Madam, protect me!

Last year's New Year's Eve, Li Nuo spent it in Prince Chun's Mansion.

At that time, there were only three people in the family, and there was no atmosphere even for the New Year.

Compared with the coldness of last year, this year's Li Mansion is much more lively.

With An Ning in the family, Yi Ren stayed in Li Mansion for the New Year. At the invitation of the lady and An Ning, Fenghuang did not return to Yuyin Pavilion. She also called Nightingale to come together. Everyone posted couplets and hung lanterns together, making Li Mansion finally look like a New Year...

At the beginning of the New Year, there was a three-day court meeting.

Li Nuo, a fifth-rank official, was already qualified to participate in the court meeting, and he could not be absent from the annual court meeting.

At the court meeting, Li Nuo met Emperor Xia again.

He looked much younger than a few months ago.

It must be said that the current emperor has a way to keep his youth. Just looking at his appearance, no one would think that he is already sixty years old.

Everyone knows that he is studying the way to longevity, but no one knows how he returned to youth.

Li Nuo is familiar with the teachings of various schools. Among all schools, only high-level doctors have such ability.

The true qi of doctors originally has the effect of prolonging life, which is also the greatest feature of doctors.

The sixth level of other schools can only live for three sixty years, while the fifth level of doctors can live to two hundred years old.

According to historical records, doctors in the sixth level can easily live to three hundred years old.

Even if a doctor is a hundred years old, his appearance and physical functions are not much different from those of a young man in his twenties.

However, in today's world, doctors have long been in decline. The fourth level is very remarkable. Looking at the entire continent, the fifth level of doctors can be counted on one hand, and Daxia has no one.

There was no important topic in this grand court meeting.

Some old ministers wanted His Majesty to determine the crown prince as soon as possible, but His Majesty did not respond positively.

Other officials wanted to agree, but seeing that His Majesty was in high spirits and seemed to be able to stay in power for decades, they all shut their mouths silently.

More importantly, the imperial examination is about to be held. All the major government offices are short of staff and urgently need new blood.

It is worth mentioning that at this grand court meeting, an important decree was passed by His Majesty.

Several officials of the Dali Temple jointly submitted a memorial, hoping to complete a legal reform.

The main content of this legal reform is to abolish the redemption silver system and the privilege of the dignitaries to be demoted and exempted from punishment. From then on, dignitaries who break the law will be dealt with according to the Daxia law.

Almost every year, officials put forward such a proposition.

But without exception, every time, it was collectively opposed by the dignitaries.

However, this time, there were very few dignitaries who opposed it.

Because there were not many dignitaries attending the grand court meeting.

Some of them were killed because of the conspiracy case, and the other part also moved away from Chang'an to avoid disaster. The number of dignitaries attending the grand court meeting this year was less than 10% of last year.

After the Dali Temple made a memorial, the Censorate and the Ministry of Justice followed up immediately, and then the left and right prime ministers also expressed their support. For a time, the three provinces, six ministries, and nine temples stood up one after another, and countless court officials echoed.

With so many officials supporting, even His Majesty could not act alone and had to agree.

Although the remaining dignitaries in the court strongly opposed this, their words were few and their voices were not taken seriously, and they ultimately failed to change the overall situation.

This also means that in the future, if they violate the law, they can only be exempted from punishment through the death exemption gold medal.

But there are not many people with the death exemption gold medal.

For the dignitaries of Daxia, the past six months have undoubtedly been their darkest moment.

For Daxia officials, especially the Legalist officials, they were all excited.

For many years, what the predecessors of the Legalist school of Daxia had not been able to accomplish, someone finally did it.

And the person who accomplished this great feat was not a legalist.

The officials of the Dali Temple made a collective memorial, and it was obvious who was behind it.

Li Xuanjing had done many things that angered the heavens and the people.

Many loyal people died directly or indirectly at his hands.

But his achievements are also something that cannot be avoided in history books. The powerful and the nobles broke the law and were punished the same as the common people. This was something that the predecessors of the Legalists of all generations could not do, but he accomplished it in another way.

Every time he reformed the law against the powerful and the nobles, he would be strongly opposed by the powerful and the nobles, and ended in failure.

In order to prevent the powerful and the nobles from opposing, he framed them with unfounded charges and treason, and bloodbathed the entire circle of the powerful and the nobles. Those who survived by chance also fled.

They even suspected that the many assassinations of the powerful and the nobles in Chang'an these days were done by Li Xuanjing.

As long as all the powerful and the nobles died, naturally no one could oppose it.

The fact is really like this...

In the past, they believed that Li Xuanjing killed people everywhere for party struggles and to help Prince Chun ascend to the throne.

But now, many people vaguely feel that party struggles are his excuse?

He did not openly reform again.

But the goals of his reforms were achieved one by one.

Twenty years ago, he hoped that the court could open more official schools, admit more children from poor families, and reduce the control of the aristocratic families over the court.

That reform was not successful, but now, the control of the aristocratic families over the court is indeed much smaller than it was twenty years ago.

Although the reason was that he killed many people from the aristocratic families, is the control of the aristocratic families over the court smaller?

Twenty years ago, he wanted to reduce the number of powerful people by abolishing the inheritance of titles, but it also ended in failure.

Today, although the legacy of the powerful is still there, the number of powerful people has dropped off a cliff.

Although he did not practice Confucianism or Legalism, his achievements made all Confucian and Legalist officials ashamed...

For such a big matter, the news has already spread to the people before the three provinces have issued specific laws and regulations.

When the powerful break the law, they are as guilty as the common people.

The atmosphere of the New Year cannot compare to the shock this incident brought to the people.

No one expected that at the beginning of the new year, the people of Daxia would receive such a great gift.

The whole of Chang'an was completely boiling.

It was also at this time that they realized with great clarity how right they were to not follow the clamor outside when the outside world clamored for Qingjun's side.

"This is not a traitor, he is clearly Master Qingtian!"

"Whoever dares to say that Mr. Li is a traitor in the future, I will tear his mouth to pieces..."

"Fortunately, someone gave me some advice that time, otherwise, Mr. Li would have been wronged!"

"In my opinion, Mr. Li is bearing the humiliation. His betrayal back then was probably a helpless act. If he hadn't done that, he would have been killed by the powerful, and he wouldn't be here today..."

"We have always misunderstood him..."

Before the introduction of this law, people's evaluation of Li Xuanjing was mixed.

As soon as this law came out, the people praised him full of praise.

Shangshu Province.

After the court meeting, the officials from Shangshu Province returned to the Yamen to summarize.

They could clearly see that the right prime minister was in a good mood. When the two officials made mistakes at the court meeting, he only lightly asked them to correct them, and did not rebuke them as severely as in the past.

Everyone can guess the reason.

Abolition of the privileges of the powerful and the common people are guilty of crimes committed by the powerful. This was once the right-wing reform proposal.

At that time, he was not yet Prime Minister.

Although forty years have passed, the contents of his reform have finally been realized.

However, the person who implemented the rightist reform measures was his biggest political enemy. I don’t know what the rightist prime minister would have in mind...

Li Mansion.

Today is the last day of the Great Court Meeting. In the afternoon, Li Nuo once again welcomed the two envoys from Zhao.

The young female officer looked at Li Nuo and asked, "How have you considered this matter?"

It seems that they still don't know about his upcoming mission to Zhao.

Li Nuo nodded and said, "I can go to Zhao State with you, but you have to tell me what you need me to do for you?"

When the young female officer heard this, her face showed joy, then she lowered her head and said, "Actually, I don't know either..."

Li Nuo looked at her in astonishment.

She asked herself for help, but she didn’t know what kind of help she needed?

Why does he feel that these two people are a little unreliable...