Chapter 0842 Tang officials who dont know how to whitewash peace
After Xie Shufang invited the heads of the two branches of the Xie family to talk for three full days, he sent someone to send them out of the house.
After the heads of the two Xie clan branches left Xie Shufang's mansion, they immediately mobilized everyone in the clan and began to contact other branches and other clan members.
Things managed by Xie Shufang began to move in an orderly manner.
In comparison, things managed by Li Xiaogong were not so smooth.
According to the plan, Li Xiaogong invited all those who were involved in water transportation and shipping to gather at his house to share the dividends obtained from water transportation and shipping in the second half of last year and discuss plans for the new year.
At the party, Li Xiaogong launched an "attack" against the Bolingcui family as planned.
I originally thought that the Bolingcui family would rely on the deep roots of their tree to push back, but I didn't expect that the Bolingcui family actually gave up.
Not only did he surrender to Li Xiaogong in court, but he also compensated Li Xiaogong for many benefits.
Now Li Xiaogong didn't know what to do.
After all, you can't hit a smiling person with your hand.
You want to slap someone in the face, but they not only hold out their face for you to hit, but also try to apologize to you. How can you attack them?
They are not soft persimmons. If you don't have enough reasons or excuses, you are bullying them by attacking them.
People have enough reasons and excuses to use public opinion to fight back against you.
If the Tang Dynasty wanted to eliminate the wealthy families at the minimum cost, it could only do it quietly, and there was no way to make a big splash.
So when Mrs. Bolingcui was so cowardly, Li Xiaogong was at a loss.
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The front hall of Butokuden Hall.
Li Yuanji looked at Li Chengde with a helpless look on his face as he squirted water on the table. Seeing that he was happily opening his mouth to catch it, Li Yuanji hurriedly stepped forward and covered his mouth.
He touched his butt gently.
Li Chengde was not only not afraid, but also chuckled.
While Li Yuanji ordered Liu Jun to take the people to clean up, he took Li Chengde aside.
Looking at his son who kept giggling in his arms, Li Yuanji was speechless.
No matter how much he thought about it, he couldn't understand. He was obviously so smart and Yang Miaoyan didn't give in too much. How could he give birth to such a stupid son?
This is not the first time that Li Chengde sprayed water on himself and took it with his mouth.
Yang Miaoyan had lost her temper with him. Now that her belly was getting bigger and bigger, she didn't want to care about him anymore and gave him to Li Yuanji.
Li Yuanji had to take care of this silly son by himself.
Seeing his silly son trying to chew on his own feet again, Li Yuanji was completely speechless.
"Can you please stop?!"
Li Yuanji slapped Li Chengde's feet away and asked angrily.
Li Chengde blinked his big eyes and looked at him blankly.
After watching it for a few seconds, I started to giggle again.
I don’t know what I’m having fun with.
"I'm talking to you, can you give me a response?"
A faint voice came.
Li Yuanji raised his head and saw Li Xiaogong sitting at the bottom of the hall, looking at him speechlessly.
Li Yuanji said casually: "Keep talking..."
Li Xiaogong depressedly repeated what he had just said, "Originally, I planned to attack the Bolingcui family during the party, forcing the Bolingcui family to go against me, and then slowly deal with them.
But they surrendered immediately without waiting for me to attack, and sent me a large number of rare treasures to apologize. The items were delivered to my house that afternoon.
I’m so stunned now that I can’t do anything about them!”
Li Yuanji restrained his son's erratic hands, looked at Li Xiaogong and said, "So you want to give up?"
Li Xiaogong stared and said, "How is that possible?!"
Li Yuanji said casually: "Then just think of another way."
Li Xiaogong said anxiously: "Isn't this why I came to you because I couldn't think of a way?"
Li Yuanji said without thinking: "If the first plan fails, use the second plan. There is always a way to force the Bolingcui family to submit."
Li Xiaogong inquired deeply: "So what can be done?"
Li Yuanji rolled his eyes at Li Xiaogong and said: "For example, if you send someone to scuttle the Boling Cui family's ship and sink the grain that the Boling Cui family transported for the court, then you can use this to question the Boling Cui family and continue.
your plan.
No matter whether the Bolingcui family is willing to go against you or not, as long as they fail to handle the court's errands, you can cancel their participation in water transportation and sea transportation."
Li Xiaogong was stunned for a moment and thought about it: "They will definitely try to beg me. After other wealthy families hear the news, they will also take advantage of the opportunity. Will things go back to the direction I planned before?"
Li Yuanji nodded and said nothing more.
The imperial court is on the offensive side, and the Boling Cui family is on the defensive side.
The attacker always has an advantage over the defender.
The attacker always has more means than the defender.
So if one plan fails, just use other strategies, and you are not afraid that the Bolingcui family will not give in.
Li Xiaogong hesitated and said: "But the Boling Cui family can bring food from other places to fill the Luoyang granary. As long as they replenish the food, we can't attack them."
Li Yuanji rolled his eyes at Li Xiaogong and said: "Missing the deadline is also a crime! If I happened to approve this batch of grain to Su Dingfang and others as military rations, and the Boling Cui family failed to deliver it to the Luoyang granary on time, what do you think of this crime?
Is it big?"
During the Qin Dynasty, there were laws related to punishment for failure to meet deadlines.
Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, and Liu Bang all used this as an excuse to rebel.
However, there is a lot of moisture in it.
Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, and Liu Bang all rebelled under the pretext that Qin's laws were strict and they would be beheaded if they missed the deadline.
However, later generations of historians excavated the tombs of the Qin Dynasty and unearthed the legal provisions of the Qin Dynasty.
In the Qin Dynasty, there were several grades of the crime of default. Almost no one would be beheaded within fifteen days. They would either be punished with a shield or a punishment with a stomach. Those who exceeded the fifteenth day would be beheaded.
In other words, Chen Sheng, Wu Guang and Liu Bang were out of date for more than fifteen days.
Not to mention the Qin Dynasty, he would have been beheaded in the Han Dynasty established by Liu Bang himself and in the current Tang Dynasty.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! So whether it is Chen Sheng, Wu Guang or Liu Bang, it is a joke to use this to prove the severity of Qin's law.
It's completely framed.
In fifteen days, calculated as 20 miles a day, you can cover more than 300 miles, including traveling across states and counties.
Not to mention that people walk far more than twenty miles in a day.
Therefore, Qin Fa gave Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, and Liu Bang plenty of time.
Unless Chen Sheng, Wu Guang and Liu Bang deliberately slowed down their journey, it would be impossible to meet the standard of beheading.
Therefore, Chen Sheng, Wu Guang and Liu Bang rebelled against the Qin Dynasty on the pretext that Qin's laws were strict and they would be beheaded if they missed the deadline. This was purely to discredit the Qin Dynasty.
The Bolingcui family helped the imperial court escort grain and grass. The situation was similar during that period.
But if this batch of rations was military rations, the standard would have gone up during that period.
According to the law of the Tang Dynasty, when transporting military rations, the head of the team will be beheaded within three days of delivery, the entire team will be beheaded within six days of delivery, and the family members will be implicated within ten days of delivery.
From the news of the Bolingcui clan's excavation of the sunken ship to the response and delivery of food to Luoyang, it should be possible to barely meet the standard of three days.
But if something stumbles along the way, then extending it to ten days is not a problem at all.
Although it would be difficult to convince people to punish the entire Bolingcui clan with this crime, and it would also be blocked by people from other wealthy families.
But no one would object to those who dealt with the Bolingcui family's grain transportation and those who banned the Bolingcui family's involvement in water transportation and sea transportation.
After all, the fault lies with the Bolingcui family.
No matter how domineering a wealthy family is, they still have to give an explanation to the court.
The imperial court took this opportunity to deprive the Bolingcui family of their involvement in water and sea transportation, and other wealthy families had nothing to say.
After all, the Tang Dynasty was surnamed Li and was dominated by the Li family.
Other wealthy families, as long as their names are justified, cannot prevent Li from punishing them in any way.
Li Xiaogong's eyes suddenly lit up, and without saying a word, he hurriedly ran out of the hall.
He is not a fool, and he does not need Li Yuanji to teach him step by step how to do it.
He just fell into a misunderstanding in his thinking. Now that he has come out of it after on-demand broadcasting, he naturally knows what to do.
Li Yuanji looked at Li Xiaogong's hurried away figure and shook his head in confusion.
Then he took the ink tablets from his son's hand that he kept stuffing into his mouth, and asked Liu Jun to recruit Wang Ruan to take care of him, while he began to handle government affairs.
Because Li Yuan demoted three county princes and two princes during the New Year's Eve banquet, Li Gang did not have time to submit the memorial begging for the bones.
Therefore, Li Gang did not submit the memorial until the seventh day of the first lunar month.
Li Yuanji wrote the word "no" in big words on the memorial, and then asked Liu Jun to send an audience to Li Gang's house with a lot of rewards.
Although Li Gang's begging for bones this time is doomed to be irreversible, the process he should go through and the honor he should be given cannot be less.
After reviewing Li Gang's memorials, Li Yuanji then reviewed the memorials of three provinces and six ministries, as well as the chief officials of various temples.
Most of them are memorials for year-end summary.
At the end of last year, except for a few who were eager to announce the good news, most of the important ministers did not submit their year-end summaries to cause trouble for Li Yuanji.
They hope that Li Yuanji can have a good New Year and they themselves can have a good New Year.
Therefore, all year-end summaries are not submitted until after the year.
Among the memorials submitted by the three provinces, except for the promotion of rice, which was a report of good news, almost everything else was a report of sorrow.
Chen Shuda didn't seem to know how to please those in power, how to please the king, how to whitewash peace, and all the memorials that were reported were to cause trouble.
Even with the promotion of rice mixed with good news, there are still problems that need to be solved.
That means money is needed.
Money is needed to divert water and build canals, money is needed to surround water and build fields, money is also needed to purchase buffaloes, build agricultural tools, etc.
Since there are many places to promote rice this time, Chen Shuda asked for 300,000 yuan as soon as he opened his mouth.
Although 300,000 yuan is not a lot of money, there are more projects that Chen Shuda reported that require money.