While everyone in the court was staring at the jade seal placed on the royal desk, Li Yuanji made his first major decision since taking office.
"Gentlemen, what do you think of my proposals?"
Li Yuanji took a "plan" that had been written long ago and asked all the officials in Tai Chi Hall.
"Forehead……"
Li Gang, Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda, Pei Ju, Li Shentong and others had already guessed that the Imperial Seal had been recovered, and the important ministers who had seen the Imperial Seal did not stare at the Imperial Seal, but kept listening.
It's just that some of what Li Yuanji said was beyond their understanding. With their current governing minds, they couldn't digest these things, so they didn't know how to answer for a while.
The other young courtiers who could accept it and learn from it were focused on the imperial seal, so the hall became quiet for a while.
Seeing this, Li Yuanji asked again: "Do you have any opinions?"
Li Gang hesitated for a moment, exchanged glances with Xiao Yu, Chen Shuda, and Pei Ju, and said slowly: "Your Highness, what is on your desk is the legendary imperial seal?"
Li Yuanji was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood that Li Gang was asking on behalf of other people in the court who did not know the truth. He immediately nodded and said: "Yes, when we fought with the Turks before, I sent Li Jing, An Xinggui, and Ma Sanbao
The three men rushed to the Turks and raided the Turks' royal court.
Li Jing, An Xinggui, and Ma Sanbao lived up to expectations. Not only did they successfully raid the Turkic royal court, they also invited back Empress Xiao and Princess Yicheng of the former Sui Dynasty.
This national jade seal was presented by them."
Li Gang pretended to be surprised and said: "So, is this really a national jade seal?"
Li Gang's voice was so loud that it spread throughout the hall in an instant.
The officials in the palace who were staring at the imperial seal suddenly became happy.
"It's really a national jade seal..."
"It seems the rumors are true..."
"God bless me, the Tang Dynasty!"
"..."
No one greeted or took the lead. After the officials chattered and expressed their emotions, they all stood up and saluted with excitement.
"I congratulate the Tang Dynasty and congratulate Your Highness!"
Li Yuanji waved his hand and said, "No need to be polite, just sit down and continue discussing government affairs."
When he first got the Imperial Seal, Li Yuanji was very happy for several days. He held it and played with it as if he were appreciating a treasure.
As time goes by, the freshness will fade away.
Especially when holding the various covers of the Chuan Guo Jade Seal, the sense of mystery surrounding the Chuan Guo Jade Seal and the heaviness of the Thousand Years of History disappear.
So facing the compliments from officials, Li Yuanji didn't feel any disturbance at all.
After the officials sat down again with joy and excitement, Li Gang spoke again, his words full of hesitation, "Your Highness, I wonder what the five-year strategy you mentioned is, and how do you plan to implement it?"
Seeing that the others were as curious as Li Gang, Li Yuanji had to explain what he had prepared again.
"The five-year strategy I proposed is, to be precise, what we need to do and what we need to achieve in the next five years. First of all, it is to reorganize the military forces in the world and clarify the military system of the Tang Dynasty.
Currently, the Tang Dynasty implements the military system of the Dudufu established by my father. The Dudufu oversees soldiers and horses in various places.
It's just that my father implemented this military system not long ago, and it has not been fully implemented yet.
Therefore, in the next five years, we must implement this military system and make it practical.
In order to facilitate the management and deployment, I plan to re-divide the various Dao of my Datang Dynasty.
Regarding the specific division, you can discuss based on the existing Dao of our Datang Dynasty and the existing territory of our Datang Dynasty.
The second step is to dredge the official roads and water transport in various places and rectify the post stations in various places to ensure that the official roads and water transport in various places in the Tang Dynasty remain smooth at all times and ensure that the post stations in various places can assist the court in conveying various government orders to every corner of the Tang Dynasty at any time.
The third step is to restore the population and reorganize education. The population of the Tang Dynasty is more than half less than that of the former Sui Dynasty, and more than six times less than that of the former Han Dynasty.
Therefore, it is urgent to restore the population. Only when the population is restored can the tax revenue and national strength of the Tang Dynasty be restored along with it.
Although my father has been doing this when he was in charge of government, the population of Datang has not recovered much.
To this day, there are still many places that are uninhabited and without roosters crowing for hundreds of miles, so we have to find ways to restore the population.
For example, we can encourage wealthy families to release their hidden households, encourage people who have escaped from the mountains and forests to come down, encourage ordinary people to get married and have children, etc. We can do more.
It is best to incorporate these into the performance evaluation of officials in various places, so as to determine the promotion and scheduling of officials.
As for education, although there are official schools in various places, and there are many doctorates in official schools, the quality of official schools in various places is uneven, and some official schools do not even have a single student.
Therefore, we must reorganize the official schools in various places, send some capable people to teach and educate people, and attract more students to enter the official schools.
At the same time, counties and townships should be encouraged to build private schools and provide private schools to attract more school-age children to study in schools. This will cultivate more students for official schools in various places and more talents for the imperial court.
I also hope to include this in the performance evaluation of officials in various places.
The last step is to develop border markets and clarify various tax issues. I hope that the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of War, and the Honglu Temple can discuss with the various vassal states bordering the Tang Dynasty in the next five years to open border markets, exchange goods, and clarify
Taxation in border markets, and the import and export of various goods.
This will not only increase the tax revenue of our Datang, but also alleviate the border troubles. At the same time, it will also allow our Datang to understand the various vassals that border my Datang.
As for clarifying various taxes, it is also because the Tang Dynasty has expanded too fast in recent years, and some newly recovered areas still implement the old regulations of the Sui Dynasty, as well as various exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes enacted by various anti-kings.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! So we must clearly abandon these exorbitant taxes and clearly tell the people what taxes need to be paid and what taxes do not need to be paid. What are the taxes given to me in Datang?
Fu, what are people with ulterior motives and exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes secretly imposed by evil people.
Then we will eliminate some evil gentry and evil officials who took advantage of the war period to knock the bones and suck the marrow out of the people, and even after the Tang Dynasty unified the world, they still hid the people's knowledge and collected all kinds of exorbitant taxes from the people.
These are the national policies that I hope Datang can accomplish in the next five years.
Do you think it's feasible? Is there anything you want to add, or anything you want to add or subtract?"
Li Yuanji did not force the officials to implement the strategies he had set, but instead gave them the opportunity to discuss.
But the five-year plan must be implemented.
Even if you only complete one or two items during this period.
Regardless of ancient or modern times, the most common problem in governance is the destruction of people and the destruction of government.
Therefore, if you want a good government decree to be implemented, you must achieve it step by step and use short-term goals to achieve long-term goals.
Five years is neither long nor short, and is very suitable for implementing some short-term goals.
As long as you develop a habit, the next five years will be the same as the next five years.
Before a person dies, even if he cannot complete all his goals or long-term goals in his heart, he can still keep some government orders and let the country and the country develop for the better.
Li Yuanji is now cultivating this habit for Datang.
As long as the Tang Dynasty developed this habit and changed from having him propose policies and officials implementing them to having officials propose policies and then implement them.
So even if the person sitting on the Dragon Throne does nothing, Datang will still become stronger.
And when it really develops to the point where officials propose policies and implement them, then it doesn't matter who is sitting on the throne.
When the time comes, any changes within the royal family will have little impact on the situation in both the government and the public.
After hearing what Li Yuanji said, all the officials were stunned.
This is also the first time they have experienced this kind of thing, and it is also the first time they have heard a person in power asking them to achieve those goals within five years.
How many interests are hidden in these goals, who will benefit and who will lose, whether it will be beneficial to them, and whether it will be beneficial to the wealthy people behind them, they all have to analyze and consider carefully.
This is not something they can decide in a moment.
So they didn't know what to say for a while.
"Why, your ministers have no objection?"
When Li Yuanji saw that the officials were silent, he stared at them and asked.
After Xiao Yu hesitated for a while, he cupped his hands and said: "Your Highness, this matter is complicated. I need to think carefully and discuss it carefully before I can judge whether it is feasible."
When the other officials heard this, they all nodded and said: "Yes, yes, Mr. Xiao is right. I still need time to discuss it carefully."
Li Yuanji did not force anyone to do anything, he nodded and said: "Then I will give you three days, and you will give me a reply after three days."
All the officials breathed a sigh of relief and bowed in agreement: "No!"
Li Yuanji stood up slowly, put away his sleeves, and said lightly, "Retreat from the court."
After saying that, he took the lead to leave Tai Chi Hall.
After Li Yuanji left, the officials started discussing noisily.
Some are discussing the pros and cons, some want to follow the crowd and make profits, and some are analyzing what is harmful to the wealthy families behind them.
All in all, the officials wanted to understand all the questions raised by Li Yuanji within three days.
"Pei Gong, Xiao Yu and Shuda, how about we go to Zhongshu Province and sit down together?"
Li Gang felt that he was getting old and could no longer keep up with the young people, so he invited Pei Ju, Xiao Yu, and Chen Shuda to go to Zhongshu Provincial Department for detailed information.
Pei Ju, Xiao Yu, and Chen Shuda couldn't understand Li Yuanji's idea, and they needed to know more about it, so they agreed without thinking.
Several people rushed to Zhongshu Province together.
Li Shentong looked hot and wanted to find a few people for detailed information, but when he turned around, Shi Wanbao, Su Dingfang, Luo Shixin, Xie Shufang, Hou Junji and others left without looking back.
Li Shentong had no choice but to attack Shi Wanbao and others, so he could only attack his son-in-law.
"Uncle Fang, please stay and walk with me."
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