Chapter 444 Reading From the Script

"This is not to seize the throne, but to vent anger.

Li Shimin sighed and commented.

After all, if he really acted rationally, then the first thing to do would be to seize the Xuanwu Gate, and then seize the arsenal in the palace, and guard the palace to prevent the imperial army from gathering together to obtain armored soldiers.

Then the elite troops would be mobilized to attack and "protect" the emperor. In this way, the matter would be settled.

At that time, what Wu family, Wu Sansi and his like will not be able to solve it easily?

And taking a step back, even if Li Chongjun is really ignorant, how can the four Forbidden Army leaders following him not understand the importance of Xuanwu Gate?

Especially Li Duozuo, Li Shimin remembered that this person was guarding the Xuanwu Gate during the Shenlong Coup.

Then there is only one explanation: Li Chongjun had a huge hatred for Wu Sansi's manipulation of power, so he forced the leader of the imperial army to follow him and kill Qiu Yu first before taking action.

In just one breath, Li Shimin thought about the matter clearly.

But if he put aside these thoughts and just made his own evaluation, he couldn't help but say:

"Good kill!"

Transferring the power of the emperor, raping the harem and showing off the private house, persecuting the old ministers, and neglecting the East Palace, any of these things are unbearable. In the end, although this descendant acted without much thought, in the face of the scabies of this generation, he drew a knife and spattered blood three feet away. Repaying revenge is enough to satisfy you!

Regarding the younger generation comparing this matter to the Xuanwu Sect incident, everyone else remained silent to avoid suspicion. Empress Changsun didn’t need to care about it, she chuckled and said:

"I'm afraid that all the loyal people inside and outside Li Xian's court have everyone in mind."

Li Shimin snorted softly, accepted the Queen's neither soft nor harsh compliment, then thought for a moment, shook his head and said:

"This Li Xian...has no long-term plans, and does not remember the misfortunes of the past. He is both stupid and cowardly. With his wife and daughter in power, he is afraid that something he cannot bear to say will happen."

He took his descendants for granted, and his words were unceremonious.

After all, in terms of seniority, Li Xian should be called Aweng or Taigong, but he was very restrained in speaking rudely. If Li Xian was in front of him, Li Shimin had no doubt that he would communicate with him.

At this moment, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty felt a little pity that the light screen did not pass through Li Xianshi, otherwise if he could chase him and scold him, he would be able to vent his anger.

Empress Changsun patted her husband gently to calm down his anger, and then became a little curious:

"It can't be like this, right? And there's that King Xiang..."

Li Shimin sneered and shook his head. He did not comment on the Prime Minister, but simply explained:

"This Li Chongjun belongs to the Eastern Palace. Although he is not the legitimate son of Empress Wei, he has lost his position due to the insult of his own daughter."

"Since the two saints came to the court..."

Thinking of this, Li Shimin still felt a little sick in his stomach, and felt that none of these juniors had peace of mind:

"I'm afraid it's natural to have the desire to conquer the dynasty, and I'm afraid I also have the dream of imitating Wu Zhao."

But Li Shimin had unabashed sarcasm on his lips.

With the power of the harem defeated by the imperial army, you still have such a crazy dream?

However, while feeling relieved about Wu Sansi's death, Li Shimin remembered the word used by his younger generation:

"warlord……"

Empress Changsun saw that her husband looked a little distracted, so she knew that he must have many unspeakable thoughts in his heart, so she patted the back of his hand and said:

"For now, let's see how Xuanzong clears up the injustice."

In the past, Li Shimin often told her about Xuanzong's mediocrity in the harem, but now it seems that Xuanzong had the appearance of a heroic master when he was young?

[Although Wu Sansi and Wu Chongxun were directly killed by Li Chongjun in exchange for their lives, this chaotic trend did not stop, but intensified.

In fact, after Awu's fall, Li Xian, who had just been in power for less than a month, opened his eyes to the courtiers:

An edict was issued to confer the right to open mansions in Taiping, Anle, Changning, Yicheng, Xindu, Ding'an and Jincheng. The seven princesses were treated as princes.

Opening a mansion means that princesses can appoint their own officials, and these officials can also be recommended to the court, which is a standard shortcut to becoming an official.

It is possible that Yao Chong keenly sensed the disturbing atmosphere from Li Xian's edict, so he shed tears for Wu Zetian and successfully avoided the political storm through external transfer.

The Wu family's talker in the capital was severely weakened after being hacked to death, but Li Xian's wives and daughters gathered together and quickly discussed a new charter:

Rather than leaving the palace to make excuses and play cliques, wouldn't it be faster to make money by directly selling your official position?

In fact, since the emperor's family members did not have the Wu family as a middleman to earn the price difference, they became more and more comfortable in selling their official positions:

Empress Wei was responsible for persuading Li Xian, Shangguan Wan'er was responsible for drafting the imperial edict, and Princess Anle relied on her favor to let Li Xian sign first and then write the content. This was how the upstream was settled.

The princess palace with the power to open a palace, Empress Wei's sister, Shangguan Wan'er's biological mother, Mrs. Peiguo, Shang Gong's Chai family, He Lou family, the witch Fifth Ying'er, Longxi's wife Zhao family, etc. are all located inside and outside Chang'an, opening up the lower reaches. .

In Chang'an at that time, if you could spare 300,000 yuan, you could get an official certificate personally issued by Emperor Li Xian. If you didn't have much money left, spending 30,000 yuan to buy a monk or nun's ultimatum to avoid taxes and corvee was quite a deal. Cost effective.

Because this special appointment certificate was handed in through the side door of the Zhongshu Provincial Department, and the instructions on it were written in ink instead of Zhu, people at the time also called it "oblique appointment".

It is impossible to test how many Xie Feng officials were issued by Li Xianshi. All we know is that Li Chaoyin, a member of the Ministry of Civil Affairs at that time, was a tough guy. He stopped 1,400 Xie Feng Guan orders by himself, and then he was killed by Princess Anle in less than a year. He was kicked out of Chang'an and demoted.

In addition, during the Kaiyuan period of Li Longji, the number of officials with oblique titles had become a chronic problem, and he had to adopt a one-size-fits-all policy. In the end, he had no choice but to adopt a one-size-fits-all policy, and directly abolished more than 4,000 oblique titles with one imperial edict.

With this money, Li Xian's daughters were the most luxurious at that time: Princess Anle and Princess Changning renovated the palace in Chang'an, which was similar to the imperial palace. In order to build a rockery, they directly occupied the people's fields. The rockery built stretched for eight or nine miles. At that time, the people of Chang'an thought that Princess Anle had moved Mount Hua when they went out.

Empress Wei did more practical things. She just added guards and households to the family's Baode Temple. Not many, probably only five times that of the Erfeng Zhaoling.

In fact, after laying the groundwork for so long, Empress Wei also began to carefully test her husband's ideas. For example, in 707, when Empress Wei imitated Wu Zhou, she led a large group of people to take the lead in presenting a memorial to Li Xian, saying that your majesty should be given the title of "Yingtian Shenlong Emperor" for such achievements, and Li Xian was very happy.

It was easy to deal with if she agreed, but a few days later, the same group of people said that the queen should be given the title "Tian Yi Sheng Queen". Li Xian agreed with a stroke of his pen, without considering that the abbreviation of this title was exactly the same as Wu Zetian's title "Tian Hou".

The next year, the people of Chang'an heard the news. A group of people said that the news came from the palace, and colorful clouds emerged from Wei Hou's closet!

To be honest, Wu Zetian would have laughed to death if she saw this method, but Li Xian's response was beyond everyone's expectations:

Li Xian asked someone to draw it and show it to the ministers, and then happily pardoned the world.

In 709, Li Xian offered sacrifices to heaven in the southern suburbs of Chang'an. The Imperial Academy suggested that the queen should be offered sacrifices to heaven together. Li Xian agreed again and set Wei Hou as the second offering.

Is it like when Li Zhi was enthroned at Mount Tai, when Wu Zetian was the second offering? Wei Hou took Wu's book and read it word for word, not wanting to change a word.

At that time, Empress Wei was busy usurping power, the princesses were busy making money, the officials in the court and the regular officials were fighting for ecological niches, and the people outside the court were suffering from years of drought and selling their children.

Li Xian himself rebuked the suggestion of the officials to eat in Luoyang: "How can there be an emperor chasing grain!", and hoped that the grain transport ships from Luoyang would come to Chang'an as soon as possible.

Our Tang Dynasty is really thriving. 】

Pang Tong was silent, looking at Lu Su's slightly raised eyebrows and smiled:

"This Tang emperor, serving his wife is better than serving his mother, can be called stupid."

Pang Tong apologized for his previous judgment, comparing Sun Hou with him was really a bit insulting.

And at this moment, he also agreed with Yide unprecedentedly, is Li Xian here to show the bottom line of being an emperor?

If this kind of appearance can be an emperor, then who in the world can't be an emperor?

"Compared to Li Xian, Lord Sun can be called a wise ruler who maintains the status quo."

Lu Su nodded, but then sighed:

"The people are the ones who suffer. If the emperor is immoral, the people will suffer like water and fire."

Of course, he did not think that the Tang Dynasty was really thriving. The sarcasm and ridicule in the younger generation's words were explicit.

Pang Tong sighed and agreed:

"If Lord Sun was in the Tang Dynasty, he could be called a wise ruler. If he was in the Song Dynasty, he could be called a wise ruler."

"Zi Jing, do you know that if you have a son, you should sigh like Sun Zhongmou?"

Lu Su raised his eyebrows again, wondering if Pang Shiyuan was going to make fun of him?

But the heavy look on his face did not seem fake, so he finally pondered for a moment and asked:

"Why?"

Pang Tong was about to say something, but Kong Ming had already stood up from Zhang Zhongjing and interrupted directly:

"Today is a good day, why are you talking about something that spoils the mood?"

"And we can definitely work together to help the descendants of China avoid this disaster."

Kong Ming's words made Pang Tong agree very much:

"If you don't know, it's fine. Now that you know, you must ask for a way to revive the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years, stabilize the northern border and pacify the East China Sea to avoid bandit troubles!"

Lu Su wanted to protest, what are you talking about, why don't I understand?

Kong Ming directly stuffed some of the things he had just written into Lu Su's hands:

"Zijing can refer to the calendar of the Jiangdong Medical Clinic, check its omissions, and make up for its perfect system."

If Kong Ming directly shared the government affairs, Lu Su might have to slam the door and leave to show his integrity... Oh, no, I should finish reading this light curtain first.

But at this time, Kong Ming was asking for help as a friend, so Lu Su could only take it, but he couldn't take his eyes off it after just one look.

On a short piece of paper, Lu Su seemed to see a vast world.

... Each village has a barefoot doctor, who doesn't need to be knowledgeable in medicine, but only needs to be a medical clerk, buy medicine for various diseases, and send serious diseases to the county government clinic... The barefoot doctor must know at least 500 words to help the children in the village...

This plan can be seen as a draft, but from what Lu Su can judge, it is very feasible!

Lu Su couldn't wait to turn the page again, wanting to see the complete plan, but the paper at the back was smooth, and not a single word made Lu Su unacceptable:

"That's it?"