Man Tanghong

Chapter 314 Dog Thief
Li Yuanji agreed with Ling Jing's evaluation of Xu Shimo, but he didn't want to spend too much time on Xu Shimo.

"This person is indeed a talent, but his ambition is too great and it is difficult to control. So if you can subdue him, subdue him, and if you can't subdue him, don't force it."

Ling Jing looked thoughtful, and didn't understand why Li Yuanji thought that a little Xu Shimo was too ambitious and difficult to control.

Li Yuanji noticed Ling Jing's strangeness, but didn't explain much.

Li Yuanji couldn't tell Ling Jing what Xu Shimo had done in history, what he had encountered, and what Li Yuan said when he mentioned Xu Shimo.

Xu Shimo is indeed a talent, he should be regarded as the most decisive and ruthless talent under Li Jiancheng's command.

In history, if Li Jiancheng was willing to regard him as his number one confidant and follow his plan in everything, even if he lost, he would not lose as miserable as in history.

However, Xu Shimo is a typical conspirator, but he is not a qualified military strategist, and he can even be said to be ignorant of military affairs.

But he also likes to use military means to achieve his goals.

Most of the chaos in Renzhi Palace in history was planned by him for Li Jiancheng.

The plan was very good, but it is a pity that he himself does not understand the military, and he has no way to help Li Jiancheng to counsel the military plane, so that Li Jiancheng sent a group of two or five boys to implement his plan, which eventually led to failure.

As long as he knows a little about the military, he will help Li Jiancheng to check the military.

Li Jiancheng might have the opportunity to keep Li Yuan, Li Shimin, and even Li Yuanji's predecessor in Renzhi Palace forever.

After all, when Li Yuan went to Renzhi Palace to escape the summer heat, he didn't bring many people with him, and neither did Li Shimin.

From Gyeongju, which is closer, mobilizing a large number of troops to raid Inji Palace will occupy a considerable advantage in terms of numbers and armaments, and the success rate is extremely high.

Therefore, Xu Shimo's plan is first-class, but it is not controlled by him when it is implemented.

A typical representative of talking on paper.

However, he was still ambitious, and his greed for Conglong Zhigong surpassed all the fear in his heart. As soon as he came up, he encouraged Li Jiancheng to kill Li Yuan and his two brothers, and directly ascended the throne.

Li Yuanji does not want to follow in the footsteps of Li Jiancheng in history, so Li Yuanji can use Xu Shimo, but he will never reuse it, let alone let Xu Shimo participate in royal struggles and military struggles.

Because Xu Shimo dared to think and do it, but he couldn't control what he thought and did.

Being out of control means danger.

There are so many heroes in the Tang Dynasty, although most of them have been collected by Li Jiancheng and Li Shimin, but some are left for Li Yuanji.

There is no need for Li Yuanji to forcibly control Xu Shimo's double-edged sword.

"Is there anything else you want to order, Your Highness?"

Ling Jing saw that Li Yuanji didn't intend to explain much, so he didn't chase after him to find out.

Li Yuanji pondered for a moment, shook his head and said, "Not for the time being..."

Ling Jing nodded, didn't say anything more, got up and left.

……

Not long after Ling Jing left, the Tai Chi Palace, which had been sealed off for several days, was finally unsealed.

In the past few days of the blockade, there are different opinions about what happened in the Taiji Palace, but no one can say a single word, and no one in the palace leaked any news to the outside.

Although it is very inappropriate for Li Yuan to let the grown-up sons live in the palace, it is not without benefits.

With Li Yuan and three capable adult sons in charge, people in the palace dare not tell the outside world about many things in the palace.

This greatly reduces people's peeps into the life of the emperor and the emperor's son and grandson.

After the Tai Chi Palace was unsealed, there was not much change except that Li Xiuning stepped down from guarding the four gates of Chang'an City, and Li Shentong and other four people stepped down from the duties of supervising the country.

However, smart people can feel that there is an undercurrent in Chang'an City, surging crazily.

After Wei Ting was dismissed from office, Wang Gui, Du Yan, and Xu Shimo followed in his footsteps.

There are also many small officials in the Taiwo Palace and Prince Qin's Mansion who have been dismissed and assigned.

Anyone can feel the undercurrent surging in it.

However, to Li Yuanji's surprise, although Li Yuan had already decided to let Li Shimin go to conquer Yang Wengan, there was no movement for a long time.

On the contrary, after the Taiji Palace was unsealed, Li Jiancheng frequently entered and exited the palace and the mansions of many dignitaries.

One after another, high-ranking officials and dignitaries were dismissed from office as Li Jiancheng moved around frequently.

When a clan member was dispatched to Ganzhou to guard the border, Li Shentong couldn't sit still, and quietly appeared in front of Li Yuanji.

"Do you know that Yang Wengan has turned his back on him, why is your father silent?"

Li Shentong was wearing a thick down jacket of the Tang Dynasty, also known as Yuanyi, and a black cloak on the outside. There were curtains hanging on all sides, a brazier was burning in the middle, and red mud was placed on the table. A small stove with clay pots on top of the stove, and a gazebo where wine is scalding in the pots.

Li Yuanji likes to stay in the gazebo very much. When the cold wind howls past, he will feel a little cold, but most of the time he enjoys a kind of cleanliness and a kind of elegance.

Although Li Yuanji is not a literati, he likes this kind of literati-like sitting in a clean and elegant way.

Especially after Li Chengqian was gradually brought down by Li Ling, Li Xu and others, and started to act like a lunatic, after playing crazy with Li Ling, Li Xu and others, he preferred this kind of clean and elegant life.

It has been said that women belong to the duck family. When several women talk together, it is like hundreds of ducks chirping.

But mischievous children are definitely wild boars.

When a few unrestrained children played wildly, it was like hundreds of wild boars rampaging and destroying everything.

Li Yuanji couldn't bear it a little bit, so he could only run to the gazebo to get clean.

"Aren't you hot?"

Seeing Li Shentong unceremoniously grabbing the wine cup in the clay pot, Li Yuanji finally couldn't help but say something.

Li Shentong grabbed the wine cup, poured himself a cup of steaming rice wine, and took a sip.

Li Yuanji looked at the table with his fingers.

Li Shentong pretended not to hear, and continued to drink by himself.

Li Yuanji gave Li Shentong a blank look, ignored Li Shentong, and looked at the document Ma Zhou handed back from Hebei Road to himself.

The people in Hebei Province have gradually stabilized after experiencing the rush for planting in summer and the relief from wealthy families.

Although there is still not enough food to eat, the number of robbers blocking roads for food and running around to commit crimes has begun to drop sharply.

The cases of people starving to death or freezing to death in various places are gradually decreasing.

It is that the money allocated by the imperial court to Hebei Province to relieve the victims is not enough.

Although Ma Zhou and others began to save money by using various methods such as labor relief, but the money was still not enough to spend, and they owed a large amount of money to the grain merchants in Qizhou.

What Ma Zhou meant was that if the imperial court could allocate another 300,000 yuan for disaster relief, it should be able to alleviate the problem of the people in Hebei Province not having enough to eat.

Li Yuanji felt that if Ma Zhou was not too stupid, he was using this excuse to cheat money.

For things like disaster relief, no matter how much disaster relief money the imperial court allocates, it will not be enough.

In addition to eating and taking cards at every level, most village chiefs and village elders in the local area will frequently reach out their hands.

Compared with officials who are still fearful, restrained and restrained, the head of the village and the elders who are used to the emperor of the earth will be more greedy.

Most of them are the heads of a clan, or the prestige of a village.

The attitude of the common people is firmly controlled by them, and the common people's right to speak to the outside world and the court is also firmly controlled by them.

They are greedy for the money to help the people, and they will push all the mistakes on the court, leading the people to scold the court, leading the people to be grateful to them, and they will be beaten to the bone by them.

Therefore, no matter how much disaster relief money the imperial court allocates, it will not be enough.

Because it cannot be distributed to the people at all.

Li Yuanji picked up his pen and swiped at Ma Zhou's documents.

300,000 pennies were given.

But we must be wary of those big families, the head of a clan, and the prestige of a village, and take advantage of the opportunity.

When necessary, some people can be supported to take over the position of the head of the clan or the leader of the village.

If you encounter people who secretly deceive the people to embarrass the government and make profits for themselves, you can ask Luo Shixin to dispatch troops.

Li Yuanji was not in the mood to let his own people intrigue with those clan leaders who were not up to the table, and the heads of the same township.

Those who are obedient will stay, and those who are disobedient will be sent down.

With powerful soldiers and horses by your side, there is no need to reason with a group of people who are unwilling to reason with you.

If you want to intrigue with others, you also have to intrigue with those people from aristocratic families.

The head of a clan and the prestige of a village are not enough.

As for Ma Zhou's clumsy way of cheating money, Li Yuanji pretended not to see it.

Li Yuanji could clearly see what Ma Zhou had done when he was doing disaster relief in various places in Luoyang, that is, in Duji Province.

Ma Zhou is not a person who will fill his own pockets, nor is he a person who likes to suck the bones of the poor.

His purpose of defrauding money is definitely not for himself, but for the common people.

The reason for using such a clumsy method of defrauding money is not really for deceit, but the relief funds allocated by the imperial court before have been quite a lot, and Li Yuanji has sent a lot of food to Hebei Road back and forth.

No matter how blatantly you ask for money, you will appear a little ignorant and a little incompetent.

So this is the only way to go.

"300,000 guan, give it as you say, you are really generous!"

Li Shentong poured a glass of wine for Li Yuanji without any trace, and watched Li Yuanji write and draw with an exaggerated expression on his face.

Li Yuanji glanced at the wine cup that was already filled with wine on the table, and gave Li Shentong a white look, "I thought you would keep pretending."

Li Shentong stared angrily, "I'm your Uncle Wang anyway, so why don't you show me some face?!"

Li Yuanji put away Ma Zhou's documents, "It's because you are my Uncle Wang and you are so rude that I didn't send someone to drive you out."

Li Shentong stopped pretending, patted the table and said, "Quickly tell me, why hasn't your father moved at all?"

After saying this, he glanced at the document written by Ma Zhou that Li Yuanji had put down, and added contemptuously, "I really don't feel sorry for selling my father's land..."

Li Yuanji spread his hands, "My grandfather's family has a great business, and there are thousands of hectares of fertile land. I don't care about the location. What's wrong with selling some of my grandfather's land?"

Just as Li Shentong was about to retort, Li Yuanji said again: "You definitely want to sell, but you don't have a chance. Who made you a commoner?"

"Snapped!"

Li Shentong slapped the table angrily, annoyed.

Don't bring such bullying!

"If you weren't a direct descendant of my Li family, you wouldn't even be a dog!"

Li Shentong roared.

Li Yuanji spread his hands again, and said helplessly: "But I am the direct descendant of the Li family. I have no choice but to give it to you. I am actually very envious of you common descendants, who can gain glory and wealth through your own struggle. To get everything you want, you can enjoy the bloody and tearful struggle.

You can feel the frustration when you lose your glory and wealth, and you can also feel the happiness when you get it.

Unlike me, I was born with everything, and I didn't enjoy the joy of struggle at all. "

Li Shentong yelled, "You bastard! Die to me!!"

(End of this chapter)