After the meeting with the Privy Council, Zhou Jun returned to the palace and began to think about the war with Tibet.
In the history of the previous life, in October 763, Tubo took advantage of the emptiness in the rear of the Tang Dynasty and the discord between the emperor and his ministers, and concentrated about 200,000 troops to march eastward and directly enter Chang'an. The Emperor of the Tang Dynasty fled to Shaanzhou in a hurry. The Tubo army occupied Chang'an for fifteen days.
At the same time, Princess Jincheng's nephew Guangwu King Li Chenghong was appointed emperor and appointed hundreds of officials.
Afterwards, although Tubo withdrew its troops, it still used Longshan as its boundary with the Tang Dynasty and entered Baoji many times to threaten Chang'an.
After that, Tubo's national power was close to its peak. To the north was the Helan Mountains of Ningxia, which connected with the Uighurs. To the south was Nanzhao as a vassal state. To the west were all the four towns of Anxi. They competed with the Great Eclipse in Central Asia.
But in this life, the Uighur people have become weak, and Anxi is as stable as gold.
Tubo was defeated in Chang'an one after another, and hundreds of nobles from various tribes had their bones buried in Changsheng Temple.
Logically speaking, at this time, Tubo was suffering from internal and external troubles, and the Tang army should be unstoppable. However, Sang Chiruo relied on political means to suppress the chaos in Tubo and fought against the Tang Dynasty in a separate court.
Zhou Jun also had a headache. Sang Chiruo only wrote a few words in the history of Tubo in his previous life. He died young before he could develop his grand ambitions, and there is no news about him.
However, due to a combination of circumstances, Sang Chiruo survived until now, but caused unexpected trouble to Datang.
While Zhou Jun was thinking, Fan Jinian walked in cautiously.
Zhou Jun looked at him and asked, "Who is here?"
Fan Jinian: "The Right Prime Minister is here. If it were anyone else, I would never bother His Majesty..."
Zhou Jun glanced at the sky outside the window: "It's already this hour. He must have something important to do when he comes to the palace. Let him come in."
Fan Jinian answered.
Not long after, Kong You entered the hall, first knelt down and kowtowed, and then shouted, "Long live the emperor."
Zhou Jun waved his hand impatiently: "There is no one else around, just talk directly."
Kong You took out two memorials from his arms, presented them to Zhou Jun's desk, and said: "One is from Lu Shilang of the Municipal Department, and the other is from Chang Sun Yan of Yushitai. I would like to ask your Majesty to read it."
Lu Shilang of the Municipal Department was Lu Ensheng from Anxi, and Zhou Jun had some impressions of him; and Changsun Yan of Yushitai was a disciple of Chen Xilie, the left prime minister. When Luoyang asked for surrender to the Northern Tang Dynasty, it was Changsun Yan who wrote the surrender letter.
surface.
There was no intersection between these two people at all, so why did Kong You bring these two memorials to the palace?
With such doubts, Zhou Jun opened the two memorials and read them carefully.
Lu Ensheng asked the court to deal with the customs clearance document for the fleet going to sea as soon as possible.
The so-called customs clearance document is somewhat similar to the passport you apply for before going abroad.
Whenever people in the Tang Dynasty left their homeland to go abroad, whether they were doing business or visiting friends, before leaving the port or customs, they had to issue a document to prove that the person concerned had good behavior. There was no need to go abroad.
Bad intentions.
The name of this document is the Customs Clearance Document.
Although the document is small, it is extremely complicated to handle, involving the Ministry of Household Affairs, the Ministry of Punishment and other relevant departments, and it also requires registration issued by local officials or local officials.
Lu Ensheng wrote in his memorial that since the North American fleet returned to Tang Dynasty, the trend of private navigation has become more and more popular.
More and more people in the Tang Dynasty, regardless of whether they had experienced sailing before, wanted to go to sea to find the so-called golden continent. After becoming rich, they could return home in rich clothes.
Since the Qin Dynasty, all dynasties have been very strict about going abroad.
However, compared to the Qin, Han, and Sui dynasties, the Tang Dynasty had stricter management of going abroad, and was even stricter than the subsequent Song, Yuan, and Qing dynasties.
In the Tang Dynasty, if you want to apply for a customs clearance document, you must first have a qualified guarantor to ensure the legality of going abroad. If the traveler violates the law, the guarantor must bear joint liability. When applying for customs clearance, the document must include
In addition to many inspection matters, the content also includes a time limit, the number of places to visit along the way, who will temporarily take care of your taxes and servitude after leaving home, etc...
These rules and regulations have existed since the time of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty and have continued to this day.
The Hebei fleet that Ye Zhang belonged to took more than three months to prepare the customs clearance documents, and there were eleven major local commercial banks as guarantees. Even the Fan Yang Mansion simplified the process after consulting the imperial court.
, and finally made it happen.
But now, Lu Ensheng from the Municipal Department wrote in the memorial that if the original review process for going abroad in the Tang Dynasty is followed, then those who want to go abroad will go to the government in order to queue up for registration, and they are afraid that they will not get the ultimatum until they die of old age.
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Zhou Jun put down Lu Ensheng's memorial and began to think in his mind.
Compared with other dynasties, the Tang Dynasty was very strict about going abroad. If you want to encourage private navigation, it is definitely necessary to appropriately simplify the customs clearance process.
Then he picked up the memorial written by Sun Yan, the censor's director. Zhou Jun read it again, his brows furrowing deeper and deeper.
In his memorial, Changsun Yan complained to the emperor, saying that the municipal government only cared about political achievements, despised the laws of the Tang Dynasty, and opened random opportunities for the people to go to sea, making the fleets going to sea uneven. If there are people with ulterior motives in the fleet, they may become pirates.
He even established his own country apart from the Tang Dynasty.
If the city department's request to release the ultimatum is linked to committing crimes and committing crimes, and even leading to rebellion, Chang Sun Yan's accusation is quite serious.
Changsun Yan also wrote in the memorial that when the Tang Dynasty built a fleet to go to sea, it should select more good family members, as well as those families with properties in the country. Firstly, these people were loyal to the Tang Dynasty and would not rebel; secondly, these people
If you have a family and a career at home, even if you fall in love abroad, you will still be cautious and will not dare to act rashly.
The overall meaning of Changsun Yan's memorials is twofold.
On the first level, the city department's request to simplify the review of documents may lead to evil, and even trigger Tang people's rebellion. On the second level, if Datang really wants to send a fleet to sea, it should choose
Those families with big businesses don't want ordinary people to join in the fun.
At first glance, Chang Sun Yan’s words are very reasonable, and can even be said to be good advice.
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The latter took out a Hu cake from his arms and was eating it secretly while Zhou Jun was reading the memorial.
Seeing the emperor looking over, Kong You stopped eating the cake. He smiled and cupped his hands, regardless of the debris on his beard and clothes.
Zhou Jun had no choice but to shout towards the door: "Prepare a meal for your right minister."
Hearing this, Fan Jinian responded repeatedly and kicked the eunuch beside him, urging him in a low voice.
After a while, Kong You had a hot meal.
Zhou Jun looked at the two memorials and asked him: "You are so anxious and sent these two memorials to the palace. Do you want to say something?"
Kong You drank the soup and said: "Your Majesty, these two memorials, on the surface, are about documents for going to sea, but in fact they are about priority qualifications."
Zhou Jun nodded and said: "The city department hopes that civilians will participate in navigation, while Changsun Yan hopes that the public will be ranked before the common people."
Kong You: "The review of customs clearance documents requires not only the approval of the Ministry of Revenue and the Ministry of Punishment, but also the review of the local government, and even the guarantee of a wealthy family. In this case, your Majesty thought that according to Chang Sun Yan,
Who can get priority to go to sea?"
Zhou Jun understood what Kong You meant and said, "Are you trying to say that Changsun Yan wants to control all the sea trade business in the hands of the nobles of the Tang Dynasty?"
Kong You: "Not only the nobles, but also many court ministers were also attracted by the benefits and became part of it."
Zhou Jun heard this and said slowly: "Just like the Daqi Trade Road back then..."
Kong You nodded slightly: "These two memorials are just introductions. If you're right, it won't take long before there will be a dispute between the DPRK and China."
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