Ji Tang

Chapter 116: Chaos at the meeting

"quiet!"

The sound coming from the front immediately silenced the entire hall.Ji Song sounded like Chen Shou's voice, but he wasn't sure.

After all, it was a bit far away, at least twenty feet away by visual inspection, and there was a big pillar in front of him blocking his view, so he couldn't look around at will.

"Your Majesty has arrived! All officials will welcome you!"

"I will pay my respects to my emperor. May your Majesty live forever!"

Just when Ji Song was waiting and about to fall asleep, a sudden sound startled Ji Song. Fortunately, except for the people next to him, he could not be seen in front or behind him.

By the time he reacted, everyone had returned to their seats. Seeing Ji Song's appearance, they were first confused and then suddenly realized, which made Ji Song very depressed.

It seemed like they knew him, but he didn’t know any of them!Besides, when did he become so famous? Why didn’t he know?
This is Ji Song's ignorance. What is the most important thing as an official?Of course it was the information. Ji Song stole the show in this battle, and it was difficult not to let people know about it.

Coupled with the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, it was not easy for people to know about Ji Song, a young man who was only fifteen or sixteen years old.

While he was meditating here, the ministers in the hall had already returned to their seats, and he quickly sat down.

"Today is the first major court meeting since I ascended to the throne, and it is also a ceremony to award awards to many meritorious officials. I am very relieved to see the civil and military talents of the entire dynasty!"

Li Shimin did not sit down, but came to Danbi and said loudly.

"Not long after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, although the major wars were settled, there were still small mischiefs and evil intentions. Some time ago, the Turkic thieves almost came to the city."

"However, I trust that all the ministers and workers will work together, the civil servants will work tirelessly to make suggestions, and the military generals will go through life and death without fear of death. With people like you here, I will not be afraid of any difficulties."

"Your Majesty will live for ten thousand years, and the Tang Dynasty will live for ten thousand years!"

"Okay! Fang Xuanling!"

"Chen is here!"

Li Shimin waved his sleeves and was already sitting on the dragon chair, with twelve beaded curtains shaking.

"You will host this court meeting, let's get started!"

The first is Li Shimin's opening remarks. This is no different from the practice of later generations, it just turns the words into vernacular!

It was appropriate for Fang Xuanling to preside over the court meeting. After all, he was the prime minister and the head of the ministers.

"The minister leads the order!"

The next process is basically to introduce the basic situation of the court, how much tax revenue was last year, how much supplies there were, where there were disasters, how much was spent, and how much was left.

Ji Song probably heard clearly. According to Lao Fang's data, Li Yuan alone spent one-tenth of the tax revenue last year. This made Ji Song dumbfounded by the emperor's spending methods.

You must know that at this time, the national tax revenue was only 400 million guan, and he alone spent more than 30 guan, mainly on building palaces and numerous ostentations.On this point, Li Yuan could not complain about losing the throne.As the founding emperor, how could he do this? Look at Liu Bang, look at what Yang Jian did?

Light corvees and low taxes, and resting with the people are the most basic.Liu Bang started as a low-level bureaucrat and knew the sufferings of the people. He even adopted Huang-Lao's theory of inaction to govern.

That is to say, don't let officials disturb people's lives and production all day long. As long as they pay taxes and perform normal corvee work, people basically have nothing to do with officials all year round.

He even created a unique mausoleum system unique to the Han Dynasty for the sake of the local wealthy and powerful families and the common people, and moved all these people to the vicinity of the imperial mausoleums he was building, and took care of them nearby.

Therefore, under this kind of inaction, in just over sixty years, the Han Dynasty's national power became great, which laid the foundation for Emperor Wu's northern expedition to the Huns.

Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian, was different. In addition to light corvee and low taxes, he implemented a strict household registration system and liberated a large number of enslaved landless poor peasants. The current land equalization system is his masterpiece.

This brought the country's countable population to more than 5000 million during the heyday of the Han Dynasty in the middle of the Sui Dynasty.There was so much grain that it was still in use 20 years after the founding of the Tang Dynasty.

But unfortunately, the encounter with Emperor Sui Yang, a prodigal son who was eager for quick success and quick success, caused the Han nation in the Central Plains to be severely damaged again. Until the peak period of the Tang Dynasty, the peak population of the Sui Dynasty was not restored.

No matter what, these two people were extremely restrained at the beginning of the founding of the country. How could anyone like Li Yuan directly let himself go?

Continuing to listen to Fang Xuanling's work report, Ji Song fell asleep until a loud shout made Ji Song tremble and wake up immediately.

Seeing some chaos in front of him, Ji Song wanted to take a look at the excitement, but he was soon targeted by the imperial censor, so he had to give up the idea.

Maybe the big guys were fighting, and the younger brothers didn't dare to stab him. The silence around Ji Song was terrifying, as if he was worried about being targeted by the big guys.

After listening for a while, I realized that it was Cheng Yaojiao who was asking why the soldiers' weapons and armor were not replaced yet, leaving the soldiers who had been through thick and thin on the battlefield to fight with the enemy in rags.

Ask Fang Xuanling if he had embezzled the money, otherwise how could he not have it?

This was like poking a hornet's nest. Encountering such a troublemaker, the civil servants could not rest. The whole court meeting was in chaos for a while, and it was not quiet until the imperial censor appeared.

Just when Ji Song thought there was nothing left to watch, another one jumped out and took a look, ha!Still know each other.

It turned out that Wei Zheng was an outlier among civil servants, and the shit in the eyes of the generals stood out.The opening of my mouth is to plead for the people, hoping that the imperial court can open the granary to relieve the refugees caused by the Turks' southward movement. Your Majesty should also live frugally and reduce expenditures to set an example for the world!
Li Shimin's eyelids jumped. Is this pointing the finger at himself?However, in order to maintain a good image in front of the people of the world, he pinched his nose and endured the incident, promising to reduce the palace expenses in the future.

Now, with these two leading the way, the civil servants and military generals started a unique on-site fight.The sharpness of his words and the beauty of his rhetoric fully embody the beauty of the Chinese national language.

All kinds of curse words without swearing were splashed out from the mouths of the ministers, making Ji Song eye-opening and dumbfounded.

Civil servants accused the military generals of being aggressive and ignorant of the plight and hardship of the people's livelihood.The generals pointed their noses at the civil servants and scolded them for their incompetence.

What?Civil affairs is your specialty. If you don't do it well, it means you are incompetent. What does it have to do with me?We, old men, only know how to win the war, but the lack of supplies, weapons, and food and grass is a matter for you, civil servants, who sit in public houses all day long.

Li Shimin had a headache from above. There had been a long history of confrontation between civil and military forces.Military generals can only demonstrate their value by fighting. Civil servants want the people's livelihood to be prosperous, and it is best to have clear seas, rivers, and peace in the world.

Only then did I admire the power-balancing skills of my father and eldest brother, but thinking about their relationship at this time, if I knew about this, I still don't know how to laugh at myself!
After steeling himself and coughing a few times, he let everyone know that he was still in front of the emperor, and quickly returned to their respective places. He looked at his nose and his heart, looking like he was not me, which made Ji Song almost laugh out loud.

　Try to make it as interesting as possible!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)