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Chapter 281 Zhang Chao's three sharp knives are in hand with me

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That night, it was not until dawn that Li Yuan stood up tiredly and left with all the people. The scholars also said goodbye to leave one by one.

Yu Shinan, a scholar of the Qinwangfu, also smiled and told Zhang Chao that he would not enjoy the delicious snacks of Zhang Chao's family in the future. The emperor had already pulled out a house next to Taichang Temple in the Imperial City to serve as a Hanlin Bachelor's Academy. In the future, Hanlin Bachelor's Academy would have to compile books and discuss matters, so he would have to go there.

Zhang Chao smiled and said that during this period, the Zhang family was indeed very lively. They were really busy and had no contacts, and they were all great scholars. Zhang Chao's fame also soared during this period.

Zhang Chao is also very familiar with these famous scholars and scholars in Chang'an.

Before the prince left, he asked Zhang Qiao to go and praise him.

Zhang Chao also felt a secret look that Li Shimin had thrown into him when he left. The two of them had a brief collision, then they retracted, pretending that they didn't know each other.

Qin Qiong didn't leave, so he stayed.

"You can change the plaque tomorrow!" Qin Qiong stood at the gate and looked back at the plaque of the Bachelor's Mansion.

Before Li Yuan left, he wrote a letter from his pen and gave it to Zhang Chao.

"Grandmaster", "Wu'anbo Mansion", "Poetry, Book, Etiquette and Music", "Farming and Reading to Pass on Family" and "Hanlin Bachelor"

Li Yuan wrote a five-piece door plaque in his pen, and also issued a special purpose to build a five-layer gate tower for the Zhang Mansion to place the five imperial plaques.

Such glory is something that ordinary officials cannot ask for, but the emperor gave Zhang Chao five plaques to him.

Qin Qiong looked at the Zhang family's door and was very happy, even happier than Zhang Chao.

"I will officially leave Beijing in a few days and go to Tongzhou to take office. I am very happy to see you now."

"I'm quite satisfied with what I am now." Zhang Chao replied with a smile. He was not satisfied with the fact that he had just been promoted to Wu'an County today, nor was he happy that the emperor gave him a door plaque. He was happy that he had stopped in Chang'an.

After that day, early the next morning, a person who was going to be a prisoner came over to build a gatehouse for the Zhang family. The leader was actually the young supervisor Yan Liben who was going to be a prisoner.

Seeing Zhang Chao, a young general, was very polite, Zhang Chao pulled him into the mansion to drink rock sugar pears. Later generations were more familiar with Yan Liben's paintings. In fact, this brother Yan was a family of engineering. The father and son were all engaged in engineering, and they were very famous. Emperor Wen of Sui, Emperor Yang of Sui, Emperor Gaozu of Tang, Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor Gaozong of Tang, Emperor Gaozong of Tang, and Emperor Gaozong of Tang, and Emperor Gaozong of Tang, in recent dynasties, the Yan family has been very open.

Yan Liben was also the nephew of Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou, and his mother was Princess Qingdu, the daughter of Yuwen Yong.

Zhang Chao was very polite to Yan Liben, because Yan Liben, who was the general of the junior supervisor, had a high official position, not to mention that when Emperor Taizong was about to be the Minister of Works, he was first promoted to prime minister.

Zhang Chao likes to make good friends.

Yan Liben was also very polite to Zhang Chao. Building a gatehouse was not actually a project, but he came in person. It was because the emperor wrote five plaques for Zhang Chao at one time, which was not something that could be obtained by a Wu'anbo or a Hanlin bachelor.

It took only a few days to build the five gatehouses, and the five gate plaques written by the emperor's emperor's pen have been made and installed one by one.

The first gate tower is equipped with the fourth word "The Grand Secretary", then the Wu'an Bo Mansion, followed by the Hanlin Bachelor, farming, reading, family traditions, poetry, books, rituals and music.

On the day of the plaque, Zhang Chao specially set up a banquet, and Lao Niu even gave a big deal and made another thousand firecrackers. The explosion of Wubenfang is well known.

Many guests from the Zhang family came, many nobles, many gentry, and most of them attended. The excitement that made the students in the Imperial College next door were amazed and envious.

However, there are fewer people in this excitement.

Qin Qiong and Luo Shixin have both left Beijing and officially went to Tongzhou and Huazhou to take office. Li Shiji also returned to Henan. Xu Yuanlang was basically crippled, but he was still fighting stubbornly. Li Yuanji no longer went to war. Li Shiji, the Henan general manager, was fully responsible for the Henan battlefield.

A major event happened during this period, that is, the court officially ordered the removal of four bureaus and divided the country into fifteen supervisory channels. Fifteen supervisory censors have been selected and appointed as observation envoys and inspect various places.

Sixingtai was removed and officials in Taiwan were recalled.

Li Shimin, Li Yuanji, Duan Lun and Li Fuwei were summoned to the capital.

Li Shimin once wrote a letter to oppose the immediate removal of Xingtai, believing that the world is not peaceful and the time has not come. Especially when Bashu is remote, Xingtai needs to be able to make decisions at the moment, and Jianghuai cannot withdraw it rashly, otherwise it may cause misunderstandings from Li Fuwei and others or cause unrest.

However, the prince wrote a letter to force the removal of Xingtai. In the end, Li Shimin's opposition did not work. The emperor issued an order, and three sentences passed, and the four Xingtai was removed.

Li Shimin's Shaanxi East Road Grand Station was abolished, and Li Shimin's Xingtai Pushe Qu Tutong and Xingtai Minister of War Yin Kaishan were also transferred back to Beijing.

The East Palace was filled with joy.

Zhang Chao, who was busy editing primary school textbooks during the day and dictionaries at night, wrote about Zizhi Tongjian, was also summoned by Li Jiancheng to the East Palace.

Li Jiancheng had a very good face. In his opinion, he achieved a major victory this time.

"Tell me how to pursue the victory!"

Zhang Chao also had a place in the prince's hall. He, the Grand Secretary of Chongwenguan, sat side by side with Prince Xima and Wei Zheng.

Everyone expressed their opinions and put forward many suggestions.

Some of them are pretty good, for example, someone suggested that the court reopen the feudal system and grant the princes the feudal states. He even proposed to grant Li Shimin the title of King of Shu and change it to King of Shu.

This proposal is indeed good. If the court really divides the feudal system, then Li Shimin's enthronement to Shu will definitely be a county and state, with a maximum of one or two states in the vassal states.

After the vassal state, the princes were not allowed to leave the vassal easily. If the court ordered them, they would not have the chance to enter the capital. Just staying in Shu's own two acres and three cents, Li Shimin would of course not be able to make any trouble.

But the suggestion is good, Li Yuan will definitely not agree.

"Wen Yuan, do you have any suggestions?" The prince directly called out when he saw that Zhang Chao had not spoken.

Zhang Chao looked at the crowd, feeling helpless. He knew that he had to come out some real things at this time. After all, this was his first time attending the core meeting of the East Palace.

"Return to Your Highness, I think our Eastern Palace won a good victory this time. But the King of Qin still holds many positions, both as the governor of Yongzhou, General Tiance, and the General of Shangshu, and the General of the Twelve Guards. After the revocation of the Grand Historical Office of Shaanxi East Road, most of the subordinates of the King of Qin in Henan returned to the capital, and his strength cannot be underestimated."

"If the King of Qin can be enfeoffed, it is of course good, but judging from the current situation, it is almost impossible. As soon as the world is not truly stable, the Tang Dynasty has established its country, how could Your Majesty let a general like the King of Qin leave? Furthermore, Your Majesty values ​​family affection and will definitely not be willing to let the King of Qin enfeoff the border, and then it will take several years to see you."

"I think it's better to wait a little longer than thinking about how to enfeoff the King of Qin."

"Just just wait a little longer?" Li Jiancheng seemed not very satisfied with Zhang Chao's words.

"It's not just waiting. I think the first priority at the moment is to let the King of Qin and King Qi move out of the palace."

This made Li Jiancheng surprised when he said this.

"The two kings of Qin and Qi have grown up long ago, and even have several children. They have been living in the palace until now, and they are free to enter and exit. Every time they enter and exit, they are riding horses and even picking up bows and knives. The palace is prohibited as if nothing is left. This is contrary to the system and also damages the authority of His Majesty and His Royal Highness."

Li Jiancheng nodded when he heard this.

"So, I have three suggestions. First, Your Highness may write to Your Majesty and ask that the two kings be built outside the palace. After the construction is completed, the two kings will be moved out of the palace, and the palace ban will be strictly enforced in the future."

"Secondly, Your Highness may write to Your Majesty. In the future, the kings must perform courtesy rather than family rituals when they meet with Your Majesty and Your Highness, unless it is a family banquet in the palace. Your Majesty's edict, the crown prince's edict, and the king's edict must also be reiterated that the emperor's edict is the highest, followed by the crown prince's edict, and then the prince's edict. The ministries have officials, so they must be executed in this order of priority, and cannot be executed in the order of the edicts and rituals received."

"Wen Yuan said it well, this is very important. The lonely prince order is often not as effective as the Qin King's Sect. It's too rude!"

Zhang Chao smiled and said, "Your Highness, as long as you ask Your Majesty to issue an order first, and then arrest a few typical examples to kill the chicken to warn the monkey, then this matter can be changed."

"The first and second suggestions are very good. Wen Yuan, what is your third one?" Li Jiancheng did not expect that Zhang Chao actually had good suggestions, and they were all so practical.

Zhang Chao had no scruples. The few things he said were actually very normal. Even if he didn't propose them, the emperor himself would propose them with the unification of the world. But now he said them, but the prince can trust him more.

"As for the third article, I think that if the next unity is unified today, the court should also silence the military and cultivate culture. In the past, due to the needs of war, there were various places to go on stage and have troops under the rule of the kings. But now that the world is unified, the court should also be formal and everything must be done according to the system. The kings have troops, which is not in line with the name system. Therefore, the third article of my article is to advise Your Majesty and take over the kings' troops!"

"The kings can keep the marriage office and the tent office, but the remaining tens of thousands of troops in the six guards on the left and right must be handed over to the court."

The Tang Dynasty had an army not only the emperor and the princes and two princes, but also the other princes and even princesses, but also some had a lot of soldiers and horses. Many of them were nominally belonging to the Twelve Guards, but in fact they were mostly their direct soldiers and horses.

In the hands of the two kings of Qin and Qi, each of them even had dozens of elite troops of 20,000 to 30,000 troops.

Zhang Chao's suggestion was to only retain the guards in the hands of these people, but to dismiss the rest of the troops. In this way, Li Shimin, Li Yuanji, Princess Changping and others who had soldiers in their hands were only more than a thousand guards left at most.

Zhang Chao said that there was no pressure on these. This was originally a historical trend. Moreover, if Li Shimin really wanted to rebel, it would be impossible to rebel with more than 100,000 or 200,000 soldiers and horses like King Yang Liang of Han. Li Shimin did not use his soldiers and horses in the Xuanwu Gate Incident, because under normal circumstances, Li Shimin could not mobilize these soldiers and horses at will.

"Good words!" Li Jiancheng applauded and praised him. Oh, Zhang San and Zhang Wenyuan, he is really a talented person in Wang Zuo. God sent him to help him! To be continued.
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