After leaving the Xuanzheng Hall, Qin Qiong chose a relatively remote road to return to the Yamen. Except for the imperial guards on duty, no one else noticed.
As Qin Qiong walked, he was thinking about it. He had been away from the power center of the Tang Dynasty for several years. Although the relationship between emperor and ministers with Li Shimin had not changed much, as Li Shimin said, the relationship between him and Li Shimin was completely like brothers. feeling.
But there are some words, Qin Qiong is not a fool, just listen to what the leader said. It’s a good thing for your leader to be a brother to you, but you can’t really be a brother to your leader, at least not now.
When people reach their sixtieth birthday and have completely different perceptions of life, it becomes more practical to be brothers at that time.
Qin Qiong couldn't figure out what the special thing His Majesty told him this time, but since it was related to His Highness King Qin, he must do it right.
To be honest, Qin Qiong didn't know Li Ke well before. He had heard some of Li Ke's nickname, but at that time he was sick most of the time and had no intention of caring about these things. His son naturally kept a low profile.
But despite having no communication or affection with him, His Highness still thought of him as soon as possible after inviting Sun Zhenren back, and asked Sun Zhenren to nurse him back to health, and when he got well, he immediately asked him to help him. He's in charge of such an important department as the Department of Public Safety.
Although the Ministry of Public Security is not a government soldier or an army.
But now the Ministry of Public Security has hundreds of thousands and close to one million security forces and guards throughout the Tang Dynasty, and His Highness's configuration of these security forces is stronger than the previous government soldiers. It is not an exaggeration to say that these are all armies.
His military power is greater than that of other generals. Other generals can mobilize very few troops during non-war times, but he can mobilize and command these security forces at any time. This is fundamental.
Not deciding the position based on closeness, and trusting him directly, Qin Qiong certainly has a very good impression of Li Ke. The things His Highness told him must be completed with all his heart. This is why Qin Qiong has been giving him this position after arranging it. It's all hard work.
The reason why the entire Ministry of Public Security has developed to this day is almost the department with the smoothest reform, and it has formed a set of special internal processes.
Not only has the security of Datang continued to improve, but all banditry in the entire territory of Datang has been reduced to an extremely low level or even non-existent.
There is no way, all the armies in the Tang Dynasty are conducting drills, and including the security army, they have divided into operational departments, daily management departments, and case-solving departments.
The training of the operations department is completely based on the military. There are many bandits in the entire Datang who are capable of doing this.
Today's matter seems to be quite big, but I don't know how His Highness will restructure the entire Datang. It is estimated that the situation of this restructuring will be relatively large, so this method is adopted to ensure that it can be restructured in the first time. The counties under each state in the entire Datang Dynasty will be announced.
Qin Qiong decided to use the special transportation department of the operations department to take charge of this matter. These people are loyal to His Majesty and His Highness. When the time comes, he only needs to tell them that this is a matter that His Highness personally confessed. There will be absolutely no leakage of the information by anyone, and then forget it. If something happens to the person responsible for guarding these, the things will not be lost.
However, His Majesty and His Highness have told us that this matter must be carried out in a low-key manner, so the scale cannot be too large. It is best to borrow the route used to transport other items and then transport them secretly. Anyway, the Ministry of Public Security is currently constantly carrying out operations throughout Datang. Transportation teams come and go.
What these transportation teams transported was very simple, which was Datang's population and household registration information.
These things are transferred to the Ministry of Public Security. Each county must register newly added household registrations, new births, etc. every year. A copy of the newly added household registrations and population must be backed up and transported to the headquarters of the Ministry of Public Security in Chang'an City. .
Use this delivery team to transport these, and internal protection will be enough.
After thinking about it for a while and making sure that there was nothing wrong with his idea and that it would not attract more people's attention, Qin Qiong finally settled down on the matter.
Xuanzheng Hall.
After Qin Qiong left, Li Shimin called Chang Lin in.
"Bring me those memorials that Li Ke handled before." Li Shimin said directly.
"Your Majesty, which ones are they?" Chang Lin said calmly, "My Majesty, in the past year, almost all the memorials have been handled by His Highness King Qin. I really don't know which ones you are talking about." .
"It's the few documents he has processed with his private seal, and more of the documents he reviewed for giving opinions to the three provinces." Li Shimin said.
"Yes." Chang Lin understood immediately. Tang Dynasty's official documents, that is, regular memorials, all use six seals engraved by His Majesty plus a national jade seal as the final seal. In other words, any one of these seven seals can be used. It represents His Majesty or His Highness.
However, some documents are not memorials, but official documents issued by His Highness to the three provinces, allowing them to discuss and reform this aspect. This kind of official document is not a final execution memorial but an exploratory official document. His Highness generally Replace it with your own private seal of King Qin.
Naturally, a copy of these documents must be forwarded to His Majesty. Although His Majesty has rarely read them, there must be backups here.
Chang Lin quickly came back with a stack of memorials. Seeing these memorials, Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, "Is that so much?"
Chang Lin didn't know how to answer for a while, "Yes."
Li Shimin took out these memorials and checked them one by one. After confirming them, he said directly: "Go and find the general as the supervisor. Forget it, it is not good for the general supervisor to be involved in this matter. You can secretly find two engravers." Master, carve me another one based on Li Ke’s personal seal of King Qin.”
Chang Lin: "?"
Others were stunned and didn't know what to do for a moment.
"Also, you go to Fang Xuanling and ask Gao Shilian, the Minister of Civil Affairs, to bring me the information of the highest officials in each county in the Tang Dynasty, saying that I want to check the information of these officials in each county in the Tang Dynasty. "
"In addition, you asked people to secretly prepare two thousand edict writing materials, paper, and related fire paint sealing materials. Note that this matter must be kept secret. Chang Lin, you have been with me for so many years, and I don't want to send it in advance because of this matter. You go down to see Gaozu." Li Shimin stared at Chang Lin and said.
Chang Lin: "..."
"Yes, Your Majesty, I will make arrangements now." Chang Lin decisively bent down and saluted.
"Okay, go ahead. I have to write more than a thousand imperial edicts every day, and it will take several months." Li Shimin sighed, "Hey, it's tiring enough."
Chang Lin: "..." You used to review the text of memorials every day. According to the number of words of regular imperial edicts, you could write thirty in a day. Now you are tired of writing more than a dozen.
