Late Tang Dynasty Floating Life

Chapter 1462 Prince and adjustment

To the north of Ningbi Pool is the Dragon Scale Palace.

The foundation site was laid by Emperor Yang of Sui Dynasty, and Shendu Garden was also built in the first year of Daye.

As soon as Guangshen came to the throne, he stopped pretending and immediately started to build a large number of construction projects.

Zhuxiyuan is a hundred miles on a Tuesday, and the sea is inside it, and it is more than ten miles around.There are Penglai, Fangzhang, and Yingzhou mountains, which are more than a hundred feet above the water. Terraces, temples, pavilions, and halls, on Luoluo Mountain, have their backs like gods.

There is Longlin Canal in the north of Haibei, which pours into the sea.There are sixteen courtyards built around the canal, and the gates are all adjacent to the canal. Each courtyard is viewed from the halls and buildings of the fourth-rank lady, which is extremely gorgeous.

When the palace tree withers in autumn and winter, the ribbons are cut to form flower leaves, which are adorned on the branches.After the color fades, replace it with a new colored satin, simulating that the four seasons here are like spring.

The lotus flowers in the lake withered in winter, and it was very troublesome to make flower decorations out of colorful satin by breaking the ice.

Yang Guang likes to ride around Xiyuan with thousands of court ladies on a full moon night.At this time, the wife of the fourth-rank head of the Sixteenth Court tried her best to seek favor.

Shao Shude's enjoyment of Guangshen was far behind.

In the Sui Dynasty, there were many palaces in the Shendu Garden, but there were very few dynasties, which was not as good as in the Xuanzong period of the previous Tang Dynasty.

The Shendu Garden in Yang Guang's era was a huge artificial garden.

The Shendu Garden in Shao Shude's time consisted of orchards, vegetable beds, stables, military camps, fish ponds, hunting grounds and forest parks, a whole farmhouse.

There is indeed a huge difference in the tastes of the son of the family and the martial arts master.

The only thing they have in common is that they both like to raise women in Shendu Garden.

After stopping by the Longlin Canal, Dafeng and Zhao Yu loosened their arms just right.They are old and frail, and they need to rest after walking for such a long time.

Xiao Shi, Du Shi, and Webster surrounded Shao Shude.

Shao Shude knew what they were thinking and pretended not to know what they were thinking.In fact, I feel ashamed. I have been with him for so many years, and I don't even have a child. Only Wei Shi was pregnant and had a miscarriage.

"A few days ago, when I asked the question in Guanfeng Hall, Pei Shangshu of the household department was still full of anger. I didn't expect Pei Shu to die at home just a few months later." Shao Shude looked at Mrs. Du and said, "I have asked Du Guangyi After returning from Fujian, he served as Minister of the Household Department, and Li Ting went to Fujian to take over as governor."

Du Guangyi did a good job in Anton Mansion and accumulated a lot of experience. After he took office in Fuzhou, he mainly focused on appeasement at first, and slowly adjusted personnel.Over the years, his prestige has gradually increased.

In May of this year, he cooperated with Zhe Conggu, the new commander of Fujian Daodu and former general of the Weisheng Army, and began to eliminate Changting Dongman who refused to accept Wang Hua and did not pay tribute. .

Sudden death means sudden death.

In the past, Zhang Wenwei, a scholar of Huaihai Taoism, died suddenly in the office, and now Pei Shu, the secretary of the Ministry of household affairs, died suddenly at home.

In history, at the age of 65, Pei Shu was first demoted by the Tang court controlled by Zhu Quanzhong. When he traveled to Huazhou, he was killed in Baimayi and thrown into the Yellow River.

It's not bad to have lived an extra six years on this plane.

When it comes to aristocratic families, everyone talks about the disaster of the White Horse Station, but how many people did the White Horse Station kill?What really harmed them was the 150-year separatist regime.

The clan is gone, and it is broken up into small families.

The family property is gone, either it was lost when the family was separated, or it was taken away by the warrior.

Fame is also gone, because a large number of official positions are occupied by warriors, or by literati who are closely related to warriors.

Taking Xiao’s Nanliang house as an example, in the post-Liang period in history, Xiao Fu had four daughters, one married to Niu Zhiye, the son of Niu Cunjie, one married to Xie Yanzhang, Ge Congzhou’s adopted son, and the other married to Meng Renpu, the nephew of Zhang Quanyi.

Are Niu Zhiye, Xie Yanzhang, and Meng Renpu traditional aristocrats?Of course not, the previous generation were farmers, hunters, warriors, well, they even worked as rebels.

From this point of view, at this time, Xiao's daughter can no longer maintain a strong character, and cannot marry with the five surnames and Qiwang, and continue to create Tianlong people, but instead wants to curry favor with the upstart martial arts.

The political, economic, and fame foundations of the family's existence have long since collapsed.

Shao Shude is not afraid of employing aristocratic families now. In fact, these people will survive the imperial examination and transform into aristocratic families in the future, just like the bunch of high-yielding Jinshi families in Fujian in the Song Dynasty.

At this time, the aristocratic family has trash, but it also has talents.Waste is completely discarded, but talents are beyond the level of ordinary talents, and they are still very easy to use, such as Du Guangyi.

The court established by Shao Shude will not be controlled by these officials, because Daxia is a compound empire, and there are grassland interest groups, and the imperial examination will not monopolize all official positions. The emperor has his own people and can compete with civil officials. .

Therefore, Du Shi, Xiao Shi and the like can be used as long as they are used, what can they do?

Mrs. Du sighed and said: "Your Majesty, elder brother was fine a few years ago, but the heart rash has gradually become more serious in the past two years. When it flares up, he often swears at people, and even beats servants and servants with his staff. The concubine is worried about losing the dignity of the court. "

"This..." Shao Shude hesitated when he heard it.

Du Guangyi used to be normal, but he didn't know what happened in the past two years, maybe it was too hard, and the heart rash gradually broke out.

Shao Shude didn't know what heart rash was, but judging from the symptoms, it seemed a little mentally ill.

When Du Guangyi didn't have a fit, everything was as usual, he was quick-witted, and handled official duties quickly, quickly, and accurately, but when he broke out, he would curse and beat people, which was a bit outrageous.

"Let's do it first, if it doesn't work, go home to recuperate." Shao Shude said vaguely.

Leaning into Shao Shude's arms, Du asked softly, "Is Your Majesty preparing for the Western Expedition?"

"It's the female Zhuge who knows what I want." Shao Shude said with a smile: "After a while, Erlang will arrive in Beijing. At the latest at the beginning of next year, before Xijing, I will confer Erlang as the crown prince."

Getting out of this step is really too difficult.Shao Shude investigated for a long time, and only now did he really make up his mind.

There used to be a joke that the prince could not inspect for too long.In the eyes of the founding emperor like him, the crown prince is simply not good enough. The more he examines the problems, the more disappointed he becomes. In the end, it is inevitable to abolish the crown prince—in fact, not only the crown prince, but all princes will be like this.

At least Shao Erlang is pretty good in military affairs, and politically he also knows that he can choose capable ministers to help him govern the world, so let's make do with it.

No matter how bad it is, it is better than a prince who is good at governing the country but has shortcomings in the military.

If you are destined to give up one ability, you can only give up governing the country, and you must choose martial arts and military strategy. This is determined by the characteristics of the times, and there is no way.

After the canonization of the prince, you have to carefully select the remaining ministers.

He will not take Chen Cheng and Song Le with him during this western expedition.The two of them are old, so it is better to stay in Luoyang and enjoy the happiness.

The personnel affairs of Zhengshitang and Shangshu six departments will also undergo some changes, and they are already in progress.

On July [-]th, Pei Zhi, Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, Yang She, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, and Pei Yuchang, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, retired from office.

Pei Zhi was also killed by Zhu Quanzhong in history.At that time, he was almost seventy, and he was demoted to Qingzhou Sihu and given to death.

Pei Shu and Pei Zhi were both born in the Wenxi Pei family, and they both lived long enough.

The minister of the Ministry of Rites, Feng Guanqing, served as the minister, and Yang Zhu, a Hanlin scholar and native of Tongzhou in Kansai, served as the minister of the Ministry of Rites.

In the early years, Wang Yanchang, the first batch of Jinshi in the former Tang Dynasty recommended by Xiao Yu, and the servant of the household department, served as the secretary of the Ministry of punishment.

Shi Xiaoqing, the head of Qin Wangfu, served as the minister of the Ministry of Industry.

Because Pei Zhi became an official and Pei Shu died of illness, two seats were vacated in the Political Affairs Hall, which were filled by Feng Guanqing, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, and Wang Pu, Minister of the Ministry of War.

In this way, the seven prime ministers of the Zhengshitang are Song Le, Chen Cheng, Zhao Guangfeng, Xiao Yun, Lu Siye, Feng Guanqing, and Wang Pu. The overall age has slightly decreased, but it is still not young.

In addition, Li Qi, the censor Zhongcheng, served as the transshipment envoy of Hexi Road.

The former Li Ke used Lu Rubi, the marching commander of the shogunate, to serve as the Minister of the Ministry of Industry.

Li Dexiu, the censor, served as the minister of the Ministry of punishment.

Li Qi and Li Ting are both from Dunhuang, Shazhou.

Lu Rubi was a Jinshi in the former Tang Dynasty and a native of Youzhou.

Li Dexiu is from Zhaozhou, Hebei.

After some operations, the influence of the high-ranking officials of the former Tang Dynasty who were hired due to the need for the United Front in the early years of the founding of the country was gradually removed, and they were replaced by their own people.

At the same time, officials from the prince's line were allowed to enter the six departments for the first time, and finally united the battles in Hedong and Hebei.

Politics is just such a thing of sewing and patching, and sharing the cake. It is actually very boring, but it has to be taken seriously.

"With the crown prince, the country will be stable." Du Shi said: "I never dreamed that the chaos after the hardships would be cleared up step by step."

"Isn't it all due to me?" In front of ministers, Shao Shude often humbled himself and was very steady, but in front of beauties, he was never humble, and his desire to show was very strong.

Du Shi chuckled, Xiao Shi and Wei Shi also laughed.

The current power of the Du family in the court is not bad, the Xiao family is in full swing, but Wei Shi seems to have no successors, only Wei Xun is the governor of Hebei.

The Feng family and Pei family, which were once extremely popular, gradually became a little bit out of date.

It's not that saints are not promoted, it's because there is really no suitable candidate.However, these family backgrounds are still there, and there may be a chance to make a comeback after passing scientific research and joining the army.

The civil service system has been arranged and there is also the general system.

According to the system, the transfer of the forbidden army needs to be signed by the six privy envoys and deputy privy envoys of the Nanya Privy Council to take effect.Because Zhao Kuangning and Qian Liu are remote leaders, there are actually only four people, namely Zhu Shuzong, Li Tangbin, Wang Bian, and Hu Zhen.

Shao Shude thought for a while, then transferred Zhao Kuangning to Bei Ya, and led the Deputy Privy Council of the Upper Privy Council of Bei Ya. Zhe Silun, who was originally in charge of this position, was appointed as the Privy Council of the Lower Privy Council of Bei Ya, filling the position that had been vacant for a long time after Qi Binzhang's death.

Shao Desheng, the former envoy of the Ningyuan Army, served as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council of Nanya.

In this way, there are five people.

Among them, Zhu Shuzong is the father-in-law of the prince.

Li Tangbin was actually a bit domineering, except for hiding at Shao Shude's feet, he didn't think much of others, including the crown prince.It's hard to say whether it will end well in the future, but Shao Shude prefers to let him serve in the future, which is also a kind of protection for him.

In addition, for nobles at the level of the Duke of the Kingdom, it is actually not suitable for in-depth participation in government affairs. The best choice is to stay in the army.

The various positions of the Privy Council are, to put it bluntly, nothing more than civilian military positions.

In the early Tang Dynasty, generals and nobles seldom held this position, and they were basically civil servants or middle officials.At the beginning, the ranks were not high, and the seniority and meritorious service of these people were not good, so it was highlighted that "the small controls the big", that is, the junior privy envoys check and balance the senior meritorious generals.

As for the Privy Council being controlled by eunuchs, it is another matter.

For people like Li Tangbin, resigning from all positions is the right way.

Apart from Zhu Shuzong and Li Tangbin, Wang Bian is an old man and loyal.

Hu Zhen also seems to be more loyal, and he is old, he only wants peace, he will not get involved in all kinds of nonsense, and he doesn't make much friends with outsiders on weekdays.

Needless to say, Shao Desheng, Shao Shude has always trusted him.

After such an adjustment, anyone with a heart can see the deep meaning behind it.

Yes, this adjustment is mainly to guard against the prince, not others.

The family relationship between father and son in the Tian family is just that - peculiar.

It is also necessary for the prince to slowly cultivate his party members and expand his influence in order to prepare for a smooth succession in the future, but at the same time, he must strictly guard against death.

It's a bit contradictory, I have to say, but that's the instinct of a power animal.

(End of this chapter)