Li Yuanji sighed with emotion: "It's a pity that I haven't planned to go back yet..."
Li Shimin said with a smile on his face: "Then you have to find a way to deal with them..."
Li Yuanji tapped the desk in front of him a few times, and suddenly laughed and said: "Why do you need to deal with it? Just let them be!"
The officials headed by San Zai are currently impeaching only Chai Shao, and they haven't impeached him yet, so why should he care.
When the officials fire directly at him, it will not be too late to respond.
When Li Shimin heard this, he frowned slightly and said, "Then they will keep impeaching Chai Shao. With Chai Shao's status, he cannot withstand their impeachment."
Li Yuanji smiled calmly and said, "So what?"
Li Shimin frowned even more tightly and couldn't help but said: "I know you don't like Chai Shao, but no matter what, he is our brother-in-law and the father of Zhewei and Lingwu. You really want to watch him.
Go die?"
Li Yuanji glanced at Li Shimin and said funnyly: "The officials just impeached him and asked me to punish him. They didn't ask me to kill him. How could he die?"
When Li Shimin heard this, he stood up suddenly and said with some displeasure: "The officials are using him to admonish you. If you ignore it, the officials will go even crazier, and they will definitely give Chai Shaoluo Zhi.
He vowed to take Chai Shao down for the crime.
Once they prove Chai Shao's crime, if you don't kill him, the law will let you kill him."
The nobles of the Tang Dynasty were not very clean, and the constraints of the Tang Dynasty on the nobles were not so strict.
In fact, not only the Tang Dynasty, but also all dynasties in history had less stringent restrictions on nobles.
Therefore, honorable men will more or less do things that violate the law.
Things like occupying private land are all childish.
Abusing power for personal gain, taking away wives and daughters, and destroying entire families occasionally happened among nobles.
So Chai Shao's butt is not very clean either.
No one used this to impeach Chai Shao before, because everyone's butts were not clean, and Chai Shao did not show his weakness, so even if he used this to impeach Chai Shao, it would not cause much harm to Chai Shao, but it would still hurt him.
It will offend Chai Shao and Princess Pingyang's mansion.
But things are different now. Because of Chai Shao's "evil deeds" in Liaodong, the three governors of the three provinces took the lead in impeaching him. In an instant, he was beaten by thousands of people.
Although his drum has not been broken yet, when thousands of people beat it, it will be easy to break his drum.
All we need to do is dig out all the things he has done that violated the law, compile a list of charges against him, impeach him together, and ask Li Yuan to punish him.
With public opinion boiling, Li Yuan had to give an explanation to the officials.
Some people may say that public opinion is public opinion, and hundreds of officials are hundreds of officials. The excitement of hundreds of officials does not necessarily mean the excitement of public opinion.
But this is not the case.
The fact is that the officials are the representatives of the people, and the boiling of the officials represents the boiling of public opinion.
Because it is impossible for the common people to be inaccessible to the court, and it is impossible for the common people to speak out in the court.
There are only two kinds of people who can speak in the court, one is the royal family, and the other is the officials.
Naturally, it is impossible for people in the royal family to become representatives of the common people, so only officials can represent the common people.
Therefore, officials can speak for the people in the court and make any decisions on behalf of the people.
Any decision made by officials can be based on public opinion.
However, Li Shimin said that Chai Shao would die because of this, but Li Yuanji would not believe anything he said.
Not to mention that Chai Shao's great contributions to the Tang Dynasty were enough to protect him. Even the three giant Buddhas of the emperor's daughter and the emperor's nephew behind Chai Shao could not be shaken by hundreds of officials.
If this had been in the Song Dynasty or the Ming Dynasty, he might have been worried about Chai Shao, but this was the Tang Dynasty, and it was still the early Tang Dynasty, and the reigning emperor was Li Yuan, who was known to protect his shortcomings.
Not to mention that he still holds the power of the Tang Dynasty. If he doesn't let Chai Shao die, who can let Chai Shao die?
"Second brother, are you exaggerating?"
Li Yuanji said with a faint smile.
Li Shimin snorted coldly and said: "If you don't believe me, then wait for ten days and try it!"
Li Yuanji felt that Li Shimin was showing off and speaking harshly, so he nodded with a smile and said: "Then I'll give it a try in ten days..."
Li Shimin snorted again, rolled up his sleeves, and left the Chinese army tent.
Li Yuanji looked at Li Shimin's back disappearing from the tent door and shook his head slightly.
Chu Suiliang said hesitantly at this time: "Your Highness, what Li Langjun said is not unreasonable..."
Li Yuanji was stunned for a moment, looked at Chu Suiliang and said, "Do you agree with my second brother's statement?"
Chu Suiliang hesitated for a moment, nodded and said: "With the saint and His Highness as guarantees, Chai Consort can certainly escape a murder, but if the people get into trouble because of this, you and the saint will have to give an explanation to the people."
Chu Suiliang made it clear that once the officials wanted to use public opinion as a threat, even the imperial power would have to bow its head temporarily.
But he is a member of the scholar class, and now he is a member of the hundred officials, so he cannot speak ill of the officials.
More importantly, as a scholar, he could not instill in those in power the idea that officials would threaten the imperial power with public opinion.
Once the people in power remember this concept and become disgusted with the things that happen under this concept, then the people in power are likely to find ways to separate the officials from the people, so that the officials can no longer represent them.
Common people, when the time comes, the officials, or the scholar class, will lose a means of restraining the imperial power.
Of course, judging from historical experience, those in power cannot separate the officials from the people, because the officials all come from the people, and the officials are integrated into the people, so regardless of
No matter who, it is difficult to separate the two by any method.
However, those in power still have ways to break free from the shackles of officials using public opinion to threaten imperial power.
Therefore, Chu Suiliang could not instill this concept into those in power, otherwise he would become a sinner of the scholar class.
"Then how do you think I should handle this?"
After Li Yuanji was silent for a moment, he stared at Chu Suiliang and asked while thinking.
Chu Suiliang slightly arched his hands and said: "I think that Chai's son-in-law should be summoned here to judge the crime in response to the impeachment of the princes in the court. As for how to deal with Chai's son-in-law, should he punish Chai's crime? When Chai's son-in-law arrives here,
Everything is naturally decided by you..."
At the end, Chu Suiliang said cheerfully: "I think that even if the princes in the court are dissatisfied with Chai's son-in-law, they can't come here to ask you to punish Chai's son-in-law, right?"
This place is thousands of miles away from Chang'an and is where the Chinese army's camp is located. Not only are the mountains high and the roads far away, but military law is practiced here.
Unless the officials in the court were crazy, they would not come here for excitement.
However, Chu Suiliang didn't say that it would be a good idea to summon Chai Shao here. As soon as he said that he had summoned Chai Shao here, Li Yuanji thought of a person he had almost forgotten.
"Didn't I summon Xue Wanche to come here for an audience? Why hasn't he come yet?"
Chu Suiliang was stunned and said with a strange expression: "General Xue wrote a letter to argue that he accidentally fell off his horse on the way here and broke his leg. Now he can only be carried here by Bu Qu, so maybe
It will take some days."
When Li Yuanji heard this, he said angrily: "I'm afraid he didn't fall off the horse by accident, but deliberately fell off the horse, right?"
Xue Wanche's mind wasn't very bright, so he couldn't think of many damaging moves. He only had a few moves back and forth. Not only were they terrible, they were also easy to see through.
Chu Suiliang suppressed a smile and said, "I don't know about this. Why don't I send someone to ask?"
Li Yuanji breathed a sigh of relief, waved his hands and said: "Let's forget it! I'm afraid that the people you sent out can't find him on the way here from Chang'an City, but find him in the Jizhou Governor's Mansion. That would be so embarrassing.
ah.
By then it will be useless if we don’t punish him.”
Chu Suiliang said with a cheerful smile: "Your Highness still loves General Xue..."
Li Yuanji glanced at Chu Suiliang but said nothing.
He had told Chu Suiliang before whether he doted on Xue Wanche or not.
When it comes to pampering, I can't even talk about it. At most, it's just a kind of protection.
"What about Consort Chai?"
Seeing that Li Yuanji no longer wanted to talk about topics related to Xue Wanche, Chu Suiliang quickly changed the topic.
Li Yuanji thought for a while and said: "Chai Prince Consort's side is not as easy as you said. Calling Chai Prince Consort here can certainly help him and me to rescue him, but this is only temporary and cannot solve the fundamental problem at all.
.
The officials' target is me. If I don't go back, they will not be at peace.
If they fail to achieve their goals through Chai Prince Consort, they will achieve their goals through others.
Like you, like Li Jing, like Su Dingfang."
As long as the officials want to find fault, they will always find it in the army of the Northern Expedition.
Throughout the history of the dynasties, there have been many incidents where the princes in the court hid in the greenhouses to find trouble for the generals who led the troops while the army was on an expedition.
There are also those who take advantage of inconvenient news to deliberately spread rumors and slander.
For example, even though Di Qing had not returned to the court after winning the battle, the Dukes of the Song Dynasty began to think about how to accuse him and suppress him.
Therefore, if the Dukes of the Tang Dynasty wanted to make trouble for Chu Suiliang, Li Jing, Su Dingfang and others, it would be easy.
However, the chance of finding Chu Suiliang is not high. Chu Suiliang is just a nobody now and is not qualified to be targeted by the princes in the court.
The chance of finding Su Dingfang is not high, because Su Dingfang and Li Xiaogong are now in charge of many people's money bags.
So the chance of finding Li Jing is the highest.
According to the history of Li Jing's life, after Li Jing won a battle and made great achievements, he would always do a few wrong things to undermine his achievements.
The purpose is to protect oneself wisely and not to be feared by those in power.
Therefore, if the Dukes of the Tang Dynasty wanted to find trouble, they had the greatest chance of finding trouble with Li Jing, and they also had the greatest chance of finding trouble with Li Jing.