On the day of the Zhengdan Dynasty Meeting, Li Shimin announced that he would change the Zhenguan Dynasty, and the Tang Dynasty has since entered the Zhenguan era. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhenguan, the way of heaven and earth, Zhenguan also. This sentence is in the Book of Changes, and the word Zhenguan indicates the way of heaven and earth, that is, the development of everything in heaven and earth has its own objective law, and this law is positive. Li Shimin explained this era name to the people of the world, and said Zhen, Zhengye, Zhen, and Shiye. Zhenguan shows people with righteousness.

In fact, this era name, in Li Chao's understanding, feels that it is another matter. Li Shimin's use of these two characters as an era name is actually overemphasizing that his position is positive, a historical necessity, and a divine arrangement. It means that I have the world, it is arranged by God, and all the subjects of the world must follow God's instructions and not go against God's will. Say shameless, that is, I, Li Shimin, am the destiny of heaven, you all have to respect me well, don't keep thinking about it.

Change the concept of Zhenguan, and then it will be a new dynasty and a new atmosphere.

There are many new atmospheres in the imperial court, such as the political hall of Shangshu Province, which was moved to Zhongshu Province and renamed Zhongshu Menxia, and then Fang Xuanling was reappointed as Zhongshu Ling, Du Ruhui was reappointed as a servant, and the left and right servants of Shangshu Province are vacant, and the prime minister must add the eight words of Pingzhangshi under the Zhongshu Door to be regarded as the prime minister, otherwise even if you are a left and right servant If you don't have these eight words, then you are the same as the three divisions and three princes of Taishi Taiwei, just a nominal Zhengyi, a nominal prime minister.

In fact, now the three divisions and three dukes of the imperial court do not add the same Zhongshu Men Pingzhang affairs, they don't even have the qualifications to enter the Zhongshu Menxia Court, and the three divisions and three dukes do not have the qualifications to open a government and build a government to establish their own subordinates, so except for the occasional time when the emperor asks them to sit in front of the hundred officials and be a mascot, they have no real power at all.

Pei Lin and Feng Deyi, the two old ministers of Li Yuan, were crowned with the third division, as well as Li Xiaogong and Li Shentong, the two masters of the clan, were also crowned as the three dukes, plus the other two Li Yuan's old ministers, and the positions of the three divisions and three dukes and six people were filled, but in fact, these six people have been completely erected by Li Shimin, and they have lost all their power.

There are still some surprising arrangements in the new dynasty, such as Wei Zheng and Wang Qi, the two old subordinates of the East Palace who were built by the abolished prince Li Jiancheng, and now they have actually served as the left and right ministers of Shangshu Province, and they have become the actual principals of Shangshu Province when the left and right servants are vacant.

Ma Zhou served as the Zhongshu squire, and Cui Gan was the Huangmen squire of Menxia Province.

Of course, the one who has attracted much attention in the new dynasty is Li Chao.

There are a bunch of important positions in the school book, the household department, and a bunch of important positions, each of which is extremely weighty.

Many careful people also found that many of the nobles of the old valve of Guanlong stood aside, especially during the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, most of the nobles who did not contribute much from the Western Wei and Northern Zhou Sui dynasties were left with an empty title and no real position.

On the contrary, the Kwantung clan, which had been suppressed by the Guanlongmen valve, was very much used by the emperor. Of course, the most powerful momentum is still those emerging military aristocrats who made great contributions when the Tang Dynasty was established and when the King of Qin conquered the world, and a large number of scholars from the bottom of the poor family and the small landlord class.

Several forces coexisted with the old and the new in the new Zhenguan Dynasty, forming a completely new situation.

However, the two old gate lords of the old military aristocracy of Guanlong and the Dashi of Kwantung, and the new military aristocracy, as well as the two new forces of the small landlords and scholars of the Hanmen, are actually fierce in the court, although there is no open bloodshed, but the swords and swords behind them are also fierce.

Batches of officials were impeached and examined, and the Yushitai was unprecedentedly lively, and it had long become a battleground for all forces to fight, and the point of exertion.

Through the resources and connections at their disposal, all parties charge forward with the Yushitai and the Yushi as swords and guns. Pulling down the opponents one by one, many people who have problems and are not reliable themselves have fallen in this round of competition.

Li Shimin has been watching this kind of struggle calmly, and it can even be said that this is fundamentally what he provoked. used the Kwantung Dashi to deal with the powerful Guanlongmen valve, and then personally supported the emerging group of military nobles, and reused many scholars from the humble small landlords, and used them to balance the old lord Dashi clan.

Although the struggle between the DPRK and China was fierce, it had always developed in the direction expected by Li Shimin, and the more fierce the fighting, the more they needed to get the support of the emperor from the imperial court.

And the first victims to fall in the battle are actually moth-eaten garbage, such corrupt officials, no matter how many garbage aristocrats fall, Li Shimin is not heartbroken, but this is removing pustules for Datang. Every time one is removed, Datang is stronger. Moreover, these people fell at the hands of their opponents, not at the hands of Emperor Li Shimin, so Li Shimin has always been very detached in this battle.

The prime ministers have also been sitting on the mountain watching the tiger fight, and Li Shimin's prime minister group actually comes from all walks of life. But it is not easy to enter the door of Zhongshu and hang the title of Pingzhangshi under the door of the same book. Although they had their own estate, they were also prime ministers, and they had a closer relationship with the emperor and closer interests with the emperor.

They are also in favor of reducing litter borers.

Among the prime ministers, Li Chao is the most detached, and he is not distressed when anyone falls.

Although all parties want to win over Li Chao, they want to use his status and power to stand in line and shout for them. In the eyes of those Kwantung scholars, Li Chao is the son-in-law of the fifth surname, married the daughter of the Cui family of Qinghe, accepted the concubine of the Zheng family of Xingyang, and the son is also engaged to marry the daughter of the Boling Cui family and the daughter of the Wang family of Taiyuan, of course, they are on the side of them, they hope that Li Chao can consider the interests of the scholars more.

And Guan Long's gate valves also think that Li Chao should be on their side. After all, Li Chao is also Guan Zhongba, what is the most important thing about Guan Longmen Valve? Of course, it's the Guanzhong standard, what Kanto Jiangnan, can it be compared with Guanzhong?

Guanzhong is the standard, and the interests of the Guanzhong family are paramount. In the past few years, the old gate valve aristocrats in Guanlong have cooperated with Li Chao a lot, and they have made money very happily.

The emerging military nobles regard Li Chao as their own, Qin Qiongcheng bites the Golden Ox into the Dawei Chi Gong Shan Xiongxin Li Shiji, etc., which of these people is not an emerging military aristocracy, in the past, it was just a small scholar clan, or even a small Haoqiang, relying on the rebellion at the end of the Sui Dynasty.

Li Chao is Qin Qiong's righteous son, and Cheng Bites Jin Luo Shixin has a large number of military upstarts, and they are all Li Chao's uncles.

And those poor and small landlords who were completely promoted by Li Shimin and were able to have a place in the new dynasty did not have any strong backers in the court, and in the past, they were all watching the government as the Guanlongmen valve and the staff subordinate of the Kwantung Dashi clan, and they were not qualified to participate in the government at all.

But now, the politics of the Tang Zhenguan Dynasty also have a place for them.

They are anxious to get rid of the past, and want to fight for a real place for themselves and earn the right to speak, and at this time, they also pin their hopes on Li Chao.

Li Chao has run many academies, vigorously promoted papermaking, printing, and writing books to revise history, and his actions have broken the monopoly of academics by the scholars, so that these children of the small scholar clan who could not be on the stage in the past also have the opportunity to enter the court and speak politically, and they hope that Li Chao can speak for them.

But.

Since the end of the Zhengdan Dynasty Meeting in the first year of Zhenguan, Li Chao has been busy, doing practical things as never before.

For Li Shimin to grasp the money bag, for him to control the mouth of the more than 30 million people in the Tang Dynasty, and for the survival of nearly 10 million people in the disaster area.

Cash-for-work to build Hanjing.

The Quartet raised food and provided relief to the disaster-stricken areas.

Such busyness, intense and fulfilling, leaving other things behind, doing things wholeheartedly, time flies very quickly.

In the blink of an eye, it has come to the late autumn of the first year of Zhenguan.

This year, the drought in the north was indeed more serious, and the locust plague was more severe than last year, but although the locust plague was serious, it did not cause any major damage, but under Li Chao's locust hunting plan, these locusts were turned into life-saving food.

In a year's time, Hanjing City, located in Dengzhou, has begun to take shape, the imperial palace has already taken a certain shape, and the imperial city and the outer city and Guocheng have also gradually become clear.

What makes Li Chao most gratifying is that this year's catastrophe is more serious, but fewer people are dying of starvation.

Locally, there were no major rebellions of displaced people.

It is already late autumn, and the unaffected places in Datang have also been harvested.

In many places that have not been affected by the disaster, this year's summer harvest is not bad, and the autumn harvest is also okay.

Especially this summer, thousands of sailing ships arrived on the southeast coast one after another, carrying more than 3 million stone grain, although the quantity does not sound much, but these grains were transported from distant Annam, Linyi, Vietnam, Chenla and other places.

Bashu Dafeng, Jiangnan Dafeng, ships of grain transported grain along the Yangtze River, Hanshui, Huai River, and canals to send grain into the disaster area.

It is now late autumn, the situation in the disaster area is still stable, and the grain reserves have passed the most dangerous warning line and have begun to recover slowly but forcefully.

I was able to survive this winter and can support it until next spring.

When spring begins, we can continue to transport grain over and support the summer harvest next year.

Li Chao feels that his hard work for most of the past six months is worth it, although he is a little tired, he has indeed done a few things that he is proud of.

He issued 30 million bonds for the imperial court, which was used to pay the grain to large households, grain merchants, and landlords, and was also used for the subsequent purchase of grain for disaster relief and the construction of Hanjing.

Li Chao kept the stability of the disaster area in the north, so that millions of people survived, there were no corpses and bones, no roosters crowing for thousands of miles, and there were no rebellions of displaced people everywhere, and beacons were everywhere.

In the first year of Zhenguan, although this year was difficult, with the efforts of the monarchs and ministers of the court, this year came.

Li Chao has a very important contribution to this.

"Winter is coming, and I can finally take a long vacation!" Li Chao put down the account book in his hand, no longer paid attention to the serious deficit in the Datang financial account book above, and exhaled a long breath.