Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 709 A Wedding

Chang'an, the city of thousands of cities, deserves to be the greatest city in the world.

As the former manager of Chang'an City and the prime minister of the empire, Cui Guangyuan is in a good mood recently.

Just this month, the dog of "The Great Tang Dynasty" plans to launch the third expansion piece "Measuring the World".

In addition to the big game goal of exploring the Silk Road, many small changes have also been made.

One of them is the launch of the marriage system.

There is no spouse in the real world, and there is no spouse in Datang Fengyun. Whether it is a native or a player, as long as it meets the laws of the two worlds, they can get married after applying.

If a marriage relationship is concluded in the system, the system can open the authority of a certain part, allowing players to experience "real fun".

However, this function is only secretly promoted among a small number of eligible people. For example, Wang Chengwei, the current Jingzhao Shaoyin, is the beneficiary of this new marriage system.

Wang Chengwei has been formally engaged to the wife of Cui's mansion, and will get married on another day.

Cui Guangyuan himself despises this son-in-law.

Because his daughter would not marry unless he was the only one, Cui Guangyuan could only "reluctantly" agree.

But these days, the prime ministers in the political affairs hall have noticed that Cui Guangyuan has a smile on his lips every day when he goes to the office.

His colleagues and old friends congratulated Cui Guangyuan one after another. With such a promising son-in-law, the wealth of the three generations of the Cui family is no problem.

The wedding customs of the Tang Dynasty were slightly simplified in the early Tang Dynasty, but gradually became extravagant and complicated in the Kaiyuan period. Especially in Chang'an, there were many rules for marriage, and the trend of comparing luxury was quite popular.

Three books and six ceremonies are considered traditional wedding norms, but Tang people paid special attention to dowry and dowry, especially when it was a common practice to buy dowry when marrying a daughter. Officials often borrowed money to marry their daughters.

The dowry is the property controlled by the bride herself. The amount of dowry that the bride can bring to the man's house also determines the bride's right to speak at home in the future.

A bride without much dowry will naturally be despised by her husband's family.

Those brides with a generous dowry can freely control the property of the small family, and even those who have money can move out to live in separate households without being angry with their mother-in-law.

When the prime minister wants to marry his daughter, naturally he can't be shabby, and Cui Guangyuan was a high-ranking official like Jing Zhaoyin from the emperor's time. Even when the puppet Yan invaded Chang'an, he still worshiped him as Jing Zhaoyin. When Chang'an fell, the Cui family increased A lot of assets.

This time when Cui Guangyuan married his daughter, he naturally prepared a lot of dowry. There were three workshops in Wannian County alone. These were bought by Wang Chengwei when Wang Chengwei was the county magistrate in Wannian County in order to start a business.

Now the prices of these workshops have doubled, but Cui Guangyuan is also very generous, giving all of them to his daughter as a dowry and returning them back.

In addition to the workshop title deed, there are also horses, goldware, lacquerware, servants, and manor title deeds outside Chang'an City. These dowries are rich enough to make players who are familiar with Wang Chengwei look jealous.

Why can someone marry a rich woman in the game!
It's still a rich woman's fragrance!

Moreover, I heard that Mrs. Cui was very filial. She moved the classics and antiques collected by her father Cui Guangyuan to Wang's house before she even passed the door, and even the fine wine collected by Cui Xiangguo was not spared.

But soon, it is said that the king of Yue summoned Cui Guangyuan himself, and after Cui Guangyuan came out of the Taiji Palace, he immediately halved the pomp of the wedding.

It turned out that some time ago, the Ministry of Rites suggested to the imperial court that it wanted to change customs and change the culture of extravagant weddings in Chang'an.

Hanlin Bachelor Shang Bo then proposed to limit the extravagant style of marriage of officials' children.

Cui Guangyuan's daughter's wedding happened to coincide with this matter.

Faced with King Yue's request, Cui Guangyuan naturally agreed without hesitation, but Cui Guangyuan was trembling on the way out of the palace, and he agreed to King Yue to arrange the marriage simply, fearing that he would not be able to pass the test at home.

Fortunately, the Ministry of Rituals advocated frugal weddings, which had been publicized in the newspapers for a long time in advance. Finally, news came out from the Cui Mansion that the ostentation of the wedding was further reduced, and the customs of betrothal gifts and dowry parades were cancelled, and changed to early morning weddings. Employment and dowry.

The wedding was approaching, and Cui Guangyuan spent less time in the political affairs hall these days. The other prime ministers secretly scolded this guy for being slippery, but there was nothing they could do about him.

During these days, Zhengshitang's life is sad because there are several difficult things to deal with.

The most difficult thing is to deal with the dead prince Chu.

Although Prince Chu is dead, there are still many things to deal with.

Yu Shi Gu Kuang collected a lot of evidence in Bianzhou, proving that Prince Chu minted fake money in Bianzhou, exploited and searched the people, and even colluded with Shi Siming for treason.

King Yue asked Dali Temple to interrogate relevant witnesses, and the three courts finally reached an opinion that Prince Chu was guilty.

However, Prince Chu was already dead. King Yue first entered the Daming Palace and reported the incident to his father, Emperor Li Heng.

The deposed Prince Chu is dead, but what remains is the trickiest thing.

Gu Kuang, who returned to Chang'an, wrote to the court again, requesting that the crime of abolishing Prince Chu be published in the residence newspaper and newspapers.

Gu Kuang's letter was opposed by more censors, who believed that Gu Kuang was a hypocritical villain in order to gain the reputation of being righteous and straightforward.

Although the abolished prince Chu committed a crime, he is dead now, and the announcement of his crimes cannot increase his punishment, but instead discredited the royal family because of this incident.

Shouts of "please punish Gu Kuang" were heard endlessly in the court hall, and this matter naturally made a fuss in the political affairs hall.

This matter was sent to the political affairs hall, and it was a mess. Gu Kuang was Li Mi's disciple, so Li Mi naturally avoided suspicion. The other prime ministers discussed for a long time, but they couldn't come up with a result.

This is not the only troublesome matter in the Zhengshitang. After the war, the evaluation of meritorious ministers, the evaluation of guilty people, and the treatment of rebels from all over the world are all complicated, and the prime ministers want to resign one after another.

But the King of Yue didn't appreciate the hard work of the prime ministers at all. Instead, he left most of the affairs to the Zhengshitang, which seemed to be a kind of governance.

Today, the King of Yue suddenly opened the Hall of Yanying again and summoned the prime ministers to discuss matters.

Cui Guangyuan, who had been busy with his marriage, suddenly appeared and followed everyone into the Hall of Yanying. The other prime ministers hated this slippery man and had nothing to do with him.

But what was the king of Yue thinking when he suddenly opened the Yanying Hall?Even Li Mi, who knew Yue Wang's mind best, was puzzled.

After arriving at the Hall of Yanying, Mu Rong followed by Li Tan put a thick document in front of all the prime ministers, and all the prime ministers were shocked.

Taiwan reform plan?

Taijian is Yushitai. This position is one of the three officials of the Han Dynasty, the Yushi doctor, and it is a very important department.

In the Tang Dynasty, Taiwan officials and admonition officials were separated.

The imperial censors, the censors in the palace, and the supervisory censors are collectively referred to as Taiguan, and admonishing doctors, picking up relics, making up the palace, and correcting regulations are commonly referred to as admonishers, collectively known as Taijian.

Admonishing officials in Taiwan is very important in the court. They are not only a tool for the court ministers to fight, but also an important tool for the emperor to suppress the ministers, or the ministers to contain the imperial power.

The king of Yue wants to reform the Taiwan remonstrance system, which makes all the prime ministers vigilant.

Even Li Mi, the prime minister who supported Li Tan the most, was ready. If the emperor wanted to further reduce the power of admonishment, he would rather resign than oppose it to the end!

But contrary to the expectations of all the prime ministers, turning the first page turned out to be the reorganization of Yushitai, and let Yushi Zhongcheng enter the political affairs hall?
Li Mi raised his head in doubt, and looked at King Yue in surprise. He wanted to strengthen the power of admonishment?

I only heard Li Tan slowly say:
"The power of admonishment originated from the imperial censor in the Han Dynasty. Originally, the imperial censor was one of the three princes and one of the prime ministers of the court."

"Nowadays, the power of Taiwan's admonition is declining. It is impossible to persuade the king if you enter, and you can't deter the officials if you retreat. There are even frequent incidents of censors blackmailing places and committing crimes. If one or two people in Taiwan are like this, it is this It’s a matter of one or two people, but now that Taiwan’s admonishment atmosphere is like this, that’s a problem with the Taiwan admonition system.”

"First of all, Yushitai's power is too low, and Yushi can only hear rumors. When impeaching officials, he can't investigate deeply, and he can't come up with favorable evidence."

The prime ministers thought about it, and it seemed to be the case.

Although the censor said that he had the right to picket officials, in fact, the censors were all newcomers who had just entered the officialdom and had no resources at all.

Not to mention the pickets, even the important news in the court, the censor can't know the first time, so how can he produce strong evidence to impeach the court officials?
Now that the censors of the Tang Dynasty have such a situation, when they were in Chang'an, they often couldn't come up with any useful impeachment, and everyone turned to the court officials one after another, just to have the opportunity to inspect places such as land clearing, disaster relief, and border inspections.

When you get to the place, it is a big fish and special fish. After the fish is finished, it will be operated immediately, and it will be promoted from Yushitai.

In the late Tang Dynasty, even local officials were so frightened that they wanted to raise money to bribe the censor with the local people when they heard that they were coming to the censor.

If the censor came more than a few times a year, the local officials would abandon their posts and run away, and the people would flee in fright.

Those who can enter the political affairs hall are old fritters in the officialdom, and they are naturally aware of these disadvantages.

Li Tan continued:
"To strengthen Taijian, the most important thing is to enable Taijian to have the ability to supervise the court, not only to have Yushi Zhongcheng enter the political affairs hall to elevate the status of Yushitai, but more importantly, to equip Yushitai with enough officials. Let the censor have the ability to conduct independent investigations."

Li Tan looked around at his prime ministers, and continued: "In addition to the court, the local government also needs to establish a regular inspection system. Not only the Ministry of Officials must assess the officials of the prefectures and counties, but also the Yushitai. Come to the examination."

Taijian originally had the function of supervising the prime minister, but now the King of Yue's plan treats everyone equally, and also gives Yushitai the right to supervise the royal family, so the prime ministers are naturally not easy to object.

The Zhengshitang has no way to come up with opinions on this thick reform charter all at once, so it can only take it home and study it slowly.

And Li Tan narrowed his eyes, and said to Li Mi: "Mr. Bi, now everyone in the court is shouting to 'please punish Gu Kuang'. What's the opinion of the Zhengshitang on the handling of the deposed prince Chu?"

(End of this chapter)