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Therefore, even though a large number of members of the Old Clothes Society left their nationality, Li Tong ordered Li Ge to recruit Caoyun Lifu a few years ago, and it was still smooth.There are more than 600 people in the vanguard, and they have followed Wang Renjiao when he went to Puzhou to undertake the transfer of some private commercial goods. With the arrival of the spring flood, they have gradually entered the right track.

Right now Li Ge has organized more than 1000 young men around Shendu City, but there is a problem, they can't leave.One is that there is no way to pass the customs, and the other is that there is no food to accompany them.

Fortunately for the former, there will definitely be some turmoil in the city of Shendu. With Li Tong's current power, it is not difficult to clear the checkpoints along the way. Be careful on the road.

The latter is really terrible. The resettlement of the people between Heluo and Kinki strictly inspected the warehouses of the prefectures and counties, and it was difficult to buy large quantities of grain.Even if there was a way, Li Tong would not dare to take risks under Di Renjie's nose.

If you want to solve it, you can only buy it outside Heluo, such as Bianzhou, a big city along the canal, but in this way, the amount of goods to be mobilized is huge.

Li Tong was rich, but the old Yishe in Shendu didn't have enough reserves.At such a sensitive moment, he didn't dare to spend a large amount of money from the palace at will.And the longer this matter dragged on, the greater the chances of those gathered young adults being discovered.

If it can't be resolved quickly, it can only be disbanded on the spot, and one has to be careful that it will be investigated by people following clues.

Li Tong was still scratching his head and thinking about countermeasures, when a murder occurred in Wangchengyi, far west of Tongguan.

Because there were officials and envoys entering the station, the officials and soldiers in Wangcheng Station worked all day to arrange food and drink, and finally the officials in the official hall were full of wine and food, and fell asleep soundly.

At this time, another postman remembered that there were still a few prisoners in custody without food, so he randomly collected some leftovers and sent them to the temporary prison. There are seven prisoners in custody, each with disheveled hair and face, each has a rope tied to the neck and hangs directly from the beam, and they have died for a long time!

Chapter 0400 take the initiative to attack, intended for Di Gong

After the morning court the next day, Li Tong came to the Chunguan Yatang of the Ministry of Rites to inquire about the arrangements for his wedding, and the officials of the Ministry of Rites answered in detail.

Knowing that the official ceremony will be scheduled for ten days, Li Tong frowned slightly, and said: "The marriage of the little king is just a family matter. How dare you stop the benevolent and long-term court officials from working here for a long time. Besides, all the merits of the country are diligent. , don’t think extravagance is beautiful, can you be simple and quick when making etiquette?”

The person in charge of receiving the young king was Lu Yingzhen, the official servant of the Ministry of Rites. After hearing the words, he smiled and said: "Your Highness is a beautiful weapon of Zongzhi, able to restrain himself and keep frugal, and he really lived up to his reputation at that time. It is also a national gift, if a beautiful girl from a famous family joins the clan, if things are done hastily, she will not show her dignity. Please rest assured, your majesty, the humble officials will definitely put their heart into things and help make the ceremony."

Hearing this, what else could Li Tong say, he could only smile and nod, accepting the flattery.He originally planned to take advantage of the frequent transfer of gifts and goods at the wedding, to transfer some of the goods from the Wang Mansion, to buy food in Bianzhou, and send Li Ge and a group of hard workers out of Heluo first, so he wanted to keep the wedding simple and fast.

However, this wedding was not his personal affair, his grandmother had already presided over it, and the opposite door was from a famous family like the Zheng family in Xingyang. The officials of the Ministry of Rituals did not dare to be flexible and simple, which made Li Tong feel helpless.

After leaving the Chunguan Yatang, Li Tong lingered around for a while, then went to the Tianguan official's office.

Regarding the young king's arrival, the people in the bureaucracy were a little nervous. From the servant Zhang Xi down, more than a dozen people stood respectfully outside the yamen to greet him.Although the young king is becoming more and more powerful now, it is not enough for the officials, the head of the southern province, to be so strict.

However, last year, the young king served as a provincial inspector in Luantai, which immediately triggered a major adjustment of personnel in the bureaucracy.Although the young king is no longer serving in the province, they still dare not neglect.

Seeing the enthusiasm of the officials and the people, Li Tong couldn't help but be amused. Sure enough, the prestige still needs to be shown by shaking.

"Today's appointment is to fill in the vacancy. Right now, there is a vacancy for Cao, the governor of the Wei Mansion, so it's inconvenient to use things."

After taking his seat in the hall, Li Tong smiled and said to Zhang Xi, the servant of the Heavenly Official.As for the other servant, Zheng Gao, he was busy arranging the marriage at home and was not in the yamen.

"Such a trivial matter, why bother His Highness to leave in person."

The servant Zhang Xi is Li Qiao's uncle. Although he has no direct friendship with the young king, he has a very kind attitude. Hearing this, he immediately ordered Ling Shi to record it in the court.

He looked at the young king a few times, and couldn't help but sigh: "A few days ago, the gods were here at the ceremony, and the relatives and relatives saw that His Highness is a man of talent, so he dared to make a marriage plan. Now the good match should be in the court of Zheng Shilang. Although I feel deeply disappointed, I still want to congratulate Your Highness for finding a spouse, and after the ceremony is completed, the piano and harp will play harmoniously, shining glory on the clan."

"Thank you for your servant's words! Human love is wrong, so be careful and sincere, and hope to live up to people's expectations."

When Li Tong heard this, he couldn't laugh or cry for a while, he was only focused on doing things, but everyone was always greedy for his body, his appearance was too high, sometimes it was really a burden.

Zhang Xi was from Wucheng, Beizhou. Even though the Qinghe Zhang family was not as famous as the family with five surnames, it was still a big family based in Hebei with a long history. Otherwise, it would be difficult to marry Li Qiao's Zhaojun Li family.

From the perspective of Li Tong's grandma, this is also a good choice. As for the specific reasons for missing it, Li Tong doesn't know all about it. After all, in this matter, he is just a tool person who has no feelings.

Qianniu Weizhou Cao Canjun is just an eighth-rank subordinate, and he is not worthy of Zhang Xi, the servant of the heavenly official, to follow him personally.

In addition, Li Tong was very anxious and wanted to finish it today, and even offered to take a look at the list of by-elections kept by the heavenly officials of the Ministry of Civil Affairs. After that, he turned to his own business.

The officials of the Ministry of Officials were already busy, and Li Tong also knew how to do it. He no longer stayed in the straight hall and disturbed other people's normal work. Instead, he asked someone to arrange a room in the hall. Take the subordinates.

It is of course unreasonable to do so. After all, the personnel power of the civil servants of the guards belongs to the category of the official department, and you can use whoever is issued to you.

But there are no absolutes in everything, Li Tong, as the prince in power and also the general of Nanya, wants to arrange one or two subordinates of the Weifu that he likes, so the official department still has to give him some face.

Of course, it is also because there are no conspicuous people in the bureaucracy right now. If Wu Sansi still stays here, how can I give you face?Give a fart!

Although the winter election month has not passed for a long time, there are still a large number of by-election names accumulated by the Ministry of Officials. After all, the world is impermanent, and the renewal of officials cannot only be concentrated in the winter election months.For example, Wang Renjiao was assigned to Puzhou before, and Puzhou immediately reported several vacancies.

Since no acquaintance was present, Li Tong couldn't make his intentions too obvious, but asked people to fetch all the materials of the registered by-election candidates with suitable qualifications.

Li Tong couldn't help being a little dumbfounded when he saw the documents brought by the officials under the bureaucracy.

Not long after the large-scale appointment of officials in Dongji, the Ministry of Officials still has so many low-ranking reserve officials waiting for election.There is a steady stream of people, but there are only so many positions. No wonder some people have been elected for more than ten years and have not been granted new appointments.

These young people who have just entered the officialdom have no qualifications to stand by, and their talents are rarely displayed. If they want to stand out among so many competitors, if they don't have any strong connections, it really can only be luck.

Although qualifications are not good in every way, they at least provide a standard for employing people, so that these silent subordinates will not be completely desperate during the long wait.This selection standard has not been carried on all the time, and it is also one of the reasons why a large number of talents were lost to local feudal towns after the mid-Tang Dynasty.

When Li Tong looked through the titles, he even saw that his grandfather was a Jinshi during Gaozong's time.It is not ruled out that the person is indeed mediocre, but do all those in charge have matching talents?It is conceivable that the decades-long waiting has devastated people's willpower.

It's a pity that Li Tong went to the province to select his subordinates this time, and his intentions were not good, so he could only secretly apologize to these people.

He really wants to recruit such a group of talents. After years of beating, he must have lost his arrogance and knows how to cherish opportunities. Idle flow can be more competent for some affairs.

However, there are many candidates like this in the volumes, so he just reads them occasionally.

At this moment, Shen Quanqi walked in from the door and saw the young king was flipping through the selection book, so he smiled and said: "When your highness entered the yamen, the humble official was walking outside and had no time to go out to meet you. I heard that your highness is going to select the vacant staff in the guard mansion, I don't know why Interested?"

"Scholar Shen came at the right time. He followed the plan and was superficial. There are so many talents listed here, it is really dazzling. I just want to ask for a good recommendation."

Li Tong got up after hearing the words, and waved to Shen Quanqi.

After Shen Quanqi took his seat, he asked again: "I don't know what your Highness wants?"

His friendship with the young king is not general, and he has even attended and presided over the gatherings in the West Garden of the former residence of the acting king many times. He knows that His Highness the acting king has a group of talents for candidates.

The relationship between each other is not shallow, and Li Tong did not hide it, and revealed his intentions: "Although the affairs of the Weifu are simple and simple, many of them are arrogant and unruly, so they choose to join the army. Only by being optional can we deter the unruly."

Hearing this, Shen Quanqi understood. He rummaged through the volumes for a while, and soon found a few powerful officials who were selected by Yin Zi, copied them on paper, and handed them to the young king.

Li Tong took the paper and looked at it, and he was immediately happy. Sure enough, professional things should be done by professional people.Shen Quanqi selected these people, and Di Guangyuan, the son of Di Renjie, was among them.

Di Renjie was in the position of the local official's servant, and he was in charge of the household registration, which made Li Tong very uncomfortable.The stalls of the old clothing store were too big, and he couldn't avoid it even if he wanted to, and the old fox had messed with Li Tong several times, of course Li Tong would not let him go.

This time I came to the Ministry of Officials in person, just to make some countermeasures in personnel affairs, and choose someone who is close to Di Renjie to join him as Qianniuwei.It was a pleasant surprise that Di Renjie's son was included in the selection list.

"Let's choose this Di Guangyuan. I remember that last year when the officials in the Political Affairs Hall were involved in the matter, this son was very good at it, but he actually stayed out of the matter. This is really contrary to the selection of talents."

Li Tong pointed to Di Guangyuan's name and said directly.

After Shen Quanqi heard the words, he nodded and said: "Since His Highness has been selected, how can I write in a humble position?"

"Scholar Shen is here. The return journey happened to pass by Luantai, and I will confer and get involved as soon as possible."

Li Tong sat in the room, waiting for Shen Quanqi to finish writing the recommendation letter, then left the official office of the Ministry of Officials together with Ling Shi of the Ministry of Officials, and went straight to Luantai.

With his participation in the whole process, and the matter itself is not a big deal, so before morning, the imperial edict to choose Di Guangyuan to replace Cao Canjun, Zuo Qianniu's guard, was issued from Luantai, waiting for other People can enter the stage and take orders.

After finishing this matter, Li Tong's mind was settled.He deliberately left the position of Cao Canjun, the commander of the Weifu. He didn't have a good idea. He wanted to guard and steal the government treasury and armed himself. It was too eye-catching to choose his own people. The firewall comes to the fore.

The government treasury of the Weifu is only a part of the recycling of ordnance. As long as the receiving unit, Shangfangjian, has more detailed personnel arrangements, it will be difficult for Di Renjie's son to stop and detect it.

He was also not worried that Di Renjie would stop his son from doing things because he noticed something was wrong, and went to the province to get the name book, and went to Luantai to declare the edict in person, which was full of sincerity and gave Di Renjie enough face.If he doesn't know how to praise, then Di Renjie's son's political life can basically come to an end in advance as soon as he is in power.

Just ask if you still mess with Lao Tzu?Hurt each other!

Chapter 0401 Congratulations Di Gong, there are successors

Shangshudiguan is in charge of household registration, well fields, corvees, funds, goods storage and other matters in the world. His duties are heavy and he has almost no free time throughout the year.

This can be seen in the supply of materials for the duties of various officials. The paper and ink materials consumed by the local officials of the Ministry of Households are far more than those of other Cao departments in Beijing.

Di Renjie, who is a local official's servant, is no exception. After entering the yamen, he often sits at his desk for a whole day.

He is now mainly in charge of registering household registration and naturalization for migrants traveling between Heluo and Luozhou. As the head of the household department, although he does not need to go to Xiazhou and counties to inspect and expand the dead in the countryside, the counties in Kinki hand over daily The paperwork also needs to be reviewed and approved as soon as possible.

The special season has come to the late spring, and if the household department is delayed for a short time, it may cause hundreds of households to completely miss the farming work.Di Renjie has been in the prefecture and county for a long time, and the sufferings of the people are natural, and he has worked tirelessly in his work.

Although the account registration business is busy at the moment, it is not completely clueless, at least the situation is much better than what Di Renjie imagined before taking over.

Since the second year of Tianshou, the imperial court has moved large-scale private households in Guanzhong to enrich Heluo, but it did not keep up with the granting of land to households in time.Xiaomin's family is already thin on savings, and a delay in farming for a season is almost a disaster.

Originally, in Di Renjie's vision, there should be starvation and death everywhere in Heluo now, and refugees wandering around.Shengmin run around just to make a living, but once they flow, it will undoubtedly make the work of registering households more difficult.

So when he first took over this job, Di Renjie was even prepared that if the situation was too bad, he would apply for the army to go into the wild and search for the wandering people if necessary.

These are not cruel fish and meat people. Only by resettling the living people into the wild and assigning households to the fields in the shortest possible time can the plowing and mulberry production be put on the right track as soon as possible.The living and the people have a livelihood, so naturally there will be no more disturbances.

But after getting involved, Di Renjie discovered that the situation was much better than he had originally imagined.Although there are also problems of migrants fleeing and mobs gathering to cause chaos, the scale is not very large, and local states and counties can handle it.

And when the household registration was formalized, the daily increase in the number of households exceeded Di Renjie's expectations.Although he also prepared some policies to benefit the people, according to his past administration experience, the speed and scale of the increase in the number of households far exceeded the previous experience.

There seems to be an invisible thread between these migrants. Once naturalized, there will be dozens or hundreds of households.

This is very unusual, because according to Di Renjie's past experience, this kind of large-scale account registration is a gradual process.

After the original production environment and organization were destroyed, the government also lost direct control over private households. It was the most difficult at the beginning to get them re-naturalized and accepted management.But as long as it is made to a certain scale, it will grow exponentially in the future. After all, people have a herd mentality.

However, the proclamations submitted by Zhuzhou counties showed that such a curve growth was not reflected at all. The scale was not small from the beginning, and then it only increased steadily.

Di Renjie also thought about this, and one of the reasons for the tentative conclusion may be that most of these immigrants were military households in Guanzhong Prefecture, which were more organized and obedient than ordinary civilian households.

But such a reason is not enough to fully explain it. It should be known that even the soldiers on the battlefield, if their morale is low for a long time, there may be a large-scale rout at any time, let alone those who have already returned to farming and lost their fields. Households who left their hometowns.

Di Renjie feels that there should be some strangeness in this, but this is also a good thing, which greatly shortens the process of registering an account.

Originally, he estimated that it would take two to three years to complete the work of compiling household registers for these immigrants, but according to the current trend, things will be initially completed within this year.In this way, countless people will be able to live.

Although the compilation of household registers is only a preliminary solution to the problem, there will be more troublesome matters such as granting land and returning it to farming.But we must know that the resettlement this time is not just about the immigrant groups. If these people cannot be registered as households as soon as possible, and they are allowed to wander in the wild, it will also cause great damage to Heluo's own agricultural production.

Now that the situation is progressing gratifyingly, Di Renjie is not in a hurry to investigate further, and is going to complete the most important issue of account registration before doing other things.

However, although the increase in the number of households is progressing smoothly, another problem has emerged, that is, the number of adults in the households is somewhat inconsistent. In the newly created registers, there are a large number of households with only women and children but no males.

If you want to pursue this issue, it will be much deeper, and the implications will be extremely extensive.Adult males are precious wealth at any time, not only the needs of the country, but also local tyranny and lawlessness are also staring at them.

If the resettlement fails to be governed for a long time, there will definitely be a situation where the tyrant recruits the hidden force.And if these small forces are only used for production, the hidden dangers are relatively small, and they are afraid that they will gather into bandits and run rampant in the countryside.

After realizing this, Di Renjie was also deeply worried.There are many reasons for the loss of Ding Li. It may be that there is no hope of livelihood, gathering people as thieves, or it may be that local tyrants solicit shelter and use them as slaves. Things corvee.

Regardless of the possibility, digging deeper will involve a lot of ramifications.It's not something that Di Renjie can handle in a comprehensive way at the moment, and he is also worried that once it is fully revealed, some profit-making groups will be angered, and the court will cause further disturbances, and perhaps even the current account registration work will not be able to proceed normally.

So Di Renjie also kept these things in mind, and when he was ready to compile the account book, he sent a special envoy to the imperial court to investigate further.

He was still carefully approving documents here, when suddenly a series of footsteps sounded outside the official hall, and then he heard someone congratulate: "Di Shilang, congratulations, congratulations!"

Several people laughed and chattered into the hall, Di Renjie put down the pen in his hand, looked up a little puzzled and said: "Excuse me, why am I so happy?"

Everyone talked about it, and Di Renjie knew that it was his son Di Guangyuan who had newly appointed Zuo Qianniu Weizhou Cao to join the army.

"I heard that His Royal Highness entered the province to apply for a vacancy. I saw the name of the son in the staff book. I knew that the son told the story of the grievances and rescued the princes last year. I liked it very much. I personally selected it. Now that the edict has been issued, congratulations to the successor of Di Gong Someone!"

Hearing the congratulations from the crowd, Di Renjie perfunctory casually, but his mind was flooded with distractions, and when another official came to the hall enthusiastically, he quickly pointed to the accumulative files on the case, and said with a wry smile: "Your deeds, how dare you go to congratulate the case. I have too many things to talk about, please forgive me!"

Hearing what Di Renjie said, everyone stopped disturbing and got up to leave.But after this wave was dismissed, people came to the hall one after another in the name of congratulations.

Di Renjie was so annoyed that he simply ordered the yamen hall to be closed, sat in the hall, didn't even eat lunch, quickly finished the desk affairs, and then hurried out of the yamen hall, crossed the imperial city, and prepared to return to the mansion.

Along the way, people continued to come forward to congratulate, obviously this matter has spread.Some of those who came forward to congratulate him simply came forward to have fun, while some looked at Di Renjie with much more complicated eyes.

Di Renjie naturally knew that although his son Di Guangyuan had a little deeds to boast about, he was not given a lowly position and was not worthy of congratulations from the crowd.

The reason why everyone has such a reaction is naturally because Dai Wang has come forward, Dai Wang is now gaining momentum, and every move attracts attention.Secondly, it should be suspected that there is a tacit understanding between Di Renjie and Dai Wang, otherwise why would he choose and promote Di Renjie's son himself?

There are not a few people who have such doubts, and some people even ask cryptically in the street. Di Renjie really can't explain it, so he can only be vague and perfunctory.After finally getting out of Duanmen, walking across Tianjie, and recruiting family members who were waiting here, they boarded the car and hurried south along Tianjie, not daring to stop to be questioned.

Di Renjie's family is in Shangxianfang in the south of Shendu City. After driving into the workshop, he saw many horses and horses parked in front of his house from a distance.

"Why did Aye come home from the back door? There are so many friends in the front hall to congratulate brother on his new award!"

After entering the house, just as Di Renjie got off the car, the youngest son Di Guangzhao, who came to greet him after hearing the news, stepped forward quickly, laughing loudly and said: "Don't you know, my brother's great deeds have been heard by famous kings, And be appreciated, already..."

"Keep your voice down!"

Di Renjie just didn't want to be disturbed by others. Hearing his son's loud voice, he stamped his feet and asked in a low voice, "Where is your second brother?"

"Second brother has heard the news and has already gone to the imperial city to receive the imperial order."

Di Guangzhao lowered his tone, and said a little angrily: "Brother, I am so honored to be honored, why is Aye acting like a thief?"

"What do you know!"

Di Renjie glanced at the youngest son, and walked toward the inner house with his hands behind his back, his head muffled, and at the same time he ordered: "Tell the guests in the outer hall that I have no time to receive them today. After your second brother returns home, bring him to see me. Remember, don't tell the guests that I am here. Already home, hurry up!"

After returning to the room, Di Renjie changed into his home clothes, and then went into the bookstore to read quickly at his desk.He really didn't expect that Dai Wanglai would choose his son, but it made him a little embarrassed.

Especially when some acquaintances and old friends met before, he said several times that acting as the king was a hidden danger in the situation. Now that this happened, he wanted to give those people an explanation.

The power of the Dai king is gradually growing, and he is clearly in serious conflict with the Wu clan kings, which is what the old officials of the Tang family like to see.But Dai Wang is a man of slippery talent and good at posturing. If he is allowed to grow up, the threat to the emperor's heir may be even greater than that of Wei Wang.

After the Great Zhou Restoration, no matter whether he continued the Zhou Dynasty or returned to the Tang Dynasty, the identity and disposition displayed by the Daiwang were harmful to the moral side of the world.