Chapter 59: Li Zhis methods are above the nine heavens
Yun Chu smiled and said: "They are your disciples now. After you teach them how to read, it will be my turn."
"Wen Huan and Di Guangsi are both very smart children, and their grandfather and grandmother are also well-educated people. Why don't you wait for the children to learn all the words before taking over?"
Yun Chu shook his head and said: "Some knowledge requires them to master some concepts before they start studying, because these concepts conflict with their family studies.
This matter has already been shown in Li Hong, and I don’t want these children to follow Li Hong’s old path again.”
Yu Xiurong nodded and said, "I'll wait and see."
The couple passed by the three children's rooms, but did not disturb them from imitating frog calls. It was the first time for the children to live alone away from their parents. If they said they were not excited, they would be lying.
People don't have much happy time to begin with, and disturbing people's happiness without any reason is a grave sin.
Chang'an City has not changed because of the arrival of Prince Li Hong of the Tang Dynasty. If there has been any change, it is that the agricultural doctors of Chang'an City are holding their research results of the past two years at the gate of the East Palace, waiting to see Prince Li Hong.
As for Hong, everyone knows that His Highness the Crown Prince has the habit of purchasing new crops at high prices.
Chang'an people are now accustomed to new crops. No one is surprised when several new vegetables suddenly appear in the vegetable market. As long as they suit your appetite, you can buy them and eat them home. Generally speaking, anything that is not poisonous is a good thing.
The agricultural doctors in Chang'an are fat butts and don't know where these rich people came from. As long as they hear that there are some new hybrid things in the hands of the agricultural doctors, they dare to throw money at them before they can see the shadow.
The land is left to agricultural doctors to toss around.
However, this time they could not see Li Hong. They were greeted by Prince Xima Lou Shide. Although Lou Shide himself was a very humble person, he was also very polite when facing these agricultural doctors. However,
It still makes many agricultural doctors feel extremely disappointed.
Because Lou Shide was much smarter than the prince. When the agricultural doctors left the East Palace, they returned home with a full load. Unfortunately, it was not the prince who accepted them. If the prince had accepted them, they would not have returned with a full load when they left the East Palace, but with high hopes.
Gold, pearls and jade are brought out of the palace, and there are carts and carts of things produced in Chang'an, but all of them combined are not worth as much as a single ingot of gold.
At this time, Li Hong was standing in the official office of Taipu Temple in Chang'an Imperial City, while Xu Jingzong was sitting in a chair half dead, with the tea in his hand untouched and a gloomy face that seemed to be able to scrape off a few taels of frost.
come out.
Huang Ruyu, the minister of Taipu Temple, had a face ashen as death, and the head of the driving department looked as if he were a widower. The other officials of the two departments had their arms and legs trembling, and the sweat on their foreheads was flowing down like a stream.
Li Hong's gloomy voice sounded in the lobby of the government office.
"Since the fourth year of Xianqing, the imperial court has never transported horses from Taipu Temple and the driving department. I thought that in the past five years, there should be a lot of horses accumulated. Unexpectedly, neither Taipu Temple nor the driving department is in charge.
In the current horse administration, the number of horses has not increased, but has decreased by 15%.
Huang Ruyu, Langcheng, don’t you two have anything to say to me?"
Huang Ruyu, the minister of Taipu Temple, gritted his teeth and said: "Your Highness, you don't know. Horse raising is also divided into young and old. In the fifth year of Xianqing's reign, a rotten nose disease broke out at the Yinshan Racecourse. In just three months, six thousand horses died suddenly.
More than three hundred.
In the sixth year of Xianqing and the first year of Longshuo, rotten nose disease also appeared at the Damanying military horse farm. Although the isolation was timely, more than 3,000 war horses were still affected. These are not the most serious. The most serious is
During the two and a half years when rotten noses were rampant, herdsmen no longer raised horses or took on foals. This was the main reason for the downturn in the horse administration of the Tang Dynasty.
Now, Your Highness the Prince wants to recruit 16,000 war horses, please forgive me for being unable to do anything."
Li Hong smiled slightly, sat down, picked up the tea cup, took a sip of tea and said softly: "So, neither the Taipus Temple nor the driving department can raise 16,000 horses for the lonely prince Liuli.
Yeah?
There is my father's will here, why, even my father's will doesn't work in your Taipu Temple and the driving department, right?"
Huang Ruyu, the minister of Taipu Temple, sweated profusely and closed his eyes tightly. "It's not that I don't respect His Majesty's will, but that Taipus Temple, which belongs to the driving department, cannot produce so many war horses."
Li Hong stood up, stamped his feet on the ground and said: "In April of the first year of Yuanshuo, Taipu Temple sent out eight thousand war horses and assigned them to the Yingzhou Governor's Mansion.
In September of the second year of Yuanshuo, another 5,000 war horses were distributed to Zhao Xuanhuai, the governor of Youzhou.
In July of the first year of Yuanshuo, Xue Rengui supervised the governor of Yingzhou and provided eight thousand war horses to Yingzhou. However, Xue Rengui reported to the court that there were no horses in Yingzhou.
So Xue Rengui borrowed three thousand horses from Zhao Xuanhuai, the governor of Youzhou, and this was able to calm down the commotion in the Yingzhou camp.
Huang Ruyu, come and tell me where the war horses that were sent to the Governor's Mansion in Yingzhou have gone?"
Huang Ruyu opened her eyes and said calmly: "Your Highness should ask Qifu Liangyu, the governor of Yingzhou, instead of questioning the minor ministers."
Li Hong raised his head and looked at the algae roof of the office, and said quietly: "Qifu Liangyu's bones are already rotting, and you actually asked me to ask him?"
Huang Ruyu, who had already calmed down, said: "If Your Highness still has any questions, you can ask the Queen to clarify them."
Just when Li Hong was about to get angry, he heard Xu Jingzong behind him whisper: "Huang Ruyu, you are asking for death."
As he spoke, this old guy who was about to die came to Huang Ruyu and stamped his feet and said: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will not ask the Queen where the eight thousand horses went. Now, His Highness the Crown Prince wants 16,000 war horses."
, you have to give.
If you give it, everything will be easy; if you don't give it, everything will be fine. Your Huang family in Shu may be in danger of being exterminated."
Seeing that she had offended His Highness the Crown Prince so much, Huang Ruyu simply broke the jar and said bluntly: "The Taipu Temple cannot get the sixteen thousand horses that Your Highness wants, even if Huang Ruyu is killed.
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Xu Jingzong sighed and said to Prince Li Hong: "Not only are they not prepared to build a war horse for His Highness, the Sixth Prince, but they are also preparing to prevent His Highness from forming the Sixth Prince."
Upon hearing this, Huang Ruyu pointed at Xu Jingzong and yelled: "You evil thief, how dare you take a quote out of context like this."
Xu Jingzong coughed slightly and said: "Huang Ruyu, you have to make a distinction. The prince is a monarch, not a minister. If the prince wants a horse, you'd better have one. If not, there is no need for your Huang family to exist. You have to figure this out."
clear.
Even if the queen values you, can the relationship between you be as close as the mother-son relationship between the prince and the queen?
And now, you have violated the plan first and been rude to the prince later, and then falsely accused the queen of coming out in an attempt to exonerate you from corruption.
You, you, you are really asking for your own death.
During His Majesty's expedition to Liaodong, the Mazheng army in Taipu Temple raised more than 870,000 horses and more than 260,000 war horses. Now, you can't even produce the 16,000 war horses that the prince needs. I will destroy you.
The whole clan is really not wronged."
Huang Ruyu pondered for a long time, and finally gritted his teeth and shook his head: "No!"
Xu Jingzong sighed deeply and said to Li Hong: "Your Highness can send out the palace guards to Shuzhong."
After saying that, he returned to the chair and continued to squint his eyes to relax.
Li Hong gritted his teeth and said, "Here comes someone!"
The eunuch Chunxi immediately appeared in front of Li Hong.
Li Hong looked at Huang Ruyu, who had an earthy face, and said: "Preaching the prince's teaching and ordering Xiao Siye, Zhang Yuanwu led two hundred palace guards and immediately rushed to the middle of Shu to bring Huang Ruyu's relatives to Chang'an for service."
Chunxi took the crown prince's order and quickly left the official office.
Huang Ruyu looked at Chunxi walking away with a look of despair. She wanted to open her mouth several times, but finally kept silent.
Li Hong lamented in his heart and ordered the palace guards to send Huang Ruyu, Lang Cheng and other officials, big and small, to Chang'an prison.
Although doing so will encounter great resistance, now, with an arrow on the string, he has to do so.
When Li Hong went back to Yun's for lunch at noon, his face was still gloomy. Even though the food was very tasty, he still ate it tastelessly.
If he didn't say anything, Yun Chu would certainly not ask, but the other people at the dinner table saw that the atmosphere here was not right, so they ate in a hurry and left in a hurry.
After Yunchu finished his meal, he drank the tea brought by Yu Xiurong, holding a book in one hand and reading while drinking tea.
Li Hong stuffed the last mouthful of cold noodles into his mouth and complained to Yun Chu: "Master, seeing that I feel so uncomfortable, can't you help me?"
Yunchu looked at Li Hong and said, "Are you so anxious to form the Prince's Sixth Rate?"
Li Hong said hurriedly: "Without Prince Liu Sui, I can't sleep."
Yunchu said again: "Prince, six rates, one rate is full of 2,000 people, six rates is 12,000 people, do you think these people are enough for you to overthrow your father and ascend to the throne?"
Li Hong's eyes widened and he said, "I never thought about it."
Yun Chu sat up from the recliner and pointed at Li Hong with a rolled-up book: "You didn't think about it, but you did it."
"I just want to form the Prince Liuliu. Is there anything wrong with that? Besides, my father agreed."
Yun Chu sneered and said: "Now that His Majesty has all the power, no one in Zonghengyu dares to disobey. Do you think that if His Majesty really agrees, Huang Ruyu and the others dare not agree?"
Although the past few years have been a slow year for horse breeding, for the Tang Dynasty, whose territory now stretches thousands of miles from east to west, north to south, although it is difficult to gather 16,000 horses, it is not impossible.
The reason why I won't give it to you is because His Majesty has no intention of giving it to you, and you just revealed that the Queen had taken away four thousand war horses, and used this as a blackmail to prepare to get sixteen thousand horses... Hmm, this
What I did was even uglier than the obscene clothes Li Si made for me.
The most obscene clothes Li Si makes for me make me get stuck in my crotch. What you are doing is pulling your father’s balls..."
"Why don't you say it so harshly?"
"You're allowed to do it, but I'm not allowed to tell you?"
"Xu Jingzong said that in Taipu Temple, the driving department is just a group of sesame people who can't produce oil unless they are pressed."
"Who is Xu Jingzong?"
"Nie Chen!"
"Since you know that he is a sycophant, you should know that the starting point of this person's actions is never based on his correct judgment, but on your goals. As long as he is sure that it is what you want to do, he will definitely find ways to do it.
He must also complete it. As for the consequences and the price, that is not something he has to consider. Anyway, you will be the one who takes the blame in the end."
Li Hong thought for a moment and said, "My mother took away eight thousand war horses. Can't I take away twice as many horses?"
Yun Chu shook his head and said: "There are only four thousand horses, and two thousand of them are old and injured horses that have retired from the army."
Li Hong frowned and said, "Isn't that true?"
Yunchu sneered and said: "Do you think your mother really has the ability to see the sky now and can just take away eight thousand war horses from the Taipu Temple and the driving department without your father knowing anything about it?
Giving your mother two thousand war horses is a sign of honor for her queen, and giving two thousand old horses is a warning.
Speaking of which, your father is really powerful. Through this incident, he took advantage of your mother and made her work hard and pay so much money. After the land, she only got 2,000 horses.
I think your mother doesn't know how upset she is now, and your majesty probably thinks that he did a good job in this matter, so he used it on your head for the last time. It seems that your father has succeeded.