Great Tang Southern Emperor

There are so many ships, most of which are transporting prisoners, and even part of the warships in the escort fleet are full of prisoners. There are nearly [-] prisoners who are enough to be sentenced to death, and the rest are full of crimes. And these are only the first batch, even the prisoners in Coconut Harbor have not been transported cleanly, as for the prisoners in other cities, they have to wait for the second and third batches to be transported.

"It's really embarrassing to be in a coma for so long." Li Zhen leaned on the bed, and while eating the food fed by the maid, she said with a wry smile: "It seems that this time the patrol should not go on."

What Li Zhen has never forgotten until now is his great cause of inspection. Originally, he planned to take advantage of this time to rectify everything in Nanyang, but now he is sick like this—being sick is not a problem, healed That's enough, the problem is that the news of his illness and dying will definitely be sent back to Chang'an. Once Li Shimin finds out, he will definitely call him back to Chang'an urgently, and the inspection mission will definitely be interrupted.

"Oh my lord, why do you still want to go on patrol? You don't want to see how sick you are?" Fang Yiai who was next to me suddenly cried when she heard the words: "You should stop thinking about it. , do you know how serious you are this time? You were almost out of breath when we found you, but Doctor Shiratori almost saved you... You are still thinking about patrolling Nanyang , you don’t think about yourself, do you want to be subordinates for us? Think about it, if something bad or bad happens to you, what will we have to face? I’m afraid we don’t have to wait for the court’s knife to come down, I'm going to kill myself and die for you."

"Is it that serious?" Li Zhen smiled slightly after hearing the words: "It's just a bad cold. With Shiratori here, how can there be any trouble in this palace? His medical skills are not inferior to Prince Consort and Doctor Sun."

"Is it that serious? Could you please remove the word '?' for me? You didn't know how urgent the situation was at that time, and Shiratori finally used his ancestral heart-protecting pill to give you a sigh of relief." , and finally took this opportunity to save you... Hey, why am I telling you this? Anyway, your body is there, don't even think about patrolling, just stay here for me honestly, sick You don’t want to go out of this door until you get well. After your illness is cured, I will send you back to Yuezhou immediately—what kind of Highness are you? You are an untimely bomb, I’m afraid You." Fang Yiai finally figured it out, the most important thing now is to send Li Zhen back, talking nonsense to him is useless, now I have to be tough, otherwise God knows what Li Zhen will do.

"But this time..."

Before Li Zhen finished speaking, she was interrupted by Fang Yi'ai: "Oh my lord, please stop talking a little bit, don't you realize how dry and hoarse your voice is? This subordinate knows you What are you worried about, but you have to give us a chance to perform? How do you know that without your care, our defense will go wrong this time?

Don't worry, everyone has experienced in their respective places for so many years, and they already have the ability to dominate alone.Isn't it just a change of defense?Even without you, we won't have any major problems - anyway, you will go on an expedition for a year at most, and you will still come here again. Even if there are any problems at that time, you can make adjustments in time , what is there to worry about? "

"It makes sense, maybe it's chaos because I care about it." It took Li Zhen eight years of hard work to build the situation in Lingnan and Nanyang. During this period, he encountered countless difficulties. His most important effort is not an exaggeration. Of course, he doesn't want to leave any flaws here, so he wants to adjust Nanyang's work before leaving.

But now that I think about it carefully, there are so many top talents under my command, they have already experienced and trained in these years, they have accumulated enough experience, they know what to do when they arrive in a new place, and there is no need to worry about it ?I am simply a fan of the authorities.

"That's right... Besides, Your Highness, how thoughtful you are, you have bought the bottom of Nanyang officialdom at once." Fang Yiai said with a little bit of resentment: "Don't say anything else, just say Our Luzon Protectorate Mansion has been completely dismantled by you, and our subordinates have no one who can be used in the new place, and the others are almost the same, so who can do things in the new place?"

This is the only place where Fang Yiai is dissatisfied with Li Zhen. Li Zhen's method is correct, because he knows the court's rules of doing things very well-for example, in a state capital, when the term of a governor expires, the court generally only He will transfer himself and his high-ranking officials away, but the small officials under him generally will not move. After the new governor is transferred, in order to maintain stability, most of them will continue to use these small officials.

As things go on like this, the prestige of small officials in the local area is getting higher and higher. Some good officials are not bad, at most they form clans or aristocratic families, but those evil officials are rampant and oppress good people. It is the common people who suffer.

Taizu said that governing the country is governing officials, as long as the grassroots civil servants manage well, as long as the grassroots are not in chaos, the officials at the top will not be corrupt even if they are corrupt.

But that is to say, Datang now has a vast territory of more than 2000 million square kilometers (in fact, there are only three big countries left in Asia today, Datang, Western Turkic and Dashi, of which Datang monopolizes the entire East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Northeast Asia And a part of North Asia, 2000 million is still less), there are three or four hundred local state capitals alone, more than 500 counties, and there are at least two hundred officials in each county. The personnel of the state capital..., if you count the governor's mansions outside Shanghai, this is an astronomical figure.

Chapter 1109 "Analysis of Government Policy" + The Beginning of the Contest ([-] words)

Chapter 56 "Analysis of Government Policy" + the start of the contest ([-] words)

In the era when transportation and information were underdeveloped, it was simply impossible to manage so many officials well. Even if information was transmitted at the speed of light in later generations, wouldn’t this goal not be achieved? In fact, even in the 21st century later generations , isn't there repeated news that civil servants oppress good people?Even after the governance of several generations of leaders, the governance of officials has not reached the level that the great grandfather wanted, let alone the Tang Dynasty more than 1000 years ago.

So Li Zhen did an experiment—since the government of officials is easy to form a clan power, and evil officials will harm one side, then it is better to have a courtier who is the emperor.

The method is very simple. Let’s take the governor of the state as an example. For example, if the term of a certain governor expires, according to the previous rules, only one of them needs to be transferred, and those officials who are not of high grade under him do not need to be transferred. Transfer away (the tenure of officials of different ranks in the Tang Dynasty is different).But when it came to Li Zhen, there was a change. After the term of the governor's office expired, not only he and his officials would be transferred away, but also the small officials under the governor's mansion would be dismembered. Official officials, those who should be promoted, those who should be rewarded, will be transferred to other places to continue their posts, while those who have a bad reputation and lack of ability will be dismissed directly, and they will go back wherever they came from.

The new Inspector's Office will be reorganized by the new Inspector. Except for private subordinates such as counselors or consultants, all other officials, big and small, will be reassigned by the court, whether it is a low-level official or a small official. ... Li Zhen named this strategy "Analysis of Government Policy".

Does this have any effect?

This is for sure, this move of "Analyzing the Yamen Policy" can completely prevent petty officials from dominating one side, completely cut off the connection between the governor's office and the grassroots people, and even simply make the governor stand aside, giving people the illusion that the governor is incompetent.

But the only problem is that Li Zhen doesn't know how long "Analysis of Yamen Policy" can last-because "Analysis of Yamen Policy" almost completely damages the interests of grassroots landlords.

Why are those landlords and powerful families able to control the entire Tang Dynasty?As I said before, it's not that people from aristocratic families have become high officials and controlled the entire central court. In fact, their power in the core of the court is not much, at least the top positions are not controlled by the aristocratic family.

However, although they are not powerful in the central government, they control the most grassroots power in the entire Tang Dynasty. A considerable part of those grassroots officials, it can even be said that most of them are controlled by aristocratic landlords and powerful aristocratic families. The officials provided corresponding protection for the landlords and the powerful.

Therefore, although the governors of various states have changed one after another, because of the presence of these low-level officials, the lives of the people have not changed much. The more unscrupulous they are, the more the people will be exploited more and more seriously, and their lives will become worse and worse. In the end, the people will have no means of living, and the officials will force the people to rebel.

It is precisely for this reason that Li Zhen came up with this trick "Analysis of the Yamen Policy", intending to give them a heavy blow at the most fundamental level-the powerful landlords of aristocratic families control a place relying on the support of officials, but now Li Zhen Zhen's move was tantamount to throwing all their painstaking efforts into vain. After all, the new officials didn't take their benefits, let alone have nothing to do with them.

If you want to continue to maintain your previous dominance, you must re-establish a relationship with the new government, and this relationship is destined to be not so easy to conclude, it will consume a lot of resources and time, and it may not be successful.

What's more, the tenure of the fifth rank and above in the Tang Dynasty is three years, and the grassroots officials are five years. That is to say, this kind of re-established relationship can only be maintained for five years at most. After five years, the governor will be transferred After leaving, grassroots officials will be split up and transferred to various places again.Then they have to spend time and resources to establish a relationship with the new officials again. Each leadership team needs to be managed from beginning to end. Even big aristocratic families can't stand it, let alone those small aristocratic families and the landlord class?They will definitely be devastated.

And at this time, even if they want to return it, they will not be able to return it-because this thing is like a drug, once it is stained, it will never be able to get rid of it, otherwise everyone will give gifts to the new masters, and you will be the only one who will not give it What means?You gave gifts when the previous master came, but you don’t give anything when this master comes?Look down on people?

Once such a misunderstanding arises, it is only natural for people to punish you. In a few years, you will be waiting for your family to be ruined—the magistrate who confiscated the house, and the county magistrate who destroyed the family. These words are not just words.

Of course, they don't want to see such a situation. If Li Zhen's development of Nanyang allowed countless poor peasants to get the land they dreamed of, and made the land of the aristocratic families and landlords greatly depreciated, it was a bloodbath for them. What Li Zhen is doing now is tantamount to cutting off their lifeblood.If Li Zhen is allowed to do this, these landlords will have no foundation in the locality-Li Zhen's "Analysis of Yamen Policy" is tantamount to giving them a bottom-up, cutting off their control of the world from the root, and The imperial power is divided into courts against courtesy.

This is tantamount to killing half of their lives. Although it will not completely suppress them, it also makes them lose the qualification to have an equal dialogue with the imperial court. As long as the imperial court continues to suppress them, the future family can only be reduced to a long river of history A grain of gravel in the middle, there is no chance of recovery.

Therefore, the policy of "Analysis of Yamen Policy" is destined to be strongly opposed by the aristocratic families, especially the grassroots landlord class, because it is almost killing them.Fortunately, Li Zhen also knew the importance of this matter, so he didn't directly write to the court, but tried it out in Nanyang—the south now belongs to him, and he was only doing it overseas temporarily, and it didn't attract the attention of the aristocratic family. But what is certain is that once Li Zhen becomes emperor in the future, this policy will definitely be brought back to the mainland by him, and it will definitely be opposed by everyone at that time.

Moreover, the opposition this time is absolutely unprecedented. Even though Li Zhen has the strong support of the people at the bottom, he doesn't know whether he can persevere. ", the most suitable time to carry out "Analysis of Government Policy" was actually when he returned from his expedition, at least after he destroyed the Dashi Empire, the most suitable time was when he returned with Dasheng The general situation, the time when the common people worship him the most, it is too easy to implement a policy under such circumstances, no matter how unwilling the aristocratic family, they can only play tricks secretly, and dare not oppose it openly Otherwise, just the scolding of the people can kill them.

But Li Zhen didn't want to wait that long—or he couldn't wait that long, because he had already made a move. Although this move was just a pose and didn't really hit them, the move was To make a move, if you don't hit the snake and continue to chase Da with the stick, doesn't it mean that the enemy will fight back?This is not a turn-based game.

What's more, this alone is enough to make them vigilant. It's not that there are no far-sighted people in the aristocratic family. They can naturally see the horror of this "Analysis of Yamen Policy". Now Li Zhen is only trying it out overseas. Once he uses it If they moved to Datang, the damage to them would be fatal, and they would never allow such a thing to happen.

In other words, the contest between the two sides has already started since the promulgation of "Analysis of Yamen Policy", and both sides are fighting for time-the aristocratic families must be trying to gain time to discuss countermeasures, and Li Zhen is also fighting for time. This decree was promulgated before a countermeasure was discussed, and now it depends on who is faster. At present, Li Zhen has won the upper hand for the time being, because his "Analysis of Government Policy" has begun to be tried overseas. Once the effect is found Obviously, it may not even be necessary for Li Zhen to promulgate it personally. Some people of insight will take the initiative to expand the trial scope of "Analysis of Government Policy" and introduce this strategy into Datang.

But Li Zhenxian took the lead in throwing out "Analysis of Yamen Policy", but he also put himself on the bright side. If he wanted to complete the promotion of "Analysis of Yamen Policy", it would definitely cause the family to jointly boycott—and This is what Li Zhen is most worried about. Don't look at the aristocratic family being suppressed by the court. It seems miserable. In fact, the court has only eliminated their superficial power these years, and has not hurt their real foundation. Once they are united, even The Tang court also had to fear three points, and I am afraid they would have to compromise.

"Since you are so confident, I will give you this chance." Li Zhen smiled with difficulty. After all, her body has been weak for such a long time, and she can't bear it just by talking: "But I only have One requirement, that is, no matter who you are, before you leave, you must clear up all the bullshit problems under your command, and create a good environment for the successor, which can also be regarded as a test for you by this Palace—— If you can’t do this, then I won’t spare you.”

"Don't worry, Your Highness, you can't spare us, and we can't spare ourselves." Fang Yiai immediately assured that there was no pressure in her heart. Anyway, everything under his command has been settled, and Li Zhen can't even settle accounts. It's on his head, what should I do if others don't get it done?Then it's none of his business.

Let’s talk about Nanyang as a whole. If you want to say where the chaos is the most serious, it belongs to Fang Yiai’s Coconut Port. Even in Tianzhu and Nanyang, where the civil resistance is strong, the resistance is only acting secretly, occasionally attacking warehouses or sneaking past. Even the local garrison can be easily wiped out, and there is no place like Yegang who dares to set fire to and kill people in broad daylight.

Even in such a chaotic situation, my Fang Yiai can easily eliminate it. Why can't you——In fact, with the military power in Fang Yiai's hands, it is actually very simple to wipe out the underworld in the entire Luzon. The difference in weaponry and training quality is too great.

It’s just that on the one hand, the underworld has already infiltrated into the army, and once they make a move, the information will be easily leaked in advance; The opportunity for all the bosses to get together is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If it wasn't for waiting for this opportunity, Li Zhen would have made a move a long time ago.

"That's it, you go to write."

"Yes, my subordinates retire."

In this way, after half a month of recuperation, and after rigorous diagnosis by at least [-] imperial doctors, it was finally confirmed that Li Zhen's illness was cured, and after signing her name on the medical certificate, Li Zhen finally I can get out of bed.

"Phew, I haven't seen the sea for a long time." After coming out of the ward, the first thing Li Zhen did was to run to the beach, smelling the slightly fishy sea breeze, and feeling the taste of freedom, God knows How did he get through this period of time——Fang Yiai was overbearing once in a rare way, and locked Li Zhen in the ward almost in a confinement manner. Except for eating, taking medicine and doctor's diagnosis every day, no one was even allowed. People visit.But his order got the support of everyone, even the thirteen knights who were guarded by Li Zhen were all supportive, and they regarded Li Zhen as the reason for their lives, and Creevey raised their hands and feet again. Adding a head to support it doesn't give Li Zhen a chance to refute at all.

No way, this is the worst time he has ever been ill. Even the time when he was conspired to get infected bacteria on his body was not as serious as this time. The infection happened to be caused by the penicillin developed by Chen Tianlu. He was rescued, and the treatment process was very easy. After all, there is no such thing as drug resistance in this era, and the power of penicillin is almost [-]% exerted. Isn't it easy to catch infection and inflammation?

But this time there is no specific medicine for the severe cold (Huxin Dan is a life-saving medicine, not a specific medicine). It was Shiratori who stayed up for three days and three nights to pull him back from death.Especially this time when he was sick, he lived alone, and there was no one around him, so he missed the best time for treatment, which made his illness worse—it can be said that there is a white bird beside Li Zhen, that is, a white bird There is an ancestral heart-protecting pill, which helped Li Zhen protect her heart and upgrade at the most critical moment, otherwise it would be useless to change someone even if Sun Simiao and Chen Tianlu came.

But no matter what, Li Zhen's life was saved this time, otherwise, if something happens to him, no one knows how far it will evolve in the end, but one thing is for sure, that is, Li Shimin will definitely go crazy, and in the end How many people will die no one knows.

Chapter 1110 Rise of the Idiot

Chapter 57 The rise of the idiot

"Your Highness, your body just came to the sea? Why don't we go back and rest for a while?" Li Zhen was enjoying the taste of freedom there, but the people next to him were terrified. Cheng Chuliang asked very worriedly. It was just right, what should I do if something happens again?

Fang Yiai was even more violent. She pulled out her sword in a "swipe", grabbed the collar of the imperial doctor who had been following her all the time, put the knife on it, and asked viciously: "I ask you, are you sure about the illness of His Highness the Crown Prince?" Already ready? Is there no problem even if the sea breeze blows?"

"All...all...Don't worry, Lord Protector, it's really...really all right." The poor imperial doctor, a dry old man, was almost mentioned by Fang Yiai, with a sword on his neck, Sen Han's sword energy was almost Penetrating his bone marrow, he was so frightened that he couldn't help but say: "His Highness has been in good health and recovered quickly. In fact, he was already healed five days ago. It's just that the ministers are not fully sure, so they observed for another five days. Make sure that His Highness is really in good health...Besides, I have signed a life-and-death contract. If something goes wrong with His Highness, the eleven members of my family will have to pay for the prince's life...It is about the life of the Chen family. How dare you lie about something like this?"

"Is that so..." Fang Yiai threw down this imperial doctor and arrested another imperial doctor: "Tell me, is he right?"

"Yes, yes, yes, yes... Doctor Wu is right at all. This is the result of our diagnosis together. His Royal Highness is really fine... General... General, you must trust us... We It's impossible to make fun of my family... General, please forgive me..." The imperial doctor was even more unbearable. He was hit by Jian Feng and immediately peed his pants. For a while, the surrounding area was full of stench. Fortunately, this is the seaside, with the sea breeze blowing , the smell didn't spread far before it was blown away.