Great Tang Dynasty

Chapter 1052 Streamlining Officials
Du Ruhui's illness is really serious.

He didn't finally get better until he coughed up blood.

It's just that at this time, his face was pale and bloodless, which made people feel distressed.

Li Shimin tightly grasped Du Ruhui's hand, this person who had been with him for many years, fell down just like that.

That kind of heartache and anxiety swept over again.

"Your Majesty, you don't have to be sad, life and death are destiny, and everything will be fine."

In comparison, Du Ruhui was more open-minded.

His life can be said to be magnificent, and his life is impossible for many other people to experience in a lifetime. He feels that his life is very exciting, as long as it is wonderful, it is enough.

Why care about his length?
The two monarchs and ministers talked like this for a while, and just after saying this, Du Ruhui suddenly said: "Your Majesty, I know that time will never come. There is something that I have been thinking about for a long time, and I want to talk to you today. I hope Your Majesty can consider it."

"If Du Aiqing has anything to say, just tell me, as long as I can do it, I will help you do it."

Li Shimin felt that Du Ruhui might want to help his descendants to get some benefits. After all, he was dying, so if he didn't ask for some benefits for his descendants, what would his descendants do if they didn't achieve anything?
Everyone has this kind of thinking, and they all want to arrange everything for their son before they die.

This is normal.

However, Du Ruhui smiled and said, "Your Majesty, what I want to talk about is about my Tang officials."

"Official of the Tang Dynasty?" Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, a little unexpected, he didn't expect Du Ruhui to be like this, but what he was thinking about was still the government affairs of the court.

"Your Majesty, he is indeed an official of my Great Tang. In the past few years, my Great Tang has had a lot of officials."

Li Shimin's expression moved slightly, he naturally understood what Du Ruhui meant when he said a little too much.

Since Datang carried out the imperial examination reform, the number of talents selected for the imperial court through the imperial examination every year is not a small number. Although there are only a few dozen people every year, how many officials does Datang need?
It is naturally not easy to assign duties to these extra people, and it seems a bit redundant.

Of course, these people selected through imperial examinations are not too many. The real many are those officials who are selected through recommendation or shadow. There are at least hundreds of these people every year.

After a few years, there will be hundreds of people, and since the founding of the Tang Dynasty more than ten years ago, there are at least a thousand people like this, right?

And many places already have officials, and the change of these officials is relatively not very fast.

Officials are assessed once every three years, but the number of people who can become officials is increasing every year. Over time, there will definitely be many people standing, but there is nothing to do.

But for their existence, the imperial court still needs to pay them salaries every year, and these salaries are not low.

Datang just founded the country, although this kind of problem has appeared, it is relatively not particularly serious, but as time goes by, the number of officials who are increasing every year will make the officials of Datang more entertaining.

In the end, it will cause problems in the official system of the entire Tang Dynasty and become very bloated.

With so many people, they must be arranged, so many official positions will need to be added, and over time, it will definitely become a big problem.

Du Ruhui had already noticed this problem a long time ago. Originally, he wanted to raise it slowly when he had time in the future, and then solve it gradually. After all, this problem involved too many officials, so he should not be careless.

But he felt that time was running out, so he mentioned this matter to Li Shimin at this moment.

Li Shimin knew the meaning of Du Ruhui's words very well, but after Du Ruhui finished speaking, he fell silent.

He has been the emperor for five years. During these five years, many things have happened. He once became the Khan of Heaven, and he was once defeated in front of the little Goguryeo. He doesn't know how much prestige he has in Datang now. Can it stand a huge change?

In fact, Du Ruhui's meaning is very clear, that is to streamline the bureaucracy.

This kind of thing has happened in all dynasties. Once a dynasty develops to a certain stage, it is inevitable. But throughout the ages, there are very few people who can do this successfully.

If it is done well, the dynasty will naturally be able to prosper for a while, but if it is not done well, no matter how glorious the dynasty is, it may take a sharp turn for the worse.

He, Li Shimin, is a very courageous person, but in Datang today, he still doesn't have the idea to do this. In other words, it's not that he doesn't have the idea, but some uneasiness deep in his heart prevents him from having the determination.

After Du Ruhui saw Li Shimin's appearance, his expression moved slightly, and then he sighed, and he didn't say anything more.

The monarch and his subjects suddenly had nothing to say.

I don't know when there was snowflakes outside again.

It was snowing, it was cold, and the wind began to whistle.

The room was very quiet. After a long time, Li Shimin finally stood up and said, "I have remembered what Du Aiqing said. You can rest assured that as long as the time is right, I will do it."

Du Ruhui nodded. He believed that Li Shimin would do it. He also knew that this task was not easy, and he never thought of asking Li Shimin to do it right away.

It was considered an agreement between the two of them, and then Li Shimin braved the wind and snow and returned to the palace.

In the next few days, the whole city of Chang'an said that Li Shimin loved Du Ruhui so much, that he was willing to go to see Du Ruhui even in the snow, and so on.

The Du family was full of people for a while, but none of the people who wanted to visit Du Ruhui got Du Ruhui's approval, or in other words, they didn't see Du Ruhui when they came, and they were all received by Du Ruhui's son Du He.

After making tea and sitting down for a while, these guests were sent away.

There is no way, Du Ruhui's condition is too serious, he can't see every guest who comes.

And when these guests came and left without seeing Du Ruhui, Qin Tian also came with some gifts.

Speaking of which, Qin Tian and Du Ruhui, civil servants, didn't have many contacts, and their relationship was not very close.

However, for Du Ruhui, Qin Tian still admired and respected him very much, and as a junior, Du Ruhui was ill, so it would be a bit difficult for him not to come and see him.

Therefore, after many people came, he also came with some gifts.

It is not necessary to meet Du Ruhui, but at least this etiquette cannot be missed.

Isn't this what Chinese people pay attention to?
Qin Tian came, and Du He led him to the living room as usual.

(End of this chapter)