Chapter 164: The Grace of a Gentleman, Cut Off After Three Generations

Yun Chu was wearing armor, with a horizontal sword on his waist and a big golden sword sitting in the middle of the Wannian County canteen eating.

No one knew why the county magistrate came to the canteen fully armed to eat. Seeing the county magistrate's gloomy expression, no one dared to come forward.

Even the Wu brothers dare not!

Wu Sansi stuffed a piece of meat into his mouth and ate it, then he put his head in front of Wu Chengsi and said, "Brother, do you know the reason?"

Wu Chengsi glanced at Ma Shan behind Yun Chu and whispered: "Your Majesty is coming."

Wu Sansi was shocked. The sip of soup he just drank spurted out, but luckily he reacted quickly and blocked it with his sleeves.

Wu Chengsi remained motionless as a mountain, and said softly: "The prince's waistband is still hung with the title of minister."

After reacting, Wu Sansi took a breath and said, "Your Majesty is here in person, but no one knows?"

Wu Chengsi put a piece of meat in his mouth and said, "Don't you know, sir?"

Wu Sansi didn't want to talk anymore.

The emperor secretly came to Chang'an without informing anyone except Yunchu. With this trust, those who wanted to see Yunchu's jokes in Chang'an City became the ones being laughed at...or laughed at. die?

The most indispensable thing in Wannian County is human spirit. Wu Chengsi could see it, Lu Xiu, Lu Zhaolin, and Yang Jiong could also see it. Even some old officials in Wannian County could vaguely see it. Clues.

Lu Xiu threw away his chopsticks in shock and hurriedly left the canteen. Some Wannian County officials also changed their expressions and left the table...

Yun Chu was minding his own meal and turned a blind eye to this scene.

Wu Sansi thought of his sleeves full of broth and left the cafeteria.

Wu Chengsi looked at the sky covered with clouds and roaring wind, calmly took a sip of soup to clear his mouth, and said to himself: "The clouds follow the dragon, the wind follows the tiger, Your Majesty is here, Xue Rengui should be here too, right?"

After Yunchu had eaten and drank enough, Yin Erhu put on his cloak and gloves, and helped him hold the horse's horse. The master and servant left the canteen and came to the gate of Wannian County Yamen.

Under the howling wind, no one could be seen in the large square of Wannian County Government. Only the notices on the noticeboard were torn apart by the wind. The pictures on them from other places were not posted firmly enough. It was quickly torn off by Lu Xiu.

In Yun Chu's opinion, shadow drawings and sea-catching documents were useless. Even if the evil thief in the graphics stood in front of Yun Chu, Yun Chu had no way to use the graphics to determine whether the person was actually the evil thief himself.

Yun Chu's cloak was pulled back by the wind, and there was no one on the road in front of the county government office.

"It's snowing, clear the snow!"

In the bitingly cold weather, Lu Xiu was sweating profusely. His whole body was like a cage of white bread that had just come out of the pan, constantly exuding white air.

The handyman who came out with a broom looked at the clean ground blown by the wind and really didn't know where to sweep.

"Just wait quietly."

Yun Chu's voice came out from under his mask, and everyone immediately stood behind him, staring at the intersection in front of him without saying a word.

First, sixteen majestic cavalry suddenly appeared at the intersection, and the next moment, they were in front of everyone in Wannian County.

Yun Chu lifted up his visor and looked at the leading cavalryman and said, "Whatever should be done will be done."

The leading cavalryman nodded, jumped off his horse, and drove away the group of people behind Yun Chu.

Yunchu looked at Ruichun who was as cold as a quail and said, "If you endure it for a while, you will have hot soup."

Ruichun got off the carriage and stood next to Yunchu and said, "It stands to reason that you should not have any sharp edges when approaching His Majesty. You are fully armed and look like you are going to fight. Do you think it is okay?"

Yun Chu sneered and said: "If you dare to take His Majesty on a trip with a thousand fine cavalry at your side, Ruichun, you must be killed according to the law!"

"One thousand of the Tang Dynasty's fine cavalry, no matter how bad they are, can still protect His Majesty for half an hour."

"So, reinforcements will arrive in half an hour, right?"

"This is the secret of His Majesty's guard. You have no right to know it."

Yun Chu said: "Your Majesty, when you come this time, where will you stay as a guard?"

Ruichun sighed and said, "Xingqing Palace."

Yun Chu said: "Daming Palace and Taiji Palace are also excellent."

Ruichun wanted to say a few more words when she saw a large carriage driven by Xue Rengui appearing at the entrance of the street.

As soon as Li Zhi got off the carriage, Yun Chu, who had just finished saluting, hurriedly came forward and said, "Your Majesty is too frivolous."

Li Zhi glanced at Yun Chu and said, "The way you pretend to be a loyal minister makes me want to vomit."

Yun Chu said: "It is the duty of the minister to give advice. If your Majesty does not listen to the advice, it is none of the minister's business."

Li Zhi smiled and said: "You are indeed the slippery Yunchu. According to you, all the faults in the world are my fault. After all, you have already explained the pros and cons of everything in the world in the court and in the memorial. It’s all said and done, but it’s me who makes the decision.”

After speaking, seeing Yun Chu dressed in military uniform, he said with disdain: "In Chang'an, do you think there will be people who are unfavorable to me?"

Yun Chu shook his head and said: "Six hours ago, I learned that Your Majesty had entered the territory of Chang'an. I had secretly sealed off Chang'an. The market was closed, the gates of the squares that should be closed were closed, the Sixteenth Guards barracks, and the squares in the city where barbarians lived together. The city has been closely monitored by bad people.

Therefore, His Majesty can sit back and relax in Chang'an. "

"Six hours, plus the time for news feedback, that is to say, I just entered Chang'an's jurisdiction eight hours ago, and you already knew that I was coming?"

"This is the cultivation that a minister should have."

Li Zhi looked at the embarrassed Xue Rengui and said, "Go in and take a look at the site I went to today."

When Yun Chu followed the emperor into Wannian County, Li Zhi took a look at the densely packed official residences on both sides and said: "The official configuration of Wannian County is the best among the Tang Dynasty prefectures."

Yun Chu said: "The main reason is that there are twenty-seven more rooms, each of which is responsible for a stall. Finally, the six rooms are under the jurisdiction of the principals. Those twenty-seven rooms are responsible for specific affairs. The original six rooms are responsible for For supervision purposes.”

Li Zhi said: "We cannot expand without limit. The number of officials in the yamen can only be increased. Once the number increases, it will be difficult to remove them. You have the ability to support so many officials. Officials, your future officials may not be like you." When the time comes, there will be too many officials sucking up the people's support, which will be a disaster for the people. "

Yun Chu said: "What your Majesty said is that I will definitely secure this pass and no useless people will be allowed to enter the Yamen."

The emperor came to the door of Yunchu's official residence, looked at the obviously brand-new doors and windows, and looked back at Wu Chengsi. The two brothers Wu Sansi asked: "Is this the place where you were beaten?"

The Wu brothers hurriedly came over and saluted, saying, "This is where Wei Chen received the teachings from Marquis Yun."

Li Zhi said with a smile: "Did you get anything?"

Wu Chengsi said: "What I have learned is that my body cannot bear to be taken care of, and I feel ashamed of the teachings of Marquis Yun."

Yun Chu answered: "If it weren't for the fact that their brothers are still effective in running the place and see things more thoroughly, and sometimes use it to take one or two blames for the stewards, they would have been kicked to death by the minister."

Li Zhi looked at Yun Chu, who had a look of hatred on his face, and then at the Wu brothers, who had a flattering look on their faces, and chuckled: "After all, they are just a den of snakes and rats, let's just mix it up.

By the way, you beat their brothers, why not beat Lu Xiu together? "

Yun Chu glanced at the sweating Lu Xiu and said with a smile: "You are very rigid. Seeing the Wu brothers being beaten so badly by the minister, he didn't know how to run away. He actually stood there and said to the minister - if you dare, beat him to death." .

It's not a matter of beating such a person, so Wei Chen gave him a book and asked him to change his mind first. When his mind is clear, he can be beaten again, which will have the effect of getting twice the result with half the effort. "

Li Zhi looked at Lu Xiu and sighed: "After all, I still can't put it on the table."

When Lu Xiu heard this, her knees softened and she sat on the ground.

Yun Chu said: "Wannian County lacks a head clerk who can't turn around and keep an eye on the bottom. After one year, the tax revenue is nearly two million yuan. Without a loyal dog to guard it, I don't feel at ease."

While Yun Chu was talking, he was waiting for the eunuchs to inspect the mansion. After Ruichun took a last look at it, Li Zhi stepped into Yun Chu's mansion.

Li Zhi would not go to the Zhengyin Hall of Wannian County. That was Yunchu's real territory. If the emperor entered, it would be detrimental to the official authority he had finally built up.

Under normal circumstances, when superior officials go to the local government, they basically do not enter the local government office.

Although the emperor had no taboos, Li Zhi was unwilling to do such useless things.

After Li Zhi, Yun Chu, Xue Rengui, and Ruichun entered Yun Chu's official residence, all the utensils here had been replaced by those used exclusively by the emperor. Yun Chu's own things, except for a table and a chair, were A pile of paperwork remains.

Li Zhi naturally sat on Yun Chu's chair, curiously flipped through the documents on Yun Chu's desk, then threw them aside and looked around and said, "It's better for you to save your worries here."

Yun Chu used the water, stove, and tea sets brought by the emperor to make pots of tea. The tea for the emperor was without sugar, but Xue Rengui and Ruichun specially added a piece of yellow rock sugar for Xue Rengui and Ruichun.

Li Zhi picked up the tea and took a sip and said, "It's bitter and unbearable. It's hard for you to drink it for decades without getting tired of it."

Yun Chu smiled and said: "When tasting the bitter taste, accidentally drinking a hint of sweetness from the bitterness is the greatest happiness in the world."

Li Zhi slapped the table and laughed: "So you added a lot of sugar to make your happiness more intense?"

Yun Chu laughed and said, "So, I suggest that when your Majesty tastes the bitter taste, you might as well add some sugar to yourself. In this way, you can taste the bitter taste, but get a lot of sweetness."

Li Zhi laughed and said: "Are you deceiving yourself..."

Looking at Yun Chu chatting and laughing with the emperor, Xue Rengui held the hot cup and drank cans of tea. Xue Rengui did not taste what the cans of tea tasted like, but he took it from these conversations. The relationship between Yunchu and the emperor tasted something different.

Just like Pei Xingjian said, they are all the emperor's ministers, and only Yunchu can be regarded as half of the emperor's friends.

Why half?

The main reason is that being an emperor's friend is very dangerous. Many emperors will intentionally or unintentionally clean up the people they can call friends every once in a while.

It is extremely rare for Yun Chu to be half a friend of the emperor for decades.

Ruichun is a person with extremely sensitive feelings. He clearly felt that since the emperor saw Yun Chu, his body and mind immediately relaxed. Not to mention that there were more smiles on his face, and his one eye also looked very warm. .

This is a kind of performance that the emperor can only do in an environment that he can fully control.

He very much hoped that the emperor could maintain this state for a longer time, and not change secretaries and supervisors at every turn, let alone change the guards around him at will, Gong E...

Yun Chu was chatting with the emperor, and they were talking nonsense. In short, they were talking about a hammer here and a stick here and there.

"In June of the second year of Kaihuang, Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty issued an edict: "Now the region is peaceful and unified, and the order of yin and yang is in order. Move peacefully and do not harbor resentment. Longshou has beautiful mountains and rivers, and lush plants and crops. It is a good place to build a capital city. The foundation of the capital city will be forever solid, and there will be endless achievements here. The construction costs of public and private government offices, large and small, will be reported according to the situation."

Then there was Daxing City, which is today's Chang'an. Han Chang'an stood for 400 years, but the water supply and drainage were seriously unsmooth. Sewage often accumulated but could not be discharged. The water was salty and not very pleasant.

Now that you are making great efforts to improve Chang'an, will you also have this worry?"

Hearing the emperor's concerns, Yun Chu said shamelessly: "Now Chang'an, I am building it for a thousand years, especially water and sewage, and garbage disposal is the top priority. The two light and dark canals that Your Majesty saw along the way can ensure that Chang'an's sewage Without leaking out or seeping in, it will flow into the moat, and finally into the Wei River and the Yellow River to the sea. "

Li Zhi laughed and said, "How can there be a thousand-year-old city?"

Yun Chu said, "If there is a thousand-year-old country, there should be a thousand-year-old city."

Li Zhi said with amusement, "How can the Tang Dynasty live for a thousand years?"

Yun Chu shook his head and said, "If someone else said this, I would have cut off his head."

Li Zhi sighed and said, "I always feel so energetic when I hear you talking nonsense."

Yun Chu said, "As long as the Tang Dynasty's spirit and energy are not exhausted, a thousand years will not count. After all, both Han dynasties lasted for 400 years. "

Li Zhi said: "How can we keep the spirit of the Tang Dynasty from being exhausted?"

Yun Chu said seriously: "As long as every decree and every national policy issued by the Tang Dynasty stands on the side of the majority of the people, rather than standing on the side of a few dignitaries, the spirit of the Tang Dynasty can be guaranteed to be not lost."

Li Zhi said: "Every emperor thinks this way and does this, but the result is completely different from the emperor's expectations. Even the emperor can do nothing about it."

Yunchu said with a smile: "The grace of a gentleman will be cut off after three generations. If Heaven cannot cut it off, then Your Majesty should cut it off."

Li Zhi was stunned for a moment and said: "This should not be understood in this way."

Yunchu said proudly: "That's because we all misunderstood before. The merits of one generation can benefit three generations at most. After three generations, we have to work hard again."

Xue Rengui, who had been listening to Yunchu's fallacies for a long time, said: "How about starting with your Yun family?"

Yunchu laughed and said: "That's what I want, but I dare not ask for it"