The next day, Taiwei Zhong Yao, Situ Huaxin, and Sikong Wanglang were the first to arrive at the East Palace.
Pingyuan King Fu Gaotanglong also came to the Yizheng Hall early.
Then came the important ministers such as Fu Xun and Du Xi, as well as the two chief officials of the Zhongshu Province: Liu Fang, the Superintendent of the Zhongshu Province, Sun Zi, the Ling of the Zhongshu Ling, and Xin Pi, the Attendant of the Zhongshu Province.
After the establishment of this dynasty, the emperor immediately began to reform the official system.
The post of prime minister in the previous dynasty has been abandoned, and the powers and responsibilities of the prime minister have been divided into three, becoming the three main pavilions of Shangshutai, Zhongshu Sheng and Shizhong Temple.
The minister is no longer an official subordinate to the prime minister, but has become an independent institution. In the Shangshu Province, there is a third-rank officer named Shangshu Ling, who is supported by one servant each on the left and right of the minister, each of whom is the third rank.
The current Shangshu Ling and Shangshu Pushe of this dynasty are Chen Qun and Sima Yi who are accompanying His Majesty the Emperor on his expedition.
The Shangshu Province no longer has the power to make decisions on state affairs, but only has the power to handle specific affairs.
There are five Cao Cao under the Chancellor: Li Cao is in charge of the transfer of officials; Zuo Min is in charge of people's household registration and taxes; Ke Cao is in charge of state affairs and diplomatic affairs with Eastern Wu and Shu Han; Wu Bing is in charge of officer selection and military training; Du Zhi is in charge Treasury.
These five Cao Cao govern affairs, and each Cao Cao has a chief minister, all of whom are officials of the third rank.
Under the minister, there are ministers, doctors and other subordinates, such as the new minister Zhuge Dan, Wang Ji, Wang Boyu and others.
[Note 1: Under the five ministers in Shangshutai, there are Dianzhong, Libu, Jiabu, Jinbu, Yucao, Bibu, Nanzhuke, Ancestral Hall, Duzhi, Treasury, Agriculture, Water, and Yicao , Sangong, Cangbu, Mincao, Erqianshi, Duguan, Zhongbing, Waibing, Dubing, biebing, cavalry, kaogong, and Dingke, a total of twenty-five men, assisted the minister in organizing various affairs. 】
In addition, Zhongshu Province has two officials: Zhongshu Jian and Zhongshu Ling, both of whom are third-rank officials.
The chief officials of the Zhongshu Province in this dynasty are Liu Fang, Liu Ziqi, and Sun Zi, Sun Yanlong, who are sitting firmly in the political hall at the moment.
Zhongshu Sheng is in charge of secrets and drafting edicts. When there are confidential matters or urgent matters, Zhongshu Sheng can directly issue edicts and hand them over to relevant officials for execution. This power is not unimportant.
Outside Taiwan Province, there is also Shizhong Temple. As early as the sixth year of the reign of Emperor Ling of the former dynasty Liu Hongxi, this yamen was first established, with Shizhong and Huangmen Shilang as the chief officers, and all the officials and ministers under the head.
In this dynasty, the third-rank servant is the chief official. There are always four people in the servant, and the most senior one among them serves as the sacrificial wine. The main duties of the servants are to accompany the emperor, advise him on the pros and cons at all times, and at the same time, as the chief officer of the sect, control other emperor's servants.
Not long after, Guang Luxun Hejia, Tingwei Gaorou, Zhijin Wu Zangba, Yushi Zhongcheng Bao Xun, Da Sinong Changlin, Sijin Duwei Han Ji and other important ministers who participated in the founding and discussion of the country, except Wei Wei Li Yi, claimed to be ill. After Zhu Shuo, the leader of the Central Military Commission, was guarding the palace city, other ministers came to the East Palace Council Hall in twos and threes and returned to their seats under the guidance of the visitors from the East Palace.
When this dynasty was first established, there were nine ministers following the Han Dynasty system of the previous dynasty. The positions of the remaining eight ministers have not changed much. Except for Guang Luxun, the civil servants who were originally under Guang Luxun were all reorganized into servants in this dynasty. Guang Luxun only managed the military servants.
The Zhonglang General in Tuntian is another anomaly. This dynasty attaches great importance to Tuntian. Therefore, the Zhonglang General does not belong to the chief of all Zhonglang Generals, Guang Luxun.
After a while, Cao Lin, the king of Hedong who was in charge of the imperial guards of the palace, also slowly and swaggeringly brought his followers to the meeting hall. He specifically chose the seat next to the three princes and put on the white soap gauze dress that resembled the prince's clothes. Qu Ling Yuanyou Guan straightened his clothes and then sat down firmly.
Not long after everyone arrived, Cao Rui, king of Pingyuan, came to the political affairs hall and sat down at the main seat, accompanied by Guan Qiujian, the servant of the East Palace of Literature, Cao Shuang, the guest of the East Palace, Wen Zeng and Bi Gui. .
"See His Royal Highness King Pingyuan!"
When everyone saw that the prisoner was in his rightful place, they all knelt down and saluted.
"My dear ministers, there is no need to be polite."
Cao Rui smiled slightly and continued:
"Before discussing politics, there is a case that needs to be entrusted to Lieutenant Ting immediately."
Since Gao Xun did not return home all night, he had not yet informed Tingwei that Gao Rou had many things happened last night.
After listening to Cao Rui's words, Tingwei Gaorou did not dare to delay. He was refreshed and immediately stood up from the table, worshiped in front of the hall and said:
"I don't know what the case is, but I would like to ask your Highness for your instructions."
Cao Rui clapped his hands, and Cao Shuang immediately left the hall.
Not long after, Cao Shuang led the East Palace Guards, Sima Supervisor Wei Lie, and the prisoner Wei Lie had captured, Xiao Xuanxue, to the Yizheng Hall.
"Your Highness, I have led Sima Langzhong to apprehend the criminal Xiao Xuanxue and bring him to justice!"
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On Pingchangmen Street, Xia Houxuan, even though he had already drank the hangover soup and drank with Xun Can all night, still felt a little dizzy.
"Brother Xun, speaking of Xiao Xuanxue, although she is a Soochow artist, she is just a weak woman after all. Moreover, she is passionately devoted to you, but you treat her like this. Isn't it a little too cruel?"
Xun Can smiled and replied to Xia Houxuan:
"Brother Xiahou, this is wrong. Once Xizuo sells the information to the enemy, and war breaks out, it will be the people of Wei who suffer in the end."
Xia Houxuan smiled apologetically:
"What Brother Xun said is true."
"However, I have also asked Gao Xun, and he said that Xiao Xuanxue is not an assassin, but only a careful agent, and has not really betrayed any military intelligence. Therefore, just serving a ten-year sentence will not endanger his life."
Xun Can turned pale, looked up to the sky and sighed: "In troubled times, human life is like a piece of grass. It's good that she can save her life..."
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After bidding farewell to Queen Guo at the Xuchang Palace, His Majesty the Emperor's dragon boat sailed down the Yingchuan River and finally arrived at Suiyang.
Cao Pi thought of a past event and a person.
That year, when he had just ascended the throne as emperor, he appointed Lu Yu, the young son of Lu Zhi, the young son of the former great scholar Lu Zhi, as the minister of Huangmen, as the prefect of Liang County and Qiao County, in an attempt to Practice it well and it will be of great use in the future.
However, later because of an incident, the Lu Zi family lost his respect and was even demoted by him, until today.
Although Cao Pi was an emperor, he saw that his hometown Qiaojun was desolate, so he specially sent people to Qiaojun to farm and make Qiaojun rich.
But the Luzi family didn't understand their painstaking efforts, so they went so far as to say that the land in Qiaojun was barren and the people were poor, and they requested that the people who had previously moved to farmland in Qiaojun be moved to the fertile land of Liang.
As soon as this memorial came up, even if I didn't want to agree, I had to agree, otherwise the people of the world would think that I didn't understand geography and wasted people's energy.
In this way, Cao Pi verbally praised Lu Yu, and at the same time demoted Lu Yu to Suiyang diannong school captain.
Today, the dragon boat arrived at Suiyang, and Cao Pi naturally thought of Lu Yu, the overqualified and underqualified Diannong captain.
Looking at the fertile farmland on both sides of the river and the cheerful songs of working farmers in the distance, Cao Pi's face, which was originally like a frozen abyss, seemed to melt.
The corners of his mouth rose unconsciously.
"Your Majesty, why are you so cheerful?"
Bian Lan, the regular servant of Sanqi, saw His Majesty the Emperor suddenly smiling. He was curious and asked directly.
"Nothing else, I am happy to see the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait live and work in peace and contentment."
Cao Pi was immersed in this peace and happiness for a while. In his image, he had been following Emperor Wu on his expeditions to the east and west since he was more than ten years old, and fought in the north and south. The Central Plains in his original image was full of wars. There is no cockcrow for a thousand miles.
But now, he sees that his world has finally become peaceful and peaceful, how can he not feel relieved.
"Bian Lan, go and tell me what I want, tell Jiang Ji and Liu Ye, and ask them to draft an imperial edict. Then he said: Lu Yu, the captain of Dian Nong School in Suiyang, has a good political performance, peaceful rule, and people are happy. Now he is promoted to Anping, The governor of the Second County of Guangping will take up his post immediately, and he will live up to my promise."
"only."
After receiving the oral instruction, Bian Lan immediately went to find Jiang Ji and Liu Ye.
Cao Pi smiled again.
"What a Zang Nukou Qingzhou."
Cao Pi smiled to himself.
The slave bandit he calls is the diminutive of Zhijinwu Zangba.
Speaking of the Qingzhou soldiers under Zang Ba, Cao Pi didn't have a good impression. It can even be said that this was a thorn in Cao Pi's heart.
In the twenty-fourth year of Jian'an, Emperor Taizu Wu's mausoleum collapsed. Zang Ba's Qingzhou soldiers thought that the world was about to be in chaos, but they all went away by beating drums!
An army disbanded on its own without the monarch's order. This was simply a great insult to the new monarch.
Unfortunately, Cao Pi himself was the unfortunate new king.
If these Qingzhou soldiers were to be disbanded like this, it would be a disaster. But the matter was far from over. These Qingzhou soldiers who had disbanded on their own once again gathered privately under the command of various Qingxu tyrants to form a private group. And these tyrants, And they all obeyed the orders of Zang Ba, the former governor of Qingzhou!
this is too scary.
Hence, what happened two years ago.
Two years ago, during his three-pronged campaign against Wu, when Wen Lie was in charge of the Qing and Xu armies, Zang Ba actually said to Wen Lie:
"The country is not willing to listen to Ba Er! If he pretends to be a tyrant and rides on thousands of people, he will surely be able to run rampant across the river."
This is to directly persuade Wen Lie to allocate ten thousand elites to him so that he can conquer Jiangdong by himself.
I originally thought that Zang Ba was already old and just wanted to keep Zuo Lu for the rest of his life. However, he did not expect that he was not satisfied with his existing status and wanted to make great achievements again. He even separated himself from Jiang Biao and became the second emperor. A Sun Quan!
If Wen Lie hadn't told him secretly, he would never have known that Zang Ba had this idea.
Although I have relieved Zang Ba from his military power in Qingzhou at the expense of Jiuqing's position as Jinwu, the local powerful bullies in Xuzhou, Qingzhou, each support their own tribes of retainers, and they all have grievances in their hearts. They must let him Only with official governance can this hidden danger be completely eliminated.
Anping and Guangping counties are both located in Qingxu. He specially appointed Lu Yu as the prefect of these two counties, precisely to suppress those Qingxu tyrants.
One Lu Yu is naturally not enough. Lu Yu was just the beginning. Even if Cao Pi's southern expedition failed to successfully conquer Sun Quan, it would still be enough to solve Qing Xu's problem.
Xuzhou, you must first solve this fertile land!
"Xun Wei, send the order, order the commander to move forward quickly, and must arrive in Xuzhou within five days!"
"promise!"
Chang Shi Xun Wei took the order and left.
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"Axuan, tell me, His Highness King Pingyuan has already sentenced Wu Guoxiu Xiao Xuanxue to ten years in prison. There should be no more trouble in Luoyang City, right?"
Cao Xi was leaning on the sandalwood couch that originally belonged to Xia Houxuan.
Although Cao Xi was very sleepy after a busy night, he was really worried about Cao Rui, who was supervising the country, so he rushed to the Marquis Mansion in Changling Township to discuss with Xia Houxuan.
Xia Houxuan, who was playing the harp and burning incense in front of his desk next to his bed, was picking the strings of the harp and controlling the rise and fall of the sandalwood smoke with the sound of the harp. He replied to Cao Xi:
"Luoyang is a vast country, with a mixture of barbarians, Han thieves and virtuous people. In my opinion, Xiao Xuanxue is just a chess piece abandoned by the mastermind behind the scenes. The real danger may still lie behind."
The sound of the piano was far away, and Xia Houxuan stopped talking. He just played the music of Crane Ming in the Yin, Crane Dance in the Virtual Courtyard, and Shang Yang encouraged these piano fingerings over and over again.
Cao Xi only felt a headache, and he was so sleepy that he finally fell asleep under the gentle sound of Xia Houxuan's piano and the fragrance of sandalwood.
