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Li's Mansion.

The Li Mansion in Xiangyang City also built the seventh gate tower that was granted by the imperial court in Chang'an City this autumn. Because the emperor specially gave the Prime Minister's Mansion a plaque, the gate tower of the Li Mansion in Xiangyang City is one more than that in Chang'an, and it is the eighth gate tower.

In front of the Li Mansion, all officials dismounted and the scholars and common people performed their respects.

Today, the central gate of Li's mansion was opened to welcome the arrival of the emperor.

Li Shimin went over and took Li Chao up and walked with him holding his hand.

Li Chao asked with a smile, "What should you eat tonight?"

The emperor smiled, but was already scolding Li Chao in his heart. He really thought that I came over on New Year's Eve just to eat?

"I suddenly want to eat taro paste."

"Okay, I personally cook it for Your Majesty."

The king and his ministers entered the Li Mansion hand in hand.

Entering the hall of the mansion, Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui, and Qin Qiong and Cheng Yaojin, also came back to attend the ceremony with the emperor. Li Shimin glanced at the important officials in the hall, either prime ministers or generals, or ministers or dukes.

This Li family is really a gathering of heroes.

"Eunuch Wang, go back to the palace to invite the queen and the emperor to join the Li Mansion. On New Year's Eve this year, I will have fun with the people in the Li Mansion." At the end, he added, "Please invite the king of Hainan and other kings."

Li Chao stood there, Li Shimin was really going to celebrate the New Year at the Li family this year. Even the Supreme Emperor and the deposed prince were going to call over together.

Then before the emperor could give up, he asked someone to call all the royal dukes from the royal family of Li Daozong Li Xiaogong and others. These royal families were originally named kings. When Li Shimin succeeded to the throne two years ago, he cut off many kings and changed them to county dukes. Then this time, all famous royals such as Li Xiaogong were surrendered. In the royal family, there was no other king except the sons of Li Yuan and Li Shimin.

Li Shimin said he wanted to eat taro paste.

Taro paste is a dessert, and he wants to eat it, so Li Chao will make it.

The emperor left Fang Du Changsun and others to chat and drove Li Chao to make taro paste for him. The taro paste the emperor wanted to eat was of course not ordinary taro paste. Li Chao had made taro paste for Li Shimin before, cooked and mashed the taro, and then added red dates, cherries, melon seeds, winter melon sugar, white sugar, osmanthus and cooked lard.

Such taro paste is called Babao Taro paste, which has a good reputation and also means that it is made of eight ingredients. It is somewhat similar to Babao porridge, the difference is that taro paste is not a porridge but a dessert made of taro paste.

"Please wait for your majesty." Li Chao retreated.

Chengqian talked to Li Shimin and came out with him.

"Why are you not sitting in the hall and following me?"

"I'll help the teacher." Cheng Qian said naturally. Although the teacher and student have less time to spend together now, the prince is still as kind and natural as ever to Li Chao. The two are not polite and will not perform any rituals between the emperor and the ministers.

Li Chao smiled.

The two entered the kitchen, and there was a kitchen in Li's mansion that was reserved specifically for Li Chao. It had a complete kitchen utensil and rich ingredients.

Li Chao was outside in front of the manager and asked them to prepare taro and other ingredients.

When the taro was delivered, Li Chao also prepared other auxiliary ingredients, and Li Chao and the prince cooked the taro together. They chatted while adding fire.

The prince talked about taking the Li family exam.

"I thought I could get at least the top three, but I didn't expect that I only got the thirteenth."

Li Chao added a pine needle to the stove hall. He couldn't add large firewood at once. He had to burn small branches first. The best thing was to have thinner leaves. When the stove was warm and there was charcoal fire, he would increase the firewood, and then the fire would burn vigorously.

The pine needles are easy to burn. If you throw them in, the fire will be very strong.

The prince cooperated tacitly and took a few small pieces of chopped ingredient and put them next to him, letting him slowly bake and ignite.

"When I came back, my master's wife said that your grades were not moisture-free. Thirteenth place is your real score. It is already very good if you can get thirteenth place in the exam. I know the test questions for this exam, and that's a set of papers I personally gave. I originally planned to keep them for you in the future, but unexpectedly, your master's wife turned them out and took them to do the test questions."

Cheng Qian sat there without a look of pride. Under the light of the fire, he could see that a little bit of beard had begun to grow on his lips.

With rich nutrition and continuous exercise, the prince developed much earlier than ordinary children. At this age, he had already started to show his beard.

"Teacher, your examination model is very good. If it is used in the imperial examination in the court, wouldn't it be better to recruit scholars for the country? Why did the teacher preside over the imperial examination before, but never proposed reforms to the court?"

Li Chao smiled slightly.

Although the prince studied governance with the emperor and had so many teachers in the East Palace, after all, the prince was just a teenager. He was not so comprehensive in his view of things and thought about problems.

However, Li Chao was quite pleased that the prince could think of these things.

A prince who knows how to think independently is a good prince.

"I did not suggest this method to the court because it is not suitable yet. When the state was established, the internal and external unstable, and even if it was reformed, it would have to be done one by one. If you want to change all the shortcomings at once, then the step would be too big, and if you take too big, it would be easy to get rid of it."

Li Chao is not an opponent of reform.

Generally speaking, since it is reform, it must be because the old law is no longer suitable for development needs. It is of course good to keep pace with the times and reform the new law at this time.

But the purpose is good, and it may not be changed immediately.

The process is also very important.

Li Chao doesn't want to be like Shang Yang, Wang Anshi and others. He will fully implement the new law as soon as he starts and directly shout out the slogans of reform and reform. Although doing this is beneficial, it also has its disadvantages.

Li Chao still hopes that the same thing will be done, and prioritize it. To put it simply, treat the head with headaches and feet with feet. First, treat these acute diseases, and then consider comprehensive care and diagnosis.

In fact, Emperor Li Shimin was also an enterprising person. He was constantly adjusting the situation inappropriate. After Li Shimin came to power, he had made many changes, but the first thing he did was military power, personnel, finance and taxation. It can be said that Li Shimin's eyes were correct, military, personnel, finance and taxation were also the most important points of the court.

Only by mastering these can we truly control the court and concentrate our power.

From the abolition of Xingtai, the General Administration, the establishment of the Governor's Office, to the division of various sections, then the court separated the north and south yamen in the center, and the local governments fully established the Guard Office, each of which was aimed at strengthening the control of the court's military power. Now there is no situation where the army in the Wude Dynasty has mastered its own hands.

This is the progress.

The same is true for personnel, with adjustments again and again, from the center to the local government, from the road to the prefecture, to the county, and then the assessment was adjusted step by step. Finally, with the establishment of the new center under the Secretariat, and with the adjustment of the eleven prime ministers, it also marked that Li Shimin's control over the personnel affairs of the court was in hand.

The imperial court stepped up the implementation of the equal-field system, implemented the system of government troops, promoted immigration to the border and military farming, promoted feudal divisions, and replaced all the fields of honor and field of Yongye and Jue to the border. It was also a reform of the fields, one of the foundations of the Tang Dynasty.

Based on the equal-field system, the two tax laws proposed by Li Chao before were exactly the reform of the Tang Dynasty's field system and taxation. These reforms did not call for any reforms, and these big slogans of reform began quietly.

The reform of the imperial examination is an inevitable historical trend. Sooner or later, the Tang Dynasty will slowly change the current method of mainly using the family to win scholars, and the imperial examinations will be the main method.

But this matter won't be too fast.

The imperial court's implementation of imperial examinations will inevitably cause great damage to the interests of old families, military commendations and the great gentry, and their opposition will definitely be very loud.

Even the emperor did not dare to easily touch the interests of these people. The last major disaster was a very unstoppable period, and in the end, he gave a lot of concessions to compensate.

If Li Shimin wanted to take back the fields they had acquired from the powerful, he could only launch the card of seal and exchange the fief for these fields.

That's all an exchange of interests.

Now it is still unstable inside and outside. At this time, the emperor wants to reform the imperial examinations and violate the core interests of these noble bureaucrats. How could this be done?

Without a good external environment, it is very dangerous to do such a thing.

Li Chao didn't even mention it to the court because he knew that this incident was against the public's anger.

"Teacher, can the imperial court enfeoffed the territories of the princes really play the role of Pingfu Central? What if foreign enemies invade, these border princes who should have Pingfu Central do not resist or escape?"

The prince asked another question.

Li Chao put a few pieces of ignited pieces of chopped materials on the fire, and got up and continued to add some water to the pot.

"Actually, the question you mentioned is indeed a problem, but as long as the court adds a sentence when dividing the territory, then this problem will not be a problem."

"Add one more sentence? What's so magical?"

Li Chao smiled, "The princes are responsible for defending their territory, and those who lose their territory will deprive them of their fiefs!"

This sentence actually has an impact on the Li family, but Li Chao felt that it should be added. As for princes, he must do something with the fiefs of the court. Usually, he took the land and became a prince. As a result, when the foreign enemy invaded, he ran away. What's the use of the court asking you princes?

Now I will add a sentence directly: The princes are responsible for defending their territory, and those who lose their territory will deprive the fief. In this way, there will be some warning to the princes. When anyone wants to escape, they have to think about it. If they run away, the fief will be gone.

It is difficult to get a seal, and it is even more difficult to think about it if you lose it.

For the fiefdom, they had to resist.

Of course, if it is the kind of person who has fought to the death but is still outnumbered in the end, although he is responsible, the court can still give them a chance, that is, they can retake it with the court. When they help the court regain the lost fief, they can continue to have fiefdoms. However, depending on the situation, some penalties and other punishments will be imposed on the lost princes.

"Prince, don't be straightforward when doing things. There is a word called "wind paths and secluded". Sometimes, we set goals and can also deviate, and the methods can be more flexible. Compromise, exchange, etc., these are actually possible.

"I really want to have a fiefdom after hearing what the teacher said."

"You are the prince, and your fief is the whole world. This is the fief given to you by God. In the future, sooner or later, Your Majesty will hand over all the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains to your hands. Before that, all you need is learning and experience. You have to ensure that when the thousands of miles of rivers and mountains are really handed over to you, your shoulders can be picked up instead of being crushed!"

"Well, I understand, teacher." The prince looked at Li Chao, "When I take charge of the Tang Dynasty, I will have to be my prime minister at that time, and then the teacher will be my Secretariat."
Chapter completed!