It turned out that Zhou Shuying was one of the 300 candidates who had been admitted to the imperial examination. The court examination in two days would only determine her ranking, so her admission was already confirmed. Moreover, she had applied for the administrative subject this time. In other words, no matter what her ranking was in two days, she would be given the position of county magistrate.
However, this made the ministers feel awkward. Before today, they didn't think that a young girl could pass the imperial examination, even if Li Shimin had allowed her to participate in the imperial examination. Damn, a sixteen-year-old girl was going to be a county magistrate? Don't joke around, okay? Would those men listen to a little girl like you at the county office?
The people from the Ministry of Rites and the Ministry of Official Personnel were helpless. They really couldn't make any arrangements, so they reported to Li Shimin in court today and let him decide.
"Lu Qing, after Wuji's candidate is accepted, she will stay in the capital to train until the end of the year. She will only take up her post after the year is over. Zhen understands the concerns of the lords, afraid that she will not be able to take up the post of county magistrate. Zhou Shuying could take up her post in advance for half a year. If she really couldn't perform her duties, another arrangement would be made.”
All the officials in the hall were speechless. Lu Doukuan and Zhangsun Wuji were also speechless. They knew that Li Shiming had made up his mind and could only do so at this stage.
After the morning court session, aside from Li Shimin, the six ministers were also present in the Dew Palace. They began discussing the matter of the Goguryeon King of Glory Gao Jianwu sending an envoy to the Tang Empire.
After the Great Tang was founded, Li Yuan and Goguryeo had made peace, and Gao Jianwu had often come to the Tang Dynasty to pay tribute. However, Li Shimin's thoughts were different from Li Yuan's. The land occupied by Goguryeo was the old land of the Qin and Han Dynasties, and too many people from the Central Plains had died in Goguryeo during the Sui Dynasty. Thus, Goguryeo was bound to be destroyed, but now was not the time.
"Your Majesty, Prince Rongliu's envoy to the Tang is most likely related to the Great Tang's recent military operation against the Eastern Turks.”Fang Xuanling, as Li Shimin's right-hand man, spoke first.
"Your Majesty, Prime Minister Fang is right. Gao Jianwu must have seen the Great Tang sweep away the Turks and was afraid, so he sent an envoy to the Great Tang in order to make peace.”Zhangsun Wuji said.
Li Shiming looked at Du Ruhui, who nodded in agreement with Fang Xuanling and Zhangsun Wuji.
"Then how do you think we should deal with this matter? First of all, our Great Tang's primary focus is to recover the homeland of the Sui Dynasty.”
"Your Majesty, this old subject feels that we can temporarily make peace with Goguryeo. If the Great Tang attacks everywhere, it will be too weak.”
"But…" Li Shimin nodded.
"Since that's the case, the Chamberlain of Dependencies will be in charge of receiving and handling the matter. How many Han Chinese did the Duke of Ju send back to Goguryeo in the past few years?”
After Li Yuan and Gao Jianwu made peace, the Tang Empire agreed to send back the people detained by both sides, so Li Shimin asked this question.
"Your Majesty, ever since the peace treaty with Goguryeo was established, more than twelve thousand soldiers have been sent back. It was estimated that there should not be many people left.”
"Then let's settle the matter of Goguryeo like this.”
"Keming, Shanzhou has been recovered, but Yizhou, Guazhou, and Shazhou must be recovered as soon as possible. There are still many Han people there.”
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"Shanzhou's Stone Castle and Songzhou's Songpan will each station a division. Stone Castle must be in the hands of the Great Tang. The other western states had to arrange for the number of troops to be stationed, but it could not be two or three regiments. The military had to make plans.”Li Shi Min had a total of 10 Sixth Guards, which was 16 armies and 32 divisions. Other than the two guards guarding the capital that could not be mobilized, there were still nine guards that could be mobilized, which was equivalent to 18 divisions.
"Wuji, your Ministry of Official Personnel Affairs can arrange for the candidates to be sent to these border prefectures and counties for three years to review their achievements. As for the little girl, it was not appropriate to arrange for her to go to the border. It was better to arrange for her to go to a county that was closer to the capital, Lantian County.”
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"Next, let's talk about the situation in the south of the Great Tang, Annan and Linyi. Li Xiaogong of Linyi had just shipped more than 600,000 dans of grain back from Annan and was still sending food back to Linyi.”
"Lin Yi has three crops a year. Li Xiaogong said that when he went there to buy food, the warehouse there couldn't hold any more food. Lin Yi is located in Xiang County of the former Sui Dynasty.”
How could these ministers not understand what Li Shi Min had said? They were all old hooligans, so they understood immediately. Moreover, the grain there was harvested three times a year. What was there to say? When they heard that it would be harvested three times a year, their eyes turned green, and they all said,"Your Majesty, the former Sui Dynasty must be incorporated into the Great Tang."”
When Li Shimin saw this, he naturally followed his advice and immediately asked Du Ruhui to come up with a military plan to recover Linyi. After the military arrangements came to an end, the Minister of Revenue, Tang Jian, said," Your Majesty, Shandong is in a drought this summer. Although there are well drilling teams, the grain production is bound to decrease. Please issue a decree to reduce taxes in Shandong this year."”
"However, not only will Shandong be exempted from taxes this year, the Ministry of Revenue will arrange for people to provide relief to the people who are living in poverty and have no labor at home. In addition, the Ministry of Works will carry out water conservancy construction in Shandong this year and implement work-for-relief.”
"Duke of Ju, how much revenue has the Ministry of Revenue collected so far this year?”
"Replying to Your Majesty, due to the war and the cost of settling the people, the current national treasury has more than 13 million. In addition, this year's autumn tax has not been collected yet. It is estimated that the total income of the national treasury this year is about 38 million.”
Hearing Tang Jian's answer, the other ministers were stunned. They knew that in the first year of Zhenguan, due to Li Shimin's various policies, the situation in the Great Tang was better than in previous years, but they didn't expect it to be so much better. It should be known that the total annual tax of the Great Tang was only 12 million, but what about this year? 38 million strings of strings was truly unimaginable.
Furthermore, when Li Shiming first ascended the throne, the treasury was empty.
Li Shimin asked everyone to take some time to digest this information. After a while, he said," This year, the Great Tang's tax revenue is about 38 million yuan. I wonder if the Great Tang can abolish the transfer of labor and labor, do you think it will be feasible?”
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