After the war ended last year, Li Po originally wanted to have Tai Chi Hall renovated, at least to connect to the fire dragon, but the plan could not keep up with the changes.
This year's infrastructure construction has entered a new stage. Even the Sun and Moon Star Building under construction in the palace was stopped by his order, so it is difficult to make any further changes to the Tai Chi Hall.
Staying in the Tai Chi Hall in March feels colder than winter, so I can only put on a few more clothes to keep the charcoal fire burning brighter.
It is not easy for him to be the emperor. He often has to set an example and show his attitude, so it shows that it is not easy to be an emperor. On the contrary, stupid kings have the characteristics of wanton behavior, as long as the human nature is exposed.
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Li Po entered the side hall of the Tai Chi Hall in bulky clothes. He sniffled from time to time. March was the turn of winter and spring. A few days ago, Dachao sat on the Dragon Throne for half a day. He was so cold that he caught a cold.
The imperial doctor finally waited until the emperor had a slight illness, and immediately arranged all means for the emperor. Li Po felt how bitter the medicinal soup was. After drinking it for two days, his nose was still runny, and his appetite was not much better, so Li Po
I feel that the imperial doctors are quite useless.
So he forced the Yuwen scholar to let the imperial doctors out as much as they could to prevent them from working behind closed doors and making fun of the emperor all day long.
The person on duty in the palace today is Xue Heng, the regular attendant of the Sanqi. He is from Shu and his ancestral home is in Chengdu. He is in his forties. In his early years, he served as a county magistrate and a chariot in the county. Before that, he was the censor of the temple.
Now he has been promoted to the rank of regular servant of Sanqi.
This person was recommended by the Ministry of Personnel. He had very rich official qualifications and very good talents. He also wrote good articles. Even though the Shu people had no sense of presence in the court, Li Po was very satisfied.
Seeing the emperor's arrival, Xue Heng led two ministers to come and pay homage to the emperor.
Li Po looked at the deserted side hall and asked casually, "Where is Doctor Sun?"
Xue Heng replied: "Doctor Sun went to Dali Temple early in the morning. He heard that there was a storm there soon. Dr. Sun said he would go and have a look first."
Li Po nodded. Chang'an Academy had been quarreling for several months, and finally the results were coming. More than a hundred people came to Dali Temple alone, and most of them were officials from the capital. Even if most of them were not high-ranking, it was enough.
Call it Eucalyptus grandis.
Moreover, many of them will be executed, and the number of people who will be exiled in the end may be over a thousand, which can alleviate the pressure on Chang'an, which has an increasing population.
High-ranking officials such as Du Yan, the minister of rites, were also implicated. According to reports from Dai Wei, the young minister of Dali Temple, the evidence of the crime is conclusive, and other crimes may also be involved.
I was hunting rabbits in the grass, but I was surprised to see a very fat one.
There is nothing to hesitate about. The eldest grandson, Shunde, was already assigned to supervise the construction of the imperial mausoleum, let alone a Minister of Rites?
At that time, Li Po secretly sneered, Weidu in the south of the city, go to Tianchiwu, you are so brave, then go to Dali Temple and see how you stand so high?
So Li Po issued an edict to interrogate Du Yan strictly, and ordered Yulin General Lin Hong to lead his men to surround the Du Mansion and not allow anyone in the Du Mansion to enter or leave. He sent Du Yan to give a confession from Dali Temple, and then ransacked his house and exterminated his family.
The reason why the Chang'an Academy incident has not been concluded until now is because Du Yan, the Minister of Rites, was involved in the incident. More than one person accused Du Yan of taking bribes and accepting property.
That is to say, he is the minister of the Ministry of Rites. If he were replaced by the Ministry of Personnel and the Ministry of Husbandry, he would definitely sell his officials and titles.
This was not uncommon in Luoyang City at that time. Each of the seven nobles of Luoyang had great power in personnel affairs. Except for Huang Puwuyi, who was an upright man, the rest of them were not rule-abiding figures.
But in the early Tang Dynasty, Du Yan was still the first high-ranking official to be convicted of bribery. Even Li Po couldn't help but wonder, what was the use of having so much wealth?
He asked Lin Hong to lead people to surround Du Yan's residence because he did not want the Du family to transfer the stolen goods. Moreover, Du Yan was the minister of the Ministry of Rites after all. Li Po ordered Dai Wei to follow the procedures as much as possible, so he did not convict Du Yan before
, not a single plant or tree in Du Mansion was touched.
In fact, this also marked that Li Po was going to take a serious action. He had a hunch that the imperial examination fraud that had been going on for several years would probably fall on Du Yan.
In the fourth year of Yuan Zhen's reign, the leak of the question was revealed. Du Yan was one of the people who proposed the question from the Ministry of Rites. After three or four years of investigation, Gao Jian almost caught him.
In the seventh year of Yuan Zhen's reign, there was another scandal in the examination room, but he wanted to implicate Fang Qiao. Du Yan happened to have obtained the position of minister of the Ministry of civil affairs in the past.
Therefore, Du Zhili met all the characteristics of the suspect, and coupled with his alliance with Changsun Shunde, in Li Po's mind, Du Yan was undoubtedly dead.
The Inspector Temple did not play a role in supervising the officials at all. Li Po was very dissatisfied with this and called the "recovered" Inspector Temple Minister Wang Gui, Inspector Temple Shaoqing Gao Jifu and others to the Taiji Hall.
A slap in the face reprimand.
They were blamed for only focusing on the high-ranking officials in the court, often reporting trivial matters, and failing to check the movements of the officials below, so that long-term abuses gradually occurred.
If there is no such thing as the Chang'an Academy, if things go on like this and Du Yan and his like are allowed to exercise power arbitrarily, small disadvantages will become the beginning of big disasters. What is the use of you officials?
The officials of the Inspectorate Temple turned pale after being scolded by him. The next day, the Inspectorate Temple Minister Wang Gui resigned from his post. Li Po refused, and Wang Gui resigned again. Li Po was "furious" and demoted him to the rank of Inspector of Nankai Road.
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Wang Gui left Beijing at the end of February, taking only two servants with him to take up his post. He was very decisive.
He would first go to Jiangling, go down the Yangtze River to the sea, and then take a boat to the South China Sea. This journey would be thousands of miles away. It is estimated that it will be difficult for Old Man Wang to see the scenery of Chang'an again in his life.
Gao Jifu, the Shaoqing of the Inspectorate Temple, got another big advantage just a few days after his promotion. He took the position of Chief Inspector of the Temple. The speed of his promotion was staggering.
This is actually not only because his talents were recognized by the emperor and courtiers, but also because he was actually a surrendered minister of Li Mi and was not reused during Li Yuan's reign.
The talents left by Li Shimin are indeed useful, but because they have common experiences, they can easily form a party, and the same is true for the Jin people, so Li Po will deliberately promote some figures from other factions to prevent anyone from taking over.
Difficult to make.
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With Sun Fujia away, Li Po felt much more relaxed. Sun Fujia always stared at him, much more responsible than Wei Zheng, the guy who dared to take a nap in the Tai Chi Hall, but it made him feel a little uncomfortable.
He felt that he should choose two more admonishment doctors to share the burden for Sun Fujia. Instead of always focusing on his behavior as an emperor, it is better to go home and have more cubs.
Li Po sat on his old seat, twisted his body a few times to make himself more comfortable, sniffled again, and then got ready to work. The hall suddenly became quiet.
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