Chastity Layman

  Chapter 266 Baima Xuanxiang

   "White hemp pays homage to the prime minister, not through Zhongshu's door!"

   Li Shimin was undoubtedly already prepared. Sitting on the imperial couch, his eyes burst out with a bright light, which directly captured people's hearts.

  "From today onwards, all important edicts such as worshiping, exempting generals, ordering expeditions, enshrining queens and princes, amnesty for the world, etc., are drafted by academicians of the Imperial Academy."

  Li Shimin brought up again the treacherous trips of the two former prime ministers, Pei Ji and Feng Lun.

   "From now on, the appointment and dismissal of prime ministers will be directly at the emperor's will, without going through the prime ministers or under Zhongshu."

  As soon as these words came out, Wang Gui had nothing to say.

  In the Wude Dynasty, even if it was to worship the prime minister, it was necessary to discuss with the prime ministers, and then the Zhongshu Sheren drafted the edict, and finally announced the edict on jute paper.

  But now, Li Shimin said that the power to appoint a prime minister in the future belongs to the emperor.

  Do not even discuss with the prime ministers, and use the emperor's private newly established Hanlin bachelor to draft the imperial edict to keep confidentiality. In order to distinguish it from the external system, even the imperial edict is written on white hemp paper.

  In the past, Zhongshu Sheren drafted an imperial edict, which had to go through the door, and then Fu Baolang covered the emperor's great treasure.

   And now the emperor wants to officially open the internal system, not just the Zhongzhi and Mo Chi, but the internal system. There is no need to go through the two provinces of Zhongshumen, no great treasures, and no need to stamp the emperor's seal.

   White hemp Xuanxiang.

  Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, and Du Ruhui, the three prime ministers, undoubtedly had a long-standing relationship with the emperor, and they immediately stood up to support the emperor at this time. Claiming that the right to worship the prime minister is only the emperor!

   What can Wang Gui say when such words are spoken?

Although it is true that it is the emperor's right to worship the prime minister, but in the past, the emperor and the prime ministers basically used this mode of discussion, but now the emperor says that in the future, the worship of the general minister cannot be discussed with the prime minister, without going through Zhongshu. What can Wang Gui say?

   This is one of the strengths of Li Shimin as a powerful emperor who conquers the world. If it is an ordinary emperor, I am afraid that the prime ministers will not give in easily, but in front of Li Shimin, they dare not push too much.

  Ever since, Qin Lang became Li Shimin's first prime minister of Baima Xuanxiang.

  Qin Lang worshiped Tong Zhongshu under the door of Pingzhang Guoji.

   Then Dai Zhou also worshiped as Tong Zhongshu's subordinate Pingzhang Guoji, and Du Yan worshiped as Shen Zhizhengshi.

  The Hanlin Academy and the Hanlin Bachelor were also officially established.

  Qin Lang accepted the decree for the academicians of the Imperial Academy, that is, the chief academician. In addition, the emperor appointed Cen Wenwen, Liu Ji, and Ma Zhou as the academicians of the Imperial Academy, and the Imperial Academy was set up outside the gate of Yintai.

  From the bottom of his heart, Li Shimin has always wanted to gain more power.

He is used to commanding the whole army like commanding an army to go to war, and since Wude, the emperor and the prime ministers rule the world together. In fact, Li Shimin doesn't like it very much, especially when the Wude prime ministers often disagree with him. , he felt that his hands were bound, and he wanted to get rid of them more and more.

  Of course Li Shimin is also willing to use Wang Gui, Wei Zheng, and Wei Ting, the old ministries that were originally built, but he also wants to reuse Qin Lang, a pragmatist.

  In a court, there must be all kinds of people, and the interests of all factions must be taken care of, but there must be someone to do things.

  This is like why all dynasties suppressed business and emphasized agriculture? In fact, the emperor didn't want to restrain ordinary small merchants and peddlers. What they wanted to guard against was the confluence of capital, gentry, and powerful people.

Just like the current imperial court, although the Guanlong nobles are not as good as the next generation, their influence is still there, especially in the military. It can be said that they are a group of people who hold half of the swords in the Tang Dynasty. What about the Guandong gentry? , They master the monopoly of academics, and what they master is Datang's pen.

  If these people are allowed to hold the money bag again, will the Li family still be able to sit firmly on the throne?

  So in history, why did the Han Dynasty always have trouble with the powerful, and why did it always strictly boycott merchants? It is because Haoqiang has been trying to break through the economic blockade.

   Later in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it was out of control. The gentry merged together, and even merged with the merchants, and finally formed a powerful gentry and powerful force. In the end, the Eastern Han Dynasty perished, even by force.

  The current five surnames and seven families actually came from the gentry of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

The land equalization system originated from Yuwentai in the Northern Zhou Dynasty, and it has a special epochal character. At that time, Yuwentai combined the eight adult tribal military systems of the Northern Wei Dynasty, and launched a combined government military system of Daibei Shibing and Guanlong Xiangbing. This system was indeed true at the time. Very advanced.

In the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian improved this system again, which can be called a comprehensive reform. For example, Fubing is no longer a separate military household, listed as a civilian, and no longer lives alone, and Fubing is no longer affiliated with those The head of the army was changed back to the Han surname, and the middle and senior officers were all arranged in the guards of the capital, so they could no longer directly command the troops, and the vassal relationship between generals and soldiers in the past was lifted.

   In fact, it is to change private soldiers into state-owned.

  The Sui Dynasty unified the world and ended hundreds of years of division and chaos, so it was an era of great change, and the land equalization system could be implemented.

   But now it's different.

  The current situation in Datang is not only different from that of Kaihuang, but also different from that of Wu Dechu.

  Qin Lang had already made it clear to Li Shimin that the land equalization system no longer adapted to the new situation, there was no more land to equalize, and the common people were not granted enough land.

  It is an unchangeable fact that the gentry, powerful bureaucrats and nobles occupy too much land. Even this kind of merger will become more and more fierce.

   Reform is necessary, otherwise there will be no major problems in ten or twenty years, but the society will inevitably collapse in thirty or forty years.

  Li Shimin announced Bai Ma as Prime Minister at the Hall of Liangyi today, and worshiped Qin Lang as his prime minister, in order to take advantage of the thunderous momentum of eradicating Feng Deyi to readjust his direction.

  Feng Deyi was the leader of the opposition who opposed the reform before, and now his conviction and fall must have aroused fear among many people. At such a time, it is Li Shimin's specialty to cut the mess quickly.

  Li Shimin is very clear about the power groups in this court, who he can really trust, who is the enemy he wants to suppress all the time, and who he wants to beware of.

He can trust the old part of Qin Wangfu, especially Qin Qiong and other Shandong upstarts. It's the guys that Li Shimin fears the most.

   After all, although the Guanlong Group is strong, there are only three generations, but how many generations are the Shandong gentry?

  The gentry’s favorite era is the Wei and Jin era. Under the nine-rank Zhongzheng system, they lived a truly unrestrained life. Family politics, scholar-officials and the emperor ruled the world together, and they even wished that the emperor would be their puppet.

  How can Li Shimin agree?

   What he wants to establish is a powerful centralized court like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, so he will inevitably collide with the gentry, just like the Han Dynasty did to the powerful, he has no choice.

  The resistance to reform in court was too strong, but the stronger it was, the more determined Li Shimin was to reform. The assassination of Qin Lang this time allowed Li Shimin to find a breakthrough. He originally planned to pretend to be a wave of dead dogs. No one knows whether Feng Deyi has lost his mind or his son is determined to be the leader of the younger generation. He dared to do this Act recklessly.

  Seize the opportunity and make a strong counterattack.

  Taking advantage of this wave of turmoil, the reform plan was restarted directly again.

  No one can stop him.

   Whoever dares to stop too much, he doesn't mind expanding the closed case and adding a few more.

  At the end of the Sui Dynasty, there were two sayings circulating in the world, one was that the Li family should rule the world, and the other was that the Liu family was the auspicious one. This actually represented the two major forces at that time.

One is that the Guanlong Group and the Guanzhong and Guanxi gentry supported the Li family, and the other was the Guandong gentry-based forces. They launched the Liu family as the auspicious, just to support a Shandong native to replace the Sui Dynasty, so as to restore the past in the Northern Wei Dynasty and the Northern Qi Dynasty. their political status.

   But the result is that they lost.

   This was a failed political bet. With Jian Jian being killed, the second bet of the Shandong gentry failed again.

   Now they still want to form a group to advance and retreat together, but the emperor is not Li Yuan, and it is not the year of Wu De at the moment. The Tang Dynasty has unified the world, and the emperor has more chips in his hands.

  Don’t look at Li Shimin’s usual appearance of accepting advice. In fact, Li Shimin often refuses to accept advice. He is a person with his own opinions. Once he has made up his mind, it is difficult for ordinary people to change his decision easily.

   Just like when he was conquering east and west, no matter how fierce the enemy is and how many troops there are, but he has made a decision, he will never change it, he will only grit his teeth and fight to the end.

  He is also like this, winning big battles again and again.

   This was true for the Battle of Hedong, this was true for the Battle of Luoyang, it was also true for the Battle of Hulao, and it was even more true for the Battle of Hebei.

He doesn't care that Qin Lang is only seventeen years old, or that Qin Qiong is already a prime minister, these are not important, just like he is only under thirty, and Changsun Wuji is only in his twenties. Left servant shot?

  Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui are only around forty.

  The emperor used a piece of white hemp to announce the prime minister, telling everyone strongly that the reform had begun again. This time, he strongly promoted Qin Lang to the throne, just to let everyone know his support for the reform and Qin Lang.

  Qin Lang didn't even know about this beforehand.

  Honor Liangyi, even if you want to refuse, Li Shimin won't give him this chance.

He is still a transshipment envoy, he is also a regular servant of Sanqi under his door, he is a scholar of the Imperial Academy, and he is a tribute judge. Participate in decision-making discussions.

   There is no doubt that even Dai Zhou, Minister of the Household Department, has now become his reform deputy.

  Feng Deyi was the most unlucky. The emperor didn't care whether the mastermind behind the assassination of Qin Lang was his own intention or his son's. Anyway, the blame had already been pinned on him now.

  All the property and wealth of the Feng family are now directly transferred to the royal treasury by him, serving as the emperor's small treasury.

  The emperor finally rewarded Qin Lang with a hundred hectares of land, which was considered to appease him when he was assassinated and injured. In addition, Tang Lin, who was the first to be impeached, was promoted to be a secretary and serve the censor. He also gave a house in Beijing and a thousand acres of land.

  (end of this chapter)