Chastity Layman

"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, directly capturing people's hearts.

"From now on, all important edicts and edicts such as worshiping, exempting generals, ordering expeditions, enshrining queens and princes, amnesty for the world, etc., will all be 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.

"In the future, the appointment and dismissal of prime ministers will be directly based on the emperor's will, without going through the prime minister or Zhongshu's disciples."

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.

They didn't even discuss with the prime ministers, and used the emperor's private newly-established Hanlin scholars to draft the imperial edict to keep it confidential. In order to distinguish it from the external system, even the edict of worshiping the prime minister was written on white hemp paper.

In the past, when Zhongshu Sheren drafted an edict, it had to go through the gate, and then Fu Baolang would cover it with the emperor's great treasure.

But 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 under Zhongshu's sect, no great treasure, and no need to stamp the emperor's seal.

Baima Xuanxiang.

The three prime ministers, Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, and Du Ruhui, undoubtedly had been in touch with the emperor a long time ago, and they also 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 the powerful emperor who conquered the world. If it was an ordinary emperor, the prime ministers would 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 chancellor of Baima Xuanxiang.

Qin Lang worshiped Tong Zhongshu's disciples to make peace with the national economy.

Then Dai Zhou also worshiped as Tongzhong Shumen's Pingzhang national affairs, and Du Yan worshiped as a counselor for political affairs.

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 academicians. In addition, the emperor appointed Cen Wenwen, Liu Ji, and Ma Zhou as the academicians of the Imperial Academy, and the Imperial Academy was located outside the gate of Yintai.

From the heart, Li Shimin has always wanted to take 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 hard-working faction.

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 his 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.

But later in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it could no longer be controlled, and the gentry merged with powerful gentry, and even merged with 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 it's different now.

Today's Tang Dynasty, the situation 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 given enough land.

It is an unchangeable fact that the nobles, powerful bureaucrats and nobles occupy too much land. Even this kind of merger will become more and more fierce. The land equalization system will only collapse more and more, and it will become more and more difficult for the common people to grant land.

There must be reforms, 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's Baima proclaimed his chancellor at the Hall of Liangyi today, and worshiped Qin Lang as his prime minister. He wanted 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 favorite era of the gentry was the Wei and Jin era. Under the nine-rank Zhongzheng system, they lived a truly unrestrained life. The family politics, the 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 and centralized court like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, so he must collide with the gentry, just like the Han Dynasty did to the powerful, and he has no choice.

The resistance encountered by the reform in the court before 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 wind, the reform plan was restarted directly.

No one can stop him.

Whoever dares to stop it too much, he doesn't mind expanding the sealed 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 now. 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 fighting 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 time and time again.

This was true in the battle of Hedong, the battle of Luoyang, the battle of Hulao, and 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 were only around forty.

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

Qin Lang didn't even know about this beforehand.

Lord Liangyi, even if he wants 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 Ministry of household affairs, has now become his reform deputy.

Feng Deyi was the most unlucky one. The emperor didn't care at all 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, making it the emperor's small treasury.

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