The dynasty is particularly long today, and it was not over until noon. The prince Zhang Ting was sent back to the inner palace by the guards to prepare for afternoon study. Zhang Xuan returned to Tiange, his imperial study. As soon as he arrived at the imperial study, the imperial censor Yu Shinan and the military director Fang Xuanling had already waited for him in Tiange first.

Both of them were people who Zhang Xuan was preparing to be promoted to prime minister. Although Fang Xuanling had a little bit of information, he had a military background and actually represented the military in the cabinet. Therefore, his momentum for the new prime minister was quite strong, completely making up for the shortcomings of insufficient funds.

"His Majesty the Emperor is here!"

As the guard shouted loudly, Yu Shinan and Fang Xuanling stood up at the same time. Fang Xuanling smiled and said, "I can wait a little longer. Doctor Yu will see the emperor in advance!"

"But Chief of the House will come first."

"There should be nothing to come first and then come! It's okay for me to wait."

Yu Shinan smiled, "Then I'm not polite."

At this time, Zhang Xuan walked up the spiral ladder, and the two of them stepped forward and bowed, "See Your Majesty!"

Zhang Xuan smiled slightly, "I thought I was walking fast, but I didn't expect that the two of you would be faster. Please go up to the third floor to discuss it."

Fang Xuanling smiled and said, "I wait for a moment and let Doctor Yu see Your Majesty first."

Zhang Xuan nodded and walked quickly to the third floor. Soon after, he entered the conference hall, and Yu Shinan followed him in. Zhang Xuan waved his hand, "Doctor Yu, please sit down and talk."

The term of the first prime minister will end at the end of September, and there are two months left. Yu Shinan still continues to serve as the censor, responsible for supervising all officials and advising the emperor. Zhang Xuan asked with a smile: "How do you feel about the great dynasty today?"

Yu Shinan sincerely praised: "I haven't seen this kind of situation of political discussions among all officials for many years. From the first-rank Taiwei to the seventh-rank Yuanwailang, everyone has the right to express their opinions. It can be seen that everyone is very serious, especially when discussing the Salt Law, the debate is fierce and the insights are amazing. This kind of discussion is very conducive to building consensus among all officials. I believe that after the introduction of this Salt Law, it will take care of all aspects of interests. Frankly speaking, Weichen thinks that this is better than the Ziwei Pavilion Prime Minister's discussion. Of course, Ziwei Pavilion is a prime minister and cannot be too weakened."

Zhang Xuan nodded. The discussion of the great court has gradually become a consensus. Yu Shinan also praised him without any concealment. However, Yu Shinan also reminded himself at the end that the discussion of the great court should not be replaced by the discussion of the prime minister. Zhang Xuan certainly understood the relationship between the two. In fact, the reason why the discussion of the great court is very popular among all officials is that Zhang Xuan decomposed part of the prime minister's power to all officials, so that all officials can taste the taste of being a prime minister, and of course it is very popular.

But this is by no means Zhang Xuan's whim. This was his decision after careful consideration. He first weakened the monarch's government power. In addition to major or urgent government affairs, Zhang Xuan basically just didn't ask about it, but this undoubtedly greatly increased the power of the prime minister, which would form a small decision-making group. Too concentrated power may not be a good thing. Therefore, using the Grand Dynasties and the Central Dynasties to divide the power of the prime minister has been an imperial method since ancient times.

The key is to institutionalize and use the system to clarify the distribution of power, which matters belong to the ministers and states, which matters need to be discussed by the grand court, which matters need to be discussed by the Chinese and Koreans, which matters need to be decided by the emperor, and which institutions decide the classification, and decide these details, the system will be formed.

This is what Zhang Xuan needs to consider next. He is planning to spend three to five years to gradually improve the power distribution system, and then fix it with the situation of erecting an iron monument, warning future generations to abide by it.

Zhang Xuan smiled and asked, "Doctor Yu is there anything wrong?"

Yu Shinan took out a memorial and presented it to Zhang Xuan: "This is a supervision report from Xuzhou and Qingzhou. Although the overall situation is quite good, local problems are still very prominent, and almost every county or even every county has problems."

The Censorate and the Military Machinery reported directly to the emperor, independent of the court, and the Ziwei Pavilion could not see the Censorate's report. Zhang Xuan opened the report and looked at it roughly and asked, "What's the problem?"

"Report to Your Majesty, the problem lies in the charity warehouse we were worried about before. The accounts were chaotic and difficult to check. The farmers had far more bottom slips than the warehouse certificates. Once a famine occurred, farmers could not exchange food, and they would cause trouble."

The so-called charity warehouse is equivalent to the provident fund in later generations. After farmers pay taxes in a good year, they will take out part of the grain and deposit it into a special social warehouse, which will be managed by the government. When it encounters a famine, they will be taken out to save the famine. It will be implemented from the fifth year of Kaihuang. The effect is quite good. In the later period of Daye, it will be gradually destroyed, resulting in most of the charity warehouses being robbed by bandits or stolen and sold by the government.

Since the year before yesterday, the court decided to restore the Yishu Warehouse. However, this year, Xuzhou and Qingzhou encountered spring drought. Many farmers had problems when they asked for the extraction of food. They found that the Yishu Warehouse was generally short of food, so Zhang Xuan ordered the Censorate to investigate the matter.

"What is the reason for the insufficient grain in the charity warehouse?" Zhang Xuan asked again. Compared to the lengthy reports in front of him, he prefers to listen to reports face to face.

"The general reason is the confusion of accounts and the difficulty of checking, but in the counties, there are various reasons. Some counties have too much loss, resulting in insufficient inventory of grain, while others have confusing management and cannot find the reason themselves. But there is one reason that Weichen thinks we must not ignore it. Many farmers use documents from the Sui Dynasty to exchange grain, which is also an important reason for the inaccuracy."

Zhang Xuan was stunned and took the documents from the previous dynasty to ask for food. How ridiculous it sounded. Yu Shinan smiled bitterly and said, "They also have some truth. Our Yi Cang was established during the Northern Sui Dynasty. The farmers believed that the Northern Sui Dynasty was a continuation of the Sui Dynasty, so we should fulfill the Yi Cang grain of the previous dynasty. This part of the grain was as much as 90,000 stones in Qingzhou and Xuzhou."

Zhang Xuan shook his head, "This is not a question of the amount of food, but a matter of principle. Once we recognize the accounts of the previous dynasty, then all the unkind and unethical things of the previous dynasty will fall on us, which is not conducive to the separation of our previous dynasty. My attitude is very clear. If the charity warehouse is not handled well, then we will suspend it and thoroughly clean up. We will hold all greed accountable. We will admit the accounts. However, the food of the previous dynasty has nothing to do with us. This must also be clear. This matter will be handled jointly by the Censorate and Ziwei Pavilion!"

Zhang Xuan took the pen and criticized his opinion on the memorial, and then transferred it to Ziwei Pavilion, saying to Yu Shinan: "I will transfer this memorial to Ziwei Pavilion. Please copy it to me again. I will read it again if I have time."

Yu Shinan stood up and saluted, "I obey the order!"

Yu Shinan bowed and said goodbye. Zhang Xuan felt anger. Although he hoped that his officials would be honest and honest, it was actually difficult to do it. But from a historical perspective, the dynasties that had just been founded were relatively honest, but the later they became more and more powerful. In the end, the country was destroyed. Now the Yicang incident happened at the beginning of the establishment of the Great Zhou Dynasty. How could Zhang Xuan not be annoyed? He must thoroughly investigate this matter. He must use an iron fist to capture what should be captured and kill what should be killed to establish a typical example for the officialdom.

At this time, the guard reported at the door, "Your Majesty, the Chief Secretary of the House is looking for a meeting!"

Zhang Xuan turned his thoughts back and nodded, "Please come in!"

After a moment, Fang Xuanling walked into the meeting hall and bowed, "I'm going to see Your Majesty!"

"Sir, please sit down!"

Fang Xuanling served as the chief of military aircraft, one of the highest positions of the military aircraft, and another highest position is the chief of military aircraft. Currently, Du Ruhui is the chief of military aircraft, and the chief of military aircraft is in charge of daily affairs. The chief of military aircraft mainly exercises supervision power. There are more than 200 officials in Taichung, who, together with the Ministry of War, maintain the operation of the 700,000 troops of the Great Zhou Empire and more than 100,000 local county soldiers.

Another responsibility of the military aircraft was to preside over the intelligence. At that time, the Northern Sui Dynasty established five intelligence agencies, Chang'an, Luoyang, Jiangdu, Taiyuan and Chengdu. The top priority was Luoyang and Chang'an. However, now the four intelligence agencies have been abolished, leaving only one intelligence agency in Chang'an. The military aircraft mobilized all elite soldiers and generals to gather in Chang'an.

Fang Xuanling sat down and said, "Just just received the latest information in Chang'an, Li Yuan was fully purge of the Guanlong nobles, which was very tragic. Dou Wei and Dugu Qian committed suicide one after another. All the families participating in the rebellion were deprived of their titles. Hou Mo Chen Duo's title of monk was all lost and he couldn't afford to get sick. Even Dou and Dou Lu Kuan resigned from the position of prime minister."

"Don't Li Yuan even let the Dou family go?" Zhang Xuan was slightly shocked.

Fang Xuanling nodded, "The Dou family, Doulu family and Changsun family only retained their titles and family property, but their land and food were still deprived, which was a little better than other families. This time, Li Yuan was very cruel and merciless, completely eradicating the foundation of the Guanlong nobles."
Chapter completed!