A voice came from behind. Yun Chu turned around and saw a dark old man with a square face.
This man has thick joints. At first glance, he thought he was an old farmer. But if he looked at his eyes, he knew he was an official, a very big and powerful official.
Officials actually have a smell, some officials smell like books, some officials smell like copper, and some people also have the aroma of rouge. Like the official in front of him who smells of earth, this is the first time Yun Chu has smelled it.
See.
So, he slowly raised his hands and said, "That's right."
As soon as this man who smelled of earth came out, the officials who had been standing there waiting to enter the palace immediately dispersed. They might be afraid that blood would be spattered on them.
"A certain family, Liu Rengui, your Wannian County occupation of our land in Lantian County will be resolved today."
Yunchu retorted and said sarcastically: "You, the people of Lantian County, don't know how to cherish such a good land in Bashang. Why don't we, the people of Wannian County, use it to grow some vegetables and grain?"
Liu Rengui looked at Yun Chu calmly and said, "You have crossed the line."
Yunchu sneered and said: "This is my territory of the Tang Dynasty. What about crossing the border? If Wannian County is on the border of the Tang Dynasty, do you believe that I will move the boundary monument of Wannian County to the ends of the earth?"
Liu Rengui: "As an official of the Tang Dynasty, you must abide by the minimum rules and not be unscrupulous."
Yunchu laughed and said, "As long as the people in my Wannian County have enough food and clothing, I don't care what your Lantian County looks like."
After listening to Yunchu's words, Liu Rengui's pupils seemed to be slowly getting smaller, and he said every word: "This is what a single man did."
Yun Chu said: "After the people from Lantian County enter Wannian County, I will naturally treat the people of Lantian like brothers.
If you feel unhappy, you can manage your Lantian County well and don't let them secretly run to Chang'an. Also, I heard that you killed a Zhechong Captain. Now, you can try to see if you can beat him to death.
I!"
Liu Rengui frowned and said, "Are you still unwilling to give up this land in Bashang?"
Yun Chu shook his official robe and said: "Since you don't cherish the land, what's wrong with letting the common people who cherish the land farm it?"
Liu Rengui laughed contemptuously and said, "It's arrogant and rude."
After saying that, this guy stopped entangled with Yun Chu. When he saw the palace door opened, he strode into the palace gate and accepted inspection.
When officials of the Tang Dynasty go to court now, few of them carry ceremonial swords. However, Yun Chu has a Tang sword stuck on his waist, standing among the officials, and is very eye-catching.
Huangmen, who was responsible for inspecting the officials entering the palace, frowned and said, "Why are you wearing a ceremonial knife?"
Yun Chu smiled and said: "It will be used in a fight later."
"Who are you fighting with?"
Yun Chu pointed at the back of Liu Rengui who was retreating and said, "Liu Rengui."
Huang Men was also an interesting person. He took away Yun Chu's ceremonial sword and pointed to the wat board on his waist with great experience: "When fighting in the court, the wat board is usually used. If you use a knife, you will be stabbed by the palace guards."
Hacked to death."
When Huang Men said this, the palace guards standing on both sides of the palace gate couldn't help but puff up their chests, as if they felt that Huang Men's words couldn't be more correct.
Yun Chu waved the ivory wat tablet in his hand along the way, and entered the Tai Chi Palace following Wen Wen who kept rolling his eyes.
The Taiji Palace is very large, and the palaces are one after another. However, there are so many officials who come to court that Yun Chu, Wen Wen and other small officials can only stand outside. When the cold wind blows, they are as cold as dogs.
Shivering randomly.
"Why can he get in?"
Yun Chu pointed at Liu Rengui's back and asked Wen Rou.
Wen Wen sighed and said: "A sixth-grade censor is already very impressive. Of course he can enter the main hall."
As he spoke, he took out two teacups from his sleeves and placed them on the teapot. He also took out a teapot with a cotton cover, poured hot tea into the teacups and said to Yunchu, "Drink some ginger tea to warm yourself up.
"
Yunchu took a sip of ginger tea. It tasted good. Sugar was added. It was sweet with the spicy taste of shredded ginger. One sip made him feel comfortable all over.
"Did you bring a teapot and teacup with you to the court?"
"My ancestor took this thing with him when he went to court. Later, when he could enter the palace and be warmed by a fire dragon, he passed it on to my grandpa who at that time could only stay outside the palace and suffer from the cold like us.
Later, my grandfather was able to enter the hall, so he naturally passed this thing on to me. When I can enter the hall and avoid the cold, I will pass this thing on to other brothers in our family who still need to be cold."
"How many members of your family are in this hall?"
"Originally, there were five. Later, when my ancestor got older, he usually stopped coming to court. Now, there are four."
Yun Chu smashed his mouth in envy and said: "It's really good."
He smiled softly and said: "From now on, you will have one child a year for ten years. If you find that the first child is not very satisfactory, you can quickly change your wife and have another child. You will continue to have children for twenty years until you reach the age and status of my ancestor."
At that time, maybe a few people from your family can enter the main hall to keep warm.
Take your time, don't rush, we are still young."
Yun Chu looked around and found that what Wen Wen said made sense. There were so many petty officials standing on the Danqi, just like he and Wen Wen were so young but there were only a few.
Standing in the cold wind, Yun Chu fantasized for a while about the glorious scene of the whole hall filled with the Yun family, when he was bumped by Wen Wenwen on the shoulder.
"Listen to Liu Rengui's voice."
Yunchu quickly pricked up his ears and listened attentively, but he couldn't hear clearly. However, what Liu Rengui was talking about was not the dispute between Lantian County and Wannian County, but about the recent rumors about the royal family in Chang'an market.
Liu Rengui accused the emperor of being too benevolent and allowing things in the palace to be tampered with and exaggerated by the people, thereby damaging the royal family's face.
He also begged the emperor to manage everyone in the palace well, and not to let the strict palace confinement of the Tang Dynasty become a broken wall with holes through which any wind could spread.
Not only that, this tough-headed man also accused Zhao Guogong's eldest son, Sun Wuji, of not strictly enforcing the laws as an internal minister, and was even suspected of having a corpse on top of him, which led to the emperor almost encountering misfortune in Jiucheng Palace.
Yun Chuchao looked at Wen Wen who also had a look of fear on his face.
At this moment, both of them understood that the magistrate of Lantian County, who usually had no chance to go to court, took the opportunity of a lawsuit with Wannian County to come to the court to relieve Li Zhi's worries.
It was not until this moment that Yun Chu and Wen Wen knew that Li Zhi had never given up on the investigation of Helan's death. The reason why he was so calm during this period was probably because he was waiting for this man named Liu Rengui to find an opportunity.
Going to Beijing.
Liu Rengui's voice became louder and louder. Even if the censor thought that he had lost his manners in front of the palace, he even scolded the censor in front of the palace.
"The one being scolded is my second uncle." Wen Wen whispered.
"Isn't this person worried about being killed by Duke Zhao?"
"If you can't kill him, Liu Rengui is a minister left by Emperor Taizong to your majesty today. That's why he is already a sixth-grade official and a county magistrate. Emperor Taizong has been suppressing this person during his period, just to promote Liu Rengui
The favor left to His Majesty today.
It seems that the time has come for Liu Rengui to get promoted and make a fortune."
Sure enough, when Yunchu was half frozen to death, the eunuch Duanhong's feminine voice sounded in the hall.
Liu Rengui was promoted from the sixth-rank Lantian County Magistrate to the fifth-rank Chang'an County Magistrate.
This is nothing. The Chang'an County Magistrate is only a part-time official, and his official position has actually become one of the four ministers in the province, and he is specifically responsible for reviewing the seals and refutations of imperial edicts.
If you have any objections, you can directly revise and refute it and return the edict. If you have no objections, it will be sealed and reviewed by senior officials under the sect before being handed over to the Shangshu Province for execution.
There is also the power to review and review the memorials sent to the emperor by all the yamen in the world, to check if there are any mistakes, and then to correct them before submitting them to the emperor.
In the Tang Dynasty, as long as they did not commit any crimes, 70% of those who had held the official position of Goshizhong became prime ministers.
After listening carefully to the sounds coming from the hall, Wen Wenwen whispered to Yun Chu: "How about forgetting the land on Ba Shang? We really can't beat it."
Yun Chu smiled and said: "Since he is no longer the magistrate of Lantian County, why should we give up? Since he is going to be the magistrate of Chang'an County, you see, from now on only he will beg us, and I will not beg him.
We are going to secure the land in Bashang."
Wen Wen said worriedly: "Isn't this too optimistic?"
Before he finished speaking, a eunuch came out swinging a fly whisk and said loudly: "Xuanwannian County Wei Yunchu entered the palace."
Wen Wenwen trembled when she heard this and said, "It's not shameful to bow down to the new one."
Yunchu looked around at the large group of officials who were gloating over the misfortune, and followed the eunuch into the main hall for the first time.
After being led by the eunuch to the place where he was being scolded in the middle of the hall, Yun Chu held a wat tablet and bowed down to pay homage to the emperor.
Yun Chu liked the fact that there was no need to kneel down in the Tang Dynasty court, so he held the wat tablet and said loudly: "I, Wannian County Lieutenant Yun Chu, have an audience with my emperor."
Li Zhi, who was wearing an emperor's hat, was completely different from Li Zhi who had a bare head. The beads hanging down from the hat blocked his eyes, but it did not prevent him from seeing the expressions of his ministers through the gaps in the beads.
"Tell me, why did you occupy the land in Lantian County and beat the Lantian County captain?"
There was no emotion in Li Zhi's voice, like an emotionless talking machine.
"Wei Chen saw that the land in Bashang was idle and felt it was a pity. Wannian County has always been short of land. In order to make Wannian County self-sufficient in food, Wei Chen naturally sent people to cultivate it."
Li Zhi was obviously stunned by Yun Chu's remarks. Liu Rengui, who had just had a verbal battle with the Confucian scholars, immediately said: "Where did you pass the imperial law? How can you act so wantonly?"
Yun Chu raised his head and glanced at Liu Rengui: "Even if it is royal land, if there is room, the common people will plant a few rows of vegetables, light a few nests of beans, and plant some mulberry and hemp. I, the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, have never investigated it, nor have I ever held it accountable.
I have never heard of capturing those people.
Why is your Lantian County different?
It's just some open space in the mountains and forests, and the idle land next to the tombs. If the people want to plant more food and vegetables, why not?
If you still work in Lantian County, you use government officials to beat and drive the people like cattle and horses. I would like to ask County Magistrate Liu, is this Lantian County still our land of the Tang Dynasty? Why can’t the people of the Tang Dynasty plant crops on the open land?
If your Lantian County is not our territory of the Tang Dynasty, tomorrow the county captain will order all the government officials and civilians to open up the territory for our Tang Dynasty."
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