webnovelvip Chapter 741
Chapter 741
Chapter 741
"The queen mother can let elder sister Yuzhang accompany Erchen. She has the best relationship with the imperial elder sister. After the imperial elder sister got married, she hasn't been to the imperial elder sister's house yet." Li Zhi said.
"No." Empress Changsun refused without thinking, and said, "Yuzhang and Fang's Erlang are getting married soon, so it's not suitable to leave the palace at this time."
The restrictions on princesses in the Tang Dynasty were not as great as those in the Ming Dynasty. Although Princess Yuzhang was getting married, she was allowed to go out of the palace to play for a while, and she would agree if it was normal.
But there is still one month before the wedding of Princess Yuzhang and Fang Yiai, and it is inevitable that Princess Yuzhang will be criticized when she leaves the palace.
Fang Xuanling was Li Shimin's right-hand man, so it was inevitable that he would be unhappy at that time.
How did Li Zhi understand this, he thought Empress Changsun would not let him go, so he felt aggrieved.
Empress Changsun thought for a while and said: "Tomorrow is a good time to take a rest, let Gao Ming accompany you."
Literally, Xiumu means rest and bathing, and it is also the name of the rest day of ancient officials.
Ordinary people naturally have no rest days.
Since the Western Han Dynasty, the imperial court has clearly stipulated that officials should take a bath every five days, that is to say, officials can take one day off after working four days.
This system has been used by various dynasties. Although there were some changes during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the rule of bathing every five days was still used in the Sui Dynasty.
Tang inherited the Sui system, and bathed once every five days. After Li Zhi succeeded to the throne, state affairs were frequently disturbed, and it was changed to bathing once every ten days.
At this time, it was the Zhenguan period, and one bath was still adopted every five days.
On the day of rest, not only officials have a holiday, but they don't even have to go to the morning court.
Empress Changsun also had some selfish intentions in letting Li Chengqian accompany Li Zhi.
Lin Xuan and Li Chengqian were closer before, but during this time Lin Xuan seemed to be deliberately alienating Li Chengqian.
With the intelligence of Empress Changsun, it is not difficult to guess that it should be Li Shimin who beat Lin Xuan.
As Li Shimin's bedside person, Empress Changsun naturally had a crush on Li Shimin.
Because of his own lessons learned, although Li Shimin named Li Chengqian the prince, he did not give him any real power.
Not only that, but Li Shimin also didn't want Li Chengqian to have close contacts with the ministers of the DPRK and China.
Empress Changsun asked Li Chengqian to accompany Li Zhi. She didn't want to help Li Chengqian cultivate power, but just wanted Li Chengqian to get in touch with Lin Xuan more and build a good relationship.
Although Lin Xuan was only a county lord at this time, and his command was only [-] soldiers, Empress Changsun knew very well that it was because Lin Xuan was too young, and Li Shimin was deliberately polishing Lin Xuan.
In a few years, when Lin Xuan is older and more mature, Li Shimin will definitely use Lin Xuan.
Lin Xuan and Li Chengqian were about the same age, and when Li Chengqian succeeded to the throne, Lin Xuan was already an important minister in the court.
Li Chengqian had just ascended the throne, and Lin Xuan's ability to assist him wholeheartedly was of great help to Li Chengqian's control of the situation.
As a mother, Empress Changsun did it with good intentions.
"Thank you, Queen Mother." Li Zhi was overjoyed, he didn't care who accompanied him, as long as he could go.
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East Palace
Li Chengqian rubbed his sore wrist and said, "It's just trivial things all day long."
From the fifth year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin decreed to send some unimportant memorials to Li Chengqian for review.
At the beginning Li Chengqian was very excited. Although it was some unimportant period, he still thought carefully and worked hard, just hoping to get Li Shimin's appreciation.
But after a long time, he became a little numb, and he didn't have the motivation at the beginning.
"His Royal Highness, be careful. Your Majesty wants to exercise His Royal Highness's ability to govern." Du He secretly looked at the eunuchs and maids who were serving.
Li Chengqian reacted and said: "Father Huang's painstaking efforts are naturally known, and he just wants to share his father's worries and worries."
"Your Highness is benevolent and filial, His Majesty will be very pleased to know." Du He praised.
"You all go down." Li Chengqian said to the maids and eunuchs standing on both sides.
"Yes." The maid and eunuch saluted and retreated.
When only he and Du He were left in the study, Li Chengqian said: "Gu was negligent just now, but the people in the East Palace are all old people who have served Gu for many years, so they won't talk nonsense."
"His Royal Highness, be careful, there is no big mistake. If these people's private discussions are overheard by others, and they are used by those who want to, it will be troublesome." Du He said.
It's okay to think about it in your heart and say it in private.
But once it is spread, the trouble will be big.
"Gu knows it, and I will pay attention to it in the future. It's just that these memorials were handled by Shang Shusheng. Even if Gu processed them, they still need to be re-approved by Shang Shusheng."
After the memorials were sent up, there would be special personnel to sort them out, and the emperor would handle the particularly important ones. Most of the memorials were handled by the prime minister, and it was enough for the emperor to look at them at the end.
If the emperor feels that there is something inappropriate, he will review it again. If there is no disagreement, he only needs to write a review.
If a country's memorials are all handled by the emperor, the emperor will do nothing all day long, and he will be too busy just reading the memorials and sleeping.
Of course, there is one exception, and this person is Zhu Yuanzhang.
In the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang felt that the prime minister had too much power. After the Hu Weiyong case, he abolished the prime minister system, and Hu Weiyong was also called the last prime minister.
In this way, Zhu Yuanzhang firmly controlled the power in his own hands.
But there is also a disadvantage in doing so, that is, Zhu Yuanzhang needs to handle all the memorials alone.
According to historical statistics, Zhu Yuanzhang processed 8 memorials in 1160 days. If a memorial is conservatively calculated as 1000 words, then 1160 memorials are 116 million words, and the average number of words read in memorials every day is 15 words.In addition, it is impossible to write only one thing in a memorial. During these 8 days, the memorials involved 3391 things, so Zhu Yuanzhang had to deal with an average of 423 things every day. It is a bit modest to describe the daily affairs.
Handling memorials requires reading and approval, as well as careful thinking.
This caused Zhu Yuanzhang to get up before dawn every day and stay busy until late at night.
Such days have passed for 31 years.
No matter how later generations evaluate Zhu Yuanzhang, no emperor in history can match his diligence.
The most admirable thing is that people are so busy, they haven't ignored the beauties in the harem, and they have given birth to a lot of sons and daughters.
But his descendants will not have the ability of Zhu Yuanzhang.
Although the cabinet system was established in the Ming Dynasty, there are still many memorials that need to be handled by the emperor every day.
The emperor did not dare to violate the precepts of his ancestors, what should he do?
So he called the memorial to the eunuch.
This also led to the great power of the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty.
The palm print eunuch of the Ming Dynasty was called "Neixiang", which shows his power.
Throughout history, the eunuchs in the Ming Dynasty had the most incidents of disorderly power in all dynasties.
Closer to home, the memorials sent by Shang Shusheng to Li Chengqian for review are actually the part that needs to be processed by Shang Shusheng, and after Li Chengqian's approval, Shang Shusheng will need to review it again before submitting it to Li Shimin.
This is also the reason why Li Chengqian slowly lost his enthusiasm.
He feels that it doesn't make much sense whether he approves or not, and the results of his review will not play any role.
(End of this chapter)