Chapter 48 The Prince's Wings Are Hard
It is said that the people of Chang'an sent away the first year of Wude with a sense of anxiety. Entering the second year of Wude, it was a year worth looking forward to. The Li Tang occupied Guanzhong and became more and more stable. Li Mi, who was famous all over the world, surrendered, and even Du Fuwei, who was powerful in the Jianghuai, surrendered to the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty was expected to be, and unification of the world was just around the corner.
Li Yuan was also very happy. After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, its territory expanded by one third, increasing the territory of 19 states and 114 counties. Now the surrender of Li Mi and Du Fuwei has greatly alleviated the shortcomings of the Tang Dynasty's lack of military strength. These are just phenomena that the people can see on the surface, and the mottled blood stains buried on the glossy surface, which are not something ordinary people can know.
Liu Wuzhou attacked Jinyang fiercely. If Li Xiuning had not arrived in time and led the female deputies to retreat Liu Wuzhou, the land of Longxing would have been unstoppable. However, Liu Wuzhou joined forces with Song Jingang at this time and invaded Youzhou. Luo Yi, the general manager of Youzhou, asked for help from Chang'an. For Li Yuan, although Youzhou was just an enclave, he had to save the country and the country in the long run.
Li Yuan and the imperial court's central government have not yet come up with a resolution. At this time, what the imperial court's most worried about was the Lingzhou issue. Once Lingzhou is broken, the Turkic army will follow Fengxiang Road and advance into Guanzhong. Relatively speaking, Lingzhou is the top priority.
However, when it was the Shangyuan Festival (the Lantern Festival), Li Yuan decided to hold a special meeting. He opened a curfew and had fun with the people. However, Li Jiancheng unexpectedly missed the celebration of Shangyuan Festival.
Li Jiancheng was in a very bad mood because the Turkic Moheyehu arrived in Chang'an and conveyed Shibi Khan's anger to Li Yuan.
From the inner emotions, Li Jiancheng was not satisfied with the arrogance and tyranny of the Turks. If it were not for the Turks' rebellion, Xue Ju of the Western Qin Dynasty, Li Gui, King Yongle of Li Gui, King Liang of Liang, King Liang of Liang, King Liu Wuzhou of Yuanxing, and Song Jingang of Yizhou would never dare to be enemies with the Tang Dynasty. Although Xue Ju has been destroyed, Li Gui still seized Wuwei and dominated the local area. The Liang army captured Lingzhou, while Liu Wuzhou directly sent troops to attack Jinyang, the Longqian land of the Tang Dynasty.
Now, the Turks turned around and made a raid. The evil people complained first, questioning why the Tang Dynasty was betrayed and attacked Bogulu City without authorization.
"Characterizes a deer as a horse, turns black and white, speaks nonsense, is despicable and shameless!" Li Jiancheng wanted to curse, but the education he received since childhood made him accustomed to the fact that he was not showing his emotions and was used to being gentle.
In the Eastern Palace, a huge pool was built by imitating the Ganlu Palace Tangquan Palace. Li Jiancheng buried his whole body in the water, wrapping the warm water, which isolated the noise outside. He seemed to be in his mother's body. He curled up and let himself float in the pool until his lungs were almost blown up, and then he poked his head out of the water and breathed in his mouth. He tried this feeling of dying again and again, and was enjoying it.
Tang Lin, the censor of the Secretary of the Secretariat, reported secretly to Li Jiancheng: "Duke of Wei, Pei Ji, the right servant of the Shangshu, has secretly revealed to the Censorate that he wanted to impeach Xiuwu County Bo, General Zhongwu, and the Right Guard of the Eastern Palace led Chen Ying to arbitrarily cause trouble!"
The Censor of the Shushi was the second official of the Censorate, equivalent to the Chief Censor of the Censor. Tang Lin was not a perfect person in the Censorate. It can be imagined that after the Yuan Dynasty, the yamen was officially opened and the first time the dynasty meeting of the Second Year of Wude was held. Chen Yinghui was impeached by the Censor of the Court as a sieve...
Whenever Li Jiancheng thought that Chen Ying would be charged with false charges, he felt a surge of anger in his heart.
"ah……"
At this moment, a beautiful woman in palace outfit came in slowly. The Crown Princess Zheng Guanyin said with heartache: "Your Highness, you are..."
"I am not willing to give up!"
Then Li Jiancheng questioned Li Yuan about the Turkic Mohe representative Shibi Khan, and Pei Ji secretly revealed that he wanted to impeach Chen Ying.
Zheng Guanyin asked, "Your Highness, don't you want General Chen to be questioned?"
"That's right!" Li Jiancheng patiently explained out of respect for Zheng Guanyin: "General Chen fought bloody battles and was not guilty of his contributions. If he was asked for guilt, he would definitely make the world angry!"
Zheng Guanyin nodded and smiled faintly, "It's actually not difficult to prevent General Chen from being questioned?"
Li Jiancheng thought that Zheng Guanyin had only seen the superficial problems and explained to her: "The meaning conveyed by Pei Ji is actually..."
Li Jiancheng pointed to the ceiling.
Li Jiancheng knew Li Yuan very well. At this time, the Tang Dynasty did not have the capital to fight against the Turks. Chen Ying was likely to be regarded as an abandoned son by Li Yuan to calm the anger of the Turks.
"How many people have had secret contacts with the imperial ministers?" Zheng Guanyin looked at Li Jiancheng and asked.
Li Jiancheng said: "A gentleman is friendly but not a party. If he is kind, there are many people!"
Youdao is the mystery of the authorities, and the bystanders are clear. Zheng Guanyin suddenly pointed the key point of the problem. Li Yuan, to put it nicely, is that he wants to be a bitch and a archway. Li Yuan wants Chen Ying's order to calm the anger of the Turks, but he is unwilling to bear the reputation of killing heroes without any reason. Therefore, he will only start with Chen Ying's personal morality. Chen Ying has no parents, and the crime of unfilial piety cannot be pressed on him. No matter what the charge is listed, Chen Ying will not die, but the censor will throw dirty water on Chen Ying.
If you pour dirty water, no matter how you pour it, you won't kill anyone. Zheng Guanyin said: "If the censor impeached General Chen's personal morality is a disadvantage, then how many people in the court will not be impeached?"
Li Jiancheng instantly understood what Zheng Guanyin meant. In fact, Li Yuan had to deal with Chen Ying, so he could only start with his personal morality. After all, Li Yuan was also a person who cherished his feathers. He would never bear the bad reputation of killing loyal ministers and good generals in order to please the Turks.
If you only impeach Chen Ying’s personal morality, you can also impeach other ministers. If you want to ask for crimes at that time, you can only ask for all the crimes, and you cannot only target Chen Ying alone.
With a solution, Li Jiancheng was very relieved. He worked very hard to please Zheng Guanyin, making Zheng Guanyin panting.
After being satisfied, Li Jiancheng summoned his confidant Wei Ting and asked him to come forward to connect with the ministers.
The first court meeting in the second year of Wude was held as scheduled, but the first issue was to propose the issue of spring farming. China is based on agriculture. No matter how it is done, this superficial work must be done beautifully.
The ministers had a fierce discussion on how to encourage, reclaim wasteland, and develop farming.
After about half an hour, the first issue finally ended in a quarrel.
Then, the King of Qin proposed to attack Wang Shichong and regain the Central Plains. As a result, the ministers could not convince anyone, so they could only put aside this controversy.
The third, fourth, fifth topic.
The sixth issue begins. This is a seventh-rank imperial envoy (not a typo, one of the officials of the Censorate) Zhang Gufeng bowed and said: "My deceiving General Zhongwu, the right guard, and the Xiuwu Bo Chen Ying deceived his superiors and concealed his subordinates, reselled military weapons, killed Liang Na Ren Ren, and falsely reported military achievements and other seven deeds!"
As soon as Zhang Gufeng finished speaking, the Censor Li Shiao said: "My decree, the Censor Li Shiao impeached, Duke of Wei, and the Right Master of Shangshu, Pei Ji, who was responsible for the trouble, took care of human life, formed a clique, appointed nepotism, sold official positions, and other twelve major crimes!"
Hearing this, Pei Ji's beard couldn't help but suck.
Impeach the prime minister of a country, but this is nothing. The censor does this job.
Li Yuan gradually felt something was wrong.
This is not true. The script was not written like this. Li Yuan gave Pei Ji a wink, and Pei Ji had to pretend that he didn't see it. The matter was beyond the expectations of him, the prime minister.
Full of anger, Li Yuan hurriedly ended the first court meeting of Wude in the second year. When he returned to the imperial study, Li Yuan was so angry that he kicked the table on the desk, which ended up hurting his own feet and pumping the air conditioner.
This incident was unexpected. Li Yuan easily thought of Li Jiancheng making trouble behind him. Before Li Yuan could send Xuan Peiji to meet him, Pei Ji had already arrived in the imperial study room.
Seeing the arrival of good friend Pei Ji, Li Yuan sighed and said, "The prince's wings are hard!"
Li Yuan was very angry. He didn't like this feeling of being out of control, even if this person was his own biological son.
Chapter completed!