Fu Tang

After Li Congjia sneered, he really started to think about whether there is still a censor in the court. After all, the censor was originally responsible for monitoring the court and officials of the princes, and the position of censor has been rumored since the Jin Dynasty The right to act, no matter whether there is evidence or not, as long as you hear about it, you will start to participate. If you meet a more serious censor, you will really hate this profession from top to bottom.

But now Li Congjia has set up a supervisory department, which actually overlaps with the functions of the censor, and the supervisory department is better than the censor. As long as they impeach people, they will definitely not be aimless. They must have the evidence. An investigation is conducted before the submission of evidence for direct litigation.

The Ministry of Supervision has been operating in compliance with the regulations from the beginning to the end. At least until now, there have been no cases of false accusations, and they are much faster than the Yushi operation, because the Ministry of Supervision and the Ministry of Intelligence are linked, and the Ministry of Supervision is in control. In Zhao Kuangyin's hands, it seems that Zhao Kuangyin and Shi Xueting are good partners.

In this way, with the Ministry of Supervision, the censors and ginseng could not catch up, so they had nothing to do, so they had nothing to do to make their presence known, otherwise... it would be a vegetarian meal.

In fact, Li Congjia was very dissatisfied with this situation, he felt that Yushitai was a bit redundant.

Shi Xueting said: "They are really annoying."

As a national teacher who is no longer involved in politics, it is an open secret that he has the intelligence department in his hands. Yushitai has long disliked Shi Xueting, and they think the intelligence department should give it to them. Isn't the Joint Supervision Department a perfect match?Why should a monk master it?Displeased, greatly displeased.

Therefore, whether Shi Xueting recruited disciples or had too many believers, these became the point of Yu Shitai's participation in him, which made Shi Xueting very annoying. There were always people saying in front of Li Congjia that there was something wrong with him. Chang'an is fine, he can always defend himself, once he has something to leave Chang'an, he has to worry about Yu Shi's continuous separation between him and Li Congjia.

No matter how much people who love each other, cracks are prone to occur under such circumstances.

When Li Congjia saw that Shi Xueting also agreed to abolish the censor platform, he slapped the table and said, "Well, I will discuss it with the cabinet later. I don't want to keep these censors for a minute."

Shi Xueting asked: "These censors are not considered low-ranking officials, and generally censors are not suitable to be officials close to the people. Have you thought about how to arrange them?"

Li Congjia said as a matter of course: "Shove it into the Supervision Department."

Shi Xueting choked for a moment: "What's the difference?"

"There is a big difference. One can talk nonsense without evidence, and the other needs to go through various procedures to confirm that it is true before reporting it, and then arrest people directly. I just want these censors who can only hear rumors to accept it. Re-educate again!" Li Congjia gritted his teeth, although these censors didn't bother him too much, but it took time to read the booklets every day, and this group of people was completely wasting his time!

Shi Xueting thought this was indeed a good way, so he silently expressed his support. With Shi Xueting's support, Li Congjia felt more at ease. If Shi Xueting disagreed, he had to think of other ways to achieve his goal. purpose.

So at the Xiaochao meeting, Li Congjia directly proposed to merge Yushitai with the Ministry of Supervision.

Fan Zhi and the others didn't seem surprised at all. They knew Li Congjia well, and they usually put on a show in the big court meeting, and they didn't care too much about the ministers. This is because they didn't treat everyone as outsiders.

However, at the last court meeting, Li Congjia didn't seem to intend to endure at all, so after he jumped out, he directly exploded. At that time, everyone knew that Li Congjia's patience with these censors had probably reached its limit.

The people at Yushitai were not stupid, they had done a lot of guesswork, and this time they knew that they were in serious trouble, so they kept running around asking if there was any news about moving Yushitai.

But Li Congjia didn't say anything, even the cabinet didn't know about it. The censors were worried that the censor platform would be abolished, and they were even ready to die to show their ambitions. Anyway, they were officials, and they died for their ideal Ming Zhi is the highest honor.

But even if the cabinet didn't expect that Li Congjia would be willing to let the censor into the Supervision Department, they thought that Li Congjia was so annoying to the censor, and they would definitely let them go back to their hometown for what they should do. Don't care about them?

Fan Zhi breathed a sigh of relief, feeling that His Majesty had finally matured a bit and was no longer so impulsive.

Li Congjia said: "It is indeed unnecessary to prove the existence of Yushitai now. It is a waste of talents to put so many officials there without doing anything and writing notes every day. Anyway, the Supervision Department has similar functions to Yushitai. It’s just that the way of doing things is different, let the censors go in and learn first.”

Fan Zhi and the others didn't think there was anything wrong. Being an official is a gradual learning process. Who dares to come up and say that they can do everything?

So Li Congjia's proposal passed the cabinet very quickly for the first time. Of course, the cabinet cannot control the Ministry of Supervision. Feel free to discuss it with the cabinet.

The cabinet also knew that even if they disagreed, they would have no way to make Li Congjia take back his ideas. Instead, they would easily anger Li Congjia. In the yamen, wouldn't there be a lot of people crying?

Li Congjia turned around and asked Zhao Kuangyin to rectify, and hinted that he could make those censors suffer a bit. After all, these people might not be able to change their minds after arriving at the Ministry of Supervision. He has reason to believe that Zhao Kuangyin will definitely deal with them.

Let you participate!

Li Congjia finally breathed a sigh of relief.

However, no one expected that the censors had changed places, and even their official positions were no longer censors. They still had the ability to jump up and down, and they even gave Li Congjia an excerpt, which was still familiar in a familiar format.

Li Congjia collapsed after seeing the paper: "Is there no end to these people? They are no longer censors, and they don't have this function anymore? Why can they still participate? Who accepted the paper? Theirs The grade can no longer reach the lowest grade of Zhida Tianting."

Secretary Cheng was also devastated. Yushitai had just been changed, and he habitually handed over the papers when he saw a familiar name, and he never thought about the grades of these people at all!

Yes, most of the censors are very low-level. Normally, they have to report to their superiors, and then the superiors are able to write reports to the cabinet or the emperor. But censors are a special profession. It's a different process.

Li Congjia glanced casually, and then found that these censors must be trying to get revenge on Zhao Kuangyin, because they actually suggested that Zhao Kuangyin is a general and not suitable for managing the Supervision Department, because they were worried about Zhao Kuangyin's public revenge?

Originally, Li Congjia didn't want to talk to these people, so he just pretended that they hadn't written papers. Anyway, he wouldn't be able to see the papers written by these people in the future, but after thinking about it, he felt that this view might be the view of many civil servants. Civil and military confrontation is not good. The court needs checks and balances, but there is no need to split them because of checks and balances.

So at the court meeting the next day, Li Congjia specifically brought this matter up and said, "I don't understand what you mean by public avenging private enmity. I just want to know, aren't you the courtiers of the Tang Dynasty? Do you have to divide civil servants and generals? The main reason for me to separate everyone is to let everyone perform their duties, not for you to criticize each other, not to mention that from the establishment of the Ministry of Supervision to the present, has anyone been wronged? Don’t do bad things and don’t be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door. Even if you have personal grievances, why worry if you are invulnerable?"

So a certain former censor poked his neck and asked, "What if the evidence is fabricated?"

Fan Zhi knew it was bad when he heard this sentence, but he didn't want to save people. He also felt that these censors were really stupid sometimes.

Li Congjia snorted and said: "It seems that you guys didn't study hard even after entering the Supervision Department. Do you think the review system of the Supervision Department is just for show? The inspection teams are not affiliated with each other. Important cases have to go through three layers of review, how clever is the fabricated evidence that can pass the three layers of review?"

The most important thing is that these people think that the intelligence department led by Shi Xueting is blind?Can't see this kind of problem?Of course, the intelligence department is an existence that everyone knows but cannot be said publicly, so Li Congjia can only swallow this sentence back.

The censor wanted to refute but couldn't find a point. Li Congjia said directly: "The censor of Yushitai also has to learn when entering the Supervision Department. If he can't learn well for a long time, then he can only change his position. I believe there will be suitable ones." In your position, the Ministry of Supervision is to do things, not to teach idiots!"

When Wei Renpu heard this, he coughed lightly, glanced at Li Congjia, and signaled him to be gentle. After all, it was a grand meeting, so don't scare the officials below. After all, when the court promoted their Majesty, it was a compliment. As good as it gets.

As the founding king, there is nothing wrong with boasting wildly, but you, the old man, should also cooperate a little bit. If you want to get mad, you can do it at the small court meeting or when discussing politics with the cabinet.

Li Congjia curled his lips secretly, didn't say anything more, and continued to follow the procedure to let the subordinates report to work. After he retired from the court, he turned around and told the officials to transfer the idiot who sang against him at the court meeting to the Western Regions as the county magistrate!

I believe that the tough folk customs in the Western Regions will teach him to be a man.

The censor's tragic experience made him unaccustomed to the Supervision Department before, and the censors who had not received preferential treatment all withdrew their eagerness to move. After this incident, they were really able to learn honestly. It's not that he tried every means to fight for his own interests and messed up Li Congjia.

After Li Congjia directly took the opportunity to destroy the entire Yushitai, he turned around and recruited Lei Youzhong and his wife to Beijing. After such a big incident, Lei Youzhong needed to come to Beijing to report on his duties regardless of whether he was guilty or not. By the way The situation in Lingnan, and then decide whether to fight or not.

However, Lei Youzhong probably knew the process very well. He started to pack his things on the second day of marriage, and prepared to take Gao's daughter back to Beijing. Gao's daughter had already regretted it a little at this time. The war between Dali, she originally thought that her father loves her so much, maybe it will pass after just getting angry for a while, and maybe they will reconcile with Datang.

However, she still seems to have underestimated her father's hatred for Datang, but...why?

Gao's daughter couldn't figure it out, she never thought how much her father hated Datang.

Of course she couldn't figure it out, she didn't hate her before, but now she was about to hate her to death, Datang didn't know that a wild boy who ran out of nowhere would seduce his daughter, could this hatred be kind?

After the envoy sent by the imperial court conveyed Li Congjia's will, Lei You finally returned to Beijing with his belongings.

After he arrived in the capital, Li Congjia specially spared time to come to see him. As for Gao's daughter, she naturally came to pay homage with him at first.

To be honest, Li Congjia's impression of Gao's daughter is that she is very rebellious. He is also worried that Gao's daughter will regard him as a Dali person and will not bow down to him, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. Will he punish him or not?

Originally, she wanted to see her, but it was not in accordance with the rules, so she could only adapt to the situation when the time came, but she didn't expect that Gao's daughter knelt down neatly, without showing any dissatisfaction at all.

Thinking about it, the daughters of the Gao family are all married to Lei You. If she really doesn't want to kneel, she can simply not follow her. Now that she has followed her, it means that she knows what's going to happen next.

After all, her husband still has to work under the man in front of her. If she offends even this man, the two of them will really wander around the world.

Li Congjia heaved a sigh of relief, and after getting them up, he asked Taofu to lead Gao's daughter to Gao Xi's place. In the past, Gao Xi was not qualified to meet married women, but this time is different. The two of them are sisters anyway, so they can break the rules once .

After Gao's daughter left, Lei Youzhong knelt down again, not only knelt down, but also kowtowed three times.

Li Congjia raised his eyebrows and asked, "What are you doing?"

Lei Youzhong said with shame on his face: "I am ashamed to compare, because I have selfish intentions, so the scriptures I wrote are suspected of deceiving the emperor."

Li Congjia silently praised Lei Youduan in his heart, who said generals are short-hearted?Obviously very smart, if Lei Youzhong didn't say it himself, Li Congjia might lightly expose this matter, but the consequence is that Lei Youzhong probably won't be reused in the future.

Now that Lei Youfinally took the initiative to admit his mistake, Li Congjia could have said magnanimously, "You, forget it, for the sake of your newlyweds, don't care about it. You can't do this in the future. The Ministry of Supervision is not just a decoration. Now it's in your hands." In the hands of the old boss Qin Guogong, if you don’t want to be caught by him personally, just be honest, you know?”

Lei Youzhong naturally responded repeatedly, but what he was afraid of was not the Supervision Department. The Supervision Department would only act when it found out that he was guilty. This time, he said that the matter was not big or small, although he was deceiving the emperor. Suspicion, but not completely lying, just avoiding the serious and taking the light of it.

What Lei Youzhong was really afraid of was Shi Xueting's intelligence department, otherwise he wouldn't have pleaded guilty so bluntly.

Li Congjia waved his hand and said, "Okay, this matter is over, let's go, let's go to the Privy Council, the King of Chu and the King of Shu must be waiting impatiently."

Lei Youzhong followed immediately, and after arriving at the Privy Council, the big bosses really gathered together, and when he saw Lei Youzhong, there was a bit of teasing expression on his face.

Li Congjia sat down and said, "You can tease Lao Lei after the meeting is over. Now let him talk about the situation in Lingnan."

When it came to business, Lei Youzhong, who was still bowing to everyone with a playful smile just now, immediately straightened his body and began to report to work.

Li Congjia originally wanted to ask how the army over there is doing now, but in the end Lei Youzhong opened his mouth and said, "Your Majesty, the three Lingnan cities have reclaimed more than a thousand acres of land, and the people in the city are stable and self-sufficient. The food production in the country can exceed last year, and the only thing we need to worry about is delivery, Your Majesty, when will roads be built over there?"

Li Congjia immediately said: "Wait...wait, this matter should be mentioned in the Lingnan governor's book? Why did you tell me?"

Lei You finally touched his head and said: "The governor said that these should be reported in the middle of the year, but he was worried that the court didn't know enough about that side, so he asked me to come back and talk casually."

Just... tell me, who are the officials looking for?There are also officials who do this?

But the governor's ability seems to be really good, after all, so many fields have been reclaimed, Li Congjia decided to forgive the governor for this matter.

Then the problem came, when it came to the issue of grain production in the field, it was beyond the control of the Privy Council. Li Congjia had no choice but to move to the Xuanzheng Hall, and then asked someone to invite the cabinet together with the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

The ministers of the cabinet and the Minister of the Household Department were very surprised. They didn't know what happened to Li Congjia. When they came to the Xuanzheng Palace and saw that the senior officials of the Privy Council were there, and Lei Youzhong was also there, they felt that they might be doing something to attack Dali. Prepare.

Hubu Shangshu even quickly went through the various values ​​in the national treasury in his mind to ensure that he could perfectly answer any questions raised by Li Congjia before sitting down boldly.

As a result, what they didn't expect was that Lingnan didn't need the imperial court to deliver military rations at all. Not only could people be self-sufficient, they could even transport food to other places!

At this time, the cabinet and the Minister of the Household Department realized the significance of their visit. The five of them immediately entered the working state and began to ask questions about the people's livelihood there.

The development of the three cities in Lingnan is indeed good. As long as people can eat enough, even if they have hope in life, they can easily settle down. Except for Jianchang Mansion, these three cities are all young, but they are developing vigorously.

The cabinet has already begun to think about whether such a large piece of land in Lingnan should be built into a city?

Then there was a serious question in front of them—except for water, it is not easy to go out of Lingnan or enter Lingnan by land. With the dense population and various natural advantages, this... I'm afraid it will easily form an independent kingdom.

So it is imperative to build roads, but how to build and how much to build still need specific consideration.

Lei Youfinal stared dumbfounded at Li Congjia and the civil servants starting to study the matter of road construction, then turned to look at Zhao Kuangyin in a daze: "I have other things that I haven't done, and...do I need to talk about it?"

After all, judging by the posture of these few people, it is estimated that there will be too much to say at this time. Road construction is a very complicated matter, and the investment is too large. Now many businesses in the plain area like to build roads here. Lingnan... there will be no businesses at that time If it is undertaken, I am afraid that the court will still be required, and the amount of expenses will be very considerable.

Li Congjia also felt very headache, so he said: "Let's put this matter aside for now, or you can let the wind out first. The governor of Lingnan asked Lei Youzhong to bring back the map he observed that is suitable for road construction. Let the Ministry of Industry take a look later. Bar."

Fan Zhi and others also nodded. It is estimated that this matter will not be completed in a short time, but he still asked cautiously: "If Your Majesty sends troops, will it be before or after the road construction?"

Li Congjia said decisively: "I can't wait, let's not wait."

Fan Zhi and the others had an idea in their minds, so they stood up and resigned, leaving room for the members of the Privy Council, and Li Congjia asked Lei Youzhong to continue to report.

Lei Youzhong talked about the number and types of soldiers now. Judging from these superficial values, Lei Youzhong is indeed working hard in leading the troops.

Li Congjia fumbled for the armrest of the throne, and those present who knew him better knew that he was hesitating. Usually, this kind of thing happened, which meant that Li Congjia had to make a very important decision.

Everyone thought he was deciding whether to fight Dali or not, and they were still wondering, wasn't he very decisive before?Why are you so hesitant now?

Lei Youzhong was a little restless, he thought that Li Congjia was dissatisfied because he didn't do well enough, but he was embarrassed to say that because he had made some contributions anyway.

Lei You finally gritted his teeth and said, "Your Majesty, just tell me what you have, Lao Lei can bear it."

Only then did Li Congjia make up his mind and said, "That's what you said, so how about it, from now on I will appoint you as the governor of Dengzhou to monitor the situation on the Japanese island."

Lei Youzhong... Lei Youzhong almost cried when he heard it.