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Chapter 221: Policy Questions

It was early morning, but the streets were already full of traffic.

Because it won’t take long to open the exchange and many shops have already opened.

Li Chengqian went to buy steamed cakes again, and this time he divided half of Xue Rengui, and then started to curse: "Chen Zhengtai is very harmful. Gu must beat him, so that he can know Gu's power is great."

Xue Rengui just lowered his head and nibbled the steamed cakes.

At this moment, he missed his elder brother. At this moment, the young man's eyes suddenly turned red and almost bitter tears were about to fall.

So while he chewing the steamed cakes in his mouth like a voracious meal, he raised his face so that the tears in his eyes would not fall.

I remember how happy it was to follow my elder brother to eat delicious food and drink spicy food. Now he really wants to eat pork elbows, chickens, and sweet and sour pork ribs.

I dreamed of my eldest brother last night. My eldest brother killed three suckling pigs and roasted them on slow fire. I also added pepper and salt, which was hot and fragrant... Oh, and there was also old duck soup. The soup was cooked for at least one night, it was so fragrant!

My elder brother doesn’t need copper coins to buy things, and he throws out IOUs one by one, and doesn’t even have to find change. He is so cool and handsome.

"Hey hey... why are you stunned? Look at that person, look at that person, he is coming towards us, lower his head quickly, don't make a sound... Can't say... this person will throw a few copper coins..."

Li Chengqian's voice suddenly brought Xue Rengui back to reality.

Xue Rengui glanced at Li Chengqian with a look of contempt.

But Li Chengqian lowered his head without hesitation and muttered something.

Sure enough... a woman was carrying a basket, as if she was going out to buy it on the street, and then she took out two copper coins from her sleeve, and jingled it... the pleasant sound of copper coins came out.

The woman then turned around and left.

Xue Rengui hurriedly reached out to pick up the money.

Li Chengqian patted his hand: "You idiot, what do you know? Don't pick up the money and put it in front of us. Only then will other people follow the example after seeing the copper coins on the ground? Otherwise... who knows what we do?"

Xue Rengui: "..."

Li Chengqian raised his head, looked at the departing woman, and muttered in a low voice: "The woman has a string of Buddhist beads hanging on her hands. Have you seen it? It can be seen that she is a person who worships Buddha. Such a person has kind hearts. Look at her... her dress, it seems that she is not from a wealthy family, but... I think she is also a little wealthy family, and there is also..."

Xue Rengui was too lazy to listen to his analysis one by one, and said, "Your Highness, we should find a job."

Li Chengqian sat cross-legged on the ground, but at this moment he was calm and said sternly: "Sit down first, huh, look down, look down, see the man with a big belly, there is no one... He also has a string of Buddhist beads in his hand, and he just saw us, see us... He lowered his head, your face is too fair, and it makes people reveal it at a glance."

The man with a big belly and a poop merchant really walked to Li Chengqian and Xue Rengui, stopped for a while, and couldn't help but curse, "Ah, you don't learn anything well if you don't learn anything well." But he still took out a copper plate and threw it on the ground, and hurried away.

Xue Rengui: "..."

At this time, Li Chengqian was sitting down like an old monk, his eyes slightly closed, looking at all kinds of people passing by on the street, and trying hard to observe, suddenly he lowered his voice and said, "Oh, I really want to miss it. Let's go, we can't stay here."

Xue Rengui said lazily: "Your Highness finally got to work, and he is still looking for a job?"

Li Chengqian slapped his head and looked at him with contempt: "You have to use your brain, why are you the same as your elder brother? We shouldn't be here. Although there is a crowded place, I thought of a better place to go. Yesterday, when I was wandering around, I found a small Buddhist temple turned around a corner in front of the Buddhist temple. Let's sit in front of the Buddhist temple. The people entering and leaving the Buddhist temple are all pilgrims from the temple. Even if the crowd is not as popular as here, it is not as lively as here. However, there are more people who pay more than here. I am so smart. No wonder they have said since childhood that I have a peerless posture. Let's take a walk and clean up."

Seeing Li Chengqian walking proudly in front of him, Xue Rengui suddenly had a bad premonition.

At this time... he missed his elder brother even more.

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Chen Zhengtai, who was cursed by Li Chengqian many times and missed by Xue Rengui many times, is in the Zhan Shi Mansion, and he is now busy every day.

Now, the entire Zhan Shi Mansion has almost always looked at the future and Chen Zhengtai needs to make an idea.

For example, Chen Zhengtai felt that the seven guards were too difficult to talk about, so he changed it to seven guards and was too lazy to add prefixes to the front.

Although on the surface, the number of each guard is three thousand, in fact... the guards of the East Palace have always been dissatisfied.

One of the factors behind this is that if the prince’s guard is full, there will be too many people.

When Prince Li Jiancheng was present, the Supreme Emperor Li Yuan expanded the guards of the East Palace for the need for checks and balances. After that, Li Jiancheng was killed. Although these expanded guards were retained, the new owner of the Eastern Palace became Li Chengqian. But who dared to propose to recruit a full-time prince's guard?

Because of this, in fact, each guard only has 500 to 700 people. Even if the Erpigou Cavalry Guard is added, it is actually less than 3,000 people.

Of course, Chen Zhengtai would not go to Li Shimin to death, saying that he hoped to expand the seven guards.

Although Li Shimin still trusts the prince very much and has no intention of Yi Chu, this does not mean that when the emperor is still there, your prince still wants to control 20,000 or 30,000 elite soldiers in Chang'an.

But since you want to change, you have to look like you change.

Chen Zhengtai was determined to drive all the old and weak to the left and right Qing Daowei and left Siyu, and to organize all the potential officers and soldiers into the Cavalry Guard, the Prince's Left Guard and the Prince's Right Guard.

If there is not a large number of people, then just follow the direction of later military officers or non-commissioned officers. These more than 1,300 people can be trained to become backbones, practice with new methods, give them rich supplies, and test new tactics.

If there is nothing to do, these backbones can defend the Zhanshi Mansion. If there is something really going on in the future, they can also be quickly expanded with more than a thousand backbones.

In addition...there is also a need to reform the financial problems of the entire East Palace and the population registration issues of the Minshi Department.

There is no need to say about finance. In the Tang Dynasty... although there is a household registration system, this system is extremely imperfect. How to be meticulous in the future to ensure that all the taxi, farmers, industry and commerce can be mastered is also a headache.

While taking the time to take care of himself, Chen Zhengtai occasionally thinks about the prince.

He knew that the prince was a very stubborn person. Once he bet with him, he would never give up easily. However, Chen Zhengtai still felt that this guy would not last long. After all, he had been holding on to such a man who had been frugal and meat since childhood and had been held by everyone. He didn't know what hard work was, could he stand it?

But unexpectedly, after seven or eight days, the prince still did not come back, which surprised Chen Zhengtai!

There will definitely be no accident. With Xue Rengui, Chen Zhengtai is very relieved about Xue Rengui's martial arts value...

But at this time, someone came from the palace and invited the prince and Chen Zhengtai to meet.

As soon as he heard that he wanted to invite the prince... Chen Zhengtai was speechless.

At this moment, where did he go to find the prince?

He was calm, cleaned up and went straight into the palace.

It was seen that Li Shimin was sitting idle with Fang Xuanling, Changsun Wuji, Li Jing and others at this time.

When Li Shimin saw Chen Zhengtai coming, he smiled and said, "Why... the prince has not seen these days?"

Chen Zhengtai hurriedly said: "Mr. The prince is busy with everything he wants to do for the Zhan Shi Mansion. At this time... he happened to be not in the East Palace."

"A lot of money is done every day?" Li Shimin was a little disbelief.

He knew the prince's temperament and was a person who couldn't rest. If everyone said that Li Tai was busy with everything, Li Shimin believed it, but what about Li Chengqian...

But in front of others, Li Shimin still smiled: "Well... I just talked to several Qing families about this Zhan Shi Mansion, Fang Qing family..."

Only then did Chen Zhengtai notice Fang Xuanling carefully, and it seemed that he had new injuries on his face.

However, even though she had a lot of color on her face, Fang Xuanling could always look calm and calm when she collapsed in front of her.

He just smiled slightly and owed Li Shimin: "Yes, Chen Zhan, I heard that your Zhan Zhan Mansion... has caused a huge stir, so that all the officials in the court and the scholars in the world are talking about it, and it is very lively."

The story of Zhan Shi's Mansion has long been spreading outside.

Now no one knows that the prince is making a fuss, but given the attitude in the palace, many people speculate that this is the result of His Majesty's indulgence.

Thinking of Chen Zhengtai becoming a young secretary, and the original secretary Li Gang actually begged for old age to return home. At least in the eyes of many people, Li Gang was excluded by Chen Zhengtai, and Li Gong was a figure that many scholars admired, especially in Kanto and Jiangnan, where many people highly praised him.

Therefore... many people use the troubles of the Zhanshi Mansion to create public opinion and scold them.

Chen Zhengtai smiled and said, "This is all because of the filial piety of the prince. The prince hopes to share his worries for his mentor, so he does something in the Zhanshi Mansion."

Fang Xuanling thought that this was just a mess with the prince and Chen Zhengtai. What annoyed him was that many officials in the Zhanshi Mansion were also devoted to following Chen Zhengtai to do whatever he wanted. This inherent method in the world, which was unheard of for changing things like them.

Of course... Fang Xuanling is different from others. He is the prime minister and is cautious in everything, not as irrelevant as other ministers in the court.

Fang Xuanling thought to himself that Chen Zhengtai is a person who is unwilling to be lonely. Today... can be tested.

So he said slowly: "I and Your Majesty were discussing the matter in the desert just now. Chen Zhan came just in time. Your Majesty, I, and General Li Jing, want to hear your suggestions."

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