Li Chengqian stood on the Jiafu Gate Tower of the East Palace. Behind him, the civil and military ministers of the East Palace were all looking seriously at the tens of thousands of people below, beating Luo and drum, heading towards Chengtian Gate of Tai Chi Palace.

Li Shimin presided over the discussion of reducing the tenant rent in Guanzhong in the Taiji Hall. Hundreds of officials gathered outside Liangyi Gate to express their opposition. At the same time, nearly a thousand officials wrote a letter to express their willingness to reduce their tenant rent to 30%, but firmly opposed the imperial court's order to reduce the tenant rent in Guanzhong to 30%.

Some people would object to this matter, and Li Chengqian had known it for a long time, so he kept building momentum, hoping to temporarily suppress these people in the court and let Li Laoer directly give up his order in the Tai Chi Hall. He could do the following things to be more low-key.

Unexpectedly, Li Laoer lost his links and insisted on discussing with his ministers. Now, he gave Guanzhong officials and gentry time to react, and they gathered to object.

Not only did he oppose the reduction of rent, he even wrote a letter to Li Chengqian to find a teacher to ban Li Chengqian from interfering in politics. This is really awesome.

Li Chengqian didn't know what Li Laoer looked like in Liangyi Hall, but he was very unhappy now. He wanted to teach these officials a profound lesson.

"I'll order the Lord of the Orphan will hold a palace examination in Jiade Hall tomorrow to determine the ranking of these Jinshi." Li Chengqian turned around and said with a expressionless face.

When Yan Shigu heard this, he bowed silently and turned around to handle the matter. The others looked at Li Chengqian with a serious expression.

Li Chengqian turned his head and looked at Zhu Cheng and said, "You go to Xianyang and let Liu Rengui get the matter in Xianyang. You bring his memorial back."

Zhu Cheng nodded solemnly after hearing this, saying, "Please rest assured by Your Highness the Crown Prince." After that, he turned around and walked down the city tower.

Finally, Li Chengqian looked at Pei Xingjian and said, "You ask Xue Dading to prepare for the mountain tomorrow, and prepare for the siege cannons. I will also go and see it when the Lone King presides over the palace examination tomorrow."

Pei Xingjian bowed with a solemn expression and was about to turn around and leave, when Li Chengqian saw Zhu Suiliang about to speak, he hurriedly raised his hand to stop Pei Xingjian and said, "Remember that the siege cannons should be far away from Chang'an City to avoid your Majesty's cares."

Pei Xingjian relaxed and said, "I obey the order."

Li Chengqian felt that the expressions of the others around him were also obviously relaxed, and said, "The Lone King will not rebel, but you must do other things well, otherwise the disaster will be even greater."

"I only obey the order of His Highness the Crown Prince!" Xue Rengui bowed solemnly.

"I am the only one who follows the order of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!" Zhu Suiliang and others also said in unison.

Although they did not know clearly that Xue Rengui and Pei Xingjian, they also knew that Li Chengqian had mastered the power of thunder and it was easy to rebel. Li Chengqian could still not rebel under such a favorable situation. It was a model of loyal ministers and filial sons.

Li Chengqian looked at everyone's solemn expression and looked like he wanted to die for him. He was also very pleased. He nodded to the remaining few people, and then walked down the city tower with a cane and was supported by the old ghost.

In Liangyi Hall, Li Shimin sat on the Arhat bed with a pale face, looking at the ministers in the hall without saying a word.

The ministers below were also very serious. Hundreds of officials outside the Liangyi Gate, dozens of feet away from them, stood solemnly, which put a little pressure on them.

But it is impossible to let Li Shimin directly reject Li Chengqian's memorial. These people and Li Shimin also have to be a little shame, right?

It is said in Tai Chi Hall that Lin Chuchu should discuss reducing the rent in Guanzhong. If an official backs down, they will feel a gloomy face.

"Your Majesty, please allow me to lead my troops to arrest all the ruthless officials outside and throw them into the prison of the Ministry of Justice." Hou Junji said in a murderous manner.

Li Shimin looked at him without saying a word. Li Daozong hurriedly said to Hou Junji: "Hou Shangshu cannot be used. Although there are only a few hundred people outside, there are nearly a thousand memorials sent in. If half of the officials in the court are arrested, they will have to be arrested."

"Hmph!" Hou Junji snorted coldly when he heard this, turned around and looked to the side.

At this time, other ministers looked at Gao Shilian intentionally or unintentionally. Gao Shilian, as the Minister of Shangshu, was the second-rank prime minister with the highest rank in the palace. He really couldn't get over it if he didn't speak at this time.

Gao Shilian smiled bitterly in his heart and stood up and said, "It is better to ask your Majesty to persuade the outsiders and officials to let them go back to the yamen to handle official duties first."

Li Shimin nodded after hearing this and said, "Let Junji go with you."

Gao Shilian stood still and didn't move when he heard this, with a look of embarrassment on his face. He knew what Li Shimin meant, and he was both civil and military and powerful, but he asked Hou Junji to go...

Seeing what he wanted to say, Li Shimin waved his hand and said, "You guys go!"

When Hou Junji heard this, he stood up and walked out without waiting for Gao Shilian to go out. Gao Shilian sighed helplessly and had to follow him.

When Li Shimin saw the two of them going out, he was still in black and said to the ministers: "You have read Yan Lide's memorials. What do you think of Guanzhong's reduction of rent."

The ministers looked at each other and no one dared to speak. This was unprecedented, and the situation was unclear. If they stood in the wrong team, there would be no good ending.

Li Shimin snorted when he saw this, saying, "You are the Minister of the Yang Qing family. You can talk about your highest official position and the oldest qualifications here."

Seeing that he could not escape, Yang Shidao bowed to Li Shimin and said, "Your Majesty thinks that no court has ever made a decision on the people's tenancy rent in history. It is better to give the decree to praise the families who actively reduce the tenancy rent. In this way, the world will inevitably be in the same place as Guanzhong..."

This is a Confucian way of educating and governing the government of the law, which means that praises good and criticizes badly, which is completely different from the Legalists' orders and prohibitions.

This practice sometimes works. For example, in all dynasties, there has been no explicit prohibition of widows from remarrying, but the court and government praise widows who are upholding integrity, which leads to the society's despises of remarried widows, and eventually believes that the remarried widows are not worthy of respecting their ancestors when they cook.

But when doing so involves real interests, the binding force is minimal.

Therefore, all dynasties have advocated education on small matters or things that are difficult to stipulate in laws, but for important matters such as "rebellion", they must use legal provisions to clearly stipulate how to execute them.

"Yang Zhongshu, Yan Shaojian's memorial was very clear that this would not work." Cheng Mingzhen said as he bowed to Li Shimin and said, "Your Majesty thinks that the report from Yan Shaojian is reasonable and the court should implement the order.

Just now, Yang Zhongshu said that there was no precedent for the court to manage the affairs of the people's tenancy in all dynasties. However, because local tyrants did not work, they occupied a huge number of fertile land, and the people who worked were short of food and clothing, and the Yellow Turban rebelled, causing chaos in the world.

Now our dynasty cannot reduce the rent with His Majesty’s heroic power, and it is even more impossible for future generations to move local tyrants. Too much local power in the future will not be a blessing for the Tang Dynasty!”

Li Shimin nodded silently and agreed, and there was no need to use it in the future.

Li Shimin immediately won the world, and was neither proficient in internal governance nor caring about it. Moreover, in the early Tang Dynasty, the world was in decline, production was resumed everywhere, resources were relatively less tense, and social contradictions were not prominent, so Li Shimin never cared about it.

But today the contradiction hidden under the harmonious appearance was exposed by Li Chengqian, and Li Shimin certainly wanted to solve it. Just as Cheng Mingzhen said that he couldn't solve it, who could solve it?

Just when Li Shimin was about to make up his mind to reduce the rent, he suddenly heard the sound of drums coming from outside.

Everyone in Liangyi Palace was surprised. Who dared to sing an opera in the palace at this time?

"Read the report to Your Majesty Li Daliang for any reason." Li Daliang's voice sounded outside the hall gate.

When Li Shimin heard this, his expression changed immediately. Li Daliang was the general of the left guard and was on duty at Taiji Palace today. What happened to him let him come and report it in person?

"What's the matter? Let's go into the palace and say." Li Shimin said seriously.

Li Daliang walked into the hall and bowed to Li Shimin, "I will tell you, and the tens of thousands of people in Chang'an City lined up in a long line and entered the imperial city from Changlin Gate to celebrate the recovery of His Royal Highness, and now they are almost at Chengtian Gate."

"What?" Li Shimin was shocked when he heard this. He stood up and walked out without waiting for Li Daliang to answer.

Everyone in the hall was also shocked, and when they saw Li Shimin walking out, they hurriedly followed.

Li Shimin walked out while passing the order: "I sent my order to order Zhang Shigui to guard Xuanwu Gate closely, and he would not leave without my own handwritten edict."

With infinite shock and anger, Li Shimin walked steadily to Chengtian Gate. Standing on the Chengtian Gate Tower, he happened to see the people's team passing by Chengtian Gate without any intention of stopping.

This made Li Shimin and the ministers behind him breathe a sigh of relief, but Li Shimin still looked at the vast crowd of people with a gloomy face. Finally, he saw two people holding a banner each. When Li Shimin saw clearly, he said: "The Tang Dynasty is the ages, the prince is Qianqiu." When he saw eight big words, he almost didn't get angry.
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