"Fan Yong?"
This person's ability is quite good, and his butt is not crooked. In addition to ensuring logistics, he also did his best when Cao Qian went to Tibet as an envoy.
Two meritorious deeds in a row deserve a good reward.
"After his term is over, he will be transferred to the Third Division and appointed as the deputy envoy of the Third Division."
Nowadays, there are more people from the Ding Party in the Sansi Yamen. Although Li Jie is not worried about Ding Wei usurping power, it is not the same thing to always let the Ding Party occupy so many important positions.
However, Fan Yong was not a member of Ding Wei's party. For him to serve as the deputy envoy of the Third Department was to reduce the power of Ding Wei's party in disguise.
In addition, Li Jie also intended to hand over the tea law reform to Fan Yong for supervision.
As for Wang Qinruo, who was previously in charge of supervision, he had other purposes.
When Cao Wei returns to the court, Li Jie plans to let him enter the two houses and serve as deputy envoy to the privy council.
Putting Cao Wei in the position of deputy privy envoy is not unexpected. As early as the fourth year of Tianxi, Cao Wei had served as a Privy Councilor.
As a Privy Councilor, his duty is to be one of the deputies of the Privy Councilor, and his status is the same as that of the Deputy Privy Councilor.
The reason why he is not directly called the Deputy Privy Envoy, but called the Privy Councilor, is entirely because of his seniority.
It seems that he is the second-in-command of the Privy Council, having the same knowledge of the Privy Council affairs, signing the Privy Council affairs, co-signing the Privy Council affairs, etc.
And this is also one of the advantages of the Song Dynasty system.
If a certain official has sufficient ability but insufficient qualifications, he can be promoted in this way.
For example, Quan XX and Tong XX officials are all in this category.
What matters is flexibility.
"As deputy envoy to the Third Department?"
Hearing this, Liu E couldn't help but be a little surprised.
In the past, most of the yamen of the Third Division were Ding Wei's party members. Not only did the officials show no intention of changing, but they pushed Zu Shiheng to the position of chief official of the Third Division.
But now, the officials want Fan Yong to serve as the deputy envoy of the Third Department.
Could it be that Ding Wei and others made some mistake?
On the other side, seeing the confusion in Liu E's eyes, Li Jie took out a letter from his chest.
"Madam, please read this letter first."
"Um?"
Seeing the cover of the letter, Liu E recognized the handwriting on it at a glance.
This is Kou Zhun's handwriting!
The letter was indeed sent by Kou Zhun, and it was sent through the expedited channel. It was forwarded directly to the palace without going through the Tongjin Si Yamen.
This channel was deliberately reserved by Li Jie for Kou Zhun. Originally, this channel was reserved for the reform of the imperial examination.
However, the content of this letter has nothing to do with the reform of the imperial examination system, but is related to the Sansi Yamen.
Kou Zhun didn't know where he got the news, and he knew that the Sansi Yamen was going to make some fuss about the expense reduction.
Then, he wrote a letter and revealed the matter to Li Jie.
Although Li Jie did not instruct Li Jie on the matter of discounts, increasing the ratio of discounts can indeed ease next year's finances.
Therefore, Li Jie was prepared to turn a blind eye to this matter.
But, now, it's hard for him to do that.
After reading the contents of the letter, Liu E said dumbly.
"This Zu Shiheng is quite a talent, he can actually come up with such a method."
This may seem like a compliment, but if combined with Liu E's tone, it has a different flavor.
Obviously, Liu E didn't quite agree with this matter.
The dynasty and the scholar-officials jointly govern the world. The literati-officials are the foundation for the dynasty to govern the world. If their interests are affected, doesn't it run counter to the national policy?
Immediately afterwards, Liu E changed her eyes and asked what Li Jie meant.
"How do the officials plan to deal with it?"
"Zu Shiheng is originally the third envoy of Quan. Next year, if the criticism is too great, let him leave his post."
Li Jie was not prepared to correct the expense immediately.
The reason for continuing to implement the deduction was not because Li Jie was short of money. He just wanted to take this opportunity to test his qualities as a scholar-bureaucrat.
Soon, he will ask the Imperial City Secretary to spread some public opinion that "the national affairs are difficult".
Didn’t the scholar-bureaucrats consciously rule the world together with the emperor?
As one of the protagonists, if the family encounters difficulties, should we save money together?
If you don’t even have this awareness, how can you still talk about ruling the world together?
People who can only share joys and sorrows are not worthy of talking about these things.
"Are we short of money?"
When Liu E heard this, her first thought was not whether it was reasonable or not, but she was worried about finances.
In June, Liu E officially handed over the management of the inner treasury to Li Jie. Since then, she has not paid much attention to the inner treasury.
But when I think about it carefully, it's not quite right. When it was handed over to the inner treasury, although the money in the inner treasury was not abundant, it was definitely not a shortage.
Even if you add in the war in the northwest and the post-war rewards, there should still be a lot of money left.
"There is still a lot of money left in the internal treasury. There is no shortage of money."
"What about cutting off expenses?"
"That's right."
With that said, Li Jie began to explain the intention.
After listening to this narration, Liu E didn't come back to her senses for a long time. She was a little unable to turn around. Why did she do this?
Is it necessary to test this?
If something unexpected happens, wouldn't it shake the foundation of the country?
In fact, it is normal for Liu E not to understand. After all, she was deeply influenced by Zhenzong, and Zhenzong was deeply influenced by Taizong.
Emphasizing culture and suppressing military force is the basic national policy of Zhao and Song Dynasties.
After three dynasties, when she arrived at Liu E's place, she naturally felt that this was the right thing to do, the truth, and the unshakable ancestral law.
But Liu E obviously didn't know what kind of negative consequences would come from emphasizing culture and suppressing military force.
One general is incompetent and the three armies are exhausted!
The Song Dynasty's unfavorable external affairs were partly attributable to the national policy of emphasizing culture and restraining military force.
How did Di Qing, a famous general with great military exploits, die?
After being dismissed as Privy Councilor, he died of fear!
Did Di Qing make any big mistakes during his tenure as Privy Council?
No!
The mistake was that he was a military official, and he was from the lowest level of martial arts.
Therefore, he was deeply marginalized by the civil service group.
After looking at Di Qing's treatment, let's look at another person - Han Qi.
As the main person involved in the defeat of Haoshuichuan, Han Qi's wrong decision directly cost the lives of tens of thousands of troops.
Han Qi, who made such a big mistake, eventually became a general and became a prime minister, serving as three envoys, privy envoys, and prime ministers.
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A minister who had never made any serious mistakes died of fear in the end. A man who ruined tens of thousands of troops rose to the rank of prime minister.
This shows how strict the civil and military prohibitions in the Song Dynasty were.
If this phenomenon does not change, even if there is no Han Qi in the future, Li Qi and Zhang Qi will make the same mistake.
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Ying Tianfu.
At this time, Fan Zhongyan was writing furiously in the study.
Looking at the measures taken by the officials after they ascended the throne, including the Huimin Bureau, the construction of water conservancy, the tea law, the reduction of redundant troops, the establishment of schools, the Battle of Xiaoguan and a series of policies, these government affairs all confirm a fact.
The official family is wise and wise, and the Spring and Autumn Period has flourished. The Queen Mother should return to New Kun, and the official family should be the leader!
[The Queen Mother was bequeathed to the late Emperor, supported the Holy One, and listened to the affairs of state... Now that the Spring and Autumn Period is long, she is fully aware of the hypocrisy of the world, and it is appropriate to take charge of the government...]
