It only takes half a day to drive back to Chang'an from Lishan Mountain. Full version 520.
On the way, Yang Guozhong told about Li Xi's family background. The descendants of the Bohai royal family of Longxi Li family were relatives of the Tang Dynasty. Li Xi's father, Li Puguan, served as the governor of Lu County and attacked Uncle Guangwu.
The reason why Li Xi rebelled was that he was dissatisfied that the title of Guangwu Bo was inherited by his brothers. Therefore, Xue Bai originally thought that Li Xi's home should be a high-ranking family. Unexpectedly, he went all the way into a small house in Changmingfang, south of Chang'an City.
“Huh? It’s even shabbier than when I first arrived in Chang’an.”
Yang Guozhong was always good at ransacking homes. Seeing this courtyard, he couldn't help but be startled, secretly thinking that there would be no hope for him this time.
Fortunately, he was here to "search for evidence", and he just said in passing, "You see, the noble son is pretending to be honest, but he must be deliberately testing back. Come in."
Xue Bai looked up and saw spider webs on the eaves, so he asked, "Li Xi only has this house?"
Yang Guozhong said: "His original residence is in Lu County, and he usually lives in Zhaoying County Yamen, so this place must be where he contacts demons and thieves."
Xue Bai could see that Li Xi was busy with official duties. Although he was only half a day away from Chang'an, he rarely returned to the capital to take care of things. Yang Guozhong recruited two civil servants and whispered: "Go to the study and do your work carefully."
“Zhongcheng, don’t worry, the craftsmanship of the little people is stable.”
The officials then went to create evidence that Li Xi and Liu Hua were in contact here.
Yang Guozhong was very considerate and even explained something.
“Abai Mo must be surprised. Li Xizhen was the instigator behind the scenes. It’s just that there was a little bit of evidence missing when the case was finalized. We didn’t accuse him unjustly.”
They then went to the study room, broke the door and locked it in.
Although the house is dilapidated, the study is neatly kept and the shelves are filled with various books. It is possible that the reason why Li Xi still stayed in the house to look at the house was because he was reluctant to part with these books.
Yang Guozhong was busy fabricating false evidence, while Xue Bai was observing.
There was a cabinet under the shelf, which must have contained something more important. Xue Bai opened it and took out a box, which was filled with letters.
He opened the thickest letter first, and found that the handwriting looked familiar, with a myriad of manners and a free and easy look. When he looked at the signature, he saw that it was indeed Li Bai, writing "Ode to Li Gong, Magistrate of Yucheng County".
“The king establishes the country and the kings gather and disperse across the land and earth for hundreds of miles, thundering their majesty. Breaking away from their customs and winding them up, fishing for their people and containing them.”
If Li Bai is willing to flatter someone, he is really willing to use words, and the flattery sounds extraordinary.
After the praise at the beginning, it is said about Li Xi's family background, "Na Zhong Wang Ting, named Zhong Ding, Hou Bo inherited his legacy", which is indeed prominent.
There is a sentence in it that attracted Xue Bai's attention, "The Duke is the Yuanzi of Guangwu Bo. He was nineteen years old and paid homage to Shouguang Wei of Beihai."
Li Xi is the eldest son and can wait to inherit the title of Guangwu Bo. There is no need to rebel.
The text talks about his official deeds. When Li Xi first became the county magistrate of Yucheng, there was an old and dilapidated well in the county government office. The water was bitter. The officials wanted to dig a new well for him, but he tasted the water from the old well. Wan
You said, "It is both bitter and clear, which is enough to meet my ambitions" and did not allow anyone to dig the well again;
He was ordered to build the imperial mausoleum and spent 30,000 guan. When it was completed, he had 8,000 guan left over. He called refugees from five counties to do labor and never whipped anyone. Every time he saw a corpse on the roadside, he buried it with a private salary. The people of the county were grateful to him.
His kindness was imitated one after another.
Li Bai spoke highly of this Yucheng magistrate, "Observe his appointment and be thrifty, admire his respect and be polite. Search xs520.co for the simple festival of Zhi Tu,
Yang Lianfu's Qingbo. "
Xue Bai read other letters and gradually made a general judgment about Li Xi.
Among them, there was a letter that caught his attention. It was written by the captain of Yanshi County. It was full of complaints. He said that the victims of the disaster in Henan Province had flocked to Luoyang, and Hanjiaku refused to release grain. The flood victims were flooding in Yanshi County, which made people helpless.
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The letter was written at the end of Tianbao's fifth year, not long after Li Xigang was transferred from Yucheng to Zhaoying County, and the person who wrote the letter was named Wang Yansiam, who was promoted from Yucheng County Lieutenant to Yanshi County Lieutenant.
This incident is probably the reason why those rebels in Henan were able to participate in the construction of Huaqing Palace.
Xue Bai acted calmly, glanced at Yang Guozhong, and hid a few letters in his sleeves when he was not prepared.
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Huaqing Palace.
Before nightfall, a fast horse came from the east. The imperial guards who rode back quickly received the saint's summons after seeing Chen Xuanli.
“At the end of the day, I arrived in Dongdu and rushed to Yanshi County without stopping, but the county captain Wang Yanxiang had already committed suicide out of fear of crime.”
Shall you commit suicide out of fear of crime? Or will you be killed and silenced?”
"At the end of the day, please send me his last letter."
Gao Lishi then stepped forward to receive the letter. Wang Yanxiang claimed that he was unable to see the flood of victims and was unable to provide relief, so he asked Li Xi to take them to trek to Guanzhong to build a palace. Unexpectedly, it would lead to a catastrophic disaster. He was ashamed of the divine grace and committed suicide to apologize.
After hearing this, Li Longji immediately turned to look at Chen Xuanli and asked, "Did you send someone to kill him?"
“Back to the saint, this one is not.”
If Chen Xuanli hadn't killed him by the way, this matter would have looked a bit like what Li Linfu did, the same way Wei Jian, Huangfu Weiming and others died. Then there was a big problem in Hanjiacang. Henan's government officials were corrupt, and even Li Linfu couldn't explain it.
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Soon, Li Longji shook his head and rejected the idea. He was sure that Li Linfu would not do such a stupid thing to hide it.
There was no problem in the prosperous Tang Dynasty that he governed, but these careerists with evil intentions were deceiving people.
Yanshi Wei Wang Yansiam, who first took in those grass-nosed demon thieves, had already committed suicide out of fear of his crime, but Li Xi was still arrogant even before he died!
The night is getting darker.
Li Longji was still sitting there, no outsiders were around, he no longer pretended, his face was gloomy. "Sage." Gao Litu stepped forward and asked cautiously: "Do you want to rest early tonight?"
“Is Yang Guozhong back?”
“I must be on my way, and I won’t be able to see you until tomorrow morning.”
After Gao Lishi responded, he saw that the saint was not about to take a rest, so he asked: "The saint... doesn't quite believe what the Lord Que said?"
Li Longji did not answer.
This made it even more difficult for Gao Lishi to figure out the saint's mind. After this assassination, the saint seemed to have changed, no longer as cheerful and open-minded as before.
“The saint has not visited the Eastern Capital for ten years. If he really cares about the people, why not...
“No need.”
Li Longji finally waved his hand and said: "I believe in the king. When it comes to general affairs and money, he knows far more than Yang Guozhong, Li Xi and others. The whole book..."
Gao Lishi lowered his head and consoled him softly: "In this case, why should the saint care about Li Xi's words? This case was just an accident and it is over. The right prime minister has governed the world well."
Li Longji is a rare chef, and he still has some reason to convince himself, "I should keep Li Xi and let him see that he is wrong."
“It’s over, can the saint see the imperial concubine tonight?
Li Longji actually hesitated and asked: "Does General Gao feel that after the assassination, Taizhen's attitude towards me and her sworn brother was different?"
"Why did the saint say this?" Gao Lishi was greatly surprised, "The imperial concubine treats the saint as affectionately as ever, but I don't know who is talking in front of the saint?"
Li Longji can’t tell.
He closed his eyes and recalled the situation when he was young and purged the evil spirit of Wu Zhou. However, a small incident happened.
Destroyed his almost perfect image of an emperor.
It was night, and he actually felt that it would be easier to face a plaything.
“Recruit model girls.”
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Early the next morning, Li Longji met with Yang Guozhong again. He had restored the grand demeanor of the king in the past and his demeanor was relaxed.
“Returning to the saint, I have found key evidence that proves that it was Li Xi who ordered Liu Hua to assassinate Jia.”
“Then let’s close the case.“
“I obey the decree.”
Afterwards, Li Longji summoned Xue Bai and asked: "How was the search?"
Xue Bai has been thinking, why did Li Longji send him to go with Yang Guozhong when he could do it alone?
He had an answer in his mind, but he was not sure.
"Returning to the saint, I did not find any evidence of Li Xi's rebellion. I only saw that Yang Zhongcheng's envoys made perjury."
Really?" Li Longji looked at Xue Bai with a scrutinizing look.
Xue Bai continued: "After searching, I thought Li Xi was a loyal minister."
“Did you know that the loyal minister you spoke of protected the regicide monster?”
Yang Zhongcheng wants to close the case as soon as possible and creates perjury. I have no right to interfere in this matter, but I have to tell the truth to the saint."
“Truth?” Li Longji sneered, vaguely aiming at Xue Bai.
"Yes." Xue Bai said: "Li Xi may have been negligent or may have been deceived by others, but he is definitely not the mastermind behind the scenes. Please provide supporting evidence."
Li Longji did not want to see the evidence and scolded: "In my opinion, you are the one who was deceived, and you can easily believe the traitor.
He was dissatisfied with Xue Bai. After the assassination, when he began to doubt whether he was still as wise and courageous as when he was young, and then heard that Xue Bai had killed a demon thief and saved Yang Yuhuan, the emotion he felt turned out to be jealousy.
Xue Bai's youth.
This emotion came out of nowhere. Li Long basically thought that he would be very happy that Yang Yuhuan was safe and sound, and would reward Xue Bai heavily for it, but all he could think about was that he was more popular than him in front of his woman.
It shouldn’t be like this.
Li Longji had no shortage of ministers to do things. The reason why he summoned Xue Bai was to confirm whether he had begun to dislike this romantic young man even more than he did when he was young.
In a rare move, the emperor began to lose his composure.
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Xue Bai felt Li Longji's dissatisfaction more and more strongly. Therefore, he knew that he could not imitate the king and Yang Guozhong should be an obedient minister.
To give an inappropriate example, if you are already disliked by a woman, if you continue to obey her, you will only be looked down upon.
Once "shun" is no longer useful, he must show value. He must give Li Longji a little emotion that others cannot give, without going too far.
“I think that if Li Xi is really the mastermind, he can take advantage of the opportunity of building Huaqing Palace to send the demon thieves into the inner garden.” Xue Bai paused and said, “Therefore, this case should be just a rebellion by the demon thieves.”
Honest advice is unpleasant to the ears, and the truth is not pleasant either.
Fortunately, Xue Bai was talking about demons and thieves causing rebellion, unlike Li Xi who directly said that officials forced the people to rebel.
Li Longji was still unhappy, but his anger towards Xue Bai finally shifted from the original inexplicable jealousy to business matters.
In addition, what Li Xi said that day is still lingering in his mind.
“Okay, Xue Qing might as well tell me, what do you think of this case?”
"I believe that at least the nearly a thousand victims Li Xi recruited from Henan Prefecture are real. Although more than twenty monsters and thieves were mixed in among them, how many people will die along the way from their hometown to Luoyang and then to Lishan? How many people will die in the end?
There are nearly a thousand laborers left, which shows that the scale of the disaster is not small."
This is an angle that other ministers have never mentioned. Chen Xuanli, Yang Guozhong, Wang and others don't care about the victims at all. Does Li Longji care? Xue Bai doesn't know.
He thought that this saint only cared about face.
"Of course, disasters are common. The Tang Dynasty was so strong and able to cope with it. It should be because the local officials did not do a good job." Xue Bai said: "I found a letter in Li Xi's study from Yanshi County Wei Wang Yansiam
, stated that the victims of the disaster had not received relief when they arrived in Luoyang, and I asked the sage to take a look at it. "
Gao Lishi thought that Xue Bai had said enough, so he asked for instructions with his eyes, and then said: "Wang Yansiam committed suicide out of fear of crime, why can't he and Li Xi conspire?"
Xue Bai said: "What General Gao said is true, and it is also possible."
After answering, he stood aside respectfully and said no more.
In any case, he did not have much involvement in the case, and that was all that he had shown a loyal and upright attitude.
If the emperor is willing to accept his advice, he is a pure minister; if the emperor hates him, it doesn't matter, he will look away, and from now on he will be an unpopular minister, selling his reputation.
The incense in the incense burner was burned out, and a palace maid came forward to light it again. Xue Bai stood there, accepting Li Longji's inspection.
After a long time, Li Longji spoke, without commenting on Xue Bai's advice, and said calmly: "You have done a good job in protecting the army, and I should reward you. If you are appointed as the captain of Zhaoying County, do you have the confidence to govern the country?"
In an instant, Xue Bai was almost ready to salute.
He worked hard and planned for a long time just to get such a position.
But then, he hesitated for a moment and thought, is it really okay to stay in Lishan now?
After quickly weighing the trade-offs, Xue Bai responded: "I am brave enough to ask your majesty to appoint me... Yanshi County Lieutenant."
Yanshi County is a county in the eastern capital, and the qualifications for promotion in the future will be the same. However, Luoyang is further away from the emperor, making promotion more difficult.
Xue Bai decided to go because Yanshi was the only way for water transportation and was very close to Luoyang and Hanjiacang, and he was really willing to see what the victims who could be bribed to rebel with a piece of cake were like.
"Nonsense!" Gao Lishi immediately shouted: "Are you the one who can choose your official position in the Tang Dynasty?!"
But at this moment, Gao Lishi breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that Xue Bai's temporary absence from Chang'an would be good for the saint's mood, the concubine's situation, and his own future.
“I deserve to die.”
“Why do you want to be appointed Yanshi Lieutenant?” Li Longji asked.
Tianbao six years of spring troubles, I have received a letter to express the fault of the canal transport; now I have found a letter from Li Xi, talking about the disaster in Henan. I want to go to the Eastern Capital on behalf of the saint to have a look."
“I have so many servants that I don’t need you as a minor official.”
"Yes, I am arrogant." Xue Bai said: "I just think that after I went to see it... I can tell the truth to the saint."
Li Longji looked at him again and said calmly: "When officials are appointed, they have to be evaluated by Zhongshu's disciples and the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Don't always ask me for officials."
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Wait until Xue Bai leaves.
Li Longji closed his eyes and pondered, his expression gradually relaxed.
Today, he solved two troubles.
For one thing, he had to give Xue Bai a generous reward because of his love for the imperial concubine. He was reluctant and even had some murderous intentions because of it. Xue Bai took the initiative to leave Chang'an, which calmed his emotions a lot.
Secondly, although he didn't believe Li Xi's words, he still couldn't get rid of them. Although what the king said was reasonable, it would always make people uneasy if he didn't confirm it. When all the ministers around him only flatter themselves, send some ministers who can tell the truth.
Go and take a look. If nothing happens in the world, you can feel at ease.
“Pass an order to Yin Weiji of Henan Province to conduct a thorough investigation of the free warehouses in the prefecture and counties of Henan Prefecture.”
"Go and talk to Taizhen again. Her sworn brother has offered to serve in the Eastern Capital. It's not that I'm stingy with rewards."
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“Where is Li Xi’s body?”
“The saint showed mercy and allowed his wife and children to send him back to Lu County for burial.”
“I want to see him off,” Xue Bai said.
Yang Guozhong shook his head subconsciously and said: "You shouldn't invite such a disaster."
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Xue Bai went anyway.
He had never seen Li Xi before. When he first saw him, he saw several orphans and widows holding a thin coffin.
Xue Bai handed Li Bai's article "In Praise of Yucheng County Magistrate Li Gong" to Li Xi's son.
“Save for the day when justice can be redressed.”
Because Xue Bai couldn't persuade Li Longji to admit that the government forced the people to rebel. What he said could only make Li Longji think that he was honest, and then send an honest official to Henan Province to serve as a low-level official to look at the people's livelihood.
I thought the matter was resolved.
Don’t mention the land equalization system, don’t mention the mediocrity of renting, and don’t mention the free warehouse law...The only thing the emperor solved was the unhappiness in his heart.
