Chastity Layman

Luoyang.

Zhongshu introspection, in the political affairs hall.

The sunlight shining through the glass roof tiles makes the hall extraordinarily bright.

Taifu, Pingzhang Junguozhongshi, Zhizhongshu, Sun Wuji, the governor under the door, tilted their heads, looking at the sky through the bright glass tiles.

Blue sky, white clouds.

Seeing the clear glass tiles, he couldn't help but think of Qin Lang again. The glass invented by Qin Lang is indeed amazing. Some Sogdians bought some glass from the Western Regions a long time ago, but it was not clear, but they dared to sell it at a sky-high price.

But now, there is no Sogdian Hu Chamber of Commerce that sells these inferior products from far away Taixi. The most inferior products in Qinlang Glass Workshop are better than that. up.

The glass workshop of the Qin family has really flowed gold and silver these years. It is just a glass and silver mirror. Now I don’t know how many millions it will make a year. Nowadays, even ordinary people’s homes can already use a piece of it. A small glass mirror the size of a palm.

The imperial court has officially issued a decree to completely prohibit the use of bronze wares by ordinary people, including bronze mirrors. The imperial court purchased a large number of small glass mirrors from the Qin family to replace the bronze mirrors with ordinary people.

However, the nobles and noble families in the two capitals are relatively big. Even if a silver mirror is worth thousands of guan, there are still people who buy it. After all, this kind of luxury is sometimes not based on demand, but more on matching status.

Even the influential people in Beijing, which one doesn't have a glass sun room?

In winter, it is bright and warm to sit inside, hold a tea party, drink tea in the sun, I don’t know how important it is, and even most of the nobles have replaced the windows of the main house with glass window, and then install a whole wall of curtains behind the window.

One gauze curtain, light and translucent, and one brocade curtain, with faint light.

These are status symbols.

In the past, window stickers were the luxury of rich people, but now glass windows are the trend.

Changsun Wuji took off the presbyopic glasses on the bridge of his nose. After all, he was old, his old eyes were dim, and his small script was already blurred. Fortunately, the Qin family introduced this kind of glasses.

The price is a bit expensive, gold presbyopic glasses, but light and convenient, hanging directly on the bridge of the nose, but making Changsun Wuji feel twenty years younger, even the smallest words can be read clearly now.

A pair of 300 guan, which is still a friendly price. After Changsun Wuji tried it, he ordered ten pairs directly.

For Changsun Wuji, he is not short of money, and three thousand guan for ten mates is just the money to buy two good horses. Besides, although the Qin family is in charge of manufacturing secrets of glass, Qin Lang has never been the kind of person who eats alone. He only controls the production technology, but the sales of this piece have always been shared by everyone like the white sugar in the past.

The Changsun family is an important glass distributor. At the same time, the Changsun family has also obtained the qualification of an important distributor of glasses such as presbyopia, myopia, sunglasses, and telescopes. With the relationship between the two and the Changsun family's own contacts Influence and commercial channels, this is a win-win cooperation, and it also brings huge benefits to the Changsun family every year.

"Eldest grandson?"

Changsun Wuji turned his head and saw Han Yuan, the servant of the Huangmen, calling him.

"Well, where did it go?"

Today's political affairs hall meeting can be regarded as an enlarged meeting. Not only all the princes of the political affairs hall came, but also the non-prime ministers, Shangshu Zuocheng, Huangmen Shilang, Zhongshu Shilang, ministers, transfer envoys and other ministers came.

"Silla sent an envoy to Luo again, saying that the Emperor Shengzu had made an agreement with Queen Rodman that Jin Chunqiu would succeed to the throne in the future, and also agreed that after the destruction of Baekje, the land of Baekje would be given to Silla, and Silla will do its best to help the Great Tang eradicate Goguryeo. In the future, with Maling and Imjin River as boundaries, the north will belong to Tang, and the south will belong to Silla..."

Changsun Wuji snorted coldly twice.

"These Koreans are really arrogant. Where did they get their confidence? Couldn't Baekje and Goguryeo be a warning?"

At this time, he couldn't help but sigh, he can't blame the emperor Li Yin for wanting to do Silla, it's really that Silla's performance is too bad, even if they are a little submissive, Changsun Wuji and others will insist on opposing the emperor to clean up Silla thought.

But now that the Xinluo people are dancing like this, Changsun Wuji can't find a reason to object.

"How dare you fabricate the holy words of the ancestors, you really don't know how to live or die!"

Almost all the other prime ministers in the hall were speechless about Silla's death.

The attitude of the prime ministers of the Political Affairs Hall was actually unanimously opposed to the attack on Silla at this time, and they even held the attitude of restraining Baekje.

But now the Silla people are jumping up and down, and the husbands can't do anything about it.

"Your Majesty has decreed to behead the envoys of Silla, and Jin Chunqiu's son who was studying in the Luoyang Imperial Academy."

"Already beheaded?"

Han Yuan nodded.

The emperor's temper has become more and more violent now. The Silla envoy's behavior of confounding black and white caused the emperor to directly order the envoy to be beheaded. Both the principal and the deputy envoys were cut off, and none of the accompanying envoys became slaves. In the end, the emperor asked several Baekje descendants to bring back the Silla envoy and Jin Chunqiu's second son, the head of the hostage in Tang Dynasty.

The emperor's reply to the Silla people was very simple, if you want to fight, then fight.

The emperor has decided to clean up Silla and Goguryeo together, this time simply and completely bringing the peninsula into the direct territory of the Tang Dynasty.

From the emperor's point of view, the people of Silla danced so well now that they just gave them a chance to be annexed in a justifiable way.

Wang Wendu was appointed as the chief of the march against Silla, and Liu Rengui was the deputy general. General Liu Boying of Zuo Xiaowei guarded Baekje as the commander of the marching army, and Liu Renyuan was the deputy general.

As for Su Dingfang, Li Yin did not intend to change the military order and send him south to attack Silla, but asked Su Dingfang to take Xue Rengui and other generals to continue northward to cooperate with Li Ji to destroy Goguryeo.

Li Yin didn't put Baekje and Silla in his eyes at all, and he thought it was enough to have two generals, Wang Wendu and Liu Boying.

Even in the political affairs hall, in fact, they didn't pay much attention to Silla.

The reason why everyone opposes the war against Silla is that the cost of this kind of war will increase a lot, and it should be eaten away gradually. Drop Goguryeo.

At that time, it will not be too late to clean up Silla again.

"Where is Grand Master Qin?" Changsun Wuji suddenly asked Qin Lang.

Zhongshuling Xu Jingzong said with a smile, "The grand master left Chang'an in March, walked the Lan Wu Dao, stopped and stopped all the way, but when he arrived in Xiangyang, he suddenly sped up the journey, and the family members stayed behind and walked slowly, but the grand master The sails have been sailing for thousands of miles, and they have already set out to sea by this time, and it is estimated that they have almost returned to Luzon."

Changsun Wuji immediately understood that Qin Lang probably also heard that the court was about to start a war with Silla, so he ran away.

"Yes, I also want to talk about whether I can invite Grand Master Qin back to Luoyang and recruit another strong man. Who would have thought that he could run so fast."

Chu Suiliang asked his eldest grandson Wuji.

"For such an important military matter, His Majesty completely ignores the opinions of the members of our Political Affairs Hall. This matter..."

Since Zhengdan was changed to Yuan Dynasty, officials in the DPRK and China can feel that the young emperor is getting sharper day by day.

Even Changsun Wuji and other veteran chief assistants were forced to retreat step by step.

Some people say that there is an image of a holy ancestor in today's world, but the prime ministers in the political affairs hall feel bad. They don't feel half of the status of the prime minister now. The emperor is arbitrary in important matters, and he doesn't care about the opinions of the ministers at all.

This was the case with the post-war Baekje before, and it is the same with the conquest of Silla now, the emperor said it all.

"Have you heard? The saint intends to set up a new Privy Council."

Xu Jingzong looked at Changsun Wuji and said.

"The Privy Council? I have never heard of it."

Xu Jingzong sighed and said, "The meaning of the saint is to divide the civil and military affairs, with the Zhengshitang as the east mansion and the Privy Council as the west mansion, one civil and one military, and the east and west. From now on, the prime minister of the Zhengshitang will not care about the military!"

As soon as these words came out, all the prime ministers couldn't help being shocked.

The prime minister doesn't care about the military?

And Xu Jingzong continued to tell everyone about the situation of the Privy Council. The Privy Council is different from the Twelve Guards and Four Mansions or the Beiya Ten Army. place.

There is no military decision-making, command and transfer power.

But the Privy Council is different. It is in charge of military and state affairs, military defense, frontier preparations, military orders, secret orders of cashiers, and stability and stability of the country.

The Privy Council is in charge of military registration and fish charms. If approved by the emperor, it has the right to mobilize troops and horses. The head of the Privy Council is the Privy Envoy and the Deputy Privy Envoy, whose status is slightly lower than that of the Prime Minister.

"Handling military status and fish charms? Isn't that the job of the Ministry of War?"

Xu Jingzong nodded. The purpose of the emperor's establishment of the Privy Council was to seize power from the Ministry of War, because the Ministry of War was under the Ministry of Shangshu and was also under the command of the Zhengshitang.

Now that the emperor said that civil and military affairs should be separated, the political affairs hall and the Privy Council are in charge of civil and military affairs, and the prime minister does not preempt the military, so the power of the Ministry of War will naturally have to be seized by the Privy Council.

"The Privy Council has the power to send troops, but not the power to command them. The guards have the power to command troops, but not the right to send troops."

"What about the Ministry of War, what is left of the Ministry of War?"

Xu Jingzong told all the ministers that in the future, the Ministry of War will only have the personnel of military officers below the sixth rank, as well as the military information account, and the research and development of military equipment.

Moreover, the Ministry of War will also be subordinate to the Privy Council in the future.

"All military and state wars and offensive and defensive strategies are jointly decided by the emperor and the envoys. The prime minister of the political affairs hall attends and participates. The Privy Council provides suggestions and references. The prime minister can also give advice. The final plan is proposed by the Privy Council and adopted by the emperor."

"All military personnel, military registration and soldiers, the authority below the sixth rank belongs to the Ministry of War, and the files are in the Privy Council. The appointment and relocation of the sixth to third rank military positions are recommended by the Privy Council."

The prime minister was kicked out of the military decision-making level by the emperor.

"Who will be the Privy Envoy?"

"I heard that the sage intends to appoint Li Ji as the first privy envoy, with Cheng Yaojin and Su Dingfang as deputy envoys, and six offices under him, including officials and soldiers."

Changsun Wuji frowned, even his beard was raised.

The emperor's behavior has become more and more unscrupulous.

This is to imitate the ancestors. Li Shimin is notoriously fond of torturing the prime minister. During the 21 years of Zhenguan, how many prime ministers have changed, even those who are permanent prime ministers are often dismissed. The adjustment of the prime ministers of the political affairs hall, and even the frequent dismissal and reinstatement, made the prime ministers firmly controlled by the emperor.

But even so, the emperor still felt that the prime ministers had too much power, so he added titles to the non-three high-ranking officials as prime ministers.

Later, the Hanlin Academy was simply set up again, and the power of drafting edicts was divided among the scholars of Zhongshushe, and a Hanlin scholar was assigned to know how to make edicts, conquer and defend, and do obeisance to ministers and feudal princes. Phase power.

But now the new emperor wants to set up a new Privy Council to completely take away the military power from the prime minister.

Changsun Wuji has the urge to win the title and resign as prime minister.

This kid Qin Lang really has the foresight!