After traveling through time, I was spotted by the new emperor

Chapter 308: Major Changes in Court Officials

After Nanling was captured, only the Yuwen clan was left to defend the forests in the western part of Nancheng. It was only a matter of time before the Yuwen clan was exterminated.

At this time, Zhuang Taifu submitted his resignation and resigned from his post:

As he grows older, he begs Your Majesty to allow him to resign from his position as Grand Tutor and return to Ledu to retire.

Qi Wushuang didn't play the trick of first refusing, then persuading, and then agreeing with Master Zhuang, but agreed on the spot.

Not only that, Qi Wushuang also said on the spot:

Considering that Taifu Zhuang was old, the emperor specially allowed his son Zhuang Jiaxu to resign from his position in the court and return to Ledu to support Taifu Zhuang.

Even though Zhuang Jiaxu was not very capable, he could at least serve as an eye and ear and a symbol in the court. Unexpectedly, Qi Wushuang did not even give Zhuang Taifu the last bit of face.

After Qi Wushuang said this, Master Zhuang almost fainted in the Taiji Hall.

However, General Qi had stopped attending court meetings several months ago and only retained the honorary position of General.

At this time, the noble families and aristocrats of the Qi Dynasty were deeply aware that:

The power of the Qi Dynasty will be reshuffled again!

Of the four former aristocratic families, Qi, Zhuang, Yuwen, and Chu, the Yuwen family is about to be destroyed, and the Zhuang family's power has been greatly reduced, leaving only the Qi and Chu families.

The Qi family is Qi Wushuang's paternal family, and the Chu family is Qi Wushuang's maternal family, but the current core figures of the two families, Qi Guangren, Qi Yushen and Chu Fuchi, all obey Qi Wushuang's orders.

They were more likely to obey the emperor's orders rather than put the interests of their clan first.

Even the Shui family had already joined Qi Wushuang.

However, Qi Wushuang had no intention of supporting a new aristocratic family. Instead, he opened an imperial examination to select talents from the common people.

At this point, no one can shake Qi Wushuang's throne!

The Yuwen faction family, which had previously sought peace with the court, finally gave up the desire to wait and see.

If they still did not know what was good for them and did not hand over the land and silver as required by the court, what awaited them might be the confiscation of property and exile of their entire clan.

Not only did they hand over the remaining silver and land, but some officials also submitted their resignations.

Qi Wushuang approved all the officials from the Yuwen faction who requested to resign without exception.

Now, those officials of the Yuwen faction who did not request to resign were also forced to submit their resignations.

Qi Wushuang also agreed with all of them.

Seeing this, some officials from Master Zhuang's faction also submitted their resignations.

This time, Qi Wushuang did not approve.

In this way, everyone understood what Qi Wushuang meant:

The Yuwen clan was guilty of treason, so the officials and noble families who had previously defected to them naturally could not be forgiven easily.

But Grand Tutor Zhuang was just forming a clique and abusing his power for personal gain, so Qi Wushuang naturally had no need to kill all of the Zhuang family.

But it is also because the court does not have so many available people.

Nowadays, the imperial court has left many official positions vacant simply by purging officials from the Yuwen faction, and some officials are forced to hold two positions at the same time.

If more officials from Master Zhuang's faction were dismissed, half of the court would be empty, and even Chu Fuchi and his men would be unable to handle the situation even if they had three heads and six arms.

This major reshuffle of court officials involved not only officials in Chamdo, but also local officials.

such as:

After the imperial court recaptured Fengdu, the new Fengdu governor and related Fengdu officials were sent by the imperial court and were no longer officials of the Yuwen family.

After Grand Tutor Yuwen took the Governor of Nancheng and hid in the mountains to the west of Nancheng, Qi Kangping asked one of his generals to temporarily take over the post of Governor of Nancheng and garrison in Nancheng with part of the imperial army.

Once the South City is completely recovered, the court will appoint new officials for the South City.

The governor of Qingcheng was the next head of a middle-class family being trained. This middle-class family had previously been affiliated with the Yuwen clan, but was dismissed in this change.

After this major official change, Ye Wuwei finally breathed a sigh of relief:

From now on, the court will no longer encounter obstacles and inability to implement new policies as before.

Then it would not be so difficult to implement the equal-field system and tax system reform across the country.

With the land and fines handed over by the Yuwen faction families to fill the national treasury, the court's finances were finally not so tight.

We can do more to benefit people’s livelihood.

It’s a pity that when the Yuwen clan withdrew from Fengdu, they took away all the gold in the treasury and failed to generate any more income for the court.

As for why Ye Wuwei breathed a sigh of relief?

That's because Qi Wushuang's mind is mostly on Ye Wuwei, and his interest and concern in state affairs are far less than Ye Wuwei's.

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