Chapter 333 Dragon Rush Cavalry
"Go and call Xu Jingzong, the Minister of Rites, to me. I have something to discuss with him." As soon as Li Ke left, Li Chengqian sent someone to call Xu Jingzong.
"Yes!" The eunuch took the order and left.
Hearing that the emperor summoned him, Xu Jingzong did not dare to delay for a moment, and immediately followed the eunuch to the Liangyi Hall to meet Li Chengqian.
"Your Majesty, I, Xu Jingzong, pay my respects to you!
" Xu Jingzong bowed and paid his respects. "No need to bow, stand up! Give me a seat!" Li Chengqian said.
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Xu Jingzong thanked him.
"I asked you to screen the officials of the six ministries, how are you doing?" Li Chengqian asked.
"Your Majesty! I have already made some ideas! This is the list I have drawn up after careful screening. Please take a look at it." Xu Jingzong said, taking out the list that had been prepared long ago from his sleeve.
Li Chengqian took the list from Xu Jingzong and looked through it carefully. The candidates on it were suitable to serve as officials in the six ministries.
"Good! Take a look at this list and see if they are all suitable to serve as officials in the six ministries." Li Chengqian handed Li Ke's list to Xu Jingzong.
Xu Jingzong hurriedly stepped forward to take it, opened it and took a look. Finally, his eyes stopped on the names of Chai Lingwu, Fang Yiai and others.
"Your Majesty! Let's not talk about the abilities of others for now, but Fang Yiai and Chai Lingwu and others must not be activated." Xu Jingzong said.
"Why? Although they once supported Qingque and competed with me for the position of crown prince, they were just serving their own masters."
"That matter has passed. Now is the time for the court to employ people. We should select people based on their talents. How can we exclude them just because they are in the same party as Qingque?"
"Wei Zheng, Li Anyan and others were also former subordinates of the hidden crown prince Li Jiancheng. Didn't the late emperor employ them in the same way?" Li Chengqian said.
"Your Majesty! These two are different. Both Wei Zheng and Li Anyan are eating the emperor's food and worrying about the emperor's worries!"
"Fang Yiai and Chai Lingwu are different. They are two-faced, saying one thing in public and another in private. Fang Yiai is even plotting against her brother Fang Yizhi's family business."
"How can such a person with ulterior motives be entrusted with an important task? Once he has ulterior motives, he will betray Your Majesty!" "
Plotting against your brother's family business is unkind, and selling it to the owner for glory is disloyalty. How can such disloyal and unkind people be reused? Your Majesty, please think twice." "
Besides, Fang Yiai and Chai Lingwu are talented. It is their blessing to marry the princess. How can they be so obsessed with other things?" Xu Jingzong said.
"You are right! Then remove Fang Yiai and others, and what about the others?" Li Chengqian said.
"There is nothing wrong with the others, and they are capable enough to perform their duties."
"Your Majesty! I wonder who submitted this list?" Xu Jingzong said.
"It is Wu Wang Li Ke, what? Is there any problem?" Li Chengqian asked.
Xu Jingzong didn't know how to answer for a moment. Now Li Ke is highly regarded by Li Chengqian. Would it offend the emperor to say something bad about Li Ke?
Moreover, why did the emperor suddenly ask this question? Is the emperor already dissatisfied with Li Ke, but it is not time for him to explode yet?
Before he figured out Li Chengqian's true attitude, he couldn't make a conclusion casually.
"Since it is the list submitted by Wu Wang, I think there should be nothing wrong with it!" Xu Jingzong said.
"There are limited vacancies for the six ministries this time. Who do you think is suitable for what position in these two lists?" Li Chengqian said.
"I think these people and these people are suitable for the six ministries." Xu Jingzong took the two lists and pointed to some of the names on them.
"The appointment and dismissal of the six ministries is very important. Whether they are really suitable or not, we need to test them to know."
"You, Xu Jingzong, will test these people. All qualified ones will be accepted!" Li Chengqian said.
"Yes! I will go back and prepare!" Xu Jingzong said goodbye to Li Chengqian and left.
After some preparation, Xu Jingzong tested these candidates and accepted some people with outstanding abilities to serve as officials in the six ministries.
In the second year of Yonghui, the court appointed Yuwen Jie, the Huangmen Shilang, and Liu Shi, the Zhongshu Shilang, as the third rank of Zhongshumenxia. Liu Shi was Liu Heng's nephew and the uncle of Wang, the wife of Jin Wang Li Zhi.
"Your Majesty! Yanqi has sent a letter to the state, claiming that their king Luang Pha Kali has passed away, and requested to re-establish the previous king Luang Tu Qi Zhi as the king of Yanqi." In the morning court, the minister in charge of handling vassal states reported.
"Does Luang Pha Kali have no offspring? Why re-establish Luang Tu Qi Zhi?" Li Chengqian asked puzzled.
The four words "father dies, son inherits" are not only suitable for Han people, but also for other tribes. After all, everyone hopes that their things will be passed on to their own offspring rather than to outsiders.
"I don't know about this either. The country of Yanqi has not reported whether Luang Phra Kali has any offspring. If so, the son of the previous king should be enthroned. Therefore, the previous king of Yanqi should have no offspring." The official said.
"Since Luang Phra Kali has no offspring, then according to the request of the people of Yanqi, Long Tuqizhi will be enthroned as the king of Yanqi. Where is Long Tuqizhi now? He may be in Chang'an." Li Chengqian asked.
"Long Tuqizhi rebelled against the Tang Dynasty and was captured alive by the former Anxi Protector General Guo Xiaoming. He was taken back to Chang'an along with his family."
"The previous emperor pardoned Long Tuqizhi's crime and allowed him to stay in Chang'an with his family. Long Tuqizhi is now in Chang'an." Changsun Wuji said.
After being pardoned by Li Er, Long Tu Qi Zhi had been living a dull life in Chang'an. If it weren't for the letter from Yanqi, Long Tu Qi Zhi would have been forgotten long ago.
Fortunately, his subjects did not forget him as the former king. After the death of King Luang Pha Kali, they immediately sent people to Chang'an to welcome him back and make him the king again.
"In this case, the Secretary of the Central Secretariat drafted an imperial edict, ordering Long Tu Qi Zhi to return to Yanqi immediately, to succeed to the throne as the king again, and to confer him the title of General of the Right Guards, and to serve as the governor of the Yanqi Governor's Office." Li Chengqian said.
"Yes!" The Secretary of the Central Secretariat accepted the order.
"Does everyone have anything else to report?" Li Chengqian asked.
"Your Majesty! According to the rules, the kings should be given some rewards every year. Is this year's reward the same as in previous years?" The Minister of Imperial Clan Affairs, who was in charge of managing the royal affairs, stepped out and asked.
Every year, the emperor would give his relatives some rewards, and the amount depended on the closeness of their relationship with the emperor and the rank of their nobles.
The most important thing was the emperor's mood and whether the treasury was rich, which all determined how much reward these royal families could get.
The so-called reward is actually asking the emperor whether the treatment of these royal families should be improved this year!
"Then reward each of the princes with 500 pieces of silk, and there is no need to reward Prince Teng and Prince Jiang!" Li Chengqian said.
"Your Majesty! Why are Prince Teng and Prince Jiang the only ones who have not been rewarded!" Zong Zhengqing asked. If
he didn't reward them, there must be a reason, so that he can have an explanation.