Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1398 Ye Weiyang

Ye Weiyang.

The emperor stood on the newly built stargazing tower of hundreds of feet high in Luoyang Palace. This stargazing tower was designed by the concubine Yan who had been in the cold palace, and built by her brother Yan Liben Yan Lide. It can be said to be another miracle in the history of architecture.

It towers into the clouds and is hundreds of feet above the ground. At night, people standing upstairs seem to have ascended to the sky.

The night wind blew the skirts of the emperor's body, and the skirts brushed against the emperor's face.

The 36-year-old emperor sighed that his life was half over.

It has been 20 years since I came to this era, and scenes of past events flashed in my mind, some of which were even blurred.

"Saint, the high wind and cold in the Star Picking Tower, be careful of catching cold." The internal guard reminded.

Feng Lishi has already resigned from the position of the internal servant due to old age and sickness. He suffers from wind-temperature joint pain, and now the emperor bestows on him to go to Jinling, Nanjing to retire.The eunuch who succeeded him was Wei Zhongxian, who had performed outstandingly in recent years. This eunuch who had served as the escort of the Bohai Fleet had martial arts skills and dexterity.

The emperor was condescending, overlooking the entire Luoyang city.

In Luoyang City under the starry sky at night, most of the districts have fallen into darkness and tranquility, but there are also several bustling commercial streets that are still brightly lit. This is the Luoyang Night Market that does not close at night. Thousands of people who can't sleep will come here to eat supper, visit the night market, drink and watch dances, etc.

Looking west, the distance is pitch black.

The emperor knew that thousands of miles away, the crown prince was in Suiye River in Beiting.

One of the emperor's elder brothers was there, and another son was there.

Turn around and go back to the building.

Wei Zhongxian asked people to close the windows and doors, and when the doors were closed, the outside wind was also blocked. However, there was a large window in front of the emperor's case, but it was made of transparent glass. Sitting in the room, he could still see the night sky. and Luoyang City.

There are still many briefings on the emperor's desk.

Although the emperor is only in his 30s, Luo Cheng is not the diligent emperor like Yang Jian and Yang Guang and his son. He never writes memorials until late at night.

As the emperor, he always thought that he was just the helm of the empire, and he was just in charge of the general direction.

The Zhengshitang and the Hanlin Academy are the imperial government.

The internal and external affairs of the imperial court have their own systems and stipulated procedures.Three provinces, six ministries, nine temples, five prisons, three yamen, all military guards, and six capitals and nine prefectures, 36 roads, 270 counties, and [-] counties. In such a vast world, if everything is handled by the emperor, then the emperor will not eat all day long. Administration without drinking is endless.

The place is divided into four levels: Daojun, County and Township, and there is Li Village Baojia in the countryside.

Dao shared many local management affairs for the central government.

And the three provinces, six ministries, nine temples, five supervisors, and guards of the imperial court also managed one piece according to their duties.

Important affairs are then taken care of by the court.

Only the most important matters will be reported to the emperor, and the emperor will make a decision, or discuss with the important ministers at the imperial meeting.

In addition, the emperor always asked the prime ministers of the Zhengshitang to vote for it, and then the academicians of the Imperial Academy approved it.

The secretaries of the Ministry of Secretaries will extract and refine the memorials to be approved by these votes, and then copy them together to form a briefing and send it to the emperor.

In this way, thousands of memorials are gathered in front of the emperor every day, that is, a newspaper with a maximum of [-] words, and each item is at most one sentence, and some unimportant things will not even be sent to the emperor. .

Moreover, the secretary lords who were the champions who passed the previous imperial examinations would also classify all aspects of affairs for the emperor, so that the emperor would be more worry-free and trouble-free.

It can not only reduce the time spent on copywriting and memorials, but also not delay things.

The emperor picked up the bulletin and read it a second time. Compared with the quick reading of the first time, the emperor slowed down a bit this time, and even used a pen to draw lines and circles on some content that he was concerned about. Simple comments were made.

After reading the more than 1-word briefing for the second time, the emperor looked again at the place he had just circled.

As the secretary and supervisor, Yu Zhining immediately stepped forward and picked up the briefing, "I will send someone to follow up immediately."

Yu Zhining took over after Wang Gui, the former secretary supervisor, was promoted to Zaifu. He was the great-grandson of Yu Jin, the grand master of the Sui Dynasty. He came from a famous family and was talented.

"The content of my circle notes and instructions will be transferred to the Political Affairs Hall and the Hanlin Academy for circulation, and they will reconsider the disposal plan. When I look back, remember to report the results to me."

"I obey the order." Yu Zhining nodded.

There are more than [-] words in a briefing, and many memorials from the court and the local government are usually recorded in one sentence. The format is generally what happened, how the local government should deal with it, and how the court should deal with it, and then submit it to the emperor.

If the emperor has no objection to the handling of this matter, he will only approve it after reading it, without even writing a word.But if the emperor is interested in this matter, or has opinions on the handling of the court, then he will use his unique circle marks to indicate his different degrees of concern about the matter, or directly give instructions.

As a secretary and supervisor, Yu Zhining has a large group of secretary ministers who were born as champions. These people are all top candidates in previous imperial examinations. They are in charge of this briefing every day, so they are naturally very attentive and dare not make any mistakes.

But compared to those prime ministers and bachelors in Zhengshitang and Hanlin Academy, they are much more relaxed.

You must know that the briefing of tens of thousands of words per day was extracted and transcribed from thousands of memorials every day. Many ordinary chapters were not copied in the briefing at all, so there is no need to waste the emperor's time.However, these memorials have to be dealt with by the court one by one. Fortunately, the Imperial Academy is in charge of the military, sharing a lot of pressure from the ministers.

There are indeed too many affairs in such a large empire.

All kinds of daily affairs, as well as all kinds of emergencies, made the nine prime ministers of the Zhengshitang and the nine academicians of the Hanlin Academy very busy. Foreign appointments, or simply relegated to the second line due to illness.

It is really a lot of work and a lot of pressure.

The Jinghu reconstruction project in the south is still going on, and it has achieved some results so far, but it is still far away from the completion of the tenth phase. However, Jinghu has been hit by heavy rain recently, and the Yangtze River has begun to swell. Although Jinghu has been dredged a lot after several phases of the project, if the heavy rain If you continue, there will still be floods.

Of course, the Yangtze River floods not only affect the areas on both sides of the Jinghu Lake, but also the Jiangxi, Huainan, and Jiangdong roads in the lower reaches, which are also facing great flood control pressure.

Even if the imperial court builds embankments for flood control every year, many flood discharge areas are still set up in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River and Huaihe River, in order to deal with those major floods that occur once in decades or even once in a century. It can release water to the flood discharge area and submerge some areas to alleviate the danger.

Although it is a last resort to abandon the small and protect the big, if the flood discharge area is submerged, it will also cause countless people's homes to become the Ze Kingdom, and countless people will become disaster victims.

(End of this chapter)