At this time, Pei Minqiu's voice came from the outer room, "You children, the elders have not chosen them yet, so you should pick them up first, okay! Everyone takes the same thing, don't disturb Sanniang's rest anymore."

With a burst of footsteps, the children were all gone. When Pei Minqiu stepped onto the curtain, she walked into the house. Seeing that Yang Yuanqing was a little frivolous with her holding the child, she couldn't help but shake her head and smiled, "So many children, can't you even hold the child?"

She stepped forward and pulled Yang Yuanqing's hand upwards, "Hold the child's head, his neck is tender and can't stand up."

"Of course I know, isn't it a cradle? It doesn't matter if you don't hold your head." Yang Yuanqing certainly wouldn't admit that he couldn't even hold his child.

"You!"

Pei Minqiu shook her head helplessly, "Forget it, go to the study outside! Prime Minister Du is here to wait for you."

Yang Yuanqing was stunned. Du Ruhui came, but he actually came so quickly.

"Yuanqing, give it to me!"

Jiang Peihua reached out to take the child, held his son in his arms, and smiled at Yang Yuanqing, "Go! Don't delay the serious business."

Yang Yuanqing nodded, "Okay! I'll see the child again tonight."

He turned around and went out. Pei Minqiu sat by the bed, gently stroked the child's little face, and asked casually: "What's going on in Fangxin? Why are you crying?"

Jiang Peihua bit her lip and sighed softly, "Sister, please let her move to Jinyang Palace!"

When women talk, they know a lot about many things. Pei Minqiu was silent for a long time and finally shook her head, "I can't make the decision on this matter, you should understand."

"Will there really be that day?"

Pei Minqiu smiled helplessly, "I don't know, this matter... can only take one step at a time!"

Although she is a princess, she can't make decisions about some things. After all, the world belongs to men.

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In the study outside, Du Ruhui walked back and forth slowly with his hands behind his back. He was very confused. He was a very simple person at heart. He didn't like to intrigue and just wanted to do things seriously.

In fact, he also hates factional disputes in the officialdom, but since Yang Yuanqing deliberately divided the Pei Party and the Wang Party, Du Ruhui knew that Yang Yuanqing liked to divide factions.

Of course, any superior likes to watch internal strife under his command. Yang Yuanqing is naturally unavoidable.

In just two years, seven or eight factions of all sizes appeared in the court, including Pei Dang, Wang Dang, Su Dang, Yang Dang, Fengzhou Dang, Hebei Dang, Dunhuang Dang, and Southern Dang. Among them, the royal party has disappeared, and only seven factions are left.

But this is too much, and factional interests have begun to affect some major decisions of the court. For example, the comprehensive inventory of grain in Yichuang was strongly resisted by the Hebei Group.

People are divided into groups, but in fact, the major factions of the Sui Dynasty were basically related to regions. The Pei Party was actually the Hedong Party, the Su Party was the Guanzhong Party, and the Yang Party was the Central Plains Party.

All factions have to consider their own interests. So sometimes, when Ziwei Pavilion votes, everyone often does not start from the overall situation, but considers their own faction interests.

Du Ruhui felt it was necessary to persuade Yang Yuanqing not to indulge factional struggles too much. He should also appropriately weaken the factional influence.

At this time, Yang Yuanqing walked in from outside and smiled and said, "Is the Prime Minister Du's eyes wide or the wind-like ears? It's less than an hour before you can get back, and you will know the news."

Du Ruhui quickly bowed and said, "I met General Cheng on the road, so I knew that Your Highness was back."

"I think only his quick-mouthed woman can say it."

Yang Yuanqing laughed and cursed, waved his hand and said, "Since you are here, it's not easy to drive you away, so I have to meet you. Please sit down!"

Du Ruhui knew that Yang Yuanqing was jokingly casually, so he didn't take it seriously. He smiled and sat down, took out a booklet from his arms, and handed it to Yang Yuanqing, "This is a reconsideration of the Yichuang system by Beizhi. Your Highness, take a look!"

Yang Yuanqing took the booklet and saw that he had written tens of thousands of words in a dense manner, so he put the booklet aside and said, "I'm too lazy to read it now. Tell me about the main content of the restructuring!"

Du Ruhui thought for a while and said, "In fact, it is mainly to change the current county-owned charity warehouse to the direct management of the imperial court. In order to facilitate transportation, five or six counties can set up a general warehouse, and the grain of the charity warehouse is stored in the general warehouse. The general warehouse only manages the county's account, how much does that county give, and the county manages the detailed account, Zhang San Li Si each has how much grain. In this way, the physical objects and the account books can be separated, so that local governments can prevent private corruption of the grain of the charity warehouse."

Yang Yuanqing was very interested in Du Ruhui's plan, which means that the actual accounts were separated. It was a good idea to manage the accounting and the property, and the property was not in charge of the account.

He pondered for a moment and said, "But how can we guard against the corruption of local governments during the distribution process? For example, if Zhang San dies, his grain in his charity warehouse becomes a dead account. The local government knows it, but the general warehousing does not know. After the local government takes it out, it takes it for itself. Of course, this situation is relatively small. The key is to grasp the loss. The grain will be moldy and rotten. It is impossible to hand it over five stones when it is distributed in three years. There will be losses in between, and local officials will most likely use this loss to make profits."

Du Ruhui thought for a while and said, "Otherwise, the local governments would not be allowed to manage the grain of charity warehouses. All of them were handled by special grain warehouses. Each county had one, which belonged to the court, and the money and grain of charity were also managed together."

Yang Yuanqing still shook his head, "This way the official agency will be too bloated and complicated, and the burden on the court will increase. Actually, what I mean is that grain in the charity warehouse is the business of the people. If you ask for the government, don't interfere. Let the people take care of it themselves. Encourage powerful folk restaurants to keep money and grain for farmers for a fee. The restaurants are profitable, and farmers will also deposit and withdraw. They are willing and save us a lot of trouble."

"But...what if these residences take away farmers' money and food?"

"So the government needs to manage the living store, not just one living store can be made. The living store must be registered with the Ministry of Revenue, with sufficient scale and funds, and can open branches in various places, so that they can run away from the monks and cannot run away from the temple."

"But I'm afraid that farmers will not store it in the residence. Wouldn't it be better to store it in their own home?"

"This is not possible. Just like the current charity warehouse regulations, it must be stored. If farmers do not store them, the court will not provide any relief during the disaster year, but which one is the choice of the farmers."

Although Du Ruhui didn't quite understand what the bank was in later generations, he still felt that this method was not reliable from Yang Yuanqing's statement.

After all, merchants are not officials, and there is no official pressure, and some powerful people will take the opportunity to make profits from it. Farmers would rather store their own food than hand over the grain to the merchants for storage. Yang Yuanqing still thought things simple.

But he didn't want to object immediately. Maybe Yang Yuanqing thought about it himself and felt it was unreliable. Du Ruhui said tactfully: "Let Beizhi think about it again on this matter!"

Yang Yuanqing also keenly noticed Du Ruhui's perfunctory emotions. Of course, perhaps his statement was too simple and he could not understand, so he had to make a long-term plan for this matter.

"Okay! There is no hurry to do this. Let's check the current grain of the charity warehouse first. It's back two years ago. As long as farmers handed over the grain to the charity warehouse, the court must admit it. Even Dou Jiande did not touch the grain of the charity warehouse, so we can't rely on this account."

"I understand, I will definitely handle it."

Du Ruhui hesitated for a moment and said, "There is something wrong with Your Highness executing the county magistrate and the magistrate in Fangzi County."

Yang Yuanqing saw that Du Ruhui's expression was very unnatural, so he asked, "Is there something wrong?"

Du Ruhui sighed, "Your Highness violated the system, which has caused dissatisfaction among many important officials. Now there are three prime ministers in Ziwei Pavilion to resign."

"What?" Yang Yuanqing was stunned for a moment.

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Du Ruhui said goodbye and left. Yang Yuanqing stood in front of the window with his hands behind his back. He pondered for a long time and said nothing. There were actually three prime ministers who wanted to resign, which really made him unexpected.

Just because he killed a corrupt official who embezzled 6,000 stones of food, Yang Yuanqing felt anger in his heart without the consent of Ziwei Pavilion. If Yang Guang killed someone, would they dare to do this?

Can my tolerance be exchanged for their disrespect and their contempt for their power?

After a long time, Yang Yuanqing restrained the anger in his heart and forced himself to calm down. He also knew that the resignation of Yang Shidao, Lu and Cui was not the same thing.

Yang Shidao may really want to defend the power of the prime minister, but Lu and Cui are not. Lu Yu and Cui Hongyuan have other ideas. They are using their resignation to put pressure on themselves.

Everything has its pros and cons, and it is impossible to have only advantages. When appointing two famous families in Hebei, the heads of the Lu family of Fanyang and Cui family of Boling are prime ministers. There are also advantages and disadvantages. It has a huge promoting effect on quickly controlling Hebei and making Hebei fully recognize the New Sui Dynasty.

It was because the Sui Dynasty could not control Hebei that when Yang Liang rebelled, the various counties in Hebei took advantage of the situation, which led to the rise of the Hebei rebellion after the Battle of Goryeo. The fundamental reason was that the Sui Dynasty did not receive the support of the famous Hebei family.

In history, the biggest obstacle to the Tang Dynasty's unification battle also came from Hebei, so Li Yuan wanted to kill all the people of Hebei, but in the end the Tang Dynasty was unable to truly control Hebei.

A large number of Hebei people are descendants of the military households in the six towns. They have the brave and fierce god left by their ancestors who dared to rebel. It is precisely this way that the Anshi Rebellion broke out in Youzhou.

Yang Yuanqing knew very well that the importance of Hebei was not only now, but also for his descendants of Yang Yuanqing. The famous Yanzhao family is one of many forces in Hebei and is also an entry point for him to control Hebei. This is the fundamental reason why he reuses the Hebei family.

However, the emphasis on using famous families will also have disadvantages, that is, the rise of family interests. The Lu family of Fanyang and Cui family of Boling, their subordinates are spread throughout the officialdom of Hebei, forming two major family interest groups, and the two major families joined forces to form a Hebei faction.

He killed the county magistrate and magistrate in Fangzi County for the grain of Yicang. This was a complaint against the Hebei bureaucrats, and it also made them alert, which triggered the resignation of Lu Cui. They were actually threatening themselves in disguise and not allowed to clean up the Hebei officialdom by themselves.

Just as Su Wei looked at the problem thoroughly, the charity grain case was actually just an introduction, and it was just the entry point used by Yang Yuanqing to clean up the officialdom in Hebei.

Just one move that touched the whole body. Yang Yuanqing's killing of officials in Fangzi County not only disrupted the muddy waters in the Hebei officialdom, but also caused dissatisfaction with Yang Shidao, who maintained the power of the prime minister, and the whole situation became chaotic.

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Chapter completed!