Fahai travels through Tang Sanzang Chapter 557: I am a martial arts wizard who is rare in a century; I suspect that His Majesty is deliberately retaliating.
Chapter 557: I am a martial arts wizard who is rare in a century; I suspect that His Majesty is deliberately retaliating.
He said he wanted to see the country he had conquered with his own hands, and since there were only two of them, he and Li Chunfeng, so naturally it was considered a private visit incognito.
They started from Chang'an and headed east, passed Bingzhou, and now arrived in Youzhou.
Bingzhou is the land of Longxing for their Li family. Although their capital is now in Chang'an, they have not slacked off in the development of Jinyang.
Moreover, going up from Bingzhou is Northern Xinjiang... which has been the place where barbarians invaded the border since ancient times.
The same is true for Bingzhou, and the same is true for Youzhou.
But now that the Turks have been destroyed, the entire Nanzhan continent is under the control of the Tang Dynasty. The grassland eagles of the past have now become more and more skilled in singing and dancing under Li Tang's iron cavalry.
As the territory becomes larger, it is naturally not that easy to control it.
When people manage people, no matter how advanced the system is, various problems will inevitably arise.
These were all within the expectations of Li Shimin and the imperial court.
As long as those local officials did not go too far and could keep the territory and the people safe, the imperial court would always turn a blind eye.
Or, as long as the things done in private are well hidden and don't come out in public... it will be difficult for the court to take the initiative to ask.
Even though Li Shimin asked Li Junxian to develop a group of internal guards and spread a huge surveillance network throughout the Tang Dynasty, there were always areas beyond his reach.
But now Li Shimin went to various places to investigate in person, and many problems were clearly exposed before his eyes... He thought he was going to see the prosperous rivers and mountains with his own eyes before the disaster of death... But at this moment, he discovered that the Tang Dynasty and the
It's different from what I imagined.
As far as Li Shimin saw with his own eyes, the people in Youzhou and the people near the capital of the Tang Dynasty clearly lived two very different lives.
At least in the vicinity of Gyeonggi, no clan has dared to seize the land belonging to the military.
"Your accent sounds like you are not from our area..." The sturdy young man sat half-sitting on the ground, leaning on the ground with one hand, and looked at Li Shimin: "In our place, even the government officials don't speak Mandarin.
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The promotion of Mandarin was originally a basic national policy set by Li Shimin.
China has a vast territory and rich resources, and the customs and cultures of different places are different. In many mountainous areas, there is even a phenomenon of "different pronunciation for ten miles and different customs for hundreds of miles".
This is one of the reasons why Li Shimin set up official schools across the country and promoted imperial examinations... Back then, the First Emperor's writings were written in the same text and his carriages were driven in the same track. What Li Shimin did was to try to make his words have the same pronunciation.
In fact, as early as the Qin Dynasty, the court had regulations that no matter where they held office, even local officials must use Mandarin... Dialects could only be used in private.
Therefore, all dynasties after the Qin Dynasty still used Chinese Mandarin as official dialect, but they did not promote it to the people.
In order to break the monopoly of the gentry on the gentry, Li Shimin hoped that there would be more scholars under the rule of the Tang Dynasty, so setting up official schools and promoting the official language were naturally indispensable links.
Its additional function is to promote Mandarin on the basis of retaining local dialects, making it easier for people of the Tang Dynasty to communicate with each other.
The main reason is that there is no resistance to the promotion of Mandarin, and the change does not occur temporarily. It will be completed gradually and naturally. Just like now, the promotion of Mandarin has been quite effective...even if not everyone can speak it, but
People in the Tang Dynasty can basically understand it.
But that being said, officials will naturally not speak a dialect in the capital to meet the Holy Spirit, but when they go to the local level, unless they really can't speak the local dialect, or they speak on important formal occasions, they rarely do so.
Speak in official terms.
This is not a problem. When Li Shimin was annoyed, he would also curse a few times in Longxi dialect or Taiyuan dialect.
If officials do this, let alone the common people, they are more comfortable speaking in their own dialect.
This also exposed some problems, that is, Li Shimin still focused more on those students from poor families.
In an ordinary common people's home, how can there be any opportunity to study?
This is also Li Shimin's actual feeling after traveling to many places in a truly down-to-earth manner.
Just like these "bastards" in front of me, even when I saw them idle and scolded them, I actually asked them why they didn't go farming instead of asking them why they didn't study.
But Li Shimin himself knew very well why he asked this question...because if he didn't have a relatively wealthy family, what confidence would he have to go to school?
Li Shimin also gave Li Chunfeng a look. Li Chunfeng understood His Majesty's intention, nodded slightly, and went to the village.
After Li Chunfeng left, Li Shimin said to the gangster in front of him: "You are right, we are indeed from Chang'an... I guess you have some good eyesight."
"Sure enough, he is from Chang'an... I heard that a holy Buddha came out of Chang'an, called Master Tripitaka... Have you seen him?" the young man asked curiously.
"Of course I have seen it before, and it happens often."
"Ha..." the young man curled his lips, "I'm a lot older, and I can't even blink an eye when I talk nonsense."
Li Shimin chuckled, "You also know Master Tripitaka?"
"That's natural." The young man raised his eyebrows and said, "If we were not the only sons in the family, we would definitely go to Chang'an and worship Master Tripitaka."
"Hahaha." Li Shimin couldn't help laughing and said: "In the entire city of Chang'an, there are countless people who want to worship Tripitaka as their teacher, but even the princes and officials have no way to worship him. How could it be your turn?"
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"Have we heard that the first disciple of Master Sanzang is based on character, understanding and talent, and has nothing to do with family." The young man clenched his fists and said with great confidence: "I am a martial arts practitioner who only comes once in a hundred years.
Genius."
"But you are not even a match for me, a sixty-year-old man." Li Shimin found his childlike innocence, and even started a verbal war with the young man. "You still dare to say such nonsense, saying that you are a once-in-a-hundred-year-old man."
A martial arts prodigy?"
The young man was speechless for a moment.
"What's your name?" Li Shimin asked his name.
"My name is Lu Congyang." The young man said to Li Shimin, "I am the thirteenth among my peers, so everyone calls me Thirteenth Son."
"Lu." Li Shimin thought thoughtfully after hearing this. The Lu family in Youzhou... is also a popular local surname.
Not long after, Li Chunfeng also came back.
"Master, I've found out everything." Li Chunfeng didn't avoid these boys, and said to Li Shimin in front of them, "This place is a small sect of a branch of the Fanyang Lu family. At that time, the young patriarch led more than 30 of his peers.
Men join the army to attack the Turks in the north... The number of those who can win the victory is less than one palm... The one with the highest official position is Lu Jiangong, who is currently working as a guerrilla general in Songmo Dudu Mansion. The other three are also in the army.
When I serve in the middle school, my family members are all with me and I am not in the village."
"Their young patriarch also died in a battle to suppress the Turks."
Li Chunfeng also added another sentence.
"I understand." Li Shimin nodded, and then asked Lu Congyang: "I didn't have any land when I was a child, but now that I'm an adult, why haven't the clan returned the land to you?"
"We don't know the specific situation... We only know that when we were a little older, my mother went to the clan to ask for land, but the clan elders said that our land had already been mortgaged to the clan.
, in exchange for the clan’s support for us.”
Li Chunfeng frowned and said, "But didn't you just say that it's because you are young and your mother has to take care of you that you have no time to farm, so..."
Lu Congyang waved his hand, "My mother told us so, but the clan leader clearly wrote it in black and white... It is indeed our land in exchange for the clan's support, and there is also my mother's signature on it...
My mother refused, so she went to the government... but the government even took away our land deeds."
Perhaps when Li Chunfeng heard this, he was surprised and a little resentful... But Li Shimin seemed to have expected it at this moment, and did not feel any surprise because of Lu Congyang.
He is an emperor sitting on a dragon throne, but he is by no means ignorant of civil affairs.
After all, he was originally from a wealthy family in the Li family, and these methods of plundering and plundering were actually not unfamiliar to him.
Didn't their family do such land annexation back then?
Even if it is not done by him, Li Shimin, the Li family will never stay out of the matter...even the powerful families like them are far more ruthless than the Lu family here.
To put it simply...the fact that these seven or eight boys are still alive is the biggest disaster.
Killing people and silencing them to avoid further trouble is a common method used by powerful families.
Precisely because he knew the ruthlessness of wealthy families, Li Shimin continued to support students from poor families, and in the court, he also tried his best to suppress those famous families, but the results were very limited.
After all, before those poor students can really grow up, they will still be needed to govern the country.
"It's not enough to have only tendons." Li Shimin patted Lu Congyang's shoulder and added: "You might as well read a book in the future, so that you can understand what's written on it when you sign a contract again."
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Without waiting for Lu Congyang to speak, Li Shimin said to Li Chunfeng: "Let's go."
Then he got up and left.
Li Chunfeng was stunned for a moment, and quickly followed behind. He thought Li Shimin would take action...but he didn't expect that Li Shimin didn't even enter the village, so he turned around and left.
Seeing Li Shimin and Li Chunfeng leaving, Lu Congyang muttered a few words before standing up from the ground and patting the ashes on his body.
"Brother Thirteen...who are they two?"
"I can't figure it out." Lu Congyang shook his head first, and then said: "It seems that they might have been officials in the imperial court."
"original?"
"Ang." Lu Congyang nodded, "But now it seems that he has either retired or been demoted... At first I thought it was the imperial envoy who visited privately incognito. Sure enough, the stories told by those storytellers
, it’s not something we can encounter.”
"Then again." Lu Congyang spread his hands, "Even if he is really an imperial envoy, he still gave us the land and wants it back... Do you know how to farm? Can you farm well? Can you still go to the ground?"
All the boys burst into laughter and shook their heads.
"That's enough." Lu Congyang chuckled, "Farming is not as happy as our brothers? I heard that a fugitive from Cangzhou will pass by our territory in the near future. You should use your tactics more brightly to catch this grandson.
I won the bounty and show my respect to my mother."
"Don't worry...if you get a duck in your mouth, you won't let it fly away."
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Outside the village.
"Your Majesty, you don't seem to have any intention of standing up for them." Li Chunfeng couldn't hold it back after all.
"Looking at how fierce they are, there is no need for me to stand up for them." Li Shimin waved his hand and said: "But you can go to the county government office in a while and see who was in charge of hearing the case back then and where he is now.
...Make a record, stamp it with my seal, and send it to the Ministry of Personnel."
"yes."
Li Chunfeng agreed and would leave now.
"Wait." Li Shimin stopped him again, paused for a moment, and then said: "Bring the file, I'll take a look first."
These things naturally cannot be difficult for Li Chunfeng.
After Li Chunfeng left, Li Shimin looked at a corner and deliberately joked: "When did Wei Qing, who has always been upright and upright, hide in such a dark place?"
Seriously speaking, Li Shimin is no longer an ordinary person. Even if his power of human blood is not comparable to that of Xue Rengui and Wang Xuance, looking at the entire human race, it is still unmatched by few.
Therefore, the magic manifested itself, and when Wei Zheng arrived, he felt it immediately.
"Your Majesty, Wei Zheng, pays homage to your Majesty."
Even though he is now a Yin Shen, when Wei Zheng met Li Shimin, he still treated him as a human minister. The relationship between their monarch and his ministers was quite complicated.
It can be said that they complement each other.
In fact, Wei Zheng knew that His Majesty wanted to kill him more than once because of his outspoken advice.
But His Majesty can hold back every time... No matter what the reason is, even if it is for "show", not all emperors can do this.
Power will make people's desires more and more inflated. As the emperor, His Majesty is able to exercise such restraint, which is already an example of a wise king.
People often say that because of the Xuanwu Sect incident, His Majesty "killed his brother to seize the throne and forced his father to abdicate." This will definitely leave a mark in the history books. If he wants to restore his reputation, he can only force himself Be a wise king and do your best to prove to the world that he does have the ability to be a good emperor.
But Wei Zheng thought... this was too much to underestimate this "Heavenly Khan".
If he didn't have a firm belief deep in his heart, relying solely on this... he would never have achieved what he has achieved today.
"Ai Qing is exempt from the courtesy." Li Shimin took two steps forward and did not let Wei Zheng bow completely. "I heard that after Ai Qing entered the underworld, he was favored by Emperor Fengdu and was appointed as the great judge in charge of the Department of Rewarding Good People..."
"I feel that it would be better for me to be reincarnated as soon as possible." Wei Zheng seemed to be a little dissatisfied: "Your Majesty knows that I have worked hard in the world all my life. I thought that if I died, I would be able to get rid of everything... I didn’t expect that I wouldn’t be able to live peacefully in the underworld.”
"I even suspect that His Majesty is deliberately retaliating."
"How do you start talking about this?" Li Shimin was a little confused.
"Your Majesty is the incarnation of Emperor Ziwei, and Emperor Yinsi Fengdu is also Emperor Ziwei..."