Wei Jiansu slightly bowed and smiled and said: "Wei Chen understands your majesty's mood very well. In fact, when the dynasty was strong, the court's control over the local areas was deeper and stricter. Before the Anshi Rebellion, the control was basically very deep, and it broke out
After the Anshi Rebellion, the imperial court quickly lost local control. In the late period of the late emperor's reign, the ministers discovered that the imperial court had no news about Lingnan West Road for more than ten years, and there was only news about Lingnan East Road at the road level, and at the prefecture and county level.
None, so what your Majesty sees now is actually the Tang Dynasty court in its weakest state. It is completely understandable that your Majesty has opinions."
Li Ye frowned, "Does Wei Xiangguo mean that as long as I don't care, local governance will naturally return to the situation in Tianbao and Kaiyuan?"
"On the contrary! Your Majesty."
Wei Jiansu said calmly: "If the imperial court doesn't care, a minor illness will turn into a serious illness, and a serious illness will turn into a fatal disease. I fully support your majesty in taking action on the local area. The key is a matter of strategy!"
"If you have any good strategies, Zhang Xiangguo, can you tell me about them?"
Zhang Li also smiled slightly and said: "First of all, Wei Chen expresses his stance and fully supports His Majesty's local governance. Wei Chen is also considering it. Wei Chen believes that only with rules can there be a circle. Let's establish the system first. What are the grades of first-level officials?
What grade are the second-level officials, what are the conditions, and what should we do with these officials now? After establishing this system, we can then consider how to implement it seriously."
"Does Prime Minister Zhang have a plan?"
Zhang Li leaned forward and said: "Your Majesty, we have discussed it at the Political Affairs Hall and basically have a rough plan. Now the Ministry of Personnel is drafting it."
Wei Jiansu handed a booklet to Li Ye, "This is the rough draft drawn up by the Ministry of Personnel. Please take a look at it."
Li Ye was overjoyed and quickly took the draft and looked at it carefully. It was very detailed. There were a total of five chapters and 48 paragraphs, and he even included transitional measures.
"Ready for an exam?"
Li Ye smiled and said: "This is a good idea, it must be Liu Shangshu's idea!"
Liu Yan stood up quickly and said: "This is exactly what Weichen thought. Weichen was considering giving a compensation to those older civil servants who failed to pass the exam and let them find their own way out. Those who passed the exam would have to move their places and could no longer take the exam.
Stay in this county.”
Li Ye thought for a moment and asked another key question: "What if all the civil servants don't come to take the exam?"
Liu Yan couldn't answer for a while.
Wei Jiansu smiled slightly and said: "Since your Majesty has asked this question, he must have already found a solution!"
Li Ye nodded, "I decided to temporarily expand the internal guards to 30,000 people, divide them into 1,500 groups, and rush to various counties to check the implementation of the abolition order. I will use the abolition order to deal with these wealthy and powerful people.
My army has ended the battle between Liaodong and Shuofang. I am not afraid of their rebellion. It is best if someone can rebel and let me kill them as a warning to others!"
Wei Jiansu and others looked at each other, and they were all stunned. Zhang Li nodded and said with a smile: "After the execution of His Majesty's order to abolish slavery, I believe that no civil servant will dare not to take the exam."
Li Ye snorted, "If we don't take the exam then, the civil servants will be dismissed immediately, and the county magistrate will be dismissed as well, and the bullshit wealthy families in that county will no longer exist. I can destroy so many countries, I don't believe I can't deal with them."
Monsters and monsters!"
Wei Jiansu and Zhang Li both retreated, leaving Liu Yan alone in the room.
Liu Yan bowed and said: "Your Majesty, Wei Chen and Dugu Ming had dinner together at noon!"
Li Ye quickly asked: "How is he doing? I haven't heard from him for a long time?"
"Your Majesty, doesn't he know that Dugu Guofang fell ill?"
Li Ye nodded, "I heard the Queen talk about it. It is said that he is not accustomed to the local environment."
"Your Majesty, the climate over Lugong Island is completely different from here. It is said to be too hot and humid."
Li Ye sighed and said: "Of course I know it's hot and humid there. In fact, I let them live in Quanzhou for a year or two, and then go to Lugong Island after their bodies slowly adapt to the hot and humid conditions. It will be much better. The abbot is too impatient."
, I only stayed in Quanzhou for three months before setting off for the island. Of course, I am not complaining about Dugu Guozhang, I hope he is safe and sound and comes back as soon as possible."
"Your Majesty, Dugu Ming is also going to Quanzhou!"
Li Ye was startled, "Why does he want to go?"
"He wants to take charge of Quanzhou."
"When will he leave?"
"Early the day after tomorrow."
Li Ye nodded, "I have to go and see him." Wei Jiansu and Zhang Li left the imperial study. Wei Jiansu smiled and said, "Zhang Xiangguo, do you want to go have a cup of tea!"
Zhang Li chuckled, "That's exactly what I meant!"
The two of them came to Danfeng Restaurant. It was tea time in the afternoon. They went to Pinxueyuan and sat down. The waiter served them snacks and tea.
Zhang Li took a sip of tea and said calmly: "The emperor still wants to use force. I'm really worried that the inner guard will expand to 30,000 people?"
Wei Jiansu pondered for a moment and said: "If a strong founding monarch wants to make a difference, he will inevitably embark on this path."
"How can I see it?"
"Benefit!"
Wei Jiansu said calmly: "The emperor's implementation of education reform went very smoothly. Except for a few rotten scholars who jumped up to oppose it, there was basically no resistance, because it was all funded by the imperial court, and there was no interest from the local government or other people.
interests.
When dealing with the Guanlong nobles before, they also exchanged benefits for benefits, so it went very smoothly. Only when dealing with the royal family before, they killed two groups of people, deprived so many royal titles and treatment, and almost demoted him to a commoner, and also made Li
Xian was demoted to Lingnan, which involved a conflict of interests, so the emperor was ruthless.
The same goes for the abolition of slavery, which involves the interests of countless people, so Zhang Hao was used to kill him as a warning to others.
And this time, the imperial court has to collide with the interests of countless local wealthy families. How can the emperor succeed without strong tactics?"
"Wei Xiangguo is right. The interests of the imperial court and local wealthy families collide, so it is impossible not to be strong. I am worried that after a few decades, the situation will gradually return to the original state, and local wealthy families will still control the lower levels."
Wei Jiansu shook his head, "Probably not. The key is the system. Once the official level is also appointed and controlled by the court, then the court will be able to completely control the county through the combination of officials and staff, unlike now, where the court's orders are very smooth.
, but once it is implemented, everything changes, because the official link, the most critical implementation link, is missing.
Once the system is established and it gradually becomes a rule, even if there are some recurrences in some places in the future, it will not change the overall situation."
After the court, Li Ye returned to the harem and went to the study to sit down as usual. Soon, the door opened and Queen Dugu Xinyue came in with a tea cup.
For a while, Shi Qianquan brought tea to Li Ye, but this caused a lot of dissatisfaction, especially Dugu Taiwei. She had no chance to come to her husband to deliver tea, but a concubine from the Western Regions could come to deliver tea.
She immediately protested to Dugu Xinyue, and Dugu Xinyue also realized that something was wrong and simply withdrew her power. Except for her and Yang Yuhuan, no one else could come to deliver tea.
But Shi Qianquan really couldn't come to deliver tea. Li Ye had been too aggressive with her in the past two months, and she finally started to recuperate. She became pregnant, and she became pregnant with Shen Li.
Dugu Xinyue put the tea on her husband's table and asked in a low voice: "Husband, do you have any news about my father?"
Li Ye shook his head, "It's still the same news as before, but you reminded me. Go and find Taiwei. I'll see her if I have something to do."
Dugu Xinyue quickly asked her confidant maid to go find Taiwei. She came back and asked, "Husband, what happened?"
"It's not a big deal!"
Li Ye smiled and said: "Your third uncle is going to Quanzhou to take charge. He will leave the day after tomorrow. I want to take Taiwei to see him tomorrow and say goodbye to him."
"Husband, I want to go too!"
Li Ye knew that his wife was concerned about his father's situation, so he nodded, "Okay, you can go too!"
Not long after, Dugu Taiwei came over in a hurry, gave him a Wanfu gift and said, "I, my concubine, Taiwei, are here to see Your Majesty."
This is a rule of the Li family. You can call your husband whatever you want in private, but you must be polite in front of the queen.
Li Ye nodded, "I got the news today that your father is going to Quanzhou the day after tomorrow. I don't know how long he will be there. We will go together to see him off tomorrow!"