Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 945 The Rebellion on the Side of the Couch

After entering summer, the dawn comes earlier.

At dawn, the emperor also got up, and just after washing, Zhang Xian, the provincial eunuch in the palace, came to report.

"Everyone, Li Junxian asked to see him, saying that there is an urgent performance."

Li Junxian, as the captain of the pro-military bodyguard, enjoys the privilege of secret memorials and face-to-face emperors here. His memorials do not have to go through the Yintai Tongzheng Secretary, nor do they have to be drafted by the Prime Minister of the Political Affairs Hall, nor do they have to be approved by Zhu Zhu, a scholar of the Imperial Academy.

"Did you tell me why it's so urgent?" the emperor asked while washing his face. The court ladies stood by and waited on him, but the emperor was always used to washing himself.

The eunuch is the head of the palace, and the palace is in charge of the eunuchs, who are in charge of the emperor's life, and command the six bureaus such as food and medicine.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs is in charge of conveying imperial edicts, guarding the palace gates, sweeping the inner courts, and cashiers in the inner treasury. There are six bureaus including Yeting and Gongwei.

Although the two provinces have their own emphasis, the Ministry of Internal Affairs mainly uses scholars as officials, the chief official is the internal servant supervisor, and the secondary officials are internal servants and internal regular servants, who serve the emperor and manage the palace.

The Dianzhong Province is exclusively in charge of eunuchs, who are in charge of the emperor's obedience.

To put it simply, Dianzhong Sheng is the personal steward of the emperor's inner court, while the Minister of Internal Affairs is equivalent to the chief steward of the outer court.

All the eunuchs and maids in the palace are under the control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs is also responsible for the foreign affairs of the queens and concubines, such as going out to guard and so on.

The Dianzhong Province is only in charge of the emperor's food, clothing, housing and transportation.

The head of the Dianzhong province is called the eunuch, but the eunuchs of the Dianzhong province are also under the supervision of the internal servants of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but the emperor stipulated that the high-ranking official of the internal servants can only be held by civil servants, and the internal servants are also civil servants. The number is the eunuch.

In this way, from the very beginning of the founding of the Great Qin Dynasty, the status of eunuchs has been stipulated to death.

Among the three inner provinces, the secretary provinces are all scholars and civil servants, and the high-ranking officials in the house are also civil servants. Although the eunuchs in the palace are eunuchs, they only care about the emperor's food, clothing, housing and transportation, and they can't manage court affairs.

As the current No. [-] eunuch in the palace, although Zhang Xian is the third rank, his rank is completely different from that of hundreds of officials. He can only serve in the Ministry of the Palace or the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the rest of his life. Transfer to another post.

The emperor intentionally controlled these eunuchs from holding too much power. He knew very well that eunuchs, as the emperor's personal, even if they had no rank or position, still had a great opportunity to hold power. After all, they were people close to the emperor.

"Everyone, the slaves don't know, and they dare not ask." Zhang Xian replied with his head bowed. He knew that in front of the emperor, it is best to be responsible and not be too active.

His former eunuch was sent back to his hometown by the emperor's decree because he liked to inquire and make friends with foreign officials.

The emperor had no expression on his face, but Zhang Xian knew that this was a gesture of satisfaction from the emperor.

"Call Li Junxian to face the saint in the Hall of Hundred Million Years, I will be there later."

Zhang Xian breathed a sigh of relief, bowed and stepped back.Companion to the emperor is like companion to the tiger. This sentence is not nonsense. A prefect in Guanzhong said that on the emperor's Christmas day, the mountains in the county under his rule trembled, and the mountains shouted long live.As a result, the emperor was furious when he saw it, and directly asked Zhu Pi, a Hanlin scholar, to reply, and asked the Zhengshitang to dismiss such officials who only knew how to flatter and flatter them, and they would never be hired, and they would be expelled for the people.

Zhang Xian knew that the man was originally an old aristocrat in Guanlong, who was appointed as the prefect of a county in Guanzhong after he belonged to the Qin Dynasty. After the clan annals were published, he felt that the status of the family had declined, so he was a little flustered, and finally came up with such a memorial. Come on, it turned out that the flattery didn't pat, but the horse's leg.

After the emperor washed up and ate a bowl of millet porridge, he came to the Hall of Hundred Million Years.Li Junxian had been waiting for a long time. After he paid his respects to the emperor, he sent a memorial: Someone is plotting a rebellion.

"Who wants to rebel?" asked the emperor.

The emperor didn't open the sealed memorial, and asked Li Junxian directly.

"Sun Anye, the chief of the prison gate guard Zhonglang, Li Xiaochang, the prime minister of Hanoi, Liu Deyu, the general of Zuowuwei Huben, Yuan Hongshan, the general of Yingyang Lang, and others conspired to rebel!"

"Oh!"

The emperor was very calm after hearing this, and just let out an oh.

Of the four named by Li Junxian, the eldest grandson Anye is the half-brother of the eldest grandson Zhaoyi who is now very favored in the palace, while Li Xiaochang is a member of the Li Yuan clan.

Someone rebelled, and the emperor was not surprised at all.

Although many enemy generals with soldiers and horses in their hands surrendered voluntarily during the previous unification battle, this does not mean that after he unifies the north, no one will rebel again.

"What's the reason for Changsun Anye's rebellion?" the emperor asked, picking up the newspaper that the eunuch had prepared for him in the imperial case.Today there are many Daqin newspapers, there are as many as hundreds of large and small newspapers, and the circulation of large newspapers can exceed [-] copies. For example, the official Oriental News and Luoyang Morning Post are official mouthpieces.

Dongfang News is edited and published by Secretary Province, Luoyang Morning Post is edited and published by Hanlin Academy. In addition, there are Taixue Journal published by Guozijian, and Guardian published by Ministry of War.

The Oriental News is stipulated by the imperial court. Every issue is sent to more than 22 counties in more than [-] counties on [-] roads in the world through the post station. It is guaranteed that each county has at least one copy, and the [-]th Army of the North Yam, the Twelve Guards of the South Yam, and the Four Houses , The twelve government offices of the internal army must also be sent to the battalion level.County schools and county schools in all counties and counties across the country must also have at least one copy.

It is precisely because of such official requirements that the circulation of the Oriental News is quite astonishing, with at least [-] copies sold in each issue.

There are also some small newspapers that only sell hundreds of thousands of copies, or even published once a month. However, with their own characteristics, they also win the support of many specific groups of people.

The emperor liked to read newspapers, and he asked the government to run a big newspaper to exert influence and control public opinion.At the same time, he was not opposed to privately run newspapers, but he asked Zhengshitang to issue a book and newspaper publishing order early on to restrict and manage the publication and distribution of these books and newspapers.

Every morning, the emperor would flip through the latest newspapers. He read them very quickly, first scanning them roughly, and then finding interesting content to read carefully.

In the recent issues of Oriental News, the main page is all about the enfeoffment, including why the original titles of many vassals should be adjusted, as well as detailed reports including where the princes are entrusted, why they are entrusted, where they are entrusted, etc. .

In fact, Luo Cheng didn't need to guess, but he could also think of why Changsun Anye and others rebelled. Naturally, it was related to this enfeoffment.

As the half-brother of Changsun Wuji and Changsun Wugou, Changsun Anye, after the death of Changsun Sheng, the brothers of Changsun Anye drove the three of Changsun Wuji's mothers out of the house.

Later, Changsun Wugou married Luo and became a concubine, and Changsun Anye even sent someone to mock and insult her, saying that Changsun Wuji's mother had humiliated their Henan Changsun family three times.

But who knew that a guy like Luo Cheng, who had made his fortune in the military, would eventually become the emperor.

Fortunately, Guanyin's maidservants did not hold grudges against them because of this, but made an exception for them and pleaded with the emperor to seek official positions for them.

Luo Cheng made an exception and granted his grandson Anye the Shangdang County Lord, and he was given a military post. After that, he was promoted several times. At this time, he was appointed as Jianmen Zhonglang General. Guards, I have to say, are very important.

In the previous adjustment of titles, past merits were used as the criterion for conferring titles, rather than past family status. Therefore, although the eldest grandson Anye was a general in the prison, he did not have any credit for the founding of the Great Qin Dynasty.

So in the end, Changsun Anye's title of Duke of Shangdang County was cut and changed to a false title of baron. Because it was a false title, he didn't even have a title. He was only called a baron.

On the contrary, his elder brother Sun Wuji had to be conferred the title of Marquis of the Founding of the Shangdang, with five hundred households and a hundred miles of land.

This made the eldest grandson Anye both envious and jealous.

The reassignment of nobility will not only affect the emperor's relatives like Changsun Anye, but also a large number of old nobles and generals, who have also been adjusted this time.

Before that, many people belonged to Daqin, and still inherited the titles of dukes and marquises from their ancestors.

But now, with an edict, these people were knocked off the clouds and fell to the bottom of the mud.

Li Xiaochang voted for Li Yuan with Huayin warehouse, one of the six major granaries in the Sui Dynasty, and was named the king of the county.After Li Yuan died, he became attached to Daqin, and then he was demoted all the way. First, the county king was demoted to earl, and then the prefect was demoted to the county magistrate.

But this time, even more simply, the emperor directly cut off his earl, not even a false baron, and even the governor of Hanoi, and it is said that he was going to Yunnan to serve as a county magistrate.

Li Xiaochang was very dissatisfied.

Soon, a large group of disaffected people slowly came together.

"Your Majesty, the eldest grandson Anye and others conspired against each other, and the evidence is conclusive. The four of them conspired secretly, and contacted many officials, generals and schools, most of whom were old nobles."

"Your Majesty, do you want to arrest them immediately?"

The emperor just shook his head.

"What's the hurry, it's just a few jumping beam clowns, let them jump up and down for a while, just to see who has evil intentions, you guys keep an eye on the military mansion, and see how many big fish you can catch this time Come on, just catch them all at once. If I don’t show off the power of thunder, these people will only think that I am Yang Guang.”

"Your Majesty, if it gets too big, will it have a bad effect?" After saying this, Li Junxian felt a little regretful. It was the emperor's decision whether to affect it or not, and it was not his turn to speak.

"It doesn't matter, the black sheep always needs to be cleaned up. Right now, we're just starting to divide up. If we get rid of more, I can give up a few less."

"All you have to do is stare at them, collect evidence, and remember to ask for hard evidence."

Once the clan annals were released last time, countless people were secretly dissatisfied, and the demotion that followed this time touched the interests of countless people even more.

Now, this force is running around and slowly fermenting, but the emperor decided not to rush to burst this pussy.

Maybe it's time to put these people in a pot, and it will be a scourge sooner or later.

These people have always been unwilling to be of one mind with him, or in other words, he has never been able to really tolerate such a group of survivors continuing to live in his new dynasty. Everything has long been doomed, and they are irreconcilable contradictions.

(End of this chapter)