Chapter 154 Li Chengqian's goal
Although Changsun Wuji was calm on his face at this time, he was actually very excited. Many people may think that as long as Li Shimin doesn't like Li Chengqian, he can ruin him. So whenever he sees Li Chengqian's a little awesomeness, he feels that he is trying to die.
This is a big mistake. Those who live in this era may not pay attention to etiquette and law, but Li Shimin of the Tang Dynasty must not ignore etiquette and law. Although he ascended the throne through the Xuanwu Gate coup, this does not mean that Li Shimin hopes that his descendants will ascend the throne through mutiny.
So before the 16th year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin was always cautious about the issue of deposing Li Chengqian. Even if Li Chengqian made so many mistakes, he would not dare to depose him directly. Instead, he kept forcing Li Chengqian to make a bigger mistake or give Li Chengqian a chance.
Of course, this was also because Li Chengqian had no ability to govern the country and did not compete for power with Li Shimin, so Li Shimin could tolerate him.
Now Li Chengqian won’t make a small mistake, but he has his own political proposition and has begun to compete for power with Li Shimin.
Li Shimin is naturally extremely taboo about this, but what can he do?
The next "Stay of Life" will depose Li Chengqian? Not to mention Li Shimin's own reputation in history, can this "Stay of Life" be implemented?
Li Shimin does not attach importance to etiquette and law, but also to ministers?
And don’t forget that Li Chengqian has a very high reputation among the people now, and both Li Shimin and Changsun Wuji have a deep understanding.
So in Changsun Wuji's original plan, it will take at least a few years to depose Li Chengqian. There is a great risk here. If Li Shimin dies in the middle and Li Chengqian's current power can completely succeed the throne steadily. Once Li Chengqian succeeds to the throne, will they still have a way out?
Changsun Wuji sometimes thought that if Li Chengqian had not targeted him several times, he might not have dared to oppose Li Chengqian.
But today's incident suddenly made Changsun Wuji overjoyed. Li Chengshi and Buddhism had a head-on dispute, so Changsun Wuji made up his mind to start an offensive to depose Li Chengqian.
While Changsun Wuji was discussing with Linghu Defen, Changsun Huan was also discussing with Yu Zhining about mobilizing officials to impeach Li Chengqian.
Li Chengqian was in the Liangyi Hall of the East Palace and the confidants of the East Palace were sitting with serious expressions. Qiu Shenji was standing in the middle of the hall reporting the movements in Chang'an City to Li Chengqian.
After Qiu Shenji finished speaking, the breathing of the people in the hall increased a lot, and they were both shocked and angry. A group of monks actually dared to confuse the people against the crown prince, and it was a major event involving the livelihoods of more than 100,000 people.
"These monks really don't know that the world is high and the earth is strong. Not only do they confuse the public, they also want to fight against the court. I will ask Your Majesty to issue an order to capture the demon monk." Zhu Suiliang was indignant after hearing Qiu Shenji's words and was about to go to Tai Chi Palace to meet Li Shimin.
Li Chengqian was analyzing the matter silently. He heard the words and waved his hand and said, "Mr. Zhu, don't be in a hurry. I have a way to deal with the monks. I am just thinking about what these monks suddenly acted against the Lone King?" Everyone in the palace began to think about this question after hearing this.
Li Chengqian continued: "There must be someone behind these monks. Mr. Zhu might as well wait first and let him jump out before making a reason."
The others in the palace nodded secretly after hearing Li Chengqian's words. Zhu Suiliang thought about it and thought that Li Chengqian's words made sense, but he was still a little dissatisfied and said: "Then let those monks confuse people's hearts now?"
When Li Chengqian heard this, he looked at Xue Rengui and said, "Have Rengui heard all the temples just now?"
Xue Rengui's face turned righteous and said, "I have heard it clearly!" At the end of his speech, he also emitted cold light in his eyes.
Li Chengqian turned his head and said, "Have you planted all the crops on the Dragon Shouyuan now?"
Zhao Jie replied with a slight pride when he heard this: "Go back to the Prince, the spring seeds have been planted, and now weeding and building canals."
"Okay! Tomorrow, the strong men from Longshouyuan will be arranged to cooperate with the guards of the East Palace to copy the temples in Chang'an City to the orphan king."
"Your Highness, if you want to search for the Buddhist temple in large quantities, you have to ask Your Majesty to surrender your order to act!" As soon as Xu Jingzong spoke, several other Grand Secretary of the Chongjiao Temple also looked at Li Chengqian with concern.
Seeing this, Li Chengqian just smiled unpredictably and said, "When they are thundered by thunder tonight, the Lone King will copy them again, and there is no need to ask Your Majesty to surrender."
Everyone felt cold when they heard this. What Qiu Shenji said just now was that dozens of temples in Chang'an City participated. Could it be that they would be thundered tonight?
Thinking of this, Li Chengqian's eyes changed, and he thought to himself what magic does His Royal Highness have?
Li Chengqian looked at them and didn't explain anything. The gunpowder matter was kept confidential for the time being. If people knew that the lightning strikes in the temple were all created by the Eastern Palace, they would not be able to shock people.
Everyone saw that Li Chengqian refused to say anything and didn't talk much. After all, it was involved in the lightning strike on the Buddhist temple, so who knew it had something to do with the gods and demons.
Seeing that Li Chengqian only said he wanted to deal with the monk, but did not mention the people behind the monk, Su Dingfang couldn't help but worry: "Your Highness, the monk is easy to deal with, and the people behind them may have other backup plans. After all, those who can mobilize such a monk must also mobilize other forces, and you have to be prepared early."
In fact, everyone in the hall knew that it was Xiao Yu and Changsun Wuji who couldn't get along with each other now, and Li Shimin was behind them, but these people were unwilling to make it clear without evidence.
Li Chengqian thought that everyone knew this, but I have the hearts of the people, so what kind of flowers can they find?
However, he thought that now he should make the memorial of reducing rent in Guanzhong written by Yan Lide to the public. He must beat them once this time, otherwise the rent would not be reduced.
Originally, Li Chengqian asked the people to pray for him outside Changlin Gate and sent people to surround Changsun Wuji's mansion to show his strength to win the hearts of the people and the hearts of the people. Then he took out the memorial of reducing rents and used his power to suppress people and force the court to issue an order to reduce the tenant rent. Finally, he sent people to promote the court's policies everywhere, and used the help of seeking justice for the people to retrieve unjust cases in various places to clean up all the local tyrants and evil gentry who were unwilling to reduce the tenant rents in various places.
In this way, the people of Guanzhong will definitely be grateful to him, and his foundation in Guanzhong will be solid. But he did not expect that a group of monks would come out on the way, and now he can only clean up them together.
When Li Chengqian thought of this, he took out the memorial written by Yan Lide and let the old ghost pass on it.
Zhu Suiliang took it and opened it and nodded: "Last year, when Guanzhong encountered a major disaster, he should have reduced the rent for tenant. When I went back, I asked my family to reduce the rent for tenant in my family to 30%.
Li Chengqian nodded and signaled to him to pass the message to others. The people in the hall did not say anything after reading it. They all looked at Li Chengqian and didn't know what Li Chengqian meant?
Among them, Zhao Jie, Du He and Wang Fangyi are needless to say, rich and powerful people.
Zhu Suiliang and Hao Chujun belonged to the second generation of officials, and some land was found in the family. Yan Shigu and Xu Jingzong followed Li Shimin and ruled some industries earlier. Others basically had no industries in Guanzhong.
I wonder what Li Chengqian means to take this memorial to them?
"I wondered what would happen if the entire Guanzhong rent was only 30%?" Li Chengqian looked at them and said.
Everyone was stunned at first, and then they felt incredible. Now the tenant rent collected in many places has reached 60%, so how can it be reduced to 30%?
Chapter completed!