Chapter 404: Discovering clues

The result of the temporary meeting of the Pei family was beyond everyone's expectations. The originally 55-5 opposition, due to Pei Ying's tough attitude, although Pei Jia and Pei Mingyao left, there were only three people after they left, and most of the other Pei family members expressed their willingness to obey the Queen's mediation.

As for how to arrange the family meeting later to clarify Pei Mingyuan's position as head of the family, it was Pei You's business. Pei Ying didn't even have dinner and returned to the palace that night.

As usual, Zhang Huan also reviewed memorials in the imperial study room of Mingde Hall. However, as he became familiar with the court affairs, he reviewed memorials much faster, and he stayed up late and fewer and fewer times. Especially after the court meeting this morning, the mechanism of the prime minister had undergone a major change. The Tang Dynasty suddenly had seven prime ministers. These seven prime ministers may have different qualifications, but their power is the same. Each person can hold a political affairs pen for ten days, that is, exercise the main power of the prime minister. In addition to some major matters that need to be negotiated together, some minor matters of the court affairs are directly handled by the prime minister who is in charge of the government affairs pen.

So starting this afternoon, there were obviously fewer memorials to Zhang Huan, only fifty-six, which were all relatively important memorials that required the issuance of an imperial edict, that is, the emperor's imperial edict was required.

The imperial decree has been drafted by the Secretariat and is attached to the back of the memorial. If Zhang Huan has no objection, he can directly write the word "生" on the imperial decree with a red pen, and then hand it over to the Ministry of Justice for reconsideration. If the Ministry of Justice does not agree to send it back, the word "生" will be written in vain.

On the contrary, if Zhang Huan feels that the Prime Minister's opinion is unacceptable, he can convene a court meeting and convene the Prime Minister and the main person in charge for consultation. If he insists on his own opinion and the ministers fail to communicate, he can only accept his opinion in the end, or Zhang Huan will stop changing people, but this situation is not common, after all, a compromise solution will be found in the end.

In fact, this system was not the first to be founded by Zhang Huan. He actually restored the normal process since the early Tang Dynasty. The political norm of the Han and Tang Dynasties in China has never been decided by the emperor. It has a very complete power check and balance system. Many times, the emperor's red pen is not as good as the "Seal of the Seal of the Seal of the Seal of the Seal of the Seal of the Seal of the Seal of the Seal of the Seal of the Seal of the Seal of the Seal of the Seal of the Seal of the Seal of the Seal of the Seal of the Seal of the Seal of the Seal of the Seal of the Seal of the Seal of the Seal of the Seal of the Emperor, in fact, it is illegal and the following executive agencies may not recognize it.

This is the checks and balances of the imperial power, which is Chinese-style democracy. Although there are many loopholes, some emperors with great power will do everything possible to seize power. For example, the emperor in the middle Tang Dynasty allowed eunuchs to take power, forming a northern yamen that fought against court officials, resulting in the eunuch disaster at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and there are also institutional compatibility, such as allowing the emperor to set up Hanlin, and the Hanlin directly issued some edicts, such as worshiping generals and establishing prime ministers, enthroning the prince and queen, etc., but these are not the norm. Three and six sentences

The ministry system itself restricts the imperial power. Emperor Zhongzong of Tang Dynasty drafted the edict without authorization. He did not even dare to seal the bag containing the edict, nor did he dare to use the emperor's red pen to write the word "ichi" and instead used the ink pen to approve it. This shows his guilt. This is the famous "slanted ink sealing edict" in history. Perhaps "there is no China behind Yashan" refers to the complete destruction of a political system and humanistic spirit. Therefore, to a certain extent, the imperial dictatorship of the Ming and Qing Dynasties could not completely represent China's history.

The topic is a bit too far, so I'll take it back first. Zhang Huan was in a good mood today. Many of his major policies have been realized today. The land and land priests he proposed to establish was accepted by the prime ministers in the afternoon. Except for Lu Qi's opposition, other prime ministers finally agreed. Of course, this is related to his restoration of the polygon system in the early Tang Dynasty. The prime ministers believed that this was an exchange of interests, and exchanged the polygon system for land and land priests to be in charge of renting mediocre people.

He picked up a memorial casually, and his attention was attracted. The content of the memorial was that Zhang Yanshang proposed to issue treasure banknotes to make up for the shortcomings of copper coins. His reason was that Zuozang's gold reserves had reached one million taels, and there were eight million taels of silver. It could be used as collateral to issue 10 million coins of paper banknotes to the whole country. In fact, this was his Zhang Huan's claim. He was eager to expand the scale of business in the Jianghuai River, but due to the lack of currency and the inconvenience of copper coins circulation, Zhang Huan instructed Pei You that the court should reserve gold and silver, and Zhang Yanshang proposed to issue treasure banknotes at this time. This was actually a memorial specially made by Zhang Huan's thoughts.

Seeing that at the end, he saw the instructions of the first ruling minister, Han Huan, who was "inconsistent with the system", he actually approved the word "no". In other words, his idea of ​​issuing treasure banknotes was rejected by the prime ministers. Zhang Huan was stunned for a moment. He slowly sat upright and frowned. It was understandable that it was not possible to issue treasure banknotes in the past because there were not enough gold and silver reserves. For this reason, he deliberately strengthened the accumulation of gold and silver. Now gold alone is worth more than 10 million guan. How can it not be issued? Moreover, Han Huan only approved the "inconsistent with the system". He had never issued treasure banknotes before, so how could he talk about the system? Zhang Huan pondered for a moment and discounted the memorial. He wanted to find an opportunity to open a court discussion and negotiate with the prime ministers.

At this time, the eunuch An Zhongshun walked in from outside with a slight footsteps, and wanted to speak, "What's the matter?" Zhang Huan glanced at him.

"Your Majesty, Master Cui sent someone to send a letter." An Zhongshun placed a letter on Zhang Huan's desk.

"Cui Yuan?" Zhang Huan was slightly stunned. What did Cui Yuan send him a letter? He pondered for a moment and suddenly remembered what Cui's residence said in the morning. He immediately opened the letter. The letter was written by Cui Yuan himself, with only a few words. In the letter, Cui Yuan told him that the last Zhang family assassination was very likely a conspiracy of a great country, and he was already a little surprised, but the Cui family was weak and hoped that Zhang Huan could support people to find out the matter.

If someone else wrote this, Zhang Huan might have thought that this was a rude word, but Zhang Huan believed Cui Yuan's words. Since he said that there was suspicion of other countries, it was either Tubo or the Uighurs. In fact, when Cui Yu swore the reputation of the ancestors of the Cui family in the morning, Zhang Huan knew that this was not the Cui family. However, what Cui Yuan pointed out was the work of a great country, and the matter was a bit serious. If it was really the work of the Uighurs or Tubo, it meant that the secret war between the countries had begun.

Zhang Huan wrote a handwritten order without hesitation, and handed it to An Zhongshun with Cui Yuan's letter: "You can go out of the palace now and give it to Du Mei, so that he can go to find Master Cui immediately."

An Zhongshun did not dare to be negligent, so he took the letter and hurried out of the palace. Zhang Huan gently rubbed his temples. Since he ascended the throne, he had only thought about domestic affairs, but forgot about Tubo and Uighurs, but they did not forget themselves. Internal troubles will cause external troubles. It is really good to say it!

It seems that the Supervision Office must expand its staff to the public. He suddenly thought of Li Fanyun. Was it a little wrong to let her go?

In Fengxiang Mansion, Cui Lianxing was standing on a mountain with a hand curtain looking at a small village at the foot of the mountain. Before dawn, the east sky had turned white, and a gray-white mist enveloped the small village of less than 30 families. Chen Tuhu's daughter married here. Similarly, his son was also hiding in this small village. Cui Lianxing had arrived here for two hours. Before that, he had sent someone to ambush.

After capturing Chen butcher Chen the day before yesterday, Cui Lianxing became interested in the ten ingots of gold that bribed him. The gold was made smooth and complete, with the same appearance, which means that they were cast in batches. He also found a group of strange symbols behind the four gold ingots. According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, the people were not allowed to cast gold and silver privately. Cui Lianxing immediately sent the gold ingots to the Shaofu Supervisory Supervisory Office responsible for casting gold and silver for identification. A craftsman told it that this gold ingot was cast in Persian and had been used to

A small number flowed to the Central Plains, but it was rarely used, and I had never seen symbols casting behind them. Moreover, these symbols were counting symbols of the Indian people (that is, the current Arabic numerals). In addition, from the degree of casting of the gold ingots, it would not exceed three years. From the discovery of the details of the gold ingots, Cui Lianxing recalled Chen Tuhu's confession. He immediately realized that there was a major conspiracy behind this matter. On the same day, he reported to Cui Yuan and rushed to Fengxiang in person.

At this moment, in addition to Cui Lianxing, there are more than a hundred martial arts masters in this dense forest on the mountain. They are all dressed in black and have a cold look. These more than a hundred people are spies from the Supervision Office and have been temporarily sent to Cui Lianxing to assist him in his actions. It can be seen that these men in black are all military. Although Cui Lianxing does not have any official identity, they absolutely obey his command without a word of nonsense. They cooperate with Cui Lianxing very tacitly, as if they are the same type of people. Their decisive style and strict discipline have made Cui Lianxing have the idea of ​​joining this organization.

Suddenly, three black eagles rose into the air from the small village, and everyone in the mountains and forests flashed with excitement, and the target came! Everyone's muscles began to tense, and their hands couldn't help but pressed the knife handle. A sharp murderous aura suddenly appeared in the mountains and forests. More than a hundred people were like a group of leopards who had discovered their prey, waiting for the best opportunity.

Cui Lianxing's face was as calm as water, and his eyes were coldly looking at the village without any urgency. He knew that he would not alert the snake because he had not notified Chen Tuhu's daughter's family until now. In other words, Chen Tuhu's daughter and son did not know that danger was coming at all.

A woman's low scream shocked the tranquility of the small village. In an instant, four men in gray rushed out of the village and fled in three directions, two of whom were running towards the hill.

Eighty steps.

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Fifty steps.

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Thirty steps.

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Twenty steps, two men in gray were about to enter the forest.

"Take it!" Cui Lianxing gave the order coldly.
Chapter completed!