Man Tanghong

Chapter 574 Rich and Poor Datang

The officials who helped Pei Ji seek justice were indifferent to Li Shentong's words, but after seeing Li Gang, Pei Ju, Chen Shuda, Xiao Yu and others nodding, their faces changed completely.

Even people like Li Gang, Pei Ju, Chen Shuda, and Xiao Yu, who were fairly fair in dealing with affairs in the court, and who were among the top three officials, thought that Pei Ji deserved to die, so Pei Ji really deserved to die.

After all, Li Shentong has already expressed the attitude of the royal family on behalf of the royal family. Li Gang, Pei Ju, Chen Shuda, Xiao Yu and other three gongs and nine ministers who can represent the officials have also expressed their attitudes on behalf of the officials. Damn.

After all, if the vast majority of officials who can make decisions in the court think you deserve to die, then you must die even if you are innocent.

This is the common will of all officials in the court, and as one of them, you can only obey and not resist.

If you resist, the end may be even worse.

After seeing the attitude of Li Gang and others, [-]% of the officials who helped Pei Ji to seek justice silently retreated to the train. Only Zuo Nayan and Chen Jun, who had been supported by Pei Ji, were still holding on.

He gritted his teeth and asked with an ugly face: "So what is Pei Pushe's crime?"

"presumptuous!"

Xiao Yu had a very plan for this kind of official who dared to question the joint decision of the three provinces in court. He felt that this was a provocation, provoking the majesty of the three provinces, so he scolded without hesitation.

At this time, the censor in front of the palace also slowly walked to the side of His Majesty, and scolded Chen Jun with a straight face: "Back off!"

When Chen Jun asked the question for the second time, he had already decided to burn the boat, and there was no reason to back down. He immediately raised his neck and shouted angrily: "Pei Pushe is an important minister of my Tang Dynasty, how can I do this?" Those who don't understand will be dealt with, and if I refuse to obey, I believe that people in the world will also refuse to obey when they know."

Xiao Yu showed a ferocious face, and wanted to scold someone, but was stopped by Li Gang raising his hand.

Li Gang stood up slowly, stared at Chen Jun coldly and said, "I don't know the reason for waiting, I have my own considerations, and it's not your little Zuo Nayan's turn to ask.

If you retreat now, we can pretend that nothing happened.

If you continue to seek justice for Pei Ji, a traitor, then I will treat you as questioning the injustice of our three provinces. "

Hearing Li Gang's words, Chen Jun shuddered all over.

He knows what it means to question the unfairness of the three provinces.

It means to provoke the authority of the three provinces, and it means to confront all the officials of the three provinces with one's own strength.

He is a speaker from the seventh rank, and he has met all the officials in the three provinces. It is needless to say what will happen to him.

But his words have already been released, so there is no reason to take them back, and he has no way to take them back.

Because even if he retreats now, Li Gang and others will demote him out of Chang'an City afterwards, and demote him to a border land as an official.

There is no such thing as surrendering and losing half of the struggle in the court.

As long as you launch an attack, you can only attack to the end with all your eggs in one basket. If you give up halfway, you will lose even worse.

So he still gritted his teeth, and shouted angrily, "Pei Pushe treats the subordinates well, and the subordinates still want to ask for the truth for him."

Li Gang snorted coldly, flicked his sleeves coldly and said, "Dianqian Lu, I'll leave it to you."

The Palace Attendant Yushi who was called Lu Dianqian nodded, stepped forward slowly, and ordered coldly: "Where is Qianniu in front of the palace? Fork it out!"

The Qianniu imperial guards guarding the gate of the hall rushed into the hall without hesitation, and drove Chen Jun out.

As for how to deal with Chen Jun, Li Gang didn't say, and the censor in front of the palace was not qualified to say.

But that doesn't mean it's over.

After the next dynasty, Li Gang, Pei Ju, Chen Shuda, Xiao Yu and others will definitely let Chen Jun see what the majesty of the three provinces cannot be challenged, and they will definitely make Chen Jun regret helping Pei Ji seek justice in the Tai Chi Hall today.

However, Li Yuanji didn't care about these things.

Because of these trivial matters, there is no need for him to ask them carefully.

After Chen Jun was kicked out, Li Yuanji looked around at the officials in the hall and said, "Is there anything else you want to play, or is it to help someone else get the truth?"

All the officials looked at their noses with their eyes and their hearts, and no one said anything.

Li Gang and the others also sat there silently like wood carvings and clay sculptures.

Seeing this, Li Yuanji continued: "Then let's discuss other matters."

Hearing this, Li Gang, Pei Ju and other senior ministers spoke one after another.

A group of senior ministers first reported on the finishing work after the coup in the palace, organized the pavilions, towers, pavilions, city walls, gates and other places in the palace that were damaged in the coup into a book, and handed them to Li Yuanji.

Li Yuanji asked after looking through it roughly: "How much money will it take to repair all these places?"

Chen Shuda arched his hands slightly and said, "To return to Your Highness, you need 20 coins."

That doesn't sound like much.

But for today's Datang treasury, it is a huge sum of money.

After all, the three provinces have issued a generous pension to the soldiers and palace people who died in the coup in the palace, and then the three provinces will have to prepare enough money and food to deal with the civil strife in the Tang Dynasty that may occur at any time, as well as the Turkic invasion of the south. .

After removing these, there is not much money left in the treasury.

Whether it can be used to repair all the damaged places in the palace depends on how much is left after dealing with the civil strife in the Tang Dynasty and the Turkic invasion of the south.

Li Yuan's internal treasury is rich, and there is a lot of money, as well as countless rare treasures.

But it was Li Yuan's private money, and it should not be confused with the money from the national treasury.

This is the disadvantage that Li Yuan formed after privatizing most of the war seizures.

It stands to reason that all war seizures should be charged to the national treasury for the purpose of enriching the national strength.

But Li Yuan didn't do that.

After Li Yuan got the war capture, he first distributed [-]% to the meritorious soldiers, and then took out [-]% to let the high-ranking officials from the government and the opposition to soak in the rain and dew, and then took [-]% to distribute to three A precious son, the remaining [-]% was happily collected into the internal treasury.

The national treasury did not enter a penny in the middle.

This caused the dilemma that Li Yuan's internal treasury was overflowing with wealth, but the national treasury was empty.

This method of distributing war seizures has enriched Li Yuan and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, but it has lost the common people.

So this is not a rational way of distributing war capture and something has to change.

However, if you want to change, you don't want to change now. You must wait until Datang has a new war and a new capture.

So before that, Li Yuanji could only keep this matter in his heart.

Li Yuanji stared at Chen Shuda and asked, "Can the state treasury take out this money now?"

Chen Shuda hesitated for a moment and said: "It is possible, but once the money is spent, and then the Turkic people come to commit crimes, and the court wants to use troops, they will have to cut down on food and clothing."

Li Yuanji said without hesitation: "That's fine, no matter how poor we are, we can't take it from the soldiers."

Chen Shuda, Li Gang, Pei Ju, Xiao Yu and others nodded approvingly.

Li Yuanji pondered for a while and said: "Well, you send someone to count the money copied from Duke Wei's mansion, and put it into the treasury to see if you can squeeze out 20 guan.

If not, I will think of other ways. "

No matter how poor you are, you can't get poor education, no matter how hard you are, you can't suffer from your father and brother.

This is the disadvantage of not hacking father and brother to death after the power is in hand.

They must be kept, and the place where they live must be repaired, and they must be kept white and fat.

Otherwise, it is easy to be criticized.

Although Li Yuanji didn't care about being said a few words, other people did.

If he wants to dominate others, he must consider the attitudes of others.

"If you include the wealth of the Duke of Wei's family, we can squeeze out a little. But most of the wealth of the Duke of Wei's family is land and land deeds. We need to sell it to know how much there is.

It's hard to say whether I can squeeze out 20 guan. "

Chen Shuda thought to himself.

Although the family wealth in Pei Ji's mansion is very rich, if all of it is converted into money and food, there should be a lot.

But there are also many places where the imperial court uses money and food, and there are many things more important than repairing the pavilions and pavilions in the palace.

When the treasury has no money, it is natural to do the most important things first, and when the treasury has money, it is natural to put many of the most important things first.

And repairing the pavilions and pavilions in the palace is obviously not the most important thing.

After all, even if the damaged pavilions in the palace are left unrepaired, they will not affect the residence of Li's family, they are just a little unsightly.

But compared to things like floods, military disasters, droughts, and earthquakes, things like being unsightly are obviously not that important.

Li Yuanji stared at Chen Shuda in astonishment and said, "If my guess is correct, the wealth of Duke Wei's mansion probably exceeds 20 yuan?"

As far as Pei Ji's popularity, Pei Ji's official rank, and Pei's family background, let alone 20 guan, there are probably [-] guan.

So much money is poured into the treasury at once, and the treasury can't squeeze out 20 guan? !
Are you corrupt?

And it's kind of greedy.

Li Yuanji thought that the matter would be over just because he was being polite, but Chen Shuda actually treated him like a sheep and picked him up.

Chen Shuda said dumbfoundedly: "Naturally, Duke Wei's family wealth is more than 20 guan, but the court spends too much money. Not to mention the repair and construction of canals, bridges, government offices, and mausoleums that have been spending money, Just the wedding money given to honorable women every ten days is as much as [-] to [-] guan.

So don't talk about the family wealth of one Wei Guogong's mansion, even adding three or five Wei Guogong's family wealth is not enough. "

The honorable women in Chen Shuda's mouth refer to those women who already have a male in their family and give birth to a new male.

After the founding of the Tang Dynasty, because there were too few Dingkou, in order to encourage the people to have children, the imperial court issued a series of policies to encourage children.

Not only that, the imperial court also asked local yamen to regard this as the most important political matter to do.

Therefore, local yamen are very active in matters such as weddings and funerals. They will not only urge men and women of the right age to get married as soon as possible, but will also arrange marriages when necessary.

When a newly married woman is pregnant, the yamen will record it immediately, and even send a small official to watch when she gives birth.

If a boy is born, the petty officials and county magistrates are sometimes happier than the main family.

For those women who gave birth to two or more males, the imperial court did not hesitate to reward them.

(End of this chapter)