Fu Tang

After Xiao Yan begged for the bones, Li Congjia did not think about adding another minister. The ministers of the cabinet were a kind of restriction on the imperial power. Li Congjia had no choice but to bring these people into the cabinet at the beginning.

Zhou Zong has become the first assistant, and one of these people is more senior and capable than Zhou Zong, but Li Congjia can't ask Zhou Zong to give up his position just because they are here, so why don't they all come to be the second assistant, even if these people There are limits to dissatisfaction.

Therefore, the current situation where the cabinet assistant ministers are the same as those of wholesalers has been formed. In Li Congjia's vision, the cabinet should not exceed four people at most. If there are too many people, party disputes will easily arise. If the number is too small, it will easily form a dominance of one family and overwhelm the king. Minister of power.

However, the following people don't know that Li Congjia doesn't want to choose the second assistant again. All of them are all eight immortals crossing the sea and showing their magical powers. Moreover, these people have a characteristic. Most of them are people brought by Li Jing, people selected by Li Congjia... Well, these Because people are young, the location they are in is not confidential enough, and they are not qualified to participate.

Li Congjia is very tired of this internal fighting model. If it was a peaceful and prosperous age, everyone would have nothing to do. They would definitely fight against the sky, the earth, and the people. But now there are a lot of internal and external troubles, so why fight!

These people have a characteristic of fighting for power, that is, they like to let the censor take the lead, and all kinds of black history are exposed. For a moment, it seems that there are no good people in the court except the cabinet ministers. Li Congjia sat on the throne and listened lazily to the censor. Shi's impassioned words seemed to make Li Congjia a fool if he didn't deal with the people he participated in.

However, to Yu Shi's disappointment, Li Congjia didn't give him any response.

Everyone was very puzzled. After working for Li Congjia for so many years, these people have somehow felt Li Congjia's veins, knowing that what Li Congjia hates most is corruption and oppressing civilians.

Of course, this kind of thing cannot be prohibited, so as long as it is not too much, Li Congjia will turn a blind eye and close one eye, and those who are too much... I'm sorry, you will die early and be born sooner.

This time, these people who participated in the censor happened to step on Li Congjia's bombing point. Li Congjia was indeed a little angry when he first heard it, but after listening to it, he felt that something was wrong. After stepping off the stage and bowing, Li Congjia was sure that someone wanted to use him as a gun.

Li Congjia glanced at him with a half-smile, but didn't respond at all. He just dealt with some urgent state affairs in a calm manner, and then let those imperial history officials simply retreat from the court.

After going back, Li Congjia reflexively wanted to complain to Shi Xueting, but he didn't realize until he opened the door of the study that Shi Xueting was already on his way to the Kingdom of Shu.

Li Congjia was rather downhearted, sitting before the trial and revising the notes for a while, he was so impetuous that he didn't want to do anything, and couldn't help but wonder where Shi Xueting was now?Will the road be difficult to walk?The weather inside and outside the pass is not warm at this time of year, has he put on the monk robe he prepared for him?

Li Congjia was very impulsive and called Shi Xuehe over. The intelligence department was handed over to Shi Xueting before. Now that Shi Xueting has left, he can only find someone to represent him temporarily, and Shi Xueting recommended himself very much. Senior brother, after all, Shi Xuehe had been helping Shi Xueting handle all kinds of information in those days.

If there is anyone in that group of monks who is closer to Shi Xueting, they are Shi Yanlie and Shi Xuehe. However, Shi Yanlie is rough and unsuitable for meticulous work like intelligence work, but Shi Xuehe is very good at it. quick.

Li Congjia endured it for a long time, but still couldn't hold back, and asked Tao Fu to call Shi Xuehe over. However, in order to show that he was not acting for public benefit, he really had something for Shi Xuehe to do.

After Shi Xuehe came, Li Congjia gave him some papers and said, "I want to know the situation of the people who participated in the papers and those who were listed in the papers."

After thinking for a while, Li Congjia added: "As long as you know whether they have committed any illegal acts, you don't need to investigate those private matters."

Li Congjia established the intelligence department at the beginning to make himself clear-eyed, but he didn't want to establish an organization like Jinyiwei. He didn't know how to reform the intelligence department. He could only take one step at a time. There is the meaning of changing to Jinyiwei, Li Congjia doesn't mind cutting this department.

Shi Xuehe didn't ask too much, took the paperwork and clapped his palms to Li Congjia to express his understanding.

Li Congjia then asked: "How is it? The national teacher is not here, is there a lot of pressure?"

After Shi Xuehe thought about it seriously, he said: "There are still some things. There are many things when the younger brother gets involved, and those people sell his face. My face...isn't that valuable."

This is true, Shi Xueting is a national teacher after all, and Jane is in the emperor's heart, not to mention living in the palace now, even if he moves to the national teacher's mansion in the future, it will be the closest mansion to Miyagi!

People who are targeted by Shi Xueting will try their best to perform, for fear that Shi Xueting will sue Li Congjia in front of Li Congjia, and they will not be treated so high when they come to Shi Xuehe.

Li Congjia chuckled: "That's fine, the more they despise you, the more news you might get."

Shi Xuehe understood: "The poor monk knows."

Li Congjia then asked: "Is there any news from the national teacher? Where is he now?"

Shi Xuehe laughed and said: "Your Highness and Junior Brother really have a tacit understanding, just now I received a letter from Junior Brother."

Li Congjia: ...

If he had known that Shi Xueting had written the letter, why would he be beating around the bush?

After Li Congjia took the letter from Shi Xuehe, he said: "In the future, matters related to the national teacher will be reported first!"

Shi Xuehe agreed with a smile, and Li Congjia was a little embarrassed, but he could hold on and just said: "Okay, I won't delay your work, go, if there is a result, send someone to notify Taofu, and I will summon him as soon as possible." you."

This is the difference. When Shi Xueting has news, he will come if he wants to. Of course, even if there is no news, no one will dare to stop him if he wants to come. Shi Xuehe can't, he has to make a report first.

Shi Xuehe knew in his heart that he was different from his junior brother, and he didn't want to argue about anything, so he folded his hands and bowed out of the study.

After Shi Xuehe left, Li Congjia couldn't wait to tear open the letter. Shi Xueting didn't write much, but as usual, he greeted Li Congjia's health, and told him not to sleep too late, not picky eaters, and remember to take those supplements every day.

What Li Congjia saw was heart-warming and helpless. After finally writing a letter, do you just say such nonsense?Can't you just say something sweet?

Facts have proved that the national teacher really didn't intend to talk sweet words this time, because after the exhortation, he said something more important: he will leave the main force and secretly go to the Kingdom of Shu first!

Of course, on the surface, the big troops still have to pretend that he is still in the team.

Li Congjia knew that he must be looking for his former friends when he went to Shu, but Li Congjia began to wonder what kind of friend could make Shi Xueting take the risk to go there?

The Kingdom of Shu is now in a period of war, and it will definitely be more severe than usual. The identity of monk Shi Xueting can cover him, but once someone finds out... the consequences will be unimaginable.

Li Congjia didn't know if Shi Xueting's friends were really reliable, but now that he received this letter, it meant that Shi Xueting might have left the team. He was just informing Li Congjia, not seeking Li Congjia's opinion.

Li Congjia threw it on the imperial case, and sat there angrily, inexplicably, he remembered the words: if you don't fight for three days, you will go to the house to expose the tiles.

Of course, Shi Xueting does not apply to this sentence, but if Shi Xueting is here, Li Congjia will definitely object. He even feels that maybe Shi Xueting wrote to him and told him about it not long after he left. I had an idea a long time ago, but I was afraid that he would disagree, so I made an idea to cut it first and then play it.

Li Congjia silently took out the accounting book, and gave Shi Xueting a single page, planning to settle the accounts with him after Shi Xueting came back.

Since Shi Xueting was not around, Li Congjia naturally didn't have to reply, and he wouldn't be able to see it even if he replied.

However, he thought about it again, Shi Xueting had a letter for him, according to common sense, he must have replied to Shi Xueting, if he didn't write it, it would definitely be considered a problem, either Shi Xueting fell out of favor, or It's just that Shi Xueting has other plans.

Li Congjia didn't want to see either of these two situations, so he still wrote a letter to Shi Xueting, but the letter only had one page, and there were only four big characters written on it: I am not happy!

Li Congjia has not proclaimed himself emperor yet, even if he proclaimed himself emperor, according to the current habit, he might not call himself "Zhen", but when he played some fun games with Shi Xueting, he would call himself so, but Shi Xueting still likes this set.

Li Congjia thought about it for a long time, and felt that if he wrote that I was not happy, he might look a bit contemptuous. Shi Xueting would see this letter sooner or later, and it would be bad for him to be worried if he saw it, so he changed his name.

The next day, Li Congjia called Shi Xuehe over and asked him to send the letter to Shi Xueting quickly. It turned out that it was just in time for Shi Xuehe to sort out the black history of a bunch of people. Li Congjia was very surprised at his efficiency.

Seeing Li Congjia's surprised look, Shi Xuehe couldn't help but smiled wryly: "We really didn't find out these things."

Li Congjia couldn't help raising his eyebrows: "You didn't find out? How did it come about?"

Shi Xuehe said helplessly: "Someone took the initiative to send it to us, and we verified it later. Those who were obviously framed and blamed were thrown aside, and the rest were more real."

Li Congjia immediately understood that someone must have guessed that Li Congjia did not lose his temper in court, so he naturally wanted someone to investigate. The intelligence department is not a hidden department, but it is listed under the five departments in an open and honest manner, and there are even replacements. The Ministry of War and the other five departments form a new six-part trend.

These people probably regarded the Ministry of Intelligence as the Commission for Disciplinary Inspection of future generations. After it was useless to file a face-to-face complaint, they sorted out the black history and continued to file a complaint with the Ministry of Intelligence.

Of course, these are all based on their understanding of Li Congjia's temper, and Li Congjia is not angry about it. He is not like some emperors, who take pleasure in making his courtiers unclear. The following people like it Let them guess what they want, if this can make them smarter, know what can and cannot be done, and think about whether it is worth stepping on a mine before stepping on it, then Li Congjia may be less angry.

Li Congjia asked Shi Xuehe to put his things down, and after Shi Xuehe retreated, he began to read the black histories he collected. Of course, he mainly looked at the black histories of the censors. Li Congjia thought very simple, you just eat words Officials, if they want to be strict with others, they must also be strict with themselves. Otherwise, they will report others for corruption and bribery, and then they will do the same thing themselves. What is the need for Yushitai to exist?

But seeing this, Li Congjia laughed immediately. The founding of the Tang Dynasty was not long, but these officials had a lot of problems. They were probably brought from the Southern Tang Dynasty. Otherwise, Li Congjia didn’t like to use those from the Southern Tang Dynasty. Where are the officials?

However, there is no way around this. Although Datang has changed places, Li Congjia still insists that he is the orthodox Li Tang, which means that he is still from the Southern Tang. next seat.

But these censors have a lot of black history, and of course they are not without innocence, but those who are really innocent have not been involved in the first party struggle after the founding of the Tang Dynasty at all this time!

Li Congjia read all these materials and found that if the information selected by Shi Xuehe is true, then these people are not very wronged to be imprisoned. , It all depends on Li Congjia's mood.

If Li Congjia was allowed to come by himself, he would definitely want to drive these people back to eat his own food, but there are at least a dozen people on it, and they are all relatively important positions. If no one fills in the gaps vacated by Zizi, even if the operation of the imperial court can continue, it will be affected to some extent.

Li Congjia stared at the list of those people with cold eyes, let these people dance for a while, and wait for the students taught by Master Xingyi to grow up, these people will not be left behind!

He put away these black histories, selected a few that were more excessive, and planned to discuss with the cabinet how to deal with them.

Zhou Zong and the others have also waited for a long time. The four remaining members of the cabinet are now waiting for Li Congjia's instructions. They have also discussed with each other who is more likely to join the cabinet. But from their perspective, the current six ministers have no People are qualified to join the cabinet. If you have to talk about seniority and merit, Li Ping is qualified. However, he is a general and belongs to the Privy Council, which is a department that keeps pace with the cabinet. Naturally, it is impossible for Li Ping to go to the cabinet to serve as a minister.

The four of them were very curious and didn't know what Li Congjia wanted to do. When they heard Li Congjia asked them for a meeting, they came out of their respective office rooms and looked at each other, knowing that there might be a result.

After arriving at the Xuanzheng Hall, Li Congjia directly handed several copies to Zhou Zong and the others and said, "The people above, let Dali Temple take care of it."

Zhou Zong knew that this was the conclusion of the previous group of courtiers attacking each other. He took a look and found that Li Congjia did not take the opportunity to get involved, but picked out some people who were too much to deal with.

Since there were not many people, the cabinet ministers were relieved. Zhou Zong settled his mind and knew that as the first assistant, it was time for him to go up and shoot at this time: "Your Highness, Dr. Xiao has retired. I don't know how to choose the second assistant?"

Xiao Yan is retiring, so of course Li Congjia wanted to give him an honorary title. With a wave of his hand, he promoted Doctor Guanglu to the first rank, and gave Xiao Yan the title of Doctor Guanglu, so now everyone calls him Doctor Xiao.

Li Congjia did not answer this question, but instead asked, "Is the cabinet busy now?"

Zhou Zongruo felt something and just said: "If you say you are busy, you can still handle it."

Li Congjia nodded and said: "If you don't have too much pressure, the cabinet will be like this first. The cabinet ministers are no better than others. You can't join the cabinet casually. Moreover, I originally intended that there should be no more than four ministers in the cabinet. Now it's just right."

Everyone instantly understood that after Xiao Yan retired, there would probably be no more five ministers in the cabinet. Before that, it was Li Congjia who gave preferential treatment to veteran ministers, so they were allowed to join the cabinet collectively. There should only be four ministers, but Xu Xuan is still a little bit behind in politics.

In the past, if there was pressure to re-elect a cabinet assistant, it would be Xu Xuan. After all, he probably only has literary talents and qualifications to overwhelm the officials below.

But their king doesn't pay much attention to literary talent!Moreover, if you are confident in your thesis, there is no one who can say that Li Congjia is better than Li Congjia. The limited number of poems that Li Congjia "wrote" has already convinced everyone.

Now that there are no newcomers coming in, Xu Xuan knows that his position is probably stable. He is very grateful to Li Congjia. more convincing.

So Xu Xuan said that Li Congjia is good, so it will leave an impression on the current scholars that the current king of Tang is a wise king.

A monarch's reputation among scholars is still relatively important, which means whether he is famous in history or will be infamous for thousands of years. I didn't see Qin Shihuang burning poems and books. year?

Although Li Congjia didn't care much about this, no matter what these scholars said, he would follow his established goal, but it is undeniable that he was very happy to hear these people praise him.

After the news spread that there would be no more ministers in the cabinet, Li Congjia thought that everyone would calm down, but he never expected that there would be an intensified posture.

After Li Congjia was stunned, he realized that these people had no way to retreat. After all, they had torn their faces in order to join the cabinet before. How can they retreat? If they don't kill each other, there will be no peace in the future.

Originally, Li Congjia knew that such things as political struggles could not be prohibited, so he simply let them go, as long as they didn't delay their work, but he found that if they didn't care about it, it would intensify, and even the cabinet ministers would be alluded to.

Li Congjia finally couldn't help but explode his hair: "Are you finished? Just stare at this trivial matter every day and don't care about it? Do you know that there are 10,000+ troops working hard outside? Don't they all have nothing to do?" Have nothing to do? It seems that there are too many officials who support too many idlers, right? Okay, starting today, adjust the official system!"

Officials:? ? ? ? ? ! ! ! ! !

Really never expected, they just want to hit their political opponents, how could they be fired if they are not careful?

Li Congjia did what he said, and the increasingly bloated bureaucratic system is definitely not good for future development, especially now that he has separated civil and military affairs, but there are some official positions that can be both civil and military. There are many more official positions, and Li Congjia has long wanted to start, but he has never had a good chance.

Very good, this group of cheating bastards gave him a good reason, each of them is probably too idle!

So although it seems that Li Congjia got angry suddenly, in fact, whether it is Li Congjia or the cabinet, there has long been a consensus. A preliminary plan was drawn up.

Li Congjia hung the courtiers who criticized each other on the wall again: "Look at the efficiency of the cabinet, and then look at you! In the past, you were too indulgent!"

Ministers: ...

Everyone is not stupid. The development of the official position system has been gradually improved with the political system. The so-called reduction of official positions is not a simple and crude one-size-fits-all. There are various balances that need to be considered. What can be done in one day, the cabinet can come up with this plan within two days. It can only be said that this matter has long been within the plan of Li Congjia and the cabinet.

Now the ministers are just giving them an excuse to fight for the second time.

In the past, when Li Congjia had any ideas, the ministers did not want to implement them and would seek the cabinet as a backer. However, now the cabinet is on Li Congjia's side, and the six ministries and nine ministers will never oppose Li Congjia and the cabinet. After all, everything can be missed. them.

So, when such a big event happened, the entire government and the public were actually very calm. Of course, everyone was a little anxious in private, especially the low-level officials, wondering if they would be fired.

After Li Congjia got angry, it can be regarded as soothing Shi Xueting's anxiety caused by no news for several days.

After all, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, but this year obviously cannot be spent with Shi Xueting, Li Congjia expressed his displeasure.

As a result, as soon as the new year was over, Li Congjia received a piece of news that caught him off guard: Meng Chang, the king of Shu, had his throat cut by the empress in public when he was having fun with the people on Zhengdan Day!

The author has something to say: Li Congjia: I'm not happy, I'm getting emotional, I need the kiss of the national teacher to do it.

Shi Xueting: Okay, I'm happy to kiss you.

Li Congjia: ...Wait...Wait...Where are you kissing?