Zhang Xuansu opened his mouth and stammered, and it took a long time before he suddenly said angrily: "Why did the prince say this? Chen is Hebei cloth clothes, since childhood hard study, honest and honest, a wife and a concubine, every month Lu rice can eat and drink, I go out with an ox cart driven, there are also 300 wealth at home, although it is a small rich family, by no means a wealthy family. ”

Han Yue laughed, stretched out his hand and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Master Zhang, don't be excited, this king is just asking......"

When he said this, he paused slightly, suddenly looked at Zhang Xuansu with great meaning, and said with a light smile: "You just said that you were from Hebei?" This king remembers that there was a famous surrender Zhang in our dynasty, and I heard that it was my father who personally persuaded him to surrender. This person is Master Zhang, you used to follow Liu Heimin! ”

Zhang Xuansu held his head high and said loudly: "What the prince said is right, the minister has indeed been Liu Heimin's Hu Cao, if you use this to attack the traitor, the subordinate will follow." I am an upright person, not afraid of rain and wind......"

Han Yue laughed again, he withdrew the arm on Zhang Xuansu's shoulder, slowly pointed to the banquet hall, and suddenly asked again: "Lord Zhang, you are an important minister in the court, and you have also participated in the royal banquet when you want to come, so this king now asks you, what do you think is the difference between tonight's banquet?" ”

Zhang Xuansu was dazed, he jumped out and questioned Han Yue, but he was asked by Han Yue continuously, but the questions were all bizarre, so that he couldn't guess the meaning left and right.

"Does Master Zhang see the difference?" Han Yue's eyes were deep and he sighed softly in his ear.

Zhang Xuansu looked around the banquet hall and muttered: "If there is any difference tonight, that is, the number of people is a little different, in the past, His Majesty held a banquet, and this hall was at least full of eight hundred people......

Before he finished speaking, Han Yue suddenly slapped his palms and laughed, "Then look at it now, how many people are in the main hall?" ”

Zhang Xuansu was stunned for a moment, and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, and he blurted out: "Now there are less than three hundred, and there are fewer officials from the family in this banquet......" He suddenly gasped and said: "If it is calculated in proportion, it is about eighty!" ”

Han Yue laughed, and it was only at this moment that he began to answer Zhang Xuansu's earlier question, and said, "Lord Zhang, listen well, there is no family at the banquet tonight, which is why this king wants to change the reward for soldiers." ”

He glanced at Zhang Xuansu, and then said: "Since ancient times, the royal family and the family have ruled the world together. This stinky problem, this king wants to change it for them......"

"It turns out that the prince is pointing at the family!" Zhang Xuansu suddenly realized, and then frowned and pondered: "But what does this have to do with the reward of the private soldiers?" ”

"Of course it's implicated!" Han Yue smiled slightly, and said lightly: "My Datang Dynasty adopts the government soldier system, and the government soldiers are evenly fielded, so the soldiers are not paid, and even if they make war exploits, they can only be converted into silver money." I want to take this opportunity to change the reward, and select tens of thousands of soldiers to fly to the states and capitals, so that they can be petty officials! ”

Zhang Xuansu was dumbfounded and muttered, "Let the soldiers be the magistrates?" ”

"Yes, let the soldiers be officers. This time, the family and the Confucian family resigned and forced the palace, and eighty percent of the prefectures and counties in the world were vacant, and they wanted to use this method to force my father and the emperor to make concessions, but the king did the opposite, hum, to be an official, not necessarily a scholar......"

As soon as these words came out, the whole hall was in an uproar.

For thousands of years, the family has always controlled the official positions in the court and localities, and only by studying can you become an official, which is already an idea engraved into the bones of the world, but now Han Yue wants to change it.

"Ridiculous!" A minister suddenly stood up and loudly accused Han Yue.

"Shut up!" The minister had just made a half-accusation, when a violent shout suddenly came from the side, and it was Li Shimin himself who spoke.

The emperor's tiger eyes flashed, he scolded the minister to shut up, but his eyes were firmly fixed on Han Yue, and he said solemnly: "Yue'er, tell me well, why do you want to let the soldiers become officials?" Since ancient times, only scholars can govern the world, Yue'er, you let a group of soldiers from the common people become officials, will this move be a big mess in the world? ”

Li Shimin was in a questioning sentence, but his tone was urgent, not only urgent, but also faintly mixed with a trace of excitement and nervousness.

Zhang Xuansu next to him was also looking forward to it, and said cautiously: "Can the prince solve his doubts?" If you can really weaken the family, the ministers will kneel down and kowtow to you to apologize......"

From this, it can be seen that this man is a true loyal servant.

Han Yue stood with his hands in his hands, with a deep groan on his face, but he was constantly organizing words in his heart. Just when Li Shimin and the others were a little anxious, Han Yue suddenly spoke: "There is a problem with the governance of officials in my court, and there are also problems with the governance of officials in ancient dynasties. Some positions are set up unreasonably, and some positions have been vacant for thousands of years."

Li Shimin was stunned, Zhang Xuansu was stunned, and all the important ministers in the hall were surprised, no one could have imagined that Han Yue would open his mouth and magnify his move.

The word "rule of officials" seems simple, but in fact, it is the experience of thousands of years of slowly summed up, the sages did not dare to move the rule of officials, and now a young man is making a lot of nonsense, he is only nineteen years old this year, and he will not be crowned until next year......

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Han Yue didn't care how everyone reacted, his eyes were filled with a hint of memory, and he said with emotion: "The Central Plains is the world, the land is vast, since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, a total of twelve provinces, three hundred and sixty states, and one thousand five hundred and eleven counties have been established. ”

Li Shimin nodded slowly and said: "Yes, this is the most basic common sense of the Tang Dynasty, every royal family must remember that the scholars of Hongwenguan give lectures to the princes and princesses, and the first lesson is this." ”

Han Yue smiled, he came from the later generations, and his knowledge was searched on the Internet boringly, but he didn't learn it from Hongwen Pavilion.

Li Shimin said again: "Yue'er, you go on, I heard you talk about the land when you speak, and I think you still have the following." ”

Han Yue nodded, and continued: "When Erchen talks about the counties of the state capital of the Tang Dynasty, it is to lead to the problem of the rule of officials, and the imperial court wants to govern the world, so it divides the 1,500 counties in the world, and each county has one main officer, who is the county order, and five deputy positions, namely the county minister, the chief bookkeeper, the county lieutenant, the recorder, and the assistant envoy. Then there are six Cao, which are the division, the division, the division, the division, the division, the judiciary, and the priest. ”

He glanced at the emperor, and then said: "The yamen at the level of the county government, the total number of principal and deputy positions is six, but the six Cao needs dozens of people, because the position of the secretary is responsible for trivial matters, and generally a chief engineer leads seven or eight deputy secretaries, and the same is true for the secretary and the household, and these positions must be done by scholars, and most of the scholars are from ...... families."

Li Shimin sighed lightly and said helplessly: "Yes, a county is seventy or eighty people, some large counties even have hundreds of people, one thousand and five hundred counties in the world, there are 200,000 scholars to be officials, in addition to three hundred and sixty prefectures, officials also need twenty or thirty thousand, and then there are twelve provinces, about three or four thousand, and then there are important ministers in the court, who are qualified to go to the court, and there are about 1,000 below the fourth grade." ”

"In other words, all the officials combined, the total is close to three hundred thousand!" Han Yue suddenly opened his mouth to take Li Shimin's words.

The emperor sighed again and said with a wry smile: "You are right, eighty percent of the 300,000 officials are from families, this is the confidence that they dare to resign and force the palace, this is the strength of them to rule the world with the imperial family, a full 300,000 officials, I have a headache when I think about it......"

Han Yue sneered in his heart, the emperor had a headache for 300,000 officials, and in later generations, there were 80 million party members in China, and government officials at all levels added up to 5 million, and if you add the regular staff members listed, the number reached 10.5 million.

is so huge, the national strength is still soaring, and the 300,000 officials of the Tang Dynasty are not even pediatrics compared with later generations.

Han Yue looked up at the dome of the main hall, and said with a blazing gaze: "Father, the sons are going to change the rewards of the soldiers this time, in fact, it is better to change the rule of the Tang Dynasty, 300,000 officials are too few, and the sons are ready to increase it to three million ......."

As soon as these words came out, Li Shimin was stunned, and Zhang Xuansu next to him was stunned, and it took a long time to shudder, and muttered: "Three million officials, how much do you have to spend a year?" ”

"Not much, not much, just tens of millions!" Han Yue smiled, his face full of indifference.

He didn't care that anyone cared, there was a buzz in the hall, and countless courtiers were whispering, among which Du Ruhui's eyes kept flickering, and he lowered his voice and said to Fang Xuanling: "Brother Fang Qiao, can you guess this son's thoughts?" He opened his mouth to increase the number of officials by 3 million, and the annual income of Yulu would be tens of millions, and how much was the treasury income of my Datang? ”

Fang Xuanling was also at a loss, and after a long time, he slowly shook his head, and said dejectedly: "The old man is old, and he can't keep up with the young man's thoughts, but we don't need to be anxious, the old man knows that this son is acting with foresight, since he dares to say this in court, he must have already made a bamboo in his chest, Brother Du, look at it, the family is afraid that it will be unlucky this time......

Li Shimin finally couldn't hold it back, and shouted: "Stinky boy, don't beat around the bush anymore, quickly tell your plan, there are no ministers of the family at tonight's banquet, all the ministers present are loyal to my Li family, they may still be hostile to you, but they are loyal to my Li family." If it is really feasible, I and the ministers will work together, and I will break my wrists with the family. Yue'er, you're right, we need to fix their stinky problems......"

Han Yue nodded solemnly, since Li Shimin was so encouraged, he no longer went around, and said loudly directly: "Erchen wants to add three million officials, but in fact, these officials are not officials of the imperial court, but officials of the common people. First of all, I want to change the grassroots officials of the Tang Dynasty, in the past, the imperial court only had counties, and the following directly went to the villages and villages where the people gathered, this method is not good, it is not conducive to centralized management! ”

"Erchen is preparing to set up a new two-level organization, with a town under the county and an administrative district under the town, with one town governing three to five administrative districts, and one administrative district responsible for ten villages and villages, so that the orders of the court can go all the way to the people, which is not only conducive to the centralization of power, but also weakens the ...... of the family."