After finishing speaking, Li Shimin looked at the faces of everyone below, and then said calmly: "I'm telling you, I'm not telling you to do this. After all, local officials represent the court officials, and these merchants, local aristocratic families, Too much entanglement can easily lead to corruption and arrears of favors. The way the court wants to solve this problem is to increase the number of local officials. If the officials cooperate with the village leaders and the village chiefs, they can also achieve similar efficiency."
"Even if it is a little worse, the gap is not big. Now I am telling you that as the pillars of the Tang Dynasty, you are all the pillars of the Tang Dynasty. You cannot be rigid in your thinking. You must know how to be flexible. In emergencies, you must be flexible. Emergency treatment cannot be cookie-cutter and one-size-fits-all."
"I understand." Everyone stood up and bowed in salute.
Today's court meeting was extraordinarily long. When many officials were in Li Ke's supervision of the country, some memorials could be avoided. However, His Majesty went to court. For them, this was an opportunity to perform. To put it bluntly, there are more memorials to prove that you are doing something. There were quite a few such people, so the meeting lasted for more than two hours, with two breaks of a quarter of an hour each to allow some officials to go to the toilet.
After the court was over, Li Shimin returned to Liangyi Hall and rubbed his forehead. He felt extremely tired. Looking at the nearly twenty memorials he had brought back, he had a headache. It was very tiring to deal with these memorials. of.
"I heard that Li Ke processed these memorials very quickly?" Li Shimin asked with his eyes closed while resting.
"Yes, Your Majesty, His Highness the King of Qin reviews memorials very quickly. Although His Highness the King of Yue has read many memorials, in fact His Highness the King of Qin has to read them all once." Chang Lin said with a respectful expression.
"Where's Li Tai?" Li Shimin asked after a pause.
"Uh...I heard that I took my guards out of the city for a hunting trip. I left yesterday afternoon. I was told that I would go hunting for a few days before coming back." Chang Lin was speechless.
Li Shimin: "..."
Everyone has learned from me not to go to court, right? ! Forget it about Li Ke. He has been in prison for two months and the things handled in the court are still the things he has ordered now. It doesn't matter whether he goes to court or not.
Li Tai, you also learned how to run for me, right? When your third brother was supervising the country, why didn't you see you dare to run away and not go to court?
Just thinking about it again, hey, forget it, Qingque has suffered a lot. Before Li Ke came back last year, Qingque was still fat and easy-going. However, after this new year, his body has lost weight. It must have been due to eating. suffered a lot.
"Where is the prince?"
"I went to the palace of His Highness King Qin. It is said that he went to see the real person Sun Simiao to take care of his health. It is said that the symptoms of His Highness the Crown Prince's diabetes have improved. According to the doctor from the Medicine Store, His Highness the Crown Prince can be completely cured by taking some more medicine."
Li Shimin nodded, that's right, this disease naturally needs to be treated all at once.
"What are Li You, Li Min, Li Yun, Li Zhen, and Li Zhi doing?"
"His Royal Highness the King of Jin is studying. His Highness the King of Qin has arranged a lot of homework. Recently I heard that His Highness the King of Liang has been practicing martial arts in the military camp. He also took the initiative to find several bachelors from the Hongwen Hall to learn knowledge."
"His Royal Highnesses King Chu, King Tan, and King Han are completing their studies normally in the palace."
"Go and call the three of them over, and tell them that I want to test their studies." Li Shimin thought about it, and Li Min's change surprised him. He also learned to take the initiative to learn, and it seemed that Li Ke was brought to the Western Regions. It really worked once.
Li Zhi... forget it, this child has not had a good life after the New Year. I heard Guanyin maid said that every day he talks in sleep about some math problems.
Li Shimin simply called over the remaining three. Although he was a father, it was quite difficult for a father to give his children a bowl of water.
Since the others are busy, it's a good idea to call the three of them over to give them a test. It can also be considered as a way to close the relationship between father and son and test their academic performance.
"yes!"
After receiving the notice from Chang Lin, the three princes Li You were stunned. The father-son relationship between them and Li Shimin was actually relatively unfamiliar. Although their father also took exams and homework, he was busy with court affairs and had no time to keep an eye on them every day.
Why are they suddenly required to take a test?
This... Li You is obviously the most panicked, because his academic performance is not good!
After the three people entered the Liangyi Hall and saw Li Shimin, Li Shimin pointed to the more than twenty memorials brought back today on the table and said: "Come on, everyone takes a few. These are the memorials of this year's imperial court. They are all Take a look, and then give your thoughts based on the content of the memorial, and see what your learning results have been over the past few years."
Li You, Li Yun, Li Zhen: "..."
Why is this behavior so familiar... Isn't this what Fourth Brother has been doing recently?
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Let's not talk about Li Shimin's homework test for his son. On the next day, "Datang Weekly" was published again. Wei Zheng, who went to work at the Imperial City Yamen in the morning, reached out and skillfully took a newspaper from the concierge.
Reading every issue of the newspaper is a must for almost all officials, wealthy families, merchants and other literate people in Chang'an City.
Not to mention them, even many small business owners who did not know much about literacy in the past have learned many new words because of reading newspapers.
When he opened the newspaper, the first thing Wei Zheng saw was naturally the headline. When he saw the title, Wei Zheng was stunned for a moment.
"Trial Measures of the Tang Dynasty on Encouraging Merchants to Establish Chambers of Commerce, Strengthen Commercial Mutual Assistance, and Promote Commodity Circulation"
In the author column below the article title, Wei Zheng saw a familiar name, King Qin Li Ke.
Good guy, Wei Zheng immediately stopped in his tracks and looked at it seriously.
"In the past year so far, many patriotic businessmen have emerged in the Tang Dynasty. Last year, more than 90 businessmen donated more than 5 million yuan to build roads and renovate Chang'an City. This year, hundreds of businessmen donated more than 7 million yuan to build the Great Tang Dynasty. Tang National Martyrs Cemetery, and recently, many businessmen have offered to donate to the Tang Royal School to establish a universal education system from elementary school to university."
"From all aspects of these things, my father and I have seen a group that is patriotic and socially responsible, takes the rise and fall of the country as its own responsibility, and worries about the world."
"As the saying goes, 'Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world.' The rise and fall of the country is closely related to each of us. Now my father and I are very happy to see that the merchants of the Tang Dynasty have made their due contribution."
"As the Royal Family of the Tang Dynasty, such patriotic businessmen and patriotic groups, the Royal Family of the Tang Dynasty should consider you and the people. People all over the world are working hard to make their own contributions to the prosperity of the country, national progress, and social peace. Then the Tang Dynasty The royal family should be 'people-oriented and people-oriented'."
