People in the early Tang Dynasty: I compete with Wu Zhao for the throne

Chapter 1396 I finally survived another winter

In late March, Chang'an City once again became chaotic.

The emperor was going to Luoyang for inspection in early April.

In Chang'an City, I don't know how many people want to go to Luoyang with them, so it's a lot of tidying up.

It's especially rare that the weather is good these days.

The same is true in the palace. Although I have to go to Luoyang once a year, there are a lot of things that need to be packed inside and outside.

In Penglai Hall, Li Zhi did not pay attention to the chaos outside, but still lowered his head and looked at the blue leather notebook in his hand.

The seal reads: I am the pacifying envoy of Luozhidao, Peng Wang Li Xuan, here to report.

This is a memorial about the governance of various states that Li Xuan sent back from Fanzhou.

The most important of them is the preparations for spring plowing in Fanzhou states, and the other is the assessment status of Fanzhou states and counties.

Li Zhi tilted his body slightly and looked at him seriously, his expression gradually becoming serious.

Although Fanzhou is vast, it is only from Dengzhou to Chang'an.

If we take Anyang as the center, it won't take much time to go back and forth.

The emperor controlled the world, from Dengzhou to the Western Regions, from Mobei to the South China Sea, and had to process countless official documents every day.

Fanzhou is just a new decision. In fact, as long as there is no big trouble, Li Zhi won't worry too much, especially the person in charge of Fanzhou is Li Xuan, who has always been careful and conscientious.

What Li Zhi really pays attention to now is Li Xuan's assessment method of checking progress every month.

Even though the monthly progress of each state and county is within a reasonable range, underneath the layers, there is a sense of breathless oppression.

In this case, everyone tries their best to do things. If they hesitate even a little, they will immediately fall to the end and be directly dismissed.

The first unlucky guy was Cui Shi, the magistrate of Gaize County.

Cui was unlucky enough to become the first unlucky county magistrate in Fanzhou to be dismissed.

……

Li Zhi stood up slightly, and the maid beside him immediately delivered a cup of tea to the emperor.

The emperor's eyes passed over the face of the beautiful maid, and then he looked at the memorial in his hand again.

Li Zhi had no impression of Cui Shi, but just by looking at the word Cui, he already knew his origin.

But now, he has become the first county magistrate in Fanzhou to be dismissed.

Now only Li Xian, Empress Wu and Li Zhi have read this memorial. None of them care about a small county magistrate. But it is conceivable that if this memorial is sent to the Ministry of Officials, there will inevitably be a stir. Waves.

Although Cui's dismissal was well-founded and was reviewed and submitted by Zhang Hongyu, who served as the censor and recorded in Fanzhou and joined the army, those who were dissatisfied would still target Li Xuan.

Cui family, Li Zhi sighed softly. Although the Cui family only has one fifth-grade doctor in the official department, this one person is enough to make the entire Cui family target Li Xuan.

This is inevitable.

The Cui family has more than one youngster transferred to Fanzhou this time. If Li Xuan can get rid of one today, then he can get rid of the second one tomorrow.

Even if the Cui family is smart, they might be able to stir up more aristocratic families to target Li Xuan.

After all, there are quite a few children from aristocratic families serving in Fanzhou this time.

It would be lively if Li Xuan chased them all back before autumn.

Li Zhi's eyes narrowed slightly, and a series of thoughts flashed through his eyes, as if he had seen the collision between the noble family and Li Xuan's Peng Wang lineage.

Li Zhi continued to read the memorial in his hand. Among the reports from Fanzhou, it was found that after Cui took office, the governance was delayed for a few days, and by the time he started to take action, it was already more than ten days later.

Li Zhi looked at this with a sneer flashing in his eyes.

He was all too familiar with the style of the children of aristocratic families.

Cuozhou itself is located in the northwest of Fanzhou. Its geography is similar to Ganliang. In addition, it was previously under the jurisdiction of Tubo, so the environment is really bad.

It is strange that the children of well-off families can adapt to remote states and counties.

Therefore, before dealing with political affairs, we first started to tidy up the environment. More than ten days have passed since then.

At this time, Cui became a little anxious. He started to promote household registration, started to make statistics on various spring planting matters, and started to go to the countryside...

When they went to the countryside, the advisors and aides sent by the Cui family to be beside Cui Shi were beaten by the local people.

When Li Zhi saw this, he couldn't help but smile. Anxiety will inevitably lead to impatience, and impatience will inevitably make mistakes. No matter how bad the mistakes are, it is almost foreseeable to be beaten.

After that, the county government officials were dispatched and the people were imprisoned, and the matter was temporarily calmed down.

However, Cui Shi's actions were also delayed visibly, and in the end the entire Gaize County was in a mess.

The spring planting and autumn harvest dates set by Li Xuanfan Prefecture's pacification envoy were very strict, and nothing was accomplished in the end.

A sneer flashed in the corner of Li Zhi's eyes, that's all for the Cui family's children.

Without the help of his staff, he can't even handle political affairs, so why should he be a county magistrate?

"Huh?" Li Zhi suddenly frowned. The political affairs of a county are governed not only by the county magistrate, but also by the county magistrate, county lieutenant, chief secretary, and various ministers.

Why didn't the county magistrate, county lieutenant, chief registrar, and various ministers and ministers play a big role in this matter?
Li Zhi did a little tidying up and soon dug out more things.

In the reform, there are county magistrates, county captains, chief registrars, and various ministers and counselors, but there is no county magistrate.

As the second-in-command in a county, the county magistrate is actually vacant and has not taken office at all.

Li Zhi laughed angrily, who is this person, so stupid.

The Cui family, the children of the Cui family, actually did not let the officials arrange the county magistrate at all because they were afraid that others would seize power.

He didn't say he had any abilities, but he secretly used means to make the county magistrate, who was supposed to be his helper, completely disappear.

When he arrived at the place, he did not actively deal with political affairs. Instead, he brought the lazy style in Chang'an to the prefectures and counties.

Who knows? I was lazy and procrastinated for more than ten days. When I finally reacted, it was already too late.

In a moment of urgency, something happened, and someone almost died.

What is the use of such a person? Looking down at the memorial, Li Zhi directly picked up the thin bamboo gold pen on the side and wrote the word "quasi" directly on it, and then wrote "never hire".

With a "crash", Li Zhi threw the memorial on the table and said directly: "Send it to the Ministry of Officials."

"Here!" A chamberlain came forward, carefully arranged the memorial, and then quickly turned around and left.

Li Zhi raised his eyes and immediately calmed down.

Then, he couldn't help laughing.

With this stroke of his own, he prevented a lot of disasters for Li Xuan.

The Cui family may inevitably find trouble in the future, but with their own judgment, the Cui family can't say much.

Li Zhi couldn't help but shook his head. After all, this matter was the Cui family's own fault.

There is no appointment for the county magistrate. If we investigate carefully, the doctor from the Cui family in the Ministry of Personnel may not do it.

Prince Peng is not that easy to mess with.

Although he has a normal relationship with Cui Mi and Qian Weiwei in the Censorship Department, Di Renjie, Lu Yuanfang, and Yang Zhirou have all worked with him, not to mention Yao Chong and Li Zhaode who are still in office, and they were even just transferred to the Censorate by Li Xian. The complete structure of Taiwan.

If something really breaks out, it will be difficult for the Cui family to deal with it.

……

Li Zhi stood up and walked to the door of the hall. He was dressed in a golden dragon robe, which made him look particularly energetic.

Stretching slightly, Li Zhi couldn't help but squint his eyes slightly as the warm spring sunshine fell on his body, feeling a little comfortable.

One winter, one spring.

Although he often went to Zichen Hall to attend court meetings, he spent more time in Penglai Hall.

The weather is finally getting warmer, and even the pain in my legs and knees is much lessened.

I finally survived another winter.

Li Zhi smiled, and then said lazily: "I am ordering the Yushitai to check how many officials and departments in the court have positions but no one is paying them."

The atmosphere in the Penglai Hall suddenly cooled down completely. A scholar in the hall stood up from behind the curtain, cupped his hands and said, "Here!"

Others behind the curtain did not understand that the emperor wanted to thoroughly investigate the behavior of free money.

Thinking of the memorial that the emperor had read before, many people knew where to find the answer.

Seeing his disciples leave quickly, Li Zhi withdrew his gaze and continued: "Pass an order to the Taishi Bureau to report the number of rainfalls in the world in March."

"Here!" Another person stood up and followed the order and left.

Taking a deep breath, Li Zhi was a little obsessed with the warmth of the spring sunshine.

Since February, it has been drizzling continuously throughout Changan.

Although it's not big, it's really annoying when it keeps lingering.

Not to mention, this even further confirms the Taishi Bureau's speculation about floods this year.

Although Li Zhi has been staying in Penglai Hall, the affairs of the government and the public have never been out of his control.

We must pay more attention to floods.

The Zen ceremony will be held at the end of the year. If there is an uncontrollable flood in the middle of the year, Li Zhi will not have to lose face.

"Pass a decree, ordering the Ministry of Industry to send people to various states and counties to inspect the repair status of water canals. If there is anyone who deliberately slacks off, he will be directly dismissed from the county magistrate or below, and will be promoted to the first level of provincial governor. He will be evaluated by the Ministry of Civil Affairs that year." Li Zhi's face turned cold. Another person stood up, then handed over his hands and left as ordered.

Flood control is not just a matter for all water supervisors.

Capital Water Supervises all major rivers, bridges and ships. As for places beyond the reach of major rivers, they are all under the jurisdiction of states and counties.

Once it rains heavily, the whole place will be affected. If it is not managed well, the whole place may rot.

Looking at the Zichen Palace in the sunshine ahead, Li Zhi calmed down.

"I have ordered the Crown Prince and Grand Tutor Liu Rengui, Duke of Lecheng County, to deploy officials from three provinces, six ministries, nine temples and five prisons to form a flood control station to oversee the flood control this summer and autumn. You can do it cheaply, but you can kill first and report later." Li Zhi's voice was calm. With solemn words, everyone in Penglai Hall couldn't help but stood up and accepted the promise.

Li Zhi looked at Xiangtian with a determined expression.

Feng Chan, Feng Chan, is nothing more than taking advantage of people to conquer heaven and his will.

It's just that there has always been only one person, and that is him, the emperor.

The emperor unites the people of the world and appeals to heaven. The emperor inherits the will of heaven and informs the world.

So what if it's a flood? Dayu controlled the floods and became the emperor of the world, so why can't he, Li Zhi, do it now?

……

In the East Palace, Li Xian, Liu Rengui, Yao Lingzhang and others led the officials in the East Palace to listen to the imperial edict read out by the chamberlain, and most people suddenly became excited.

Since Liu Rengui resigned from the post of Minister Zuopushe, although he still knew the political affairs hall, he rarely went there. Instead, he spent most of his time in the East Palace.

Even many of Guan Lixian's lectures were assigned by Liu Rengui.

He, the Crown Prince and Tutor, is becoming more and more worthy of his reputation.

Although the officials in the East Palace became increasingly cautious, their minds became more and more stable.

With Liu Rengui inside and Li Xuan outside, one inside and one outside, each holding great power, the East Palace is as stable as Mount Tai.

After sending the chamberlain away, Li Xiancai looked at Liu Rengui with excitement: "Prime Minister Zuo."

Regardless of Li Xian or Li Zhi, after Liu Rengui resigned as Minister Zuopushe, he still called him Zuopushe.

The post of Zuopushe in Shangshu Province was still vacant, and Liu Rengui was the real Prime Minister of the Tang Dynasty in the eyes of the emperor and the prince.

When the ministers in the DPRK faced Liu Rengui, they still treated him as prime minister.

Liu Rengui looked at Li Xian solemnly, cupped his hands and said, "Your Highness, this matter is not easy to handle."

"Huh?" Li Xian was slightly stunned, and said with cupped hands: "Please give me some advice, is there any trouble here?"

(End of this chapter)