The officials who helped Pei Ji seek justice were indifferent to Li Shentong's words, but when they saw Li Gang, Pei Ju, Chen Shuda, Xiao Yu and others nodding, their expressions changed completely.
Even Li Gang, Pei Ju, Chen Shuda, and Xiao Yu, who were fair in dealing with the court and ranked among the three nobles and nine ministers, felt that Pei Ji deserved to die. Then Pei Ji really deserved to die.
After all, Li Shentong has expressed the attitude of the royal family on behalf of the royal family. Li Gang, Pei Ju, Chen Shuda, Xiao Yu and other three ministers and nine ministers who can represent the hundreds of officials have also expressed their attitude on behalf of the hundreds of officials. Even if Pei Ji is not guilty, he is still
Damn it.
After all, most of the officials who can make the decision in the court think that you deserve to die, then you must die even if you are innocent.
This is the common will of all the officials in the court. As one of them, you can only obey and cannot resist.
If you resist, the consequences may be even worse.
After seeing the attitude of Li Gang and others, 90% of the officials who helped Pei Ji to seek justice quietly retreated to the train. Only Zuo Nayan and Chen Jun, who had been promoted by Pei Ji, were still holding on.
He gritted his teeth and asked with an ugly face: "So what is Pei Pu's crime?"
"presumptuous!"
Xiao Yu felt that this was a provocation and a provocation to the majesty of the three provinces, so he scolded him without hesitation.
At this time, the censor in front of the palace slowly walked to His Majesty's side, and scolded Chen Jun with a straight face: "Get back!"
When Chen Jun asked the question for the second time, he had already decided to burn the boat. There was no reason to retreat. He immediately raised his neck and shouted angrily: "Pei Pushe is an important minister of the Tang Dynasty, how can he be like this?"
Those who don't understand will be punished, and I will not obey. I believe that people in the world will not obey if they find out."
Xiao Yu looked grim and was about to curse, but Li Gang raised his hand to stop him.
I saw Li Gang standing up slowly, staring at Chen Jun coldly and saying: "I don't know why, I have my own considerations, and it's not your turn to ask Zuo Nayan.
If you retreat now, we can pretend that nothing happened.
If you continue to seek justice for Pei Ji, a rebellious minister here, then we will treat you as questioning the unfairness of my handling of affairs in the three provinces."
When Chen Jun heard Li Gang's words, he trembled all over.
He knows very well what it means to question the unfairness of affairs in the three provinces.
It means provoking the authority of the three provinces, and using one's own strength to confront all the officials in the three provinces.
There is no need to say what the outcome will be for him, an official from the seventh rank, against all the officials from the three provinces.
But once his words were released, there was no reason to take them back, and there was no way he could take them back.
Because even if he retreats now, Li Gang and others will demote him out of Chang'an City later and demote him to a border area as an official.
In the battle in the court, there is no such thing as surrendering and losing half.
As long as you launch an attack, you can only attack to the end with all your might. If you give up halfway, you will lose even more miserably.
So he still gritted his teeth and shouted angrily, "Pei Pushe treated the official well, and the official still wanted to get the truth for him."
Li Gang snorted coldly, waved his sleeves with a cold face and said: "Dian Lu, I leave it to you."
The censor in front of the palace, who was called Lu Dianqian, nodded, slowly stepped forward, and coldly ordered: "Where are the thousand oxen in front of the palace? Fork them out!"
The Qianniu guards guarding the entrance of the palace rushed into the palace without hesitation and drove Chen Jun out.
As for how to deal with Chen Jun, Li Gang did not say, and the censor in front of the palace was not qualified to say.
But that doesn't mean the matter is over.
After the next dynasty, Li Gang, Pei Ju, Chen Shuda, Xiao Yu and others will definitely make Chen Jun see what it means that the majesty of the three provinces cannot be challenged, and they will definitely make Chen Jun regret helping Pei Ji seek justice in the Taiji Hall today.
However, Li Yuanji didn't care about these.
Because these trivial matters do not require his careful attention.
After Chen Jun was forked out, Li Yuanji looked around at the officials in the hall and said, "Is there anything else you want to report, or are you helping someone else get the truth?"
All the officials looked at their noses and noses, and no one said a word.
Li Gang and others also sat there silently like carved wood and clay sculptures.
Seeing this, Li Yuanji continued: "Then let's discuss other matters."
Hearing this, Li Gang, Pei Ju and other veterans spoke one after another.
A group of veterans first reported on the finishing work after the coup in the palace, compiled the pavilions, pavilions, city walls, palace gates and other places that were damaged in the coup into a volume and handed it to Li Yuanji.
After reading through it roughly, Li Yuanji asked: "How much money will it cost to repair all these places?"
Chen Shuda cupped his hands slightly and said, "To return to Your Highness, I need two hundred thousand guan of money."
It doesn't sound like much.
But it is a huge sum of money for today's Tang Dynasty treasury.
After all, the three provinces have paid a generous pension to the soldiers and palace people who died in the palace coup. Then the three provinces have to prepare enough money and food to deal with the civil strife of the Tang Dynasty that may occur at any time, and the Turks' southward invasion.
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After excluding these, there will be little money left in the treasury.
Whether it can be used to repair all the damaged areas in the palace depends on how much is left after dealing with the civil strife in the Tang Dynasty and the Turks' southward invasion.
Li Yuan's inner treasury is indeed rich, and there is a lot of money, as well as countless rare treasures.
But that is Li Yuan's private money and cannot be confused with the treasury's money.
This is the shortcoming caused by Li Yuan after privatizing most of the war seizures.
Logically speaking, all war seizures should be put into the national treasury to be used to enrich the national strength.
But Li Yuan didn't do that.
After Li Yuan obtained the war seizures, he first divided 30% of the profit and gave it to those meritorious soldiers. Then he took out another 20% and let the senior officials in the government and the public share the rain and dew. He also took out another 20% and divided it among the three.
A precious son, the remaining 30% was happily collected into the internal treasury.
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This created the dilemma of Li Yuan's internal treasury being extremely rich, but the national treasury being empty.
This way of allocating war seizures enriched Li Yuan and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, but it failed the people.
So this is not a reasonable way to distribute war capture and must be changed.
However, if we want to change, we can't change it now. We must wait until there are new wars and new captures in the Tang Dynasty.
So before that, Li Yuanji could only keep this matter in his heart.
Li Yuanji stared at Chen Shuda and asked: "Can the treasury take out this money now?"
Chen Shuda hesitated for a moment and said: "It is possible, but once the money is taken out, and the Turks invade later, and the court wants to use troops, it will have to live frugally."
Li Yuanji said without hesitation: "Forget it, no matter how poor we are, we can't take it from the mouths of the soldiers."
Chen Shuda, Li Gang, Pei Ju, Xiao Yu and others nodded in agreement.
Li Yuanji pondered for a moment and said: "In this case, you send people to count the money taken from the Duke of Wei's mansion and put it into the national treasury to see if you can squeeze out 200,000 yuan.
If not, I will think of other ways."
No matter how poor you are, you cannot afford education; no matter how miserable you are, you cannot blame your father and brothers.
This is the disadvantage of not killing your father and brother after you have gained the power.
They must be raised, the place where they live must be repaired, and they must be raised white and fat.
Otherwise, it is easy to be criticized.
Although Li Yuanji doesn't care about being spoken to, others do.
If he wants to control others, he must consider other people's attitudes.
"If we include the wealth of the Duke of Wei, we can squeeze out a little more. But the wealth of the Duke of Wei mostly consists of land and land deeds. We won't know how much it is until we sell it.
I can't say whether I can squeeze out two hundred thousand guan."
Chen Shuda thought to himself.
Although the wealth in Pei Ji's house is very rich, if it were all converted into money and food, there should be a lot of it.
But the imperial court also spent a lot of money and food, and there were many things more important than repairing the pavilions and pavilions in the palace.
When the treasury has no money, it naturally has to do the most important things first. When the treasury has money, it naturally has to prioritize many of the most important things.
And the matter of repairing the pavilions and pavilions in the palace is obviously not the most important thing.
After all, even if the damaged pavilions and pavilions in the palace are left unrepaired, they will not affect the living conditions of the Li family, but they are just a bit unsightly.
But compared to things like floods, military disasters, droughts, earthquakes, etc., things that are unsightly are obviously not that important.
Li Yuanji stared at Chen Shuda in astonishment and said, "If my guess is correct, the family wealth of Wei Guogong's family is probably more than 200,000 yuan, right?"
Considering Pei Ji's popularity, Pei Ji's official title, and Pei's family fortune, I'm afraid there are two hundred thousand guan, not to mention 200,000 guan.
So much money was poured into the national treasury at once, and the national treasury still couldn't squeeze out 200,000 yuan?!
Have you committed corruption?
And he is extremely greedy.
Li Yuanji thought that he would just be polite and the matter would be over. Unexpectedly, Chen Shuda actually treated him like a sheep.
Chen Shuda said dumbfounded: "The family wealth of the Duke of Wei is naturally more than 200,000 yuan, but the court spends too much money. Excluding the canals, bridges, official offices, and the repair and construction of mausoleums that have been spending money, the cost is not much.
It is said that the wedding money given to honorable women every ten days alone amounts to as much as 70,000 to 80,000 yuan.
So let alone the wealth of one Duke of Wei, even the wealth of three or five Dukes of Wei is not enough."
The honorable women mentioned by Chen Shuda are those women who already have a son in the family and give birth to a new son.
After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, because there were too few Dingkou, in order to encourage people to have children, the court issued a series of policies to encourage childbirth.
Not only that, the imperial court also required local government offices to treat this as the most important political matter.
Therefore, yamen in various places are very active in matters such as weddings and funerals. They will not only urge men and women of the right age to get married as soon as possible, but also seek matches when necessary.
When a newlywed woman becomes pregnant, the yamen will immediately record the pregnancy, and even send a small official to keep an eye on the birth.
If a boy is born, the petty officials and county magistrates are sometimes more happy than the main family.
For those women who gave birth to two or more boys, the court was generous with rewards.