Li Mu was startled, thinking that he didn't agree to the formation because he was not allowed to control it. It didn't matter. Li Mu had already communicated with Eunuch Gao and wanted to let him go. Li Mu glanced at Eunuch Gao and saw
He smiled, knowing in his heart that he must have contributed to this matter.
It seems that this eunuch also has selfish motives. Originally, he was the person closest to Li Shimin. Seeing that Li Shimin's eyes were in the hands of others, he was naturally unhappy. When he had the opportunity to intervene, of course he hit it off and the cooperation was happy.
Seeing that Li Mu was silent, Li Shimin thought he was unhappy, so he explained: "I won't let you take charge of the factory guards this time. It's not because I doubt you, but I just don't trust you."
Li Mu smiled bitterly and said: "Your Majesty, you don't trust me anymore. I deserve to die."
"Death is not a big deal," Li Shimin ignored Li Mu and continued: "Tell me about what you did. Can you make me feel at ease? I only gave you 500 people, and you pretended to pass on the imperial edict..." See
Li Mu was about to speak, but Li Shimin interrupted: "Not
Regardless of whether it is for the country or for me, let’s just talk about this matter. From ancient times to the present, you, Li Mu, are the only one who can survive falsely conveying the imperial edict. Isn’t it that I can’t bear to part with it? If it had been someone else, even if it had been
You are talented, so I will kill you!"
This was a true statement. Li Mu did not refute it and lowered his head to listen.
"Originally, I planned to get rid of the Jinyi Guards. But after thinking about it, it would be really inconvenient if you don't have someone to call the Internal Affairs Office. So, I will keep it for you. As for the factory guards, I am not good either.
It was time to send people from the garrison again. Seeing my troubles, the senior officials took the initiative to invite me.
Ying, it is said that there are many eunuchs in the palace who practice martial arts. Now that the princes and princesses have grown up and have opened mansions outside the palace, the number of servants in the palace cannot be used as much as before. They are all disabled and sent to the palace.
Life will be miserable when you leave the palace, so why not choose good people to be factory guards?"
"I think that's the case, and they are under the command of senior officials, so they can be regarded as my confidants. Those who have the idea of factory, they have to weigh it more. This matter is considered to be pried from your hands.
I am aware of your small-mindedness. I am worried that you will be related to
I have a grudge against a senior cadre, so I came to tell you personally. The senior cadre is an old friend who has been with me for more than 20 years and is one of the people I trust most. You are the talent I am most optimistic about, and I will entrust you with important responsibilities.
The two of you, no matter what, cannot form an enmity, otherwise it will be very difficult for me to deal with."
Li Shimin kept talking, but Li Mu just remained silent. Seeing his attitude, Li Shimin thought he didn't make sense, and said angrily: "Li Mu, I came to tell you personally, isn't it enough? I'm here with you,
Don’t you even have this bit of face?”
"Ah, I don't dare." Li Mu said quickly: "I don't dare to deceive Your Majesty about the relationship between me and Eunuch Gao. It can be said that they are like each other."
Eunuch Gao said awkwardly: "Master Hou, this word seems a bit..."
"Working together, collaborating together"
Li Shimin patted the table and said, "Can you be more serious and talk about the key points!"
Li Mu quickly became serious and said: "Although it is a little inconvenient that this matter did not fall into the hands of the minister. But it is a blessing among misfortunes that it fell into the hands of Eunuch Gao instead of Uncle Guo or Wei Zheng and others. Not to mention me.
and Eunuch Gao, one is from the Ministry of Internal Affairs
One of the ministers in charge is the eunuch in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, one is in charge of external affairs, and the other is in charge of internal affairs. The family does not talk about the two families, and they are closer than others. It's just that I have something to do.
I have to tell you upfront, and I hope your majesty will agree."
"You tell me, let me think about it."
"Your Majesty, I want to make it clear that the factory guards exist to protect the factory. But what the factory does and how it is done has nothing to do with the factory guards. All actions in the factory must comply with the arrangements of the Ministry of Works. This
It must be made clear that I am not distrusting Eunuch Gao, but I am considering it for the future. The rules set now are not to be withdrawn in a year and a half. If you don’t explain them clearly now, you won’t be able to explain them clearly in the future.”
"This is natural!" Li Shimin said cheerfully: "I think you are overthinking it. The senior officials are just sharing my worries and are not monitoring you. But since you said so, I will follow you!"
Li Mu smiled and agreed, but thought in his heart, Your Majesty, you have never seen the factory guard a thousand years in the future. If you had seen it, you wouldn't say that I think too much. But it's okay, I'll tell you everything first.
, maybe the time when the problem occurs will be pushed back a lot.
But that's another story. Li Mu is confident that when he is alive, he will never be overridden by factory guards. As for after he dies, it has nothing to do with him. Dead people still mind their own business. Are you tired?
!
Two-thirds of a large plate of beef dumplings went into Li Shimin's stomach. Li Mu and Eunuch Gao only ate two, and they didn't dare to use their chopsticks. Li Shimin pulled the plate in front of him. Who dared to snatch it from the emperor's bowl?
Li Mu didn't dare to say or ask, and watched helplessly as Li Shimin swept away the dumplings, patted his belly and left. Li Mu walked to the door, watched the carriage disappear through the square gate, and then returned to the courtyard.
"Are there any more dumplings? I'm hungry!"
…
Today, Wei Zheng's house was completely different from usual. Many people came to give gifts. Since Zheng Jing, Louvre and other great scholars were driven out of Chang'an by Li Shimin's order, the Shandong scholar group in Chang'an was leaderless. Wei Zheng, who was originally a "non-staff member"
”, has now become a leader of the Shandong gentry in the true sense. He seems to be respected in both big and small matters.
However, Wei Zheng's current power is not as strong as it used to be. Although he was only a secretary in the past, he could often hang out in front of Li Shimin and make suggestions. Even if Li Shimin didn't want to listen to him, he had to listen. But now he has been promoted and has become a supervisor.
Although he was promoted to official position, he could not see and communicate with Li Shimin often.
The channel was blocked, and because he failed to take advantage of several conflicts with Li Mu, Wei Zheng's eloquence was also questioned. Now among the eloquent talents recognized by the government and the public, Li Mu is the undisputed number one, and Yushi Zhongcheng
Wang Jingze, as a dark horse, has become the second number, while Wei Zheng is already the third person.
After Wang Jingze fought against Li Mu several times, although he did not take advantage, he still argued with reason and withstood Li Mu's revenge. To be able to do this, he was already the most powerful person among all those who had fought against Li Mu.
He was also the son-in-law of the Shandong nobles, so many Shandong nobles were interested. They planned to train Wang Jingze to become a new agent. Wei Zheng's bad temper was not only unbearable for his opponents, but also within the Shandong nobles.
But Wang Jingze refused. Faced with the lobbyists sent by the Shandong gentry, he expressed his thoughts righteously. He would never take refuge in any force. He was only willing to be a simple censor, which is what a censor should do.
The matter was worthy of the Iron Wat Board given by His Majesty. The news spread to the public, and the name of the Iron-Skeleton King Jingze became loud again. The lobbyists felt ashamed and did not dare to visit again.
Therefore, after going round and round, Wei Zheng is still the only candidate. Today is the New Year, and the main figures of the Shandong gentry have sent representatives to see Wei Zheng. On the one hand, they want to pay New Year's greetings, but more importantly, they want to discuss recent affairs.
The rising food prices are naturally a topic that cannot be avoided.
Shandong has always been a major grain production area, supplying almost 40% of the grain in the Tang Dynasty. It should be pointed out that Shandong during the Tang Dynasty did not refer to a province.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the general trend of the world was generally based on the conquests of the vassal states in the Central Plains. They eventually evolved into six major vassal states, Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, and Wei. These six states were generally distributed in Weishan.
Edom
, but the Qin State, one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, existed alone to the west of Mount Wei, monopolizing the Qinchuan land of 800 miles away from Guanzhong. Therefore, in the eyes of the Qin Dynasty that later unified the six kingdoms, the so-called Shandong refers to the area from Mount Wei to the west.
The land of the Six Kingdoms in the East.
Of course, history is constantly advancing, and the geographical scope of Shandong is also constantly changing. Generally speaking, its changing trend is constantly shrinking and moving eastward. In the early Tang Dynasty, the mountains in Shandong referred to the Taihang Mountains. Shandong,
It’s Taihang Mountain
The area east of Edom. The scope has also changed from the land of the Six Kingdoms during the Qin and Han Dynasties to the "Land of the Three Kingdoms". It governs Yan, Xu, Cao, Qing, Yun, Mi, Qi, Ji, Yi, Deng, Lai, Dan,
There are fifteen prefectures of Pu, Wei and Zi, with 81 counties under their jurisdiction.
Although the land area is much smaller, its proportion of grain production is still very high. The reason is that these places are plain areas, which are more suitable for planting compared with the Qinchuan land. Moreover, the people here are thousands of people.
During hundreds of years of evolution, people have always cultivated crops for a living,
Their agricultural level is also higher than that of other areas. Moreover, these areas are connected to Chang'an, Luoyang and other places by land. Compared with the waterway upstream, transportation is more convenient. Compared with the food from Jiangnan, it takes more time to transport it to Chang'an.
Save about half the loss.
At the end of the Sui Dynasty, the heroes of Shandong came together, relying on people and food to support an army. Although the heroes of Shandong were later destroyed at the hands of the Li brothers, the fundamental reason was that the clan was not destroyed, so there was no
The damage was fundamental, and to this day, it has been healed.
Now that the Ministry of Internal Affairs is booming, after analyzing various pros and cons, the Shandong nobles discovered that the real trump card they have is food. People can live without clothes or tools, but they cannot live without eating. No matter how amazing Zhuluhou is,
Nor can he conjure food out of thin air.
After understanding this truth, the Shandong nobles, led by the Zheng family in Xingyang and the Lu family in Fanyang, formed an alliance and launched this food price increase. Their purpose was to make the court surrender to the food they controlled.
, in order to achieve the purpose of negotiating with the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
To put it bluntly, they were jealous when they saw the order sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Seeing the money like running water going into the pockets of the nobles, they were unwilling to give in, but they did not want to be like Wang and others and become a capitulator, so they stopped
This price increase was intended to force Li Mu into submission!