Zhenguan Crown Prince Li Chengqian

Chapter 546 "True Fragrance" Law

As the favorite minister of the emperor, Ma Zhou never looked at anyone's face when he was enforcing the law. No, after getting the order, he led the people from Yushitai to go door to door and invited him and the people impeached by Wei Zheng to Daming Palace A side hall.

Let me tell you the reason for arresting people clearly. The days of extravagance and extravagance are gone forever. His Majesty was furious and specially decreed to starve you for three days as a punishment, and let you know that the common people's food is good. How difficult.

Ma Zhou represented the emperor, so in front of him, everyone endured the imperial edict.But after Ma Zhou left, all the veterans headed by Liu Hongji also scolded him, saying that Ma Zhou was poor and crazy, and they were envious of how well the old people lived.So I slandered in front of the emperor, and when I see His Majesty, I have to take good care of him and Wei Zheng, these two poor fellows.

Everyone was resting in the side hall while cursing, it was very happy, but they really didn't expect that bastard Ma Zhou would dare not give food, even water, it was too much.So, in the hall, the voices of cursing the instigators Wei Zheng and Ma Zhou continued one after another, and those who had a straight mother into Lao Tzu and gave birth to a child without a butthole were ugly.

Three days later, Ma Zhou led the hungry officials to the garden outside the Zichen Palace, and everyone's spirits were exhausted. They could do nothing but gouge Ma Zhou with their eyes. , Ma Zhou was also labeled as a cruel official like Zhang Tang in their work.

In the imperial garden pavilion, Li Shimin sat on a pier and sipped tea, Li Chengqian stood by and waited. Seeing that the emperor's face was not very good, all the ministers hurriedly greeted the ceremony and bowed to Jin'an, and then obediently knelt on the ground, Waiting for the thunderous wrath of the emperor.

After glancing at the officials kneeling on the ground, Li Shimin put down the teacup in his hand, and said flatly: "Most of you are heroes of the founding of the country, and many of you started from Jinyang, or from my Li family. Yes, with our Southern Expeditions and Northern Wars, we laid down this vast and magnificent country.

Thinking back to those years of fighting back then, it was so hard, let alone simple meals and simple meals with you, it was hard to get a full night’s sleep. At that time, how could I have imagined that I could live such a good life today! "

"However, the days of wealth and honor have been long, and this top-notch home-cooked food can no longer be eaten by you. You can find some strange things to eat, and some people even raise domestic slaves to go to the mountains to catch them. , killed people. What’s more, they even eat human milk, what? Are you still Yueli’s dolls? I’m ashamed for you.”

Seeing all the ministers prostrated on the ground, claiming to be guilty, Li Shimin snorted and continued, "Treasures from the mountains and seas, exotic birds and beasts, flying in the sky, running on the ground, swimming in the sea, what's so strange about what you eat. What black phoenix, Civet cats, pangolins, and tofu mixed with monkey brains in central Sichuan, no matter where these birds and beasts go, they cannot escape the fate of being made into dishes.

I am afraid that the things in the world can no longer satisfy your desires. If I don't cure your appetite, will you want to eat dragon liver and phoenix gallbladder tomorrow? " After finishing speaking, Li Shimin waved to Zhai Changsun, only to see the guards carrying a foul-smelling wooden barrel in front of the ministers and workers.

Then Li Shimin came down from the pavilion, pointed to the wooden barrel, and said sharply: "These are all slops from your homes, and they are all leftovers from eating. Some chickens and ducks are thrown away after only a few bites." Yes. Seeing these wasted food, according to my temper, I really want you to eat these things again."

When people are hungry, whatever they eat must taste delicious. Although everyone’s stomachs have already been bulging, they can’t swallow the foul-smelling swill no matter what, so they all kowtow desperately, please the emperor. I spared myself once, and vowed never to waste food again.

If you want to eat this, how will you behave in the future, so while begging for mercy, everyone also hates Wei Zheng and Ma Tuesday.There is a saying that you should not punish a doctor, and a hero should not be humiliated lightly. The emperor was lenient to everyone, but it was because of the two of them that he treated everyone like this. With the presence of cruel officials, the good old days are gone forever.

Seeing these well-dressed ministers kowtowed to plead guilty without any rules, Li Shimin waved again. The swill in the barrel was removed and replaced with bowls of fragrant rice porridge.Under Li Shimin's signal, the guards distributed bowls of porridge to the people. The people who had been hungry for three days gobbled it up, and in their spare time, they still begged for another bowl, and then they talked one after another. Really fragrant, really fragrant.

After having these two bowls of porridge at the bottom, the spirits of all the ministers and workers improved a lot. They all thanked the emperor for the banquet, shouted long live three times, and the resentment towards the emperor disappeared in their hearts. Don't vomit us to death.

"Wealth can only last three generations. When I hear this, I often wake up myself. It is not easy to establish a country, and it is even more difficult to stabilize a society. For this reason, when I am in charge of government, I often remind myself that if you want your family and country to last forever, you have to be hardworking and thrifty.

The same principle applies to you as well. There are those who don't want the family business to be passed on from generation to generation, but with such extravagance and waste, it won't take three generations. I can guarantee that your descendants will be wiped out by everyone.

I have always cared about veteran ministers, so I have starved you for three days and hope this will wake you up. After returning home, I must bow down and reflect on how to be a minister and how to be a father.

Don't indulge your own desires, and let decades of hard work and family fortune be wiped out in retrospect, and even break the friendship between our monarchs and ministers, everyone, wake up! " After finishing speaking, Li Shimin turned around and left with Li Chengqian with a flick of his sleeves, leaving only these ministers looking at each other in blank dismay.

After returning to the Zichen Palace, Li Chengqian couldn't help but stretched out his thumb, and respectfully praised: "Father, with what you said today, those extravagant ministers and workers must hide far away when they see birds and beasts. Yes, otherwise it would be slop waiting for them.”

"Gao Ming, you kid is too cunning, and I am afraid that you dare not say it. Let me tell you clearly, I am not afraid of mutual hostility among my subjects. If there is no fight between them, it will be us. And we must guard against them." Forming a clique and letting Wei Zheng and Ma Zhou come out to stir things up from time to time will not do any harm to the court situation. After all, you can't ask all the ministers and workers to be selfless and magnanimous!
Take the East Palace as an example, if you hadn’t made them rich, they would have followed you wholeheartedly, boy, the way of an emperor sometimes requires intrigue and trickery, although some are not on the table, but they have to stop, the relationship between monarchs and ministers Sometimes I just want you to use me, and I use you, let this be confused! ".
(End of this chapter)