This matter still needs to be discussed in court.
At the next court meeting, Li Ke brought the news directly to the court and asked them to discuss it.
"Congratulations, Your Majesty." The first reaction of the ministers was congratulations.
"Congratulations, Your Majesty, you have conquered the world." After all the ministers had finished congratulating themselves, Wei Zheng stood up and said.
Li Ke: "..."
"No, Duke Zheng, when you went out today, your head was accidentally squeezed by the door? Aren't you afraid that others would say you were flattering?" Li Ke couldn't hold it back and complained directly.
The courtiers below were holding back their laughter and did not dare to laugh. The main reason was that this was really not Zheng Guogong's style. He was actually the first to come out to congratulate him. This... In the past, when the Supreme Emperor was in power, Zheng Guogong had always done similar things. I came out to be a reasonable guest.
The purpose of standing up is to first warn His Majesty not to be immersed in vain achievements and become complacent.
Good guy, now that it’s His Majesty, he’s jumping out to congratulate you?
"Your Majesty, the old minister is telling the truth. He behaves uprightly and sits upright. Naturally, he is not afraid of criticism. Moreover, the old minister also speaks from the bottom of his heart. The surrender of the Western Turks means that the territory of the Tang Dynasty has expanded again."
"Now the Tang Dynasty is able to get the surrounding small countries to surrender repeatedly. This is entirely due to the naturalization policy launched by His Highness. Without the surrender of small countries such as Xue Yantuo, Shi Wei, and the Thirty-six Kingdoms of the Western Regions as examples, whether it is Tubo, it will really Countries such as China and Western Turks will not make this choice."
"Your Majesty, you just let them see more and better choices, and this method cannot be regarded as increasing the burden on the court." Wei Zheng said calmly.
"I believe that Liang Guogong, Zhao Guogong and all the other princes including the military must have the same idea." Wei Zheng said, "So this congratulation is not on behalf of the minister, but on behalf of the people of the world, and on behalf of the officers and soldiers of the army, I wish to express my congratulations to Your Majesty. ."
"War will cause casualties, but being able to conquer the enemy without fighting and accomplish the great cause of unifying the world is an unprecedented feat. Although the veteran has always liked to give advice, the veteran is not ignorant of the truth and has no twists and turns. He deserves congratulations. Of course, I also want to congratulate His Majesty."
Wei Zheng's words were not only speechless for Li Ke, but also for the officials in the imperial court.
"Okay, then I would like to thank Duke Zheng for his understanding." Li Ke curled his lips helplessly.
"Your Majesty, your words are serious. This is my duty. But this time, besides congratulating Your Majesty, I also have a message. Now the territory of the Tang Dynasty has expanded again. Counting the previous Goguryeo, as well as the newly added countries such as Tubo, At present, there is a constant shortage of personnel in the official system across Datang."
"I believe that there will be another national unified examination next year. In addition, there are many new officials, and the imperial court is newly established. For example, the leaders of various tribes such as the Western Turks will be abolished, so the Menxia Province serves as the judicial There is an urgent need to expand grassroots officials and establish relevant yamen in various major states."
"Therefore, I feel that the funding for the province needs to be increased by 50% this year." Wei Zheng bowed down and saluted seriously.
"I object!" Fang Xuanling was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, Zheng Guogong's words are actually putting the cart before the horse. As the most complex personnel structure and the functional organization of the imperial court that needs to manage all the land in the country, the Shangshu Province has the most work. of."
"And the Shangshu Province itself is facing a tight financial situation this year."
"Your Majesty..." The military members over there also wanted to stand up.
"Stop, we won't discuss next year's expenses and financial expenditures for each department today. There is still more than a month before the end of the year. You will discuss the finances of each department privately, and then the three provinces will discuss and come up with a plan, and then submit it to me."
"You tell me now that I can't tell the difference. This requires a lot of data support. You go discuss it with the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank." Li Ke stopped them directly.
Good guy, he said that Wei Zheng couldn't praise people for nothing. He wanted money for his relationship, and Li Ke didn't care. They could discuss the finances themselves. Li Ke has now begun to delegate power to Fang Xuanling.
Although he was still dealing with things, Fang Xuanling had already asked Fang Xuanling to directly give the final answers to many matters before submitting them, which naturally greatly eased his own affairs.
"Yes..." The three of them were a little reluctant, but they still agreed.
But Li Ke's words also made them all realize that His Majesty has begun to delegate power, even though the constitutional monarchy has never been in court, and His Majesty has not discussed it with anyone else.
The problem is that although there has been no discussion, His Majesty has begun to implement it step by step.
"This time I will talk about the next steps for Persia and other countries. My idea is that now that the Western Turks have been captured, we will announce to the surrounding countries that all territories outside the Tang Dynasty will officially belong to the Tang Dynasty. "
"In addition, the Tang Dynasty began to implement the return plan of Chinese wanderers in the border areas. The people of these countries, whether they entered our Datang because of fleeing or other reasons, and are willing to join our Datang, will be unified as the people of our Datang." Deal with it." Li Ke looked at everyone below and said.
This era is not like that of later generations, where countries in later generations reject illegal immigrants. That is because those illegal immigrants in later generations have been fostered by society, and at least a considerable number of them are not good people.
In addition, because the population welfare of each country is limited, when these people come in, they will rob the welfare of their own population, so countries do not allow these illegal immigrants to enter, even some good people who come in.
But this era is different. The world's population is now only a small amount. It is no exaggeration to say that population is the greatest wealth in this era.
Therefore, there is no need to dislike the large population in this era, and the people in this era are really simple and terrifying. This is almost the case for the lower class people in every country.
As long as they can live a good life, they have no knowledge. To be honest, they have basically no culture. They have never traveled far in their lives. Among the people living in a nearby township, the most cunning and cunning people are put together. After more than a thousand years, it is estimated that everyone can be called honest.
At most, they are just a few clever people. Of course, this does not mean that there are no evil people, but the worst people are limited in their performance because of their lack of knowledge, and their brains cannot keep up.
If you want to find evil people in this era, more than 99% of them are among the nobles.
Of course, those who were forced to do a bad thing and finally gradually let themselves go are not counted. That has nothing to do with the people.
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PS: I still need to stay in the hospital for a few days, and I can check the situation again on Wednesday. In the past two days, I will update if I can write, and if I can't, I will try to update twice.
