Chapter 784: The Great Technique of Shifting the Blame
Li Zhi was always sick, but he lived a solid life for fifty-six years.
Li Zhi in the third year of Longshuo was only thirty-six years old. Originally, his wind disease should have seriously broken out in the fifth year of Xianqing. However, it was not until the third year of Long Shuo that Li Zhi's wind disease began to attack. However,
, it happens occasionally, and the pain lasts for two days and then goes away.
Prince Li Hong said he was sixteen years old, but in fact he was only fifteen years old. In another twenty years he would only be thirty-five years old. At that age, he was just right to be an emperor. He was neither too old nor too young. He could just use the money he had accumulated when he was the prince.
All political ambitions were realized in one fell swoop.
When it comes to becoming an emperor, it is not good to be too young. Once you have been an emperor for a long time, you will easily become tired and faint.
There is no benefit to being too old. Being a prince for a long time can easily make people lose their fighting spirit and they will just hang around.
Therefore, neither Yun Chu nor Wen Wen had any plans to help Li Hong kill Li Zhi and let Li Hong ascend the throne in advance.
It's best to let nature take its course.
The reason why Wu Mei became the empress was the product of countless coincidences. As long as Li Hong did not die early, it would be Li Hong, not Wu Mei, who would take care of the affairs of the court in place of the seriously ill Li Zhi. The most she could do was to listen to politics behind the curtain.
As for the Empress, to be honest, even Wu Mei's own dreams had never seen this scene.
The reason why she desperately grabbed power was entirely because of the insecurity that Li Zhi brought to her. In her opinion, if Li Zhi could kill Queen Wang and Concubine Xiao Shu for her, it would be inevitable that another one of her would not appear in the long years to come.
, replacing her position next to Li Zhi.
She could see clearly that Li Zhi was an emperor who seemed affectionate but was actually ruthless and unjust. Unless Li Hong ascended the throne and she became the Queen Mother, she would not be stable for a moment as long as Li Zhi was still the emperor.
In the era of political clarity, I had only heard of the Queen being replaced, but I had never heard of the Queen Mother being replaced.
Li Hong still has at least twenty years to prepare, and there is no need to form a prince six rate now.
Li Zhi knew very well what was going on with Li Chengqian's prince Liu Sui, and that was the source of the chaos.
After listening to the master's tirade, Li Hong scratched the back of his head and said, "So, I didn't understand the meaning of my father's words?"
Yun Chu waved the book in his hand and said, "Your father was waiting for you to refuse, but you agreed excitedly.
Therefore, it was logical that Lang Cheng refused to provide you with war horses when Huang Ruyu appeared.
I don’t know if you have noticed, but the people who object to providing you with war horses are all the staff in the two departments of Taipu Temple and the Driving Department, not just Huang Ruyu and Lang Cheng.
By the way, you didn’t really send anyone to capture Huang Ruyu’s family in Shuzhong, did you?”
Li Hong wanted to take the book in Yun Chu's hand, but was slapped away by Yun Chu. He then scratched his face and said, "I don't have the power to arrest fourth-grade officials yet. I'm just showing off. I didn't expect him to have nothing."
The reaction has made me unable to get up and down, and I can't get off the stage.
Master, what do you think I should do now?"
Yun Chu smiled and said: "Of course we should release Huang Ruyu, Lang Cheng and the officials of these two departments from prison as soon as possible. Not only should we be polite and considerate, but we should also try our best to apologize to them, just to scare them."
Li Hongteng stood up and said: "Impossible, absolutely impossible. If I ask King Gu to apologize to them, will King Gu be shameless?"
Yun Chu gritted his teeth and laughed and said: "You are only sixteen years old this year, so you still have the opportunity to pretend to be a child and do wrong things. If you were older, believe it or not, people would never give you a chance to admit your mistakes."
Li Hong was circling on the ground like a donkey, and it seemed that he did not intend to bow his head to Huang Ruyu and the others.
Yun Chu lay on the recliner again, reading a book, and said casually: "Maybe you can save some face if you go now, but if it's a little later, I'm worried that someone will take His Majesty's edict and release Huang Ruyu and the others directly.
At that time, you will be even more shameless.
Also, as a person who is destined to be an emperor in the future, if you want to be proud, can't you learn from the wise emperors like Liu Bang, the great ancestor of the Han Dynasty, and Taizong of our dynasty?"
Li Hong nodded repeatedly when he heard this, but still grabbed Yun Chu's sleeve and said, "Master, come with me."
Yun Chu pushed Li Hong's hand away in disgust and said, "You can be shameless, but I must be shameless."
"Why, if you want to be shameless, I can be shameless?"
"Because you have no face, and you still have thousands of miles of land, and your master and I rely on this face to survive. Without face, there is nothing.
Besides, isn't there a shameless person next to you? Take him there and blame him for all your faults. He will definitely not bite you back."
Li Hong gritted his teeth, stamped his feet and said, "Okay, I'll go find Xu Jingzong and discuss it with him."
Yun Chu looked at Li Hong like a fool and said: "Aren't you worried that the blame will not be successful? Things like dumping the blame must be sudden and unprepared. If you discuss it with an old fox like Xu Jingzong, you will definitely not be able to take the blame.
go out."
Hearing this, Li Hong walked around in circles on the ground a few more times and said, "It doesn't matter, he will take the blame if he doesn't. Master, I'm afraid that Xu Jingzong will take the blame and won't help me in the future."
Yun Chu chuckled and said, "Don't worry, you can do it. After Lao Xu takes the blame, he will be even more loyal to you."
"Why is this?"
"Because you have shown the basic qualities of an emperor."
Li Hong ran away happily.
Yu Xiurong, who had been hiding in the house, came out, looked at Li Hong's back, and said thoughtfully to Yun Chu: "This child is not very smart, husband, you have taught him such a thing?"
Yun Chu sighed and said: "The age of fifteen is when I like to make the decision. I always think that I am old and can handle everything. In fact, I am still a child."
Yu Xiurong nodded and said, "My husband was much smarter than him when he was fifteen years old."
Yun Chu shook his head and said, "I also did a lot of stupid things."
"for example?"
"It was a big mistake on my part to keep your chastity until the day you get married. Calculate the time and save me many years!"
"Ah, you dead man!"
Zhong Kui, who had a bald head and a webbed head with two wings, happened to walk in and asked doubtfully: "What has been used for so many years?"
Yun Chu stretched his neck to take a look at Zhong Kui's strange appearance and said, "It's better to be bald and look at the spirit."
Zhong Kui immediately touched the webbed head shyly and said with some embarrassment: "Ms. Ru said that if I put on a hat and grow a beard, I will look more powerful."
Yu Xiurong sighed on the side: "If you had woken up a year earlier, Mrs. Ru would have given birth to little Zhongkui by this time."
Zhong Kui said boldly: "So this is what you are talking about. It might as well, it might as well, there will be a chance at this time next year."
As he was talking, he saw that Li Si had prepared the stick in the distance, so he strode towards Li Si and said, "Today, don't say anything about your leg or butt pain."
Looking at Zhong Kui's back, Yun Chu sighed and said, "A strong man can sneak into our back house without anything to do, and you don't care."
Yu Xiurong said angrily: "There is a man in the back house of your family who climbs the wall and gets into the bed of a wild man when he has nothing to do. You don't care..."
Huang Ruyu sat quietly on the straw in the imperial prison, with a look of sorrow on her face. She refused the prince's request for horses. It was nothing. Sixteen thousand horses were still war horses. The prince wanted to give him six orders.
Make them all cavalry?
Sixteen men of the Sixteenth Guards were stationed in Luoyang City, and there were 50,000 of the most elite cavalry of the Tang Dynasty.
If there were 16,000 more horses, just the fodder would make Luoyang Ling's hair turn gray.
Not to mention, once the 16,000 cavalry is formed, it will definitely not be a matter of 16,000 men and 16,000 horses. The number of new departments dedicated to serving these people and horses will definitely not be less than 20,000.
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As for the scope of the settlement with so many war horses and cavalry, it would definitely consume a lot of wealth to be able to barely afford it, not to mention the cost of armor, weapons, and war horse equipment is an unspeakable amount of money.
That is to say, when the Tang Dynasty was rich and the people were strong, Luoyang could only raise 50,000 cavalry, and Chang'an could raise 30,000 cavalry. This alone had already overwhelmed the Taipu Temple, the Ministry of Transport, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Households.
With the addition of 16,000 cavalry, Huang Ruyu felt that there was no need for her as a minister.
Therefore, the prince is just a lion with his mouth wide open, and what he really wants is five thousand war horses.
However, you cannot give five thousand war horses to the prince. Once you give them to him, your majesty will have no way to explain them.
It is absolutely correct to reject the prince's request. The problem is that if he offends the prince, it will be difficult for the Huang family's son to serve as an official.
Just when he was lamenting the unfairness of his fate and being involved in the struggle between the prince and the emperor, he suddenly heard the prince's voice.
"It's all your fault. I said it's okay to test him, but you insist on intimidating him. Now you can't get out of the way, what should you do?"
"Ah?" Xu Jingzong was shocked.
"You said that if I apologize to Huang Qing now, will he forgive the lonely king? After all, he is not wrong."
"Eh?" Xu Jingzong was confused for a moment.
"Let's talk about it first. It's you who threatens the whole family, not Gu, who wants to threaten the whole family. Besides, King Gu wants to take down the whole family of a fourth-rank official. I'm afraid my father won't be able to explain it to me.
When you see Huang Qing later, go and explain to him, don't drag me into the relationship with you, King Gu is so embarrassed right now."
"Oh, I see, I understand."
As the sound of boots sounded in the prison, His Royal Highness seemed to have stopped talking. In an instant, a group of people arrived at the entrance of the prison where Huang Ruyu was imprisoned.
A jailer opened the cell door. Huang Ruyu saluted Li Hong, who was looking up at the ceiling of the prison: "I have seen His Highness the Crown Prince."
Li Hong had an awkward smile on his face and waved his hand towards Huang Ruyu as a courtesy.
Then Huang Ruyu grabbed Xu Jingzong by the collar and said: "Old thief, how dare you trick His Highness the Crown Prince into doing such a ridiculous thing? Go, go, go. I will go to the Ziwei Palace in the divine capital with you in person, in front of His Majesty."
, let’s make a clear distinction about this matter.”
Xu Jingzong cried out twice and said, "Brother, sir, don't be angry. It's just a small intrigue. My dear brother should have seen through it long ago. Why bother with me? It's great to have a banquet at home tonight."
, I just want to calm down my worries."
Huang Ruyu grabbed Xu Jingzong with one hand and said to Prince Li Hong: "Your Highness, you must see clearly. Don't listen to this old thief's nonsense again in the future.
If His Highness wants horses, all he has to do is ask for a decree from His Majesty, seal the door, and approve it with the Prime Minister. No matter how many horses there are, even if there are not enough horses in the driving department at Taipu Temple, the old minister will take a group of colleagues to the Western Regions.
, go to the north and capture enough wild horses for His Highness..."
Li Hong grinned with his white teeth and said: "The lonely king just wants to test it with two sticks if he has dates but not..."