Man Tanghong

Chapter 192 Li Shimin Has Started
Su Dingfang and Xue Wanshu could guess that Li Shimin would make a deal with Li Yuanji in order to protect the officials he left behind in Hebei Road.

It's just that they didn't expect it to be so fast.

They hadn't heard a word yet, and the deal was over.

"Your Highness wants to control the water transportation?"

After thinking for a while, Xue Wanshu subconsciously spoke.

Li Yuanji said indifferently: "It can't be said to be in control. After all, once the water transport is in operation, it can be regarded as the lifeline of the Tang Dynasty. How can I control it in my own hands?"

With Li Yuanji's status, it is not difficult to control water transportation.

But it is not necessary.

As he himself said, once the water transportation starts to operate, it will become the lifeline of Datang.

It is very difficult for him to influence this lifeline alone, so that it can grow rapidly.

It's better to let go and let everyone do it together to increase the volume of water transportation.

In this case, not only can a few more tax-collecting wharves be built, which will add a lot of income to Datang, but also benefit the people on both sides of the strait.

Xue Wanshu was not as far-sighted as Li Yuanji, so she couldn't understand Li Yuanji's thoughts, so she didn't say much when she heard Li Yuanji's words.

On the contrary, Su Dingfang said with a smile: "Your Highness wants to control the water transportation, and even sent ministers to supervise this matter. This is a way of making money for the ministers."

Li Yuanji glared at Su Dingfang, and said: "Find a few small boats yourself, and I don't care about those who are popular and hot, but don't bring private goods on the Huanglong boat."

Li Yuanji doesn't like to see his subordinates using public weapons for private use.

Because public equipment has been used privately for a long time, it is easy to confuse public and private, and there is no distinction between public and private.

Su Dingfang heard Li Yuanji's bottom line, and said without hesitation: "Don't worry, Your Highness, I understand the importance of it."

Li Yuanji nodded and said nothing more.

Su Dingfang immediately pulled Xue Wanshu back to the cabin.

As for Li Yuanji giving money to Su Dingfang but not to Xue Wanshu, Xue Wanshu didn't complain at all.

Because Li Yuanji gave Su Dingfang a source of wealth, it was equivalent to giving Xue Wanshu a source of wealth.

As Li Yuanji's subordinate, Su Dingfang got a few small boats behind the yellow dragon boat to eat and drink spicy food, and Xue Wanshu could do it too.

After Su Dingfang and Xue Wanshu left, Li Yuanji fell asleep again.

Not long after, exclamations erupted in the cabin.

Because Du Fuwei disguised himself as a woman, he performed a wonderful dance, which attracted everyone in the boat room to cheer for him.

When Li Yuan's interest was the strongest, Du Fuwei proposed to Li Yuan that he would remove the post of Daxingtai Minister of Dongnan Road.

The reason is that he knows nothing but dancing, so it is really difficult for him to take on such a heavy responsibility.

Although the reason was lame, Li Yuan believed it, and so did all the civil and military people.

Because Du Fuwei, a generation of heroes, put down his dignity and airs, and expressed his complete surrender to Datang in an almost self-deprecating way.

Datang has no reason to embarrass him anymore.

He resolutely handed over his power, and put himself in a position where he was harmless to Datang, and even meritorious, and Datang had no way of killing him.

Li Yuan laughed and rejected Du Fuwei's request.

Du Fuwei cried bitterly, and bluntly said that Li Yuan refused to agree to his request, so he knelt and died on the giant boat.

Under Du Fuwei's repeated pleas, Li Yuan was "forced to do so", and finally confiscated Du Fuwei's position as Minister of Daxingtai on Southeast Road.

At the same time, Chen Shuda and Li Daozong were ordered to take people to Dongnan Road after the Daqing, and take over everything in Dongnan Road.

In order to express his "great love" to Du Fuwei, and to reward Du Fuwei for his obedience and understanding, Li Yuan gave Du Fuwei the "honor" of going to the temple with sword shoes, and also gave Du Fuwei a sword class, advocacy and other ceremonial guards. A group of Du Fuwei's household closures.

In the end, his head got hot, and Du Fuwei was given the privilege of "pardoning one death".

Even though Li Jiancheng, Pei Ji and others repeatedly blocked him, Li Yuan still insisted on his own opinion.

Because in Li Yuan's view, Du Fuwei completely surrendered to him in this way, and those who brought troops and territories to vote had the same credit.

The most important thing is that Du Fuwei expressed his complete surrender to him when he was the happiest, which can be regarded as ecstasy.

So he was not stingy with his reward in the slightest.

Since then, apart from the heroes of Taiyuan Yuanmou in the Wude Dynasty, the first person who has the privilege of "forgiving one death" was born.

The privilege of 'forgiving one death' promised by Li Yuan is still very strong.

Because until now, none of the people in the privilege of 'forgiving one death' promised by Li Yuan has not been killed.

Liu Wenjing, who was executed by Li Yuan for treason, was not included.

Because Liu Wenjing, Pei Ji, and Li Shimin are the only three people in the Tang Dynasty who "forgive the second death".

Du Fuwei declined many rewards from Li Yuan, and only accepted the privilege of "forgiving one death".

Li Yuan seemed even happier about this.

Because Du Fuwei is too knowledgeable.

Du Fuwei is so witty that he doesn't need to speak, Du Fuwei can do things as he wants.

It's okay for the sword shoes to go to the hall, and a series of ceremonial guards such as the sword class are currently only available to his son.

Deep down in his heart, he still didn't really want anyone to enjoy the same treatment as his son.

"Li Qing is deeply in my heart."

Li Yuan praised Du Fuwei fiercely in front of all the civil and military personnel, and then led the civil and military personnel to start dancing wildly.

Li Yuan was very happy, and all the civil and military personnel were also very happy, Li Shimin almost laughed out loud.

He was worried that there were not enough reasons to 'fire' at Li Yi, so Du Fuwei sent him one.

Inside Datang, those who should or shouldn't be leveled are almost all leveled up, and the pressure is on Li Yi.

After Du Fuwei completely surrendered to the Tang Dynasty, Li Yi hung alone in Youzhou as the vassal king, which seemed very eye-catching.

So, when Li Yuan celebrated for several days and the joyful atmosphere began to dissipate, Zhang Shigui, another general of the Sixteen Guards, "fired" at Li Yi.

Zhang Shigui did not blatantly impeach Li Yi, because Li Yi was his superior in name, and blatantly impeaching Li Yi would be to restrain his superiors, which would be detrimental to his future career.

He just sent a memorial to Li Yuan, counting all the flaws in You Wuwei.

Liu Hongji took advantage of the opportunity to impeach Youwuwei, and bluntly said that Youwuwei's generals, and the generals, were not good for Youwuwei's supervision, so that Youwuwei was embarrassed to be in charge, and even out of arrogance.

Li Yuan didn't take Liu Hongji's impeachment of Youwuwei to heart.

But what Liu Hongji said about You Wuwei was an arrogant person, and he took care of it.

Because although Liu Hongji didn't say it clearly, Li Yuan knew very well who the arrogant person Liu Hongji was talking about was.

That is Wang Junkuo.

Wang Junkuo was slaughtered by Li Yuanji, but Li Yuan did not punish Li Yuanji.

Although everyone in the court knew why Li Yuan didn't punish Li Yuanji, the common people didn't know.

The common people only felt that Li Yuan was favoring his son.

Liu Hongji alluded to Wang Junkuo's arrogance. As long as this statement was confirmed and Li Yuanji was compared with Wang Junkuo, Wang Junkuo turned into Wang Junkuo and offended Li Yuanji, or he didn't take Li Yuanji seriously, forcing Li Yuanji to have to Shot him a lesson.

Then, Li Yuan and Li Yuanji are clean in this matter.

Although Li Yuan would not intentionally clean up this matter, but someone offered to come to his door to help him and Li Yuanji clean up, so he naturally didn't mind letting things go.

Li Yuan took Liu Hongji's memorial and asked Liu Hongji who the arrogant person was at the court meeting.

Liu Hongji almost didn't point out any reason, it was Wang Junkuo.

And he took Wang Junkuo's previous actions in Mingshui City as evidence of Wang Junkuo's arrogance, and brought it up.

To put it bluntly, Wang Junkuo was blind and disobeyed Li Shimin's order, and carefully screened out those newcomers in Mingshui City. Thousands of soldiers were killed in Mingshui City, and Luo Shixin and others were almost buried in Mingshui City. The harmed Li Yuanji had to Putting himself in danger, he rushed to Mingshui City to help.

After listening to Liu Hongji's words, all the civil and military people roughly understood what Liu Hongji was doing and what Li Yuan wanted.

Ever since, one after another came up with evidence of Wang Junkuo's arrogance.

There is a saying that when the wall falls and everyone pushes it, Wang Junkuo is dead.

Wang Junkuo's reputation is not good.

A group of civil and military officials naturally added soil to Wang Junkuo's grave without any scruples.

So Wei Zheng, Pei Ju and others said a few good words to Wang Junkuo, but it didn't work.

In the end, Li Yuan ruled that Wang Junkuo deserved his death, and listed all Wang Junkuo's crimes, and spread them all over the world in the form of a mansion report.

Wang Junkuo's fault will not be investigated.

Because Wang Junkuo is dead, and death is the most important thing, there is no need to worry about it.

People who don't know think that Li Yuan is kind and doesn't want to argue with a dead person.

Anyone who knows knows that Li Yuan is too embarrassed to argue with a dead person.

"Your Highness is very ruthless."

The main hall of Wude Hall.

Li Yuanji was lying on the couch with his chest uncovered, flipping through the documents sent by Ma Zhou from Hebei Road in his hand, sipping ice cubes in his mouth.

Ling Jing sat kneeling on one side, sighing while reviewing Qi's government documents.

Li Yuanji looked up at Ling Jing, and said angrily, "You don't think that the matter of ruining Wang Junkuo's reputation was ordered by me behind the scenes, do you?"

Ling Jing sighed again, didn't speak, just murmured quietly to himself: "Now... Li Changshi is hiding in the mansion and dare not come out."

Although Ling Jing didn't think so, he felt that this matter had nothing to do with Li Yuanji.

Because Wang Junkuo's reputation has been ruined, it will benefit Li Yuanji the most.

Only when Wang Junkuo became notorious, would Li Yuanji's killing of Wang Junkuo become incomparably correct.

It's fine for Li Yuanji to kill someone, but he also ruined Wang Junkuo's reputation, which is really a bit cruel.

After all, how Wang Junkuo's family will live in the future is directly proportional to Wang Junkuo's posthumous name.

In this era of honor, disgrace, shame, and reputation, what kind of life a celebrity's family will live after the celebrity's death depends entirely on the celebrity's reputation.

Li Yuanji looked at Ling Jing as if looking at a fool, "Did you really serve Dou Jiande's son's sacrificial wine?"

Before Ling Jing could speak, Li Yuanji pursed his lips and said in a disinterested manner: "Dou Jiande has a son of a country like you offering wine under his command, so it's not wrong to lose."

Ling Jing was a little annoyed when he heard Li Yuanji's words, and said stiffly: "Even if this matter was not ordered by His Highness, it cannot be separated from His Highness."

(End of this chapter)