Mao Shi,
Chang'an City,
Daxing Hall.
"If you have something to do, go ahead, but if there's nothing to do, leave the court!"
Accompanied by the great eunuch Tokugawa's voice, Li Shimin unknowingly changed his sitting position, and he was also ready to run away!
Behind Changsun Wuji, under Wang Fugui's eyes, the official who had gone to Dai County and was imprisoned by Yang Ming slowly came out holding a jade plaque. He has a resolute pace, a sense of righteousness, and a holy spirit for upholding justice!
In fact, he felt extremely regretful in his heart. How great it would have been if he had not accepted the mission to Dai County! Now both sides are displeased, and if he says the wrong thing, Li Shimin will get slapped!
"Your Majesty, I have a humble official to report to you!"
Carefully, he raised the box he wanted to play high toward Tokugawa. Under Li Shimin's gaze, his heart beat so fast that he swallowed involuntarily.
"Tell everyone what's going on! Tell me the key points!"
Looking at the wooden box that Tokugawa carried up, Li Shimin frowned. How long will it take to see this girl's flattering articles? Coupled with the comments and comments of the ministers, it seems that this meeting will have to take care of the food!
No, the internal storage is tight, so let this young man whose name is unknown speak in public!
Know yourself and the enemy, and you can fight a hundred battles without danger! Wang Fugui knew very well that Li Shimin was very happy with his achievements and was very poor at the same time, so he asked his subordinates to write a large article with the purpose of exposing Yang Ming's ambition in public!
After the morning court, counting the time for lunch, Li Shimin would definitely not read this long speech in public. At that time, his subordinates will definitely be told in public, and Yang Ming, who violated many laws of the Tang Dynasty, will eventually die!
"Your Majesty, when I went to Yang Mansion in Dai County to deliver a talisman letter a few days ago, I accidentally discovered... I discovered that the Marquis secretly violated the laws of the Tang Dynasty and recruited hundreds of young men, and also gathered a few outside the city. Thousands of people..."
After all, he was still a weak Confucian scholar. Under Li Shimin's imperial majesty, he was so nervous that he started to stammer when he reported Li Shimin's favorite people in front of the ministers!
"Isn't this generation of County Yang Mansion the same Marquis who was granted the title before?"
"Well! Hebei Province was severely affected, and people's hearts are not as good as before!"
"Disasters are serious everywhere, but this is no excuse to recruit the best!"
"How is this approach different from recruiting strong and capable conspirators on such a large scale?"
As soon as the words of Wang Fugui's officials came out, everyone was shocked!
Those wealthy families whose interests were harmed by Yang Ming's refined salt refinement and running water carts, after Wang Fugui's instigation, all the clan members above the early dynasty unified their voices to criticize this lawless new marquis!
The big bosses in the DPRK have chosen to remain silent. All reforms in history will harm the interests of some wealthy families, and the pioneers who advocate reforms often do not end well!
Although they were in a high and powerful position, they did not dare to openly confront the powerful families of the Tang Dynasty.
Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, the majestic emperor of the Sui Dynasty, was ousted from power because he took too big a step in reform, which also led to the rebellion of wealthy families and the boiling of public dissatisfaction!
Isn’t Sui Yang Emperor Yang Guang awesome? !
The granary reserves left by the Sui Dynasty were so large that the people of the Tang Dynasty could not farm for several generations.
The wealthy families of the Great Sui Dynasty were all waiting for the opportunity, waiting for Sui Yang Emperor Yang Guang to make a fatal mistake!
The Sui Dynasty had strong soldiers and horses, and the Western Expedition to Tuyuhun and the Three Expeditions to Goguryeo failed to win the multi-front war. It was not because the soldiers were not strong enough, nor because of the influence of the climate, but because some people did not want to win the war!
They lied to others, took advantage of Yang Guang's fanatical personal heroism, crazily plundered the people's power, ignored the people's ability to survive, and finally used public resentment to drive Yang Guang out of office!
And Yang Ming's several reforms are similar to Yang Guang's. They also touched the interests of powerful families. They were also attacked by groups. The tone of Yang Ming in the court gradually became unfavorable!
Li Shimin naturally knew what was going on, but he couldn't come forward directly. After all, Yang Ming's private recruitment of young people did violate the laws of the Tang Dynasty. If this was not severely punished, it would be difficult to control the future!
Without Yuan Tiangang in Chang'an City, Li Shimin seemed to have lost his eyes. Yuan Tiangang and the bad guys are irreplaceable. In Yuan Tiangang's absence, even the many letters submitted by Yang Ming failed to reach Li Shimin's dragon table in time!
In fact, Yang Ming wrote to Li Shimin in advance to explain the two major events of recruiting bandits and collecting grain and providing disaster relief. There was a lot of content in those letters, and even the perfect solutions to the problems faced by the Shandong nobles were given.
"What do you think of this matter?!"
Feng Deyi was very depressed. It was rare for him to cultivate himself recently and he only went to court once a month. I came across this little thorn in the Yang family's side twice in a row. He was such a troublemaker that he asked me to kick the ball every time!
"Your Majesty, rebellion is a capital crime! This case is of great importance and must be taken seriously. I hope to use this to get to the bottom of the matter and see if this young marquis has violated the laws of the Tang Dynasty and made a big mistake that he shouldn't have made!"
"What do Duke Xing and Duke Cai say?!"
Li Shimin was even more depressed than Feng Deyi. If Changsun Wuji were here, the people in the Ministry of War would not dare to be so presumptuous!
The city of Chang'an was so poor that even Chang Sun Wuji, the Minister of War, asked Li Shimin to arrange to go back to his hometown to raise money and food. It's almost the New Year, and Li Shimin still owes many officials salaries that have not been paid!
Through eye contact, Fang Moudu also confirmed that he did not dare to be the first to take the lead and shoulder everything for Li Shimin! Even Wei Zheng, the blood-related admonishment doctor, was holding the jade plaque quietly at this time, not daring to breathe.
In feudal society, few ordinary people held high positions. Most of the people in the court came from famous families, and the worst ones were newly promoted to wealthy families.
They can do whatever they want, but they dare not represent the entire family! Including Li Shimin, he is not the clan leader of the Li clan in Longxi. The clan leader of the Li clan in Longxi is his father, Li Yuan!
"Back to your majesty, as Lord Youpushe said, this is a very serious matter! Why don't your majesty send an angel to Dai County to find out what's going on? In this way, everyone can stop talking!"
"I second the proposal!"
Fang Xuanling and Du Ruhui were two old foxes. They knew that Li Shimin was still waiting for Yang Ming to refine the salt, so they were reluctant to kill him. But they have no better way, they can only kick the ball out for the time being!
Both of them are weak scholars. They don't want to offend the world's wealthy families because of Yang Ming, so that their clan members will be kicked out of the ancestral hall. They still want to enter the ancestral hall a hundred years later.
Although he didn't dare to come forward to vouch for Yang Ming, he didn't dare to come out to support Yang Ming. But as long as Li Shimin doesn't want Yang Ming to die too soon, they have a way to let Yang Ming finish refining the salt before he dies!
Anyway, Yang Ming, a fool, offended people to death, and Li Shimin only wanted Yang Ming to successfully refine salt to improve the overall strength of the country!
Therefore, there is nothing wrong with Yang Ming finishing refining the salt and then dying. Even if Wang Fugui and the others are reluctant at that time, they will have to accept it. This will be a lose-lose situation!
"Eight hundred miles from Dai County, urgent!"
"Report~! Daixian County is urgent!"
Just when everyone thought that the dust had settled and Li Shimin would succumb to the interests of the gentry, the soldiers from the post station came from Yang Ming's hometown Dai County to rush for eight hundred miles!
To show the importance of obtaining intelligence, all soldiers responsible for expediting transmissions were given special treatment and could ride their horses directly to the entrance of Daxing Hall.
The station messenger grabbed the reins and pulled the horse's head hard. The horse stopped suddenly twenty centimeters before the first step of Daxing Hall!
"Hurry! Daixian County is eight hundred miles away, hurry up and hand it over to Duke Yi!"
After the messenger dismounted, he took out a red package from his back and handed it to the surrounding guards.
Qin Shubao, who came after hearing the news, took the package, opened the bamboo slips and repeatedly confirmed that there was no safety hazard, then quickly returned to Daxing Hall, ready to hand it over to the great eunuch Tokugawa who was waiting there.
The guards responsible for guarding Daxing Hall were busy cleaning up the scene.
Four people were responsible for carrying the messenger onto the board and moving it nearby. One of the two people in the middle was responsible for feeding the messenger water and the other was responsible for feeding him meat. They wanted to make sure that if Li Shimin asked to see the messenger, he would still have the strength to go to the palace and reply!
The same goes for the horses at this inn. After a long journey over the past few days, they had to be taken down and cared for. The Tang Dynasty is still relatively short of fast horses. If one dies, there will be one missing, one carrot and one pit!
Time for a cup of tea,
Li Shimin frowned and carefully read the letter written by Yang Ming.
Due to his high concentration and study, he was so immersed in it all of a sudden that he completely forgot about the ministers below who were waiting for the end of the morning court and were whispering to each other!
"Okay! Okay! Okay!"
Li Shimin was overjoyed. He picked up the letter with his left hand, touched his beard with his right hand, and suddenly jumped up. If it hadn't been for the severe strain on his waist caused by the recent acquisition of several young concubines, he would have wanted to do a backflip on the spot!
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty! The ministers are still waiting for your answer!"
Tokugawa is so embarrassed!
Li Shimin suddenly lost his temper and lost his composure in public. After returning to Tai Chi Palace, will he treat me as a punching bag again? It seems that he will be beaten more than a dozen times for no reason!
It’s so speechless to follow such a master!
"Since all the ministers are here, let me tell you some exciting news! The Hebei Province area that was most seriously affected by the disaster in the Tang Dynasty has been temporarily under control, and all the refugees have been properly resettled!"
Li Shimin doesn't care at all about his careless appearance. As long as he is thick-skinned, others will be embarrassed! He is the king of a country, and he doesn't believe that any idiot dares to talk nonsense!
"Your Majesty, this red package seems to have writing on it!"
Tokugawa accidentally glanced and found the words written on the back of the red package!
Li Shimin touched it and said, "Hey, darling, is this bulging red package the Dai County specialty that that guy Yang Ming gave me?" ! He even said it would surprise me, but I really didn’t believe it!
"Come here! Open this red package for me. I want to see what kind of surprise this young prince you say is rebellious will bring to me!"
