In the court, Wei Cen, the Minister of Justice, and Han Xizai, the Minister of Personnel, quarreled about giving Su Chen a special internship position to "Walking on the Six Ministry".

Wei Cen seized the connection between the new top scorer and the "national destiny" and mocked Han Xi for exaggerating the truth. This was to praise Su Chen. The national destiny of the dignified Tang Dynasty was related to the royal family and ministers. He looked down on him too much with a new top scorer.

"Every imperial examination, there are top scholars. Not only the Tang Dynasty, but other vassal states also have top scholars. However, the development of a court and the national fortunes are not something that can be controlled by those top scholars, and even the role they play is extremely limited.

Lord Han, I have always known that you have the kindness of knowing Su Chen, and you will take him as a disciple, value him, and even more so, your own son, but even so, you will be too hasty to push yourself to the top, pursue your career, and use your own private life."

Wei Cen sneered repeatedly, directly criticizing Han Xizai in front of civil and military ministers in the court, feeling very angry.

The people of the Song Party discussed it one after another, refuted and rebuked it, and disagreed with this exception.

Han Xizai looked at these Song Party people coldly and said, "I am not evading relatives. In fact, you can know Su Chen's talent. First, his poems are comparable to those of the literary masters of the previous dynasty. This is rare in the world.

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"Secondly, he was proficient in investigating things and made new items such as blue and white porcelain and soap for the Bai family in Runzhou, which could increase the income of the court, enrich the national treasury, and enrich the people. Thirdly, he was proficient in medical skills and had a variety of prescriptions and treatments in his hand.

The disease has a new method, and it has cured the smallpox plague and alleviated the plague crisis in the Tang Dynasty. These have never been seen in previous top scholars. Isn’t it worthy of the imperial court’s exceptional training, and is it not conservative and valuing talents?"

Han Xizai listed several specialties of Su Chen, which made the Song Party members speechless. These talents were indeed indisputable.

"I agree with Lord Han's proposal."

"I'm going to discuss it!"

Xu Xuan, Zhong Mo, and Gao Yue officials from the Sun Party stood up one after another to support them, and even Pan You and others from the New Party supported them.

In terms of momentum and number of people, Han Xizai's side gained the upper hand.

Li Yu followed the water and approved: "Before Su Chen was awarded the exam, he did do several major events that were made contributions to the court and the royal family. Since he was a special talent, he should also be trained in special training. Lord Han suggested that Su Chen enter the Hanlin Academy to serve as a revisionist.

In addition to writing, you can go to the six ministries to rotate and serve for a period of time. The ministers of each ministries must teach and solve the doubts. In the future, the development of the Tang Kingdom will still require more tests for young people to hold on."

Li Yu made the final decision and made the matter clear.

"Thank you, Lord, Longyou!" Su Chen stood up and thanked you, and everyone's eyes fell on him.

Some are appreciated, some are jealous, some are hated and disgusted.

It has to be said that Su Chen has been too popular these days and has completely affected the friendship disputes in the Southern Tang court.

The Song Party, the Sun Party, the New Party, and the three parties are in conflict and competition, cooperation and game, but now it is becoming increasingly incandescent because of Su Chen's fuse.

Among the three parties, because the Song Party and Sun Party were both from the north twenty or thirty years ago, most of the northern scholars and officials who fled from the north and defected to Jiangdong. Because of the political disagreement, they were divided into two factions and argued for decades.

But today, the Tang Kingdom was cut off from the north for a long time, and the north gradually stabilized. The talented men from the north no longer went south, resulting in the two parties being unable to succeed. They could only draw some local scholars and Jinshi to join and act as disciples every year to maintain the supplementary blood of this party.

Because the New Party is a scholar south of the Yangtze River, it is somewhat resistant to the scholars in the north. Therefore, it formed the New Party of Southern Tang, advocating reform and self-rescue. In the past, the Song Party planned to win over the New Party, but in politics, the Song Party was a conservative party after all.

The Party tends to change and strengthen itself, so the New Party gradually approaches the Sun Party.

Now with Su Chen's sudden appearance, he has performed well. Ministers such as Pan You, Li Ping, Xu You, Yin Chongyi, Chen Qiao, and Zhang Shi are optimistic about Su Chen, so they have got closer to the Sun Party.

"The first day I went to court, it triggered a three-party quarrel. The limelight was a bit too silly. It had to be low-key. If it was too high-profile, it would be easy to get into trouble. The wood was so beautiful that it would be destroyed by the wind in the forest!" Su Chen thought in his heart.

Moreover, Su Chen has read a book on officialdom, which says: Since ancient times, emperors have not liked ministers with good reputation. This will not only give you the ability to rebel with one's response. In addition, the glorious image of a minister

It often highlights the humility of the monarch. Therefore, any minister who knows how to deal with people will leave a good reputation to his leaders, make some stains and shortcomings, so that the monarch can feel at ease.

Su Chen thought that he would also make a fool of himself, such as "greed for money and lust" and you can explore the two points.

He retreated back to his hall and continued to listen to the court meeting.

Next, the real government is here.

For example, Han Xizai proposed that the small Western Shu army had less than 200,000 troops, which blocked the attacks between the north and south of the Song State, causing heavy losses to the main force of the Song State. It can be seen that the Song army is not terrible. The Tang State should actively prepare for war and develop naval troops.

Beware of the Song army's obstruction.

Although the proposal was correct, it involved military power, expansion of the army, and increased food and grass, and people from the Privy Council, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Revenue started to argue again.

You should know that in ancient wars, before the troops moved, food and grass took the lead, and the food and grass needed for the frontline war was astronomical. If a soldier was a kilogram of rice per day, then the 150,000 army would consume 150,000 kilograms per day, about 1,000 kilograms per day, about 1,000 kilograms per day, about 1,000 kilograms per day,

Two hundred stones, in one month, it is 36,000 stones of rice. In a year, it is 450,000 stones of grain.

Then additional military pay, military armor and other additional provisions require huge treasury support.

Gao Yue, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue, stood up and said worriedly: "The court has paid tribute for years and the national treasury is empty. General Lin Renzhao, the governor of Zhenhai, proposed to expand the navy and recruit another 50,000 soldiers, which requires too much food, grass, military pay, armor and ships,

With the current storage of the treasury, we need to think of ways to solve the problem of tax and treasury emptiness in order to gradually fill the military pay and food."

All parties discussed the issue of the treasury, but at most they increased taxes, such as bridge tax, farming tax, population tax, etc., and collected from the people of the southern Tang Dynasty in various prefectures.

Su Chen frowned. Historical records show that the taxes were extremely high in the late Southern Tang Dynasty, and even the hen lay eggs and willows bloomed, all of which were taxed, which crushed the people of the Southern Tang Dynasty, making it worse and made life difficult.

However, those wealthy businessmen, gentry, and nobles own a lot of land, but because of their special identities and relationships with officials and businessmen, they pay very little taxes.
Chapter completed!