Chastity Layman

  Chapter 715 Allies

   Zhengshitang.

  In the hall, Lai Hengzheng held a volume of "Sou Shen Ji" and read it with gusto. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, ghost novels were particularly prosperous. There were ghosts and ghosts, Buddhism, and immortal alchemy. They were bizarre and absurd. Sou Shen Ji was written during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and it is also the most famous book of this type.

  This book is full of ghosts and gods, and there are also many love stories between humans and ghosts, such as Ziyu Han's double marriage, Xin Daodu, etc. are all stories about boldly pursuing their own marriages, and even love stories between humans and ghosts.

  As a Jinshi of the first imperial examination in the Zhenguan Dynasty, Laiheng's official career is still good, especially as Qin Qiong's adopted son, and Qin Lang, a younger brother who is the prime minister in the court, takes care of him, so of course it is smooth sailing. After being named on the gold list, he was awarded the title of secretary of the province by the emperor.

  The secretary stayed in the province for three years, transferred to the Hanlin Academy for another year, and this year was transferred to the Zhengshitang and became a post-official official.

The status of the Zhengshitang is getting higher and higher now, its authority surpasses the three provinces, the power is in charge, and the organization is becoming more and more sound. It has changed from just the prime minister's meeting in the Wude period to the current highest central decision-making body. Therefore, there are five rooms under the Zhengshitang , which are the five rooms of the cardinal room, the official room, the military room, the household room and the punishment room.

  Each room has three eminent hall officials, as well as officials such as master secretary and recorder. The three post-officials are all chosen from Beijing officials, because the five houses are mainly responsible for the secretarial work of the Zhengshitang, so the post-officials are basically scholars selected from the Secretary Ministry and the Imperial Academy.

  Laiheng is the post-official of the Cardinal's Office. He is officially called the Cardinal Doctor of Zhengshitang, and he is a lower-level official of Zhengshitang.

The fifth room of the political affairs hall assists the prime minister in his work. Among them, the cardinal room is specially in charge of the imperial edict issued by the emperor to the prime minister, and is responsible for receiving and forwarding the imperial edict to the prime minister. What they usually do is to convey the emperor's documents to the prime minister and have them signed by the prime minister. Then it was transferred to the imperial court for implementation, which is a secretarial department that undertakes confidential official documents.

  Lai Heng worked as a post in the Secretary Department and the Imperial Academy for four years, and his job has always been writing work, so he is very comfortable with this new job.

Especially with Qin Lang's support, plus Ma Zhou, the prime minister, was also the chief of his Imperial Academy before, and when Wei Zheng, the servant, was the secretary and supervisor, he also admired the school secretary Laiheng very much, so after Laiheng entered the Zhengshitang, he was like a fish in water, and he was able to do things well. Won the appreciation of the prime ministers.

The cardinal's room is the most important room among the five rooms, but the prime ministers of the political affairs hall have a court meeting every morning, and then come to the political affairs hall to discuss matters. many.

   Lai Heng can still read novels at leisure.

  A master secretary came to report, "Come here, doctor, the Imperial Academy has just sent someone to send your Majesty's order, which is about sending troops to the Western Regions."

   Lai Heng put down the Sou Shen Ji in his hand, "Well, the imperial edict has been drafted, or should it be discussed by the prime ministers of the Political Affairs Hall, and then handed over to the Zhongshu Sheren to draft the edict?"

   "The Hanlin said that this was discussed by the Ganlu Palace, so let the Zhengshitang here transfer it to the Zhongshu Ministry according to the system, let the Zhongshushe people draft the edict, submit it to the prime ministers for countersignature, and then hand it over to the Secretary for implementation!"

   Lai Heng picked up the teacup and took a sip of Mengding stone flower tea from Jiannan. He quickly went through the matter in his mind and nodded, "Okay, I will personally write the text for Zhongshu Sheng."

  The chief secretary withdrew, leaving the official document sent by the Imperial Academy.

  There are emperor's instructions on it.

   Lai Heng picked up the pen, quickly drafted a document, summoned a court official, and asked him to hand it over to Zhongshu Sheren.

  The Zhongshu Sheren actually work in another courtyard outside the Zhengshitang. This year, in order to improve the efficiency of the Zhengshitang, the emperor agreed to Qin Lang's proposal to move the Zhengshitang from Menxia Province to Zhongshu Province.

  In this way, the prime ministers can sometimes directly call the Zhongshu Sheren to draft the imperial edict for the matters passed by the prime ministers in the Zhengshitang, and there is no need to send it to the door after the drafting.

  The previous system was that Zhongshu drafted a decision-making edict, which was reviewed and rejected by the sect, and then executed by Shangshu Province. The decisions drawn up by the Ministry of Education of the Communist Party of China have to be sent to the provincial government, but often they cannot be passed, and they have to be taken back to re-draft, which is extremely time-consuming.

So later, the Taishang Emperor set up a political affairs hall in Wudezhong, allowing the prime ministers to discuss matters under his door, and it was also convenient to directly discuss the imperial edict drafted by the Zhongshu Province. After the discussion, let Zhongshusheren draft the edict directly, and you can continue to discuss and discuss while drafting the edict.

  After Zhongshu Sheren drafted the imperial edict, he didn't have to go through the review of his subordinate province, let alone worry about being rejected. The chiefs of the three provinces have already reached an agreement directly at the meeting, so there is no need to worry about wrangling disputes.

In fact, Zhengshitang has already combined the powers of Zhongshu and the two provinces under the sect into one. In the past, decision-making, review, and execution were separated into three powers, but now decision-making and review are unified. In fact, they are completely and semi-attached to the Zhengshitang.

Just like now, Lang Laiheng, the political affairs officer of the cardinal's room, directly forwarded a letter to the six members of Zhongshushe, asking them to draft the edict according to the resolution of the emperor and the prime ministers, and then sent it to the political affairs hall for the countersignature of the prime ministers. , Even the people in Zhongshushe can only draft the edict according to the content written by Lai Heng according to the resolution.

  Lai Heng is already equivalent to a Zhongshu servant, and has taken the power of many Zhongshu Sheren.

  In addition to the distribution of the power of the imperial edict by the Hanlin scholars, Zhongshu Sheren is indeed not as good as before.

  The hall official took the text out, and Lai Heng picked up Sou Shen Ji again, but after reading a few pages, he couldn't read it. What he was thinking about was the emperor's selection of commanders and generals for the Western Regions.

Changsun Wuji took command as the head of the Tianshan Road. I'm afraid it was beyond most people's expectations. Li Jing wanted to go, and Hou Junji even killed him before playing. The officials speculated before that maybe the Weiguo Guild would take the command, but the result was unknown. Bing's eldest grandson Wuji went. After winning the No. 1 Scholar, he served as an official in the capital for several years, and Lai Heng was no longer a scholar who only knew how to read sage books. He knew very well that there were intrigues everywhere in the court.

   All ministers in the Zhengshitang Kilometer, the adoptive father has been out of the vassal all the time, Li Jing ignores the director because of his foot illness, and Yang Gongren is just a title, except for these three.

  The rest of the ministers are actually not in harmony. In addition, the prime ministers of the Zhengshitang change frequently, which makes the water in the Zhengshitang even deeper.

Qin Lang and Changsun Wuji are staunch allies. They have a good relationship with Ma Zhou and Dai Zhou. They are still from the same hometown as Fang Xuanling. They have helped Wei Zheng, but in fact Wei Zheng often attacks and impeaches Qin Lang. .

  The righteous brother Qin Lang's real allies in the political affairs hall are actually Changsun Wuji and Ma Zhou.

  Elder Sun Wuji took command of the Western Regions, Qin Lang lost another ally in the Political Affairs Hall.

  Laiheng still admired Qin Lang very much, and actually recommended his eldest son Wuji to be in command of the Western Regions. This move can be said to be the ultimate kill for Hou Junji.

   There is still a shortage of righteous brothers in the court.

Thinking of the conversation with Qin Lang yesterday, Qin Lang planned to arrange for Xu Jingzong to enter the court and take up the post of transfer envoy. Lai Heng felt that this was a good arrangement. Xu Jingzong had qualifications. In the ninth year of Wude, he was transferred to be the county magistrate of Chang'an, and later he temporarily checked his position as the governor of Yongzhou, but he didn't know how he offended the emperor.

  If it weren't for Qin Lang's help, Xu Jingzong might have been relegated to a barbaric place in the south of the Lingnan to become a state minister, and there is no possibility that he is now in charge of a Changping department. He has done a good job in the local area in the past two years, and he has shown a good talent.

After passing through Qin Lang, Dai Zhou, and Ma Zhou, the transshipment envoys are now inspected by Jiang Xingben, but although Jiang Xingben is a former minister of the emperor's hidden residence, he is not very good at economics, and he is not very good at this job Shun, the emperor is also dissatisfied, and it is a good time to operate and transfer Xu Jingzong back to the court.

Qin Lang is the prime minister and Zhan Shi of the East Palace, and then leads the Minister of War, while Ma Zhou is the prime minister and the minister of Zhongshu, and Changsun Wuji is the prime minister and minister of the official department. good.

   This matter should be done before Changsun Wuji leaves Beijing.

  Thinking of this, Lai Heng came out with a pen in his arms, spread out a piece of jute paper, and picked up the pen to write.

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  Imperial City, Yamen of the Ministry of War.

  Qin Lang came back from the palace, he didn't care about losing two cherry groves because he was about to send troops to the Western Regions, and things suddenly became complicated in the Ministry of War.

  The Ministry of War is responsible for the selection and assessment of military officers of the fifth and sixth ranks (above the fifth rank and above are sent to Zhongshu's door, and the amount of qualifications below the sixth rank is destined), in charge of military registration, etc.

  The three most important ones are military administration, military order, and military officer selection assessment.

  The authority of the Zhenguan Military Department of the Tang Dynasty is still very heavy, and the headquarters handles rewards and punishments for advancing and retreating generals.

In contrast, the twelve guards of the northern and southern yamen, the four mansions and the six armies nominally have the power to command the soldiers, but in fact the twelve guards of the southern yamen only have the power to command the soldiers of the upper government, and the local government soldiers have no right to command and dispatch at all. .

  As it is now going to war, the north and south have no right to intervene. The emperor selects commanders and transfers generals.

  The affairs of the Ministry of War have improved tenfold. As Minister of the Ministry of War, many things have to be signed and reviewed by him.

The Fourth Division of the Ministry of War, the Secretary of the Ministry of War, the Secretary of the Ministry of War, the Secretary of the Treasury Department of the Driving Department, one Shangshu, two servants, four Langzhong, and four Yuanwailang, Qin Lang delegated power to the subordinates, let them handle all the specific affairs, and finally report to him, It would be good to be responsible for the review, but it also relieved a lot of burden.

Sitting in the public room, Qin Lang was writing a list, Liang Jianfang, Gao Kan, Gao Zhensheng, Xi Junmai, Changsun Chong, Cheng Chumo, Yuchi Baoqi...these are all Qin Lang's confidantes or friends, this From Qin Lang's point of view, the battle of the Western Regions was all about taking credit.

There is no difficulty at all. Although Changsun Wuji doesn't understand soldiers, Cheng Yaojin, Li Daozong, Su Dingfang, Xue Wanche are all famous fierce generals, and it is enough to send one or two casually. , Dangxiang, the Western Turkic Ministries, and several countries in the Western Regions such as Gaochang, there is basically no suspense for so many people to fight Si Yehu, who has lost his support.

   Such an opportunity, of course, has to install one of our own people.

   Fan general Qi Bi He Li came to his door and asked Qin Lang to join the conscript. This fan general, who was promoted to the county head, wanted to avenge his grandfather.

   "If Your Majesty agrees, I naturally have no objection."

  Qibi He Li still wants to recommend to the coach grandson Wuji through Qin Lang, as long as he can get the recommendation letter from the eldest grandson, he will be sure to find the emperor again.

Qin Lang glanced at Ashinasheer next to him. This is Yang Guozhong's younger brother, half-brother, both sons of Luo Khan from the Turkic region. Earlier, Yang Guozhong still stationed in Hetao At that time, Sheer Fengtuoshe was stationed in Mobei together with Yugushe.

  Later, Yugu set up a department and moved to Gaochang in the Western Regions, and Sheer went south to Monan to join Datang.

After the eradication of Jieli in the Tang Dynasty, the land of Eastern Turks was divided into several governors' mansions, and then on the surface, Jieli was still made a big sweat, and then Yang Guozhong and Tuli were appointed as the right and left sage kings, and then the southeast and northwest were appointed. The four establishments, the left and right wise kings and the four establishments, concurrently served as the governor, and each united the ministry.

  Essentially, the Eastern Turks still need to be separated. Qibi Heli, Sheer, Simo and Shidanai were selected as the four establishments, which is still very trusted by Li Shimin.

  Ashina Sheer, like Li Simo, was also given the surname of the country, Shangxian Lord, made the Duke of the country, worshiped General Youxiaowei, and was named General Zhenjun.

The salary is very good, and the official rank is also very high. However, Sheer was established in the north of East Turkic, and its territory was originally in Mobei. Now it can only occupy a small area south of Daqi and north of Yinshan Mountain. , and never let it out again, and stayed in the capital all the time.

She'er and Mo Mo are blood brothers, and Mo Mo worshiped Qin Qiong as his adoptive father, and he and Qin Lang are righteous brothers. Originally, Sheer was also regarded as Qin Lang's adoptive brother, but he had to give the country's surname, Li, and The head of the clan and county was promoted, and he was Qin Lang's uncle in seniority, so the relationship was very complicated.

She'er accompanied He Li to look for Qin Lang, and also hoped that Qin Lang would write a letter of recommendation to his grandson Wuji for him. He also wanted to go to the Western Regions to fight, "I have lived in Mobei with Yugu for many years, and we have a very good relationship. If you can go to the Western Regions to serve Tian Khan, it will be of great use."

  Sheer still has a lot of tribesmen outside the Yinshan Mountains, and he said that he is willing to send tens of thousands of horses to conquer the Western Regions.

  After chatting for half an afternoon, Qin Lang gave each of them a recommendation letter and asked them to take it to Zhangsun Wuji.

   Looking back, he gave Li Shimin another secret performance. He felt that it was not a problem that there were a large number of East Turkic people crowded in Monan, so it was better to come up with a plan to drive away tigers and wolves.

Let Qibi Heli go back to Hexi to lead the rest of Qibi's tribe, and let She'er take his own headquarters from Monan to the Western Regions for conquest. To graze in the Rehai-Suiyechuan area, let Sheer lead his troops to resettle in Khan Futu City in the northwest of Gaochang.

Rehai Suiyechuan is the Yili River Valley, and Khan Futu City is the Junggar Basin. These two places are important places in the Western Regions. Needless to say, it is not only an important route on the northern line of the Silk Road, but also close to Qianquan Mountain, one of the two major khan courts of Western Turks.

  If two Eastern Turkic tribes loyal to the Tang Dynasty were used and placed in two key points in the Western Regions, it would undoubtedly help Datang to further attack the Western Turks and control the Western Regions faster.

He also suggested that Yugu should be placed in Yingsuochuan, which is located in the northeast of Yanqi and Qiuci, and west of Gaochang. It was originally the territory of the Tiele people. After being defeated, he was moved to Atami.

  As for Niyu, after Siyehu is destroyed, he can be sent to the city of Samudan in Kangju country, or Tuozhe city in Shi country, and he can be assigned to Zhaowu nine surnames.

However, the five countries of Gaochang, Yanqi, Qiuci, Shule, and Khotan in the south of the Tianshan Mountains must find a way to drive out the Turkic garrison and bring them into the rule of the Tang dynasty. The king served as the governor and made him a prince.

  (end of this chapter)