Li Yuan sat at the top, staring at Li Shimin with an unswerving expression, "Young Master Erlang is so heroic and magnanimous, why do you allow his subordinates to be so corrupt and despicable?"
Li Jiancheng on the side added fuel to the fire: "Even if the Shaofu and the Ministry of Civil Affairs are unable to pay for the time being, in this national war, even though the second brother has not been to the battlefield in person..."
Tsk tsk, I have to say that Li Jiancheng's palace fighting methods are still very aggressive. He stopped talking in the middle of the sentence. Those blank spaces make people think about it... At least it has this meaning. Li Yuan will inevitably think that the King of Handan is leading the army and the King of Qin is making small moves behind him.
, what do you want to do?
Do you hope that Li Shan will be defeated, and then Erlang will come back to turn the tide and replace Dalang in the East Palace?
Li Shimin looked calm, and looked at Li Jiancheng with a trace of ridicule in his eyes, "The Du family in Jingzhao is well-known throughout the country. If the prince is interested, he can recruit Du Zhili as an official in the East Palace. I dare not stop him."
Li Yuan coughed twice and said, "Don't say such angry words, Erlang."
Hey, in fact, Li Shimin really wasn't speaking out of anger. He was really annoyed with that old guy Du Yan. For that little money... Li Shan had already set off for several days, but he still didn't let go. For this reason, he and his nephew Du Ruhui
It was a complete falling out, and the whole Jingzhao Du family was disturbed by the quarrel.
Well, it's not that little bit of money... According to the normal price, it's a lot of money, and there's also Li Shimin in it. What Du Ruhui doesn't know is that there are actually a lot of Yuhuchun stored in Du's Zhuangzi in Jingzhao.
It can shock anyone who sees it.
The problem is that Yuhuchun cannot be used directly. It needs to be distilled again, so Li Shan needs a lot of raw materials for Yuhuchun.
Du Ruhui had already taken people to Zhuangzi... Because of this incident, Du Yan turned away his nephew. How dare he let people know the number of Yu Huchun in Zhuangzi.
Making wine requires food. With so much wine, where did Du Yan get so much food?
Anyone with normal logic would know that there must be something wrong here, and the autumn harvest has just ended, so the winery cannot be so fast... Then the source of the food is a question.
Well, I have to admit that Li Shan did need a large amount of Yuhuchun, but he did dig this hole for Du Yan... Back then, he accidentally discovered that there was a secret relationship between Feng Lun and King Qi, which was to get food from Yuhuchun.
It started with help.
What is the connection between Du Yan and Feng Lun?
And what is the relationship between Feng Lun and King Qi?
And the two young ministers of Sinong Temple, Zhao Yuankai and Yu Wenying, happened to have close contacts with King Qi...
Li Shan dug this hole conveniently, hoping that those who would come after him would be able to expose the matter. It would not be a good thing anyway, and Feng Lun, Du Yan, and King Qi either had nothing to do with him or had grudges.
Du Yan naturally didn't think of this, and he didn't even think that it was Li Shan who dug the hole. He only focused on starting a war with his nephew Du Ruhui.
In fact, the most unlucky person was not Du Ruhui, who was full of troubles, but Taichang Qing Dou Dan. Li Shan kept his word. After setting off, he wrote a letter almost every day to urge Yu Huchun... The specific distillation process was carried out by Tai Changqing.
Chang Si was in charge, and Dou Dan had a good relationship with the general as the supervisor and the Shaofu.
Dou Dan is so busy these days that he hits the back of his head, but he has to find time every day...either to go to the Chengqian Palace or to the Tiance Mansion, anyway, to block Li Shimin.
All the officials in the court knew that the two official officials of this generation's direct lineage of the Du family in Jingzhao were both officials of the Tiance Mansion. It was Du Yan who snatched the Yuhuchun property from Li Shan.
If not Li Shimin, who else can we turn to for this matter?
But what can Li Shimin do...do he force his ministers to break up their families for the sake of the country?
It happened to be the time of the war, and neither the Shaofu nor the Ministry of Civil Affairs were willing to give the money. At most, it was on credit... We would talk about it if we had money in the future, but how could Du Yan be willing to agree?
The scholars of this era were all descendants of aristocratic families, and they generally valued their own interests and the interests of their families over the interests of the country.
If Li Shimin forced Du Yan to donate... what would the other people under his command think?
Later generations said that the struggle between the King of Qin and the Crown Prince was actually a confrontation between the Guanlong clan and the Shandong nobles. However, this view is too biased. There are indeed many people in the lineage of the King of Qin, such as Changsun Shunde, Changsun Wuji, and Duguyan.
There are important figures in the Guanlong Group like Yun, but there are also many descendants of officials whose family backgrounds have declined, such as Cheng Yaojin, Yuchi Gong, and Qin Qiong.
Under Li Shimin's command, there were also many noble families in Shandong, including the Wang family in Taiyuan, the Li family in Zhaojun, the Liu family in Jiexian County, the Xue family in Hedong, the Cui family in Boling, the Du family in Jingzhao, the Fang family in Qinghe, and the Zheng family in Xingyang.
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Forcing Du Yan to donate... what would so many wealthy people think?
Li Shimin could only ask Fang Xuanling privately, and Ling Jing urged... Du Ruhui was urged to the point where Du Ruhui was about to go to war with his uncle Du Yan.
Until today, after Dou Dan once again received a fierce letter from Li Shan, he simply reported the matter to Li Yuan.
Now it's Li Shimin's turn to have a headache. He wants to explain... But let alone Prince Li Jiancheng, even Li Yuan doesn't believe it.
"Second brother, we can't let Huairen pay this money, right?" Li Jiancheng chased after him, "I remember last month Huairen also borrowed a large sum of money from Third Sister and the King of Huaiyang."
Li Yuan smiled and nodded, "Yesterday Pingyang was still talking about this. Huairen just had a soft heart and took in those refugees... If he hadn't served as a personal guard and accompanied Huairen on the expedition, I'm afraid there would be no place to live."
Princess Pingyang gave birth to a daughter on the second night after Li Shan left Beijing. Li Yuan was overjoyed and insisted on being canonized as the head of Wugong County despite Princess Pingyang and his wife's three consecutive refusals.
The Tang Dynasty followed the Han system. Generally, only the daughter of a prince could be canonized as county lord. Historically, clan daughters and relatives would also add the title of princess and county lord. After all, the daughter of the princess had a foreign surname, so she was actually canonized as county lord. This shows that Li Yuan
I love my daughter Pingyang very much.
Moreover, he also used martial arts as his title. At that time, Princess Pingyang formed a large army in the pass and was stationed in Wugong County, with more than 70,000 soldiers under her command.
Li Shimin gritted his teeth and cursed Li Shan secretly. He had left such a troublesome thing before leaving. He would have to settle the score with this guy later!
At this time, the palace people reported the news, and Pei Ji, who looked happy, walked into the palace with the document in his hand, "Your Majesty, Jingzhou is victorious!"
Before Li Yuan could react, Li Jiancheng had already jumped up from where he was, grabbed the document, looked at it a few times, and laughed: "Great victory, great victory!"
"Handan Guo is a famous general in the world!"
And Li Shimin stared at the delighted Li Jiancheng suspiciously... How could it be so fast?
After reading the document for a while, Li Yuan glanced sideways at his eldest son. He knew what this man was thinking. Even if he wanted to stop Erlang from leading the army, he couldn't be so exaggerated. Although he won the battle, it was not a great victory.