As soon as Zhao Ziliang came back, Chu Ge and Li Siye and other military generals were not good, and before he could rest, they said that the Great Food Country had repeatedly attacked and harassed him on the border, so he had to follow a few other people out. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

After everyone left, Zhao Ziliang asked Dugu and said: "During this time, you have handled all the affairs of the Government Council as a deputy minister, how did the officials of the following ministries and departments react?" ”

Dugu asked: "The main officials of the Yamen of the various ministries and departments under the Government Council are all promoted and reused by the predecessors Lord Liu Wei and Lord Cen, and the minister only has the right of impeachment and no right of recommendation, and the king is in Chang'an, and the people below are most of the time in violation of the decrees issued by the ministers, even if the ministers impeach them, the impeachment chapter will take half a year, and when the king approves it, the daylily is cold, and the ministers can only find a way to remove their subordinates while appeasing, so that they have scruples, which makes them reluctant to obey orders!" ”

Dugu asked the customs and was noble when Zhao Ziliang served in Hedong and followed him as an adjutant, in fact, they followed him earlier than Cen Shen, Gao Shi and others, but they were assigned by Zhao Ziliang to go undercover by An Lushan's side, and did not participate in the specific construction of Western Qin, and when they returned to Zhao Ziliang, the general construction of Western Qin had been basically completed, and the officialdom already had an inherent system and team. No one listens to what is said, or listens but does not work hard.

Zhao Ziliang nodded and said, "It's already good that you can do this, which greatly exceeds the expectations of this king." Before you and Gao Shang came to Western Qin, the factions in the Western Qin court had actually been formed, so they rejected you. Although these factions did not endanger the security and governance measures of Western Qin, but it is also not good, if it goes on like this for a long time, there will definitely be some kind of drawbacks, this king put you in the position of deputy minister is to let you break the original inherent political form, and prevent them from having factional disputes in their thoughts, and the idea of clique xenophobia! Now that the government council is in charge of you, you can use your own people, if you find talented people, you can boldly recommend to the king, but you can't be nepotistic, you can't ignore the ten principles of promoting officials because you want to use your own people, you must know that the officials you recommend and promote have entered the top level of the power circle of Western Qin, once the people in this have moral problems, this is not only related to your personal reputation, but also directly related to the overall interests of Western Qin! In addition, if you are bold enough to do it, this king will be your strong backing! ”

Dugu asked: "Thank you for the king's trust, Weichen will definitely not disappoint the king!" ”

"Tomorrow morning, this king is going to visit Cen Shen, and then go to Gao Shi's grave to pay respects, as the vice minister of the Government Council, and now you are the actual host of the Government Council, tomorrow morning accompany this king!"

Dugu asked: "Yes, Weichen will wait for the king in front of the palace tomorrow morning!" ”

In the afternoon, Zhao Ziliang just woke up from a nap, Chu Ge and Li Siye came to the joint decision, Zhao Ziliang met the two in the Sixiang Palace, "Get up, you have been here in the morning, why didn't you say something at that time?" ”

Chu Ge said: "King Rongyu, the two of us want to report on military affairs, from November last year to the present, the Great Food Country has often sent a small group of cavalry to secretly go deep into the hinterland of Kulkure Zim to attack Kurkure's men and horses, Kurkure was defeated in the territory of the Great Food Country and then withdrew from the territory of Kulkure, the big cannibals were unwilling, thinking that the king was not in Xinjing, and they now have a large number of troops to use, not afraid of our country, so they are becoming more and more unscrupulous, and after being discovered by our country, they claimed that we wanted us to hand over Kurkure, And we don't pay, they themselves sent troops to sneak across the border to attack, our official has issued a warning, but this time Mansour's attitude is extremely tough, there is a big fight with our country, the ministers think that we can no longer let the big food country so provocative, they not only took military action on the border, but also sent a large number of detailed work deep into our territory to collect our military intelligence in the name of mission! In the morning, the heads of civil affairs were there, and if the ministers said that they were going to prepare for a big war, they would definitely say that they had no money, so they could only come back in the afternoon."

"Yes, those civil officials are all in the spirit that more is better than less, and they must have been scared to the point that they are going to fight!" Li Siye echoed.

Zhao Ziliang smiled, waved his hand and said: "What you are talking about is only a very small number of people who are cowardly, a very small number of people do not represent the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, our civil officials in Western Qin are not so greedy for life and afraid of death, you think too much, if you really can't avoid it, they will not retreat!" What about the situation you are talking about, the east and west factories and the internal guard yamen have successively reported to this king, but it is not very detailed, since you are specifically talking about this matter, then tell this king in detail! Li Siye, come on! ”

"Yes!" Li Siye agreed, and immediately began to speak.

Li Siye spent more than half an hour giving a detailed account of the situation between the enemy and the enemy around him. Judging from the current situation, the Bolgars on the west coast of the Black Sea were restrained by the forces deployed by the Western Qin in the Khazar Protectorate and had no time to invade the Eastern Roman Empire in the south, and the barbarians in the Thrace region of the Eastern Roman Empire rebelled because they were instigated by the church, which caused civil strife in the Eastern Roman Empire, and the Eastern Roman Empire had to send a large number of troops from the east to Thrace to quell the rebellion, and the church instigated the barbarians in the Thrace region to riot because of a deal with the Great Food Country, and the Great Food Country promised to allow the church to preach in the Great Food Country. The condition was that they had to provoke a rebellion in Thrace, so that the Eastern Roman Empire would withdraw all its troops, and the Great Food Nation would be able to cooperate and trade with the Church, which had never happened before, which made everyone stunned, knowing that they had always regarded each other as heretics for thousands of years!

After the Eastern Roman Empire transferred a large number of troops from the east, the Great Food Country was able to free up its hands to quell the civil strife, and successively exterminated the Salad of the Sinbad faction and the Kurkud of the Boslavan faction, and also drove the Kurkud to the territory of Khwarazm.

After listening to Li Siye's detailed report, Zhao Ziliang thought about it for a while, and said to the two: "If we want to fight a war with the Great Food Country, our side is not ready, and we can't be unprepared for a war." In this way, this king first issued an edict to let King Huazimo Khan increase his troops in the border area, and specially deploy troops to fight the small group of cavalry that sneaked in from the Great Food Country, and wait for a while to see the effect, and also see the reaction of the Great Food Country. Fighting a war is not a trivial matter, military spending needs to be taken out by the Government Council, and it also needs to be mobilized, and it is inseparable from the support of civilian officials, if the big food country is just a small fight on the border, the civilian officials are afraid that they will want to seek a diplomatic solution, and will not agree to use force, and besides, there is no point where there is no need to fight, which cannot arouse the heart of the military officers and soldiers. In addition, the king will give an edict to the military logistics department, so that they can put the preparation of war materials on the agenda, and start the plan to raise war materials as soon as possible, if they really want to fight, then they must prepare enough war materials before the war! ”

Chu Ge and Li Siye breathed a sigh of relief, and at the same time they were a little excited, after all, they had already attracted Zhao Ziliang's attention in this matter, even if this battle could not be fought, at least the army would be starved of food, and at the same time, this incident also showed that Zhao Ziliang was not afraid to fight because he had been on the throne for a long time.

April 20, morning.

From the early morning, the Yin of the Xinjing Mansion sent a large number of officials and patrol bureaus to clear the streets in large numbers, from the gate of the palace to the front of the prime minister's mansion Cen Shen, the road is full of officials of the Xinjing Mansion and the patrol of the arrest bureau, the guards in the Praetorian Guard have been standing guard on both sides of the street, every two zhang there is a soldier standing straight with a spear in his hand, carriages, horseback riders have to take a detour, and pedestrians can only walk on both sides.

Deputy Prime Minister Dugu has been waiting at the gate of the palace for a long time, and at the end of the hour, there is finally movement at the gate of the palace, a large number of dragon guard soldiers lined up in a neat queue from the palace city, followed by some eunuchs and palace maids holding signs of silence and avoidance, and then there is the sixteen-carrying Wang car, the king car is surrounded by a purple silk tent, which looks like nothing is hanging, and Xue Yaoying, the concubine of Yuan Zai, once had a purple silk tent, which was paid tribute by the chief of Nanhai Xidong.

As soon as Zhao Ziliang's Wang Jia walked out of the palace gate, Dugu walked over quickly, some of the guards stood still and did not move, and the dragon guards who were escorting him stopped.

Dugu asked the vulgar to step forward and arched his hand to Zhao Ziliang and said, "Weichen meets the king and Niangniang!" ”

Zhao Ziliang beckoned to Dugu Wenqing: "Come up, this king has something to tell you!" ”

"Yes!" Dugu Wenshu stepped forward and walked onto the imperial sedan chair, in addition to Zhao Ziliang, there was also Princess Xinping, the princess.

Zhao Ziliang pointed to the position next to him and asked Dugu Wenshu to sit down, and said: "There is something I want to ask for your opinion, since last year, the Tang Dynasty has begun to implement the rules of Zhishi's retirement, and all officials below the fifth grade must retire and go home to retire; Officials below the third rank and above the fifth rank must retire when they reach the age of 60, and officials above the third rank must retire when they reach the age of 65. The reason for the promulgation of this regulation is mainly due to several considerations: first, people are older, their brains turn slowly, and their reactions are slower than those of young people, and the longer people live, the more afraid they are of death, and the less courageous they are, they will always be afraid to do things; The second is to make way for young people and give them the opportunity to do things and experience them. The elderly are conservative, while the young people are motivated to do things and are more likely to accept new things. Therefore, this king has decided to implement the regulations on the retirement of Zhishi in Western Qin, what do you think? ”

Dugu asked: "It has been more than ten years since the establishment of the Western Qin, and there are many officials who are over sixty years old or seventy years old, and even some veterans have reached the age specified by the king just now. However, Weichen has a question, is this regulation also effective for the king? ”

Zhao Ziliang said: "Of course, since this king has made this decision, he will naturally take the lead in implementing it, otherwise the officials below will definitely say that only the state officials are allowed to set fires, but the people are not allowed to light lamps!" ”