A Good Landlord in the Tang Dynasty: Emperor Yuan Cong

Chapter 449

"How is Du Ruhui's condition?"

After the early court, the emperor summoned Huaiyu and asked eagerly after the meeting.

Du Ruhui suddenly fell ill, unable to get up from bed, unable to see things, the emperor came to visit him in person, and invited Wu Huaiyu to make a diagnosis and treatment.

"Very optimistic."

Before Wu Huaiyu went, many imperial doctors had gone to see her, but they were all helpless.

Du Ruhui didn't suffer from any sudden illness. His illness was actually various complications caused by heart disease. The emperor's confidant had been under extremely high load these years, and his body collapsed due to long-term overwork.

Now that she is sick, Wu Huaiyu can only say that she is unable to rejuvenate.

"Duke Lai's body can only be rested, but given the current situation, even so, it is estimated that he can last for a year at most."

Li Shimin sat there in a daze after hearing this, and didn't come back to his senses for a long time.

Fang Mou decided, this is not bragging.

In Li Shimin's mind, Du Ruhui was even higher than Fang Xuanling, mainly due to Du Ruhui's strong decisiveness in handling affairs.

Especially since he succeeded to the throne, Du Ruhui has held many important positions. Before that, he was also the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, the Minister of the Ministry of War, and the Director of the Eastern Palace.

Although he only serves as the right servant to shoot now, his hard work remains unabated.

Hard and exhausted.

"Is there no medicine stone that can heal? If you need any medicine, I can find it no matter how precious it is."

Huaiyu shook his head.

Du Ruhui's heart disease is a little congenital, which made her health not good all the time. This long-term overwork has made it worse. Now various syndromes are concurrent, and God can't save her.

Unless it is dragged to later generations, there may be some ways.

After a long time.

Li Shimin could only sigh.

"Let him rest at home."

The emperor looked at Wu Huaiyu, "I lost my humerus in pain,"

Du Ruhui was the emperor's most important right-hand man, Li Shimin was at a loss after losing him, and couldn't find a suitable person to replace him.

"I recommend Zhao Guogong's eldest son, Sun Wuji, to return as the right servant."

Li Shimin just shook his head.

The next day, the emperor visited Du Ruhui again in the mansion of the Lai Kingdom, and asked him to recuperate at home without having to worry about official affairs.

After returning to the palace, the emperor summoned the prime minister and a group of confidant ministers.

Li Shimin first attacked Yang Shidao, Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and expressed his dissatisfaction with the brother-in-law in public, saying that since Yang Shidao was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of Officials, he had not made any achievements, especially the officials he recommended, none of them were officials, and they were all mediocre.

As soon as these words came out, Yang Shidao immediately pleaded guilty and resigned.

The emperor's words are so obvious, what else is unclear.

Yang Shidao, Changsun Wuji once commented on him with Huaiyu, he came from a famous family, but he didn't understand the sentiments, he likes to write poems and fu, but his level can only be regarded as average, he likes to make friends with famous people, so that he can enjoy himself with poetry.

Both his father and elder brother were prime ministers in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. This kind of family made him smooth sailing, and he never encountered any setbacks in his life.

Its shortcoming is obvious, that is, it has a pure and gentle temperament, but it is too timid, and it is the kind of person who is easy to lose the chain at critical moments.

He is far worse than his elder brother Yang Gongren.

The emperor used him as Minister of the Ministry of Officials to temporarily fill the vacancy left by Du Yan. At the same time, he was his brother-in-law, and Hongnong Yang's reputation was also there.

But his appearance in the Ministry of Officials is indeed too disappointing, and he can't even do a good job of replacing him.

It is said that it is the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, but it is basically emptied by the people below, but there are not many excellent officials recommended for selection.

When Yang Shidao resigned, Li Shimin took advantage of the situation and dismissed him from the post of Minister of the Ministry of Officials.

The emperor did not immediately appoint a new Minister of the Ministry of Officials, but talked about the glorious years when he was still the King of Qin, fighting with a group of brothers. Qiao Dutong Cheng Yaojin and so on.

Now Yin Kaishan, Qu Tutong, Du Yan and others passed away one after another, and Du Ruhui was also seriously ill.

"Shu Bao, you come to inspect the school secretary, You Servant."

The emperor suddenly named Qin Qiong and wanted to worship him as the right servant of Shangshu. This was beyond everyone's expectations. I thought this was the best time for Changsun Wuji to come back.

Unexpectedly, this is the result.

Qin Qiong declined.

But the emperor refused.

"Li Jing, Minister of the Ministry of Punishments, will take over as Minister of the Ministry of War."

"My visit was so dark, he recommended three people to me, saying that they should be reused."

"If you recommend Dai Zhou to be the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, please appoint him for the election. I will use Dai Zhou as the Minister of the Ministry of Officials, and I will still be the prince Zuo Shuzi, advising the doctor, and participating in the government as the Minister of the Ministry of Officials."

Prime Minister.

Dai Zhou paid homage to the prime minister.

"The second person Ruhui recommended to me was Li Jing. He said that Li Yaoshi knew the art of war and was good at fighting. Let him be in charge of the military department and plan the war against the Turks. Now I worship Li Jing as the minister of the military department."

"The third person that Ruhui recommended to me is Huaiyu. He said that although Duke Yi is young, he can lead the army and dismount the horse to keep the people safe.

I deeply believed that, so I took Wu Huaiyu as Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs to judge Duzhi to participate in the government affairs, and relieved him from the post of serving the censor and Yongzhou Biejia. "

Wu Huaiyu also paid homage to the prime minister.

Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the financial aspect has actually followed the Sui Dynasty, which is relatively complicated.

The Ministry of Finance is in charge of all government affairs in the country, including financial affairs. The Ministry of Household Affairs is the prime minister's agency for national administration.

The Department of the Ministry of Finance is in charge of the cashiers of the national treasury. It is responsible for the trial department of the money and silk cashiers. All money and silk cashiers must be reviewed by the Ministry of Finance. .

Similar to the functions of the Ministry of Finance, there is also the Cangbu under the Ministry of Civil Affairs, which is in charge of the national grain cashier and military store cashier, and is responsible for the trial department of the grain grain cashier.

In addition to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, there is also a national treasury organization. The two departments of Jin and Cang exercise the power of cashiers for the treasury, while the two departments of the national treasury have Taifu Temple and Sinon Temple, which are responsible for money storage and grain storage respectively.

The grain warehousing and cashiers are specifically in charge of the Sinong Temple, while the storage, storage, check-in, check-out, and accounting of money, silk, gold and silver are managed by the Taifu Temple.

Therefore, the central finance of the entire Tang Dynasty is actually divided into an orderly division of labor. The Minister of Finance is in charge of the finance. The specific division of labor below is the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the branch office, the audit department, the accounting department, and the finance and warehouse departments. Sinong Temple and Taifu Temple are storage and storage departments, and they can also be regarded as accounting and cashier departments.

Each department has a clear division of labor.

But now the emperor intends to integrate financial power.

In the past, the Shangshu Province was in charge of all affairs including finance, but there was also a political affairs hall above the Shangshu Province, which was the deliberative body of all the prime ministers, including the ministers. Theoretically, the Zhengshitang was a real state supreme body.

Datang's financial power should actually be in the hands of the prime ministers, with the cooperation of various departments below.

But now, the title of Judging Duzhi is no longer a matter of judging the Duzhi Division at the beginning, but a matter related to the entire finance.

According to the emperor's arrangement, in the future, Wu Huaiyu, Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, will be given the title of prime minister. He will not only be in charge of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, but also the subordinate Duzhi, Jinbu, and Cangbu. The temple is also under his management.

The matter involving finances is exclusively for him, the prime minister, to judge.

In fact, a lot of financial power has been stripped from the power of prime ministers, including the Zhidu Division of the local ten departments, which are also directly managed by Wu Huaiyu. The central government has actually added a new Duzhi envoy who is not under the management of Shangshu, Zhongshu, and Menxia. Si Yamen.

He will be a veritable figurehead.

In order to allow Wu Huaiyu to concentrate on managing the country's finances, Li Shimin deliberately removed Wu Huaiyu's secretary and servant Yushi, the deputy chief of the Yushitai, and the post of Yongzhou Biejia.

Obviously, Wu Huaiyu's former household assistant and judge Duzhi was originally only a part-time job, and at first it was only the audit department of the judge's Duzhi Division.

But he is really good on the surface. Many of his financial reform proposals, and even some means of making money, made the emperor very satisfied, and now the treasury has begun to accumulate.

Even Du Ruhui admired him very much, thinking that Wu Huaiyu had proved his economic ability with facts, enough to be Minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and he could even be in charge of a large part of the country's finances.

He is obviously more suitable than Dai Zhou. Of course, Dai Zhou is also very good. He can go to the Ministry of Officials to take charge of the election.

Li Daozong, the king of Rencheng, was appointed Minister of the Ministry of Justice again, and Yang Shidao's arrangement was made to go to Yongzhou to take over the post of Yongzhou Biejia left by Wu Huaiyu.

Ma Zhou, a member of Zhongshushe, was promoted to be a censor, admonishment doctor and prince Xima.

Wu Huaiyu is a doctor of Zuo Guanglu, Minister of the Ministry of the People's Republic of China, who specially judges Duzhi to participate in the government, and is also a prince Shaozhan, a scholar of Chongxianguan and a scholar of national history.

Du Ruhui stayed at home due to illness, and still retained his position as a right servant and shooter.

Qin Qiong inspected the school and the right servant shot.

Dai Zhou and Wu Huaiyu were ministers of the Ministry of Officials and ministers of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and they were both added to the rank of participating in the government affairs and entered the political affairs hall as ministers.

Li Jing was promoted to the Minister of the Ministry of War, and Li Daozong served as the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment, and they did not add titles to worship.

The imperial court took a sick leave of a prime minister and added two new prime ministers.

The one who lost the most was not Yang Shidao, it was not bad for the Minister of the Ministry of Officials to transfer to Yongzhou, but the one who was really lost was Changsun Wuji, the highest rank, who still had no place in the court.

Ma Zhou's promotion is also very eye-catching.

Like Gao Jifu, he was promoted from Zhongshusheren to Yushitai's vice-official. He also served as an admonishing doctor and the prince's right concubine. Important position, but now it is clearly a step further.

The promotion speed of Wu Huaiyu and Ma Zhou, uncle Lang, is really amazing.

Of course, it's nothing compared to Wu Huaiyu's exclusive judgment of Duzhi, who is directly in charge of the court's overall financial power.

Wu Huaiyu's wealth and power, who specializes in judging Duzhi, overwhelms the three provinces, which is unprecedented.

The emperor said that it was for convenience, to avoid the lack of communication between the various departments, just like before, the three high-ranking officials worked separately, and it was easy to quarrel. That's why later, there was a political affairs hall, where the three high-ranking officials discussed together and directly made decisions and deliberated.

The current special adjudicator Duzhi, also known as Duzhishi, has 24 cases under it, in charge of all financial departments, and all financial-related affairs are directly collected by Duzhishi, who is the prime minister.

However, the over-support envoy is still just an envoy, and there is no official over-support envoy, so it still works in the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

The emperor's control over the court is unprecedented, and the ministers dare not easily oppose some seemingly unreasonable decisions of the emperor, because the facts often prove that the emperor is right.

The prime ministers could clearly feel that the real purpose of the emperor giving Wu Huaiyu special financial control was not to facilitate the cooperation of the financial department, but to facilitate the emperor's direct control of financial power through Wu Huaiyu, bypassing the prime minister and the three provinces.

They feel that Wu Huaiyu's plan is not long-term, and maybe like Gao Shilian and Changsun Wuji, he will quit the prime minister in a short time, because this is unprecedented.

Even Qin Qiong, the right servant of the school inspector, was not optimistic about it. More people thought that it was just that the emperor asked Qin Qiong to fill the vacant position temporarily, or to let Qin Qiong give Li Jing the position of Minister of the Ministry of War.

In terms of bravery in battle, ten Li Jings are not opponents of Qin Qiong, but when it comes to command and decision-making, those ten Qin Qiong are not opponents of Li Jing.

Yang Shidao looked at Li Jing, quite envious. It would be very comfortable to be the minister of the Ministry of War. After all, his main task was to plan the Northern Expedition to the Turks, and Wu Huaiyu, who is now in charge of the country's finances, is his student. Qin Qiong, the chancellor who shot him, was the adoptive father of his student,
He is the Minister of the Ministry of War, so doesn't that mean that he needs money, money, food and food?
Perhaps this is the deep meaning of the emperor's arrangement?

(End of this chapter)