[Comprehensive classics] I build a dynasty in the book

The so-called three fires for a new official, so the new emperor must also have three fires when he ascends the throne. Just as the courtiers waited for Ji Shengyan to light the first fire and kill all the traitors, the new emperor's first big court also came. coming.

Different from the "prosperity and peace" during Emperor Jialong's time, Ji Shengyan's court was much stricter, and there was no need for such things as singing praises. He announced the matters that needed to be discussed at the court meeting the day before, and asked the officials participating in the court meeting to do it in advance. Be prepared and know what the Great Court will tell.

It was the first time for the courtiers to experience this kind of court meeting, and they were a little awkward, but they were more surprised, because everyone found that after the main topic was discussed, the court meeting became meaningful.

Chen Minchun used to belong to the party of the Three Princes, and he was the most active after Ji Shengyan ascended the throne. He actively strived to become Emperor Qingsheng's confidant.Qingsheng was Ji Shengyan's reign title, and Emperor Jialong's reign title was abolished after he succeeded to the throne.

Lin Yuzhou stood at the end of the team, his rank was not high, according to the regulations, he was only eligible to enter the palace to face the saints during the Great Court Meeting, although he disapproved, but he had to follow the rules, right?Chen Minchun's voice was not high-pitched, but after the seal was released, Lin Yuzhou's hearing became extremely sensitive. Even if he stood at the end, he could still hear Chen Minchun's words.

This old man Chen is also ruthless, and he also removed the words in his words, which can be summed up in one meaning. All the people involved in the case of Qiushou except the royal family and all the ten clans were killed.

In the middle of Chen Minchun's words, many officials showed expressions of displeasure, but they did not stand up to object. After all, treason, conspiracy, and assassination of the emperor are serious crimes against the nine clans. Such a felony, expanding the nine clans to the ten clans, is also a serious crime. There is nothing wrong with it.

After Chen Minchun finished stating his point of view, he got the support of many courtiers. Most of these people were close to the First Prince or the Third Prince before, and now they are actively showing their loyalty.

Ji Shengyan sat on the dragon chair and listened to the courtiers' discussions. He didn't say a word. After the high-ranking officials finished expressing their opinions, he waved his hand. Lu Shengrong came out with a tray with several imperial edicts on it.

Only then did the courtiers know that Ji Shengyan was not prepared to listen to their opinions at all, he had already made a decision.

Lu Shengrong handed the tray to the young eunuch behind him, took the first imperial decree with both hands, opened it and read it out.

Ji Shengyan's first fire left the courtiers stunned.

The first decree ordered the Ministry of Criminal Affairs and Dali Temple to try the people involved in Qiushou's case, collect evidence of their crimes, make a ruling according to the law, investigate people who are related to the people involved in the case, take the guilty into custody, and release the innocent, and obtain official positions through the recommendation of the people involved Those who have passed the review of the suspension, those involved in the case who used illegal means to seek official positions will be immediately dismissed and punished according to the law.

This imperial decree conveyed a message to the courtiers that the autumn hunting incident is not punishable. This is also a reminder from the new emperor that the emperor wants to abolish the continuous sitting system.

There was a small discussion among the ministers, Ji Shengyan glanced at these people, and the rustling voice disappeared immediately.

Lu Shengrong read out the second will in due course.

This decree caused an uproar among the courtiers, because Ji Shengyan withdrew from the Imperial Academy to reform the Secretariat and set up a Secretary-General. At the same time, the existing personnel of the Imperial Academy had to be assessed. Taixue or Guozijian.With this decree, many old fried dough sticks in the Hanlin Academy changed their faces. Some people wanted to object, but they were afraid of Yu Ji Shengyan's power and did not dare to say anything.

The official system of the Ji Dynasty has a rule that non-jinshi cannot enter the Hanlin, and non-Hanlin cannot enter the cabinet. Of course, the withdrawal of the Imperial Academy will be obstructed by many noble literati, but in this special period, everyone suppressed their emotions and waited. developments.

Lin Yuzhou heard the voices of several colleagues arguing with each other. At this time, he felt that what happened on Qiushou was also very good. Too many people were imprisoned, and many people were about to be killed. This greatly increased Ji Shengyan's deterrence. At least for now, no one dares to oppose his will.

The third decree is much more ordinary than the first two, but it is also more fatal to some officials. Ji Shengyan ordered the Ministry of Accounts to sort out the accounts owed by officials over the years. He did not say what to do next What, but its meaning is very clear, it means that those who owe money must pay back their debts.

As for the last decree, it was related to the Ministry of Industry. Many courtiers didn't know about the changes in the Ministry of Industry, so they didn't know about this decree, and they were going to ask Lin Ruhai after the court.

Lin Yuzhou calculated the time and felt that the court meeting was coming to an end. In fact, Ji Shengyan still had a decree that had not been issued, which was related to the reform of the military system. But now that the border army is fighting against the Tatars, it is not the right time for the reform of the military system. eat in one bite.

After the Great Dynasty, Lin Yuzhou returned to the Imperial Academy with his colleagues, and he inadvertently saw several senior officials from the Imperial Academy and the people from Yushitai get together.

"Yuzhou." Liu Ju approached Lin Yuzhou and whispered in his ear, "Is the Imperial Academy really going to be withdrawn? What does the secretariat mean? What is the assessment?"

"The functions of the Secretariat partially overlap with those of the Imperial Academy, but it doesn't require you to compile books and canons." Lin Yuzhou roughly explained the meaning of the Secretariat to Liu Ju, and Li Suqing and Wang Luan also came over to listen to him.

"Second, the function of this secretariat is higher than that of the Imperial Academy." Liu Ju clapped his hands and said in a low voice: "I have to review my homework carefully and try to stay in the secretariat until His Majesty announces the functions of the secretariat After that, these people must not be crazy? These colleagues are all our opponents."

Lin Yuzhou raised his eyebrows, but didn't remind Liu Ju and the others that this time the Hanlin Academy's assessment was not about the Four Books and Five Classics. If they didn't have any real skills, they wouldn't be able to stay. At least the emperor's secretary must be able to settle accounts, right?

After returning to the Imperial Academy, Lin Yuzhou called Liu Ju to ask him about Chen Zhuoyuan. This Tanhualang was in the same discipline as him anyway, and he didn't even notice when he died, let alone express his condolences.

Liu Ju pulled Lin Yuzhou into a hidden corner, and said with a gossip face: "I also heard from others that when we returned to the capital from Jincheng, Chen Zhuoyuan was already dying. I heard that he found his wife and three The prince had an affair and was beaten up by the third prince's subordinates, and then he became depressed and fell ill."

Speaking of this, Liu Ju lowered his voice: "When he died, his face was blue-gray, as if he had been poisoned. His wife was locked up. It is said that she is still pregnant. I don't know whose son it is."

Lin Yuzhou was stunned. No wonder Chen Minchun looked like he wanted to eat Ji Cong's meat. He had few children, and his only son was still sick. He had always raised Chen Zhuoyuan as his own son. Now that his nephew was killed, how could he be reconciled?But this pregnant lady is also very troublesome. No one knows who the child in her womb belongs to, and it is impossible to decide whether to keep it or not.

After gossiping about these things, Lin Yuzhou returned to his post. He had to study books for a day until the Imperial Academy was withdrawn.But before he could sit down, Lu Shengrong came to announce that he was summoned by the emperor.

Lin Yuzhou obviously felt that the eyes of his colleagues had changed, and Liu Ju even showed the expression of "you are a blue face and a disaster".

Ignoring Liu Ju, Lin Yuzhou followed Lu Shengrong to the imperial study, and he found that Lu Shengrong's attitude towards him was more respectful, and sometimes this respectful attitude even exceeded that of Ji Shengyan.

Besides Ji Shengyan, Ji Geng and Ji Zhao were also in the imperial study room, and they seemed to be discussing something.

They are all acquaintances, and Ji Geng and Ji Zhao also know the relationship between Lin Yuzhou and Ji Shengyan. Seeing that he did not salute Ji Shengyan, they hurriedly refused his salute. Ji Geng laughed and said, "Sister-in-law, don't be so polite." of."

Ji Shengyan hooked the corner of his mouth, thinking that this younger brother could be had.

Lin Yuzhou twitched the corners of his mouth, Ji Geng's skin was itchy after three days of not going to the house.

"Let's get down to business." Lin Yuzhou didn't have the habit of flirting with Ji Shengyan in front of others. He picked up the documents on the royal table, flipped through a few pages and looked at Ji Zhao: "Have you sorted out the account books of the Ministry of Accounts?"

Ji Zhao nodded. Ji Shengyan once asked him to write measures to solve the problems of the account department, and he sorted out the accounts of the account department at that time. Many things happened in the middle, and he didn't have time to report.

Ji Shengyan glanced at Ji Zhao, then handed another document on the table to Lin Yuzhou: "This is his plan, take a look."

Lin Yuzhou flipped through it quickly, and after reading it, he frowned. Ji Zhao's plan was very simple, that is, to force those who did not pay back the debts to be punished at different levels according to the amount owed, and the most serious one was ransacking the house .

Lin Yuzhou shook his head, took out a blank piece of paper from the desk case, and drew an analysis diagram according to the account book provided by Ji Zhao. After drawing, he pointed to the analysis diagram and asked, "Did you see anything?"

Ji Geng also came over, glanced twice, and replied: "The bigger the official, the more money you can borrow, and the longer the term."

"What about you?" Lin Yuzhou looked at Ji Zhao.

"The low-level officials in the capital also have borrowed money, and their total borrowings have already exceeded the amount borrowed by high-level officials. But what does this mean? It is only natural to pay off debts."

"You're right." Lin Yuzhou pointed to the list of high-ranking officials: "It's no problem for these people to ask for debts in your way, they have the ability to repay, and if they can't, they ransack the house, and the rare antiques they copied are enough to pay off the debt. But these petty officials, most of them are unable to repay the money, if you force them to repay this time, they will still borrow from the Ministry of Household Affairs, maybe they will borrow more next time.”

"Why is this?" Ji Geng was puzzled.

"The salary is too low." Lin Yuzhou calculated the salaries of Ji Dynasty officials for Ji Geng and Ji Zhao. If there is no corruption, middle and low-level officials, especially those in the capital, cannot afford to rely on their salaries alone. A family, especially in this environment where officials cannot do business.

Ji Zhao frowned. He wanted to say that this was not the reason why the officials owed money to the court, but if they really forced these officials who had no money to pay back, nothing could be done, and they might even be forced to take risks and start taking bribes.

After Lin Yuzhou finished speaking, he looked at Ji Shengyan: "The issue of officials' salaries has to be resolved, but before that we have to clear out the officials who are sitting on vegetarian meals. We might as well take this opportunity to introduce the public trust system."

Ji Zhao heard the words and asked: "What is the public trust system?"

"Confucius said that the people cannot be established without trust. From this, officials must also be trustworthy. Take this opportunity to set up a public trust file for all officials. This time, the Ministry of Households owes money. It is better to give the debtors a repayment period. Installment repayment, no interest charged, beyond the deadline, not only compulsory repayment, but also charged interest, and will leave a stained record on the official credit file. In the future official assessment, the official credit file is an important part, and those with poor credit are not allowed to do it official."

"Hiss..." Ji Geng took a deep breath, would the courtiers go crazy if they did this?Who dares to say that he has not done anything to break the promise of the court?It used to be casual, but now it can be fatal.

Ji Shengyan knocked on the table and asked Lin Yuzhou to stand beside him. He said so many things about Ji Zhao, if Ji Zhao still can't do well, Ji Chao's future needs to be taken care of by someone else.

"You enter the household department, and cooperate with the household minister to re-draft the measures, write a memorial, and explain the public trust system tomorrow morning."

After Ji Shengyan's words fell, Ji Zhao surrendered and took the order. He also understood what Ji Shengyan meant, and the Ministry of Households was his opportunity as well as his test.Recalling the plan he saw in the East Palace, Ji Zhao felt that his future work would focus on an issue called "economic development", and he also wanted to strive to enter the planned "Ministry of Economy".

The "Ministry of Economic Affairs" must have meant the same thing, to benefit the people, govern the country, and bring peace to the world. Ji Zhao felt a little turmoil in his heart.

Lin Yuzhou didn't have the ability to read minds, otherwise he would have told Ji Zhao that the word "economy" in the "Ministry of Economic Affairs" really didn't mean what he thought, but anyway, as long as the issue of the Ministry of Household Affairs could be resolved, he could do whatever he wanted.

Ji Zhao entered the household department, and Ji Geng entered the criminal department. After the two left with their respective tasks, Lin Yuzhou softened his body and leaned against Ji Shengyan: "I can't pave roads and build bridges by myself. It is my decree to recommend people who are good at water conservancy. Come to Beijing."

Ji Shengyan squeezed Lin Yuzhou's hand and nodded in agreement. The seal between him and Lin Yuzhou's body was released. Even so, he couldn't build a road with a wave of his left hand and a bridge with a wave of his right hand. The change of this world requires the participation of people here.

Lin Yuzhou tapped his forehead. If they couldn't do it themselves, they would need to recruit a lot of talents, talents, talents!