Chapter 131 The troubled Li Shimin
In Liangyi Hall, Li Shimin sat behind the table. On the table were two large yellow rosewood boxes, and a small silver lock was hung on it.
This box was sent from the East Palace, and it contained a memorial drafted by Li Chengqian.
The left was Ma Zhou, who brought Gao Jifu, Lai Ji and Liu Shi, three ministers of the Secretariat, to copy the memorials that Li Shimin had read and wrote, and then handed them over to Li Shimin for formal comments.
At this time, Li Shimin was holding a memorial from the Ministry of Justice to kill Wei Shanfu. Li Yifu planned to kill Wei Shanfu. Li Shimin looked at Wei Shanfu's crime listed above and slapped the table in anger, and sighed: "I don't expect that such a person who was extremely guilty was born in this family of nobles and nobles. It is really abominable. Chengqian asked to kill the nine Wei Ting clans a few days ago. I still disagree. Now it seems that if I don't kill him, I will be punished." After that, he made a mark on the memorial and put it aside, and an eunuch took it to Ma Zhou to show it.
Li Shimin finished all the memorials sent by the East Palace. When he turned his head and saw the memorials on Sun Wuji on the table, he felt annoyed. This was sent by the East Palace not long after Changsun Wuji and Xiao Yu left yesterday.
The article jointly drafted by Zhu Suiliang, the Lifang case, and Hao Chujun, the official case, was accused of being "slack of one's duties and provoking the two palaces." This crime was seriously investigated, and it was not an exaggeration to kill the clan.
However, there is room for further handling opinions. Changsun Wuji was depressed and demoted to a higher level if he knew his fault and was regretful. He was sentenced to one year to stay in the Eastern Palace for the rest of the year. Xiao Yu never regretted and was dismissed from office and demoted to a commoner.
Since yesterday, Li Shimin has been angry after watching it once, but he has never found a good solution. He doesn't want to punish these two people, but he wants to give an explanation to the East Palace.
This is not Li Chengqian alone. This is the dissatisfaction of the entire Pingzhang Academy with the two of them. He can see clearly the talents of the six Grand Secretary of the Chongjiao Hall of Pingzhang Academy. Moreover, these people are all under Li Chengqian. As long as they are not moved, Li Chengqian cannot easily suppress them.
Just when Li Shimin was worried, an eunuch hurried in to report: "I will report to Your Majesty, King Jiangxia, Shangshu Hou... Please see me."
"Why are you anxious when they come?" Li Shimin said, and he was also confused. After all, Liu Hongji and Yuchi Gong have both retired, and they never saw anyone coming today.
The little eunuch glanced at Li Shimin and said carefully: "I see that the generals are not very good in their complexion, and it seems that they are angry with someone."
"Oh, who dares to get angry with them?" Li Shimin murmured to himself, then looked up and said loudly: "Come in."
"Abide by the order!" The eunuch hurried out to pass the order.
After a while, Hou Junji, Li Daozong and others walked into Liangyi Hall with great enthusiasm.
"See Your Majesty!"
Li Shimin was indeed unhappy when he saw this, but he just couldn't figure out who would be angry with these people except himself in the Tang Dynasty.
He pretended not to know and asked with a smile: "Haha, it's rare that you came so well today. It seems like someone invited me to post, but what's the big deal?"
Li Daozong said expressionlessly: "I have indeed been invited to the East Palace by His Highness the Crown Prince."
"Chengqian, what did he ask you to do?" Li Shimin didn't believe that these people would force the palace for Li Chengqian.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince invites me to go to the Eastern Palace to watch the sword and appreciate the poem." Hou Junji said unhappily.
"Watch the sword and appreciate the poem?" Li Shimin's eyes showed a look of vigilance.
"Your Majesty, Your Highness, the Crown Prince, has created a sword that cuts iron like mud, and everyone will give me a hand." Li Daliang hurriedly explained, but at the end he remembered that Li Chengqian asked them to take the sword that cut iron like mud to go home to guard the house. He was really embarrassed, and his voice became lowered and seemed dejected.
Li Shimin became more and more puzzled when he heard this, so he looked at Li Daozong. Li Daozong hurriedly said, "That's right, that's right."
"Why are Chengqian not happy to give you the sword that cuts iron like mud?" Li Shimin asked loudly.
"'Send - send me to restorate the country, and I don't know where to use the general.' My ministers and others can only take the sword home to guard the house." Yuchi Gong could no longer hold it, and said in a buzzing voice.
Li Shimin was attacked by them for a long time and got angry, and asked Yuchi Gong loudly, "What does Jingde mean to 'I don't know where to use a general'? What's going on?"
After hearing this, Yuchi Gong did not answer Li Shimin's question and said loudly: "I want to lead my troops to destroy Xue Yantuo!"
"You!" Li Shimin stood up so angry that he stood up suddenly. He first looked at Yuchi Gong hatefully, and then swept around the generals in the hall one by one. If he still knew how he was going, he would not have to be the emperor.
"Daozong, what did Chengqian say today?"
"Your Majesty..." Li Daozong originally said what happened in the East Palace today, especially those two poems, which made Li Shimin blush when he heard it, but he had already agreed to Xue Yantuo's marriage...
But looking at these generals, and now he can imagine that as Li Chengqian's two poems spread, I don't know how many generals will stand up and oppose them.
At this time, Li Shimin had not yet learned about Xue Yantuo's reality from Qi Biheli, so he did not dare to make up his mind to break the marriage easily.
Faced with a dilemma, Li Shimin had to look at Ma Zhou.
Ma Zhou also kept paying attention to Li Shimin. When he saw him, he stood up and said, "Your Majesty's matter is of great importance and needs to be carefully considered. It is better to issue an order tomorrow to summon civil and military ministers to discuss it."
Li Shimin nodded when he heard this, turned to look at the generals and blamed him, "Chengqian is young and doesn't know the importance of it. Why are you all going to have an uproar?"
"Your Majesty only gives me 100,000 troops. If I cannot bring the head of Zhenzhu Khan to see him, I would rather chop off this head." Hou Junji was still thinking about using Li Chengqian's poem as an epitaph.
Li Shimin lowered his face and said, "This matter will be discussed tomorrow, so please step down first."
Seeing this, the generals had to retreat, but Li Shimin knew that they would definitely stand up to oppose marriage tomorrow. When he thought of this, he felt a big head, and snorted heavily, and walked out of Liangyi Hall with a squirting sleeve.
Li Chengqian sent away a group of military generals and returned to Chongjiao Hall. When he saw two empty tables opposite Yan Shigu, he sneered in his heart that Xiao Yu and Changsun Wuji would be scared to the Lone King if he didn't come to the East Palace?
As soon as Li Chengqian sat down, he saw Cheng Mingzhen hurried in.
Li Chengqian knew that it must be the price of grain, so he hurriedly asked: "How is the price of grain rising?"
Cheng Mingzhen simply bowed to Li Chengqian and said, "As expected by His Royal Highness, they began to buy grain from the grain store of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and sold it to the people at a high price."
Li Li Chengqian thought to himself: I can't expect that, that's what I sent someone to remind them.
If you want to say that the businessmen of the Tang Dynasty were still too lawful, they obviously just sent people to block the grain store opened by the Ministry of Civil Affairs every morning and buy the low-priced grain back to sell it at a high price, but they never thought that for several days, and in the end, Li Chengqian asked his uncle to spread this method.
Of course, there is no method that does not mean that these businessmen are not sarcastic. As soon as they know this method, they began to desperately hold the entrance of the grain store of the Ministry of Residence.
"How much money has the grain price of the Ministry of Civil Affairs sold now?"
"The grain shops in the Ministry of Civil Affairs sold eight dollars per dou, and those grain merchants sold ten dollars per dou in the morning, but after noon it rose to twelve dollars per dou."
Li Chengqian nodded after hearing this and said, "Tomorrow, the grain store of the Ministry of Civil Affairs will increase to eleven dollars per bucket, and starts to take out a lot, but it is still sold for only half a day, so he asked him to buy all the money in his hand and eat our food..."
Cheng Mingzhen nodded and said, "Respect the Order." Then he hurried out again.
When Cheng Mingzhen walked out, Yan Shigu smiled and said, "This Chengmin Ministry is so prosperous in its business!"
Chapter completed!