairs recently, and Xun Lang is helping the pen in the hall."

After finishing speaking, he raised his hand and ordered the staff to set up a table by the side window, and kindly asked people to move the rope bed and screen over. Your grandma is pretending to be pitiful.

When Li Tong heard this, he immediately regained his spirits, and said to Yang Zaisi with a smile on his face, "Thank you for the reward from the servant for that humble job."