Chastity Layman

In Chang'an, in the Liangyi Hall of the Imperial Palace, the court officials who came to participate in the five-day dynasties exited the hall in an orderly manner with the guards, and the little yellow gate came to respectfully pass on the emperor's decree to Qin Lang.

"The Zhai family summoned Qin Xiang Ganlu to play the right battle."

Qin Lang raised his head and glanced at the hall, the emperor had already taken a step ahead surrounded by his servants. Qin Lang was a little annoyed, he was so annoyed, he had meetings when he had nothing to do, although the court system had been changed now, the court was once every two days, the court was once every five days, and occasionally he could sleep in late, but the emperor would hold meetings, battles, etc. Play right.

I just came to the Ministry of Officials to preside over the affairs temporarily, and the Jingcha is busy.

"Yesterday, Master Han brought Cui Shiyu to face the saint..." Xiao Huangmen lowered his head, glanced around quickly from the corner of his eyes, and seeing no one around, he said quickly and softly.

Qin Lang looked at the small yellow gate with some surprise, and looked at the clothes and crown belt on his body. This was a eunuch of the sixth or seventh rank, and he should be the supervisor of the sixth rank of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He was already considered a small high-ranking eunuch. There are ten internal inspectors, and then there are fifth-rank internal servants and internal regular attendants, fourth-rank internal attendants and young supervisors, and third-rank supervisors.

Although the Ministry of Internal Affairs is an institution of eunuchs, in the early Tang Dynasty it was mainly run by civil servants, so the supervisors and young supervisors generally used civil servants, and the highest level of eunuchs was the fourth-rank internal servants, with four positions.

Below the internal servants, it is mainly the internal servants, internal servants, internal auditors, supervisors, and internal auditors.

"What's the eunuch's name?"

Qin Lang asked plainly, this is not a curse, but a compliment. The eunuchs in the early Tang Dynasty were generally called the chiefs of each prison. The same is true for the general prisoner, as well as the Shaofu prison and other officials.

In the Sui Dynasty, the Ministry of Internal Affairs was also changed to Changqiu Supervisor, and eunuchs were also used as young supervisors and supervisors.

"Slaves and maidservants who are in charge of supervisors have high authority, but they dare not be called eunuchs."

Qin Lang nodded, "Gao Quan, I remember you."

Gao Quan is also a sensible person. If he ventures to leak the secrets of the palace, if he is found out, it will be a capital crime, and he may even implicate Qin Lang. But wealth and wealth are in danger, if you don't have a strong relationship backing, the end of the sixth-rank inner sage prison is over. He entered the Taiji Palace in the previous dynasty, and was taken care of by his adoptive father, Sui Neishi Gao Yao, so he could stand out from the crowd of eunuchs, but although his adoptive father paved the way, he is now in the Taishang Emperor's Da'an Palace, with the Taishang Emperor It's like losing any real power.

Gao Quan was still young and ambitious, so even though it was a capital offense to communicate privately with foreign ministers and prime ministers, he couldn't help but take this step.

He just revealed an important piece of news to Qin Lang, the emperor's decision to fight against Qin Lang was related to Han Zhongliang, the new censor at Yushitai, and Cui Renshi, the imperial censor.

This is to make Qin Lang well prepared in his heart, so as not to be unprepared when the time comes.

Qin Lang left.

Gao Quan stood there with his head down, trembling with excitement, even his back was soaked. Although Wei Guogong only asked him a name, it was enough. For a prime minister like Qin Lang, it is impossible to chat with him here, let alone give him any promises.

If you didn't report him, you've actually succeeded.

He was right, a young prime minister like Qin Lang is definitely not that rigid person. He would never dare to change another person, such as Wei Zheng and Xiao Yu, that would be to die.

Qin Lang went to Ganlu Palace with another fourth-rank servant with higher status.

On the way, he thought about what articles Yushitai had in his hand. After Ma Zhou left Yushitai, it was Han Zhongliang who took over. Zhongliang's house is very close.

In fact, the old Han’s family looks after Nanyang, and the Nanyang Han’s family can be regarded as the first-line gentry family in the Central Plains after the five surnames in Shandong. The old Han’s family merged with the Guanlong Group earlier. Liu Ji can be much stronger.

Like Li Jing and Changsun Wuji, the Han family is the core family of the Guanlong Group. Qin Lang has no relationship with Lao Han, but he has never heard that Lao Han is a mad dog that bites.

When the new official Han took office, did he focus on Qin Lang first?

Is this to take a prime minister to sacrifice the flag first or what?

As for Shi Cui Renshi, the censor, he is a stubborn one.

Cui Renshi's surname is Cui, but it is not Qinghe Cui but Boling Cui. He is a branch of Boling Cui's Dingzhou Cui family. Officials, and then passed the imperial examination in the Wude period and re-entered the officialdom.

Old Cui stayed in Chang'an for two years after he passed the Jinshi examination, and then he was quickly transferred to another place to join the army. Later, he was appreciated by the prime minister Chen Shuda, and was recommended by the big man to the emperor, saying that this man is talented and can be used by anyone. As a historian or admonisher, he was transferred to Beijing as a Youwuwei to participate in the military and participated in the compilation of history books.

Having been in Chang'an for several years, the iron head is very famous, and the pen is also famous. Therefore, in the first year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin reused Lao Cui as the imperial censor in the palace. He handled several major cases as soon as he took office, which Li Shimin admired very much. , He was also transferred to the Ministry of Accounts to be a doctor of the Duzhi Division. He also has outstanding talents in economics and financial management, especially in mathematics. It is said that he can dictate thousands of expenditures in mental calculations.

But later, when Qin Lang worshiped Pingzhang State, Lao Cui's yamen messed up the errand, Qin Lang very unceremoniously pursued the responsibility of leading Lao Cui, and gave a bad review during the assessment.

So Lao Cui was demoted, and after a circle, he went to Yushitai again.

It's just that this time, he has been transferred from the palace courtyard in the third courtyard of Yushitai to the Taiyuan to serve as the servant of the censor.

The censor of the Taiyuan is much more powerful than the censor of the palace.

There are nine censors in the hall, whose main duty is to stand on the hall during the court meeting to manage discipline and etiquette, while the six censors in the Taiyuan are in charge of picketing officials, impeaching lawbreakers, and even judging cases specially ordered by the emperor. Menxia Province gave Shizhong and Zhongshu Province Zhongshu Sheren were divided into Zhichaotang, which accepted unjust lawsuits, and was known as the third junior division.

The six censors also take turns in charge of the daily chores of the official office of Yushitai.

In Yushitai, their status is second only to Yushi doctor and Yushi Zhongcheng.

It seems that Lao Cui was demoted because of his bad reviews before, and he has a grudge. Now that he has been transferred to the Taiwan Academy as a censor, he immediately uses the power of picket and impeachment at hand to retaliate against himself.

This old Cui is too vengeful.

Yushitai is a relatively special yamen. The special thing is that the Tang Dynasty now uses the Zhengshitang as the center, and the three provinces, six ministries, nine temples, five supervisors, and sixteen guards are all under the leadership of the prime ministers, but this Yushitai But it is not among them.

Yushitai can supervise the prime minister because of its supervisory power.

Censor impeaching the prime minister is big news. Although the censor has the power of supervision, the prime minister is the head of all officials after all. Who dares to impeach without any certainty? If the result cannot be played, it will be difficult for the censor to end.

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Manna Hall.

Qin Lang signed up outside the hall, and a servant came out to lead him in, "The house is changing clothes, Qin Xiang wait a moment."

The servant retreated, and he was the only one standing there in the huge hall. This was Li Shimin's bedroom, the emperor's study room, and the place where he usually received ministers.

On the emperor's huge imperial case, there are four treasures of the study. The emperor often copied Wang Youjun's calligraphy here. One side of the wall is full of bookshelves, and there are nearly ten thousand volumes of books on it.

Behind the imperial case, there are winding copper screens. Qin Lang found out that these screens have a mystery. Each copper screen is carved with a map of mountains and rivers. Each screen actually represents a legend of the Tang Dynasty. road.

And on those maps, there is also a list written in fine pen. If you look closely, it is a list of officials from the observation envoys, transfer envoys, and governors of various states on the road to the county magistrates.

"There are thousands of miles of land in the Tang Dynasty, more than 1,800 counties in more than 360 prefectures in 18 provinces. There are many officials acting as herdsmen on behalf of the Son of Heaven. I can't remember the names of these officials, so I specially asked Yousi to update it every ten days. The list of officials on the screen." Li Shimin changed into a set of regular clothes and said with a smile when he saw him looking at the screen.

Qin Lang quickly flattered, "Your Majesty, this method is good, it is as clear as the roster of soldiers in the military tent."

Li Shimin snorted, and sat in front of the imperial case, "What's the matter with you, I transferred you from the Ministry of War to the Ministry of Officials, what dissatisfaction do you have?"

"The minister is just a brick of the Tang Dynasty. He can move it wherever it is needed. The minister is also a pawn under the command of the saint. He can hit wherever he wants. How can there be dissatisfaction."

"The auxiliary machine has gone to the Western Regions, and the official department will conduct a comprehensive investigation and plan this year. It must be presided over by no one. I trust you to transfer you to the official department, but Yushitai is suing you and impeaching you." There are more than a dozen copies of watches and seals, you can see for yourself!"

Li Shimin threw out a large stack of impeachment papers and threw them to Qin Lang for himself to read.

"Your Majesty, I am not afraid to investigate when I ask the scriptures. It is their duty to hear and hear about things, and it is also the method for officials to supervise."

Li Shimin seemed to have expected Qin Lang's attitude that a dead pig is not afraid of boiling water.

"There's no need to launch a formal investigation yet, please explain to me first."

"Explain what?"

Li Shimin tapped the case with his fingers, "I will explain the impeachment of you by Yushitai one by one, read it yourself, and then give me a reasonable explanation."

Qin Lang picked up those impeachment papers and read them one by one.

There are many charges of impeachment.

Some impeached Qin Lang for taking advantage of his position to plant party items and form a party. Some impeached Qin Lang for using his power for personal gain, saying that he let the government offices in Chang'an build official residences and quarters, and taking the opportunity to arrange for his own people to take over the project and sell materials, and some said that he built the Daming Palace and filled his own pockets with corruption.

There was another one that mentioned that Qin Lang had recently sent people all over Chang'an to scoop up people from prisons, buy people from various markets, and get those state criminals into fiefdoms, completely ignoring the legal system. It is also said that Qin Lang's fiefdom violated the rules seriously, including excessive support of soldiers, possession of weapons and equipment, etc.

Some even said that he evaded taxes.

What a load of nonsense.

"A saint believes in these?"

"I want to hear your explanation."

"How can I explain these nonsense without any evidence? As a prime minister, even if you want to impeach me, you need some decent evidence, right?"

"It's the power of the censors to hear the rumors."

Qin Lang responded unceremoniously, "Then whoever makes the claim can provide evidence. I am willing to fully cooperate with the investigation. In order to avoid suspicion and ensure the fairness of the investigation, I am willing to suspend immediately, or resign!"