Two days later, before dawn on the third day, Li Tong secretly returned to the forbidden area.

It’s not that he was worried that if he lived there, he would turn from a good medicine to comfort lovesickness into a residue. It’s really hard to have too much private leisure time in his identity now.

After returning to Da Nei, he had a short rest and it was time for the Chang Dynasty. Li Tong hurriedly changed his clothes and headed towards the Xuanzheng Hall of Zhongchao.

Nowadays, the regular dynasty is carried out according to the frequency of every three days. In addition, the routine dynasty is held every day. The officials of various departments and officials meet to discuss current affairs, and the prime minister is responsible for presided over the foreign court. If the emperor encounters issues that the emperor is concerned about, Li Tong will also attend such a dynasty.

After the end of the Yasukuni period, the court entered a period of orderly recuperation. In terms of foreign affairs, except for the ongoing Northeast war, other places were basically stable, including Yao Yuanchong, the prime minister who was awarded titles for military merits, did not agree with the current situation and continued use of foreign troops.

Li Tong was not aggressive, and of course he understood the harm caused by frequent wars to the national economy and people's livelihood. The so-called three years of hard work can only lead to a year of reserves. The continuous unrest and wars in the first half of the year did indeed cause the national strength to be deficient. He also agreed that large-scale foreign wars will no longer be carried out in the next few years. Even if there are some minor quarrels in the border affairs, they will mainly seek other ways to resolve them.

This slight contraction in foreign wars is not a manifestation of timidity, but mainly due to considerations of cost and return.

The Tang Dynasty had a vast territory and a huge size. It owned the richest arable land in the world. As long as the internal resources were optimized to allocate, the rewards it brought were amazing. As for the surrounding areas, there were a bunch of poor things, and it was really impossible to follow the path of fighting to support the war.

Therefore, when there are no strong opponents around you who dare to make clear provocations, conducting internal reforms and waiting for the skills to cool down is the most cost-effective way to restore national strength.

Of course, the reason why the monarch and ministers hold this view is that the situation below is still stable. Now the surrounding areas of the Tang Dynasty can be regarded as strategically facing each other are nothing more than the Turks and Tubo.

After the establishment of the offensive and defensive system of the Three Sushu Jiangcheng, it was difficult for the Turks to riot the northern border without restraint. The defeat of the East Sushu Jiangcheng caused a great loss of the Turks' strength. Not to mention being a head-on enemy with the Tang Dynasty, even if they move to other directions, they will suffer many twists and turns due to the sharp decline in strength.

As for the Tubo side, the internal struggle between the monarch and his ministers became increasingly fierce. On the other hand, the Tang Dynasty had emerged from the quagmire of civil strife in advance, and could take more initiative in bilateral relations based on this advantage.

Although the Tang Dynasty has recovered stability, there are still many problems left behind. The military system of the two yamen has collapsed and needs to be reformed and rebuilt urgently. Before the central guard system is re-established, the investment and construction of border troops will no longer be increased. This is also one of the reasons why a certain strategic contraction is needed.

In addition to military issues, the issue of being able to be reinvigorated by Wei Yuanzhong, which had previously raised by Wei Yuanzhong, also needs to be solved urgently. After all the demobilizations and demotions returned to the capital, the situation of the rewards was not optimistic enough, and there were many problems of various sizes.

Although there are many problems, if you find a breakthrough that can be reflected in a concentrated manner, it will be the personnel issue of the administration. The court must be more attentive than before when selecting officials from prefectures and counties, and cannot make up for the excuse of demoting personnel like in previous years.

The method is simple, but it is not easy in the actual implementation process. After all, the national policy of focusing on the inside and neglecting the outside has been implemented for a long time. Beijing officials have far surpassed local officials in terms of treatment, opportunities and prospects. Even some capable ministers who can be called officials in the center of the court can maintain their previous enthusiasm after sending local governments, this is doubtful.

In the middle of the Wuzhou period, in view of the chaos in local officials, the court even led the prime minister and selected more than a dozen senior officials in the court to serve as governors in other states. However, after implementation, there were only a few who could make achievements in the local area and have good political achievements. It is not that these people lack talents, but after being placed in the state, most of their minds were spent on operations and returning to the court, and their utmost energy might not be able to be used in local politics.

If you want to increase the enthusiasm of local officials, you need to stimulate them in all aspects. At least you must ensure that their treatment is not bad, and even better than that of Beijing officials, so that these officials can be content with their governance and work hard in the local area.

However, to achieve this, it is contrary to the imperial court's national policy of focusing on internal and external bias. How to grasp the standards requires careful exploration. Once the mistake is overcorrect, it will no longer be a problem that is difficult to eliminate. It may lay greater disasters and cause greater turmoil.

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The annual winter collection selection is the most important election ceremony for the court. As for this year as the first selection of the new dynasty, the significance is even more extraordinary. It can be said that it has a profound impact on the election ceremony in the years or even decades in the future.

Although Li Tong and the prime ministers both eagerly wanted to promote governance and eliminate evil, after a long discussion, they decided not to make too violent changes in this year's selection. They should first look at the results from some small reforms to ensure stability and gradually touch them and sort out some chronic diseases.

Therefore, compared with previous years, this year's elections were only similar. The most obvious change was that the scale was much larger. Any selected person could run for election regardless of the years of election. This was also the basis for the benevolent government of the new dynasty. The search and expansion of new and old officials all joined the election ceremony of the court, which was also a promotion and reconstruction of the court's legal system.

Of course, some minor adjustments have been made during the specific implementation process.

For example, in terms of formulating the list of senior names that determine the qualifications for election, in the past, officials in the court and Zhu Yinzi took the lead, and the rest were only recruited from the candidates for prefectures and counties. This also led to the phenomenon that prefectures and counties were not allowed to move for more than ten years, or that they would not be granted for a long time.

As for this year's long-term ranking list, the standard of annual qualifications was introduced, especially the evaluation of the resume of foreign officials, which accounted for an extremely high proportion of seniority. Such a change allowed at least 2,000 candidates who had no hope of pre-selecting to be qualified for the election.

Of course, because this year's long list is too long, due to the chaos in Hedong, Hebei and other places, there have been a large number of vacancies in officials at all levels of prefectures and counties that need to be supplemented. Therefore, although some adjustments have been made in the process of choosing the list, the impact of the list has been greatly diluted after the specific list is released.

Although qualifications are often criticized as a method of selecting officials, they are considered too rigid and cannot accurately select real talents. Many people with mediocre talents have been secretly ranked high by maintaining their seniority.

However, when discussing the advantages and disadvantages of any system, it must consider its operability. After putting aside various factors such as talent and family background, the age and qualifications are the most open and fairest standard.

Moreover, when the court supervision, reward, punishment and demotion system is guaranteed, the seniority and seniority are an intuitive reflection of the administrative ability of officials. People who are truly capable of being screened out during the supervision and demotion process, and it is difficult for them to obtain longer seniority.

What's more, the imperial court re-enlisted officials every year, and they were all selected in thousands, which had to be completed in just two or three months. Neither the emperor nor the officials of the department had the energy and time to pass the official review one by one, and could only judge the selection of people through some intuitive standards. The seniority is not the most flexible, but it is the most reasonable.

Just like many college students in later generations complained that high mathematics was really tormenting and not very practical, this course was not opened to solve the general difficulties of reality. It was just a pure IQ game to form an intuitive standard to judge the pros and cons.

Through the adjustment of the qualification standards for selection, foreign officials can provide certain guarantees in terms of seniority, making their seniority more valuable.

But this kind of reform is not without its disadvantages. After all, many convicted people were demoted in remote prefectures and counties in the early years. Because they are far away from the political center and lack of supervision, it is not difficult to get a higher seniority experience. If this group of people do not review it, they will be convenient for the implementation of the new policy and easily get to a high level.

Especially some local assistant judges are the hardest hit areas of this phenomenon.

For example, Guo Yuanzhen, a street in Tongquan County, has been around for 10 or 20 years. As long as he can appease the county magistrate and the bad deeds are not revealed, he can be a bad apple comfortable. Even if the court sends censors to study politics, the main focus is on the official officials of the prefectures and counties, and it is difficult to understand these judges and assistants in depth.

Of course, Guo Yuanzhen is a stingy person. Once he seizes the opportunity, he can make a fortune and make achievements. However, more officials and judges from prefectures and counties are just simple.

In response to the inadequacy of this supervision system, Li Tong also discussed with the prime ministers for a long time and decided not to touch this issue head-on for the time being. For example, the supervision area is divided into detailed divisions, or the censors are frequently dispatched.

Although this type of measure can directly achieve results, it will cause collective panic among local officials and make the existing problems of administration even worse. Governing a big country is like cooking small fresh food, and excessive force will inevitably backfire.

Of course, the problems found must not be ignored and will continue to be tolerated. Although they are not suitable for touching each other, they can break through from the side. After some discussion, the court decided to set up a new executive unit between the road and the prefecture, which will be called the road for the time being. The state prefectures across the country are classified as 34th routes, but they are not responsible for specific administrative matters, but are only responsible for supervisory matters.

The court dispatched the 34th Route Supervisor to supervise and manage the establishment of official schools in prefectures and counties and select teaching students. When the various official schools show initial results, they can concentrate the power of electing tributes in various provinces in various ways, and then gradually impose some administrative powers and supervision powers on this, and finally form a new administrative unit at the "road" level, changing the division of local administrative structures.

After all, the establishment of administrative units at this level in Tang Dynasty was gradually no longer suitable for the unified and large-scale imperial rule. Li Tong's fourth uncle Li Dan once planned to divide the world into twenty-four governors' districts, and the governors were in charge of affairs, but such divisions would inevitably make the governors give up.

During the Tianbao period of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, the states in the world were also changed into counties, trying to use this to make a new division and change the local administrative order. However, with the agitation of Yuyang, the prosperous times died as a result. This time, the change in the names of prefectures and counties was often discussed by later generations similar actions to Emperor Yang of Sui.

There are more than 300 prefectures in the world. If the border areas and the prefectures in the throne are added, the number will be even greater.

With so many administrative units, even if the world is peaceful and nothing major happens, the administrative affairs generated in daily life are extremely amazing. If all of them are handled by the central court, it will undoubtedly lead to inefficiency and rough rule, which will make the gap between the central and local governments deeper. Such an unconventional direct dispatch of envoys, such as the governor, will have room for infringement of local power and take the opportunity to expand.

However, the emergence of the local administrative pattern like the Tang Dynasty was also a result of the final collision and integration of hundreds of years of troubled times since the Wei and Jin Dynasties. It is difficult to obtain positive feedback and results by changing rashly and trying to get it in one step.

Therefore, Li Tong chose to try to encourage learning and education first, establishing and running in. His position was new and the Spring and Autumn Period was in full swing, so he had enough time and energy to complete the reform of local administrative divisions and maintaining the overall stability of the situation. There was no need to rush for a moment.
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