[Three idiots make a big fuss at the Military Aircraft Department]
There was no military aircraft department at that time, so it was just for rhyme and word count, so it should be "Zhongshu".
The three prime ministers Feng Dao, Liu Yu, and Li Yu reached a consensus on the issue of welcoming Li Congke. Among them, Liu Yu and Li Yu were more moderate and conservative, while Feng Dao was the most radical. Although the three have minor differences in procedures, their political stances are consistent and they are all "people who understand current affairs."
How would Li Congke treat the senior intellectuals who supported him?
Answer: Ask them out politely, politely, and respectfully.
Because they are in a phase, they occupy huge power resources, and their own strength is minimal. If he hadn't woken up to his crime early, he would have become the same as the "Rocket Sect" and become a ghost under the knife. Li Congke was already very polite to them.
Among the three, Feng Dao, who supported Li Congke the most actively, was the first to be released. In the second month after Li Congke ascended the throne, he was released as the governor of the Kuangguo Army in Tongzhou and retained the title of prime minister.
Liu Yu and Li Yu were left. They often quarreled and quarreled. For example, in order to sarcastically mock Liu Yu, Li Yu often reviewed Feng Dao's previous mistakes. For this reason, he also introduced the term "in-laws" into the folk. The two of them often quarreled over trivial matters, which affected their normal work. They also approached the emperor for comment and asked the emperor to help mediate the dispute. Li Congke felt that the emperor was not the aunt of the neighborhood committee.
What is even more unbelievable is that the two sometimes got into arguments and exchanged obscenities and obscene remarks at each other in the office. Historical records record that they "criticized each other in the political hall and their words were very despicable." A majestic prime minister of the empire, full of knowledge and knowledge of all classics and histories, yet he is so vulgar when he scolds people...
Why do the two prime ministers dare to do this? Of course they did not take the emperor seriously, and they used practical actions to make their attitude clear to Li Congke: You are not the one!
Li Congke was furious and dismissed the two men. One was left to shoot, and the other was left to shoot. "Pu She" had different political statuses in different periods. At first, he was equal to the prime minister. Later, his authority continued to decline. By the end of the Tang Dynasty, it was basically equivalent to an "honorary title". He no longer had any authority and was equivalent to enjoying prime minister-level treatment. "retreat".
As is customary, retired senior officials will be accompanied by their colleagues and subordinates all the way home to express the memory and respect of their colleagues. When Liu Yu returned home, no one came to see him off.
It was mid-October of the lunar calendar, the streets of Luoyang in early winter were cold and windy, and there was only a lonely old man walking dejectedly on the empty streets.
The poor live in the busy city and no one cares about them; the rich live in the mountains and have distant relatives. Liu Xuan tasted what it means to be warm and cold in the world, and the world is cold and cold.
According to historical records, when the news came that Liu Yu was dismissed from office, his colleagues cheered excitedly and celebrated, saying: "We are happy this time!"
What did Liu Yu do to make his popularity in the workplace so bad? He just did what he was supposed to do, strictly enforced the law, and uncovered a large number of corrupt elements and worms in the empire.
In order to solve the problem of lack of money, Li Congke asked Liu Yu to be in charge of the empire's finances (the third division). Liu Yu is worthy of being the leading editor of "Old Book of Tang Dynasty". He is strict, conscientious, thoughtful and meticulous in his work. He never misses any doubts. As soon as he took office, he discovered major criminal facts involving deception, corruption and bending of the law by relevant departments:
The tax authorities used old accounts to extort money, and people paid taxes but did not cancel the accounts and collected taxes repeatedly. The taxes collected are not included in the national treasury, but flow into the private pockets of officials. The common people have doubled their taxes, but the court is still burdened by old debts, which has suffered for the people, harmed the country, and enriched corrupt officials.
Liu Yu immediately reported this shocking discovery to Li Congke.
Li Congke’s appeal is very simple. I don’t care about corruption and perversion of the law. I don’t care about malpractice for personal gain. If you dare to touch my money bag, you can’t! In addition to pursuing the stolen goods and accountability in accordance with the law, an edict was issued: all the taxes owed by the people before last year (933) will be written off!
The people rejoiced, sang and danced, but the officials of the Third Division hated Liu Xuan with gnashing of teeth.
Ouyang Xiu didn't think highly of Feng Dao and Li Yu. Especially Li Yu, during the Ming Dynasty, he "used his pedantry and broad-mindedness without using it"; when Li Conghou was governing the country, he wanted to take the "civilian route" and rely on Li Yu, an upright and eloquent "public intellectual" to rejuvenate the country. Asked something." After Li Congke came to the throne, Li Yu directly nicknamed him - "Porridge and rice monk", "which means that he is full all day long but has no intention." In a word, he can't do anything. He is the first to make rice and make excrement. machine.
Being evaluated by the emperor in this way, Li Yu suffered an unbearable blow at his age. Less than a year after he was dismissed as prime minister, he died of illness due to ineffective treatment.
Feng Dao, Liu Yu, and Li Yu are actually "honest people." Unlike previous civil servants, they have no involvement with local vassals, eunuch forces, harem forces, etc., and they do not have any party members in the court, so it is not possible to remove them. Given any resistance, Li Congke could easily exclude them from core power.
It is precisely because of this that they will not be subjected to bloody purges and can die a good death. Especially Feng Dao, he is an unprecedented legendary figure in Chinese history. He went through the Later Tang, Later Jin, Later Han, and Later Zhou dynasties, and assisted ten emperors from Li Cunxu to Chai Rong. His story will be scattered in the following chapters.
During Li Congke's period, Feng Dao and Liu Yu were ostracized, and many funny stories were left behind.
For example, after Liu Yu was dismissed as a servant, when he went to court, it rained heavily, and all the officials moved to the corridor to take shelter from the rain. Liu Yu discovered an embarrassing problem: no one knew about "Pu She" Specific class. Under the constraints of the feudal etiquette system, hundreds of officials have different regulations when entering the court, leaving the court, standing in class, and other occasions. According to the order of rank, grade, title, etc., who is the "Pu She"? ?
Liu Xuan didn't know. After asking around, no one knew. Wherever you like.
And when he asked this, Feng Dao on the side was also confused, because at that time Feng Dao only retained the title of "Sikong". Sikong was ranked among the three nobles, extremely noble, but... it was only an honorary title.
The two of them were completely isolated and marginalized, and there was no seat for you in the company meeting.
Feng Dao didn't dare to make any mistakes, so he just waited for other officials to enter and then followed them. Liu Yu, on the other hand, followed Feng Dao obediently. All the officials covered their mouths and snickered.
It’s awkward when going in and out, and even more awkward when going into meetings. Because they had no part in talking at all, they just listened to other people's work reports and listened to the emperor's work instructions, and all of this had nothing to do with them. So from then on, Feng Dao simply stopped going to court.
In the history of the Five Dynasties, the etiquette system declined, and some departments did not even know what "Sikong" was. The new prime minister Lu Wenji vaguely remembered that one of the jobs of "Sikong" was to clean the floor during sacrifices, so he arranged for Feng Dao to be responsible for sweeping the floor during sacrifices. The most noble "Three Gongs" in the feudal period actually became the cleaning aunt...
Although the ministers didn't know what the problem was, they always felt something strange.
After Feng Dao heard about it, he smiled calmly and said there was nothing inappropriate. Sikong was responsible for the cleaning work during the ceremony, so I took over. From then on, a cleaning lady with the highest level was born in Chinese history, who became the ancestor of cleaning aunties.
