Qian Zuili, like many officials in the Tang Dynasty, was a scholar who failed the exams many times. Of course, this person was slightly better than Liu Bagou and the others. Like Ma Wei, he was also a scholar.
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Most of the officials in the Tang Dynasty, including Liu Bagou, did not have the title of minor scholar, and many of them had not even passed the county examination.
Compared with them, Qian Zuili was considered a young genius in his early years!
At the age of fourteen, he came from a peasant family and took part in the imperial examination for the first time. He passed the county examination, the government examination, and the hospital examination in succession. He won the title of student member and became a seed candidate in the imperial examination in the eyes of outsiders!
At that time, many people believed that it would not take long for him to pass the imperial examination, then pass the Jinshi examination, and finally become a Jinshi officer respected by everyone!
However, he failed the first provincial examination after passing the examination as a scholar. However, even though he failed, many people still thought highly of him. The Fang family, a scholarly family in Zhengtai County, even married his eldest daughter to him, thinking that he
You will definitely pass the college exam next time and win the title of Juren!
It was a pity that three years later he took part in the provincial examination for the second time, but still failed. By this time, in his twenties, he was no longer a young genius, but an ordinary member of the many talented people who wanted to gain fame.
After waiting for the imperial examination, he lingered in brothels and boats all day long, leaving behind many poems that were widely praised in the public. His achievements in poetry made him quite famous in the literary circles of Zhengtai County.
Three years later, he did not take the exam because he had to pay filial piety after losing his father. He planned to take the exam again a few years later, but a serious illness prevented him from getting out of bed at all!
After many years of wasted time, when he took the provincial examination for the third time, he was already a middle-aged scholar in his thirties. The result was very sad, and he still failed!
The name of the young genius has long been thrown into the corner!
On the eve of the rise of the Tang Dynasty, he took the last provincial examination in his life. This time he failed the exam, which was equally tragic. After returning to Zhengtai County with great disappointment, it happened that the Tang Dynasty swept across Zhengtai County.
At this time, Qian Zuo felt that his life was extremely bleak. After witnessing the Tang Dynasty's royal division defeating the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers several times, and even defeating the Fucheng officers and soldiers in the first battle of Lanjiang, he gritted his teeth and said,
Stamping your foot means you have surrendered to the thief!
Relying on his initiative and high academic qualifications as a scholar, as well as his reputation in the literary world of Zhengtai County, the Tang Dynasty showed great sincerity when he first came to submit, starting as a fifth-grade member of the Grain Recruitment Department.
Wailang!
And this Qian Zuili's ability was indeed good. He carved his way among the many scholars who defected to the Tang Dynasty. Soon after, he began to serve as a doctor in the grain collection department, with a rank of fifth grade.
While serving as a doctor in the Grain Collection Department, he took the lead in establishing the tax inspection team and made great contributions to the tax collection work of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, he was quickly promoted to the right minister of the tax department.
Together with Yang Duwei and Yang Xiucai, who was the left minister of the tax department at the time, they were responsible for the affairs of the tax department. Later, due to Li Xuan's busy schedule and the various rules and regulations of the tax department, Li Xuan was not in charge of tax affairs personally.
From this, Yang Xiucai became the Minister of Taxation, and Qian Zuoli also naturally changed from the Right Minister to the Left Minister, becoming the second-in-command of the Taxation Department of the Tang Dynasty.
As the second-in-command of the Taxation Department of the Tang Dynasty, he was still in charge of the Grain Collection Department, the most important department of the Taxation Department.
The Grain Collection Department can bypass the Commercial Tax Department, Agricultural Tax Department, Salt and Tea Department and other departments that directly collect taxes and become the most important department in the Ministry of Taxation. This is not because the Grain Collection Department has great power and can collect taxes extensively, but because the Grain Collection Department
There is a tax inspection team under his command that is responsible for combating tax evasion.
When other departments of the tax department collect taxes, they inevitably need the assistance and assistance of the Grain Collection Department.
As a rising star in the political arena of the Tang Dynasty, along with Ma Wei and Sun Yawei, Qian Zuili was naturally not the real person. After receiving the notification from the palace at noon, he had already roughly guessed it.
Why does Your Majesty want to see him?
It’s nothing more than a matter for the tax inspection team!
But he still couldn't guess whether His Majesty agreed or disagreed with the tax inspection team!
Qian Zuili didn't just come up with the matter of establishing a tax inspection team just because he was hot-headed. He had considered it in detail before making the decision, and even discussed it secretly with several other major high-level officials in the cabinet.
Yes, and they have their support.
Liu Bagou, a bachelor of the Zhongji Palace, concurrently serves as the Minister of Household Affairs, Qian Mengjiu, a bachelor of the Jianji Palace, concurrently serves as the Minister of the Ministry of War, and Wang Wenhua, a bachelor of the Wenhua Palace, concurrently serves as the Minister of Agriculture. These are the only three bachelors in the Tang Dynasty.
, who was also the highest-ranking civil servant in the Tang Dynasty, almost unanimously expressed his support for Qian Zuili's plan!
The support of three important cabinet ministers also gave him the confidence to submit to this memorial. Otherwise, he would really not dare to submit to this memorial. It was not because he was afraid of Li Xuan's refutation, but because he was afraid that the crude warriors in the military would kill him with swords.
In front of his house.
As an official, the most basic political sense is a must. He is very aware that the tax inspection team he created involves extremely sensitive issues of military power.
But why is he still doing it, and why are civil servants like Liu Bagou almost unanimously supporting him?
This is because the cabinet does not have the power to mobilize the military at all. Even for the auxiliary military force such as the Pirate Camp, which is under the dual leadership of the cabinet and the military, the power to mobilize is still in the hands of the military.
This made a group of senior civil servants in the Tang Dynasty feel so embarrassed!
Look at the Ming Dynasty and how majestic its civil servants were. I won’t go into details that are too far away. Let’s talk about the Ming Dynasty officials who were defeated by the Tang Dynasty king, such as Su Jiakang, the magistrate of Zhengtai County, and Xingquan Prefecture.
Song Zhiwen, the prefect, and Zhu Zhihai, the governor of Guizhou, were both civil servants, but each of them held military power.
Killing a general is like killing a chicken!
However, in the Tang Dynasty, the civil servants in the cabinet worked tirelessly to help the military, and then all the credit for conquering cities and territories was taken by the generals on the military side.
It is impossible to be willing to do this!
Not willing to give in, this is an important motive that led the cabinet to try to encroach on military power!
Besides, they also considered for the emperor Li Xuan. As the military generals expanded in size, their power became more and more powerful, so they definitely needed to be checked and balanced.
Merely capturing the pirate camp is not enough, there must be another force to contain the army!
The Tax Inspection Corps is used to contain the military!
It's a pity that they don't know that Li Xuan already has a plan to rebuild the Guards!
After entering Li Xuan's office, the first thing Qian Zili saw was Li Xuan sitting behind the desk!
In his eyes, Li Xuan is very young. If you only look at his appearance, he is actually just a young man with no hair. But the reality is that this young man is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. It was he who single-handedly carried the original
Hundreds of mountain people have developed all the way to today's grand situation of supporting tens of thousands of troops and governing millions of people.
As one of the senior officials of the Tang Dynasty, he also knew a lot about the dark history of the Tang Dynasty. He knew very well that the Tang Dynasty created by the late emperor Li Er was just a play dynasty.
It can even be said that it was reborn in the hands of this young man who inherited a great treasure from the rebel army.
The various systems of the Tang Dynasty and the development of the army were all the work of the young emperor in front of him. Others were just picking up omissions and filling in omissions.
Such a young man cannot be ignored by anyone who meets him.
In fact, Li Xuan is indeed very young. He is only seventeen years old this year. In later generations, this is the age of a middle school student. But no one knows that in this young body lives a twenty-year-old from later generations.
A mature soul of many years.
"I bow to the emperor, long live my emperor!" After entering, Qian Zuoli naturally saluted immediately.
"Qian Aiqing is here, get up." Li Xuan raised his hand slightly to ask him to get up, and then he himself picked up the memorial presented by Qian Aiqing before!
"This is the folding book you sent me today. I've read it!" He said and handed the folding book forward.
Qian Zuili hurriedly took two steps forward and took the folder. However, when he looked through it and saw Li Xuan's comments, his face froze.
Before he could speak, Li Xuan spoke again: "There is no need to mention this matter in the future, but that's not why I came to you today!"
Qian Zuili heard that Li Xuan personally vetoed it and said that it would not be mentioned again in the future, because he knew that the cabinet wanted to get involved in the military power, and there was probably no hope.
But they didn't dare to say anything to argue. Facts have proved that their young emperor is more independent than they thought, and often the things he decides cannot be changed by others.
Otherwise, Li Xuan led his army to conquer many times in the past. Every time, many people opposed it, but the opposition was of no use.
My Majesty's character is, to put it nicely, resolute and self-assertive, but to put it worse, he is headstrong and does not listen well to other people's objections!
Therefore, at this time, he had already forgotten the matter of the Tax Inspection Corps. First, he wanted to hear why his Majesty came to him.
He immediately said: "I wonder what your Majesty has to do with me. No matter what it is, I will do everything possible to handle it!"
Li Xuandao: "The tax inspection team has been very effective in their work in recent times. I don't care about it at all, but recently there have been many reports of impeachment against your tax inspection team. You must be aware of these, right?"
Suddenly hearing Li Xuan say that someone was impeaching the tax inspection team, Qian Zili was a little confused. In order to cooperate with the tax officials in collecting taxes, the tax inspection team acted a little abnormally. Everyone knows this. Many people outside are concerned about this.
He also knew that he was dissatisfied. Not only did he know it, but even the entire high-level officials of the Tang Dynasty knew it.
But no one was dissatisfied with the work of the tax inspection team!
His Majesty suddenly mentioned this matter today. Could it be that he is dissatisfied with the tax inspection team?