Great Tang princess

Chapter 480
On the ninth day of August, the court meeting.

After reporting the work of various departments, everyone is waiting for the final decision of the emperor on the dragon chair.

Because the Hubu Shangshu retired and returned to his hometown, this position was naturally vacant, and almost all courtiers hoped that someone from their own faction could take over this position.

In fact, in the past few years, the power of courtiers has become smaller and smaller, and they are gradually opening up a greater distance from the imperial power.

Among them, the shadow of Princess Taiping must be indispensable.

Originally, the courtiers would support the prince who was compatible with them at the right time, so as to ensure that they had a greater voice in the court.

But luckily now, Princess Taiping directly brought all the royal children to the army.They did not ask the ministers of the DPRK and China to learn Confucianism at all.

In this way, the courtiers can only focus on fighting the emperor's wits and courage. With the blessing of the emperor's art, the gap between them and the emperor is getting wider and wider.

To put it simply, it is the beginning of the roll, because it is impossible for the ministers to be completely united, and the emperor will not let them unite, so if you want to get more, you must kill the people around you first.

Rolling and rolling, the overall status of the ministers will naturally become lower and lower, and the imperial power will become more and more concentrated.

Having said that, the Ministry of Household Affairs has always been the most lucrative department, and it has always been a battleground for different factions. Many people have recommended candidates they think are qualified, and the next step is to see how the emperor chooses.

But the leaders of each faction tilted their heads slightly at this time, looking at Princess Xuancheng who was standing in the courtiers.

Now she is the only woman in the court other than the emperor, standing out among the courtiers, even a bit dazzling.

The leading figures of each faction were not as excited and looking forward to as others, and they had already made certain speculations about the candidate for the position of Hubu Shangshu.

For many people, if the result of this kind of thing is not known until the moment it is announced, then this life will basically be like that.

Not only in the case of an autocratic monarchy, but also in a voting system similar to democracy. Many people are actually sure of the result before the voting officially begins.

Sure enough, Pei Huaiyi, who has now been named a general, took the lead to stand up: "Your Majesty, I believe that Princess Xuancheng can take the post of Secretary of the Household Department!"

As soon as this remark came out, although many ministers expressed surprise and doubts, Di Renjie and other high-ranking officials showed no expression, as if they had expected this result long ago.

Wu Zetian also nodded slightly: "Well... do all the loves have different opinions?"

Of course there are opinions, and many ministers want to stand up and express their opposition.

But looking at the respective leaders who didn't say a word, and didn't express anything, they should understand the reason behind this matter, so they all kept silent and didn't stand up to express their opinions.

Wu Zetian was very satisfied with this situation, and nodded with a smile on his face. Not to mention, at least these courtiers still understand the truth.

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In this way, Princess Xuancheng became the Minister of the Household Department without any accident.

Not long after taking office, she received a message from Li Yuechen, asking Shangguan Wan'er to investigate the affairs of the Lu family, so the Ministry of Household Affairs could also cooperate with her.

Naturally, Princess Xuancheng would not delay Li Yuechen's affairs, and immediately got busy as soon as she took over the work.

Fortunately, no matter what, she is also a princess, and her status is naturally superior to others, and there will not be such things as in the future workplace.

Otherwise, it would be very easy for princesses to kill each other, even if it wasn't the emperor's own, but as long as the emperor recognizes this daughter, then she is a well-deserved princess.

So under her order, the entire household department became busy in an instant.

On the other side, many ministers asked the leaders of their respective factions in private, wanting to learn what the emperor meant.

Regarding the questions of their respective students, the ministers only sighed slightly, and slowly explained to them.

Now that the imperial power is powerful, the emperor definitely wants to take this opportunity to stabilize the imperial power. Now the Ministry of War is completely in the hands of the royal family.

There is no way around it. Princess Taiping has made great military achievements and has enough prestige in the army. No one can say anything about her being in charge of the military department.

But obviously, this is not enough for the royal family, and then there is the Ministry of household affairs.

The Ministry of Households is in charge of household registration, land, money and food... If the royal family can also control it, it will make the stability of the imperial power a step further.

Ministers want to see this scene?Of course I don't want to!
Because once this happens, it means that the emperor is not afraid of them. Even if all the ministers suddenly leave, as long as the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households do not fail, the minimum operation of the country can be guaranteed.

If this situation continues, the atmosphere in the court will change in the future. Everyone must hug the emperor's thigh to survive, and the days of fighting against the emperor will be gone forever.

They didn't want to see this scene happen, but they couldn't help it. They didn't have enough strength in their hands, so they didn't have the confidence to speak, and the emperor wouldn't listen.

Now that the royal guards are all over the country, basically no matter where there is a little trouble, they can find it and deal with it in advance.

Princess Taiping is also recognized as the god of war in this world. As long as she stands in front of the battle, the morale of the enemy army will drop by half, not to mention that her army has all kinds of explosive artifacts...

To put it bluntly, as long as the emperor doesn't do too much now, if he doesn't come up and force people to death, no one dares to rebel at this time, so he can only choose to endure.

But bear with it, sooner or later the imperial power will grow.

The courtiers can also see that the emperor is now boiling frogs in warm water and grinding them a little bit.

But what if you can see it?If you rebelled because of this matter, it would be fine if you succeeded. If you failed, then your name would be completely nailed to the pillar of shame in history.

So they can only watch the emperor grind them a little bit. One day, the imperial power will be completely concentrated.

In the past, I could find a way to support a puppet emperor and control the power by myself.

Fortunately, the royal family personally cultivated the descendants, and let Princess Taiping cultivate them. If this continues, the successors in the future will be as shrewd as the princess, and that will be the heaviest blow to the aristocratic family.

Officials from poor families don't care much about this, after all, their ancestors are farmers, and they don't understand the benefits of generations of nobles.

But the current nobles are unwilling to accept such a result, so they have to find a way to break the situation.

As for what methods the different families chose... that can only be known in the future.

Now Princess Xuancheng has become the boss of the household department, announcing that the royal family will take the household department back to the royal family. In the past few years, the sales of refined salt have been increasing steadily, and the national treasury has gradually become sufficient.

According to the emperor's always sinister character, there might be some big moves waiting for him next, so it's better to make preparations early to prevent being troubled.

……

In the vegetable field in the Qingdao camp area, a glass shed stood abruptly in it, which seemed a bit out of harmony.

Maybe it's just Li Yuechen himself who thinks so, and everyone else seems to think that the shed is shining golden in the sun, which is a bit dazzling.

But such a building made them all curious, could it be possible to grow vegetables in winter?
Most of the students of the military academy and the children of the royal family can see the reason. The weather is hot in summer, so they can grow vegetables. The reason why they want to come to this glazed room is to raise the temperature.

The logistics soldiers in charge of planting vegetables carefully sprinkled the seeds inside, and the next thing to do is to wait. If all goes well, you can see sprouts within seven or eight days.

After waiting for the seeds to be planted, Li Yuechen waved to the soldiers who watched the excitement around him: "Okay, okay, don't watch, go to training!"

Then I ran to the kitchen to get busy, and today I suddenly wanted to eat bread, and I planned to bake some dough by myself.

In fact, she has thought about this problem before, but bread is not the same as hubing, the shelf life is too short, and it was not suitable for use as military rations before.

Until now, all aspects here are almost stable, and Li Yuechen really thought of baking some bread to reward himself for his tiredness during this time.

By the way, let the soldiers in the cooking class learn. If they do well, they can occasionally provide some western-style meals like sandwiches to the soldiers in the future.

Of course, in this time and space, since it was made by her, it is not considered Western style.

After the reconciliation, Li Yuechen explained that they watched the fermentation while thinking about another question.

Whether it is flour or eggs in this era, the gap with the future is not very big, so you should be able to make bread with a good taste.

So can you use this to try other things?

Speaking of bread being fermented, it can be made into kvass, but the only trouble is that it can’t be made into sparkling drinks. She really doesn’t know how to inject carbon dioxide into the bottle in this era.

Not to mention that kvass itself has a certain alcohol content. If hops can be found in the future, maybe beer can be made in this era.

If this thing is real, gold and silver coins from other countries will naturally pour in, and it will definitely become one of the favorite drinks of nobles from all over the world.

Any kind of beverage in the world, whether it is coffee, tea, fruit juice or milk... is not as popular as wine.

Beer, in particular, has a large number of loyal users all over the world. If beer can be produced in this era, it will definitely make businessmen from all over the world wave a lot of money to ask for goods.

Maybe you can take this opportunity to levy precious metals all over the world, maybe you can take this opportunity to become the world's largest economy in the future...

Thinking about it, Li Yuechen felt that his thoughts seemed to fly too far.

He quickly shook his head to wake himself up, and raised his hand to wipe away the saliva that didn't exist at the corner of his mouth. The primary goal now is to make the country a better place, and let's talk about the rest...

But once the idea appeared, it actually lingered.

(End of this chapter)